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List of Transfers BIZ Warranty Deed
recorded for the Ueek ending Jan.
8, 1872.
reported BY LaFoscs Z Morse.
TOWN pRoPERTY.
J w Triggs toByron Clark
pt ol23, Cttumwa. 8 1000 90
B Clark 40 L Bnrnham,
pt. ol2s, OFT. $50 90
Geo. Godfrey to NJ B Ever
.ett, 60 #. off side 8 | 90,
OFT. 400 90
N Martin to $ W North.
OF. 1900 90
ACRE PROPERTY. .a
d 8 Bedwell to w w Con-
nelly, goa in 10, goa in 80,
1912. & 4Oa in 2, 7l-13. 5000 90
M I&JP Williams TO Jas
Kenney. ia in 50 Sc sw
II, 1918. 80 90
81 swi "a, 7a.1s. 1000 90
s Il Mognett to ] Haynes,
10 in ne 81, 73.13. $50 90
R Macklin to w s Wdger,
NV SO sw 8, 72-12. $50 90
81 Fisher to w 8 Widger,
ne sw go 8, 1912. Ito OO
q J Sweet to W 8 Widger,
WI NV nd SO 8, 1912. 100 90
w r Morse TO A u Boyer,
n sw ID, TIA. 500 90
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The Elkader clayton Coz Journal
says: "There is a decided reaction
taking place against Allison in his
own district.
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The caucus for nominating a Re-
publican candidate for. Senator will
probably be held this Thursday
evening.
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Judge Loughridge is announced
by an Alton paper as the candidate
OF the female ROSTERS for the Gov
enor Of Iowa in 1873. What has
the Judge done?
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The Mosavia Nedette has been re-
vived under the name Of tho Moravia
Messenger. Il. Cumm,ns Il C. N.
Walls are publishers and edi .ors.
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A stranger fell from q train on the

A stranger fell from q train on the
North Missouri railroad, near st.
Charles, last Monday. and was instan-
thy killed. No one appeared to iden-
tify tho mutilated remains, and the
impression prevails that the man was
insane, and took that method OF com.
hitting suicide. Cash and notes
amounting to 81, 900 are said te
have been found in the pockets O
tho deceased, and takon charge of BY
the public administrator.
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@-See Advertisement of DR.. Buttap Dis
pensAry, headed, Book for the million
-MARRIAGE'GUIDE-in another col
umn. It should De read by all. DIV ly
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ScRooL BooRsI SCHOOL Books IL
DO not Forget that Taylor. Blake 4
Go keeps ; tull and complete line of
ShcoOl Books.
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Williamson & Kelley
REMOVED

To New Building q door west of Warden's
store. They have enlarged their stock and
have for sale everything usually kept In q
flrst-class Drug Store, at the lowest prices.
Jan. IL, T2-w4t
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Nos. Is and %.
SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURANTUR.
HUMPHREYS
HOMEOPATHIC SPECIFICS

HAVE PROVED, FROM THE MOST
AMPLE experience, an entire success /;
neutrality-suspicious. and Reliable.
They are the only Medicines perfectly ad-
apted TO popular use $50 simple that mis-
takes can not be made in using them so
harmless as to free from danger, and so
efficient as 10 TO always reliable. They
have raised the highest commentator
from all and will always render s~atifac-
ton.
Nnu Cents
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burlington has packed $4,000 hogs;
Des Moines 2s,60O; Ottumwa, at last
report, $4,000; EddyviIle 5000, and
Keokuk 81 1000.
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Estrav Notices,

Taken up by John Martz of Adams Town
ship, Wapello county, Iowa. on the Goth day
as follows: Cream color, with n dark streak
along the back; one year. old last spring. APP
praised at $50. Also by the arne person, al
the same time and place, q brown mare
Mule, supposed to be two years old, appTais'
ed at $50.
l.. N. COOLEY.
Clerk Dist. Court Wapello Co, Iowa.
Jan. 4th, 70 BOWEL
Taken up by Samuel Day of Agency Town,
ship, Wapello county, Iowa, on the Cd day o
Dec, 1871, an estray steer, described us fol,
lows: Red and white spotted color, broad
horns, no marks or brands, supposed TO be
years old. Appraised at $50.
T.. NJ. COOLEY,
Clerk Dist Court Wapello Co., Iowa.
Ian. nth. 70 .seW22t
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Profitable Business

Profitable Business
sex, in Ottumwa and adjoining towns, by
which they may realize from $500 to $1,000 a
year, with but little interference with ordina-
r. occupation in selling
HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES
or real merit and universal use. If the whole
time Is devoted a much larger sum may be
realized. Circulars free, giving q complete
list Of articles and commissions allowed.
7. s.. COOK & CO., Hoboken, n. ].
u SOAP never fails to cure Salt Rheum
Chapped Hands. and all diseases of the Scalp
and Skin. For the toilet it has no equal. For
sale everywhere, At wholesale by j. h.
BOVINE, Independence, Iowa.
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ISNSs tents,
cures Fevers, Congestion. Inflammation. 25
2, . Worms, Worm Fever Worm Collie 25
5, T" Crying-Colic or teetning OF Infants .....2
Z, " Diarrhoe, of Children or Adults...-.25
6, p@yssntesy Sripi,ng; bilious Collie
!, !" Coughs. Colds, bronchitis. !. 49,. Is
9, " Neuralgia, Toothache, Faceache. IS
Q, +" Headache, Sick Headache. Verrigo.25
10, +" Dyspepsia, Bilious Stomach .....25
y. " suppressed. or Painful Periods. rs
II, " Whites, too profuse Periods ...,25
Is, |" Croup, cough, Difficult Bre athipg..25
il, " Salt Rhenm, fsrysipeIas. Erruptions95
ID, " rheumatism, Rheumatic Pains, IS
!6. . Fever and Ague, Chill Fever, Agues-2 5
is, {" ophthaisny. and sore or weak Eyes...5S
~. " Catarrh, acute or chronic, Influenza so
q, :. Whooping-cougn, violent coughs. so
81, ;" Asthma, oppressed breathing $500. 80
o, " Ear Discharges. Impaired hearing 80
., " s~crofula enlarged glands, swellings..5O
S. " bropsy ana soanty secretio SsaA ness 50
28, " Sea-siekness sickness from riding. ID 30
Y, " Nervous Debility, Seminal Ennis
Five Boxes, with one % vial of Pow
der, very necessary In serious
cases IS 90
%. |" urinary Weakness, wetting bed so
81, " Painful Periods, with spasms .,. 50
80, " Epilepsy, spasms' s.. Wins Dancei %
81, " Diptheria, liberated sore throat so
FAMILY CASES
OF IS TO 20 large Walls morocco or rose
wood case, containing aspeclfic for
for every ordinary disease a family
Is subjected to, and book OF direc-
lions. ..fromSlu to S35
smaller Family and Travelling cases,
with % to Is Walls. from IS to So
specifics for all private Diseases, both
for curing and for Preventivet treat
ment, in walls and pocket cases. So to s.
PONDS EXTRACT.
Cures Burns, Bruises, Lameness, Soreness.
Sore Throat, Sprains, Toothache, Earache,
Neuralgia. Rheumatism, Lumbago, Piles,
Boils. stings, Sore Eyes, Bleeding of the
Lungs, Nose, Stomach. or OF Piles Corns, w.
| GERS, Old sores.
Price, q or, 80 cts: Pints, sI.50; Quarts, sI.75.
aS-These Remedies, except PONDS en-
TRACT, by the case or sinele box, are sent to
any part of the country, by mail or express,
free OF charge, on receipt OF the price. Ad.
dress
HUMPHREYS SPECIFIC
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE c.
Office end Depot, 10. 563 BROADWAY, n. Y. e
FOR SALE IN oTTUMwA, BY
ENNIS d BALLORD,
Jan6-dly-wlGIa
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BY TELEGRAPH.
New York stock Market.

By TELEGRAPH.
New York Money Market.
NEW YORK, January 10.
GOLD SM
COUPONS
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List of Transfers By Warranty Deed
recorded for the week ending Jan.
8, 1872.
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The true northerner., 1872-10-25
The 0pen Polar Sea.

The open Poplar Sea must be discov-
cred, soon. if at all. At least, so argues
a writer in Nature AN English peri
odical), who believes the sea will soon
cease to exist. Land is said to be rising
everywhere between the pole and the
ffty-seyenth parallel, and the greatest
movement is at the pole itself. Some
interesting facts are quoted in support
OF the theory.
Pliny said that Scandinavia was an
archipelago, and spoke of bold seamen
who had circumnavigated the group of
islands. Ptolemy confirmed the state
ment. Celisins said in the seventeenth
century that Norway was rising at the
rate Of forty inches a year. Sii Charles
Lyell indorses the theory. The water
level in the Gulf of Bothnia falls one
foot every fifteen years. Near Getie
there are low pastures, where old men
remember seeing boats ahoat. Near
Stockholm, seventy feet above the level
OF the sea, the remains Of shelltish
identical with the coast species are
found. At Soduleige, ninety feet above
high water, there is bed of sand
which contains wrecked boats and an
old anchor. In the interior of Spi,z.
bergen, skeletons of whales have been
unearthed above sea level. The fisher
men say the land has risen so much that
the shallowness of the water has driven
away the right whale, which, once abun.
dant, is now rarely seen.
On the Pacific, the shores around
Behring's Strait are low and fiat, but a
mile or two back there are ranges of
bluffs parallel with the coast, and con.
tanning innumerable shells of the littor.
al species. If the theory is true, it offers
Us a curious case of compensation.
While the ocean is washing away Great
Britain, France, Holland, and New
England, way 10 the north the CONT.
nents are encroaching upon the sea.
The only thing to regret is that the
thing cannot be reversed, and Neptune
enriched at the expense of the frozen
north, and to the gain of the more hab-
liable south.
The true northerner., 1872-10-25
Varieties.

A MAN that ought to be Remembered
"A one-legged soldier.
CAN people who listen at keyholes be
said to 60 private hearing.
II you court a young woman, and you
are won and she is won, you VIII both
be one.
"TnE Pacific slope"--The Quaker
Peace Commissioners running from the
Indians.
OF all things in the world thu are
better late than never" going TO bed
certainly ranks first.
"HAvE you heard my last speech ?"
asked political haranguer OF wit.
u sincerely hope so" was the reply.
A DYING Irishman, asked by his con-
fessor if he was ready to renounce the
devil and ali his works, replied: " Don't
ask me that I'm going to a strange
country, and | don't intend to make
myself enemies
a HoUsEKEEPER sent Bridget out one
morning TO buy some heads Of lettuce.
She returned with postage stamps.
When asked how she made the mis-
take, she pertly answered, An sure,
wasn't told to get heads of letters ?"
A MAN who has red-headed sweet.
heart addressed her as "Sweet Auburn,
loveliest of the plain" Sweet Auburn
got mad about it. She objected to being
classed among the "plain, even though
called the loveliest of them.
II Arkansas a man was sentenced to
be hanged, but all the carpenters in the
neighborhood refused to build the
scattold. As the condemned man was
himself carpenter by trade, the Sheriff
tried to induce him to put up gallows.
but he steadfastly declared that he'd be
hanged if he did.
a RAILWAY watchman caught mapping
at his post, and convicted OF willful
negligence, said to the jailer, who WI
about to lock him up, +" l always sup
posed that the safety of a railroad de.
pended on the soundness Of the sleep.
ers.' :" So it does," retorted the iailer:
but such sleepers are never safe unless
they ere bolted in.'
a LADY, who had received a severe
bite on her arm from dog went TO DR..
Abernethy, but hearing or MS aversion
to hear the statement of particulars,
she merely uncovered the injured part
and held it before him in silence. After
examining it, he said, in an inquiring
tone, " Scratch ?" " Bite" said the
lady. "Cat ?" inquired the doctor.
Dog" rejoined the lady. So delighted
was the doctor with the brevity and
promptnt IS of the lady's answers that
he exclaimed, "Zounds, madam, you
are the most sensible woman | have
met with in all my life -
The true northerner., 1872-10-25
The Men of the World.

