The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-12-29
News and Items,

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The State Of Indiana has deri Led q rolf
Of nearly three milliqns of dollars from be
interest in the late State Bank If Indiana.
Pixies Peak is beginning to be talked Of b
many citizens Of McGregor a. place to emf
crate to. This fever will draw immense mum
bers westward in the Spring.
In Cincinnati there il one million If dollar
invested in houses Of prostitution.
Easter Sunday will occur April 24th. it LA
been 60 years since Easter arrived 90 late il
April.
Rev John Kicking Methodist Preacher
contemporary with Wesley died recently il
England he was 80 years old.
A Miss Psgg of LaPorte Ind. VA attacked
bya man named Henderson with illicit des
igus, and the lecher was fned Eve dcllau-the
girl was only l3. q"
The Horizon August now Edited BY G.
D. Davis fine writer and good Democrat.
New York and Boston are the wealthicst
Cities in the Uu;on-the former has SOS and
the latter 375 millions.
Paulsen has played ten games Of Chess
with the Pittsburgh club winning s and losing
Kansas City Is in telesral bic oommunica.
ton with st. Louis.
The Spanish and Mexican difficulty Il set.
tied by the concessions Of Mexico. ~
The Police Of London Is TOGO strong.
tits rumorcd and believed that Mr.. and
Ms. Edwin Forest win again live together -
man and wife.
In the last years three stsa mehips and
1900 lives have been lost.
Eight hundred buildings are being erected
in Brooklyn. Every thing indicates an active
revival Of trade in the Spring.
The seven Northwestern states poll 1863.
900 votes. three times as many as New Eng
land and . hundred thousand more than all
the Southern states.
Tom Hyer has accepted Heenans fighting
challenge. ......... ..... ......
The Atlantic Cable is reviving, but it will
not do 10 count or It's convalrscensc.
The Detroit papers sta'e that the traffic and
travel on the Milwaukee e. Detroit Railway
isgrowing with rapidity FIR exceeding that
of any road Terminating in that city.
The steam butler Of Belcher's Sugar Rein.
cry at St. Louis blew Up on Saturday 18th,
and killed six men.
Myers who killed fellow convict in CLARK
County Ohio was recently hung at Columbus.
He damned everybody about him and died like
a hog more than a man.
Geo. P. Paine one of the great mediums of the
east has confessed that his superior success in
deception was the rusult Of trickery.
North Ca DINA is ahout TO admit the Jews
Of that state to full political rights.
Prof. Asassiz reasons that since the whale
il warn FLOODED and comes TO the surface 70
breathe, aud snce it ID well known that these
immense creatures go to The north invari ably
in'ointer, ergo. the Polar sea must necessarily
be an oren one. ...a. ..-
Its believcd that several vessals, have left
our ports for Central America.
Two parties of hunters recently sent to
Selkirk the meat and skins Of $500 buffaloes.
In the interior of africa Ugh. haired blue
eyed race has been found-,he women rule
the men, polygamy il allowed and their black
neighbors are enslavcd.
Gov. Lowe is growing better, and he will
dou btless recover. " =..t...
The Missouri Legislature ID now in session.
A French paper thinks Mr.. Douglas will be
the next President. .#. .,
Robt. J. Hawley sexton of q chapel in
Cleveland, husband, and father Of eleven
children, recently slored with amaiden named
Raymond aged @.
rolier ana KTngsbury viii both claim 10 -.
presen. Dacotah in the present Congress.
Col. Albert Pike Of Arkansas 10 dead--he
was scholar, wit and poet.
Sarah Colman of Columbia Virginia pro-
missed to marry two young men At the same
hour and being undecided which of the two
to reject, she committed suicide.
A light has been discovered in London 90
grand and yet 30 cheap that 500 street lamps
will cost but 80 cents for ~ hours, and the
light of 10 candles can be furnished for less
than cent an hourl
An Ohio Court has decided that will Civ
ing money to the Catholic Church for benefit
to souls in Tu'gatoy is invalid.
At a Methodist Festival in Warren Mas,
the door gave away and dropped 700 persons
Into the room below, several persons were
bruised and one old lady was 90 frightened
that she died.
A hunting excursion near Tremrelau Wis,
has resulted in the capture Of bear, ells,
3 deer, 7 wolves. "a lynxes, Wildcats, l6
fishers, Offers, 9bean, minks and wild
horses.
Coal in Cincinnati 10 ten cents bushel and
chickens 10 cents per pair.
The young English Lords who we're reported
killed by the Indians Of Red River. recently
passed through Milwaukee on their way cost.
Eight hundred men are to work on the Root
River Valley R. Road. At La Crescent work
will commence in January.
It's stated by HAVANA writer that Santa
Anna has harem of Mexican misstresses Ia
console him in his Notwithstanding wife ID
nearly crazy from jealousy.
The Navajo Indians of New Mexico are moi
neglected. of the conveniences and comforts
of civilized life they number $4,000 and arr
increasing.
Land is offered in Maine on the Aroostook
at four bits an acre payable in road aoork any
time in four years
A polish ohess-plsyer Of celebrity M. Lu'
dinaki came all the vav In paria tn encnn nfa