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Year: 1878

A LEMON CURE FOR CoNsUMPTIoN.-
A correspondent of an English medi-
cal journal furnishes the following
recipe as y new cure for oonsump-
tion ''Put dozen whole lemons in
cold water and boil until soft (not too
soft), roll and squeeze until the juice
is all extracted, sweeten the juice
enough to be palatable, and then
drink. Use as many as dozen q day.
Should they cause pain or looseness
of the bowels, lessen the quantity and
use five or six day until better. By
the time you have used five or six
dozen you will begin to gain strength
and have an appetite. Of course as
you get better you need not use 90
many. Follow these directions and
we know that you will never regret
1t if there is any help for You. Only
keep it up faithfully.


1--WE know Oftwo cases where both
of the patients were given up by the
physicians and were in the last stages
of consumption, yet both were cured
by using lemons, according to the di-
rectiOns We have stated. One lady in
particular was bedridden and very
low; had procured everything that
money could procure, but all in vain,
when, to please friend, she was fin
ally persuaded TO use the lemons.
She began to use them in February,
aud in April she weighed one hun
dred and forty pounds. She is a
well woman, to-day, and likely to
live as long as any Of u.s."
Year: 1878

We desire to make point on Gen.
Weaver, and pride ourselves that it is
done in the following: 1t will be
very well remembered by greenback-
ers, democrats and republicans alike,
that when Gen. Weaver made us q
speech in Monroe just two years ago
this coming fall, that in speaking OF
the Independent greenback movement
and of the proposition of that ele-
ment to issue an unlimited amount OF
greenbacks, he said in the exact fol-
lowing words: LET us ask these in
ffationists how many greenbacks they
would issue if they had the power!
They do not tell us. But let us draw
their attention to the fact that the
supreme court has just decided that
measure. That tribunal, the highest
authority in the land, has decided
that the issuing of greenbacks was as
a war necessity, only. You cannot
flood the country with an unlimited
amount of greenbacks, as you desire.
1t would be contrary to the letter and
spirit of the constitution" Now Gen.
Weaver is in favor of issuing two bill
lion dollars in greenbacks and flooding
the country.
Year: 1878

The stockholders of the Union Bank
of this city have resolved to discon-
tinue business, believing that they
can employ their capital more profit
ably in their private business. Con-
sequently the bank will go into liquid
alton at once, and divide up its capi-
tai of 500, 900. Notwithstanding the
withdrawal of this large amount from
our banking capital, and also the re-
duction which the City National Bank
made in its capital from 100000 to
$4,000, there will still be in Cedar
Rapids sufficient banking facilities to
fully supply all the demands of pres
ent business. The banks generally
throughout the country have had a
large amount of their capital lying
idle for months past, and in fact the
banks at the money centres have
their vaults stuffed with idle, musty
bills. And yet the greenbackers are
bowling for more currency, while the
country has neither use for the amount
now in existence, nor the cOllaterals
to borrow it n."-Cetir Rapids Re
publican.


Just SO, and these banks of the coun-
try have for business, making mon
ey, and the blatant greenbacker who
knows nothing what he is talking
about, ala Weaver, says they are
making four times what is a legiti.
mate profit. Why then in the name
Of time, are over a hundred millions
of currency to which the banks ART
entitled on their present capital, not
called for and put in ncirculations Why
is it that the Iowa National Bank O
this city retired some $4,000 of it
authorized circulation. The fact ii
the banks are retiring all over thu
country, from day to day, a portion 0
their authorized issue. Why are the,
doing it? Because it don't pay to keel
it. If it did pay, as charged, is Their
any man fool enough to suppose tina
bankers are fools enough to give up
lgood thing.
Year: 1878

Politics enter into even the cookery
in Georgia. A colored citizen in the
state sought employment recently,
with this curious certificate of recon.
mendation: "This is to certify thai
Henry Garnagsh (colored) has beer
in the employ of the Georgia and Al.
ALBANIA Steamboat company, as cool
on the steamer Magnolia, for one
year and has given satisfaction al
cook, and while in my employ has
been sober industrious and well-be.
haved man. Also a good Democrat
This ia signed by the captain of the
steamboat. This final sentence is
dropped in much in the same way
that the solemn young man who
brought his poetry to John PhGnix
dropped in his final remark on the
fate Of the person who "was accident
ally shot" "The pistol was one OF
the old fashioned kind, brass mount.
ed, and of such is the Kingdom OF
Heaven"
Year: 1878

pertinent in the end. Meanwhile, il
we do not mean to repudiate, we must
find some way of reducing the inter
est burden. Tax the per cent. bonds
and they would net l01l per cent.
interest, and it can be readily seen no
body would touch them. But if the
debt is not refunded at q lower rate,
how is the interest burden to be light
ened?
Year: 1878

