The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-08-22
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Counterfeit SIS on the Bulls Head Bank, of
the city Of New York, are just put in circula.
ton, and counterfeit IS on the Leather and
Manufacturers Bank were recently put afoat.
The three papers at Portland, Oregon, arc
but for Douglas and Johnson.
Cinnamon are arriving ut San Francisco in
great numbers. Over 1000 have arrived there
Within the last three months.
A large and enthusiastic Douglas ratification
night last. Over Is, 600 people assembled, and
there were 5000 torches in the procession
Bands of music, transpareRcies and brilliant fire
works added to the splendor Of the OCCASION
Eloquent speeches were made, and the Democ.
racy pledged themselves to give the vote of
Wisconsin for Douglas. They will do it, too.
The returns of the Missouri election foot up
M follows: For the Legislature, sc Douglas
Democrats, 90 Bell men, IL for Breckenridge,
Democrat, has 10000 majority for Cove rnor
over Orr, his highest opponent
Three persons have been bitten by q mad dog
Mt Peoria, Illinois, within week.
During a rain storm of twenty -four hours, in
Philadelphia, on the 18th, 6.OO5 inches of wa
ter fell.
Indianapolis, Ind, had $4,000 fire on
Friday.
The Virginia Democratic State Convention,
held al Stauntop, last week, adopted resolutions
inviting MIR. Douglas to visit Virginia. They
reaffirmed the National platform. and declared
Douglas and Johnson the regular nominees of
the purity.
Three convicts escaped from the State Prison
at jefferson, Mo-, on Friday last.
Counterfeit SIS on the Lime Rock Bank, of
Providence, K. l., are in circulation.
Senator Douglas had public reception at
Portland, Maine, on the 18th, and he made q
lengthy speech.
date for Governor of New York, will resign.
Jno. s. Mason, Judge Of the Superior Court
The excitement in Texas still continues
One man has been hung for giving strychnine
to the slcv es to put in wells to poison their mas
tiers. Another minister has been hung for in
citing the slaves to insurrectiOn.
The rumored withdrawal of Breckenridge is
denied by the Louisville Courier, but the fact
that if he remains OH the course it will prove
his tna! ruin, and that the L0nstitutiom. his or.
pan at Washington, is silent on the subject, are
very good reasons for supposng that his with
drawa1 is simply matter OF time. That he
will be wholly OF the track before election we
have no doubt
yellow fever is raging among both natives
and foreigners at Porto kicO.
A Mrs. lucky hung herself at water cure
establishment in N. Y. CITY on Sunday.
Speaker Pennington declines a re election to
Can't. Davenport of the G. T. R. R. Ferry
was accidentally killed at Port Sarinac, c. w.,
on Monday.
Two persons we're killed by the collision on
the Carrolton R. r., on Sunday night.
Gordon, the murderer, who escaped from the
Vigilance Committee at Denver City, is now in
of Tho M~rsl,.l
Advices from Honduras announce that Gen.
Walker has gone to Swan Island. The schooner
Clifton and cargo, part Of his expedition. had
been seized by the British authorities at Belize.
Walker is reported as preparing for descent
upon Costa RIGA or Nicaragua. Yellow fever
was terribly fatal at Belize.
On Sunday evening in Georgetown, Del, the
daughter Of Zachariah Griffith, a respectable
farmer, was outraged and beaten to death by
mulasto boy eighteen years old. He is arrested
Counterfeit IS on the Saugertuck Bank,
Westport, Ct, are in circulation.
A dispatch to the Herald states that it is an.
nnouced in Washington that Douglas & johnson
will continue on the stump until the election,
the former South and West, the latter East as
far as Maine. Douglas speaks at Norfolk, Va,
next Friday.
It is also announced that Leslie Combs and
Ex.Gov Morehead, OF KY, are coming North
on a stamping tour.
Last Friday night at Cincinnati, Chas. R.
Brown, U. S. Commissioner, was shot dead by
Geo. }. Caldwell, of the firm OF Alfred Wood
& Co. For several months past, bad feeling
has existed between the parties in regard to the
adjustment of legal claim. Brown called at
Caldwell's house at night, forced his way into
Caldwsl's private chamber. when scuffie Ell.
sued, and Caldwell shot Brown through the
body. He Immediately surrendered himself to
the authorities.
The Bank of Central New York, Utica, has
been placed in the hands of a receiver, and the
Bank Of Corning and the Onondasa County
Bank. N. Y, are closing up their affairs.