Jones County Liberal (Newspaper) - February 6, 1873, Monticello, Iowa JOB PRINTING rr with Neatness SATISFACTION ' i tt ' i i ' ' ' * ( ' ' I i l t t s - jio M BM fl lf O it * tt B nt IT MI LIBERAL PRINTING WH Vint VOL. 6,1873. NO. 20. NEWS Congressman B. B. of New baa put Ids for West Point up for competition among 1,600 scholars in the two public grammar schools in his district in Mew BOBB while the evidence of Ames hi the Credit the other Thank God I am not a As bad as they Bay I they have never accused me of selling my vote as a - I George Francis Train has ' caught fever ague in the New York but he persists in living on prison fare and all often of He says he not quit the until the merits of his cause release The Gilbert d Railway of New haa with the New York and BoBton Iron Company to build five milts of at $ 1,000,000 per It is announced that Commodore has his underground railroad V - ' - A monument has beon placed in Greenwood New to the memory of the gifted Cary The the monument originated with the late Horace who started a subscription The Pennsylvania Senate lias by a vote of 25 to 1, Senators Scott and Cameron to vote against the Postal Telegraph when it comes before the United States Tho trial of Bosa of New resulted in a disagreement of the who stood 11 for acquittal and 1 for O. of recently shot his little daughter and then killed domestic Butler haa written a sympathetic letter to Mrs. The Capt. the Modoc recently attacked Col. Bernard's and waa Tho white settlors are greatly apprehensive of raids by the and many families are The a daily German Republican paper at St. haa been Bold under the Sheriff's hammer for $ 12,600. a machine was lately murdered by a Perry county ( because he refused to pay for a drink of John J. the new Kansas vice ia a a native of Essex and ia 38 years He resides in Negroes from the South are being introduced into the cool mines at New to supply the places of the striking white This being the first attempt to the difficulty of the strikes hi this the result is looked upon with considerable Advices from California state that Capt. the troublesome chief of the Modoc after having been shelled by United States has been shot and wounded by some of his own treacherous who were dissatisfied with his want of vigor in the conduct of the It is added at liis two officers have gone to hold a big talk with Senator lay appeared before the Judge of the United States District at on the let and gave bail in $ 20,000 for his appearance at the June term of the A rumor ban been prevalent that the fallen Senator is a raving and that his life IB despaired of. Three incendiaries were recently hung by vigilante at Arrow Mo. Hon. Joel A. ex- Governor ot died t the residence of his in- R. E. in on the 81st aged His death resulted from injuries received more than a year ago by being thrown from hie Mrs. of has been to five imprisonment in the Illinois Penitentiary for the by of Calvert Three laborers were the other by tho caving of an embankment on the Milwaukee and St. Paul near A lot of at recently engaged in a fierce encounter with knives and pistols about a in which three were killed and a number The Liberals of Cincinnati have held a meeting and resolved to organize on the principles of the Cincinnati San Francisco has hod a Blight earthquake Two murderers were recently hung by a vigilance committee at The ' A difficulty recently occurred in Foraythe between a number of United States Deputy Marshals and citizens charged with violating the revenue in which five shots were One citizen was killed and two Deputy Marshals were 8. B. has been elected United States Senator from Twentyseven Democrats voted for C. H. a leading and one of the most prominent citizens of New is aged 41. He wan a Captain in the famous Washington Commodore Matthew Fontain celebrated for bis researches into the physical geography of the and for the discovery of laws of meteorological died on tho 1st at aged 67. The House Commerce Committee has agreed tho relieving goods imported hi French bottoms of differential While the restoring pensions to the soldiers of the war of 1812 who resided in the rebellious States during the late civil war was being considered in the the other Gen. Butler made a brief but earnest speech in advocacy of the He said those old veterans should have their even if during the rebellion they were led to sympathize with and ended by hoping that the time was near when the New Orleans of 1812 would be remembered and the New Orleans of 1862 He was loudly applauded several times by the Southern who gathered around and the Speaker made no attempt to suppress the The friends of the Postal Telegraph scheme claim secured a sufficient number of votes in the Senate to pass the whenever they can get it Even if it is eaid that the has no chance in the It is stated that President has decided to appoint a commission to treat with the Modoc The President has signed the act abolishing the franking and it will go into effect July 1. The by on almost unanimous has relieved several prominent rebels of including William A. of North Secretary of the Confederate John editor of the Mobile and Buchanan's Minister to and D. C. formerly leading member of Congress of The following is the public debt statement for ' Six per bonds 3tM* 8,700 Five per bondi 414, debt tender notes of Fractional