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The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-07-04
It is amusing to hear. Liberal Re.

1t is amusing to hear Liberal Re-
formers and Democrats whistling
through the graveyard by telling Re-
publicans that they are to vacate
Federal officers in a few months,
when Greeley is elected President.
They forget or perhaps never knew
that this great reform party,
but end of which is made up of the
old party which resolved in Nation
al Convention, in 1864, that the war
to sustain the Union was failure, is
based upon the principle as an es-
pecial plank in its platform to better
civil the service; to make competi-
tive the changes for position without
regard to politics to turn out no Off
Ger on account of bis politics, but
only for reason of his unitness or
dishonesty. We are aware that this
profession of this very honest party
is simply from the lips out. bearing
no sem blance even of sincerity.
Hence we hear these new converts
of Horace already planning for the
divisions of the spoils, according to
the old Democratic doctrine, "to the
victors belong the spoils." What
sincerity what honesty of profession
could we expect from men whose
records have been stained by the
blacklist crime known to the calen-
dar of crimes. 1t is really jolly to
see how like sweet morsel Demo
Gratis roll under their tongues the
darling anticipation that by champi-
oning old Horace they are to whip
the Devil round the stump, and get
back to the public crib. These pos
Stunning trials have been made year,
after year by the Democratic party,
(though it is now for the first time
made National) ever since the REBEL
ion, but each succeeding trial
has only left the party standing high
er and higher on the reef of destruct-
ion, until it is now quite probable
they are making their last effort.
Hope is one of the most cheering
faculties of the mind, and it is well
that democrats can draw some con-
ISOLATION in anticipation ofgood things
to come. We could hardly wish to
be SO cruel as to wish to deprive
them of these pleasurable emotions.
--Ottunlaoa Courier.
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THE osKALoosA HERALD.
Thursday, July 4, 1872.
MISS NELLIE GRANT.
Correspondence Between her and Queen
~" Victoria.

Correspondence Between her and Queen
~" Victoria.
The San Francisco Chronicle has
received through private sources a
letter written by Miss Nellie Grant
to Queen Victoria, previous TO her
visit to Windsor Palace. Its charm
ing simplicity and thorough good
sense if it be authentic, put beyond
question all doubts as to the nature
of the visit, and the feeling which
prompted it. 1t reads as follows {:
LANGLEY's HOTEL, May, 1872.
My DEAR LADY AND QUEEN Il
am embarrassed at the honor of an
official request, given through high
officer (your Lord Chamberlain, /
think to be presented to your Males
ty. l should dearly love to see you,
that l might tell my mother and faith
er that / have been thus honored. l
am but simple American that I
am the Presidents daughter gives
me no claim to your recognition as
sovereign. IT, with the kind lady
who is acting as my chaperosa, l might
visit you, should be very glad. Our
Secretary OF Legation hints at some
political significance in this oppor-
tunity. l cannot so interpret it, and
would not wish to be so received, be-
cause it would not be right, as am
nothing in American politics, and |
am sure my father would not desire
me to appear other than as my SIM
pie and very humble self. If, with
this explanation, your Majesty will
allow me to visit you, l shall be
greatly honored and very proud.
have written this note of my own
mention, and because l think it is the
right thing to do. l am your Males
tvs very obedient servant and ad-
mirer. NELLIE GRANT.
The reply was equally refreshing,
and betrays spirit which does more
honor to the British Queen than null
titudes of other actions for which
her subjects have loudly applauded
her.
Miss NELLIE GRANT Il have In
structed Lady -, to convey to
you this note, and we shall receive
you as the daughter Of your honored
parents without the Intervention of
our high officers of State. | accept
your visit as an "American girl" and
there shall be no other significance
in the fact that your kindly expressed
desire to see the lady and not the SOW
ereign. shall find it pleasant to
forget that | am Queen in receiving
you tomorrow afternoon at our pal.
ace at Windsor. VICTORIA.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

