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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28
The Man who IlcRs k~.el~ctisa.
('ood for Any Latitude.

Rood mnh not u rsnomiuAts h the
Official who besS II A. 4 personal favor
~ inaisfs that hc should bo rsnomln.
atcd " yindica.c him because there \
strong prejudice IL tho party Agaiase
him Especially beware u tho Con.
grr's'nAn who goes begging Tor votes
~ mud down the street " cities q
farms " 'hs country. II hs deserves
recollection hr will ~, Il withost plead
inv tho ply MT; II his record in Csa.
1re.~ hss heen such TINT tho psopls
could not understand |. by reading Il
day W lay. h. ncel MT expect 70 o.
plain II anil make II satisfactory by
chasing ~ constituents doWn one ~
ono aud explain II ~ tliomt 4 snaa
who cant ~ hack into Congress
without uHlus l,,r derrick himself h ehe
man ior the party % avoid,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28

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this will II ha hasai ! hssi ii ssst,
vtl - having g,si hraa i, .ss
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sft ati nn oar gaafi The l.aa Il
W. fetf)sAale F't tie hfaius. sna II il
Tsl u sts han nnfh uaae ,satarr.
turn thstv i II .sthe nrn's rIaniuns
MI" lss train 4 man Lss tl,e nt4u la
aAle he i II Tsi The 'iiK lead y Al
man ought u Ne tal,tahl, satisfied
With ilfe leal In has rst anl mike the
a'es' " u, particularly n Le mast eat.
" y ~ lons ~ le lIsc. W, W. roe
thousands II poor mnrlals .eleminr
and censti,inx A, anl nigh, III ",
ahead IN earh .ther. and after tl,,
~ i 'hct ain' always satisfied with II
The fascinating danehter IL lleru,lion#
altrtci ,er. mfair way II aritinr
ahead " John 'hc baptist. When
sho danced 10 llrrol II WA unu,l.l,
JilIn She nf'rrwsrl rnt ahead ufI
'tipi y, charger, whirh shows that her
charger "as fnsier than johns wa..
lllr head affords employment IL n
great many people. II wllpn ,he Latter
''anls n tie beal. though hc isn i Il,
The head NJ. oltehrr than tie LarLer
y. Then there il tho dentist. who
pulls Your teeth AMI nearly pulls ,enl
lead oil at hc sane time. and the uur.
4 Nle attend. Ia Your ear; and III.
leeli'H1 VIII rfeserIbcs tor yuur r,e;
nd The pliren,lugi.,, who will examine
'anr heal when you arc ninety ,.urs
III, aud tell yon Just what occupation
ion ought to ADOPT IN order To succeed
II the world.
There was u popular lelurlnn for
nna tina to tho cileet that when Il
"an = hfane ARE u,t the man dies, hui
i hot ", Look nj Gongtca.. Aud
opl. nj .souie Of tie heads II the de- ,
sartnehts. {,
Iit.te ...at .,ns.,. ,f..1 !.
s soinc men have hoadss ~ round !.
-"bullct hea.s--- that = square idea i
an neser get IN them. Oth.rs Lu,e !,
Int heads everything Ii Hal |
hat enanaies ffnm them. - |
\ lev h'ais ale perfectly level, and |
occasionally ono that IL .qnare. HIT !,
'ea'ls Aui bull heaI, ara found III ahua. /
Ianre nMain all elasst. and conditions /
I men iiuall, my advice IL, dea, i
'eafefs ni'i"f all circumstances, r., Z
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28
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wv hath ~ YN'Ae III language ,lain.
Tiiai WI atsr ,li,l t~fplts,
lin' III llv i ,lass Wnr tl,1nN itr
llr rsSssn ia hi. siuyks
W. prnss'i ihc nian III rnmmnn srnse.
"llla ialeWrnse sred W. safl
I'm nnW 'hr, ~as, "Nrll. lhal ,la pimn
llas g,a u level laqnl,
l''sntlTr sad ,hr children now
N~ learning NIL sirh talk
1lns " 'carr, II chin" instead IL that.
Anh waltz hAtH,l IL walk
TnlilIla llarrY. sesi flsr
NJ, grindriiiiI Aspl tap
sai'I, "ima pye smnl lm}+ ~aii III,
You nrt sout boots | do."
Thcehlalren laWrd ~ struugrrA onrei
" y 40 lpnnVr 81
Tie lliil girls as we'll ns hp,s.
Nov greet son with "irlloN."
oh, give mc ls,tk ,ln Rtosl ola days.
Wlrn lr,'l, llir Old and sonng
convofscd III plaia, old fashioned worls.
And slnng WIS never ".lung'
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28
CAN rms NE TRrEr
MonlloM Aud Carpenter OpcMly Chaee.
cA With tllarkmaljtur.

