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Year: 1874

THERE is a bill before the Legis-
lature providing that each county
choose its own system Of county
government - either the commis-
sioner or the supervisor system.
This strikes us as being a good bill,
which ought to pass. For small
and sparsly settled counties the
town supervisor system may be
most desirable, bat for the larger
and more populous counties, where
a member from every town, village
and ward make board Of 80 or 60
members, the commissioner system
mnst be far the best. Should the
bill pass, it will be in order to dis
cuss the question Of which system
should be adopted in Iowa county.
The provisions Of the act will de-
teIrnine our position on the ques-
ton. If under it we may have a
board of ) or I commissioners, the
will advocate its adoption ;
should it restrict Is to three, the
case would be different, and a
change for it in this county perhaps
not desirable.
Year: 1874

We have received a copy of a
paper bearing the title of Industrial
Press, just established at Galena
This Press announces itself as an
organ Of the Changers, and pre-
tends to be Independent in politics
-devoting itself exclusively to the
farmers-but the cloak is entirely
too thin. It's columns are crowded
with denunciations of Republicans
and Republican measures, while no.
where do we tind /. N9old Indicating
that Democracy ever committed the
least sin. Such. paper is entitled
to be considered only as political
pirate, sailing under the farmers
colors that it may the more surely
secure booty to its Democratic crew.
That the Republican party has
sinned we do not deny; but that
oA the dishonesty is in that party,
or that it alone is responsible for
all the ills of the body polite, as
implied by the tone of the Indus
trial Press, is a proposition no ho's-
est man will attempt to sustain.
Year: 1874




TEA MEETING.-The Primitive
Methodists of Linden will hold their
annual Tea Meeting on Thursday,
Feb. 10Th. The friends here are
noted for the excellence of the en-
tertainment they provide, and all
who attend may be assured of an
enjoyable time.


A GooD THING.-Dr. Pugh of
New Diggings, has been appointed
mail route agent to run on the rail-
road between this city and Warren.
A regular mail ear is to be fitted up
for the accommodation of the peo-
pie along the line of the road; and
thus we are to have the same mail IA
cilities as the people on other lines of
railroad. Letters and other matter
can be mailed at any station along
the road up to the last moment be-
fore the train starts, 50 that any
thing that fails to get to the post
Office before the bags are closed can
be forwarded on being taken to the
depot.
Year: 1874

SMALL PoX IN PLATTEvILLE.---A
case of small poX at Platteville has
caused considerable talk the past
week. Having been to that village,
however, we can assure the public
there is no cause for alarm. The
hostler of the Wright House in
some way got the disease, but be-
fore it had progressed far enough
to be contagious he was removed
into the country with a competent
nurse, and is now rapidly recover
ing. No other cases are reported.
Since he was attacked we have put
up at the same house, and feel no
i'll effects. Streeter, the landlord
is not one TO be negligent about the
comfort or safety of his guests, and
we assure the public that there is
not the least danger in going to
Platteville and staying at the Wright
House. The afflicted hostler, Peter
Peterson, IS one of the best hands
in the business, and we hope by our
next trip to find him at his post.
Year: 1874

Dun, Barlow & Co.'s mercantile agency have favored us with t1 cir views of prospects for the fall trade, which are full of encouragement. Con- sidering the suddenness and violence of the crisis of last Autumn, the com meroial fabric of the country has not shown serious signs of disorder, if the number or importance of mercantile failures are to be taken as an index as to it's condition. It is a fact, as sur prising as it is gratifying, that, within the past six months, there have abso- lutely been fewer failures in number, and certainly fewer in prominence, than for the same period in the average of years. On the contrary, it is observed that there has been very remarkable reduction of indebtedness in all classes and in almost all sections of the coun- try. It is safe to say that the internal mercantile indebtedness in the country to-day is not more than two- thirds what it was at this time last year. Indeed, so great has been the tendency toward liquidation, that it alone has been a cause of restricted business and ham, pered trade, as much as the want of confidence in the stability of the coun- try, or the safety of credit.
Year: 1874

By. R. V. Pierce, M. D., of the Worlds Dis pensary, Buffalo, N. Y.