The republicans created the green
back, and limited the issue to keep ii
good. The copperhead democrats
tried to kill it by calling it unconstitu-
tional money, and worthless. When
the war was over the same democrats
tried to kill it again by demanding
an issue of two thousand millions to
repudiate the debt with. The repub-
licans sustained the glory of the ma
tional triumph unimpaired, by pro-
tecting the greenback from this dis
grace, when it was worth only half its
face in gold. Now, after it has come
up to the value of gold; when all
prices have been adjusted to its pres
ent status; and when two hundred
millions of gold and silver are about
to be liberated and added to the vol.
ume of money, comes the financial
greenhoyn, under new party name,
trying once more to kill and disgrace
the greenback, by an issue'of unnum-
bered millions, in the hope of cheat
ing somebody out of the money in.
vested in the bonds which saved the
Union. Republican greenbackers will
defeat this madness, too.
Year: 1878

Brick Pomeroy was a traitor during
the war. He tried to break down the
greenback currency and the Union as
well. He is still engaged in the same
business. This great oracle of the new
National Decentralization party is
trying to use the new fiat money de-
lusion to break down the National
Treasury note and to inaugurate a
new scheme of secession. He says:


1--WE can clean all of those Eastern
pirates out of the homes and the prop
erty they have stolen. We can unite
and whip them to reason and COM
prehension of the right. We can
leave the country northeast of the Al
leghany mountains to pay the Ma
tiOnal debt"


Every many of sense knows that
any kind of National money would
be valueless if the National Govern
ment should be broken to pieces as
Brick P0meroy's sinister threat about
leaving "the country northeast of the
Allegheny mountains to pay the Ma
tional debt" contemplates.- Gate city.
Year: 1878

New York, July 3l.-The Union
Pacific Railroad Co. will issue to-day
q circular to the dry goods trade, in
forming shippers of an increase in
rates on first-class merchandise from
New York to San Francisco, from six
dollars to twelve dollars q hundred.
The reason assigned is that when the
rates were low merchants only ship
ped light freight by rail and sent all
bulky merchandise by clippers
around Cape Horn, thus leaving to
railroad companies the light and cost
ly freight on which the risk was too
great for the small profit.
Year: 1878

said:


Although no doctrine in political
economy rests on more obvious
grounds than the mischief of paper
currency not maintained at the same
value with metallic, either by con-
vertibility or by some principle of linn
itation equivalent to it; and although,
accordingly this doctrine has, though
not till after the discoveries of many
years, been tolerably effectually drum
med into the public mind, yet dissen-
tients are still numerous, and project
ors every now and then start up with
plans for curing all the economical
evils of society by means of an un-
limited issue Of inconvertible paper.


There is, in truth, great charm in


the idea. To be able to pay off the


national debt, defray the expenses OF
Government without taxation, and,


in fine, to make the fortunes of the


whole community, is a brilliant pros


pect when once man is capable OF


believing that printing few charac-


ters on bits of papers will do it. The
philosophers stone could not be ex-


pected to do more.
Year: 1878

General Sam Cary is about to invade
Indiana with view to stirring up a
greenback rebellion. General Cary
will never be satisfied until the far
mers of the West can be seen riding
to mill with grist of wheat in one
end of bag and a half bushel of
greenbacks in the other.
Year: 1878

The call for q greenback county con-
vention on the oath pr0x. appears in
this issue Of our paper. We have to-
day interviewed several leading mem
bers Of that party, and they pledge us
there will be no county nominations
made by their party If the democrats
Otttlm,Ca Times.


It Is very easy for the leading mem.
bers of the democratic and greenback
parties to make any sort of bargains
regardless of principles, but it may be
very different thing to induce the
people who compose the parties to
agree to the bargains SO made. We
desire now to have it ofrecord as free
ly and fully put by the Times, viz:
that il Weaver is endorsed by the de-
mocracy (which, as we have always
said, we hope he may be), that it is
the result Of bargain made between
the leaders of the democratic and
greenback parties, so far at least as
the action of Wapello county is con.
cerned. The Times folk are very
smart fellows and hence they early
tell US themselves all about this mat
ter.


The Times people have some anx-
iety, of course, that this trade shall be
effected and the very high and holy
ground upon which they stand in.
wolves principles of great concern and
are purely unselfsh. 1t will moi
make any pecuniary difference per.
haps with the rank and file, but il
the Weaver bait can be thrown to the
greenback gudgeon, (just be nominal.
ed, not necessarily voted for), why
we, US democrats, can have our fill o.
the county spoils, and these are the
high and holy principles, which prob
ably lie nearest the heart of the Ilnae'
folk. OF course the voters will dig
about In this truck patch of principles
belonging to the Times. The Time
wants them to, and why should they
not do II?


The plan is acknowledgement it
Father Ives. We hope this article
may help you along. We will d.
anything IN reason for your success
and when 1t Is done we shall know
j,ast hosc Il Is done, viz: that it Is tn,
result Of fair and square dicker,
Year: 1878

WHAT is the gay old bird of Amer.
lean freedom screaming about, and
what in the name of common sense is
the rule Of the republican party good
for, If tramps can't lie in the shade
and play cards or leaf on the street
corners in our cities, instead of earn
ing from $1.5O to $3.50 in the harvest
fields alongside the industrious far
mer in order that the farmer may
have the privilege Of feeding the
tramp from the proceeds of his own
toll?
Year: 1878

FROM the Davis County Republican
we learn that the Legal Tender Green
back, a paper published at Bloomfield
has been guilty of the most outrag.
eous deception as to what the Federal
Constitution says in regard to the
coming of money. We do not see
this paper and hence our information
8 secondhand! This paper, called
the Legal Tender Greenback, is edited
as we understand, by M. H. Jones,
Esq, and is the organ Of Gen. Weav-
er. This is its quotation from the
Constitution:


Congress shall have power to coin
money, to regulate the value thereof
and of foreign coin, emit bills of cred
it or make anything besides gold and
siluer coin legal tender in payment Q,
debts. Constitution United States.-
Legal Tender Gree,a6dck.


M. III. Jones is lawyer; General
Weaver is a lawyer, and the Legal
Tender Greenbdck must have inten-
tionally published, for the purpose OF
deceiving its readers, a falsehood as
to the text Of the Federal Corstitu-
ton in the above quotation. The
following is the true language of the
Constitution which this Weaver or
gan has SO wantonly garbled-Article
l, Sec. 8, Subdivision 5:


Congress shall have power to coin
money, regulate the value thereof and
of foreign coin and fix the standard
of weights and measures.


This true quotation and the garbled
one, taken together, show that there
must have been deliberate purpose
to villainously deceive. Section 10,
subdivision l, says that no state shall
"make anything but gold and silver
coin tender in payment of debts"


The Constitution thus taken togeth-
er, taken in the light of its construc-
ton by the authors of it in their prac-
tice, taken in the light of the U. s.
Supreme Court decisions, makes gold
and silver the only thing out of which
legal tender can be made under it.


The only exception was in time of
the great rebellion when the Supreme
Court, by a simple majority of the
judges, decided that self-preservation
in time of iminent peril, warranted
under the Constitution the making of
its promises to pay in coin legal ten
der. This was something like the
principle of law that holds it lawful
when two men struggling for the pos
session of a single plank that can save
one of them only from watery
grave, justifies the one that shall OBJ
tain the mastery, though thereby the
other is forcibly plunged into wa
terry grave.


