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The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-10-01
Grange Confidence Abused by Grangers-
"Cheap'' Salaries.

A Gibson, Ills, correspondent of the
Chicago Times says:
10, the poor granger whose untutored mind,
Sees naught but truth in all the granger kind"
He has had his confidence in the uni
versal honor and integrity of his brother
farmers rudely shaken, aye, ruthlessly de
stroyed. The name of Kilgore the treas
urer of this (Ford) county, has become
''hissing by-word' among honest men of
the county. He had been bright and
shining light among the grangers of the
county, and was trusted by them above
his fellows And when he told them last
fall that 500 was enough to pay for the
labOrs of county treasurer, and that he
would willingly undertake those labors for
that amount of money,-(guileless and un-
suspicious as they were,) harboring no
thought of fraudulent designs on his part
for had he not talked it all over to them
with smile that was childlike and bland p
and intent on reform and retrenchment,
and seeing before them bright visions of
future when they would have glorious
crops and no taxes to pay,-accepted his
propositions without dissent, and elected
him by full vote of the farmers, giving
majority of two or three hundred. The
county superintendent was elected on a
similar understanding, agreeing to perform
the duties of that position for 5000.
Immagine their CONSERVATION, anger
and dismay, when Kilgore brought in a
bill of $4,000 extra pay as collector of de-
linquent taxes, and the superintendent
bill for some sort of extra services. 1t
was terrible that they should have to pay
this amount of money, but this was moth
ing compared with the anguish and cha
grin they felt at being thus basely deceiv-
ed by men of their own, and thus being
compelled to acknowledge before the
world that a granger may lie aud shame
fully deceive even his very brethren.
They fear, too, that this people may
have their eyes opened to the futility of
this farmers crusade, and that it may act
on them disasterously in the next cleo
tiOn
But what must be the feelings of poor
Kilgore, who has thus betrayed his cause
and lost the respect of his fellows. and
who now, by an opinion of Atty. Gen.
Edsall, has no claim to the $4,000, either
legal or equitable. Poor man
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-10-01
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ONLY A HALF MILLION.
From Knoxville Journal.

A terrible howl is kept up all over the
country by the Democratic and pretended
Anti Monop and Independent press about
Radical defalcations. The opposition af-
fects to believe that all Radicals are
thieves, and all other men are models of
honesty and political righteousness. How
is it where Democrats have opportunity to
get their fingers into the public treasu-
ries? In six Democratic counties in Ohio
within the past six months six Democratic
defalcations have been exposed, in
amounts aggregating 89,OOO-almost
half million dollars, as follows: Butler
county, $l5O,OOO; Henry county, $lOO-
900; Fairfield county, 100000; Drake
county, $37, 900 Holmes county, $sO,OOO;
Wayne county, $4,000. $4,000 or
10000 in Radical Iowa is a terrible loss.
and of course condemns the whole party.
although it is balanced by a similar de-
falcation in one of our Democratic coun-
ties; but our oycr-honest Democratic edit
ors are dumb as brutes in reference to
the Democratic embezzlements continually
being developed wherever that party has
power to choose county or State Off
cials. Our friend Mccormack never
hears of these little thefts of 100000
or $l50,000 upon the part of Democratic
county Treasurers buta $4,000 or S4O,-
600 defalcation by State Treasurer. Ran
kin is harped upon necessarily.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-10-01
CRY DIRECTORY.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

baptist CHURCH.-Rev. J. f. CHILDS, pas
ID tor. Services at l0is Il. m, and ~ p. IN
Smday-SchOul a. M. Prayer-mccting Thurs
day evenings.
II T. CHURCH.-Rcy. c. B. CLARK pastor
W. Services At lOts Il. m, and seven p IN
Sunday-Scho0l2 , i. m. Prayer meetings IhilrS-
day evenings.
SHiPSON CHARGE.-lM. e. Rev. c. J." STAi- Si :
- FORD, pastor. Services at iOls a. NJ , aitu
D. M. Sunday-school ut > p. III. Prayer HleI'
lnrs Thursday evenings.
H'ONGREG ATIONAL CHURCH:-I55eN. d H.
y, SNOwDEN, pastor. Services at rus d. 5,,inI ,li
and p. IN. Sunday-school AT L-'E H. 10y
meetings Thursday evenings.
FETRST PRESBYTERIAN CIT @ @hCli,. - lteE' H.
Z :. SNODGRASS, pastor. ott ~ a ~ ~ - d. ms
and Gl5 u. H. SUnday-scuOul a. = 80 ~ I,rrC,rr
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN III i''ii
- No pastor.
E-PTSCOPAL CHURCH.-Rey JAMES ALLEN
Il rector. Services N lo,s Il. ii'' ''ii" "a r.
IN Sunday-schoOl at i-:IJ III.
T-NTyT-f}S LIST SOCIETY.-No regular ser
vices Sunday-School at p IN.
/~,Tu}ISTIAN CHURCH.-NO pastor. Ser
I I vices AT lOi, Il. m. and : y. m sunday
school nj .! p. III. Prayer meetings Thursday
evenings.
= p. .CEIURCH.-Rcv. II. \. McAYEAL, pas
( .toT. Services lOls Il. m, I p. IN. Sunday
school 913 Il. IN. Prayer meetings Thursday
evenings.
G,ECOND NJ. Z. CHURCH -,coloredD Rev. -
- -- -, pastor. Services lGi2 Il. m.
Sunday-school 3Ia p. m.
EHRIENDS' MEETING.-On LIST and 18th days,of
4 the week, at 10 a. IN; on LIST DAY at p. IN.
Smday-school Immediately after service on lst
day morning.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-10-01
From Pittsburg Commercial.

Here is the political situation in the
south, compressed into nutshell. The
Republicans are contending for the funda-
mental principles of civil liberty, free
thought and free speech, and individual
freedom; while Democracy would crush
out all these, with all who will not become
Democrats. They design to create an
oligarchy, in which the few shall rule the
many, nor do they intend to stop at any
thing short of armed interposition on the
part of the Federal Government, in carry
ing out their nefarious purposes.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-10-01
PRAYER ALA MODE.

Give me an eye to others failings blind
Miss Smiths new bonnet's quite fright
behind:
Take from my soul all feelings covetous-
(I'll have shawl like that or make
fuss }
Wake in me charity for the suffering poor
There comes that contribution box once
more
Let love for all mankind my spirits stir
(Save Mrs Jones III never speak to
herD
Let me in truths fair pages take delight
1'll read that other novel through to-
night y
Make me contented with my earthly state
Il wish I'd married rich. But it's too
lateD
Give me heart of faith in my kind
Miss Browns as big a hypocrite as you'll
find ,
Help me to see myself as others see
This dress is quite becoming unto me y
Let me act on no falsehood, | appeal
Il wonder if they think these curls are
real y
Make my heart of humility the fount-
How glad | am our pew's SO near the
'front.'
Fill me with strength and patience to wait
i know he'll preach until our dinners
late
Take from my heart each grain of self
cOnceit-
I'm sure the gentleman must think me
sweet
Let sanity wisdom be my daily food
Il wonder what we'll have for dinner
good!)
Let not my feet ache in the road to light
Nobody knows how these shoes pinch
and biteD
lnthis world teachme to deserve thenext-
Church out Charles, do you remember
the textD
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IOWA.
From st. Louis Republican.

From st. Louis Republican.
Iowa is healthy State. There is
something in the atmosphere, in the ex-
halation from the soil, and in the clear
water of her streams that induces sound
physiques and you will find no deep
squallor, none of that degradation which
comes from over-crowding in great cities,
and which also so banefully affects the av-
erage conscience and manhood of the peo-
pie. L have often thought of the mental
and moral health of this State, superior
as it undeniably is to that of any other
Western State, was due to the absence
from its borders of any large city. A
State of a million and a half of people and
no city within her borders of
twenty-five thousand-no county entitled
to more than fifteen delegates in a total
representation of six hundred and thirty
That is to say brawny, symmetrical,
strong-limbed young giant who was never
afflicted with rush of population to the
head who has upon him no fostering
plague spots, but whose vigor is equitably
distributed through his whole system, no
extremity being weakened that the other
may be made strong
The strongest illustration that [ can
think of to set forth the popular mind of
Iowa, is the fact that the Republican
party, even with majority of sixty thous-
and to harden its cheek, has not been able
to debauch its administration, nor deaden
the conscience of the people There have
been indeed, steals That there have
been is not wonderful But that in all
these years, to an unchecked exultant Re
publican supremacy, the steals should
have been SO pitiably small and few, is a
phenomenon that can be explained only
upon the theory just advanced There is
not much danger Of great political or So
cial corruption or Generalization among a
people who live in white frame cottages
with green blinds, with maple trees and
rose bushes in the door yards, and with
back gardens full of cherries and singing
birds.
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THE FLAG OF THE COUNTRY.
Galushia A. Grow in 1861.

