North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-08-25
News and Items.

whether Radicals ever think there is q
God, and future. world where unjust
stewards have to settle. 1T is strange
what verbal joke sometimes may do.
In New England State the passage of
the Maine law was prevented one year
by a person saying to well known
ruddy-faced temperance member, while
the final vote was being taken-"For
heavens sake don't vote for the Maine
law with face like thatw While
laughing at this assault on his rubi-
cundity his name was called unheard,
and prompt motion to reconsider, and
its denial, prevented the member from
rendering his vote which would have
carried the measure. The Chicago
TINES says: Gen. Atwood, it is sup
posed, will receive the republican no
mination for governor of Wisconsin.
But there's many slip twixt cup and
lip.
It is related of the witty Dominican
monk, Bocco, that he had great dis
like to tobacco, and when once preach
ing to crowd of Spanish sailors he
astounded them by telling them that
there were no Spanish saints in Heaven.
A few, he said, had been admitted, but
they smoked SO many cigars that they
made the Holy Virgin sick, and St.
Peter set his wits to work to get them
out. At length he proclaimed that
bull fight was to be held outside the
gates of Paradise. Thereupon every
Spanish saint, without exception, ran off
to see the fight, and St. Peter immed-
lately closed the gate and took care
never to admit another Spaniard.
Never since Kentucky was. made a
State has she lost one dollar through
the defalcation of her officers. Demo-
Gratis have always filled the offices and
always will in that State. -. The Min
neapolis Tribune estimates the wheat
crop of that State, this year, at twenty
million bushels. = ..Senter's majority
will exceed Stokes whole vote. Candy
is wanted in Tennessee. A reporter
for Western paper calls a marriage
license "a preliminary way bill to be
freighted over the sea of life together"
......A pertinent inquiry is, what has
become Of the 100000 or more sub
scribed by merchants and others for a
monument to the memory of Abraham
Lincoln !?
A. NJ. May is again sole editor and pro-
prietor of the Waukon Standard. :. Prof.
Showers, Of Appleton, Wis, takes the
place Of Prof Brush in the presidency Of
the Fayette University The Fayctte
County Union says: Since the Engineers
have been through here, with their favor
able report of our line, our town begins
to put on railroad airs, and will soon be
up to Charles City, DEBORAH and other
newly acdged railroad towns in the race
to outstrip Chicago......Savannah has a
delivery clerk in the post Office who is un-
able to read but he has the superior
qualification of COLOR. .. DEBORAH expects
the iron horse to celebrate at their house
on the LIST OF next month.
Iowa has more miles of railroad in OPP
GRAFTON than either Of the States of Vir-
ginia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Missouri,
Wisconsin, Mi chigan, North Carolina OF
South Carolina, each of which has over
one thousand miles. The States of Penn.
sylvania, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Indi-
ana and Georgia alone exceed in the num-
Der of miles of railroad in operation in
Iowa......H is reported that Gen. Rose.
Grams is about to form q company for the
purpose Of building o railroad from the
City Of Mexico to Acapulco, on the Pa
cific st......Secretary Seward is gazing
serenely on the 81 ,2OOO, 600 worth of ice
bergs and mountains he bought for thi.
glorious country......It is reported thai
John l. Blair is looking at the feasibility
of building the Turkey Valley railroad
......A lady at Newport displays ring
cut tout Of one solid diamond" Vic
toria proposes to take her holiday in Ire
land next year. Peaches come by thu
ninety-nine car loads per day into New
York. $1,000. $685.
The State Fair offers hundred dollars
prerniu m to the county Of Iowa furnishing
the largest and best variety of grain and
vegetables. ....Geo. w. Haislet is to Issue
his Register and Hentillator to-day......T The
population of Clinton county cities are a,
follows: Clinton, 6,307; Lyons, 1862
De Witt, 1889; Camanche, 72l...... The
DEBORAH republican sends out half shee
and calls it compromise between 4 whole
paper and no paper ut all. The half shee
is necessity growing out Of the time tax
en- up in putting in place new power
press....A case Of genuine Asiatic cholcrs
was reported in New York city on Mon
day......We learn from parties having thu
means OF knowing that the surveys Of the
Des Moines and McGresor ruilroad prove
the route direct to this city the mare feas-
IDLE and no longer thaa the one to Post
vile, making it pretty certain that the
road will be built to this place direct.....
The Waukon Standard wants C. T. Gran
ger, the presentincumbent by appointment
electei District Attorney The Mclira.