 Knowing that you are subject to a great amount of suffering, that delcacy on your part has strong tendency to prolong, and the longer it is neglected the more you have to endure and the more difficult of cure your case becomes, I, a physician, who is daily con suited by scores of your sex, desire to say to you, that 1 am constantly meeting with those who have been treated for their ailments for months without being benefited Tn the least, until they have become perfectly discouraged and have almost made up their minds never to take another dose of medicine. nor be tortured by any further treatment. They had rather dle and have their sutferings ended than to live and suffer as they have They say they are worn out by suffering and are only made worse by treatment Of anything more dis couraging, we certainly cannot conceive, and were there no more successful mode of treating such difficulties than that, the principles of which teach the re lucing and depicting of the vital forces of the system, when the indications dictate a treatment directly the reverse of the one adopted for them, their cases would be deplorable indeed. But lady sufferers, there is & better and far more successful plan of treat ment for you one more ill harmony with the laws and requirements of your system. A harsh irritating caustic treatment and strong medicines will never cure you. If you would use rational means such as common-sense should dict ate to every intelligent lady, take

 

 vigorating tonics and nervines. compounded with special reference to your delicate system. Such happy combination you will find in my Favorite Prescription, which has received the loudest praise from thousands of your sex. Those languid tiresome sensations causing you to feel scarcely able to be on your feet or as- cend flight of 8. airs, that continual drain that is sapping from your systems all your former elasticity, and driving the bloom from your cheeks; that continual strain upon your vital forces that render you irritable and fretful, may all be overcome and subdued by per severing use of that marvellous remedy. IT, regularlties and Instructions to the proper workings of your system are relieved by this mild and safe meaus, while periodical pains, the existence of which is & sure indication of serious disease that should not be neglected, readily yield to it, and if It's use is kept up for a reasonable length of time the special cause of these pains is permanently removed. Further light on these subjects may be obtained from my pamphlet diseases peculiar to your sex, sent on receipt of two stamps. My Favorite Prescription is sold by druggists. s.-Gen.
Year: 1874

A correspondent speaks as follows of life in German Students Club:

 During the evening, two persons have had quarrel. in the progress of which ono has called the other 6ee.juaeger. | This is an insult which cannot be for given, and the insulting party is inn mediately challenged. A judge is ap- pointed, who fills two large tumblers with beer, and gives one to each contest ant. The glasses are drained at the given signal to the bottom and he who has breath enough to cry Beeju's- ger is proclaimed victor, amid the shouts of the company. He has now the right to dictate to his rival anything g he chooses, and the vanquished party must obey at peril of expulsion from the club. These societies are extreme ly popular, and nearly all the students participate in them.

 The fighting men-about one-third of the students-are divided into five corps, distinguished by tke color of their caps. Duels are restrained to these corps and the occasions for wounded honor to vindicate itself are so numerous, that it is necessary to de- vote two afternoons week to this bar barous custom. The Government of the University is silent about these little affairs of honor, and so is consid- cred as sanctiening them. The duels are fought in beer-house just across the Neckar. The swords are short, and very sharp at the extreme point. The surgeon of each corps is present to stop any unnecessary flow of blood. The combatants, stripped to their waists, their arms banlaged at the elbows, that they may infiict no deadly wounds, strike right and left, up and down, with remarkable precision and swiftness. The aim of the duellist being to mark the face of his antagonist, tie head is the principal point of attack and, at the end of one of these fights, the floor of the room looks like that of a suc- cessful barber's shop. Vengeance is not appeasea by the first blood that is drawn, but they often contend until one or the other is exhausted. It is noth- ing uncommon to see 8 noble, manly fellow, with his face so disfgured with ugly and ghastly wounds, as to render him most repulsive sight.
Year: 1874

