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The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-04-28
Q. -. R u MI Z - T.,
LAW OFFICE:
M'GREGOR, low A.
Patent Medicines

Can be obtained of Wood d Co, at Wholesale
or Retail and guaranteed to be genuine.
IL We have a FEVER AND AGUE remedy that
has cured in twenty Successive cases this Spring
and not failure has marked its nse.
T. Medicines will be furnished at any horr
day or night, and every effort made to build up
business by prompt attention and an oblising
disr osition.
u Physicians prescriptions and Family reel
pes carefully compounded.
IL Call and examine our stock, and satisfy
yourselves that our words are true.
r. w. WOOD & co.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-04-28
TO X E.VT.
SHERIFF'S SALE.

N1OTICE is hereby given that by virtue of an Exc
~ cution to me directed by the Clerk Of the District
Court of Clayton County, Iowa, will sell at public
vendue, to the highest bidder, for cash, the 5th.
day of June 1853, between the hours of ten o'clock
A. NJ, and four oclock =. NJ, of said day. in front of
the court house door in Gutenberg the following des-
cribed property, to wit The south half Of the west
half also the west half of the north half of the
half of the south west quarter of the north quarter
Of section thirty two in Township, 90 n of range 6
west also the south half of south west quarter Of
ton five Township Of range west of the p. NJ
tanning 95 acres situated in said Clayton county.
1Iughart, KansassIushart Carissa J. Hughart, Will
liam Murphy, David Hughart Il F. Hughart to satisfy
an execution in favor OF VIM. ii. Putney. for the sum
of S765 aid costs. JAMES DAVIS
az. Sheriff of Clayton County, Iowa.
GUTENBERG. April 23rd. 1S5SnS1w2
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-04-28
AGENTS WANTED.

TIE GREAT GIFT SALE OF GOLD PENCILS, by A. II.
MILFORD Co., Washington City d. G. offers an excel
lent chance to Agents to make few dollars with little
or no expense. We manufacturing and selling
beautiful solid Gold Pencils for So each (the actual
ret all price and giving each purchaser gift, worth
from S. up to 5000. Each purchaser ola pencil Is
sure Of 90 gift at least, it may be worth So $40,
sl5 $40 $40, $50, s75 800, or 5000 The prizes
distributed to purchasers by simple plan Of drawing,
and as soon the of purchaser Is received with
the So his Pencil and Gift put up in small box,
in safe manner and sent to the owner by MALL post
paid Our plan gives perfect satisfaction as each pur-
chaser sell trade his Pencil for all 1t costs him.
and retain the gift gratis.
We want good agent, in every part of the country
to solicit purchasers and any agent to be successful
should first have Pencil and Prize to exhibit. We
allow agent dollar cash for each purchaser he
obtains which amount he may retain out Of the So (:
and the first person becoming purchaser at any post
Office will receive the agency for that neighborhood.
A NEW AND IMPORTANT IDEA.
We propose to let u person know what Gift he will
son desiring of massive Gold Pencils, can first
send us their and address, and We will make their
drawing and inform them by return mail what prize
they drew: they then have the privilege Of send
ing for it il they choose We cannot, however, give
this privilege but to person, and we make this
offer establish agencies and introduce our Pencils in
a ncighborhood. After person becomes a purchaser
lOcoty to send their s. in advance through him.
Purchasers may rely upon it that will promptly for
ward their Pencil and Prize, whatever it may be, by
return mail, receipt of the So Full particulars,
with the plan Of distributions will be sent to each per-
son making application for drawing Address,
A. H. WILFORD & CO.
Apfil, 81, ls5SnS0w4 Washington city, d. c.
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of these complaints. EBEN KNIGHT, H. ID.
A. B. MORTLEY, Esq, of Utica, n. Y, writes II
have used your pectoral myself and in my family
since you invented it, and believe it the best medicine
for its purpose ever put out. With bad cold should
sooner pay twenty-five dollars for bottle than do
without it, or take any other remedy
The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-02-24
CITY OF NN1NGER, DAKOTA COUNTY. MINNESOTA TERRITORY. FEBRUARY 2. 1885,

