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North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14
SOLUTION. friend, who halls from

SoLuTloN.-A friend, who halls frou,
Luana, and signs "One Of the Macs" fails
in his solution of the land question in our
last issue. Putting $40 as the average
price, and then deducting and adding Is
cents will never do. Ills near enough
practically to deduct and t, add the halt
difference from the ha!f sum, but bv no
means the wAolc difference. For instance:
Two acres cost $3.50, the difference is IS,
half the sum Of two acres is SD half
the difference sale: add and substract
and you have $2.77l, and S2.O2g as the
respective prices of A. and Is. If each
pay $500, you will find A. has los and a
fraction, Il. l4S and fraction, making
the land equal to two hundred and Fifty
six acres and about quarter an excess
Of CT acres You start off with an Alge-
braic formula, but you desert it imme-
diately and fall into error. IrS3.l5 (24Ox
75) is AS price, and Sl65 (24O-75) is
BIS, the difference per acre is $3.50; and
the sums paid by each are S393.75 and
S206.35; and not $500 each, as required by
the question \! Do you see, "Mac?' This
question gave the writer trouble as far
back as 1886. 1t is not soft one by any
means. Try it again.
Your "Hippopotamus' is correct, as you
will see in another column. Your mer-
camille (horse) answer is just wrong: the
prices are not 100, 100. and los dollars.
If A. paid Sl25 for horse, and sold him
to B. at 25 per cent. loss, he lost one fourth
of the purchase money and hence realized
only $3.50; d. sold at 90 per cent profit
(which is onc>fifth Of his purchase money!
making Sll2.5O; c. sold to d. at loss of
10 per cent, which is deduction. of ono.
tenth from C.'s purchase, and equals
Sl0l.25. Figure this backwards, and fep-
wards and you will find il correct. Take
4 and add one-foursh }. or % per cent, and
you make 5-deduct onc-flth or 90 per
cent, ond you get back to again, and SO
all through fractions. Buy horse at 500,
and sell at % per cent and you have Sl25.
Sell at % per cent loss, and you lose one
fourth Of your purchase money.
In another part of the paper you will
see how to solve enigmas. Charades arc
made up of syllables, each independent of
tho other, but making one word as, for
instance "Night-fall, Dew,drop, Bulldog,
Sweet-cake," &c., &c.
We are back in life to the days OF
schoolmasterism, the happiest we ever
spent, but the present rushing, surging
times will not allow us to dwell on sub
jects SO generally uninteresting as
Daboll, Pike, Murray's Grammar, Web
sters Spelling Book and Davies Algebra.
We think, however, that politics, religious
aifectation, wrangling for spoils and black
guard reports of city social filth could
well be thrown out of newspapers, and
the space be occupied by pleasantly written
schoolmaster instruction.
Send in your Puzzles, with the answers.
We do not always have time to work them
out, and there are mary VIII ich we cannot
handle.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14
9herif's Sale.
STATE OF IOWA, CLAYTON COUNTY-ss.
In lisfricf Court of said No,,nA,,

BY virtue Of an execution in and from the Office of
the Clerk OF the District Court of said county in
favor OF Il. +. Hardwick, plaintiff, and against
Philip Ryan, defe ndant, dated March Goth 1863 and
to me directed, commanding that of the goods
and chattles. and for want, then of tn. lands and
tencments of the said Philip Ryan, to make or cause
to be made, the sum of seventy dollars with
upon the following real estate, to.wir: the north
east quarter Of the southwest quarter and the west
half of the southeast quarter section No. ten (Ol
west of the 18TH principal meredian; and hereby
give public notice, that will offer the for sale
at public auction, In front of the shers Office in tn
city Of McGregor in said county, on tho THIRD DAY
OF NAY said sale to dominance at the hour of tel
O'Clock A. NJ OF saiA day and will sell 10 he high.
and best bidder therefor, in cash. the above de-
scribed property. or sufficient thereof TO satisfy the
above debt with interest and costs that have or NAV
acruc.
JAMES DAVIS,
tw6al Sheriff Of Clayton County, Iowa.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14

