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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09
THE POLITICAL POT.

The Republican party Is cuttinA
no wisdom teeth. Cincinnati South
west.
Idaho is rotten borough admitted
for tho purpose of giving to the Repub-
licans two Senators and three electoral
votes. N. Y. World.
Mr.. Plumb stood up in the Senate
and voted for tariff bill, nearly every
line Of which he has severely de-
nounced. Such is party slavcry.--In-
dianapolis' Sentinel.
The aged Tennessee farmer who
cut his throat because he could not
live in poverty ought to have been in
Maine when Reed was squandering his
money.-Atlanta Constitution.
There can be no question what
ever that il q National election were to
be held to-day Democracy would sweep
the country like . whirlwind. And the
party Of the people is growing stronger
every day.-Chicago Mail.
-Pious John Wanamaker forbade
the circulation of the Kreutzer Soma ia
in the mails, but he allows Joe CAnnon's
filthy speech to be scattered broadcast
through. the same channel. Tolstoi.
however, does not train in the z. o. p-
Florida Times Union.
Pension Commissioner Raum
seems 10th to tell all he knows about
that refrigerator business. Probably
he. too. imagines that .dignified ST.
lence" is all that is necessary these
days to shut the eyes of the people,
Harrisburg pa Patriot
In justice to the Administration
to the Speaker and to the majority in
Congress. there should now be an un-
sparing laying bare Of all the ia Is, in
order that aroused suspicion may wrong
no innocent person. The time has come
to find out all about Raum.-N. Y.
World.
SENATOR Quay owes it to the party
that has given him place and power to
clear himself Of the grave charges that
now besmirch his character, or else steI
down and out. The Hawkeye is Repub.
lican in every fiber. but it believes in
honest Rep"hlicanism. burlington
Haykeye.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09
HOW MUCH. PRAY7
Questionable Operations Which Will ri
Wolf Those ON the Inside.

Questionable Operations which Will Pay
Well Those tho Inside.
lis fair question. How much do
Secretary Window. James Il. Blaine,
Napoleon Mckinley, boss Reed and
Matt Quay expect to, make out Of the
present policy Of the United States
Government? Are they On the ground
floor, as usual?
Money is worth to the Wall street
usurers nowadays all the way from one-
quarter to one-half Of one per cent per
day. 1t has been loaned at interest a.
high as two hundred per cent per an
mum. Mr.. WINDOWS bond purchases for
the purpose of leasing" this situation
are made almost without exception Of
the men who are charging two hundred
per cent. for money. The money that
they get from the Treasury they dole
out to speculators in Wall street at the
rate of one-half of one per cent. per day.
How mitch arc the Republican officials
who are on the inside making by the
operation?
Another big swindle Is in progress
In anticipation of the Mckinley bills
enactment the big importers and others
have been making heavy purchases Of
foreign goods in advance of consump-
tion for the purpose Of selling them In
a monopolized market. They have
bought under the present tariff. They
will sell under the Mckinley tariff.
These goods are now in bond, and in
the ordinary course the duties must be
paid soon. The spectators therefore
ask their friends. Window, Blaine, Nc
Kinley, Reed and Quay, to add an
amendment to the Mckinley bill per-
mitting them to postpone, the payment
of duties for six months or = year. In
other and palmer words, they ask the
Government to furnish them the capi-
tai or credit necessary to carry on big
deal designed to beat the Government
itself out of revenue and to oppress the
people with high prices How much
are the anchor-casting statesmen going
to make out Of this operation?
There is fat" in both OF these things
for somebody and perhaps for every
body connected with the corrupt and
wasteful regime now in power at Wash
ington. The question is: How much?-
Chicago Herald.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09
THE EAST

