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TYPOGRAPHICAL. ERRORS

One of our exchanges says :-'The mif
crop of Gaseonade county, Mo-, this year is
was referred to, but $4,000 gals will max
good crop. OF wives Notwithstanding.
The Hartford Times, noticing the death Of
an editor, says He was a high mindea
gentleman, and pungent writer Perhaps
he was stump speaker Of the high -winded
school of oratory.
ALocofoco editor says:-'Thc Dem ocracy
are licked like band Of brothers, instead Of
linked, and another says:-'We have uet the
enemy and we are theirs' Types play sad
pranks.-Louispille Journal.
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AHARD CUSTOMER.

A green looking customer observed a sign
hanging over a grocery store, reading thus
"Wholesale and Retail Storc.' lie worked
his way through the crowd of ladies and
gentlemen, until he got facing one of the
clerks, who was exhibiting some fine sugar
to a young lady, when he broke ou,
with:
Say Mister, who's boss hcre?'
'The proprietor has just stepped out, SIR
well, be this Il retailing shop:'
The young man hardly comprehcnding
greeney's thoughts, simply answered:
'Yes, sir; a wholesale and retail storc.'
'Guess YOU understand your trade
90, yes replied the clerk, wrapping up
bundle for his lady customer, 'what can
do for you.'
well, as the cold weather is coming on,
! thought nought as well come and give
you job
q don't understand you, stranger re.
piled the clerk, who began to think the fel.
low was in the wrong box.
'Zactly so; well, III tell YOU"
Explain what you mean, my friend' sale
the clerk, as he saw him produce a bundle
, from under his coat.
SWELL, as said before, the cold woather's
coming on, thought mouSht as well be
6xin for it. Come mighty near freezir
t'other winter, tell ye did, but
stranger, hope you will tell me wha
you want, so may serve you,' interrupted
the clerk, seeing there were number Of
customers waiting to be served, but who, ii
fact, had almost forgotten their errands il
the rich conversation between the clerk ant
bis droll customer.
Certainly, squire, certainly, always dc
| basincss in a hurry, and just as quick us the
old master will let you, want you to retail
these old shirts. Let 'cm come down tc
about the knees, kase don't wear al,
drawersr
The effect may he imagined, but, as thu
novcists say, can't be described. The lou,
burst of laughter which followed, served t.
convince the poor fellow he had committed
himself, and his long legs were put in motion
at the rate Of 2:40.
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r A l. l..


Fall! How eloquent the word. The aox-
ers fall in the gardens, the fruits fall in the
orchards, the nuts fall in the woods, ths
stars fall in the sky, the rains fall from the
clouds, the mercury falls in the tubes. tha
leaves fall everywhere, and FALL j, is.
The wind is sighing around the corners.
moaning over the thresholds, singing at the
windows, roaring over the chimney.tops..
and harping through the forests.
The gray clouds look angry and sullen, The
great, heavy drops come driving against the
window panes; the cattle stand in the fields.
with the wind astern the sheep gather uu
der the lea of the barn. They "banked up -
the house yesterday; put the cabbages in tho
cellar the day before; will cover the pota-
toes TO- morrow.
The blackbirds, rabblc rout, hold high
council Of fight on dry elm in the mead
ow; there is twitter, and a futter, and a
great acc!amation. Up 60 the swallows in
a cloud; away ride the sparrows on the bill.
lowy air. The robin and his wife hear tho
sound of wings in the thicket. nnl 60 too.
The owl looks out fron his hollow tree, and
gathers still closer, his russet uuiiler about
his ears.
The ridged and tawny fields look like cor
duroy their rustling and golden g!ories have
departed. The corn stands shivering in
long lines, wrapped in rusty overalls, like u
regiment OF
"od Con'inentals, in their ragged Rceimcntas."
The pumpkins lie in great heaps, here and
there, like cannon shot.
Little "hurries" of snow whirl doub.fu,ly
through the cloudy air, and sift over ,hs
dark, old fallow. The sun goes down with
bounce; it is dark before night.
The asparagus is bundled out of the FIRE.
place, the old andirons ARE wheeled int line.
the hearth is n blaze, the windows are cur.
tanned, the old circle is narrowed around tbs
old-fashioned fire.
Just the season for Saturday nights, What
blessed things they are, and what would the
world do without them? Those breathing
moments in the tramping march Of life;
those little twilishts in the broad and earish
glare of noon, when pale yesterdays look
beautiful through the shadows, and faces
"chansed" long ago, smile sweetly again in
the dusk: when one remembers ssthe old
folks at home," and the old fashioned FIRE.
and the old arm chair, and the little broth.
er that died, and the little sister that was
"translated.
Saturday night makes people human sets
their hearts to beating snitlv, as they used
to do. before the world turned them into
war-drums, and Jared them TO pieces with
tattoos.-B. +. Taylor.
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TURKEY AND BABrEs.-A modest young
gentleman Mt dinner party, put the follow
ing conundrum: "Whv are most people
who eat turkey like babies:" No reply
The modest man blushed, and would have
backed out, but finally gave this reason !:
"Because they are fond of the breast.o Two
middle aged ladies tainted, and the remains
of the young man were carried out by the
coroner.
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sV In village school recently, when the
scholars were parsing, the word paif occur.
red in the sentence. The youngster who
was up--a bright eyed little fellow-puz.led
over the word for few minutes, and then,
as bright idea struck him, he burst out
with, can coniugats it-positive waif,
comparative wafer, supsrlative sealing.
wax.".
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CARTER & coURTRlCHT,
(Snccessors to Porter 4 Carter,)
REAL ESTATE AGENTS

