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North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

\ NATURAL CuRrosIrY.-In cave in the
|irtude, in the southren part Of the de-
partment of Choluteca, Honduras, there
is natural curiosity, called the ''Fountain
of blood This fountain consists of n
stream of fluid resembling blood, which
drops steadily from the roof of the cave
upon the floor beneath. 1t forms pools of
coasulated matter upon the floor, and inn
parts its color to a small brook which
flows from the cave. The liquid has not
only the color, but the taste and smell of
blood, and when exposed to the air for a
short time emits a very offensive odor.
No satisfactory analysis has been advanced
concerning it.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04
truth to the country, be expelled +
power and authority, as the first
wards the perpetuatiOn of freed
self-government.-Lfica Obse,rer.
English Girls. ~
The glory Of this seaside gathel
oc oil fhot I hova poo,, IN Ep,elo N.
-A.H-=.=- 90
English Girls.

English Girls. a a..ae q i}afT
The glory of this seaside gathering, as
of all that | have seen in England, is the
children--the children and the girls. The
large boys are mostly at school. Their
sisters come down to the sea. The feme-
nine clement predominates in the ratio Of
five to one. Saturday nights train brings
down certain number of husbands. broth
ers and so on, who come to spend Sunday.
with a return railway ticket for Monday
morning. But the fine young misses who
brsyely bathe every morning, and fling the
wonderous wealth of their back hair to the
breeZes to be dried, have the beach to them
selves during the week and very brave
and beautiful they are, with the clear, open
eyes of innocense, and full, round forms
of glowing health. Never was seen SO lit
tie of coquetry. There is simple un.
consciousness of honesty in British girls
delightful to behold. The girl of Is is on
ly the happy expansion of her sister of Q,
and the robust, gleeful, infantile children
are perfect JOY to see. Neither the
children nor the young ladies have, but
very rarely, the delicate and exquisite
beauty so common in America. They are
of a more robust type. They can walk
limbs made for such exercise. They live
in the open air the year round. They are
not afraid of cold or wet. They have, how
eyer, the beauty of well-formcd, active,
mple-hcartcd, brave girls, who will make
good wives and mothers, and whose looks
and actions show that they have no nom
sense about them. And whatever may be
thought of Englishmen or Englishwomen,
in their full expansion of maturity, there
can be no doubt of the beauty of their
children. None admire them more than
our American visitors. They are never
tired of looking at the groups of four or
six children. with their mothers and nurs-
es, digging for dear life in the sands, sail
ing their little boats in every puddle, or
covering each other in the pebbly banks
of flint thrown into winrows by the recent
tides.-Eng. Cor. n. Y. Times. Ea#
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

The debt of the State of New York is
set down at S4s, 1851 ,6sS.22, and Of cities
and villages, counties ana towns ut $685.
OO0, 900, making total VI Sl33, Bal ,6S2 .. -.
When will such vast debts be paid? Be-
fore the radicals came into power the State
of New York was comparatively out Of
debt. Behold the fruits Of Radicalism
The people are paying pretty dear for the
luxury.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04
R0n0RluS C0MMANpERY.
CHARLES A. oPITZ,

N(71n Has moved his Shoe Shop down -
HVv Main Street, one door west of the Wes-a
tern Hotel, where he may be found at all times
ready to accommodate customers with ade RoOrs
and SHOES ofany size style quality. erespectaliy
solicis share of public patronage Repairing neatly
done. McGREGOR, IOWA.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

PRETTY AMERICAN WoMEN.-Englishmen
seem to think that some American women
can be pretty. The Queen, London news
paper, referring to the last court reception
in that city, says that several Americans
were presented at this drawing room, and
of course, by the wife of their Minister
here. They were very much admired in
fact, l think that we are all willing to ad-
init that American ladies indulge in more
elaborate dressing than we do, even at
court, and. though their beauty is scarcely
so durable as that of our cold, northern,
damp climate bestows on our countrywo-
men, in early youth it surpassss ours
The presentation by Ambassadors and
their wives take precedence of all others,
so that the fair strangers from the other
side of the Atlantic had the honor of be-
ing introduced to royalty before the rest
of u.s.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

A VETERAN observer remarks that tho
short articles in a newspaper are usually
the first to be read and the longest to DO
remembered.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

PHYSICIANS have pronounced prairie
chickens poison on account of their having
eaten SO many potato bugs. All those
that have been examined have been found
with their crops full of these bugs.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04
"Will you have Daily .Sun,'' said .

