The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-05-23

easily do so by placing their names on our
mail books.
Col. RICHARDSON remains the Senior
Editor, better guarantee of the future Of
this journal, than column of meaningless
pledges. Politically, we shall sail under
the same banner as before. In fact, the
paper will be just right on all questions.
We have said enough; if the public don.
consider us sufficiently introduced, they
may call and finish it. Yours &C.,
A. j. FELT.
Times Condensations.
At the Presbyterian Gen. Assembly in
Pittsburg $155, 900 was reported as receiv-
ed for Foreign Missions and Educational
purposes. .. A man was lost for nine days
in the wilderness Of Northern Michigan,
with no food but roots and banks. He had
wandered twenty miles from home. He
was returned home in fair condition %.
A native entered an American house in ia
pan in the night and was shot dead; the
American was tried and acquitted. Four
American ladies and one white man tainted
during the pow-wow Of the sachems in the
Wigwam at Chicago. :. 4. "A St. Louis Ger
man followed his wife and daughter to Chi
cago, found them, extracted 5000 from the
daughters skirts, and returned home with
the runaways. 80. Forty Ice Wagons form
ed part of the Lincoln procession at Chica-
go. Cool, but it won't preserve their ba-
con "A drunken man was found drowned
in Chicago last Friday. He was not dele
gate!-W. S. Damrell, ex-M. G. of Mass,
Sd Dist, died on Thursday. He was form
erly printer. -. Thompson's Livery Sta
bic at GAINESVILLE, Wis, was burned on Fri
day. Loss $4,000. >. Mad dogs and mad
Seward Republicans are very plenty in Wis.
ia man took the Lacrosse cars intend
ing to run away from his wife, but the
weaker vessel was soon after him--on
the same train-and after pulling Mr. Hus-
bands hair a-little, the poor devil return
ed to his roost. =. . The man who put up
stove-pipe without swearing, has gone to
the Peak. The Philadelphia Enquirer,
one of the leading organs of the Opposition
in Pennsylvania, remarked a few days since
that the only way to keep Pennsylvania
from going for DOUGLAS was to nominate
MCLEAN, ane that no ''irrcprcssible" Of the
Seward or Lincoln school could make any
Roadway. 80. 1t is supposed that the Sach-
ems and their followers at Chicago made
way with sufficient supply of intoxicating
liquors to swim dozen "Great Easterns,"
and We know that they swamped one Great
Eastern. The New York Delegation went
home so0er!. 80. The papers say the demon
STATIONS over Lincoln's nomination at Chi
cago nearly equaled the Atlantic Cable Gel
ebrations. Yes, and next November the
salt water VIII cover both subjects. j.
Van Ransalaer, of the Detroit Bar is dead.
| 80. Much Of the deafness among the ladies
in London is caused by the mode of wear
ing the hair. The ear should be open to
the air.. The Press and Tribune asserts
that two Governors tainted ON hearing the
final vote; we don't wonder; we hear too
that a certain Ex-Governor of New York,
felt little faint on hearing it L.. 1t is said
Everett declines to run with Bell for Vice
President. :. /. Some of the Brooklyn ladies
have formed Benicia Club in honor OF
Heenan. No hitting is allowed below the
belt. Probably the society will not increase
in numbers very rapidly. =. Lima and
Callos in Peru were injured to the amount
of million of dollars by an earthquake
April 22d; $50 buildings were thrown down
and many people killed and wounded.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company have
a fraudulent issue of stock amounting t.
100000. The Secretary is missing %.
Senator Seward, it is said, is about to re
sign his seat in the Senate, and retire from
political life. His friends at Chicago "per
mitted" him to do SO. 10000 bushels o
grain and potatoes await shipment at St
Anthony and Minneapolis. !. !. E. Graham
of the Dewitt Qowa) Standard, tool
strychnine instead of quinine and died las
Monday week. ;. "A free colored girl wa
kidnapped in Chicago last week, and tn
papers are blowing about it. Pshaw! 7na
is not half the tale that might be told o
that Convention !.... Young women ar
being exported to Pixies Peak from the east
More mines will be found in that countr,
than people think Of. /. !. The Great Britain
brings 919O,OOO off gold from Australia.
Count Mongclin and Don Fernando hav
renounced all claim to the Spanish throne
Garibaldi has gone to Sicily with an expe
dition corps. >. The Great Eastern leave
for N. Y. Nov. 9th. Sayers compliment
Heenan in letter to the London Times.
The instruction is spreading in the Islam
Of Sicily. u.s. %
A LEcrURE.-On this TUESDAY evenin
Mr.. WARD, the distinguished Ice Boa
inventor and accomplished scholar, will dc
liver Lecture at Mozart Hall. We expcc
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