The Beaver.
The Chippewa (Wis.) Times in late
issue talks of beavers performances as
follows. We have always taken great in
terest in the study Of natural history, and
if any of our readers lose their temper by
reading this notice of that strangest OF all
animals, called the Beaver, he can return
the TINES with what is due on subscription
and order receipt in full. We know the
Beaver ard his works, practically; we
think he knows more than modern men,
Der Of Congress. If let alone in the forests
of the northwest, he does not require any
legal agency in the way of reconstruction.
Much has been written and said cou-
corning the ingenuity and intelligence of
the Beaver. Perhaps, of all wild animals
OF an amphibious nature, none have more
attracted the attention Of man than has
the beaver. The skill he displays in the
construction of his habitatons; ave, the
intelligence, too exhibited in the building
OF dams, the telling of forests, and the
magnitude of the work which he accom-
plishes, are Of that character which almost
astounds us, and never fails to elicit our
admiration. While much has been said,
there is yet much to learn OF this animal,
if the naturalist would but visit his haunts
on the Thorn Apple and Flambeau. On
the Thorn Apple, last year, dam was
built by the beaver, in some places seven
feet in height, and which backed the wa
ter distance Of nearly twelve miles,
while near to the dam it spread to width
of about three miles. So complete were
the works that the water was entirely
stopped for about six weeks. 4 hay
meadow just below, where the lossers cut
great quantities of grass usually, suffered
SO much for water that the ground yawn-
ei with great seams, and the grass became
as crisp and dry as if just from the arms
Of cold, frosty, winters morning.
TN the Fiambeau can be found what
was forest OF from twenty to thirty acres,
the trees four to ten inshes in diameter,
all cut down by the beavers.
But we started to tell Of tree cut down
on the Thorn Apple the first of this win,
ter, by beaver. The top of the stump
was cut off and brought to this place on
Thursday of this week. 1t was a white
ash tree, measuring A inches i'm circum-
ference, and ID inches in diameter. Soft
wood trees of 40 inches have been cut,
but no hardwood trees of this size, within
the knowledge Of man, has ever been cut
by beaver.
Mr.. Withrow designs sending this por-
ton of the tree, which exhibits it size, cut.
or cravings OF the beaver, to the Chicago
museum, with some Of the chips that he
brought down. One Of the chips was four
inches long and an inch and a half wide,
by one inch in thickness at the center. 1t
is thin at each end but thickcns proper
tionately as you approach the middle
precisely similar (only reugher) to chip
thrown from tree from an upper and
lower cut of an ak.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14
Woman Suffrage,

woman Suffrage.
EDS. TINES The so-called Woman's
Suffrage question is becoming the order
OF the day, being tho only progressive
idea of Importance, now before the
American people. That the colorcd race is
so happily (?) disposed of in the greater
portion of the United States, and as its
agitation seems not to be abating, it is
time that tcomen should raise their voices
against this growing evil, which, if weak
men will allow to take form, will be a
monstrosity upon our social system.
1t is with feelings of humiliation that
we read of the Galena Convention, where
women met to show their weakness, dis.
playing their oratorical powers in
inuendoes against, and controversies with
the opposite sex. What else did it amount
to? 1t is also with feelings of the utmost
disgust that we read of the Boston female
prize fight. Are not the first principles
Of each convention" radically the same
Each challenging the admiration of their
friends for their particular talents the
one cultivated, gifted, and refined, the
other brutal and degraded to the lowest
degree; yet both stepping outside the
sphere in which wise Creator placed
them.
True womanhood ever receive. respect
from all who may chance to be within the
halo of her influence, and no man, how lowly
stepped in degradation, who will not honor
true woman in her proper sphere, but let
her step outside that sphere, and presume
to assume some of the responsibilities of
men, we shall lose the browning glory of
our womanhood, that chivalric respect
which is so literally lavishcd upon us,
that our weaker sexuality demands, and
of which we Americans are SO Justly
proud. Let us ponder this question in all
Its bearings and see which we shall choose:
whether we shall become voters and march
to the polls with manly brarado, cast our
votes for the exigencies of the times, and
lose the respect of those who honor us +? ("to
purify and enlighten manhood" the strong
minded tell us; or quietly stay at home as
we always have done, minding our own
business doing those duties which God
and nature have placed in our pathway,
and shaping the future of our great nation
in our mirds and hearts. Women, think
Out West, April 10. NJ.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14

