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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

without its master, and as If seeming the
danger, had gone forth on q mission of
rescue. Sholto, thus assisted, arose on
his feet, while the wolf and the dog
were contending furiously for the mas
terry.
Next Sholto saw something which lay
glittering in the snow. He hurried to
ward it and recovered the weapon which
had been wrested from him and again
threw himself into the contest. Al
though his clothing was soaked in blood
and his strength was quite exhausted he
lacked not courage.
With a sturdy blow he dispatched one
wolf, wheIeupon companion, mangled
and bleeding, slyly betook himself off.
ping with Arno. 1t was no easy task to
ria the noble dog of his antagonist. To
be sure, SholtO continued to deal heavy
blows over the VOLTS back and legs and
thus managed to disable him by degrees
But the position of the dog-who lay
directly under his acknowledgements
would have liked. At length Arno was
his legs and unloosing his hold, suffered
his head to fall backward.
The moment was ripe The hatchet
was raised, and, with all possible force,
was buried deep in the VOLTS skull.
Without groan the animal rolled over
in the snow. This was the last of the
fairly overcame Sholto, and he was on
the point OF lying down to rest when
the fate of his poor dog flashed into his
mind.
The moon had gone behind q cloud
and darkness enshrouded the scene.
Sholto grouped about and found Arno
painting and gasping for breath Perhaps
he had received mortal wound. But
no, that was impossible, for dog SO true
and noble could not die. He bent over
him and raised his head. He caressed
him tenderly and paused when a soft
hand rested on his shoulder. A familiar
voice sounded in his ear.
Whose was it? All, Shoito could not
mistake the voice of his wife SO easily,
for she it was who had braved the ter
rors of the night in search of him You
know the rest. The candle guided them
komeward, and there in that lowly cot
tage Sholto thanked God for his narrow
escape and for having bestowed upon
him wife so brave and loving and a
dog so noble and true.
"A pretty good story, Herr Gabel,
only little romantic"
"Ah, sir, if you do not believe it go and
ask sholto. Even the dog Arno, whom
you just saw tagging behind his masters
heels, will wag his tail in rare fashion
when questioned about the affair. The
event took place five years since, After
awhile Sholto wearied of living in a
country exposed to SO many dangers and
moved himself and family down here.
We think, however, he will return to Lii
vonia some day, for he doesn't quite
fancy our ways of living. Such is the
story. And now, my friends, let's go
over to the gulley yonder and I'll tell
you another. Geo. L. Austin, IN Hearth
and Home
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

The following are the postal changes
in Iowa for the week ending Feb. ID,
1875:
Established - Hanover, Allamakee
County, 0. F. Ferris, Postmaster.
Discrimination Mills, Decatur
County.
Postmasters Appointed-Argo, Lucas
County, Alfred Conner; Birmingham,
Van Buren, County, John S. Ragsdale
Commerce Mills, Polk County, U. A.
Rice; Tyrone, Monroe County, William
Winslow.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

blight has wiped out" every plantation
and do not know of one now remaininc
we have an abundance of native ma.
terials OF this kind and it is quite time
that we make the best use of it possible
ID. .. Fuller, in N. Y. Indspendeut.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

THE Youngstown (Ohiol Register tells a
tough story. A nan employed In one OF
the iron mills in that place had finger
cut off IN the large shears. The Register
closes the ''item" with this statement:
The first intimation that Mr.. Cook had
of his misfortune was from fellow
workman, who picked up the end OF the
severed finger from under the shears and
handed il TO him." If that man should
be hanged he wouldn't know anything
about Il until some kind friend called
his attention to the account OF the exc
cution In the newspapers.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

"A New Orleans newspaper offers the
following sentiment: George Washing
ton--first in war, first in peace, and last
In getting monument"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

CREAM can be raised by freezing, but
this is not practiced in this country.
National Republican., 1875-07-19

THE Salisbury IN. c. HatsEEigeReer is q
high toned journal which teaches its read
ers that Mr.. Thos. B. Keogh, chairman of
the Republican Executive Committee of
that State, has been attempting ''to learn
North Carolinians how to vote" In the
eyes of the IntelEfgencer, however, Mr..
Keogh's greatest crime, as we'll as that of
Col Ball, the editor of the Greensboro NeU
North State, is the accident of Northern
birth. This is fair specimen of the man.
ner in which selfexalted Southern igno-
ramuses treat "non- native" gentlemen.
Both Keogh and Ball are well known in
Washington as honest and capable leaders
of the Republican party, against whose
private or public character not breath Of
suspicion has ever been alleged. Industry,
integrity and enterprise are their especial
qualifications, the exertion of which IN the
State of their adoption has benefited the
entire Commonwealth. Assaults upon
them, made by such bigots as the editor of
the journal in question, will not fail to re-
dound to their credit among thinking and
respectable people, and certainly will not
deter them from their duty of aiding the
Republican party in securing lasting and
overwhelming victory in the pending cam
paign in the Old North State.
National Republican., 1875-07-19
Lippincott,s Magazine.

The August number contains an admirably
illustrated article, by Cecil Buckland, descrb-
ing two weeks experience in the "Carlist
Country" during the late Spanish wars. W..
L. D. o. Grady contributes an illustrated
great varieties of small sailing craft, and the
several styles of gearing and sailing them.
"Why Mr.. Morrison got Bad Servant" is
short story, well told, by the author Of "Blind-
pits" ''Scenes in the Wood" q poem, by
Emma Lazarus, is entertaining for the yividness
and beauty of its word painting. "The Modern
Constitutions of France" by E. c. Grenyille
Murray, gives valuable information in short
space and in attractive style. 'Frau Sommer's
Pleasure Trip,"b Elizabeth E. Evans, is story
of German domestic life and adventure. VIM.
E. GrifIs contributes paper full of curious in-
formation about the ways of Japanese
Daimio. "The YigilantS' Mistake" by John
Thornbury, describes in oE-hand style the
character OF Western frontier life. There is
a paper on "Maine de Biran," the French
philosopher. Then pleasant country sketch,
called "Satyrs and Sylvan Boys" by Mary
Dean. The second and concluding part Of San
Artists Love-" by Francis Asheton, is given.
T. Adolphus TrolIope contributes an article on
Italian jewelry. The monthly gossip and book
criticism is of average quality.
Col. FLoRENCE's name will live among those
inthe record ofbest men, and yet there were some
errors in his life: none, however, of a character
to justify the fearful poem on his lamented
death, published in yesterdays GGzstte. The
Colonel was kind to his fellow mort ais, and
all say "may his soul rest in peace" but how
can it, if this massacre of his virtues is allowed
TO go on?
National Republican., 1875-07-19

OUR SUNDAY CONTEMPORARY, the
Gazette, appears, since the death of Col.
Florence, under the control of Mr.. G. W.
Alexander, carpet, bagger, from Missi-
sippi or Tennessee. 1t is intensely Demo-
cratic, and inclined apparently to the be-
lief that THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN is
about the only live topic for discussion
in the District. We are gratifed to record
this additional evidence of the leading
position of our journal. When news
papers are succeeding, or have become per-
manent institutions, they are invariably
made the subject of attack or comment by
their contemporaries. A forcible illustra-
ton of this fact is to be found in the policy
of the Washington Tribune. 1t was
founded for the expressly alleg ed, and not
very difficult, purpose of running the
Chronicle out of existence, but has strained
its infantile energies for two months in as
saults upon THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
or attempts to dignity itself by provoking
us into quarrel with it.; Forgetting
and abandoning the design of its founders
its attention has been absorbed by the
brilliancY Of our success, and its con-
ductors have, with rare exceptions, failed
to allude 10 the natural object of its an
tipatby Like the Gazette, it seems to
concentrate its forces upon the sole object
of giving us a series of first class adver-
tisements, for all of which we are under
many obligations. There's nothing so
manly as an unselish and generous effort
TO help a neighbor.
National Republican., 1875-07-19

CATION would employ, even in the humblest
capacity, Catholic to represent its faith,>
and no Presbyterian association would feel
satisfied to give to Methodist any voice in
the control of its affairs. No capable busi-
ness man who seeks success in his especial
line would tolerate for moment the idea
of intrusting the conduct Of his minor trans
actions to any one who was not thoroughly
inspired with complete reliance in the
success of frhis enterprises. A man may be
a good clerk and perform the routine
duties of his position in the most satisfac-
tory manner, but that is not all that is
required of him. Ifhis sympathies are not
enlisted for the preservation and advance
ment of the reputation for administrative
ability of his superiors, he will fall far short
of that complete service which should be de-
manded from every man in the Depart
ments. 1t stands to reason that man
whose sympathies, for example, are with
the Democracy, or who is touched with
Liberal rottenness, will not work so hard
for the success of the Administration or the
party as one who is in thorough accord
with one or both. 1t is of this class Of men
that we complain-the drones in the polit-
cal hive, or the worse than drones, who
covertly discount the good effects of de-
partmental work by giving subtle cues to
the enemy for its attacks.
The party will succeed in spite of these
drawbacks, because its principles are invin-
chile; but its success would be more
readily accomplished if there was more
moral courage in the Departments, enough,
for example, to weed out the traitors in the
camp, and bid defiance 10 the really pow
erless- -for-evil assaults of the Detective
National Republican., 1875-07-19

WHILE denying the truthful statement
made by THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
some time ago that Jeff Davis had been
mentioned as proper person to be the
president of the North Carolina Uhivers-
ity, the Wilmington Journal says:
''But lest we may be misunderstood from
what we have said above, we take occasion
here 10 declare that in our opinion no better
man than jefferson Davis can be found in all
these. United States to put at the head of the
university, if 1t is desired to put that institu-
ton upon a sure and stable foundation from
the very outset. The equal, If not the su-
perior, of any man in the United States in
natural ability, in general scholarly learning,
in broad craftsmanship, in personal purity
and in bigh-minded patriotism, and beyond
any man living identified with the cause of the
South, jefferson Davis would give to Chapel
Hill an eelat and prestige that no other man
could give. Unlike THE REPUBLICAN, we
look upon jefferson Davis as the properest per-
son TO instruct the youth OF this country in its
history, its government and obligations"
We commend this extract from a repre-,
sentative Southern Democratic journal to
those people of the North who remember
JEFF Davis as the arch traitor of the rebel,
lion. The 'thigh-minded patriotism" ofsuch
man should at once give him forward
place in the Gush movement which is just
now so popular with certain classes of weak.
kneed Republicans and designing Demo
Gratis. If the university at Chapel Hill j:
to be used as q hot-bed of treason instead o.
an institution of learning in the true sense
of the word, JEFF Davis is the man to take
charge of it, as no one will deny that ht
was directly identified with the cause o
the South.
National Republican., 1875-07-19

COX.-On the 18th inst, after 4 long and ,iiful
illness, W. +. Cox, in the fifty sixth yer OF his
The friends and relatives are respectfully invited
70 attend his funeral a. his late residence, No 3
New Jersey "a avenIe southeast, Tuesday, the 10th
inst, Mrs. MARY p, wife Of Samuel P, Hopper
Funeral win take place this day at II O'Clock
west. Friends are respectfully invited
ADAMs:-0n the 18th instant, of cholera in
fantum, MARY w., infant daughter of Robert and
Mary Adams, aged one month and twenIy-eight
fie funeral will take place from the rssideucs of
nortkess:, to-day at I O'Clock D. m The relatives
and friends Of the family are respectfully invited
TO attend
GRLDY.-Julv II, at 3 O'Clock p. m. HELEN
AGATHA, youngest child Of Daniel and Emily
GRADY, aged seven weeks;
street, northeast, this (MOnday) afternoon q. s
GosBss,.on the 18th instant, at $50 a. m, Az
George Combs, In the tWenty-ninth year OF her
The funeral will take place from her late resi-
dence, No. ll24 Tenth street northwest, on Tues.
day morning the 20 Sth tS instant a. o'clock pre-.
Conception, where ReGu.em Mass viii b. ceie-
SraMd. The friends , and aca1aint ,nces Of the
Tobacco paPersp please copy.1
PAGE.-At his late residence in Rockville, Md,
on the nth instant, WILLIAM II. PAGE, in the
His funeral wiz take place at Trinity church,
sSIF ISEd and fhs shsss f
iiy III a. are respectiuiiy Invited to attend " '"e
sSSdSePly a. EbssaylIs, bspnt, t.ss gl,.ss
aged twenty months and ffteen days.
f.Stum. MARTHA RAMBo, adopted daughter OF W,
B. AMP. q. Gendell.
TSuEssa 18Th Instant soss.
aged nine months.
National Republican., 1875-07-19
P rof. Marsh Again.


