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North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06
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London, Jan "A conference on the
eastern difficulty will meet at Paris on the
9th Of January. 1t is said that should the
the deliberations prove abortive, Russia
will demand non-interferenc on the part of
European powers in the quarrel between
Greece and Turkey.
Madrid, jana special dispatch from
Malaga, yesterday, reports that the insurg.
ents there fired on boat of the American
steamer Swatara, while conveying an
American family to the ship. Gen. Serrand
expressed much regret at the act, and as
sured the United States minister that the
guilty ones would be punished.
A short time afterward the troops attack
ed the insurgents in the streets, and carried
three barricades, and dispersed the rebels
with slight loss.
Madrid, Jan 3-The official reports state
that the loss of the insurgents during the
late fight in Malaga was 400 men. The
city is now perfectly quiet.
London, Jan 3-Dispatches from Paris
report that several French iron clads are
preparing for sea.
Florence, Jan. 3-Riotous disturbances.
arising out of the attempts of revenue
officers to collect the unpopular mill>tax.
are reported in some parts of the kingdom,
but they appear to be of insignificant
character.
Southampton, Jan 3-The steamship
Vain from New York on Dec. "a; arrived
to-day on her way to Bremen.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

"ONwARD."-Captain Nayne Reds
Magazine, entitled as above, is before us
for Exchange We read the most of it
on the Sabbath, and enjoyed it. Years
ago we read "The Scalp Hunters" and
various other works of Mayne Reid. The
Captain seems like an acquaintance, and
his Magazine like necessity. Those who
want Monthly of sc pages, spicy as
sense, wit and adventure can make it,
will call on US and look at "Onward."-
Carleton of New York, 497 Broadway, is
the publisher. Send 80 cents for spcci-.
men.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06
ITO LISpESkRp ST.. New YORK. Oct. IL

Ito LIsrENAnD ST.. New YORK, Oct. Is, 1867.
DEAR SIR:-It is with much pleasure
that say to you that consider the PLAN.
TATIoN BITTERs of untold value. In the
fall of 1867 was taken with Chills and
Fever, with the most sever pains in my
chest and head. 1t was with great DIFF
fculty that I could breathe. My lungs
were greatly distressed, and there was
severe pain in my right side, by spells. l
could hardly get up from my bed, 1 called
a Doctor, who attended me all winter
without the least benefit. About the first
of August l commenced using your PLAN.
TATIoN BITTERs-a wine-glass full three
times day-and have used it most of the
time since, and am now we'll and strong,
able to do my own work and the care of a
large family. Yours, &c.,
SUSAN WILSON.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06
ssEvli Da1vs.w

"EvA Days"
The N. Y, Tribune is cow convinced of
the error Of its ways. Greedy is SO often
wrong, that it is not strange he sometimes
stumbles into the right. The trouble is,
he never gets right till it is too late to be
of practical use. The following kaeU of
public honor and private prosperity, was
persistently rung to the American people
months and years ago, but the political
deafness of Greedy would not permit him
to hear until the mischief was so star
gone as to render its abortion impossible.
Read Horace on Evil:
These are.truly evil days! Crime, and
fraud, and peculation are permitted with
Indifference. The government seems to
have fallen into combination of "rings."
We have Railroad ring" which has
made contract with the government out
Of which its leaders anass enormous for
tunes We have National Bank ".Ring,"
in which we see broken banks do NOM
inal business, and netting large profits cut
Of reconstruction of the Banking law.
We have land "Rings''-combinatio to
seize upon large tracts Of territory under
pretext OF Indian treaties, and to take
possession Of them by virtual act of
legislative confscation. Then we have an
Indian "Ring." This is the most terrible
of oil. The railroad, and land, and whis-
ky thieves confne themselves to the mere
requirement of money by defrauding the
Treasury, but the leaders of the Indian
''ring" speculate in the blood of men,
upon the honor Of their government, upon
rapine, massacre and shame! General
Sheridan is to-day carrying an army
down into the heart of the Indian coun-
try simply to protect the white people
from the results of the rapacity and per-
fidy of the government agents.
And so we go = fraud in the service of
the government, among men in high
station: among the agents of the revenues,
Custom House officers, excisemen, and,
over all, an administration which appears
to give tacit assent to these manifold
crimes
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

"Mary," said an old Cumberland farmer
to his daughter, when she was once asking
him to buy her new dress, 'why dost
thou always tease me about such things
when I'm quietly smoking my pipe 2"
" Because ye are always best tempered
then, feyther," was the reply. II believe,
lass, thou'st rect" rejoiDed the farmer,
'for when was . lad, remember that
my poor feyther was just the Sumo after
ne had smoked pipe or two, lie wad ha
Gfep bis head away If it had been loose"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

A printer not long ago being ''Aung''
by his sweetheart, went to the Office and
tried to commit suicide with the shooting
stick" but the thing wouldn't 60 Off The
"devil," wishing to pacify' him, told him
to peep into the sanctum, where the editor
was writing duns to delinquent subscri-
bers. lie did so, and the effect was magi-
cal. He says the picture of despair re
conciled him to his fate.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

"Fellow-citixens," said stump orator,
1--WE have the best country in the world,
and the best government. No people on
the face Of the globe enjoy more privileges
than we do. We have the liberty of the
Press without onerous despotism. What,
fsllow-citizens, 10 more desirable than this?
Can you want anything more, my coun-
trymen? "Yesl'' shouted one of the
mob; II want pull at that flask sticking
out Of your coatpocket.''
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06
Tht Uimrs.
McGREGOR, JAN. 6, 1869:
Rkdalism has received q blow in En-,

Fikdalism has received blow in Eng
land. A High Church clefgyMan, named
Mckonochie, having been charged with
the ecahdalous practice Of "kneeling or
prostrntitg before the sacred elements"
and "usiTs lighted candles" has been
condefMcd by the Judicial Committee Of
the privy Council, and the practices Of
which he stood accused pronounced i'm
proper, and SO forth. This decision. how.
ever, will hardly put a stop to the con-
demned practices. The Ritualists are de-
termined to 60 on, and neither Eclesiasti-
cal nor civil courts are likely to prevent
them. It is not quite clear where the
Kitualists propose to bring up. Their
organ in England, The Church Times,
declares that Professionalism is "a compact
of lies, Misrepresentation and mistakes;
it has everywhere failed; every one with
the smallest pretensions to cultare or i'm
tellectual acuteness has grown ashamed of
it; it has made half Europe infdel, and
has converted the heathen." Catholicism
is worse, if anything, and the Times de-
clares that the secession of the Ritualists
to Rome would be bad for both England
and Rome. It would leave England simp-
~ Prostestant, and prevent the reform
which Rome needs as much as England.
This is the way the organ Of the Ritualists
in England talks, and curious way it is.
Meanwhile, the NEW idea'' makes rapid
progress in both England and the United
States, and in this country it has already
set good many hammers at work on
theological anvils.
We clip the above from the New York
Tindicator. In religion we have most
amiable disposition to be non-committal.
Our practice is not such as would justify
an expression of partiality for any sect in
Christendom, but we are religiously in
clined on general principles and therefore
have right to refer to the subject. We
believe that "Ritualism name
for written form of worship will be the
"fashion" in o very few years, and if
popular there will be no argument against
it. Show, pomp, fancy, scenery, select
music, stained glass, written sermons-in
. word, SENSATION is rapidly making its
way into oil churches and it is now too
late to stop the movement. Those who
fight form in religion gradually yield to
the invasion of.old Simplicity's theological
territory. Hell is not much preached now
a-days, nor are sinners or saints required
to kneel. A stand-up prayer is as good
rs any. Singing, by the congregation,
has become IN extended tavor rather than
a right or duty; purchased pews rule out
the very humble in the House of God (?)
md style is the order Of the day. lie
who does not see it is either blind or at
fects to be so. Pictures, on canvass, in
newspapers, in. carricature or in personal
representation at the altar, ,cin, and the
clergy are net blind to the fact. We can.
not help it.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

The House SerGeant-atArms refuses to
furnish the customary donation of gloves
and Grape to the Members on account Of
the death Of Thad. Stevens, whose de-
parture they wish to mourn comfortably.
The Sergeant-at Arms says that his action
is based on the request of Mr. Stevens,
addressed to him before the demise Of the
great Radical who isnow existing "Outside
the constitution. ~ Exchange.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

UNANIMOUS vEsDIcr.-The most rigid
analysis by good chemists have failed to
discover anything in the Best Chemical
Saleratus which can, when properly used,
be in the least degree detrimental to
health. While the won en- of our country
entertain sentiments widely different upon
other matkers, all concur in verdict that
the Best Chemical Saleratus is the only
intallible article in use for light and sweet
bread.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

Rev. Thomas Stockton, a noted divine,
says in late number of his Bible Times
SIT is not in bitterness but in sorrow that
l look upon the Church in too many in
stances, people--not called ont from the
world, but with the world called in-not
overcoming the world, but overcome by
the world
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

SurERSASESpExr OF Public INSTRUCTION
~ lorA.-Professor A. S. Kissell, of
Davenport. hes been appeintsd by Cover.
nor Mssyii1 10 an the vaoency nsca aioned
by the -desth of the Amenfsd Professor
Wells. The Davenport Gazette ssys Mr..
k.is man Of great ability; ripe schol.
nFi an indefatigable worker; progressive
in the best sense full Of enthusiasm in
the canse Of education and possessed Of
rare experience Nusratine Journal.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06
DISSOLUTION.

The firm of H. B. MALONE & CO, late ii. B. Ma
lone and f. b. Bailey has this day been dissol ed by
mutual consent
The business will be continued in all its branches
by the new firm composed of II. b. Malone and Ed
ward Deacon under the same frm-n name; the new
firm assuming all obligations and liabilities of the
old firm and collecting all outstanding debts.
H. b. Malone. H. MALONE CO,
Il. Deacon.
McGregor, LIST Of Jan. 1869. 63S
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

A young lady writing to her mother
from Europe says: ''Send me a dozen
bottles of 'Barrett's Vegetable Hair Re-
storer.' What took with me is all gone,
and / cannot think of spelling my hair by
using any other" The judgment of all
who have used Barrett's will confirm this
lady's experience.-BostOn Transcript.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

The name of the narrow ribbons worn
around the neck and hanging tower the
left" shoulder of young ladies is, Don't
all-in,loye-with-me -young.man.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

Hoops.-The origin of brass hoops is
believed to have been desire, of certain
young ladies, to encircle themselves in as
much brass as some young men of this
generation wear in their faces.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

THOSE WHO Would Preserve their capil-
larry adornments should at once provide
their toilets with s'Barrett's Hair Restor-
ative.''
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

The estate on the James river, in james
City county, Va, called Jamestown Is
land" containing 1891 acres, 403 acres of
it open land of great fertility, has been
sold for Sl4 600,
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

Street suits for young ladies are now
made of corduroy, which is both durable
and comfortable.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06
DON'T EOoK!!

r Want Ia buy half interest in some successfni
/ mercantile business in North Iowa. Or will
loan Two THOUSAND DOLLARS to business house on
GOOD sscnrty and work for the house ~ sales man.
Inquire at tho Times Office, or address Box ~, Mo-
mona. Iowa, eao
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06
GRIST MILL

in operation, doing good work. Customers to the
Store and the Mill buy Goods, get their Crisis
and sell their Produce all on trip Good prices
pledged for all the farmers have TO Fell Try this
firm and hold fast to that which Is good
633 Myron Dec. l, 1868.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06
.elp advertisements.
"~- S~1~v
DISSOLUTION.

consts is dissolved this day by mutual consent The
business will be continued by C. ROSENTIAL at
the same place. lie will collect all debts (if he ny
due to the late firm and pay all debts due By the firm.
to other parties. C ROSENTHAL.
Jan. 4, 1S69.-2w53S WIN. B. MILLER.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

"0n winters night, when the moon shone brigh
AnR the snow was crusted DER, eRrI 81
With maid as fair ms tho seraphs are,
slid from a hill down lower, Ii
Ere re reached the place (like horse on a race)
Oar swift-g lding sled careened,
And with tresses fair, streaming back on the air,
Sweet Nelly went eend over eend'
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-06

hard wood, with silded faces. :" Florida
is called the poor mans paradise by q
correspondent. He says $500 house
there is as good as $500 one at the
North. There is no wood pile nor hay
NOW to provide, and land is fifty cents an
acre......The He,ald's Washington dis
patch states that San alleged spurious
railroad company has obtained six million
dollars and an enormous amount of land
by grants from Congress, and two distinct
corporations are claiming the subsidies
granted to the Eastern Division of the
Union Pacific Railroad.
A citizen of Monterey, CAL, refused to
receive a telegraphic dispatch from a
neighboring town becauce the small pox
was raging there. IAN American gentle
man writes from London that common
American corn cobs are sold in the streets
of that city as ''patent fire lighters
eight for penny. .....Many Christians,
says Beecher, are like chesnuts-very
pleasant nuts, but inclosed in very prickly
burrs, which need various dealings of ma
ture, and her grip of frost, before the
kernel is disclosed -. The first advertiser
was London hsberdasher named IIervey.
who died in 1872, abundantly rich from
the profits Of his new discovery. 1.-Two
young ladies of Iowa have taken up lands
in the State under the Homestead act, and
propose removing upon them to run
farm on their own account. ....A Western
journal says that he is in favor of allowing
women to vote because they would not
be urging q fellow to treat
when he was candidate for Office.
Fifty families Of Europeans were re-
The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-03-24
The Prospect Brightens.

When we compare the year 1869 with all
that went before, the American people with
all other nations. and the State of North
Carolina with all other States, we find ahun-
dant reason to rejoice at the cheering indi-
cations and frightening prospects of the
future. There has been a great advance in
everything that elevates the individual man,
everything that pertains to the common
good, and everything that adorns and en-
riches human life.
From certain utterances of the President
it is strongly intimated that his adminstrz-
tion will bee directed to the follow ing
topics:
1st. The maintenance of the Union.
2d. Universal suffrage
Sd. Protection of American citizens
abroad.
4th. Speedy retrenchment in all the De-
partments.
5th. Reforms in the Indian policy.
9th. Suppression of unlawful monopolies.
Let Grants administration have a fair
chance and an open field, and We predict
that his bitterest enemies will acknowledge
at the close of the term, that it was the
cheapest and most glorious since the DAYS
of Washington.
We repeat, that this great Nation has a
career of unparalleled prosperity before Et.
Yes The Republic, the only true form of
government, the form which national lib
erty takes when it belongs to the people
and is not prostituted to class the Re-
public so worshipped by our fathers; the
Republic of thousand memories for which
the people have borne two revolutions, COW
ering the land with a carpet of blood, for
which they struggled in the late war, is
more deeply fixed in the affections of the
millions, and has brighter prospects than at
any other time.
The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-03-24

to the value of the property as measured by
the income which it yields, is to introduce
an element of uncertainty into the calcula-
ton, and destroys the uniformity which is
essential to Justice. A mans income is the
fund from which his taxes must be PAID. A
house and field which each rent out for
$100 clear of all expenses, ought to pay the
same tax. Two houses that rent out for the
same sum ought to pay the same tax al
though one may have lost twice as much as
the other. 1t must never be forgotten, that
property cannot pay the tax levied on it,
but the income from the property only can
pay it. If we proceed further and inquire
what the proportion between the rental and
the value of the property should be- we can
determine it only by observation of what it
really is, and from a consideration OF the
usual rate of interest on money loaned.
Without going minutely into the inquiry, it
would probably be found that rea! estate is
generally worth about ten times its nett an
nual rental In a law imposing taxes. where
the Object is uniformity, the same amount of
nett income should be an index to the
same numerical valuation of the capital
yielding it. If it should be thought that
ten times the rent would give too high a
valuation, make it eight times The princi-
pie is more important than the exact pro-
portion.
The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-03-24

Public Schools.

