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Year: 1872

AN ACT in relation to Land Grant
Lands and to provide for record
title thereto.


SECTION /. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State OF
Iowa, That in cases where lands
have been granted to the State of
Iowa by an act of Congress, and GER
titled lists OF the lands inuring under
the grant have been made to the
State by the Commissioner Of the
General Land Office, as required by
act of Congress, and such lands have
been granted by act of the Genera!
Assembly to any person or company,
and such Epelson or company shall
have complied with and fulfilled the
conditions o. the grant, the Register
of the State Land Office is hereby
authorized TO prepare, on the appli-
cation Of the grantee, list or lists of
lands situated IN each county inuring
to such grantee, from the lists certi
fed by the Commissioner OF the Gen
eral Land Office, as aforesaid, which
shall be signed by the Governor OF
this State. and attested by the Secrc-
tary of State, with the State seal, and
then be certified to by the Register
to be true and correct copies OF the
lists made to this State, and deliver
them to such grantee, who is hereby
authorized 10 have them recorded in
the proper county, and when so re-
corded they shall be notice to all
persons the same as deeds now are,
and when so recorded shall vest in
such grantee the right of the State
to the lands therein described, under
the grant of Congress by which the
lands were certified to the State, SO
far as the certified lists made by the
Commissioner aforesaid conferred t.
tie to the State.


Provided, that when the Register
Includes lands in the list which were
not intended 10 be included in the
grant, or the grantee shall not in
equity be Untitled to the lands or any
part thereof, then no title shall pass
by said list, and the same as to those
lands shall be null and void. Nor
shall any title pass to lands which
have been selected, set apart, or
claimed by the State, or any indlvid-
ual under the swamp land or any 9th
er grant OF Congress, which may
be certified or adjudged to the State
under such other grant, nor TO lands
held or claimed under any home
stead or pre- .emrtion settlement or
other entry or purchase, neither shall
the right Of the State to control the
| lands according to the terms OF the
grants, at any future time be affected
by anything done under this act.
Provided, further, that IN prepar-
ing the lis, or lists of land under this
act, 1t shall be the duty OF the Regis
ter of the State Land Office to eN-
clude all lands selected by the State
or any county under the swamp land
grant, and also excluding all lands
claimed under the homestead Or pre-
emption laws Of the United States,
or which have been sold or disposed
| OF and the entry or pre.emptlon can
celled.


SEC. 3. This act being deemed OF
immediate Importance, shall be in
force from aud after its publication
in the Iowa State Register, end State
Leader.


Approved, April %, 1872.


hereby certify that the forego-
ING act was published in the Daily
Iowa State Register, April %. and
in the Daily State Leader, April -,
1872.


ED WRIGHT,
! Secretary of State.
Year: 1872




Onr latest accounts from the great Plains and
the Rocky Mountains from day to day still add TO
the melancholy list of farmers, hunters trappers.
miners and travellers lost and frozen to death i'm
those terrible Western snOw-stOrms avalanches
and drifts. We are glad to hear, however, that a
wagon train of supplies bound for Spotted Tail
and his band Mt their reservation made its
journey of two hundred miles without the loss of
a man, though the brave men Of this expedition
were six weeks on the journey. cutting in some
places through snow drifts hundred feet deep,
and though many of the men were severely FROST
bitten and several dangerously. The SHOWS
through which Napoleon's grand army had tn fight
its way in its retreat from Moscow were mere tri-
tles compared with these Western drifts hum
dretl feet deep, and with these binding Rocky
Mountain storms of snow, finer than the finest
flour, raging for several days and nights in sue
cession without abatement. and with the thermo-
meter at twenty degrees below zero.


