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Year: 1878




Temperance people will be inter-
ested in learning that next Thursday,
February 81, has been set apart by
the House of Representatives for the
discussion of all bills affecting the
prohibitory liquor law. A very
large number of petitions have been
sent up to this body from different
sections of the State, asking for the
repeal of the law granting licences
for the sale of wine and beer. 9th
ers have been presented asking that
it be not repealed, and still others
asking that instead of prohibitory
law there be law enacted prevent
ing the adulteration of liquors, so as
to give the public the genuine poison.
The question will be thoroughly dis
cussed next Thursday, and all friends
of temperance will be interested in
listening to it.
Year: 1878

Mr.. RIcKEL, has q bill, the general
purpose of which will meet the gen.
eral appreciation of every honest tax
payer in Iowa. 1t provides that all
property shall be assessed at its act
ual cash value; that the assessor shall
furnish to each owner of personal
property, ten days before he is as
sessed, printed schedule, comprising
62 descriptions Of property, which
the owner shall fill out with q true
list of all his property to which he
shall subscribe his name and make
oath. Failure to fill out the list in
ours q fine of 500, and the person so
failing shall then be cited before q
Justice ofthe Peace and there sworn
to the true account Of his taxable
personally, and if he refuse to make
answer he shall be sent to jail until
he complies. One more provision
should be added to the law: impose
the same fine and penalty upon any
assessor who. does not carry out the
law to the letter. It is time that as
sessments should be more equal and
fair.--DubuQue Times.


We have seen this bill and some
what carefully examined it. In the
main we believe it to be good bill.
It 10 founded upon the recommendation
made by Auditor Sherman in his bi.
ennial report to the Legislature. The
assessment of property is the all i'm.
portsnt thing to look after that it may
be fairly made and all persons com
PEELED to give in true list of theiI
property.
Year: 1878

TIE preachers Of the cast of all
grades, seem to have gone into the
busine as of berating the western peo-
pie because they want to remonetize
silver. These preachers, or some of
them at least, are much like the pot
house politician in the use of slang
phrases in their condemnation Of the
western people and the silver dollar.
They do not hesitate to denounce us
as swindlers and repudiators on the
Sabbath day, from their pulpits. We
opinc that they are simply engaged
in measuring their politics as they
do their religion, viz: by the pockets
of their church members.
Year: 1878

n the light Of the moon, ground was
in good order but cold enough ia


wear an overcoat. Everybody in the
neighborhood thought was foolish


for planting and said that I'd just


come out of the store room and did


not know what ! was about, but
changed their tune in about four or
five weeks when they found me tend


Ing corn and they replanting theirs


that was planted some ten days later


when the wind was from the east and


in the dark of the moon. Leave your


Fall plowing till the last till you get
done planting the other, that is If the


season is dry and you can do go. Do
not work too long at your Spring
blowing, better leave 1t when it comes


time to plant in due season, and COM


mence on your Fall plowing. Just
put your planter on it and set team
after your planter with q double corn


pioW and plow it before it comes up,
II 10 easier to plow then than at any


otner time. Never stop working
your corn because you are done
planting, but keep on at work. You
..--y "o.A3 Whut dJ fAuSWer, puI your
narrow on it and harrow away
whether your corn is up or not, if it
is up 1t will not do any harm to har-
row but do q great deal of good; it
VIII pulverize the ground and de-
str0y all the grass and weeds that you
generally have in the hill all season,
and necessarily make your crop short
ana your cornfield ragged. You may
think that the harrow will destroy
some Of the corn. Suppose it does
destroy dozen stalks Of corn in
row. 1T is better than to have the
weeds in the hill, and your corn fall
short . bushel in the row on the &C.
count of weeds. Be careful to select
the very best of seed corn, which
ought to be gathered and thoroughly
dried in the Fall. Follow this sd-
vice and you will raise plenty of corn
to sell and keep. A Corn RAISER,
Year: 1878

renity of policy Administration


but now the members of that board


which declared Louisiana carried for


for the election Of that Administra-
ton are in durance vile, through the
acts Of the despicable democracy that
have SO long been making hell upon
earth down there, the tough cuticle
of the powers that be, at Washington,
have finally got home thrust and
winces. Thank the Lord for this,
though we most deeply sympathize
with those stalwart advocates of free
dom in Louisiana who are the suffer-
ers.
Year: 1878

clearer explanation Of his eastern
policy, in answer to question to be
put to parliament. The Emperor is
understood as prepared, in case of
need, to tender his good Offices to
England and Russia with q view to
the preservation of peace, but he is
not inclined to act in any way as ar
bitrator.
Year: 1878

evidence Of the PAIN we made him suffer
laid him on an eItemporired barrow,
and carried him slowly and carefully to
MS cabin He was in dead swoon when
We got him there and laid him on the
bed on which Jack had deid. When he
came to, he seemed pleased TO be at
home.


He fingered for two days. The col.
onel tried to make him understand that
be ought to make some disposition Of
his property. but he said that Of course
all his blunt belonged to the painter
man, for it had been Jacks, and Jack
loved him best after bis kther. This Of
course, Iwould not permit, and after
much trouble we got him To put his
mark under document drawn I'D in
my sketch book-though he said Hhs
didn't care q duru what come oft now"
by which he made over all his belong
ings, with exception of his rife, to the
Portland free school. His rifle he in
sisted l should take.


Towards the evening of the second day
tfter We had brought him from the
woods he seemed suddenly to collapse.
He lay speechless for some time. All at
once he raised his head from the pillow,
and looking with eager eyes, as if into
the far distance, he cried, "It's Jack
Durn the little cub" and fell back dead.


We laid him by the side Of the child
he had loved 50 dearly, and carved his
name under Jacks, deepin the trunk Of
the cedar.
Year: 1878

class" She keeps this fact a pro-
found secret even her own mother is
not aware of it-but the fact Is as stated,
the writer having ascertained it through
visit 10 an artists studio ds-ing the sessions
OF life class" Of art students. Inquiring
into this matter further the writer discoy-
cred that the young lady in question had in
vain attempted TO secure employment in
writing, translating or trade pursuits, was
on the verge OF starvation with her old
mother, when a lucky hint suggested the
livelihood Of model, which was finally
and successfully adopted, only after
severe self-strUgglos and Under coudi-
tions Of the most profound secrecy.
\ prominent painter, with whom the
writer held CONVERSATION recently,
stated that the supply OF models was At
present greater than the demand, and that
the majority OF models in the city OF New
York were not only well formed but well
behaved "a really superior class of per-
sons" forced 20 exhibit themselves by their
necessities. \ model quite in demand is a
Young German. Another model has recent
ly been married to young painter who fell
in love with her from seeing her As a model
IN life-class which he was then attending,
and IRON all reports the daring and uncon-
ventional painter has 4 worthy wife. Occa-
sionally in our better classes, and even in
our best society, it is rumored that ladies do
not h, state 10 serve u partial models for
bust or arms, or fOr classic poses, to please
popular artists or 10 crafty their own vani-
ry: but these are isolated eases and call ior
but the merest passing allusion.
Year: 1878

As our Lady of Spangles was passing, in
her carriage, home from the bali At sunrise
Wednesday morning, the 500 gew.aw On
her glitierIng garb flashing in the early
rays Of the rising orb Of day, policeman
entered tenement house on East Forty
sixth street, New York. Our lady saw him
and wondered ii anybody il. the wide world
felt as miserable rs she; and when her
llounces and furbelows and Jewels and laces
had been laid aside, she flung herself upon
her silken couch, and tried 10 sleep, but
could not for thinking Of what she had
seen. Could my lady have locked inside
the tenement house the policeman entered
as she drove past, she would have seen a
dirt begrimed room, into which,
through shattered panes, the winter
wind swept with biting breath, tireless
stove three broken chairs, dirty straw
mattress on the floor, and an empty pine
cupboard, with only 4 lew crusts the rats
could not devour. Crouched in corner,
three starving, crying, almost naked child
ren, the eldest but SIX years old; on the
mattress lay the mother, dead; beside her,
his hand upon her breast, the husband and
father, In drunken stupor fro0which the
voices of the children fail to Arouse him.
\ neighbor, by chance, sees the situation
the police come, the mother is buried at the
city's expense and the children are handed
over the Commissioners OF Charities. The
wretched man is prosecuted Tor cruelty
to children and gets six months in
the penitentiary. \ little willie ago,
Morris Murphy was hard working,
temperate man with good situation. The
contraction that was found necessary TO
bring about specie payments cut down his
employers business, and Morris was turned
ont OF his place. Since then his course has
been downward lie will come out of pris-
on a wiser man with hopes OF being better
one. Should this meet the eye OF our Lady
of Spangles, let her sell all she hath and
give to those three little children OF Morris
Murphy, because they were more miserable
than she on the morning Of her greatest
misery after she had supped full on pleas
ure. Ii John Sherman should read this,
let him do what he can to restore Morris
Murphy's situation TO him; Tor in so doing
be will restore many thousands OF others to
their means OF livelihood, and the country
TO its old status of prosperity. Let him
turn from the side Of the bondholdefs to the
side OF the renpIe
Year: 1878

A few davs ago, we published thought
ful and forcIbly written letter from work
ingman Of this city, in which the question
placed at the he d OY this article was con-
sidered. II is one which really appears to
demand some special consideration Just
now, for there is a tendency 10 set up an
arbitrary and wholly unwarranted defini-
ton of the term, and the implications of
such proceeding are likelyto be mischiev-
Gus. 1t there Is any meaning in the En-
glish language, and any significance in fact,
it is certainly wrong to assume that the
term "wOrkingmen' covers only those
who earn their living by manual labor
For this is nation Of workingmen, pre-
eminently and hard work is the
rule Of life here rather than the
exception. Brain labor is neither the
least exhausting nor the least influential in
the worlds progress, vet under the current
definition OF the workingman the brain
worker is excluded Manual labor il no
doubt the lot OF the majority, and it Is
honorable, but TO assert that it alone Is en-
titled TO be regarded as real work il un-
reasonable, and can only lead to confusion,
and, what l. worse, To the erection OF high
ly objectionable and altogether un-
american class divisions. The idea that
manual labor Is the only kind deserving
consideration Is evidently based upon ac-
sumptions quite foreign TO the spirit Of re-
publican institutions. That spirit is one Of
equality OF energy, and of progress. Ii
recognizes no class distinctions, no best or
worst in the rank Of labor, but puts all hon.
est industry upon the same level, and hon
ors simply the American citizen, be his Oc-
cupatiOn what it may. Every man who
earns his own living has an equal right TO
call himself workingman, and those who
live by manual labor have no right to at
tempt a monopoly OF the term, the more
especially since the establishment OF such a
monopoly cannot be effected without the
intlietion OF injury and unjust aspersion
upon all other cla--es OF workers
Year: 1878

Mondays vote in the House on the sus-
pension OF the rules TO pass a resolution ill.,
structing the ways and means committee to
report bill taxing incomes, was very
significant proceeding. The object OF the
movers OF this resolution is to tax large in
comes-to make the rich pay taxes directly
as the poor are made To pay indirectly I;
and ss a just and equitable proceeding
there can be no plausible objection To
it, II a man makes $4,000 a year, he
can afford to pay for the privilege and pro-
lection involved in it, independent Of an
incidental tax or license, which must be
paid by those who lose as also those who
realize an income short OF the taxable
amount. There Is no possible injustice in
an income tax. 1t il gratifying To note the
fact that the entire Mi.sOur delegation
voted for the motion, which, though falling
short OF the number required to take the
matter up al once, indicated n plurality of
sixteen votes over > majority of the iull
House. II the opponents do not go TO work
deliberately and Systematically TO bush
whack the bill when it shall be introduced,
it will no doubt go promptly through both
houses and become a law.
Year: 1878