FIRE destroyed ten business blocks at
Ilion, N. ", and seven others were
severely damaged by fire.
JOHN Q. NICHOLS in a quarrel over
money matters at Lowell. Mass, fatal
ly shot his sister. Mrs. Ida Cunningham,
and then sent two fatal bullets into his
own head.
THE American committee has issued
an appeal for the relief of famine suf-
ferers in Ireland.
Mrs. ANNIE GILRoy died at her home
in New York on the 3oth ult., aged 1O7
years.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY Mormons
arrived in New York on the steamer
Wyoming, forty of whom were young
girls. There were also four Mormon
elders.
On the lst tho first training school
in this country for deaconcsses of tho
Episcopal church was opened in New
York.
The Congressional nominations on
the lst were: Massachusetts, Fourth
district, Joseph II. ONeil (Dem.) re.
nominated; Sixth. Henry Cabot Lodge
(Rep.) renominated; Eighth, F. T.
Greenhalge (Rep) renominated; Tenth,
&. B. Pratt (Dem.D; Twelfth, John C.
Crosby (Dem.); John Bascom (Pro.).
New York, Twenty-fourth district.
Frank b. Arnold (Rep.); Thirty-sec-
ond, b. II. Williams (Rep.). Rhode
island, First district O. Lapham
(Dem.); II. II. Richardson lPro. }; Sec
ond, Charles II. Page (Dem.); John s.
Tupp (pro.).
AN Iron and Steel institute was
opened at New York on the lst with an
address of welcome by Mr.. Andrew Car
negie. Delegates were present from all
over the world.
THE total population of the State Of
New Hampshire is reported by the
Census Bureau to be 375, s27; increase,
90, ,s36.
THERE was an English woman among
the Mormon immigrants who recently
arrived in New York who had deserted
her husband TO become the sixteenth
wife of q saint.
OrEN war against the Knights Of La
Dor has been declared by the New York
Central railway.
THE Congressional nominations made
on the I'd were as follows: Massachu-
sets, Eleventh district L. g. Spauld.
ing (Rep.l. New York, Fifteenth dis
trict, Henry Bacon tDem.); Twenty
sixth. George w. Ray (Rep). Pennsyl-
vania, Eighth district, William Mutch-
Ter Dem) renominated.
]. X. GARDNER, a lumber dealer Of
Ridgeway, Pa, was robbed of u pocket
hook containing $40, 1000 on train near
Pittsburgh.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09
LETTER-WRlTER BLAINE.
lingo Jim setting His Sails to Catch tn
lsreexe Of Popular Favor.

lingo Jim setting His Sails to Catch the
lsreexe Of Popular Favor.
Secretary Blaine has written another
letter to Boston gentleman upon the
subject OF reciprocity. As it bore no
burning" postscript the receiver felt
justified in giving it's contents to the
public. The views of Secretary Blaine
are enunciated at considerable length.
but the letter contains nothing essen
TALLY new. 1t is simply proposition
for reciprocal free trade with Latin
America and an exclusion policy toward
other countries. 1t is urged by the rec
iprocity adhcrents that free trade with
Central America would prove beneficial
to tho commerce Of both that country
and the United States. In other words
free trade would benefit both countries
concerned in the interchange of COM
modities. But if freer trade with Gen.
trail America at the south would benefit
this country, how about sreer trade with
Canada at the north? The protection
lists urge that the protective theory
deals with conditions and not
with boundaries. but with this
view closer trade relations with
Canada could be logically defended
before free trade with Latin America
could be advocated. And this theory
of conditions" itself seems to he very
loosely constructed. II the Vermont
farmer is benefited by exchanging his
products freely with his neighbors in
New Hampshire on the east and in New
York on the west, why would not he be
equally benefited by exchanging them
with his northern neighbors across the
Canadian line?
The reciprocity policy Of Secretary
Blaine is partial surrender of the pro-
lection forces. 1t is makeshift, an
emergency policy advocated by one Of
the shrewdest of the Republican man
ayers to tide his party over crisis
which he is far-sighted enough to per-
ceive. There caA be no mistaking the
drift Of public sentiment toward tariff
reform and freer trade relations. The
Maine statesman, seeing nothing but
party defeat i'll the Republican high
tariff views of the Mckinley school, has
boldly cut loose and set his sails to
catch the breeze OF popular favor.-Chi-
csgo Mail
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09

CARIorTA PATTI the young daughter
of Adciina PATHS dead brother Carlo,
is living in squalor and wretchedness
in New Orleans During one Of Nine.
PATHS visits South she hunted up this
child and took her with her to her Welsh
castle. Some months after this the lit
tie girl mysteriously reappeared at her
old home in New Orleans and has since
lived there, apparently cut off from all
communication with her rich and IA
nous aunt.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09
A NOTED SANCTUARY.