But what. after all this enormous snowfall
from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, will
be the consequences should there he o sudden
and general thaw. with the addition Of heavy
spring rains over all that vast regiOn' The con-
sequences will be such floods down the great
Missouri and the Platte and the Arkansas and the
Red River as will probably drlnse the city Of
New Orleans The authorities and the citizens of
that prosperous city, therefore, would do well to
consider and to prepare for this danger in time,
or with the return of June, il not sOoner, they
may have more disastrous crevasses than the
worst in the memory of the oldest inhabifant."
Year: 1872

II any of the Republican leaders inimical to
President Grant have entertained the idea that he
will not be renOminated at Philadelphia i'm June,
recent events must dispel the impression. Every
State in which the Republican party has spoken
at all, has pronounced uneqnivocally in his favor
with the exception of Louisiana. There NAV be
opposition in New England, but we question
whether it will have emphasis enough to affect
the vote of single State. There will lie close
contest in Pennsylvania, but the friends of Gov
ernOr Curtin divided the issue. and the vast
personal strength and cOusummate political tact of
Gen. Cameron will make the organization sure
for Grant. In any event we may feel sure that
there will be delegation from New York that will
vote for Grant.-N. 7. Herald
Year: 1872

u In debate in the Legislature, prominent
Representative from the Land League region de-
elared that the people of his section would unite
with any party that promised them relief from
their present land difficulties. Then they will
unite with the "Liberals;" for that party is just
now in a stage to promise anything to anybody.
Year: 1872

A NICE CANDIDATE-Judge Davis, the Labor
Reform candidate for President, is worth 6. 5.OOO.-
OOo He is not supposed to have earned all this
by muscular exertion. He never gut his bread
through the sweat of his brow 1t is intimated
that he could buy his way to the Presidency #
hnwas so disposed. 1t is likely he might. if
majority of the voters of the United States were
pnrchaseable. which they are not. Five millions
Of dollars will do good deal of mischief, hut
Judge Davis loves money too well to invest that
much in a chance for the Presidency
Year: 1872

2 HORACE GREELEY is in favor of the Cincin.
natl movement. But if the Convention should
fail to pronounce in favor of high tariff on pig
iron, he wonld spit on the platform, and get back
to New York in quicker time than he crossed over
the State of New jersey, from Philadelphia, in
ls4a
Year: 1872

This is good abatement of the case. made bv
the New York Tmes:


The last Democratic administration created
denciency IN every year of its term; and after
raising debt Of sixty five millions, went ont in
a rush Of robberies, peculations and einbezzle-
menfs Will the people he misled by few am
nitious demagogues to again trust this party with
the government, on its pretense that it is the
party Of reformf Will Messrs. Trumbull and
Sumner dare to advise the people to do sofr
Year: 1872

An EDITOR CONvERTED.-The Journal report of
Bro. Hammonds meeting at Lawrence last Sun
day evening says:


..The principal incident of the evening was the
talk of the local editor of the JoxrRal Mr. Prertis
He came forward on the PLATFORM and spoke with
a subdued voice, that secured fearful attention
from the vast throng He told how he had come
to the meeting few days ago, with little or no
introduced little lame girl to him. who tentlerly
urged him to come to the Saviour. The words of
the little child were lodged in his heart by the
Holy Spirit. He promised her he would seek
his sOnl's salvation. He went from the Sunday
night meeting to pray. He found peace in belev-
ing in Christ, and now wanted to see all his
acquaintance, particularly young men, turning
to GOd."-Learenr0rh Times
Year: 1872

The New York Times points out the
folly of flying to the watering places to
escape from the tolls of ones Office or
store:


Rest and quiet are practically unat-
tai nsble at fashionable seaside resort,
an dwhen these are wanting the chief
object of summer holiday is missed.
There are out-of-the-way places, how
ever, on the seashore, which precisely
answer the demands of the overworked
seeker for rest. There are large, old
fashioned farm-houses (says the editor),
where the table is wholesome, the rooms
comfortable, and where the world OF
fashion never comes. But the fortunate
discoverer of one Of these rests cannot
keep his secret he introduces friend
or two next season, and soon it becomes
public property. One can fancy the
delights which would be presented to
the solitary boarder ct the secret farm
house. A fortnight of this perfect rest
would send him back to the city q
stronger and q browner man, and by
preserving implicitly the secret shared
with him by the broker, he could re-
turn the following season with q Ger.
tainty that the undesirable public had
not overfowed into his private paradise
and descended il forever.
Year: 1872

Upon an average, a steamer leaves
Liyerpool for this continent nearly
every twelve hours. During last month
the total number was fifty-three, and
IN xhese must be added the French and
German lines. Owing to the policy of
the present administration, the United
states have not a single steamer ply
ing the Atlantic between Europe and
America. rir
Year: 1872

