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New-York tribune., 1874-08-18
The STATE OF TRADE.

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LoSDoy Aug l7-l2.jO m-TsaFOry bonds. lO3's Ere
Railway 3Oi4
LlvsHPooL Aug I7-l23O D. m-Cotou steady Midng Up
lands sltQs4L; Milling Orleans 5sD5lsL, Of 7-OUD
ba ung and the
Mil ling Upanis nothing Good Ordinary deliverable oepts
Der nd October at al
LoSDos Aug I7-2 m.-Fne Railway shares 3OQ30is Paris
ispatcne. Rentes 81 soc.
LlyEHPo5L Auz IT-2D m.-Brsalsud, 1ae Liri 81 p
Bacon Long Clear Mdes lHi j4 for short Gear
Middle, a.
LoSDoS Aug i7-i3O D. m-The Of bullion gone
the Bank Of Eaxand balance to-day IS tl-l,OOJ.
LIvRKPO5L Aug l7i3O tShe Cotton sales to-day, 900
bales American Of Miilng Orleans nothing
Hing deliverable October and November \ sales
shipments Of Mltng Upland. nothing
O0narv. 81 Spirits Petroleum 2i = gallon
LOSDos l7-J:3D mThe OF discount the
market three bills 50 which = = below
the Bank Pls dispatches quote Rene 90. -
FRASKPORr Aug l1.untei states FTeTEny bonds, Js4 iOr
thr o. 1862.
Mdns Cpinds nothing below Good Ordinary deliverable October
at j-l6l.
LoSDoS Aug l7-5:30 D. m.-Tillow, fl'3 y cwt
IoSDoN. Aug. l7-Evening-Linssei Oh. y 3D;S
LrysRPDOL, Aug. l1-EyeLlHg g-Lue-I Oi. 20. ESQ.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18

the closing quotations of Saturday afternoon of to
Il Der cent Central and Hudson and Lake Shore ad
vancing each Erie. Pacific Mail, and Wabash each
A. North West and st. Paul each Ii Western Union,
l. Rock Island. Il. and Ohio and Mississippi, II.
The advance in Rock Island has probably no other
significance than that it has suited the interest and
the pleasure of its manipulators TO allow
it to take a step or two toward what
would be its real value under more
favorable auspices while the improvement IN Ohios
seems but a natural reaction after its sudden de-
cline. There is no reason why the latter should
command any higher price to-day than it brought
on any day last week, excepting that speculators
chose to pay more for it, We doubt it it is now any
nearer to or further from a dividend than when it
was quoted at As. The following table shows the
opening highest lowest and closing prices
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18

g,.. reo, ~ b..- erpo eoa~se 10 bss iss % bs-s;
spnnsr.. - bales stock, 2 81 bales
L1uu II Cotton l1ist an unfhinse nhfins lptD
IS nc. receipts l6 hsl>s; shiBments so bales -
WuxfNsrOr A1g l7COton unchanged Mldhng 80 "ss
receipts hale erport- $50 bales ocs. 3t1 bales
SoaRoLK Aug unehr rgot Low Ading l5ls aes
j7 cossFite lO0 bales s"ek 40 saS-
Agz. l7Joon qset. 'ac. OTer n sh hllnn<
IG, net receo 100 bales ross iO6 bales. sas, 10 5scs
stoek ~ II bale,
L0UfsyiLLg. Aug l7.-Co,ton qle;i Mdiiny i6e. -
GALgEsrOS. AEy. lI-0'tSa nominal. Good OrianY liT:
net receipts 81 bales; 3 jCG bales
Bpsr0N l7CptSn MiIdlaz Il r. receipts
!1S sales. 80 bales. -Og1 bi'es
IT - kt
shipments. - bales 2DJ blI 10 bsias
PHrADELPrfA AuN l7.'ottus 1aet, Mtiing l7is
ceBs Zst bales. gross. iJS ba'ri
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18
oRAIy IN NEW YORK ASD BRooKLTS wiRr