"No flag alien to the sources of the
Mississippi river will ever float permanent-
ly over its mouth till its waters are GRIM
soned with human gore; and not one foot
of American soil can ever be wrenched
from the jurisdiction of the Constitution
of the United States until it is baptized
in fire and blood A government that
cannot command the loyalty of its own
citizens is unworthy the respect of the
world, and government that will not
protect its loyal citizens, deserves the con-
tempt Of the world"
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-10-01
From Centeryille Times.

Hon. NJ. E. Cults, Republican candidate
for Attorney General of the State, spoke
at this place last Friday evening, to good
audience Mr.. Cults is one of the finest
orators in the country, and as was expect
ed delivered most eloquent and telling
speech. Mr. Cults is one of. the sterling
men of the State, and has high standing
amongst the leading lawyers.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-10-01

The attention of school officers is called
to Sec 1916 of the Code, which reads as
follows: "If any person wilfully write,
make marks, or draw characters upon the
walls, or any other part of any church,
college, academy, school-house, court
house, or other public building; or wilful-
ly injure, or deface the same, any wall
or fence inclosing the same, he shall be
punished by fine not exceeding one hun
dred dollars, or Imprisonment in the
county Jail not more than thirty days"
Each sub-director has exclusive control
OF the school-house, in his sub-district, un-
less the district township meeting has oth-
erwise ordered. See school laws, section
1853, note 5.
T HILL. Co. Supt.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-10-01
J. HULL, Co. Supt-

Spare minutes are the gold-dust OF
time; and Young wrote the truth when
he said that asands make the mountains,
moments make the year." OF all the
portions of our life, the spare moments
are the most fruitful in good or evil
They are the gaps through which tempta-
tions find the easiest access to- the garden
Of the soul.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-10-01
MASONIC.

TgNRI-LCMINAR LODGE. No. 1S, \. +. u \. NJ.
L Stated communication Friday evening on
or before each fun moon.
c. II. PHELPS, W. ".
4. Ii. GREEN. Sec'y.
uIRAM CHAPTER. No 6.-Stated commu-
nicatiOn Wednesday evening before full
moon. III. Il. kENDIG, Ii. p.
L. BAKER. Sec'y.
TUSCALOOSA COUNCIL II. & :. NJ, No. T.
- Meets NJ Masonic Hall first Monday even
ing in each month II. HOWARD, Il. l. NJ
Il. p. BACON, Recorder.
he PAYEN'S COMMANDERY, X. r. No. C.
- stated communications second Tuesday
evening in each month.
II. c. LEIGHTON, Z. c.
5OHS Il. PERRY. Recorder
Transient brethren of any degree invited to
meet with US
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|. O. o. +.

ggAHASKA LODGE. No. Is. l. o. O. F.-Rcg
u u!ar meeting Satur hay evening OF each
week. ID. W. GRIER, y. G.
W. B. IEGELS. Sec'y.
COMMERCIAL LODEE, No. lbs, |. o. o. F.
X Meets in the third story OF No. o. Union
beck, every Wednesday evening.
CHAS. BLATTNER, y. G..
IEAEE KELLY, Secy.
SnEAC0N LODGE, No. 26f. ]. o. o. F.-Gieets
E every Saturday night.
J. W. BOWEN, y. G.
:. W. JONES, Secy.
TUSCALOOSA ENCAMPMENT, No. H. /. O..
- O. F.-NcgtS lst and 81 Monday nights in
each month. HAM DUKE, c. u.
4. EJ.HLINGEG. Scribe.
odd FELLOWS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIA-
- TON of OsllalOosa.-MeetS regularly eve
r. ID Thursday evening in each month.
j. \. KALBACH, Pres.
T. BACH, Scc'y.
Brethren visiting the city are invited to meet
with Us.
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LIVERY.

