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North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
Improvement Convention.

Elsewhere we publish the call of the
President of the Prairie du Chen Con.
vention, Gov. Samuel Merrill, of Iowa,
for Convention to be held at Portage, in
this State, Oct 20.
That the improvement is feasible, no
one has the least knowledge of the route
and its immediate resources, can for mo.
ment doubt; and that such route is i'm.
peratlvely demanded by the vast and in
creasing freighting business of the north
west, all admit. The thing now to be
done, is to arrive at some definite mode of
action. In order to inaugu-ate the work,
and to make start in tie right direction,
the convention was held at Prairie du
Chicn last fall, and the forthcoming meets
ing is ordered at Portage.
Considering the magnitude ,r the en-
tcrprise, and the untiring opposition it
has and must expect to continue to re-
ceive from powerful railroad combina-
tions in the Northwest, and the great
trunk lines connecting the seaboard and
the Mississippi, it is surprising to see the
advancement the movement has already
made.
AT this stage, energetic work is de-
manded by all those Immediately Interest,"
ed in the enterprise. Our members of
Congress must be made to feel by an
overwhelming pressure from the States of
Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota that the
work must be done, and that Immediately
too.
1t is very important that all river towns
and villages should be represented at the
Portage Convention.
We understand it is the intention of
the River Transportation Company to take
delegates from Green Bay to Portage on
the river.-Frinceton RepuLlic.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

DoNEsrIC LIFE.-Thc banes of domestic
life are littleness, falsity, vulgarity, harsh
ness, scolding, vocifcration, an incessant is
suing of superauous prohibition and
orders, which are regarded as impertinen'
interferences with the general liberty and
repose, and are provocative Of ranking OF
exploding resentments. The blessed anti.
dotes that sweeten and enrich domestic
life are refinement, high aims, great in,
terest, soft voices, quiet and gentle man.
ners, magnanimous tempers, forbearance
FROM all unnecessary commands or dicta-
ton, and generous allowance of mutual
freedom. Love makes obedience lighter
than liberty. Man wears q noble alle
glance not as collar but as garland.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
Present, useIUI-absent, \
Bakers work-loafng.

Motto for rejected suitor-he wooed
and she wouldn't.
The Texas cotton crop is said to be the
finest ever raised there
What portions of the body are the best
travellers? The two wrists.
The Rev. who tied the Gordian knot for
Commodore Vanderbilt got $500.
acknowledgement drew $4,000, in a
St. Petersburg lottery. Poorwiski drew
blank.
More diamonds have been discovered at
the Cape Of Good Hope, one of which is
said to be worth fS0,O0u.
A sure method Of never succeeding
with your own plans is to give much at
tention to those of other people.
A chap advertises for san equal partner
in the milk business" proposing to fur
nish one-half the cspital-a pump.
A mean pun-for man to lay hold Of
lady's back hoir and apologize by say
ing he thought he was pulling a belle
knob.
"Aunt," said three-year old one day
81 don't like my aprons to be starched S,
much. So much starchness makes tn,
stiffness scratch my baroness"
A verdant Cape Colder, upon seeing
locomotive for the first time, threw up hi
hands exclaiming :-''By thunder, what
| darned great stove!
A friend Of recently married couple
being asked what family the bride was o
replied, "The Gad-ites, l should think, a
she is always in the street,
"The blessed man that preached for U
last Sunday" said Mrs. Partingtol
'served the Lord for thirty years-fi.st ,
circus rider, then as locust preache
and last as an exhauster.n
Miss Burdett Coutts' offer to repair tn
waterworks at Jerusalem at her own ex
pense has been declined by the Turkish
government, which promises, however, to
undertake the repair itself
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

WoRLDLINEss IN RELIGION. Two mat
ters of much moment are seasonably and
sensibly discussed in the New York Meth.
odist. The one is SUNDAY C!othes," and
the bad practice of making the church a
place for the display of the latest fash
ions. 1t is indeed quite true that millin-
cry rather than religion fills the churches,
and that fashionable congregation may
well inspire doubt whether they are
Miserable sinners, met for prayer and praise and
psalm.
Or an animated series from Le Courier Des Danes
But the Methodist is less likely to effect
a reform in this matter than in the other
to which it has addressed itself-the
worldliness Of camp meetings. "Are
they camp meetings or picnics!" asks the
editor, speaking Of these asscmblages.
Clearly the latter, as any one may be con.
vinced who will travel along the line oi
any railway in New England at this sea.
son of the camp meeting observance
And the popping Of corks, the cracking
of peanut shells, and the gossip Of ICE
cream eaters, Of which the editor com
plains, are innocent abuses in comparison
with others that might he named in con-
nection with this manner of out-of doo1
worship, at least in the populous eastern
states.-Erch.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