currency Coin ToUl without Inter t 461,337,332 Total debt 3, MM $ 448,8M Cub In the coin I Currency 7,007,484 deposit held for the redemption Mp m ooo 9B, a OM Debt lex cart in was by a terrific hurricane on the 18th causing Jhe destruction of nearly $ 1,000,000 worth during the - I lo tbe Railroad payable to lawful principal 6a, 5U. W lateral not yet paid 5S-!"' K paid by United States 18,509,380.00 repaid by transportation of etc 4,118,488.75 Balance of Interest paid by United 14,890,84S. M Senator health continues to improve Rev. Adam the distinguished English is aged 85. The cable assures for the 99Mb that the Carlist insurrection hi Spain la completely The Italian Government has seized u convents in The yellow fever is raging in Bio A rumor comes by the cable that the differences between Great Britain and Russia on the Khivan question are and that the Governments of Denmark and Sweden have determined to support the British Government in ita King Lunalilo haa been unanimously elected King of Hawaii by a popular ' The Tichborne claimant has entered into recognizance in 2,000 to answer to the Court of Queen's Bench on a charge of for his speech at two members of the International Society were the other day in Pauline Lucca's petition to the Emperor of Germany for a remittal of the fine of 6,000 against her for breaking her contract with the Berlin Opera House has been A numerously attended meeting of slave owners and others waa held at Havana on the evening of the 28th ult. Several speeches were in many different views of the slavery question were and in favor of its abolition were Several hitherto considered uncompromising slavery gav expression to very liberal to the great astonishment of the audience. Russian feeling is being wrought into a war fever by stories of atrocious outrages committed by the upon their Russian Expeditions are being formed to avenge these and the excitement has spread among the many of whom have volunteered to accompany the Glasgow is subscribing liberally for a monument to the poet It ia reported that American of London loaned Napoleon $ 200,000 to facilitate a coup he was and that his death the money has been returned to News from Dr. Livingstone health as much The Queen of Spain has given birth to a bouncing Thiers refuses to accept the constitutional project submitted to him by the Committee of Thirty of the Over 120 Internationalists have been arrested hi a suburb of Ex- Empress widow of is reported in a dying condition at Randolph tho American has been made a member of the Koman Academy of St. the first citizen of the United States who baa received this a fortified city of has been the scene of a fierce in which 13 Bulgarians and 10 Greeks were It was the Spanish steamer as was surmised from the that ran down the Northfleet in the English the other She was not damaged in the least by the and has arrived at Cadiz in perfect Lisbon was her real but as her officers and crew on landing there would have been immediately arrested under the extradition law between Great Britain and ' JAM. 28. At 111.- The fine residence of B. E. known as the Matteson about 1126,000; insured 000... Vaughn A Son's agricultural implement 910,000. Murray A s ( 80,000; 986,000. Washington The National Theater Was totally and the Imperial seriously total about 140,000... LaBarge s 42,000,.... Iowa St. l - J * i * tannery of ing a loas of Ma 8eth Norwood A a shoe factory was partially and a number of workmen ware severely injured JAN. 30'.' The Excelsior Coffin $ 80,000.... $ 15,000.... ' $ 40,000.... New Thompson's Sugar $ 200,000. St. loss about * 18,000. JAN. 31. At Nearly the entire business portion of the wa involving a pecuniary loas of over $ 100,000 A number of tenements were rendering homeless some ten 1 At A Sou's woolen $ 100,000 New 7* 0,; Tho residence of Alexander Mr. his brother two little children were burned to a supposed to be the of an A portion of the Boyal Military Academy was $ 250,000... N. The Stark Knitting $ 40,000. 2. At N. $ 80,000. The Pacific Flouring Mills were totally $ 20,000... The mill and forge of the Lake Erie Iron Company's Boiling - Mills were loss ( The Credit The cashier of where Colfax keeps hia account waa ordered to appear with his books before the committee on the 20th A Washington dispatch It will be remembered that the check which Ames swears he gave Coif payable to S. or for $ 1.200, June 28,1868, was charged to account the same day as on the private books of the at- Mr. Golf ax appeared a second time before the committee and swore in the moat impressive and emphatic manner that he had never received this check or the proceeds There were over 100 people in the committee room day when the cashier opened his books to the pages where Mr. Colfax s accounts were There was a perfect hush in the room as tho members of the committee ran over the dates and When Judge Poland pointed out to the cashier a sum of over $ 1,900 deposited June 22,1868. and the cashier to produce the deposit ticket for the stillness became and when the ticket waa produced and found to be in Mr. Colfax's and the flint ' item entered was bank notes of $ 1,200, no one spoke or moved or seemed to breathe for a which appeared to all a full and for several minutes all movements and tones and impressions ia the room were such as are seldom seen or heard or