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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16

The city of New York has real estate
Of taxable value Of over II 100000, :
600, and personal property valued ut
nearly 500, OOO, 600 and it takes : / per
cent. Of all this, or ahout 81 coo, ,uDO,
to pay the eity's expenses for one year.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16

The report Of the Adjntant General
Of the army about five years later, Oct.
%, 1870, puts the total number OF
deaths in the Union army during the
Rebellion at BOZ, 5o4, while the Sur
gcon General OF the army reports the
number at 2s2 ,955. The Adiutant Gen.
eral reports the total number killed in
battle as 4i.23s: the Surgeon General
report, 35, 4OS: the former reports the
total number who died Of wounds as
81, ,993; and the latter MS ~, ,2O5: the
former reports the number who died Of
disease as l4a,Ui3: the latter rs 1885,
oi6 The Qnartermaster General re-
ports the total number of graves under
his supervision as 3l5.555: only IL. 800
of which have been identified Taking
all things into consideration, the differ
ences, according to these several re-
ports from offscers Of different depart
ments, are, in most instances, readily
accounted for.
According to the only Iata ut hand.
the total Confederate losses in action
are estimated rs follows. Killed. 81
525; wounded, 22I, ,s7l. The number
who died Of wounds and disease is not
stated; according to partial state-
ment" in the American Almanac for
1889, was l33,S2l. Il is not clearly
stated whether this includes those killed
on the field.
To the above should be added the
losses in the Union and Confederate
navies. amounting in the case OF the
former to 1880 killed and wounded in
action: a.532 died Of disease; and ,
07U other casualties. -chicogo hte,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16


THE Mbnopolists will spend millions
of dollars to secure the next Presiden-
tial election.
IT is time when principle should be
preferred to partv, md when patriotism
should fire the hearts Of the people.
WIrH \ united people there are feg
lmpossihilities. Monopblists will seek
To divide the people. and lie who
opposes their union may be suspected
OF having an itching palm.
THERE are S3aO,0OO,O 900 of United
States bonds subject to call, and at
least Sl5O,0Un,00n Of funds in the
Treasury that could b. used to pay the
public d. bt and stop tho interest. But
the Republican administration prefers
to allow that sum to lie Idle and pay the
interest rather than to relieve the peo-
pie by using idle funds. Such 4 policy
would bankrupt the Rothschills. a
change is needed.
In order tc fight monopoly, it is pro-
posed tn establish throughout the coun-
try Merchant, AMI Telegraphi''s'
Association TEs plan is to start WITH
capital Of Slo,ooa,o 900, subscribed aud
paid in by $4,000 life members ut $500
each The organization will be formed
when 1000 subscribers have been Sc
cured. The membership will not be
transferable, which will prevent their
being bought up to give one man or set
Of men more power than others. .--fhi-
cago Inter Oeean.
The expose of the uasayorv methods
by which the last Presidential election
was carliel should open the eyes Of
blind partisans. Mose.y i, the great
corrupt.ng power. 1t is plentifnlly
used in all important elections. Dele-
cations in conventions. and voters at the
POLLS are bought and scll for money.
Corruption rules the hour, and govern
ment by the people is farce. Unless
the Split Of patriati,m com $ to the
rescue the end will lac destruction. =
Chicago Ftpfess.
Mr.. BENJAMIN II. BREWSTER. who is
Attorney General Of the United States,
Is also attorney for the Western Union
Telegraph Company. He could not
live on the salary paid him hv the IN.
tion, and the company could not well
dispense with his services. especial,
since he became Attorney General
There are lots of attorneys. including
Col. Bliss, around Washington Nlo cal
he hired to attend to Mr.. brewster,
duties rs Attorney General, while he il
looking ai.er tho interests Of the tele
graph COMPANY. This is satisfactory Il
Mr.. Brewster aud to the Western In
ion Company. Chicago Tfitane.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16
POWELL Z SON,
BLACK SMITHS,
nn BswAsn unUA
CREsCO, IOWA,

Would remind their friends, patrons and the
public that they are prepared 70 serve them well
In every department of their trade and st ~ rea.
sonabie prices - the times demand Come and
see us, aud be convinced, t3u
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Cash or NJ t:rarprlrs.

