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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1870-07-08
ED WRIeHr, Sec. ofState.


1870.
Ed WRIeHT, Sec. ofState.
CHAPTER 1872.
AN ACT to provide for the organ.
ization OF the county OF CrQcker.
Section l. be 1t enacted by the
General Assembly OF the state Of
Iowa, The territory now embraced
in Kossu.h county, lying north Of
the north line OF township 81, aud
between the western boundary Of
Wlnnebago county, and the eastern
boundary OF E'Emet county, shall
constitute tie county Of Crockery.
Sec. 2. There shall be elected
in said county, at the general
election III the year eighteen hund-
red and seventy, three Supervisors,
Clerk of the District Court, Sher-
iff, Recorder, Treasurer, Au iitor,
County Surveyor, Superintendent
OF Schools, Coroner and such town
ship officers as are usually elected
ut the general election for one
town hip in said coan,y, who shall
hold then.rcspective offices during
the period for which, county and
township officers, WHO are now
elected and filing similar Offices Of
fees in kossu.h county hold by
law and until their successor are
elected and qualified. $3.50, e
See. 8. Said election shall bc
holden at. such place sor places in
sad Crocker county as may bo des-
ignated by the Board Of Supervi.
sovs Of the county of Kossuth, at
their meeting in September eight
cen hundred and seventy aud it
is hereby made the duty of the
County Auditor OF Knssu.h county
to give public notice OF the place
OF holding said election, either by
publications in some newspaperpub-
llshed in Kossuth county, or in the
county nearest thereto in. which q
newspaper is published or by
causing written or printed notices
to be posted in three Of the most
public places in said county of Kos.
snth !; prooiaed, That, if the Board
Of Supervisors Of said kossuth
county fail to make an order at
their September meeting designa-
ting the place Of holding said elcc.
tion, or the said Auditor fail to
give the notice required by this
act then the legal veters residing
within the limits Of said county Of
Crocker shall hold said election at
the usual place or places Of holding
elections in SAID precinct or pre-
cincts aud they may, when as
selnbled at the usual time for open.
ing polls, elect judges and clerks
OF said election said elections to
be conducted in al respects AZ
elections are now conducted in
other counties in the state, and the
the returns made to the proper
county officers of. Kussuth county.
Sec. The Board of Eupervi.
sors, and all other officers elected
in SAID county under the provisions
OF this act, shall qualify and take
possession of their respe ctiye off,.
ces on the first Monday in January,
A. D. 1871, and the Board of Su-
pervisors, shall, at their first ses-
sion in January 1871, locate and
determine upon the place where
the county seat shall be located.
Sec. 5. This act being deemed
of immediate inportance, shall
take effect and be in force from and
after its publication in the State
Register aud Des Moines Bulletin,
| Continued On fourth page.
, 1870-07-08

A correspondent of the United State
Econcn,ist, writing from Memphis, states
that, while the most liberal estimates of
dealers in that quarter had not, until re-
Gently, put the cotton crop now being ex-
roued at more than ?, $50, 900 bales, it was
now generally conceded that the production
If ths. past yoor was over $3.50, 600 bales.
The Economist estimates the crop for the
present yeer ut !, 800. 900, which is consid.
erably above the maximum crop before the
@ar. In 1856, for instance, our crop is sci
down at 1850, $50 bales, which is about the
standard Not only has the existing free
labor of the South been found to run into
the cultivation of cotton, rather
than Of pork and breadstuffs, bui
the black laborers, being more or less mi
gratory in their dispositions, prefer to raise
on shares n crop which brings them cash,
1ather than one which ties them up to one
spot, and occupation year after year. AT
present, the Indications are that the past
year was the Mst in which the South vii
attempt, to any great extent to grow hel
own food With the present year she ha:
gone far more largely into the cultivation
Of cotton thnn ever before, and will, conse
quently, draw on the Northwest for hel
Eeef, pork, and grains much more largely
than at any previous period since the out
breals of the VIII.
, 1870-07-08

