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North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17

Inc taIue OF one vOtcs
The Winterset Iowa) Sun tells the fol-
lowing anecdote Of "old political times"
in that county: a
A good many years ago, when Colonel
Houk and A. D. Jones were candidates
for the Office Of County Treasurer of
Madison county, the election resulted in q
tie. Two straws were prepared, and an
old>fashioned drawing cuts" was per-
formed to see who should get the Office.
Colonel Houk was the lucky man, drew
the longest straw and became Treasurer.
On the day of election, one of Mr.. Jones'
adherents in the north part of the county
concluded that a gallon or SO of straight
whisky would aid in increasing the vote
of his chief in the precinct. Accordingly,
he mounted messenger in hot haste, and
started him to Winterset. The messenger,
expecting to be back in an hour, neglected
to vote before starting. Arriving at
Winterset, he invested in gallon of
"tangle FOOT to take to the North river
voter, and soaked his own skin with a
body full for personal use. He drank to
A. d. Jones, his candidate, to the ticket,
to the party, to the nominees, to every
body else, and after he had drank, retired
to the sunny side of building to dream
of success. At sunset he awoke, bestrode
his steed and started for home. Arriving
there he found the polls closed, missed his
vote and lost Mr.. Jones the election.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17
The N. Y. Sunday Times, in answering
correspondents, gives the following:
Information.

The N. Y. Sunday Times, in answering
correspondent, gives the following:
Information.
"What was the original name of the
Indians that inhabited this island ?
Where did the name Man -a.hatta origi-
nate, and what was the characteristics OF
the Man-hat>tants? Were they generous,
noble, and open-hearted, or treaeherous
Do not confound the names. They are
the Man haitian" We do not preceive
what special object you have in discrimi-
mating between Manahatta and Manahatt>
an. This island, according to Talentine's IS
History of New York." was originally
inhabited by the "Manahattans;" the
"Pachamies," the "Tankiteks," and the
"Wickqueskeeks," occupying the country
on the east side Of the Hudson river.
south of the Highlands; the "Hacking.
Sacks" and the "Raritans'" on the west
side of the river and the Jersey shore; the
"Canarsees," the "Rockways," the "Mer'
rikokes," the "Marsapeagues," the "Mat-
tinecocks," the 'Nissaquages," the "Cor.
chaugs," the "Secataugs," and the "Shine'
cocks" on Long Island. According to
Miss Booths "History of New York, -
the original inhabitants Of this island
were q tribe Of dusky Indians-an off
shoot from the great nation Of the Lenni
Lenape, who inhabited the vast territory
bounded by the Penobscott and Potomac,
the Atlantic and Mississippi. ''The na-
tive Manhattans belonged to that well.
known race of North American Indians,
the manners and customs of which have
been madc too familiar by repeated de-
scriptions to require detailed notice at
our hands. They were the same in out
line among all the tribes; the chief differ
ence lay in the individual character, and
in this there was q marked distinction.
One tribe Vas peaceful and gentle; an
other, fierce and war'like; third, treach-
erous and cunning. The natives Of the
island of Manhattan were distinguished
for their ferocity, in contrast with their
peaceful brcthcrn Of the neighboriug
shores"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17
VOLUME XIV---NO. 6.

we to proportionately elevate, in social
way, every one whose amplitude settles
downward scale counterbalaneed by four
or more ffty>sixesf That is the question.
The leaner . person is the greater
alacrity in sinking he or she exhibits in
water. Fat always floats, cork-fashion.
Is this the reason why sebaceous men
have recently come so prominently to the
surface, and seem to bob up in every d.
rection at our elbows TO realize the pleas
ant distinction which, it is obvious, they
had no idea before that they we're entitled
to7 As we belong to the adipose category
ourselves, we make no objection to the
novelty. Massiveness Of proportion,
when il synonyms with aagnitude Of
mind, is certainly creditable. When
physical era ggeration signifies mental ex-
oellsnce, it is worthy Of sncominnl.
When sclidity Of tissue goes hand in hand
with soundness of Judgment, the more we
may hold ii estimable. We say "when,"
for fat people are sometimes very stupid
ones, and the wit of Falstaff does not al
ways belong to men Of his weight. At
any rate, it must be a comfort to the
oleagenously inclined, (at leastwe so COM
emplate it,) to recognize the change that
is creeping over the common mind in
respect of human obesity. The world
used to laugh at corpulence. There has
long been decided prejudice against it.
In England, the word "fat," as applied
to humanity, is completely tabooed, and
"stout'' is the term employed by polite
ness in preference. In this country we
are not quite so delicate; though we con-
stantly use the word "plump' instead Of
"fat' when we allude to a woman, just
as the French compromise an embonpoint
as an appropriate expression, in feminine
cases, for physical voluminousness. If,
therefore, the Fat Mems Club and the
Fat Mems Picnics, Fat Mems Banquets,
&c., as well as the Aattering comments Of
the press upon unctuosity in that shape
generally, help to obliterate this ancient
prejudice, We shall not repine that
progress has, in the current age accom>
plished something nearly akin to a mira~
Gle -Erch.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17
Literature in Oree6n.. !.

