The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-02-08
News and Items.

| TTiutinS olHCc At CHaC piace anu HIS WHe
is held to bail for burning their dwelling in
GAINESVILLE. Both houses were insured.
Lawyers are said to be ftc-bill men.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, the
Clay Vicc-Presidential candidate in 1914
took new wife year ago and an heir re-
Gently blessed his domestic circle. Mr.. +.
is only p.
The Detroit river is free Of ice and steam
ers are beginning 70 move.
1t will take 100000 to preserve and
bcautify Mt. Vernon after the ladies get
possession.
Ex-Gov. PENNINGTON, of New Jer-
scy, was elected SPEAKER of the House
Of Representatives, on Wednesday Feby
LIST. Sherman and Smith having with
drawn, the vote stood, for Pennington III,
for McClernand s., scattering %. Mr.. p.
is conservative, Fugitive slave law Re-
publican.
The u s. steamer Mississippi has just
returned from three years voyage with
out accident. As she entered Boston har-
Dor her engines gave out. \ National
ship feels bad to sec the Flag of the Union
displaced from the dome of the Massachus-
etts Capitol!
Eighteen citizens, of Mason county Ken
lucky, were expelled on account of their
slave intermeddling. They got to Cincin-
natl on the LIST. This expulsion process is
bad policy for the South but it is one which
almost any people will resort to in times of
great excitement. Douglas was virtually
expelled from Chicago a! one time by Re-
publican lunatics.
Bowman, Of the Union, has been elected
printer to the Senate
Palmer, of the Dubuque Times, is elected
printer to the Iowa Legislature.
Gov. Sewart, of Missouri, and Gov.
Perry, Of Florida, refuse to sign the free
negro expulsion bill passed by their rcspec-
tive Legislatures.
1t is said the Irish revival has converted
100000.
| A gentleman gave rich collar to his
sweet heart and requested that none but
himself should be allowed to rumple it.
"No DEAR said the beauty, II will take it
off,
The birth day of Thomas Paine has been
celebrated pretty generally in our larger
cities. The German Turner's seem to have
been at the head of it. At Cincinnati the
Editor of the Repu1likaner was one of the
speakers.
The California Legislature has one Sena-
tor and one Representative of the Republi-
can order. The Rep. held caucus and
supported himself for Speaker.
Virginia declines to meet conference
of the Southern States OH tho disunion
question. All honor to her!
| A Union mass meeting was held in Phil
adelphia on Saturday last The business
men of the city generally signed the call.
Fillmore and Crittcnden spoke.
The Mississippi is rising rapidly at New
Orleans.
In Texas it is proposed to pass an act to
imprison northern preachers, teachers and
mercantile drummers Qmprobable.)
Gov. Houston's Message counsels modera-
ton.
Valentines day is close at hand; Feb'y
14th is nice time for the ladies to pop the
question.
Madam Bodisco Hrs Russian Minister
| attended the Presidents levee the other day
in rig worth $4,000.
An amalgamation ball took place lately
in New York. None but black men and
white women attended. At one o'clock
some gamblers came in and sprinkled -four
on the men and SCOT on the women and
broke up the orgies.
The citizens of Vicksburg sent money to
Lawrence for the late sufferers.
Mr.. Swain, of Jefferson county Illinois,
a respectable merchant recently eloped with
Miss Brown, leaving wife and unpaid
debts. A faithless Swain!
A Vermont girl only three years old
plays the piano like Thalbcrg.
Banks was elected Speaker Feb'y 8, 1856
on the 137th ballot.
Travis, of Rockford, who has married
eleren women and girls in Illinois and Wis
consin will go to Alton Cor Joliet for about
| five years to correct his habits.
DR.. D. c. Eddy, of Baltimore, recently
married his own mother! The Doctor off,
ciated as a divine in uniting his mother to
Mr. Bacon.
The Republicans of the eastern cities fir
ed III guns on the election of Pennington.
Ex-Gov. Chase is elected to the U. S.
Senate from Ohio.
Mrs. Swishelm, of st. Cloud, has been
appointed Surveyor Of Logs and Lumber,
by the Legislature. She expresses herself
as grateful for the appointment.
The Boston Journal published the last
| speech of Senetor Wilson before it was de-
liyered
Senator Seward is preparing speech for
the times.
A chap in Utica has invented an artifi-
cial lady crinolined to fit the side walks and
designed to sweep the streets with its skirts.
A small boy propels her:
Lord Palmerston has appointed Metho-
dist to be Solicitor General of England
the first Dissenter appointed since Crom-
wells time.
"Have You got the gospel here, my boy?"
No sir, but they have it awfully at New
Orleans.