INTERESTING RExINIscENcE.-Ata a re-
cent meeting of steamboat men in St
Louis, Capt. Clark, the Harbor Master
said he commanded the steamer Mexico
the first steamer that went above st. Louis
to the Falls Of St. Anthony, in 1926 and
1927. 1t was aiow-pressure steamer,
and conveyed army stores. The cabin
was down stairs behind the engine, and
the ladies' cabin was in the hold. In
making the trip up to St. Anthony Falls
the Winnebago Indians attacked them
near Prairie du Chen, and when he got
to Fort Smelling he reported the fact to
the officer in command, Col Smelling
COL S. then furnished them with muskets
and two barges. The trip to the Falls oc-
cupied three months. Returning, Capt
Clark and his crew were ~hgain attacked
by Indians in forty canoes. A fierce fight
kept up for several hours, ensued, and the
Captain had only seven men left who
could fight, the remaining ten having been
killed or wounded. The fight ended by
the Indians getting out Of ammunition.
Aftcrward Gen. Cass, who commanded at
Fort Crawford, sent 200 soldiers to pun
ish these Indians. Gen. Atkinson com,
manded this force, and executed eighteen
of the redskins and took some hostages
in order to get possession of the ringlead.
ers. Such were the dangers attending the
early navigation Of the Mississippi.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

No PLACE For WoMEH.-A young
enthusiast was talking to his intended
few evenings since, urging upon her speedy
marriage, and start to spend the honey
moon in California. ~ tell you, ~ said he,
his face glowing with enthusiasm, "Califor-
MIA is the paradise Of this earth. There's
no uso talking!"
"No use talking!' exclaimed the ladyi
with look Of some surprise.
"No use talking I" he repeated.
"Wcll, if there's no use talking" said
the lady, "what in the name Of sense d.
you want of women there? / don't 60 7
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
NEW YORK, Sent.

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.
The speech of Prince Napoleon fills six
columns of the official Journal, and late
it. In course Of the speech, Prince Ma Va
poleon said: l am anxious to affirm my
entire and complete devotedness, not only
to the Emperor, but also to his son. Loud
applause l understand better than any
one that my interests as well as my aft, c.
tions are indissolubly bound up in the
empire. Hear, hear y believe the co~
existences with liberty to be perfectly
possible, and those who think it is not are
themselves as irreconcilable as they main
tain those two words to be. Liberty is the
beacon towards which all civilized nations
are tending. and France has right to
count herself among the number. Those
men who look upon tho present reforms
as contrary to the principles of the empire,
are enemies to the COVE nment. Those
who consider them as an experiment only,
are equally dangerous. would have all
empire of personal authority burn its
vessels and abandon all ideas of receding.
The art Of governing is to give way to
just aspirations, and not to resist when all
around us in industry and science is ad-
vancing. Would you have political insti-
tutions remain stationery; progress is us
necessary in culture as the former, anu
that the onward march belongs to the i'm
perial traditions.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

A novel foot race has just transpired at
South Boston between two cripples, nam
cd Bevins and Ring. Bevins' right leg is
six inches shorter than his left, and Ring
is club-footed. Begins used crutch.
The match was for SIS side. There was
pretty sprinkling Of cripples amongst
the betters, and much excitement prevailed
in the crowd. Tho contestants started
precisely at 10 o'clock, Ring taking the
lead in few minutes: Bevins worked
hard with his three legs, but ring hobbled
too fast for him, and won the race by COM
ing in five minutes ahead Of bevins.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
A Question Answered.

