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North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05
IA OAhEI I1ALI1
Mayor Of the City Of New York.

The WHEAT CRoP.-The wheat fields in
Southern Illinois, says the st. Louis Re
publican, look remarkably promising.
Farmers say that for thirty years they
have not seen the wheat standing better
at the same season. 1t is we'll stocked,
has that dark green color, which shows
slow and heavy growth and 80 propitious
was the winter that the wheat on the
poorer fields looks very nearly as well as
thas on the best ground. Should there
not be too much rain to make the straw
heavy, and should the crop escape rust,
there will be very abundant yield in
Southern Illinois. The wheat crop in st.
Clair, Monroe and Madison counties will
not fail again, as it did the two proceeding
years, il the weather is reasonably pro,
pitioas for the next two months. We
hope the farmers may realize their present
ianticipatiOns. f
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

GREAT LlBRAR1Es.-We have had much
to do with dictionaries, first and last; have
turned over thousand pounds of them,
perhaps: have watched new editions
rising in stately fashion, and found the
best were set ON Webster's sure founda-
tons. What we have written of Webster's
work, while it has been in all truthfulpess
has also been in all love. We have q
warm filial feeling for it and for him !:
grateful to Webster for earliest lessons
and for latest teachings; grateful to God,
that, while lie gave US English for our
mother-tongue, lie gave us man SO
worthy to record and expound it, men so
worthy to continue the work he SO nobly
begun. And we put that mothers ongue
to sacred use when we utter the truth
tnl words that these three books are the
sum total of great libraries: the Bible,
Shakespeare, and Wsbsterfs Royal Quartos
-Chicago Erehing Journal.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

A New Orleans woman had her clipping
daughter and unwelcome son-in- law
brought before the Recorder for separa>
ton. She was informed that it couldn't
be done. The old lady surveyed the happy
couple for moment, and then, shaking
her head disconsolately, said, "Judge, that
girl amt fit to be married; SHE has spells!''
HAS what?' said the Judge. "Why,
you see, Judge" but before the lady
could proceed, the daughter sprang to her
feet and said "Mother, there amt no use
in saying any more I'm married, and if
amt tit I'D like to see the girl who is -
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

The Press deems the Democratic party
dead. The New York Sun holds in re-
gard to, in its issue on Thursday last, the
following language: ut would be in ac>
eordance with all the presidents If in the
contest of 1872 the opposition to the long.
lived Democracy should then suffer sig
nal defeat, and immediately afterwards
change its name, its principles, and its
leaders. In view Of the one idea on which
the Republican party was organized, the
incongruous materials in respect to Other
ideas Of which it is composed, and the
complete ful6lment gifts appropriate work,
it would not be surprising if it thenfol-
lowed the fate Of its predecessors and pass
cd into history. This, however. will
largely depend upon the wisdom, the lib
erality, the common sense, and progressive
ideas Of the leaders of the Democratic
party"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

The terrible pressure upon Senators,
and the incompetency, not to say dishon-
csty, of many of the applicants for Office,
has cansed groanings in the Senate Cham
Der. On Wednesday several hours were
spent in discussing Office seekers and Office
seeking, and Senator Fessenden mourn
fully exclaims that it is melancholy truth
that Senators and Representatives in Con.
gress are only "agents to get Office for their
constituents, According to him, in these
Republican times, and under the lessons
sf the party Of "great moral IDEAS q
Congressman freed not be a statesman,
he need not be an orator; he need not at
tend to the duties Of a committee man he
need not be sober he need not be honest
he need know nothing of the history Of
legislation of his country, nor care for it,
interests but he must be an 'obligin.
fellow" Prop. Herald.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05
The Iowa State Register has the follow.