HOPSMr Aug strassbug sample Of Hops,
Hop vine and With favorable
aheF he prospects oi good yield hghy neng 10 he growers
dAf AND sTRAw-od Hay plenty snl is selling from $3.50
Ss for Good 20 Prime unatered We quote Hsy-Prme
Timothy Slafl 10 do Good s6G9Oc Fair or shipping Iriie
7O01Jc AMI Clover Soc Sray-NO Rye bOdG3ci do
No Rye 406j0c. and No Dat at 5Oa5jc.
NAVAL SrORES-spits Turreane rather firm but tnde
dull and values nominal Tar shade sales Of
90 bb Washngtan at 50 7j Wilmington quote - Pitch gue
PgOvlsIONs-The Pork owri the sales
100 bb at s i0gS2 80 ior Mess 100 bbL woyearod
mber, At r Beefs but steady sales Of ~ b6s at ia 900
$l for Packet and Ss 30 Tor Family Terre Beet is I bat
Meats seai and fair demand sales ot 100 smokei Hams
alGc 400 Fresh %. AZ ia l2l 300 Pchel 10 Al lic
Pcar do 500 Fresh Bellies At &C. - 900 Bellies IL
10 lie Bacon me; 200 boxes Fancy Cuts and ight
and corni-i al 9309'i Ltni better but less active sales OF
$50 tcs Mes.ern sesn ash At - lloc zoo c Cu at IA &C.
II for future delivery hear Of 25O to- seller Angns' at
l4ii; 100 es' segenber l4'if 300 e. 'ees n sr
seller siE months from She ist Of January. lie ,,. ~.
PETROLEUM. OH yerg qde ln In the absence oi
buyes uomuav unehnge Refined IL less ac We AMI van- IL
regular az tn close quoted Hesef The sale, embrace 5OO Dds
August eiverv AZ ~ 800 bb 10 II Jl5c, ald 900 bhS,
Auzust delivery l2 ~ PIileph, the market reported
Naphtha St. Primary markets oss Tdole
&c Petroleum Ceatre du AZ sa9De' liqNe qnet AZ
UJd$l OTl1 OIL Civ lomnIy 81 % Rouseye-no MARKET
CE-The quiet At about former figures aes o. 40
e,.Es rone az -9Is aad 200 bags ba-A69s
SUGARS-rhe Raw is rather nm AMI there
more inquiry embrace 400 Ahis lncaing
Common daue 1sa9 Far 0" Good To- az sao 7ei
and Certrfnga ~ r. anote Good Refining '-
Prime Io a. sisas ic Iennngli n hh ana bors ~ raH'
and 30 IL Ci4yei lt i Rei1ed steady With oman
sT We or A. 14ar. Soft White g7-H Iuas GrauulAted
lOJic. Crushed a. lOa., and Powdered At 10 Lse.
srRARIN : iuil and values nsl. -
TALLOW quet and sales 0 80 hhls my AZ St
and $4,000 10 Couuiry a. 507 -. 40 ,,,
WHISKY moderately ac'e AID about steady sales Of -'o Dds
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18
COTTON MARKETS.

ArdrsrA Aug l7.Coitou-Demaad light, Miihng 5sc;
ce.uis. lj bales. sale.. 30 bales.
MK1Pns Aug l7-Cotton dali and unchsrgei Low Mdihng,
l6r; receipts ~ bales: shipments bale stock, 1927 bales
NOME l-Cot5n quiet aud unchaugei Miihng loc
- 80 bales sales l)v biieS
stOc 4 3lZ bale,
CHAKLAsros l7Clt,on lue; Mailing I5i. net receipts
II EXPORTS eoAsSiss. ll63 b4les sAr % bAes s'~
A. iO6 bales .,,,t--
Nav UaLR. Aug lT.-Coiion quiet ane unchanged mias
IBT,, 335 bales 23l bArSi etP'rS o'-''
80 bales. stock - 30 bales
s.lrsoax Aas lf-Co,toa iul sd uoaina aHsi lGsG.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18
RANKING AND FlNANCIAL

THE RATE OF INTEREST FOR MONEY IS always an
important subject 20 both borrower and lender An
able and suggestive essay on this topic by Proi t.
B. Elliott of the Treasury Department read at the
Portland Scientific Meeting. Is reported fully IN
TpIBIJNE LECTURE EXTRA No 10. Price 10 cents
Address GHE TRIBUNE. New-fOrk.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18
INC bidding and aszing prices at DC dose wore

