The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-02-27
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her youth, had the boldness to come be
fore the audience and ask, (Which do 20,
dislike, my playing or my person ?''-
"The playing the playing!' p was the or,
from all sides. "Well. that consoles me,
was the answer; "my playing may be bet
tered, but my person cannot alter. She
soon become the favorite of the public.
A mother and four daughters, all O.
whom reside in Northampton, N. H..
have, collectively, approached the altar
OF hymen no less than seventeen times
The mother had four husbands, one o.
her daughters four, and the others three
each.
A dozen soldiers attempted to escape
from the garrison at Kingston, Canada,
on Thursday last. Eight succeeded, but
four were captured, one being shot badly
in the neck and chest.
The Council Bluffs Bugle publishes the
articles Of incorporation Of the Sioux City
and St. Paul Railroad Company. The
road is to run between these two points.
Drs, Lock and Yeomans, of the Sioux
City Land Office, have been delegated to
Washington to lock after the interests OF
the company.
A cur Gus case Of poisoning is related
by the Nevada (Story Co., Advocate, in
which Mr.. Doolittle of that county, was
three successive times seriously poisoned
by the fumes of strychnine which he had
used to bait wolves, exhailing from their
dead bodies as he was at different times
carrying them home upon his shoulders.
The store of Messrs. Cary & Shaw,
Anamosa, Jones Co., was robbed lately to
the amount Of $500 or $500, in iewelry.
a regular band of thieves are said to ex-
ist in that region.
We are informed that young man
named Brewer was so severely injured by
a murderaus blow upon the head, few
evenings since, at some dance house in the
city, that he died of his wounds night be-
fore last. The particulars and inquest (if
any were held have not yet come to hand.
-leua City Reporter.
A building of cast iron, for the purpose
of a marine hospital, has been ordered
by government to be built at New Orleans
the structure to be fire proof through
out. 1t is we'll remarked that this very
Judlclous encouragement given to the EN-
terprise by the Secretary of the Treasury
will initiate the use Of iron in the public
architecture of the country.
The National Agricultural Society has
voted to purchase sufficient seed Of the
Chinese sugar cane to plant 100 acres.
The small pox is prevailing quite ex-
tenslvely at Cairo and Cincinnati.
There is ten dollar bill, altered from a
one, on the Southern Bank of Indiana at
Terre Haute. Two's are also altered to
tens on the same bank. Look sharp at
ten dollar bills on this bank.
Willard Daniels. of Troy, Michigan,
has been arrested for seducing his grand
child and having an abortion produced
upon her at Detroit. Dr. Marsden and
Mrs. Mary Baker, Of that city, were also
arrested and held to bail. for producing
the abortion. Daniels is in prison.
The population of France is over $780, :
100000.
There is a printer in this city, who,
though but thirty-two years old, is the
father of eight children, and the owner
Of three dogs and two cats. He is .'as
happy as the day is long. .''-Boston Cour-
Ter.
Passmore Williamson, the individual
who made himself SO notorious by his in
reference in the Philadelphia fugitive
case, was thrown from his sleigh on the
23d inst, and instantly killed.
They had severe snow storm and in
tense cold weather in Virginia last week.
The Norfolk harbor is frozen over. At
Norfolk and Richmond the cold was more
intense than ever before known. At St..
Petersburg ninteen persons were frozen
to death.
A couple were married in Baltimore last
week-bridegroom 90, bride 70.
At Machias, Me-, 80, ,5OO,OOO feet of
lumber were manufactured last year.
A hurricane was experienced at Malta,
on the 4th ult., during which some ships
sank, and three hundred boats were dash
ed to pieces against the quays.
A woman stopped at hotel in Coving-
ton, KY. few days since with her hus-
band and thirty-two children, all her own.
This beats Mark Beaubien.
Naomi, daughter of Enoch, was
FIVE hundred and eighty years fage when
she married. Take courage, ladies'.
EE Stephen Drown committed suicide
on the ed INST, by cutting his throat. at
his residence about two miles east of Bea-
yer Dam Wis.
The damage from the freshet, to the
shipping, at Oswego, turns out to be a
mere trifle.
Ee- Alta recent book sale in New York
City a volume of Benjamin Franklin's