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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04
A Wyoming Ball.

MISS -, from Wilder's Gulch, was
elegantly attired in handsome buff gros-
grained buckskin dress, with army
blanket overskirt, looped up with buck
skin strings cut bias. Hair dressed Ia
Red Cloud, in which was twined few
sprigs of sage brush, the whole secured
behind in bunch with a handsome pin
made with pine splinter and bufalo's
ear. She wore an elegant mountain cat
skin cap, festooned with antelope tails,
secured under the chin with rattlesnake
skin. Her feet were incased in buckskin
mOccasins, ornamented with beads and
soldier-buttons. She created big sensa-
ton as she entered the hall hanging upon
the arm of Mr.. Fl. Barton, of Hallville,
who was dressed In the style OF his local
ity-buckskin breeches in boots, hunting
shirt of the same, ornamented with beads
and tobacco juice, an army belt OF the
latest pattern around his waist securing q
pair Of six-shooters and huge bowie
knife, which set off his gallant figure to
good advantage. Envious glances from
both sexes followed this handsome couple
round the hall. Several ladies and gen.
tlemen from the mining districts were
present and expressed themselves well
pleased with the manner in which the
party was conducted. Their frequent ex-
CARNATIONS Of delight, such as Red hot,
you bet I" F" Amt it fruit, though Pr" Hoop
la" etc, plainly indicated that they were
enjoying themselves in the best possible
manner. --Raulins Correspondence Laramie
Nv. ~ IndeDendent.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04
The Feet.

THERE are no parts of the human body
that need more assiduous attention than
the feet. If the eyes, ears, lungs or other
more delicate organs become deranged,
they give warning by ailment. II 10
otherwise with the feet. They may be
neglected, or even abused, without any
bad consequences being Immediately feit.
But then, though not Immediately felt,
they will to certainty be eventually felt,
and felt very sorely, too.
An excessive flow of blood to the head,
extreme liability to cold, disordered diges-
ton, and other numerous evils are the
result of inattention to the feet. The feet
should be regularly washed and wiped
every day.
Stockings should not be put on while
there 10 the slightest moisture on the feet.
The stockings absorb the moisture and
gradually return it to the feet, thereby caus-
Ing the feet to feel cold and uncomforta-
BILE, and, what is worse, when the feet are
cold, circulation liz interfered with, and
the whole system, especially the brain, Is
thrown into en- abnormal state.
Keep the feet clean and warm, the head
cool and the bowels open, and then 1t
makes no difference TO you whether the
physician be skillful or not. II you wish
to preserve your whole system in good
working order, be sure and attend TO your
feet.
Let all our readers profit by these re-
marks and they will soon feel by expert
ence that we are not exaggerating the
consequences of proper attention TO the
feet. -Erchange.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04

delicate palpi, with the fury of starved
serpents, quivered moment over her
head, then, as if instinct with demoniac
intelligence, fastened upon her in sudden
coils round and round her neck and
arms; then, while her awful screams and
yet more awful laughter rose wilder, to
be instantly strangled down again into .
gurgling moan, the tendrils, one after
another, like great green serpents, with
brutal energy and internal rapidity rose,
retracted themselves, and wrapped her
about in fold after fold, ever tightening,
with the cruel swiftness and saw
age tenacity of anacondas fastening upon
their prey. 1t was the barbarity of the
LAGOON without its beauty-this strange,
horrible murder. And now the great
leaves rose slowly and stiffly like the arms
of a derrick, erected themselves in the
air, approached one another and closed
about the dead and hampered victim with
the silent force Of hydraulic press and
the ruthless purpose of thumb-screw.
A moment more and, while / could see
the bases of these great levers pressing
more tightly toward each other, from
their inte-s:;ces there trickled down the
stalk of the tree great streams of the wis.,
cid, honey-like fluid, mingled horribly
with the blood and oozing viscera of the
victim. At the sight of this the savage
hordes around me, yelling madly, bound
ed forward, crowded to the tree, clasped
it, and with cups, leaves, hands and
tongues got each one enough of the
liquor to send him mad and frantic. Then
ensued grotesque and undescribably
hideous orgie, from which, even while its
convulsive madness was turning readily
into delirium and insensibility, Henrick
dragged me hurriedly away into the re-
cesses of the forest, hiding me from the
dangerous brutes and the brutes from me.
May never see such sight again!
In. the course of my stay in the valley
of twenty-one days, saw six other speci-
mems of the Crinoida Dajeeana, but none
so large as this which the Mkodos wOr-
SHIPPED. I discovered that they are un-
questionably carnivorous, in the same
sense that dionaa and drosera are insect
ivorous. The retracted leaves of the great
tree kept their upright position during
ten days, then, when / came again one
morning, they were prone again, the ten
drills stretched, the palpi floating, and
nothing but white skull at the foot Of
the tree to remind me of the sacrifice that
had taken place there. climbed into a
neighboring tree and saw that all trace of
the victim had disappeared and the cup
was again supplied with the viscid fluid.
The Undesirable rapidity and energy
of Its movements may be inferred from
the fact that saw a smaller one seize,
capture and destroy an active little lemur
which, dropping by accident upon it
while watching and grinning at me, in
vain endeavored to escape from the fatal
tolls.
With Henrick's assistance and the con-
sent of some of the head men of the
Mkodos (who, however, did not dare stay
to witness the act of sacrilege), l cut
down one of the minor trees and dissect-
ed it carefully. Seid, however, is waiting
for me, and ! must defer to my next the
details of this most interesting examina-
ton.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04