Mr.. Farjeon's new novel, "London's s
Heart" contains lin chapter NNII. this
good bit of Misunderstanding
This man of the world whose char.
acter rests upon sound foundation is
sure to get the best of his neighbors. He
is shrewd and cunning, and, like the fret.
full porcupine, so armed at all points as
to be almost certain Of wounding what
ever comes in contact with him. Frank.
ness beams in his eye, but calculation
sits in his soul; he gets information out
of you by side strokes, and profits by it:
he brings you round by the artfullest of
roads to the point he is working for !;
he pumps you dry so skillfully that
you do not feel thirsty in the process !;
and he leaves you under the impression
that he is the most amiable of compan-
ions. Fortunate it is for you if further
experience of his amiability do not com.
pei you, with groans, TO reverse this yer.
dict. Attached to the popular inter
pretation of "man of the world" are
profound and puzzling depths. The
man fails in business, lifts up his eve,
looks mourntully around him, buys
sackcloth and ashes, signs frequently,
is soul.despondent, grows a little shah.
by, meets his creditors, obtains his re-
lease, and, hey, presto smilingly re.
enters the circle from which he had
been temporarily banished-re.enters il
calm and confident, with no sign of de.
feat upon him. He received with open
arms, for it is whispered that he has
''means;" and if one says to another,
4" Is it not strange that Mr.. Plausible,
who was in such difficulties last month,
and was supposed to be ruined, should
be living now in such good style T. it is
ten to one another answers, 4" He is a
man of the world, sir, a thorough man
Of the world :" and lifts his hat TO Mr..
Plausible, VINO just at that moment hap.
pens 10 pass by.
See the other side of the picture. A
man fails in business, is soul-crushed,
looks mournfully about him, shrinks
from his former friends, grows old
quickly, sits in sackcloth and ashes,
sinks down, down in the world, obtains
his release after struggling, and never
raises his head again one says to an
other, Poor Mr.. Straight Regularly
crushed, isn't hep And another an.
swers, "What else could be expected ?
Straight never was a man Of the world -
and turns his back upon the unfortu.
nate who, just at that moment, hap.
pens to be coming towards him. To be
completely successful man of the
world, one must be thoroughly selfish,
often dishonest, often false, seldom
conscientious, and the porcupine quills
which guard his precious interests must
be well sharpened. If now and then
there 3 blood upon them, what matter?
Blood is easily washed oh'-but they say
the smell remains.
The true northerner., 1872-10-25
Current Items.
Iowa is out of debt.