1t is sorry commentary on human
ity to see it deliberately uttering a
falsehood and one most pernicious in
its effects, to succeed in a grand
scheme of fraud; it is thus that fraud
is the parent of all forms of wicked
ness.
Year: 1878

WAsHINeTos. Jan 2s.-The bill introduced by
Senator Blaine o-day to authorize the coinage


OF silver dollar for circulate and make the
same legal tender. and for other purposes.


reads as follows: D''


sECT1oN |. That silver bullion may be depos-
tied at any coinage. mint and at the assay Of
flee In the city of New York for return In sill
such rate or price per standard ounce of bull


lion as may from time TO time be fixed by the


Director OF. the Mint, with the approval in
writing of the Secretary OF the Treasury. and
winch rate shall correspond as exactly as u g.
sible with the market rate ; and bullion thus
placed shall In addition TO other required coin
age authorized by existing laws, be coined
without delay to the full capacity Of the mint.


SEc .. That any gain or profit arising frem
OF lawful wasteage. be covered into the Treasury
at the close of each fiscal year.


d, SEC. 8. The silver dollar herein authorized to
pc coined shall be legal tender as by the exist
ing laws in common with gold coin. for all
sums up to and including S. and for all sums
exceeding 81 the debtors shall have the right to
tender In full payment. and the creditor the
right to demand one-half of the amount In gold
coin and one half in silver dollars.


SEC 4. Fine or standard gold and silver bars
bearing the stamp OF any coinage mint or the
assay office at New York shall be received by
the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at
New York for their stamped value, which shall
be their coinage rate respectively and coin GER
ttdcates shall be issued therefor by the Assist
ant treasurer In the same mann Ar as coin Ger.
titieates are now Issued for gold coin and the
certificates SO issued shall be redeemedeby the
Secretary OF the Treasury on demand at the
office OF the Assistant Treasurer i'm New York
~ coin or stamped bars of bullion deposited at
Year: 1878




WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.-The Banking and
Currency Committee to-day decided to offer to
the House resolution authorizing the com
mttee to learn the amount of coin in the pos
session Of the government the average receipt
of the same, and all points of interest in this
regard as looking toward the resumption of
specie payments. Such method of acquir-
ing the information has been made necessary
by. the incomplete and, in truth, not alto
gether reliable reports which have at different
times been made to the House in answer
to resolutions asking for the information and
the regular monthly and weekly statements.
Secretary Sherman, and even Secretary Bris-
tow have made reports which partook of the
equivocating character Of estimates, and
which disagreed, largely with the published
weekly or monthly statements. The idea of
the committee now is to bring Secretary Sher-
man before it, put him on oath, may be- and
catechise him for all they want to know and,
II necessary, examine the books, and even the
vaults, to ascertain the truth. The are sew
eral members of the committee who suspect
that the recent statement Of Secretary Sher-
man that the government had one hundred
and forty millions In coin ready for resump-
tiOn is not founded upon fact.
Year: 1878

York national banks are not so united on the
subject Of bulldozing the country on the silver


question as they would like to be thought.


Mr.. Thompson, president of the Chase Ma
tional Bank, writes to Q friend in Washington
fayoring the Bland bill, and expressing the
opinion that its passage is necessary TO re-
lieve the present financial distress Possibly
there will be more expressions of this sort
when the New York bankers have had time to
consider the hint thrown out by Gen. Butler
that bulldozing is q game that two can play at,
and that IL the national banks carry out their
threat OF q conspiracy to defeat the remon-
etization of silver in the event of the passage
OF the pending bill, Congress will retaliate by
terminating their charters.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK. Jan. 23-The spring weather.
which for the past two or three days has been
with us. departed suddenly early this morning,
At 11:i5 this morning the wind was travelling at
the rate OF nine miles per hour. As the morn
ing advanced the wind increased in velocity,
with corresponding decrease in temperature,
until p. M. when the wind blew at the rate of
fifty miles an hour, and the thermometer stood
This evening he wind is still blowing gale,
and the weather is very cold Reports received
here IRON parts q the country state
wind prevailing. At Albany the wind was
blowing this morning with a velocity OF forty
miles an hour.
Year: 1878

New YORK. Jan. 26.-Inquries come from all
sources abroad IN regard to American machine
ry showing an interest not before manifested
The consulting engineer Of this city has Just
placed an order from New Zealand for six loco
motives similar to two others shipped for the
same destination. OF still more importance
are large orders for fine machinery which have
been placed with various firms. all for Amser-
dam. The fnest boilers that can be made have
Just been sent out.