Can anybody tell why, when Eve was
manufactured from one of Adams ribs,
a hired girl wasn't made at the same time
to wait on her Eachange.
We can, easily. Because Adam never
came whining to Eve with a ragged stock
ing to be darned, collar string to be
sewed on, or glove to be mended "right
away, quick now." Because he never
read the newspapers until the sun got
down behind the palm tree, and then
stretched himself, yawning out, faint sup
per most ready, my dearr' Not he. Hs
made the fire, and hung over the tea let'
tie himself, and pulled the radishes, ana
peeled the baayans, and did everything
else that he ought to. He milkea IN,
COWS and fed the chickens, and looA'a
after the pigs himself re !" IVA ~
brought home half dozen it,'p1S
dinner, wheh Eve hadn't any ireSii pol1'
cranates. and the mango season "Io
over, He never stayed out till II o CLOCK
to .sward meeting hurranihs i0l
out and out candidate, ana 'heh ''
becouse poor dear Eye was sitting up anu
orr;na inside the cate. lie never playso
billiards. nor drove fast horses n0l
cboked Eve with cigar smoke. lie nsssl
lo.fed around corner groceries, wnl.e
solitary, Eve was rocking l'tts .aln
.a1Ia a. home. In short, he did not
think she was specially created for the
purpose of waiting on him, and wasn't
under the impression that it disgraces .
man to tighten his wife's cares little.
That's the reason that Eve did not need
hired Girl, and we wish it was the reason
th at none of her descendants did.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

The Clinton Herald itemizes that LITTLE
son Of DR.. Hoerlein, German physician
Of that oity, when between FIVE and Elk
years of age, committed to memory IN
sixteen weeks, and could successfully re-
peat, two thousand verses Of Scripture
most of which he can unhesitatingly re-
peat at the present time, though year
or two has elapsed since they were learn
ed. At Sabbath School, one Sunday ne
repeated one hundred and thirty nine sue
cess;ys verses in Psalms. Not being able
to read, the verses were all learned by
rote. The editor concludes with wish
that some of his subscribers had memories
like unto him!
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

In none Of the notices of the Siamese
Twins that we have seen has mention
been made of the famous Scotch double
man, of whom the following curious &C
count is given in the "Rerum Sco:icarun
Historia:'' "During the reign of James
the Third, of Scotland, and at his court,
there lived man, double above the waist
single below that region. The King
caused him to be carefully brought up.
He rapidly acquired a knowledge Of mu
sic. The two heads learned sew, ,ral
languages they debated together, and the
two upper halves occasionally fought
They lived generally, however, in the
greatest harmony. When the lower par,
of the body was tickled, the two individ
uals felt it together; but when, on the 9th.
er hand. one Of the upper individuals was
touched, he alone felt the effect. This
monstrous being died at the age of TWEEN
ty-eight years. One of the bodies died
several days before the other.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

The Richland (Wis.) S:ntinel- radi-
cal paper publishes approvingly com.
munication which closes very thankfully
as follows:
"What is modern Repubicanism--is it
mere name to use for taking laborers
money to support clan of party spoil
hunters?"
In another column the editor of the
Sentinel says:
"That we are PECULIARLY situated in our
social and individual interests politically,
is fact which every man Of intelligence,
and every tax payer, will have seen and
felt. Having just emerged from an inter>
nal war, many of those measures which
were perhaps necessarily adopted us war
measurers, particularly in relation to tax
alton, were expected to be only temporary
and were permitted only through patriotic
impulses, for the time being-are now
fastened upon us and upon our children
for aught we know, for generations. The
occasions have gone, but the taxes and
burdens remain; new officers are elected !;
salaries increased; large appropriations
made, and in many instances the fees of
officials are doubled to bring them up to
the standard of war pieces. 1t is now
about five years since the war closed, and
still no relief is brought to US. We are
told that our taxes are high, because the
nation is in debt but what portions of
these taxes 60 to pay the public debt, or
even the interest ON it? Not one dollar
in hundred. We are told again that we
are taxed to pay the interest on our large
and increasing State debt. But how comes
the State of Wisconsin so deeply in debt ?
That it is so, is evident from the Secreta-
ry's last report, and the amount of direct
State Taxes which we are required to
pay.
"What use has been made of the more
than two millions of School Fund which
has been taken by the State since the war,
and near.y two hundred thousand dollars
Of the war bonds yet outstanding and
unpaid?'
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

