North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-01-12
News and Items.

session about the middle of February
The object is to get an expression upon
the Fifteenth amendment. A Wash
ington dispatch, of recent date, says ):
Information is at hand showing that
the admission of Charles III. Porter, a
radical congressman, from Virginia,
will be objected to on the ground that
he was tried for disloyalty in 1864, and
was sentenced to six months imprison-
mcnt by military commission. The
sentence was approved by Gen. Butler,
then commanding the army Of the
James His alleged disloyalty consist
ed in saying that Lincoln was a hum
bug, and that he Porter would rather
live under jeff. Davis....... The Legisla-
turc of Missouri has ratified the Eff
tcenth amendment. ). Alexander II.
Stephens is reported only just able to
sit up and hot able to stand. -. Solo
mons wisdom is attributed to the fact
that he had seven hundred wives.
Ex-Governor Ashley is not a bit pleased
with his dismissed. He asks an inves-
tigation.. Mrs. Sarah Peters, of Gin
cinnati, was recently permitted to hear
mass in the crypt of St. Peters Cathe-
dral at Rome, being the first woman to
whom the privilege was ever accorded.
......Gcn. Mcclellan is in Washington
and appears at the hotels in plain
citizens suit...... Father Hyacinthc, it
is rumorcd, has been summoned to
Rome by the Pope to answer for his
heretical opinions. He expects to re-
turn to this country, and may make it
his permanent home. For drawing
checks for the payment of the city's
quota Of the State tax,-an hours SER
vice at most each year,-Pcter B. Swcc-
ney, the Chamberlain of New York
city, charged and was paid s4G,726,o1,
in 1868, and s36, 1889, in 1869.
| Gen. Mower is dcad... :. The Erie
Railway Company has compelled all
station agents to give bonds for the
faithful and honest discharge of their
duty. Large iron works arc to be
built at Burlington, Iowa, this year. .,...
From Fort Dodge, Iowa, west there have
been Is miles of track laid on the Du-
buque and Sioux City Railroad, and
work is continued. ....It is announced
in St. Louis that Tom Allen accepts
Jcm Mace's challenge to fight him in
Canada or Louisiana, and is waiting the
articles Of agreement promised by Mace.
1.-THE Kansas Pacific Railroad is
now finished to Eagle Tail, Colorado. 80.
More fiat boats passed down the Missis-
sippi last year than any previous one.
......1t costs Boston tax payers over 81
900, 900 as interest and contributions
to the sinking fund
OF the sixty-tivc United States SEN
ators, ten were born in New York and
six in Ohio. Fifteen States have no
native Senator. .. The Catholic popula-
ton of Massachusetts,, according to the
Catholic Almanac, is over $50, 900 !.
churches, 175; churches building, %;
chapcls attached, 40; priests, 1873; cler-
ical students, o.. Somebody in New
York is writing play to be called ''Di-
vorce." -. Elephants are now used in
1ndia before the plow......It is said that
there are now four times as many cattle
in Texas as there were before the war.
......All foreign journals will hereafter
be distributed in France without ex-
animation by the Censorship Bureau.
A magazine writer estimates that every
man, woman and child in America, uses
! up FIVE hundred matches per year, or at
that average.
By the annexation of Dorchester, the
area of Boston is enlarged 1853 acres,
the total area now being 9,9s7 acrcs....
A New Yorker is out with patent
cushion for sleepy young ladies on the
cars-a fellows shoulder. Petitions
asking Congress to abolish the Thanking
privilege have been placed for signature
in the insurance Offices and at the Post
Office at Boston. -. The editorial staff
Of the Independent is composed Of half
and half, men and women, and 50 with
the compositors. :. Representative Inger-
soil, Of Illinois, has now bought house
and lot in Washington costing $4,000.
......A Dubuque radical opposes the an
nexation Of Canada, because if there is
another draft he will have no place to
go to......A letter from DR.. Livingstone,
written on the Both Of May, has been
published. He was then exploring the
scourccs of the Nile about 800 south
latitude.
Ashley says that Judas Iscariot was
not deprived Of his thirty pieces of sill
ser, and he don't see why he should be
deprived Of his goycrnorship of Montana
......Don Piatt, Of the Cincinnati Com
mcrcial, has been excused from further