The gold market was dull and inactive. sales oeing
made alternately at 1894 and lO9a and dealings run
ming very light. Loans cost one-halt ana one per
cent for carrying and fiat The London news had
no effect upon the market. British consulS anu
United states Decembers .being a shade easier but
very dull closing steady. Money remains about as
on Saturday. and the Bank of England made gain
on balances to-day of f13lO0O. The foreign ex-
change market has been dull and nominal at
ouotatlons The Assistant Treasurer paid out $1,000
on called bonds and $4,000 in coin interest on the
public debt The days business at the Gold Tx
change Bank covered: Gold cleared sll.jtj'WO;
gold balances. 1922 DOS currency balances 6o2'O1l;
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18
And the fnllnwing for city banL shares:

The Philadelphia stock market is steady Penn
svlyapia Skies, III Philadelphia aud Erie Rall-
road. 1s!: Reading Railroad, 55.; Pennsylvania
Railroad 50, Gold, 109i
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18


specie %@11JOO deposits Z37 800
Cir -uation... 100.
The transactions al the Clearing house for the past
week compare follows with those of the previous
week:
Cearngs for the week ending Aug g. $3.50 5sa o53 A.
Clearngs for the week ending Aug l5.. S0 Jl GAG rs
FOR the week euding Aug g.. 1sf226T5 40
Balances for the week ending Aug ILL.,. l73l7725 30
There was nothing new to report in State bonds
the sales having been confined to Missouri Skies,
long bonds at 93 and Tennessee old at 81. for ex
COUPON The following were the bids:
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18
We annex the closing rates for foreign exchange

There has been no change in money, ana rates
were "a per cent on call loans, and to on prime
merchant paper; 100000 in National bank notes
were received at Washington to-day for redemp-
ton. The internal revenue receipts were 9+O.Ot.
The market for United States bonds has been
fairly active and steady to firm. We annex latest
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18

p,r tItnrr livery prices eae Of isI3l6c D. and
The tre eaus very dali i0ow oil l- basis Oi Low
Mdiluss: 600 -
1Gc se1mbei 800. Ij l-33e; 800 10 lli-; 900 lJc;
October 100 10 2j.32c, 200 lj 700 lJ lj-ldci De.
.arter 100 ID lI-l6r. 200 - 2l39-t February 100 ID
2g.32r: March 200 Ice April. 500 rs lj2. total 1000
bse TODAY up p. m.Allusi. 200 10 3l32c s"pirm
her 100 I6c POO 10 lj-l5c. LOO. Ij $3.50 500 -
i5.lGr. 500 1870: 400 l6 29j2c. 100 10 l5ldci 2oU
IL lg}2c 100 il lJ-IGc; l4OO 10 Z.}ze October. 600
il il IGc GOO. - 23a2ci 800 - il.lG,@ 900 l3,a
700 Is y 32c 300 ljSs.; 200 Is 2lt2c 100 l1's- tu
il Il6c 800. 10 2532e JgO 10 Lite hoyemoef 700
f55.. roo JLe. 900 - 1899 500, - Jl6c, 100 -
10, pDcemhef 100 ID u 32c: 600 10 1882. 200. ljl4
900 Is l72c 800 Is 1890 toa l94OO bales grand total
26 800 bales ,.,., , A., L.. q.
COFPEE-r business 20 RIO vas ONLY limited ni me market
lover; 900 bags peg hlt Rice 90 private tIs ana
Hamilton Roads, private terms
agote Odnsry cagoes Fair At Good
III ~ nlgL Prime 2Jl8 12I . gud The stocks
OF Rio TINS evening TO- $50 herc 1000 bgs Al savannah
IL 400 baQs al Hampton Roads 2bJij bags A. baltimore oa
IL 1876 bags mild grades still AID quotations. are loA
iuaiy cbiHgei ,.- ,-.-t.,
Flour AND MRAT-The inquiry for Flour moderate. but win
limited grades heS hn tue medium and peter
grades quiet there pressure 20 sell them Ne" FAMILY
close the market quiet aal her heA
for Meum spring Wheat Extras and Fancy Mnneso As o
O IA hfta We
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18

