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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-12

"A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette
enters into an interesting and appar-
entity fair comparison Of real wages
now and in 1853, from which the con-
clusion is deduced that the wages
of day laborers are % per cent. high
er, wheat 80 per cent. higher and pork
80 per cent cheaper than in December,
1858. As the reduction in the meat staple
balances the increase In the -four staple,
real wages have risen Is per cent This
would be reduced somewhat by the adj
vance in other groceries and also in
rents
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-12
cwEETHEARrs VALENTINE.
sr nARr =. 6. wrrrH


sweetheart il our Daby
Rosebud, four years old,
Sunny-haired and dewy-lipped-
worth her weight In gold.
Playing in the parlor
On that merry cay,
When the birds go mating,
As the wise ones say,
c..ei;,.aft called out gayIy,
Keep till, Bees and Nell;
Fipks / hear re postman
Yingin' at re bell.
Quickly. al the summons,
Gentle Bessie sped
:. Here's a lot o. letters
Valertinesi" cried Fred.
1.-TWO FOR Sue and Nellie
Three, yes. four for Blair
One for-ohi my senses
Saceettsdrt--I declared
20 We b'essed letter."
Cried our tiny elf;
Make ii open, Bessie,
Yead IL to myself.
From the flmy missive,
Sweetheart's Valentine,
Slowly, gentle Bessie
Read each written line:
!. There'H be st7i fe among the beds1
$ Talentine."
"Omy souli'' and Sweetheart
Heaved little sigh.
"Yat is oelly splen i'd
Mose it makes me twy."
"why, you little Rosy
Tender Bees replies.
Valentines should make you laugh;
No one ever cries.
"Ahp' quoth Sweetheart, gravely,
"S'ou'dn't laugh bout mine;
Tause, you know, me never fore
Dot q valentine"
ST. Nicholas.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-12
Over the Hudson River at POUCH.

Over the Hudson River at POUCH
keepsie railway bridge is to be con-
structed, the corner stone of which was
recently laid. The structure will be of
the truss shape, and the railroad tracks
will be on the upper or top chord, at an
elevation Of 1874 feet above the river. The
entire length of the bridge will be about
one mile, Of which trifie less than $500
feet is over the channel of the river.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-12
Mason & HamIin Organ Co.,

Boston. New York, or Chicago
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-12
--aBoys and girls should always speak

Boys and girls should always speak
the TRUTH is often said by parents and
teachers. Is that sufficient There are
many who never give verbal utterance to
falsehood who yet act falsely, often
blasting the character and running the
prospects Of individuals in this world by
their silence. How many persons, by a
cowardly silence, have acted lies, allow
ing an innocent individual TO be wrong
fully accused? To be truly noble one
must be true through and through, for
"truth is thing not of words only, but OF
life and being"
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-12

The owner of an abandoned well in
Boone County, Mo-, recently concluded
he would have the old we'll cleaned out
preparatory to the insertion OF pump.
On removing the curb, ,wedged down be-
hind the wall, was found roll OF snakes,
ranging from two to six feet in length,
some black and some spotted, presenting
a beautiful appearance, in a ball as large
as a halfbushel measure. Several OF
these balls were taken out, and found TO
contain. in all, 145 snakes. They were In
a benum bed state when found, but after
being taken out and placed in the sun be-
gan to show symptoms OF life.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-12

The Uniperyalist quotes the Chrtsttan
Unions definition of Congregationalism
as absolute independently, theologically,
morally and spiritually, and reprobates 1t
as Altogether too lax for Universalism,
which represents, it says, fixed principles
and polity corresponding"
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-12

Colonel Forney declines the honor Of
being made Mayor Of Philadelphia.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-07
The New Salary Bin.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE following
is the text of the substitute for the Salary
bill, introduced by Senator Conkling,
which passed both Houses and awaits the
signature of the President to become a
law:
An act repealing an increase in the salaries OF
rnembers of Congress and other officers.
Be it enacted, etc, That 30 much OF the act OF
March 8, 1878, entitled an act making approprIa-
tions for Legislative, executive, and judicial ex-
l,epses of the Government fer the year ending
June 30 lS74 as provides for the increase of the
compensation of public officers and employees,
whether members of Congress, delegates, or 9TH
ers except the President of the United States and
The Justices of the Supreme Court, be, and ting
same hereby is repealed, and the salaries COM
Densation, and allowance of all said persons, ex-
cent as aforpsaid, shall be fixedabg the law in
force at the time of the passage OF SAID act pro-
gided that mileage shall not be allowed Tor the
frst session of the Forty-thrd Congress.
That all moneys appropriated as compensation
TO the members Of The Forty-see0nd Congress III
excess of the mileage and allowances liked BY
law at the commencement of said Congress, ana
which shall not have been drawn by the members
of said Congress respectively, or which, having
been drawn, have been returned IN any form 10
the United States, are hereby covered into the
Treasury of the United States, and are declared
to be the moneys of the United States absolutely
the same as it they had never been appropriated
Las aforesaid,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-07

