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The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-31
Xaisfellauy.
THE BIRTH OF GREEN ERIN.

Can any reader Of the Commercial inform who |
the author VI the following beautiful verses, foun
some years ago in An exchangsi There Is An unusna
,sor Of im.sn..on d;psy:d Joined to the yerso.
-NeD FORK Commercial Advertiser.
Yes can. II was written some sixteen seven
teen years ago. in New York CITY, by young lrishma
named Moore and appeared In that very clever stor
published originally IN the Brother Jonathan, We be
lieve, entitled "ToN SrAPLEroN'a sketch which nevs
received half the circulation and credit s merits DC
servsd.-Baoalo Commercial.
Wild all condcscinshin,
I'd turn your attinshin
To what would monshn Of Erin so green
And widout hesitayshin,
I'll show how that nayshin
Became Az creashyn the gIm and the queen.
1t happened wan mornin',
Widout any warnin',
That vaynus was born III tho beautiful say;
An be the same token
Can suro ID was provokin',)
Her pinions, wcro soakin', and wouldn't give play,
So Neptune who knew her,
Began to purshue her,
In ordhcr TO WOO her the wicked ovid Jew;
An he very nigh caught her.
Atop Of tho wather,
Crate Jnpithcr's daughter, who cried poo-ta.loo.
Hut JOve tho great JAyntOus.
Looked down an saw vaynus,
An Neptune so haynus pnrshuin her wild,
so he roared ont IN thundher
He'd tear him asun,ler,
An sure twas wonder, for tasting his child,
50 sthar that was nyin'
Around him espyin',
lie gaz'd widout sighin' an hurled It below,
Where II tumbled like winkin'
On Neptune while sinkin',
An give him I'm hinkn', broth " blow
An that sthar thin was dry,and,
Both iowand and highland,
An formed swate island the land Of me birth
Thus plain is the story,
'Kase stint down from glory,
That Erin hoary's heaven on earth!
Thon vaynus Jumped natey
On Erin so sthately,
But faynted, 'kase lately so bothered and prissd
Which much dill bewildsr;
But ere II had killed her
Her father disthilIed her dhrop Of the Dist.
An that glass so victorious
1t made her feel glorious,
4 little uproarious fear might prove;
HINGE how can yer blame US
That Erin's so famous
For beauty, an murther, an whirkey an lovel
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-31

Ladies, fret not over small losses. Other
wise you soon have that great loss, tho loss
of beauty, to fret over.
= He who pokes his nose everywhere will
sometimes poke it between q thumb and
foretnger,
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-31

HoMINY CAKE.-Mix with cold hominy an
equal amount of white -four, until perfectly
smooth: add a teaspoonful of salt, and thin
off with buttermilk, into pan Of which
teaspoonful Of soda has been dissolved;
when of the consistency of griddle cakes
add a dessert spoonful Of melted butter, and
bake rs usual; with maple syrup they are
delicious. and the absence of eggs will not
be missed
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-31

LADY writes to friend in Lowell from
Oregon, that apples were raised in her
neighborhood so large that sixteen Of them
would fill hushel basket, though Of course
all do not average that size. She also saw
Bartlett pair that weighed two pounds
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-31
Signs of Cold Weather.


