The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-01-04
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News and Items.


News and Items.
The fashionables of Europe have inaugu-
rated the fashion Of drawing their gloves
when they enter q ballroom. That has
been our style for twenty years past.
Missouri has borrowed $4Oo, 600 to mee,
the interest on her bonds. This "State Aid
fun is highly profitable.
A bachelor says girl will stick to fel.
low she loves like stamp to an envelope.
How does he know anything about the
wealth of woman's love? #@[.- ...
A machine las been invented that will
pick 45 geese in one hour. Machinery has
picked = good many geese Of the human
species before this one was invented.
A Yankee editor says he will gladly pub
lish the death notice of friend, but he will
not print an obituary puff for nothing; he
cannot afford to send even friend to
Heaven, without pay.
The Dubuque Heralds Local gives an ac-
count of gentleman's watch which stopped
precisely at the moment that witnessed the
death Of young lady. much attached to
him. A very intelligent watch!
Martin F. Conway, the Delegate from
Kansas, is Baltimore boy, and printer
Cook was 90, and fair; Coppic "a, and
dark. Green was %, and very black; Cope
land "a, and mulatto.
/ The Davenport papers begin to talk of the
necessity Of routing all the negroes out o
that place.
David Strawn, of Ottawa, Ill.,, has fatten
ed beef cattle, in 1859, to the value Of S75,
600. -a.#n a-H.- .a.'."
The failure of Cook, Sargent & Co., a
Davenport, seems to have let that youn,
! city down several degrees below the com
mercial zero. ..' .'"'''
John Beeson, noted Spiritualist of Bos
ton, is about to start newspaper for tn
benefit of the savage tribcs-he says he ha
the cordial approval Of Red Jacket, now il
the spirit-world
The American Messenger says that eve
in pious New England, there are two mi
lions of people who rarely go to church o
Sabbath; only one-fourth of the inhabi
ants go to church regularly.
The Sons of Malta of Syracuse are abou
to establish animmensc charity soup-hous,
A St. Cloud (Min.) landlord recentl
: charged party Of English hunters $75 ft
> one nights entertainment; the party cor
sisted of eight men, eight horses, and OH
Is pair of cattle That landlord knows how
keep hotel. '1- ''l ~. ."t>@
, At Charleston, S. c., Dec. Q, at noon
j. was so hot that umbrellas were carried, :
( midnight it was freezing, and on the ne.
morning ice was plenty in the bed-chambe1
of the city. ,fe." s." II
The Philadelphia homeopathic docto,
. number 70, and claim to have 100000 p
tients. .-.aa haz aa@A -.r.. .
The New York Fur Market is quoted ;
R follows: Red Fox, 75@l.25; Cross Fo!
,e s2@3.6o; Gray, 2o@56. Beaver, 90<
I. $1.l2 per foot; Otter, $2@46o; Min
= prime, sa@s.5O; Northern Marten, $l.i
:. o.; Opossum, 10c. Fisher, S2@4 Bla,
i. Bear, s2@7; Raccoon, 2o@50; Wild Ca
. 25@59; Muskrat, cola; Skunk, 10@3i
S Rabbit, &c. House Cata, IL; Deer Skin
'n ss Western, 12@25. sg<@ 1...-.'
Within four years past, DR.. King of N
\ nongahela, Pa, has drawn over twenty bs
y rels of water from a dropsical lady name
Adams! Two such women would run
= small mill
Another Byron is about to be presented
the English public. The poet is the son
! a peer-his poem is entitled ''Orestes," al
is said to be enchantingly beautiful.
4 Sivori, one of the pupils of Paginini,
Z said to equal his master, on the violin.
The Madrid Gazette announces official
that the Queen of Spain is in the MN
month of maternity, and that she is nj
visiting the churches with view to get
8 saints to assist her in the trying hour.
, : One good physician will beat all Of them.
A New York paper says the Pope
y sent to Ireland an autograph letter whi
: will shake the world to its centre, when pl
lished. We think that shaking from su
2: causes is pretty much over.
The Marquis of Anglesey seduced
ses wife Of wealthy London merchant nam
= Bell. The husband sued the Marquis, a
Il, recovered 10000 damages.
res DR.. Achilli, now of Bergen Heights,
j., and for several years violent apost
HS from Catholicism, has been convicted
criminal intimacy with a youny lady nan
Bogue. She is mother, and the Doctor
in Jail. He.says she is his wife, but he
!. not want the marriage known to the p
Ike. lie. -G
'~. 1t is not yet decided whether Stevens,
remaining Harper's Ferry traitor, will
Far tried by the United States or by the st
of Virginia.
Edward North, Professor of Langua
f in Hamilton College, n. Y, is to lecture
Kcnosha, on the Nv Women of Homer" II
will many women did the old Greek have ?"
Gen. Walker is about to write book
10. failing his Fillbustering scrapes; it will
! to readable work.
ers, Rev. N. A. Staples, Of Milwaukee, on,