Auction and Commission Merchants
FOR THE SALE OF
Merchandize, Houses. Lots. Lands. &C., Middle
Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
(>ONSlGNMENTS SOLICITED FROM HOME AND
~ seroad, and attended to with promptness and dis
Patch
REFER TO
. NON N Thomas II Benton. Jr, X Snow, G. A. Robin
' sou' "m H Robinson, Council Bluffs; S DruIlard Buff
- 49, N Keller, Albany, Y. lnl3-u
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CT A suit was brought by a well known
Cincinnati attorney, some time ago, against
citizen for 'serecting a hole" on the pre-
misses of his client. The documents are on
file in the County Clerks Office. The at
tornexsitis it is almost superRuous to remark,
is an Irishman.-Commercial. -
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TOMAS OFFICER. VIII. NJ. fusEY, Atty at L.
OFFICER & PUSEY,

RE AL ESTATE KERS
And Dealers in Land Warrants and Exchange,
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.
WILL ATTEND TO SELECTION AND LO-
W CATION Of lands in Western Iowa and Nebraska;
e OF taxes on lands Of nonresdcnts and the
collection and remittance of claims.
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A RUGeLEs PREss.-Ruggles is celebrated
! the world over for his model printing
presses. A Trinity paper says:
A young man in Butte county has been
squeezed nearly to death by one of Rug
gles' presses. He married one Of Rusgles'
dauRhters.
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CA learned young lady, the other eve.
ming. astonished the company by asking fol
the ''loan Of diminutive, argenteous, trun'
Gated cone, convex on its summit, and semi.
perforated with symmetrical indentations.'
She wanted a--thiuble. -..-.t.
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CO The Autoera. of the Breakfast Table
has written new lecture, the subject Of
which ss 'fIhs Chief End Of Man. .0.
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TREATMENT OF HYPOCHONDRIA


