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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18

Senator John Sherman favors the
or else making It 40 grains, instead of Area,
which would raise It to gold standard and
make It passable throughout the world. II
this change were made, Mr.. Sherman states
that he believes the effect on trade would lie
magical.
The United States Supreme Court
has affirmed the constitutionality OF the act
of Congress levying upon vessels from for.
eign ports tax OF so cents for every
passenger who Is not citizen, the money to
be used in taking care OF immigrants.
Senator Blair thinks that the Colored
Peoples Exposition, to be held in Chicago
next year, will be a great thing for the race,
and that It Is the duty OF the Government to
help the enterprise along
President Arthur telegraphed the
Board of Management of the New Orleans
Exposition he would not be able to be present
at the opening but would visit it some time
in January.
In all probability the contested elec-
ton case I'm Missouri between Mclean and
Broadhead will result In favor of the latter,
the sub-comn ittce of the House Committee
on Elections having reported to that effect.
A bill has been prepared by the Ma
tional Conference Of Health Boards, in ses-
sion at Washington, embodying the views of
the conference as to the best method of pre-
venting the introduction Of cholera into this
country.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18

The private banking house Of Wilkin-
son Brothers. ut Syracuse, New York, sus-
pended business. In making an assignment
to c. L. Hubbell, they gave preferences for
$9s,60. They hold large amounts of real
estate, which 10 mort2aged for sl25, 900. Their
liabilities are reported at 500, 900. and 1t is
STAYED that depositors will receive nothing.
Joseph NJ. Wales e. Co., iron and
steel. at Boston, are insolvent.
An assignment has been fled by II.
Goldschmidt & Co., dry goods merchants of
Hartford, who owe $4,000
For the year ended Sept. 80 the New
York Central Road earned, net, so, 900. 600,
and paid more than $7,ooo,0oo In dividends.
The furniture factory of Clark Bros.
s Co.. ut Philadelphia, and several tenements
adjoining were burned. the losses aggre-
eating sle5.0oo.
Silas Savage, the holder Of French
spoliation claim for over g, 0OO. 600, was last
week buried at Hartford. Conn.,, at the ex-
pense Of the city, after living In hope for q
half-century.
Miss Newman, whose supposed dead
body was taken from q grave in Egremont,
Mass. to Albany and was restored to life on
the dissecting table, is now perfectly sane
and welded to q physician-nephew of one Of
the men acquainted with the facts OF her
resurrection. She proposes to visit friends
In the Berkshire Hills within short time.
Silas Sanders, colored, two months
married, and witness in the Crouch murder
trial 1t jackson, Mich, attempted suicide by
cutting his throat.
Assignments have been made by
Wescott 4 Co., bankers, at Syracuse, with
liabilities Of 500, COZ. and Erastus c. Alden, a
dealer in millinery goods at Providence. who
owes $4,000.
Henry n. Green obtained in Bos-
ton court q Judgment for 3.0e5 against the
New York Central Road for injuries to base
viol. 1t Rochester. The instrument was q
Stradivarius. to which fact many experts
were called to testify.
Fire consumed a block Of wooden
buildings at New Bedford, Mass. The loss
was So, 900 and the insurance $4,000.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18

The Agricultural Department at
Washington reports farm products as tend
ing lower in values. The average price OF
corn is 36is cents, being highest In Florida
$50 cents, and lowest in Nebraska Us cents.
Wheat averages IS cents. against 81 cents a
year ago; while the range for oats is Is
cents, the lowest ever reported by the de-
partnent. The cotton average IL between .
and 9l cents, and for potatoes the farm
price Is 40 cents per bushel.
1t is charged that Col. Ingersoll stole
his last lecture, (which ways" from Hittells
Evidence Against Christianity
The various glass workers unions
throughout the country have subscribed
$4,000 to aid the prescription glass-blowers
now on strike at Pittsburgh.
Commander S. Dana Greene, of the
Navy Yard at Portsmouth, committed
suicide last week. His mind il supposed TO
have heen unbalanced by literary work upon
which he was engaged
II. j. Goodwin, q New York dealer
in woolens, has made All assignment. The
liabilities are about $500, 900. with sl00,O
preferences. John {. Fares, halter ut
Evansville, Ind, has failed, with liabilities
estimated At $4,000.
George Cook was executed ut Lara
mic City, Wyoming, for killing his brother
in-iaw; ana Warren Price Was hanged st
Wrghtsyille, Ca, for taking the life OF his
son-in.law.
Business failures for the week mum.
bered $40, against sge for tue previous week,
and 24s In the corresponding period Of 1853.
Special dispatches 10 Hfadstrees New
York; from leading trade centers report
1.-THE holiday purchases are exhibiting con
trast with the inactivity previously noted,
yet the volume OF such sales IL almost
uniformly below the tota for lss3.
Aside from the continued nrmness Ia the
New England cotton goods markets, due u
the recent trlnness In the price OF raw cot
ton, and with the exception Of q slightly i'm
proved distribution OF goods ut boston
Memphis, Wilmington, and Savannah, gem
erai trade at all points IL at as low al ebb as
ever. more conspicuous feature Ii found
IN the lpng-continued and pronounced
dizziness OF mercantile collections. This il
reported In almost all dree ions. Rates ot
exchange on New York al interior points
have asesiaya IN lless iastaaees, There u 10
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18

Total. ..................I q, 29l .N2 n, ,9S2
These figures show some curious con-
trasts. and no contrast is more curious than
that between Illinois and Ohio. The lat
ter is the older Of the two States. 1t has
a little the larger population. 1t has only
about three -fourths Of the area. Its popu-
lation is more evenly distributed than that
Of Illinois, about one fifth Of which is con-
centmted in Chicago, and the rest COM
pantiyely thinly distributed over great
State. All these facts tend toward making
the postal service cost less and WELD more
III Ohio than in Illinois. and yet the service
cost $2G0, 900 more in Ohio than in Illinois,
and yielded TO the Government $933,319,
or over 20 per cent, less than in Illi-
nois, 50 that while the Government made
profit Of S347 400 in Illinois, it lost SSi5,.
504 in Ohio. The situation was about the
same the last year OF the Scent postage.
Then Illinois gave profit OF nearly
81, OOO,UOO and in Ohio the Government
lost nearly $5OO,0O0. II will be seen from
the table that New York, Massachusetts,,
and Pennsylvania, i'm the order named, are
the only States in which the Government
derived larger net revenue from the mails
than it did in Illinois. The excess OF ex-
penditures over receipts was larger in Ohio
than in other State in the Union.
The Ohio man appears to have got good
deal more than his share OF postal facili-
ties, and he might reasonably be asked to
buy more postage stamps or be content with
fewer mails. The effect OF reducing letter
postage one third was to reduce the gross
postal receipts only per cent. IN Illinois
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18

from Its pentcntiary BY leasing the labor OF
eighty convicts to cigar manufacturers, and
handing over ESQ others to farmers, the con-
sideration being o. - per month and oil ex-
penses.
A shoemaker at Wytheville, Va,
wrote to Gov. Cleveland for his measure for
pair Of boots for the Inauguration, and re-
ceived the figures with = $50 bill. The
money was returned to the Presidcnt-clect,
who again sent 1t to the anxious shoemaker
News is received Of the escape Of q
gang Of convicts employed on the public
roads In Mecklenbnrg County, North Caro-
lima. Nine OF the gang are yet at large.
A storm upset several oyster-fishers'
boats in the Rappahanncck River and chcsa-
pcake Bay, and about twenty persons lost
their lives.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18


Fire broke out last night III the house oc-
cupied by Frank Barlow in Park Place. q
small mining village sixteen miles from this
city. All efforts to arouse the sleeping
family from their slumbers were in vain.
Several miners, who ran from their work Mt
tn colliery brokee open the door. but were
driven back by the heat of the now raging
fire. All hopes of reaching the sleep
ing apartments of the Barlow family
were then cut of. While Barlow's house
was burning the spectators were obliged to
stand there and witness most heartrend-
ing sight In the vain attempt Of Frank
Barlow to save his two children the father
in his night clothes appeared at the second
story window He mised the sash and threw
one of them--a boy years Of age--to the
ground below. He attempted to then save the
others, but was overcome by the heat and
smoke The heroic father swayed to and
fro for moment aud then, with the child
still held in one arm and clinging to the VIM
dow sash with the other. he sank down into
a seething mass Of flames. The horror
stricken spectators watched the doomed
man gnsping the window sill until his arm
burned off at the wrist and his body disap-
peared from sight. When the building fell
it was the fiery sepulcher Of six unfortunate
victims
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18
SOUTHERN.