snap. It is probably sharp winter weather:
When you think that you don't know
whether the first bell has been rung or not
When it strikes you that your watch is at
least ten minutes fast; and so if you get up
when the minute hand Is sat quarter to "
you'll be in capital time.
That if you could only be taken out of
bed to be washed and dressed in second
by machinery, you would mt mind getting
up.
That another five minutes sleep will make
you all right for the day.
That it's three minutes to the half hour,
and you'll get up exactly at the half hour
That it's just one minute past the half
hour, SO you'll get up exactly at the thirty
five minutes.
That as five minutes won't make much
difference, say, get up at the quarter punct
ullay.
The following considerations will also
lead you to the conclusion that winter has
come at last:
{, That you can't get up without hot water
That you don't think that the water is
quite hot.
That he had better bring little more
water. please; and take care it is quite hot,
That you can't get up until your clothes
are all ready for YOU
That little snooze while James is bring
ing the clothes land while he fetches some
more hot water.) will do you all the good in
the world.
That when you do get up, you won't be
second dressing.
That you'll get up in exactly t,co minutes
from now.
That ,the two minutes having passed)
you II just settle what you are going to do
to-day, aud then get up
That, il that's the first bell, you've plen-
ty of tine; and if it's the second, it's no
good hurrying up now, rs yon are late any
how.
Tho consideration that is generally re-
qnircd before making a move out Of bed, is
in itself a pretty sure sign of the presence
Of winter.
A Yale alumnus of twenty years stand
ing returned, after long absence, to visit
his alma mater. and was very courteously re-
ceived and shown around by Professor
II. After having exhibited to his guest
most of the modern improvements, tho Pro-
fessor said to him:
"You have now seen, l believe, all that
is new in the institution except the gymnasi-
UNI. Come, lei us so up there, and will
roll string Of ten pins with you
"What, sir = exclaimed the guest, start
ing back in real astonishmcnt.
'sWhy," exclaimed the Professor, Eve
have fine alley in our gymnasium, and
would like TO 60 there and roll string Of
ten-pins with you"
ssRoll ten-pins with you, SIR" exclaimed
the alumnus, with CLEAN Of malicious fun
in his eye; "Why sir, was expelled from
the college for rolling ten-pins -
The Pennsylvania Legislature pro-
poses to prevent clandestine marriages by
law.
The Taunton Gazette thinks Boston
without the old State House would be a
club" with the Inch pin out.
The .Etna Life Insurance Company at
Hartford received 81 $685. 39 last year, and
paid out $527, ee5.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-31

GRAHAM BIscUIT.-There are quickly
made and very nice for breakfast. Take
quart Of Graham or unbolted -four. and mix
it to the consistency Of drop cake, with
buttermilk, an even teaspoontul of butter,
and drop the mixture on shallow pan
bake in a quick oven fifteen or twenty
minutes.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-31

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Witnessed: c. II. HOLMES, II. LENsABAuGH
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-31

A true bill for murder was found against
her. and on the 9th Of October the trial
commenced 4 season Of greater excite
mcnt never was experienced here than dur
ing the days occupied by her trial. Day
after day the court room was crowded to
sutiocation, large proportion Of the crowd
being women. The testimony on the trial
was of damning and overwhelming charac-
ter. Day BY day it accumulated against her
until it seemed she must sink absolutely
crushed under the terrible weight. No ray
Of light for her could DO discovered in all the
testimony. 1t was all against her, and was
dreadful in its character. 1t was told by
many witnesses how with tender care she
piled her innocent victim at all hours and
with unresisting presidency with the food
and medicine that contained the fatal poison !;
how she heard unmoved the terrible cries Of
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-31

sidered as the inverse Of each other. An
absurd Overstatemcnt or an absurd under
statement may be equally effective. When
Falstaff tells Randolph that his face is an
everlasting bonfire Light that he has
"saved him q thousand marks in links and
torches, walking in the night bctwixt tay-
ern and tavern he gives good specimen
of the first. A we'll known American exam
pie is the assertion Of the Mississippi cap
tain, that his boat would float wherever the
ground was little damp. To illustrate
the second, We might quote the American,
who had managed to quote something in his
native country to parallel all the wonders
Of Europe. At last he was asked whether
he had not just crossed the Alps. "Well, !"
he replied, ~ guess ! passed some risin'
ground" The philosophy Of the two meth
DDS is perhaps the same; but the second Is
commoner amongst the genuine American
humorists. When Artemls Ward describes
his courtship, he begins by inforE ing his
beloved that she was gazclle, which, he
remarks, ~ thought was putty fine" lie
goes on, 81 wish thar was winders 10 my
soul, 50 that you could see some of my feel
ms. There's fire enough in hero to bile all
the corn-becf and turnips in the ncighbor
hood. Vesoovius and the crittcr amt n
circumstance! To all which, tho lady
replies, after some more attempts at elo-
qnencc on the approved models, s'You say
rite strate out what you are drivin' at. II
you mean gettin' hitched, Fm in" This
may be taken as an illustration Of the nature
Of the real popular humor. 1t is to a con-
siderable extent protest by shrcwd COM
mon sense against the bombast which is SO
prevalent, but which does not quite succeed
in passing itself off for genuine When a
man, naturally acute, is set down to hear
orators spout nonsense, he is sometimes
sufficiently awed to accept it for genuine,-
he feels that he is not entitled to be critic
but his native sense enables him to hay,
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-31

