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North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

DRAyING.-W. c. Austin proposes te
oblige everybody in his line, on terms
that will enable b IN to make a living.
Persons who are likely to have any
draying. transferring, hauling or any work
which can be done by willing hands and
strong horses, will secure the earliest
attention by handing over Their orders to
him. Tell what you want done. aad he
will guarantee promptness and reasonable
prices.
McGregor, April It'll, 1869. '5l-6m
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

WHlTEwAsuING. Mr.. ALDEN, foot Of
Main Street, is superior workman at the
above business. 1t is so scar Spring that
he announces himself ready to take orders
for this kind Of business as early as
housekeepers wish. Residence adjoining
Walkers ticket Office. 69Sw4
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

DiED.--On Pleasant Ridge, Iowa,
March 18th. of short illness of tie
lungs, AMOS, aged 20 yrs, 3 months, and
IL days, son Of John Slwvel, long resi-
dent of the vicinity of Council Hill, OF
this County. He was buried on Sunday.
Rev. Mr.. Lowery conducted the Services,
preaching from Ecclesastes 18th It'll
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

WANTED.--A situation as clerk in a
store Of almost any kind. Competent as
German or an English salesman. Ac-
quanted with business in all its depart
ments. Enquire at TINES Office. Wages
reasonable.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

A triumph in the field is theme for
poets, for painters, for history, for all
euogistic and aggrandizing agencies
whose tribute constitutes fame. But
there are victories won by men, over them
selves. more truly honorable TO the con,
querors than amy successes achieved in
war. OF these silent successes we never
hear the battles are fought in solitude,
and without help-save from above. The
man or woman who fights temptation,
hatred, revenge, envy, and selishness,
back to its last covert, wins the approval
and commentator of God.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

A bill has passed the state senate to
provide for the submission of the ques-
ton of calling constitutional conven-
tion.
The New York Associated Press has
directed its agent in London to offer
$500 reward for the detection and pun
ishment of the author of the hoax about
the City of Boston.
Five conductors on the Wisconsin
Division Of the Northwestern Railroad
have been dismissed within the past 1
months for not making correct returns
of money collected.
A lady compositor on the GAINESVILLE
(Wis.) Gazette, on Tuesday last, set
$4,000 ems Of solid nonpareil in ten
hours, earning the snug sum of $3.50
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

CALLS Carver, Of the Dubuque Her
aid, Hldreth. of the Charles City Intel :
gencer, and Everall, of our Clayton Co
Schools, were our welcome callers last
week. lis not necessary to say their
company gave MS much pleasure.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

This inEIiiiOle Remedy does noe, like the ,"'soH-
Irritating ,nufis and strong ciustic solutions
with which the people have long been huhbuged
simp paiiate for short tIme dTire the disease to
the lungs there Is dange of doing in the use OF
such nostrums, bat produces Perfect and Permanent
Cares of the corst of CtrOnic Cutarrh as thou
nds testify. "Cold in the Head'i cured with
few applications Catarahai Headache is relieved
and cured il by magic. 1t removes offensive
Breath Loss or I'm Garment OF the sense of taste,
smell or hearing Watering OF Weak Ewes, and iiE-
paired Memory, when cansed by the violence ef Ia
tarrh, they all frequently are. offer in good
faith standing reward OF 5000 for case OF Caarrh
that cannot cure.
FOR SALE 81 fa1ST 12Jaa'sTs EVERYWHERE
Price only 80 cents.
Ask your drugg for the Remedy; but If he has
not yet got sale, don't be put of iy accepting
any miserable worse than worthless substitute, but
enclose sixty cents TO me, and the Remedy will be
sent you post paid Four packages 81 or one dozen
for 50 Send Il 2-cent stamp Tor DR.. Sage's pamphlet
on Ca tarrh. Address the Proprietor,
6S3 R.v. PIERCE, VI. D., Buffalo, NY
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

F. d. Bayless, OF Elkader, is auth
orized to contract and receipt for any bust
ness which may in any way affect business
Of this Office,
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

