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North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

If we knew the woe and heart ache
Waiting for us down the road,
II our lips could taste the wormwood,
II our backs could feel the load,
Would we waste the day in wishing
For time that neer can be;
Would we walt in such impatieHce
For our ships to come from seat
II we knew the baby fingers
Pressed against the window pane,
Would be cold and stiff Tomorrow
Never trouble US again - .-..-.. -
Z Would the bright eyes OF our darling
Catch the frown upon our brow;
Would the print Of rosy fingers
vex us then as they do nows
All, these little ice-cold fingers,
How they point our memories back,
To the hasty words and actions
Strewn along our backward track
How these little hands remind US.
As In snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thorns-but roses as-s e. azs
- Fol- our reaping by andby!
Strange We uever prize the music
Till the sweet voiced bird has flown;
Strange that we should slight the violet - .
Till the lovely flowers are gone;
Strange that summer skies ana sunshine
80. Never seem oDe-half SO fair
: Az when Winters snowy piDions
Shake their white down in the air!
Lips from which the seal Of silence
None but God can roll away,
Never blossomed in such beauty
As adorns the mouth to-day;
Aud sweet words that freight our memory,
With their beautiful perfumes,
Come to us in sweeter accents
!, Through the portals of the tomb.
7 Let us gather up the sunbeams
Lying all around our path;
Let us keep the wheat and roses,
M mt fhaf a au1c chaH
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

"Who Peso Desc Local Editors ="
The following rich dialogue is reported
as having taken place in West Utica. 1t
explains itself:
Officer keating was met recently on
Genesee street by a keeper ofa beer saloon
who was laboring under considerable ap-
parent excitement. Recognizing Keating,
he stepped up to him with the exclama-
ton:
"Who pese desc wot you calls local
editors2''
"They pick up items," sa,d the officer,
"dead- head into shows, etc.,
"Dey pick up items l tink so. Is
gold watch items? Is sixty tollars items ?
IIey?'
He was asked to explain what he meant,
which he did as follows:
"Dis morning l was drinkin' lager NIT
mine friends all der while in mine saloon,
and in comes a young man wat dere never
was already-and pulls out little sheep
skin pook and lead bencil. and he says
he pese local editors and wants me to tell
him all vot dere wos pout the row NIT
mine beer saloon last night.
81 asks him wot kind O. business he was
to that row, by tam, wot kind O. right!'
And he says he reports um in de papers.
So tell him all wot don't know pout
the rows vot some tam rowdies tries to
kick out of mine saloon last night. Und
my poarders gets around and dells more
ting vot recollccts, and de nice young
man, he sticks EN- down in his sheepskin
pook NIT his lead bencil. Den he trinks
glass lager, which he don't let himself pay
for, by tam, Il fe!t sure as never was he
be one little NEWSPAPER fellow when he
didn't make pay mid my lager but dat
makes noting Inference; der's no princi-
pie in dat,) und den he goes out, and l
don't sees him again all dc vile.
"Den one of my poarders he finds him
self stole away from his gold watch, py
tam und neighbor Schmitt, he found
sixty tollar wat he hadn't got.
"The nice young man, who pretended
to be local editor, was pickpocket,"
said Heating, 'who took that means to
carry on his trade, and he succeeded pretty
well if he got gold watch and sixty
dollars"
~ thinks he sucosedtst pretty well, mine
Got! De next time man comes in my
saloon NIT his tam sheepskin bencil and
lead pook, und says he is local editors,
by tam, he don't come in"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23
NEwspApERs.-In a lecture upon ne,

NEwsPApERs.-In lecture upon news
papers, delivered in Philadelphia, by Rev.
L. Dewitt Talmadge, he said:
II now declare that l consider the
newspapers to be the grand agency by
which the gospel is preached, ignorance is
cast out, oppression dethroned, crime ex-
tirpated, the world raised,' heaven rejoiced
and God glorifed. In the clauking of the
printing press, as the sheets fly out, ! hear
the voice of the Lord Almighty, proclaim
ing to all the dead nations of the earth,
Lazarus, come forth 7 and to the retreating
surges of darkness, Let there be light!"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