A portion Of the treasure buried in
Arkansas by the pirate LATTE In lei. Is said
70 have been recently discovered In iron
safes by consicts laboring On the Pine Blum
and Swan AXE hallway.
Cook, the leader Of the gang which
robbed the train near Little Rock, Ark, has
made full confession, and all the bandits
are In custody, save one. Ten watches aud
$500 In money have been recovered.
Corneilson, the attorney who cow
hided Judge Heid-the Judge later commit
ting suicide for shame-has been sentenced
st Mt. Sterling 10 three years IN the peniten-
cary.
Ayksnsss derives vs., 900 pei aaauu
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18
Internal Revenue Collections.
Washington dispatch.l

The collections Of internal revenue for
the first four months If the fiscal year end
ing June SO. 1885, were $3s, 375, GIG; for
the same period in the previous fiscal year,
$40, $50, A70, decrease Of S2,s23. 794.
There was an increase Of $3.50, 3T3 in the
collections from fermented liquors, aud q
decrease Of s2,5sl ,s55 on spirits; 1914, 9l2
on tobacco, and Sl57 ,33S OH miscellaneous
items. The aggregate receipts in October
last were 81 $50, 675 less than for the same
month i'm 1883.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18
National Aid to Education.

National aid for public schools in the
States will certainly be one of the questions
with which Congress will soon have to
wrestle. The expenditure of $4,000, 600
year for this object would be a heavy
draft upon the Treasury, but n large
proportion of the Representatives come from
the section where illiteracy is most dense,
and they are inclined to swallow their
rights notions and lay aside consid-
erations touching the reduction Of taxation
for the sake Of securing SO large share in
The special advocates Of the project are
daily talking up the matter and laying their
plans, and, having counted noses, are con-
tident that il will carry.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18
The COlOnel,s Maxim,

Col. Bumgardner stumbled into o
party Of gentlemen who were discussing
old maxims.
Eats my han, too" said Bum; Il
allus (hic) sticks to my fav'rite maxim!"
(Which one is that, BUMP"
"Yit's never put thicl off till to-mor-
row ahaeher kin eo-hoo to-day"
Well, what are you going to do
now?'
I'm go-ho-ing to take a drink il
you'll set 'em up!"
Which was very promptly done, -
Georgia Cracker,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18
The Attorney Generalsllip.

A meeting Of the Missouri delegation TO
Congress was held to take action in the di-
rection of urging Broadhead for Attorney
General under Cleveland, but il was p,ac-
tically a failure Senator Cockrell opposed
the movement, saying he had joined with
the other Democratic Senators in recon-
mending Senator Garland for Attorney
General and, therefore. he could not in
dorse Broadhead or any other man for that
place The delegation could not be brought
TO any harmonious action, and it was finally
decided to defer action upon the matter for
cay.ra1 waaks
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18

Gov HoApLY, Of Ohio, has selected Gen.
J. D. Cox As Chairman Of the commission
charged with the task of procuring the life
sized statue of Gen. Garfield which Ohio Is
10 pssssut to tho National 6tstusyy Hall,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18

IEhattanOOga TIenn.l dlspatch.I
Less than twelve months ago Mrs. Hugh
Blair Of this county, gave birth to three
children, all of whom are living and in
good health. Saturday evening the same
lady gave birth to two boys and u girl,
making six children born to her in less
than q year
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18

gain In the industrial situation In all lines
OF manufacturing wages continue to 90
lower, in to 10 per cent. drops. Actual
stoppages OF factories and mills are less fire.
quent, but conspicuous"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18
THE POSTAL SERVICE.
List of States In Which II Returns Profit
to the Government.
Washington Dispatchl


Washington Dispatchl
During the fiscal year ending June 80,
1883, the postal service paid expenses and
yieldeda surplus in seventeen States and
Territories, including, singulariy enough,
Alaska, where one would expect to find the
postal service unrenumerative. The effect
Of reducing letter postage to cents is TINT
in the year ending June 80, 1884, the postal
service paid for itself in only ten States and
no Territories. The States in which the
postal service paid for itself in 1883 and
failed to do so in 1884 are Maine, Vermont.
Wisconsin. Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota Terri
tory, and the district Of Alaska. The fol-
lowing table shows by States where the
postal service paid for itself in 1854, and
where it did not, with the amount or the
excess of expenditures Of receipts, us the
case may be:
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18

SIR WALTER RALEIGH once asked
Queen Elizabeth to smoke his pipe. She
tiled IL once, and ouly once. Ii II signit,
cant fact that inside Il year she ordered
his head 70 10 cut Ut.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18
An Arkansas Train Robbcr Confesses.
little Rock special1


