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North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

Mrs. Cox disapprove of the round
dances, and do not allow their daughters
to join in them. ...Agassiz is suffering
from nervous prostration to such an ex.
tent that his physicians have enjoined
entire abandonment Of intellectual labor
for a long time to come.
Mr.. Hammond, father of the Mayor Of
Genesee, ILL.,, is ninety.four years of age,
and has been Mason for seventy years
He was born in Newton, Mass. =. The
Lynchburg Virginian urges that if Gen
Lee goes to Europe in the spring for
the benefit Of his health, he be made
the agent there of the Virginia Inning.
ration Society.
A negro named George Washington
Bolivar eloped form Galesburg the other
day with a white woman named Dollie
Henderson.
The Mississippi river steamer, Emma,
No. 3, was burned on Saturday at Is
land IS, near Fort Pillow. Twelve pas
sengers (among them five ladies), six
officers and the crew were lost.
A New York correspondence from Salt
Lake City reveals the fact that the passage
of the act to give woman suffrage in Utah
was the work both of the Mermons and
the Gentiles, the Legislature which passed
it being Mormon, and the Governor who
signed it being Gentle. The two parties
entertain different views of the way in
which it will work.
Father Hyacinthe has remained silent
since his return to France. 1t is asserted
on reliable authority that he will be re-
lieved by the pepe from the obligation Of
of his VOW as Carmelitc monk, and be
permitted to continue in holy orders as an
ordinary priest.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

The Mormon schisIn is widening, and
the interest in the matter is increasing.
The horse railroads of Massachusetts,
carried four million passengers more than
the steam railways last year.
The great secret of mental education is
not, as is too generally supposed, the
storing Of the mind, but the making of it.
Mrs. Darlington has been reading the
health officers weekly reports, and thinks
"totar' must be an awful malignant dis.
ease, since as many dies Of it as all the
rest put together.
Josh Billings says, "Any business firm
that hasn't got sand enough in its craw to
expend few dollars in making it's bust
ness known to three, or four thousand
people, ought to pack up and 70 psddling
peanuts."
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

LADY JANE GRAr.-Lady Jane Gray
was queen Of England for only 10 days.
1t happened in this way: Lady Jane was
the daughter of the Duke of Suffolk and
Lady Frances Brandon. She was born in
1887, and she possessed great beauty and
talents. At l6 she was married to Lord
Gailfsrd Dudley. Edward vi. was per-
suaded by Lady James friends to make
deed Of settlement, leaving the crown
to Lady Jane, aud setting aside Mary and
Elizabeth and Mary, Queen Of Scots. On
the death Of Edward, Lady Jane was
proclaimed queen, and up to this time
was ignorant of the conspiracy. The
English rallied to the support Of Mary.
who became queen after the defeat of
Lady JAMES friends. By Mary's warrant,
she and her husband, Dudley, were exc
cuted.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23


PRAcrIcAL.-A member Of the English
Parliament has introduced bill or prop
osition TO authorize the restoration Of the
old Irish Parliament, giving the counties
the rights of states and their representa-
tiyes the domestic law.making powers Of
the Island. \ The Government Of Great
Britain to be supreme in all matters af'
fecting national interests. This move hal
. practical look to US and its adoption vii
do world Of good in quieting the Irish
people. The British must move soon il
dealing justly with people who arr
driven to desperation BY memory Of thei
wrongs, and at the same time are awaken
ing the sympathies Of all nationalities.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

It fl refreshing 10 find republican
paper possessed to 'speak right out in
meeting,n when occasion demands
that expression Of its sentiments. The
Dispatch OF Wednesday evening says:
The Administration asks of Con-
gress three hundred and thirty-one
million dollars for the expenses of the
Government for the ensuing year.
This is enormous; and q Republican
Congress should 80 regard 1t. =
The President, Cabinet and Congress
should understand that the people are
groaning under their burdens. They
demand relief and demand only their
rights. We agree with the Springfield
Republican that 'every dollar that
Congress votes and the Government
expends over three hundred millions
year ought to transfer voter from
the Republican to the opposition col
umn; and it will be likely to do it
too"
IS Now, the above looks fair and man.
ly, and undoubtedly reflects the views
Of everybody who is not directly BEN
Gifted by extravagant appropriations;
but it is all idle wind, sensless vapor-
ing. Congress will vote away the
peoples money just as recklessly as
before, and these protesting journals
will be found arrayed in hostility to
every effort of the people to help
themselves changing their representa-
tives. If the amount demanded is not
promptly appropriated by Congress,
the Departments will still continue to
expend whatever they desire, and the
amount in excess of present appropri-
atoms will be embraced in enormous
deficiency bills of the next session.
Thus the people will continue to be
plundered. Paul Pioneer.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

