The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-09-16
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left London on Scotch tour. A New
York paper says Lincoln excelled Wash
ington in story telling, but he is scarcely a
good military man as the Father of hi
country H.. .Bonncts are to be smaller
full as high in front and great deal highe,
in price E. Gen. Heintzelman ia to com
mand a force destined for Mexico. =.
Greedy is not pleased with the late
Syracuse convention Of his own party :.
Care should be taken in the use Of French
or other foreign words, the meaning o.
which is not generally known. Miss Kate
Chase, the bride elect of Gov. Spraguc has
been receiving great many presents, the
| latest being s. 900 cashmere shawl. An
editor in handing out the item to the young.
est boy in the office added at the foot OF
the item. "This is one of the articles in
Rates trousseau. The devil set up the last
word with rs instead Of au !. IT,. An eastern
paper says, at is quite common now in the
west to see wcmen driving four. horse-reaper
teams" We don't "see it ~ in this part of
the west ....A train containing $4,000
melons was recently shipped from Marietta.
ia man at Lacrosse has just sold two
acres Of tobacco on his farm. for nearly
$s2O!.. The new American Bird is called
the Parrot; it lays eggs weighing 200
pounds. =. At recent marriage in Eng
land all the folks were named Smith and
there was pile of them at the wedding.
....St. Louis papers complain because the
Miss. river is not open to trade. ). AT Ea-
tontoxn, N, j., during thunder storm the
lightning travcrscd young lady's hoops
without doing any injury to her system
'....A negro was hung at Snow Hill, Mary
land, by crowd of 1900 persons for rape
on white woman. OF 10 thieves who
were playing Substitute" in the army of
the Potomac and attempted to desert, 10
were shot and drowned Served 'em
right. Ger. Payne Of ILL.,, is on the Cum
berland. An old lady Of wealth near his
camp lost all her chickens and called on
the General to complain Of his soldiers
He politely said, 81 am sorry madam, but
the fact is we are determined to squelch
this rebellion if it takes eoery chicken in
in Tennessee. Payne is a reckless man
1.-THE wheat crop in Dixie foots up 60
million bushels this is over twice the usu-
al amount. Some envious fool of an
officer told the President that Grant swal-
lowed great amount Of whisky. Said
Abe, "Do you you know where he buys it E?
If can get it will send each general in
the army barrel of that peculiar kind !"
.:..B. F. Taylor, of the Chicago Journal,
is the army correspondent of that paper.
His elegant letters have already commenced
to come along. The Lawrence massacre
was one Of the most brutal raids that hui
man beings ever .perpetrated. The parti.
culars are too h.rril almost to read. A
fearful return will be visited on the in(a-
nous Quantrli and his hellish followers.
....The Prairie du Chen Courier most
sensibly advises young ladies not to be so
free in presenting their pictures to young,
OF old men. If there is an engagement,
all right-if not, the fashion is all wrong.
ITO procure negro volunteers in D. G.
colored ball was got up at Alexandri,, on
an extensive scale "de fair seek" were all
out and of course every. unbleached gent
in town went to the ball. When it broke
up. a.large guard, mostly colored, were in
possession Of the doors and the fashionable
beau1 were marched to quarters between
files of troops-the spare soldiers doing
the gallanting as substitutes. There was
a little profane language used probably -.
The Tribunes and their followers are pitch
ing into General Enttle in splendid defama.
tory style; SO also is the New York Meas
and its peculiar school Of admirers. Tuttle
ought to be a. pretty good man when such
radical extremists revile him. Read his
Letter, whicA is his platform, and vote for
him 80. We are dropping many of our
exchanges-our list is too large entirely
and then we get good many that are SO
lazily made up as to be worthless. We
will not swap our paper for one that is
good for nothing or that comes to US SO i'm
perfectly printed as to be unreliable. We
get exchanges also from points that have
no interest in ours, nor have we any inter
est in theirs-these we shall dry up too.
MADIsoN.-Wc were there the other day
fer an hour or two. Saw Pump" Geo.
B. Smith, A. Sherwin and other friends
and returned on the train westward bound.
On the home trip we met Bodwcll Of Chi.
cago Ct. o. Jermain Of the Sentinel and
party. Alex. Miller, the elevator builder
of the northwest, Goodwin of III. G. r.
r., Dan Lacy of the Tennessee sutler de.
partment, and Sergeant Major II. H.
w III arcno nf tho OF - C;eo~,.;., ro,;.~o.~t.