A man of not Very go"i credit ram
for Office. ard the way he las jumped
on by everybody had a tendency to
make sl,ir;.ls of his hair.
well, Jolnson,' said an aclnaint-
ancc who kept grocery store, i no
tice vou are receiving rs many compli-
mcnts as the average candidate
"Oh. yes. they are charging me with
everything
"Yon are charged with good many
things"
Yes. with everything, he replied.
bitterly.
NO, not that much, quite
I'D Ike TO know what I'm no.
charged WITH
"Wcll. Johnson, | don't care what
others may 10, but there, one thing
I've never charged You with, anal | give
yon my word | reyer VIII No, sir,
never"
Thanks for seur kindness: htt what
il il 2"
Groceries, johnson. I'll ne,el
charge yoa with them. It's cash or Io
groceries, old msll, and don't you let il
escape your memory. Merchant Irar.
clpr
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16

A LARGE tract Of land h;ts leen leased
in England to educate young men ler
colonial life.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16

Poor and content i rich, and rich
enough; bnt riches, iineless, is as poor
as winter to him that ever fears he shall
be poor. - Shakespeare.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16
Ridicale Cannot Kill the Foolish.

Ii is sometimes thought TINT satire
tends to wear itself out by destroying
the food Oh which it lives. Ii such
were the result We should miss the
familiar types Of character Which are 50
familiar to frequenters of fashionable
watering places. The managing mann
ma, the weary paterfamilias, burdenel
with Improbable daughters and grace
less sons, the gushing maiden and the
sentimental swell. the crnsty old bach
elor, the gay widow and the demure old
maid would cease t. pose on the piazza,
gambol in the glen, or brood within
the grove. Yet year after year we see
them in the old familiar attitudes, and,
barring slight changes in dress, there
Is nothing to distinguish the deyotees
of fashion OF to-day from the specimens
which first startled our beyish igno-
rance Names change. but characters
do not: tho dude" is only second
hand small-tvpe edition of the serious
swell whom Beau Brnmmel knew and
laughed at Ii was the reproach Of
Boswell To the macaronies, rs the faps
OF his time were called, that they Were
too delicate to ride, and outside Of the
polo-playing. anise-bag hunters of New
port, incapacity for the saddle. unless
it be of mutton, marks the genuin,
swell of to-day. boston Courier.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16
| NpAshs.aa
Prevented.


The physicians here
We Darbys Fluid very
successfully the tsrat-
mcnt Of Diph,hetia
Il. STcIMHeWrNtk,
0,censboro, Ala.
fctter dried up.
Cholera prevented.
Ulcers purified and
healed.
In cAscs NJ Death Il
should be used about
| the rorrse - Il will
prevent amy unplras.
| ant smell.
The &s1,nrNt rhy.
| slclsssA, J. MARION
. sims, M. u, New
York, says: ~ am
convinced Prof. Darbys
prophylactic Fluid is a
valuable ,lisinfectant."
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16

Prices as low aS the quality Of Goods apd
Work will warrant Cloth bought OF me foi
Garments viii be cut FREE Of charge, when Il
be made up elsewhere.
- Come and examine Goods, learn prices
and leave your orders. 3ltf
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16
Casualties or the ti,il War.

According to the Provost Marshal
Generals report, the casualties in the
Union army flom the commencement
of the late civil war to its close, or say
until Aug. |, 1866, were as follows:
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16
SMALLPOX
and
PfTT1NG OF Ssllml1
FOX PREVENTED

A member ofMs Am
tly was taken ,wi,A
pinaN .,qs. | pssA Me
Nusd M patient VA
mol dcliriouls, was no
pttted, and was about
the house again In three
weeks. and no others
had Il. - j. w, pANk,
inson, Philadelphia,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16
DARBYS
PRoPHYLACTIc
FLUID.
A Household Article for Univey~Ml
Family tfne,

Tor Scarlet and
Typhoid Fcvers,
Dlphthcria, Sail.
vAtlois, tiirAiANteA
,,~~~ StAlAAt, small
YNx, Measles. and
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16
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MALARIA.

oil Q~Nsnx xaONs Diseases. Persons waiting on
she S.tk should use Il freely. Scarlet Fever has
never been known 10 spread where the Fluid was
uscd. Yellow Fever has been cured with Il MNer
black vomit hnd taken place. The Neist
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16

