The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-01-08
Nome and Other Items.

Nome and Other Items.
The holidays arc over, snd our citizens,
refreshed by social pleasures and festivities,
have again settled down with renewed vgor
to the usual routine Of business avocations.
What Christmas was to the Juveniles, New
Years has been to the adults; and thus
the balances Of life are preserved. There
were very light transactions of business on
Wednesday last, and these were confined
in the main to the toy and jcwclry stores.
The happy father instead Of hurrying from
the breakfast table to his counting room or
shop, took his little children on his knee
and to their infinitc glee, spent an hour
with them in their sports. In the after
noon, groups Of callers went from house to
house, in accordance with time. honored
custom, and distributed their congratula-
tons freely. The ladies in holiday apparel,
we're chatty and ospitablc-returniny wish
Tor wish with grace most admirable, and
parrying compliments with a tact which
did them infinite credit. Thus passed the
day. In the evening, large and pleasant
party tripped away the hours in Concert
Hall, and the "r, st of mankind" enioyed
the day after their own desires and to their
own satisfaction. May We all live to spend
with each other, another "Happy New
Ycar'-the opening day Of 1868. >. The
Dubuque Times has been sold by Messrs.
Upham & Gilmore to G. I. Stewart, formerly
Of the Toledo Blade, who has enlarged the
paper to seven columns. Messrs. U. &C.
have fought their way through all obstacles,
got the paper upon fine footing, and like
the pioneer who has carved his farm out of
the wilderness, seem indisposed to remain
and enjoy it. The gentlemen have our best
wishes, as has the talented new conner to
the Hawk-eye State. The Davenport
Gazette says it is informed the House Mill.
tary Committee intend to report bill loca.
ting the armory at Rock Island. They
will do that if-they are sensible. >. The
fine smooth surface of the ice on the river
at this point and the clever fall of snow of
Friday last, stimulate our bloods to 2:4O
speed. "G'langw. The Sioux CITY
Register says within the past two months
twenty newspapers in Iowa have been dis.
continued, and three or four established.
80. Lampson & Powers have confrction.
cries in sufficient qunantity to sweeten up
all the world Of northern Iowa and southern
Minnesota, and Of every known variety
which can be found in or out of tho books.
1.-The Wheatland Clinton Co.. Times
announces that Lucy A. Farnum, who is
practical printer, Cor prin.rcss) and ready
writer, will assist hereafter in the editorial
charge of that paper. We send our Times
along for exchange with the injunction,
"Oh, take our Times, Miss Lucy, and"-|
send US yours in return. -. We enjoyed
call, on Saturday last, from our friend H.
w. Houghton, of the Galena Gazette. Mr..
H. is one Of the veterans of the press gang
with whom it is both pleasant and instruct
i've to converse. 4. 4. Rothbauer, the Fort
Atkinson murderer, has finally been ar
rested. He was found at Arlington
Heights, District Of Columbia, by two
gents who were dcputed to search for him,
and will probably receive the penalty his
crime so richly merits. . The lecture of
Rev. NJ. Whitman, on Thursday evening,
was better attended than have been any
others Of the course. The subject, as pre-
viously announced, was popular Creduli-
ty"-a theme which afforded abundant play
for the allied forces Of sarcasm and satire,
for which this Rev. gentleman is especially
notcd. The proposition was laid down that
despite all our progressive ideas, our liberal
educationary systems, and the radical in
telligencc Of the people, Americans have
been especially noted ever for their credu-
louSncss in catching at every new sensation
and idea. Thus, modern science falsely
50. called - is said to have outstrippcd all the
wonderful tales Of romance, and even
cclipsed many Of the miracles OF the Son
Of God. For illustration, the speaker be-
gan with Salem witchcraft and came down
to modern days, dwelling upon Spiritual
ism, Mormonism, Millcrisn, Dickens, Ole
Bull, Anderson and B'itz, (prcstidigita.
teur>,) P. I. Barnum with his double head
ed calves and six legged pigs Jenny Lind,
Kossuth, Clarvoyancy, Psychology, Biolo.
gy, French Magnetic Love Powders, the
Retired Physician, Gift Enterprises, Conf
Dental lottery Autographed letters, mock
auctions, little jokers, ETC., etc., etc. Many
Of the shots were well aimed and struck be.
low the water line but we listened with i'll.
concealed pain to tho fippant manner in
which Kossuth, Jenny Lind, and Ole Bull
were tossed aside as bugs Of the "homo
genus" The first was the representative
of nation struggling against the worst dcs.
potism Of Europe; the latter two were rep.
resentatives Of one of the first of the arts
all modest, unpretending. meritorious. The
tendency Of satire is to excess, and it is
skillful head that will always clearly dis
Germ between the spur and the check. rein.
The inclination Of progression is often to
error. The grind-stone which continues
constantly in state Of rapid action will