How tho sLtttle Church Around, the Cor
nsr.' Received Its Name.
Upon the announcement of the death
Of George Holland, / called at the house
OF the family and found them in great
grief. The sister Of Mrs. Holland in
formed me that they desired the funeral
to take place from the church, IS many
OF Mr.. Hollands friends would like to
mark their love and respect for him by
their attendance, and that the house in
which the family lived WAS too small to
receive the large gathering Of the peo-
pie that would be likely to assemble.
The lady desired me to call upon the
pastor Of her own church and request
him to offlciate at the service. l at
once started in quest of the minister.
taking one Of the sons Of Mr.. Holland
with me. On arriving At the house
explained TO the reverend gentleman
the nature Of my visit and the arrange
ments we're made for the time and place
at which the funeral WAS to be held.
Something, ! can scarcely say what,
rave me the impression that ! had best
mention that Mr.. Holland was an actor.
l did SO in few words and conluded by
presuming that probably this fact would
make no difference. saw, however, by
the restrained manner of the minister
and an unmistakable change in the ex-
preston of his face that it would make.
1t least to him, great deal Of differ
once. After some hesitation he said
that he would be compelled, il Mr.. Hol-
land had been an actor. to decline hold.
ing the service at the church.
Whilst his refusal to perform the
funeral rites for my old friend would
have been shock under ordinary cir
cumstances. the fact that it was made
in the presence Of the dead mans son
was more painful than can describe.
turned to look at the youth and saw
that his eyes were filed with tears. He
stood as one dazed with blow just
realized: as IL be felt the terrible in.
justice Of reproach upon the kind and
loving father who had often kissed him
in his sleep and had taken him on his
knee when tho boy was old enough tc
know the meaning OF the words, and
told him to grow up to be an honest
man. | was hurt for my young friend
and indignant with the man--too much
SO to reply: and rose to leave the room
with . modification that can not re-
member to have felt before or since,
paused 1T the door and said:
"Well. sir, in this dilemma 10 there
no other church to which you can direct
me, from which my friend can be
buried?'
He replied that "there was q little
church around the corner" where
might get it done: to which answered.
''Then, II this DO SO, God bless the
little church around the corner" and &c
l loft the house.
The minister had unwittingly per
formed An important christening, and
bis baptismal name of "The Little
Church Around the Corner" clings to il
to this day.-Joseph jefferson, in Cen
tufY.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09
LYING EXTRAORDINARY.
A Habit Calculated TO IDJure the fofals
Of the Nation.

Of the Nation.
Is lying National vice of such pleas
ant mien that it merits Government pro-
lection? This question is suggested by
the deliberate Justification Of Repre-.
sentative Kennedy's speech, which has
been done under authority Of the lower
House OF Congress- The Congressional
Record purports to be verbatim re.
port Of the proceedings Of Congress;
and. in order that it may be accurate.
efficient stenographers are employed at
big salaries to take down every word
that is uttered during the deliberations
OF that body.
And yet the speech which Is pub
lished in the Congressional Record Is
not the speech which Mr.. Kennedy de-
livered on the floor Of Congress, nor is
it the speech which the shorthand re-
porters took down. Mr.. Kennedy's
speech consisted mainly in an arraign-
ment of Senatorial courtesy" under
which he claimed all sorts of corruption
were cloaked. And yet he now seeks
refuge under so-called courtesy Of
the House, which permits him to pub
lASu y lC-I0CCO iAC An kAVluk w tuO
world speech he never delivered.
There isn't hairbreadth's difference
between the evils resulting from Sena-
torial courtesy and the lower House
courtesy. The former cloaks corrup-
tion; the latter is refuge for lies. 1t
is about time that both were abolished
and that all Congressional proceedings
| were conducted on square plan.
II . member of Congress gets up on
the floor OF either house and makes an
ass Of himself the fact ought to appear
on the record. The printed Congress
ional record Is intended for the use Of
the public, and not for the exclusive
| privilege Of the Congressman. The
very knowledge that his remarks were
to be reported and printed verbatim
would be an incentive to a Congress-
man to behave himself. As it is, he can
indulge in all sorts of wild speeches on
the floor and then 60 to the public
printers Office with an afterthought
speech and have the Congressional re g
ord make him say very decorous things.
The example set by those high in Al.
Fthority always has q bad effect on tl.e
masses. II Congressman is permitted
to lie under Government patronage the
body OF the people are in danger OF be-
/ ing infected with the idea that lying
is respectable. For these very good
reasons we insist that Congress shall
return to the early virtues Of the Re
public and require all Of its proceeding
to be accurately and truthfully printed
St Paul Globe.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09
WEST AND SOUTH.