AVAu AAAAuStASAss
This celebrated company of star per-
formers, twenty in number, known
throughout the United States as unrivalled,
are visiting the Northwest for fun. They
furnish lots Of it to their audiences and
enjoy u large share themselyes. We have
not seen them ALL but on Friday and Sat-
urday evenings, Of this week, the Cam
brian will "show' about as much wit.
humor and general stage mischief ms ever
was opened to the people of McGregor.
This is their 18th annual tour--a sort of
escape from eastern cities. 10. II Mack
and 10. Gaylord were here last week as
agents. IF the other members of the Co.
are as sound as the two JOS we will say
so nc..t week.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

MARRlEp.-At the residence Of Mrs.
McGregor, on Monday, March 2lst, by J.
C. Hoxsie, Justice of the Peace, Mr.. Pc
TER AUsTENsEN and Miss ElIzABETH
KNursoN, all of this county.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

Woman Suffrage is subject agitated
considerably, but you can find an ilustra-
ton of it at Dr. Gill, Dentist, Office over
Ryan's, McGregor.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

Ishmel wax.ed wrotii in the last issue
Of the Ne,cs. Guess he is sufficiently
odorous without farther irritation at pres
ont
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

United States Internal Revenue Collec-
tor, Bailey. of New York, has, no doubt
absconded for parts unknown. The resul,
of Investigations Indicate that he is a L.
faulter to the amount of about SlOO, 900
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

Horses
Cur City Of McGregor is becoming
quite famous for good horses and for good
Judges of them There are several ami
mails here valued both for speed and bot
tom. One day last week Mr.. Lou. Peavy
sold span Of horses to Mr.. II. Arms, Of
Toledo, Ohio, for Twelve Hundred Doll
lars, and not high price at that. MIR.
Arms is Livery man and horse fancier,
of course. He heard of this span, and,
after some correspondence with Peavy. be
came to look at them, liked them and took
them ut the price named. MIR. Arms will
realize good profit from his McGregor
investment. There are singular things
about this span Of colts. They ere both
boys. not a white hair on either; each
l52 hands high each 6 years old, and
weigh l,0O6 pounds! We do not believe
similar case of exact match can tie
found in the world. They can tres to
poll in minutes. Attentive grooming
and skillful training brought these colts to
the sale price. They had the stuff in
them. but it required care to deyelope it.
We hope Peayy may find another pair as
good. Lou. is not Gen. Grant nor Bonner,
but there is a good deal of "hoss" in his
taste for animals.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

We have lots of locals which we cannot
insert this week. ANY one calling on US
will be treated to the reading of them in
advance!
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

a man has an 8 gallon jug Of cider,
and wants to dispose OF gallons of it.
lie has only two measures. one holding
three gallons and another five. How can
he measure the cider?
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

LEcrURE.-We are requested to say
and it affords us much pleasure to do as
reauested--that Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton will address the people of Nc
Gregor, on Wednesday evening, March
Both, in the basement of the Methodist
Church. After the close of the lecture,
there will be refreshments furnished, and
good Sociable time isantieipated. Ladies
have charge of all this, from the lecture to
the close The receipts will 90 to the re-
lief of the Methodist Church now heavily
involved by the erection of their handsome
building.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
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My ~, &c, 81, II, Z, is one of the Unit,
ed States.
My |. q, %, II, 2, is useful in eating.
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20. 5, 10, 10, is city in italy.
. whole Is "A true saying.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

Dindery. TINES OFFICE now has
a Book-binder whose experience is 33 yrs.
All work seat TO us will be done in the
best style at rates entirely satisfactory.
Send in your Magazines and Book work.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
Weather. Markets, sc.

