The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-04-10

printed book. j.. In Germany there arc
1884 Homeopathic doctors, of whom l, 619
are American born !. .. The Peoria (lll.)
Union says woman Of that place recently
gave birth to creature having serpent s
head, no feet nor hands, but legs and arms
taperins to point; its tongue is forked like
that of snake. "The parents arc dis
tractcd and pray for its DEATH" A scnsi.
bio doctor ought to quiet such a monster
without asking the advice of anybody j. d. &.
Jshn G. Duryea, just appointed appraiser
of the port Of New York, died last Mon
day. U sE.Ft Drg
| Capt. Cunningham, Lieut.. Harrison,
Commodore wilkinson and Capt. Berry
man, Of the U. s. n, died recently. The
latter was commander Of the Wyandotte at
Pensacola. IA hard working factory fam.
lily, in Great Darlington, Mass, recently
hcired $4,000 from English relatives. :. /. :.
Geo. Dawson, Of tho Albany Journal, is
appointed P. NJ. at Albany, N. Y. -. "A
destructive fire at Mt. Morris, N. Y, des-
troyed the American Hotel and IA or IS
other buildings. w. j. A. Leonard, OF
Brooklyn, ayouth Of 10, bids fair to rival
Morphy in chess. :. Scerciter has opened
a palatial billiard saloon in Detroit. Cole
ridge, when asked which production Of
Wordsworth he liked the best, replied !:
ellis daughter, Dora" Col. Walker, Of
Laporte, and Gordon Tanner, OF Indianapo-
lis, have organized . company to ditch and
str~iyhteh the liver Kankakcc.s THIS a.
NOUS stream is 25o miles long and 5cmptics
into the Illinois less than SO miles from
where it stars; it is flankcd by marsh
from 5 to 80 miles in width. This is a
great undertaking, boys, but it is better
employment than fighting sham luels every
few months, and soaring Uoosiordom out Of
her propriety. " -1fa
The new tariff law is said TO be so com.
pick in detail and so ridiculously contradic-
tory in tenor that it is impossible to operate
it. At trial Of it in the port Of New York,
everybody got mad, shippers, supercargos,
castom officers, owners and all. !. The
Dominicans protest against the Spanish in.
vasion Of their island, bnt their protest will
be in vain. /. The seizure at Mobile which
scnsated the North, q few days ago, was the
capture Of an oyster sioop; one man only
was on board. :. =. 4 German has arrived in
Paris and proposes to teach the srt of.lovc.
making by sisns-tl,c. young wives Of old
men are courted in the ball room. and as
signations are made by series of natural
motions made about the mouth, ears eyes,
&c, &c. Americans knew how to do this
kind OF counting when we were u boy =.
| The n. Y. Herald and the Alta Californian
are the only real daily papers in the world
--thcy arc published every day in the year,
others stop on Sunday or Monday 5. i. "A.
p. Richardson is appointed Post Master at
Jefferson City, Mo-" We can't accept the
post, Mr. Blair.
Gen. King, Of Milwaukee, Minister to
Rome, has accepted an invitation to pull
lie dinner before his departure to the "Etcr-
nal City" The citizens of Milwaukee,
without party distinction, signed tho letter
| OF invitation. The General is 'evcry inch
a King" and he Well merits this compli-
mcnt. :. Southern fire eaters and Northern
ABS. are just alike. The Mercury at
Charleston, aud the Tribune Of New York
and Chicago, publish all the falsehoods
they can collect relative to the meanness of
the opposite sections. :. /. -. Beechcr is out as
q pufer of ten.pins and billiards !. j. The
NJ Y. World says nc-third Of the Germans
q O,,f To t,o,. IL 10
the countries they ran away from as rcfu-
gees.
Mrs. Cora Hatch, the medium, has re-
ceived a letter on secession from Old lick
DRY. Let us have it, Cora, that's good
girl. Senator Wilson says Lincoln will
stand firmly by the Chicago platform. We
notice he doesn't stand on it a"y longer.
six hundred young men OF Baltimore
have enlisted in the Southern Army. What
disappointment to them if las we hope,)
there shall toe no fighting The N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser is in favor of "blow-
ing Sunpter up in case it must fall into
secession hands What profit would that
be to anybody -. A French inventor has
made all ''intlatable jacket" to give the Ia
dies the desired thickness of waist This
jacket isnot called for by the ladies Of Iowa;
they let nature have fair play, and their
bodies are well developed i. +. The wife of
jeff. Davis is the daughter of Col Howell,
New Orleans; his first wife was the daugh.
ter of Gen. Taylor.
A ST. Louis paper mentions the case Of
an unmarried lady, Of that city, who be-
| came the mother Of three babies, and calls
the event terrible rctribution.'. -. A. j.
OWEN wants to contract with Gen. Scott to
take back all the property, forts, mints, &c,
&C., which the South has appropriated.
Mr.. Owen asks only $1,000, 900 to do the
job. ;. The Times says Gov Randall has
written to friend in New York, that he
preferred seeing every man.of-war sunk
brlore the evacuation Of Fort Sumpter."
Gov r. authorizes the Madison Journal to
| state that he wrote no such letter, but on
the contrary, he is satisfied with the
course Of the Administration :. Why is
Life likes riddle! Because we must all
"giye it up" ....A lady, Of Albany, shot
at another lady of that city for stealing
away her husbands affections. Some Of
the Kansas papers are beginning to expose
the knaves who have been begging aid for
the pretended starvers Of that country.
MrsIc.-A. j. HIGGINs, Of Chicago, sends
US wv ell die on the field or be Free
Words by DR.. E. w. II. Ellis Of Goshen,