North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-06-17

! . M. N8rtlu O1 any money
that may be between as. His indebted
ness in his bankrupt application includes
So to US, SIS to Thomas Arnold and
S47, 90 to D. Allen jr. We find his whole
indebtedness sums up nearly $4,000. He
will be remembered here as a patent right
dealer, and a pious, pleasant gentleman.
lie should not have come among strangers
as he did here to add them to the victims
he had already sold.......A large Eel was
caught near here the other day as such
catches are rare in the Mississippi, we note
the arrival of the stranger......The Tribune
says Grant wrote his letter of acceptance
himself, and it took him not much over
half an hour This is news to the Generals
admirers. All by himself. ....E. p. Clarke
Is about to establish a Billiard Saloon in
the building west of the North McGregor
or Mendon Hotel. E. P. is bound to make
things move around lively, or break a
trace. Doc. Conant, now with Clarke in
the "Sample ROOM of his wholesale
Liquor and Tobocco Store in Masonic
Block, will "boss'' the North McGregor
concern. Dec, is the sum total Of a gen.
tleman in a saloon, and in all other places
where we have met him
Bidwell and Church have completed the
foundation for their store and are ready
for the brick. The "boys'' are building q
place to get rich in, and we hope they will
not be disappointment Hubbard and
the Bank folks don't stop Brainard & Co.
from tearing their building to pieces they
won't have any houses at all, pretty soon,
arcady. The screws will be put to Hub.
bard's brick in a few days. Three stories
high will improve that point. W. Schmidt
is also on the build......On the Fourth,
DEBORAH will have some high priced horse
racing..... Williams of the Dousman
House, Powell of ditto, Perry Of more
ditto, W US an apology for placing us
under favors which disarm and render us
incapable Of telling them of their manifold
faults......E. NJ. Christopher has fitted up
the Cambrian Hall Saloon in gay style
His coat is off early, and if he holds on as
he begins, he will be regarded as a most
successful workist, get rich, die happy and
60 just where he plcases.......The Baptist
ladies had a house cleaning at the Church
and made it look as neat as a pin. Glad
we don't live in it.......A minister preach
ed in the forenoon from the text, aye art
the Children ofthe Devil" In the after
noon from "Children, obey your Par
ents.
VIM. T. Foley, a former resident here
and later from Winona, writes us from
Fort Ridgley, Mimi, where he is nov
located as a farmer. He says the land i
good, and that he will come to McGrego
this Five ladies of Quincy
Illinois, bet 500 they could saw and spill
fvo cords of wood in a day. They VOL
| the bet +! Let US have a little similar ex
| element at McGregor. Ladies, what sa.
| you ?......A Frenchman has discovered
process to restore persons who have beef
drowned 80 minutes without f~avorin'
skepticism, we would ask where was tn
human soul, ad interim?
Hon. Maturin L. Fisher of Farmersburs
writes US Of the rain storm of Sunda.
night: ~ find by my rain guage, tina
2 4S-10O inches of rain fell during tn
storm. It is evident, from appearances
that less rain fell on the prairie than a
McGregor." Col. Brisbois of Prairie du
Chen, and a native of that place, was il
our Office Monday, and said that in 1896
storm raised the river p feet higher thar
it has ever been since the water was on
stand for % days, and all the trees on tn
| islands were scalded or drowned by tn
hot July sun. Indians formerly mad
maple sugar on the islands across thu
mouth of the Wisconsin, but that rise DIES
troyed the large trees that once covered
it and the other islands of the river. The
Colonel says that Is inches of water fel
at that time this being the next to it, h
estimates 10 to IL inches as the fall from
Sunday till monday morning. The river
is rising rapidly, and we anticipate
"June rise" yet. Pinery men will b.
glad of it to enable them to 'drive" Their
logs over the rapids and dams Of the Chip
pewa, the Eau Claire, the Black, and 9th
ers......W. d. Townsend, Neeze Hopkins
and Charles German (of Dccorah) will
leave, this week, on a sporting tour t.
Chain Lakes, Minnesota to fish, hunt
capture young goslings, and play Ingir
generally. "Bill' has a noble scalp loci
on his chin! Look out for obituaries.
B. II. Olmstead will give a Fourth q
July ball at Monona. The exercises will
commence on the evening of the Sd, and
continue till the guests get tired. This
Office has an en- masse invitation, for which
we are Obliged. 1t seems a general cele'
bration at Monona has "~played." Money
is too scarce this year for luxuries. By
another year we may have more cash, and
more Union.......Mr. Buel of New York,
the legatee Of most of the estate of james
McGregor, is in town on business connect
ed with his property here......The Japs
played to a good house on Tuesday even.
ing. We have a general notice Of them
in another place.. Boyle has sold his ice
business to Bergman & Cawelti. See no
tice. .....Havens, the comique, is at home
again from Chicago, where he has beer
playing wheat-ist. We played it once ant
got euchred ; the price of bread has no
interested us much since '63 !...... Th,