An incredible story is told in New York
papers. A beautiful youag woman enter
ed street. car, Monday evening, and a
workman, whose couutenance bore evi>
dence of days toll. politely offered
her scat. "Please keep your seat sir, !"
was the response, "you are no doubt tired. y
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

A jailor in st. Louis received strict
orders not to keep any prisoner in solitary
confinement. Once when he had but two
in charge, one escaped, and he was obliged
in consequence, to kick the other out of
doors, to comply with the regulations.
When is a lawyer strongest? When he
is feeblest,
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

The Paris Pays thinks Mr.. Breckinridgc
will be President of the United States
before he dies.
A fatal quarrel in Jersey City arose
from the refusal Of bar-keeper to allow
team.ter to water his horses from the
ice-pitcher.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

PADDLE Your Own CANoE.-Judge S.
gave his son thousand dollars, telling
him to 80 to college and graduate. The
son returned at the end of the Freshman
year without dollar and with several
ugly habits. About the close Of the va
cation, the Judge said to his son. "Well
William, are you going to college this
year?'
''IIave no money, father
"But gave you thousand dollars to
graduate on"
ats all gone, father"
every well, my son it was all could
give you. You can't stay here you must
now pay your own way in the world"
Anew light broke in upon the vision
of the astonished young man. lie accom-.
modated himself to the situation; left
home, made his way to college, graduated
at the head of his class, studied law, be-
came Governor of the State OF New York,
entered the Cabinet of the President Of
the United States, and has made record
for himself that will not soon die, being
none other than William II. Seward.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

THE FLEA CRoP.-The Belfast 1ge has a
funny correspondent, who writes from
Barrancas, Fla. A few extracts show the
drift of his pen:
This is great country-not much for
farming, but great for leas, producing
three hundred and sixty>fve and one
quarter crops every year. They are
carniverous in their habits, and, like coun.
try school masters, "board round" They
are no respecters of persons, though they
do respect rank, being partial to descend>
ants of Ham.
This is great place for fruit. We
have peaches, tomatoes, plums, blackber-
ries, strawberries, etc., in abundance.
They are raised in tin cans, ready pre-
served, cost one dollar, and the money is
we'll worth what you get for it.
TO one Who, after having spent large
portion of his life in various wicked ways,
wishes place where he can repent and
do penance for his sins, say come here
or if any one wants to 60 into the hermit
business, I say come here, for l know
where there are lots of rebel magazines,
now unused, which will answer splendidly
for caves.
Barrancas is a remarkably quiet place,
for horses never neigh here unless you ask
them if they are we'll treated, and the
mule allows his musical talent to go un-
cultivated; hens never cackle here.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

The first day little boy went to school
the teacher asked him if he could SPELL
"Yes, SIR" swell how do you spell
boy 2" "Oh, just as other folks do.n
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

The NEGROES BECOMING 'LrGIoUs.-The
religious awakining has extended in many
localities to the enforcement of represen-
tatives from "Afric's Sunny Shore" Their
meetings are found to be peculiar in the
singing, in the prayers, and in the re-
marks. Such ordinations as these often
resound through the excited assemblies
OATS Gods truth Glory know God
will hear dat prayer, cause he said he
would! De blessin is comingl feel it,
oh, feel-it feels good! He'll clutched
US, but couldn't hold us Pray, brudders
pray, sisters-put in all you know OATS
de way! White folks thinks colored folks
don't know nothin' Lord drive out de
giggling devils! Make dem feel hotter-er
ana hotter.er, &c." Among the hymns
which they sing is one with the following
chorus:
"The devil and me, we don't agree,
don't like him, and he don't like me-"
-Uticd Telegraph.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

1t cannot be that earth is mans only
abiding place. 1t cannot be that life is
bubble, cast up by the ocean of eternity
to float a moment upon its waves and sink
into nothingness. Else why is it the high
and glorious aspirations, leaping like
angels from the temple of our hearts, are
forever wandering unsatisfed Why is
it that the rainbow and clouds come over
us with beauty that is not of earth, and
then pass off and leave US to muse on their
love.iness? Why is it that the stars which
"hold their festival round the midnight
throne" are set above the grasp of our
limited faculties, forever mocking us with
their unapproachable glory? And finally
why is it that bright forms of human
beauty are presented to our view and ia
ken from US, leaving the thousand streams
Of our affection to flow back in an Alpine
torrent upon our hearts? We are born
for higher destiny than that of earth.
There is a realm where the rainbow never
fades where the stars will be spread out
before us like the islands that slumber on
the ocean, and where the beautiful beings
which pass before us, like shadows, will
stay forever in our presence.-Pentice.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23
THE LORDS PRAYER,
as translated by

Samuel Hanson Cox, d. d., LII. D.
Our Father, who art in Heaven; be
sanctifed thy name; come thy kingdom,
be done thy will, as in Heaven also on the
earth; give us daily our needful food and
forgive us our sins, as we also forgive
them that sin against US; and bring US
not into probation but rescue US from
the wicked one since to thee belongs the
kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
for ages infinite. Amen Matt. 8: 9-l3,
Luke IL: 2-4.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

The n. Y. Evening Post says: We have
received frequent inquiries for the transla-
ton Of the Lords Prayer, made many
years ago by the now venerable DR.. Cox,
aad We present it herewith as eminently
worthy of study and preservation:
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

Spindies. Curhs, Hoppcrs, Stands. Shoes Danscls
&c. Smut and Bran cleaners, Separators MillPec
Cups and Bel,ing.
Dufour Co.'s Old Dutch Anchor Bolting Cloths,
Extra and Extra Heavy and Double Extra Heavy.
Patentee of the North Western Turbine, also agent
for the LEFFEL WHEEL. All letters addressed to
McGreSor or Lapsing, Iowa, 6l2
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-23

Especial attention paid to the manufacture OF
10 Blank Books for Counties Banks, Merchants, etc.
Music, Magazines, Periodicals, &C., &C. Bound with
u Ga tncSsa nd dispatch,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-09

Fanny, don't you think that Mr.:
Rold is q handsome man? ooh, no; l
can't endure him. Heis homely enough" J"
" Well, he's fortunate, at all events; for
an old aunt has just died and left him
s5O,OOO" "lndeed is it true? Now l
come to recollect, there is certain noble
air about him, and he has fine eye
that can't be denied"
= Touching obituary notice in Chi
cago paper: "Amos Skeeter, we'll
known resident of this city, and a fno
singer, was instantly killed at the Ire
mont House last night, by stranger,
who became angry at his attentions. He
leaves large family"
= The more woman's waist is shaped
like an hour glass the quicker will the
sands of life run out.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-09

READ Your Own PApER.--We should
lust as soon think of making practice
of borrowing mans tooth brush as bor-
rowing his paper. Every man ought to
have a newspaper of his own, If ne would
be considered Ga man among men,"
The too prevalent practice of borrow
ing newspapers has become proper sub
iect for condemnation. A single copy is
often made to do duty in half dozen
families, and that, too, from one years
end to another. -.
There are many people in the world
who make business to get the reading
of their county paper without any expense
to themselves. We know it is hard for q
person to refuse neighbor or an acquaint-
ance the privilege of reading his newspa-
per. but some borrowers have little delica-
cy and sensitiveness, and a prompt, fiat
refusal to encourage them in sponging on
others tor rews and interesting reading
would not hurt them much, and might in
duce them to take and pay for good pa.
per. :,
prives the publisher of the reward he is
entitled to from all who derive pleasure
and instruction from the paper 1t has cost
so much money to issue.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-09

