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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
THE OOOR-YARD GATE.

On cTcaking hinges II backward swings,
Spared from ruin by time and fate.
The most familiar Of Oldtime things
The rickety, ioosc-hung door-yard gate.
Over its portal. for years and years.
long procession went in and out,
Some with hearts that were touched by tears,
Some with laughter and merry shout.
Friends came to visit, and neiRhbors to call:
On various errands, for talk or fun
motley multitude. Ii they all
Could now be gathered beneath the sun.
The ardent lover. whose heart beat high
Seeking for life some fitting mate.
Leaned over its framework with smile or sigh,
And toyed with Love and its soft debate.
The very wood upon which he leaned
Must have felt the pulse of human thrill;
And another form the bushes screened
almost sec its beauty stilI.
Then followed bride, with face as fair
As any blossom the soft winds kiss:
But some unge Of sadness takes its share
In each wedding feast-and it tinctured this.
There were good bye kisses as she went out
The old gate opened. we will not doubt,
To its most rapturous overflow.
But It opened. too. TO the step Of Death.
To the cold white face, and the funeral
pail
That sickle whose greed for human breath
The bowed pack peddlcr. the tramp for food,
Have venfured here thousand times
The one was a guest of the neighborhood,
The other traiiicked for pennies and dimes.
Small feet have over its pathway crossed
That would swing upon 1t with merriest
glce,
Which now in the larger world are lost
No happier guests did the old gate zee.
Who would not give for that heart OF youth
The sportiye frolic the childhood lays
All fortune offers of fame or truth.
OF wealth, of power, OF place, or praise?
Few are the footsteps that now pass through
Over its portal there's silence TO day:
The world is older all tn n IS are new.
And its time OF favor fades far away.
But see II still, arranged to swing,
And the beckn ard pu h II seems to wait.
Oh. If Memorys haloS crown one old thing.
It's this rickets. loose hung door-yard gate
joel Benton, IN Youths Companion.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

Jennie greeted him with tho old time
smack and even repeated it twice be-
tore she released him. Then she broke
out with:
..Oh! 'Ras, father says you're think
ing Of getting married. don't believe
it, though. Say. is it so? Are you GO
ing to marry Mary Joncso Cause I
know Mary always liked you. though
she would never own it. Say, 'Ras, is
il really truc?'
Poor Ras! The blood rushed into
his cheeks, and gave them tingc Of
red beneath the brown tan, and he
glanced at Lucy, and moved away
toward the porch, and then he looked
little foolish and finally vexed: and
then the idea appeared to strike him rs
being ludicrous somehow, and he
laughed.
.You know better than that, Jen."
he said; Il never cared for Mary Jones,
or any other Of the girls; and, besides,
Mary Is going to be married to Joe
Bronson, week after next, and we are
all invited to the wedding"
"Oh. 'Ras, is that so? Why didn't
you write us about it?' said Lucy, sud-
denly turning and coming back. And
then both girls began:
Where arc they to be marricd?"
AT Mrs. Jones. | suppose"
"Wc'll 90, of course.
wonder what Mary will be married
IMP"
Are they going on wedding tour?'
"What day next week is it to be?'
"Who is going to marry them?'
Bet wouldn't have old Mr.. Peters
marry me; he is the homclicst man l
ever saw. Be just like him to forget
their names and marry Mary to some
body else"
Who's going to stand up with
them?'"
"Will it be at night or in the morn
ing?'
Where are they going to live?'
Has Joe got ranch OF his own?"
wonder how Joe managed it, any
way; he used to be awfully bashfnl. y
And dozen other questions, without
waiting for an answer.
Come, girls; come Erastus, dinner 8
,, all ready, and your fathers coming in
| from the barn. called Mrs. Parsons
from the kitchen. ''Come and let's see
how it will seem, to all eat together
once more"
As they passed out ahead of him, and
all the time as they sat ut dinner,
Erastus kept thinking how beautiful
Lucy had grown. He had never
noticed it before, but it seemed to him
now that Jennie really looked plain be
side her sister.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
MORTON'S BARREL.
Why the New York Banker Was Noml
mated by tho Republicans.

mated by the Republicans.
Senator Ingalls,, in proffering his adj
vice to the delegates attending the Chi
cago convention, laid it down as inn
perative that the Vice-Presidential can
didatc should he "some fellow like
Phelps, of New Jersey, who could
reach the conservative forces of the
East and get contributions from the
manufacturers and Wall street." And
thereupon the convention nominated
Levi F. Morton,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

