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brought here from La Crosse. He was
going up the river on the War Eagle, still
is at Davenport in the cavalry, was mar.
ried recently and says he has cured two
cases of hydrophobia since he left here. 49,.
Our former correspondent, "Nell' OF New
Oregon called on us last week. She was
on the road to Cairo to join her husband
in the army. We hope she will write for
the TINES. .. Bishop Kempcr will preach
at Pr. du Chen on the 18th. IN. NJ.
Tuttle got home from Chicago on Thursday
very much improved in eye.sight His
doctor merits puff but we have forgotten
his name. Doc. G. W. Richards,
formerly of La Porte, Ind, and recently of
Fayette, went east on Thursday to assume
the duties Of Brigade Surgeon in the army
Of the Potomac. His former partner in
the La Porte Times, Doctor Everetts, is
Division Surgeon. Both these offices are
fat, and the late editors are well qualified
to handle either pen or probe. E.
P. Clarke went east for goods on Friday.
He will be gone four weeks.
Douseman's Grist Mill is finished and in
running order. Mosher. formerly of Bun
ker Hill, Alamakee Go. is the manager Gen.
eral. This new enterprise is ofvery great
value to the other side of the river. :. . The
German Republicans ofWisconsin arc much
| Offended because Gov. Solamon was net
renominated; the Mil. Herald (German)
goes for Solamon anyhow. "A similarity
ofnames in town caused lady Of our &C
quaintance to receive numerous calls and
congratulations on the happening of fam.
lily event that transpired somewhere else
1t is said the mistake was quite amusing.
....Sam. S. Haislet, late of the Lansing
Union, has rejoned his brother, the present
conductor, and both will now "pitch in" to
the types and columns of the Journal
George and Sam. were the first printers on
the Times at its commencement, Oct, Z,
1856. Many pleasant hour we have en-
joyed with them, and many more we hope
for. Good luck!
Esquire Hurlbut has moved his office to
the room formerly occupied by Stone,nan
& Baugh, nearly opposite the Post Office.
....Quecn Victoria has issued request to
the ladies of Britain not to wear crinoline.
calling it vulgar, &C., &c. Eugene carries
a cane now in her promenadcs. Mrs. Lin
coin sets the low necks away down almost
below par-or mar either, if her photo
graphs are correct. What is this world
coming to, when the highest arbiters of
fashion so deport themselves! i. /. The Wis.
River has got its water power clear up.
Lumber, slaves, timber and other articles
Of value are coming down in force. The
rise is blessing to many, but those who
stacked hay on low ground, don't see it
the hay we mean. -. John Benton, w.
r. Hunting, and Mr.. Rowe, with their
families, have arrived at home, looking as
well as if sea shore breczcs and Injuries had
reinvigorated them for the active business
campaign before them.
The Vanderbilt steamer Gu. S. is re-
ported to have been sunk by the Georgia,
with loss of 500 lives. Too much to be.
licve at one swallow -. Chas, Herman,
late of A. H. Strouse's clothing store, and
later of Seigbert & Steinam, Prairie du
Chen, found the latter place too dull for
him. and after ten days experience, left for
Chicago. IA Yankee has invented per.
petual motion that runs on gudgeon. No.
body but a "gudgeon' will allow such non
sense to run on him. God alone can run
perpetual motion, and he who tries to equal
Deity, will find only disappointment.....
Henry Mcintyre, one of the best young
men living, has attached himself to the
hardware store of BUCKLEY, McGregor.-
Henry knows all about hardware, is one of
the most social, popular, and wellinformed
"boys" in McGregor-he will always have
friends because he has the brains and the
courtesy to make them.
The Richmond papers announce that
hoped skirts have exploded in the Confed.
crate States. Good enough! Our g'kals
are growing more and more extensive about
now, and this is q sure evidence of the sue.
Gees of the North. Loyal ladies' will please
expand and thus furnish evidence of their
increased love OF Union. -. M. Meighan is
doing a splendid job IN masonry, by arch
ing the culvert across Main street, from
Capt. Sladden's to Koss'. If Mike amt a
"Royal Arch" we see no use in joining the
Ancient order. "A wine cask, at Heidel-
burg Castle, will allow q dance of eight
couples on the head Of it. At Dover, Eng
land, one has lately been built to beat it. 90.
Il. Kerr. one of the oldest settlers OF
Mitchell county, called to see US last week.
We were pleased with his candor and intel.
ligence. w. II. Demaree, is established
at Monona, in the Grocery trade. Call on
him.
| Gebby is also st Monona, running bill
lard saloon. There are two, if not three
weddings arranged for this latitude before
snow flies, but our pen is prohibited from
limiting who the happy anticipants are
Why miU people make contidants of editors
We are already in misery to tell all w
know, and yet we cannot violate trust.
MEAD says he had, at New Oregon, wig,
Munger, Newell and Bigelow passed thro
: there on their hunting tour, "a caal ofmed
] icine' which he would have introduces
them to, had he been Eat home. !
0 uial! Why, Mead, what do you mean
Ask Dagget or Harris how large ciat {
t Mead would last three McGregOr hunters