your good father and pious mother ? Il sup
pose, SIR answered Miss Caroline, Il should have been
On orphan?
An orthodox Yankee expresses himself as follows
concerning eternity - Eternity why, don't you know
the meaning of that word. Nor l neither, hardly it
is forever and ever, and fv or six everlastings a top of
that. You might place a row Of figures from here to
sunset, and CIPHER them up, and it would not begin to
tell how many ages long eternity is. Why, my friends,
after millions and trillions of years have passed away
in the morning of eternity, it would be a hundred thous-
and years to breakfast time
A young miss having accepted the offer Of a youth to
gallant her home, afterwards fearing that jokes might
be cracked at her expense, if the fact became public,
dismissed him half way enjoining his secrecy. Don't
be afraid said he, tofmy saying anything about it, for
[ feel as ashamed of it as you do
Il wish you had been Eve,' said an urehin to a wo.
man who was p~roverbial for her meanness.'
why SOP .
Because you would have eaten all the apple, instead
of dividing it with ADAM
The great DR.. Jennings, of London, sent the follow
ing lines with a couple Of ducks, to a patient:
Dear madam l send you this scrap of a letter,
To tell you Miss Mary is very much better,
A regular doctor no longer she lacks,
Therefore 1 send her a couple of quacks.
"A cof6n,' said an Irishman, lis the house a mau
lives in when he is dead
Somebody describes the absurd appearance of a man
dancing the polka in this wise: He looks as though he
had a hole in his pocket and was trying to shake a shil
ling down the leg of his trowsers.'
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States as places of residence. These, and various other
causes, in their combined influence, must tend to equal
ie the population of the Republic, to deplete the over
setic and industrious men. The very disposition to
move and seek new quarters. argues activity and capac-
iy and the wonders which have been achieved in our
inland commonwealth, show that the settlers there vim
dictate the character which, in emigrating, they assumed.
Even the malcontents and political refugees Of foreign
birth, who clamor for impossible things in tie cities,
and stand ready to fill up the ranks of fllibustering ex-
petitions, make excellent bordcrers. If, like Corporal
Nym, they hold the world their oyster, there is no better
place at which they may open it than IN the West. Their
restless activity finds good exercise there; and as lords
of their own freeholds, they can subside into profitable
employment. The ownership of land is the very best
security which a nation can have for the good conduct
of its citizens. Other property and abstract political
rights require a process of ratiocination, which disap-
pointed revolutionists cannot, or will not undertake.. 4
farm, nth acres to c1eu,, and stock to protect, is tt real.
iy wh:ch they can appreciate. But ~emigrants West
ward have lately been met, at every point within APP
prcachablc distance, by enormous prices. Land has
fallen into the possession of spectators, and thence into
the ownership Of occupants who have burthened it with
mortgages and liabilities, the existence Of which had
placed it above the reach of new purchasers. The own
ers would not willingly submit to the ruin of a sale at
its actual value, and rather than sell, labored on, strug
Cling against fate and necessity. But the late revulsion
has checked speculation; prices of land have receded
to something like a just equipose, and a more healthy
state of affairs is destined to rule beyond tho Alleghanies.
-|New York Shipping and Commercial List.
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In some cases, pieces of it adhere to the coats of the
the same as wet paper clings to anything,
causing sickness and other Inconvenience: Dried rails
ms and currants are particularly included in these re-
marks, showing the best reasons for placing tho fruit
upon the %chopping board with the suet in making a pud-
ding of them for if a dried currant passes into the
stomach whole, it is never digcsted at all. When horses
eat oats or beans that have not been through a crushing
mill, much of this food is swallowed whole, and in this
state, being perfectly indigestible, the husk or pellicle
resisting the power Of the stomach, there is SO much
loss to nutrition. Birds, being destitute of teeth, are
provided with the apparatus for grinding their seed,
namely, the gizzard, through which the seed passes, and
is crushed prior to digestion. The Feelings Of apples
and pears should always be cast away. Oranges We
need not mention, as this is always done. All kinds of
plums should be carefully skinned if eaten raw, and if
put into tarts they should be crushed before cooking.
Nuts are as indigestible as we could desire, if the brown
skin he not removed or tlanched, as almonds are gen.
orally treated.-lScicntitic American.
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The e West.