felt I There Is much speculation and a wide variety of opinion aa to the report of the Poland committee ' lawyers in have been i against men WK from and that if such charges were it would be out of the province of the second Congress to discipline members for what tras done during the session of the Fortieth Judge Poland has openly declared that the committee would not whitewash and may perhaps declare Mr. Ames unfit to occupy a seat in and indirectly recommend his The feeling against Ames is ao great that he would - be expelled in a moment if a decent pretext could be 1 Jan. 28. A to 1 a to investigate the charges - ( the in connection ' the Credit which was offered at his was only one the voting In The amendment to the providing for representation of the United at tbe Vienna Imposition waa concurred in. The to pay Julian for grounds In that country occupied by our hospital persons whoso loyalty la was agreed amendment raining tbe salaries of Assistant Register and Architect of the Treasury Secretary of tho tho nf of Indian of of of and of the General Land Auditor of the Treasury and and of the Superintendent of the Honor Order Department and Foreign to 14,000 each per WM An amendment to raise tile of to 17,000 was The wan mainly in debate on the for the admission of which did not come to a Jan. 29. A motion to reconsider amendment to the Legislative Appropriation Increasing the salaries of Assistant waa A motion to strike out of the $ 10,000 appropriated for extra WM agreed An amendment for reducing the force in the was agreed Tho for the admission of Colorado was laid on the table by a vote of 107 to 61. In tho Florida contented election case the committee reported that was entitled to the Tbe report was agreed A report waa received from the Credit Mobilier Committee that 3. B. of refused to answer questions on the ground that the answers would call out confidential communications between counsel and which were The committee moved for an order that the at- Arms tako Stewart into subject to further order of the House An amendment to have Stewart brought forthwith before the House to show cause why he should not be committed to answer for contempt was agreed to and tho resolution as amended Jan. 30. The exempting mineral lands in Wisconsin and Minnesota from the operation of the act to promote the mineral resources of the United States wa amendment to tho Appropriation prohibiting unless by pedal act of of judgments of the Cour of Claims to claimants whose loyalty during the rebellion had not been proved was tho Merrill amendment waa then agreed and tho Legislative Appropriation act A restoring to the pension rolls th names of of the war of 1812, stricken ol because of their aiding the waa passed the witness before tho Credit Mobil lo who refused to answer wai brought to the bar by the at- Anm and In He claimed the privilege as sel exempted him from obligation to t resolution was then adopted that his answer was In and that he be in A resolution wu offered providing for the retention of Stewart in custody of the 8ergeant- at- Arms he shall have appeared before the committee am answered aU proper A substitute order Inn him to be committed to the jail of the and kept in close confinement until released b purging himself of hin th or by order of tho House was an Total coin $ 1.716,016,000 I she carried her cargo to a Spanish port. This may enable her officers to escape all punishment for an act of blooded inhumanity equal to the worst of those that rendered infamous the Spanish buccaneers of 300 years The Spanish Government has officially notified Minister Sickles that no steps will be taken to abolish slavery in Cuba mutil the insurrection in that island has been There according to the recent census 269,000 slaves in the The great Vienna Exposition building is An incipient revolution in Hayti has been discovered and and five of the plotters among tho engineers and firemen of the has been ended by the interference of the and the striking workmen at the point of the to resume The isles have been by a storm of extraordinary In snow fell to a great and travel wae almost wholly The gale raged with great fury all around the English and Irish Many wrecks have already been and there haa been a fearful lose of especially off Torquay and around the Sicily The highest rate for telegraphic dispatches from any two points in the United is hereafter to be $ 2.50 for ton instead of as at This regulation mainly applies to dispatches between the Atlantic and Pacific The rates between Western cities and California been but not hi the same The last rail on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad has been thus completing the lino from W. on the Ohio to the The competition between the three trunk railroad selling tickets between Cincinnati and New York and has ended by a whereby all resume the regular Tickets for the round trip were sold as low as 98 before the compromise was The Atlantic Mail Steamship Company ( Havana to New has audits steamers and other effects are to be sold under the Died of It IB proposed to tunnel and Mississippi riven near their in order to facilitate railway A company for that purpose has been with a capital of 910,000,000, and has applied to Congress for an act of Preparations for the celebration of the centennial anniversary of American Independence