AN INDIAN MIssloNARY.-On a high hill.
in York, Maine, called Agamenticus, lies
buried the Indian Apostle, St. Aspinquid.
He was ninety-four years old when he died,
May ], 1852. At the age of forty-two or
forty-three he was converted to Christians
ty, and spent fifty years of his life in preach
ing to the sixty-six different nations or
tribes Of Indians in the country. His fun
eral was conducted with great pomp and
ceremony. The Indians sacrificed the fol-
lowing wild animals to the departed spirit:
20 bucks, 81 does, ermines, 80 buffaloes,
ITO ferrets, $50 martins, $40 wolves, SO
wild cats, 4S2 foxes, 620 beavers, 500 fishes,
80 bears, So moose, so weasels, 400 offers.
$40 raccoons, lI2 ratt,esnakes, cata-
mounts, 900 lnusquashes, GO woodchucks,
1900 minks, 80 porcupines. On is..tomb-
stone was placed the following inscription.
Present, useful-absent, wanted;
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
McGREGOR, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT 90, 1862
Oxen VS.. Horses.

lVACA zoe AlVISCSs
A writer in the Hearth and Home saws
Hill farms are worked most advanta &c
ously with oxen the plains with horses
Upon prairie grain farm. unobstructee
by stick or stone, the OK can be spared a.
worker, after the natural sod is turned
lie may have a half.holiday life, for which
he is fitted by nature lin view of his
chances of making "holiday beefD in
assisting and supplanting the horse in the
hurry of seed-time and harvest. Unless
the French sarans give Us all relish for
horse soups and roasts, the OK may remain,
in his character Of meat producer,
with working possibilities, on many
smooth farms; especially such smooth
farms as lie adjacent to q hilly country.
His position is the more secure, as there
is yet no adequate supply of horses bred
purely and simply for heavy work.
The different periods in the growth of a
country are attended by change in the
working cattle. In clearing timber land,
the OK is indispensable. When the "stamp
period" is passed, and the soil is adapted
to easy tillagc, horses multiply. Later,
when the plow is not alone profitable, and
manufacturers come in with an increase
Of population, requiring better roads,
bridges and buildings, and the transport
of stone, brick, coal, lumber, and all the
"rough and tumble" OF modern improve
ments-we welcome the OK again.
The OK and horse fare best when en-
ployed upon the same farm, each doing
the work for which he is best fitted. The
simple and inexpensive harness necessary
for oxen, the little time required to pre>
pare them for work, the rapidtv with
which they are shifted from the tongue to
the chain, their general trustiness and
steadiness, make them especially useful to
straightforward, heavy work, in all
weathers. Horses, with light artillery
of carts and wagons, relieve the OK of
quick steps and accidental, and express
jobs upon the highway. In the employ
ment of both horses and oxen, there is an
opportunity not only to use the animals
best fitted for the work in hand, but also
to favor the natural prejudices of work
men. The oldcountry lad, though un-
used to oxen, may distinguish himself
with horse and cart, while a good OK
driver is half thrown away on horse
team.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
WHOLE No. 675.
A Medium Exposed.

Prof. S. w. Caldwell and Laura V.
Ellis, the child medium, little girl of 10,
have been exhibiting in Western Mass. q
series of "wonderful physical manifesto
tions," after the style of the Davenport
Brothers. Some of the tricks were very
clever. The medium was securely fasten.
ed with strips of cotton cloth to a seat in
small cabinet. While thus tied nunler,
Gus teats were performed, such as tying
and untyins a strip Of cloth around her
neck or waist; taking ring and placing
it on any of her fingers, or in her mouth
or ear A bell placed in the mediums
lap was rung; drum played upon with a
drumstlck, and then with fingers, and the
sides OF the cabinet were vigorously
pounded with stick. A voice, quite like
the mediums, only trihe heavier, was
heard in the cabinet when the door was
closed, which professed to belong to the
spirit Of one "Blake," who, when on
earth, was soldier, and "got shotted' at
Il.
harrington, however, according to the
Berkshire Courier, the committee, in ex.
amlning the chi'ds fastening, rabbed some
lamplack upon her fingers, and when the
strip was next manipulated by the sup
posed spirit, blackened finger marks were
distinctly visible. One of the committee
also heard the child say, in lowt tone to her
father, when an experiment with ring
failed: Father, couldn't make it stay
in my ear; it dropped out" The ex-
planation Of the tricks performed by Ellis
is said to be very simple, the whole secret
lyivg in slipping the arm a little way into
the bandages, instead Of Withdrawing the
hands from them, as would at first he
supposed necessary, and any slender boy
or girl can easily learn it,
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
IRELAND.