representation OF the Lazy or Lyons To-
gethcr with his twenty-four wives, because
he wouldn't see a play where a man made
such cusscd fuss over one woman Per-
haps his best story, as one illustrative Of
the worst side of Yankee shrcwdncss, relates
10 conversation which he processes to have
heard in new England store to tho follow
ing effect =
Say. Dill, wot yon done with the sorr mare Of
sid her." said William with a chuckle of salts.
faction
"word yon gits"
"IIunfd nm iifty dollars cash down."
How. llnndd an ifty for that kickn' SPAWN
cttter! Who'd You sell her 10? ~
Sold her to mother"
"Wotl. exclaimed brother No. L, "dii you really
sell that kckin' spavind critter to mothers Wall,
you air n shrtwd ono
Humorous literature in America, as well
as every other kind of literature, has been
Of late chiefly devoted to the war as the one
great topic of interest. We may remark,
by the way, that very unfair criticism has
been made by some writer's, who seem to
fancy that we stopped all joking during the
Crimcan war; that Punch whilst il lasted,
never made 4 hit at Lord Aberdeen, or that
Gilray never caricatured Pitt in the rcvolu-
tonary wars. The Americans, ii was said,
joked about the war because their hearts
were not in it. This is simply absurd
Rightly or wrongly, they certainly gave
every proof Of being absorbed in tho war to
an almost incredible extent. That was,
however, no reason why they should aband-
on the use Of their trcnchant and sometimes
rather grim style of humor. When some
one rcproachcd President Lincoln for his
jokes during some Of the worst part Of the
war, he replied, that but for such n relaxa-
ton he could not have borne the weight Of
anxiety. His last very touching inaugural
message gives, no doubt, the most prevail
ing color Of his mind, which was an almost
pathetic melancholy; and, indeed, it may
Daily clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-18
F1om the Clarion and Standard, July sth


We are glad to see the Clarion and
Standard endorsing our call for a
State Convention for the purpose of
selecting delegates to represent Mis-
sissippi in the Convention of the
National Union party to assemble in
Philadelphia on the l4th of August
next
We find the above refreshingly cool
paragraph in the Mississippian of yes
terday Our neighbor is so frantic to
be indorsed that he overlooks the fact
that the first article, favoring the repre-
sentation of Mississippi at the Phila-
delphia Convention, published in the
State, appeared in the Clarion and
Standard In our issue of the 28th of
June was concluded an article favor
ing the formation of National Union
party, as follows:
ain the South, almost without ex-
ception, the people earnestly and cor
daily desire to see Johnson sustained
and his policy indicated by popular
approval Why not then be repre-
scented in the National Convention
Senators Doolittle, Cowan, and all the
names appended to the call are nobly
struggling to stem the tide of Radical
ism that threatens to sweep away
every vestige of our rights, and it is
proper their efforts should receive our
sympathy and approval What do
our brethren of the Mississippi Press
say to Convention for the purpose
of sending delegates to represent the
State at Philadelphia p
On the Sd July, and after half the
newspaper press in the South had ex-
pressed themselves in favor of the
Convention, our contemporary wakes
up and says: ''we have consulted with
a number of gentlemen from various
portions of the State, and we find
perfect coincidence of sentiment con-
corning the propriety and necessity of
the South responding favorably to the
call of the Democratic and Conserva-
tive members of Congress upon the
people of the States to assemble in
Convention at Philadelphia on the
18th August next, for the purpose of
combining the conservative element
North and South in support ofthe
policy advocated by President John
son."
And now because we still favor the
Convention our modest neighbor is
glad that we indOrse his .'call," DC.
After this we would not be surprised
for him to claim that Doolittle, Cowan,
and the other members of the National
Union Club called the Convention at
his suggestion and for hisindorsament:
Daily clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-18
FIOm Tie MIssISSIppIab,
THE CHAMELEON