The Iowa State Register has the follow.
ing very appropriate notice. We like it.
Of what use is it for the lively young
people of other States to come to Iowa il
they are not employed by Iowa? An
enterprising young woman comes west to
identify with us aud "be somebody" and
then a lot Of old fossils, in the Official
shape of School directors, College manag
ers, Choir leaders and S. s. Superintend.
ents, send "east'' for idol" to boss the
job! "Dere is no principal in dose
dings." Employ the active and earnest
young women and men who are now here
and let the lazy, selfish dolls and idling,
tender-headed, stay-at.home eastern youths
remain where their clothes rather than
their brains represent them. In the
language Of friend Of ours, "Come out
west!' Do not wait to = sent for. Stand
not upon the order Of your coming.
Miss Augusta Mathews, the accomplish.
ed and intelligent daughter of Captain
James Mathews, has been appointed
teacher Of music at the Iowa State Agr;-
cultural College, and will assume charge
Of the position during the present week.
In selecting a competent Iowa lazy instead
Of some doll from an Eastern academy
Of music, as is generally done, the manag-
srs of the College have exhibited marked
good sense. Miss Mathewsis lady Of
culture, refinement and ability, and will
discharge her duties with the true grace
Of success. The appointment is all the
more honoring to her from the fact that it
came to her unsought. The Agricultural
College has set good example. We
want more Iowa girls and Iowa boys in
Iowa positions.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05
Judge Edm unds ON Spirits.

Judge EdmuMds ON Spirits. El5t
In the case Of Mumler, the spirit
photographers, Judge Edmunds was exams
ined for the defence, and gave the follow
ing remarkable testimony:
II have seen spirits many spiritualists
cannot. / remember the other day was
in court in Brooklyn, where the ques-
ton at issue was the payment OF an
accidental insurance policy. On looking
toward the jury~box, saw standing be-
hind the jury the spirit of the man who
had been insured; that spirit told me the
circumstances connected with the death !;
he told me he had committed suicide
drew diagram Of the place ut which his
death occurred. and on showing it to the
counsel, was told that it was exact; had
never seen the place nor the man, and no
one in the courtroom saw the spirit ex-
cept myself; it dictated to me, also esrtaia
questions to be put by the counsel in the
case to gentleman who was then on. the
witness stand this witness was the super
intcndent of a lunatie asylum, being
examined as an expert; the questions
were these "Can a man be insane and
conscious Of it? Being conscious Of his
insanity and unable to control it2o Being
unable to control it, is he not driven to
despair and led to prefer suicide to- life
under such circumstances?o ."This lat
ter" said the spirit, twas my c,ise exactly
when in life." Witness said he proposed
these questions to the counsel in the case
Us requested they were put to the wit>
ness, answered affirmatively, and gave q
new direction to the case tho appearance
Of the spirit was shadowy, transparent;
could see material objects through it.; the
first spirit that ever saw was that Of
Judge Talmadge, who was leaning against
q window easement, which was plainly to
be seen through his body ! have seen
spirits clothed apparently in their every
day dress, in grave clothes and in the
habiliments of the spirit world, but neve,
saw one without clothing.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05
DOT SHOEMAKER UND HIS WIFE.
WRITTEN FOR the NEW FORK clIPPER.
BY GUS Phillips.


Carl smidt vas a cobbler, member of shoes,
Und he married Won Barbara vite, Ff# a.
Bud somehow or oder dey coodnt agree, Is
Dey done noding but quarrel und fte, 4
Carl use to go off efery vonce on vile,
Uud he'd get on a regular shpree,
Und Barbara shwore, dot she'd kill him shtonecold
Der dirdy old gin pig" said she.
Dings kept going dot way fo.a awful long vile,
Carl kept gittin so tighd rs brick,
Und Barbara said 'Of he wod'nd shtop
Dot she'd vallup him till he was sick"
He vas goin home one hide ctnst 80 plind like owl
Und Barby was np. und she shwoIe,
Und she had big shtick bout der size Of club,
Und she laid for him ride by der door.
Now dot door dot vas locked, but Carl had der key
Und he LATED as he to himself said,
II must dry und got in n,idout maxim noise,
For speek der cid voman's in bed;
OF she hears me come in, dere'll sure bin rev,
Und she'll make such holler belloo,
Dot I'll hafe to gife her such punk on der nose
Und beat her most red, wife und blue" 81.
Bud as he vas laifin his toe sdruck shtons, s..
Ven he fell init his head on der ground,
Und he seed boud four hundei O leedle shma shtare
lind dem all vas shpeein around:
Den he forgot efery someding dot efer he knowed,
Und his eyes dem shtuck oud OF his head,
Und his breath didn't vent und his face vite,
Dot he looked % chust Of he was dead.
Now Barby she heard him, chust as he failed,
Und she vent und rushed oud der back door, a
ven Sno 6ueak0O KIM VI QuleO 70 we're ne ola vas,
Und she sdruck him boud six dimes or mors
But Carl didn't mofe, he vas perfectly shtill-
He lay dere 80 shift like post
Und Barby was iritened, she vas reaty to shwore
Dot der Carl he had gife up der ghost. e
She linked she had killed him. und den she did cry
Und dem tears dem vas rolln like rain; l,
Und she says, "Of You only vas now life und veil,
meter wood sdruck you again" A a
But dot Carl he vas gone-EO Barbara dinkcd,
Vile her hands und her abron she rung.
Und she tore all dot back hair ride oud Of her head
For she dinked now she'd surely been hung.
She vent in der house und she bringed oud bowl
Nit some water, rag und some soap.
To wash off der blood of from all round his face,
Und to safe her blame neck from dot rope;
Und as she Washing she naked up her mind
To told such awful big lie,
Und say dot "she didn t know how hs got dere.
Und she coodnt told vat made him die"
Now der water did kinder did bring dot Carl to.
1t took some Of der shift oud his knees
Und some of der soap dot did got in his nosc,
Und dot Carl he did let big shncezc;
Ven Barby was glad, for she dirlked he va He'd
So she shucked der club Offer der fence,
Und she helluped Carl up und he vent in der house.
Und she meter did yallup him sence.
Dey liz nowin der house like pair of shmall lambs
Und Carl he sdays in efery hide,
Vile Barbara sings she Twists his wax ends;
I've meier DO quarrel und fde."
Carl meier did know from dot day dill dis,
Dot his wife was near maxim him dead,
OF he did, he wood beat her most red vite und blue
Nit syverial punks in der head.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