Paris, but the rate of mortality was not
unusually high.
There were some good fashions in the
old times. When Louis XII. wanted to
borrow book from the medical faculty
of Paris, in l471, he was required to de-
posit plate in pledge, and to get one of
his mobiles to join him in guarantee for the
safe return of the book.
Recently, in Norway, man was lost
from his family, and, though the most
diligent search was made, he was not
found until after the lapse of three
weeks, when he was discovered
sunk in quicksand up to his neck,
dead. To be confined in such q prison,
and there to be subjected to storm, thirst
and starvation, without the power even to
place hand to the exposed face while
waiting for death, must be an end dread
full in the extreme.
A couple of butchers from an ada
cent town opened store at Reading, En-
gland, selling beef and mutton about 40
per cent. below current rates. Rival
butchers were incensed, and threatened
to drive them away from Reading. The
cheap butchers headed procession of
WoTklHgInel, HOlStcu dlcg-Oi-Mullou uaS,
and paraded the streets. The result was
a riot, in which several policemen were
trampled under foot and seriously in
jured, while the cheap butchers were sat
urated in brine. Finding themselves in
an undesirable pickle they retreated to
their shop, but the crowd who preferred
high meat followed them, smashed things
generally, and remained masters of the
situation. The roast beef of Old England
would cease to be beef if it could be pur.
chased on reasonable terms.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04
THE WONDERFUL SEED.
nv KATE PUTNAM oseooD'

NJ KATE PUTNAM ossooD.
-. Wild, neglected ground,
MA, should have been garden faif.
~ hone n ripening fruit was found
10 .n hor rsnk bfiers that hedged it round,
- No song-bird nested there.
.u,nd,no vays were ovcrgrown,
In ~ aowefs were choked in vase and plot.
vani Weeds and venornous vines, alone,
xons Sestering on the moldered stone
About the dreary spot.
=, .eened soil unfit to feed
~ oroyth Of any wholesome thing
vs, under the press Of thorn and weed,
glow waxing. was wondfous seeo
waiting It's time to spring.
The dews Of evening filtered through:
TT The morning sunbeams lent their prime:
And. even and morn, in sun and dew,
a secret ever the good seed grew,
Biding it, perfect time.
At length the final hour was found
Through weary seasons long delayed:
The rain had looeened the stubborn ground,
And, through the matted weeds around,
There peeped slender blade.
Only thread Of green at first,
scarce visible amidst the gloom:
But eth unfolding, sunshine hurst,
Fresh leaf and twig and branch, 1t burst
Al last III klOIiOub pAoonAs
No growth of mortal lanes or leas
had ever blossom half go fair!
II brought the birds, it brought the bees,
n brought the eternal summer breeze
To make new music there.
And springing, spreading, day by day,
So full it filed the garden bound,
The tangled weeds uprOOted lay,
The barren briers dropped away
And withered on the ground.
And when the moldered stone lay bare
And blistering in the summer noon,
II wound about 1t, everywhere,
Deep garlands, where the searching air
Dropped into sweetest swoon:
When every stone blossom seemed,
And every gap hidden nest:
Green hooks where secret music streamed,
And scattered dews and petals cleaned
About some futtering breast
oh, blessed miracle, indeedi
The desert quickening into flower;
The stubborn growth of thorn and weed
Uprooted Dy little seed
Fostered in sun and showerl
oh. miracle still wrought anew,
While hearts one germ OF Heaven retainl
Where barren briers and nettles grew
Let fall the kindly sun and dew,
And Eden blooms againi
Christian Union.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04

