The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1868-11-27
NEWS ITEMS.

The editor Of the Warrick Her.
aid has lately been shown . fine
specimen of lead ore, discovered up.
on Joshua Gray's farm, near New.
burg. Indiana.
Hon. John T. HOFFMAN has sent
in bis resignation as Mayor Of N. Y
City. He 10 the first Mayor tina,
ever resigned TIE Office in that city
The Post Office Department has
'run behind" Four Millions Of I oil.
lars during the past year.
So far, thu English Eleotianf
have rcsultud in q. choice Of, 2Q7
Liberals and 4 Torsez.
General Spinner has. instructed
tho assistant trcasurers, and dcsig.
mated, 9eRositasies, TO- withdraw
FROM. circulation all badly mutilated
or. defaced notes, also all fifty dolla,
notes, the latter having been extern.
sivcly countcrfeited. aud all con.
xcrAble legal tender, notes issued
under the act Of Feb. Is. and. July
IL, 1862, the time for the oonvers.
ion Of which has long: since expired.
The Dubuque Herald contests
with the Dos Moines Register, over
the question as to whether. Dubuque
or Mahaska county is. entitled. to
credit Of first adopting negro suf-
frage, each claiming to have had one
negro vote at the late election,
Pshaw! gentlemen, this town has
had negro voting at every elcc-
ton for the past four years, always
swearing in his vote. Had VIC
thought it particularly. creditable
VIC might have mentioned it before,
and saved you your quarrel.
Grant says he will obey the will
of the people. Justice Story says
.,sho consti: ation is the will, the de-
liberate will Of the. people. Will
the incoming presidents mark the ex<
precision and the authority, and then
keep his. word?
Cedar Falls. has 2ss gost-ofiee
candidates
The radicals.in congress are ex-
pected to pass suffrage act Of two
sections at its next meeting, as fol-
lows
Section 1. None but loyal men
can vote.
Section 2. Loyalty consists in
voting the radical ticket.
Belowswill be found what is deem
eda proper text from, which, to
pyeach the funeral sermon of Ben.
Butler, from Jeremiah H., 10 :
"Andthe basins. and the fxepans,
and tho bowls, and, the. caaldrons,
andthe oandlesticks, and.the spoons,
and the cups: that which was Of
gold, in gold and that which was
Of silver, in silver, the captain Of
tho guard took away"
The republican tickets for con-
grcssmen and electors. in South
r.-olia~ Iara .stho~.trange device"
Of an eagle soaring in the clouds
with carpct-bag in its talons.
AFTER Grant, -what'?."-T Office
seekers.
Helm bold is not erexy-hc is ad-
vertising.
Tho Valparaiso Republic tells Of
q young couple married on Saturday
night, who. On. Sabbath. evening
were made happy Cor ethoswise). by
the birth Of five children, four Of
whom are living and doing WE'LL
THAT'S rapid"
Twenty-one days imprisonment
was adjudged by an English court
upon starving wretch who took Is
carrots from q Geld.
Ben. Butler is reported danger
ously i'll. We suppose that, having
no speeches to make, tho virus in
his charaetess in, place. Of. being
worked offin abuse ofhis opponents,
has struck in and poisoned him.
The Iowa soldiers who died at camp
Mcclellan during the war are being
disinterrcd and removed to Rock
Island.
Barring Brothers, the BANKERS. drew
one million pounds sterling from the
Bank Of England, recently, for'the
Russian Government. 1t, is said
that this<is on American, account,
and that the money is in part pay
ment'for-the territory Of Alaska.
Iowa has commenced the erection
of a. $3.50, 600 insane asylum at In
dependence. twill be $50 feet in
length. and modelled after the Rem
sylvania Hospital at Philadelphia.
The Democratic Union city con-
vcntion Of Now York nominated for
Mayor the Hon. John Kelly, ex-
Sheriff and ex- Congressman; and for
Cooperation Counsel, Abraham, 3.
Lawrence.
A.desPateh honr Nashvi)lt-to tho
0insinnati Commercial says. ''1n
tho fourth District. Yillman, the
Repablisan candidate for Congress,
has-receivcd. the ocsti6eats. Shsase.
Democrat. had $50. maiority on q
square vote. bat after the election
was over. there was just enough
votes thrown. ont to declare Tillmsa
elccscd.'
pha. Prcsident's mpesaoo. "a oom.