The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-12-28


session have only numbered 20-there are
116 more trials to be had to equal the other
fight.
The State of Pennsylvania is not only
rich in Iron and Coal, but discoveries of
oil-lakes are now being made in the bowels
of the state. The oil is worth GO cents,
crude.
Gov. Wise is charged with supposing
that he will stand show for the Charleston
nomination. The country supposes other
wise.
The Dunleith Adrertiser says . spring
food As great as that of SO will raise bar
in front of Dubuque which will prevent
steamboats, from touching there. This may
be natural fact; but we recollect meeting
Pierce of The Key City at Dubuque last
fall when the bars Of that place were the
very things the steamboat boys tried to
touch.
Mrs. Croly say that the girls who skate
At Rockford keep their persons erect and a
stiff breeze carries them along-crinoline
amplitude accounts for the sail.
John A. Washington, it now seems is
unable to make title to the Mt. Vernon
property, prior liens preventing. This is
most disgraccful.
Sands of Chicago "the AL. maker has
bought out Gibson's Milwaukee "Spring
Brewery" to enable him to supply his GUS
toners.
NJ. S. Wilkinson, Senator elect from Min
nesota is of the Seward school Of Republi
cans and is said to be good-looking man
with fair talent.
The Legislature Of Vermont has passed
a law against billiards. The cider cant be
allowed to work on Sunday much longer.
Linn Boyd, Lieut.. Gov. Of Kentucky,
died on Monday Dec. 10th.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided
that negroes have no right to attend the
Schools Of that State What politics have
the Judges?
Southern Medical Students are leaving
the Northern Colleges. Three hundred
left Pennsylvania and jefferson Colleges in
Philadelphia on one railway train.
The New Haven Register says that south
ern orders on manufacturers are falling of
at an alarming rate.
Since the completion of the Rockford and
Kenosha road the travel from Rockford
goes by way of Harvard the point of juno
ton with The Fond du Lac line The Galena
Union is battling the new road with all the
influence it possesses but the stock Of the
Galena line is daily running lower.
The Grand Trunk Railway fearing the
trickery of the Yankees, ordered $500 Ak
es Of an English mandatory with direc
tons Ito follow the pattern" The axe
came back all right except there was NJ
hole for the handle.
1t is said the spiritualists have "Ossawa
TAME" before them already. He is in :
low sphere and says he has not seen white
man since he left the earth.
Robinson Crusoc is a novel without ,
word o. love in it. An egg without salt
We beg pardon-a pic without sugar.
John Young Brown, NJ. C. elect from
Kentucky is not 20 till June and cannot
take his seat till then. Strictly speaking
he was not eligible to an election till he was
%.
Indiana will probably instruct her dele
gates to 60 for Douglas. The Sentinel ad
vises it and the masses favor it.
Aaron Holt, of Kentucky had $4,000
stolen from him by Cincinnati nympt
and before he could get an officer to arrest
her she had swallowed the money. THAI
was her "best holt
Seventeen young ladies of Concord, N
N, drew through the streets barrel Of
-four to a poor woman in the neighbor.
hood. If we had Mormon principles We
would want to marry all of them.
1t is now beginning to be thought that
the alarming letters scattered through the
northern slave states are written by negro
traders to induce the cheap sale of thu
slaves.
On the goth at Sinsbury, Conn.,, the Fuse
Mandatory of Joseph Toy was burnt and
seven girls persisted in the flames.
Humboldt's hours of sleep were seldom
more than four-frequently only three and
. half
A young female Abolitionist was offered
a bill on Virginia bank-she refused il
because Virginia hung Brown.
A man in Georgia named Callahan agreed
with negro to steal and sell him several
times and divide the money-Pompey told
his master the plan and Callahan was ar
rested.
The artesian well at Columbus, Ohio, is
2,34S feet deep and the appropriation has
given out. This is the deepest well in the
world.
In the state of New York, marriage is
merely civil contract; two suitable per
sons may call in witnesses and sign a con
tract of marriage and the union is legal
no license is required. -....
Cuba means q wine or oil cask, tub OF
topper.
Oliver Goldsmith, was born at Pallas
County Longford, Ireland.
Pare wart well and apply lunar caustit
- ta----I L~-A tl,:.> - A. ~ 49, "'sS'
and exercise your faith on their disappear
ance!
The Charleston Mercury and the Rich
mond Enqnirer publish all the fool speeche!
of the North, while the N. Y. Tribune ant
Albany Journal print all the disunior
speeches made at the South. In this way
tha axc;ton,apt ic Kent at fever heat