The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1868-01-03

new advertisements this week. That
blank in Hooaand's column they con-
tract for.-G. W. Plat l. Co.,
send out a.miug poster. offering.
great inducements in the way Of
trade. Parties failing to see them
will yet 6nd the goods by calling At
their store. -. H. Wildman of
Paris township, in this county,
brought into our Office day or two
since piece Of earth, enclosing a
piece Of willow tree, about four
inches in diameter, taken from
we'll twenty-six feet beneath the
surface Of the earth. The earth en-
closing it, was an alluvial deposit,
rich in decomposcd vegetable matter
showing that at some period in the
countless ages that have been num-
bcred among tho past, this soil was
the carth's surface bearing on its
fruitful bosam such vegetable mat
ter as traces arc shown Of here,
with numberloss other substances
obliteratcd by tho lapse Of time.
Tho imaginative reader can specu-
late upon the probabilities, as to
whether that locality would present
a face of land or water, by contcm.
plating it, depressed twenty-six feet
below its present elevation. Nv.
D. Townsend Of McGregor m ade us
a call on New Years, told W . very
funny story about an event that &C.
Cured at Fariba ult.--Next Mon
day the Board Of Supervisors meet
at the Court House for the transac.
ton Of such business as may legiti..
mately come before that body. Per-
sons having claims against thc coun-
ty should present them early in the
session. Ruble the great
dealer in agricultural implements
presented himself into our sanctum
yesterday. He is one of the many
men that it will do to tic to in this
wicked world.-The Atlantic
monthly for January is already re-
ccivcd. While it lacks it's usual po-
litical articles, the reader is fully
compensated in the finely written
historical, literar y. and poetic arti-
cles tina: have supplauted them. -
Our readers will find am ong our new
advertisements this week. th,t Of
Mrs. T. w. Lee, teacher of instru-
mental music; Myron Ives grocer;
Hooaand's I'm clicines'' besides sew
cral strictly legal. ladies
connected with the Episcopal church
and society will hold sosiable on
Tuesday evening next at the resi-
lcncc Of Worlcn Strother. A cor
dial invitation is extended to all Of
every creed and faith, likewise to
those Of no creed and little faith, if
,ch there be. wv. B. Potter NJ.
D., Coventry r. I. has Published a
tract upon the mysteries Of Clair
voyance. Psychology, Spiritualism,
g., and also large work which be
las published giving fuller expla-
nation of the whole theory. It is a
curious subject. -Grier is doing
some very good sign painting for
Shepards bazaar of fashion. The
New Years dance at tho Durham
House passed of pleasantly, with a
respectable turn out The wealth
or is ever fruitful topic of CONVEX
sation. When two friends meet,
custom and habit have made the
weather the topic first talked of.
This fact will excuse rs, talking as
xo are, to friends east, west, north
and south, for speaking on this COM
mon topic. The whole matter
though is summed up in less words
than our preamble No sleighing,
little snow. weather clear, sun
bright with prospect Of contiuu-
ance AID INFINITUM.--.Since the
foregoing was in type, fall Of snow
to the depth Of six or eight inches,
has spread mantle Of virgin white
ness and purity over the surface Of
tho earth. The weather has cleared
up 6ne and beautiful. --Cowardice
at many times robs man of half the
profits of his venture. Tho chaps
that stole Dr.. Clemmer's Turkey
and night-wood the night before
Newysars, but for this fact might
have still further profted by cap
turing his stock of vegetables in the
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