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The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-07-18
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Sec. 1. In case any shareholder shall neg
lect or refuse to pay his monthly dues on
shares or loans every such shareholder shall
forfeit and pay the additional sum of ten
cents per month for each share or loan so
long as the same shall remain unpaid. But
if any shareholder who has not received a
loan shall continue to neglect or refuse TO pay
his monthly dues or fines for the space of six
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i In little village in Virginia there lived
family named Ransom. They were not pious
people, and they never went to church. Once,
however, during revival, the family were pre-
vailed upon to attend preaching. When they
made their reluctant and tasdy appearance the
services had begun, and they had scarcely ta-
ken their seats, when the preacher gave out the
first hymn, reading it somewhat thus: "Re.
cried cried the % head of s the Ransoms nos getting up in
rage, and clapping his hat on his head. "Come
along, old woman and gals, we'll go home fast
enough, and everybody in the old church knows
we didn't want to come"
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TRAVEL BY RAIL, WHEEL AND SADDLE.
LIVERY and SALE STABLES
AT WALHALLA and ANDERSON,
THOMPSON Sc STEELE.

THE undersigned have formed partnership
L in the above business at the points named,
and have supplied themselves literally with the
best Vehicles, Horses, Drivers and Ostlers !;
Grain Forage &C., for the accommodation Of
the travelling public.
can be had at all times, by the day or week, at
reasonable rates; and we are prepared at mo-
fnents notice to convey passengers from An
derson or Walh.llla to the terminus of the Air
Line Railroad, or to any other point desired.
The Stables at Anderson will be under the
immediate charge of T. J. Steele, and those at
Walhalla under the direction OF A. w. Thomp-
son, each of whom will give his personal SUI
pervision to the business, and spare no pains to-
give general satisfaction.
@- The patronage of the travelling public
respectfully solicited.
A. w. THOMPSON, T. J. STEELE,
Walhalla, S. G.. Anderson, s. G..
Nov 80, 1871 q
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How THE NoM1NArroN OF HORACE GREE

How THE NOMINATION OF HORACE CREE
LEY WAS BROUGHT ABoUT.-The papers are
crowded with reports from and speculations
and comments upon the Cincinnati Convention.
A dispatch to the Washington Patriot gives
the following account of how Horace Greeley
happened to be nominated:
Greeley's nomination may be said to have
been caused by one of those storms of passion
to which all popular assemblages are exposed.
Every vote changed was cheercd by the New
York delegation with a sort of wild enthusiasm,
which operated magnetcally upon the States
that followed. When the sixth ballot COM
menced, Adams led the poll fifty-one votes, and
all the indications pointed to his success, and
the contest did not grow animated until Geor-
gia suddenly broke the line. From that in
Slant the stampede was general, until it result
ted in an overwhelming victory for Greeley.
The usual formalities were quite forgotten in
the uproar that followed the motion to make
the nomination unanimous, which came from a
New York delegate. The motion was finally
nut but while there was loud and general
ave, there were a great many nays, and the
chair decided that it was not unanimous. He
decided, however, that Hon. Horace Greeley
was the nominee of the Convention for Presi-
dent of the United States.
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WHAT TO DO WHEN IN TRoUBLE.--Don't
try To quench your sorrow in rum or narcotics.
If you begin this, you must keep right ON with
it, till it leads you to ruin; or if you try to
pause, you must add physical pain and the con-
sciousness of degradation to the sorrow you
seek to escape Of all wretched men, his con-
dition is the most pitiful who, having soughtIo
drown his grief in drink, awakes from his de-
bauch with shattered nerves, aching head and
depressed mind, to face the same trouble again.
That which was at first painful to contemplate
will, after drink seem unbearable. Ten to one
the fatal drink will be again and again sought,
till it's victim sinks helpless, pitifu wreck
Work is your true remedy. If misfortune
hits you hard, hit you something else hard
pitch into something with will. There's
nothing like good, solid, absorbing exhausting
work 10 cure trouble Ii you have met with
losses, you don't want to lie awake thinking
about them. You want sweet, calm, sound
sleep, and to eat your dinner with appetite.