e en
Corr Mea JerseF. So rSi 90 Corn Meal ,Sne % ~
Corn iOG - Corn Meal Gold Ear u 4 -
Corr Meal aslN 3 Goa (. -
Neal-Ihe market steady, dnet for common qnAs'
for Choice quoted 81 go III % Fine lelos az ~ ''
81 75i III 4OdS 10 Cob Meal Al 81 3O1f4 d. u1
Feed a. 81 3U1Sl 80 y 100 n.
rsIhe berroOm remains qni-' we ne'
vIthout change.
Tie bv 1000 oas Tn -
bv do London, bi SAL Iuu'
bbls To Bristol, 500 hbs do al - BY ne,ia
Cbarr.-O tonnage demand with slight irte-urny 20
accommodation IN moderate demand am f,les no
To Cork 0iers u al h4i,
SIS ID another hence same v0fa Win
900 an, DO FoTase sA 5'o ~,
"a Philadelphia 10 AntNep bnth % Nltn
R~hsed OIL 5 another 10 direct non um'-u rug
dom with Saphiha "a o. To hiffr' ba ~
OIL al A. Ga an Italian hark u Lisbon -h ,nc
Lbl Refined OH q, o.. 3D. Getpsn barr 10 brlea SIl Jaw
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18
GENERAL MARKET REPORT.

.t,1,
o,re tnsu lalt g,age below tAe GlI.ei
" .ALHs FOA PRESENT
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18

e PRINCIPAL quOtatiOns were:
New-York tribune., 1874-08-18

The Bank Statement compares as follows with
former returns:
-ls73. Deposits Lolas. Specie Circulation leg. Ten.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30
A Moving Tale.

WE moved the other day. For two
years back have been telling the land
lord that the house needed new roof,
painting, papering, new doors, new steps
and the like, and his apathy made me
mad. You may have noticed this apathy
on the part of landlords; it's disease
which runs among em.
We commenced at night TO get ready
for the vans which were 10 come In the
morning. After the children were abed
l took down the stoye-pipe. It's the
easiest thing in the world To take down
stove-pipe. Just give one yank and every
section will fall apart, and each one
will skip around and bang up and down,
and sling SCOT from floor TO roof. Then |
got the stove out. II landed bottom side
up at the door, owing to some slight mis-
understanding, but when one Is moving
1t makes little difference which side OF
the stove is uppcrmost Then l lugged
In the tub with the three red hoops, and
the one-cared tub, and the tub with the
two blue handles, and while my wife
packed dishes took down the beds and
brought down the bedding. Ii isn't one
man in hundred who can pick up a
mattress and pass through two doors,
down stairs, through the hall and two
rooms and fling 1t down on top OF dish
pan full Of soft-soap without doing any
damage. could carry mattresses ell
day long. The bedstcads went down
stairs slick as grease; so did /. As lay
at the foot Of the stairs, q rail across my
throat, my head on panel and my peck
cts full of stats, my wife ambled in and
softly inquired:
You fell, didn't your
She Is very observing woman; some
wives wouldn't even have suspected
fall, but would have supposed the hus
band lying down there to rest.
She said hadn't better try to get the
frontroom bureau down alone, but want
ed To call Watkins to aid me. told her
/ could ease that bureau down as softly
as cat going TO sleep on husk mat
and went at 1t. When got 1t TO the
head OF the airs had my doubts, but
that bureau couldn't bluff me. 1t lowered
away as honest as could be until 1t struck
the second step. and then we started.
strained every nerve TO outrun that bureau
down stairs, but il was an even thing
until we brought up in the lower hall.
My wife came In again, saw the bureau
on my head and chest, and she inquired:
What made you hurry sos There's
plenty Of time"
Some wives would let their husbands
kill themselves working and never say q
worn.
/ felt good deal better after kicking
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30

