North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

"on winters night, when the moon rhone bright,
Ana the snow was crusted Ger, 80
slid from hill down lower,
Ere We reachesi the place (like horse on a race)
Oar swift-gliding sled careened, IS
And with .resses fair, streaming back on the air,
Sweet Nelly went eend over eend.'
News and Items. z M
Eggs are worth so cents dozen in Salt
Lake. Oysters are also very high. Ply
steal causes run the prices up; and, yet,
we would suppose where there are SO
many hens. morals are SO very .fshy that
both eggs and oysters would "shell out"
at low rates.. .Corsets are now worn by
''star" fashionable gents. The N. Y.
Times proves it by the testimony of Mill
ners and Corset makers. As women are
aspiring to be men why may not men
aspire to be women? Let Chawles Angus
tus Fastidio be "gal' if he wishes......
The "Alaska purchase" develops another
"ring." Robt. J. Walker, the loyal south
erner, whom RAIDS haye so prided in, testi-
fees that the Russian Minister SroEcKL
paid him s26, 900 to assist in selling Sew.
ard the ice-bergs and grizzlies of waste Of
country north of Washington Territory.
Young FoRNEY of the old Forney tribe of
thieves received $4,000. Others received
more. SEWARD, the "bell TOUGHER" old in
sin and imbedded in avaricc, probably got
larger amount than any other knave of
the party......L Ladies are Informed that the
very plain soft kid boot, buttoned at the
side is the street style for the winter.
High boots with tassels and bronze finish
are of questionable propriety.
The number Of deaths in Chicago dur
ing 1868, 5000; the number of maria ges
during the same time, 1854; number of
births G, 49S......The receipts Of cotton at
New Orleans for the lat two years, up
to Christmas day, compare as follows {;
1867, number of bales, 2lO,6l5; 1868,
number of bales, 400, 496; increase this
year, ls6, ISL. Our Minister to England
asserts that the Senate will ratify the trea-
ty on naturalization between the two
countries, whereby once British subject,
naturalised here, will have full right to
his adopted country's protection in Great
Britain..... Iowa now has 1850 miles of
Railroads.&c. more than Missouri, l,12O
more than Minnesota and Wisconsin, and
420 more than Michigan. These 1850
miles cost 100000. In 1864 it only
had 800 miles,. The great ship canal
across the Isthmus of Suez is within ten
months Of completion.
The next census of the United States is
to be taken in 1870, and the present Con-
gress is expected to make the necessary
appropriations and regulations. %. .Chey-
enne is filling up with roughs and desper>
ADDE'S again. The Star hints at the revival
Of the Vigilance Committee as remedy.
..".....A new route will be opened from
Chicago to La Crosse, Wis, next year, by
way of Mineral Point, Wis, which will
shorten the present distance twenty>eight
miles......A-splendid new counterfeit of
the $50 greenbacks is out in New York.
The only defect is the lack of buttons on
Franklin's vest.......A London dispatch
announces another colliery horror at Wig
an, England. Twenty-Five bodies had
been recovered. 5000. Real estate sales in
San Francisco since the earthquake show
a falling off in numbers and amount of
one third.
Be not all sugar, or the world will swal.
low thee up nor all worm-wood, or it will
spit thee out.....".....Go slowly to the
entertainment of thy friends, but quickly
to their MISUNDERSTANDING arises
from a peculiarly mental nervousness,
rather than from any physical defect.....
A Massachusetts, physiolosist asserts that
there are no fine singers who use tobacco. 1t
is proved in the dissecting room, he claims,
that tobacco Injuries the voice.. About
thirty thousand Goldfish lines are..made an
nually at Ipswich, snd they sell for half a
dollar each..... Hogs running at large in
the streets of Charleston, S. c., are killed
and distributed among the poor. Why not
follow this practice in McGrcgor? ......
Alaska contains about 370,OO0,0OO acres,
and was purchased at little less than two
cents per acre......The unusual warmth of
the past fall and early winter in Montana
has brought myriads young grasshoprers
into premature existence. The cold wea-
Their will destroy them, of course. and the
farmers expect to be free from their depre>
dations next season.
The California highway robbers, like
those of Australia, seem to have peculiar
respect for wo men. The last stage rob-
berry we have noticed resulted in the seiz-
ure of money and valuables from gentle>
men, while the single lady passengers
were undisturbed. A similar account
came to us recently from Australia. :.
A correspondent who had been gulled
says that tie parties who advertise 10 send
a music-b box that will play eighteen tunes,
for one dollar, send child's toy that can
be purchased anywhere for twenty-five
cents; also that the cheap dollar "time-
keeper" are only sun-dials, made out of
hard wood, with silded faces" .... Florida
is called the poor mans paradise by
correspondent. He says $500 house
there is as good as a $1,000 one at the
North. There is no wood pile nor hay
NOW to provide. and land is fifty cents an
mere The Hel1ZTs Washinr tnn dis