Suits of plain colored lawns, usually
trimmed with some harmonizing shado
of the same goods, will be much
worn for the street. Also linen polon-
aises, trimmed with black velvet
guipure to match the color of the linen,
or linen fringe, are much in favor for
every day wear. These appear the
best when worn over black silk skirts,
although skirts of the same material as
the polOnaise are often seen.
Year: 1872

CHRISTMAS GooDS.-We have examined the
large and beautiful stock Of goods suitable for
Christmas presents at the DOLLAR STORE corner
nj Ninth and Main streets, and must say that 1t
comprises the very best collection of Useful and
fancy articles We have ever seen for the money. 1t
would he to your advantage to go there before max
Ing your purchases elsewhere.
Year: 1872

CAGES.-If you want TO get In the cage Go rot gu
to GEORGE KLEIS's. but If you want to cage your
birds hc has the host stock Of birdcaSes in the CITY,
And what would be more appropriate for a Christ
mas present than one Of his handsome cages:
KLEIN is on the north side of Broad street between
Sixth and Seventh. and Il You cannot find the place
ask for the man with the wnlking dolls.
Year: 1872

Seckties are nor eoasIdcred an Indispensable ar
tefe OF ladies dress The supply OF THE article al
LEVY BROTHERS Is such to astonisii every one.
we know ne are Within bounds when We state that
they have at Feast eighty dskcrent ST les.
Year: 1872

A boy about nine years old was bath.
Jog one DAY, when, by como mischance,
be got into deep water and began TO
siek. HE elder brother saw him and
rec 10 sase him, bot lacking strength or
skill, hs slsc can't to the bottom of the
river. A. the two drowning brothers
rose 70 the surface for the last time they
ssv third brother, the youngest of the
family, running down the bank for the
purpose Of trying to save them. Then
it vas that the dying nine year old acted
the part Of hero. Struggling as he
vas with death, he gathcrd all his
strength, and cried to the brother on the
shore. Don't come 10, or father will
lose all his boys at once -


Noble little fellow Though diving,
he forgot himself, and thought only Of
his fatherss grief. He was a genuine
hero. His brother obeyed his dying
command, and was spared to comfort bis
father when his two dead sons we're taken
from the river clasped in each others
arms.


Boys you are not called to be heroes
in this way. but you are called to con.
slider the feelings Of your parents, and to
study how to avoid giving them pain.
The best way to do this is 10 love them
dearly. Love will hot only keep you
from hurting thir feelings, but it will
make you source Of great joy to their
hearts. Blessed are those children whose
words and deeds make sweet music 10
their parents souls
Year: 1872

In this enlightened age not many purchasers,
strangers especially, hire convcynnccs and ride
over the country in search of farm for SALE
when there is a Real Estate Agency TO be found
We advertise extensively and systematically. and
owners desiring to sell. and purchasers wishing
to buy, each earnestly hunting for the other and
his own interest, secure the greatest possible
safety and despatch on the one hand. and the
least expense Of time and money for search on
the other. by placing in our Agency the sale or
purcha OF any property.


We require parties desiring to sell property to
sign contract describing the same, naming TIE
length of time the property is to remain for SALE
price and terms, and binding the owner to pay
our commission If a sale is effected.


Our Commissions.-If the price does not
exceed SS00, our commission for sale will be $50.
Regular commissions on all sales 21 per cent.


CAKE d MCCLELLAN.


Real Estate Agents, Troy, Mo.
Year: 1872

THERE was q fresh example Of the
worthlessness of expert testimony
during q recent trial for forgery at
Tauton. A couple of experts dis
posed of the prisoner at the bar
very summarily. When Mr. Henry
D. Hyde, of Boston, his counsel,
handed the smartest expert four old
envelopes and asked him if he
could tell whose hand writing was
on them, the witness, after taking
time to examine them, said that
"the superscriptions on the en-
velopes were all in the same hand
writing, and all written by the man
who forged the check" Mr. Hyde
at once took the stand, and taking
the envelopes, said "This one was
written by the clerk of the Boston
Water Power Company, this one by
q friend of mine in New York, the
third is my own handwriting, and
the fourth is the prisoners" sub
stantiating his statement by pro-
ducing the letters received in some
of the envelopes.-Spr Springfield Re
publican.
Year: 1872