CHICAGO JOURNAL.-We are so much
pleased with the JOURNAL that we can
not avoid commencing it to our readers
Its daily is the only business medium
looked after here-a-way and, as we learn
throughout the line Of road west for a
long distance. It's news items are well
gathered and condensed, its print is
clear and in all respects it is model
In politics, considerably out Of our taste
but what of that ? all people are not
organized alike and why wrangle about
it we are satisfied with the variation
if others are. The Journal is a welcome
visitor
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

A head properly constituted can &C.
commodate itself to whatever pillows the
vicissitudes of fortane may place un.
der it. -
The story of man who had nose SO
large that he couldn't blow it without
the use Of gundowdsr, is said to be .
hoax. ss
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

Another virtue has been discovered for
the Chinese-they don't drink whisky.
Remarkable presence of mind was
shown by man employed in an Indiana
saw-mill, who, when his coat-tail was
caught in revolving shaft, clasped his
arms about post. and allowed his outer
garment to be skinned off his back in the
twinkling of an eye. s
A little four'year>old in Richmond,
very fond Of certain dish, when asked
by his mother If he wouldn't like to be an
angel with wings, and fly about heaven
like his little dead brother, replied after q
pause, "No, Ma I'd heap rather be .
hawk, and live on chicken n
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23
A Singular Scene..A Female Visitor to q
New York Church Receives Tele.
Gram from Heaven.

N SluS ul6T OCencssA TcIn8lc lSIlOr u u
New York Church Receives Tele.
tram from Heaven.
Among the people assembled yesterday
morning in the John Street NJ. E. church,
sat woman whose hands seemed to
tremble with nervous excitement. Her
lips were tightly shut, as if she had some
thing in her mouth which was trying to
get out; and it presently did get out.
The Rev. DR.. Corbitt rose, as usual, to
deliver his Sunday morning sermon, and
I as he did so, the nervous woman rose too.
She informed the congregation that she
had received special telegram from heav-
en-, in which the Lord Jesus Christ had
commissioned her to warn the people of
coming judgment, and to preach to them,
as did Paul of old to King Felix, on
righteousness, temperance, and the judg-
ment to come. The Rev. DIR. Corbitt in
terrupted her with a rebuke for thus
breaking in upon his sermon with her
news from heaven. She temporarily SUBJ
sided, and the reverend doctor finished his
sermon.
At its close he pulled out huge bed
quilt from behind the pulpit, spread it
over his desk so that the congre CATION
might sufficiently admire its white and
yellow designs, and remarked that it had
been made and presented to the mission
airy society by an old woman who is 8S
years Of age, and who has read her bible
through lis times. If any of the con-
gregation wished to purchase it, they
might do go. This was glorious oppor-
tunity, he said, for showing their graft
tude to God. An offce-bearer in the
church presented himself as the purchas-
er, and the quilt was knocked down to
him. The money is to 60 to the mission
airy society, and to quilt to the Sunday
school.
But no sooner had the quilt been dis.
posed of, than the woman with tho nerv-
Gus excitement rose again. She wanted
to know, she said, if she hadn't the right
to say word for Jesus and His cause.
She wanted to know if she couldn't act in
accordance with the telegram which she
had received from heaven? DR.. Corbitt
strongly exrostulated with her, but she
refused to listen. Bro. Bently offered to
show her to the door, and then her wrath
broke out. She had been denied stand
ing room on holy ground, and she wsuld
now 20 but she would first strike the
dust from her feet. She shook every pars-
ticle of dust off accordingly, and left the
church, cursing the pastor, the people,
the house, and the quilt.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