A Resolution to Fill Main Street to
Grade.
BE it Resolved by the Common Council of the City
of McGregor,
That the owner or owners Of Lots or parts of all
Lots lying adjacent to Main Street. on each side
thereof from the South Line eff Lot Six in Block
Eight and Lot Fifteen in Block Thirteen in said CITY
to the South Line OF Lot Ten, in Block Ten and Lot
Eleven, In Block Eleven. in said city, be and they
are hereby required to Fill said Street to Grade The
owner or owners of each Lot part of Lot respec-
lively are rcqsired to fill IN front of such Lot to the
Middle OF sais Street. and in all the filing nd
grading to be done under the supervision Of the
street Committee. ard to be completed within Ninety
days after the passage of this resolution.
Passed and approved this 9TH day Of April, A. D.
1862
ID. BAUGH, Clerk. H.KENNEDY Mayor,
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14

A passenger going from Stamford to
New York on the cars last week fell asleep.
On arriving at the station II little below
Port Chester the brakeman shouted "Rye!'
Up sprang the sleeper with his fist in his
eyes rubbing them open,he replied: "No,
no (! I'll take Bourbon :"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14

proviso requiring, as a condition precedent
to Congressional representation, that those
States shall ratify the Fifteenth Tor suff
rage) amendment to the Constitution of
the United States..... There is a prospect
of difficulty between Spain and Great Bril-
tain, growing out of the acts of the Span
ish naval authorities of Cuba, in capturing
vessel in British waters at the Bahama
Islands, and in landing mariners upon
those islands to capture Cuban refugees.
The excitement ut Nassau and other Bri-
fish ports in that quarter is reported to be
intense.
Congress adjourned on Saturday and
will not rc-convene under the law until
December next. The extra session of the
Senate, called by the President, it IS be-
lieved, will not last longer than this week.
1t is known that large number of nomi-
nations, including the diplomatic and con-
sular are ready, and will be promptly
transmitted. The discussion of the recent
treaty concluded between Beverly John
son and the British foreign office will
probably be opened during the week but,
as it will take place in executive session,
the public, unless the injunction of secresy
is removed, will know little of the argus
ments pro and con. According to the pre-
sent views of the senator's, it will be re-
jected by an almost unanimous vote.
1t is reported that the Crow Indians have
burned their treaty with the government,
and will 80 on the war path. Hon. J.
r. Jones. Marshal of the northern dis
trict of III. under Lincoln's administration,
goes to Belgium as minister for this coun-
try......Spain is preparing large fleet of
gun boats for the protection of Cuba. Ten
are expected soon. and contracts for build
ing thirty more are reported to have been
made in the United States.
}. L. Motley has been appointed minis
ter to England; and A G. Curtin, minister
to Russia....."..O. A. Hudson, negro of
this state, represents this country at Guat-
alnala and Z. d. Bassctt, also negro, Of
Penn, is consul general to Hayti... Fred.
Douglass, more than half white, wouldn't
be showed off to no back country to repre-
sent his native land, and like the funist,
when drafted, resigned. The republi-
can majority in Cincinnati was reduced
1000 in the recent election. lit is said
the Mexican government don't like our
minister, Gen. Rosccrans, and have asked
that he be withdrawn.........The Supreme
Court Of this State has decided the law of
the last general assembly, allowing cities
ond towns to levy tax for railroad pur>
poses, to be unconstitutional. VIM.
Lloyd Garrison comes out for free trade
......lIon. E. B. Washburne will sail for
France on May 1.-THE Rev. Robert j.
Breckenridge is dangerously ill at Dam
vile. ky......A man at Pittsburg, Pa, has
beard eight feet long. The Boston
Post speaks Of Drigham's ladies as "a So
ross on strict family basis". ...... Miss
kellogg charges $3.50 per night for sing>
ing, and, since her European tour, will
take payment only in gold.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14
ID I H d.:

At Monona, Iowa, on Friday morning. April 2nd
of Consumption, ANNIE, aged % years, wife Of DR.
IL. Sargent and daughter OF +. w. Sherman, of Mo-
mona.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14
Mew advertisements,
Notice to Mechanics.