In dc pathway OBJ life it arm better
to 60 ahead steady In most any direc.
ton dan TO wobbls about. --Arkdssse
zrdvslsy.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26


TO meet the Observation-Disclosures Of pensions
and for the defrayment OF service pensions.
Correction can be made and adopted by the
convention in . few minutes. II the frightful
biunder into which the convention WAS msied
Is not corrected, it will cost the Republican
party tens and possibly hundreds Of thousands
OF votes"
And again it says:
"Can the party LEADERS venture to 60 before
the people with such platform and hope that
the fearful blunder committed by the trainers
of the platform will be overlooked or excusedi
Certainly the Democrats will not ignore IL II
the blunder ip the platform Is not corrected
before adjournment, every Democratic process
sion this fail will carry banners stigmatizing
the Republican party as o free whisky organi.
cation. committed to the doctrine OF cheap rum
and dear sugar"
Mr.. McCulloch, Secretary of the
Treasury under two Republican admin
istrations, Is an old Henry Clay Wing,
and understands Mr.. Clay's American
doctrine as well as any living man. But
Mr.. McCulloch commended the Presi-
dents recommendations as judicious.
Had they been free trade propositions
Mr.. McCulloch could not have approved
them. They are not made such by the
declaration of the Chicago platform,
nor will they become such because OF the
perfervid rhetoric OF the campaign
Harpcr's Weekly (Ind.).
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

LII j d.clIGu Iutlt IL was 1AlTy Jones.
Mary. she knew. had always liked
Er.,stus She liked Mary herself, and
the two had been together great deal,
and if Erastns was going to marry any
body she hoped it would be Mary.
There S Johnny coming to meet US, -
said john, Sen, as they came over the
hill and struck the little stretch of level
ground in front of the cottage.
''ioa bet he's got a good eye for see
| in things. 'Spcct he's been watchin'
for us for an hour. He thinks heap
Of his dad, don't You, Johnny?' he
said, as he pulled up the ponies, and
reaching down, lifted the youngstel
into the wagon ''where they could gel
ut him. as the girls said; and straight
way they began to hug and kiss him.
keeping it up until he sguirmed ava,
+: om them, and getting in between hi.
fathers knees, insisted on being al
lowed to drive.
! Mrs. Parsons was at the gate waiting
to welcome her girls back with smile
and kiss. The old dog frisked abou
and barked As if he were still Il puppy
fairly knocking Johnny down and up
setting one Of the travelling basket.
which had been set out preparatory Il
driving the wagon to the barn. john,
would have cried, ordinarily, at sucl
rough usage, but now it would have
appeared out of place amidst the een
eral rejoicing, and SO instead Of getting
angry or crying. he laughed end tried
TO mount and ride old Bose as he fol
lowed the girls and their mother init
the house. Erastus was at work in tn.
fields when the party arrived, but see
ing the wagon drive up, he came in i'm
mediately. He was, rs Mr.. Parson:
had said, a man now, nearly six fee
tall and with manly air that had jus
. shade of embarrassment in it as h,
kissed the girls in turn and asked aftel
their health.
Lucy was a little shy Of his caress
and turned her cheek instead Of putting
'up her lip, 10 receive the salute; bu
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28

All square and above board-The interna- tional chess tournament.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28
UNCLE SAM'S FINANCES.
The United States Treasurer Makes
 His Annual Report,

United States Treasurer Hyatt's annual report shows that the net revenue of the Government for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1888, were $370 ,266 ,O74, and the net ex- penditure $2G7, 024 ,S01. tho surplus receipts available for the reduction of the public debt being $11 ,341 ,273, an increase of $7,87O,- 176 over tho year before. As compared with 1887, the revenues $7,S62, ,79O greater and the expenditures $7,37S less. The Treasury balance increased during the year from $69 224 ,379 to $129, ,SO4, PAP ,and the total assets including certificates of de- posits in cash from S622, ,304 ,2S4 to $764,- 729, 1885. The silver balance fell off more than $27 ,OOO,OO There was a net decrease of STA, ,7SS, ,92O during the fiscal year in the principal of the interest bearing debt. The total purchasers of bonds for tho sinking fund and out of surplus revenues was $51,- AGA 300, the net premium paid, exclusive of accrued interest, being $S,27O,S42.
 The gold and silver coin and bullion iii the country and all kinds ofnotes and certificates outstanding on June 30, 1887, amounted to $1,925, ,259,SS2, and on June 30, 1888, to $2, ,O93, 562. O72. The stock of gold and sill verincrcased from $1 ,OO7, 5 13, ,9Ol to $1 ,O92,- 391 ,G9O, mostly in gold. The increase in the volume of the paper circulation was $S3, ,424, 400. The coinage of silver dollars during the year amounted to $32 ASA ,673, making the total coinage $299, ,424, ,79O. The in crease of the net distribution was only $39,- 156. The Treasurer is of opinion that the people have all of these coins they want or are willing to take.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28
MARKET PRICES.
Highest Produce Quotations in New
 York-Cattle Market.
Novomher 27 1SSS

