The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-04
News and Items.

News and Items.
DR.. John II. B. Mcclellan Of the Ches
nut street (Philadelphia) hospital has been
removed. He is brother of the General
and the General voted against Curtin
Caps designed for those who wear hal,
Oh the Upper lip are Of recent invention
Send cargo OF them to McGregor
The English sporting PAPERS say thai
the best rifle marksmen have blue eyes.
Some paper (disloyal probably says our
Government has all kinds of ships except
Craftsmanship. IL
Prentice hears that the ladies Of East
Tennessee arc kissing the National Flag
and thereupon he says ladies we arc the
impcrsonation of that Tag!' Guess he is
red and blue enough, at times.
The Winona Republican complains Of
wheat thieves in that city.
Tho Washington Chronicle in alluding
to the order that Grant should command
all the armies Of the west, says "This is
the Presidents own order" From this we
judge his Excellency docs not have much
ordering to do.
The Mitchell Gazette announces the close
of it's Sd volume and the suspension Of the
paper for season.
The quarrel among Sewing machine
owners or patentees is rich in the extreme
The original se,cing machine is reported to
use her tongue quite freely!
1t is stated that over $4,000 Ohio sheep
have been driven into Illinois and Iowa
the pas: summer for pasturagc. We hope
Iowa will manage to keep the herds that
arc now within her border. Sheep should
be introduced and dogs exterminated. 81"
There is difficulty just now about the
exchange Of prisoners, each government
claiming to be more fair than the other
Will it not be a historic curiosity 1OOyears
hence to read Of Exchanging prisoners of
war" with "rebsls p .......
At Dubuque hay is selling from $l2 to
$40 per ton, depending on quality.
Thurlow Weed is said to be advocating
the interests Of Gen. Banks for the Presi-
dency. "Work her slow" Mr.. Weed; il
Stanton and the Government" hear that
Banks is in the political field he will be
certain. Didn't you see it an.
nounced IN Administration papers prior to
the October elections that political success
IN Ohio and Pennsylvania was preferable
10 military one'
In New Zealand If father neglects his
amily by loafng he is reported to the
Chief. The Chief orders out the whole
ncighborhood in gauntlet style, armed with
clubs and sharp sticks and Mr.. Loafer is
obliged to run through-once, if not very
azy, but several times, if he is tough
customer. His family is provided with
God till the bruises of the father heal and
then he is quite apt to attend to business.
An exchange has the following: "Why
arc horses in cold weather like meddlesone
sossips: Because they are bearers of idle
tails." The spelling of the last word rem
lers the conundrum questionably true.
j. T. Castle, Editor of the Tecumseh
Herald, committed whisky eide in Chicago
He was found dead in an out
street by some children at play. A warn
ing to editors and hint to drinkers gener-
Some toadying writer calls the President
',oise Abraham Lincoln" IS It "loyal"
thus to ridicule the government!
Colcnso, the anti. orthodox Bishop, who
is called the Banquo Of the English church
because 1--WE suppose) he appears to them
IN such "horrid shape" is man almost
seven feet high, slim, but well formed, erect
md handsome
Ossian r. Ross of Ann Arbor Universi.
y and son Of Hon. VIM. Ross (M G. of
Illinois, committed suicide at Ann Arbor
recently.
G. & N. w. RALwAY.-This is railway
Of no great age, but one Of tremendous
power and influence. Associated with its
arc some of the wealthiest
md shrewdest business men of the west
its terminus (outside of Chicago is indefi-.
nite-it can 60 to the Russian Possessions
before it stops, and hold intercourse with
the Car. 1t occupies line of travel that
must necessarily be immense, a line of pro-
luce traffic and mercantile return that is
incalculable in results. To US this Road
seems like pair of extensive Shears
which cuts the trade Of all roads that it
crosses.
The earnings Of the N. Western for Sep
tember, 1888 were $4,000 being an ad-
vance over September, 1866, of nearly
thirty three per cent! The increase on
passenger earnings were $4,000, on
freight $4,000 nearly. Can any read, so
young and so short in line, make better
exhibit? The extension Of its line is pro-
gressive, the directness of its course to Chi
cago from the Upper Mississippi country
and the excellence Of the soil through which
It passes will always ensdre it business
which must make it most profitable arte.
~ Of trade both to its owners and those
whom it accommodates in freight and pas
sengers.
g GRAIN.-Account Of Weights on City
Scales for week ending Oct, 3lst, 1868: