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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1867-10-25
XGisr EnsslseEsc

How wonderful the influence of
man upon his fellows. That which
he exerts purposcly, as when he en-
dearors to control the thoughts,
words and actions of others by ar
gumcnt, by persua sions, by promis-
es, and by threatenings; and which
flows out from him unconsciously.
1t is required Of us by all sound doc
trinc and true teaching. that we ex-
ert ourselves to lead men in the way
Of right doing. We must be active,
not only for the attainment Of per
sonal happiness, but also to make
as many Of or fellows happy as it
is possible.
We are influencing those Ground
US without any effort upon our pant.
''Simply to be in this world, what
ever yol are, is to exert an infu-
ence. An influence, too, compared
with which mere language and per-
suasion are feeble You can not
live without others receiving impress
sionsfrom your character Every
act, word, and thought, as far as that
thought gives expression to your
ccuntenance, have their influence
Your every movement tells upon the
characters that are forming around
you. This kind Of influence may be
easy and silent, yet all powerful for
good or evil. How powerful the
light Of the sun in preserving the
life of the world Let the light Of
the morning cease and return no
more, and bring with it no dawn
the oltcries Of horror stricken
world fill the air, and makes, as it
were, the darkness audible" All
life would soon become extinct, and
the Globe itself mere ball of ice.
Such is the influence Of light rcvis-
ting US in the silence of each re-
turning morning. 1t would not wake
an infant in his cradle, so noislcss is
it's movement. We may not con-
clude because our influence is silent
and easy that it is not mi ehty for
veal or woe. We are taking hold
of our fellows unconsciously to our
selves and to them, and moulding
their hearts and minds. Men are
forming their opinions, and settling
their views Of Masonic truth and
teaching by our lives. Let us abide
in TIE light of true Masonic truth.
Masons in heart as well as in de
pertinent. keystone.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1867-10-25
Not i'm Signs.

An English brother writes to a
young friend, in reply to letter.
"Once more it is fancy, and not
reason, that guides you. 1t seems
now you assert that, in secret So
cieties of various countries and va
rious ages, you have discovered
Freemasonry, because you have dis
covered that, in such societies, GER
tain words and signs were used.
Be assured. however, that Freema-
sonry consists in something very
different from any such words and
signs. 1t consists in doctrines
Take away those aoerines, and
leave only the words and the signs,
and Freemasonry disappears at
nee"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1867-10-25
THE NEW OREGON
NURSERY
FOR SALE
b Y the ngle tree. or

y tAe single Tree. Oh
IN LOTS TO SUIT PURCHASERS.
$500 Duche,. of Oldenburg apple trees.
3 and 4 years Old.
10000 Doolittle Black Cap Raspberry.
1000 Choice Current plants, Red, White,
Black, and yellow.
l,0oo Strawberry plants.
10000 Choice RoscbuShcS.
2,00O Choice Dahlies embracing
% distinct shades of color.
Also good stock of rconas, Tu-
lips, Bedding plants, &c.
\ choice lot Of grapes of the best
varieties for sale.
All the stock we offer for sale is
in good condition.
WHITE & SMITH,
n4j, CIV New Oregon, Iowa.
TONS Of both sexes, use llELNRoLu' EN-
TRACT BVCuU. 1t will give brisk and en-
ergctic feelings, and enable you to S.cepwcll
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1867-10-25
a GREAT BARGAIN!

The subscriber will sell his farm very
cheap! 1t Is situated in Winncshcik coun-
~. Oh the Rail Road six miles from Cresco
ten miles from Coun0vcr. FIVE miles from
New Oregon and fifteen miles from De-
corah. There are , brooks running through
he farm AMI ten never Taiiin~ springs and
timber sufficient on the premises for the
uses Of the farm. 1t is well calculated for
stock and grain raising, having 400 acres
fenced, 250 Of which is under cultivation.
and 30 acres with spring on it is enclosed
with post and rail fence for a pasture.
There are two good wells, three log houses
and new frame house situated on the
military road The farm contains $50
acres in all. lying in one tract. and Will be
sold in lots to suit purchasers Ii can be
divided into 80 acre lots and have living
water on each lot. There is also a school
house in the immediate vicinity For par
ticulars inquire Of
n9tl31 JOHN WHOLEHAN.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11
VOL. KW--NO. 3.
TERMS

TThree Dollars for one year, inva-
rtGbly an adrance; eleven copies for Thirty
Dollars
80 Single copies, Ten Gents each.
e6r Advertisement; inserted at One Dollar
per square of Ten Lines or lsss for the first
insertion; Fl ty Cents for each continuance.
UT Il liberal deduction will be made Ia
persons advertising for three, six nine, OF
twelve months
NJ Obituaries and calls on candidates,
Fifty Cents per square.
E5- The privilege of yearly advertisers is
strictly lin ted 10 their own immediate and
regular business; and the business of an ad-
verising firm is not considered as including
that Of it's indyi lual members. No de-
Walton from these terms under any circum-
stances.
~ All veriisements not marked with the
number of insertions when handed in, will be
continued until ordered out, and payment
exacsed.
or No advertisement inserted gratuitously
sLj@ Advertisements OF an abusive nature
will lot be inserted at any price.
ioe Announcing candidates Five Dollars
to be paid In advance in every case.
0J Job Pruning OF all kinds neatly
do"e on New Type, and on as reasonable
erms as any Office in tennessee.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11
In a Horn.

The following, which we find
in the Meridian Messenger, touch
es the raw, but is good for one of
the prevailing diseases of this
country, which is regardless of
color. Col. Horn pitches into
lazy people like a unicorn:
ga great many people are
greatly exercised about the ne
gro's working. The way the ne
gro works (or don't work) is the
topic of conversation everywhere,
where two or three are gathered
together, The disposition of tile
negro to labor or not to labor) is
watched with intense interest, by
those who take no special inter-
est i'll anything else. We are
sick and disgusted with the ever
lasting talk about the short COM
ings of the colored population. In
Gods name, can't our people ele-
vate their thoughts above the ne
gro, or. bestow them upon worthy
objects? We claim to feel as
kindly towards the negro as he
deserves of US, and when we see
him about t1 be engulphed and
lost in idleness and vice, we feel,
we hope, a rational concern. But,
at the same time, we honestly
confess to the instincts which give
op own race the preference in all
our thoughts, If we are concern
ed about the disposition of the
negro to do or not to do, yet our
concern sinks into Indifference
compared with the concern we
feel for the conduct of the whites. |
While some are fretting and flu
ming about the lazy negroes they |
see in the towns and villages, who |
refuse to contract and engage in
regular employment, we are i'm
measurably more distressed at the
sight Of lazy white men and wo-
men. If the negro, as free man,
does all the work and earns all the |
wages, he will prove himself the
better man of the two. We are
anxious for the white man to as
sert the superiority in all things
by his works, and therefore our
anxiety for the white man to 60
10 work"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11


Charles E. Moss, one Of the
most radical of contributors to
the most radical Of papers, the
Anti-Slavery Standard, denoun-
ces the Military Reconstruction
Measure most strenuously, declar-
ing that it places "the lives, prop
erty, and interests of one-third of
theinhabitants of the AmericanRe-
public in the power of Gen. Grant,"
and the writer Immediately adds
the following:
The great, boasting Republican
party, after six years of vacilla-
ton and misrule, has at last de-
clared, SO far as language of leg
islation can declare, that the Amer
ican people are incapable Of self
government, and that General
Grant alone can save the nation.
For, say what we may, if no civ
il government can be devised for
States recently in rebellion, tie
same aciU be claimed to hold good
throughout the North in less than
three gears.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

MAKING BUTTER.-A correspon-
dent Of the Rural american says
she puts no water with the cream,
nor does she rinse the butter as
many do, considering that the
wafer destroys the sweetness of
the butter, and causes it to become
rancid much sooner. She also
thinks that she obtains more but
ter in cold weather by heating the
milk, removing the cream the
next day, and heating again, when
she gets nearly as much cream as
at the first skimming. The churn-
ing does not occupy over fifteen
minutes, and the butter comes out
in good order, and yellow even in
the coldest weather.
The sweetest, most delicious
butter we ever tasted is made in
the manner indicated by this cor
respondent, by a lady in Davidson
county. 1t is but very little more
trouble to make such butter than
the ordinary stuff usually found
on sale in market. Butter of
this description commands the
highest market price and always
finds ready sale.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

CURE FOR NEURALGIA.-Half a
drachm of sal ammonia, in an ounce
of camphor water, to be taken a
teaspoonful at a dose, and the dose
to be repeated several times, at in
tervals of five minutes, if the
pain be not relieved at once
Half a dozen different persons
have tried the recipe, and in every
case an immediate cure was effec-
ted. In one the sufferer, a lady,
had been affected for more than a
week, and her physician was una
BILE to relieve her suffering, when a
solution of sal ammonia in camphor
water relieved her in few min
utes.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11
Administering Medicine
to Horses.

On this subject George Beaver,
writing to the american Agllcultas.
r'st says:
| consider the usual method of
giving medicine to horses by
drenching, as it is called, highly
Objectionable. In this process, the
horses head is raised and held up,
bottle introduced into his mouth,
his tongue pulled out and the liq-
uid poured down. In his struggle
some of the medicine is quite
likely to be drawn into his wind
pipe and lungs, and inflammation
and fatal results sometimes fol.
low. A better way is to mix the
medicine with meal, or rye bran;
make it into balls; pull out the
horses tongue, and place a ball as
far back in his mouth as possible;
then release his tongue, and he
will almost certainly swallow the
ball. Or the dose may be mixed
with meal and honey, or other
substance that will form q kind of
jelly, placed upon small wood
en- blade made of a shingle, and
thrust into the back part of his
mouth, when he will very easily
it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

Mary Woods, aged fifty-eight,
the wife of a farmer near Henry
vile, Indiana, recently eloped
during her husbands absence,
with a hired boy, Stephen Wilson,
aged nineteen. They carried
with them all the movables in
the house, and fled to Louisville,
where the young man went to
work as a street car driver. The
arrival of the injured husband
brought their dreams of bliss to
an end. He has instituted pro-
ceedings for the recovery of his
furniture. for which he very nat
urally seems to care more than
for his wife.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

How TO GET OFF A Foul Gun
A correspondent of the Scientific
American says:
hand you the following as
reliable fact-the reason | leave
to others: In hunting, a gun of.
ten becomes foul from use, and the
exploding of cap will fail to ex-
plode the powder. With a knife
sharpen piece of dry pine wood,
or common match wood will an
swer; drive the splint right into
the nipple of the gun, cut off the
bruised part of the wood even
with the top of the nipple; put
on a cap, and it will not fail to ex-
plode the gun. Any one wishing
can test this by putting a little
powder in his gun, then driving
snugly the plug-it will go every
time.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

Our exchanges report the case
of II surgeon in the rebel army
who, after serving until the close
of the struggle, returned to his
home near Hopefeld, Arkansas,
to find his house burned and his
wife gone. Unable after long
search, to find the latter, and be-
lieving she had wilfully abandon
ed him, he procured a divorce,
and returned to Hopefeld to prac-
tice his profession. A few weeks
ago he received word that his wife
was in West Tennessee, and that
she was still faithful to him, but
had sought the home of a friend
after their house was burned down.
A correspondence ensued. Only
one result was possible;- and last
Tuesday the former husband and
wife met ut the Commercial Ho-
tel in Memphis, and were formally
remarked.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

A little sink near kitchen
doorstep, inadvertently formed, has
been known, although not exceed
ing in its dimensions a single
square foot, to spread sickness
through whole household, Hence
everything of the kind should be
studiously obviated, so that there
be no spot about a house which
can receive and hold standing
water, whether it be the pure rain
from the sky, the contents of a
wash basin, the slop:bowl, or the
water pail.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

The Lexington (Ky.) Quarterly
Court spent two days last week
in trying a celebrated "cow case
between Hugh O'Gara and D.
Knoble, Four times has it been
tried before. This time witness.
es without number were examined.
Books ransacked, teeth, horns,
and countenance examined. Cow
ology illustrated and exhausted
Eminent counsel employed on
both sides. Result:-Cow con-
clusively proven to be O'Gara's s.
indubitably identified to be Kno-
ble's. Cow worth $50-costs
largely over Sl00-lawyers' fees
large-feeling incalculable-jury
decided for O'Gara-appeal taken
to Circuit Court.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11
Confscation.

The full text of Thad. Stevens
bill for confscation is now going
the rounds of the press. The
following is its substance
WHEREAS, Ii is due to justice
as au example to future times
that some proper punishment
should lee inflicted on the people
who constituted the Confederate
States of America" both because
they declared an unjust war
against the United States for the
purpose of destroying republican
liberty and permanently establish
ing slavery, as well as for the
cruel and barbarous manner in
which they conducted said war,
In violation of all the laws Of civil
lied warfare; and also to compel
them to make some compensation
for damages and expenditures
caused by said war.
The bill confiscates all the pub
lie lands ofthe ten rebel States, and
all the lands and other property
forfeited by the act Of Congress of
July Ii, 1S62-all of which is to
be seized, condemned and sold =
Out of the proceeds each adult
male freed slave is to receive for
ty acres, and each one who is the
head of IL family forty more
Out of the balance a sum of fifty
dollars for each household is to be
appropriated to the erection of
buildings for the use of the late
slaves $4,000 900 is to be in
vested in United States six per
cent. bonds and tie interest add
cd to the pension of Union sol
diers, and $500, 100000 is to be
appropriated to pay damages done
to loyal citizens by the civil or
military government.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

Eccentric Prayer.

In a work entitled "English
Eccentricities,' recently publish
ed in London, may be found the
following eXtempore prayer, at.
tributed by the author to a GER
tain Mr.. Ward:
"Lord thou knowest that pos
sess nine houses in the city of
London, and that | have recently
bought an estate in the county of
Essex. Preserve, therefore, |
pray Thee, the two counties,
Middlesex and Essex, from fires
and earthquakes; and as | have
an hypothecated estate in Hart
fordshire, look also with compass
sion on thot county; as to the
other portions Of the country do
as Thou wilt. Lord, consolidate
the Royal Bank that it may hon
or its notes. Let all my debtors
be or become honest men. Give
a prosperous and safe voyage to
the.sloop Mermaid, for the insu-
rance Of which am responsible.
Preserve me from robbers and
brigands. Make all my servants
faithful and devoted that they
may watch over my interests, and
relax not their diligence by day
or by night"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

A calico ball being lately pro-
posed in Port Gibson, Miss, the
local paper offers the lady partic-
ipants the following suggestions: !:
"As the calico party will in some
respects remind us of the primi-
tive times when six yards were,
abundant for a dress, we suggest
that the primitive be observed in
other respects. Shake off the
crinoline and leave the waterfall
at home to amuse the baby un,
til you get back; the only difficult
ty is that the baby might think
it a cocoanut and 'chaw' it up"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

A'good story is told of a Glas-
Cow merchant who, on lis death
bed, sent for a Free Church cler-
gyman. Having some fears re-
garding his future prospects, he
asked the reverend gentleman
"Do you think if | were to leave
fl00, 900 to the Free Kirk, that
my soul would besaved?" SWELL"
answered the cautions minister,
81 couldn't just promise you that,
but | think it's an experiment well
worth trying" 80 af
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11
From the N. I. Sunday Mercury.
Ante-Mortenl Epitaphs.
ON BENJAMIN F. BUTLER.

Here lies hero who shirked bloody strife;
He passed in bottle some years of his life;
But ere he was bottled much plumber he gained,
Which, in spite of remonstrance, he always
retained
Till it grew to a maxim beyond all debate,
That no Butler eer took such good care of the
plate,
And when vessels of silver were emissing "Alack'
Sighed the owners, SO they're hidden in Benja-
Minis sack"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11
A correspondent of the IaUa-

A correspondent Of the 7aHa-
poosian { (Alabama) says:
1t is not generally known that
rotten potatoes will kill cows, but
| have known of several persons
at this season, when cleaning out
their potato banks and houses, to
throw their rotten potatoes where
the cows could get them, and al
most every cow that had access to
a quantity died in a few hours.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

There has been great excite
ment about a calico ball at CO.
lumbus, Miss, for the benefit of
the INDECENT. The pastors of the
Presbyterian and Methodist
Churches preached sermons a.
gainst it, and they and the prin-
cipal Of a ladies high school,
threatened expulsion to all who
did SO. The consequences were,
that some did not 60, and that
others resigned from the churches
and took their girls away from
the school. Columbus is, just
now, q good place for a sensible
parson and intelligent instructor
to step In.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