Congress was lively yesterday /; for Gen.
Logan introduced the batch of proof that
has been expected for some days, proving
Representative Whittemore, of South
Carolina, to have been guilty of selling
cadetships in West Point. Whittemore
was a minister, and his introduction to
South Carolina was in the guise Of an
agent Of the Freedmen's Bureau. He ad>
mits receiving the money Isl 500, but
declares, in extenuation, that he held it
only as custodian, and used it conciea-
tiously "for the relief of the poor of his
district" This plea could not be admitted,
because it might just az plausibly be used
to cover any fraud or corruption $50 the
committee brought in a unanimous report
of guilty and recommended immediate
expulsion. As there are several others in
the same fix, it is not certain whether
they will combine to secure Whittemore's
aoquital on his plea-which is probably
also theirs-or Join in the howl against
him, hoping the House will be satisfied to
make him a scape goat for the joint ras'
cality. The culprit is to be heard at the
bar of the House, at three o'clock to-
morrow. The fact that such on unprinci-
pied adveuturer as M. D. Landon is mixed
up with the case, ought to secure White
more's expulsion, even if the committee
had relied on circumstantial evidence
alone. We trust, with much confidence,
that the fact that Whittemore is, a Repub
lican, and loud in his phiianthropicAl pro.
fessions for the negro. will have no inau.
ence on the hearing, unless it be to make
the investigation more searching, and the
verdict more Chicago Post Rep.
Admissions of radical villainy continu,
to be reported through their own organs
| We are surprised at their honesty in con
fession, but trust they win continue il
we'll doing. Hunt them up, Mr.. Post ant
skin them.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23
THE WIFE AT HOME TO HER HUS.
BAND in THE LEGISLATURE,

Husband, dear husband, come home to me now
From the city and State House SO warm,
IT'S lonely without you W by do you not come
And see to the things on tn farm,
You told me, when you elected last fall,
If would but once let you 20,
You'd surely return before April was past
And really believed 'twould be go.
Come home! come home! come home!
Dear husband kind husband, como home.
Husband dear husband, come ONE to me now,
Come home e'er the spring time is through;
The old brindle COW has got a white calf, =
And the young lambs are bic ating for you;
The hens have been setting fortnight or more,
They soon will be off with their breods,
The old speckled turkey has stolen her nest
Away in the brakes of the woods,
Come home, etc.
Husband. dear husband, come home to me now,
The garden needs spadiug fer peas,
The boys should be picking up stones In thu Let,
And you should be trimming tho trees.
When will you get through with bills and resolves
Stop talking of license and rum,
Of railroads and tunnels, and other sue things
And tend to your business at home.
Come home, etc.
Husband, dear husband, don't write to me more,
OF the theatre, lobby, and club,
Nor of dinners you've eaten at Parker's Youngs,
But hurry away from the Hub.
Yes, hurry back home your Betsy sad,
Her heart is so honest and true
All winter she's slept in the bedroom alone,
And say dearest husband, have your
Come home ETC.
Husband, dear husband, com home to now,
Come homo, while the birds sing in May:
And let NIT the smiles In the gallery til
Distract you, or tempt you to stay.
The voice OF your Betsy IL calling you now,
Come home, for you know what II means,
I'm getting quite nervous about you-come home!
And we will have sowslips for green's!
Come home! come home come home!
Dear husband, kind husba nd come home.
BETSY JANE.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

DR.. Chaplin says that every young lady
ought to jump at the chance Of marrying
q mechanic.
The champion lazy man idoes all his
reading in autumn, because the season
tarns the leaves.
A letter from member Of the family
of ex- Senator Grimes, in Iowa, received q
few days ago, says that Mr.. Grimes 10 bet
ter than he has beea at any previous tim Q
since he left Paris, several months ago,
and that he is steadily Improving.
A seasons expenses Of the various base
ball clubs in this country amount to over
$4,000, 900.
Sunday well observed blesseth the
whole week.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

