North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-05-08
Thf Times.
McGREGOR, MAY s, 1867.
Temperance.


and the WEST is having throes of excite
ment about matter that has puzzled the
heads of legislators ever since society re-
quired regulation. The Lecture we re-
certify Numbered through for the benefit
of the McGregor poor--INcERsoLL of the
Muscatine Journal, says it was necessarily
"poor lecture has attracted more at
tcntion than we anticipated. What have
soc done that makes people feel funny over
our maiden effort7" Some fellow says
"if Richardson would deposit in charity
box che dimes hc spends for whiskey he
would benefit the poor more than he can
by lecturing for them This is compli-
mentary, but we are used to it.
Per contra. several of our exchanges
have said pretty things Of that celebrated
effort" and we have had some fun out
Of it as well as contributing to the relief
Of the needy. The Chat6eld Democrat,
one of our most readable exchanges, gives
US the following halfand-h half compliment
tary, but we rather like it:
RICHARDSON, of the McGregor (Iowa)
Times, has recently delivered one of the
best Temperance Lectures we ever read.
Well "Dick," we never knew before that
you were that g sort of man." and rejoice
exceedingly to learn that you are " on it'll
There is hope that tree cut down may
sprout again." Selah.
A Wisconsin gentleman of great enter
prise writes us about KS follows:
dear SRI am highly pleased with
your Lecture as published. It's logic and
facts are unanswerablc. Come over and
deliver ll3 lectures in Wisconsin, and l
will give you s50,0oO-provided l am
allowed to boss the treasury department |!
l will give Mr.. Andrick large farm to
take exclusive care of the TINES in your
absence. Twill be Lodge of Good Tenn
plars by myself, and we will both immor-
talize ourselves.
It has always been question in my
mind how a strictly temperate man could
lecture on Temperance, but since your sue
cessful effort at McGregor the question is
settled with me. A man, supposed,
should have experience in order to handle
the evil" in public address, but what
you lack !: can supply as we 60 marching
along. Col. |! Let us convert the world!
uauai .4 Yours, G. T. STORM.
Arcadia, Wis, April 29. - -, 49,
Suspecting that this benevolent gent is
poking fun at us-though his letter seems
like business-we decline his proposition
and hereby inform him that he will find a
stormy time if he ever comes to NEG.
Another chap writes:
II never read SO good n lecture from a
man who is entirely nnacquainted with
the subject
This is bold, palpable personality, and
We pass it with the dignity becoming in
suited virtue. Let our enemies rip. Wc'll
lecture, preach or write on any subject VIC
please, and if our success in the literary
or moral world parallels with that of
many who are at work in the same field,
the less zee kno,c Of our subject the better! .
SENATOR DRAKE.-We saw this gentle
man at an internal Improvement convcn-
tinn in Ch;on"r, c,---------sv,. s. !,
him rant of speech that nobody wanted
to listen to. In later number of the Ty;
bune, Of Chicago, Washington cores
pondent speaks as follows of this most
radical Missouri Senator. If the picture
is not complete photograph of what is
now called an " earnest mar" we are mis-
taken. Look about you, reader, and see
how many such weazenish " individuals
there are in your neighborhood, and you
can bet your bottom dollar that they are
OF the same uneasy, fault-fnding, restless
politics as this man DRAKE. All radicals
arc not such looking men, but men Of such
looks are quite generally the cross, d;scon-
tented fellows below described
His face is weazenish, his eyes are small
and deeply set, his forehead is broad and
low, his brow is very much wrinkled he
mas an eager. intense, restless, unsatisfed
expression. His general appearance shows
tnat the mental man is wearing out the
physical man. He is round shouldered
and sunken chcsted, and his face is old and
furrowed, far beyond his middle-age years.
A QuEsrIoN.-A gentleman for whom
We entertain the highest social and mathe-
matical respect hands us the following:
If IL oxen eat 81 acres Of grass in
weeks, and q oxen eat 10 acres in 9 weeks,
how many oxen would it require to con.
sumo "a acres in Is weeks 1ay- the grass
to be growing uniformly? 1t is said Sir
Isaac Newton was the author Of this aues-
ton. .'
The same gentleman gives a solution to
our Land Question of few weeks since,
viz: A and B buy $50 acres for 5000,
each paying half the purchase: they d.
vide it equally on the money, but one
takes less land and pays IS cents an acre
more than another; how much land has
each? Our correspondent solves it by |
double position, Contrary to our expecta-
tion) and here is his answer: 144.05 for |
A and los. 95 for b. ~, ass
P. S.-We lost Threshing Machine in
betting on it, and Speaker Colfax ought to
pay it
NEW STYLE.--M. McKinnie, of this |
place, is always up to the latest fashions
IN the line of stoves and other inventions
pertaining TO his business. He is now
sole Agentin North Iowa for the Soar
STONE srovE, new thing in this region,
but to all appearance one of the most use
full inventions extant We have one in tho [