MiSSclLANEOOS'
There are thirteen hundred and
sixteen telegraph stations in Ger
many.
Italian compo .ers published last
year thirty-six new operas.
Rutland, VT, is to have a paper
costume reception.
Methodist ministers die earlier
than other ministers.
Portland, Me-, spends $1,000 a day
enforcing the liquor law.
A Boston banker has Just made
his one hundredth trip across the At
lantic.
An Iowa paper says the lion of
the day is the dandy-Olion.
A flash of lightning exploded a
loaded gun in Wilmington, N. c.,
the other day.
Nine persons were killed at are
cent parliamentary election in Hun
gary.
ABolivar paper says that the mos
quitoes in the Big Hatchio Bottom,
Tennessee, are so large that they
bark.
A French chemist advertises to
convert any ones dead relatives into
ink powder.
A Pittsburg cripple challenges the
world to a race on one leg and
crutches, for $50 a side and the
championship.
They have Dolly Warden chllls in
Georgia. The sufferer turns all sorts
of colors, and is terribly bumped
up.
Two women, who 'gouged' out the
eve of witness in London, are sen.
fenced by Il judge to penal servitude
for life.
When a couple of young people
strongly attached to each other, com
mence to eat onions it Is safe TO pro-
nounce them engaged.
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The Utah Democr Gym ter ritorial
convention endorsed the Gin cinnati
platform ticket. The "twin relics of
barbarism,' slavery and polgamy,
both endorsed Greeley. The battle
goes bravely on. .....
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LEGAL NOTICES.
CHERIFF!S SALE.

Notice is hereby given that by virtue of Special
execution directed to me from the Office of the
Clerk OF the District Court of Mahaska County,
Iowa, and dated June eth, A. ID. 1872, have
levied upon and will offer at Sherif7s Sale to the
highest bidder for cash in hand, at the door of the
house in which the last District Court held in
said county, on Saturday the 27th day of July,
A. ID. 1872, at the hour of 2 O'Clock, L. M,
the following described real estate in Mahaska
county, Iowa, to wit:
The W Il OF the W Il of section No. three (3)
township No. seyenty-fOur, C7D north of range
No. fourteen (14) west.
Taken as the property of Graham Neil and Sa r
ali Neil to satisfy the above mentioned execu-
ton in favor of L. M. Dayton and j. w. HenOr,
admrs., and against Graham Neil and Sarah Neil.
j. W. HINESLEY,
42 Sheriff OF Mahaska County, Iowa.
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GOING A FISHING.

The following is an "order for sup
plies" recently sent to an Americas
(Ga.) grocer, by fishing excursion
party:
DEAR SIR Myself and a couple
of friends leave this morning OH a
fishing excursion, and you will please
send us, by bearer, the following ar
.icles, which, if you prefer it, you
can charge to either Jack Brown or
Ben Lockett. Either is the safest.
Four pounds of salt and casket
of whisky.
One pOun1 of ground black pep
per and demljohn OF whisky.
Ten pounds OF lard aud large jug
of whisky
One canvassed ham and six quart
bottles of whisky.
Three good, stout fishing lines and
three pocket TASKS of whisky.
One paper oflarge Limerick hooks
and a gallon of whisky in any old
vessel you don't use about the store.
Also, send one pound of white su-
gar and small jug of whisky.
Hurriedly, yours,
Phil. Cook.
p. S. AS we shall be gone sever
al days, and as snakes are bad on
the river at this season, my physi
clan has just stepped in and suggest
ed that we better take along little
whisky. Send it, and enter it on
your books with other items above.
p. G..
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WASHINGTON. low

Mr.. Donahey.-I have used Fishers lnyigora-
tor applying II to part OF my orchard directed.
To my surprise thoee trees on which used 10 are
fun OF frut while the others planted on the same
day, and bought at the same Nursery. nave NO
fruit on them. Icheerfuliy receommena ~ 10 All
fruit growers. 80 JOSHUA PYLEe.
I fully concur In the above. . -
nA WV. CLARK.
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The Dedatches report sharp fight
in Navarro, between the Carlist and
Spanish troops, which resulted in ia
vor of the Government.
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FkAikiE CITY, Aug. Is. I61I.
Inyigorator and used IL my orchard as dir ected
and TO my surprise IL drove every canker worm
OFF where they were 80 numerous that they had
strinned AN the leaves from the tree and / be-
lieys II will do all that lie claimed for IL.
JOHN POTTER
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MEDICAL.
DR.. {. TENNANT,