{ livery, AND OMNIBUS LINE.-For the
II best livery i'm town call at the Bashaw or
City Liycrics of Downing, McMullin & Co. Om-
nibusseS To and from all trains on Central and
X. & ID. railroads. %
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-10-01
FIRE COMPANIES

NO. ] The regular meetings are held on the
y 1s lst Wednesday Of each month at Z
p. m. ". w. EDISON, Foreman.
". ". DOUGLASS, sec'y.
= o. y The Regular meetings are held on the
- - lst Tuesday of each month at D. m
ED. STEWARD, Foreman.
FRED HEDGER, Sec'y.
= o. - The regular meetings are held on the
y sbs lSt and3 Thursdays of every month
at $50 p. m. FRANK HARVEY, Foreman.
FRANK LINDSAY, Sec'y.
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/. o. G. Il.

TUSCALOOSA LODGE, No. GG0-The subordi-
- rate Lodge meets every Monday evening
IN old Masonic hail, over National State
Bank. Degree Lodge meets every lst and 81
Friday evenings in each month Members of
the order visiting in the city are cordially inyi-
ted 20 meet with us. w. X. LACEY. Wet.
WEI. L. HELLINGS, W. $
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Give me an eye to others failings blind
Miss Smiths new bonnet's quite fright
behind:
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4 modest song and plainly told,
The text is worth a mine of gold;
For many men must sadly lack
4 noble stiffness in the back.
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.

VOHN a. HOFFMAN,
81 ATTORNEY AT LAW,
and Notary Public, North side square, OSllaloo-
81. Iowa. ~
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-19
Willing to OblIge.

VERY prepossessing young lady, can
wasting for a popular book. stepped into
the office of Il real estate broker in
Sprin gield, Mass, the other morning
and, finding the broker apparently at
leisure, asked him to look at her book.
The gentleman politely informed her
that it would only be waste of time,
as he could not purchase it. "Oh, never
mind that" calculated the vivacious
young woman; it won't cost anything
ID look at it, even if you don't buy. l
should like to have you read some por-
commodating broker took the volume
and, CHANGING at the title page, com
menced a perusal of its introduction.
This finished, he began at the first chap
ter, and read carefully and leisurely
along. 1t was about nine O'Clock when
he commenced, and an hour passed
gan to exhibit signs of nervousness,
which were apparently unnoticed by the
broker, for he never raised his eyes from
the volume, but read steadily on. Eleven
o'clock came, and the lady began to
walk rather smartly about the room,
glancing occasionally out of the win
dows. At noon the broker was still
reading, and the agent wore decidedly
troubled countenance. A few minutes
before one the broker laid down the
book, leisurely donned his overcoat and
hat, and remarked, blandly: THAT is a
very good book ain sorry that can
not read more of it, but am obliged to
go to dinner. If you will call in this af-
ternOon, will read some more of it."
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-19
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

"A man on Long Island, famous for
mis- hogs, was asked what was the secret
of his success. He answered: II al
ways choose good natured pig. Those
that when they eat are constantly run
ming from one trough to another and
knocking their shouts against the next
pig sell to my neiEhbors, who don't
know better than to buy such trouble
some animals, while my contented pigs
get fat"
The following is taken from the
Household: Permit me to inquire of your
readers if they possess oleander plants.
If so my advice is to destroy them root
and branch" (the surest way is TO burn
them), which may be thought unwelcome
advice but when the following true in
cident is read they may think otherwise:
A gentleman of our place, after trimming
off his oleander this winter, threw the
leaves out on the sidewalk, thinking no
harm Soon after valuable horse was
hitched near by, and ate them, no doubt
relishing the green, undried leaves in the
depth of winter, but he died from the
effects of it before the next morning.
Since this casualty they are being de
stroyed in this vicinity, though some are
10th to part with them, and allow them
to stand in room where small children
are running about, not knowing that the
off Jas l have been told is sufficient to
cause the death of n person if taken into
the stomach.
Perhaps some farmers who are
troubled by that little pest, the wood
chuck, are not aware that the oil of this
animal is excellent for oiling harness,
boots, shoes and all kinds of leather re-
quiring a simple oil. Several observing,
practical farmers with whom am well
acquainted say it is equal to or better
than meats foot oil for this purpose; and
l know of my own experience that it
makes leather very soft and pliable. 1t
is also useful for many other purposes
instead of lard oil, which it very much
resembles. There is no doubt but that
it would sell for fair price if its good
qualities were generally known. The
woodchuck is very fat late in the fall,
and good-sized one will yield full
quart of oil. Sometimes the oil is OBJ
tanned by baking the whole animal; but
still better way is to take off the fat as
free from bloody and tieshy parts as pos
sible. cut it into small pieces and try it
over a slow fire; then strain, bottle up
and keep in a cool place.-C'or Io,ea
,Sffts Rs1isfer
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-19
The Manufacture OF Pins.

