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Year: 1872

CREsco May Sth 1872.


Editor PLAIN DEALER:-Therc is no
man in America more opposed to CIV
ing money to railroad companies than
Howard.


The Davenport and st. Paul compa-
ny is the first one that could ever have
induced him to broach his little purse.


There are several good reasons why
he would do his reasonable share to Sc
cure the location of that road at Cres-
co.


The road when built is to bc under
the management Of the Pennsylvania
Central company and is to be one of
the Trunk Roads under its control.


That company is the model company
of the United States and is managed
by high toned, intelligent honest and
capable men.


Their Scott is no Fisk, no Gould, no
Vanderbilt, and their seat of business
is in the city of Brotherly Love
and not in Tammany New York, nor in
''pent up'' short-sighted Milwaukee.


That road will open up to the north
west all the great sea board markets of
this country and all the coal fields and
great forests and will give competition
in prices of freights and fares. When
that road is built passenger fare will be
p cents per mile and not five as now.


Again tardy action on the Cresco
line has finally resulted in inducing and
starting into life competing line by
way Of Lime Springs. The farming
interests, the business interests, the
great advance in the price Of land and
the rapid settlement of the country and
the great saving and convenience to
people begins to open mems eyes.


The people along the Lime Springs
route are fighting to win and show
blood and grit mcst commendablc.
Lime Springs has selfish and power
full ally in Decorah.


Decorah is not fighting for the road
but for the trade of the tier of towns
adjacent to Howard county.


The good people of that one sided
city are generous enough to induce the
good people Of Orleans township to re-
move their market town three leagues
or more from their farms and compel
them to market their produce at De-
corah or at Lime Springs. The place
where the Davenport and St. Paul
road crosses the Milwaukee and St.
Paul road will be the place where COM
petition will centre. If they can get
their trade Decorah is willing to let
them 60 to Lime Springs to get onto
the road where they can take the ears
for any part Of the country and get
cheap fare and no change Of cars.


Mr.. Editor no person can deny that
the people Of Orleans township are bet
ter accommodated by the crossing Of
the Davenport road at Cresco than at
any POINT on the line and get more
benefit from the road than any town in
Howard county except New Oregon,
Vernon Springs Or Albion and they
e,tainly will gain more in the advance
of the price of their lands than any
town i'll this county except the three
named.


Mr.. Editor money has got to be rails
cd or the road will cross at Lime
Springs.


A clean gift to the people of Orleans
township Of ten per cent on their as.
sessed valuation would be no consider.
alton to them if the crossing of the
Davenport road should be at Lime
Springs instead Of Cresco in considera-
tion of such gift.


Wisdom now demands a ready and
favorable action.


How
Year: 1872

TRUE LrFE.-The mere lapse ofyears
is not life. TO eat and drink and
sleep, to be exposed to darkness and
the light, to pace round in the mill of
habit, and turn the thought into an
implement of trade, that isnot life. In
all this but poor fraction of the con-
seriousness of humanity is awakened,
and sanctities will slumber which make
it worth while to be. knowledge.
truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith
alone can give vitality to the mechan-
ism of existence. The laugh Of mirth
that vibrates through the heart; the
sears that freshen dry waters within;
the music that brings childhood back;
the prayer that calls the future near;
the doubt which makes us hesitate;
the death which startles us with mys-
terry: the hardships which force us to
struggle; the anxiety that ends in
trust, are the true nourishment Of our
natural being.
Year: 1872

The evils of the world are not to be
overcome by thinking at them out oi
the window OF comfortable and cost
" mansion, nor by signing over them
ss you feel tie feverish throb OF the
worlds pulse in your mornings paper
but by pouring u broaaside OF justice
into every stronghold of oppression,
and laying the healing hand of charity
upon every wronged and wounded
heart. Tie vclvet-footed sentiment
talist, who sheds tears over the reports
of crime and wrctchcdness as he SIPS
his coffee from gilded china, and then
orders three tickets at the opera, an''
drives bargain like u plowshai,r,e
through widows home, is the deylfs
own.
Year: 1872