would respectfully announce to the citizens Of
Oskaloosa and adjoining counties that he has
permanently located in this city.
DR.. Tenant does not propose or undertake to
cure all diseases the human family is heir to, but
having an extensive experience in the East and
British Provinces, and practicing with the oldest
and most successful Doctor in the East, will con
fdently assert that he can cure the following dis.
eases
Cancer, without pain or use of knife, Scrofula
In all Its FORMS Scurvy, Salt Rheum, Epilepsy,
Gravel, Dropsy, Piles, Erysipelas, Neuralgia,
Female Debility.
Cancer, dire and malignant disease, which has
become fe rtully prevalent on this Continent. as
Veil as Europe, and il much to be dreaded above
Ill other diseases.
Cancer can be recognized under three mark ed
forms, viz: Scirrhus, Encephaloid and Colloid
These forms are sub-divided into numerous varie-
ties. what now may appear TO be harmless Jumps
in the breast, neck, eyelid or elsewhere. A small
wart or sore on the lip may in few weeks or
months become disgusting mass of disease The
DIR. does not pretend to cure Cancer in all its
stages, but ii taken in time, will guarantee a
speedy and permanent cure. As rrOof of this
no pay is required until the cure is complete
All professional matters strictly confidential
communications promptly answered Consulta-
ton free. Oflce hours from TO IL, and toe
Office, one door north OF Adlon's jewelry sh op
Market Street Oskaloosa, Iowa
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SIMMONS

14e4Aa<11Ak1AN-1lZ ~ ID a Z
with loss OF appetite a
eral costlve, sometim,
The head is troubled "
sensation, considerabl
panied with painful Sc
done some. hing which
Often complaining of
low spirits. Some
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PRAIRIE CITY, Sept. i, 1871.
Mr. j. L. LaLehlin, S.r:--I do hereby certify
that have used Fisher'e Fruit 1Dvis orator, and
took out the Borers In O few mieutes, and | do
cheerfntiy recommend 1t 10 all fruit growers
~ IEMrEL DOwDEN.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
THE CONFESSIONS OF AN INVALID.

DUBLISHED as warning and for the benefit of
Young men and Others who suffer from Ner-
yous Debility. Loss of Manhood, etc, supplying
THE MEANS OF SELF-CURE.
Written by one who cured himself, after under
going considerable quackery, and sent free on re-
ceiving postpaid directed envelope.
Address, NATHANIEL MAYFAIR, Brooklyn,
New York. n4Om6
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TESTIMONIALS.

This remedy will de what we claim for 1t and we
are willing 20 guarantee IL TO every purchaser
that will give IL O fair trial. sa
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FARM FOR SALE.

offer for sale my farm of 140 acres in
Fremont, and nine miles south east OF Oskaloosa.
Eighty acres ander pillow, balance timber pasture
all being fenced. Good frame house with three
rooms good barn, 100 bearing apple trees, three
good wells, etc. Terms easy-full particu-
lars by applying to JOHN +. NORRIS.
22.tf
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Oskaloosa, Iowa.
This IN certify that have used Fishers Invig-
orator ON INV orchard and IL took out the Borers
In iess than an hour. Ibelieye Il will do all that
ia claimed for It. r M MAaTiS.
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The symptoms OF Liver
Complaint are uneasiness
and pain III the side
Sometimes the pain IL IN
the shoulder. and is mis-
taken for rheumatism
The stomach is affected
Id sickness, bowels ia gen
IS alternating with lax
it'll pain, and dull, heavy
3 loss Of memory, accom-
of having left un-
ought to have been done.
weakness, debility, and
times many of the above
symptoms attend the dis
ease, and at other times
very few OF them ; but the
liver is generally the or
gan most involved. Cure
the Liver with
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LIVER
DR.. SIMMONS
Liver REGULATOR.

preparation of roots and herbs, warranted m
be strictly vegetable and can do no injury 10 anv
one. " "iiJ
1t has been used by hundreds, and known for
the last 40 years as one of the most reliable Ell
cacious and harmless preparations ever offered to
ly,it is sure to cure dyspepsia, headache lam
ace, eostivenes, sick headache chronic diarrhea,
aiections OF the bladder, camp dysentery, afiec
s sons Vi the Kidneys, fever, nervousness chills
arseases oi The skin, impurity of the blood
: - melancholy or depres
3 sion of spirits, heartburn,
IN y colo, or pain in the bow
HhEGULATORE els, pains in the head, fe
yer and ague, dropsy'
n pain in the back &c.
euazw.uzuuuux..zuus Prepared only by
=. II. ZElLlN 4 CO., Druggists, Macon
georgia and 500 Arch Street, Phiiadelphia, u
PRICE $1.00; BY MAIL 81 Id ,s
FOR sale by VIM. WELLS, OskalOosa. Iowa mo
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JESSE HIATT, d. M. BARTLETT, G. BUNDY
and T.. Wing, agents for Mahaska and
Poweshiek counties.
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Complete Protection