Tbo e,ri,.a amon, tho rooa1 n,inors n +
pannsr1v,n;a ,ast Summer con,d not have
,,,on ,,,ora for+,,nata far The amn,,vera If
49, 1a1s... - a. nt;nars. T1r;o,, had hoar
~ t,,a ~. .nd arnn1oymant ~ tba nine
a1r,,ars ~ COMO ,,aan,a snr,,oaad thav vore.
u :. -s.o,tsa .t.t s;,a;,ar ..r;l.a ID az.
5e-a,a r., tha ra;on ~ occnr tbrouohout
49, ent;,a a,,th-sc;ta coa1 reo,on On the
11t,, ;..,a,t :, o-da- n a7force tha a,obt-
, 1870-07-08

AZ months, but 6a- would not ask my IN
formation on that point
Yere il memorandum of tho principal
stops Of the Natchez:
Al Grand Calf. 19 minutes; at Greenvalfe. -
rntnDtes: at - GxiEX pump, - minutes: ~ los
at Devils Island, hours, having laid up from
la;sO TO $50 a. IL ,&., x,,,,x.>
~ asead at St. LOUIS. +.,... honrs 50 mnutes
Inference In favor Of Na.cl'ez - minutes
qte tiCe Of the Natchez from NsU Orleans
"a Natcba: vss II hours II minutes, instead
~ II horn; 10 niau.cs-this boat having gam
81 rvo minutes on her compatitoE.
The .rc;uec1, Andy Pau1oy, aFe1s that toe
Sntrhez WouM hayc beaten the Lee seven MN
utes to 81. Lou... but inr tia loss Of time Dy
def. Ct in pu1up and The fog.
TIL. lace where tha Easche1 tad 10 stop !of
tie forc ie 1liuuey's Point, a. head OF Dexn
Island Class by is Sb1pakds woodya!u. 1ne
MAJ. who hss csla1ge OF tho woodward Delvorey
by name, is willing to avea1, We are ia1oS1ned
by the eEciueer, that tt the time when tue
Nntchex stopped to tie up, she Was only t"en-
ty-flve injuries behind the Lee
As usual in matters OF this kind. there - =
considerable Diversity Of opinion IS to taa
| telative speed Of she boatn-
An oplnlou held BY b large number OF par
| sons who have been engaged in the business
Of boating Is that the two bosts are perfectly
| equal in tho quality OF speed. They say that
| Captain LeAthers was ou.-genetaled. or out.
| maneuvered By Captain Cannon !; and that
| Captain Cannon can takn the Natcncz and
| come up in The time made by the Leo; and
| that with tile Lee, Captain Lcatne.s would
| make only the time OF the Nntchex
, 1870-07-08

The Standing Con,mitteo Of the Electors Of
tie A]umni Association report favorablS upon
the results Of Mr. Hares method OF voting
for the Trustees Of Harvard Universally Each
Of the ten names reported was the result Of
tho unanimous choice Of one-tanth Of the
electors voting. Those who examined the bal
lots we're s1tsfied that each voter himself e1~
PRESSED therein his choice without considering
The votes OF others. Counting was simple
matter, less Troublesome than under the old
aysten. OF 355 correct ballots. according to
The system, IS votes vera necessary to .
choice On sorting the ballots It appeared taas
Or. Walker b1d 126 votes, Mr. Paine 10, and
no one else more than 1G- More than 70
candidates had only single vote. According
to the system Of applying surplus votes 70
second choices. DC, the ninety-one suIpins
Of Dr. Walker and ise Of Mr. Paine we're ap-
Piled to the second choice, Ac., eliminating a,
ways tho narnes with the fewest yotes untn
only ten candidates rnmained The curious
test OF counting the votes in inverse o1dcf was
applied, which brought out the same ct: haWes, ~;
though in $ different order. At first stsht, tnis
experiment looks Like the sai1ots pfopoatlon
that, as boxing the&compass backward Haa =
test OF his lore, the clergyman shoa1a a. asa5s
be able to soy the Lords Pra:er paeA"asH. IN.
Tie committee are, huvcEcr, salsneu "sn
tbis Md other evidences that the Wishes OF inc
voters have been carried ont as neasy ~ pUa, ptSe
sible, and propose to Try tho plan asa'n "s 'D'
next election.
, 1870-07-08