DoNr1DsoNv1ILE, La. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY l. 1874.

in 1888, and studied law with S. III. Young,
with whom he practiced for eighteen years.
He has for many years stood at the
shead of the bar of Northwestern Ohio,
and has twice declined a seat on the
Supreme Bench Of Ohio. In 1S49 he was
elected a member of the Legislature; in 1862
he was candidate for Congress, and though
defeated he received a majority of ], 200 in
Toledo; in December, 1871, he was appointed
as Counsel to Geneva. He is now serving
as a1nember and the President of the Ohio
Constitutional Convention, to which he was
chosen by the unanimous vote of both par
ties. The present appointment, it is stated,
has come to him without the slightest seeking
on his part, he having discouraged his per-
sonal friends from all efforts to secure the
nlace for him
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-07
Cheap TranspoI'tatiOns

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Tn the National
Cheap TRANSPORTATION Convention to-elay, the
Railroad Committee reported in favor of fed
eral legislation restricting railroad frelghts,
and in many respects controlling their man.
agement, and recommending National mar
row-gauge railroad between the Western and
Eastern seaports, to be built at the expense
of the United States Government. Judge r.
Cochran, of Georgia, presented amin0rity re-
port, declaring that Congress has no power to
regulate freight charges on existing railroads.
The right to regulate commerce does not
mean to build railroads to carry on commerce.
The power to regulate is one thing, but the
power to create is another. Charters created
by States are legislative contracts, which nei-
ther States nor Congress can touch without
violating the fundamental law. Other rea-
sons are given against the majority report.
Both reports were received and laid over.
The convention then took up the reports ON
the water routes. The majority report re-
solves that some system Of internal trans
portation, to bring into free Intercourse the
| different sections of the couTtry, is impera-
| lively demanded to revive our foreign COM
merce and increase and develop eur
domestic trade, and that to effect this
object the United States Government
should improve the great rivers and
| lakes. which form the natural ehannelss.of
| trade, and connect these by such system of
canals as will open free and uninterrupted
outlets from the interior to the sea and means
of intercommunicationh between States them
! selves. The construction of these works is
/ the present object in view, and the mattersof
detail may be safely#left to the wisdom of
Congress, The minority report on the same
| subject suggests that the convention propose
10 Congress such enlargement of the Erie
Canal and lake route as may be practicable,
aud the enlargement and extension of the II
linois and Michigan Canal to the. Mississippi
River at Rock Island, together with the COM
pletion of work on the Illinois, which will
furnish additional and cheaper transportation
from the great grain-producing regions of the
Northwest to the seaboard, and also be the
means of aeffeetually eheapening the rates for
freight upon all railroads running to the Mis-
sissippi River from the mouth of the Ohio to
our Northern limits ;sands such sinlpEoyennent
| of the Mississippi River at its mouth and else
where as may be needed to furnish good nav
| igation to the Gulfeand a good route from the
Mississippi River to the seabeard, by the Ten
nessee River route, called the Atlantic and
Great WesterffFoute. There was eT1eral
discussion of reports, but without action
| the Convention ADJOURNED.
Att the nextsessiontb the Convention will
| termine upon plans to be suggested to Con
gress and legislatures of several States.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-07
PUNGENT. PARAGRAPHS. /.

