Prairie City Index (Newspaper) - March 31, 1871, Prairie City, Iowa VOL 1 JASPER FRIDAY MARCH 1871 NO 13 V R K TIME WEST No 1 Mail u No 6 m No 3 10 in EAST No S Mail 002 a m 260 p.m No 4 8.40 p m of Mails at 840 n m The Mail it 230 p m ha Mail and departs v M and M 21 T JU NEWS AGENT denier in STATIONERY and FANCY IOWA All orders for papers and books will receive prompt attention ITY EX I METHODIST X E Corner of Matii and Services Sabbath at Shop on Fifth opposite M CITY IOWA L BY H M BAItl LETT Editors and 11 Sunday School at HI Thursday ShiSser All are invited S E Corner of every Sabbath at 11 a 7 after every Friday evening 0 All i I Jt v i t ail K Corner cf Madison and every oilier Sabbath at 11 A I aud iji m every j evening Sunday at a j Mr pastor All are invited j Cong every Sabbath at 3 o'clock last ot every month All are Attorneys Counsellors at Office rear of First National IOWA i D to ATTORN AW Cilice over First National 43 NEWTON IOWA 0 C HOWE H c CA MARCH EDUCATION There is considerable said about en- acting laws compelling the people to themselves and or in other making education and a test of the rights to partake in the affairs of government While we agree with the first we would oppose a law that would fix a standard to which we should attain before we could the rights of and while it would seem in direct opposition to that we boast so much yet we believe we must educate or ish A nation is justifiable in taking such measures as will preserve and its civil and religious liberties There is in this nation enough EDITORS me to gest name of J W Hammond a probable candidate for representative from this county in our next legislature Should he consent to go before the ple as a his friends may rience what some might consider a dis- advantage in a political and that is he will not stoop to lew nnd common political chicanery in order to gain his but if ed will go into office by virtue of his worthiness 31 r Hammond may have a quiet re- serve about does not scatter his smiles promiscuously upon has not that fawning of the but for sound practical com- mon scholarly OR sion is almost universal that mail ers are allowed by law to carry unsealed letters but not sealed out of the mail bag The fact is they have no more right and they are just as liable to alty for carrying an open letter as a sealed ono r If they carry not they are allowed to carry bills or which relate exclusively to those and they cannot know what may be the contents of letters unless they but there is no penalty attaches for carrying a sealed letter if can prove it referred only to the package i carried or sent for j There is a way of putting up letters that mail carriers ARE allowed to Enclose them in government stamped IS AND ARK AT and business he stands j envelopes with stamps pasted among the foremost men of the county ion won't of a denomination Iowa West Sule of the have just opened our SPRING and at IOWA and will compare favorably with any enough to pay the whole SEAL of I have not spoken to Mr Hammond on the envelope so that it cannot be opened this but merely suggest his name without tearing or breaking the mant power if properly fo Uje that he has a then write or stamp upon it fche place j developed to republicans the of friends that will ladl and date of ivin it i and if republican liberty is what the to the A y -t V iu JiaU -N W Public j world we believe it then t i n L i HI c j w t j T- 1 i o evening in j w wn i let us have this education of the head ifi HuSi members j WILSON t rl t A O M f t 1 M V I 1 M-f of tbp IT 1 I hJ I l I r t t L H u 1 If mats ami the 51 cvc week CHv W r J W ii A U T J D C H D l H S J W WILSON j Public J Office over Savings NEWTON IOWA port him as a candidate for and he has the right of taking it just as tive in the State legislature von direct him A HEADER DRY it is compulsory Mind is the might of and the world admits that it rules We have enough ignorance among us to rr Y Williams KEAL Have for a list of farms and property and return land from pay and at- to all entrusted to j one o'clock v THE IRISH e have received dav mnl while the down fref ht on a copy of a new paper of above name j the Valley road was in the vicinity of In- It is a large j one of the whose Which will be soUl verv low for CASK or come and Mv LIVE ASD LET UVE eight paged and contains 48 col- i Oscar foil between two i of trie cars to the ground and was run i reading matter AB an organ by the his 01 it has already acquired even lesr nist above the knee in a ruin our if ignorance led on 1 published in New York l could be made a cooperative We have instances of the of mind in our late another instance j W it has already acquired even j leg just above the knee in a in the war between Prussia and France a European and is ful manner The train was stopped and ed by the press of of he was taken aboard and brought to i On arrival here at about half standing first ot its he was to the kind in the United States As a vehicle j on Second street On r PRAIRIE CITY MILLS J and Publi One South of IOWA On the one there was that that comes from a developed and ted on the there was ranee of the arm of the of it as its name 1 J 1 ll to A tion of the injury the Doctor decided French that condensed weekly history of the would be hut Wo soil on ana S leaders mat w J J WHS von nor Jork BUT at iace sell at to cents In possession of a very dangerous that of the Irish where man io T L L1 N ER people in their have deprived J D VW U wound wus Pressed and the York was conveyed to the Denver House uncertain and the French the earth arc Irishmen not to be and the operation postponed until I people in their have deprived j found The chief editor is the Hon Iiiff Dr Sanford who was 1 the nation of its best of its noblest j late member of congress use and or A full line of and men Let m have an intelligent and at the same conclusion with regard to for his j