The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-01-16
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COMBINATIONS.
Dipthe,ia in Hamilton, c. W., is scndin,
more than half the little ones to the grave
-. The Winans brothers, Of Baltimore
are building cigar-shaped steamer 60
feet long; they expect to reach Liverpool ii
six days. Kcokuk had packed 10000
hogs up to Dec oath. -. Brewster, of Mid
dlcbury p. o., and Kincaid, of Vestula P
O., both in Elkhart county, Indiana, arr
under arrest for mail robbcries. Henry
Stevens, an American, has bought tho libra
ry of Humboldt. There are 10000 books
!. .Colborne, Treasurer Of Schenectady
N. Y, and late editor of the Nsws has gone
away somewhere with $4,000 Of public
money. lie was Breckenridge editor.
We have counted no less than twenty five
reports of fluid accidents in our exchanges
of two days Mrs. Elizabeth Fitch, Of
Manchester, N. H., poisoned her child
and then killed herself. 80. Mr.. Breckin
ridge will make a speech defining his posi-
ton. "A Boston cripple calls for law to
fine and .imprison shocmakers for leaving
pegs or tacks sticking through the SOLE. -.
DR.. Wickham, OF Sussex county, N. j.,
was lately cond ,mncd for ten years for DIES
troying the life Of Mrs. Cole in an attempt
to produce abortion 80. j. p. and Il.
Bailey have raised the past season, in
Chickasaw county, 272 bushels of ears
of Ohio Yellow Dent Corn on one acre.
Northern iowa is not exceeded in soil any
where on the globe, not excepting the Delta
of Egypt. At John Brown prayer
meeting in Boston, an old negress said she
had helped to get 3d of her people out OF
slavery within a few years past. She is
called "Moses." =. F.. w. Pickcns, Cover
nor of South Carolina, was our late Minis
ter to Russia 1t is inferred by some that
the "Northcrn Bear" as Russia is called,
will be the first to recognize Palmetto indie
pendcnce, but it is not probable that any
foreign power will be in haste to touch one
of our boiling States. ...A Methodist
preacher had stood several insults from a
skalliwag-he grew tired of practicing for
bcarance, and when Mr. Mcanness next in
suited him he laid off his coat, took the
sinner by the throat and told him that the
Methodists believed in ''falling from grace"
and proceeded to whale him beautifully.
In Charleston, S. c., there are many
wealthy free negroes. In paper lately BE-
fore us, we notice that one is taxed at &c.
900 and owns slaves; another at $50, 900
and owns y slaves; a third, Maria Weston,
has s41,l75 and keeps in bondage IA per-
sons of her own blood.
A widow woman in Connecticut,
was sent for to come across the street to a
spirtitualistic house and receive commune
cations from the spirit o. her husband
She told the messenger that her husband
had better come to his own house to see
her and not stop so near by, at house
too, which he never visited while living
"What's the news?" said fellow to a
printer. "Two dollars year, in advance"
was the answer 1t is told of certain
business man that he never paid visit
without taking receipt :. 3. a preacher in
sisted that Jonah was clearly man or the
whale would not have kept him three days
in its stomach. Had he swallowed the
inside of this church," continued the min
lister, ''it would have come up again in two
;. Dave Stuart has sued Burch
for slandcring him-price 100000. The
character Of David can't be worth such a
sum as that. He is badly lied about, or he
is notorious roue. Burch is treated with a
good deal of disrespcct in Chicago, but Sc
crct opinion docs not entirely cxoncrate
Mrs. Burch from suspicion Of criminality
with Stuart. The less the victorious par
ties stir the subject the less it will evolve
odoriferous matter. Gov. johnson, Of
Tennessee, was hung in effigy at Memphis.
This did not hurt anybody but the efigy,
and the idiot who made it The wreck Of
a SLAYER is reported, with 500 Africans on
board, bound for Cuba. All lost i. q. The
Speaker of the House, at Washington, does
not recognize the absence Of the South Car
DINA members. Their names are regularly
called, just as though they had not declared
themselves foreigners. If S. e. should
get back to Uncle Sam, all her. fiery fellows
would have to be misunderstanding have
sworn allegiance to another government;
haven't thcy?. Delazon Smith is now de-
cided to be dead without doubt. Gen.
Scott was offered the War Department but
declined it tits matter of rumor, we'll
founded, that another palace on Michigan
Avenue, Chicago, contains a jealous hus-
band, and that ere long he will attempt the
exposure Of the wife and friend who have
ruined his peace. A clergyman is the
friend in this easel. AT Troy, N. Y,
there is dreadful case in church involving
the fame Of fair SISTER and weak
"brothcr." 80. Picking your teeth with
brass pins is said to cause cancer in the
mouth. We recommend the use of ten
pins as substitute >. London proper, COW
ers only $40 acres. London and its envi-
rons take in $4,000 acres. The Lord May
ero jurisdiction is linitel to the $40 acres
only. Thus saith the newspapers. =. Eu :
genie worshipped in a Protestant church
during her recent visit to Scotland. This
mark Of respect to the opinions of those
whom she visits is an act worthy Of an
Empress. We like her Mrs. John j.
Castctter, Of South Bend, Indiana, was
struck in the breast by an Irish girl named