"Will you have Daily .Sun,' said
newsboy to Mrs. PartingtOn.
will | have daily sons Why you
little scapcgrace? How dare you insinuate
against lone woman! No indeed
guess l won't have daily son. NV
dear poor husband used to complain aw-
fully when presented him with yearly
son. A daily son, indeed Begone, you
little upstart imp;' And the old lady
called for the turkey wing fan to keep her
from swooning.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

l hey finally KUN to the konkleshun that
good reliable set Of bowels ia wuth more
to a man than any quantity Of branes.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

1t is great convenience for doctor 10 j
have two patients in the same street, so he 4
can kill two birds with one stone.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

1t is ordered that hereafter officers will
be addressed by the title attached to their
lineal or breyet rank in the regular army.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

The savage tribes who are navivcs of the
extreme northwestern coast of America.
are comprised under the general name of
kalOchss of Sitka, and recognize as found
fer of the race, !; man whom they call Elkin
who dwclt under the special favor and pro-
lection of the crow. bird whom they wor-
ship as the first cause of all things. What
created the crow, or what gave that inter-
estir black bird such power, the kalochcs
profess ignorance, and they dispose OF the
question by the customary answer in such
cases-i. G., that it was ordained from the
beginning. They have also the tradition
of universal deluge, from which their
ancestors were saved by some escaping in
boats to the tops of the highest mountains.
lists after death but without being subject
either to reward or punishment. They have
few religious observances, but human
sacrifices form one of them. The victims
are always slaves, and the only slaves in
Russia-America are captives taken in war.
The master has plenary power of life and
death over his slaves, and cruelty toward
their enemies is disgusting feature of all
these savage tribes. In the minds of the
most of them every stranger is an enemy.
The whole education of these savagcs
from birth is aimed at the sole end of for
tifying their bodies to endure every species
of hardship. If they feel cold, they are
stripped naked and seated in tub Of cold
water. Sometimes the kaloches are found
in the depths of the forests sleeping around
a fire, one side nearly roasted, while the
other is covered with frost. They are of
Ollcrmatic temneramcnt deSpise death
and are brave to the verge of desperation
in battle. In the ordinary affairs of life
they are indolent and careless. They mar
ry without priests or ceremony, and their
rich men have as many as four or five
wives apiece. The chief art practised by
them is the building Of canoes, in which
they are much skilled. They are great low
ers of feasts, and this means among them,
eating a glutonous quantity-of food, and
followed up with dance. 1t is their Gus
tom to burn the bodies of their dead mt
great funeral, in the presence Of the weep
Ing relatives of the departed.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04
Pope's Folly.