c -cconsoIdstion and OF its immediate Offspring
papek .dividands.--ha hsen zuch = fruitful
source OF : eonnptim3i fraud, and de-
ceit, that it has tended more than
any one thing to fill people With d1s-
trust of railroad management, and to detar
them from investing or Specializing IN stocks.
Abandoning speculation and even The broker
age business for other more simple and more
reEunezativc, less urcsst7in business. Every
where respect for legitimate business is ia-
creasing, ard the artificial speculation OF, ,lhs
last few years is exciting moro disgust 4he
dream Of rapid wealth has proved a nightmare
The notable exceptions thse wefe wont tu ilius-
hate it arc beginning ta DO recognized a.
doubtful bubbles, whose career may set end
in tie pooshouse or Fehitentiary- In word.
the closer The examination, tho mora decided
Is the convict ion that We arc rapidly approach
ing the eud Of the ten yaars' speculation"
, 1870-07-08

ties Of Superintendent in chief, having bean
elected to the Office IN November previous,
and, having been reelected in 1859 lived to
enter upon the last half OF the first rear OF
his second term.
Whitney County has ghost not less thxn
fifteen feet high.
MICHIGAN.
There was grand spelling match in Kala-
mazoo few days ago. It took place ut the
principal hotel, and aroused great popular in
terest. Tie victor who spelled all the rest
down and carried off the laurels vas Miss
Nellie Dye. who is by natu1c, As well az by
name, a colore1 gill
Omaha has Judge who recently had before
him couple clnrged with adultery. The crima
proven, tile Judge sentenced the guilty couple
10 ''malIy or SO to jall." The parties we're
married, and the Judge wac terribly tickled
with his sentence. Soon after, another guilty
pair was brought before him, this time a msr-
ned man aud sinful miss. Tho crime again
proven, the Judge did not even allow them
choice, but married them out Of hand.
MISSOURI.
A letter from Warrensburg, July 4, to the
st. Louis Democrat, says: "a murder most
foul and diabolicai vas ,peECPetrated in this
county on the I'd instant. -Four miles north
west Of Columbus lived Mrs. Hunter, the
wife Of all industrious faruer-AIr. Hunter
being at tho time absent from his home with
hls tenn in The hny-field, whither he had goue
to haul grass. Some fcoundtel came upon
Mrs. Hunter, who had been washing, aud
most brutaliy assaulted her. She was after
wards found with her head beaten all to
pieces, in n manner which showed that 1t Ind
been done With stone. He. jaw was
j smashed, her hair pulled out, and one Of her
eyes knocked out. Her throat gaze evidence
that eLe bad been horribly choked, the prints
left by The fingers aud thumbs Of the aasad-
ant being visible in her neck. Therelad appar-
| emily been fearful and desperate struggle
between tho victim and tile murderer. She
| was found dead and in tllls condition by her
| husband on his return to the house. 31rs.
! Hunier leaves three children. Strong suspic,
ions rest upon negro who was seen near the
place that day. It is believed that her person
was fllst outraged. and tho murder then com
mitted TO conceal the crime. The victims
hapda md wrists were badly laceratcd-tht
skin apparently twisted from them. The wholt
county is out hunting for the dastardly
ecoundre1, and it is judged he will be found
The public mind is IN the highest state of OK
citement. Should the wretch bn caught, ! an
Satisfied summary punishment will be inflicted
upon hinl."
, 1870-07-08