i
The coming tailor, says Danbury, will
| incorporate a square of sandpapef m I
smokers pants.
Why is it impossible to have the last
word with achelnist. Because he always
| has retort.
A LITTLE girl asked her sister what was
chaos that her papa read about. The elder
replied, . 1T was a great pile of nothing, :
| ana no place to putt in.
An impertinent fellow wants to knew If 5
| you ever sat down to tea where skinned
milk was on the table without being asked,
Do you take cream 20
A YOUNG man sent his girl box of
| grapes, one afternoon lately, and the next
| day fellow met him on the street and
said, Those grapes were jolly good last
night; send some up every Wednesday
evening that's my night, yon know,
A New .ALBANY%yeuths horrifietl bis
teacher at Sunday-school, bysaskiHgif the =
slang phrase, g Take him ia outsofmthe
wet" did not originate when Pharaoh's
daughter took the infant Moses .outsof the &
river Nile, that being, the subject OF the
lesson. The lad has been given a class,
and now acts as teacher $3.50
Pick up a matchin the dark and atteupt
| to strikeit, and ten tosone you haze gothic
wrongend; take a leese match out of your p
pocket to pick your teeth with, and twenty
Ito one you get the sulphur in your mouth.
Such ittie'eircuHastaHces as these strength
en- our belief in Satanic influence. Bgasis-ss
quicker. sessss - xs s9
/ JeHN, y said a clergyman to. his man,
''you should become teetotaler; you hasez
been drinking again to-day" do you
ever take a drop yourself, meenister ,? -
'.Yes, John; but you must lock at yeaIreiF-s
cumstances and mine.''as Vera true, SIR
saws John: ssbllt can Won tell me hoWsthe
streets of Jerusalem were kept so clean =
"No, John, i cannot tell you that"
T." Wee1, sir, it was because every one kept
u his ain dom. q leatl -, 80. ~.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-07
POETRY.
WHEREFoREg

B1 CELIA THAxTER.
BLACK sea. black sky! Aponderous steamship
Between tRefp, laboring westward on her way,
And in her path a trap of Deaths contriving
Waiting remerseless for its easy prey.
Hundreds of souls within her frame lie dreaming,
Hoping and fearing, longing for the light:
With human life and thought and feeling tee1ning
She struggles onward through the awful night.
Upon her furnace fires fresh fuel finging,
The swarthy fireman grumble at the dust
Mixed with the coal-wheD suddenly upspringlng,
Swift through the smoke-stack like signal
thrust,
Flares red fame, a dread illuminationi
A cry-a tumulti Slowly to her helm
The vessel Yields, 2mid shouts of'aeelaInatior,
And joy and terror all her crew oerwheim;
For looming from the blackness drear before
them
Discovered is the iceberg-hardly seen,
Its ghastly precspices hanging o. 'er them,
Its redeemed peaks, with dreadful chasms be-
Ere darkness swallows it again. and yeering
Out of its track the brave ship onward steers,
Just grazing ruin. Trembling still, and fearing,
Her grateful people melt in prayers and tears:
Is it mockery, their profound thanksgiving
Another ship goes shiftidering to her doom
Unwarned, that very night, with hopes as living,
With freight as precious, lost amid the gloom,
With not array TO show the apparation
Waiting to sEay her, noIse 10 cry ssBewarei''
Rushing straight onward headlong to perdition,
And for herr crew no time Youchsgfea for
prayer! - -
Could they have stofIned heavens gate with an
guishedlprayi ing
1t would not nave avaifed a feathers s weight
Against their doom. =. Yet were they disobeying
Nc law OF God, to beekon such fate.
And do not tellme the Almighty Master
ould work 4 miracle to save the one,
And yield the other up to dire disaster,
By merely human justice thus outdone
Vanly we weep and wrestle with our sorrow
We cannot see his roads, they lie so broad:
But his eternal day knows no tomorrow,
And life and Heath are all the same with God.
E@F s-Febrndrp Atlantic.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-07
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

Gold closed in New York, on the 10Th, at
II 1-S.
A dispatch from New Orleans, Jan. Is, says
that the officers sent to Terre Bonne report
the difficulties there more serious than they
anticipated. All plantation-work in that sec
ton had ceased.
The newspaper eompositors in Omaha
struck on Jan. 15, ON account of a reduction
of wages from 45 to 40 cents per thousand. 1t
is said that the job printers also Joined in the
strike. The employers advertised for nom
union hands.
|. The Chicago Wolkingmen's Association
have resolved to sever all connectionwith the
Internationalists, and that hereafter the two
organizations shall have nothing in common.
A convention of coal miners was held at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Jan. 16 at which it was re-
solved to enter into general strike unless an
| advance of 10 per cent. in prices over last
years basis was agreed to by the operators.
The Cairo & Fulton Railroad was conple-
| ted to Texarkana on Jan. 10, where it forms
connection with the Texas & Pacific, giving
all-rail connection to Galveston and other
points in Texas.
The Pottsville (Pa) Daily Standard of
| Jan. II has the following in. reference to the
| troubles in the anthracite region: "There is
no longer any doubt of the fact that there is a
general suspension of mining operations in
this region, and unless the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company recedes from
the firm stand it has taken, the cessation of la
Dor viii be protracted and costly. The sus-
pension has now fairly begun; when or how
it win end no one can predict. The men are
well organized and have full treasury, and
they are resolved not to yield an inch of what
they consider their rights. The Company, on
the other hand, is determined not to make q
single concession, and has begun a policy
which looks as though it would protract the
| fight indefinitely
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-07
FOREIGN.