Pope's Folly.
The change of single word,
transmission of PoPE's remarkable
affects somewhat the sense of the
ment. Instead of saying that "theros
be no satisfactory reconstruction II
speech is allowed he says that "there
be no satisfactory reconstruction xale
free speech is allowed, very material
difference. The letter then, becomes ans3
apology" for his acts in permitting FREQ
discussion.
But after this, Pope goes on to the extent
of a column to show that the effect Of per-
hitting free discussion will probably be, in
the end, the defeat of the radical plans for
the South lie points out the manner in
which he conceives this effect will be pro-
duced. The spectacle of the Southern
people. under the influence of free discus
sion, refusing to follow the path Of radi-
calism. is narrowing one to his mind
To use his own words, she does not ven.
ture to suggest remedy for the evil, y but
all his intimations are to the effect that free
political discussion in the South is not to be
tolerated, and that those who oppose radi-
calism must in some manner be put out OF
the way. at
In those days when the doctrines of the
Declaration OF independence and the prin-
ciplcs of the Constitution were universally
respected a military officer or party lead
er who should intimate that free political
discussion must be suppressed. would have
been committed to a lunatic asylum or dis
carded as an idiot. 1t is a most melan-
choly sign of the times that such senti-
ments are now tolerated and even applaud
cd by the representatives of great political
party. Such ideas as those of Pope pro-
duce no shock among the radical journals;
on the contrary, they arc justified and en-
forced by them. #*'aGa "faa
The men at the South who oppose the
Radical schemes, do not, like the Aboli-
ton emssaries of old, stir up a servile pop
ulation to the murder of their masters
They do not. like those in Massachusetts,
and Wisconsin of few years since, excite
the people to defy the United States laws,
and murder United States officers. They
advocate no rebellion, North or SOUTH
They simply discuss the wisdom and exi~
pedency of political measures, of the high
est importants to their own future welfare.
1t will soon become apparent to the ,peo-
pie, if it has not already, that the preser-
vat on of our free political ideas, and Of
the free discussion by all parties of all pub
lie questions, imperatyely demands that
the bigotted and proscriptivc revolution
lists, who now assume to dictate political
truth to the country, be expelled from all
power and authority, as the first step to-
wards the perpetuation of freedom and
lf-government.-Lfi Obso'rer.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

WEST UNION HOUSE,
Corner Vine and Elm Sts.,.....W EST UNION, IOWA
H. j. IMGERSOll, PROPRIETOR.
Good stabling and charges moderate. Stages going
east west, north and south, call and leave with pas
sengcrs, morning and evening, y532
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04
UNION HOUSE,

MAIN oINEEI ''''''.'...''''''' HUuNEUVH.
=. FURY, Proprietor. st.
Having recently purchased this House, the Proprie-
tor begs to say that he has reurnshed it, added to its
capacity AS Hotel and he respectfully asks Il share of
public patronage. The best attention given, good
faro and reasonable bills. Good Stabling. 4S5
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

FLANDERS HOUSE,
Corner Main Fourth sts.,......... McGREGOR, IOWA.
GEORGE REhMER, PROPHET TOR.
Free Omnibus to and from all cars and tcamboats.
General Stage Office. This house has telegraphc con-
necton with the steamboat landing; baggage room,
and comfortable lodging apartments the railway
ticket office, ut the service of guests.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

ROBERT GRANT,
SUCCESSOR TO JOHN BALLY,) DEALER IN
BOOKS, STATIONERY, PAPER HIkGiNGS, NOTIONS.
And Fancy Articles. Clayton County Bible Society
Depository. Two doors west of J. r. Buckley Cos
Hardware Store, (5m553) MeGREG0R, IOWA. Z
Sunday School Requisites furnished on short notice.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

THOMAS ARNOLD,
REAL ESTATE BROKER AND GENERAL AGENT, CON.
vEYARCER, NOTARY PUBLIC,
And Commissioner OF Deeds, &C., for the Northwes-
tern States Will attend the purchase and sale of
Farm Lands, City Property, Stocks, &c. &c.
Office with Hon. Il. Noble Bank Block, McGregor,
Iowa. $50 LICENSED AUCTlOMEER
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04
EVANS HOUSE.

EVANS HOUSE. |-.--|
LATE AMERICANA tGs4 --r-.. a..
opposite Ferry Landing, McGregor. Refurnished and
hited up in good style for guests Patr""as" r"-r"et
fully solicited. .ss.-=---I .s.E q"
G. ii. FLANDERS, Proprietor. 474
= <kA BEHER LODGE No. 135.
he4AW> Holds its Regular Communications on
~E&AX' Monday evening preceding the full moon
1-s%Kk@ in each month.
TERA ALFRED wINGATE, w.M
W. r. KINNAIRD, Sec'y. AIS
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