interest on this railroad aid dabt =; and the
people Of various towns and counties have
been 1ured into these subscriptions by rep
tesentations that the debt would be thus
practically paid out of the State Treasury.
The net of 1869 waa gross violation Of the
fundamental principle If the equality Of
taxation for State purposes, and was, there
fore, void, and oil subscriptions obtained
Under its delusive promises were fraudu-
lent and the question Of payment of these
bonds. principal and interest, is one in
which the people of the respective counties
and towns are alone Interested. The new
constitution peremptorily denies and e1-
c]udes all responsibility on the part OF the
State, directly or indirectly, and al use of
its revenues in any manner, for or on ac-
count of, these municipal debts. It pro-
vides:
"AR1. ~, SEC. co. The State shall ucYcr pay,
assume, or bccone responsible for, the deDis OF
Nabtiittea, or in any manner give, 1oau or extend
its credit TO- Of IN aid of any pnbc oF other cor
T. AIT. ", SEC ss. The aeneln Assembly shall
Of IN part, tle Indebtedness liability, Of obIgatton
any municipal corporat!vn therein.
= Ant. II. Sc II. NJ money shaa be drawn
propr!ation made il law, md no money
shall be diverted from any appFoPriation made for
either W bs joinat or separate resolution. ''''
Nv sEc, Iae ae1es sal !1 Assemny ,,'t sna
ciiy, tuHnshlp, town o. district whatever, or tic
1 "a T. t1.tgui, " e 4Taa ~ J ~
lcsied or state prrJoses; nor ahal Communication
for fr saeh taxes ec authorized In any to'm "nas-
*sTc, :, All taxes levied for State purpose shall
ra. nto n ss sh sts arsasa1
taxes unou municipal corporations, or tic illlaat-
r1psry thGh1eo II ier ,
withln tie Limits Of municipal corporations shall
70 taxed tor e pssmen! @ o. asots y 1 a9e1 a n
, 1870-07-08

The Chicago zinacx ventures to express
the opinion, in view Of the recent jueicial
election, TINT it is only necessary for can
djdnte to secure the opposition Of nll the
Republican newspapers of the city, in Or
der to insure his success.
1t seems to us that it is only necessary
for a candidate, otherwise acceptable to
he reople, to secure the support Of the
Times, in order to be fifth in race where
i've candidates ar running.
, 1870-07-08

The Republican Convention in the First
Congressional District of Minnesota, after
nominating hon. Marx q. Dunnel for Con-
gress, by acclamation, proceeded to give
expression to the sentiments Of the quarter
of million Of people in the district on the
political questions Of the day. They unan-
i1nous1y protested against the Buutwellian
policy Of adding the payment Of the ma
tional debt to the burdens the present gen.
Grafton has already borne, and demand
that taxation be reduced 50 as 10 pay
only current expenditures, interest
and annual per cent sinking fund on the
pnbic debt. They call loudly on Con-
grcss, in the name Of the ta1-ridden and
swindled farmers Of Minnesota, to reduce
the tariff to revenue standard, and vigor-
o,1s1y demand that all necessities he, as far
as possible, placed on the free list.
These declarations of opinions by the
Republicans OF Minnesota unquestionably
reflect the sentiments of an overwhelming
minority of the rank and file Of the Repub-
ican party Of the whole West We
make no exception of Michigan,
which isso g1aringly misrepreseuted
on these vital questions in Congress. There
are few small cliques in that State en-
gagged in iron-making, mining, and
salt-boiling who control and own the pres
ent Senators and Representatives of Michi.
gan. But the mass Of the Republican vo-
tegs Of that State desire severe reform just
as much as do the Republicans Of Mime
sota or Illinois, and they will make their
influence and votes felt next November, or
they are not the men We take them to be.
The great interest of all the Western States
is agriculture, and every farmer in
the entire Mississippi Valley is de-
prived of not less than 33
per cent of the purchasing power of his
products by the misca1led protection
provisions Of the e1isting tariff. II the
duties On imports we're reformed to a reve-
nue. standard, as demanded by the Mime.
sofa Republicans, every bushel Of wheat,
com, rye, oats, and barley, and every
pound Of beef, pork, mutton, hides, wool,
butter, lard, and tallow which Western
farmers have for sale, would purchase one
]
farmers must buy. The price Of all these
agricultural products is governed by the
foreign markets, while the price of
| the manufactures taken in exchange
for them is established by the tariff. The
farmers ara, therefore, obliged to pay high
tariff prices for all thsy buy, and sell at
European prices, less transportation, com.
missions, and other costs They receive
about half the European market price fol
their products, and have to pay double the
European prices for all the goods they buy,
And, IN the face Of this outrageous swindle
Blair, of Michigan; Sawyer, Of Wisconsin
and Schenck, Of Ohio, have the ehrontery
to tell Westc1n farmers TINT they are sspro
tected" by system Of TAXATION that thu
shases them to bone and bleeds them til
they sfnorer.
, 1870-07-08

