The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-12-14

CONVERSATIONS.
Seymour Of the Lacrosse R.ps5tison, in
allusion to Bricks charge that the Tcle.
graphic dispatches up that way, werc pub.
lie aud not private property, says the fault
is in the Railroad employees and not in
the telegraphis operators. So many men
are hanging abost the stations that it Is
impossible to keep secret from them -
Seymour says, some rough things about
"Brick," but their quarrel is not ours 80.
The R. R. is now complete to Wavcrly,
Bremen Co....Jas. B. Fry, Pr. Master
General, is calling on the Governors Of
States and others in Office to see to It that
the enrolment lists Of all districts be cor
rected. This Is highly important to all of
US and as another draft must in The nature
of things soon be upon Us, why not make
ready at once to meet it, by gathering up
substitutes. Pile up all the credits you
can and do it soon, for in such an hour as
ye think not, the Draft cometh. >. Root
crops throughout the great root raising re-
gions Of the Eastern and Middle states are
reported abort This may advance the
price Of grain. 1t is told Us the farmers
Of N. Eastern Iowa are holding their grain
till Spring the receipts of wheat are light
now in Milwaukee and Chicago. .. Char.
lesion has been beseiged over 500 days. '.
Six soldier weddings are reported in one
evening at New California, Wisconsin. ITO
arms to arms, ye braves l.. Apples are
now recommended for pickles. Apples in
their natural state are better than when
picked, but they will not keep, and besides
this, they must be well calculated to pre-
vent the scurvy, that curse Of soldiers and
sailors who live on salt meat. .. 1T is said
that the new fifty cent pieces will be twice
a. long - the other but no wider. Report
has it that in Cincinnati, Ohio, there are
$4,000 in countsrfsit fractional currency
iu circulation All over this country there
is no distraction made between the real and
the false, simply because the genuine is as
horrid looking as the false-this applies
however only to the last batch; the first
issues were good looking. Gen. Sully
il. on his way to Dubuque for winter head
quarters. His clerks and part Of his bag.
gage are already there. Gen. Pope goes
to Grant. Rhomberg & Co., near their
distillery .: Dubuque are building stock
shed ,l66 BY $50 feet Their still.w worm is
Of copper q inches in diameter at one end
and 2} at the other; II isrl7oO feet long
Only in the boundlcss west is there space for
such colossal enterprise. The Office of
the Treasurer Of Mitchell Co. Iowa, was
robbed recently Of $1,000, by blowing open
the safe. The next day two brothers nam.
ed Kelly were arrested, and I'll but $500
were recovered. :. Billings says:
II is highly important when man makes
up his mind tew bckum = raskal, that he
should examine himself clusly, and see il
he amt better CONSTRUCTED for phool.
Tell the truth, and shame the devil !"
kno lots ov people who kan shame the dew
il cazy cnuff. but the tother thing. bothers
them. -. .a-...
As a gineral thing. when woman weres
the britches, she haz good rite tew them.
1t IL admitted now bi everybody, that
the man who kan git fat on berlony sas.
sage. has got good deal Of dorg in him.
am poor, and am glad that am, for
l find that welth makes more people mean,
thar it docs generous. 4
Woman's influence is powerful-espe-
SILVA when she wants ennything. -
A dentist proposed to administer nitrous
oxide to an old lady. "Oh, no, Doctor"
said shc, "no oxhides prefer gin".
Steamboat stock is reported in Pittsburgh
as on : seriously decline. Re the Ohio ait
Mississippi Rivers cannot hold their water
bc0sn arother season than they did in "a,
shsseIkili Uc little use for boats It a!l....
The GrcatsWes.ern+R WAY reports loss
of $2a5,0O0 in the last year by taking
American money. THEIR average sales for
gold were l74i.
In old times the Ass kicked the sick
LION. OUR readers can sec, the parallel in
the conduct of Abolition quil,-drvers
towards Mcclellan The lndspendent
says, "look out Cor vigorous war in 1868
80. Hildreth, the historian. is insane from
softehing Of the brain. He was consul to
Trieste, under Lincoln. The N. Y.
Times says, 1.-THE South would sacrifice
Slavery to buy triumph over the North"
a....To decide the value Of paper dollar,
divide 100 by the gold value, adding two
cyphers to ascertain the pennies: for in
stance. We say gold is $50 divide 10000
BY $50. and the figures are 40. II gold is
900, the dividend being the same, 10000
the quotient is SO. Add cyphers to 100
and divide BY your gold report, and the
answer invariably is the worth Of a.green-
back dollar Lunar caussic, applied
twice week to warts, will take them off.
80. There are III Churches in Brooklyn;
hence i,s title, The City Of Churches"
Mcclellan received the largest popular vote
Of any defeated man, since the foundation
Of the Goyernmept His vote will fall but
little short Of Lincolns in 1860. Liquor
in Charleston, is two dollars drink; but
tho twos dollars are worth only one row OF
pins!". :. The Mormons Of California re.
ject. apolygamy--"Play Of Hamlet, with
Hamlet left out" In London they have
. restaurant calculated to reduce tat people
to leanness. Where are Mai. H. ESQ