Literature in Oregon. - y III
IS Under the above head the Examiner
prints the following good thing from
Yamhill county-the cradle of genius
the mother Of big web-feet-the place
where Deadly, Mcbride, Scott, Jasper
johnson, Logan, Woods, etc., got their
start. Of course its "goak," but good
one: Tr
"That the fame of number of cele-
brated Poets has not extended to certain
sections of Oregon, is illustrated by the
following incident: > f,s v.
Pierpont Thayer, the popular reader,
and actor, while on recent trip through
the valley towns, generally forwarded
his programmes, SO they could be distrf-
buted day or two before his arrival-the
programmes being made up of selections
from the poets, and opposite the pieces
selected, was printed the authors name.
On his arrival at certain Yamhill
country town he was met by the landlord
of the hotel and a prominent official,
and addressed as follows: well, Thayer,
we are prepared for you-everything is
ready-fne hall-good accommodations,
etc. But, ! say where is the rest of the
Company Thayer replied that he con.
stituted the entire Company. WELL said
the official, I'VE are not to be fooled this
way; here's your bill and the Company
named, and we either want the entire
show, or our money lhaving sold good
many tickets), must be returned Tbayer
tried to convince the party that there
must be some mistake--but in vain. He
was told that he must either produce the
balance of the Company, Longfellow,
Macaulay, Pope, Holmes, Reed, Mrs.
Norton, Mrs. Hemans, ETC., or no other
show would be allowed. .'--.State Right,
Oregon.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17

Brigham Young, Jr., who WAS in Mas
sachusetts few weeks since, has been sim
terviewed." He said, among other spicy
things, that the Mormon authorities think
strongly Of sending missionaries down to
Massachusetts, to convert the $4,000
women who have no chance to marry
lie thinks they would set husbands and
children speedily among the Saints.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17
II lrTTIE WIFE.
DYDAvID WINGATB.

Nv little wife ofssn around the church hill,
Swset littls dear little, neat footed Jane,
Walked slowly, and lonely, and thoughtful, until
The afternoon bell chmed its call DER the plain
And nothing seemed swsetsr -
TO me than to meet her,
And tall her what weather twas likely to be,
NY heart the while glowing, ~ ~ ~
The selfish wish growing
That oil her affections were centred In ne.
NY life once ctis strange, bat yet Il - trusJ
Sweet little, dear littls lovetrcubled Jane,
30 deeply absorbed In her daydrsaming grew,
The bell chimed ana ceased, theuEh she heard not
it, strain;
And /, walking near her,
(May leve ever cheer her
Who thinks ali such wandering Of SIN void and heeD
sse Strove hard to persuadc her
That Ne who had made her
Had destined her hear t-iovc FOR no one but mo.
~ lietle wiie-well, perhaps this was wrong
9WQet little, dear little, warm.hearted Jane,
09tva the hillside till her shadow grew long.
Nor tired of the Preacher that thus could detain.
argusd - nsatly,
Andpeoget Cd completelv,
TINT uone but poor y ndrew her husband c1uld be,
She smiled when blessed her,
~ And blushed whom kissed her,
Ao4 owned that she loved and would wed none but
ne.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17
The New Baby...A Boys Soliloquy.