:
the giving OF greater and greater at-
tention and intelligence to public
affairs. And for this reason am con-
vineed that We make great mistake IN
depriving one sex of voice in public
matters, and that We could in no VA, so
increase the attention, the intelligence
and the devotion which may he brought
to tine solution Of these problems If the
time a. by enfranchising our Nomttl.
Even If in rr.ler state Of society the
! intelligence OF one SIX sullieea for the
management ot eoInmon interests, the
! vastly more intricate, more delicate and
more important Que tions which the
progress OF civilization makes Il public
moment, require the Intelligence OF
women as of men, and that We never
can obta II until We interest them III
public affairs by extending to them thr
suffrage. And l am convinced that
very much OF the inattent:on, the flip
pancy, the want Of conscience, which
we see manifested in regard to public
matters Of the greatest moment arises
from the fact that We debar our women
from taking their proper part III these
matters. You cannot fully interest men
unless you also interest women.
Here, it seems to me, is the gist oi
the whole matter: More is given to us
than to any people at any time before
and, therefore, more is required OF us
We ha,e made, and still are making
enormous advances Oh material lines
lit il necessary that We conmensuratel,
advance on moral lines. Civilization
as it progresses, requires higher CON
science, a keener sense Of Jus ice, i
warmer brotherhood, swidsr, loftier
truer public spirit. Failing these eiyi
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16

Pun, will be supplied by our House at less
price than by any other House in the county.
We warrant orr goods and our work TO be pre-
cisely as represented. 5lu
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-16
The Panther'S Leap.

A gentleman of truth said this to me:
81 was in Canada some years since.
The family had just finished the usual
slaughter of hogs and beef, and had
hung the beef against pile of lumber
to cool off or freeze. A catamount
(the Indian name in New England)
crept out in the night to get piece.
In pulling down the quarter of beef he
upset the pile of lumber, which came
down with a frightful noise, and he
made three tremendous leaps from the
spot. l saw the tracks in the snow;
there was not mark between them; |
did not measure the distance myself,
but man did, and l believe correctly.
The first jump was up hill, thirty feet;
the second, horizontal, to large rock,
tifty-four feet; the third, down hill,
seventy-two feet"
A leap of thirty feet perpendicular to
the branch of tree, or fortv-foot
plunge after fatal shot, and falling
dead almost at the hunters feet, have
been repeated until the veracity is not
questioned, and after making all pos
sible allowance we must acknowledge
there is not a creature living whose leap
compares with it.
The question then comes up, how is
this superiority over other animals at
tanned? The key we shall find in the
coiled wire spring. This spring, pressed
down on a base and liberated, leaps
ahead further than any other form.
The reason is very simple. Every
movement of substance must start from
a base unless moved by an outside
force. The coiled wire spring, when
pressed down, becomes solid its en-
tire length. When let loose the first
turn jumps from its base, which is the
second the second adds its force to the
first, jumping from the third, and SO in
succession to the last, which adds its
force after the whole coil is flying from
the outside base of all. And this is pre-
cisely the case in the panthers leap.
The forelegs and head are shot forward
from the shoulders, the powerful
muscles of the back straighten the
curve of the spinal column from the
hips, while the great posterior muscles
through the Achilles tendon and over
the longest lever in the animal economy,
add the last impetus to body already
shooting ahead like an arrow.-ForeSt
and Stream.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-16
The Block on the Suez Canal.