LEAF ISIPRESSIoNS.-Taking leaf
impressions is verv pleasant amllse-
ment, especially for girls. and we sub
join the following method of the oper-
alton, which is said to be a good one
although not new:


Hold oil paper in the smoke of a
lamp orof pitch until it becomes coat
ed with the smoke then take a perfect
leafhaving a pretty outline and after
warming it with the hands, lay the
leaf upon the smoked side OF the pa
per, with the under side down, press
it evenly upon the paper that every
part may come in contact: 80 over it
lightly with rolling pin, then remove
the leaf with care to a plain piece of
white note paper and use the rolling
pin again You will then have a beau
tifnl hnression Of the delicate veins
and outlines of the leaf. And this
process is 50 simple tnat any person,
witha little practice to enable him to
apply the right quantity Of smoke to
tile oil paper and give the leaf the
proper pressure. can prepare leaf inn
pressions such as Il naturalist would be
proud to possess. Specimens can be
neatly preserved in book form, inter-
leaving the impression with tissue
laDer.
Year: 1872

The subscriber will keep the market open at
the old stand. under Wheelerss Block, where he
will be able to furnish his old customers and
such new ones as may favor him with their pat
ronage. with the
Year: 1872

CuEERFUL.-if we were in search OF


> situation in which pleasing excite


ment might mingle with the sterner du-


ties of our position, we think we should


look with longing eyes to the throne OF


snain. To be king of that ehivalrous


country must be delightful from whatev-
er point of view it is judged. The dull


routine of royal life is so constantly va


ried with an unexpected pistol bullet


fred bv a discontented Republican, OF


a paving stone hurled BY an unruly In


ternational, that it is almost impossible


fo monarch to become blase there


King Amadeus has been shot at again


and with the obstinacy peculiar to III


race has refused to be hit by the reglcl
dal bullet. This is not encouraging I
tho assassins. but their heart is SO CON
/ pletely in their work, and they are S
thoroughly in earnest IN their craVin
for aught that will produce the congei
! ial anarchy which is the element OF tt
5 discontented Spaniard, that there Is I
: likelihood of their being deferred by'r
!. heated failures. They are not go(
n marksmen. and though they have I
Year: 1872

centuries been shooting at their monarchs
we cannot call to mind one that has per-
ished by the assassin's bullet. Perhaps
to the knowledge of this fact is mainly
attributable the coolness manifested by
the king under the ordeal of firearms to


which he is SO freely subjected. The


Spaniards have indeed deteriorated from
the day when they were the champion
assassins of Europe, if the miserable fail
ures they have proved as regicides may
be taken as proof. The traditional
treachery and cruelty of the race remain,


but the capacity has gone forevermore.
Year: 1872




Col. Garrett began by a brief review of the
history of the convention that nominated Cald-
well and told of his own personal history, how
he had tried to serve the people in Congress.
He is an earnest, candid speaker and makes his
points clear and intersperses his speeches with
good stores


He wanted to know when the law was first
made on revenue and claimed the credit of first
introducing bill to repeal the whole system
Now when candidates find the abolition of these
laws is popular they are all trying to war upon
them. He said he didn't know why whisky and
tobacco were singeed out for taxation because
Tennessee produced much of both.


He said he voted to retain the tariff ofSseven
dollars on pig iron, and he was assailed fop it by
10 Caldwell. l asked him then if he would have
voted to reduce the tariffto five dollars Yes. said
he, would have voted to take off every dol
lar oft What do you think of it, East Tennes-
seeans? What have you got buried in your
mountains but iron and coal? How will you
have 1t developed but by a tariff on pig iron
ct Caldwell says he would take off this pro-
tection. L tell you such policy would shut up
ell our furnaces and coal mines and iron mills
What do you think of man from your own
prosperous, growing section thus fayorlng a
pollcy that would cripple you? sIT


nave been trying. every day to force Cald-
well to say whether he would Vote for Cheat
ham or johnson. He claims all the benefit of
straight nominee and looks to the "organi-
zation" to support him. Now, ought he not TO
come out and help his associate straight nomi-
neer' am for Johnson, but he dare not say
who he is for. We need johnson in Congress
Year: 1872