The Wooden Mills, near Lansing, are
in process of speedy repair. H. Q. Day
ton, the late, and the present, president OF
the Company, has returned from a long
eastern business trip with Wooden Ma.
chinery which The writes us) can
not be exeelled. We are glad the Milton
Mills ESQ called) on Village Greek, are
recovering from the fire Of last year, and
we are equally pleased to know that SC
energetic . manager as Mr.. Dayton il
retained by the Company. If work,
economy in resources and Judgment in
expenditures will succeed, the company
have guarantee in their past business
acquaintance with their executive officer.
A slip from the Waukon Standard
programme, rather-advises US of The
atrical entertainment, to be given at Mil.
ton, March I'd, for the benefit of the Mil.
The play is sThe Hidden Hand" most
popular one, closing with that dreadful
farce called Family Jars" The actors
are oil Allamakee-ists; we see the names
of Adams, Isted, Paulk, jr., w. z. Earle,
Barnard and others with whom we are
acquainted. The actresses are in mum
Der, all unmarried ladies except Mrs. D.
w. Adams, who plays "Capitola," the
principal part. We congratulate Alama-
kee Co. on her dramatic spirit as well as
her interest in the institation to be bene'
fitted. If possible, we will be there to
see, s a
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

InuA Book About Words" an ex-
PLANTATION IL given Of the phrase :
Thine tailors make q man." In the
oiden time the strokes of the passing
hell were called sTellers," and as
tie nine strokes indicated the death of
z nan while three announced that OF
= child. and six that of woman, the
worde mine ,tellers" were easily con-
verted into nine tailors.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23
CitV Election,

Oh Monday, the eth day of March next, there will
be elestion held in the different Wards Of the City
Of McGregor, for q Mayor, Marshal, Treasurer, and
for one Trustee in each Ward.
The Trustees in the different Wards will select the
place and superintend said election.
The Board of Registry will meet at tho Clerks
Once on the 2Sth inst to correct the Register when
eli those interested are requested to attend.
February 14th, 1870.
o9e D. BAUGH, City Clerk.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23
Original Notice.

STATE OF IOWA, CLAYTON CouNTY-ss.
WIN. Fillmore, In the District Court Of said
Vs. r, County, May Term, 1870.
To the above named defendant:
You are hereby notified that the plaintiff. VIM
Fillmore, has now on file petition In the Once Of
the Clerk of the District Court of Clayton County
10 the state OF Iowa. claiming Of you divorce from
following described premi ses-The west fractional
part of Lot No. 4, in Block No. "a, Monona Village,
noon of the second day of the term of said
court, commencing the 10th day OF May. A.D.1s70,
your default will be taken and judgment rendered
| thereon.
4w697 BAKER BROS Prh 8 Attys.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

A young man named Henry Van
Evers, Of Davenport, committed suicide
there by jumping into the river recent
ly. He left behind him. the following
note:
Dear mother mourn not for me, am
not going to leave you long, and am
not going far, | am just going on the
other side of the wave. This earth is
hard and cold, it has no attractions for
me. / know that / am going homo,
yes, home to Jesus, he loves poor sin
ners such as me, and / fancy / can see
him now ready to take me in his arms,
and bid me welcome to my new home,
where there will be no sorrow or grief,
and where all will love each other.
There will be no GOODNESS there but it
will all be peace and JOY and love, there
will be no parting, and now dear moth
er can you blame me for going to such
bright place.
Here is the high order Of spiritualis-
tic development. Who would stay here
and try to meet short notes, bear with
the cholic, the tooth ache and "the
thousand ills which flesh is heir to-
when he can see Elysium and DEAD
HEAD himself to that world which he
has been taught to think of more than
he has been educated in the practical
duties Of life. We owe duties to the
living, and a little patience will enable
us all to die.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23
ssRecollections of a Lazy Life"

Nose Skinner, in his "Recollections of
a Lazy Life" thus diseources, after an.
nouncing the death of his wife, Tabitha:
Thus my wife died. No more would
those loving hands pull off my boots and
part my back hair, as emily a true wife
can. No more would those willing feet
replenish my coal-hod and water pail. No
more would she arise mid the tempestuous
storms of winter and gaily HE herself
away to build the fire without disturbing
the slumbers Of the man who dotted on
her SO artless.y. Her memory is en-
balmed in my heart Of hearts. / wanted
to embalm her body tut / found that
could embalm her memory cheaper.
procured of Eli Mudgett, a neighbor
of mine, very pretty gravestone His
wife was censumptive, and he had kept it
on hand for several years in expectation Of
her death. But she rallied that spring,
and his hopes were dashed. Never shall
I forget this poor mans grief when I ask
ed him to part with this gravestone.
"Take it Skinner" said he "tlke it, and
may you never know what it is to have
your soul racked with disappointment ~
mine has been," and he burst into flood
of tears. His spirit was indeed utterly
crushed.
l had the following epitaph engraved
upon the gravestone:
To the memory Of
TABITHA.
Wife of Moses Skinner, Esq, the gentle
manly editor of the Trombone.
A kind mother and exemplary wife.
Terms SEA year invariably in advance.
Office over Hanson's grocery, up two
flight. Knock hard.
We shall miss thee mother;
We shall miss thee, neither;
job printing solicited.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