The vaulting and somersaultish ma
| ture of the Clarion and Standard fire.
quently overleaps itself, and back
ground view of that impeccable sheet,
produces the most ludicrous sensa-
tons The front of Mars" is as
moonshine and vanity, if the ''rear" of
Mars is at all exposed
Not great while ago the aforesaid
journal announced itself as the ''official
journal of the United States for the
State of Mississippi" upon the film
sey pretext of the permission of rad
ical Secretary to publish certain laws,
doubtless upon the ground of the aid
and comfort which the equality par
ty received early in the action from
this trimming, though ambitious jour
nal His failure heretofore to impress
the public with his wisdom, should
have taught him some lessons in mod
esty, which it seems he will never
learn.
The qualification of the ordinance
abolishing slavery was made, 1.-THE
Clarion Notwithstanding that there
might be an eternal record, that the
people of Mississippi had not so stult-
flied themselves as voluntarily to aban-
don an institution which they had pro-
fessed to believe of Divine origin.
He also failed to impress the Leg
islature with his equality" doctrines,
which if they had prevailed, would in
our judgment) have eventually placed
the white man of the country on level
with negro. 1t is not at all surpris-
ing, under such circumstances, that
this s'offieial journal of the United
States" (which sign would still be
hanging out had it not been for the
shafts OF ridicule which asssiled it, }
should assume the general manage
ment of things in this small thirty-sixth
part of the United States-the State of
Mississippi, and complain of an in
fringment of his imaginary patent right
to inaugurate important political move
ments, when it is well known he never
dares to speak unless he thinks he is
on the big side of question
1t is surprising however, that when
the thinking men of the country are
striving to heal the wounds which en-
danger the life of the nation, and are
seeking to restore harmony among the |
people, that the -'disinterested journal |
over the way, should SO far loose sight |
of the grand object in view as to in
trude its own comparative insignifi-
canoe upon the public, by finding fault
with us for having, in advance of him,
called Convention of the people to
respond to the call for a National
Union Conyention to assemble in
Philadelphia in August next.
Appropriateness aad Ambition are
characteristics If kept within
proper bounds, but when accompanied
with imaginary feather of the poets,
Daily clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-18
Prom the CIarlon aud StanuArdi } uIN
TAE MIssIssIPPIAN.

In every reference by the Mississip-
plan to this journal there is displayed
a spirit of envy and righteousness
which clearly indicates that our Prince
Beautiful has very sore head. He
doesn't like the Clarion and Standard.
Its success distresses him, and he spits
forth his silly venom to the public
disgust We begin to think that he
likes to be noticed by the "otficial jour
nal for the few illusions that we have
felt constrained to make to his sour
rilous sheet, THAT paper having lost
all the dignity which characterized it
under former proprietors )-have been
eagerly copied and animadverted upon
in the usual bilingsgate style in which
its editor so remarkably eXcels. If
he keeps on, he will soon surpass
Brownlow, and will be equally as de-
testable in public esteem. Indeed, he
is already tolerably well played out /;
but the superabundancs of audacity
and brass with which he is gifted may
sustain him. until he is again sen
dorsed'' by some distinguished gen
tlemen." We agree with him fully
that "no man can long debeiye the
world as to his true character, and the
world has an old fashioned way of
weighing character with the neatness
of an apothecary" How immensely
self applicable this very original
maxim.
We claim no special shonor or dis
tinction'' for having been perhaps the
first paper in the State to suggest the
propriety of State Convention; but
we do object to the course of the Mis-
sissippian, after a week had elapsed
from the publication of our first
article, anu AFTER tile public pulse had
been felt and distinguished gentle
men" consulted with, that that paper
should SO ostentatiously parade its
concurrence as ''oar call" and place
US in the attitude of endorsing" a
proposition originating in these col
umns. But .his is fully in keeping
with the Journalistic trickery'' in
which the Mississippi&n has become
so proficient. We are astonished DIT
no assertion that it makes. 10 ,natter
how absurd and preposterous. The
truth is; the Mississippian. under its
present management" has become q
very unreliable sheet, and it's editor is
regarded by the shrinking men of the
country" az the Prince of Modern
Humbugs! We hope, for the honor
of the editorial profession, that he will
learn to behave himself, and that, after
this gentle reprimand,we may be saved
the necessity Of another effort to keep
him within the legitimate bounds of
journalism.
Daily clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-18
MERIDIAN, MISS. july IA, 1886.