WASHING WooLENs. If you do not
wish to have white flannel shrink
when washed, make n good suds OF
hard soap, and wash the flannel in it,
without rubbing any soap on them. a
little indigo in the boiling water makes
the hannels look nicer. If you wish
to have your ilancels shrink, so as to
have them thick, wash them in soft
soap suds, and rinse them in cold
water. Colored woolens that incline
to faJe should be washed in beef's
call and warm water before they are
put into soap-suds. Colored panta-
looms look very well washed with beef's
gall and fair warm water, and pressed
on the wrong side while damp.
Year: 1872

We should look upon contentmens
as the great good. Not that it is re-
quisite we should have onlya little to
live upon, but when we have only lit
tie we should be satisfied; for this rea-
son, that those best enjoy abundance
who are contented with the least, so
that the pains of poverty are removed.
Simple fare can give relish equal to
the most expensive luxuries.
Year: 1872

A short time since Californian took


with him to New York quantity of the


beach sand from the once famous Gold


Bluffs, on our northern coast. The


sand proved to be so rich in gold chat
capitalists there at once proceeded to
institute measures for working the sub


marine mine on q grand scale. As


heretofore mentioned in the Chronicle.
Captain w. l.. Taylor was appointed
the agent of the New York Company.
and having purchased the scho ,ner


witch Queen, proposes soon to leave
for the golden shore.


The vessel will he anchored lust out
side the surf, this having been found
to be the line of the richest deposits.
the gold being too coarse to be thrown
up by the waves upon the sand. as &C.
ours with the lighter particles. The
Captain is the inventor of the subma.
rine explorer, species of diving bell
which has been successfully tested in
New York harbor, and he will employ
this contrivance in carrying out his de-
si9ns in this instance. This bell IA of
boiler iron, ton and . half feet high.
and nine feet in diameter. II consists
OF two cylinders two feet apart, sur
mounted by two cones. Its working
chamber has 2O4 cubic feet it's COM
pressed air reservoir 135, and it's water
ballast chamber 100 cubic feet. The
air is compressed forty-five pounds to
the square inch. Preparatory to the
descent of the workmen, the ballast
chamber is filed with water, and the
bell sinks. To ascend, it is simply
necessary to force the water out of the
ballast chamber by the compressed air.
The men stand on the ground, fill four
bushel bags with whatever they may
find, sending their acquisit1on up BY
an endless chain. The sand, it is said,
also contains over fifty per cent. Of
pure magnetic iron, which will make
tine steel, an article worth at present
$500 per ton in this market,
Year: 1872

The Treasury Department is con-
sidering the propriety of urging upon
Congress at its next session the inn
portance of some general enactment
in regard to the adoption by the mer-
chant marine of the international code
of signals now used by the merchant
vessels of most foreign nations. This
code is being published by the Navy
Department for use in the navy, and
when completed will be on sale ct its
cost of publication, which will be less
than 6 per volume. The system is
very complete, and by the use of the
book communication can be establish
ell as we'll between vessels of nations
speaking different language as between
those of the same nation. All present
communication between American ves.
sells is very difficult, owing to several
systems being in use, and it is almost
impracticable for an American vessel
to communicate with another of . na-
tion speaking foreign language, with
signal stations or with vessels Of the
United States Navy, by which the new
code has been adopted. The serious
inconvenience experienced under the
present system will undoubtedly lead
to legislation upon the subject and the
general disuse Of the confusing modes
now in vogue.
Year: 1872




The London School Board (says the
Spectator) has at length begun to ap-
ply its bylaws for enforcing attend
ance at schools. The excuses offered
by defaulting parents may be taken AZ
fairly representing the categories un-
der which such pleas will commonly
arrange themselves. Either there was
no money to pay the fees, or there were
no shoes for the children to 20 in, or
there was no one to see that they went.
The first is obviously insufficient, at all
events SO long as the 25th clause of the
Education Act remains in force. But
the fact that it is urged points to the
eventual abolition of the distinction
which the authors of the Act have at
tempted to draw between inability to
give children proper instruction. and
any other form Of destitution. 1t is
generally admitted that a man ought
not to be relieved of the duty of edu-
eating his children unless his means
will not allow him TO discharge it, and
the law has provided that, in. the event
OF his ability, being ascertained to ex-
list, the cost shall be betrayed for him.
But how are School Boards to ascer.
tain it


It will be impossible to punish a
parent for keeping his child at home
while it is shoeless, and equally impos.
sible to provide the child with shoes at
the public expense. This is a real
dilemma, and one which, under the
operation of compulsory legislation,
may easily become serious. The third
obstacle, the want of any one to see
that the children go to school, is also
real one, but it is not one that need
be regarded as formidable. Some
kind Of agency must eventually be set
up to sweep the streets of the ragged
and homeless children that now infest
them, and as the children who disobey
the order to go to school at nine O'Clock
which their father left them when he
went to work at six, are not likely to
stay indoors all day, they will be en-.
closed by the same net.
Year: 1872

Gumbs, who lived next door TO us, has
bought new dog. He needed now one.
HIS last dog used TO bark all night in the
yard until, in frantic desperation, We
would shy our boots and cologne bottles,
and furniture at him. But he always went
ON worse; and in the morning Gumbs
would Come calmly out and gather up
those miseives and carry them into the
hoose. lie has more than twenty pairs Of
our boots and slippers in his possession,
besides chair legs, and cakes Of soap, and
hair brushes, and match safes, and towel
racks. AID he never had the manliness
to offer to give them back. On tho con-
trary, he trained that dog to sit by the
front gate and to seize US by the leg when
we came out, three or four times =. week:
apparently for the purpose of securing
some more boots. But we poisoned him
ono night, and in the morning Gumbs
threw the carcass over into our yard. We
threw it back. Gumbs returned it. We
both staid at home tina. day, and spent the
timc in handing the dog to one another
over the fence. Then we hired an Irish
nun to stand there night and day to return
the deceased to Gumbs' yard. Then
Gumbs also hired an lrishman. 1t was
exhilarating work. Tho corpse sapidly
traversed that fence six Or seven tho q.
sand times every twenty-four hours. He
must have become familiar with the route,
oven if he was dead. at last he wore
away with 81 much handling, and on the
last day tho lrishmen whiled away tho
hours by only flinging the tail at each
other. Our lrishnlan at last buried tho
tail and resigned. And now Gumbs has
got u now dog. 1t will be excessively
sing gular if we do not fish for that dog
some evening soon with q Goldfish line and
u piece Of beef, and run him up all OF y
sudden to our window, and launch him in
to the sewer. No dog owned by u man
named Gumbs shall exult over us.
Year: 1872

They tell a tough story about young
man named Otto, out in Kansas, who,
in chasing a buffalo over the plain re-
Gently, merely wounded the animal
with his pistol. The infuriated brute
turned upon him and threatened to dc.
molish the adventurous hunter. Moth
ing daunted, he sprang on the animals
back as he came up, grasped the long
hair on the shoulder of the buffalo, re.
loaded his pistol, and put the load
right in the back part of the animals
shoulder. This brought the buffalo to
his knees and sent MIR. Otto whirling
over his head. Gathering himself up,
he looked around, and there sat the
buffalo on his knees gazing on him
with no friendly look, but one more
load finished him.
Year: 1872

Both SIDES OF CASE ARGUED By
ToONBs-Toombs,o Of Georgia, is one of the
most gifted Of all the erratie geniuses that
America has yet produced; Like Tom Mar
shall and William Haskell, he is a natural
born orator. Mr.. Clay heard him make one
of his first political speeches at mass meeting
in Georgia, in ls40, and predicted for him
then brilliant future. 1t Is related Of TOcmts
that on one occasion, in the trial OF very
important case before Q Georgia jury, he by
some strange absence Of mind, got up and
made powerful speech against his client,
who was the plaintiff in the case. After he
had spoken nearly an hour, and was about 10
close, Ono of his associate counsel whispered
| in his ear that he had made mistake-that


he had spoken on the wrong side. For a mo-
ment only TOOIubS was completely dumb
founded, and recovering Immediately he turn


ed to the court and jury and said Now,
| may 1t please the court, and you, gentlemen