the bureau down the front steps, and then
tore up The carpets, knocked the head off
of bust Of Henry Clay, put my foot
through chrome and smashed mirror
while packing il into box with the
coffee-mill and stove covers.
NY wife said we'd wake up middling
early, and we did. She called me at three
O'Clock to eat q lunch before she packed
the last dishes, and when sat down on q
tack and fell off the box and skinned my
nose on the dust pan she begged me not
to say anything which would make the
children weep tears of shame in after
years. Before daylight Small Plea got
hung in the refrigerator, Long Primer sat
downssin the soap, and the cat overturned
the kerosene can into the flour barrel, but
we bore up wonderfully we'll.
The vans were to be there at seven, but
they didn't come until nine, and when
informed one of the drivers that he ought
to be kicked to death by cross-eyed rab
bits he raised his price two shillings a
load | enjoined him to be careful of the
furniture, but he replied that he "knew
his business" and proved Ii by smashing
three legs off the stove. / sat on the step
for while and watched them AS they
tossed the tubs of dishes around, and
pitched the wood-box, the refrigerator,
the lace curtains and the clock into
a heap, and then the goods OF the
family who were to move in began TO
arrive. Itlooked like rain and they pitched
their goods into the house over mine and
began to scrub out. We got over TO the
other house just as the family were NOV
ing out, and we pitched our goods in over
theirs and scrubbed out.
We have just got settled, or, rather, the
carpets are down, the curtains up, and we
are piling up the broken chairs, dishes
and pictures in the backward, hunting for
the handle of the coffee MILL the pendulum
to the clock, the drawers of the bureaus,
the legs of the sofa, the pegs of the hall
tree, the sections OF stove pipe. and the
handles to the pitchers and coffee cups.
The stove had lost three legs, and is
perched on brickbats, the refrigerator is
piled into sad heap, and my wife rolls
out the biscuit on map OF Delaware,
with stomach btters bottle for rolling
pin. Next week we are going TO com
mence papering, painting, whitewashing,
cleaning out the yard, putting in new
panes of glass, and stopping up yawning
crevices, and after that the parties named
in my will can gather and divide up
what's left--H. quad, in Detroit Free
Press.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30
Oysters Growing ON Trees.

Mr.. G. I'll. WILLIAMS, q Fellow Of the
Geographical Society Of England, tells US,
in the Hartford Times, how oysters inhabit
the mangrove woods in Cuba. I" For
several years." he says, 4" / resided in that
island, and travelled there more than the
ordinary run of foreigners, and have sew
eral times come across scenes which many
people would consider great curiosities-
one in particular. No doubt the reader
will open his eyes at oysters growing on
trees. Often have / seen the sneer of
unbeliet on the face Of the ignorant when
the fact had been mentioned, but grow
they do, and in immense quantities,
especially in the southern part OF the
island. have seen miles of trees, the
lower stems and branches of which were
literally covered with them, and many a
good meal have enjoyed with very little
trouble of procuring, and not quite so
expensive as they are in London at the
present time. / simply placed the
branches over the fire, and, when opened,
picked them out with fork or pointed
stick. These peculiar shell.fish are in
digenous in lagoons and swamps on the
coast, and as far as the tide will rise and
the spray fly so will they cling TO the
lower parts of the mangrove trees, some
times four or five deep, the mangroye
being one of the very few trees that Hour
ish in salt water.n
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30
Josh Billings Says:

THozE who never have had ennything
at home, when they do travel, seem to do
it on purpose to find fault.
We are all ov us too apt to judge ov the
cloth in a mans coat b. the fashion it liz
kut In.
Trieing 20 pleaze everybody IL like
trieing To apologize to lotov hornets for
running aginst their nest.
Morality liz the bread of literary rep
utashun, but branes mkt with morality IL
the bread and butter ov it.
The man who expekts to git ahead here
belo by pulling others bak amt going to
git CRATE ways from WHARF he started.
Thare liz no kind ov vittles that will
phatt a man so fast az a clear conshiense.
Gravity ~ generally kind ov IA koun-
terfit which man cheats himself with and
tries to cheat others With, too.
Envy liz the btterest pashun ov the
harte; it IL even more subtle than re-
venge.
| hay made a cluss kalkerlashun on il,
and find that, with whisky ut six cents
glass, a man will drink up good farm
and fetch up In the poor hous In just thir-
teen years and four months,
Yu kant liv and di happy, my yung
friend, bi serving the devil; this haz bin
tried by az smart men az the world haz
ever produced, and proved to be pro-
found lailnre---
Wize men are just az apt TO overshoot
the mark az phools are, but hav alwuss
sed that ii IL respectable miss for either
ov them TO make.
If man kan stand sudden prosperity
without making hiz he'd swim, he haz got
the right kind ov stuff in him.
A lazy man allwuss thinks he works
harder than emmy one else, and guess he
IL more than half rite.
Falling desperately in luv IL an old
fashioned complaint; folks don't do ii
emmy more, 1t amt fashlonable.--N. Y.
Weekly.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30
Wholesale Slaughter OF Geese by
Lightning.