From Thr Ncw.Nctk snn. EaiItorla,.
II know" writes Carpenter. what
i est him meaning Til.on---"ao
write his letter 10 DR.. bacon.
Vow Carpenter. don't you know
more than that, = good deal Doa't
you know what II would have cose !
friend q Mr. B.cchsr's 10 suppress
that letter. Aud VAS not The svu
named. tho precise sum, aud we're nol
You tho imam who named II 7 hut no
hlack@ail--oh. no, nothing u The sort.
Sir. nothing ofths sor,' Only was nos
tho demand for 5000 more aocompan.
'ed by thrsst TO publish II Il WAS not
complied with Oh the beauties Of
mutual ''isu'slip'
Aud Moulton-- Francis D. lilo too
10 . mutual friend, lIs loves T,ltou,
he loves llcocher; he loves thsm both
~ only = mutual friend can love. M.
sual friends do not necessarily put poison
into ths ,eA and cpsics ii tho objects Of
tnsr Affection. II sometimes answers
their purpose to destroy the charaossr
and standing u those whom. from pure.
y d's'ntsrss'sd motives, they befrisnd
losed 'rilton, lie no. only
loved him weil enough to lend hIm
money lut whom Le r.. tired u doius
HAT 10 loved him we'll enough. by
|'tslo wcll,imel and slrowdly given ~
'iso, y he!p him ~ squeeze money ous
4 Mr' l'sccler, 10 the story goos.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28

Andy Felt. the champion lwistss.
has finally eot N the fence and gone 10
making faces n Bowman. l.aee nh,
when hs wanted democratic and inds.
pendent votes fsalty 70 party was On.
other thingto what II u nov. Hs
farsets all that, forgets that bslsss
l'ratta nomination no aaid that he
thought Pratt wns unit for the ollce,
and that would take tho stump agalne
hin II nominated. forrets that after ths
nomination l,o AL, iAei secretly ths very
moye tin, has aince bsch made. fcs.
gcts nll but the faot tlnt hs draws hal
tho ralar, " 4 pystoiiioe. ani his Inter.
~ II ~ talk far Pratt. DO you know
ofa strong Pratt man that hssu'S !
shadow y post ofics somewhere
about himi " Navcrly Republican.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28

II II noticeable how Iuticliyely In -
W. g. back with strange fonLnsaas &,
nll that II fresh In Tho earliest dawn q
youth II No ever cared for chlldseN
before. w. delight 10 SEQ them roll In
tho graaS over which va hObbls on
crntehca The granLsirs lurnA wsasily
from lis midale-tvcd. carc-wofn aon, 10
llsten. will, infan. laugh, 10 the praltls
y his infant grandnhiid. II h lhs old
who plant yonng trees; IL II the old Who
nrs most aA'ld.nsd by shs autumn, end
feel most delight In tho rstusniag
spring.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28
Traits or Character.