A PUzzLE.-Here is g question for
young arlthmeticians, and others who
like to crack an arithmetical nut now and
then, to try their wits upon:
Two Arabs sat down to dinner, and
were accosted by stranger, who request
ed to JOIN the party, saying "that as he
could not get provisions to buy in that
part of the country, if they would admit
him to eat only an equal share with
themselves, he would willingly pay them
for the whole" The frugal meal consisted
of eight small loaves of bread, FIVE of
which belonged to one of the Arabs, and
three to the other The stranger having
eaten third part of the eight loaves,
arose and laid before them eight pieces of
money, saying; My friends there is what
1 promised you; divide it between you
according to your just rights A dispute
arose, of couise, respecting division of
the money but reference being made to
the cadi, he adjudged seven pieces to the
owner of FIVE loaves and only one piece
to him who had owned the three loaves.
Yet the cadi decided justly.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-09

THE INCOME TAx.-The movement al
luded 10 somo time ago, tavoring modi-
fication of the revenue laws affecting in
comes, mas assumed more formidable
and general character Many members
of Congress approve the proposed change
in the law, and representatives of impor-
tant interests throughout the country are
in Washington giving shape and consis-
tency to the proposed change. Senator
Shermar's recent speech at Canton, Ohio,
has been severely criticised as politically
imprudent in consequence of his avowal
of the unpopularity of the tax. 1t is
clearly shown by those familiar with rev.
enue statistics that the amount of curren-
cy revenue from internal taxes requisite
for meeting all expenses Of the Govern
mcnt, except interest on the public debt,
can be realized from whisky, tobacco,
stamps, licenses and modified income
tax. The plan proposed is to increase
the tax on whisky to 81 per gallon, which,
it is claimed, will realize sSO,OO0,OOO. if
the means now within reach of the reve.
nue. bureau for the prevention of fraud
snail UC uuOpteu. Iioii eoo"Seo, 'o iee'oo
S3OOOO,OOO can be realized from stamps,
with modification of the present law,
saw $4,000, 900; from formented liquors,
S10,OOO,0OO; from licenses, $4,000, 900; /;
and then from the modified income tax
but Sl5,OOO,OOO would be required to
make a total of Sl55, 100000, an amount
equal to Secretary Boutwell's estimate of
the expenditures for the present fiscal
year. The plan is to confne the income
tax to the tax on interest paid on the na-
tional debt, the FIVE per cent. to bo de-
Quoted when the interest is paid. This
will realize S6,225,O0O without dollar of
expenses incurred in the collection. The
balance it is proposed TO raise by taxing
incomes derived from surplus property
embraced in stocks of banks, railways
and other corporations, and from interest
paid on bonds of such corporations. This
plan it is claimed will, while completely
removing the unpopular and inquisitorial
individual income tax law from the stat
utes. result in the saving of at least two
millions of dollars per annum in the cost
of collection of the revenue by reducing
The number of objects Of taxation, and
consequently the number of officers.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-09

OLD DEBrs.-The practice of scaling
old debts by tho Jurics of the country,
originated at Anderson 9. H. Ua under er. tho
there was Il material inclination in that
way on the part of nearly every person,
for there is surely equity, if not law, in
such course The rule of law once
broken the waters flowed freely, and
the example was followed by oconee,
Pickens and Greenville counties, the on.
tire circuit of Judge Orr. Our Abbeville
exchanges inform us that the same
course, in greater degree is being adop-
ted in that county, The rule there is to
allow on old debts, one-half of the princi-
pal and interest to the first day of Janu-
ary, 1861, being about 80 per cent. of the
debt and interest. Our Juries adopted
and havc followed the rule Of allowing
one-half the principal and interest to
date of verdict. The ball gathers as it
goes.-Keomee Courier
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-09

"A married man who eloped from
Mississippi with another woman, has just
written to his deserted wife to educate
his three children respectfully; as he
hopes to meet them in heaven, if circum.
stances over which he has no control
should forbid their meeting again on
earth.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-09

"A gentleman saw an advertisement
that receipt for the cure OF dyspepsia
might be had by sending two postage
stamps to the advertiser. He sent his
stamps, and the answer was, 'Dig in your
garden aud let whiskey alone
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-19
GEORGE PAGE & co.,