Boris IN HoRsEs,-'1 give you
herewith receipt for the bolts in
horses; To tell whether it is an
attack of collie or bolts, take some
fine salt and blow a mouthful into
each nostril; if it is collie, water
will begin in a few moments to
drop from the nostrils; if not, it
is the bolts. In the latter case
drench with a pint of melted hogs
lard, and in a few hours repeat
the dose. ."-Agrqcultaual Report.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

To SToP BLEEDING.-Asa KEN
per, Ross Co., o., writes to the
american AgsiiculturiSt,' that bleed
ing from a wound on a man or
beast, may be stopped by a mix
ture of wheat -four and common
salt, in equal parts, bound on with
acloth.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11


The Worcester Spyaboasts that
"the Republican party possesses
about all the wealth of the coun-
try" We agree with the N. Y.
Day Book that there is too much
truth in this boast, for it has swept
into its pockets nearly every
movable thing that it could lay its
hands on in the whole Southern
half of the country. Not a spoon,
nor a picture, nor gold thimble,
nor silk dress even, which it
could get at, that it has not stolen.
It ought to be a very rich party.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11
ON PARSON BROWNLOW.

Safe at last beneath the sod
Lies this bogus ''man of God"
In the State of Tennessee
None could swear as loud rs he;
While disappearing at a mark
Fate shifted out his vital spark.
Probably he's gone lowell.
One would hardly like to tell.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

THE FRENCH POsroFFIoE.-The
following anecdote is told in con-
nection with the Poste Restante
Department of the Paris Postoffice:
"One day gentleman who showed
great agitation, and dragging by
the arm a young lady in a half
faiEting condition, entered the
bureau and asked in fierce
tone if there was a letter for Mad
anne L. The clerk carefully
went over the packet from the
L pigeon hole Nothing for Mad
anne l. An hour afterwards
the young lady returned, this
time alone, and almost trembling
approached the counter. The
clerk saw her, and before she had
time to speak, he said, 'Here is
your letter, Madame; on no ac-
count whatever could | deliver it
to any one but Yourself Madame
L., adds Mr.. Ducamp, has en-
tertained the very highest regard
or the poste restante ever since"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11
Te,npls of tile aetnsss.
From the Nashuale Banner.
Song of a "Tight'' Rebel

of a slight" Rebel
o, I'm good old Rebel,
Now that's just what / am.
For this fair land of freedom,
/ don't care damn.
I'm glad l fit agin it,
/ only wish we'd won,
And / don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.
hate the Constitution,
This ''great Republic" too,
hates the Freeman's bu-ro
In uniform of blue,
l hate the nasty eagle,
With all his brass and fuss.
hate the Yankee nation,
hates 'em wuss and wuss!
I hates the Yankee nation,
And every thing they do,
hates the Declaration
OF Independence, too.
l hates the GLORIOUS" Union,
IT'S dripping with our blood
hates their striped banner,
eft it" all could.
followed Old Mas Robert,
For four years, near about,
Got wounded in three places,
And starved at Point Lookout"
I''cotched" the roomatism
A camping in the snow,
But killed chance of Yankees,
I'd like to kill some ''mo."
Three hundred thousand Yankees,
Are still in Southern dust,
We .'got" three hundred thousand,
Before they conquered" us.
They died of Southern fever,
And Southern steel and shot,
wish they were three million
Instead of what we "got"
] can't take up my musket,
And fight 'em now no more,
But amt going to love 'em,
Now that's "sartin sure"
And 1 don't want no pardon,
For what was and am,
Iwont be RECONSTRUCTED"
And Idop't care damn!
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

Half the men in Brandon, Miss,
have been indicted for gambling,
their offence consisting in playing
euchre for treats. The Republican
insists that such whisky and beer
as they have there do not furnish
q "valuable consideration"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

"We see" "said Dean Swift, "what
God thinks of riches, by the peo-
pie He gives them to-" Then what
a contemplate opinion the AL
mighty must have of the wretches
made rich by the war.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-11

A boarder at one of our houses
on being asked how they lived
there, replied that the hash was
rather doubtful, but the beef was
"bully." This dubious endorse
ment failed to attract a new board
er.