The weather is almost anything. Snow,
rain, freeze, mud, slush. What it may be
when our paper reaches you we cannot
tell.
Gold is being forced down by Govern
ment so rapidly as to involve all business
men in ruin for the benefit Of financial
cormorants. Simplicity says the decline
is sgood thing while "Greed" cheers
simplicity Tor its softness. We quote here
from the Chicago Journal, Of March 2lst.
Read it, and see where we are tending.
The spiders of Avarce and Government
gold pulcrs know what they are about.
A friend remarked to us the other day ut
will only require few months to wind all
business up. Scenes such as we read of
years ago when bread riots were prevalent
in England, will come to see us shortly"
The Journal says:
business of oil kinds is greatly de.
pressed in New York. Our dispatch
to,dav notes two significant facts: LIST,
That numerous stores in good localities
on the best business streets are for rent.
I'd, That over 100000 working men are
out of employment in that city,"
Allen corrects his Hide report; Peter
son & Larson their general market. There
is so little produce arriving, that QUOTA
tons are almost useless. If Wheat were
here, it would bring 60 to 70.
Harry Oglesbee, of the Eikader dry
goods h.use of Oglesbee & Ford, has dis
posed of his interest in the establishment
to his partner, Mr.. Ford, and is preparing
to look out home at some point farther
west Elkader will feel the loss Of Harry,
and the point at which he locates will
gain number one citizen. We wish him
success. Mr.. Ford will boss the house
hereafter, supplying old and new custom
ers on the most reasonable terms. Thanks,
Ambrose, for favors
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

The Advertiser, having been restored to health In
IA lew weeks, Uy very simple remedy, after having
SAIL red several years with severe lung affection
and that dread disease, Cousumption-is anxious to
make known to hIs ieiiow-suflerers the means of
10 all who desire it, he will send copy of the pre-
scrpton used ltree OF CHARGE with the directions
Tor preparing and using the same which they Will
find "a Sre Cars for Consumption, ASt,mS, Br0ncais.
ETC. The object OF the advertiser in sending the Pre-.
scrpon benefit the aiu icted. and spread
nation which he concsifts 10 he invaluable: and he
hopes every sufferer will try his remedy, it will
cost them nothing and may prove "a blessing.
Parties Wishing the prescription. will please adj
dress REV. EDWARD A. WILSON, W iliamsbnig,
Kings County New York. dS5y
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
Bloomington, I'LL, Nursery.

l9lh Year! 500 Acres! 10 Greenhouses
Largest, best stock and shipping facilities. APPLES,
l. : aud yea s. 1000 fine yr.. S25. APPLE ROOT
CRAFTS. choice. NURSERY rocks, Seeds Usage,
Apple, Peach. WILDGOoSE, Plum Usage HEDGE,
10 900 SIS. EVERtlREENS, ROSES, 1000. $500
Dahlias, Gladolus Tubercse, Greenhouse, Bending
Plants. Send Toe for catalogues
6m6SS FIX. PHOENIX.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

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My 3, |, 8, IA, is work for Monday.
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8 %, %, 3, is work for any day.
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spare moment.
My "a. 4, II, IL. is work for Sunday.
. Is, II, IL, Is, I, is work for dinner.
6 "a, >, ID, is fancy and the Films"
g l3, 20, 10, 9, 2, IL, ~, 5, is the
whole study Of class of men, &C., &c.
NV whole is a sure cure for blues.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
Home and Other Items.

Mr. Barnes, Principal of the McGregor
Schools, advises US that the general ex,
, animation will take place Wednesday
noon. At 2 P. NJ, on Friday, there will
be public exercises in the basement of the
NJ. Z. Church building. Prizes for
declarations, compositions and for
superiority in education will be awarded
by committees already chosen. About
$40 will be distributed to the successful
ones. We expect to be there. Let the
little folks come with confidence and
regard all their auditors as friends.
Mr.. Cartwright tells Mr. Watkins, by
letter, thar he will be here in warm
weather. The old divine shows sense as
to weather. We all hope to see him.
Court is in session at Ekader, Judge
Hunt presiding. Tompkins and Tan
(colored) went out on AL 'Canon's stage,
as Jurors Every ody here feels sorry
for Mr.. WILLIAM TAN. the gentl"maniy
c,lored citizen.
We have several communications which
it is impossible to notice this week.
Col. Bausenwein is in n. Y, looking
after the interests Of the DesMoines and
McGregor Railway.
St. Patrick had rather quiet time here
on Thursday last. He was very highly
honored in most other places.
Senator Newell writes us that he did not
introduce bill for a. Normal School 1t
McGregor. We will refer more partcu-
larIy to Homer's letter next week.
LAWYERS "FEScE"-It is in contem>
plation to pull up or saw off the spiiing
of the North McGregor temporary rail-
road bridge. Work will be begun this
week as early probably as Thursday. 1t is
moi certainly determined which plan will
be adopted, though we are told the pull
up process vii! be preferred. There is no
denying its usefulness during the past
winter. but when RATS begin to come
down, it will not do to dam the river
without danger of damning the "fence.'
We expect to hear the Allamakee speak to
this side in ten days at least Wen bet
on six days.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

McGregor, April It'll, 1869. G5l-6m
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
Puzzles.