The n. r.. Tax.
The Supreme Court at its recent session
in Davenport has reversed the late decision
of Judge Springer's which sustained the
Railroad Tax Law of the last Legislature.
Judges Wright, Dillon and Black are Of
the opinion that the Tax Law is unconsti.
tutional, and so declare, Judge Cole dis
senting.
There has been no question before the
Supreme Court for many years, in which
the citizens of our State are so generally
interested, az this one Of the right Of a
majority of the legal voters of any town.
ship, to tax the entire property Of its citi-
zens for the benefit of Railroad Com panies.
The law was passed at the urgent solicita-
ton of the projectors of north and south
railroads, who could not otherwise com
mand the capital for their construction.
The arguments used in its advocacy were
plausible, the most effective being that in
no other way could the property of non-re-
sidents be reached to aid in these much
needed works Of isternal improvement,
the progress of which, to great extent,
must depend upon local aid.
The Legislature seemed to have over
looked the fact, that under the provisions
Of the act, tax after tax could be levied
upon the people until it became 50 oppres-
sivc upon the property owners, as to he
almost unendurable.-The law indirectly
offered heavy premium for the wholesale
bribery of voters, and gave the minority
no protection whatever, from continuous
levy and collection of taxes SO onerous as
to be intensely oppressive.
While this decision Of our highest judi
cal tribunal will undoubtedly retard the
building of some Railroads, it will meet
the approval of the people generally, and
protect the property Of our citizens from
the grasp Of merciless corporations.-Fort
Dodge, North Vest.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

Mr.. Hassaureck, the new minister to
Ecuador, is fanny man. II is said that
he. thanked the President for having ap-
pointed him to the highest place in his gift
THAT lis $500 feet above the ocean, the
altitude Of Quito, the capital.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

ssTick Of the Clock"
The terrible expenses Of Mr.. Buchan-
ans administration, says the keokuk
Constitution, was the grand theme oil
Republican denunciation in 1860. The
following article and table, gotten up by
Bonner Of the New York Ledger, was
published and re>published, and displayed
by every Republican paper in the land:
''LIBERAL ExPENDlrUREs.-The expen>
ses of the Government of the United
States, under the administration of Mr..
Buchanan are as follows:
S76,6S6. 400 a year.!
$4,307 800 a month
$l,452 $40 a week!
$2O7, $50 day!
$500 an hour!
Sl44 a minute!
S2,4O second!
Two dollars and forty cents at every
tick of the clock |! That will do for
Young America. But where does the
money go? For what is it applied?"
Now let us look at the other side of the
picture. The expenses of the Jacobin
Congress incurred last year-a year Of
profound peace, be it Observation-Disclosures,
in round numbers, 5OO,0O0,0OO!
100000. 900 year!
S4l ,696 ,665 month
\ SlO.466, 666 a week!
~ Sl.50O,O0O day!
$4,000 an hour
S1,O42 minute!
$3.50 second
Seventeen dollars and a half at every
beat of tie clock, day and night, summer
and winter, in sunshine and in storm
There is no use asking the question where
all this money goes, that is continually
drawn from the pockets of the industrial
classes. Some of it goes to pay the neces
sary expenses Of the Federal Governmekt
much Of it to support large standing
army in the South, for the purpose o.
maintaining the Radical party in power
by subjecting the white to the domination
of the black in that section of the country
by the aid of the Freedmen's Bureau ane
the power of the ba5o.e-. But much thu
greatest portion goes into the privat,
pockets of the theiving Radica! Office
holders. and to pay gold interest to the
non-taxed aristocratic bondholders. Tht
industrial classes pay into the nationa
treasury seventeen dollars and fifty cent,
every time the clock ticks, but the nationa
debt is still increasing, and national bank
ruptcy and individual ruin is staring vi
in the face, with no prospect of relief al
long as the Radical party remains in
power. $3.50 4 5e3
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