The Republican candidates for Governor OF
Missouri thus far actively supported are Gov
eruor J. ". MeClurg, ). r. Benjamin, 4. 7.
Van Horn, E. o. Btanard, and B. Gratz
Brown. The st. Louis Democrat comes out
strongly for the last named, and predicts that
the denomination Of Governor NcClurg would
result in defeat.
1t ia understood that e8-president Johnson
has abandoned the idea Of pilgrimage to the
Holy Land this year, and las settled himself
down in East Tennessee to the task OF IA
Constitutional vindication Of Ny Policy"
The New York Commercial saya |" Con-
gressman Brooks yesterday bossted that, were
the Democratic party IN power. it would re-
stole the country to specie payment within si1
months time. The platform On which the
party planted itself il tho Last Campaign indi-
Gates the manner in which Democracy would
resume il it had an opportunity. Solemn gold
obligations would be declared currency ob1iga-
tionR. Ne1t they would be repudiated Alto
gethcr, and in the eyes OF Europe the natipn
World be placed in a more humiiating position
than was ever Mississippi or Pennsvlvania.
Mr. Brooks should hxve said thAt his party
would have repudisted national payments, n
stead Of 1esnming specis payments In six
months time"
-Ale1. q. H. Stuart seems Iikoly To BE- the
next Conservative candidate for doyernor Of
Virginia.
, 1870-07-08

We we're in error, in our article OF yes
tenday, on the Reapportionment bill, in
speaking Of Mr.. Knapp rs o member OF
Congress from Illinois. Tha Mr.. Knapp
Who voted to refer the bill to the Judiciary
Committee is from New York. 3Ir. 4. l..
Knapp, of Illinois, is not a member Of the
present Congress.
, 1870-07-08

The Detroit Tribune thinks that if the
Stntes entitled conditional Representatives
in Congress under the new census elect
them without waiting for the Reapportion-
mcnt bill, they will hardly be refused ad-
n,ittance by the ne1t Congress.
, 1870-07-08

Tho annual report Of tue Auditor General
Of the State Of Pennsylvania, John F. Hart
raft, il just Issued. The capital stock Of nine
10 s3s9, ,972, ,45o. The cost of roads and equip
ment foots-up S397, ,883, ,892-the total length
"f road being 5,105 27-1o0 miles. The total OF
funded debt is S192, ,oo2 ,56s. The total rscei9ts
for the year amounted to s99, 9,614.8l9. and ths
,.perating expenses to e6G, ,i68, ,021. Fofty-tWo
Of the roads paid diyidends in 1853. thirtY-s'1
Of them during the past three years.
, 1870-07-08

