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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15

The weather for day or two has
shown strong tendency toward an
early setting in Of winter. Parties
having vines and plants that need
covering to protect them from the
cold. can scarcely be too soon in
attending to it.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15
Ex-Presldent Pierce .

This distinguished statesman.
has filed tue me assure Of his days,
and honorcd and respected by his
countrymen, has passed to that
bourne from which no traveller re-
turns. He was born at Hillsbor-
ough New Hampshire on the % Of
November 1904 and coaseq ucntly
was nearly sixty five ut the time Of
bis death. ... .r.. .sa...
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15

President Grant has designated
November 18th (Thursday) Al
Thanksgiving Day. It is to be re-
GREETED that his Proclamation ap
pears so inclegant and ungrammat
ical, For instance "Commerct
and Manufact lures have successfully
PRosrcursD their paths" Or,
whose soil is rRoD by none but
freemen. .....
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15

We understand that Miss Ad-
dington is elected county Superin-
tendcnt of common schools in
Mitchell county. It is also claim
ed there MS we are informed that
Atherton's majority in that county
will insure his election rs Repre-
sentative. His light vote in this
county must insure his defeat.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15

PENNSYLVANIA AND OnIo.-The
Election returns from these two
states Indicate very close con-
test, yet one or the other of the
candidates may have majority of
thousands. The friends of each
claim the election Of their candi.
date and from the meagre report we
think one has as much right to in
dulge hopes of success as the 9TH
or. .-.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15
Lost Steer.

Jumped out Of the stock yards in Cres-
60 on the night of the 18th Of September
last, one year old steer coming s; bright
red with little star in forehead; straight
nice steer any information will be lher-
ally rewarded.
Oct. I'll, 1859.
l6tf. ~. DONAHUGH.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15


Hon. VIM. B. Allison made .
speech in Dss Moines q few days
before election, in which he painted
the prosperity Of the farmer in most
gorgeous colors. VIM. b.. had
probably just realized on tho half
million Of railroad bonds that re-
warded his treachery to the rail-
road interests of Northern Iowa,
and;made his own the measure of
others prosperity. . ..
With wheat at 80 cents = bushel
and every thing the farmer has to
buy A. double the price it was be-
fore tho new order of things COM
mcncing with March 1861, the
farmers deny the prosperity part of
tho story. The business men Of
this section when they read tho
speech call it magnificent whom
they try to collect their dues tho
farmers insist upon hard times.
Why not take out the speech and
read it to these farmers that sup
pose it bard times when you 90 out
to dun them they seem to DO sad
" inneed Of just such information
about their prosperity Is the speech
contains. only they want it truo.
BY tho way, sweet William, will
you seek that promised investigation
into tho charges made against you
on h. r., and whiskey frauds, or
will you As heretofore shun expos
ure and shrink from investigation |?
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15
Openlng Of q New Roman
Catholic Church.

So0AV1AC S00CC1&
On the 10th inst. Rev. Father
Harding, Of Crcsoo Iowa, opened
Saint Kiarans New Church at Saint
Kiarsnsville, Winnesbiek County
Iowa. The serenity of the day aud
the sun warming tho earth with its
vital rays attracted the attention
of tho surrounding inhabitants to
come and participate in the solem-
nifty. @f z#
Mass commenced at IL o'clock
A. NJ. Father Harding delivered
m appropriate discourse on the oc-
casion. He took his text from the
second book Of Paralipomenon, VII,
l, 2, II, Is, Is. "Now whom SOL
ONION had ended his prayer. FIRE
came down from Heaven, and con.
sumed the holocausts and the VIC
tins. and tho majesty Of tho Lord
filled the house, and the priests
could not enter into the temple Of
the Lord. because the majesty of
the Lord had filed the temple of
the Lord. And the Lord appeared
to him BY night. and said, l have
heard thy prayer and I have chosen
this place to myself for > house Of
sacrifice. My eyes shall also be
open, and my ears attentive to the
prayers of him that shall pray in
this place, for l have chosen and I
have sancti6ed this placo. that my
namo may be there forever. and my
eyes and my heart may remain
there perpetually."
The Church stands on : high
bluff on the Cedar. Pine and Bal
sam banks of the serpentine Iowa
River. It's gothic windows, point
Cd roof and gilt cross twinkling on
high. are greatly admired by al for
purity Of style and grandeur of ar
chitecture. It's majestic position
can b seen ct vast distance. It
il tho laudabls pride of the good
people Of Saint Kiaran sville to be.
hold now in their midst. such .
structure raised to the living God
by the seal Of those vino 6rst ex-
plored the footsteps Of the vsnder-
ing tribes. When even ct present
the eagle finds homo for her young
in the jsggy cliffs and rocks Of its
romantic scenery. whero some time
ago the Indian in fierce array WELD
ed his omahavk sgainst tue prog
ress Of civilization. The cross now
takes the place Of the scalping
knife. the incense of prayer that Of
the warwhoop and hunting plains Of
the Wild uen Gre dedicated to Saint
,Kiarsn tho first born saint Of the
Emerald Isle.
On Sunday next the 18th inst.
Father Harding will lay the corner
stone Of tho New Roman Catholic
Church in Lime Springs. Howard
county Iowa.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15
READ THE
TESTIMONY.

From one Of the oldest printers
IN the State Of Illinois,
OFFlvE 0. THE WIua & REPUBLICAN,
QUINCY, Ill, August -, 1868;
PRINCE, WALTON & Co.,
Cincinnati, O.
Gents-I find your
ROback's. Il Bitters,.
afterusing two boxes:
in my family, to be a.
"good egg. - Send
me another dozen by~
U. S. Express, and If
you don't want local
notices to the amount:
charge it to us Oh
advertising account.
Yours in haste,
JAMES l.. LANGDON.
Regards to Mr.. Wall
ton. @...'2
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puttbaseo Gbeap for Gasb.
CREsCO INDEPENDENT
SCHOOL.

CRESCO INDEPENDENT
SCHOOL.
The fall term will commence ON Mox-
DAT Oct. 18th for term of eleven weeks,
ending Dec. oath, under the following
board of teachers
Principal-A. L. NoRToK.
Assistant E JENNIE MANSFIELD.
Primary Department--MIss ELIZA
HARTwELL.
The School Board have adopted the
following text books.
Enthusiastically Union Series.
Spoilers do do do.
Writing Books-Speacer's.
Observation-Disclosures Progressive
Series.
Grammar and Composition-Kcrl's Sc
ries.
Geography-Warren's Series.
Physical Geography-Warren's Series.
History-Wilson's U. 8. and Universal.
Physiology--Cutter's.
Algebra -Robinson's
Geometery--Robinson's.
Bstany--Gray.
Analysis Of Civil Demonstrations.
end.
Science Of Common Things--Wclls.
Natural and Philosophical Chemistry
Wells.
Terms OF Tuition.
Students coming in from other districts
will be charged tuition ut the following
rates
intermediate Department $500
Grammar Department 500.
All pupils attending the School, using
books Of this series, can purchase them
by applying to the Principal, at one hall
the retail price. 45-t3.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15

NOR 6ALEI One mile and half
~ from Cresco. Two farms adjacent
70 each other, each Of 100 acres so in cul.
tivation, we'll watsred, buildings good.
p. s. WHITMAN.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15
Timber For Sale.

The undersigned has few acres Of
choice young timber for sale, cheap for
cash. For particulars call upon, or i'd
dress ELIJAH MURRAY,
47tfl .t New Oregon, Iowa.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15

Hanchett sells the
Cosmopolitan Cooking stove,
the best and cheapest first
class stove in the world, the
best assortment Of cook stoves
in the county.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15
Disso luton Notice.

DAOSOAUSAVn NVSAV>s .S..D
NONCE is hereby given that the firm
IN Of STRoTHER, Brown & NILES is
this day dissolved by mutual consent
Brown & Niles succeed the late firm in
Cresco, and Charles Brown Of the new
firm assumes the Indebtedness Of Worden
Strorher in the late firm. All debts due
the late firm aro payable to its successors.
The firm Of Strsther, Brown & Searles
at Lime Springs is also dissolved by mu-
tual consent Wordcn Strothcr assumes
all the Indebtedness Of Charles Brown in
the firm of Strother Brown & SeArlcs, and
oil debts due said firm must be paid to
Strothcr & Searles who succeed tbs late
firm Of s. B. & 8. @" si
ST. -aa W. STRoTHER.
CHARLES BRowX.
STEPHEN Mills.
p. T. SEARLEs.
Dated, Crssso, Oct.11.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15

We are again hearing from all
quarters. the old. old story. Far
mers are holding grain for higher
prices. Last years experience il
SO soon forgotten. Because farm
er is good, is no reason at all fcr
bis letting his store debts run along
months after they should have been
paid. What do the farmers seem
to care fer the anxiety and distress
they cause merchant by not pay.
ing him his due? Why should mer-
chants be SO tender of the farmer
that they allow them to bring them
to as near ruin as is possible and
live through. and only to humor
the farmers in their idea Of such
large advances in wheat soon? Eve
~ year It is getting worse, and it
must be stopped sometime, then
Why not now? II farmers will not
sell wheat enough to pay you what
they owe you, sue them and bring
them to realize that they are mol
the only people who have any rights
that ought to be respected.
We cannot allow this 40 an ex.
cuse for your letting your account
with US 60 unpaid any longer. You
owe US money and the farmers owe
you. so that virtually it is OUR mon.
ey. that the farmers refuse to pay.
and = 9 can't allow such to be the
ease any longer. We state the
sentiment of the entire Wholesale
trade when VIC state these truths.
We eann"t. ought not. WILL NOT
allow our money to be locked up BY
the foolish whims Of the farmer. =
Nazro's Weeklcy Price Current.
AnnSeAnnonIo0k ~ H. nhsn> -
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15
8
SEWA r DIS |
l&|!|3;l1;3a

A Safe and Speady Cure for Coughs. Colds.
Asthma Bronchitis, Hoarseness Group.
influenza, Whooping Cough, Inc,P,en,.
Consumption, and I'LL Diseases Of the
Throat and Lungs. Don't neglect >.
severe Cough. or throw away money on =
worthless medicine.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-15

A correspondent Of the Chicago
Times proves that Methusaleh was
. victim Of Noab's Plooa. It il
singular that boy should live to
bis sge and not know how to swim.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-09-04
The Coal Regions.

The Anthracite Coal regions, now SO
miners strikes, include about all of this
variety of coal in the United States 1t is
400 square miles, and 107 lie within the
limits of Luzerne County. The total
amount raised in the whole State down to
1860 was over eighty-three millions of tons,
of which Luzerne furnished twenty-nine
millions. The first Company for mining
coal was formed in 1899, and it was five
years before they shipped to Philadelphia,
and this venture consisted of thirty TONS
The city authorities consented to take it,
and tried to burn it under the boilers of the
engines at the water works, but it put the
fire out. The balance was broken up and
used in place of gravel over the sidewalks,
and only the blacksmths near the mines
used the coal for home use. The happy
discovery was made by tavern-keeper,
Jesse Fell of Wilkesbarre, who concluded
a good draft was alone necessary to make
it burn, and he built CRATE of green hick-
DRY saplings, placed it in large fire place
in his bar-room, filled it with broken coal
and put dry wood under the CRATE and set
it on fire; the flames spreading through the
coal, it was soon ignited, and before the
wooden CRATE bars were consumed the sue
cess was proved and hundreds of people
tlocked to the old tavern to witness the dis
covery.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-09-04
GauchO Etiquette.

