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The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-09-12
IOWA NEWS.


A Greeley mass meeting in Clifton
Louisa county, recently, was attend
ed by four Democrats and two Grant
men. ....... ..-..-.ra
The strike OF the Muscatine mill
hands terminated on Tuesday. The
men are heartily sick of the move
ment. ...... 90 CO
A man by the name of WEIGH, was
killed at Washington, last evening
while coupling cars. We understand
he was tearfully mangled, being run
over by car, and his head and one
leg severed from his body. '"'
Hon. Geo. w. Zones, OF Dubuq ue,
had narrow escape from a serious
accident few days since. In step
ping from one car to another, he
missed his footing and fell, but man
aged to cling to the coupling SO that
he escaped severe injury.
Last Tuesday noon, at Ohm, neal
Anamoss, Caleb Holden jumped from
the door of warehouse to the TOP
of passing freight car, but failed tc
retain his footing and fell between
the cars, three of those that followed
passing over his body which was
horribly mangled. Mr.. Holden was
twenty-three years of age.
The Wapello Republican says
that Mr.. l. S. Siverly, of that Tp..
had his house burned last Thursday
afternoon. The origin of hte fire is
not known. About $3.50 worth Of
furniture, etc., was saved. Loss
about 1000. No insurance. Mrs.
Siverly was confined to her bed al
the time and barely escaped with
her life. tA---- ~
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-09-12

ID EFEREES SALE.
State OF Iowa, In the Circuit Court.
Mahaska County, In.partition-
David A. Baker and Simpson z. Baker,
Willie Matilda, Elijah W.. and Addie L. Baker,
VIM Parr, and EmIly j. Parr, heirs at law OF Will
liz Baker, dt ceased:
Notice il hereby given that by virtue OF an or
der of the Circuit Court of said county, made on
the 7th day OF January, 1871, In the above enti-
tied cause, the undersigned referees will on the
12th day of october, 1872, ut one O'Clock, p. IN.
offer at public sale, at the door Of the building IN
which the last district and circuit courts were
:ibed real estate situated in Mahaska county,
Iowa.
1917 acres OFF of the south side of NJ w. ~ OF Q
II OF section II sw offs u : part Of east "
OF e Or; or offs W or; all in section IL town
ship u.s. range ii /; the of sw or section
the u offs e or of section D the n or OF 8 W Or
of section IA; the Or OF ne ar of section TO- al
In township rs, range II west these Or OF NV Or
and or ONE Or and Sc Or ofsw or OF section 0,
township IT. range is west: the n Y ofnw or OF
OF Sc or OF section ~, In township 90 range A.
Also lot in block In the town OF Agrfcola; lot
in block 4, lot in block lot In block 8, lot
in block 8: block lots /, ., and in block
D. Lot in block 3 lots Z and s In block in the
town OF indianapolis. Also the eL OF sw or OF
section 4, township 81, north Of range II west In
Story county, Iowa. as s4Elgg4 sanss.
Said real estate VIII be sold to the highest and
best bidder for cash. Said sale 10 TO be made for
the purpose OF effecung partition Of the interest
Of said parties.
nb2wa E. Z. Il. MCCAIN, Refersees..i 9
e. i. JACKSON.
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q & Z u tt
The brilliant success Of these Inn
.soved Grain-Savtng and Time-Saving
.areshers Is without parallel In the annals OF Farm
iiIrhinery. -
sd More than twice as many were i'm AIDE
md sold last year were ever before made and sold
any other Threshing Machine concern in the same
ir'riod OF its existence. so. Esrfs .s.f..s,.. sft
they went into every State from
Georgia, and met with their most marked sue.
cess in the very states, and even 10 the very
rs @rs s The nuGsery IF es
CANT Farm Machinery leading the van 10 the number
purchased.
Largely increased earnings are re.
ported by Threshermen who have used, and great
saving of grain by Farmers who have employed them.
They commanded a choice OF Jobs,
and usually from one,h alf cent to two cents pev
of work long after other kinds "laid up" be-
cause they saved the Farmers grain from going
or and worked ss easy
for their horses. gaaaa4t
Their capacity - remarkable, not
only in ordinary conditions Of Wheat Oats, Rye and
Barley. but in wet and bad-conditioned grain
their advantages are peculiar as well as 10 limo.
thy and other light seeds
I'm FLAX they are unrivaled, even
by expensive lnschines made on purpose for Flax and
Their distinctive advantage in saw.
ing aud cleaning result from the admirable and
s0eetiVe plan Of shaking the grain out
o. the straw, and great capacity Of the clean'
iii,y apparatus.
Their Ease OF Draft, Cheapness Of
Repairing, Ease OF Manag emeut, etc., FROM their hav-
ing no Benters, no Pickers, no Cuaods GSuin- Or.
risrs, 40 R1doHes, aud only about half as many
Belts dear Wheels. B0res. Ouys0ls, Shafts, Pulieys
ETC., 20 cLoo WEAR OUT, AsTs GRAIN, AND 10 DRAFT.
or TO be kept IN REPAIR, as other kinds. 3r's
Every Thresh erman should hesitate
before Investing In the old style Of Machines, which
going out Of date, because be can get them on
"ions winded" terms, poor pay at alittle less
price. The difference In price between the bess and
the poorest Is only abous ny 70 one hundred dollars
while the difference In the first sadsoR,e s0,niR0s
may be seoerdl hundred d0Adrs, 10 say nothing Of
the satisfaction Of running the best Its e1L1eseSs
after one, two G.. three seasons use. T 9di
Farmers, who EMPLOY. can decide,
II they choose, soh0t Kind Of Machines shall be used
In their negl1orhOods and should investigate their
merits. one kind will save enough grain more than
should know Il.
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their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or
other means, and vital organs wasted beyond the
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would respectfully announce to the citizens OF
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All professional matters strictly confidential
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-17