The calling IN which man II trained
necessarily exercises n considerable IN
0ucnco In tho development If ls chnr
actcr. II affects his gait, his manner,
and his speech, NJ well M his mental
and moral characteristics
/ !, Is impossible to mistake the mill.
tary man. llc is an illustration of I'll.
power II discipline. The new recruit
tho clod.hopper from tl,c rlow. |.
soon licked nto shnpc-~L Lccomes a
smart, wen rct up icl,ow, aud never
af,rrwar'l rclaltcs int tho lout
How different tho sailor. lie ral,
about On his yca less--llls feet al~a,,
sccm n. il tloy wore rraspins CIR flud
inn Ills manner ia fresh anh epss.
with nothing ~ The rccisiun aud frn'
al'y of the military man. liz fsel'
iuGs manncrs. and ideas are a piece d,
tho outer man. There il NJ niiaLin Il
Jack Tar far Corporal Trim.
n N the Same with other trades and
professions. Take a lawyer. fir III
stance. Habit and discipline have
made him precise aud systematic IN tho
transaction NJ business. llc II a mart.
incni Ia nh thinga, His mind Ii made
AZ of rlgrou.hslcs, N which his facts
and ideas arc iiiri and iocLv,ri IL
regular alphabetical order, liz II 4
rcdiapist even ~ heart lle keeps
old letters aud la,1 them up NJ c,i.
dcncc Ilis character becomes fixed
mud determined BY his profession
rhcrc IL ~ mit,aking tho lawyer.
Tho hivlrc II tho very opposite,
lis has ~ knowledge whatever ~ bus.
incss ~ rninons habits. liz II tho
mn., innocent of murtals. Of MI lro-
icss,onal mrn, l,c knows tho lrns. II
practical lifc. llc II always making
blunhcrs III no mcdhlcs with business
In . speech. lIc Il 4 xtudcnt. 4 reader
of books. writcr of sermons. And rin.
dents arc generally men II li,,lc r,ae.
tical wisdom. A man whp II great In
tho dcai languages IA rarely great IN
ANYTHING clss. liz may know nll ahau.
Greece md Rome, hut next 10 nothing
about Ills own aee and country
Tho medical man again ~ something
quite different from either tie lawyer
Or the divine. llc II very much II 4
'la'ls ! man " lie possesses no mark.
cd individuality of character. Int
habiiua,iog himself humor 'lc r III.
les Of tho people II all kinds. lie mcrs
es bis own individuality. but becomes u
very AGO ,nmodating agreeable. cIa,.
", possipinv kindl, person. Ills SUE.
csss IL business depends mainly ~ this.
AMI 10 his character In influenced md
formed. Such men m Abcrncthy. who
preserve their strong inIi,rlualii,
throughout shcir rrotesiona career.
arc tho exceptions which 70 10 prove
tt,u sss1n
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28
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l'aAus Ths euanti, hs~sms aliatm,a.
nsa ssasis ana eummpNr il All hsni. w..
Ean ~ te ssfiensis effected ls sti.
~hsirsals ean,tar,l"n. rvaases. thought
\ time that sswe legislas ~ a,un sls
A.iyee. shuuia H. bal ard lass~i ~
i'ahiItiinr 'Lr Ftesssaty ~ r,titr e4mc
'hsa VI uuu.,Nu II currency lcr
nsen'h Hut ssrn untivr shis II ssratn,
aid hsiuts H. Ural .ns IA vllspu III March \
lsu'' N,tnlltth lal reduced M, sr,cn.
liaeA rn,,,ts. " sasr.tuu.ur, aud
sesel ~ L'si scd, II lrarria luric \
AMI 'll.ssisr III W. lnnsl. ft II slnuld
w burnc Ia mind ilat unsl,r h.H alminis i
srasion u the currency BUREAU The cn.
tire National hank circulation amounted
y onl, eipo. .nuu,0vo. during Tho Grs.
fna1,crn months ~ his term lis Secretary
" the Treasury, hc actually retired
Sli3. 100000 * legal t.n,lrr. aud
I'll, 600, 200 uf loan c.stiGratrs y hich
were used a. currcnc, = -mnkinr III all
tho enormus contraction vf S21v. .uun,.
ouO IN little mere than ! year These
figures aro reliable III every particular,
being taken from NIcCulloch's > own 70.
port. and being made tho basis of tho
action On the part u Congress.
II ahould bc borno IN mind that while I
III this currency was In circulation tho !,
country was never moro prosporou. IN
Ill its history, Confdoucc aLouniud !
everywhere. Farming was profitable. !,
Enterprises wcr inaueura,od aud cars,cd i
Ierxard TO sncccas IN every direction. !
was enormous. Tho West !,
was gradually getting on Il. fes. again.
Trade was prosperous IN oil quarters. /,
Money was cheap and easy 10 ~, for h
III legitimate purposes. Tho national /.
icbt was bcing gradually mud scnrib,y /,
decreased. No Signs Of dis,res, were !,
.s."" ~, ~nurs sAeep, - .ao .v..n, !
md there these csme from political i
'ausses. When tho worst had been j
eached. however. and when tho aegrc. i,
tate reduction IN oil forms had amour. \
Cd 10 over ono billion and ! quarter of L
lolar. Or moro than lit,y per cent u u
he entire circulation. tho ruin IL ,La ii
material interest of tho country hogan. Il
In sI'eeeh made In Congress by ,Lc i,
Ion. M"sn ". Field. u Michigan. on j,
he 10th " January last. ! table is given
from tho Official statement published
i the time. = showing that. on tho is
4 September. lsut. our circulating
Medium consisted. In part ~ follows.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28
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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28


Tho Prairie du chicn l'nlon has tlir
information that "slr. In hlcr has hern
In Washington fur tho pas. two week,
making applications for q patent IN
his railway ppntoon, md has succeed.
a. This ftcp was necessary for lin
10 take III order 10 guard hinrii
agaius. shc black mailing n,.tcm Which
wns attempted hy these who rerr /.
1cnted that thcy had patents On pom
tom bridges Mr., l.nwlcr has nuw
succeeded IL securing ! cert iara.o n
patent, and will no longer DO troubled
Wy blackmailing ioigcs" I"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28

