The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-05-09
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Letter from Baugh.
Joc's first letter is at hand 1t is full o.
humor and we promise our readers some
rich notes from this correspondent when h,
gets to the gold region and takes view Of
things generally. The stray dog, in this
letter, bears as hard on "our Dan" as it
does on the butcher" and we let it slide
into the paper.
LEWIS, Cass Co., Iowa, April oath.
DEAR Co.. We are, and have been for
two or three days, laying up at this place,
waiting for grass beyond the river; and why
not I, as we'll as other Pixies Peakers from
MEG, avail myself Of very favorable op.
portunity to write to the ten thousand and
one readers of the Times. "Timc is mon.
ey," says an old adage, but to those who
are on the road to fortune Git leads to Pixies
Peak, Of course,) laying over is dull work !;
but between hunting, fishing, sleeping and
yarn spinning, we manage to kill the "old
daddy" to tolerably good advantage.
Rogers said, from Omaha, that journey
across Iowa had got to be an old theme to
your readers; but if they were to try it
themselves, or could depict it as i. is, it
would be anything but dull one. The
jokes, the pranks, and the sights" 60 to
make up ono of tn. most pleasant 'tramps'
| have ever enjoyed. It's real hard work
"A harder road probably than Jordan"
so much sung about-but if we don't make
much we've had lots of fun, and enjoyed
many hearty "guffaw'' that propr:ety
would decide NAL apropos in the narrow
precincts Of your wheat buying city.
Not thcleast among the amusing incidents
Of our journey was the little affair between
our train and butcher-man of McGregor.
1t was about "dorg." "Tcm Jeff''-wcll
known in your vicinity, died, Gas is also
WI known) leaving behind him to the ten
der mercies of cold, uncharitablc world
as his only surviving h.ir, yaller, crop
cared, bob-tailed dog of the bull genus -
this canine, after being tossed about for
som, time by the winds Of adversely, final
ly "squatted' (McGregor stylc) on the
premises of the above butcher man, who in
view Of a contingent ownership, fed and
co.hed him until about the time of our de-
parture. You must know that Jeff d d
at the house of one Reed and one of the
junior Reeds claimed that the dog was be-
queathed to him by the deceased, and ac-
cordingly transferred all his right, title and
interest in the said legacy to "cur Dan,'
who brought the dog along with him on his
journey to the west, to eat what cold pota-
toes and bacon-rinds might be laying around
loose about our camp. So far, so good
When about one mile this side of Bigelow'.
We We're oyertaken by the butcher man and
grey mare, who proceeded to stampede
our train, hoping in the melee to run off the
canine aforesaid. But nir. Failing in this
he walked on ahead of us for about 4 miles
hunting for Justice which he did not find.
and the last we saw of him he was stand
ing On the prairie brandishing his arms,
and uttering the smooth flowing language
of the fader-land, of which we could only
occasionally distinguish dog thief, cope,
Trick, stein" &c. But you were not pre-
ant orI 49,, Cl.A
Dutch
The emigration to the Gold Regions will
probably be larger this sux,mer than last
The farther west you go the more talk you
hear of going to the Peak at any rate
the hard times back or the good times ahead
have almost depopulated the towns we hav,
passed through. independence, was the
only town we have passed through that
presented any show Of business, and they
were blowing on having shipped 100000
bushels of wheat this season, bu: they
'dNed up when We told them Of our hav-
ing shipped four times that amount in
months. called at the Offices there to
get the Times, but found you did not ~"
We were confident Of getting one or more
copies at Dss Moines, but failed there, also !;
what do you suppose will become of us if
We don't find any at Omaha? Wear now
forty-fire miles from the river, and we are
waiting to hear fir m Clcghorn who has
gone on ahead. ! am very anxious to go
on, for lam confident Billy" has not failed
to send me the paper, and know I'll get
letters from somebody'
labor under some disadvantages in WI
ting; my pen and paper are on top Of my
trunk ,aand my lower limbs O. are on tho
dry SLOT Of rather muddy ground, but il
this is lcgible the desire of my heart is
granted-my immortality is secured-my
NAMES sin the paper. Yours, Peakly,
JOE BAUGH.