Tie Western couahry Is, ~ihrnt a doedt, the saleutson
If tie E.st. 70 the Amounting fertility and surplus
products Of our Western possessions, We are largely in
debted for the food that sustains our life Without the
supply they aH3rl, our great manufacturing and indus
trial establishments, If not absolutely brought to Il stand,
would be ereati. crippled. The check in the movement
of its produce was tie chic: cause Of the suspension Of
our Banks Ias' Frli. au! the pccuni"ry rain Of thousands
engaged in ia-i,,>. It rrceipitated and aggravated
the Money crisis in Europe, AND its effects were felt
throughout the co'nmerciai world -lo'o".q the good ef
/t:rts ~htch ~iW '",,s i" rs conpsns"tions for the late
r~esuz;on, uiW be the more ropid .fNi"y up IF the West.
ss;W BIZ st;naulutn1 IN the Spring by the closing of those
now reproductive pursuits which have heretofore ss
tanned d large population at The general e1pe"ss. The
cessation of employment in Legitimate enterprises, now
%overdoue, will add to the number Of the unemployed,
and the general reduction Of wages, which must take
place, will lesson the temptation to cling to the older
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The Siamese twins were taken down to Louisville the
other day to be shown there. The Snowman who hes
charge OF them gave the conductor one ticket for the
two. The conductor demanded two tickets, as they
were two persons. He replied that they never yet had
bought more than one. Conductor must have another.
The Snowman said II bought the ticket for Eng.
Chang can take care of himself-you can put him of
the cars AS Chang could not 60 off without Eng,
whose ticket was paid for, the conductor submitted with
as good grace as he could.
London is now the greatest city in the world, and far
%surpasses all the great cities of antiquity. According
to Gibbon, the population Of ancient Rome, in the
height of its magnifcence, was 1900, 600. Nineveh is
estimated to have had GOO, 900, and DR.. Medhurst sup.
poses the population of Pekin is about 100000. The
population of London, according to recent statistics,
amounts to $500, 000,-4O4,6 22 having been added to
it during the last ten years. The census shows that it
contains 207, 722 inhabited, and l6,389 uninhabitcd
houses.
IF we are to live after death, why don't we have
some certain knowledge of it " said a skeptic to clergy
man, why don't you have some knowledge of this
world before you como into it, was the caustic reply.
'Thiiure DEAR said a loving husband to his loyal
spouse, who was several years his junior. what do you
say to moving to the West 2 oh, I'm delighted with
the idea. - You recollect when Morgan went out there,
he was as poor as We are, and he died in three years
worth one hundred thousand dollars
A teacher Was lectaring a class of little girls on the
influence OF pious instruction in the formation OF youth
full character. All, Miss Caroline said he to one of
the class, what do you think you would have been
The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-02-24
A New Property Of Camomile.