At the burning of the house of AL derman Block, of Fredericton, N. B., occurred the following incident which is worthy of record, as showing the fidelity of Newfoundland dog, the property of Mir. Block. The noble brute, with almost human instinct, made his way into the house by tearing out the panels of one of the doors and aroused the family by his barking, and then ran to the stable door, which he endeavored to open, so that the horse, his almost inseparable companion, might escape. There he remained struggling, though every effort was made to entice him away, and when the fire went out he was found lying dead at his post,
Year: 1874

There seems no doubt, says a New York paper, that 8 case reported to-day is one not of hydrophobia but of hydro phobic madness, induced in the brain of the patient by fear of the real dis ease. There is no proof at all that the wretched man now suffering was ever bitten by rabid dog at all. The ani- nal which bit him ten weeks ago at- tackled him in defense of it's master, and in manner which indicated the ties. The casual and frantic snappings of rabid dogs are as different as possi- ble from this attack made with an in- telligent purpose by healthy dog upon the assailant of it's owner or its patron. Unhappily the dog was killed before it could he shown whether it was mad or not. Ever since that time it appears that Entwistle has beer subjected by the pleasant satire of his companions to daily descriptions of the horrors of hydrophohia and prognostications of his dreadful fate. Add to this the fact that he was man of incorporate habits, and it will be seen that he was in the readiest possible condition of the nerves to fancy that he had hydro phobia and to suffer all the horrors of it. It is much more likely that he is the victim of his own imagination than that he is the victim of bite of 8 rabid dog.

 On Sunday, ten weeks after the biting, the unfortunate man went to an in- formal meeting of printers at friends, and dined there. After the meal he complained of 8 severe headache, and had very little to say to his companions. He went away soon afterward, saying that he felt i'll. His landlady noticed his strange behavior, and kept 8 sharp watch on him. He walked to the hy- drant in the yard to take drink. He touched the water to his lips, and then turned away and parked like dog, and after that exhibited many of the symp- toms of hydrophobia.
Year: 1874

Improvement is the order of the day. The greatest change is made in the Elmwood Collar. This is made little wider than it was, so as to be in the present style. Ask for the Improved Elmweod.-COnl.
Year: 1874

FRIGHTENED New York city paper says that while few well-authenticated cases of hydrophobia have been noticed there is morbid fear that every dog is mad, and that every one is in danger of the dreaded malady. The most inno- cent dogs are objects of suspicion and many dogs are shot who have shown no signs of hydrophobia.
Year: 1874

ARE You Assessed Every man who has
moved into the SlatB within the past year,
should see that his name has been placed on
the assessment list. If the assessor has over
looked or neglected him. He should attend a
session of the Levy Court, taking with him a
freeholder of the Hundred in which he resides
and have his name enrolled lie must do this
or lose his vote next November.
Year: 1874

dodgers at the City Hall cells and last night the
number reached forty.two. The cold, damp
and raw nights of March are bringing the
dodgers in greater nun bers than did all the cold
nights of last winter.
Year: 1874

REHEARSAL FOR THE TEIaos CoScERT. To
morrow evening, at the Board of Trade rooms,
the third general rehearsal for the Trggs benefit
concert will take place. There should be a large
attendance OF those concerned in this prascwor-
thy affair.
Year: 1874

selves in their individual capacities as lee
turers, physicians or preachers; and in that
single fact lies the secret of the Indifference
with which this cause, 80 dear to the hearts
of many good women and men, has been held
so long by the public. A demagogue or vapor-
ing sentimentalist is recognized by the sharp
common sense of the people as easily in pet
ticOat and pOlonaise as in coat and hat.
Neither vaporing nor demagOgism was tOl-
Grated in tho first Congress, and we believe
has not been in the second it Is indeed quite
time that the Cause should show practical
work to practical ends, and cOnfine the f0w
of words to brief councils as to direction OF
that work. The public, we would suggest in
all respect and sincerity, has borne long
wash of words ON this subject; we have had
all the adjuncts of nine-days flood. from the
rainbow hues Of sentiment to the mud of
abuse. We hail with relish as a wholesome
sign, therefore, the actual items Of work doing
or done, offered in the Congress.