If the British troops are withdrawn
from Canada, what will become of that
composite bantling? Will it be gobbled
by the Fenians, and reconstructed as an
Irish republic, or will it gravitate to-
ward a union with the great Yankee
Republic ? The probability is that, if
the British troops are taken away, the
Dominion will expire from fright.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

Lord c., whose popularity was
not excessive in the Scotch town of
A, having refused an importunate
beggar, she renewed her application
with, "Now, me lord, if ye'd just give
me one little sixpence I could treat
every friend ye have in town? ?"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

hears much dings about de burg
lars, all de vile; hears tey prakes stores
into 'em very much. Veil, l drinks l
vixes 'em SO de oder dime dey goomes
to my store, dey no-goom at all. So /
puys pig 'orse-pistel, and fastens it NIT
de floor, wild der moozle pointing to te
door then l fastens string NIT ter
trigger, and runs it. up NIT ter vail and
down NIT der floor; so ven Mr.. Purglar
opens himself NIT der door, Wy, if he
pillow de brains out, with de bistel, !
can't help it; don't he? Veil, Won day
I left te door pointing at de moozle Of
ter bistol, NIT two pullets in it, and
goes out to drink some lager nit ter
poys. I xomedimes drinks too much
lager. Veil, can't help it, don't ?
/ pore mineself into more as twenty
sixteen klass lager, and den I goes
home. Ven bass mine shtore, I dink
/ better ash look in and see if nothing
pese all right. That is right, don't it ?
If it don't can't help it. / forgets all
about ter pig 'orse-bistel, and ven /
opens myself NIT ter door, shoost gets
Won pullet through my elbow, und Won
pullets to my hat through it all de
viles. Vos I scarf? Veil, if vas
cant help it, amt it l vas NOT skare,
but 1 never any more sets bistel- draps
for de burglars, don't L?
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

p.h,x ior ye.LS ron Ssrsoas
youthful WILL for the sake Of suffering hu-
manity, send Tree to all who need it, the receipt and
directions for making the simple remedy by which he
cured. Sufferers wishing proht BY the advsr.
Users experience, do BY sddreesing, Nth per-
feet confidence, JOHN b. OGDEN.
685y No. ~ Cedar Street, New York.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23

During passage of arms between
two Senators in the General Assembly,
the other day, the following leaked
out:
Senator Bullis-Why talk about
erecting an expensive building (Capi-
toD at such time as this, when the
finances of the country are growing
more depressed, and our constituents
already struggling under the burdens
OF taxation. 1t has been only two or
three days since the honorable Sena-
tor, from Polk, (Mr. Allen) than whom
no man knows better, offered a resolu-
ton praying for Congress to pass an
act to relieve our financial embarrass-
ment. Now, sir, if these are facts
and no man will deny that our people
are loaded down with taxation-why,
sir, will gentlemen presssthis matter :?
want to get out of this charmed
circle, and breathe once more the pure
fresh air before vote upon this ques-
ton. have heard nothing but Capt.
toll appropriation since have been
here. have had it in my hash, in
my coffee, and had it preached to me
from the pulpit.
Senator Newell was going to re-
mark that Capitol hash had operated
very much against the gentleman from
Winneshiek, (Mr. Bullis) very much
like doze Of hive syrup operates on a
baby that has the Group. 1 wish to
suggest to the gentleman that in re-
gard to taxation for the purpose of
building Capitol he has altogether q
mistaken idea; from the present re-
port we see that there is enough mon
ey set aside from year to year to pro-
vide for the charitable Institutions,
leaving large balance which can be
used for the erection of State Capt.
toll.
Senator Bullis--I am obliged to the
gentleman for his correction. I think
it is well for him to be making cor
rections, for understand he has been
in this business Of nauseating babies for
some time. / tell you, sir, it matters
not how much money there is in the
Treasury, it takes a large amount to
pay for the stealings that come out Of
this appropriation.