Frof. Marsh, of Yale College, is a gentleman
of profound erudition and familiarly acquainted
with the ground plan and front elevation of
every species of animal living or extinct which
America has ever produced. Prof. Marsh is a
deyotee Of science, but can spare an occasional
moment to pity the sorrows of the noble red
man. In other words, he is professional
paleoniologist and an amateur humanitarian
and reformer. Fossil bones demand his severer
studies, but bad whisky and rotten -four are
the recreations of his leisure moments. He is
not the man to be put down by the application
Of the indefinite article from the pen of Secre-
tary Delano, and in order to prove this fact,
after the appointment of a committee of in
vestigation with reference to his former
charges, he devOtes little Of his valuable time
to the inditing of 4 letter to the President,
which he posts In the editorial office of the
New York Tribune, thus affording that honest
and highly virtuous Journal an opportunity for
an eloquent appeal for the incubation of a high
standard of morality among Indian agents.
Prof. Marsh did the country good service
when he reported the frauds which he now for
the second time complains of. His report was
accepted with implicit confidence BY the Ad-
mnistration, and a committee which was COM
posed of some of the best and most respected
men OF the country, was at once appointed to
look the matter up. Prof. Marsh was informed
of that appointment, and, as he himself ad-
mits, was invited to laya statement of facts
before it. This he has as yet neglected to do.
But because some Indian agent, contractor or
bureau official is not decapitated at once. and
his scalp sent to Yale College, ticketed "Prof,
Marsh" that vindictive man of science goes of
at half-cock with a series of unsupported, un-
proved, unreasonable accusations Of the man.
ayers Of the Red Cloud agency, by which he
seeks 20 prejudice the verdict Of the public on
a matter which, at his own suggestion, is be-
ing investigated by men who are fully as relia-
BILE, fully as well known, as Mr.. Marsh, and
much more sensible and consistent in their
methods than he.
Few men could have commanded the atten-
tion of the President to a degree which would
secure the appointment of an important COM
mission like that which Mr.. Marsh secured.
Before their work is fully begun, and without
offering particle of evidence, though already
invited to do so, Prof. Marsh seeks to throw
discredit on their proposed action, and vents
charges of gross incompetency on Government
officials in way which stamp him as exceed
ingly ungentlemanly, officious, concelted and
ill-tempered, whatever may be his pretentions
TO scholarship. If man finds it too much for
him to be gentleman and scholar" by all
means let him be a gentleman.
National Republican., 1875-07-19

The latest exhibition of nominating
idiocy comes from the American Protestant.
That journal puts up the name of Secretary
Bristow for President and Senator Booth
for Vice President. No objection can be
offered to the former, for the reason that he
has proved himselfto be an honest, efficient
and patriotic public servant; but as for Sen
ator Booth-bah. He has proved himself
to be everything that is despicable and
treacherous in politics. Simply a leech
upon the Republican party, he finally sold
it out to the Opposition, and is now en-
deavoring to ruin it by giving aid and com
fort to its enemies during the pending cam
paign in California. The idea of any polit-
ical utilization between him and Secretary
Bristow is simply preposterous.
National Republican., 1875-07-19

SAM. RANDALL S FRIENDS claim that he
has ninety pledged votes TO secure for him
the Speakership of the next House. This
number is sufficient to carry the caucus
nomination, and if Randall can rely upon
those pledges his competitors may as well
give up the chase. So far as we are con-
cerned we would prefer that Fernando
Wood should be chosen. His record would
furnish a never-ending- source of comments
if his party should stupidity elevate him to
the ''third place in the Government. "
Next to him our choice is Randall AL
though his record is clean, comparatively
speaking, his nature is querulous, impetu-
GUS and partisan, and he would make such
an exhibition of himself in the Speake rs
chair as to give his political enemies plenty
of opportunity for pointed criticism. Mr..
NJ. G. Kerr's chances for the office may yet
be advanced to the ragged edge of possible
success. He is a quiet, negative, unoSten-
tatIous man, who wouldn't be worth fig as
the subject of paragraphs. By all means,
ye Democrats, if you have any regard for
the Republican press, give US Wood or
Randall as Speaker.
National Republican., 1875-07-19