Iowa is out of debt.
The United States has 81 iron.clad
vessels.
THERE are only three giraftes in this
country.
BEE1s weigh is pounds in the Red
River Valley.
AN S5.year old North Carolinian chal.
lenges the State to toot.race.
A VAMPIRE bat, measuring Is inches
from tip to tip, was lately caught in
Napa, Cal.
SHAKESPEARE mentions dogs 800 times
in his plays, and only speaks of them
with contempt.
FIVE hundred coolies, with $4,000 of
their own savings, nave returned from
the West Indies to their home in
China.
The use of steam power on the Abe
marie and Chesapeake Canal is great
success. More than 10000 vessels have
passed through the canal.
THE Bureau OF Statistics has Just pub.
lished its fourth annual list of Ameri.
can vessels, which shows an increase of
over 1900 craft of all classes during the
fiscal year ending last June.
THE total value of real and personal
property in the county of Milwaukee,
according to the assessment rolls Just
completed, is SOS, ,302, ,292.40. OF this
amount the city is assessed S46,572,-
640.
A GRAIN elevator at Vallejo, Califor-
MIA, l23 feet high, and containing
5000 tons Of grain, fell with a great
crash the other day. 1t was built by
Chicago company as an experiment, in
1869, and was the only structure of the
kind in the Pacific States. The total
loss, grain and elevator, was $270,000.
BosroNs oldest and most noted coffee
saloon-Haven' coffee rooms on School
street-which was established in 1887,
has just been closed, after having fur.
nished for thirty-hve years the best cof-
fee in the city. The oldfashioned
and low.studded rooms of the resort
hare been the rendezvous of thousands
of celebrities during the last genera
ton.
The true northerner., 1872-10-25
The Music of the Future.

A New York interviewer has man.
aged to get at the great Russian pianist
and TO get out of him exceedingly frank
expressions of opinion on variety OF
subjects. If the report of his talk is
correct, Rubinstein's views about most
matters in which he feels an interest
are as peculiar and original as his pian-
ism. lie is reported rs saying: :" In a
generation or two we shall have no clas.
sical music worth speaking of. The pop
ularizing and democratic tendency of
music will kill that which is grand and
noble in music, and the divine art-you
will live to see twill pass into the
hands Of the organ grinder. Street
music-that is the music Of the future.
They will have in thirty or forty years
beer gardens, where Beethoyen's SYM
phonies and Handels oratorios will be
executed before a wine.dIinking and
cigar.smoking audience.
DOLLY WARREN, though popular as a
n9lne, has proved very improbable TO
Manufacturers and dealers in dress
goods, many of whom have been driven
to the verge of bankruptcy by invest.
ing in large stocks Of thi: class.
The true northerner., 1872-10-25
African DiamOnds-PrObable EXhaus.
tiOn of the Fields.

The last advices from Capetown indi-
cate continued impression that the
South African diamond fields have
passed their highest point of success.
A rise of fully 10 to 20 per cent. had
occurred at the fields, and this, it is
said, is not alone the effect of better
tone in the London market. but of the
undoub ed fact that the finds are ma
terially diminishing, more especially of
large and fine stones. 1t is admitted
that the supplies sent home by the last
few mails have been large, but this is
explained by the circumstance that at
the time OF the panic in prices every
one held back stones, from the poorest
digger to the largest buyer. The late
advance has unlocked these stores. in
addition to which, according to a CORE.
spondent OF Messrs. Goodlite 4
Smart, the necessities of each day rem.
der it increasingly difficult for digger
to hoard. " He must live-at least he
thinks so-and even with provisions
and necessaries rather more moderate
IN cost, the barest subsistence is expen.
slve, and hundreds are leaving the
fields broken down by disappointment
and want. In two days we have adj.
vices of 500 to 900 colored men leaving.
who could no longer find any work"
Although the general impression is
that the wonderful Colesberg Kopie
Mine is not yet worked out, many have
returned to the old diggings at Kiln
Drift and Du Toit's Pan. There are
constant reports of new " rushes" con
cocted by schemers, who earn a precari.
Gus livelihood by selling claims. but
most Of these rushes are 10 river claims.
where the stones are described by the
Diamond Field Ne,eS as very scantv. "Ye
do not" it is observed, believe that
any new Colesberg Kopies will be
found, for it is impossible to exacgerate
the pains which have been expended
in prospecting in every direction.
many seekers, coaded by want. HAVING
turned again and again to research iS
vain the forsaken hilloclIs." All evi.
dence seems to point 10 the spots whore
diamonds have been found in abund.
ance as being the crater of extinct vol.
canoes, land, although il may be natu-
raj to expect that some few stones com.
paratively should be scattered to a dis.
tance, yet, on the other hand, it would
be absurd to suppose that every
mound or hillock is teeming with dia
monds."
The true northerner., 1872-10-25
The Baldwin Apple.