worth $1,000, died Of starvation last week
refusing to eat for fear Of becoming a
pasper.. The FIRST Odd Fellow was
Adam. :. Geo. F. Train calls his ancestor,
Mr.. Adam, who lived in Eden, "a sneakv'
Abbott Is easily arpeased. He had,
all the time, an idea he wasn't puppy.
......Mayor Hall, of New York, is quoted
in referring to quack doctors as pillars Of
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES poor fellow,
was impoverished by his Office. and re-
turns an income of only Sl0,664...".A
Chicago paper which ought to know, says
"Romeo Booth weds Juliet McVicker in
June.". 1.-THE waters about New York
are busy giving up their dead. Two or
three corpses come to the surface daily.
......Lady Eva Campbell, titled sports
woman of Scotland, took two &c, pound
salmon the other day......P Prussia has
1911 iron smelling works, which give
employment to 81 ,OS6 hands, and yield
products to the value of So, 542, 9ls......
The broker Dalton who shot himself while
riding up broadway, New York, in q
carriage, had recently lost 1000 in
stock speculations.
"Mumtazamui>Moock Mohsumood- dow
Cah-Fureed-- Ponjah- Sound Munzoor-All-
Kdan- Bahadoor- Musrutjung,'' nabob Of
Bengal, has arrived at Paris. ...Gen. Pat
rick II. Jones has been appointed post
master in place of Mr.. Kelly, reappointed
last week but not confirmed. Gen. Jones
was backed by Horace Greeley and Senator
Fenton.. IAN advertisement in New
York paper reads as follows: "Fitz D.
unless you return without delay, that dia-
mond ring you slipped from my finger
while shaking hands with me, l will no
longer consider it joke" ......D Orsay,
in remarking on beauty speck on the
cheek of Lady Southampton, compared it
to gem on rose leaf. 1.-The compile
ment is tarJetched," observed her lady
ship. "IIow can that be-" rejoined the
Count, "when it is made on the spot ......
The New Bedford Standard says that Mrs.
Lucinda Sharp, who died there on Sunday
Of dropsy, aged eighty years, was six feet
one inch high and in weight about $50
pounds. Her coffin was six feet seven
inches long inside, two feet five inches
wide and one foot seven inches deem.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05
LARGEST.

Largest Stock Largest Variety! Largest Reduc
tons! Largest Made! Largest Facilities!
To these standing attractions 10 now added tht
special attraction Of the most magnificent stock oil
spring and Summer Clothing, Ready Made or to Or.
der, Gents Furnishing Goods
Hats, CAPS, Trunks and valises, &C., Very Very
Cheap For Cash.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05
MOST POPULAR.

People there because their friends and khbors
whs are shrewed people go there They know tina tthc
Western Emporium could not maintain it's ack know J.
edge and increasing popularity unless it really did
better than other houses.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

will sell number one pair of work Mules, on
reasonable terms. They may be seen on my place,
three miles east Of Frys Hotel, on the West Union
and McGrcgor road t
655 G A. DOW, Monopa, To VA.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

CUT THIS OUT!
why3 when7 How Ionr Z
Pratical adoption OF an unvarying law. worth
$1,000 TO every woman. Full particulars for rs cts
Address, Dr. A. T. McPha rson
65lm3 Pc Box, 52S, Chicago.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05
Aell, advertisements.
Real Estate

