The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-09-26
News and Hens

State are estimated at three and half mil
lions.
An untravelled chap remarked to his
more lucky chum that he had never been
in Greeco but he once fell into tub Of
soap.
The Rochester Erpress tells Of young
lady of that city who spread her ample
skirts to the breeze and carried boat across
the tennessee river Such sails are pow.
erfhlly influential but we never heard Of
their being applied to navigation before.
a paper, chronicling the lamentable &C.
curence of staging attached to a church
being blown down, very fee!ingly says:
1--WE are happy to state that over twenty
people were brought suddenly to the ground
safe, and one man, Mr.. Wilkins, got his neck
broke. Mr.. W. was an estimabe young
| man, and the father Of good many child.
ren, besides large farm well stocked. lie
was fatally injured.
A Young lady Down-Fast advcrtiscs for
the young man that embraced an oppor-
tunity," and says if he will come over to
her town he can do better.
The population Of Minnesota will count
only 10000. About 100000 short of the
estimate Of its people.
A storm on Mobile Bay Sept. 18th, des
stoyed shipping and land property to the
amount Of a million. Many lives were
lost.
Eli Thayer, of Massachusetts,, is laid
aside by the Republicans in their late Con.
gressional Convention. Eli will probably
support Douglas on the stump.
The Democratic Mass meeting at Peoria
on the 10th numbered Fifty Thousand
Six thousand torches in procession. The
enthusiasm was perfectly storming.
Breecher invited Park Benjamin to hear
him preach on the "next Sabbath" Park
replied that he did not 60 to places of
amusement on on the Sabbath.
Twenty thousand people attended the
U. S. Fair at Cincinnati. Joe Cooper, of
Hamilton county, Ohio, won the first prize
with "Stockrdge Chief" breeding stallion.
The Bell and Douglas parties in Texas
are united on one ticket.
Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky, is address
ing Union meetings in Ohio. The Bell
men of Ohio will generally go for Douglas.
The British have captured Walker md
his 70 followers. All were delivered to
the authorities Of Honduras Walker and
Col. Rudler will be shot.
Monsieur Coppia, French balloonist, re-
Gently attempted the imitation of his air
craft by fire. The fire caught to the paper
ship and burned it up. This original at
tempt occurred at Jones Wood, N. York.
A French savant, NJ. Jobbard, prctends
to have discovered a wa" of suspending ami
nation and Of .estoring the dead to life.
He says he can restore person who has
been two days drowned or ten years fro
zen!
Love, religious frenzy and loss of money
cause all the suicides.
A Cincinnati dry-goods drummer gave
an Iowa merchant dose of medicine which
confined him to his room till the drummer
got leisure to atted to him.
1t is said that man in Amherst, Mass,
has worm II inches in length protruding
from sore on his foot He had worm
p feet long taken from his leg a few years
ago!
The Agricultural Fair at Dundee, New
York, is to be addressed by Miss Susan B.
Anthony. An exchange asks how young
lady can know anything of husbandry'
In Allison Prairie, Illinois, girl of 3 to
IA gave birth to twins. She was of high
responsibility.
In some town Of Iowa 1--WE forget its
name now there is cattle disease called
"the black leg" That disease is common
among certain cattle all over the country.
Mrs. Ortcs, of st. Louis is 1O5 years old.
She is great grandmother to the editor of
the st. Louis Dulliten and has lived in
that city l03 years.
In the London Divorce Court there are
! $50 cases.
Rev. G.. Martin, of Exeter England, made
a mistake of IS in a parish account, and
being reflected on for it he committed sui
eide.
| At Liverpool there is just finished a
horse railway-the first in the British do
| minions.
The Lacrosse Democrat learns that the
Galena Packet company will put fare to St.
Paul from Chicago at Sl,00. Very cheap
fare that would he, but Moore will not live
to see such rates of travel long.
Gov. Seward had generous reception at
St. Paul.
The Prince of Wales will visit Chicago,
but he expressly insists upon being receiv'
ed as Lord Renfrew. All parade is to be
omitted. Chicago people regret the rcso.
luton of His Royal Highness, but they
have resolved to mind their business and
look sour all the time he remains.
A lady named her hen "McDufr' that
she might LAY on"
The New York Herald, on Thursday last
had 1900 new advertisements all of which
were paid for before insertion! Who would
run paper at McGregor?
Brigham Young is said to be a defaulte1
ia his Indian Agency to the amount o
100000.
/ A sportsman OF New York propose tt
bet that he can train team OF rats K
draw him from the Park to the Battery.
Cabbages, cucumbers and tomatoes ar