The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-04-03
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Anythings.
At Fremont, Ohio, Mrs. Meter, 4 staupc
Democrat, beat four Republicans for tn
Post Office. :. Count Cavour is to marry
lady attached to Queen Vic's household
1.-THE United States imported 10000
pounds Of opium in 1860; as but one. tent
Of it was used incidentally, it is presumabl
that we arc becoming nation of opium
eaters. Abstinence from drinks on tn
part Of many old bruisers who are lectul
ing on temperance, accounts for the extra
ordinary demand. Stimulating mon wi
have something to keep steam up. ). .IIav
erhill is selling shoes to Charleston at al
unprecedented rats, and mostly for cash
80. Miss Ann Grant, of Poughkeepsie, wa
spending an evening with friend, and a
she was preparing to start home, her hca,
fell back and she was dead!
A Jersey lady has patented an improve
ment on reapers and threshers-when tn
driver takes his seat the machine is thrown
into gear; when he leaves his seat the ma
chine is stopped. This will prevent man,
accidents :. Rev. Geo. Andrews, of Flor
ida, was accused Of seducing young lady
of his parish; on the way to church 70,
trial he shot four persons dead and regret
ted he was unable to kill more. TIL,
japanese use beef and rats flesh as medi
cine; wild boar, monkeys and bears as food
A clergyman, in Lockport, N. Y, insured
a bundle of manuscript sermons; a fire oc.
Cured in his house and burnt them. The
Insurance Company (lEtna) cisimed tina,
they were worthless; the minister got an
old friend to swear they had 'done him
good" and the court gave the parson g..
900. ...-
Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa and Minnesota have been formed out
Of the Louisiana purchase. ). The late in
in Holland destroyed 43 villages
and reduced $4,000 well-to-do persons to
beggary. Mrs. Sarah Harrington, of Del
aware county, N. j., was tried for poison.
ing her husband with arsenic. She was
acquitted. The lady was II, he SO; they
had lived .-unhappily for 1s months. He
was proved to be habitual arsenic eater.
49,. Peaches are already reported all killed
his spring. We never had spring with.
but such report.
The French have invented bride which
las false rein that completely closes the
,ostrils of horse and prevents his running
'ery far. %. A drunken planter in Florida,
hot five of his negroes dead while they
we're at work in his field .. At Omaha a
nan robbed a woman of $1,1oO, and at
cmptcd to murder her, in the absence Of
Ter husband. lie was hung by Vigilance
Hutchinson, the new Score.
airy of Dacotah, is one of the Concert fam
". Singing Abolition songs pays sonsS un-
Ter the present Administration The Mil
yankee papers speak of a young woman
vho has been at work on the west end of
he Prairie du Chen railroad for several
months "without any one discovering her
ex." People out here have other fish to
ry, and do not 80 round on any such voy-
ges of discovery. The 'lady" spoken of
at Prairie du Chen, and informs the
ublic that "she is as good a man as any
ody. If Milwaukee doubts it let her send
ut a Local" to sec.
1t is said that Douglas held Lincoln's hat
lille the Inaugural was being read. flap
earances may be trusted, the Little Giant
holding his hat now while 'sAbc". is fight.
,g the not-give-an-inch men of his party.
tephen held Abc's hat, danced with his
life, defended his Inaugural, and Wilson,
Mass, says islands in front of the Ad-
"Mordccai is in the Kings
ate" for certain. -. Russell, of the London
lines, the celebrated Crimcan eorrespon-
ent of that paper, made a good Union
peech at the New York st. Patrick's Din
err. :. The Boston Libraries of public
number 307, 242 volumes.
he peasants of the Tyrol use arsenic to inn
rove their minds and prevent fatigue.
1t is said that Dana, of the New York
ribune, put his nose into Lincoln's ar
lngemcnt of the New York offices till Mr.. |
lost his temper and said: "Judgc Harris
lvised me so and SO, and I'll swear want
D second rate editors to interfere. La
= Franklin is in San Francisco. Rev.
homas Whittemorc, an old and able Bos.
N Universalist, died recently. His name
Ike "Tom," is still alive at McGregor.
he Legislature of New York expelled
cmber for taking a bride of $50. Too
lcap!... .Corwin's and Sherman's dis
lets, in Ohio, are to be filled Ey special
ection. ...The Dublin people arc in
veat about Mrs. Yelverton, an English
dy. She married Maj. Yelverton,,an Irish
ficer; he shortly "seceded" and married
rs. Forbes, Of Edinboro. Mrs. Y. No. |,
flowed the Major to the Crimea and an
Eyed him with her ''loy..." She came to
ublin, got into debt, and was sued as the
lfc Of the Major. On the trial several love
tiers as tender as four weeks veal came
1t; the Major denied the legality Of his
with Mrs. Y. No. I, but the
'urt beat him, and he paid the debt; there
'on the impulsive Dublincrs pulled the la
7 in carriage to her hotel, she made a
,eech, and there was an awful time. The |