The confession Of Joseph Cook, tho
ringleader Of the train-robbers who sue
cessfully side tracked the passenger train
and plundered the seventy five passengers
on the Arkansas Valley Railroad in the out
skirts Of the city Saturday night, tells the
story of the latest daring train no bbery.
Parker, Frank Kline, and myself. We first
commenced to plan the robbery week ago.
We studied out and arranged matters in
kline's room on Centre street was
chosen Captain. After the robbery We
walked straight to Little Rock, stopping on
the way to burn our masks. Reaching the
city we separated. accompanied Kline to
his room, where the swag was divided.
We placed it in small sacks and hid it. ."
He then named coal shed and vacant
building, where it was concealed. The
officers easily found the plumber. which
consisted of twelve gold and silver watches
and $500 in bills and silver. The property
is being returned to the owners as fast as
identified.
Cook has resided here some time, and is
well known. He is native OF Austin,
Tex. Clifford is railroad man, and came
here three weeks ago from Chicago. His
home in at Nashville, Tenn. Parker is o
boy Is years old. His parents are es-
teemed residents Of Little Rock. Frank
Kline who effected his escape, is a car
riage- trimmer and belongs at Logansport
Ind. At the preliminary examination the
prisoners were remanded to Jail. and bail
fixed ut $4,000 each. The penalty for the
crime in the State is seyenty-seven years
imprisonment.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18
Washington telegram. /

washington telegram
The River and Harbor Committee OF the
House has decided to make appropriations
for Lake Michigan harbors As follows:
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18
THE MIGNONETIE CANNIBAll
Capt Dudley and Mate Stephens
Sentenced 10 b Hanged
In Londod.
The titslo Rock Train Robbev-0the1
Interesting Stories BY
Telegraph.
The Captain and D1ats of tho Mlgnon0tte
Sentenced 10 Death.

Tho Captain and Msts Of tho Mignonctts
Sentenced 10 Death.
fkeble dispatch from Lcndonl
Capt. Dudlet and Mate Stephens, OF tho
wrecked yacht Mignonttee, who wete found
guilty Of murder in killing the boy Parker
for food to keep themselves alive, have been
sentenced ty death. It Is believed they
will certainly DO perdoned. The scene
during the pronouncing Of sentence WAS
most impressive. The room was crowded.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge read the
Judgment Of court, citing authorities al
length. The court declared that the taking
Sf human life could only be justified on
| the plea Of self defense. The commission
Of murder for the sake OF preserving ones
own life was unjnssifabfe. OF course
1t was duty to preserve ORES own life.
but the duty often required one not To sAvd
but to sacrifice his own life. The court
must apply the law and declare that the
prisoners were guilty Of willful murder. FOR
which there was no justification. II this
Judgment was too severe the court must
leave the prisoners to the clemency OF the
crown. The prisoners were asked what
they had to say before sentence was pro-
nounced. Both Capt Dudley and Mate
Stephens pleaded for mercy, in view OF
their terrible situation when the deed was
privilege to recommend p isoners TO mercy,
and then he sentenced them to be hanged,
but without the black cop.
The Secretary Of State for the Home
| Department advises the Queen to respite
Captain Dudley and Mate Stephens.
THE yacht Mignonette, thirty three
tons burden. sailed from Southampton for
Australia May 10, 1884. June II she foun-
dered during storm in the Indian Ocean.
Capt. Dudley, two seamen, and boy
| named Parker escaped in boat, but had
no provisions except few turnips, and
were wholly without water. BY the twelfth
day their food, including a turtle which
they had caught. was exhausted, and their
sufferings from thirst were maddening.
The boy Parker was wasting away, and
the others hungrily watched his approach
ing dissolution. The twentieth day, sitter
tho party had been without food for eight
days, the Captain fastened young Parkers
death by opening vein in his arm. The
three survivors eagerly drank the boys
blood as it gushed from his arm, and they
cut his flesh from his arm and ate il I'M
cooked, but with some degree of modera-
ton. The Captain kept the body and
served out to himself and the two sailors
such nations as were necessary to preserve
their lives. They prolonged their wretched
existence in this way until July 5, when
they were rescued.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18

Wade Hampton has been reelected
Senator from South Carolina, receiving every
vote in the Legislature except those Of Ave
colored men.
The Arizona sentinel., 1884-12-06