A REPORT was submitted to the Mis-
sissippi constitutional convention in
session at jackson in favor Of asking
Congress to repeal the fifteenth amend
ment to the Federal constitution.
The Republicans elected the entire
State ticket headed by George l.. Shoup
for Governor in the Idaho election on
the 30th ult.
FLAMES swept away the entire busi-
ness portion of Oneonta, Tenn.
The population of the State of Geor-
gia is given by the Census Bureau at
1884 1868; increase in the past ten years.
292, 1856.
AT Bakersville, Cal. James Herring.
ton, pettifogging lawyer, was taken
from Jail by masked men and given q
coat Of tar and feathers.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09

THE Cars personal bodyguard Of pri-
vato police consists of fifteen specially
picked Corsicans, mature and tried
men, chosen and trained by M. Celertin
Pietri. nephew of Napoleon Ills Min
lister OF Police. These men have to
keep watch in the kitchens and private
apartments, while some of them act as
assistant cooks. 1t is intended gradu-
ally to increase the corps as suitable
men can be found.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09

WILLIAM REESE. who lives at Bolivia,
Pa. ut the reputed age of one hundred
and three years. has been reading with
out glasses for fifteen years. His father
died at the ago Of one hundred and four
and his grandfather at one hundred and
six yeais lilo is insured in life com,
raaies, officers of which have told him
that this is tho first case they have
found in this country of three success
I've genera tions of centenarians.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FlFTY-F,RsT CONGRESS,

FIFTY-FiRST CONGRESS.
MONDAY, Sept 29.-The conference
report on the tariff bill was discussed
in the Senate, but no action was
taken. The conference report on the
deficiency bill 1866, 25s) was agreed
to. A bill was introduced to provide
for t,a payment OF arrears OF pen
sions on applications filed since July
/, 1880. In the House the conference
report on the deficiency bill was agreed
to. Bills were passed extending for one
year the time for the payment by set
tiers on public lands in cases OF drought,
and to prevent the desecration OF the
United States flag by the printing there
upon OF any painting or advertisement
TUESDAY. Sept 3O.-The conference
report on the tariff bill was agreed to
in the Senate by vote of 33 to %. In
the House joint resolution was passed
appropriating $4,000 to enable the
Postmaster General to test at small
towns and villages the system of free
delivery. The Senate bill was passed
establishing q customs collection dis
trict in the States Of North and South
Dakota.
WEDNESDAY,, Oct. In the Sen.
ate the tariff bill. enrolled. was re-
ceived from the House with the Speak.
er's signature, and it was Immediately
signed by the Vice-President and sent
to the President. Mr.. Morton then
thanked the Senators for their uniform
kindness to him and declared the Sen
ate adjourned stne die. In the House
.he resignation of James L. Wheat as
postmaster of the House was received
and accepted. A Senate concurrent
resolution was agreed to requesting the
President to enter into negotiations
with the Governments of Great Britain
and Mexico for the prevention OF the
entry Of Chinese laborers into the United
States. Speaker Reed then declared
the first session of the Fifty-first Con
gress adjourned without day.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09

ONLY eighty-eight passengers lost
their lives in travelling on railroads in
Great Britain last year. Only one per-
son in each ten million carried was
fatally injured. and only one in each
nine hundred thousand was hurt at all
Railroad men comment on the difference
between this record and that of Ameri-
can roads
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09

de Paris returned to
America Friday on
the steamer Ger.
manic. of the White
Star line. He was
accompanied by his
son, the Due dor
leans, and by the
Due dues, tho
Marquis de Las
q
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09

TWENTY years ago Owen Mccarthy, q
leading merchant of Albion, N. Y,
suddenly disappeared. He was in debt
to different parties over SIS. 600. Moth
ing was ever heard of him until a few
days ago. when he reappeared in town.
He hunted up his creditors and paid
each one in full. with interest for twen-
ty years lie had struck natural gas,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09

