The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-12-07
News and Items.

III MT. OaIuOn Oh New Albany lnd., ma
patented glass coffin; an air pump ex
hauts it after the dead body is placed in i
and the features are preserved forevcr--t,
be the gaze and sport of future generation
as the mummies of Egypt!
DR.. Frcund of Port Huron Michigan
who was shot recently between his neigh
boris sheets, is dead
1t is said the French army, navy an
Clergy are clamorous for war with England
We predict that they will get more of
than they want, when the trial comes.
Mr.. McGrcevy has the contract for tn
erection of the Public buildings at Ottawa
) c. West His bid was S5sO,OOO.
Beaver and Mink arc said to be unusall
plenty in the waters of the Cedar an
throughout southwestern Minnesota.
The accomplished writer Washington
Irving died Nov. 2sth, at Irvington N. Y.
aged n. He was bachelor.
| A party of ladies started to "dry up
the saloons at Dewitt, Iowa; they fixed
German and an Irishman easily, but an i'm
pudcnt Yankee rum-sellcr kissed two O
the pretticst of them and this compliment,
broke up the party
Prentice says: ''Tf the northern aboli
tionists do not think it wrong to steal ou1
slaves because they are men, they perhaps
will recognize the fact that as negroes arc
the defendants of Ham, it is larceny to ap.
propriate other peoples Bacon.
A fire at Taunton Mass, burnt property
to tn: amount Of $15O,OoO.
Samuel Best, one Of the pioneers of Gin.
cinnati died on the 9th, aged 81.
| A writer in the Chicago Times proposes
to furnish dagucrreotypes of the ''noble
young murderer Henry Jumpertz, now
on trial for killing and packing his mistress
Sophie Werner in meat barrel. This is an
offset to move of the same kind in Old
John Browns case
Gerrit Smith is said to be rapidly i'm
proving.
Gen. Scott has advised the Secretary
| Of War that our San Juan difficulty will
be easily settled on the basis of the Prcsi-
dents recommendation.
A hog in Fishkill, New York, deliberate
ly followed horse all day in the lot which
they both occupied;in the morning the horse
was dead and the hog was eating him. 1t
is supposed that the hog mcditated the
Il !, nf fln
him to lie down before the attack was
made
The reason why that young female prin-
ter at Cleveland attempted to shoot a young
compositor, was because the latter had re-
marked that somebody would have to get
another font of SMALL CAPS for her before
long"
Counterfeit sos and zoos Oh the Bank
of Philadelphia have been put in circula-
ton throughout the country; they arc very
we'll done.
Morrissey came near being whipped late
ly by drovcr with whom he got into diff
Guilty while in the cars of the New York
Central Road
In Newark New Jersey, wife charged
her husband.with drinking-he denied it
and then picked up a pistol as if to shoot
himself; it went off and killed a friend by
his side.
At a ball at Buffalo, Iowa, a fool got
mad at some slight or fancied insult and
fired a gun among the dancers, seriously
wounding six of the party.
In Massachusetts, the jail birds were boun-
tifully fed on Thanksgiving day, with
poultry, fruits, pastry and all the good
things. Good for the Bay State.
The Bohemian arrived on the 10th with
dates to the 10th.
Brcadstutfs little better, Provisions
dull. The Times continues to write little
articles on the conduct of the French, but
the political news by this arrival is not
otherwise important.
The Europa is in, with three days later
advices. The attitude of the English and
French presses is daily becoming more
warlike. 1t is reported that Garabaldi has
resigned the command of Central Italy and
joined the Sardinians.
1t is reported that the Mexican Generals
who have been warning each other for
years have agreed to compromise, Juarcz
to be Provisional President, the Constitu-
ton Of Jalasco to be restored and the laws
confscating church property to he annul-
led.
Judge Douglas and wife will 60 to Flori-
da on the 18th for health.
Gov. Wise has written letter to Mrs.
Brown pledging safe escort for herself or
friends to Virginia for the remains of her
husband.
Higgins & Cos carpet factory in New
York, was burned on the Both. Loss
| 100000
The steamer Lake City was sunk at Car
| ondelet below St. Louis on the Goth. Boat
worth $4,000. Cargo badly damaged.
The military near Charleston numbered
1000 on the Both.
Father Chiniquy of Kankakee county
Illinois has French colony there that are
opposed to the regular Catholics. He has
been travelling east begging money and goods
by representing the colony to be in great
dcstitution. The Press d Tribune scores
him up beautifully and tells the east to
spare their charity-we have grain enough
in the west to fed half the world. Beg.
ging priests of any kind should be learned
that their SANDERS on the west are not
wanted.
The tale of "Ossawatime Brown" is al