The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1871-07-06


been noted for its rapid increase. This
of course, is good thing; and the spirit
has extended to others, who are bound not
to be behind Witness, one of our COM
positors, JOHN w. JONES, who came to
work on Monday last with smiling face,
and the announcement that he was the
father of eleven pound boy. JOHN says
the times may he fast, but they can't beat
him.
DELUGE.-Last weeks COnserU0tOr con-
tains seven columns or more of rehash,
similar to that published by Porter semi
annually since he started his paper, except
this last was about three columns more
than usual. The old story was repeated,
aud an additional one made for Keokuk
county. 1t is truly affecting to read his
farewell to the fabulous Bird" and how
anything less than man ofstone can read
that without tears we cannot conceive.
The Register says of Porter Clay's
snow you see it -and-now- you. don't pro-
L
of the leaders Of the pod augur wing of the
Democracy of Iowa. has folded up his po-
litical tent, like an Arab, and, with seven
column editorial in his late ConserUat0r,
turned somersault out of the Democratic
party. He's going to get up party of his
own which he proposes to call the Estate
Reform Party" Moreover, he is going t"
bury the Democratic papers he has been
editing, in the same graveyard where an
Irish has laid the Democratic party, and
in their place publish one only, which is
to be called The Iowa Reform Leader, and
is to be strictly Democratic and purely
Republican" Taking political pills goes
hard with Porte, but in less than year
he'll be over his present pet, and be ia
king the new medicine and saying he
likes it,"
The Gate City correspondent at Iowa
City, commencement week, says of an Os-
kaloosa lady: "Miss Amanda Rogers
closed the Grafton for the evening on I'VE
mao as an Educator" Women teach gen
tleness, refinement and delicacy-men logic
science and energy none of these virtues
are of much use without the other. Men
work ny external authority, women by in
fluence Men seek to control the head,
women always aim at the heart, and We
believe we have the highest authority that
her way is the most efficient mode of work
ing, for tout of the heart are the issues of
life" Woman, standing as she does at the
very fountain whence all the streams Of
active business life take their rise, what
must be her influence as she trains the in
tellect to thought and the moral sensibili-
ties to virtue, instructs the artisan, quail
ties the merchant, lays the basis of profes
sional life and gives tone to society. IF
our race is to advance in civilization, in
science or general know ledge, the teachers
desk is the spot from which these refining
and elevating influences must radiate. Wo
man as parent and teacher shapes the char
acter and destiny of the nation"
The following from AL Swalms Jeffer-
son Bee, dishes up one Shaw at lively
rate. He is the man who once attempted
to buy the HERALD: up in Mimi espols,
place of considerable importance, con-
tanning many good people and some just as
much the other way, there dwells one
Charles X. Shaw, formerly an Iowa editor,
and now publisher and black mailer of the
Minneapolis Eoening Neps, paper about
the size of a common diaper, and in nature
fully in keeping with that humble but use
full article. This man Shaw don't like
Iowa editors, for the reason that they don't
sound the praises ofMinneapolis as gener-
ously as they might, therefore they become
loots and black guards, ignoramuses and
everything else Shaw-lke. Whenever
Shaw desires to crush an Iowa man he
charges him with not having paid his bill
at the Nicollet House, and with that spike
nails him up to the pillory of public opin-
ion. Having thus hung few up, who are
free enough to say just what they pleased,
this valorous Don Quixote lowers his lance
and charges at the entire Iowa Press AS
ISOLATION, the destruction folio wing, being
more terrible than that attending Phara-
obs adventures with the children ofIsrsel
The men were more than dead beats" and
the ladies imputed with reputation of the
Lisa Weber style. There were neither,
brains, honor, manhood or virtue in the
entire Association, and even its head, the
President was not honorable enough to
pay his hotel bills. No bitterer an arraign.
ment of a body of men we have
ever read, and were it not that Shaw, the
liar, the slanderer, the coward and worse
than thief was the originator of all these
calumnies, the Iowa Press Association
might stand in bad odor abroad, but as it
is, the effort falls still born to the ground.
A word historical about Shaw. Most of
the editors remember the sparring that
took place few years ago between Shaw,
then of the Grundy county Atlas, and Ira.
cy, then of the Cedar Falls Gazette, in which
Shaw came out with libel suit for $40 900
on hand, and being scooped out on the
score of brains. He got rid of the suit by
openly, in court, acknowledging that he
was liar, slanderer and worse than
thief, for in attempting to rob man of his
character he proved himself both coward
and pirate. During the "war" of paper
pellets, Shaw challenged Tracy to moral
combat, the last named gentleman having
got "crusher" in on his 'potato yawp,"
only to be answered at the swords point.
The day came that was to witness the
demolition of the sarcastic Tracy, but Shaw
like the dew of the morning, had dsap.
peared, vanished, vamoosed and busted out
of that section for the occasion. Soon at
ter he disappeared from the current of
execrated by all honora-
BILE men, and about the first many heard of
him was as the chief manure singer of the
Neaos here mentioned Many papers had
sent a bot shot after him, and the insinua-
ton that he had tea spoonful of brains to
pint of venom we see was both just and
telling. Naturally the skunk don't admire
the frankness of Iowa editors, and hence
he squirts all over the State with a nasti-
ness truly Shaw-like, affecting so much
dislike for the Iowa Press. We must relate
what occurred on the homeward trip. Dur
ing the stay of some of the party at Mime
apolis, Charles the Liar whined around
some of the members, asking that thew see