Must that green Isle beyond the sea,
Forever wear the CALLING chain
Shalt Ireland never more be free.
10 pour her eloqnence again!
In ter own parliamentary hall.
Her senate chamber of debate.
Her noble sires must mourn her fall:
Her patriot sons lament her fate!
Must native genius fade and die,
Eeneath the oppressor's wrathf,ll iret
NO patriot voices cleave the sky,
To Ill the soul with sacred Gre?
On her own bosom ne'er repose
Her generous, gifted, mighty ones:
Buf weep her wrongs. and tell her woes
In Other lands, meath other suns.
Forbid 1t, Heaveni It must not be:
Let peace her downy pinions spread,
ana lar across the heaving sea,
On Erin's shores her blessings shed,
weep with those who weep her thrall,
MY ruined countryr' Hark! the cry;
Oppr Assion hastens to its fall,
And her redemption draweth nigh!
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
VOLUME XIII---NO, so.
An Indian Name.

<Ah AhuANsA ANOusVs
A lady taught for while in the mis-,
sion school of tho Delaware Indians in
Kansas.
"What is your name ?' she inquired,
the first morning Of little black. eyed,
dusky skinned urchin. ''Superfine Best
Quality Ketchum," he shouted, thinking
her a little deaf. "You must be mistaken:
that cart be your name?.' "It is ma am
true" And he looked as proud of it
as warrior might of his feathers and
paint. After school she pointed out the
little fellow, and asked the missionary his
name. "Superine Best Quality Ketch.
um" was the grave reply, and you may
be sure it was several days before her lips
became so accustomed to it that she could
speak the name without a very preccpti>
ble smile. And the funny part was that
he would never answer to anything less
than the whole. She afterwards found
out how it came to be given him. lie
was wonderful baby-so his parents
thought-and their whole Indian voca-
bulary, added to what they had learned OF
the English one by three years in school,
could not furnish name that would at all
compare with him. In this perplexity the
father one day brought home sack of
flour, on which was printed the word
"Super6ne.' They spelled it out, and
were so delighted with its sound that they
Immediately bestowed it upon the boy.
He grew up, and one day thirsty travel
er was riding by and asked for drink of
water. As he handed the cup back after
drinking, he said, "You are fine little fol-
low. What is your name?' "Superfne
Ketchum," he said, laughing. "Do you
know what it means "No, SIR" "Super-
fine means best quality, and that's the
kind of boy you must be-" Superine
ran into the house and told his parents,
and Best Quality was added to his name.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. Is

A remarkable rise in the Mississippi
river has occurred, caused by long con-
tinued and unusually heavy rains. A
boom above the dams broke yesterday
forenoon, and one and half million feet
of logs ran over the Falls, sweeping off
the light flush boards of the temporary
horse dam which holds the volume of the
Mississippi back from the improvement
works. The dam is uninjured. The
Minnesota river, emptying below here
into the Mississippi, is reported as up 8
feet, and $4,000 tons of hay swamped.
The rain storm has continued four days,
and has done great damage to grain. The
damage in St. Croix county alone is esti-
mated at Sl5O,0OO.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

Peter Poulston was killed last week, at
Perkins Station, Mo-, by the falling ofa
two hundred pound weight used at the
water tank, directly upon his head, dis-
tance of eighteen feet. He had barely
time to say: "My God! I'm dead DO you
think I'll have time to write a lotter !"
when he expired.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
A steamboat on the Mississippi paes'

A steamboat on the Mississippi passed
drowning man. The unfortunate man
struggled, splashcd, aoundered and
screamed for dear life in the water. The
pilot of the steamboat yelled to him to
"stand upl'' He did SO, and found the
water scarcely knee deep. A more foolish,
sheepish appearing fellow than he, as the
ladies and gentlemen On the boat screamed
with laughter at the ludicrous scens, Il
weuld BE hard to meet.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

Asa schoolmaster was employed the
| other day in Scotland in his delightful
task" of teaching sharp urchin to ciph-
er on slate, the precocious pupil put the
following question to his instructor
"Wcre dis a the figures gang till when
they're ruppit out ?"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

Matthias w. Baldwin, Of Philadelphia
a member Of the Presbyterian church,
during the last five years of his htc mas
built church every year at his own ex-
pense. 1t is estimated that ne has spent
Sl5 OOO in this way.