A NEW YORK court is engaged upon
the solution of difficult problem. Not
long since, as will be remembered, Jacob
Stiner, with his wife and daughter, per-
ished in the burning ruins Of their resi-
dence. Stiner's estate is valued at $780,
900, and litigation has ensued As to the
disposition TO be made Of third share in
q life interest therein, which turns upon
the question whether Mrs. or Miss Stiner
died first.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04

THE Rochester Express is responsible
for this: "a married man hearing that
the eating of certain kinds OF animal food
would aid the same tissues OF the human
body, as, for instance, calves brains would
nourish the eaters brain, or beeFs liver
the eaters liver, immediately gave strict
orders at his family market that no more
tongue Of any kind should be sold to his
wife or mOther-in-law."
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04

Fowler, the phrenologist, recently
purchased large tract of land at San
Diego.
Mark Twain's new house in Hartford,
to be finished in July, will cost him $780,
900.
--McVicker, the successful actor and
manager, was the first newsboy who ever
sold papers in st. Louis.
Burnside has irst-rate name with
which to inaugurate the cremation move
ment.
Stanley has been recognized by one
of Livingstone's attendants, and the au.
thenticity of his discovery" is settled.
Laura Fair is said to make model
housekeeper, and her husband is one of
the happiest men in California.
The Detroit Free Press claims for that
city the distinction of being the only city
in the country where Nilsson doesn't own
corner lot.
MIR. Bancroft, our representative in
Berlin, is said to speak German better
than English. His secretaries speak only
pigeon English.
Sarah Alexander Young is about to
follow Ann Eliza in her efforts for the
overthrow of Mormonism, and soon the
bell will "go ringing for Sairey."
The C0ngrsgationalist says the dying
request of the late Judge Evans, VINO,
while living was noted Spiritualist, was
to be buried from Christian church by o
Christian minister.
Pauline Lucca says the chief good
fortune she has had in this country con-
sists tn getting an excellent husband for a
very poor one, which compensates, no
doubt, for great deal of ill-luck.
Gen. n. B. Forrest, having abandoned
his railroad presidency, has gone into
partnership with the former city Treas
urer of Memphis in the business Of haul
ing firewood into that city. Each part
ner will drive q "spike team" OF three
mules each, and they mean TO "bear" the
market On wood.
- Mary Clemmer Ames writes /:
"Charles Sumner lived and died moral
hero to women. Such men appeal 10 the
element Of worship which lives ever In
the unperverted woman. Few approached
sufficiently near to discover any human
blemish which might mar the grand pro-
portions Of their god. To their eyes ne
fulfilled in person the ideal OF greatness,
intellectual and moral"
"A Wyoming paper thought It ashrewd
dodge to announce that its charges for
marriage notices would be "just what the
ecstacy of the bridegroom might prompt"
This worked splendidly with those who
paid cash at the time, but when they came
to settle whose notices had been inserted
on credit the amounts ran discouragingly
below the regular rates, and, as about
nine-tenths were on credit, that paper has
changed its tactics.
Foreign Gossip.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04

"A Boston contemporary asks why We
"speak Of the silence Of deep, when moss
al a. sleep sound - which suggests tho
further inquiry Why man takes pains 70
darkcn HIS room when his sleep 10 lightt
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04
Religious and Educational.

