Prairie City Index (Newspaper) - April 8, 1871, Prairie City, Iowa VOL I JASPER FRIDAY 1871 f NO 14 IK V K 1C TIME GOING Ko 1 2 ra ft m Ka Pacific 10 v m EAST m O 269 p m Express m of MalU Tht Western closes tit 840 a m Tlie Ku tern Mail at 2 39 p m Tha arrives aud departs and IX M M CITY DIRECTORY X E Corner Main aud 5th Services tvery Sabbath at m and 7 p m Sunday School at a every Thursday F M All are invited E Corner of and 0th Services Sabbath at 11 a m aad p m Sunday School ately after services Friday Rev Harrah Mr 411 arc invited N K Corner of and Mb every oilier Sabbath at 11 and t p.m every evening Sunday at a Mr pastor AH are -In Cong Chuich every at 3 except the tail Sabbath of ever month pastor All aro T JS NEWS AGENT A dealer in STATIONERY and FANCY Ac All orders for papers and books will receive prompt attention Shop 011 Fifth opposite M E ft 17 PRAIRIE IOWA D RTAN C Attorneys Counsellors at rear of First National IOWA D A ATTORN E A W Cilice First National Bank IOWA ITY DEX tion speakin a and cut off fro in ilie b J W and Prop's APRIL 1871 i l 1 1 GOOD-BYE No more will my pen be for the purpose of up these columns for slice of Atlantic And could define the republic bv their or them bv the I tbe government in GOLD IS while may have been our duly to a I the were the government helpless race were not bore by their As soon their personality U destroyed your dear reader Reportorially considered it is For three months I have been on the alert to sketch for you something that would interest and amuse you and hope that in some measure I succeeded having disposed of my interest in the paper to J M Hammond and D M they will dish up the own to elevate them to equality be- fore the we think it well enough to measure the pile of dough we have un- before we spare too much en we have room for a hundred the whole fabric falls to pieces and is ready to be gobbled up by the next best man or set of men We give below the two closing para- millions more of the aP 1 f t of the old tlie oppressed of of the old the oppressed of ery speeches for the hist dred and Mien have room enough to hold all our humble ambition may lead us to do ourselves in that we are decidedly in tavor of working the ground we occupy Jf we want let u.s throw the 1 mental pabulum it and with doors open still knock down the Societies A M LQ Hall M W turner Public Square Visiting are always welcome X O of O Friday evening in Hall members invited Mmt Mite Society of Gong mats ou evening and the M oa Jfriday evening of every week O A II and at IOWA Office east door sonth of Rank their will do it well I wish the and its readers all the ble Those of the press who have so noticed mv career have mv wannest and those of niv T friends who have expressed regret at my retiring from the are rc harriers set up by some of our and invite the whole world to come and be leavened Then let us o to work to elevate the U.S CitT B OUNCES T J H II L J W WILSOX mv quill whole to the highest state of freedom intelligence and happiness Questions of commerce or defence should not be considered when it can With good to I lay down i shown that national integrity is at stake Public ce over Savings II L SAX DOMINGO or endangered thereby We admit that Grant differs from us So much thy worse for Grant While lie mav be President's to on the of tlie report of the fean Domingo Commissioners lie very widely refrained from savins anything to justify himself publicly un- til the question between him and ner should be settled After that ter is settled ami when what lie may sny cannot affect the action of he puts himself right hy simply stating that while he is in yet he does not wish them to consider the ter until the information is spread be- fore the Country and the people have a chance to make wp their decision When that time ho advises that the de- be whether for or against his views or the views of In this he shows himself to be willing to to serve the country instead of dictating to it After reviewing the matter AND SO ARE Prairie Iowa Williams i bv ost in his and while we think he Claiming for every citizen of the aa few Tn o as as T that no action be bevond the distribution of the J W DEWEESE and Notary a ml Real PRAIRIE CITY IOWA Wiil promptly to entrusted to ATE Hare for snie a list of farms and property Make and land from pay and tit promptly to all entrusted to door South of Post Of ice IOWA j ted however the to j president we have yet our express his opinion upon any subject j lls to cry foreign until the WANT tend to say a word about the subject OK TO IT by the caption of this article the welfare of we in- In the we claim for the j people the right to decide upon nil of annexation Had we the vrc gladly the great speech our WILLIAMS and Notaries Sorra or POST CITT In the second we if lun made when he moved to the Sumnar resolutions in regard to the San Domingo on the table If the j gross has the power to annex territory without of the that H C Physician at A Store A full line of MILLINERY and and Notions always on hand DRESS MAKING and MILLINERY Work done to order in the Intent styles MRS GEO H fc PRAIRIE IOWA the exercise of that power should be re- motion prevailed it vould put a final by the rightful sovereigns of the lend to attack upon the the people dent and settle the question as to In this country the people are the cr the Senate would sustain the President at least in and it was to or Stunner Some idea promote their Interests mid protect their rights that it was instituted Having these objects In view it was certainly never intended to have the treaty power so extended as to permit Congress to D J Physician IOWA Office Tailor Shop rented and work of the pith and power of