at Philadelphia nave been intrusted to a committee of 300 leading At a meeting of this the other 9189,000 were making 9600,000 promised by Philadelphia for the The City Council la asked to appropriate 91,000,000 from tlie city and are invited from every citizen of the United There ii an in the public debt for month of January of 9* 06,348. except in the presence of Mr. Colfax still insists that he never bad that check from and never received its He says he now received a aum approximating $ 1,000 from a and ho has telegraphed night for The general verdict upon the case of Senator Logan is that he occupies about the most enviable place of all those who actually had stock carried for as he never received a single cent advantage upon - the a very few days after receiving the check for $ 329, the first surplus due him after the par value of the stock and interest on it were he returned tho The most important next to the matter concerning Mr. were in the Wilson and appeared in the to seriously compromise F. of Government Director of the road A Washington dispatch of the 39th Judge Poland's Credit Mobilier Investigation Committee waa largely attended it being popularly expected that Oakes Ames would not only exhibit hie original memorandum but also receipts ana statements from Congressmen which would cause something litre the sensations attending the production of Patterson's letter and Colt ax's bank But few of these documents were those offered being additional receipts from and a statement of figures in Garland's wherein the latter makes Ames hia debtor for $ 2,400 on account of hie Credit Mobilier Robert S. Hale put in an appearance as the attorney of Vice- President and on the behalf of his to establish that the $ 1,200 deposited in the First National Bank the day after Amea gave him a check ou the Arms for that was obtained from an entirely different In the Wilson Joseph B. of who received several hundred thousand dollars in connection with the legislation of 1801 on the Union Pacific was critically He - was finally driven to the point aa to whether be had paid any newspaper when he declined to answer on the ground of the relations of clients to the fact was reported to the which ordered that Stewart be compelled to answer or stand Stewart aays night that he will go to Jail before he will He distinctly testified over and over that not a dollar was ever paid by him to any Congressmen or newspaper but the committee insist that he must tell to whom he did pay Horace F. President of the Union Pacific was examined before the Wilson committee on the 30th ult. He showed that he had never permitted the expenditure of a cent to influence the action of He introduced in evidence letters and dispatches written to him by one of Gen. Butler's which he considered as an attempt to blackmail the The Poland committee was devoted principally to hearing an explanation from Hon. as to his assertion that J. F. Wilson and Speaker Elaine wore connected with the Dubuque and Sioux City The Poland committee was mainly on the Slat in listening to the revelations of Thomas C. He how the election of the Board of Directors had been controlled by fictitious subscriptions and legal under the direction of and threw additional light upon tome of Oakes He said that Gen. the in- of the Union Pacific was a member of and spent his time hi where it was asserted he could do more good than He received a salary of $ 10,000 a and his wife held 100 shares of the Credit Mobilier Alley took the and met Mr. statements by the somewhat familiar remark that tbe cry of stop was raised by the thieves Considerable evidence was taken by the Wilson but none of it was important except an Incidental admission from President of the Union Pacific that Gen. now Governor of Mew received a fee of $ 60,000, while he wu Minister to France during the Johnson to negotiate a sale of the Pacific He failed to sell any but kept tbe fee hand ed A Washington dispatch of the 1st mat. The work of taking evidence has been practically completed by the Poland there being no more witnesses to hear except Amea and and the committee have made up their minds that nothing more can be got from either of them of vital importance to the aprivate session this and determined to proceed directly to the work of preparing their This will take a week or ten and m the Mr. Colfax will have an opportunity to present any evidence he may and Mr. Ames will be expected to produce bis memorandum Whether he will do to is an open and whan he OF t DM Mo of on The Iowa State Grange of the P assembled in Des the Mth Eight hundred delegates ' ere preterit when the convention int little business waa transacted the flnt wing to the large crowd and the unsettled on the subject of railroad i committee of thirteen was appointed on to the constitution and fhe Treasurer reported $ 10,000 in the y. A committee was also appointed to the expenses tof fe aster W. Adams the annual ad- Ou the second ou thousand i * ere having rived the previous The railroad In the northern of the State had prevented the arrival of many Hall was so much that a number of delegates wen lo to obtain business of tho morning opened with he appointment of followed by of after which the report day's irt the at that was fully and efforts made to rind out how the ' the being IV on a Mid at 11 on motion of a