The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-06-28
PLAIN DEALER,

Carl CchurL Iile nohoraIy title OF ~. -.
-"D--d Dutchman.'
Chappaqua in original Indian means
''Singing water.''
"Who are the Greeley howlers?'
asks the Chicago Times. Everybody
who is not fool enough to howl for
Grant.
"a man 50 thoroughly dishonest and
corrupt that I should want detective
to watch him if he called at my store,'
is A. I. Stewards opinion of Lect,
Grants general order man.
A lunatic has turned up in Chicago
in the role Of Diogenes, hunting for an
honest man with lantern. The poor
fellow might as well make up his mind
to die there.
Democrats who sauirm at Greeley
should recollect that, in the last ten
years they have often voted for meauer
Democrats than Greeley.
A secondhand book store in Boston
has lot Of Congressional Globes fer
sale They are labeled ---"Exccllent
serap-books; price fifty cents each. ]"
This is finer sarcasm than Nasty ever
dleamed Of. How everything finds its
level, at last.
The man who don't believe in Hor-
ace Greeley is liar-anl he ought to
be.
You need not ask man who is his
presidential candidate now. Just lock
at his hat.
MIR. Sumner has again opened the
"Aoodgates of his narrowed spirit"
says the Albany Evening journal. Yes
and its the worst Radical drenchine
that the party has had in many
year
When the gift-taker was re-nomi-
mated, Chicago radical paper says:
'the colossal portrait of Gen. Grant
on horseback, was lowered from the
clouds of the scene at the back Of
the stage 1t is supposed that horse
and rider came through Boutwelrs
hole in the sky"
Gerrit Smith was highcockalorum of
the Grant Philadelphia Convention.
The enthusiasm when he presented him.
self was immence, but We do not know
whether it was caused on account Of
his signing jeff. Davis bail bond with
Greeley or Oh account of his turning
to be Grant man in his old age.
Is it not remarkable that the Phila-
delphia Convention should have nomi-
mated two men who are not now known
by the names their parents gave them!
Grant was named Hiram Ulysses, and
Wilson's original name was Jeremiah
Goliath
At a funeral lately, there stood in
the house of the dcfunct an old-fashion-
ed clock, which when it finished
the announcement of the meridian
hour, was made to play tune. The
officiating minister was in the midst of
his sermon, when, noon having arrived,
the clock commenced striking twelve.
In very solemn tone he impressed on
his hearers the inevitable flight of
time; but the
exhortation was ineffective, as the clock
instantly followed with the CHEEKY old
notes Of, Take your time, Miss
Lucy"
A Connecticut man went to the
theatre with his sweetheart, and unfor-
tunately seated himself directly in front
Of his wife, who according to cores
pondent Of the Norwich Bulletin, 'spro-
ceeded to take down the young lady's
back hair, and removed several arti-
cles of wearing apparel and jewelry
from her person, without the formality
of an introduction.
1t is denied that Grant has bought
the New York World. We knew at
the start that he hadh Thought it. We
knew too that he never would buy it SO
long as there was possibility that his
friends would buy it for him.
Henry Clews, banker, who figures
extensively at Grant meetings in New
York, i the indolser OH the bond Of
Bailey, the defaulting New York inter-
nal revenue collector, who abscondcd
in 1867 leaving the Government minus
$500, 900. Clews is good for the nom
ey, but then he is a useful friend of the
Administration and so suit has never
been brought against him. LISA conver-
lent thing to be a brother-in-law or
even an intimate friend of the Admin
istration. |