Governor F, A. Tritle, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior, after referring to the prosperous condition of the Ter
 ritory says: The unsettled condi> ton of the land grants 10 the At> lantie & Pacific and Texas Pacific railroads now before congress is rrtarding to a great extent the settlement of the Territory. The governor says that unless the eX- tended immigration of the Nor mons into the Territory is res- trained by law he fears violance He urges an appropriation for the sinking of artesian Wells in the higher valleys of AIizOna which will render fertile. hundreds of thrus d= of a.f4. Na rfart also urge- a Z yiags gse.i .sJrvay .y tle VeruuIvaf .n8 Inc esl e. b.ISi.m If n,aDch miT- iH r'fnc,"s."l ine -oFhJnoE aa5s lhe time ha, arrIVel when ,h, p~ool - Of .ArIZOht ShOuic br allowed to vote for president of he United States and that their delegate in congress should be permitted to vote and exercise the same right as representative of a State.
The Arizona sentinel., 1884-12-06

In P"rls is b@t"g e-taaii>hrd fund to provide pen9jna- tor physic ans when they re.,cn tbe age of sixty. By paying "t sm .Il yearly subscriptions" physiciau~ entltle themselves to an annual allowance of 1,200f. on reaching that age. The wives of phy>i olans may also participate in the benefits of the society.
The Arizona sentinel., 1884-12-06
Democratic Rooster's Origin. .

l Questions as 10 the origin of tht rooster as an emblem of Democra tic success were asked a number of old Democrats, but none seem ed able so give answer. Commis- sioner Hoyne was finally appealed to. AS an encyclopedia of histO' rical fact Commissioner Hoyne has few equals. "The rooster" " said he, "why, 1 don't know, but it seems to me it originated with Chapman, who edited the India napolis Sentinel way back in the '40s. The Indianapolis Sentinel has always been a Democratic paper, and old Chapman was a red-hot Democrat. I remember, when Polk defeated Clay in 1874. Chapman displayed at the head of his paper a cock in the attitude of growing. I ain't certain whe- ther that was the first time he did it or not, but l know that I never saw it before that time, and it was about 1844 that I first heard the expression. Grow, Chapman crow.' IL became popular phrase whenever a rooster was employed as emblematic of victory-Demo- eric victory, for the Republicans neve: used it. They never used any emblem a great deal. Some times an eagle is displayed, and is now, but it is seldom. Since Chapman's day the rooster has always described Democratic triumph, being displayed by the Democratic newspapers, particu- lafly the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 "I do not think the origin was Tn 1ndlana," said Judge Gresham, though that is only an impress sion. MT. Hovne may be right. He is usually accurate. ! have heard the phrase; Grow Chap
 -u, e.aw, add is plausible 10 -.i- 7T-f- uuii nos have
 own iuEa popular favor had .aer u0t been something ofa -..l 2at,-o lo connect Chap
 <. Ifeyery newspaper
 a.5h3 3embiam:thesexpres-
 Fo0l1 not, have attached 10 Chapman particularly. Being game cock. 1t fttingiy illus rates the fighting qualities of the Jackson Democrats" ."- Chicago | News.
The Arizona sentinel., 1884-12-06
-AdvePtISing:
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
TERRITORIAL.

 Iovernor-F. A. Tritle. Prescott. Secretary NJ. FanArman, Prescott. k Treasurer-Tnomas J. Butler, Prescott. Superintendent of Public Instruction-W B. Horton, Tucson. Auditor-E P. Clark, Prescott. Supreme Court-C. C. w. French, ChIei Justice, Prescott. D. NJ. P1nney, As sociate Justice, Phoenix: A. w. Sheldon, Associate Justice, Tucson. U. S. District Attorney-J. A. Zsbriskle Tucson. U. $. Marshall-L. s. Tidhall, Prescott. Delegate to Congress-Granville Oury Florence.
 COUNTY. Treasurer-A. Lorette. Probate Judge-lsaac Levy. Sheriff-A. Tyner. Under Sherif-W. H. Tonge. District Atiorncy-Ssmuel Pnrdy. Supervisors-G. NJ. Thurlow, Chairman Chas. Baker and G. II. Hutchins. Clerk Board of Supervisors-F. Avila. Goroner-J. H. Taggart. Justices Of the Peare-J. L. Smith, w. H. Simmons, J. S. B; croft, Yuma. A. D. :}rswfnrd, Silent