Of the jury. l have, in my remarks hitherto


attempted to give you all. and the very best,
too. that can be said on that side of the case


and Though it may appear at first blush a
very strong case. yet ! am confident II you
will give me your attention little while


longer, will be able to convince You that


after all, my client, the plaintiff, is entitled tt


u verdict In your behalf" He then proceeded


to Overturn every position previously takeI


by him, exerting himself to the utmost of hi
humble ability to repair his mistake. ant
> wound up with an appeal to the court ant
: jury so thrilling that he carried them b.
E Storm and triuMphantly gained the case TO
his cllent.-Lerington (hyD feomdn.
Year: 1872

Fashion kills more than toll or sorrow
Obedience to fashion is greater trans
gression OF the laws of woman's nature a
greater injury to her physical and mental
constitution, them the hardships OF poverty
and neglect. The slave woman at her
task still lives and grows old, and sees
two Or three generations of her mistres es
pass away. The washerwoman, with
scarcely ray of hope to cheer her in her
tolls, will live to see her fashionable sis
ters all extinct, The kitchen maid is
hearty and strong, when her lady has to
De nursed like sick baby. II is a sad truth
that tashlon-pampered women are always
worthless tor all good ends of lite; thpv
have bat little force OF character they
have still less power Of moral will, ana
quite Is little physical energy. Tnev
live for no great ends. Tuey are dolls.
formed in the hands of mIliners aud
servants, to be fed in order If they raise
children, servants and nurses do all save
TO conceive and give them birth; and
when reared, what are they What do
they amount to but weak scions Of the old
stock ? Whoever heard of a fashionable
woman's child exhibiting any virtue and
power of mind tor which it became emil
nent Read the biographies Of our good
men and women. None of them had
fashionable mother. Lancet.
Year: 1872

A sensible modification in the libel law
is now being considered in the California
Legislature. 1t requires the plaintiff in a
libel suit to give security tor costs. This
modification of the law will have a whole
some influence in discouraging ground
less suits, brought simply for the purpose
OF annoyance, and without the hope OF re-
covering anything. In some of the States
Kentucky for instance-a thief or burg
lal can sue newspaper for libel, and
generally make it pay the costs OF the
suit, even it he does not recover dam
ages.
Year: 1872

APUNCTUArIoN PUzzLE.-Thef following
paragraph is capital illustration of the
importance of punctuation. There are
two ways of pointing it, one of which
make the individual in question mon
ster OF wickedness, while the other con-
verts him into q modal Christian:


"He is en- old and experienced man in
vice and wickedness he is never found
opposing the work Of iniquity he takes
delight in the downfall of the neighbcr-
hood he never rejoices in the prosperity
of his fellow creatures he is always ready
to assist in destroying the peace of So
ciety he takes no pleasure in serving the
I.of1 he is uncommonly diligent in
sowing DISCARD among his friends and
accuaintances he takes no pride in lab
criny to promote the cause of Chnstiani-
ty, he has not been neglient in endeavor-
ing to stigmatize all public teachers he
makes no exertions to subdue his evil
passions he strives hard to build up
Satahs kingdom. he lends no aid to


the. support Of the gospel among the


heathen NE contributes largely to the


evil adversary he pays no attentions to


good advice he gives great heed to the
devil he will never 60 to Heaven he
must 60 where he will receive the just
recumpense of reward"
Year: 1872

their force on the actor or that influence u
alone in time. Sin kills beyond the tomb and
virtue ennobles there


Archbishop Bayley. having been elevated in,
ecclesiastical dignity and Office and ap1
pointed to the See of Baltimore yes
terday preached his farewell sermon al
the laying of the corner stone of st.
Michaels church, Jersey City. 1t was mainly
review of church building and architecture
by the Catholic Church in remote ages, begin
ming as far back as the Catacombs The mag
nifcence of the church architecture of the
Middle Ages was but the expression of honor
and homage to the ''Real Presence in the
Eucharist. The people felt that they could
not do enough for God, who deigned thus to
como down and dwell with men. The Arch
bishop gave the vast congregation the apostolic
benediction and dismissed them.
Year: 1872

parties upon local and national Issues arc
such that it would be absurd to assume that in
view of these coming elections q few ascer-
tained losses or gains on either side fore
shadow the general results in Pennsylvania,
Ohio or Indiana.