TIE following sections Of the Legislative
article OF the new constitution have not at
trncted the attention their Importance de-
se1yes
mn anro1go,oo of moss n1 af Iha Traa., 1a1s n
any trisaae tar. Buns nattng appropriations for
raj ssembiy. and Tor 1he ssla.aes Of tae ofcers Of
he government, shall contain no provision On any
:.EEc. i. 10 ,nonsy shall be drawn from the
Irsas1iy eScep, N pnfsaance Of an appropriation
1art issued Is the Auditor thereon: ad no 1,oaev
, an e ~ }aea, dmy y qd aas 91
eilsr ~ joani Or s<pa,nts 5e.olntaon the Audltof
sac s.sn nf H. soe2a and %
publish t fun statement u an uoney expended 1t
end T. ,eso,s aad ggS ~ sYat IL 1a;d s4see' 'ee'
These provisions will prove salutary safe
guards to the Treasury that Will sare mill !
ions of dollars Legislatures have hereto
fore been in the habit Of attaching app1o-
priations to private bills, and Of direrting
money set apart for one fund to other pur-
poses, by Joint and separate resolution.
By making appropriations in this surrepti-
tious manner they escaped the danger of an
Executive veto md an official e1nosure of
The extravaganza or co,.untion of snch ar.
propriationa Vast sums have been taken
from the Treasury bv This trick invantad
I,- tha 1,.b, ,,bn n,saa oo,5 +h;,n - -
Another nav Of ca,tino money mi ~
t,,a Traoc,rv ,r;thent an.onnt.,;,. "a
c;I,reno1,a re,o vaz Nv IS ;o;nt reso1nt,on >
n,;r;a,,. - .5o,,a,e -, ~, 5;....t.s
,,os+lv <,r ;n,,r,nar ~ ,or,,,t ,n-no.os
II ,1as 1,v tbe ;o;rt raeolri;on da5,a tr,ot
, 1870-07-08
THE NORTHWEST,
ILLINOIS.

ILLINOIS.
The census shows Morgan County to contain
I'm to the 23th OF June, three hundred and
City dogs hs1 aoss. Lifted by the authorities in
Peoria
The Thirtv-i1rst Illinois Volunteer Regi-
eunual reunion at Marion, Williamson County,
Oh the 22d day OF July,
john Dewitt. who lives in the township OF
Milo, Bureau County, WIS born on Long
Island, State Of New York, March g, 1863, and
is is now, consequently, l01 years old. He has
been confined to the house for the LAST three
bodily l:ealtl is quite good. His memory and
conyeraing powers arc perfect. He often tells
Of his mother hiding the COW in the cellar to
keep the British from killing her. He remem-
bers mnny events Of the Revolutionary war !;
saw General Washington many times. He
lived in Ohio and Indiana before coming TO
three houses there. He has buried three
wire=, and is nov living With tho fourth; has
lad thirteen children, Of whom Int two SUI
vivc. He has been . member Of the Metho-
dist Church eighty years.
A $40, 600 school-houso has just been COM
picted at Fort Dodge.
"A couple Of boys. Andrew Kaufman and
Vim Canoe, aged and 8 years, wero drowned
in mill-dam near Wilton on Thursday OF list
week
-Winnesheik County has 4 woman who is
CO yesrp her husbands senior, and be is b5
yeais old. She is spry and active, and PROM
ises to live some time yet.
wIscoNsE.
Speaking Of Mr.. Craig, the State Super
intendept Of Public Instruction, who died at
Madison. last Sunday, the Journal, Of that
city, says: Alexander J. Craig Was born in
Waikiki. Orange County, n. Y. Resis1ing Tor
soue time previously ID Western New York,
he came to this State in 1913, settling in Pal
mSra, Jefferson county, which he has always
considered his home. Though tescling
frequently before, 1is more public
career as m educator began with
the principa1ship OF one Of the Milwaukee
ward schools, in 1854. At the end Of two
years he was appointed editor Of
the Wisconsin Journal Of Elucat,on, which
was the organ both Of tho State Teachers As
scciation and OF tho State Superintendent. BE
was also elected Preaideut or the association
in 18Cs- Accepting the position Of Assistant
Superintendent the name year, he reln1uish-
ed the Journal. having conducted 1t for three
yeara with much tact and success. a1r. Craig
continued at the post OF Assistant Supeaea-
tendcnt fer \ period OF eight years, during
the administrations Of ]. L. Hckard aud ]. q.
| NcMynn, and in. 1868 he entered upon the d4