'But do you really think, SIR asks Chronic
vpochondriasis, shat gardening is such a
healthy occuparion:'
do. But, better than my own opinion,
will give you the sentiments of a cele-
brated but eccentric physician on the sub
ject, when he was consulted by a patient
afflicted with your own disease.'
well, sir what's the matter with you:'
said the bluff Doctor.
'Why, nothing particular, Doctor, if you
mean any decided complaint. Only can't
eat, can't drink, and can't sleep. and |
can't walk in short can't enjoy any thing
except being completely miserable.'
1t was clear case of hypochondria, and
so the physician merely laid down the Or
dinary sanitary rules.
'But you haven't prescribed, Doctor, OBJ
jected the patient. 'You haven't told me
what am to take
Take exercise
'Well, but in what shape, Doctor?'
'ln the shape Of spade.'
sWhat, dig like horse?'
'No, ike man.
Sand no pAysic?'
'No. You don't want draughts, or pills,
or powders. Take garden, and a Sabine
farm after that, if you like
But it is such hard work.
sPhoo, phoo. Begin with crushing your
caterpillers-that's soft work enough. After
that you can kill snails, they're harder-and
mind, before breakfast.'
81 shall never eat any,
your grub. Or hoe, and rake, and max G
f.,l bo &c hn
'But get so soon fatigued.'
sYes, because you are never tired Of being
tired. Mere Incidence. Commit yourself
to hard labor. It's peasanter than having
it done by magistrate, and better in private
ground than on public oncs.'
'Thcn you seriously suppose, Doctor, that
gardening is good for the constitutions
q do; for kings, lords, and commons
Grow your own cabbages, SOW your own
,urnips, and, if you wish for gray head,
cultivate carrots
sWell, Doctor, if thought
Don't think, but do it. Take a garden,
and dig away as if you were goirg to bury
all your care in it. When you're tired Of
digging you can roll or 60 your walls and
set to work at your fruit trees
'Well, at ali events, it is wort trying, bu,
| am afraid of so much STOPPING
'Phoo, phoo! The more pain in your
back the more you'll forget your hips. Sow
bed with thsllcs, and then weed it. And
don't forget cucumbers.'
'Cucumbers'
'Yes, unwholesome to cnt, but healthy to
grow, for then you can have your frame as
strong as you please and regulate your own
lights, Melons still better. Only give
your melon to the melon bed, and your col
y to the colly flowers, and your melan-
choy's at an end.'
'Ah! your joking, Doctor
'No matter. Many a true word is said in
jest. I'm the only physician l know who
pr"scribes it, but take a garden--the first
remedy in the world-for when Adam was
put into one he was quite new man.
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THE NEWS SIIOP-A FABLE.

On a certain day there was posted up be-
fore London ncwsvender's shop, II placard
of the contents of newspaper. There were
various announcements IN it, and they were
printed in such n way as to catch the eye. 1t
Snil-
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ID. &. HLOOMEIl'S
Curtis Brothers,

Surveyors and Land Agents,
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.
OEFlCE.NO 1, pAI.MEN'S BLOCK.
WILL PAY PROMPT ATTENTION TO THE lay
W ing out Of Laris, all business connected with
CIVIL Engineering, Drafting, SC, also the Paying of
Taxes Buying and Selling OF Real Estate. Locating
Land Warrants, and Making Collections. nS-u
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A. +. LAROE,
nOUSE-CARPENTER l. BUILDER,

HAVING LEASED THE SHOP on MAIN
Il street Immediately opposite the City Mill, he is
prepared 10 take contracts all work in his line
Particular attention paid 10 Repairing Furniture and
all other J0B-WONk. [v2nll-ly
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CO Why is love like a canal boat? Be.
cause it is an internal transport.
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WILL PROMPTLY ATTEND TO LAND
w Agencies, Collections, Investing Money. Lcat-
in. and Selling Land Warrants and all other business
pertaining 10 their profession IN western Iowa ana Ne
b aNka. h'u.
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PUNCH's CHARGE TO THE JURY.

"GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY: You are
sworn in all cases to decide according to the
evidence; ut the samo time, If you have any
doubt, you are bound to give the prisoner
the benefit Of it. Suppose you have to
pronounce on the guilt or innocence of IL
gentleman accused of felony. You will
naturally doubt whether. any gentleman
would commit such offenses-accordingiy,
however strong may be the testimony against
him, you will perhaps acquit him. The
evidence OF your own senses is, at least, as
credible as that of the witnesses; if, there
fore, your eyesight convince you that the
prisoner is a well-dresscd person you have
right to presume bis responsibility: and it
is for you to say whether a responsible per-
son would be likely to be guilty of the crime
imputed to him.
SIN like manner, when you see shabby
looking fellow in the dock, charged, for
example, with sheep-stealing, the decision
rests with you, first, whether or not that
individual is a rag-amufiin, and secondly,
how far 1t is probable that man of that
description would steal sheep. OF course,
as has been before said, you will always be
guided by the evidence; but then, whether
the evidence is trustworthy or not, is a
may believe it if you choose, or you may
disbelieve it; and whether, gentlemen Of the
jury, you will believe or disbelieve will
depend on the constitution of your minds.
If your minds are so constituted that you
wish to find the prisoner guilty, perhaps
you will believe it; if they happen to be so
constituted that you desire to find him not
guilty, why. then, very likely you will dis
believe it. You are to free your minds
from all passion and prejudice if you can,
and in that case your judgment will be
unbiased: but if you cannot, you will return
a verdict accordingly. 1t is not, strictly
speaking, for you to consider what will be
the effects of your verdict; but if such d
consideration should occur to you, and you
cannot hel p attending to it, that verdict will
be influenced by it to a certain extent. You
are probably aware that when YOU retire
you will be locked up until you contrive to
agree. You may arrive at unanimity by
fair discussion, or by some of you starving
out the others, or by tossing up, and your
conclusion, by whichever of these processes
arrived at, will be more or less in accord
ance with your oaths. Your verdict may be
right, it is to be hoped it WILL it may be
wrong; it is to hoped it will not. At all
events, gentlemen of the jury, you will come
to some conclusion or other; unless it should
so happen that you separate without coming
to any,"
The above is good take-or upon our
judicial charges. 1t is perhaps us well for
iurymen generally to be their own judges
npon the evidence rendered.
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ID. j. Sullivan, M. ID.
DHYNICIAN L SURGEON. OFFICE AT Dill
i LENS DRUG STORE Lower Broadway Coun-
Gil EIutIS. Iowa. Hl-u
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FRANK STREET,
.sftors.y r fos"ssi!or at L"'e' c""'eS~"e''
n GsnsraI Land >1Ss~s,
COE.>1xL BLUFFS, IOW:1.
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DIks '" 81 HHHKNEsS3
phySiriau and surgeon,
r+oFFICE-Sccoud Story, Hagg's Block, Middle
, - " In37-6m
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-04-28
Ss10vsff's Sale.

DT virtue Of an execution issued out Of the
- Circuit Court in and for the county of
Wood, State Of Wisconsin, in favor OF H. F.
NcCloskey, to me directed and delivered against
the goods, chattels, lands and tenements of Jo-
seph Dugas, surviving partner of Joseph Dugas
and Joseph Gill, | have levied on sill the right,
title and interest which the said Joseph Dugas,
surviving partner Of Joseph Dugas and Joseph
Gill, had on the third (3} day of October, Il d.
1857, or at any time thereafter, in and to the
following described real estate, to wit: Lot
number two (2), Section number three (3),
Township number twenty-one (2i), north OF
Range number five ~ east, containing ffty-fve
acres, more or less, and being in the town of
Centralia, County of Wood and State of Wis
consin; which l shall expose for sale and sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash,
at the Court House in the village of Grand
Rapids in said county of Wood, on the eighth
(Sl day of May, 4. D. 1858, at one o'clock in
the afternoon of said day, to satisfy said execu-
ton and costs as the law directs-Dated Sher-
ifs Office, at Grand Rapids this 22d day OF
March, 1858. B. BUCK, Sheriff.
BY ". KLINE, Under Sheriff
L. p. Powers Atty for Plaintiff 1e-6v
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Laws of Wood Coasglay.

The Board Of Supervisors of the County of
Wood do order and determine, as follows:
SEC. l. All that part Of the County of food,
included in the following territory, to wit =
Townships 81, %, %, "a and 25, north of
Ranges and east, and the west half of town
ship -, north Of Range east, shall be and the
same hereby is set apart and erected into a sep
arate Town, to be known as and called the Town
of Dexter.
s >. The first Town Meeting of said Town
shall be held at the dwelling house of George
Hiles, in Township number twenty-five, north of
Range three east, on the first Tuesday of April
next.
S 5, This act shall take effect from and after
its passage l
Passed March 10th, 1858
H. F. BLACK, Chairman.
L. P. POWERS, Clerk.
State of Wisconsin,
ing to be true copy of the original act, as APP
pears from the records Of my Office, and the
whole of the said act.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Board
[. $. of Supervisors, at Grand Rapids,
this 18th day Of March, A D. 1858.
16-3w L. ?. POWERS, Clerk
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Sheriff's Sale-Mortgage Foreclosure.

