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HSPDBUCAH SKWIPAPttl.
C. BARKER, €ditor and Proprieter.
Mm mct V- X. corner PWie Smtmrtt
KiiOJ.'YILLE. IOWA.
A«-
y ,_Orl'nt»l
|jf,DG» No SIKDOITIII.
Kv &M or *«forr full moon«acti month.
j'opPKNnMMKK.Srr'y. J.8. LYTLK, W.M.
TAPM'lflM»n.
CHAPTER. NO 16. R. A.
nHl
r.—KDOSVIIIO Lod«to »v«-rT Tu»slsy
Brcntnf. Vi.lttlig brethren nordiallv in»lt«d.
^*|f(Ot,KFti£'iD. X'.c'f. J. W. SCOtl, Ii.il.
gtaftssioual.
E. CH**di.»«. W. K. PiR«mo*.
CHANDLER & FERGUSON,
TTOKNBYS AT LAW, AND COLLEC
j\
tioa
Areata, Winterset, Co.,
E. R. HAYS,
j» TTORNKY AT LAW, Krsxville. Iowa,
/V M.tteol j'rouiptly to all business entrust
a( to bis bauds ?-26tf
HUGH THOMPSONr M. D"
DENTIST.—OfficeoverFreeland
6. K.
JTMRKBTWelch'sHART,
W. K.
AT LAW ani Notary *wb-
lie. Special attention gi»en to collee
ns and foreclosing mortgages. Office,
ever Welch & itori, Y/ejer's Blook,
Kooxville, low*. (630tf.
T. J- ANDRRBM. C. L. COLLIKB.
ANDERSON & COLLINS,
TTORNEYS AT LAW,
KNUXVILLE NATIONAL BANK.
i^NOXVILLE,andGovernmentA
IOWA. CA I $100,000
Gold, Silver, and other
purities bought sold. Interest allowed
Oti tiuie deposits, Bpecial atten'ion given to
Qullectiuns. Open from A.M. to 4 P.M.
•ftcept Sundays.
DIBKCTOBB,
A. W.
Collins, S. L. Collins, J. 8. Cunning
ham A. J. Kerr, Jackson Kaiuey, S. K.
Bellamy, J. Bittenbender, W. Bachelor. B.
B. Woodruff.
OPriCKRS.
A.
W.
COLLINS,
President.
J.
A. CCMUNQHAX, Viae President.
A. J.
BKIOOS.
Cashier. CWitf
AHEAD 113,254.
S
RYN*R SEWING MACHINES—
in 1878, 232,144, being I1M,2S more
than were sold by any other CornpHn.v in
#m« time. Now is the time to get the Best
Itid m«st Popular dewing Machine in the
World. I keep on band l?oU Mpp'j of
•eedles, attachuionts, et?. North side of
Public S^nare, ILnoxvlU*.
hsJ
T**r,
•mt#u :ttlPTfON* PUlCE, Two lollnr* pw-re
atvd at th» snrpp rate for any port ola year.
fn ail ",*«* strictly
ID
advance.
Knoxrtlle.
Kre. o» or before **ch TMII moon.
#RKXCn. Stc'y A. D. WRrilKRKLL. H. P.
T(J
(.
St Thomp-
son's Bakery, east side Public Square,
&cgsvil'* loWa. tf
K X. CASEY,
ATTORNEY
AT LAW, KNOXVIIIE,I«W*,
Office east si
tie of Public Square, and
fIllstairs
i over Conwell's Hardware Store.
practice ia Marioa ui adjoining Coun
(tf.)
l.t.WlKl^1". J.W.WItBOI.
WINSLOW & WILSON,
TT0RNKY8 AT LA W and NOTARTES
A PUBLIC, Newton, JasperCoonty, Iowa,
VillattendtheConrtsof Marion County. 40tf
Knoxville, Ma
Jy rton County, Iowa. tf.
A. Q. HAYS,
ATTORNEYand
ATLAWandNotaryPul.no,
Monro's, Iowa. Will also attend
to collections! to Buyiaj »nd Selling
Land. (tf)
STOWI. 0. .ATBIS.
STONE & AYRES,
a TTORNEYS at Law,Claim and RealKa
A tate Agents, Knoxville, Marion Coanty,
Uiwa.
Will attend to all badness entrusted totheir
Mire,in Marion and adjoining Counties. Will
ftiacticein the Stateand Federal Courts.S.ltf.
Pcvfiintilc,Evades,(Etc.
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
ILLER K BELYILLE
GIVE THEM
Jf,
are prepar-
ed to do all kinds of work in their line
short notice and on reasonable terms.
A
CAIJL at their shop,
**ar northeast cerner of Coart House Square,
Knoxville. (19-24 If)
BARBER SHOP.
BOREN, Fajnionable Barbor, in
Reaver's Block, west sido of Pnblic
Square. Experienced workmen omployod,
Mid satisfaction garanteed.
FURNITURE.
