The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1868-12-04

Au0 LOUISVILLE Courlef.J Our0al
states that rot less than three
thousand workingmen of that city
are out Of employment. :
A Paris Journal states that tho
Emperor Napoleon is very much
annoyed at the King ct Prussia be.
ing selected as arbitrator in the
Alabama dispute. instead of him
self or the Gear. ~
During October last 1872 houses
in Chicago made sales exceeding
$780, 600 each. Tho heaviest were
Field, Letter 4 Co., dry goods.
81, 200, 470 j. v. Farwell & Co, =,
dry goods, $959.764. -.
Hunnicutt has just discovered
that the Freedmen's Bureau is a
nuisance that should be promptly
abated. In late speech at Nor
folk, Virginia, this man remarked !:
HE hoped to God the Freedmen s
Bureau would be abolished soon.
1t has accomplished all its merciful
work for which it was created. and
has now degeneratcd into a political
curse-the most powerful engine Of
political trickery that has been
known in the world since God made
Adam. " ;.
Snow eight inches deep was had
at Butler Center, Iowa, on the 21st
ult.
A band Ct Sespcradces arc prowl-
ing around Shelbyville, Indiana,
committing robberies. Their plan
is to visit farm. houses, call up the
occupants, and by threats ex-
tort money. One farmer was hung
up by the neck three times a few
evenings since, because be refused
to tell where his money was con-
cealed. Others have been threat
oned. There is talk Of organizing
a vigilance committee.
Grant dislikcs ovations and de-
clines them, Colfax likes them aud
is always willing to accept them.
The fact illustrates the difference
between a bulldog and q butterfly.
Mrs. Lydia Mead, Of North
Brook6eld, Mass, completed her
one hundredth year on Monday,
Nov. Q. The event was duly cele.
brated by large gathering of rela-
tives and friends.
J. NJ. Lyon, proprietor of the
Daily Milwaukee News, was found
dead Nov. 25, at the foot of a fight
If stairs. Supposed to be . fit Of
apoplexy.
The Iowa State university has
$500, 900 cash and 10, 900 acres Of
choice land.
Two thousand new buildings have
been erected in St. Louis within the
last twelve months.
-Four men have just been arrested
in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for heavy
robberies committed on tho freight
cars of Toledo, Wabash and West.
ern railway. Bill Kreuse, one Of
the robbers, an immensely stout
man, with . wrist and arm like an
iron pillar, trcmbled like IN aspen,
in court, and, when commanded ia
stand before the judge. gave a deep
groan, aud fell in fit.
Dubuque's most popular daugh-
ter is Miss Maria Jones-so voted
at the Episcopal bazaar.
The two daughters of Chief Jus.
ti:e Tanney are copyistsin the de-
partment of the interior at Wash
ington, and are very poor.
In Cleveland, Ohio. ON Friday,
J. Harsh sold to Case and Sholl,
packers, Eve thousand two hundred
and fifty sheep, for Eve cents per
head, the seller retaining the hides,
and the purchasers slaughtering the
animals. The Leader says: "Mut-
ton is exceedingly cheap at present.
Large quantities Of sheep ere being
slaughtered, as. on account of the
scarcity Of fodder. they will not pay
for wintcring. Carcasses are sold
in the market for from forty to sixty
cents EACH"
Lee county, Iowa. was named
after Gen. Il. e. Lee.
Passenger boats have stopped
running on the upper Mississippi. ;.
On Saturday, Nov. 20, the water
was pumped out Of the Golfer dam,
covering 40 acres, and the jagged
rocks of the Sycamore chain in the
rapids above Rock Island were laid
bare, with tons of bar lead. anchors
AID other treasures, lost by nayiga-
tors on the Mississippi while pas
sing this very spot.
The city debt Of Dubuque am
cunts to SIS for every man, woman
and child in its borders.
A dispatch from Des Moines, on
the % inst, says that tho Des
Moincs River Navigation company
have another complication. Jos.
S. Wilson, commissioner Of the gen.
eral land Office, teicsraphs to the
register and receiver that. per or
der Of the secretary Of the interior,
be has stopped the best men in the
Des Moines valley from taking their
own homcstcads.
Chicago during the past year has