Camomlle (Anhemis nobiHs) is described in all
treatise OF materia medica as emollient, digestive, forti.
tying, &c., but none point out a most precious virtue,
just announced as pertaining to it by NJ. Ozanam, whose
paper on the subject was presented to the Academy of
Sciences at its last sitting by Cloquet. This virtue con.
slsts in preventing suppuration when the local disease
is not too far advanced, aud in gradually stopping it
when it has existed for u long time. For this purpose
it is administered in powerful doses of S, 10, and even
30 grammes of the flower in Il litre of water, the infusion
to be drunk IN the course Of the day, and to be con-
tinued until the cure be effected. Congresses moisten-
cd with the infusion may be locally applied they aid
Ill the cure, but arc not nccessary-the infusion alone,
taken Internally, being quite sufficient. In support of
his assertion NJ. Ozanam quotes the case of a man aged
80, labor1ng under a %phlegmonous e~rysipelas of the face
and head, with FIVE enormous tumors the skin was sepa-
rated from the skull by a vast quantity Of pus a sixth
tumor was being formed at tn, corner of the lower jaw
The patient had a violent fever, accompanied with IN
ceasing delirium. On the 18th day camomile was ad-
ministered in doses of 80 grammes per day. During the
first days the suppuration increased, whereupon the
doses were reduced to Is grammes ; the suppuration
rapidly diminished, and on the Goth day after the CON-
mencement of the treatment the patient went away in
perfect health. Three other cases, all worse than the
former, are mentioned by NJ. Ozanam in one, the am.
~putation of the thigh was avoided by employing camo-
mile in doses OF SO grammes per day. The cure lasted
six weeks. In another, an abscess of the size of a child's
head was first opened by incision, and camomile admin
lstered as before. The cure lasted three weeks. The
last case presents such a complication of diseases, the
least OF which seems to have been a typhus fever, that
we, will not disgust our readers with the description.
Camomile was administered in doeses of five grammes
per day, owing to the weakness of the patient, and this
cure was effected in % days. When, as in the first
case, the remedy produces an apparent aggravation, it is
a sign that the dose is too strong for the patient, and
REQUIRES diminutiOn.
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pound sterling is the money Of account. A simple cal
c%ulation in the rule Of three, therefore, determines that
the equivalent Of the pound sterling is 81 Sc 65-1OO Of
our currency.
1t may be we'll to explain that, when nothing is said
to the contrary, the quotations of sterling exchange are
by custom for bills at go days sight which, at the
legal rate Of interest here, involves a loss Of one per
cent, besides the time of transmission. But, on the
other hand, at the most favorable rate of shipping
specie, one per cent, is the cost, including the insurance,
Of laying it down in Liverpool, the time lost in trans
mission being the same in either case. Thus as one o
these items balances the other, the true par of exchange
is 81 per cent, on England, at which rate generally 1t is
as well to remit good 60 day bills as specie.
Thus as % 22-100 is one so is lib to 81 Sc 65-100.
But the English, through all the variations Of the mint
laws, here and elsewhere, indeed for ages, have been &C
customed to value their pound sterling by the old Span
ish Carolus pillar dollars now entirely out Of circulation
in Europe and America, having all been sent to China
ore gone into the melting pot. Of these 81 A 400
were equivalent to the pound sterling. 1t will be seen
that it requires the addition Of 81 per cent, with a
scarcely appreciable fraction, to make the present value
of the pound sterling in our currency. Thus =
81 Al 44-1OO
Add 81 per cent premium of exchange 40 22-1OO
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The Uind Of Fruit IDdiScstfblc.

This applies to all fruit, without exception, and inf
cludes also the pellicle or skin of kernels and nuts o.
all kinds. The edible part of fruit is particularly deli
cate, and liable to rapid decomposition if exposed to
the atmosphere; it is, therefore, a provision of nature
to place a strong and impervious coating over it, as a
protection against accident, and to prevent insect enc.
mics from destroying the seed within. The skin Of all
the plum tribe is wonderfully strong, compared with its
substance, and resists the action of water and many
solvents in a remarkable manner. If not thoroughly
masticatcd before taken into the stomach, the rinl OF
plums is rarely, if ever, dissolved by the gastric juice.
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The lsar Of

The principle on Which American merchants and
bankers calculate exchange on England is thus clearly
set forth
The par of exch 'nge is etermined by the relative
proportion of pure metal in the coined piece which form
the unit of price in the different commercial counties Of
the world. The alloy is reckoned of no value.
10 simplify the matter as much as possible, We will
waive all consideration of the different standards of fine.
ness, and state that our American dollar contains %
22-lOO grains Of pure gold, and the British sovereign
ll3 grains Of the same. Every reader may not know
that the sovereign is the coined piece Of which the
The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-02-24
4 Cll1 Of UitferS.