At meeting of Deputies, constituting a
majority in the late Spanish Cortes, held on
Jan. 10, a vote of confidence in Senor CASTELAR,
was adopted, and he was requested to prepare
manifesto to the nation.
A Madrid dispatch says that the iEen-elad
Numancia has been delivered to Spanish
frigate. The insurgent chiefs, Contreras,
Ferrez and Galvez, have been sent to thecap-s
ital of Algeria, and other Cartagenian refu-s
gees have beensimmured in the forts and bar
racks of Oran and MerselKebir.
"A report from Havana states that Col. Es-
perda, with $50 men, had had an engagement
with the insurgents near Molenz. The fight
ing lasted six or seven hours, and at the close
Col. Esperda retreated before the superior
numbers of the enemy His loss was four
officers and sixteen priyates killed, aud four
teen officers and fifty priyates wounded. The
insurgent loss could not be ascertained.
A Berlin dispatch of jim. 16 quotes an eN-
ing: I" If the policy ofFrance is made subser-
Went to the temporal aims of the Papaey, the
peace of Europe will be compromised"
There was an exciting scene in the German
Landtag on Jan. 16. Herr Mollinckrodt, an
Ultramontane Deputy, quoted a passage from
recent work of General La Marmora, alleg-
ing that Bismarck, in 1856, discussed the ees-
sion to France of portion of the Rhenish
territory. Whereupon Prince Bismarck arose
and pronounced the statement an audacious
and malicious falsehood.
A Consistory was held at Rome, on Jan. Is,
when the final ceremonies of installation of
the recently appointed cardinals were cele-
brated and a number of bishops were appoint
ed
Aeonfiict has broken out between Saliva
dor and Honduras. Marshal Ganzoles, whe
commands the Salvador troops, summoned
/ the Honduras garrison at A1napala to sur
reender. They refused yand fight followed,
when the garrison was overcome, with a con-
| siderable loss of killed and wounded ON both
sides.
The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived
at St.P Petersburg on Jan. 10.
By the burning of the Canada Pacific Rail-
road offices at Ottawa, on January 16, all the
plans and field-notes connected with the Pa.
/ eifie surveys were lost. 1t is said that a mil
| lion dollars will not replace them.
/ A Madrid dispatch of Jan. Is says that Gen
eral Dominique has been appointed to com
mand the Central army, operating against the
| Carlists. The publicatienof three more news
/ papers in the city had been suspended by the
/ Government.
A London telegram Of Jan. 10 reports the
/ loss of the ship Minnehaha, from Callao fol
! Dublin, off Sicily Islands. Ten of her crew
were drowned.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-07

ed with three pistols. ssstop, !, said the
chief, looking further. s guess It's all
right" and handed the Governor his pa
perss Coming to the gentleman from
Syracuse, Ny, who was going ito the
Springs for his health, he asked them to
give him back five dollars so that he could
telegraph home. Eyeing him closely, the
chief responded that if he had no friends
or money, he had better go and die-that
he would be little less.anyway. The fel-
low with the shotgun kept pointing it at
the st. Louis Democrat man, as they term
ed him, making such cheerful remarks as
these: "I'1l bet can shoot his hat off,
without touching hair of his head.'
All of them seemed to be jolly fellows
and enjoyed the fun very much. None OF
thepassengers We're armed, and, as Mr.
Crurnp expressed it, $ they had the drop
ISM, so badly afflicted that he could not
get out of the coach, they did not touch,
refusing to take anything he had.
The affair occurred about half-past three
O'Clock, Thursday evening, on the main
road to Hot Springs. From the talk of
the g captain, it is thought they are from
Missouri. They took breakfast on the
road between Malvern and Hot Springs,
Friday; and from the description, it is
thought the chief is celebrated Missouri
brigand Whose name we now forget, who
has been outlawed by the authorities of
that State and for whom there is stand
ing reward of $4,000. 1t may be the
same party who rode into Cape Girardeau
last spring, about nine o'clock in the morn
ing. and deliberately walked into a bank,
pulled pistol on the cashier and robbed
the institution of several thousand dollars
and then deliberately rode out of town be-
fore the people knew what was going on.
They were So heavily armed that Mr..
Crump described them as walking arm
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-07
The National Board of Trade.


