The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-12-26
Times COMBINATIONS.


gencc of public nature should be acccss-
BILE to all. 80. The Congressional Globe is
the most interesting paper now published.
1t contains verbatim reports Of the debates
and as this is probably the last Congress
of the United States the record of its pro-
ceedings will be invaluable. Price for the |
session, Two copies for Five Dollars and |
no postage. Let every man take it,.
Somebody says that ladies when travelling
should be careful how they accept favors
from strangers. 1t is vastly more impor-
tant that ladies do not ertend favors. A |
modest woman carries face that will repel |
the impertinencencss Of the most abandoned |
man. :. Blasting powder is now made
from spent tan bark The bark is saturated |
with nitrate of soda, thoroughly dried and |
then subjected to a sulphuric preparation
which renders it explosive ga boy who
was preparing a nice club was asked by |
his mother what was his design. He said
he was going to send it to the Editor in
order to receive copy of the paper for get
ting up the clubl". 1t is reported that
the orders for skeleton skirts for southern
use have fallen off more than three fourths
within the last two months, and that five
thousand female operatives in that line have
been discharged. Crinoline is decidedly
down in southern circles and nothing but a
re union Of the States can raise it to its for
mer importance. This may prove to have
great influence in clevating the American
standard to its wonted proud position.
Rev. Mr.. Patterson Of Burch case notoriety
has published yindication of himself. He
makes out good case and we are inclined
to think he has been unjustly censurcd by
the press He did not show or surrender
the letters of Mrs. Burch until, she her.
SELF informed Burch, through friend, that
she had written 10 Mr.. Patterson and not
then until he vas served with legal process
to make their contents known. Fiat Jus
titia.
The latest ''ladies" fashion for winter
is called the Little Gent" 1t heavy
sack or box coat and is said to be very
comfortable. Every young lady will want
Scent" Of course but they know SO little
about wearing mems clothes that We sus-
pect they'll put this article on as Paddy
from Cork" did his celebrated coat! A
bachelor friend expresses hope that the
time is not far distant when the ladies will
require more anima;ing specimen of the
genus Gent to keep them warm. The mo.
desty of this bach prevents him from Of
fering his services for life to the first mar
t riageable lady he meets -. Tribune the
e Great and the Press O. Tribune are having
s a spicy time in opposition to each other
: The Albany Journal and Courier & En-
g quirer denouncc Greeley as an Additions
n at heart, of the Garrison school at that, bu
# the Chicago Tribune is such man-eate
l. that Greeley don't suit it. ave are all Re
e publcans" :. The reports that Mr.. Blu
d chanan is insare, has abdicated been, sho
o at or abducted is rot warranted by any
y thing except his conduct (for the frs
n COUNT and the necessities of the country
n for the rest 1t is also untrue that MI
ID Lincoln attempted to step over the Firs
c. Presbyterian Church at Springfield an
e. wounded himself on the stccple. He is RI
rs ported to be cool rs cucumber and cali
- as a summers morning; he has read Gree
p and Roman History and was an officer
be the Black Hawk War and he knows tn;
d. ''there is God in Israel" Hannibal II
tic African used UP little Rome (for a season
on and Hannibal of Marie will put all IL
oy Palmettos to flight. Abraham amt ARA
IN of small showers and hence his Indifferent
o., in this hour of alarm for nervous folk
[c- Bates is to be Atty, Gen. Pa. is to ha
ep the Interior. Hon. REUBEN NOBLE of low
,c- ought to be Commissioner of the Land
lbs the Patent Office. He is an intimate pc
lily leading Republicans of Iowa. Let him
* in. :. .Beechcr, in reply to the qucsti
mis- 'Why don't you go to the South al
81 preach ?" replied that he had mo wish
IL die rertically". "A Waukasha jury ,
AN Gently rendered a verdict of $4,000 dam
ties ges in seduction case. Some of the I
,ur pers say the amount is exorbtant. If al
the of our readers have beautiful daught
&C., what woiild compensate for her ruin
SIS. Would Fifty thousand pay for life
Ave disgrace?. "A Democrat bet pair of boz
ny, with Republican lady; he lost The d
rht after the election he sent mammoth p
Pr. of boots to the winner but inside Of tn
zeal was the incest couple of CATERS that co,
ur. be got up. A Douglas man lost bet
- New Hampshire which involved the nee
:. sity of driving Turkey about six mi
| to and making feast Of the unfortunate 70
Mr. The turkey driving was celebrated by
ere procession of over one hundred persons q
in two bands of music. A Chicago man
gor 81 900 in -four with St. Louis frie
the against negro boy. The Chicago m
SO. won and liberated the negro. A credita
the act to Chicago. =. The manufactures
Of the east gre coming to dead halt uni
S. the present pressure. The Boston Cour
&c estimates that Fifty thousand operate
ore will be idle in that State alone in a
G is weeks. Distress unparalleled must folk
first go. "A plain countryman agreed to deli
for villager a cord of ''tip-top wood" WI
n in the wood arrived it was all stop"
liter complaint by the villager, the woodsn
in "reckoned the wood was taken from as n
ling the tip-top of the tree as possible" :.