member that he saw reporters all around v. ft -' ' In large number of | covering the wore introduced on Two of the moat and asking thp State Legislature appropriato money to build a Of ' general petitions wore introduced asking changes n tub present no may bo bro the township where defendant in dace of the plaintiff's township asking tho Hewas of be made of the 1SW, 000 reported as the proper amount for that and therefore had nothing to do with it. He could not have sanctioned the improper use of much If an improper use was made of the he Was glad he did not know it. Injustice to the Dodge had always insisted that no money been used ' Witness was interrogated with ho coat of the road and other and said that since the completion of the ' road the directors had experienced a difficulty in obtaining He had been opposed to the line of policy pursued by tho and especially to the contract with the Wyoming Coal On Nov. 19, at a meeting of the Board of Ih he introduced a preamble and announcing that the contract was contrary to public and retarded settlements along the and instructing the General ' to disregard tho The was agreed to by the but Committee appointed to execute of the Board In the absence of the assumed to undo whatever was done by The name K In relation tq th oo l contract the passage of tho UJ l| * TTV V VI one Congress to track freight railroad to Ou the 4th of 1878, the terms of four 8en toni elections been made by the several Legislatures ( t Bom n Opposition in Alabama w. Aaron Fnm B. Florida TUMI I Dm r abolishment of the County Tho evening session waa devoted to lon in secret and to conferring the fifth Iow THE new oily directory of Davenport over 5,000 OF. IDS IB to have a knitting MIN FAINT IIM been discovered in The vein is two foot FOUR hundred mil nix persons were converted in during ilic late revival Tun P of Husbandry qf Iowa have built an elevator Mid started an agricultural Tint flnt annual mooting of the State Medical Society will be bold at M y 17. AMOH of lecturer of the Good the that there are in 1,000 of the age of 12 years and who are reeling qu the original resolution wan Jan. 311 A was in authorizing the Northern Pacific railroa to bridge the St. Louis Harlan introduce a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amend meut for the election of Senators by direct o tho people The for a subsidy for Webb Australian lino of steamships was but n action was taken on A message was receive from tho President vetoing tho for the relief of tho University of East The whole session was occupied in disposing of private Feb. 1. Not In The sub- committee of tho select committee on the condition of the Pacific railroad and Credit wn authorized to tako testimony in New York and Boston A wan passed to a more administration of Indian Seeing Under - In order to have distinct and the power for estimating the distance of one object from another under the magnifying lens of the eyes of animals must necessarily be much more convex than in land A fish sees iu the just as we do in opening our eyes under Submarine explorers are provided with glasses which meet the and water that seek prey alternately in air and possess a marvelous mechanical provision for varying the optic axis in passing from one medium to Human having no such adjustable meet an emergency by a lens outside wearing No individual organ has been more profoundly nor is any department of science better understood than yet the sense of vision is not in the but far back in the The eye is simply a receiving like n directed by the through which the conscious soul contemplates what is Through those organs the mind holds intercourse with the with such facts for based on positive philosophers nave not been able to explain how the mind operates on the optic mechanism to Insects are abundantly provided with motionless but they see without They have nervous and so have but vision has its location in certain white even with tho nicest kind of distinct both microscopic and have nothing like a n. e following w as adopted t To of Out United One thousand and Pant of subordinate Granges of ' th of 40,000 of the of in Orange unanimously adopted the following resolution By the State Orange of of that the Maater be requested to telegraph to President Grant their desire that he interpose hid veto of the recently pawned by the House of of the United making or confirming additional grants of lands to ( D. W. of Orange of There was no diminution in the A large number of memorials and were one in favor of memorializing the Government to build a doubletrack freight road to the and another memorializing the Legislature to appropriate money to in the a of gauge and resolutions asking the Legislature to define the of of the no that suits ahall be brought whore the defendant lives in place of at the plaintiff's and another asking that the Legislature abolish the of County a raising the rank of lady members of the ranking them to of higher groden than they can be elected Quite a number of Grangers were some of whom were busily engaged in and all of them paying attention to the business of the The Committee appointed to examine the proposition of the Orange to take stock in agricultural implement manufactory at already built by capitalists of that made its The plan IB for 200,000 Nearly f 50,000 is now ( 136,000 in and $ 15,000 