The quiet assumption of mans ordinary
place and labor by any one woman, and the
faithful, complete performance OF that work,
do more to convince the public OF feminine
ability than the eulOges of that ability In a
dozen windy OratOns. We might doubt the
safety of "great monetary enterprises" when
committed to female hands, or question
whether women had any leading part to play
in finance for the salvation of the country,
even after hearing these subjects ably handled
by Mrs. Livermore or Mrs. Soule. But
we remember certain business houses
conducted by women with sharp
and successful eye to the main
and to every chance; We recollect
O pretty, fashionable widow, to whom was
given the control of her husbands property
for five years, and who so traded and worked
untiringly as to conquer comfortable fortune
for herself in that time, and then sank back
again composedly into the warmth Of India
shawls and glitter of bathrooms There were
young girls in the South, too, driven during
the war to exert themselves or starve, who
raised mules, planted cotton, and ran the
blockade with it, too, as shrewdly and sue
cessfully as any carpet-bagger could have
done there are thousands of women in Paris
and London any one of whom offers more
certain proof of the variety and keenness OF
the capacity of her sex for making money than
the most metaphysical essay on her financial
ability could do. 1t was not, we beg our
earnest friends to remember, Aaron, who could
speak well, whom the people followed, but
Moses, who brought them mamma and quails
to satisfy their hunger.
Year: 1874

We publish this morning an explanation
from DR.. Edward Young Chief of the Bureau
of Statistcs-one of the small number OF our
high officials of whom the nation has reason
to be prOud-Of the incOmpleteness hitherto
existing in the official statistics OF our exports
to Canada. In justice to DR.. Young we as
sure our readers that in what we before OBJ
served on this subject, he was the last man
we intended to reflect upon.


Still, we regard it as a fact the reverse of
creditable to the Treasury Department and to
Congress that no trustworthy statistics of our
exports to Canada have hitherto been collected
and published; that statistics known to be in
complete have been printed year after year
without warning of their imperfectiOns, and
that Congress has never taken sufficient inter-
est in the matter to provide for the collection
of correct information. AT the same time such
things with us are not uncommon For score
or more of years the registration OF births In
this city has been so incomplete as to deprive
the tables compiled from them OF all value.
Absolute correctness is not to be attained In
operations so extensive as the collection and
tabulation of the exports Of so large country
as the United States but certain degree OF
approximation to the truth is requisite, or else
all the labor bestowed is worse than wasted
The census of the United States, by aiming to
accomplish almost everything, does almost
nothing well. To this melancholy fact we have
the strongest testimony from the Superntend-
ent of the last one taken.


Our export trade to Canada includes great
many articles of our own manufacture, and 1t
is desirable to know what those articles are
and what they are worth but it is precisely
this important part of our exports to Canada
of which no accounts have been collected. On
the eve of disposing Of an important COM
mercial treaty, we consult the tables of OK
ports to Canada and find that no attempt has
been made to keep an account OF goods sent
across the border in railroad cars. At the
same time there is nothing to. show that the
table of exports is incomplete. and the public
have generally accepted it as full record.
For example, we find for the fiscal year 1873,
exports of cotton goods to the value of
S134,OOO, and of wooden goods, $4,000. If we
really have exported cotton goods to the value
of one or two millions and woOlen goods to
half that amount, as seems not impossible, 1t
is important to know it. DR.. Young deserves
credit for his efforts to obtain this informa.
ton for us. So far as last year is concerned
the evil can be remedied, but it is evident
that any comparisons with former years will
be false and misleading.
Year: 1874

Prof. Swings case is to come up before the
Presbytery of Northern Illinois, where the
liberal element is supposed to be compare
lively weak. AS the Professor is no longer
connected with the Chicago Presbytery, it is
that body and not he that must be subjected
to trial.
Year: 1874

The safe burglary case-if it is not post
poned-will come up for trial at Washington
tomorrow. Among those who are not ex-
pected at court is Benton. whom District
Attorney Harrington has released on insignif-
cant bail. Some people have been unkind
enough to hint that there is desire to keep
this scandal under cover till after election day.
Year: 1874