Opposition TO the restoration OF the in-
come tax goes hand in hand with the oppo-
sition TO the restoration Of silver 10 lis
proper place. While Il few advocates of
silver do not favor the income tax, the gold
organs oppose it to man. But 1T is a
righteous proposition, it is fit companion
TO the silver bill, it is one OF the peoples
measures, and it ought TO be passed. Moth
ing could be more unholy and unjust than
the present policy Of our government which
taxes the labor of the country at
every turn, and allows capital, in
great measure, TO go Tree.
The man who makes the money is the man
who should pay the taxes. The money OF
the country should pay the expenses OF the
government. The people have TO do the
fighting, and capital should do the paving.
The talk about an income tax being tax
upon mans energy, or upon his earnings,
is all moonshine; it is proposed to exempt
salaries up to two thousand dollars, and
very few men in any part OF the country
''earn" much more than this; thousands, OF
course, receive vastly more, but IT is
learned" by money, or by the labor OF 9TH
er men, and the income tax proposition is
simply propositson to make man pay tax
on that portion of his income which he
receives without earning. At present, a
man may be worth millions, and if he keeps
his money in government bonds he doesn't
have TO pay 4 cent TO the goyernment-na-
tional, state or local-except such as the
day laborer pays, indirectly, through the
tariff on what he eats and wears. But the
mechanic, who saves enough from his scan-
ty earnings to build little home, though
il may not he worth five hundred dollars,
is obliged TO pay state tax, county tax, city
tax, school tax, road tax, bond tax, rail-
road tax, and every other tax, general or
special, which it may be necessary TO levy.
This Is one of the inequalities OF life
that ought 10 be levellei up, and
tie income tax is the measure with
which TO do it. lie believe that the man
who makes his living by clipping coupons.
should bear his share of the public burden
Just as much as the man who makes a liv-
ing by following the plow, or working at
the bench, and this is what the income tax
law proposes to do. 1t proposes to do
away with special privileges for favored
few, and make all men pay in proportion
to what they receive. 1t is the most right
eous tax that could be levied, and the peo-
pie will rejoice to learn that by vote in
Congress, few days ago, it is shown that
there is nearly two-th!rds majority in the
House in favor OF it.
Year: 1878

1t has been generally supposed that
Maine had reduced the prohibitory business
to an exact science, and was thoroughly
satisfied with her efforts in this direction.
But such is not the case. A bill for new
liquor law drawn up by Gen. Neal Dow,
the veteran temperance apostle, has just
been introduced in the Legislature, which
is vastly more stringent in its provisions
than any previous enactment of the kind.


1t provides that the sales of liquor shall be
punished by fine of 500 and six months
imprisonment al hard labor for the first Of
fense, and a years imprisonment foi the
second offense. No liquor is to be brought
into the State, even for the use Of private
persons, and those having liquor on their
premises are bound TO establish ownership
Apparatus for selling liquor is to be deemed
evidence of guilt, and If a team is found
drawing liquor the horses and vehicle are to
be confiscated. Common drunkaids are to be
sent to Jail for a year, but released upon the
conviction of the party or parties who sold
them liquor. Drummers for liquor houses
are to lie fined 81 600 and imprisoned for a
year, and officers obtaining convictions are
to be paid premiums.
Year: 1878

The war indemnity of Sl00,000,OOO
which Russia proposes to levy upon Turkey
is nothing more than a ruse through which
TO get possession of territory. She is to
hold certain territory until this sum is paid,
and as the amount is much greater than
sthe bankrupt empire can pay, Russia will
doubtless get the land, which is Just what
she wanted from the first In either case the
integrity OF the Turkish Empire, guaranteed
by the treaty of Paris in 1856, is lost, but it is
a little less direct violation to take territory
for an unpaid debt than to seize it out and
out. The occupation of Armenian cities is
a little more aggressive, but Russia will
probably have her own way. If her ag.
gressions in the field could not be checked,
it is not likely that she will be talked out Of
her acquisition at a conference. Such a
gathering will be very like locking the sta
bic door after the horse is stolen. Ii the
Eastern question is 10 be satisfactorily ad
justed on the basis of the existing treaties
something like blows must be added Il
words
Year: 1878

lSitIuciu NF-HS-t ltltgFapti.l


A poor woman lay very i'll in her scanti-
ly furnished home in Sheffield. The doctor
was sent for and came. lie at once saw that
hers was very grave case, and that she
had, as he thought, little chance OF recovery
even if she could get the nourishment her
illness required. As he was about to leave,
the question was put, when should we
send for you again, doctor ~ Well was
the reply, as he looked at the poor woman
and then at her wretched surroundings, Il
don't think you need send for me again
She can not possibly get better and to save
you further trouble Eli just write you out
certificate for her burial" And he did
After the doctor departed, the woman
women always were willful-got better
rapidly. She has now completely recov-
cred, and goes about carr, ing her burial
certificate with her.
Year: 1878

In relation to the present condition Of
the country roads, a correspondent writes as
follows:


LEAvENwoETH, February 5th, lS.S.