in The committee advised further with a view of the Orange taking The Committee on Mileage reported that the aggregate milon traveled by delegates in attending the convention was 76,416. Report and tho Treasurer ordered to pay mileage in amounting to 7.611. Master D. W. Adams having been looted Master of the National FOURTH The attendance was not 80 by 00 or Tho Committee on Memorial to the Logi - ature made a recommending that the legislature be asked to pass a regulating reight and A motion was made to substitute for recommendation tho O'Donnell billot last This waa voted and the recommendation of the committee The Committee on Memorial to Congress Hade a report recommending that petitions bo by all local asking Con- ro H to regulate The report was At 10 o'clock the election of officers for the term of two years took Col. of Howard was elected Master J. of and 8. if H. P. of and of Executive The Secretary BO far has declined to honor iho invitation of the Orange to Several members were added to the of Investigation into tho accounts of State ind National with It. D. of an The afternoon session vf as devoted to the and discussion of the new committee to recommend amendments to he National Constitution made a They recommend that the charter fee of the Grange e cut down from 10 to $ 6, and that the membership foe be made uniform at 3 for men and $ 1 for There waa a big Ight over aa this is the main source of FIFTH AT What did you * 4 T I've l pt t o at i Ton are very dear B toll them not to I'll drua ai quick ever I My old h U And who unfed to d ar t UM aide ' tho iv BUI imi sun jiv he tars that he cannot And his I committee will not pre i 175 Feet Down tbe Shaft of a and Still Alive and Christmas Eve at the Julian Mines furnished one of the most remarkable incidents in nil the annals of curious Charley Fox is one of the owners of the Ban Diego Their shaft is sunk to the depth of 175 On the afternoon of the 20th of December he took his place in the bucket to go down to the lower It hod been raining freely during the The break on the which raises a lowers the bucket in mines not supplied with steam was held in its place by a This had become very ' of relaxed its Fox had hardly taken his place in bucket before he went careering like lightning down the sheer drop 175 The break was absolutely and down hurled bucket and bumping now against one side and now against the until finally both struck the two- inch planking which covered the The bucket was smashed to and poor Charley plunged through the two- inch as though it hod been into the This was six or eight feet He sank to the when he waa hauled ou by his comrades who were working in the The mystery of the business is that although Fox was pretty jarred and a broken ankle wa the only serious injury Am Diego ( A letter from Dos of tho lat The Iowa State Orange adjourned tine die at 10 oclock The first this waa tho passage of an amendment to the largely reducing all fees of charter and It waa stoutly opposed by those who wanted to have the handling of the and understand the profits Good old farm economy carried the after a fierce The committee appointed to the financial condition the State and National made a fully showing that tho investigation had been thorough and The facts and allegations reported wore not but the Grange decided it would be impolitic to have the report made The committee also recommended calling a meeting of the National Convention of Patrons immediately for a- organization of tho that the National be required to give a 150,000 A commitee of one from each Congressional district wan appointed to the alleged corruption hi the financial management of the National and to open correspondence with other State looking to a reorganization of the A memorial waa adopted asking the Legislature to regulate railroad were passed appointing a Grange agent for each railroad in the State; organizing the entire Orange of Iowa into a company for the reduction of express providing for printing the code of the order in foreign Dea was selected as the place for holding the next State In the evening the new officers of the Orange were A committee of appointed to investigate the financial condition of the State and National appointed a sub- committee of of i of and of This ae is a triumph for the investigators and The sub- committee will probably visit This ended the and the Orange adjourned tine AN Iowa City price current reads A pair of winter costs two loads of a night's a load of tho wife wean five acres of the each ten acres of corn the price of an overcoat is a good old steer i of a Sunday twenty fat ' ' V ia going to have a Board of TAMA which not long since waa 7,000 in now has a surplus of * 000 in the to recent surveys of the water power at tho river there averages nearly 700 feet in width and lias a fall of fourteen feet within the city TRH only factory In Cherokee county is owned by a man named who in tho past twelve months made 12,000 pounds of cheese from the milk of only five and found ready sale for It without IOWA will burn 0,000,000 bushels of corn this A LAnY at sets her dog ou such male visitors as she docs not desire to come The front yard looks like the floor of a tailor's and tho dog grows fat and saucy every A MILL la to bo built at Iowa THE real estate sales at Davenport last year amounted to $ 1,200,000. MAIL