But you can't unless you WORK. II You say
you don't feel like work, and 60 losfng all
day to tell Dick aud Harry the story of your
woes, you'll lie awake and keep your wife
awake by your tossing, spoil her temper and
your own breakfast the next morning. and be-
gin tomorrow feeling ten times worse than you
90 To-Day.
There are some great troubles that only time
can heal, and perhaps some that can never be
healed at all but all can be helped by the
great panacea, work. Try it, you who are af-
fiicted. 1t is not patent medicine. 1t has
proved its efficacy since first Adam and Eve
left behind them with weeping their beautiful
Eden. 1t is an officinal remedy. All good
physicians in regular standing prescribe it i'll
cases of mental and moral diseases 1t ope-
rates kindly and well, leaving no disagreeable
sequalLcc, and we assure you that we have taken
large quantity of it with most beneficial ef-
fects. It will cure more complaints than any
nostrum in the materia nedica, and comes
compound of drugs in the market. And twill
not sicken you if you do not take it sugar-coat-
ed-Scientfc American.
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The FIRST CONFEDERATE GENERAL ADMIT
TED TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE.@Tbe
Washington correspondent of the Boston Globe
makes the following comments upon the ad-
mission of Gen. Ransom, of North Carolina
to the only vacant seat in the United States
Senate:
To-day there walked to the open space in
front of the Vice-President gentleman whom
sarcastic Radical reporter in the gallery above
characterized as "the advance guard of the
Confederate army" 1t was appropriately amen
ded by the suggestion that he was ''its rear
guard" Ex-Major Gen. Ransom, Of the Con-
federate army was sworn in as United States
Senator from the old North State, and so the
vacant chair originally made so by che inaugu.
ration of a movement for which so much was
sacrificed, was filled by man who was very
gallant and believing soldier in the army which
struggled 70 make these vacancies fnality.
The associations were indeed peculiar. The
special nature Of all represented in the presence
of that very handsome and ignified-looking
man, came up in vivid and striking memories
Senator Ransom is the first man who has en-
tered the Senate after such service.
Senator Ransom is man of about thirty
eight or forty years of age. He is tall, over
six feet Judge, and finely proportioned. Very
dark in complexion, his close trimmed black
beard and hair, as we'll as his keen dark eyes
make. up what the ladies might say, slightly
changing the tense, with rare old Chaucer, a.
Piercing their hearts with his pulchrtude.
He is lawyer by profession, was, as can be
seen, young man when the rebellion began
lie was among the 1irst to enter the Confed
crate services, and was, believe, in the field
to the end, serving for long time as Major
General and doing severe service. He is q
Southern Democrat of the strictest sect, but
personally, modest and unobtrusive in pressing
his opinion, though likely to be useful ally
on his side of the chamber.
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THE USE OF ToBACCo.-We observe that a
very lively discussion on tbe use of tobacco re-
Gently occurred at the meeting of the New
York Methodist Conference, on resolution
recommending the entire abstinence from the
use of the weed. The venerable DR.. Richard
son made spirited defence. He said that af-
ter arriving at manhood he was attacked by a
distemper which all efforts of physicians failed
to relieve, but which was cured by smoking
On his subsequently attempting to abandon the
practice, recurrence of the disease took place,
which lead him to resume the habit. He af-
forwards began the practice of chewing tobac-
CO, using it in cleanly manner, without ex-
pectorating, and he had lived to the age of
eighty-thrce in excellent health. "Hefelt like
blessing tobacco, every morning OF his life" =
One member OF the Conference testified that
the use Of tobacco had aided to prevent loos-
ening of his teeth, and that the temporary re-
linqushment Of the practice had been attended
with disastrous results. Another member re-
counted the benefits his wife had derived from
the occasional uso OF q cigar, which was the
only manner in which sue could obtain relief
from asthma. Despite these arguments, how
ever, the resolution was passed.