November 27. 1888. BUrTER.-State Dairy, new, extra. ...$ 25 sssts sts drsamery, nsass as,f fancy s1 gf.me: ss Western Dairy, fancy; y;............ IS IS Imitation Creamery, fancy ......... 22 Western Creamery, per lb......... 26A Western Creamery, choice ~ 25 BEANS AND PEAs.-Beans Mar, choice. 2.15 Beans, medium, new. choice. ...... 1.*5 Beans, Red Kidney, choice, new, =, 24O Peas, Green, new ...........> 1.32k CIEEsE:nstate Factory, fancy, white. 10sA State Factory, fancy, ,colored, new. 1O& State Factory, full cream, prime.... 1OT DRIED FRUITs.-Apples, evaporated.. 8 Kaspberries, evaporated, new, per lb 23 rsasHss1sSs cherr5ss sss {Rsa.hsd Rss le per doz Canada, late-gath red, choice. .... 2411, Canada, icehouse, per dog. ....... 23H FRUTrs.-Apples, Gravenstein, per bbl.. 800 Apples, King, per bbl. ......... 2.25 Apples, Fall Pippin, per bbl.. ...... 1.97 Cranberries, Cape Cod, per crate. 25O Lemons, Fla, choice perbox. ....... 400 Orange, F.a., Russet, per box. 200 Pears, Vicar, per bbl. ........... 800 HAY AND srRAw.-Hay, No. 1, per 100. 95 Hay, Clover mixed. ................ 70 Hay, Salt. ....................... 6l Long rye Straw, ,.................. SO Oat otraW.. ..................... % Wheat Straw 45 POULTRY, ETc.-Live Western Geese. 175 Turkeys, per lb........ .............. 10 Western Ducks, per pair. ...... S5 Fowls, State, N. J., and Pa., per lb.. 10 Dressed Turkeys, mix. weights, perlb II Chickens, Western, scalded, per lb.. 1Oh Chickens, Phila., Spring, per lb. .... 16 English Snipe, per doz. .......... 200 Tame Squabs, white, per dozen. .... $50 .Tamo Squabs, dark, per doz.. .... 225- VEaETABLEs-Potatoes,L l.. l. per bbl 1.75 Potatoes Burbank. k................. l.25 Sweet Potatoes, New Jersey, per bbl. PTS Onions State, yellow, per bbl. ...... l.25 Onions, Orange Co.,, red, per bbl. .. 100 . Ouions, Connecticut, White, per bbl 3.25 Cabbage, Long Island, per 100. .... $50 Turnips, Russia, per bb1............ 75 Caulihower, per Dbl. bl............ 1.25
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28
Lawsuits Against Animals.