L NLLsSss
We clip few from cur exchanges. 1t
is pleasure to us to get them up, and a
still greater pleasure to unravel them.
Some are Charades, and some Enigmas, so
called foolishly. All is enigma until
solved:
CHARADEs.
A lonely traveller, hungry and athirst,
Saw with delight the glimmer- of my first;
And urged his weary steed with word of
cheer,
Most thankful that my second was so near
When, cleaning from my mhole, my first
- seen,
A sailors heart is greatly cheered, ween.
My first is only used at night,
My second when the sun is bright:
My whole, without my first is nought
My first, my whole is oft without.
With all my letters, I'm IA name.
Take off one letter, and l am lndlspen-
sable to water mills.
Take off two and I'm one form of the
verb to be.
Take off three and am one thousand.
My whole was "big gum in early
history.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-25

growing out Of the seizure Of American
vessels upon the high seas, executing
American citizens without proper trial
and cOntiscatiug or embargolng the
property OF American citizens. Solemn
protests have been made against every
infraction Of the rights Of individual
citizens of the I'm ted States, or the rights
of our flag upon the high seas, and all
proper steps have been taken and are
pressed for the proper rcparaiion of ev-
cry indignity complained Of The ques-
ton OF belligerncy, however, which is 10
be decided upon definite principles and
according to ascertained facts, is entirely
different from, and unconnected with, the
other questions, Of the manner in which
the strife is carried on on both sides end
the treatment of our citizens entitled to
our protection. These questions concern
our dignity and responsibility, aud they
have been, as have said, the subject of
repeated Communications with Spain, and
of protests Of demands for redress on our
part. 1t is hoped that these will not be
disregarded, but should they be, these
questions will he made the subject of a
further communication to Congress.
Signed L. ;. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, June I3, 1870.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-25
Select POetrU.
Drama of the Widower.

SCENE l.
dying wife speaks TO herselfO
Every dog will have his day,
So will every man
SO let me tell him now the truth,
Tell him while can.
ITO her husband y
ayes, I'm dying, husband, dying
have had happy life
Don't pretend that you are crying,
You'll not be long without n wife.
shall rest in peace you wander,
In that country fur and fair,
Shirts are never made with buttons,
Stockings never need repair
You will find that your afilicliOn
Is a blessing in disguise
Resignation is duty
You will wipe your weeping eyes.
] shall find my youth renewing,
In that world so new and strange;
But on you will surely happen
just as wonderful a change.
All my eye ioresees already
Those becoming mournful suits
New and fashionable beaver
Polished manners-pOlished boots
Acts of pleasing nicely studied,
Former things all passed away,
Daily visits TO the barber
Hair that IS no longer gray"
(Hero she is interrupted by death. The
widower, gently overcome, is borne off, say
ing
ooh, my dear, darling, precious wife
She was the sweetest thing i'll life.
never shall another find
Exactly suited to my mind y
SCENE II.
"a night has passed away)
He asked for the scissors
To cut off her curls,
And while they turned round,
He winked at the girls
They went to the undertakers
To get her coffin,
And when they got back
The dog was laughing
They went to the graveyard
To bury their dead
And when they got back
He stood on his head.
SCENE III.
"Who comes here ?"
"A widower"
"What do you want?"
another dear r.
"Where's the other ?"
"Shes forgot
She rests in peace, but do not"
QHe siugs y
Oh "John Anderson, my io, john"
Is right good song, It's true;
But Darby and John were two old tools,
And for me that never would do;
For like to be off with the old love,
And I'd like to be on with the new.
So the night winds sighed, and the treee
above
Looked down on The same old story,
OF first wives gone to the kingdom of love
And second ones out in their glory.
Reproach him not, ye sisters
Nor deem the dead vile wronged,
He tho't upon no other while
To her he still belonged
"And while she lived, she lived in clover,
But-when she died, she died all over !!
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-25
Message From the President.
SENT TO CONGRESS- THE 10TH INST.

