The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-05-02

John Shouffer, Of Dalton, Ohio, shot
himself becauc he was too poor to support
his intended. TIC lady had a good rid.
dance.
| A man nd vertises his wife to be "pretty
and ignorant of the fact" Wcwould like to
sec that woman. t,t VI @t
Lemon juice is said to be y good internal
cure for rheumatism.
Two demon boys, at Elkhart Indiana,
pushed two smaller ones into the st. Jo-
seph riuer atatt,at place and pclted them
with sticks ill one was drowned. a'
The Geographic columns Of our daily
exchanges are almost exclusively occupied
with reports Of the Charleston Convention.
The nomination Will be found in another
column il made. aat f24tH
The first locomotive west of the Mississ-
ippi landed at St. Joseph on Tuesday last.
The Texans, Of San Jacinto, have nomi-
mated Houston for President and Fernando
Wood for Vice. The last selection is very
appropriate. @ as rs
Mr.. Corwin, in a late speech, said that
Massachusetts,, like Indiana, would soon
pass a law excluding free negroes from the
state lie also said ''thc Republican party
were not opposed to the surrender Of fugi-
tive negroes That party INDUCES in a
great amount Of useless talk then.
Dr.. Winship, Of Boston, is lifting about
900 pounds with the aid of machinery at
tachcd to his person. In one of the fash
papers he is represented as lifting barrel
Of -four marked PIT pounds! Why, Andy
Gaffney, Of McGregor, couldn't rouse his
muscles by such little weight as that
Andy can take the rin(d) out Of this Bos-
ton ship, 'just as easy" 0 ba
The Scranton (Pa) Herald exposed a
gambling house Of that town, and about a
dozen Of the fancy mobbcd the office, S.
vcrcly injuring the editor and hands.
The poor house in Stanbridgc, Mass, was
burned on the Goth, and deaf and dumb
6 RI persisted. asa4 s"
Rollins of Concord, Crayon Of Lebanon,
Hale of kingsdale, and Amos Tuck of Ex
cter, arc tho N. II. delegates to Chicago
A fire in Gardiner, Maine, (25th) destroy
cd $4,000 worth Of property.
1t is rumoIed that the present Congress
will appoint commission to buy out tie
Mormons Of Salt Lake, and slip them. out
Of tie Territory as we do other savages.--,
This move is made in view Of the fact that
laws against polygamy can effect but little,
and to save bloodshed.
The newspapers aboundin descriptions Of
counterfeit and worthless bills. Every bus
mess man should have a weekly Reporter Of
reliable character.
The Sentinel says Pomcroy has returned
to Milwaukee looking as pretty as a squash,
and as 'happy as an escaped convict
'.Brick," lend that fellow your boot, toe help
him along in the world. ,f.....,
Persons die now from eating strawberries
put up in cans. Oxalic acid is generated by
the fruit coming in contact with the metal
Judge Dixon is officially elected in Wis.
b va vote Of so in poll of 100 900. He
got near 5000 majority, we believe, but his
name was spelled wrong.
Bolts says he won't work any more he
remarks that he has been foremost in ev-
cry fight and hindmostat every FEAST long
enough.
The N Y7ribune does not regard Pot
ter very highly; it says: "So little stir
has he made in the present Congress, that
several democratic members of the House,
and several Republican Senators did not
even know him by sight till after his affair
with Pryor made him conspicuous"
The Paduch Commercial accounts for the
dullness of its columns in this way: IF
the Commercial is dull, it is not our fault.
No man in the world tries harder than we
do to manufacture an exciting or even inter-
esting article. The town is SO ''irretrieva-
by religious that fight or skrimmage is
impossible. Even the dumb beasts partake
of the general quiet. Saturday we tied an
oyster can to dogs tail, but he wouldn't
run. A mule refused to kick niggcr's
hat off, after an hours 'just cause and
provocation." The chickens remain on the
roost all day, and genuine porker in the
street is rarity we arc destined never to
behold again"
Venus made decided hit in her occulta-
ton Of last Tuesday evening. Nearly every
body in town Witnessed her ladyship as
gracefully ''took a horn," slid around the
lower disc of Madam Luna and emerged in
twenty minutes to the field of azure. On
Friday night Jupiter passed through nearly
the same process, but it was not visible
here. 4.snsz enasf gsa 1850 III
The Chicago Leader has Military Ed
itor" We suppose him to be the popular
and good-looking Editor-in- Chief, General
SrgHl. ROUNDS. Wewent campaigning with
him to '.BIeody Run" on a certain occasion
and saw him baptise his commission in the
boiling surf (and saw-logs) Of that classic
stream. lie was doing duty as topergraph-
ical engineer! Give me drink, Patricius,"
and we gave it. -
since the accident to La Mountain and
sce ,hs e b ,,f yAtIantks ss1 E6 YA S Sh}
much "gone up, l $.
John Browns widow is now worth S40,-
900. As the old lady testified that he had
been rambling about for 20 years useless to
his family, it is to be supposed that his