Much interest is manifested all over our
State in the system of public instruction that
may be determined upon by the General As
sembly. This is healthy symptom, and
we are greatly pleased to witness it, and
would spare no pains to intensity that inter-
est so that in every hovel in the State there
should be anxiety to know when and to
what extent provision will be made for the
dren OF the State.
But it is not the completeness Of any sys-
TEN, or the efficiency of any Superintendent
of Public Instruction that will give to North
Carolina an educated youth. 1t is all folly
to expect that the ability of the superinten-
dent, or the system of schools will do the
work. In order to make any system sue
cess, or to enable any superintendent to Sue
ceed in his grand mission, it will be necessary
to interest the people in their own part of
the work of education. Here, in our opinion,
has been the cause of failure in the past The
people themselves did not take hold Of the
matter as the coadjutors of the superinten-
dent, and as those who were responsible for
the success of the system This has 20 be
done or all legislation and all appropriation
of money is failure.
Would that we could speak to every school
district in the State, that we might direct
their attention to this matter We would
tell them to enter at ONCE into full accord
with the system that will be devised, for that
is, after all, not the essential matter; and that
they take hold and carry out the course of
the Board of Education, and get up an enthu-
siasm among their neighbors. Fit up the
old school house comfortably, or build a
pleasant and neat new one Look out
competent and cheerful teacher; send all
your children, determined to be pleased /:
encourage all the little folks to go; never
forget or overlook the school; make it the
institution of the community. Be sure that
every person gets to have as much interest
in the school as they do. Get up generous
and wholesome rivalry as to who can send
his children the most days IN the term who
will work hardest and stint the most to spare
them from home. Get up spirit of emula-
tion among the children to see who can make
the most progress in learning, recite best,
attend most regularly and behave the best
He will be public benefactor in his neigh
borhood who shall form public opinion
that shall rule every one to hold and believe
that it is a shame and disgrace to be igno-
rant in this day, and with such means of
education, make it a matter of pride, of
fashion or interest, when not of duty. in all
to see that every child must be educated, and
that to fail is to wrong the child
We hope that there will be no abatement
of concern about the public schools, but that
at the same time that interest will centre in
every district, in every family. and in every
mind and heart of this great State with its
crowds of children
The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-03-24
Markets.

WILMINGToN, March 20.-Spirits Turpentine
unsettled. Rosin steady crude, Turpentine
five better at sl,7O to S2,S5 Tar steady s2,55.
Cotton quiet 2611.
NEW YORK, March 20.-Cotton steady. Sales
OF 1000 bales at 2s1( to 2s11z. Flour unchanged
Wheat strongly in favor of buyers. Corn dull
and unchanged. Whiskey dull at 94115. Pork
dull and lower, 511l. Lard heavy. Turpentine
firmer at 5216. Rosin and Groceries firm.
Freights quiet and steady. Frankfort Bonds
s7%.
Money firm at Z. Bank statement regarded as
favorable. Sterling dull at Sss to So. Gold
dull, but steady, closing at 81 to SIS. Govern
ments dull and lower. Coupons, SIS 161l to
1873; 62's 1891 to 10.
BALTIMORE, March 20.-Virginia Coupons, old
561S, new 6O1S. North Carolina old 6211l. new
5SL. Cotton firm at 2S. Flour-family active
low grades firm without decided change. Wheat
dull and lower-Valley 81, to g., 10. Corn
dull-prime white 81; yellow 80, Oats dull al
60 to IS. Pork firm at SO. Shoulders Is. Whis
| key inactive at 81 to 95. Fr
The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-03-24

ORGANIZATION OF THE STATE LOAN AND TRUST
COMPANY OF NORTH CARoLINA.-At prelimin-
ary meeting OF the incorporators OF this company
held in Raleigh, N c., Friday March 10Th, 1862
Present, Tod R. Caldwell, o. s. Hayes, C. 8.
Winstead, ]. W. Holden, Gen. NJ s. Littlefeld,
j. W. Osborne, ]. H. Boner, F. G. Martindale,
R. W. I.assiter, quorum. al
Gov. Caldwell was chosen tempory Chairman
and o. s. Hayes, Esq, Secretary. J
On motion Gov. Caldwell was elected Presi-
dent, and c. s. Winstead Esq, Secretary and
Treasurer. 9a r+#
u On motion it was determined 10 elect seven
Trustees, whereupon the nominations of the fol-
lowing gentlemen were confirmed: George W.
Swepson, j W. Holden, ]. W. Osborne, c. s..
Winstead R. w. Lassiter, F. G. Martindale, Tod
r. CALDWELL
committee of three to draft bylaws for the
government ofthe Company was raised, consist
ing of Messrs. Osborne, Martindae and Hayes.
Also, committee cf three to open books for
subscriptions, consisting of G. W. Swepson, j.
/ w. Osborne and j. W. Holden.
1t was ordered that five trustees constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business, when
On motion the meeting adjourned, subject to
the call of the President.