There ire, says the Richmond Wing, faDati-
cal people who regard the use of tobacco as one
of the deadly sins, and would not tolerate its
use if it cured the diseases that flesh is heir to-.
This war npon it will continue to go on, and
without producing the desired reformation it
can be called. People will continue to smoke,
chew and snuff in spite of all that shall be
preached or written against "the noxious weed" !"
They find comfort in it that nothing else af-
fords People who do not like it will not use it,
and it is extremely foolish in those with whom
it does not agree to indulge in its use. Those
addicted to its use should studiously avoid so
using it as to incommode others. If its indu-
gence is not in violation of good morals it may
be SO managed as not to violate good manners.
-iSavannoh NeGs.
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SOUTHERN STATE BoNDs-In the financial
column of the New York Herald, of the 9th
inst. we find the following in reference to
Southern State bonds:
The bonds of the Southern States never very
active in this market, are gradually sinking in
the scale of securities. This will continue to
be the case until some different course of poll
cy from that now practiced in the South is in
augurated. The financial Status of nearly all
the Southern States is far below that of their
Northern and Northwestern sisters Since the
close of the war they have been drifting on
from bad to worse condition, until they have
actually reached point which makes repudia-
tion almost necessary. 1t is not yet too late,
however, for them to recover their former po-
sitions and save themselves from the disgrace
which attends and always follows bankrupt
government. Their political condition requires
to be revolutionized They must choose law
makers who are ready to go heart and soul
into.the cause of retrenchmept. They must
eecgs Legislators who are anxious to perform
their duties in the interest of the State and for
the welfare of the people, and who are willing
to work for redemption instead of personal ag-
grandzement. They must have officers less
actuated by selfish desires, aud with greater af-
fection for the public good All who are en-
trusted with responsible positions should pos
sess, in some degree, at least, those cardinal
qualifications, virtue, justice, prudence and
fortitude, added to honest intentions and disin-
terested motives Until the Southern people
can effect change in their political relations
that will lead them nearer to the requirements
above recited, they must not expect to regain
the proud and commanding positions they once
occupied in the Union family.
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three ribs were broken, to say nothing of con-
trsons and other injuries. For long time his
life was despaired OF, but his iron constitution
brought him safely through. After his recov-
cry he was surprised to find that his fondness
for tobacco had disappeared entirely. Nay.
from that day to this, he has not only not had
any desire for his once loved cigar, but the very
smell of it is unbearable The violent shock
to his nervous system appears to have wrought
an entire change in his constitutional greats
change, indeed, that it is probable that he will
never again be able to tolerate tobacco in any
form
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HUNTING THE GoAT.-It is not often that
ne hear of any fun in Hancock county. The
residents of that portion of the moral vine
ward, as included in the boundaries of West
Virginia, are not given TO much levity. When
they do get chance, however, they make all
there is TO be made out of it. They have had
sensation at New Cumberland. Thus runs
the story:
The Odd Fellows Lodge. room is situated
over the town hall, or some other public place,
and a man named Atkinson, desiring to hang q
chandelier in the lower hall, instead of going
to whoever had charge of the key of the Lodge
room, through the floor of which he desired to
hang his chandelier, broke open the door. He
is a strong anti-Mason, anti-0dd Fellow, and
anti-everything else that is not in accord with
mis- own shallow and prejudiced ideas, so he
didn't think there was any harm in breaking
open the door of such a sink of inquiry as he
regarded the Lodge-room.
There was not much TO see when he got in,
nor could he find suitable. place through
which to bore tire hole he desired to make
Looking around he found second door, that
OF an ante-room, where the regalia and para
phernala of the lodge were kept. Or course
he broke that open, and there made his ar
rangements for suspending the chandelier in
the room below.