The law is held in greater esteem nowadays than it ever was before, no doubt, and yet it is improbable that any one will ever again. in civilized country, imagine that it is something so mals will obey it's decrees. And yet this seemed once to be quite a general impression. There are many instances in the history of formal prosecutions against animals. The most common of these cases are the lawsuits directed against the grasshoppers.
 One of the most celebrated of these was case tried in Savoy, in 1545, when a suit was brought, in the name of the people, against the grasshoppers which were ravaging the country. A lawyer was found to. undertake the defence of the insects, and he exhausted his in genuity in pleading their cause.
 No doubt he made out very plaus- ible case for their right to exist, for it was finally proposed, on the part of the government, officially to give and for mally make over to the grasshoppers 8 large tract of country, on condition that they should leave the rest of the country.
 The lawyer took the proposition un der consideration, and finally came into court and declared that "his clients could not accept his proposal, because the land offered them was an abandoned and sterile tract, producing little or nothing suited to their uses and sus- tenance"
 The court, however, decided the case against the grasshoppers. and ordered them to remove forthwith to the dis trict set apart for them. They refused, however, to remove, but remained in the country until they had eaten up every green thing in it.
 If the courts were powerless to en- force their decrees against the grass hoppers, they made it up in the severity with which they punished creatures which could be seized and appre- hended. In Meulan, France, in the last century, 8 pig which had attacked and killed child was prosecuted for mur- der.
 Every step taken in this singular case was precisely as if the accused had been human being, except that the pigs lawyer spoke for it in every case, instead of the pig replying for itself.
 The lawyer was permitted to urge every possible argument in his clients favor. But the pig was, nevertheless, convicted, and sentenced to be strangled in the market-place. Pending the exc cution of this sentence, it was sent to prison and confined there.
 A few years before the French rev olution, COW was tried and convicted in the same way at Poitou. All the re- cords in these cases are still preserved. They prove either a more than childish want of common-sense, or else an absurd devotion to form.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28
A CHURCH CONVENTION.
Episcopal Divincs Meet to Discuss
 Church Matters.

Onc of tl,c most important gatherings oi churchmcn in this country is the Episcopal Church Congress of the United States That body began it's twelfth meeting in Buffalo, N Y, with holy communion at Trinity Church, followed by inaugural and memorial ad- dresses. Bishop Coxe, by virtue of his office of chief Pastor of the diocese in which the Congress sits, is President. In his inaugural address, commenting on the practical nature of the topics to be discussed, he said:
 "Surely the problems that are pressed upon us daily justify the popular impatience of anything that works not to their solution. The enormous growth ofatheism, the increase of dangerous classes, the crime of intemper- ance so monstrous in it's proportions; the growing violation of the Lords day, the alarming facility of divorce, the low estimate the driving of tho Bible out of our common schools, the aggression of the Court of Rome, the decay of truly national and American spirit, the extinction of public spirit in public men, the semi-Paganism that is to be found in many of our rural districts Such evils as these are perhaps worse than all the debased ideas concerning education which make our youth clever smatterers in almost everything but moral science and ignorant of duty as growing ort of responsibility to God; all these suggest topics on which the church Con- gress may well assert it's claim to be heard in a friendly and candid interchange of views as to our social diseases and their remedies.
 He predicted ,,n old Catholic reformationin America in the near future, saying that a great reaction IS already manifest in more than one outspoken demand among Roman Catholics themselves for the privileges and rights which have been taken away from them by the Roman Court and it's Jesuit regency. He desired the laity to note the spirit of progression that would animate the spirit of the Congress
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28
The Island of Madeira.

Madeira itself is about thirty miles long by thirteen broad. Its highest mountains, in the centre of the island, are some six thousand feet above the sea. The one behind Funchal, to the southwest, with wooded pinnacle and thickly-clad slopes, where it sinks to- ward vast ravine or ba ranco, is very picturesque. No wonder the roads of Madeira are notorious for their badness. The island will have to be very rich be- fore, from its own resources, it can afford to bridge barrancos, and level and blast the mountain sides sufficiently to allow carriage to make the circuit of it. At the present time, in spiteof it's prodigious fertility in favored spots, it is poor land on the whole. Its popu. lation is less than 135, ,00O, with a pre- ponderance of females. Here, as in the Canaries, the system of terracing pre- vails, whereby the agriculturist with great labor builds artificial dams of stone against the mountain slopes, car ries earth to these dams on his own back, and having laid the soil, plants his vines, tobacco or sugar cane patches, while he adjures the rains by all the saints in his memory not to wash away the entire fruits of his tolls. These careful gar dens are marvels of industry. It is con soling, therefore, to know that by no pre- text can landlord deprive tenant of his holding without complete compen- sation for these improvements, or rather creations, as they may be called. The ''metayer" system is common in Madeira the tenant paying one-half or third of the produce of the land ill kind. The landlord has legal claim over noth- ing on the surface of the soil. This is always at the disposal of the ten ant, who sells it at his departure even ss he bought it when he took up the tenantoy. In fact, in Madeira, as in Ireland, the tenant is generally in bet ter circumstances than his landlord. Commercial Advertiser.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28
CRUELTY UNSURPASSED.
The Way Pauper Labor Contract
 ors Treat Their slaves"

