North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-27
News and Items.


The Boston Trareller says: "Over
four hundred bills for divorce are on the
docket Of the Supreme Court for this
county,. There are upwards of l60
thoroughfares in London, which belong to
private owners and are barred from the
public......lt cost young fellow twelve
dollars in Bridgeport, Conn.,, the other
day, to kiss girl whom he was escorting
across bridge. anxious Office
seeker from Alaska contemplates concil-
iating the next President by presenting
him building lot at Sitka.. lone hotel
in San Francisco has on its registry for
the last six months, the names of visitors
from twenty-five different nationalities..
......During stereopticon exhibition in
Westield, Mass, last week, dog in the
hall commenced barking violently, when
the picture of cat appeared upon the
scene......The Supreme Court Of Georgia
has decided that tenant owes rent upon
his house, after it has burnt down, for
the balance of the contract, the same as
if fire had never occurred.
These headlines from Memphis paper,
give the unusual situation in the South a
week ago last Sunday: "Snow in the
Sunny South-Train Blocked on the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad Four
teen inches Of snow in vicksburg-Icicles
and Snowballs in Orange Groves. "..... OF
the four hundred and fourteen primary
planets now recognized in the solar sys-
tenn, only six were known prior to 1881,
in which year Herschel discovered Uranus.
Twenty-three-nearly one.fifth of the
whole-wcre discovered by American
astronomers. ...."Not guilty." said an
Omaha jury, ''but if the prisoner is smart
he will leave the Territory before night"
He left. j. The recent mild weather has
caused the cherry trees to blossom in Mo.
Yes, and pansies even in Mass. ....One
hundred armed men went to Sidney Jail,
Fremont Co., this State, on Saturday
night, the 18th inst, and took out Jack
son and Norton, who murdered Holloway
on Thursday night. They broke open the
Jail, on the Sheriff refusing to give up the
keys. The mob hung the men on white
oak tree mile and half from town,
where they were found on Sunday morn
ing. There is great excitement. The Jail
is insufficient to keep ordinary prisoners.
The mob were from Plum Greek, Fremont
County, and were armed to the teeth.
The Wisconsin Legislature tenders an
invitation to the MINI. lawmakers to
visit Madison and Milwaukee at an early
day......A petition is being circulated in
the House, asking the Senate not to con-
firm any more nominations made by the
President this session, whether they be
Republicans or Democrats......H Hannibal
Hamlin has been elected United States
Senator from Maine Charles Sumner
from Massachusetts, Reuben E. Fenton
from New York; John Scott from Penn.
sylvania; Zach. Chandler from Michigan
Alexander Ramsey from Minnesota; Carl
Schurz from Missouri, and Matt. II. Car
penter from Wisconsin; Senator Upton
from Nebraska......The Secretary Of War
has ordered General G. X. Warren to
report to the Secretary of the Interior for
duty, to make examination of the Central
Pacific Railroad, similar to that made
recently of the Union Pacific. ....During
the year 1868, two thousand seven hun
dred payments were made at the Pension
Office at Dcs Moines. The amount paid
out in money was s25l, 900. This district
embraces the western half of Iowa.
The word Chats occurs but once in the
Bible. See Daniel, Sd Chap. 2lst verse;.
......As there is some comment on the
proper abreviation of the name of Alaska,
and some little difference of opinion
thereon, we would suggest L. S.-the
Place of the Seal-as about the thing.
The telegraph is failure in Mexico. The
people steal the wires as fast rs they are
put up. $50. There were IA, l43 funerals in
Philadelphia last year, and 36 murderers.
1.-THE spiritualists of New York are
said to be rapidly increasing in numbers.
......Gilt furniture is fashionable just now
in New York upper>tendom drawing
rooms. :. 1t costs man in San Francisco
seycnty-fye dollars to call his neighbor a
id thief ."Jacob Omniunl'' Higgins
left ETC, 900, mostly made out of journal
ism. An ex-Supreme Judge of Austria
has been sent to prison for six years for
forgery and embezzlement......M Mexican
bandits are a courteous set. Gutierrez,
captain of band in Jailsco, made one of
his captives the prescnto of a chilled shirt
and cigar case, and gave him pass, switch
was duly honored by the next ';small
party"
William Story, of the Arkansas Circuit,
is twenty-five years old-the youngest
Judge, of the grade, in the country. He
is native Of Salem, Mass. and grad
uate of the Michigan University Law
School. ....A Menagerie man in Paris
keeps his money in the cage of his most
ferocious animals. He has never lost any.
......A student Of the Assyrian tablets in
the British Museum places the date Of
Abraham at 2 300 before Christ, nearly
400 years earlier than Fishers chronicle.
The attendants of St. Patrick
Church in Cleveland, Ohio, quarrel will
their priest, because he charges ten cents