State Of u iseonsua, Wood Connty-ss
John Cove against John Marshall, Lucretia
Marshall, Holbert Nickelson, Robert IT, Rovd.
DI virtue ola judgment of fore closure and sale
ID made in the above entitled action, BY the
Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit
OF the State of Wisconsin, at the October term,
held at the Court House in Quincy, in the Coun-
| y OF Adams, on the second day Of October A.
u 1857, shall expose to sale and sell at D1hlic
aue'lon to the highest bidder at the Court
House. IN Grand Rapids in the County of " ocd
and State OF Wisconsin, on Thursday the IF
teenth day OF April a D. 1858, at one O'Clock
IN the afternoon of said dav, the following de-
scrloed real estate, situate living and eng in
township number twcntv-two (22l north Of
range number two 81 cast, situated in the
county OF v God and State Of Wisconsin to wit:
tne southeast quarter q OF section fourteen
(If) the southeast quarter Of the souih-wes.
quarter, the north half of the southwest QUAR-
ter, and the southwest Quarter of the south
west quarter OF the same section tie - ST half
OF The northeast quarter Of section number
twenty-five t22) and he east half of the north
west quarter the southwest quarter of the
northwest quarter, the nor h half Of the north
east quarter, the southwest quarter of he
northeast quarter, of section number TWENTY
three (2Sl, all in township number TWENTY-FIVE
(21l, north ot,range number two On cas-. situa-
ted IN the County Of Wood and State Of Wis
consln, and containing six hundred and forty
acres of land. according 10 government survey.
Given under my hand at Grand Rapids, this
4th day Of March, A. D. 1858
b. BUCK, Sheriff:
By ". KLINE, Under Sherif
l.. ) DIXON, Atty for Plaintiff. 14-sw
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laws Of Wood County.

The Board of Supervisors Of the County of
Wood do order and determine, as follows:
SECTION l. Any person who shall hereafter
kill Grey Wolf in the County of Wood, shall
be entitled to a bounty of five dollars by PROV
ing the same as hereinafter provided.
s > The fact of killing the same shall be
proved by exhibiting the scalp with the ears on,
entire of such Wolf so killed, to any Justice of
the Peace in the town III which such Y off shall
be killed. or to the Clerk Of the Circuit Court
of said County OF Wood, and by making an af-
fdavit setting forth the fact Of such killing and
describing the place where the same was killed;
the said Justice of the Peace or Clerk of the
Circuit Court, upon being satisfied that the an
imal so killed was a Grey Wolf, and that the
same was killed in the County of Wood by the
nerson so exhibiting said scalp shall thereupon
burn said scalp and give certificate to such
person. setting forth the facts of such killing,
and that the scalp has been burned, which GER
tihcate shall entitle the holder thereof to said
sum of five dollars from the County Treasury.
So. The Justice of the Peace or Clerk of the
Circuit Court, who shall grant such certificate
shall be entitled to demand and receive from
the person applying for the same, the sum Of
fiftv cents for his fees thereon.
81 This act shall take effect from and after
its passage.
Passed March 10th, 1858.
L. P. POWERS, Clerk.
STATE Wo OF U counfp= certify that the
foregoing is a true copy of the original act, as
annears from the records Of my Office and of
the whole of the said act.
Witness nv hand and the seal of said Board
r.. 81 at Grand Rapids, this 18th day OF
March. A: D. 1883.
L. T. POWERS, Clerk.
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Referees Sale.

STATE Of Wisconsin, Wood Comfy Circuit Court,
Jan"a7y Special Tenn, A D. 1858.
John ". c. Langworthy against Edward J.
Scott John N. Boylan, Philander Bvam. Ed
ward Chester, Henry Hinckley, Obediah Ger
man and Nelson F. Beckwi;h
Rl virtue of a tecretal order made in the
~ above entitled cause, bearing date January
9TH, \; D. 1858, shall expose for sale and sell
at public auction to the highest bidder, at the
house of Obediah German in the county Of
Wood, on the fifth day of March, A. u. 1858.
at two o'clock in the afternoon the following
described real estate, to wit: All of the north
east quarter of the northeast quarter of section
number twenty-five (25), in township number
twenty-one (2l), north of range number six (6l
east; lying in the county of Wood and State
of Nisconsin.-Dated this 10th dav of Janua-
ry, \. d. 1858. A. 3. jerks
10" Referee
rs The above sale is postponed until Mon
day, the 18th day of April, l. D. 1858, at the
same place and time of day.-Datcd this ffth
day OF March, \. d. 1858
+. low A. b. JENKS Referee.
1. H. WALKER, Plaintiffs ATTY.