The affair created great extitement in New
Cumberland, as will be readily imagined, and
Atkinson was arrested for the offense. Now
for the fun.
Some wag who had strayed from some place
where Jokes are practiced and enjoyed, got out
handbill recitipg the outrage, and setting
forth that, because of Atkinson's leaving the
door opened wheE he came out, the goat had
escaped, and offering large reward for his re-
capture and return to brother of the Order,
who was named in the handbill. The reward
was so great as to tempt the cupidity of all the
boys in Hancock county, and no goat now has
particle of comfort on her hills. No sooner
does goat show his head than the boys get
after it and take it to the OGi Fellow alluded
to for identification. So many he goats, kids
and everything else of the goat order or archi-
lecture have been offered that Bro. = begins
to think that the goat is q bore. He has told
the boys that the whole thing is fraud; but
they won't believe him, and day after day they
waltz over the hills of Hancock county, in a
never ending, untiring search for the goat that
got out of the Odd Fellows Wheeling
Register.
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cried Re. 'tit was msaner than eating fried
coon. / frs. thought I'd go straight home, but
then I Concluded that woodn't spite nobody,
so / determined to stay and see if couldn't
get satisfaction out of somebody. You know
Pm the deuce to get myself or somebody else
into a scrape when take notion, and I'd ta-
ken one that night that vert all over me like
third day chill, SO commenced study'n out
some plan. recollected bearing the doctor say
that where he come from but the Lord only
knows where that was) the bride and groom al
ways washed their faces together before they
went to bed, as charm against infidelity or
imbecility, or some other long word. While L
was studyin' about that, spied the doctors
saddle bags sitting in the corner, so l waited
till they went into supper, and then l got the
bags and looked to see what could discover.
Nearly the first thing l saw was piece of lu-
mar caustic. slipped it into my pocket, for |
had my plan as soon as I saw it. Well, L
watched around till I saw one of the girls 60 to
the pail with pitcher, so I went out and asked
her what she was going to do with it; she said
she was going to carry it into the room for the
doctor and Polly to wash their faces in. | kept
talking to her while she was filing the pitcher,
and when she turned her head l dropped the
caustic into it. 1t was then about bed time,
and I got my hat and put out, but couldn't
help laughing all the way. home, whenever I'd
think about it next morning.
"Well, Squire, they do say that when they
walked up next morning they both had the
hardest kind of fits, each one thinking they
had been sleeping with niger. Oh, it was
rich! He cussin' and tearing up things, and
she screamin' and faintin' and comm to and
goin' on again, and me not there to see it
They made such a unearthly racket that the
folks broke into the room TO see what was the
matter, and there they was with their faces
and hands all as black as the inside of an old
stove pipe. I'd q give half my interest in
tother world just to have been at some safe
place where could have seen the whole row.
As soon as they found out that they was really
the same folks that married the night before,
thoy called for warm water and soap, but just
here the doctor happened to think about the
pitcher, and took it to the door to see what was
the matter. There was little piece Of caustic
that had not dissolved, and as soon as he saw
it he says:
"It's no use washing, Polly, all the soap in
New York can't wash the black off"
"That was the truth, Squire, soap and water
had no more effect than it would on native
born African, and all the chance was to wait
and let it wear off. How long it took them to
get white again l never found out, but one
thing know" he concluded, getting up to 60
out 'the next time saw the doctor | had the
hardest fight, and come the highest getting
wbaled that l ever did in all my lifeI"
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Extracts fror, Josh Billings, Essays.
FASTIDICISNESS.

Fastidiousness IL merely the ignorance ov
propriety.
I hav saw people who had rather die and be
buried than say bull. They wouldn't hesitate
tew say male con. If the thoughts are pure
and the language IL chaste, it will do tew say
almost ennything.
The young lady who, fu years ago, refused
tew walk akrost potato field, beksuze the po-
tatoze had eyes, ran away from home soon al
terwards with a jewelry pedlar.
