North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-12-15

News and Items.
It is stated that Elihu Green, con-
victed of setting fire to the Court House,
at Kingwood, Preston county w. Va,
was allowed to choose hanging or i'm
prisonmcnt for life, and selected the
former. Judgment was accordingly
pronounced, the time for the execution
being fixed for January 2S......... There
is an amusing paragraph in Treasurer
Spinner's report. He does not like the
law which compels him, in all roases, to
write his frank. He says: ga 'fac-sim-
lie of my official signature seems still to
answer very well on thousand dollar
greenback note, but under this law, it
is not good to certificate that serves
the afixing Of a three cent stamp.
In Harrison county, KY, on Friday
week, a boy named Clay Miller, put the
muzzle of a gun in his mouth. after
taking the cap off, and getting his foot
on the hammer, pushed it back, let it
slip, and fell back dead.
The estimated expenses Of Philadel-
phia for 1870, including interest, are
1862, 1O1.O7. The taxes now due,
and unpaid amount to IS, 700, oil, which
is not a pleasant showing to those citi-
Gems who pay promptly. .,...It said
that Brigham Young issnotfrightened
BY the Pacific, Railroad besause with
his own private family and those Of one
or two elders he can start q respectable
colony almost anywhere. 4. The New
York Evening Post says: aMr. Richard
son left no will. He was worth about
seyenty-fve thousand dollars. His in
terest in the Tribune alone, was valued
at forty thousand dollars" The New
York Commercial Advertiser says
"Mr. and Mrs. Mcfarland were married
by Theodore Parker All of the wit
nesses to the ceremony are now living"
81. There are '173 convicts in the
Maine State Prison. Err =
Baltimore is to erect a monument to
George Peabody-.... The loss by fire in
the United States during the past year
has been go, 1874, 0OO...... England has
had more coal mine disasters this year
than for the preceding three years. -.
A Chinaman at the Oregon State Fair
did the best blowing that was done on
the ground. 80. The oldest commission
in the army is that of General Sylvanus
Thayer, who entered the service in 1903
......The number Of acres this year in
cotton in the United States is said by
Southern exchanges to be 5000, 600.
It cost man SIS for refusing to pay
Is cents fare on Massachusetts rail
load the other day......J. p. Jewett, the
original publisher Of "Uncle Toms Ca
bin," is now working as journeyman
printer in Philadelphia. In Great
Britain, with a population of 24,363,-
900, there are $4,000 ministers and
34,70O churches and chapels.. 1T is
stated. that fairs were held in nearly
every county in the State of Ohio this
year-there being only FIVE or six ex-
ceptions.
The architect who planned the new
Methodist church in Waterville, Maine,
made the belfry windows SO small that
the bell cannot be got into it,. lex
President Fillmore, with five others,
will represent the recent Louisville
Commercial Convention at the Russian
of 187O......A man in Wal
doboro, Me-, zealously cares for Ratchet,
which in the hands of stalwart Indian
in 1749, was driven into his grand
fathers skull! Fine taste.
New York, Sunday, Dec. 12th.-H.
W. Beecher, this evening, referred to
to the subject of murder, and said that
the crime deserved the seyerest punish
ment and that Mcfarland, who DELHI
erately premeditated the murder of
Richardson, deserved to be hanged. 20.
B. rockingham was particularly severe
upon those editors who had questioned
his motives in the Richardson marriage.
and said he was not able to see that he
had done anything wrong.
Philadelphia has 1856 900 inhabitants
......The fire in the Dismal swamp vet
burns. There are $4,000 tenant far
mers in 1reland..... .St. Petersburg has
10000 cab-drivers. The profits Of the
Baden-Baden gambling bank, last year,