animate will bo commenced on tho new river line of through from Clinton to St. within a has packed 15,000 hogs this Sporran prevails In Jackson CITY has superior two four barber and eighteen EMMET COUNTY farmora have begun the extermination of They cannot afford to feed them with cattle and UNION COUNTY offers fifty cents a bushel for tho first 2,000 of coal mined ELEVEN members of the Church have acceded and joined other BOONE dooa some railroad In 187H tho freight received at that station amounted to 10,020,080 and the freight forwarded to 28,483,200 Tho ticket sales for the year amounted to 421,035.10. KEOKUK will grope before it pays M for is to have a Catholic MT. is to have a plow TUB Thinkers of tho Northwest think of holding a convention at Dubuque ou ths of THE Senator from Scott la one of tho tallest men in the CLINTON is afflicted with 70 THE measuring question agitates Cedar AN Iowa girl named Mary is fascinating aristocratic D. with her extraordinary wealth of five feet two iu Sioux CITY is lighted with the preacher who saw hia 800 pounds of butter melted by three card at Council haa put on tho of the and the monto men have restored hia THE individual deposits in Mt. Pleasant banks foot up $ 320,000. STOBY for the firat time in eleven pays cash for its warrants at par. points with pride to itu city newsboys and all of whom CITY has a live hog 1,000 DEB Is building a glue THE railroad from Sioux City to ia derives quite a revenue from the fines imposed ou JOHNSON COUNTY is nearly AT a shell waa found at a depth of 22 feet in the A COUPLE of Newton men have patented a THE pox Sioux Indiana Iowa L ul K M. H. w. p tt Jo 1 H. Carolina John 3. 1' Vermont Justin H. Howe Timothy Mew 15 Adm. 6 a In O. nnd Francis W. 8yken, were by rival since joined in one Legislature nnd this when fully will make n legal election of In the has been voting for Senator since Jan. 21. without an election at last hus nix Republican out more that number of Republicans are hostile to the party In there IB n in tho term ending Maroh by tho resignation of Senator who in noting as one of tho State Tho rival Legislatures have to fill out this vacant John and W. L. Those two are now claimants before the Tho Republican ( Legislature haw elected P. B. S. for the Senatorial Maroh 4, 1873. Tho Opposition ( Legislature has not yet elected for tho full Tho terms of Senators extend to 1875 and 1877, as tml 1017. Miss. I. Kan. mill 18711. - Del. W. Va. Vt. N. Y. Mil. Ark. a u Va. Incl. I- a. ( mo Minn. i ' N. V. Va. ( Ala. An V K n. lit. N. Pa. H. I. N. J. Neb. IS ID Mr. of being the Ida successor iu the Senate ( for the term ending in 1877) will be chonen by the on tho of since it is Mr. Wilson will resign on tho Kith of that It is held nudor the law of a Legislature cannot elect to a contemplated vacancy by but must wait until vacancy and until the second Tuesday Tho Senate of the third to moot 4, will 45 20 and Boats or Weather The Washington furnisher tho will bo advantageous to a proper understanding of Old as sot forth in his divisions The the country lying between tho Mississippi and Missouri The means Indian and New Pacific or includes and Washington The Ohio include a bolt of country about 200 miles in from Pittsburgh to The Mississippi a belt of about the aame from to Tho following arn tho abbreviations used in the reports issued from the Chief Signal Office New England or tho or the Eastern include New and Rhode Middle or sometimes as Middle Atlantic are New New District of and South Atlantic North South and I'M aort o' lM f ml AM dent know what to Ifi lonesome In tbe And lonesome out o' I never la all niy The bees go ( he whole day And tbe first June row baa And I am dear to Too old to be left alone I heart of lave I ao and precious Urn t ao Vor the flnt aad In ( You were out of my Ton nw r. Voi W She rooted last It wan slip I I pulled And threw the item away | But thrifty bent And it whore she at maybe the Unworn aue in this bit of I can't I cannot I t tho old have 111* And from to Harden | H The house is so ( loathly and for a of Uu gaU hai ft ajar for We had got so lined to each Ho used to each you Hilly and so wise and martn me a belter Vrom tho I bnr fair young And our life And Hue she UM given And out of tho not one But the lather In all the land Would be proud to call hla mm. dear HI be But I feel noro broken up j At eighty an To drain such a bitter 01111. - - I there's arid John and Ami four good men But a sons lie to me Uke the woman 1 made my My little Polly i no ami fair I Mo winsome snil and sweet I Mm had rones twined In h r sunny White on bur dainty Ami I held her Was It yesterday That wo stood up to bo W H 1 I'm And my dear 1' Is Pith and WHAT n harbor mustn't Lather hia penny affairs is. goos tho a full minuto or n spare moment A GOOD thing for elevation of Holed WHAT workman novor turns to the left A only good motive for riding n man on a roil is a fly sheep generally nook together so wo have nays tho only tiling that continues to fall in the ruin IN what case in it absolutely impossible to be slow and sure V In the ousa of a euphonious of a Constantinople defaulter to the tune of 100,000. Do YOU that the dead over walk after death 1" No doubt of I have heard tho Dead A man who attended a lecture ou the Are we better than our fathom started for home I'm going to got