Necessity is the mother of inven-
tion, and it is to mother Necessity
that we are indebted for that very
useful but dangerous lit le house
hold article-the lucifer match.
Mr.. Isaac Holden, in his evidence
before the English Patent Com
mittee, thus gives the history of the
invention, which, he says, was due to
a happy thought that flashed upon
him without any previous consider
alton. Mr.. Holden, many years ago,
had to rise at four IN the morning
to pursue his studies In chemistry,
and experienced the gravest incon-
venience from his tedious efforts to
obtain q light from flint and steel.
He was giving lectures at this time
to very large academy. He goes
on to say ''Of course I knew as
other chemists did, that the ex-
plosiVe material was necessary
in order to produce instantaneous
light but it was very difficult to OBJ
tain light on wood by that explo-
sive material and the idea occurred
to me to put under the explosive
mixture sulphur. I did that and
published it in my next lecture, and
showed it. There was q yong man
In the room whose father was a
chemist in London, and he immedi-
ately wrote to his father about it,
shortly afterwards lucifer matches
were issued to the world.
Year: 1872




A correspondent of the Louisville
Courier Journal, writing from
Morton County. Ind, tells the fol-
lowing story about the discovery of
big bone:


"While engaged this fall angling
in the east fork of White River, at
the falls, at q very low stage of wa
ter, I made my boat fast to what I
supposed q root, but tupon examina-
tiou found it to be a bone, of some
large animal, much larger than any
OF the animal species we have any
knowledge of at the present day.
The bone must have been deposited
many thousand years ago, from the
fact that some thirty five feet in
depth of earth had been formed over
it since it was buried the bank of
the river has been washing a say for
the last twenty-five years. and I sup
pose that fifty yards or more have
been carried away or, in other
words, the distance from where the
river bank now is to where it was
twenty-five years ago Is more than
fifty yards. The portion of the
bone found weighs fifty pounds, and
is completely incrusted with what
seems to be iron, mixed with coarse
gravel which is the character of the
earth In which it was deposited.
The form of the bone is about two
feet long, with q slight curve four
teen inches in diameter in the CEN
tire, at which point there is q socket,
evidently for the support of some
other bone, ten inches in diameter.
Two inches from the socket the main
bone forks, throwing off two prongs,
one five inches in diameter and
about one inch long, and the other
about four inches in diameter and
five inches long, each having the ap-
psarance of a knuckle to connect
with some other portion of the body,
the opposite end of the bone seems to
be the main limb, hind or fore leg.
It is broken of about twelve inches
from the socket before mentioned, at
which point it assures the shape of
round shaft, six inches in diane
ter.


Some years since q number of
large bones were found in this vi
cinity, and it is thought that at some
period in the history of the world
this part of the country was the re-
sort Of some unusually large ami
mails. This would be a great field
for naturalists and scientific hunters
of fossils and other curiosities, and
should command their attention.
Year: 1872




The Iron Ade has an account of a
new instrument for indicating the
velocity of fowiRg liquids and for
measuring the speed of ships, called
the rhysimeter, which has been
invented in England. The capacity
to measure the speed of ships is a
highly important application of the
instrument. The apparatus here
tofore used Gin connection with the
half minute glass; for that purpose,
the wellknown "log" attached to
the Iog-line and dropped over the
stearn of the vessel, is avery mac
curate method of measurement, as a
heavy sea sometimes throws it after
the ship, while head sea may car
~ it in the opposite direction. The
glass also measures the half minute
with difficulty in dry and damp
weather; and the line is liable to
change its length. Even the best
substitutes for the log are said to be
not lyVays reliable. By the new
invention the indicator may be in
the captains cabin. 1t is said to
resemble in size and ap-
pearance barometer. In it 8
column of mercury indicates
continually the speed of the ship,
The full effect ofthe velocity is: i'm,
parted to the mercury without any
appreciate loss by friction or other
wise, so that the indicators must al
ways be absolutely carrect. The
instrumen may be made selfregister
ing, showing on dial the total mum
Der of knots the ship has run, and
marking on sheet of paper the
precise speed attained at all periods
of the voyage. The practical value
Ofsuch an invention is obvious.