The McGregor School Board having determined to
finish the new brick Scho Of House, sealed proposals
will be made at the Office of the Secretary, until the
Gath inst. at O'clock p. NJ, for the Carpenter
work. the Lathing and Plastcring, and the Painting.
each class OF work to be bid for separately.
Plans and specifications can le seen by calling on
the Secretary. Bonds and approved security will be
required Of each contractor.
d. BAUGiI Secretary McGrcgor School Board.
663W2
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14

L. Metzgar gives in exchange for butter,
eggs, and all other kinds Of produce, his
-. cent. prints, Too. 4wGaO.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14

The School Fund
Michael +. Duff, the clerk Of the Clayton
County Board Of Supervisors. furnishes
the Elkader Journal with the following
apportionment of School Funds, made re-
Gently by the Board in accordance with
section So, chap. l72, laws of 1862.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14

The Mississippi River-Its Importance.
The recent meeting at ST. Louis Of the
Grain dealers of that City, of New Orleans
and the lower-river points, has meaning
that must interest all who live on the
banks of the Great River. With double
track railway from St. Paul to St. Louis, or
to the place where steamboats, arc not
frozen out, we can have direct connection
with Europe at all times ria New Orleans.
Read the account below:
ST. Louis, April 9th.
Another large and very enthusiastic
meeting of business men was held at the
Southern Hotel last night to push the or
ganization of the st. Louis Grain Asso-
citation. Speeches still further setting
forth facts in connection with the Missis-
sippi route, its practicability and cheap
ness as an outlet to the sea for all the
products of the great valley, were made
by Lieutenant Governor Stanard, Mayor
Cole, Chauncey J. Filley and others. MIR.
Filley, in reply to IN article in the Chcar 20
Times casting doubt on his statement that
foreign goods can be laid down on the St.
Louis leyee as cheap as they can be brou hit
to New York, produced circulars from
prorHinent Liverpool house, quoting
frcights from November to February last
at eight to ten shillings to New York, and
five shillings to New Orleans. The differ
ence in the rates, it is stated, will bring
the freight from New Orleans to st. Louis.
Mr.. Filley further said, as a practical
proof of his assertion, that Burrel &
Terril, a very heavy queenswarc house of
Chicago, import their goods rio New
Orleans, because they can do it so much
cheaper than they can ria New York J.
III. Lucas, the wealthiest man in ST. Louis,
presided at the meeting, and made a
speech full of encouragement to the
enterprise, and announced his purpose to
subscribe literally to the project The
meeting was very spirited, and adjourned
to meet on Change daily until the first
$4,000 are subscribed, when the compa-
ny will be organized, Directors and officers
elected, and the plans of the Association
put into operation. T.. w. Fox predicted
that the capital employed by this company
would soon be increased to ten million
dollars, and that not only all the grain
points of the Mississippi. from st. Paul to
st. Louis, but the cotton ports of the
lower river and Liverpool, Manchester,
Birmingham, Sheffield and other English
and European manufacturing cities, would
be interested in it, as it would be at once
demonstrated that the great manufacturing
centers of England and the Continent can
procure cheaper bread from New Orleans
than from any other port in America, and
money will not be wanting to push this
enterprise to its fullest extent, and, through
it, an immense import trade will spring
into existence, and New Orleans and ST.
Louis will become what they ought to be,
the great receiving and distributing points
OF the Mississippi Valley.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14

The Colorado journals are out of paper,
in consequence Of snow blockade.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14
FOR SALE!

The Saloon opposite the Murray House. The en-
tire property, including ot saloon and building the
residence, barn and all the appnrcnances. There is
good well and all tho conyencnces for living and
doing business good title given. Enquire on the
premises of (4wG5l) JOHN MORONAY
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14

