The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-08-29
News and Items.

pronounced by physician to be "pen
palsy" It's caused by the use of the
popular French copying ink, which con-
tSins arsenic. Both his hands and feet
were much swollen and he was forced to
cease the use of that kind of ink. .. Fed
eral soldiers who were robbed in rebel
prisons must present their claims to the
Commissary General of Prisoners prcvi-
Gus to the LIST of October. 1.-The Depart
ment of the Ohio, embracing the States of
Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and
Wisconsin, Gen. Ord commanding, be-
comes the Department of the Lakes, with
Gen, Hooker in command. Gen. Ord goes
to the Department of the Arkansas. IA
German paper says: GA young soldier,
in the midst of the tumult of battle,
thought he saw on the grass four-leaved
shamrock growing. AS such q plant is
rare, and considered to bring good luck,
he stopped to take it. AT that very instant
a cannon ball passed over his head so near
that he must have been killed if he had
not been bending down.. The cable
makes bed of the Atlantic Ocean and
pillows of two continents. -. A young girl
was put up at rattle in Rome. The tick
cts were all taken, but the police interfer-
ed IA fashionably dressed young lady
recently made her appearance in Wash
ington city street car accompanied by a
pet toad. Judge Dewey, of the Supreme
court of Mass, died on the 23d inst; aged
ha Inls l,c,
ed with untold fury. There has been sew
eral trains captured and the stock run off
into the mountains. Napoleon is calling
home his troops from Max's domain; 800
sailed on the 18th inst. The liberals were
at that date beseiging Mazattan. IAN
Arabian, having brought a blush to a
maiden's cheek by the earnestness of his
gaze, said to her, "My looks have planted
roses in your cheeks; why forbid my gath
ering them? The law permits him who
sows to reap harvest." The Cranber-
ry crop of Wisconsin is said to exceed that
of former years. at.@.- E.aa
The Wis. State Fair will be held at
GAINESVILLE during the last weekof Sept. $3.50.
The keithsburg, ILL.,, Obserre,, mentions
the marriage of Mr.. Rice to- Miss Boyle.
Boiled Rice is good !......A taking novelty
is colored starch; it is made in pink, buff,
mauve, blue and delicate green..... IA cor
respondent of the Boston Commercial
says: "The barbarism in New Orleans is
a timely e6air. This is the sentiment of
all l meet, who are not copperheadish.
The colored people think the same. When
the news reached us, one gentleman said
1T ,cas ,rOrth ten thousand Uotes to the payt,,
Of progress This lets us into the secret.
49,. Mrs. John G. Calhoun died at Peddle-
ton, South Carolina, the 25th of july.
Henry ward Beecher returns an income OF
$1,000. ....A company has been formed in
Dubuque for the purpose of supplying the
city with water from the Karraick Mines.
....."Oh, Aunty, make Freddy behave
himself; every time hit him on the
head with the mallet, he bursts right out
crying. The Chinese, nine tenths OF
whom never saw steamboat, possess the
finest coal in the world for generating
steam. 1t is found near Pekin, where a
coal field exists of no less than three humid
red miles in extent. shocking acct
dent occurred at st. Paul, the Odd. NJ. A.
Hawkins, of Lincoln, Illinois, while clean
ing his revolver, accidently discharged it,
and the ball passed through his wife's
heart, killing her almost instantly. While
he was holding the dying companion, some
one extracted $500 from his vest pocket.
......A writer called at n printers, and ac-
cused the compositor of not having pune
tuatcd his poem, when the typo earnestly
replied 'Im not a pointer-I'm set
ter.". IA woman was discharged from
Blackwell's Island, recently, who had been
convicted 1873 times. : III }t
A wild man ana woman have been dis
covered in Penn; they were in an almost
nude condition. ...Wm. Morrison, the
discover of the source of the Mississippi
river, died recently at his residence il
Canada in the SD year of his age. III
is said the Lake Tunnel, Chicago, will be
finished by the middle of October. :. The
citizens of Montreal have contributed
$4,000 to the Portland sufferers. "A
few days since a man by the name of Drck
killed boy in Nebraska, escaped to this
State, was captured, taken back and lynch.
ed..... Boston Corbett received $l,6S4 for
his share in the capture of Booth.
Mai. Gen. Lew Wallace, one of the most
successful officers in the Federal army, il
now Major General in the Liberal army
of Mexico. .... There is minister in Hin.
dis by the name of Rev. Bilious Pond
his discourses must be of the sickly type
..... Major Joseph Stephens, the celebrated
dwarf died on the 18th inst, at Lyman
Mass, aged 81; he was sc inches high and
weighed at the time of his death As lbs
1.-The wife of Captain Vessels, living in
Virginia, lately gave birth to two children
each having two heads, four eyes and three
legs. Ten cases of cholera occurred il
Davenport for the week ending Aug. 23d
five of which proved fatal. 80. The potatot
bugs have nearly destroyed the entire
crop in the southern part of this State.
A large quantity of shot, sail, &C., sent to
! Copenhagen during the war with the reb
| bel ram Stonewall have been surrendered
to our tleet......A hotel keeper, near Bos-
ton, charged ten cents for glass of water
with witch to revive a lady who had tainted
Pass his name out west, ''hubbers," and he
can have "beneft'' of a ten-liner in the
| TINES. I'd ward national Bank, ST.
Louis, was robbed on the 22nd inst. oil
10000, while the employees were eating
dinner in the back room, and in sight oil
the thief. 1.-The present pension list of the
! United States is about sixteen million dol
lars per annum.. IAN exchange in motto
ing the presentation of silver cup to a
contemporary, says: "He needs no cup
He cen drink from any vessel that con-
tains liquor, whether the neck of bottle
the mouth of demijohn, the Spite of keg
or the bung Of a barrel. ....It is claimed
that the ancient city of Ophir is found in
that part of Southeastern Africa lying to
the north of Zululand. The tribe living
in the locality allow no approach to the
ruins, from which it is supposed they pro
cure the materials for the manufacture O
certain gold ornaments they are in the
habit of wearing. :. Minnesota has con
tinuous line of railroad $50 miles
North from Winona. The GAINESVILLE
Gazette says the water in Rock river ha,
the same peculiarly that is noticed in tn
| river water at Cincinnati. 1t is of ligh
green color.
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