North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-05-25
News and Items.

News and Items.
Nick Cobbler, noted blackleg, who
fourished in Wilton for time last
winter, has been arrested for passing
counterfeit money. His trial will come
off before the United States District
Court, in June, at Winona..."..A proof
reader has sent to a Brooklyn paper
some examples of the ludicrous mistakes
made by printers when called upon to
decipher illegible manuscript. He say.
that on one occasion Mr.. Greeley made
use of the quotation -
otis true tits pity, and pity tits tits
true" which was rendered by the types;
"Tis two, it's fifty, tits fifty, tits fifty.
two. The New York Central rail.
road has, among its other appointments
for public convenience, special car
designed for the transportation of valu.
able horses. Its interior is divided into
two box-stalls, fixed up with all the ap-
pointments necessary to complete equine
luxury. This car is attached only to
express trains, for the accommodation of
horsemen able to pay for the safe and
speedy transportation Of their pets.
Never be worried at triAes. If a
spider breaks his thread twenty times,
twenty times will he mend it again.
Make up your mind to do good thing,
and you do it...... Iowa City dug up six
pounds of elephant tooth the other day.
1.-THE homeopathic physicians Of
Iowa are called to meet in convention
at Des Moines, Tuesday, May 31st, to
form State society. Circuit Judge
Dillon and District Judge Lowe, at Des
Moines, announce that all hope Of escape
from the payment of the unpaid railroad
bonds is without any foundation, and the
bonds must be paid, and the officers Of
the court will be sustained by the power
of the government. 1904 mineral spring
has been discovered near Philadelphia
which is supposed to possess wonderful
medicinal properties, for its waters taste
like damaged corn beef brine drunk out
of an old India rubber shoe.
A laughable incident happened the
other evening in Philadelphia parlsr.
A young lady being about to entertain
her visitor with music on the piano, was
suddenly asked, "Have you got MY
Trundlebed p" The lady looked greatly
startled for moment, and was blushing
deeply, when the thought occurred to
her that "My Trundlebed" is the name
of a new song. There is not an empty
dry dock in or around New York, and
all the shipwrights and caulkers are
busy. The Louisville Courier-J Journal
gets off the following COAX: A short
time ago the body of D. C. Miller was
found floating in creek near Evansville.
A few days after the burial he appeared
upon the streets of that town and offer
ed to prove that the body found was
not his, whereupon he was arrested and
indicted by the Grand Jury for obtain
ing funeral under false pretenses.
Several gentlemen, who formerly lived
in and about Aurora, have recently re-
turned from an extensive tour in Kansas,
thoroughly Disguised with that country
and completely cured of the Kansas
fever. Somebody who writes over the
signature of "Hoosier Girl" sends a
letter to Boston paper warning Yankee
girls not to come West for husbands, as
"there are not enough here to supply
the home demand. ..... Mrs. Edward
o. Webster, Of Somerville, Mass. was
SO severely burned on the 18th inst, by
setting her dress on fire while lighting
the fire with lamp, that she has since
died. She was suffering from paralysis,
and could not extinguish the flames..
The Cedar Falls, Iowa, Gazette heads
its births, marriages and deaths, "Hatch-
ed, Matched" Dispatched"
The Fond du Lac, Wis, Common
wealth describes a wedding which its
editors attended at Oshkosh. It says
during the ceremony the bride and
bridegroom took each other about the
waist and snapped gum !......A Ham,
burger soothed his jealousy Of his wife
by fighting duel with her. The woman
did not survive, and tyrannical court
has sent the husband to prison for Is
years. Gen. Sherman says he could
take three justices of the peace and run
the country better than Congress does.
Gen. O'Neill left New York last
Monday to concentrate Fenian forces
for an expedition to the Red River
country.
A Chinaman believes he can't get to
Heaven if his head is cut off here. -. :.
Three Methodist ministers hold Ameri-
can Consulships in German towns. 49,.
The opium revenue in India for the
years 1878 was just under $45, 900, :
O00.. Religious excitement has driven