Messrs. Editors. The good order of
this quiet village was thrown into con-
fusion this morning. at an early hour,
by one of the darkest and most
brutal murders that has ever been
recorded. IT appears from the testi-
mony given in court, that Nathaniel
E. Broughton and James Thomas were
butchers, and doing business together
The pen they used was built in con-
junction Thomas furnished one hun
dTed and seventy-fve of the rails
Not many days ago they had settle
ment and quit Thomas went and be-
gan to take away his portion of the
rails, which Broughton forbid. Late
yesterday evening Broughton borrow
ed a pistol Early this morning, a
short while before the dawn of day,
he called up..a friend and told him he
would have to kill Thomas, and then
left and returned to his house, and
went to the pen short while after sun
rise, found Thomas getting his rails.
Thomas not ceasing to take them, as
Rroughton ordered, he (B. fired his
pistol, the ball passing through the
fieshy part of the right arm, entering
| the side, and lodging near the left nip
| pie He died in less than five minutes
in the arms of his wife, who happened
to be near him when the black hearted
deed was perpetrsted. Broughton sur
rendered himself to Justice Gibbons,
hoping to be dealt with more leniently
by reason of his voluntary surrender.
Messrs. Ramsey d Jennings appeared
in defence in very able speeches, but
the case was SO plain that they had
nothing to go upon at all. Broughton
will go to Quitman Jail to morrow to
await final trial.
This place is improving still; several
new buildings now going up and Others
under contract. 1t is now getting
somewhat a pleasant stopping place /;
that is, if you go to the right Hotel.
If you want to pass your tina pleas
antly call upon the gentlemanly pro
prietor of the well known and popular
Home known as "The Jones House"
Mr. J. spares neither means or pains
to render his guests comfortable. Call
if you should ever pass, and you will
do so as often as you pass.
We had slight rain to-day at P. NJ,
and prospect good for more.
The crops are suffering badly in this
portion of the State.
The citizens are all up for building a
Mammoth Factory, to manufacture
calicoes and other fine cotton goods
1t is to be hoped they may not fail in
the worthy enterprise.
O. & A
Daily clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-18
Chaneery Sale

accordance with decree, rendered 10th
II June, 1866, by the Chancery Court for q
LIST District of Kinds county, in the case Of III
llard, summers 81 Co., and 5. b. NeWma
COmpialnants, against William Evans, D
lendant, Will offer for sale TO the highest bid
Tor cash, on SATURDAY, the 18th DAY
August next, in front of the Capitol in the eli
Of Jackson, the following described tract
land, situated in the county Of Kinds, and col
tanning, by estimate, three hundred and fort
94-1OO acres, more or less, to-wit:
Beginning at point in the LiNingsio
Road, IN the line between Sections - and
opposite the Rose Hedge, in the line betwes
TINS tract and lands conveyed by WilAsL
Hardeman TO George l.. Potter, and runnin
west, ~, % chains to the southwest corner G
The east half of the southeast quarter Of set
tion p, and running thence north 0deg. 6 min
west, -, 20 chains TO the northern boundary 9
section %, at the northwest corner Of the ess
nan OF the northeast quarter of section 2
ana running thence south 80 deg. - min. easl
~, 10 chains to the corner of section p and =
thence south SO deg. east, ~, 50 chains to th
railroad, thence with course of Railroad soul
IL deg. % min. west, IS, 50 chains 10 the corne
OF the land conveyed by William Hardeman 7
George l.. Potter, thence with the line Of sal'
Potter north Sc deg. 80 min west, 81 81 chain
to the corner opposite the Rose Hedge, thenc'
with the line of said Potter along said Ros'
Hedge south deg. Is min east 80, 60 cham,
to the beginning, all in township 8, range
east, and containing, by estimate, $40 s4-IA
acres more less.
Inc ABOVE Is very valuable tract Of land 4
my "l9ln about two miles of the city OF Jsch'
son. The title is believed 10 be perfect
WILLIAM YERGER, JR,
Commissioner.
July g. 1S66 dtds