Forty barrels choice syrups at less than
Chicago prices, for cash.
D. II. IIAMLrN & Go.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14
REPLY TO Mr.. TOMPKINS,

shall not udd TO my report on clayton
Go. Agricultural Socicty's affairs for 1868
the item of $3.50, that he claims is due
from the Society to the Necs Co., un-
til have reason to believe it to be cor
rect claim. The Secretary's Book Of Re-
cords. under date of Dec. II, 1867, states,
among other orders, this "Order No. IL,
issued to the Ne,cs Co. for balance due on
printing account for the sum of -"
which sum was left blank. So much for
Mr.. Corlctt's record.
In 1868, Mr.. A. G. Rogers paid this Or
der No. II, and found it to be $lG.35.
This, of course, clears up everything due
the Ners Co. to the date of this Order. Mr..
Watkins tells me he has not hired the
Ners Co. to print for the Society in 1868.
Mr.. Tompkins also told me that they made
no char sc against the society for printing
done in the Meas during 1868; and, as no
bills have been presented by the Necs Co.,
l know Of no reason why should add to
the list Of Indebtedness Of the Society,
$3.50.
Mr.. Watkins says there is some money
due the News Co. on premiums awarded
them in 1868; and, also, that the society
has demand against them for advertise
ment of one page in the Premium Pam
phlets of the same year. Mr.. w. is ready
to settle with them any day they please !;
the difference being mere triae-no
S32.5 at all!
If Mr.. Tompkins wants any more "cor--
recting" done to my report, am ready to
give him fair hearing and if convinced
of any error, mistake, or omission in said
Report, l shall be ready to correct. be-
lieve it is substantially correct and reliable
as it is, and that it would be to the Credit
of the Ners to print it for the satisfaction
Of its readers. 1t would have been per-
fectly safe for the Ne,cs to have printed
my Report, over my own signature, whe.
Their correct or not; and Sentlemanly on
their part to have done so. Then they
could have expressed their dissent to any
or all of it, as they pleased could an
swer; and their readers could judge be-
tween us. Why, then, this stab in the
dark? Why this unmanly attack on me
by Mr.. Tompkins?
NORMAN HAMILTON.
P.S.-In looking over the Societys &C
counts for 1866, 1867, 1868. find that
the printing has amounted to SG74,0O; of
which the Ne,cs Co., and their predeccs-
sor, have had the largest part. And. that
during the same three years, the society
has (aside from the ''trotting') paid out
in all less than $1,000, for all its premiums.
This looks as though the society had paid
the printing Offices fair share of the pro-
fits: and that they should have little
patience SO long as the society is in debt,
and earnestly striving to pay the same.
Perhaps the members will compare the
above figures, and study out whether it is
in proper proportion-SG74,OO for adyer-
Using, 100000 for premiums, during
three years. N, II.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14
FOR SALE !!

Fine. Black Walnut POST OFFICE CASE con-
tanning 122 gass-faced boxes and Is drawers all
particulars enquire of c.. W. d. LATAROP
2wb5l Clermont, Iowa.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14
Society OF CLAYTON Co.

L. Mctzgar has got choice styles of
prints at l2i cents per yard, TOO. 4w
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14
A Peddler's Pack.

Rate per scholar, 90 cents.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14


Pacific Railroads have decided not to have
an excursion over their roads to the Pacific
the present season. More than four
inches of snow fell on Monday in central
Illinois......Bot houses have passed, and
the president signed, an important bill,
amending the judicial system of the Unit
ed States. 1t provides for nine new circuit
judges for the judicial districts, at a salary
of $1,000 a year, to he appointed by the
president, and be confirmed by the senate.
These judges arc to hold the term of court
now held by the assistant judges of the
supreme court. The bill further provides
for an additional associate justice Of the
supreme bench, and that any judge of any
court Of the United States who, having
held his commission as such at least ten
years, shall, thereafter, during the residue
of his natural life, receive the same salary
which was, by law, payable to him. $500.
The river and harbor bill has become a
law. 1t appropriates a2,OOO,OOO, for the
year ending June 30, 1870, to be expended
under the direction of the secretary of war.
Congress has put $2,OOO,Q00 into the
hands Of the President, to be used for the
purpose Of keeping peace on the plains
this summer......Thc Iowa delegation have
united in recommending ex-Congressman
Wilson, of that state, for the mission to
/ England; but that gentleman declines to
be, considered a candidate for the position
.........Tbe census bill provides for taking
the next census in June, and includes a
tab;c.of divorces. lit is ststcd chat Gen.
Halfeck will resign BIS rank in: tho army
-. Congress has passed, and the Presi.
dent approved, the. bill ro.csnstructing
Mississippi, yirginia, and Texas, with a