his speech as well as the temper of the Senate from the vote of 39 to 4 which was the republican the democrats voting as everybody knew they with the immortal G O to Market ON OP CHOICE at low prices Tor Hides aud Pelts MARSHAL treat ail the islands and adjacent two of whom were leaders of the sione into the United States while the faction The speech of Afr rises pie who are taxed to foot the Mil arc j in importance when reflect that it has before their When it j been but a very short time since the advocacy of and deposal of Smnner sent a host of our leading a such a tremor throughout the and score of Philadelphia lawyers to clear stoutest friends of the President peop di taken at the printing anil report Before the next session of Con- the people will have considered the and formed an intelligent ion to which de- made it will be the duty of every department of the government to give and no one will more tully conform to them than myself It is not only the theory of our tion that the will of the the supreme but I have ever 1 relieved that all men are wiser than one and if the ple upon a fair representation of facts so dread that it is not every department of the ought to in that ion In again submitting to Congress a sub- ject upon which public sentiment been and which has been made the occasion of debates in as well as unjust aspersions I may I be indulged in a single remark Xo man can hope to duties so delicate and ble as pertain to the Presidential without sometimes incurring the hostili tr their opinions West fide of ihc We have just our SPRING STOCK of DKY CA will be icM very low for CASH Every foody come ami sec Mv LIVE AND LET LIVE PRAIRIE CITY MILLS EXCHANGE OFFICE sell and bur Chicago and If Buir at face and sell at SO to 35 OB dollars For small we about as FOR KKW and under 10 eta 15 and over For a Chicago There is no dan- ger from loss iu remitting or carrying because they can be as loAtt and cannot be collected by the wrong FISH i JL D Physician Surgeon CITY North-East Corner of the Square IOWA EZRA the skirts of Conress ami make the trusted with too little and he who would undertake to conduct the n flairs of a great government a faithful public if sustained i visions of a lion in tlie path even while j the approval of his own a i ka pill go it would have emir to keep their j rely with n J 4 -.1 Ol proper to stop and ask a few questions But it was to no OFFICE AT OK CITY C TITO GOOD LARGE SAMPLE BOOMS Stables in Connection with Ti f VOCAL Gives in Vocalization loirs J HIATT T i AMD FRAMES PRAIRIE IOWA DAVIS Ketp cons ton tlv on hand a full supply of STAPLE AKD FANCY URY BOOTS of the man J E R iff MERCHANT Main Street South of Post A of on FITS E ix NOTION BOOTS BRIDLES BRUSHES Saddlery up And we must admit the laet Ins ability when we read liis as as as admit his in an un- settles the Are the people j failure have been ing to penult themselves to be ignored to ruin He had to reply ro one of where they are so i the der the cry of party in- scnate in or any No matter what may he the conferred upon plainly or hy vote i t it must occur to any it is a matter of just pride to I own that we had a man there who could take the lead in a critical and important and push it may be influenced by motives outside the jon such complete victory as to interest of constituents whose best interests he has striven to I 4 s and ean hear with patience the i Keep a -i censure and disappointment r tries living three miles iof lor some weeks been j selected stock of will sell f cry cheap All of bought mod Bold the j which time he lost two children by I he did His clean j let fever This so him np that it j and as was i mind One day last week he 1 arose trom bod and Ins wue he Korth Side or CITT IOWA of that it is a very unsafe and unwise power to gate to limited body of men who outside the had a dreadful task to per a ml ed for the door She him not to leave the house but went out When in the yard he his wife who had followed and rapidly ward a situated some distance from If the powers claimed can be made out the people have a swill and certain edy by making the exercise of said a question in the next general And while may not be able j Thre can be no more telling comment er himself with and increase the into hr went head 1 almost of hi he is i STATES house and to the well was out ol she top of the well I to keep San Domingo they may Uie great between the arrival t litre he wm with his a K gf fg block flic game against having 1 capacity of our people and the French he did not a anv more of the foisted self government than the of I bruise or snitch The well is three feet on against their at without their asking While may arise in which annexation would be it is wro t close of the Franco war and the Rebellion While there wore ami to settle at the OF ALL JED We thinly nothing more than is close of the ami while the 1 by the gravity of tlie lo require to any at gowt of tlic just who in c lo complicate a ritle WATCHMAKER A f Jewelry Repairing promptly nafl runted Cash paid for E R 1 West of UK City IOWA G HARNESS BRIDLED tow A American Combination BUTTCN-HOLS no o PRAIRIE IOWA of people cau of f war onr as the 5 aia the ai ihr HIKE TROTTER of Blacar most vsr of noi of of ire train in by who had The f at wath Machine in Thai can do all of the Fabric It wW to i j of It lo a winh a main or of i ON of Riddit of thr l we haw till their of will I tow iho CITY ami 2 in Finishing Cor and firs Iowa all tlie -n ami it i fiml and education to eliminate a majority mat chaotic Bat we A far more dangerous of and j Their government w bused men instead of Whew they have attempted m the South Side of Railroad ment was a i for Cie of 3 A to M 2500 IOWA MO