tho hotter of miuo some any A schoolmaster reproved one of tho big girls for spitting on the and tho brother took down his little gun and chimed tho into North A jokist of say Since the advent of the mincemeat has declined eight cents a and he has tho nightmare every night after eating mince I MVK in Julia's said an affected in Coleman's I don't wonder at replied since I observed she nod a stye in them when I saw her ' WENDELL wants the Governor of Massachusetts to pardon a man who killed his wife and then tried to commit Phillips pleads that the convict was goaded to the crime by an unusually severe dose of in- A in Coffee who bot two dollars and five cents that he could ride a roan mule with a pine burr under the saddle lost the He was followed to tho tomb by a targe and enthusiastic audience. A with a basketful of new was passing the Wooster em nnd Eastern Gulf Western and The Hon. S. F. of was before the Credit Mobilier on Wednesday The following is the testimony given by him on that The witness said he had been a Government director of tbe Union Pacific Railroad Company since 1869; was appointed a member of its Special to audit and pay the said legal but declined to act on DEH MOINES is to bo It has the TUN blooded murders have occurred fn Iowa since the abolition of capital election a young lady agreed to kiss the editor of the Volga Valley Timei once a mouth for four years if Orant should be Bhe is keeping her word Chicago A WOMAN'S rights paper is about to bo started at tho IT is said that the defaulting met his principal losses by the Chicago wheat corner of August THE next National Gamp Meeting is be held on the Fair grounds at Cedar In June HAMMOND has been invited to visit Den Koines and try his evangelizing hand on tbe COUNCIL BLUFFS is tbe terminus of more than one thousand miles of Iowa ' THE Cedar Times fails to see anything more sinful in burning which requires only three months to grow to and which can be produced on tbe same soil year after than to burn a tree which it has taken scores of years to Sometimes the Gulf the South and Arkansas are grouped together aa the Southern 1 ' The Lower are Lake Erie and Tho Upper are Lakea Supe and ry Queen of The annals of the world furnish affecting examples of the unstability ef human But tho whole history of mankind does not perhaps furnish a a sadder a more striking and appalling Contrast than Mary at sixteen and Mary at At the former a being on whom nature to have showered her choicest the loveliest the most fascinating the bride of the heir apparent to the crown of the heir apparent to the throne of England the Queen of with the whole of the Catholic powers of Europe her one with whom a veteran statesman delighted to and in praise of whoso charms the poets of the age at worn by her though hot her noble broken by a a severe and merciless proclaimed as an adulteress and a forsaken The Iowa Land A Washington dispatch of the lat inst. The Bock Inland Railroad about which so much haa been became a law the ten days having expired in which the President could exorcise hia veto A strong pressure was brought to bear upon the President to induce bun to veto tho but he declined doing on the ground that the in bis possession did not warrant such Inasmuch as there were circumstances about by her friends and execrated by her subjects and ' discarded 1 even by her only after a mock to an ignominious She might in the words of the holy all ye that pass by the attend and see if there be sorrow like unto my A The of Health repeats what we all ought to heed when it The more a nun bundles up to keep from the more more he Some persona do nothing but gainst and keep themselves very The best safeguards are daily in the open ad the fete e of oold taking when a quarter of a ton of beautiful snow slid from the roof into his Not being a profane his suffering was Danbury HERB we have a good example of French A like at this went out for a day s and of having killed ' That's the consequence of neglected your observed his A SHREWD little fellow was intrusted to the care of his who fed the boy very One day he happened to see a whereupon asked the little fellow if he knew what made the dog so The reply he lives with his In an editorial on the horse the suggested that it might be well to sit at the feet of a horse and learn Just the California News sit down at the hind feet of a and if he don't humiliate pull his tail and tickle the inside of his lega with a The * The first impression produced by thp ' buffalo on the stranger is that of The huge seem quite out of proportion to the light hind the masses of hair on the forehead and chin have a particularly untidy and give the head a badly defined oval shape in the The impression is not improved when they strike into a slow for the immense tufts of hair depending from the forelegs swing and the which is held straight with a slight curve down again at the is ridiculously a roused from its rushes at a speed of eighteen or twenty miles an contempt is changed for The onoe lumbering body is now handled with perfect ease all the clumsy appendages become in the and the huge withers give the flying body mass and The black eyes glisten the matted and were the changed to and were hora it would be not to it to ana tM free UM 01 COW o OneM oof t o ld of al. | oan not tob ( ia I antediluvian days had o m to
