The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-06-20
News and Items.


on that.
Hon. VIM. Vandever is elected an honor
airy member of the Dubuque "Wide-Awake
Club" Two sleepy to join, himself, so
they voted him in.
Four men were playing cards in Canaan
che when the tornado swept the town and
all four were killed with the cards in their
hands.
Congress has passed bill providing for
the completion of Telegraph line to the
Pacific. Congress grants the right of away
and pays $4,000 per annum for 10 years
for Government dispatches, with the priv
lege of priority, and gives the use of lands
for stations. The whole to be completed
in two years. The tariff is restricted to
within 81, for dispatches of 10 words.
Israel Washburn, NJ. G. is candidate for
Gov. of Maine. ..
Hail stones, sixteen inches in circumfer-
ence fell in Davis Co., Iowa June second.
The wheat harvest is in progress in
Southern Illinois, and the crop is good
one. ..
The Dubuque Baptist Association held
its 9Th annual meeting at Delhi last week.
A second Association is to be formed con-
sisting of Clayton, Allamakee, Winnishiek,
Howard, and Fayette and one church in
Buchanan county.
Hon. L. d. Stockton, one Of the Judges
of the Supreme Court of Iowa, died at
Burlington on the 9th. .-. ..
There are now 100000 Germans in the
United States. Oh! Lager.
DR.. Oliver w. Holmes, delivered the last
lecture before the Mass, Medical Society,
and the way he walked into the pills and
powders, potions and poisons, blccders snd
blisters, was caution to sinners '~ gene
raj, and the medical fraternit~ IN particu-
lar. O. w. thought if t. whole materi"
rnedica were thrown 40 the ocean, thu
man race would, better off, -bp'd would
be death to '.e poor fishes. 1hc Boston
=, n I've "got their l,acss up about
:. Il it is thought that It DR.. Holmes ad-
Lice is followed, some of the patients will
get their backs up too.
Brigham Young, it is said, has gone to
Washington to get the Republicans to re-
adopt the poor "twin," Polygamy, which
they so heartlcssly turned out in the cold,
at Chicago.
The Press & Tribune offers to sell the
Republican Platform for fifty cents. Cheap
at half the money
VIM. Smith, a planter, was murdered by
his slave at Oglethorpc, Ga, on Saturday.
The slave was burned at the stake on Mon.
day. ................
Patchen beat Flora Temple, two straight
two mile heats on the 18th. Time 4:534
and 4:57a. .r
TIE cars run off the track near Bellevue,
Mo. on Tuesday and thirty persons were
seriously injured. '..
A New York court decided that if man
breaks girls heart, the girl has a right to
break his head
The papers state that II per cent is the
common rate, and not on call either, in the
New York money market. There is great
plethora of money in N. Y. City.
The Vermont Caledonion brags of cotton
raised in that state, equal to any from the
South. We saw couple Of punches of
cotton raised this side of Vermont, that
would do to bet on.
The New York Tribute refuses to print
Summers speech; the New York Times de-
nounces it, and Republican Senators say it
was uncalled for and foolish.
Two mothers claimed one baby, before
Vermont court, and the Judge decided in
favor of the woman who cried the most
Solomon made similar decision, once.
English women are in the prime of life
at 35, while American ladies begin to fade
at 25. English ladies take air and exercise;
Americans take airs and no exercise.
The Census taker, at Sparta, Wis, the
other day asked an Irishwoman where her
two chilren were born. ''Born is it, an yes
is mighty inquisitous! Shure, Patrick was
born in Mrs. Rollins Kitchen, and Bridget,
on the cars just fornist Horizon.
Brick Pomcroy of the Lacrosse Demo-
crat has imp' rted bed bug from James
vile, Wis. 1t was drought up by the
Gazette Editor, and Brick says it is large
enough to tow fat-boat.
John Morrisey is training to fight John
Heenan in August.
Capt. Abbott of the Great Western r.
r. Cos. Ferry steamboat, Union, at De-
troit, has taken fight with notorious wo.
man, deserving his wife and family. He
has been in the Company's employ for six
years. .....
The Prince of Wales is to be in Canada
soon, the Prince Napoleon leaves France
for this country in short time, and Prince
de Joinyille is already here.
The abelest man that ever lived died be.
fore his father. Enoch was translated and
did not die. He was the father of Methu
salah.
The municipal elections in Washington
New Haven and Norwich, Conn.,, have re
shifted favorably to the Democrats. "Th'
first guns for Lincoln
The news from Japan in very startling
The Tycoon-the political head of the ma
tion-has been assassinated, and the gov
eminent has passed into the hands Of .
new dynasty.
The new family is opposed to all foreign
treaties and intercourse. They will doubt
less abrogate all the negotiations with civil
lized nations, and when the poor embassy
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