Bishop, in his travels in South America,
gives the following experience of table cti-
quette on the plains of Buenos Ayrcs
"Our meal was served in genuine pampa
fashion; one iron spoon and two cows
horns, split in halves, were passed around
the group, the members of which squatted
upon their launches, and freely helped
themselves from the kettle
"Even in this most uncivilized form of
satisfying hunger there is a peculiar eti-
quettc, which the most lowly peon invaria-
bly, observes. Each member of the COM
pany in turn dips his spoon, or horn, into
the centre of the stew, and draws it in a
direct line tonard him, never allowing it to
deviate to the right or the left.
"By observing this rule, each person
eats without interfering with his neighbor.
Being ignorant of this custom, dipped
my horn into the mess at random, and 1ished
about in it for some of the nice bits. My
companions regarded this horrid breach OF
pOliteness with scowls of impatience they
declared, with some warmth, to the capatoz
that gringos did not know how to eat, and,
as they lived upon dogs in their own dis
distant country they come to the great
Argentine Republic to get food and grow
fat on the gauchos.' apologized as well
as I could, and endeavored, during the re-
mainder of the meal, to eat according to
gaucho etiquette
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-09-04
A Massachusetts Advertisement for 1869.

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBoRs - Having just
opened licensed shop for the sale of
liquors in this place, l embrace this oppor-
tunity of informing you that on Saturday
next | will commence the business of max
ing drunkards, paupers and beggars, for
the industrious and respectable of the COM
munity to support.
l shall deal in familiar spirits, which will
invite men to riot, robbery and bloodshed,
and by SO doing diminish the comforts in
crease the expense and endanger the well
fare of the community.
will for small sum undertake, upon
short notice, and with the greatest expedi-
ton, to prepare victims for the poor-house,
asylum, prisons and the gallows.
will furnish an article suited to the
taste, which will increase the number of
fatal accidents, multiplying distressing dis
eases, and rendering those comparatively
harmless incurable.
will deal in drugs which will deprive
some of life, many of reason, most of prop
erty, and all of peace which will cause
fathers to become tiends, wives to- become
widows, and children to become orphans,
and all to become great sufferers.
Twill cause the rising generation to grow
up in ignorance and prove nuisance to
the nation. l will cause mothers to forget
their helpless children, and priceless virtue
no longer to remember its value.
] will endeavor to corrupt the ministers
of the gospel defile the purity of the
churches, and cause spiritual, temporal and
eternal death.
! If any should be so impertinent as to ask
why have the audacity to bring such ac-
cumulated misery upon a comparatively
happy people, my honest reply is: 90 Green
backs"
IliUs in a land Of liberty. 1 have pur-
chased the right to demolish the character,
destroy the health, shorten the lives and
ruin the souls of all those who choose to
honor me with their patronage. Come one
| Come all!
Ipledge myself to do all have herein
promised. Those who wish any of the
evils above specified brought upon them
selves and their dearest friends, are re-
quested to meet at my "bar," where will,
for few cents, furnish them with the GER
tain means OF doing so.
AN HONEST DEALER.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-09-04
Trials of a Country Clergyman.

A young parson thus feelingly describes
his bachelor experience in the first village
in which he settled after entering the min
istry Old ladies gave me tracts and tor
mented me in every possible way. One
gave me cough lozenges because fly got
down my throat in church another sent
me her late husbands goloshes to wear
when went out on wet evenings, 1.-THE late
husbands feet were about five inches long,
A third sent wonderful kind of India
piled whenever chill was felt. Not till
my sister came to stay with me did know
that hot water ought to be put in the crea-
ture before using l had thought it a sort
of mat to lay over my feet, and very useless
of its kind. A Miss Thompson was the
most disagreeable Of the old maids. She
actually one day ran her fingers underneath
my collar to see if l wore flannel During
the year was at Littleback, had thirteen
pairs of slippers, twenty five sermon cases
and three smoking caps worked for me-
One young lady embroidered my initials on
a handkerchief in shiny looking black
thread. My sister says that it was done in
hair, and perhaps that accounts for Miss
Rudge being offended when l said thought
Testers red marking cotton as good as any
other.
Three young ladies declared that l had
tritled with their affections two, on the
contrary, affirmed that they had rejected
me; while the village school mistress as
sured the rector that had tried to press
her hand. certainly never had such hard
work as while at Littleback. l played at
least three hundred games of croquet, went
to an archery meeting every week. and at
any spare moment 1 was liable to be sent
for by Miss Anna Phelps to practice an
Italian duet. bore my trials with christian
fortitude, till one morning the rector sent
for me and said that my conduct disgraced
my profession. l took the hint, and at the
end of one year and three months my ca
reer at Littlcback was over. The young
ladies cried when l went they said was
such a darling Now, l ask my impartial
reader whether it was not hard that should
be blamed for the ladies of Littleback p
My life is blishted, and all that is left of
me is thirteen pair of slippers, twenty-five
sermon cases, three smoking caps, one hand
kerchief marked ct. Co." and bad char
acter from my late employer.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-09-04
A Wise Choice.

