The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-02-08
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The Illinois pcnitentiary is removed from
Alton to Joliet. Emigration has already
commenced to the Peak at Leavenworth
and st. Joseph, companies arc arriving
daily, prepared to take time by the forelock.
The news from there is uniformly good. -.
"A child was recently born in Milwaukee
weighing % pounds :. A fashionable shoe
maker in Paris, threatened to expose the
condition of all the feet of his female Gus
toners unless they paid him fifteen francs
each; many of them had corns, bunions
sores, and other deformities of the pedals
and they came down with the dust literally
until some cross old lady had him arrested
80. There are 265, 900 free people of color
in the Southern States. What pleasant
colonies they will make for the northern set
Elements, when the South in selfprotection
drives them out of their section Senator
Trumbull, one of the irrepressible lights,
says that they can't live north with the
whites, and the question arises, where must
they go?. .Seereiter now has charge of
the Chicago fremont Billiard Room. Geary
and Parker are to play for 800. "A fell
low bought hat with little mirror in the
crown of it; he supposed it was to enable
him to see how the hat looked when on his
head!. -. An inebriated gent being asked
at hotel if he would have his beef rare
done, replied, between hiccups, Eyes, bring
it along rarin' and pitchin', l amt afraid of
it".. Horse Radish, applied to the wrist,
is said to be a sure cure for tooth-ache
A French astronomer enters into long ar
gument to show that the world will be again
deluged. 1t is pretty well deluged now,
with drinks of various kinds. . . Soap and
sulphur, boiled into a soup, will kill or
drive away the ants that infest our gardens
during the summer; letitcool, and sprinkle
the ground with it. >. Senator Powell, of
KY, has introduced bill to abolish the
franking privilege, but it will never pass so
long as NJ. C.'s are partisans rather than
patriots. Nathan Myrick, of New York,
began the city Of Lacrosse, in ls41 T.. . The
wife of Democratic editor in Kentucky
gave birth to a female gal whereupon the
father announced that he was now in favor
of the impending cry-sis. >. Some paper
proposes the election of two Vice Presi-
dents; one to be Speaker of the House, er
cffcio. E. 1t is proposed that no delegates
be sent to the National Conventions except
those who utterly cschew office. Wewould
like to see corporal's guard of such poll
ticians. Fifty three married ladies of New
Haven szeigh.rided as many unmarried
gents recently, treated them kindly and re-
turned them to their solitary confinement
1t is reported that the managers took no
improper liberties with the innocent bache-
lors. =. The journal Of Commerce opposes
the issue Of coin so small as gold dollars
and copper cents. :. .Garibaldi is to marry
the sister of his stcp-mother; he will be
brother-in-law to his father; his children
will have grandfather and an uncle in the
same person. -. The Great Eastern cost five
millions, and was sold to new company
for halfprice; the stock of the new compa-
ny is worth only half-price. >. . There is a
continuous line Of railway now from Bangor
to New Orleans; it is 1894 mills long, and
cost 1913, 100000; there are eighteen indie
pendent roads in the line :. . Wakes Spirit
is sure Heenan will be clicked" by Tom
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