There is much talk about an Australian order
for large angle iron bolts. but 1t is said that
our mills are not fitted with rollers of adequate
slze. and that the heaviest part of the work will
In consequence. be done elsewhere,


The proposition to Americanize the railroad
connection between Vera Cruz and the City of
Mexico has made a considerable stir In this city
American construction are already on the road,
and all railway supplies have been purchased
In New York for several years past. and further
orders from the United States are In contem-
plation.


The great Russian contract for the immediate
construction of forty first class locomotives s
already half executed.
Year: 1878

New YoRK, Jan. 2e,-A Castle Garden official.
In answer to q question from q reporter rela-
tive to the. number of immigrants arriving
now. says there Is. of course q great falling off
in numbers. There used to be 300 900 and 400 .ooo
year v, but now there are but 10000. Why" he
said. 1T Is not an unfrequent thing to have per-
sons come In On steamers that are perfectly
useless lunatics. etc. We have to take care OF
these people.


Last week we had a case Of an old man past
sixty years. and his son. who. when he was ex-
amined was found to be an imbecile. These
persons were sent to this country by q brother
in law. who did not care to support them any
longer. They were sent back on the same
steamer.


Another case was that OF woman who had
been shipped to this country to conceal her
shame. She refused to go back and. OF course.
under the present law we had no power to en-
force her return. Besides, this will cause
steamship companies to be more particular in
their shipments of steerage passengers.


Last year we found employment for over TO-
900 persons" He said that there was plenty of
available land In the northern part Of this State
which could be we'll manned by Russians or
Scandinavians. and that when migrants move
to distant States and the authorities see that they
are about to become q burden to the com
munity they are sent back to New York.
Year: 1878

A SICKLY PRINCE.-The true story of
the mysterious illness of Prince Leopold,
youngest son of Queen Victoria, has now
become public. An English paper says:
The young prince, whose amiability has
long since cndeared him to all who know
him. suffers from a strange and dreadful
disease, which can best be described as Il
state of existence in which there is Il pc
culiur liability to the occurrence of pro-
fuse and more or less uncomfortable hem
orrhage or bleeding, both from the sur
face of the skin, and within the intersti-
tial tissues of the body. Life under these
conditions is in ceaseless peril. Exam
plies are not uncommon where the loss Of
blood, excited by the mere extraction OF
Il loose tooth, or by the accidental scratch
or prick OF a finger, has proved utterly
uncomfortable and in the eud fatal. Be
sides these terrible risks the disease en-
taiIs periods of pain which are often eX-
crUciatiOg, and these Prince Leopold is
said to bear with a serenity and patience
that are the admiration Of all about him. "
Year: 1878

London Court Circular.


SHAM JEWELKY AND DRESSES.


1t is astonishing how many rich peo.
pie condescend to wear limitations of
costly things; and this piece of bad
taste is not by any means confined to
nouueaur riches, who might be expect
ed to know no better. Cotton velvet
with silk face does duty for the rich
Lyons velvet which once alone was
worn by gentlewomen; imitation lace,
mock jewelry aud sham furs are worn
unblushingly. IF, as is often stated,
ladies dress not to please the opposite
sex, but to excite the envy of their
own, the wearing of shams must fail
in it's effect. Another woman may
be very covetous of her rivals dia
monds, sables and old points; but she
could only feel contemptuous toward
the paste, the dyed rabbit skins and
machine made lace that do duty for
the good old treasures. Gentlemen,
too. are not readily taken in by imi-
tations; the sportsman recognizes the
mock fur or feather, and most men in
society understand good lace and the
difference betw cen paste and diamonds
There is no greater snobbery than that
shown in the pretenslon of modern
dress, and no falseness more easily
seen through than that of sham finery.
A true gentlcwoman will only wear
what is genuine and good OF its kind,
no matter how modest and unpretend
ing that kind may be.
Year: 1878

By tho terms of the contract and by
the clear and unqualified provisions
of the law the government bonds are
payable in coin-either gold or silver.
at the option of the Government. Tho
bondhoIders are anxious to hAYe silver
demonetized that they may secure tho
payment of their obligations in gold
alone, which would be an oppression
and fraud upon the people who are tho


payers of the bonds. To, pay the
bonds in silver coin of the value Of
that established by law at the time the
contract was entered into would be Al
honest and full compliance with the
of the Government; to do.
mand more would be extortion.