Yes, there's another Of 'em up stairs
now. l knowed it cause papa told me l
must be quiet, and sit down in the corner
with my books, and mustn't play ball nor
ask Willie Smart to come in and help me
put my new puzzle together. Then there's
a cross nurse that's always scolding me
for getting in her way, no matter where
get. Besides, Miss Gadall was here to-
day, and she took me on her knee, patted
sson ths back just like the cook does
when I'm choking, and said my nose was
another degree out Of joint; but knew
better, for this is the third time she has
told me so, and it is no more out Of joint
than it ever was. She's hateful, goggles
eyed old maid-that's what she is.
l saw, too. It's got little, round, red
head, without any hair, with great, deep
wrinkles instead Of eyes, and when it
cries it "opens its mouth as though it
meant to swallow itself. Pa helped me
upon the side Of the bed, and told me to
kiss my dear pretty little sister; and when
l wouldn't and called it horrid, ugly
little thing he said l was naughty boy,
and then nurse shook me, and said ought
to be ashamed. didn't get to kiss my
ma at all. knew better than to try it,
for once, when another baby came, !
climbed up on the bed, and, putting my
arms around her neck, hugged and kissed
her; but all the time had my right knee
on the baby's head SO l was whipped,
and put in my crib without any supper,
because didn't know it was there.
Little Annie thinks its nice to have q
new sister, but she was the baby before
and don't know anything about it. can
remember long, long ago, ma used to call
me her "sweet little darling" and pa
dandled me on his foot, and said was q
slime fellow" and aunt Julia declared that
was q perfect little angcl;'' but then
Tom came, and all my pretty toys were
given to him cause he was the baby, and
! was eoiEsd and scolded by everybody
'cept grandma, and she's good to me yet,
though there's been two other new ones
since.
wonder where all these babies come
from: Ma says the Lord sends them.
wish he wouldn't send any more to oul
house; we've got morn snea9h now. !,
might be nice for them if they could stay
little always, but they have to crow big
after : while, but then they amt no bet
tee O6 than the rest Of folks. rather
think if was baby I'd ask the Lord tt
send me where I'd not grow any bigger
and then I'd have nothing to do but to liz
on my back, and chew my toes, and have
folks say l was the "darlingest, cunning
lest little creature they ever laid eyes on :
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17
Anecdotes Of George Peabody.

rEoH1 tue Ooston transcript. Z
AS further and better illustration of
his life and character, we append men,
oranda, gathered from various sources, Of
traits and anecdotes. The first money Mr..
Peabody earned outside of the small pitt
tance he received as clerk, was for
writing ballots for the Federal party in
Newburyport. This was before the day
of printed votes. Our esteemed fellow
citizen, James Read, was the first mer~
chant who gave George Peabody credit.
The purchase was for thousand dollars,
half of it on credit. The amount was
promptly paid, and the transaction led to
q long business relation and life>long
friendship. MIR. Peabody did not bestsw
many gifts to relieve individual poverty or
distress. lie thought that much of the
money thus contributed only tended to
increase the evil it sought to alleviate.
Mr.. Peabody was beautiful penman.
His letters were usually brief and very
much to the point. Mr.. Peabody was
strongly opposed to fraud in little matters.
The conductor on an English railway once
overcharged him shilling for fare. He
made complaint to the directors, and had
the man discharged. ''Not,' said he,
'that / could not afford to pay the shil-
! ling, but the man was cheating many
travellers to whom the swindle would be
oppressiye.' When Mr.. Peabody first
resided in London, he lived very frugally,
taking breakfast at his lodgings and din~
ing at club house. His personal expen-
ses for ten years did not average f600 per
annum. The toast Mr.. Peabody sent to
the Danvers celebration, in 1852, was
''Education-a debt due from the present
to future generations Mr.. Peabody
was good talker; at the table few men
were his equals. His idea of pleasant
dinner party was, where there was a
great deal of talk and he could take the
lead in conversation. The favorite games
of MIR. Peabody were backgammon after
dinner, and whist in the evening. He
was as fond of the latter, and as rigorous q
player as Charles lambs friend, Sarah
Battle, who neither gave nor took quarter.
About a quarter of a century ago, Mr..
Peabody was so pleased with an American
lady visiting London that he offered her
his hand and fortune, which were accept
ed. Learning short time afterward that
she was already engaged, fact Of which
she kept him in ignorance, he rebuked
her for her lack Of sincerity and broke off
the engagement. Letters by the hundred
were daily received by Mr.. Peabody of
late years. They were first looked over
by a secretary and only few ever
reached the eyes of the great banker. He
received one of SO foslscap pages from q
decayed English gentleman, who solicited
a loan Of q few thousand pounds to estab-
lish the claims Of his family to an estate.
Mr.. P. wrote in reply substantially this /:
''That you should have written such a
letter, would surprise your friends; that l
should have read it, would indeed surprise
mine." Chief Justice Shaw paid Mr..
Peabody the compliment of remarking
that business document written by him
was one of the ciearest and most compre'
hensive papers that had ever been pre-.
sented to the Supreme Court.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17
WHOLE No. 683.
More Mongrclism.