hCuB lUub anu EuuCdtIOudIs
The Methodist invelghs against official
church journalism.
Music in the public schools of St..
Louis costs $28, 900 year.
The Quakers of North Carolina are
going to build $4,000 college near
High Point.
Among the Pennsylvania Germans
there is a religious sect called the
Schwenkfelders.
The Christidn Union thinks that
grace before meat is eminently proper !;
but grace before gluttony is blasphemy.
AN extraordinary revival of religion
is said to have sprung up in Jacksonville,
Fla, under the labors of Mrs. Palmer, OF
New York.
The Congregationalia states that out
of ,525 foreign missionaries sent out by
the American Board only eight have died
by violence.
The conversions in the several
churches Of Springfield, Mass, during the
past winter numbered over 400. No such
revival had been experienced since 1857.
The pews in New York synagogue
were sold at public auction after an in
spring lunch, and brought 100000. The
highest price paid for one was $4,000.
Rev. T. H. Taylor has been appointed
State Missionary in Illinois for the Uni
versalist Church. He is commended by
the Covenant as an earnest and efficient
worker.
Abiding to the fact that three steam
ers have been fatally weakened by addi-
tons to their length, the Christian Regis
ter says Many fine sermons have been
ruined the same way"
The Church Standard says: In
Brother HI. t. Anderson's translation OF
the New Testament, the thirty-seventh
verse of the eighth chapter Of Acts Is
omitted because It is spurious"
The Methodist Conference South. IN
recent session at Louisville, adopted
resolution requesting the Bishops in pas
torals TO express disspprobation OF ope-
ratio music now 90 common IN churches.
Tho Baltimore Conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church South con.
tains 160 travelling preachers, los local
preacher. n, 126 white members, 50 col
ored members. Soo churches and 80 psr-
sonages.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04

The American Board of Missions has
established in Turkey 222 common
schools, founded 70 churches, educated
ITO pastors and teachers, opened 300
preaching stations, founded 4 theological
colleges, organized IL girls schools, and
around these various institutions gath.
cred Protestant population of over co.
600 persons.
-Gov. Parker's message to the Legis-
lature of New Jersey states the number of
children OF school age % to 49, at 2S6, 444;
OF whom 179, 443 we're last year enrolled
In the public schools. The number of
teachers employed was 1871, and the
schools were open an average of nine
months and thirteen days.
"A British paper says: s"The little city
OF Derby, in mid-England, is witnessing
an extraordinary revival, due to the ef-
forts of the Rev. Mr.. Douglass, the vicar
OF an Episcopal church there. Mr..
Douglass breaches with all the fervor of
Wesley or Whitef1eld, and he has
gathered to the fold loco sinners within
few months past"
Industrial.
Alabama is said to be shipping con.
siderable quantities of coal to Cuba
The Municipal Council of Houston
has passed law exempting from taxa
ton all manufacturing establishments in
that city.
Pittsburgh is supplying British
America, Nova Scotia and the Canadas
with manufactured iron; BAG, 900 tons of
ore were reduced in that city in 1878.
1t is stated that the Connecticut to.
bacco crop is almost wholly unsold, and
market gardening and straw berry raising
may We! supersede tobacco culture there.
One year ago last February there
had been thirty-two Oranges of the Pat.
rons of Husbandry organized in Indiana
On the 18th Of April Rose Hill Grange
was organized as No. 1850.
The Harmony cotton mills, Cohoes,
N. T., it is reported, which employ 1890
persons, contemplates either an entire
suspension of work or great reduction
in the hours of labor in few weeks.
The ruling prices for all the ordinary
grades of tobacco in the Richmond mar
ket have not been such for couple of
months past as to have very reassuring
effect on the nerves or pockets of planters.
"A New York fruit grower says:
Down-easters are looking to Michigan as
their future main source of supply for
apples. Western New York apples are
good enough but there is not enough of
them"
The deplorable accident on Mill
River, Mass, threw out of employment
1900 or 5000 people. Around the reser-
voir destroyed was clustered half dozen
of thrifty manufacturing towns, perfect
beehive of New England industries.
The Massachusetts, Anglers Associa-
ton having become convinced from the
result of their Investigations that smelt
during the spawning season are not
healthy food, since they then are full of
parasites, have procured the passage of
law to prevent taking them at that time.
in the vicinity of Pittsburgh there are
seventy-four glass-bouses, most of them
being situated on the south side; AS
per cent. of the glass manufactured
in the United States is made in Pitts
burgh, the south side contributing about
30 per cent. of this amount. The
most of the window works are yet idle.
The blowers are still on strike against
a reduction.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04

Clipping dogs ears and tails u .
senseless mutilation.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04
Foreign Gossip.

"A Paris shopkeeper displays THIS
sign: "The man with the fork! The
one that he swallowed was purchased
herel"
There Is no abatement of the famine
in Anatolia, Turkey. Reports from oil
sections of that country are OF the most
doleful character, many persons having
starved to death.
The season has set In with unusual
heat AL over Europe. In Paris and LON
don the weather n the end of April was
hotter than Il usually ID in July. There
had been : cass Of cholera reported N
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-06-04

souxaxToxD shoes win be populaa
again.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-28
AT LAST.

