The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-02-15
News and Items.

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FL. Grund has been confirmed as consul
to Harve. He is skcezicks.
At Kokomo, Indiana, Rev. j. NJ. Chew
was arrested for living with Mrs. Clngen-
smith, of indianapolis, as his wife. He had
practiccd medicine and devilmcnt in C.'s
house.
The Richmond Enquirer dressed its CO.
lumns in mourning on the election Of Pen
nington. Oh!
A Physician, of Milwaukee, has made
new nose for man out Of flesh cut from
the patients arm.
The Virginia delegation thus far elected
prefer Wise for President
The Republican Convention will not be
called before June 18th, as originally agreed
upon.
A gentleman, Of West Chester, Pennsyl-
vania, killed Is of his dogs on the 18th,
because some of them had been bitten by
mad dog. This man must have been in the
sausage business.
Gen. Butler, Jackson's Adjutant in the
late war died in Florida recently. He be-
longed to the fighting Butler family of the
South.
When you are struck by lady's beauty
be sure ITO kiss the rod"
Judge G. Swan, of Ohio, died at Column
bus on the 9Th, aged Is.
The Congregationalists, of Milwaukee,
have adopted general singing in their
Churches-the choir system is abandoned.
Mr.. Buchanan has vetoed the st. Clair
Flat appropriation.
The gold Of Denver is worth about ST.
so per ounce at the mint; over 100000
have been received there
Denver and Auraria have three theatres,
innumerable grog and gambling shops but
mary" Church. Our McGregor boys will
provide themselves with good habits before
they go there.
The people of Venango Co. Pennsylva-
MIA, are boring the whole country for OIL
springs. This is inaugeratinc new mode
of greasing the wheels of business.
Mills statue of Washington will be set
up on the 22d. Congress will appropriate
literally and many of the crack Military
Companies of the U. S. will be present.
Sanderson Dem. is elected Mayor of
Lancaster Pa, over Burrows by 1S9 major
ity. This is gain of 500 over the vote of
last year.
A young, pretty, little Jewess named
Mary A. Ellston N. D. delivered an able
lecture before the Cooper Institute N. York,
showing the capacity of woman for the
study of medicine.
Yale College has recently provided itself
with ten bowling saloons for the pupils!
The Bank Of England employs 1900
clerks
John and Robert Broderick of N. York,
second cousins to the late Senator claim his
estate.
A clergyman, in Salem N. j., announc-
ed that he.would preach to the "moral men"
the house was crowded to suffocation.
The Ex-Empress of St. Domingo Mrs
Solouque has to wash the late Emperor's
shirts! What is fame compared with suds
A Minnchaha at Hudson Min, lately
stabbed her beloved Hiawatha and was
about to cut his heart out when she was
dragged per force from the quivering body
of her "injun."
1t is understood that Gov. MORGAN will
be the second choice of New York in the
Chicago Republican Convention.
A good looking swindler named II. B.
Foster is in western Wisconsin borrowing
money from the men and marrying all the
anxious women he can find. He has four
wives already.
There SO Wisconsin banks on which
there are counterfeit bills in circulation,
from ones to tens.
Gov. Latham, of Cal, ten days after
his Inauguration was elected Senator. The
eulogy on Broderick has not yet been pro-
nounced in the Senate Gwin hated the
deceased.
1t is proposed to rebuild Cayuga Bridge,
New York. The old one was built in 1901.
There are one million and half of Spiritu-
alists in the U. S. At one time most of the
inhabitants of the colonies believed in
witches.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, boasts of springs
yielding bushel of salt from 20 gallons of
water-this is the saltiest water in the
world
The Bates men of St. Louis intend to be
largely represented in the Chicago Conven-
ton.
Mr.. Wilson, of Madison county Kentuc-
ky, killed hog weighing 1850 pounds
gross.
A little boy, in New York, hung himself
with towel and little girl being tired of
the world took ipecac instead of arsenic
she intended to destroy herself.
The Milwaukee Free Democrat says there
is afamily in that city threatened with n.y.
drophobic symptoms from having drank
the milk of cow that went mad
A schoolmaster, at Boardman Ohio, beat
girl Of eighteen with an ox-gad-she de-
clined an offer of his heart and he gave her
his arm.
By reports from New York we learn that
female skating is tabooed. Our Times has
probably worked reform.
The ladies of the east are wearing white
flannel or merino neckerchiefs to protect