C. T. Parsons, notorious Northampton. Mass, pauper labor contractor, has fallen into the clutches of the law. Parsons started from home with one of his white slaves a thinly clad, half-starved Polander, intending to send the man to New York to get rid of him. To make sure that the man did not escape, Parsons fastened an iron chain about his bare anklc and padlocked him to tho wagon seat, and in this manner drove into Holyoke. For more than mn hour he left the poor fellow alone in the wagon, barefooted, and with only a thin shirt and overalls to protect him from the keen wintry wind. After standing the cold until his teeth chattered and his face became fairly purple, he wrapped an old horse blanket around his shoulders to keep from freezing to death. In this condition he was found by a crowd of sympathetic Holyokers They notified the Chief of Police, who released the captive and promptly put Parsons behind the bars on a charge of assault and false imprisonment of hls hireling.
 Parsons is deacon of a Northampton church and has for years imported emigrants from New York and bound them out under iron clad contracts to farmers through Western Massachusetts, realizing $10 a head on each.
 The victim of modern slavery has been talk en in charge by the city authorities and pro- vided with suitable clothing. When food was set before him the man ate as though he was bordering on starvation, and when brought into tha police office was half frozen.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28
A FRATERNAL CONGRESS.
Representatives of the Mutual Bene-
 fit Associations Meet.

fit Associations Meet.
 The second annual session of the National Fraternal Congress of Fraternal Beneficiary organizations began in New York and drew together about 40 gentlemen sent from vari- ous parts of the country to represent the best known of the mutual protective, benefit and insurance associations.
 The first business consisted of routine, re- ports, the election of officers with John Has kell Butler of Boston President, and O. M. Shedd of Poughkeepsie Secretary, and discus sions on various topics, such as medical ex- animation and legislation. The congress is merely an advisory body. It has no power to legislate for the or ders. All it can do sis to discuss topics of common interest with view to harmony of action in measures of common interest. All of the orders are interested, in improved methods of medical examination as the means of lowering the mortality among them. These and other topics in which uni ted counsel is believed to be beneficial come within the objects of the congress. The dele gates report that much good resulted from the first congress, which was held last year, and they expect the present meeting to be quite as advantageous to the various orders.
 Nearly l DOC, ,O00 mutual insurers were rep resented by the delegates.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28
MEDALS AWARDED.
Tho Government Appropriately Re
 wards Bravery and Heroism.

Tho Government Appropriately Re-
 wards Bravery and Heroism.
 The Secretary of the Treasury has awarded a gold medal to Captain Ludlam, keeper of thc Hereford life saving station, New Jersey, snI silver medals to members of the crew of that station for extreme heroism in rescuing the crew of the schooner D. H. Ingraham, while stranded on the north bar of Hereford Inlet in December, 1886 A gold medal has San Bernardno, Cal, for rescuing Harry Willis from drowning ill the Pacific Ocean, near Santa Margarta Creek, Cal, ill August. ISS6
 Silver medals have been awarded to Mrs. Mary Whteley and Maud King, the latter of whom is 13 years of age, for saving the lives of E. John White and George s. Douan who were upset from boat in the harbor oi Charleston, S. C., in August last. Silver medals have also been awarded to the follow ing named persons:
 Private James Manning of the Sixth U. S.. Infantry, for saving Private Edmunds of the same regiment from drowning at Grand Ra- pds Crossing, Utah, in June, 1886. John F. Condon for reScuing several persons from drowning in the vicinity of New York city in | the year 1886. Private John Coyle of the Twenty second U. $. Infantry, for saving the life of a lady at Old Faithful Geyser, Yellow. stone Park, in August. Henry A. George, of Virginia, for rcscuing young comrade named William Wertembakcr from drowning near Charlottesville, Virginia, in January last. Walter Clause of Canada, for rescuing the crew of the schooner O. M. Bond, of Oswego, while stranded near Loudran Lighthouse Lake Erie, in October lSS6.
Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28
A Disastrous Caye-in.

A cave-in, one of the most extensive re ported in O long time occurred at Parsons Station, between the Mineral Spring and Laurel Run colleries, Pa. The cavein covers an area of nearly half a mile square, and is about six feet deep. Both water mains. six teen inches in diameter, of the Wilkesbarre Water Company, which extend under the caved district, were snapped off, and an i'm mense volume of water from tho reservoir rushed into the mines. In conseqence, work at both collierles had to be abandoned until repairs can be made and the water pumped out. Over 100 men were at once put to work repairing the damage, which will cause no little delay and trouble No lives were lost, but the walls of several houses are reported badly damaged and cracked.