On Monday an almost incredible
occurrence transpired in the northern
part of Suffer and the southern part of
Butte County. On Monday evening, just
before sunset, a large thunder cloud came
up, apparently from the northeast, ac.
companied by ap unusual amount of
chain.lightning. First small amount
of common hail fell, and then followed
sufficient snow to whiten the ground.
As the hail began to fall and the light.
ming flashed, thousands of white geese,
which were in the ponds of shallow water
which exist In that locality during very
wet winters, suddenly rose up in great
flutter, as If many hunters had discharged
volley among them. They went up and
up, apparently TO rise above the fearful
cloud. IL was nearly dark, and those
who saw them rise thought no more OF II
till morning, when they began TO find
dead geese, and hear of hundreds being
picked up by the neighbors. Some TOO
bad been found. One man picked up, on
his farm, all two horses could haul, for
their feathers. Their heads were badly
torn and their bills split into fragments.
Many Of them had the feathers Of their
backs crisped and burnt and their bodies
burst open. The portion OF country
thus affected was about mile and half
wide, and reached several miles into
Butte County. The terrific lightning in
this cloud was witnessed by people on the
Honcut, in Yuba County, and In the cen.
trail portion of this county. The thunder
was heard twenty miles distant uba
City (Cak) Banner.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30
Double Brains.

Nor long since we noticed some Of the
manual evils resulting from the customary
repression Of the left hand, and advocated,
on physical grounds, its culture equally
with that Of the right hand 1t seems that
there are not less cogent mental reasons
for developing the two sides Of the body
impartially.
II Is coming TO be well known that men,
tai development Ia the result of properly
directed physical training; that the brain
grows in size and power by the varied ex-
ercise Of the senses and the will in me-
chanical employments quite as rapidly as
by purely intellectual efforts in study or
otherwise. II Is equally well known u
psychologists that most men are one-sided
in their heads rs in their bodies. The two
halves of the brain are rarely developed
symmetrically, az may be readily seen in
the conforms" or head measures accumu-
lated by hat-makers supplying individual
customers. To some extent the difference
in the contour OF the two sides OF the head
may be due to unequal pressure on the
nurses arm, or to the habit of lying chiefly
on one side while sleeping, thus causing
permanent displacement: or the walls OF
the skull; but the main reason appears TO
be our one-sided habit in education.
In MS IOuTtu lecture DeIOTB the Lowell
Institute, Boston, DIR. Brown.Sequard OBJ
serves that the study Of the facts relating
to the brain has led him to believe that
leach half of the brain-paradoxica as
Ii may SCENTS whole BRAIN" each lobe
being normally competent to perform all
the functions Of both, not SO vigorously,
Of course, as the two acting together, yet
with apparent completeness. Unfortu-
nately, however, the most OF US are single
Drained as we are single handed, and for
the same reason. We fail to do what is
really needed to give us two working
brains. "fhere Is no question" concludes
this skilIful observer that 1t is our habit
Of making use Of only one side OF the
body that consigns 10 one. half of the brain
the right side-the faculty Of expressing
ideas by speech. II we developed both
sides of our body equally, not only would
there be the benefit that we could write
or work with the lef' hand as well as with
the right but we should have two brains
instead Of one, and would not be deprived
Of the poser OF speech through disease
OF one side Of the brain. "-Scseatifc amer
ican.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30

IT will pay every one abundantly, In
satisfaction III not in dollars and cents, To
reduce every agreement between employer
and employe, between buyer and seller,
and between one neighbor and another, TO
writing, and let the names Of both parties
BIC affixed 10 the document Honest men
will sometimes forget certain particulars
in an agreement; but ii the main points
are reduced to writing all chance for dis
pute, and In numerous instances litigation,
will be avoided
Let one procure small account book
IA pocket diary would be excellent and
convenient for sucha prrpose--and under
the proper date write out every PROPOSE
ton briefly, and let both parties sign IL.
It IL not legally necessary to observe the
long phraseology and the numerous re-
dundant terms employed by legal attcr.
neys. Only few words will render an
agreement as legal as 500 words. For ex-
ample:
This IL 10 certify that I, John Smith, agree to
work for John Jones ten months for $40 per
month, commencing this day, Jan. ], 1874
yoHs SMITH.
JONI JosEs.
In the same account book let every man
write receipt for every dollar received
and aflix his signature, thus:
Received Of John Paul $40 for waaoning ten
loads Of sand, In full Of all accounts.
PETER Squash.
If a carpenter renders one days service
or more, no matter who he may be, when
he receives his pay let him write receipt
for the amount, thus:
Received OF John Jump four dollars for two
days carpenter work In shfngIing barn.
Jan. ~ 1874 PAT. QUICK