40. N. Schroeder street, Baltimore. Md.
MANUFACTURERS OF PAGES I'M
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for every description OF woodworking ma
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1869, in addition to previous patents, make
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plans Furnished, and contracts entered into
for the erection OF Circular, Gang Mulay or
Sash Mills. Correspondence solicited, and
Catalogues furnished, Oh application, by mail
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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-19
SOLUBLE MANURES. x

The Sulphuc Acid and
Of
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Super lime found in the best
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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-19

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ELASTIC Lock Stitch" Every second stitch
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Ours is the only genuine and really practical
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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-19

The dying lepers at the hospital at the
Sandwich q Islands danced the native
hulu-lulu at ball given in the building
to the patients.$ Many Of the dancers
were so nearly decomposed that they
dropped in fragments. and were picked
up and carried off in baskets, piece
meal. ~ - - ailaf
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-19
New york AdverfissmsniIflisi.

N0 "
saers Hyenr Cot tom Ties -sSeaEE
G0LE Agency ip New yarkFfSr thessl sletapd7
~ dat sibation OF the sigs gss,Siassa .esi,sI Nv,
Eaa sa:d, z ARIVNV MIN hsa ,.4 q . + :.
AND DSELNFASTENINGH HUOKLRsTIE ~
Manufactuted, by il Jo3NlcCosiBg liverpool
.aouss. SWEN9ON, co., 81
oms SO Beaver street, New York.
(AIail address, Box STA P. o. Aug 3m0s
SVSSTsCfOUT HOTEL EGaasNV
ks&0ETTATT TTHIs NEW eqdG G@mga gaioqst
HOOSE, located corner Broad
\ - S1S way and Forty. second street,
\ esSfNew York; possesses advan-
tages over all other houses, for the accommo-
dation ofits guests. It was built expressly for
a frst-clsss family boarding house-the roomS
being large and en- suite, heated by steam,
with no. and cold water, and furnished second
to none; while the culinary department ls in
the most experienced hands, affording guests
an unequalled table. One Of Atwood's Patent
Elevators is also among the modern improve
ments' and at the service Of guests at all hours
The Broadway and University Place Carspass
the door every four minutes, running from the
City Hell to Central Park, while the Sixth and.
Seventh Avenue lines are but short block pn
either side, affording ample facilities for COM.
municating with all depots, steamboat lapd-
ings, places OF amusement and business of the
great metropolis. MORE aoLtEY.
m8Tcu ~ ONO - 80: b -. FTOprletOrs.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-19

A Chinese place OF worship is shortly
to be erected in the city of New York,
near Trinity Church. A wealthy Chinese
merchant of San Francisco has furnished
the funds, with the hope of converting
the New Yorkers land especially, we
suppose, the Ritpalists) to the doctrines
Of Confncins. There are some 10000
Chinese in New York, and this is an ad-
ditional motive for the erection of q
temple to :'sJoss."h -siup .c5D So
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-19
South Caroline Railroad Company,
GENERAL sUPTS OFFICE, ApRiL 8. 1863.

S@II6 3 ,;1Is 5HE ;sa ;sollSSEsiag Sss g s sehs. e:
Trains will be observed nom this dste: 81
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. .uWo "
Leaving Columbia ats.s...r...... 7.45 q. m.
Arriving at Columbia att l...I.o... 6.1O d. m,
NIGHT EXPRESS TRAIN. ~, -v..it
Leaving Columbia at -. ~: .... $50 D. m,
Arriving ut Columbia at =. -! ~. IS a. nj.
THE CAMDEN TRAIN III ca5 NJ
Will continue to run the following schedule:
as-'t TRI-wEEKLY. ..Er -o:.,.. .
(Mondays, Wednesdays and satufdays.)
Arrive Columbia IL 90 a. M Leave 2,20ip. M.
DAILY (sUNDAYs ExoEPTED C'l no.
Leave Camden 6.35 am. Ar Kingville O. 20 IN.
Aug II 81. r. PEAKE. General. Sup't.