McGREGOR FANNING MILL.
DlCkEY WELLINER
Manufacturers of the MeGregor Fannir Mill and rain
Separator, on West Market Square, corner Main and
Ann Streets. il5y McGREGOE, IOWA.
B. III. FRESE. IL. d. WELLMAN
MISSISSIPPI HOUSE,
Near Steamboat Landing. McCireIor, Iowa. Good
Sttbling attached to the premises. -
52S FRESE & WELLMAN Propretors
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

Attorneys and Counsellors at Law and Real Estate
Agents, 1st door east of Wipneshek House. Decorah
Iowa. A1~Wil practice in the several courts of the
State; also attend to collections nd the payment of
taxes in Winnesheix county, 566
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-12-04
How the Radicals Rebuke corrup-
tion,

The Albany IN. 7. Argus gives partial
list of the candidates that were run by the
Radicals Of that State. These candidates
were nominated to rebuke corruption, on
the principle, We suppose, OF setting a
thief to catch thief;
Bemis for Assembly, under two indict-
ments for bribery.
Searls for Assembly, indicted Tor brl'
berg. :,
Bull for Assembly, expelled from the
office OF Sergeant-at-arms in the Senate
on a charge Of extortion.
Humphrey for the Senate, arrested ant
held to bail for receiving brides.
Kline and Sessions for the Senate, SC
obnoxious, by reason Of their Legislative
course, that their party has held coonven
lions and nominated unsupported Repub
|licans against them for the Senate.
Williams repudiated for dishonesty.
4 Hammond for Canal Commissioner, COZ
victed by his own party in the Cana
Board of malfeasance and irregularlty
office.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-12-04


SENATOR Dixon ON IMPEACHMENT, Etc.
Washington. Among the arrivals to-day is
Senator Dixon, Of Connecticut, one ofthe
few Conservative members of the Upper
House of Congress- The Senator is in ex-
cellent health and jubilant over the result
Of the recent elections. He considers the
change in the public mind to be deepseated
and permanent, and not merely transient
one, likely to be altered a year hence, when
the people come to elect q new President.
The Senator expresses the opinion that not
even Gen. Grant could carry the country
on a Radical platform now, and that, in
fact, Radicalsm had been Frustrated, never
to raise its head again. One effect of the
elections, he thinks, will be the practical
abandonment of impeachment, either for
mally, by an adverse report sustained by the
House, or sub silentio, by letting the thing
die out of its own accord from want Of no
tice or agitation. Should Congress attemp'
| to suspend the President pending trial, tn
Senator considers it a question OF yer.
grave doubt whether it would not be tn
Presidents plain duty to resist what coul'
not be regarded otherwise than as usurpa
ton of power by Congress, le 81
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-12-04

.DExocnAcY AND Low PRIcEs.-Ever
since the Democrats began the victory bus
mess there has been a steady decline IN
nrices, which is contrary to all the predlc-
tions of what would be that were made by
Radical prophets before the elections.
Cold has tumbled down from lao to l38,
and dry goods are SO low that it does not
cost much more to dress now than 1t did
before the war. At the clothing houses on
Broadway and the Bowery you may see
suits, good and bad, almost as cheap as
they were FIVE years ago /; and in every bus
mess street piles Of dry goods ticketed from
so to 100 per cent. below the prices asked
for the same goods in 1855. Cslicoes ct
|Ilhc q yard muslins l0@l8c.; delaines
at 1885,; dress goods from rs to CO., and
all kinds Of costlier fabrics at prices tina,
indicate d heavy loss to some one. II
The decline is severely felt by importers
;obbers and agents, and some of them are
ont Of pocket to the tune Of $4,000 to
S25O,O0O by it; but it is very advanta'
geous to the working classes, for it enables
them to make dollar go as far as in dress
as two went last year. Groceries and rents
are still high, but With these exceptions i
is much cheaper living in New York now
than Il has been for three or foar years
/ And Judging by the number ofhouses goln,t
up, there ought to be sharp decline II
rents next year. five continue the victo
| ~ business next fall, l expect to see price,
very near the old standard soon after. |
NAV be hard on the spectators, but as the.
are fond ofgrinding other people it is onl,,
| fair that their own faces should feel touc
Of the stone Bostyn Post oorrespon
! dence from New York.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-12-04