Smith. tir loro.l eaiot. proposes i,
tell '.le ttnsf. ,lu hull trouf. NJ muffin
hui IL trou' abon, biz West l'oinI
troubles.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28
sttss asts~

tttfHs " Nstss
lsresMl~t. isse.
sss msnsls aee learned fsrr ~
wst that " W llesthss hsa AseAe~.
pessi vi, hrws, | esn hear n ~ lu~s~s
hine h,m se nr Tbs, rsas ~essiea II
~ hstn
r. 1tlsos.
Nnttrss rn AksrHs..
lanssry le1l.
TilIsn thinks ,un have ruined NJ
hnsittrsa t'resr snnttslf Nj lsisslNaa h
Willie Nh tiglt Asu rau stand IN NJ
truth III, II, Mccl xon.
nEErEaa r. s,lrnS.
May ie7o.
las NJ II " Menltun. fur tho b>e.
ea, III Theodore Til,on, ssuuO.
n. N lisrcmsa
TtirnN - nrarusR.
June. 1874.
~ NV Grace, mercy, aud psscs.
n r.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28

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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1874-08-28

Iutul ulsatf.t.s,f..t.,tftsttnats III .f1N, ,tIru
According " slIs showing tho con-
traction accomplished i, 'Ir McCulloch
nur, have exceeded el.SO0. .uuO, 900
Tho cloqncnce u .hcae figures II u II
sclf sufficient for tho argument II u
only necessary % contrast The situation
u affairs of tho two periods 10 un,lcr-
stand how previously Til. narrow poll
ley u contraction has weighed upon tho
peorlc, and how all shor energies anh
inlustrirs are boins crushed our rs 4
few controlling cari,alit,, who hcld nll
Tho money aud tie bonds and who have
all thu balance of the nns.cs III debt
10 them. ---St. Louis Dispatch.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
GUILDHALL, VERMONT, SATURDAY JANUARY H. 1874

" God bless you." Then he had lain
quietly back, with his fading eyes upon
that glimpse of heaven beyond the lat
tice window, and had died quietly at
midnight.
What? The money? Don't ask me
what became of the money. Over those
five notes 1 worried myself at last into
the most serious brain fever that ever
man came back from into life again.
They were gone. No trace could ever
find of my old pocket-book, though L
made it well known that the numbers
of the notes had been taken. When 1
had offered ESQ reward, and that did
not bring them, 1 doubled it and offer
ed 910O. Who would care to keep them
then? Who would keep five notes which
were stopped, when they could receive
five available ones OF equal value by
only bringing the worthless old pocket
book to meP But ns one brought it,
and then I advertised anew, offering
e150 reward for those five eco notes.
Of course, I tried to make out that it
was the old pocket-book set the value
on, but, after AL, I didn't much care
who had the laugh against me if I could
only set this matter straight, and give
it an air of daylight reality. But no
that never brought them.
Another cock-fght? A.? No, I never saw
another cock-fight. Don't ask me any
more. It's five-and-thirty years ago
LET IL ract
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
Origin of Gipsies.

Charles Leland, in his work on Eng
lish Gipsies, speaks of the race of which
they are part as "the descendants of
a vast number of Hindoos, of the prim-
tive tribes of Hindoostan who were ex-
PEELED or migrated from that country
early in the fourteenth century" The
migration probably began earlier, for
there are intimations of them as far
west as Germany in 1416, and in 1897 q
troop of them, numbering hundred,
appeared in Paris, where they gave
themselves out as Christian Gipsies ex-
PEELED from Egypt by the Moham-
medans. No settled account of their
origin is given by the Gipsies of any
two lands in the Old World, but their
tradition tends on the whole towards
the Egyptian origin, which the popular
notions of European nations had in
general till of late assigned tothem. Yet
that the Rom or Romni are to be iden-
titled with the Dom OF Domni castles of
Hindoos, allied to the Mats, the real
Gipsies of India at the present day
the letters d and r being hardly dis
tinguishable in Gipsy mouths-is not
only attested by the name they give
themselves, but borne out by proofs
without limit from the study of their
speech and of their characteristic GUS
toms or habits.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
Bright Side People.