The general canvass in behalf of Greeley and
Brown appears to be reduced to universal
amnesty and to policy of fraternal good will
and Cancellation towards the South as the main
question. This proposition is so popular that
it meets with hardly any opposition, East or
West; and that it has been and is the main
strength Of the opposition alliance against
General Grant can no longer be questioned
1t was the unfailing resource Of Mr.. Greeley in
his late Western excursion, as, indeed, it was
the secret of his adoption as their Presidential
champion by the democratic party. The prin-
ciple involved is the great principle Of brother
ly love to our brethren of the South, now that
they are not only restored to "the Union as it
is, but pledged to maintain it; and herein
lies the secret of Mr.. Greeley's popularity and
the main reliance of his supporters. The cries
for civil service reform, retrenchment, and
other things of that old schedule of 'gittering
generalities," has been found to 60 for little
or nothing in this canvass against General
Grants administration: but there is some
thing in this demand for the policy Of concii-
alton towards The South which has become
attractive to the people of the North, and
hence the success of Mr.. Greeley in harping
upon this popular string.


But the main question: after all, is the finan-
cial question, and it may be thus expressed:-
Will it be wiser and better for the general
financial and business interests of the country,
people and government to re-elect General
Grant in November or to reject him and try the
experiment of new administration under Mr..
Greeley and this new composite party Of demo-
Gratis and liberal republicans? And upon this
comprehensive issue we end the main strength
and reliance of General Grant. But still, upon
all these other disturbing questions there are
such perplexing party complications that in
order to see the peoples way through this
Presidential contest we must await the returns
of these APPROACHING uncertain October State
elections. = H.. -.s.
Year: 1872




sovereignty when onco they had given full
assurance to the nation that they would rebel
no more. The dominant party added other
conditions, and the first of these in the
radical evangel was that these States
should be secured to the party for all time. In
the conflict which followed between the natives
of these States and the satraps foisted on
them and held there, the promised olive
branch was time and again made
mockery in the eyes of civilization The
contest deepened until it took in every fraction
of political strength on either side. Where
one side acted as q ruthless conqueror the
other either plotted secretly and acted fur
lively, but bloodily, to be met with new repres-
sions from their superiors in the political field
All this kind of performance, no matter where
the justice lies, takes money, and the mass of
the people in the end found they were paying
very dearly for their passion Of contention
The avaricious greed of the carpet-baggers
naturally aggravated this evil, and the rapid
rise of their fortunes added to their insolence
and fed the fame with still more combustible
fuel. Counting on the support of the federal
government and in many cases getting
it. the carpet-baggers throve in worldly
goods and haughtiness The party who
opposed this at the North now
gained accessions from disgusted republicans
and the movement which began in Missouri
spread into the wider field embraced in
the Conventions of Cincinnati and Baltimore
1t is needless now to recount, for it is one
of the evolutions of the hour, how the federal
government made show of abandonment Of
the carpet-baggers and how the people of the
impoverished rebel States plucked up hope
from the liberal coalition all over the Union.
Thus far the change Of prospect has been &C
cepted in spirit ofthankfulness by them. They
rejoice that there are people outside of their
traditional party who sympathize with them
and have buckled on Oh armor of brave en-
durance, which they promise not to unhar-
ness even if victory should not crown
their efforts this Fall. Yet while
this is the general aspect of
the new course of political sentiment,
this story from Arkansas steps In with its
characteristic exception. The idea of waiting
montn or SO 1Or possible change IN the
general government which woulG react bene-
fcially to them through every fibre of
their political system does not strike
them as necessary or profitable
Hammer and tongs they must 60 at it to dis
lodge the carpet-baggers, while the latter call
out the militia and leave it difficult to deter
mine which will act the more brutally in carry
ing out their desires. We might say that this
Pope county exception should prove the
rule; but we cannot afford even one
such illustration of that sinister saw. Truly
the inaugurators and directors of the policy
which renders this state Of things possible are
piling up record against them which it
would require oceans to obliterate, as it will
cost neny care and many a struggle to set
their terrible work right.