The Suez Canal has practically broken
down with excess of business. When
it was first opened, thirteen wears ago
half million tons of shipping passed
through it. Last year the ships usino.
the canal measured 1000, 900 tons, and
the rate of increase is still maintained
The ditch which NJ. de Lessons duo-
through the desert is incapable to ac-
commodate this enormous traffic.
steamers are constantly being blocked.
or go aground, or come into collision
or IN other ways suffer damage or de-
tentlon by the narrowness of the chan
mel, the insufliciency of the sidings. OF.
generally from the lack of ADEQUATE
facilities for the conduct of this enor-
nous and growing trade between En-
rope, Asia and Australia. Under these
circumstances, no practical English
man ever hesitates one moment AS 10
what should be done. Monopoly has
lalled to keep pace with the demands of
the trade. He will try competition.
and accordingly it is to the formation
OF Il competing company that the British
I1hlp-owner is looking to-day as the sole
nope, OF relief for the block on the
cana ,-PaH diau Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-16
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A case is on record where barber
and his victim were both happy. The
former talked on without interruption
and the latter was deaf. Toledo Ameri-
can.
"A Boston Sunday-sclool boy, when
asked to stand up and ''say his verse;"
did it thus: BE not overcome of evil,
but come it over evil with good. -
Boston Transcript.
"A solemn old scientist printed the
fact that by bathing the feet in tepid
water a man could double his circula-
ton, and now all the editors are having
tanks fitted to their office stoves.-M
Y. Graphic.
"A lawyer, having gained a suit for
a poor young lady, who was very ugly,
she remarked: II haze naething to pay
you with. sir. but my heart" Hand
no fees for myself" he said.
-Colored doctor (wedded to no
schooD Il think l wouldn't aggervate
myself, Miz Jef'son. l don't think Mr..
JEFF son critterkul; eff dar's no conges-
ton Nv de eppydermis, an reaction
takes place in de spinal collum, he will
convalescent himself SOS to be about
putty soon. "-ArkanSa0 Traveller.
Il will send my Newfoundland
Joe," wrote young Mr.. Dude last week
to the manager of the Westminster
Bench Show, land my carriage dog
Ben. Also please enter me for the best
blooded puppy; took the prize in St.
Louis" The probabilities are that he
has not yet discovered his mistake.-M
Y. Mail.
"A romance of the period: A beau
tiful girl was about to be married to a
bachelor seventy years of age, but very
rich. On the eve of her marriage she
learned that his wealth had been sud
denly swept away, leaving him a penni-
less old man. Did the noble girl desert
him in his hour of trouble? She did,
indeed, and her parents helped her, too.
Detroit Post.
Don't you remember me?" Cant
say that | ever saw you before" "Why,
don't you remember little Sammy Bam-
bry, who used to steal your peaches and
break your windows twenty years agop"
"Why, certainly, remember you now.
And tanned your little hide for you
when l caught YOU "You bet you
did. All, those happy days will never
come again. Chicago Tribune,
Mems Stupidity: An old gentle
man who had provoked the hostility of
fashionable lady whom he had known
in boyhood, was asked by his wife what
he had done to incur the lady displeas-
ure. " Nothing at all, replied the in
nocent old man; ION the contrary, l
was very cordial to her and spoke of the
time when used to carry her to school
nearly half a century ago"' His wife
threw up her hands in amazemcnt, and
murmured: ''How stupid men arer'-
N. Y. Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-16
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

Virginia claims the oldest English
church in this country. 1t is the old
Friends church at Burton, and was
built in 1852. An ancestor of Martha
Washington is said to be buried in the
church-yard.
The monthly magazine of the Free
Church of Scotland makes the number
of Protestants in the world to be 12O,-
OOO,O00; of Oriental Christians, SO,OOO,-
600; of Roman Catholics, 100000, 900:
of Jews, 10000, 900; of Mohammedans,
100000; of Pagans, 80O,OOO,00O.
The Principal of the Nevada City
(Cal.) schools has given notice that any
pupil under his charge who was known
to indulge in cigarette smoking or in
the use of tobacco in any form while in
attendance upon or on the way to or
from the public schools of that city
should be forthwith expelled,
President Ewell, of William and
Mary College, at Williamsburg, Va,
reports several students in the various
departments of that venerable institu-
ton, and insists that its trustees do not
contemplate letting the college-''the
only one in the United States having a
royal charter '-pass out of existence.
AT the recent Presentation Day ex-
ercises of the National Deaf-Mute Col
lege, in Washington, a memorial bust
of the late President Garfield was I'M
yelled with appropriate ceremonies
The bust, which arrived from Italy
only six hours before its unwilling, was
erected by subscriptions received from
deaf mutes throughout the United
States, and cost 81, 500.-N Y. Times.
The charge having been published
in New York that the American Bap-
fist Missionary SOciety's funds for eX-
penditure in Burmah had been manip-
ulated in the interest of officers of the
society in this country, DIR. Murdoch,
of Boston, Secretary of the Board, ex-
plains that whatever manipulation has
been done was for the benefit of the So
ciety, and with the consent of the mis-
sionaries in Burmah.-N. Y. Tribune.
When Parson Jones was asked by
one of his parishioners if he didn't
think some broad ideas interjected into
his sermons would be more in conso-
nance with the spirit of the times than
his customary pulpit utterances, the
good man replied, "Quite likely; but
pray how can one put broad ideas into
narrow minds? Sermons must be
adapted to the capacity of the congre-
CATION, you know. - Chicago Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-16
In PantOmime.