The visit to Washington of the 1st Regi-
ment of Virginia Volunteers from Richmond,
recalls the pleasant days of intercourse between
our citizen soldiery of the different sections,
before the war, when our 9TH Regiment and
the Richmond Militia exchanged calls. Per-
haps in courtesies like these politicians may
see some signs of what the rest OF the people
have long ago found out-that the war is over


Details of desperate fight between party
of adventures bound for the Black Hills
and a band of Sioux, are given elsewhere.
The men who attempt the invasion of that
region after the distinct announcements from
Washington that the Government would not
sanction such attempts, are simply outlaws.
They take their lives in their own hands,
and losing them can have no pity. Their
efforts if successful would be q national dis
grace, and we may regard it as good fortune
that in the present instance the party was
compelled to return.


As the assembling of Congress approaches,
rumors thicken of the ability and strength of
q lobby that is to influence heavy Government
subsidies to the Northern Pacific and other
railroads. Judging from the feelings of the
people on this subject. it might be supposed
that thero was little danger of such projects
being carried through; but it must be recol-
lected that several Congressman are to 60 into
retirement at the end of the session, and while
on the one hand they will need something to
solace them after withdrawal from public life.
they will have, on the other, no anxiety about
the opinions of constituents.





Special Agent Elliotts account OF Alaska as
indicated in our dispatches, Will not DC 80
Glowing a. some Government reports that have
Year: 1874

Paper -four barrels are being made
in Iowa. They are said to be ar-tight
and water proof, to weigh much less
than the ordinary wooden barrels, and
to be able to stand more rough usage,
One Of the manufacturers predicts that
in five years every barrel Of Western
-four will be sent East in barrels
made from the straw the wheat grew
on,
Year: 1874

The women's temperance leagues
of Ohio are on the right track. AT their
recent state convention a resolution


was adopted in favor Of the enforce


ment of the law, passed in Ohio some


twenty years since but now dead let


ter, providing for an inspector Of liq-
uors and the punishment Of their adul-
teration. To insist upon the vigorous
observance Of this law is one Of the
most effective temperance moves the
women can make and its success would
meet the approval of every one. The
most inveterste drinker could not object
il the law should intervene to provide
hm with pure in. tead Of impure liz
uors, and the dishonest adulterators of
wines aud liquors, the common enemies
of the temperance and anti temperance
parties, the men for whose Suppression


the law was framed, will be deferred
from publicly opposing it's recognition.
Year: 1874

A gentleman who rather sus-
pected some one was peeping
through the keyhole of his
Office door, investigated with 9
syringe full of pepper-sauce,
and went home to find his wife
had been cutting wood and a
chip had hit her in the eye.
Year: 1874

will thus be saved. By sending the
right man to Congress this fall this
grand result may be easily achieved.
They call Col. w. S. King a sue
cessful lobbyist, That is what the
people of Minnesota want the com
ing session. am in favor of send
ing him to Congress-, and shall work
and vote to that end, because | be-
lieve he will accomplish more for the
people in the direction indicated
than any five men the State contains.


But | am in iayoy of King for an
other reason. By his pl.ck and per-
severance ia fau -estly experiment
whether Of not pure -blooded cat
tie can be bred in Minnesota, he has
done the agricultural community an
inestimable benefit. He has bred a
herd which, considering its pedi-
gree, sold for more money, by rea-
son of the splendid condition In
which they were put by Minnesota
climate and grass, than any herd
ever offered before in the world, and
he has thus added to the reputation
of Minnesota of being the best wheat
State in the world, that Of being the
most successful stock State in the
world. This, | take it, is substan-
tial reason why a man, interested
as | am and always have been for
the welfare and success of the agrl-
cultural community of Minnesota,
should put selfish and personal CON
siderations aside and hold up both
hands for the man who can do more
in one session for the industry | fol
low and the State | love, than
could hope to do IN a lifetime OF
humble service.


For these ends and other equally
urgent reasons, | and every other
patriotic agricuIturist in the district.
putting politics and selfshness en-
tirely aside, should 90 first, last
and all the time for Col. w. S. King
for Congress.


Yours very respectfully,


JOHN H. STEVENS.