THE Boy THAT WAS NOT REMARKABLE.
Most boys who get into the newspapers
are very remarkable boys.
Joe had nothing about his looks or ac-
tions or color that attracted the particular
attention Of anybody.
When he first breathed the vital air he
was simply baby, with two hands,
two feet, two eyes, two cars, one mouth
and one nose. He did not laugh, and crow,
and sit upright, as young geniuses do in
their babyhood, but he slept and walked
and ate (baby-food OF course) and cried
like any common baby.
When he grew older there were no un-
common developments, except that he was
fat, healthy and heavy.
Nobody congratulated the mother on
raising a future President, nor applauded
the bright genius that sparkled In The ba-
by's ewes. The gossipers looked wonder
ingly at each other as The tender mother
watched over her baby boy, provided for
his comforts, and pressed HIM to her warm
bosom.
He grew to boyhood, but he was only
common boy. He learned his b with
difficulty, and was slow In learning to read.
His teac her thought he would never get
through the multiplication table, But he
never forgot 1t.
When the boys went fishing, Joe went
too, but he was slow in getting his hook
and line ready. The other boys were on
and in and around the lake before his hook
was fairly settled in the water. Too slow
to move the boys would say, He'll sit
there expecting the fish to come to him.
1t was even so; he remained stationary
and fixed; but when night came somehow
his basket was always full, while many OF
the bright, taking geniuses went home with
the sad intelligence that the 'tish wouldn't
bite
When he grew TO be man, the bustling
driye-aheads laughed at his plodding; but
by some means he seldom made mistake,
and though he did not seem to accomplish
as much in week as many others did in
day. vet at the end of the year there was
always something tangible in his results,
while the work of those who seemed to ut
lorly outstrip him at first ended in demol-
ished air-castles.
He has passed the meridian of life. Men
eminent in the profession respect his judg-
ment. Business men coming upon the
stage of action long to learn the secret of
his success. The bank leans upon him to
carry 1t through the trying crisis mer-
chants and manufacturers lean upon him
to save them from bankruptcy. Steady,
constant and hard study made him schol-
ar; persevering industry, accompanied by
economy, raised him to opulence close OBJ
servation and deliberate reflection cultivat-
cd sound Judgment, and honesty and in
tegrity secured for him the confidence OF
all who knew him. -Christidn Advocate.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-17

THAT CoMEr.--we are glad to learn that
Professor Plantamous, of Geneva, has con-
seuted to give the earth reprieve from the
sentence of death which he had appointed
to be executed by means of a comet on the
18th of August next ensuing. He shrinks
from this great responsibility, and gives us
reason to hope that our worthy little planet
will not be much disturbed by the intru-
der, even If II should come within her or
bit. Honest people have not only been
scundly frightened, but have actually been
made i'll by the fears thus aroused. We
do not know that any one has taken the
precaution against this catastrophe that an
over-careful Englishman did against the
cholera, when it was announced as near, of
committing suicide, by way ofprevention.
The scientific world, far from dreading the
near approach of comet, are earnestly
hoping for its advent. The nearer the bet
ter, for the spectroscope has long account
to settle with these "extravagant and
whirling strangers of here and every
where" The philosophers now can tell
all about what they are made of If they can
only catch one prowling around the neigh
borhood. Indeed, these poor wanderers of
the sky have been much belied, and they
would seem to be as harmless as they are
many. According to Kepler and Arago,
there are no fewer of them than 1900, 900,
roaming about the heavens, without hurt
ing anybody yet, that we know of. And,
besides, the comet OF 1870 came so near JI-
piter that he flirted about amongst his
moons, and actually tried TO carry one of
them off by main force but, so far from
succeeding, was turned out of his course
by the resistance of the moon TO his advan-
ces, while she pursued her way unmoved
sin maiden meditation fancy Free" And
it is thought likely that we ourselves were
entangled in the train of the comet of 1861
without knowing anything about IL. But
philosophers should be careful how they
fling their prophesies about. The whole
Pacific Coast of South America was panic
stricken by the earthquake prediction of a
German professor, which came TO nothing |;
and the Atlantic Coast was made unhappy
aiterward by the tidal wave, which it was
said Prof. Agassiz had ;oretold as to swal-
low us up last year. We believe he denied
ever having made the prediction. This
new kind of astrology should be prohibited
by law, as well as the old.-1he Independ-
| ent
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-17