A YOUNG woman in Paris has invented
a new method Of robbery, which she has
carried on with good deal of success
for weeks. Wearing travelling dress,
with travelling bag in her hand, she
waited about the stations, as If she were
quite new to Paris and did not know
whore to 60 to. Itconstantly happened
that gentlemen took pity ON her and
proposed to take her to hotel. On ar.
irving at the hotel, the gentleman, Of
course. demanded to be shown rooms.
The young woman invariably stopped
downstairs, and before he returned
had jumped into the cab with the gem
tleman's luggage and driven away.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09

| 1T Is stated by pharmaceutical con-
ference that the growth Of the patent
medicine mania has been tremendous
in recent years, and that the present
generation is much more credulous than
the last
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09

NOMINATIONS for Congress were made
on the 1st as follows: Kentucky. Sixth
district. Weldon ONeil (Rep). Ohio,
Fourth district. NJ. X. Gautze U)em. J;
Seventh, William E. Haynes Dem.)
renominated. Michigan. First district
John L. Chipman (Dem.). Arkansas,
Second district, Isham p. Langley
Union Labor indorsed by the Repub-
licans
IN the past nine months upward Of
5000 new manufacturing enterprises OF
all kinds have been started in the South.
THE 3-year-old stallion Alcyon, owned
by DIR. John Wilbur, of Palmer, Mass,
and valued at $4,000, was burned to
death in barn near Iowa City. Ia.
THE Minnesota Supreme Court has
decided that upper berths Of sleeping
cars unsold to occupants must remain
closed.
AT the election in Georgia on the 1st
the Democrats elected their entire
ticket headed by William J. Northern,
for Governor, without opposition. Tho
constitution was also amended, author
izing the Legislature to pension the
widows of Confederate veterans pro-
vided they have remained unmarried.
THE death Of q man known as T. j.
Henderson occurred at the house of q
Mrs. Pannell, near Birmingham, Ala.
On his death-bed he confessed to her
that he was Charles William Quantrell,
the famous Missouri outlaw, who was
supposed to have been killed in a fight
with Federal soldiers in Kentucky near
the close OF the war.
TEEMER defeated Hanlan in a one.
mile sculling race at East Liverpool, O.,
for a purse of $1,000.
CONGREssMEN were nominated as fol.
lows on the I'd: Indiana. Third district,
w. J. Durham (Rep.). Kentucky. Tenth
district, r. c. Hill (Rep). Louisiana,
Second district, Matthew ID. Logan
(Dem.); Fourth, T. J. Guice Farmers
Alliance). California, Fourth district,
John 7. Cutting (Rep.). Ohio, Eighth
district, w. N. Liken Farmers AL.
liance).
WHILE in tree near Guthrie. @. T..
J. j. Mitchell mistook his brother for a
catamount and shot him dead.
Two YOUNG men. Louis Griggs and
John Carroll, stabbed each other to
death over slight quarrel at New AL.
bany Ind.
On the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Clcye-
land railway two men entered an ex.
press car near Urbana. O., tied the mes
senger, took eleven money packages
and escaped.
MANY acres of timber, grain and
buildings have been destroyed by prairie
fires in the vicinity of the Black Hills
in South Dakota.
THE death is announced at Portland
Of George w. Ebberts, aged so years, the
great trappcr and scout, who was the
first to bring Oregon into notice.
The Legislature OF Oklahoma ha:
passed bill locating the permanent
capital at Oklahoma City.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09

THE champion butter-prod ucing cow Of
the world Is named Euratisamas. owned
In Massachusetts, and her record is
nine hundred and forty-fve pounds and
nine ounces Of butter in one year.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09
Free schools In Mississippi.

JACKSON, Miss, Oct 4.-The consti-
tutional convention spent the day in
discussing the subject of public educa-
tion. One section was adopted provid-
ing for uniform system of free public
schools for all children between the
ages OF 5 and 81.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09

Mks. f. d. E. N. SoUTHwo :rH, the
popular novelist of generation ago,
lives in Georgetown, d. c., and though
seventy years of age still writes. Most
OF her literary work is done in the open
air on the piazza of her country home.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-09

A New YORKER who has spent some
time in the literary circles Of London
says that there must be at least one
hundred biographies Of Mr.. Gladstone
already in manuscript, awaiting the
event Of his death, at which time they
will be ready for publication in book
form. Besides these manuscripts there
are to be found in the plgeon-holes of
all the newspaper Offices sketches Of the
statesman's life, in readiness for the
dispatches announcing the end Of his
career that may be received at any time.
1t is said that Mr.. Gladstone has seen
some of these biographies, and prepared
memoranda for some of his biographers.