This remarkable invention has been tested in
the most thorough manner, and has in every in
stance given the most conclusive proof of its
inertia In no case has IL failed TO proye itself a
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against the rayages of the various kinds OF insects
that for years have been preying upon all kinds of
fruit trees. a.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-03-02
! SCHEDULE
I0Lines, or abont 100 Words. make a t,yuorc
TAKING CoLp.-Ifa COLA so,,lo. o. ,ho

TAKING COLD If a cold settles on the
outer covering Of the lungs it becomes
pneumonia. inflammation of the lungs. or
lung fever, which in many cases carries the
strongest man to his grave within n week.
II cold fills Upon the inner covering Of
the lungs II is pleurisy, with its knife-like
pains, and its slow, very slow recovcries.
II cold settles in The joints, there is rheu-
matlsnl. in its various forms; intlammatory
rheumatism, with its agonies of pain. and
rheumatism ofthe hart, which in an Instant
some times snaps the cords of life with no
friendly warning. 1t is Of the utmost
practical Importance, then, in this wiutry
weather to know not SO much how to cure
a cold as how TO avoid it. Colds always
come from one cause, some part or the
whole of the body being colder than natur-
al for time. 1t a man will keep his feet
warm always and never allow himself to- DO
chilled he will never take cold in lifetime,
aud this can only be accomplished by due
care in warm clothing and the avoidance
OF draught and undue exposure. While
multtudes of colds come from cold feet,
perhaps the majority arise from persons
cooling of too quickly after becoming lit
lie warmer than is natural from exercise,
or work, or from confinement to a warm
apartment Woods Household Maqazine.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-03-02
humorous.

"Nor GooD on TINS LINE. The New
York correspondent of the Boston Journal
tells the following amusing story: A well
known doctor of divinity was riding tho
other day in a street car in company with
friend. He is positive man and resents
an insult quite vehemently. Earnestly
engaged in conversation, he handed the
conductor ticket as he came to collect the
fare. The conductor did not move on. As
he remained studying the ticket, the doc
tors attention was attracted toward the
official, who seemed to be highly interested
in the car ticket. He read it, smiled, shook
his head, and finally said to the doctor
''This may be all very well, but the ticket
is no good on this line.,
Whats the reason it's no good, should
like TO know p said the testy doctor. "It's
one of your own tickets bought it this
morning.
II guess not ;" said the conductor.
M ,l'or"oiinn d""~' 'hn attention of all
This is very good advice, but 1t y III not
pass you over this line ~ and the conduc-
tor read Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain"
An explanation fOlowed-amid which
the doctor paid his fale aud left the car.
He has concluded TO keep his religious
cards in one pocket and his car tickets in
another.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-03-02
ssIsttt { ,pottrp..
AUNT TABITHA.-
BY OLIVER wESDErL HOLMES.


Whatever / do and whatever say, ~
Aunt Tabtha tells me that isn't the way
When she was girl Oorty summers aeo)
Aunt Tabitha tells me they never did So
Dear aunt If only would take her advice
But like my own way, and find it so nice
And besides forget half the things ] am told
But they will all come back to me--whcn am
old. "..- t.-.ae..',.. "'i
If a youth passes by It may happen, no doubt,
He may chance to look In as chance to look out;
She would never endure an impertinent stare
1t is horrd she says. and must mt sit there.
A walk in the moonlight has pleasure, / own,
But II isn't quite safe to be walking alone; I...
So take u lads just for safety, you know
But Aunt Tahitha tells NE they didn't do so.
How wicked we are, and how good they were
then, ...f ........ ....
They kept at arms length those detestabc men;
What an era Of virtue She lived in but stay
Were the men all such rogues in Aunt Tabtha' s
day .t
If the men were so wicked, I'll ask my papa
How lac dared to propose TO my darling mamma;
Was he ike the rest of them Goodness Who
knows
And what shall say if a wretch should propose'
l am thinking if Aunt knew so little of sin,
What a wonder Aunt Tabtha's aunt must have
been
And her grand-aunt 1T scares mellow shock
!rgly sad
That we girls of to-day are SO frightrully bad
A martyr will save us, and nothing else can
Let me perish--to rescue sune wrctched young
man!
2 hough when to the altar a victim 90,
Aunt Tabitha I'll tell me she never did SO.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-03-02
J. w. WASHINGTON'S
GRAND BARBER SHOP.

