The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-04-02
A nytIings.

Anythings.
They have some odd named places "swa,
down IN Dixie One Of the reporter
with Sherman's expedition writes of an Is
land "that separates Pull and be Damned
Creek from Bull river" That locality il
what would be termed by full blown
cockney an L Of place. .. A Southern
clergyman expatiating on the wickcdncs.
of Jonah, exclaimed, "Have we any Jonahs
here?' \ solid old African by that name
with eyes like turnips set in ebony, arose
and gravely answered, "IIcre be one, mas.
sa.' ."Oh spare me, dear angel, one lock
OF your hair " bashful young lover took
courage and sighed. "'Twere sin to re.
fuse so modest prayer, so take the whole
wig" the sweet creature replied. The
musty lore and idolatry Of old fogHsm which
characteriHcs our universities and colleges,
once provoked from Swift the remark that
the reason that a certain university was a
learned place was, that most persons took
some learning there, and few brought any
away with them; SO it accumulated . In
the month of February, the Milwaukee &
Prairie du Chen Railwayearned So, so6 81,
and for the corresponding month of 1861,
44,o26 96- increase, s1s,s79 II. Says
Dick to Jack, "Your neighbors say you
wrangla with your wife all day" "Pooh,
pooh" says Jack, "they only joke, It's now
fortnight since we spoke. ), The New
York gamblers are being brought to grief
by gentleman from one of the rural dis.
tricts who had been feeced by them and
has since devoted himself to their destruc-
ton. He has already succeeded in break.
ing up forty dens, and says his revenge is
not half satisfied. The late carl Of Dud-
ley wound up an excellent tribute to the
virtue Of 4 deceased friend with these
words: "He was good man an excel.
lent man; he had the best melted butter I
ever tasted in my life. :. John G, Heenan
one of the most striking men in the United
States, has gone to ngland wherr his fame
will soon ring. Yanccy has told the
English government that our blockade was
Intellectual. Perhaps he will now send a
communication from Fort Warren, to the
ministerial organ, announcing the result Of
his recent investigations 800. Fanny Fern
has parted; from her husband, JAS Parton,
on the ground Of il-treatment en- his part
This may be regarded as the latest edition
of Fern leaves. The Milwaukee Sentinel
says Judge Macarthur does not ride upon a
free pass. Indeed! The grand secretary
will please see that this statement is duly
recorded" Two months ago, Geo. N.
Sanders issued a proclamation inviting the
great Northwest into the Southern Confed-
eracy. The great Northwest has gone in.
80. According to Paris fashions ladies
dresses are decreased in width at the waist
and made very full at the bottom of the
skirt. Trailing skirts arc declared quite
inadmissablc in the street thanks to the
goddess Of fashion for that but are alowa-
BILE for carriages, (of what use is trailing
skirt in carriage y and indoors. In harmo-
ny with the sanguinary spirit of the times,
every breadth of the skirt must be gorcd
even silk dresses arc no exception to this
rule. That which constitutes the true ele
gance of of a robe is the trimming; and
that must be in ruches pu: on in grecques
or IN rings. IA good reason offered as to
why the Mersimac will no. visit New York,
is that she will doubtless have other and
more pressing engagements. {. . Prentice
says some Of the pretty rebellesses in
Nashville, when any Of the United States
officers pass them in the streets, rustic their
dresses as if in fierce scorn, but they are
very careful in doing so, to show long
reach Of ANGLES -. Gen. Bushrod K John.
son, one of the rebel Generals captured at
Donelson, got worsted in a recent skirmisll
with some reporters. His antecedents for
a personal sketch or biography were de-
manded, and were refused when the quilts
commenced writing his biography some
thing in this wise b. X johnson, ma
tive of Massachusetts,, formerly one Of the
editors of Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery
journals, but having been compelled to fly
to Tennessee on account Of having been de-
tected in forgery of his fathers name,'
etc. Bushrod surrendered at discretion =. .
A Memphis paper having published that
whiskcy is abundant in that vicinity, Prem
falsehood, their last desperate resource for
getting together in Memphis quorum of
the Legislature.
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