AUCTION!
Will be sold on Saturday, June
12th, at 2 p. M, near the origi-
pal Bayt 4 Durdiek Lumber
Yard on Main street, opposite
4. Pearsall's residence, the fol-
lowing described Real Estate:
!, Hast Ia Of lot IL; all Of lot 1o
with two-story Frame Building,
40 by % feet ; lot 40, in block
"A. The above lots are choice
business locations on Main Street
There will also be offered, at
Auction, residence lots, 40 fol-
lows: IA, ,, and al, in block IL, lots
8 and 10, in block -, with Barn Is BY
-. All the abeve-named lots are 50 BY
400 feet.
Most Of the purchase money
can remain unpaid until May list,
1874, at = per cent. interest. We
will also offer the Warehouse op.
posite 8agensick's Brewery on
Bluff or River Street.
HAXY Il 1URDIoII.
1teoregor, MAY eth, 1850. 3
+ sStf
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

No Misrepresentation ms price or materials. The
people are told the truth the whole truth and moth
ing but the truth, at the Western Emporium.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05
CHI T. A PEST!!

For given amount of money they can give more
and better clothing at the Western Emporium thSn
Anyw ere else in the city.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

| Nity - 10 nave new ScnOOl mousse ZtX0J,
and will cost 81 200 when finished. 49,. The
trade Of Fort Dodge. for the year ending
March |. 1869, amounting to S465 ,OOO.....
t......A half-interest in the Iowa horse,
Kirkwood, was recently sold for $4,000.
| Fourth of July, this year. falls on Sun
day. The National Baptist anniversar-
les are to be held. in Boston the 18th,
10th and Goth days Of May next. The
house presented to Gen. Sherman, by
citizens of St. Louis, is offered for sale,
4 vhereat some of the donors express, in
dignation......I 1t is said that the Daughters
of Andy Johnson left the Presidential
mansion in better order than it has, ever
been left before. by an outgoing Presi
dent. The rubber works at Newton
Conn.,, have received an order for {
rubber belt three hundred feet By four.
Serene Edwards Todd, Of the New
York Times, receives cent word for all
the articles he writes for the press. :. III
is estimated that there are $4,000 thresh.
ing machines in the United States, without
eounting the ''school marms.nf Fe4a NJ
II 'Odenbach is writing novel;. =. Earl
> Russell has brought forward bill for the
! creation Of life-peerages.. -. Bla1es Bulle.
} Il" suggests General Reynolds for United
I, States Senator from Texas. :. Ada Webb
the ACTRESS, has sued John Skae, Of De.
, troit, for breach Of promise. The, fair
AGA claims $50, 900 damages.
4 Gargaroff, the wcalthiest merchant II
I Moscow, is the grandson Of . serf, and hi
! father was a poor ACKNOWLEDGEMENT VIM
IIurlburt, Of Cornwsll, Vt, a bachelor
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-05

The Saloon opposite the Murray House. The en-.
tire property, including lot, saloon and building the
resdepce, barn and all the appartenaBces. There
good well and all the convenienccs for living and
doing business good title given Enquire on the
promises Of (4w65D JOHN MURONAY.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-13

FROM recent conversation with
Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton, held by
an intelligent correspondent of the
Montgomery Mail, and reported by
him Uer6dtim, we extract the sub
joined. They are words of wisdom !:
One thing must be kept in mind, how
ever, If you would not introduce an ele.
ment of discord into your ranks Make
no promises to the negro. If you make
him promises you will be in honor bound
to keep faith with him. Keep aloOf from
that entangling alliance The questions
before you demand no pledges from you
to the negro race Do not be impatient
if the return to a white mans govern
ment should be delayed longer than you
expect A few years are nothing in the
life Of a government Look how the
years of Cromwell and Napoleon were
crowded with new and unexpected
events"
.Do not sickle upon questions Of poli-
cy. Your people need to stand united
and you should not permit mere ques-
tons of policy to divide you OF cOusse
|, who am sitting here in my Office in
Ohio, with all my rights of person and
property guarded by white State gov
eminent, cannot presume to advise you
whose condition is so different, but LET
me beg you to remember what have
said about making no pledges to the me-
gro race. In the past few years, incred'
ulOus as You may be, the Ee)ple have
been arousing themselves against the OPP
pressions Of the Republican party, and
in few years, if net sooner, will assert
the manhood of the white race. BY pa
tiently biding your time you will ride on
the wave of success, but if you compli
cate questions by making impIudent
pledges through despair on Impotence
you strengthen the enemy and postpone
the hour of deliverance"