The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-12-19

'nOuln nave the neid tho next. why
this be good plan at present?
We should lose all the religion VIC are pos
,essed of if we couldn't sing. The way
Met. L, Hank P-s, and the writer can
render Old Hundred, Coronation, China,
IT. al., would astonish Jenny Lind or the
ghost of Handel.-In an old New England
paper, l7l9, is the following touching ele-
gy:-
s4as,assas "That Cody man, John IIolyoke, -..
We are bereft Of thee,
; s.! And also Deacon John Hitchcock.
: Japhet Chapen, all three"
We nre often IN receipt of poorer poetry
than this, and tho authors "git up and
DUST because we don't publish. .... Dick
ems Christmas story for'66, is called "Mug-
ly Junction" 49,. Lady Palmerston sub
scribes $500 for the erection of stone to
her late husband. She must be pleased
with the event. IAN exchange says "the
late Baltimore Council of the Catholic
Church made eight new Bishops, two of
which are in Wisconsin, one at In Crosse
and one at Green Bay" We don't ques-
ton the veracity of our exchange, but we'll
go ten-cent pipe that every one of these
Bishops arc old and not nsc.. Greedy
and Bcccher are reported to have signed a
petition for the unconditional release Of
Jefferson Davis; Greely's recent article on
universal Suffrage and universal Amnesty
or pardon justifes the report. Horace's
chances for the New York Senatorship are
Gshed by this move. 1.-THE Prince Of Wales
is 25......Sir Hugh Carius, aged 40, is the
youngest judge in England. San unpost-
ed, anti-newspaper-reader Of Texas, writes
to Edward Everett requesting him "to give
a lecture on the Confederate dead" The
distinguished orator is probably in a proper
place to handle the subject; Charon fer
ried him across the river Styx nearly two
years age. Bismarck likes brandy. Be-
fore leaving Berlin for the seat of the late
Prussian war his little son inquired how
long he would be gone. Bismarck said he
didn't know. A servant came in and ask
ed how many bottles of brandy were to be
packed in the Counts baggage. "Twenty-
FOUR All, said the boy, l know now,
papa you will be gone tventy-four days /!
......R. B. Connolly, democrat, is elected
Mayor of New York. Not strange at alice.
"Miss Anna Dickinson is confined to her
room at Rockford, Ill., So says an ex-
change. Wouldn't it be prudent for Miss
Anna to get married before such events
happen ?......The Winona Repnbtican, a
most excellent exchange of ours-the Dem
ocrat is also pet at this ofice-tells of a
man who left his wife and childrcn-was
gone ten years-no word from him-no
reason known to the public--his wife got
a divorce in order to convey some land
grievcd for the lost one, &C., &c. The 9th
er day the chap returned and they were
remarked. Well bet there was happy
time in that house. Swipes says he has a
notion to try the same experiment, to see
how it would seem..... The Soldiers Mon
ument of Grant county, Wisconsin, is
nearly completed. The names Of seven
hundred soldiers of that county are already
upon it....Judas sold the Savior for $3.50.
We have known lots of professed religion
lists who have offered their christian
principles for much less than that and take
it in Grade Haven't you, reader, wit
messed human weakness of this kind 7.....
Mr.. PASCAL, one of the editors and propri-
etors of the St. Louis Republican, died re-
Gently, aged 62. He was connected with
the Office forty-four years. Madoc, in
Canada, gold has been discovered so that
500 were washed from one pail-full. An
old miner offered $1,000 to hoe at the aole
twenty-four hours....... Eliza. O'Brien, a
dining-room girl at the Tcrre Haute House,
shot the proprietor, r. Wairbrother. The
cause of this desperate act can be inferred
The papers say it was because she was
guilty of improper conduct and he dis.
charged her. The poor girl was probably
loaded with sin by the man she killed.......
Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, wants
women to vote. Why not? Is not Mrs
Sprague; (Kata) the daughter of Chief
J..sAcos Chase, and the wife of a U. S. Sen.
ator, as competent to do the elective as the
ignorant black who polishes the boots Of
these gentlemen ?......The Baptists in Iowa
arc $1,000. One seventh Of the number
were in the arny......A modern play
Scene LIST. Mother splitting wood in the
cellar. Scene End. Carrie Jennie Mag.
gle slthe daughter) playing for Clarence
Fitz Noodle, the pathetic ballad of "Who
will care for Mother now ?" The Inter
nal Revenue Commissioner would amend
SO a. to make 81 600 income take the place
sof 5000. This is right. Persons in hum
.ble employments are not sufficiently "pro-
tected' by the present law. The internal
tax on commodities and the depreciation OF
the currency have wrought universal ad-
vance in prices, nd.hence, says the Com
missioner, the exemption should be in
cfeassd......The Lexington (Ky.) Gazette
says 'Bohemian''-this is q fash name
foffnewspaper correspondent or attache-
found Egypt-wrote letters SO dull that
nobody would pay fer them-got out Of
kmoneJ-wmted to get back to America
whiSnAred that he waS tha Variable T TT