To the Senate and House Of Representatives.:
In my annual message to Congress at
the beginning of the present session, /
referred to a contest which had then eX-
isted for more than year IN the Island
of Cuba, between n portion OF its inhab-
itants and the government OF Spain, and
to the feelings and sympathles of the
people and government OF the United
States for the people of Cuba, as for all
people struggling for liberty and self
government-and said that contest has
at 10 time assumed conditions which
amount to war in the sense of inierna-
tional law, or which would show the ex-
istence of de tacto political organiza-
ton of insurgents sufficient to justi-
fly recognition of beligerents. Du-
ring the six months that has passed since
the date of my message, the condition OF
the insurgents has not improved, and
the iusurrection itself although not sub.
dued, exhibits no signs of advance but
seems to be confined to an irregular sys'
TEN of hostilities carried oil by small and
lilly armed bands of men roaming with
out concentration through the woods
and sparsely populated regions OF the
Island, attacking from ambush conveys
and small bands OF troops, and burning
plantations and the estates Of those not
sympathizing with their cause. But it
the insurrection has not gained ground,
it is equally true that Spain has not sup
pressed 1t. Climate, disease and an oc-
cassional bullet has worked destruction
among the soldiers Of Spain, and altho'
the Spanish authorities have possession
Of every seaport and every town on the
Island, they have not been able to sub
dus ths hostile fssliug which has driven
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-25

SINGULAR Tree.-A curious tree-or
double tree-is standing near the Fosto-
ria road, one mile west of this city. 1t
is an Elm tree and has two bodies, each
of which has taken firm root about tour
feet apart. Each body is about eighteen
inches in diameter, and extends up near
ly ten feet where both join, forming a
main body the same number of inches in
diameter-eighteen. Where the two
join there is no seam in the bark, it pre-
senting the same appearance that it does
elsewhere on the tree. One Of the bod
les, or legs of the tree, is perfectly
straight, only slightly inclining towards
its mate, while the other is slightly bent
at the knee, or center, somewhat like the
position of the leg ofa fashionable young
man, when he stands on one leg and
gracefully bends the other to give him an
appearance of standing at his ease. The
tree is quite a curioSitY.-1E6in Tribune.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-25

LoYG CoCRTsHIPs.-"Mary Myrtle"
comes down in the following style up
on those bashful swains who dowdle and
dangle, wear out the girls patience and
good clothes, make protracted meeting
Of their halcyon and never summons cour.
age errbugh to pop the question and ques-
tion the Pop. Ifthere is anything more
dishcarteniug 10 woman than long
courtship, | have yet to discover it.
From the woman who marries for home
and there are far too many who do it
to the fair creature who marries for love,
there are thousands who are kept in sus-
pense for years, not knowing whether
the man whom they expect TO marry is
really going to propose or not. 1t is very
certain that long courtships seldom re-
suit III matrimony. 1t generally happens
that the faults of both parties are made
evident, and the desire for separation is
mutual. But no young Tor old) man has
any right TO monopolize the attentions
of lady for years and then coldly dis
miss her. BY SO doing he possibly pre-.
vents her from marrying some one who
would be glad to have her, and acts part
Of which no gentleman will. So, gentle
men, when you have decided that the la
dy is worthy of your choice land don't be
too long about i) "pop the question"
aud set her heart TO rest.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-06-25

HARD TINES IN UTAH.--From present
prospects we may look for continuance
Of tight times in this country. There
never was a period in the history of this
Territory when business men experienced
such difficulty in getting along as they
do at present, and the laboring man finds
it equally hard. Work is scarce, money
and other good pay is much more scarce.
There appears to be general slackness
or stagnaton in business east, west, north
and south in other States and Territories
as well as this. The dull times are not
altogether owing to the scarcity of grain
and other produce in the country on
which to live, for of these there are plen-
ty yet-but rather to the general incli-
nation which prevails to take in sail. Cir
cumstances evidently are shaping in such
a manner as to compel us to board and
ciothe ourselves; and instead of import
ing everything, raise something to e1-
port, or at least, supply our own demand.
Salt Lake Ne,cs.