The bond holders of the Peoria & Rocl
Island Ry, who oppose the proposed con
version of bonds, held a meeting in New
York, Sept. oath, and passed the tolowin.
resolution, which We copy from the n. Y
Times of the 25th:
Res0lJed. That q committee of Ave be appoiute,
To proceed TO Illinois at ouce and examine into In
material condition Of the road and the nnanCia
condiuon Of the company. aud into all matters o.
Interest 20 the boud-holders, and 10 report al al
aoJOurntd mveti z, aud are directed to send vacf
bond-holder copy of the proceedings OF tbs meet
ing and 10 call upon them for u contribution of (,
PEI bond TO fay the necessary expenses Of pIU
tecting their Interests.
The following gentlemen were appointed
as the committe: c. c. Hussey, of PITTS
burgh. Penn; III. w Howard, Batavia,
\. u; Remington Neruam, No. IS Broad
way, New York; William .. Mcdowell.
No. 20 Nassau street, New York.
Ihis committe will find ample material
from which they eau make no very salts
factory report Instances Of the deplor-
able financial condition Of the road can
be found IN his city in debts of two wears
standing; a. while the c,udilion Of the
road bed, bridges and rolling stock will
show for ITSELF this COMMITTEE will most
undoubtedly find it matter Of interest to
the bond holders to RECON- mend some plan
to clear out the present management and
place it in more competent hands.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-28
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Mrs. +. c. Foster has been admitted
as practicing attorney by the district court
OF Clinton county, Iowa.
The Agricultural Society has decided
tn hold Nurse fair October 2lst and 22ni.
The programme will be announced in a
few days.
THAT responsible editor of seven
years experiences is oppressed with weigh.
~ cares Of high poSitiiD. The paper gives
evidence OF sottenIng of the brain.
The effort is too much for ''the re.
spOnsible editor with seven years expert
ence. Norris offers 10 sell two pukes for
a shilling. He makes u cents at that
two Sunday Onions only cost him cents.
Add Sanders, who has been giving
tone To the editorial columns OF the onion
for some weeks past, lett shat paper on
The responsible editor with
seven years experience takes his place
aud Mr. Vim. lily Burdett takes charge
Of tue local columns. assisted 10y Mr.. Da
yId Riser. Sam King has alsi severed his
e9nnectlpn with the Taper aud Is succeed
go by MIR. johnson, father OF the ''respon-
oie editor With seven years experience
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-28
Personal

A special train, containing j. 4. Tracy
President Hugh Riddle, Vice President
and General Superintendent Louis Viele
General Freight Agent; Thos. f. With.
row, attorney, and other magnates of the
c. r. |. & p. road. arrived in this city
from the East at $50, Saturday norning,
and registered at the Harper House. Al
ter breakfast they were in consultation
upon matters OF business of importance to
their road and to this city. They were
joined here by A. Kimball, Assistant Gen
eral Superintendent, aud IL. f. Royce, As.
sistant Superintendent and left for the
West on a tour of inspection. The latter
gentleman took charge of the train from
this point west. They are expected back
tomorrow,
Hon. n. B. Judd, US. Collector of Gus
toms at Chicago, was at the Harper House
yesterday.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-28
Nervous Debility.

depressed, irritable state of mind weak, ner-
vous. exhausted feeling; NO energy or nmallon
confused head, weak memory, often with debita
ting, involuntary discharges. The consequence of
excesses, mental overwork or indiscretlons. This
NERVOUS DEBILITY finds y sovereign cure in HUM
PHREY's HOMEOPATHIC SPECIFIC. No rs. 1t tones
mp the system, arrests discharges dlspels the men,
tai gloom and dependency, and reIuvenates the
lire system. 1t is perfectly harmless and always
efficient. Price s., for package of five boxes and
a large Sc vial of powder, which is important in
old serious cases; or 81 per single box. Sold by
ALL Druggists, or sent by mail receipt of price.
Address HUMPHREYS SPECIFIC MEDICINE
co., No. 562, Broadway, N, Y.
Fol Jale by Otto Grotjan 30 Illinois Street, Benser
Il Thomas Speidel and Breunert, Rock Island
and Richards, Moline 3-4dmwfSw1y