North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-07-17

1t will save her. IL will bring back the
old prosperity. But won't they hare 10
build another road to protect the Moberly?
and another and another to protect each
enterprise Of the kind ? A railroad is like
. lie--you have TO keep building to il to
make it stand. A railroad 10 ravenous
destroyer of towns, unless those towns are
put at the end Of it and sea beyond, no
that you can't 60 further and fnd another
terminus. 1H ugrp "a l 11ssye
Life and Death.
We were just about to pen a paragraph
to inform the reader that, in our, article Of
some weeks ago, We did gross injustice to
the Rev. S. M. Merrill, (aswe are assured)
when we read Of his sudden death. 1t will
be remembered that he was accused Of
abandoning his wife, his family and his
pulpit, in North Adams, Mass, in order 10
elope with quite young girl who was one
Of his Pensioners. His friends subse-
quently begged to soften down his alleged
offence 10 an ''indiscretion," and we COM
mented, with severity we thought we'll
deserved; upon the bascness Of the man
who could so disgrace himself, his cloth,
his avowed principles, and his family
We are told that the whole story upon
which we based our observations was false,
and had been manufactured and distribut-
ed, without reason, for the purpose of ru-
lining his character. Under such circum-
stances, it was our duty to make the
ossesde but "a he no longer lives to &C
cept it, we make it to his memory, Last
Wednesday he fell out of fishing boat
into the Saranac river, at Plattsburg, It is
said, and was drowned. Should this prove
true, little can he care; for earth's calum-
nies and misrepresentation if mot true,
somebody ought to be heavily mulcted in
damages for holding him so repeatedly and
80 unpleasantly before the public.-7tcy
Each. - lrif san nd
We are intimately acquainted with .
brother-in-law of the deceased gentleman
-he is o Boston merchant. A call from
him last week, made US well acquainted
with the wretchedness which overwhelms
the widow and nine children of the lamen-
ted man whose reputation and life were
destroyed by the aippancy Of Troy news
paper local shyster. It is thought that Mr..
Merrill destroyed himself! When will
newspaper conductors learn that slang and
scandal are not only evidences Of weakness
but proof of malice which are discredita-
bic to the press and promoters of acts of
desperation We are in possession Of
facts bearing upon the question, which
time will not now permit US to speak of ;
at a future. period we may pen line er
two by way Of illustrating the, infamy
which ought to attach to clownish, heed.
less, brainless man who has unfortunately
been taught to write. Our friend j. C..
STAFFORD, 1.-THE brother-in-law referred to)
received dispatch, while at McGregor,
announcing the death Of the deceased, and
it rendered him incapable several days
Oh, how We sympathised with him and
cursed the wretched writer whose meddle-
some pen had worked the mischief.
PoPE Plus TX. is strong man physical
ly, if not spiritually. According to the n.
Y. Herald's special cable telegram, the
old gentleman complacently "ifted the
silver model of the Henrietta from its case
with its $4,000 gold dollars" It was .
magnificent present, but its tolal weight,
at least calculation, must haye been 7OO
pounds.-Exck. ~
If Pho Nino can raise $4,000, gold dol
lars he is entirely above the reach of our
sympathy. What in thunder does an old
man without family want with more than
700 pounds Of gold3 It'll alchsd from
the poor and destitute, and distributed to
the rich though Catholic BY early bsp-
tism, we despise the cravenness Of those
who would rob honest labor to ill the cof-
fers or pay for the extravagsncies Of . set
of clerical lazzaroni in Italy, who have no
more of religion than God has of SIM
When will mankind jerk or kick them
selves loose from the thraldom Of religious
tyranny Is the world always TO be gov
erned by men who fancy themselves ''born
to command" in matters of Thought as
well ss in Action1 We believe in Rsli.
gion F; in Good Works In Charity /; in the
exercise Of kind o6ces-St. James says this
i Religion-but the pretensious nonsense
Of modern clericacy, high prices for pews,
and the service-worship Of frail mortals
who assume the stole, the mitre and the
crown form pretty much all there is Of il.
Compare Ward Beecher, with $4,000
salary, . $4,000 church, stained glass
wiadows and s., 900 bell with the Babe
Of Bethlehem and the humble orator Of the
iscriptural Mount.
3 Mister Robert Nokes is dead. He per-