The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1870-03-18

! fcuuitul VI our VOfcsnlueDt uTS
''prodigious." If there was bigger
word than "prodigious' in the lam
guagc. that word would better express
the facts. x Prov. Herald.
Now tb.t Congress is threatened
with a small epidemic of explosions,
we may expect periodical statements
| Of the indebtedness Of the govern
Mept.
Senator Pomcroy introduced bill
the other day to suppress all the
whiskey-shops in the District Of Col
UNI bia. The object of the bill is to
force Dick Yates to resign his seat in
the Senate Lou. Conrier-Jour.
A certain western politician gave
Mrs. Lincoln \ diamond ring, and re-
ceived q commission Of Brigadier-
General from her husband. Did be
vote for tho resolution Of ccusure up
on Wbittemore?
The London Daily News says that
Commissioner Wells lis a sort Of
adviscr-general to the Secretary Of
the Treasury, whose good advice Con.
gress receives, prints. sirculates and
neglects.
A German has discovered a new
kind Of printing ink. supori or to any
now in use, and which can be rubbed
out very easily. What Greeley
"knows about farming" ought to be
printed in that sort Of ink.-[N. Y.
Com. Adv.
Whittemore has given up the mill
tary and naval school business and
betaken himself devotedly to a Wash
ington Sunday school, where he pro-
poses to amend the tenth command
ment by inserting "cadetships' after
"Thau shalt not covet.' .@
The N. Y. Evening Post blames
Golladay for not doing big thing,
while he was about is--getting a salt
monopoly, for instance, like McCar-
thy, out Of Congress. and then snap
his fingers and slap his pocket.
The Philadelphia Age calls Satur~
day the 4th inst. "a day of congrat-
ulation and praise to the great source
Of patronage, the President Of the
United States, upon the completion
of the first year Of his term.
Buffers ideas have reached Ohio,
where a State Senator, who felt him
self superior to newspaper men, at
tempted to thrash one and found out
his mistake.
Lydia Thompson says that Storey,
of the Chicago Times, islands upon
the brink of the grave He 10 not
yet "a Storeyed urn" albeit the
shindy was rather an "animated
bust. - Lou. Courier Jour.
Grant seems to be man Of no re-
sources whatever. 1t has probably
never occurred to him that if he can
get rid of Robson in no other way,
be csn do it by abolishing the navy.
- Lou. Courier-Jour.
A. Hero is custodian of the Nota-
rial Records in New Orleans. 1t is
not another name for b. F. Butler.
A negro in Mississippi cut the
throat of A. j. Ramsey. He has
been sent to the Legislature as a
punishment.
The last Philadelphia conundrum
is, What becomes Of captured burg
lars tools
League Island was not named af-
ter the Union League--therc is too
much water around it.--[N. Y. Lead
CIR.
There is talk Of running an honest
colored man against Wbittemore.
Golladay--the day VIC don't cele-
brate.-- Lou. Courier-Journal.
Dawes is wanted to do more of the
recanting business in Connecticut.
Father Grant claims to have saved
tho Government $4,000 IN the three
years be has run the Covington, KY,
Post Office, and to have made just
$3,497, "a for himself since Janusry
LIST.
Dana charges Grants Administra-
ton with waste of patronage"
There wasn't enough of it wasted on
Dams:
Sumner is getting up = speech on
one cent postage. So. At least, he
will say something with cents init.
The United States Senate must he
charming place for Dick Yates
They have Kcvels there every night
now.-[Lou. Courier-Jour.
Writer'S of obituary notices, at loss
to say anything good of tho deceased,
compromise by adding, "Hs died
poor. IN. Y. Com. Adv.
The Chicago Times says that the
single chaste exhibition given by the
blondes. was when they were chased
out of tc wn by an official with war
rant.
Governor Palmer. of Illinois, par
doned 108 convicts last year, includ-
ing four convicted Of murder and
twelve convicted of manslaughter.
An ingenious Congressional dodge
consists III selling cadet appoint
ments only to incompetent purchasers