D.YOUNG would respectfully Inform
Xli# the cititens of Marion County thai he
Sis oponed a Cabinet Shop on Kobin«on
Street, west of the Tremont House, u( stairs,
U the room formerly occupied by tbe li'tpuili
Mn Office, where he will have on hand all
kinds of Furn.ture, and Coflinnof allsises,
Which he wil 1 Bel 1 Low for Cash. (tf.)
I. TAROBR.
G. E. C0NWELL
"TVlALER in Stoves Tinwaro, 8i*lf »»4
1 I Heavy Hard ware, Reapers, Mowersand
SKricultural Implcui'snts generally- Ag«nt
forM. W. Warren's Patent Atinos|hertc Port
*tle Soda FountaiB. OW "•f*
Square, Knoxville. Jti
A. UNGLES. Plasterer.
ALL
KINDS OF I'LASTKKINtr DONE
in (he n«Mt«4t aud w-tifli
•anner, and en tho shortest
Bbenl.
iubmantSal
«. Torn*
6. W. Hl'NGATE,
TAB
VOTED STOCK AND CHATTEL
Auctioneer, of Indiana, Illinois and
Kansas, hits located three miles west of Ke
k ck. in thin county, and will
atle"
1
0*11mit Hny distance. T«rin* reasonable tor
Mrvice renduod, and satisfaction guaiantee
Adarees him at Bed Rock, Marion
Iowa, or leave orders at Clark's storo. JJ-*6t
BLACKSMITKING.
HORERTS
AND JAMKFL
b»ve opened a
Blacksmith Sbop in the builuing for«
•erly occupied by J. R- Roberts, just wes o
the New Bank building, and are prepared to
M) all work in their line in tbe bet manner
and at fair ratei. Will build wagons,
spring wagon* aBd'boggles to or«r#
MlioitedL
MARBLE WORKS.
RKNOXVILLE
OBINSON BRO'S, Manufacturers and
Dealers in Monuments and Head
Stones, and Urave-yard Work of every de
scription. Near northwosi corner of Publio
Square, Knoxville. Iowa. tf
NOTICE TO BUILDERS.
T.^HEtake
UN DERSIWNKD ii tow prepared
to contracts for all kiuds of work
ia line "f business, *U'"b as
Brick and stour i-avlng PI*terlK
and ('intern and Flue Hn I Id In ar.
All of which I
and in good w
rant satisfaction.
1 propose to do with dispatch, ,,
workmanlike manner.
I
MATERIALS furnished if required and a
CREDIT till Christmas will be given par
ties de*ire it.
(6 40 ly) H. J. BONIFIELD.
The civil rights bill was signed by
the President last Monday, and thus
became a law.
The House last Monday adopted
resolutions recognizing tbe Kellogg
Louisiana government.
Hon. Jacob Vale, who was thej
Anti-Monopoly candidate for Gover
nor of Iowa in 187-1 died at his home
in Van liurcn county, a few days
since.
The Courier boasts that the results
of the Ottumwa city election on
Monday show the grandest Repub
lican victory ever had in the city."
Republicans all electcd but cue al
derman.
The public debt statement shows
an increase during February of $G,
680,18 coin in the Treasury, $7of
000,000 currency in the Treasury,
$10*1,000,000 coin certificates, $22,
000,000 deposits for legal tenders,
forty-five and three-quarter millions.
The New Orleans Committee of
Seventy repudiate the Wheeler com
promise, and declare it not the wish
of a majority of the Democratic Con
servatives of the State. They an
nounce their unalterable determina
tion to oppose the Kellogg govern
ment.
The .St. Joseph W.in an ablej
article on the late elections, calls at-J
States its apparent gain was due to
the absence of 850,000 Republican
voters. But in eight Southern States
it had 290,000 majority, and that was
largely due to the intimidation of
colored voters and the fear or neglect
of Republicans to vote.
The Waterloo Courieryg: "Prob
ably there has never been a season in
Iowa when the frost did so much
damage as it has this winter. Nine
tenths of all the cellars in Northern
Iowa, are frozen through and
through, and the loss In fruits and
vegetables is beyond estimate.
Thousands of families are using fro
zen fruits and vegetables, and when
things thaw out in the spring, they
will pay good round prices for pota
toes, or they must live without the
Irish dantles, so essential to health
and comfort."
The Atlantic (Iowa) Tetegraph re
ports that a married woman in that scholars
vicinity undertook recently to lead
a young man out of virtue's path.
She played the role of Mrs. Potipher
and he that of Joseph. She persis
ted, and at the third or fourth at
tempt upon him he fell—" like the
titular ehapter.-ReyMr*
-.w It is merely a rehft^h of his twaddle
war- of last fairs campaign. He attempt*
to use up the JOURNAL man and
vindicate himself by attributing to
us assertions which we never made.
r(m WJK,
teution to a fact, not elsewhere men-jhis eye for a school teacher, and thou
4t&ft«d, we believe, that in all the (another man
^In the District -wrote Mer
Northern States, taken together, the Shon a letter, and lie concluded not to
Democracy or opposition polled fewer Blve earns a certificate, but did not have
votes in 1.K7I than in 1872. In those the manliness to inform Yea, t.s of the fact
snowflake." Then Mr. Potipher! on the 29th or aoth of November the l're
split the young man's head open
with a hatchet. He is not expec
ted to live," says the report.