tion The operation was performed by dollars For as charge FOR NEW TOKS DRAFTS under and ana j and Notions hand DRESSMAKING and MILLINERY Work done to order in the latest MRS GEO nation and we have tlie best persistent opposition to the arrogant Dr Hughes eight and nine surance of just laws and honest rules pretensions of at all times The patient at last accounts The Irish Worid is a II c T K t I K t A CiTY U- L t 1 A 1 MS I i PRAIRIE IOWA From Republican MURDER OR SUICIDE Mill Found Dead In the Street Stabbed to promptly and all work for fate K CIT 7 U Office over 1 A G O to the OX CHOICE A 14 at low prices HMo CITY Comer of the IOWA EZRA about vel of per parents reside at Mo He Three by clubbing -had in the of the road but a can hare the paper sent to one address short but we for for for cue The editors invite I sonie in the of the Transfer for cue me in this He is un persons to seud en for specimen to the manner in which A FREE The Patrick's day number has he tell from the Citr j morning at the f M a splendid illustration of the gratia body of a man was seen lying in tiie road t i J 6 five miles A woman in who re- fl through New York A thrilling story is I cently with left the The neighbors were at i u unique note for her to be commenced at about that mtt r and tnc Coroner informed of the fc T re played out l Address THE 11 well that 1 prefer going 1 Frankfort street New York with I with one knee drawn up and a common pocket knife at his side The body was removed under the direction of the Cor- T one of the rooms of Wheeler's near and a 10 CM 15 i zO a Chicago less There is no r from loss in remitting or carrying because cnn be as as lost and possibly be collected bv the person FISH A HAMMOND j on McDonald street between Vine and Knee on r fact The man generate cuss It's none of your busine s Last week we made a short visit to j where we have gone to It won't do you We started good to for I would r -i j not live another day with vou to save by way of Keokuk on our own j You ft in think the Des Moines and after a j ing I loved you 1 never did I married vou for convenience sake I take the THE STORE or nrr i A j consisting of C L j ant ride was transferred to the care of TWO LARGE SAMPLE ROOMS was the and I'll take of it You j t i lean sue for a married as stables m Connection with this j ed A crowd was soon when I it was that the body was that nml well selected flock of Tobarco sions AH kind of taught ana sold II C Gives VOCAL Vocalization and lorra J Ill ATT DAVIS KeTp constantly oo hand a fall of STAPLE AND FANCY DRY BOOTS t 9 road at and next morning was safe in gets rou next will have a healthy old Be and Your LATE WIFE of Edward D a man about 56 cage We had quite a pleasant prize Good b place Prest Parks of HOD 1 years of small in stature and consisting of Jra E- Draper of this who had been the winter school j in the German in Malaka j and has been about town for the past making his Sicie of PRAIRIE CiTY IOWA and Bro J E of LOCAL ASD SPECIAL NOTICES T Eddy and your servant and we en- joyed the trip hugely In the city i thin head will be len per each otherwise contracted for All the JtC IOWA quarters at King's beer saloon at the ring the day business called us in j northwest corner the square ours taking us to type should anv one pav from 1 been drinking very hanl at that and but in the evening we in premium for in- J J E IK were companions again On Thursday when they can 7131 AXT we finished our and the good stepped on v Main of on l-M HOOTS 1 I Saddlery j er places and lias been drunk nearly all all the time he has been All Ol 4 vu in X OF j a knife wound in the left over the j the C- B for arriving j It is as safe as any Company in the 1 Dr J B Gorrell was j there safely on Friday i C f on and made a careful of the Tlie trip was a very fine one in all re- finding no wounds or and we found the route very insuring do lie the wound in the left j with close and the taking out a found the knife had entered the breast trains manned with gentlemanly wren the fourth and fifth and The great bridge at is a fine and entered the i structure ami will be formally opened right of the which the usual ceremonies on the hare produced death Up to the proximo all on us be oily words OF and in that ou 2 O II AUK N Repairing promptly ttd NORWAY will a lot of the genuine Oats at time of the present writing no j Trade is opening out very wcU in the lw haif thc can though have places we ami travel on the route for in A Ijc i paid for r lor W Prairie and the further j at who i nation may wme important hwe an ad- It appears man came to town woni to Goo is the in Citr IOWA and at American Combination OVERSE The and inl in the World of from IOWA 5 Fabric i II two weeks ago wUh money He a the Star House ever paid nothing on the no money f to buy a of and anti for the beer and whisky he but cmls i found on a large dum in he carried his money not been found His watch is also He may haro money and watch at the gambling taWr to in u fc a of the importance fw to IK manufactories established in to insure the nent of our town We under- that a movement in about to be set foot to organise a company for of cultivators and of town atMl country that it watt tie chine and at the Star one door of r o AX a Washington almost Any having surh a press to HINE A- TROTTER BARTLETT into few and We if this put salt Sample can be at D Commission to and thru taken his own or he may have In our own den and thus add to the our county which murdered for his money In any event has his and EAM ELEVATOR in midst calls with a far a j for the suppression of M PRAIRIE IOWA IRA Cor 7th and Walnut Stc lies Iowa our our town Barn TTre of may be the maim of his lite It to see the Me be er towns east of 09 in which have M interest Let us hold of the affair with vigor and put it into Ac 3D ft and ration immediately Fencing 1 For and at tto f South Side of Railroad