sssI, sfrYssep,, ian 5ezs A tsafba ynaetipo nj
a.. rt;oI 30 n, n T.. a., fiif,,
she u ~ ,eile
lnS resolutions ol the report ol tle COMMITTEE
onIranspoffau0n were adopteds
l. Railway coH1aanles, ,elgagsd IN the business
OF transporting grain in bulk, should IN all cases
deliver the same quantity OF gram as they receive,
and that Whie II is DelleVed that the common law
az II 4 az, t the
ifferent state legislatures shovld pass laws com
peling its Observance thereby facilitating its en-
forcemant by any individual ne ggFaeveds
2. That it is inexpedient for Congress at the
present time to assume anypeeuniary sobliga-
tions, or to make any appropriations in aid of ar
tiiciai means OF TRANSPORTATION
8 That while railway companies, like all other
CORPORATIONS, are under control of and held re-
sponsible tosthe power which gave them exist
ence, and may properly be checked in the exer-
cfse Of any unjust Or arbitrary powers, neyerthe
less experience has shown that il is inexpedient
to seek by legislative enactments to fix the rates
OF itransportatlon.
.ms s mOrA siiraad al
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-07
at St. Louis recently, one of which resulted

at St. Louis recently one of which resulted
fatally.
In San Francisco, on Jan. 10, a man named
Randolph Mitchell entered hotel where his
wife was stopping, and after desperate
struggle cut her throat with razor, and then
killed himself with the same weapon. 1t is
said that the wife ran away from her husband
in Wisconsin, that he followed, and when she
refused to again live with him, he committed
the double crime as above stated.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-05-28

PREMIUM LIsr.--We give large
portion OF our space this week to the
Premium list Of the Agricultural As
socia;ion OF lama County Tor their
2nd Annual Fair To be held on the
Fair Ground about ! mile north OF
Toledo, the coming Fall. The pre-.
miums are none OF them very large,
but it is not expected or INTENDED to
give persons chance to exhibit their
stock, merchandise, manufactures,
&c, and then pay all the articles
are worth IN cash premiums. Il is
more the object Of the Association TO
excite spirit OF friendly rivalry and
emulation among tho farmers and
mechanics OF our county, and then
pay as nearly as possible cash pre-
'nums sufficient to recompense the
exhibitors for their trouble and OK
pcnse in putting tho ar,iclts on cx.
hihilon We think, taking every,
thin. into consideration, that the
List makes COED showing, and i,
now rests on our people TO say
whether Or not ". sh1ith a grand
success this fall. 1t is hoped and cx
peated that . large number OF special
premiums will be oife. Dfby indiyid.
nals, and We tender the use OF our col
umns 10 mako any such announce
ments, tree OF expense TO the society
or individual. Let us all 80 to work
with determination to make this tho
hes, Far ever held III Central Iowa.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-05-28

! Council MEErINu.-Present, I'hos
| S. Free, Mayor; Geo L.. Bailey, Re
corder: e. w. Conant, N. Fisher
X. II. Frazec, J. G. Safely and w
G. Walters, Councilmen.
Minutes of last meeting read and
approved.
The matter Of the petition to
grant no more licenses to saloon
keepers, brought ur.
A relnonstrancc TO said petition
was presented signed by VIM. Rick
hof and ~ others.
a supplemental petition was then
presented with a number Of new
names making in Ill 80 voters an
about 200 ladies.
On motion any one wishing to
say anything or the subject was inv
tel to speak, when the matter was
discussed on both sides
On motion the Coun;i instructed
the Ciiy Attorney 70 drai, az Or.
dinancc repeating Ordinance No &c
i'll regard to licenses, &c.
Vote called for which resulted as
follows: Ayes-C. w. Conan,, n
Fisher, II. H. Frazee, an'l Geo l.
Balley--l.
Nays.-Thos S Free, j. 6 Safely,
and w G. WAlters--3.
Declared adopted.
1t was then moved that we instruct
the City Attorney to draft m Ordi
nance prohibiting the sale Of Beer,
Ale aud Wine end all beverages
now coming under said licenses,
feas-C w. Con1nt. N. Fisher,
r. H. Fraz.e, Geo l.. l;aliy.--4.
Nays : Thos. $ Free, J. q Safely,
w. &. Walters ID
Declared aaoptci.
tn motion Council adjourned.
GEo. L. BAILEY, Recorder