Not more than one in ten Of those
who enjoy the superior flavor of the
Baldwin apple knows from whence it
originated. For the enlightenment of
the ignorant nine, we will inform them
that this peculiar species of fruit came
from seeding planted by Josiah
rearce, Esq, of the town of Baldwin,
Ne. From this stock innumerable
CRAFTS have extended the fruit far and
wide; but from well.known law of ex-
tension, the Baldwin apple is rarely
found in perfection when far removed
from the place where it originated. In
Maine, the color, texture, aroma, and
sol dity Of the apple have nothing to
desire, being in truth so delicious, that
ii might have been akin to the one said
TO have brought difficulty upon our
mother Eve. In other localities, where
the soil, climate, or culture may have
proved unfriendly, what is called the
Baldwin apple may often be found a
total failure, being puffy, insipid, and
subject to early decay.
The true northerner., 1872-10-25
4 Qneer Cargo.

One of the most singular cargoes ever
brought into an American harbor was
that Of the steamship Glenartney, from
China, via the Suez Canal, which arrived
at New York short time ago. The
ship was manred by motley array of
Chinese, Hindostanese, Bengalese, Arabs
and Turks. When she first entered the
harbor she was literally peopled by birds
and other pets. Monkeys climed nimbly
up the rigging and sat chattering on the
yards or hung pendant from the ratlines.
Parrots and Oriental birds of gorgeous
plumage rested on the spars and clung
to halyards. The air that hovered about
old ocean was vocal with the music of
tiny throats. In addition to these were
Pekin dogs, five Chinese pigs of the
sacred breed, and flock OF Chinese
sheep. They were mostly consigned 10
the Chinese employed in New York
State and New England.
The true northerner., 1872-10-25
The Old Fence Rail.

IL lies and rots by the roadside,
Among the withering weeds;
And black berry vines run DER il.
And the thistles drop their seeds.
Below the Miami murmurs;
lie flows as he always flowed;
And the people, eastward and westward,
Travel the National Road.
At times a maiden's glances
Gild il with tintS OF dawn,
But the schoolboy snorts with his nostrils.
Kicks il, and hastens on.
Above Il the pioneers chimney,
Lonely and rickety, leans;
Beside the pioneers garden
ia "a wildering growth of green's.
II was split by the stalwart settler.
One Of the ancient race.
And the hands of his tow haired children
Lifted IL into its place.
Years after the gawky lover
Sat on IL. dangling his heels,
While his girl forgot her milking,
And the pen. with its hungry squeals.
Ah, the rail has its own romances,
The scenes and changes OF years;
l pause whenever | see it,
And drop on il several tears.
The true northerner., 1872-10-25
Country Children.
Little fresh violets.

Little fresh violets.
Born in the wild wood.
Sweetly illustrating
Innocent childhood:
Shy as the antelope
Brown as "A berry
Free IA the mountain air.
Romping and merry.
Blue eyes and hazel eyes
Peep from the hedges.
Shaded by sun bonnets
trayed at the edges.
Up in the apple trees.
Needless Of danger.
Manhood in embryo
Stares at the stranger.
Out in the hilly patch,
Seeking the berries
Under the orchard trees,
Eeastins on cherries,
Trampling the blossoms,
Down 'mong the grasses,
No voice 70 hinder them,
Dear lads and lasses.
No grim propriety-
No lnterdictiOn;
Free as the birdlings
From city restriction
Coming the purest blood.
Strength ming each muscle.
DOnniag health arinOr
'Gainst life's coming hustle.
Dear little innocents!
Born in the wild woods.
Oh. that all little ones
Had such a childhood
Gods blue spread over them,
Gods garden beneath them;
No sWeeter heritage
Could we bequeath them!