The old permanent shop of the town.
We decline the boast, but at the same lme
consider that the mighty truth maybe seasonal
bly, spoken without manfesting an uncomforta-
BILE amount OF vanity and ambition.
Just twenty years ago l began my business
career in this plaee-half my lifetime thus far
spent, have stood upon the floor of our shop
day after day, and night after night, and applied
the sharp blue cleaning steel, aud within that
elapse of time embraced by the mighty folds of
that eventful period have shaved nearly every
BODY in the country On common parlance) aud
so obllge the public interest we herein publicly
announce to our patrons old and new that we
are ready to shave them all again three hundred
thousaud times or more.
Come when you please, just in time Is the max
im-we are always ready to work, forenoon or
afternoon, to shave you, hair cut YOU, shampoo
you, whsker dye you, or perfume, comb and ar
range the hair with artistic skill, in the ''water
fal'' or water raise style TO suit the customer.
We work to please, not please TO work.
Stop, don't go past our shopto get shaved on
ths basis of ability--because We do it as well az
tt can be done or ever could be.
A chance 10 all that we demand
To give the proof we hold In hand.
4 NV door asovs Dspos, psar harkss strss,.
6a. !, 1870,
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FAMILY GOVERNMENT g William,
stop that noise, | say, Won't you stop:
stop tell you, or III slap your mouth"
William bawls a little louder.
william. l tell YOU, amt you going to
stop? Stop, l say! If YOU don't stop III
whip you, sure.
William goes Cflh and beats time with
his heels.
Il never saw such child, Hes got
temper enough for whole town I'm sure
he did not get it from me. Why don't YOU
be still? Whist, whist. Come, come, be
STILL won't you? Stop stop, say! Don't
you see this stick? See here, now.' icut tho
air with stick
William, more furious, kicks very man
fully at his mother-grows redder in the
face. lets out the last note, and begins 10
reel and shake and twist in a most spite
tul manner.
Game, William, come dear-that's =
darling-naughty William, Come, that's
good boy; don't cry, poor fellow; SAINT
ab-o-oso YOU, sail eh? Mas little man, want
n piece soogar? Ma little boy got cramp?
Poor little sick boy!" sc. William wipes
up and minds, and eats his sugar and stops.
AFTER SCENE. The minister present,
and very nice talk is going on upon the
necessity OF governing children.
90 true, says mamma, " some people
give up to their children, and it ruins them
every child should be governed, but then
ii won't do to carry it too far /; il will break
a child's spirit. One ought TO mix kind.
ness and iirmnesS together in managing
children
Il think so, said the preacher; ''irm-
ness first and then kindness"
Yes, sir, that's my practice exactly"
H. ". Beecher
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@ sttIlanroas.
~

ARE ONIONS HEALrHFUL.-A physi-
clan has forwarded the following to the
New York Farmers Club.
On shipboard at New Orleans, in the
year lSi9, in charge Of one hundred mari
mes, with cholera among them, | observed
that those who ate freely onions, supposing
them to he healthy, were attacked certain
" and fatally. Onions aud salt cured the
bite of rattlesnake on my son, and are
considered specific in all snake bites.
have found four separate witnesses Of phe-
nomena connected with smallpox and fe-
yer. ..
/. Onions In rooms with smallpox rot
rapidly.
2. l,listers rise in them.
3. They retain and communicate tho vi
rus many weeks after tho epidemic has
subsided.
4. Applied to tie feet of fever patients
they rapidly turn black
s. They prevent The spread Of smallpox
in thickly populated tenements by absorb
ing the virus.
6. A man with hydrophobia, in his fren-
zy, ate voraciously OF onions, and recover
ed.
From all these facts may be dcduced:
|. That onions should not be eaten when
there is prevailing epidemic.
.. That onions sliced and frequently
charged are good disiniectants.
3. That experiments should be TO test
the extent of their usefulness. For many
years | have opposed vaccination rs urdi-
narily done, and hence hail with satisiac-
tion any means of mitigating the virus of
this distempcr. E-...4.. '-.. 4.