WHEN close investigation is made of
the relative extravaganza of the two parties
in the Southern States, the assumption that
the Republicans have been the most reck-
less instantly disappears. This is fact
which no honest man will deny. For ex-
ample, the Republican constitution Of the
State of Alabama created fourteen new
offices, with salaries amounting in tho ag
gregate to $S,44O. The last Democratic
General Assembly Of the State created seven
hundred and seventeen offices, with salaries
amounting in the aggregate to S143, 500.
This was the work of one session. Will
the Opposition press of the North reproduce
these figures, or will it continue its unjust
denunciations of the Republicans as solely
responsible for the extravagant expenditure
of the peoples money in the South?
National Republican., 1875-07-19

GEORGE WILKES, in his Spirit Of the
Times, continues his assaults upon Price
McGrath, the Kentucky horse-breeder, and
John Chamberlain, of sporting notoriety.
Time was when Wilkes was reputed to be
a gentleman and accepted as competent
authority for the decision Of wagers of all
Kinds. But latterly he has fallen from
grace and is now no more the George
Wilkes OF ten years ago than P. 1. z, of
Pennsylvania, is a hsrd-money Democrat.
Spiteful in the extreme, selfish and mer.
oenary to the last degree, he has stripped
himself of personal and political friends
until be now stands alone amidst the RUNS
of his former popularity, an outcast from
respectable society and without any claim
upon public attention except that which he
National Republican., 1875-07-19

A HARRISBURG CORRESPONDENT of the
New York World wastes good deal of
unnecessary space in that paper to prove
that Aleck Mcclure, of the Philadelphia
called Independent journal
was formerly leader of the Treasury
ringsites in Pennsylvania, 'fand has often
"led their forces to victory in the Legisla-
"ture' There is no news in this to any
one acquainted with the ins and outs OF
Pennsylvania politics. Mcclure has al
ways been ringleader in the most infa-
nous and desperate attempts to plunder
the Treasury of that State, and his great
Independent journal was founded upon the
iIl-gotten gains of his raids in that direc.
tion. A perfect plum of propriety, hon.
esty and respectability is he-with "cop-
per on it," as his friend and hacker, Phil
DAILY, would say. ..--..
National Republican., 1875-07-19

In THE HISTORY of the Southern States
since the days of reconstruction it will be
found that the Republican party has not
always been free from blame for question
able acts, and that not few of its trusted
leaders have been guilty of extravagant use
of the peoples money, if nothing more and
worse. These are facts, honestly admitted
by Republicans everywhere, which are
made use of by the Opposition as argu-
ments against the reliability of the party at
large At the same time it is capable of
proof that the Southern Democrats have
invariably aided the Radical rascals in car
rying their plundering schemes into effect.
The responsibility should, therefore, be
divided between the two parties. In South
Carolina, for example, the assets of the
old State bank have almost entirely dis.
appeared, and it would not be difficult
matter to trace greater portion of them
into the pockets of native citizens of that
State who are loudes in their denunciatious
of Radical rule. In North Carolina, also,
as we haye repeatedly proven. Mr.. Merri-
mon, before his election to be United States
Senator as the Democratic candidate for
that Office, was employed by the railroads
Of that State as lobby attorney, and as
National Republican., 1875-07-19

such had charge of the manipulation OF
several legislatures for the passage OF GER
tain railroad measures of doubtful charac,
ter. He was, in truth, the author OF at
least one bill, for the enactment'of which
he has since had the brazen impudence TO
dencunce the Republican members OF the
legislature. These are facts which VIII
serve to offset the charges against the he
publican party, and it seems strange that
Southern Republicans do not make use oil
them for that purpose. The truth is, the
North has been deceived to great extent
regarding the responsibility for the corrup-
tion which has cursed the South since the
war, because the tales of it printed in the
Opposition press have been exaggerated
and the Republicans have failed justly to
charge a fair share of it home to their
Democratic defamers
National Republican., 1875-07-19

Mr.. DANA, the Pirate of the Press, re
joices over the removal of District Attor-
ney Fisher, whom he denounces as an
enemy of the free and Independent press
In one breath, and an incompetent or
inefficient officer in the next. Let him
wait until Governor Wells, Judge Fish
er's successor, assumes the office. He
will have plenty of opportunity then to
vent his spleen, for, if we do not mistake
that gentleman's character, among his first
efforts in his new Office will be an efectual
one to procure the deserved punishment of
some representative of the unscrupulous,
slandering Detective Press. Dana, who
has escaped by forfeiting his bail or bribing
the bench heretofore, may prove to be a
good subject for him 10 begin upon.