Hurt HIS NosE.-Mr Charles Sumner
came very near anticipating Mr.. Thaddeus
Stevens departure from this world, "a, An
Indiana paper says:
son stepping from the cars, not noticing g
they had started and were under considers afs
BILE Roadway, he was precipitated violently m y
forward upon his head, His hat lbroke
somewhat the force Of the fall, and perhaps
saved his life. Asst was, he was rendered
nearly unconscious, and badly bruised
abont the face, shoulders and other parts
Of the body"
The late meteoric display was in homo
Of his preservation. Railroad bonds nav
declined in apprehension Of adjustment
Europe is on qui oioe for an exhibition Q
the scars. The Baron Holstein grlns hide
ously. Poor Charles He has no wife T
4 nut his nose into shape and feed him wit
whipped-syllabub and arrow-root pap.
= - - II
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-12-04

~
Poor CHAsE.-At recent meeting OF
friends, Chief Justice Chase spoke OF the
Radical party thus:
"The American people will not abandon
an organization that has SO proud a record
in. the past, and 60 much responsibility ~ ~
the future, when, by SO doing, it confesses
Judgment to shame that will cling to us
forever
The Chief Justice forgets that he aban'
bonedllis former doctrines Of States Rights
for Abolition flesh pots Does ne expect
the American people to be less human ian than
a Chief Justice9 Abandon tlls organ NJ 2
ton! OF course si they viii. They wo1lld
abandon Noah's ark # u proved unsea
/ worthy. E9
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-12-04
0 Lord, with me, thy servant fight:
And those who hate me crush and blight.

0 Lord, with me, thy servant fight:
And those who hate me crush and blight.
Their efforts futile make and vain,
who gainst me would their rights maintain
With thy right hand, 0 Lord, down beat
Their naughty necks beneath thy feet.
My hate is Ikea burning thirst,
TO quench it, Lord, let all be cursed.
Those in my need who've done me good.
And those who in my path have stood.
Then shall my horn exalted be,
And flourish like agreen bay tree
| The reader may construe the above t.
suit his taste. Some will take it as q fan
cy sketch, but there are Others who WI
tremble when they read it. We tax
pleasure in reminding the latter that wall
have ears-and Z" handwriting on theI
too, sometimes. s. Mobile Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-12-04

5sS,5 (
A SERIOUS JOKE An Engishman FEE
ina From a Dusky Brfde.-Some men,
saws the New York correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Enquirer, who recently returned
from the Plains, tells story OF young
Enelhhman travelling in the West, who
was made the victim Of q PRACTICAL joke.
Like most Of his countrymen, he was full
Of conceit, and thought because he lived
in London he knew the whole world. Sew
eral Of his friends, out Of jest, proposed to
one Of the principal chiefs for the hand Of
his daughter, assuming that the proposal
came from the Iondoner. The Indian nc
cspted at once, and informed his dusky
child of the fact. She relished the betroth'
al, and went to her supposed lover, saying
| in broken English: Me your squaw; very
glad. Go cross big water Take squaw
John Bull did not understand what it al
meant, uutil the aboriginal parent, who
had mastered good deal Of our language
assured him he could have his daughter II
marriage, and that their nuptials should b
celebrated Immediately if the lover deslre'
liz. The .Englishman was shocked and hol
|rifed, as we'll he might have been, ct tn
idea Of carrying home the child Of the iol
rest, who; among other pleasant habits, wa
addicted to standing on her head OF tn
corner of the street. He was afraid, how
ever to decline, and when he asked fe
counsel the wags swore the savage woul
consider his refusal an insult to the trlb'
and revenge il on the spot. The unfort,
, nate Englishman was in desperate s y :,
and the same night bought horse, left n
baggage behind, rode off into the wood q
and was not seen until q month after in )
Louis. He resolved never to return to u
: Plains, where he faneied he would be i
stantly tomahawked.