North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-02-24
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week wearing choice Of names out OF
five. She remarked before leaving the
Court roora.. ..Ex-Gov. now u. s. Senator
Fenton of New York, is called on by the
N. Y. Post, to clear up the charges against
him or resign. It is said Fenton is
charged with stealing aud conviction o.
it when % years younger, than now. By
the reports of radical papers against their
own members this can be no disqualified.
ton in modern Congressional bodies. :. :.
"Mary, do you say your prayers morning
and EVENING" "No, Miss, don't.''
"Why, are you not afraid to 60 to sleep
in the dark without asking God to take
care of you until the morning?' "No,
Miss, l amt afraid, cause sleep in the
middle. new London theatre, at
the opening recently, gave each lady in
the audieace scented fan, on which the
programme was printed. Speaking Of
theatres reminds us of the wag who said
'the ballet-girls in 'Undine' and the Black
Crook make bare living. The Inua-
guration Ball on the evening of Thursday,
March 4th, is to be negro-less. The man
and brother and the sable sisters not being
allowed to attend.
Major HERMAN 1920 pounds weight
has ordered velocipede. So insinuates
the West Union. We would like to see
the trial trip from his..house down to Wau-
dena village...... Employment so certainly
produces cheerfulness,' says Bishop Hall,
shat | have known a man come home in
big spirits from funeral, because he had
the management Of it."......The Raiah of
Jeyporc has 1000 wives. ..Beecher says
nine pins is an evangelical game.... New
York wants to abolish the May anniversa-
'ries...... Thanksgiving Day was observed
in Shanghai. ...Phrenologist Fowler has
been lecturing in Chicago. .....The Mora
Vans have been in Greenland 1876 years.
.........A railroad was sold in Texas the
other day for $500 $500. Boston is nearly
seven miles long from northeast to south
west. ....Inauguration prayer meetings are
proposed for the 9TH of March,. ..... One
county in California raised "a 900 bushels
of castor beans last year.
. 1t is said that one hundred Office seekers
have gone to Washington from this state.
.........An Ohio lady, OF no "prejudices,"
has lately sued negro for seduction un-
der promise of marriage. Away with
s'caste !''..... 1t is claimed that Macmillan
was restored Ly the monks to whom the
body was given for burial. A Frenchman.
recently returned frem Mexico asserts this
to be true.......We have rumor. on the
street that the McGregor and Sioux City
Railroad Co. has relinquished the FIVE per
cent. tax voted by Chickasaw township
last summer. The Company, as reported
to us, find it impracticable to comply with
the conditions upon which the tax was
voted. If we were a Chickasaw farmer.
thi ,release,-if it be certainty,-would
enable us to draw long breath now and
then, even if wheat is down to so cents
New Hampton Corie,...... .Marseilles cigar
makers have ceased their active demon
STATIONS, but, with woman's ingenuity,
they continue the warfare secretly. They
make the cigars SO bad that they cannot
be smoked. ........ The Prussian coal mines
yield one hundred and five million tons
year, and give employment to 278, 900 peo-
Pile. 4t4
There has been shipp ed from the Austin
station, during the present season commenc-
ing August LIST, 1868, the round number
Of lGS,S92 bushels of wheat, including
Jour reduced to wheat. There were &c.
SAB bushels shipped in January against
1913 bushels shipped during the same
month last year.--Austin Democrat. :. :.
Glasgow thinks it has the tallest chimney
in the world, and it must be admitted that
$50 feet is pretty well up......Mr. Burlin-
games credentials to the French court
were five feet long and covered all over
with five clawed. dragons. .....A new law
in Indiana provides that in any district
where the parents or guardians of twenty
Eve children shall request it, the study of
German shall be introduced into the pub
lie schools......Ann Swami, the giantess,
in yellow dress and black velvet cloak,
swept majestically down Broadway, New
York, recently, looking in at the second
story windows, much to the Consideration
Of all the men and women on the street.
...Some one in Ohio wants to make
velocipede to run on one rail of a railroad,
ard thinks it can be propelled at the rate
Of hundred miles an hour.
A general term of Court for this Dis
trict will be held at McGresor on the 10th
Of March. The District and Circuit
Judges will sit together, and hear appeals.
from either the District or Circuit Courts.
Two terms are held annually. The am
nesty petition which will he presented by
the Lord Mayor of Dublin contains over
one hundred thousand signatures. Patti
is in st. Petersburg. Mrs. Jefferson
Davis is i'll Paris, sick......The new river
tunnel at Chicago leaks..... Gray hairs sell
for cent piece in New York.. The
Kansas Senate defeated proposition to
amend the Constitution by striking out
the word "white,'. by vote of IA to II.
......A 500 feet memorial has reached con-
yress. 1t contains the names Of q 900
persons asking change in the naturali>
sation laws......A, serious revolution is in
progress in Bolivia. -. Indiana is selling