The propensity to make the best of
things is generally found in combina-
ton with those smaller virtues which
are more annoying to ones neighbors
than most vices. The man who rises at
five every morning, who always ties up
his letters with red tape, and who is
convinced Of the great truth that it is
better to be half an hour too early than
half a minute too late, is frequently
given to making the best of things.
The duty of doing so is a moral maxim
just big enough for him to understand.
He probably reflects upon it in the early
morning at the time when the cold bath
is bringing out that glow, physical and
moral, which makes him an offence to
all weaker vessels during the rest of
the day.
The ruddy, iovial person who gets
himself up after the country-gentleman
type, or the more unctious variety of
popular preacher, is apt to be perspiring
this doctrine at every pore. 1t is a
pleasure to him to meet somebody in
distress upon whom he may discharge
boisterous comfort through his favorite
aphorism, as a fire-engine sends cold
water through hose. II he acquires
. some dim consciousness of the fact that
his kind exhortations sound like bitter
mockery to his victims, it only increases
his sense of virtue. They cannot COM
fort themselves under the loss of wife
by the reflection that they still have
several first cousins and money enough
to pay for handsome monument That
only proves that they have not studied
so we'll as he the great art of properly
directing their sentiments. For of
course he will deny in the most pathetic
manner that he would ever advise any
thing like self-deceit. He does not
avowedly ask a sufferer to profess that q
toothache is rather a pleasant distrac-
ton than otherwise; he only recon-
mends him to fix his attention upon his
great toe or some other remote part of
his body which may appear to be enjoy
ing good health.
And, in fact, there are some people
so enviably constituted that a small
pleasant object elevates them more than
great unpleasant object depresses
them. They are people, so to speak, of
small specific gravity, who cannot be
submerged without heavy burden of
melancholy. The person who makes
the best of things processes to be of
this temperament. 1t is not, he would
have you believe, that he does not SYM
pathize with grief, but that his consti-
tutional buoyancy makes sympathy
with him compatible with exhilaration !;
he does not deny the existence of evils,
but the smallest grain of good makes
him happy, just as half glass of wine
makes some men drunk. There are, we
say, such people as these-men, if we
may coin a word, easily intoxicable.
But we are inclined, as a rule, to a We
hement suspicion in both cases. The
man who is upset by the first glass has
generally had number of glasses be-
fore, and the man who makes the best
of things is generally helped to be Sc
rene either by the absence of strong
feeling or by the want of courage to
look at the worst.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
The Loss of the Virginius.

All that remains of the steamer Vir-
ginius, of which so much has recently
been said and written, now rests quietly
at the bottom of the ocean. The ship
foundered in eight fathoms of water,
just off Cape Fear. Soon after the
Virginius was delivered to the United
States steamer Ossipee itwas discovered
that she was in a leaky condition, and
Immediately after her head had been
turned northward the pumps we're set
to work, but, Notwithstanding the best
efforts of the seamen, who worked man.
fully night and day, the water gained
slowly in the hold. The ship was in
this condition when Lieut.. Commander
David @. Woodrow was ordered to take
command of her. Shortly after that
officer came on board he concluded that
it would be impossible for the ship to
reach New York. He afterward COM
municated this conviction to his su-
perior officer on board the Ossipee, and
advised that the Virginius be run into
Charleston, which port he was sure
could be made. This advice was not
needed, and the two vessels proceeded
on their course to New York. On the
evening of the 25 ult. the Virginius be-
came unmanageable. The water was
up to within few inches of her boiler
fires, and gaining slowly. Her ex-
hausted crew then determined to aban-
don her. For three days previously
they had been working with the water
up to their knees, and many of them
were so worn out as to be hardly able
to stand. Early on the morning, of the
Goth a boats crew put off from the
Ossipee, and, at the risk of their lives,
gallantly rowed through the mountain
GUS waves to the rescue of their ship
mates. The boat first took off the
landsmen, then the sailors, and after
all the others were in safety the officers
left the Virginius. The last boat left
the sinking ship at $3.50 A. NJ. The Os-
sipee hove to after the entire crew of
the Virginius was safely Oh board, and
remained in the neighborhood to see
what became of the vessel. At a little
after A o'clock P. M. she began to settle
down in the water. At first she went
down by the head, her forward COM
partments being stove and open. After
the water had reached to above the
paddle-boxes, it rushed backward into
the cabin, and, tearing out the COM
partment partitions, carried the ship
down on an almost even keel. She
sunk in latitude 33 deg. Al min. 10 sec.
north, and longitude II deg. SO min.
west. The Smithville Light bore north
three-quarter west by the compass, with
the end of Nagg's Head north north
east. When the ship had disappeared,
the Ossipee steamed up, and after at
taching buoy to the tow-rope by which
the two vessels had been connected,
steamed for New York.