A scribbler for one of the Chicago
Radical dailies in commenting upon the
recent judicial election in California, in
which the Democracy carried eleven of
the fourteen judges, says that the State
has gone Democratic for the last time, as
the adoption of the 18th amendment will
admit the fifty thousand Cinnamon to the
ballot-box, and they will nearly all vote
the Republican ticket. # y
We do not often see more base propo-
sition. California, governing herself. and
desiring to maintain her civilization,
excludes that semi i-barbarous population
from the ballot. box.
Radical politicians, anxious for Office
and careless of the means used for OBJ
tanning it, propose that New England,
Iowa and the coerced states of the South,
shall say who is to vote in California, and
thus admit to the franchise enough of
ignorance and barbarism to control the
coveted Offices
The idea is simply monstrous. The
hundred thousand Cinnamon who swarm
like locusts over the Pacific states ore all
idolaters. They have built there their
temples and filled them with their grotes-
que gods. Are they to go, fresh from,
sacrifice to their moon-eyed deities and
kill the ballots of men whose lips are wet
with the Christian sacrament?
They are more obstinate pagans than
are the fetishworshippers, for the reason
that their idoltry has literature older
than our letters, and is system that has
been refined with all the subtlety that the
most acute minds in all ages Of their his
tory could bring to bear upon it. 1t is q
system of religion that, brought face to
face with ours, holds its ground stubborn.
ly in the minds of its devotees to whom
Josh is an older god than Jehovah is to
US.
Admitting these people to political
privilege equal to ours, is an admission
that the teachings of Christianity have
produced no excellence that is worthy Of
reward. 1t is admitting that Christ and
Gotama Buddha stand upon the same
level, and that Paul and the Apostles are
no more worthy of regard than Confucius
and the yellow gowned Ministers to the
Grand Lama.
This will be manifest when it il
remembered that the excellence of ou,
civilization aud the freedom we enjoy, tn.
virtue of our homes, the love Of truth ",
have learned, our charity for the poor, ,ant
our tenderness for the weak are claimed
and justly claimed, as the fruits of Chris
tian precept.
This granted, let US ask, are q peopl
who bent their necks to this light yske
and their backs to this easy burden, who's
feet from the cradle to the grave ar
guided by the star Of Bethlehem, are the
to obtain only the poor reward of classif
cation and equality with the half make
and yermin eating idolaters?
Could our voice be heard in the State
that are to vote for this monstrous surreu
der, this abandonment of battle betweel
two forces in religion and morals tha
have faced each other in the field of tn
world since the hour that Abraham ceas
ed worshipping the idols carved in hi
fat. er's workshop; we would implere then
to halt in their fanatical march to des
truction.-Jno. p. hisAs Ioua Stat
Press.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17

"Where is Europe compared with
America 2" said Fourth of July orator,
WHARF is England +? Nowhare !
They call England the mistress of the sea,
but who makes the sea? The Mississippi
makes it, and all we've got to do is turn
tho Mississippi into the Mammouth cave,
and the English navy will be aosnderins
in the mud -
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17
FRANK DRo1HIHR,


Or. ]. HUNT late of Syracuse. New York. re-
spectfuy informs the people Of McGregor and vicin-
ly that he has opened an Ofiae in Church Eidweis
block where his sons have their Dentistry Establish.
meut DR.. HUNT Is an old practitioner. He can be
found day and night at his office except when profess
sionallv absent. All who wish 10 be treated upon
PURE Homeopathic principles will please call him
All Female or Chronic diseases sefully
McGreSor, Iowa, Jund 22d, 1862 682tf
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17

Mamma" said precocious little boy
who, against his will was made to rock the
cradle Of his baby brother, "If the Lord
has any more babies to give away don't
you take EN-
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17
Capt. Mckinney, of the Chatfield
Democrat, gets off the following:

Capt. Mckinney, Of the Chatfi ED
Democrat, gets off the following:
To be, or not to be. Yes, that is the
question. To sink or swim-survive or
perish-to freeze for the want Of wood-to
go without milk and butter for the want
of hay for the sold bossee''-to give up
the ghost and 60 hence without being
fully prepared, is question to be settled
by those who are indebted to US. There
fore let this warning be like the cry of
'fre ~ and have the same effect upon
good men knowing themselves indebted to
the Chatfeld Democrat. Make one grand
rush upon us with ''stamps" in hand, if
for nothing more than to experience the
truth of the poets lines,
"How happy are they,
Who the printer doth pay;,'
and to witness the pleasant effect it will
have upon your humble servants. We
have always taken much pleasure in ma
king others happy. 1t is a glorious feel
ing, and we hope our kind and generous
patrons will try to realize it, in making US
the "party of the second part" and
"your petitioner will ever pray etc. Oul
Office hours are from 6 in the morning
until p. m, where we can always b
found, or in the immediate vicinity pick
| ing up chips or stealing bark from tn
neighherins fences to keep us warm.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17

GEooRApuY.-It was in Worcester,
Massachusetts, that the class in Geography
were called ON for recitation "What is =
cataract p One bad boy, an incipient
fireman, answered "An injine, Eve run
with her lots of times"
Next "What's strait ~ Class looked
blank. excepting one small boy, far down,
who said he could tell. Tho schoolma' am
hopefully told him to proceeded 1T beats
two pair -
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17

A farmer saw an advertised receipt to
prevent wells and cisterns from freezing.
lie sent his money and received in an
swer: "Take in your well or cistern on
cold nights, aud keep it by the fre."
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17
How q Prentice Makes his Jokes.

Mr.. Prentices forte as an editor, con.
sists in his wit and sarcasm. At his table,
with his spare notes and rapid amanu
ensis before him, he pulls forth strings of
witty sayings from his brain as magician
pulls forth coils Of silken ribbons from
hat. Whenever point suggests itself, he
will jot it down, no matter where he is or
what accommodations for jotting down
are at hand. lie generally has pencil
and slip Of paper, sometimes only the
debris of an old envelope about him, but
for a desk he will with equal readiness
make use Of his hat, or dead wall, or
lamp post. The note, consisting probably
of only word, is than consigned to ap-
parent oblivion in the depths Of a pocket
or the inside of his hat, to be brought
out only by chance among the number
Of boon companions in the same place.
When he feels inclined to wit, he takes
from receptacles where he has placed his
more fortunate notes, thick slips Of tiny
manuscripts, with bare suggestions of
Joke. On these he commences process
of incubation that is quite as rapid as that
of the famous hen-persuader. lie dictates
in q slow and serious manner, with his
eyes fixed alternately on his own little
slip of paper, and on the ceiling, punc'
tuating as he goes, never stopping to sup
ply word or two to embellish figure,
but straight on rs fuently rs Wendell
Phillips or Susan B. Anthony answers
retort. His conversational powers, strange
ly enough, are very deficient. He be-
comes painfully dull and awkward when
brought into brilliant company. Intro
duce him to noted wit, and although he
may laugh at the jokes of his new acquain-
tance, the laugh is partially forced, and
his replies, if he attempts any, are irrele-
want and pointless. lie is shy Of making
any attempt at wit and humor. and seems
strongly inclined to discountenance such
an attempt on the part Of another. His
wit is apparent only in the columns Of
newspaper, for it requires to be praned
and finished before it is presentable. He
does not say things that are bright, but he
thinks and writes a great many.
- s>.------
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-17
A GIANr EsrERpRIsE.-The Sutro T,

A GIANT ENrERPRIsE.-The SutrO Tun.
mel project is either magnificent scheme
for making fortunes for many men, or for
only one man. A Nevada mountain is
believed by miners to contain over $780,
OOO, 900 worth of silver, and there are not
wanting geologists who stand ready to
confirm the opinion. The veins, however,
run through the centre, rather than along
the surface. Mr.. Adolph Sutro proposes
to tunnel the mountain in order to relieve
it of its wealth. He asked Congress to
loan him $40, 900, 600 for the purpose, but
that body very properly refused. lie now
proposes an extensive cooperative scheme,
which is for 5000 miners to contribute 33
cents per day to carry out the project
This would give him fund of $3.50, 900
per annum, insuring the construction Of
the tunue!. Congress has already granted
the Sutro Tunnel Company the right to
all mines it may open. The fund could
be easily made up on the plan proposed
by Mr.. Sutro, and the miners never miss
it. His scheme has much to commend it.