Thoughtless people would have the world made up
of sweets they would expunge bitter substances as
useless. When, however, we look into natures labora.
tory, We see that bitters have not been made in vain.
The consumption of bitter substances by the human
family is so great that it can only be compared to the
demand for sweets. Bitter. substances, like sweets, can
be extracted from a great variety Of plants growing in
different parts of the earth. The purest bitter principle
is yielded by the squassia tree, so called after a negro
uamed Quassi, who used it with remarkable success in
curing malignant fever which prevailed at Surinam.
Nearly all the bitter plants are called febrvuge, from
their power to cure fever. 1t is not, however, in ill
health that bittcrs are solely used, but in ordinary bev.
erages, which are not absolutely essential to support
life. The principal bitter used in England is we'll
known to be derived from the hop plant; in Germany
it is NORWOOD in Italy it is fren absinth. In the
latter country we see men smoking their segars. and
if leisurely conversing, they drink bottled absinth,
which, to an English palate, is so bitter as to be per.
fectly nauseous. In the Levant they eat a sort of gourd
or bitter cucumber. Some of the Biblical interpreters
think that this is the plant spoken of in the Second
Book OF Kings, Chap. w., YER. 39-4l, on tasting which
for the first time, the people exclaimed to Elisha there
is death in the pot but on being mixed with meal
there was no harm in it In Scotland they dry and
chew the roots of the bitter vetch these roots are also
put into their whiskey. The bitter vetch is reputed to
have the power Of %allaying hunger and thirst for a
heightened period but in London the 'evening to-
pcrs' drink bitters in the morning to stimulate the ap-
Pe'i'e 1neIe arc d great many otner bitter plants used
in various parts of the world. In Sweden the marsh
sedum, or wild rosemary, takes the place of the hop ;
and in North America they have a plant called Labra-
dor tea, which affords a more bitter infusion than the
China tea used in England. Among the other numer-
Gus bitters we must not forget the camomile, the bitter
of which is said to be the only remedy for nightmare.
Marmalade, turnip-tops, and many other things are in
cluded among the bitter food which we eat and relish.
1t is not a little remarkable that young people have a
dislike to anything that is bitter, while elderly persons
generally prefer bitter things. This is just as it should
be; for as life advances, our spiritual self would seem
to require a sort of grease to the wheel-a resin to the
bow and is well supplied by bitters.-lIbid.
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81 sc 66-10O
Faith and Works.

On the Firth of Forth was an old ~ferryman, a man
Of much thought and observation, but few words a
constant student of the Bible, and a firm believer in its
truths. Among his patrons were two loquacious COM
panions, whose business led them across the river once
a week. One of them was, as be supposed, a high toned
Calvanist while the other imagined himself to be equally
we'll grounded in the tenets of Arminius. Their con-
versation always turned upon some doctrinal point.
The ~ferryman was frequently annoyed by the repetition
of faith on one side, and aooyks on the other, because
they were used in a sense so different from their real
import, and so destructive of their ~scriptural harmony.
fere. He said nothing, but fell upon the following ex-
Faith, and upon the other Works. 1t was not long
before the Jealous but friendly disputants applied for a
passage over the Forth. Upon entering the deepest part
of the river, where the swollen water rushed down with
fearful violence, the ~terryman took in Faith and pulled
upon 6 Works with all his might. The boat went round
and round, much to the annoyance and terror of the two
passengers. Put out the other oar said one of them
in a loud and angry tone. very WE'LL was the calm
reply of the old man-at the same time taking in
{ Works. and relying on Faith alone. The expert.
ment with this oar produced the same result, and drove
the witnesses of it to the conclusion that the ferryman
was 8 out of his head. The old man, however, continued
his practical demonstrations on the water until
the friends were prepared to see two thugs IN conmec-
ton. He then called their attention to the names of
his oars / have tried your way said be, and yours,
and you have seen the result now observe my way
And giving q steady hand to each oar, the little boat
soon acknowledged the power of their harmonious
strokes, by the straight and rapid flight which she took
for the landing.