The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-10-28

sceptics and half as many Of other ma
tons, $50 thousand who don't 60 to church
10 ditto without Bibles, 60, 900 children VIII,
don't 90 to school, $4,000 vagrant ant
homeless children, thousand sailors al
ways in port, floating population of 81
thoueand, thousand liquor stands, 1850
places Of i'll fame, IS thousand female street
walkers A pretty tough little village for
christian country. No need to send Mission
aries from America to New Zealand |. TIL,
President told Hooker when he sent hin
to Kentucky, to be careful of Bourbon
county" When the reported drunkenness.
Of our Officers is called to mind this him
is FIRST rate one. Abe allows GRANT
only, to drink. A little tight helps Ulysses
....Dennis A. Mahoney of Dubuque
Sheriff elect, was recently thrown from his
buggy by runaway horse and badly in
jured. The horse ran Ave miles to his
stable with the buggy and himself all right
Dennis will live and flourish yet. "A
Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh was
burnt on the 2lst loss $2O, :. New
York's quota Of the last call is $1,000
Governor Seymour issues a proclamation
urging the raising Of troops by volunteer
ing rather than by drafting. .. "A Rhode
Island negro recruiting Office is opened at
Indianapolis. -. Virginia City streets are
paved with silver the quartz rock Of
which they are made is silvered, but not
rich enough to pay for crushing. The
New Jerusalum, certainly H.. The widow
Of John Virtue and the heirs of Henry
Vice, both applied for pensions at Des
Moines on the same day Military men
say that in few months there will be
$4,000 negro troops in the employ of the
north and that negros will be the main
reliance of the North to finish up the re.
bellion." Isn't this statement of our Re-
publican friends highly colored p. Mr..
Cooley, second clerk Of the Key City, on
his recent Winona blow-up, had his boots,
wash-pitcher and bed.quilt blown out Of
his room and yet he slept. Cooley has clear
conscience his shirt had been blown
off he is too much of man to have shown
alarm. -. The day for the draft commence
ment in October is Sunday the 18th. As
"the hand Of the Lord' is said to be in
this war, the day is well chosen. Taylor
of the Prescott Journal recently took the
premium in Pierce Co. Minnesota for the
biggest calf. "Brick" says this is very
appropriate. "A lady being asked il "she
had any friends in the army" said "No."
But after thinking moment, replied "Oh
yes, my husband is therer'. ;. Douglas
Jerold said man with wife at forty
should be allowed to exchange her for two
twenties. Dudley Kavanaugh, the Amer.
lean Billiard Champion, recently beat
Seereiter 1856 points out of 1900; that is,
X. was 7s5 points ahead of S. when the
game concluded. A most wonderful tri-
urnph. The game was for 900 dollars and
the champion cue. Tieman of Cincinnati
made match with the victor fer the
amount. Kavanaugh is obliged to accept
every challenge for three years from the
date of his winning the "belt." "A po-
litical paper in Wisconsin thus closes
description of a meeting that suited him
Cheer on cheer arose, fairly shaking the old
hall from turret to foundation, as the red.
hot lightning flowed from the noble cham
pion !" 1t is not advisable to have many
such chaps round unless your rods arc of
the latest pattern. The fellow who emits
lightning must be laundering politician.
The Dubuque Herald Local tells Of lady
who delivered boy on board the War Eagle
on late trip up the river. The Captain
named the young sailor War Eags.". %.
LICK of the Rolla Express is said to
have the freedom of the City of st. Louis,
but must not 60 out Of the corporation
Lick is loyal-he used to be at New Ore.
gon. What is his crime !? -. Judge MulkcY
of Illinois has decided that Gov. Yates
grand feat of breaking up, or proroguing,
the Illinois Legislature was all one beauti.
full humbug, but what is going to be done
about it? The people, by their votes, like
to see civil authority on its knees to "nc-
ccssity" and it is idle to interpose objec-
tons. The tramp of Power is less dan.
e rous when it is loud and unmistakablc
than when it is silent and insidious. .. Asa
Sherman, hand on the Clara Games, was
drowned on Tuesday night near Lansing
by falling into the River. :. +. JOSEPH, Of
the Clayton County Juurnal, is slightly
mifisd at friend GEORGE of the News and
politely invites him to remember the 18th
Commandment. 10 has the grit to do just
as he likes and being married man now
he is not much disposed to take advice
from exchanges. We merely chronicle
the fact, without taking part in the con-
troversy; both are good men. The Re-
pub!icans have great fun at vallandigham's
expense. They say that he has gone into
the Windsor Soap" business and that he
can now be relieved of that swatch" which
MAuaY, in London, said he was holding
on ''the border" Another wants to know
if the swatch" kept time IT,. One firm in
Massachusetts has made and sent South for
Federal use, since las. January Thirty !Sia
Hundred Cc6ins! It is said this firm
would not have the war close if every re-
bel would lay down his arms. They are
for an unconditional prosecution Of wa,
that furnishes them business. Are there