ADULTERATIoN OF LARD.-A writer in
the Pharmaceutical journal says that he
lately obtained quantity of lard from a
respectable pork dealer. 1t was beautifully
white, indeed he had never seen an article
that looked better. His first trial with 1t
was in preparing ointment of nitrate of
mercury. The color, when the mercurial
solution was added, was the reverse of
citrlne, indeed decidedly saturnine, devel-
oping in short time to full slate color.
Surprised at this Unprecedented result, the
usual precautions having been taken as TO
temperature, etc., the lard was suspected.
aud on examination was found to contain a
large proportion of lime. Some time after,
being in conversation with lard renderer,
hint was dropped as to the relation Of
lime to color, when the information was
confidently impaired that common prac-
tice among lard dealers was to mix from
two to tive per cent. of milk of lime with
the melted lard. A saponaceous compound
is formed, which is not only pearly white,
but will allow tho stirring in, during cool
ing, of 25 per cent OF water. So much for
appearances.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-17

that 1t was built by Ambroslus, the Briton,
A. ID. 4G0
Sir John Lubbock Is the most learned |
investigator and the best authority of all |
who write in English on the probable an
tiquity Of man. He divides prehistc ric
archaeology into four great epochs: that of
the drift" or the old stone age (palmolith-
ic); that of the polished stone age (neolith-
ic) the bronze age and finally the iron
age. These names are derived from the
material Of which the men then living
made their weapons and utensils and the
ages which they denote are supposed to
have been successive, and TO have covered
periods Of much length. The names them
selves are found in Hesiod and I.ucretius
the latter, who wrote something more than
1900 years ago, distinctly states that men
used for weapons first their hands and teeth,
then sticks and stones, then bronze, and fl
nally iron. But the scientific division of
the unknown centuries into the four ages
above named was first named by some
Danish a cheologists, now living; and the
whole science, as it is now understood, has
grown up within the past 30 years. The
Swiss luke dwellings have been discovered
less than twenty years the Danish she'll
mounds have been explored but little
longer, while the cal liest explorations of
Boucher de Per.he at Abbeville began in
1si1, but attracted no attention till within
25 years. Since then the new science has
been industriously pursued, and thousands
of unquestioned specimens of stone, bronze
and iron implements, along with more
| perishable articles, have been discovered in
western Europe and placed in museums.
The general result of all this inquiry may
be briefly given.
Traces are found of the existence of man
in the most savage state anywhere known,
so long ago as when the mammoth and the
extinct rhinoceros lived in western Europe,
and more marked evidence of his existence
in condition gradually improving, are
found from that time down to the period
when Herodotus and other Greek writers
first mention the tribes of western Europe,
and when Julius Caesar described the semi
civilized people of Gaul, Germany and
Britain. The latter period was about 1925
years ago. How long before that the ages
of iron, bronze and stone stretch back IL a
matter for conjecture chiefly, but it must
have been for some thousands of years,
and according 10 Sir John Lubbock, tens
of thousands. On this point no certainty
seems possible, but in future years it is
probable that fuller explorations will lead
men to moral certainty which will be
generally adopted. 1t does seem certain,
however, that the Europeans now living
are vastly more virtuous and happy as well
as more civilized than their savage ances-
tors were, and the inferences thence drawn
by Sir John as to the future of the race are
very satisfactory. He expects that both
ignoran ce and sin will gradually diminish
and, near the close of his book, comforts us
with the assurance that "the future happi-
ness of our race, which poets hardly ven
ture TO hope for, science boldly predicts"
Let us trust he is right.-'Sprinafeid Repub-
| licdn.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