One of the traces of the street car
horse broke. delaying the car for seven
or eight minutes. Afar off to the right
one could see into the backyard of q
house, and directly the passengers on
the car were gazing that way at pan
tomime. A man on the car took it
upon himself to explain what was oc-
curing. He began:
"a woman and her husband appear
at the backdoor She is excited-he
the picture of calmness."
1t was so. The woman waved her
arms and gesticulated-the man seemed
to whistle.
'Now she leads him to bedstead
which she has been scalding," con-
tinued the passenger. '"She is prob
ably saying that she will smash it with
the AK, and he is probably replying
that she'll have to sleep on the floor if
she does. If had time I'd advise her
to use kerosene oil in the crevices, but
/ haven't
The woman then led the man to q
carpet hanging on the fence and waved
her arms some more.
She's telling him to pull off his coat
and beat it, explained the passenger
land he replies that he'll see the old
thing burned first. No true wife will
ever ask her husband to have anything
to do with a carpet.
The two suddenly disappeared into
the house, and the interpreter re-
marked:
Hold on-this isn't the end! She's
taken him in to show where she wants
the kitchen stove moved to. There
they come, and she is madder'n ever. "
The actors reappeared and stood in
the attitude of enemies about to begin a
combat.
"She's saying that she rues the day
she ever set eyes on him!'' whispered
the passenger. "She's calling him a
loafer and drunkard, and he's telling
her to set the chimney afire and let the
tiremen do her housekeeping. Whoa!
there-she's flying off the handle!
There! she's hit him with bedstead
slat! He staggers, but RECEIVERS and
tries to grasp her! She whacks him
again, and now he turns to flee. He
reaches the fence, but she reaches him.
Some of the passengers ran out upon
the platform to get clear view, but
the interpreter climbed to the roof and
continued:
''She has him down on an ash-heap!
She's telling him that he has reached
the end of his rope and has got to cut
bait or fish. He struggles-she chokes
him and jams his head into the ashes
Now he is quiet. Now she lets him up.
Now he is walking towards the carpet
with a stick. Ladies and gentlemen,
the great moral exhibition is over and
virtue and perseverance have won an
other glorious triumph!"-Detroit Free
Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-16
YESTERDAY.

With white arms full
OF gifts for me;
My mood too dull
Too duh to see;
If / had known-if l had known
While the bright day was yet my own.
To-day-ah, we'll
To-day is fair,
But need I tell
What softer air,
Fresh as the morning breath of May,
Blew from the hills of yesterday
Sweet yesterday!
With reaching hands,
gaze away
Across the sands,
To see if somewhere l may find
A careless trifle left behind.
A leaf, wind-blown,
That futtered by,
When all alone
The woods and 1;
A red nose that | used to wear
In the dark beauty of my hair.
The tender eyes
That smiled in mine;
If those dear eyes
Again might shine,
And l might find along the way.
The heart that loved me yesterday.
o, love! oh, loss!
No use, tired hands,
To reach across
The fading sands;
They are not there, the gifts that lay
In the white arms of yesterday.
Home Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-16

There is in Philadelphia an organi-
cation composed of some of the most
prominent ladies and gentlemen of that
city which is known as THE Public
Education Association. The object is
''to promote the efficiency and to per-
feet the system of education in Phila-
delphla by attracting general attention
to its errors and defects through APP
peals to the local authorities and to the
legislature when needful, and through
such other means as may from time to
time be deemed eXpedient. -PhiLadeE-
ptiG Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-16
Anthony X. Henderson. who died

Anthony X. Henderson, who died
in Erie, Pa, recently, bequeathed his
fortune of 100000 to S250,00 after
some small personal requests are de-
Quoted, to the towns of Newcastle, Pa,
and Cleveland, o., for the establish
ment and maintenance in each of an
industrial home for poor boys, in which
they may betaught the trades and given
sufficient education for the ordinary
requirements of business life.-Phila-
delphid Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-16

-Pointed-toed shoes. on the auth
GRITTY of the best shoemakers, are going
out of fashion, and ere long will only
be worn by the "commoners. A
salute of fifty guns, loaded with baked
apples, ought to be fired from Gov
ernor's Island as u demonstration of
Joy unconiined.-N T. Mart.