The american Baptist tells the following
good story, which we commend to our
young female readers, and males also:
"Where did you first meet with your
bride?' l said to young friend of mine,
who had invited me to his wedding.
His reply was: A year ago was one of
a large dinner party of ladies and gentle
men, at which young lady was noticed
not to drink any wine. Our host observed
it, and said:
GA glass of wine with you Miss?''
Excuse me, sir,' said she.
What excuse! Are you teetotaler p
What! have we a tetotaler here? Ha! ha!
teetotaler? Why, do you never drink
wine ?''
"Never, sir"
"Why not %
"From principle, SIR
Nothing more was said. Her decision
OF character deeply impressed me. l sought
an introduction to her, satisfied that one
of such principles would make me good
companion. l became teetotaler myself
and now she has just become my wife,
That's why l married her.
Our friend was right. Such young lady
will make a fine woman. Would there
were more like her.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-09-04
Arsenic Eaters i'm Europe.

Dr. Levy says that in Syria and the
Boil emian parts of Riesenbirge, there are
families from which, from time immemor-
ial, the habit of arsenic eating has been
transmitted from father to son. These
people are very silent about their mania,
and only by mere accident can one become
acquainted with their perverted appetite.
Like the horses, the arsenic eaters are
strong and healthy looking, having finely
blended, delicate skin, which is free from
every kind of pimples and insects, and re-
markedly exempt from eruptive Diseases
These people learn the habit of their earliest
YOUTH when about a quarter of grain of
white arsenic, (oxide of arsenic, measured
by the eye, is taken daily. The dose is
gradually increased with the age, and an
old arsenic eater will only feel comfortable
when he has taken at least two or three
grains daily. They assert that the poison
keeps them sprightly and healthy; that it
protects them against all chronic diseases;
that they have, especially Just after taking
it, an agreeable feeling about the chest;
breathe freely and have good appetite
The effect of taking away arsenic from an
habitual arsenic eater is similar to that pro-
duced by the deprivation of opium, tobac-
co, or spirits, only the effect is more in
tense. The person thus deprived of his
stimulant becomes melancholy, ill-temper-
ed; symptoms of an intestinal catarrh ap-
pear, often increasing in such a way that
one can well believe he is observing case
of slight arsenic poisoning. The only rem
edy here is arsenic, and if this be not Civ
en-, the unfortunate man goes rapidly to
the grave. The patient cannot be cured
at once, but must be weaned from the
disease as he commenced it-gradually.-
This strange habit is very widely spread
among the peasants of Austria and Hun
gary, and even in some parts of German
States
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-09-04
A Plea for Simple Melodies.

Henry Ward Beecher is right upon the
music question. He says: cit is no Won
der that singing has died out from the con-
gregations, when choir is put up to recite
words that nobody can understand, to mu-
sic that nobody knows, and the people are
left to listen to newly converted opera airs,
which, last week, were brought over by
fresh troupe of foreign singers! And those
sweet melodies that stilted propriety has
long ago driven from the churches, bnt
which have gone forth among the people
and rung out gloriously in camp-meetings,
shaking the fairest leaves with the ascend
ing shouts of mighty people; or which, more
gently, have filled rural school houses, and
humble lecture rooms and village churches,
not yet corrupted by the false pretences of
classical music those sweet melodies
that no one can hear with his ear, and not
feel his heart beating in his bosom all the
faster for the sound-are becoming the rid
icule and contempt of men who think that
God must be praised to the sound of New
erbeer or Rossini, and not to the sweet and
humble melodies of our own land"