IN writing about the manufacture of
pins by the American Pin Company at
Waterbury, Conn, correspondent OF
the Hartford Times says:
They employ about sixty hands, which
is less than half the number employed
in driving season. Last week they
turned out two and a half tons of pins.
They have capacity for eating up twenty
tons of wire in a week. Each machine
is complete in itself. All that is neces-
sary to do is to place one end of the coil
of wire into its greedy NAV, and it will
bite off the wire the right length, point it.
swedge up the head, and spit out the pins
at the rate of lis minute. Now slight
knowledge of arithmetic will enable us
to get at the capacity OF the concern,
srpposing they were driven to the ut
most with two sets of hands, day and
night. They have seventy-two machines,
each machine capable of turning out 175
pins u minute. What do we see? For
one machine 800 pins an hour: for ten
hours ten times AS many, or 1O5, 600
Now the night hands come along, and
before Daylight the firing brass
eater has made the number 100000
Then let US see what the seventy five
machines have been doing in the same
time. Seventyfive times 100000 is
Is, $50, 900. Now this is the sum total
for single day. Multiply it by six,
the number of days in the week, and
you have %, 500, 600 a week. If you
have any curiosity to follow farther,
you can multiply it by the number of
weeks in year, and the grand total will
be 4,9l4O00 900. Whew, Enough to
take ones breath away. That beats the
national debt. They actually have the
capacity to make more pins in year
than the United States owes dollars
The principal manufactures for making
pins in this country are at Waterbury,
Birmingham and Winsted, of this State.
No wonder the question is asked
"Where do all the pins go tor" For
sticking them in paper the pms are fed
in a hollow revolving cylinder, and are
taken up in the compartments of longi
tudinal ribs which extend along the in
ner surface of the cylinder and drop
open upon an inclined plane, down which
they slide and are caught in the links of
an endless chain. Each link is notched
for as many pins as make a row, and
each notch receives its pin hanging in by
the head. The whole is then left
together in the paper. The only atten-
ton the machine requires is to supply it
with paper and pins. The first attempt
to manufacture pins in this country was
made soon after the war OF 1918, when
pins were sold for one dollar a paper.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-19
Advice to a Girl who !" Finished, -

GERTRUDE-Yu tell me that WI hav
been two years in a boarding school,
and hav just finished yure edukashun,
and want to kno what yu shall do next.
Listen, mi gushing Gertrude, and l
will tell yu.
Get up in the morning in good season,
60 down into the kitchen, seize potato
by the throat with one hand and knife
with the other, skin the potato, and
dozen more just like it, stir up the buck
wheat batter, look to the oven and see
how the biscuit are doing, hustle around
generally, step on the cats tail, and help
your good old mother git breakfast.
After breakfast put up the yung chill
dren's luncheon for skool, help wash up
the dishes, sweep, put things in order,
and sumtime during the day knit at
least two inches and half on sum one
ov yure brothers little blue wooden
stockings for next winter.
In other words, go to work and make
yureself useful now that yu hav bekum
ornamental, and if yu hav emmy time
LETT, after the beds are all made, and the
duks hav been fed, pitch into the pianna,
and make the old rattie-box skream with
musk.
Do this for one year, and some likely
yung fellow in the naberhood will hear
ov it, and will begin to hang around yu
and say sweeter things than yu ever
heard before, and will finally Civ yu a
chance to keep house on yure own hook.
lu follow mi advice, Gerty, and see if
he don't--Josh BILLINGS, IN ". Y. Weekly