EDITOR TINEs:-I would like to call the at
tention of the people in the country to the
fact that the "mud holes in low places that
are now impossible, and viii likely remain
50 for weeks unless something is done to
make them better, could easily be put in
condition for travel If each one would put in
load OF refuse hay or straw, or stalks
What is everybody's business is nobody s
business, but no doubt a little advice through
the TIMES, showing the benefits of il, would
induce all to pull together in this respect
Year: 1878

New York Times


An Iowa paper printed and commended
an original poem in favor OF the dollar OF
the fathers" and was dumfounded when a
rival editor showed that it was an acrostic,
the initial letters reading 'Havens, the ass"
Year: 1878

Never before in years have our street
crossings been in better condition than
now, and still the work goes on. s. A.
Taylor has put Al new crossings on Second
and Third avenues, from 7th to 18th
streets, and has orders to place probably
20 more next week. In some cases the
old crossings were from one to two feet
below the sidewalk, but now they are all
even up close, so that person on dark
nights cannot stumble into the gutter; the
crossing at 18th and Second avenue was
being placed in proper condition to-day.
Second avenue has also been patched with
macadam and the gutter on south side
from 18th to 18th streets is nearly COM
pleted Other needed street repairs have
been made and on the whole the thorough
fares were never in better condition than
now. There is nothing that adds 80 much
to the cleanliness of city as well graded
streets, and in this particular Rock Island
certainly compares favorably with any
town in the state.
Year: 1878

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING NEW
YoRK.-ODe of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and Others
to stop at when in New York is the Grand
Union Hotel, nearly opposite the Grand
Central Depot, kept on the European plan
you therefore only pay for what you get.
Everything is first class, and prices mod
crate, adapted to the stringeDcy of the
times. You save the expense of carriage
hire, and by leaving your baggage check
on the counter of the Hotel, your baggage
will be delivered in your rooms, fifteen
minutes after the arrival of the cars, free
OF expense. We advise you to give the
Grand Union trial.
Year: 1878

This morning IS year old Sun sf Lewis
Wilson, of Rural, was accidently shot
through the abdomen. The facts appear
to be as follows: Young Wilson went out
to get some coal, and while leaning over to
gil the hod, cartridge in his pocket was iu
some way exploded, the ball entering the
left side of the abdomen, and passing out
through the right, The boy did not seem
to realize be was badly hurt but took the
coal into the house, and instead of telling
his ftaher, stuffed cotton into the wound,
and told his brother of it, but getting
deathlylpale,h bis father asked the cause aud
then he told him. As quickly as possible
Dr. Huyett, of Milan, was summoned, but
whether the wounds were dangerous, or
only flesh deep, Te could not learn at time
of going to press.
Year: 1878

Now is the time to come out with new
clothes and get ready to make new resolu-
tions and swear off from ever buying them
from anyone except j. I. Dixon, the most
popular and reliable merchant tailor in
the city, His cutting, fitting styles, quail
ity of cloth and making is assuredly the
best aud bis prices compare favorabIy with
the cheapest.
Year: 1878

To one quart offour add two teaspoon
fuls DooLEY's YEAST POWDER, a little
salt, butter the size of egg rubbed in the
-four, one pint sweet milk, and the yolks OF
two eggs beaten very light Add last, STIR
ring in lightly, the whites of the eggs well
beaten, and baked in square pan in q
quick oven. Break in squares for the
table,
Year: 1878

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Backing
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade of
these goods is always standard and their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is one of the Oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in its line in the
countrv. dwtf
Year: 1878

The universal testimony of all mothers,
who have once used it, is that DR.. Bull s
Baby Syrup is the best medicine for child
rem teething or suffering with Diarrh@a
or Summer Complaint.
Year: 1878

The proof of the value of any article is
its popular use and the testimony in its
favor. The sale of DR.. Bulls great reme-
dy for coughs and colds is immense and
the testimony voluminous.