Fastidiousness, az general thing, IL holly
day virtew, and bav frequently notissed that
thoZe individuals who are alwus afrade they
shall kun akrost sumthing hily improper, are
generally looking for it,
Fastidiousness and delikasy are often kon-
founded, but thare IL this diference-the truly
delikate aint afrade tew take holt ov things
that they are willing tew touch at all with
their naked hands, while the fastidious are
willing to take holt of epny thing with gloves
on.
Deikasy il the coquetry ov truth fastidious-
ness il the prudery oy falsehood,
LOVE.
Love IL one ov the pashuns, and the most
difficult one ov all tew deskrbe
never yet hev herd love we'll defined.
hav read several deskripshuns ov it, but
they were written by thoze who were in love
Tor thought they waz), and wouldn't beleave
such testimony, not even under oath.
Almoste every boldly, sum time in their life
haz bin in love, and if they think it liz an eazy
sensashan tew deskribe, let them set down and
deskribe it, and see if the person who listens to
! the deskripshun will be satisfied with it.
I waz in lore once mself for z long years,
and mi friends all said had consumpshun,
but knu all the time what allied me, but
couldn't deskribe it.
Now all chat kan rekolekt about this luv
sikness IL, that for those long years waz, il
emmy thing, rather more of a kondem phool
than ordinary.
Love iz an honorabel disseaze enuff tew bav
bekauz it is natral but emmy phellow who hal
laid six with it for long years, after he git:
over it feels sumthing Ike the phellow who
haz phell down on the ice when it il very wei
he don't pheel like talking about it before
| folks.
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Ex-Gov H. H. Wells, of Virginia, used
To he an invctcrate smoker. He would average
twenty cigars day. He never went without
them, never stinted himself, and, being man
of powerful constitution, never experienced
any i'll effects from them. AS counsel for Cha
hoon, he was present in the Capitol at the time
of the dreadful accident (if such it may be
called went down with the rest and sustained
frightful injuries. His breast bone and two or
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REMARKABLE PRESERVATION OF A HUMAN
BoDY.-The body of Mrs. Young who died of
cholera in this city in the summer of 1854, was
exhumed Wednesday last by undertaken John
T. Hinton, and taken in his hearse to Mt. Ster-
ling, where the deceased resided previous to
her removal to Paris. At the time of her death
Mrs. Young was landady of the hotel now
kept bv John Griffith. Two or three weeks af-
ter ter her intcrment the family of the deceased
went back to Mt Sterling, and as she was bur.
led in the strangers lot her grave was neglected
and the mound almost evcllcd with the COM
mon earth, so that when the two daughters
came last week TO see the removal, there was
some doubt as to whether they had found the
right grave, but they said they could tell if it
was their mother when the coffin was opened by
q pair of cresccnt-shaped earrings. and the
work of exhunation was commenced. When
the burial case was brought to the surface, the
plat covering the face was taken off, and the
daughters, who expected to behold nothing but
a skeleton, recognized the features Of their dear
mother as natural as when the coffin-id hid
them from view, with the exception of a slight
yellow dscoloration and sinking of the eyes.
The wreath of flowers upon the bosom looked
quite fresh, but had yellow tinge; the rose
buds in her hair had not fallen from the parent
stem.-Paris 7fa,s Eer!uckian. --7'
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What q mighty procession is marching

= What mighty procession is marching TO-
ward the grave during each year At the usu-
al estimate during year, more than 33,000,0OO
of the worlds population 60 down to the earth
again. Place them in a long array, and they
will give moving column OF more than thir-
teen hundred to every mile of the globes cir
cumfereoce Only think of it; ponder aud
look upon these. astounding computations -
What a spectacle, as they move on-tramp,
tramp, tramp, forward upon this stupendous
dead march.
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: Two young ladies in Knoxville have q
suit for the possession of a gold ring, claimed
by both as the evidence of plighted troth from
young man who has proven faitiless to each
of them,