Why are the measles like fresh macIer-
el3 Because they run in schools, and have
to be caught before they can be had.
A Connecticut man is engaged in work.
ing up saw-log thirty feet long into fl
for Gilmores jubilee. 1t will be blowed by
nitro -glycerine.
1t is said that one of the most powerful
remedies for bolts in horses is a strong de-
cocton of sage tea, made very sweet. It
dislodges the bolts instantly.
A western confectioner keeps in his
store parrot, which he has taught to say
"pretty creature" to every lady that comes
in. lie is rapidly making his fortune.
A Louisville woman, weary ofplaylnga
passive part in domestic quarrels, revenged
herself on her husband by sewing him up
in quilt while asleep and soundly belab-
oring him with a cane.
A Yankee boy has made the fortune of
Berlin coniectioner by letting him into
the secret of making molasses candy, which
heretofore has been an unknown luxury
in Germany.
A newly invented fly-paper is covered
with nitro-glycerine, glue aud treacle. The
flies, attracted by the molasses, alight, and
are stuck fast by the glue. Should any
get away, they proceed to rub their legs to-
gether in ecstasy, when the friction of their
own shins causes the nitro-gl glycerine adher-
ing to their limbs to explode, blowing
them TO atoms. Shoe fly
Far back in the history of the globe,
the volcano of Pichncha, the only one In
Ecuador, formed for itself chimney, fun
nel-shaped, which Is tho deepest vent-hole
of the kind yet discovered on this earth.
Its perpendicular depth IL 260o feet, with
a diameter at the bottom Of 1900. feet ex-
pandlng gradually all the way TO the top,
where the diameter Is three qua rters of n
mile.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-17

The CooLIE TRADE.-The generous
efforts Of the Imperial Parliament of Great
Britain TO compel Spain into decency with
regard TO the slave trade still continue,
and are creating veritable sensation in
Europe. Sir Charles Wingfeld has had
the courage TO say in the House of Com
mons that he did not attach implicit confi-
dence to the denials of the Spanish Gov
ernment as TO the importation of slaves
into Cuba and referred to dispatches writ
ten in previous years to show that his
opinion was well founded. The slave
owners of Cuba were very remarN able for
cunning and chicanery, and could make
the strongest edicts imperative. The cool
les, he asserted, were absolutely sold on
their arrival in Cuba. He asserted that
Asiatic colonization in Cuba was perpetual
slavery, and that the emigration was vol
untary only in name. Not only he but
many others of the House of Commons
testified TO the iniquities of the coolie trade,
of which Macao is the principal port, and
asserted that there are at present fifty thou
sand coolies in Cuba. The coolies were
entrapped on to the ships at Macao, and
cannon were planted 50 as to sweep the
decks. Once caught they were placed be-
tween-decks, where they remained in the
most terrible misery until their arrival in
Havana
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-17
rHr DnsApILrr,rs or sr1.-The State Of

THE DnsABrLrrrEs or SEx.-The State Of
Illinois has just placed the sexes on an O.
quality of rights, so far as occupation Is
concerned. The language of the Statute re-
Gently signed by Governor Palmer pro-
vides that "no person shall be precluded
or debarred from any occupation, profess
sion or employment Except military on
account of SEX" 1t is stipulated, however,
that the act shall not be construed to affect
the eligibility of any person to an elective
office. Another important proviso is also
inserted as follows: "Nothing In this act
shall be construed as requiring any female
to work on streets or roads, or serve on
jurles." They can do it, of course, II they
wish to, because they are not to be debar-
red from any employment, except military.
The latter province they will probably new
er wish to invade. We do not see, there
fore, says the journal, why woman in llli-
nois does not at length enjoy all the rights
she could possibly covet, except those Of
political nature and If we were to judge
by the extraordinary progress she has
been making during the last twenty years,
even this barrier TO complete equality be-
fore the law will be levelled whenever she
makes Il concerted and unanimous move
ment to that end.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-17
NO. 20.

ted In 1859. He afterward studied law, and
practices his profession. He was mem-
Der of the State Constitutional Convention
in 1868, a member Of the Legislature of that
State from 1868 to 1870, and Assistant Ad-
jutant-General until elected to the present
Congress. He is a ready speaker, and has
none of the accent peculiar to his race. He
has made fortune within the past few
years, lives in considerable style, drives
fine span of horses, and spends his money
freely. Mr.. De Large, another colored
member from the same State is short, OIL
ive-complex lexioned man, of not much talent,
moderately educated, and a farmer. Josiah
7. Wallis, colored member from Florida,
was born in Virginia thirty years ago, and
claims 10 be planter. lie is conspicuous
for noatness Of apparel and stunning neck
ties. Benjamin S. Turner, colored men,
Der from Alabama, is large, oad-shoul-
dered man, forty-seven years old, born a
slave, educated himself clandestinely, and
has some reputation among the Republic
| ans for good sense and political sagacity.
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