Strange if he should live long With
his head split open.
tnmitn Arkansas —Oskaloom Herald. Now therefore in pur-uance of the pro.
to go to Arkansas. visions of Section 1771 of the School laws
I
0
Mr. Beecher at his servises last! hereby revoked to take effect from and
Sunday morning, produced a gen- »ftor
psalm, in slow and careful manner,
investing it will the
ied elocution, and placing
icant inflection, upon every sentence S»h«»l Laws of the State of Iowa reads as
VOL. XIX. KNOXVILLE, IOWA, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1875. #sO. 39.
Nergbon Aroused.
An aged representative of the Fogy
family, who rejoices in the titles of
Rev," and Co. 8up't," occupies a
column in the Democrat this week,
under the heading of Financial He
port of Co. Sup't," and over the sig
nature of "I. Mershon, Co. Sup't."
If there was misrepresentation in
I something published in the Journal
six months ago, why did he not then
reply, and not wait until this time to
brush us out of existence. We have
no other answer for Mr. Mershon's
charges of untruthfulness against us
than may be found In the following,
which we copy from the Democrat of
this week:
OUR COUXTY SUPKRINTENDENT.AND
THE YEARNS CASH.
,l
DK.WOORAT
of the lflth in«tM a report of I, Mtrslion,
County Superintendent of common
schools. In the third paragraph of said
report, he says "we have had ttonit* littta
frict:on by the way. The certificate of
Mr. J. B. Yearns who was teaching tbe
school at Pleasant Hill District, Perry
township, was revoked November £)rd
1871, for gnH* misrepresentation."
Now, in the first place, I wi*h to notice
some of the falsehood* contained in the
above paragraph. There ia no such Dis
trict as Pleasant Hill District In Perry
township, neither was the certificate of
Mr. J. B. Yearns revoked on the 2."rd of
November, 1874, ax he says, l'urlmps it
will be well enough to
give your readers
and the public generally some of th (acts
connected with the matter, in order that
they may know what kind of a man we
have for Couuty Superintendent. On the
24th of October,
1874,
I.
Mershon held an
examination at the Bennington Hdbool
House, at which time Mr. B. Yearns
passed an examination, and after it was
over he took Yearns' P. O. address and
dollar, and promised to write to him. He
Jhon Htftid all nlght wUh one ofJ|iH breth.
told him that Yearns did not fill
but kept his money in his pocket, until
he, Yearns, went over to Knoxvillo to
see about tho matter. He then gave him
back his dollar and told him that his ex
amination was short, but if he was to lay
aside every thing tbat he reasonably
could and grant biin a certificate that tbe
people of the District would rise and put
him out, as there was great opposition to
his teaching in the District. Yearns
came back and told the sub-director, and
he took a petition and got It signed by a
majority of the patrons of tho school In
the District. Yearns t:ok it and return
ed to Knoxville, and then Mershon grant
ed him a certificate. The director then
hired him and he commenced bis school
and taught two weeks. Mershon came
over and preached at Pleasant Hill
school house on Sunday, November '2id
and Monday mornin& after running
around with his two particular fileuds
trying to get some body that bad been
sending their children to school to Yearns
to find some fault with him as a teacher,
but failing in this they then went to the
school bouse and after being requested
by thu teacher Mershon addiessed the
He then went out of the house
and quarried with all those that were pre
sent who happened to differ with him,
aud came very near getting himself Into
trouble for his impudence. He then
called Yearns out of tbe bouse and told
him that he was going to rovoke his cer
tificate for gross misrepresentation, and
sideut received u communication from
Mersboti, tlie following of wbieh is a
true copy:
Knoxville Office orCn. Supprlntrnrtpnt
of
Marion
The OttUnriwa Democrat says hell
and Alaska are the only two States
in which there are no Democrats.
We never had a very fine opinion of
Democrats, but we never thought
they were so tough that the devil
Wouldn't admit them. Heraft r, s u e i n i e n w e e i s- e i s
when such die we may expect them
County November 'Ji, '74.
unw,,rlhy
To the Boards of School director* in tbe
county of Marion and State of Iowa.
Whereas on the ."th day of Novemlier
1874 a certificate was issued authorising
Mr. J. li. Yearns to teach ill school* of
this county and whereas upon the exam
ination of which the said Yearns had
received peisona! notice and was permit
ted to be (»resent and make his defence it
appeared that the said Yearns i«i «on- (jjty Jlepublicun says
aequence of a grosw misrepresentation of
facts whereby the director, Patrons., and
longer to retain the same.
state of Iowa the said certificate is
datt' h'|™M'KR»tioN.
uine sensation by rending the 3th jfow the only truth contained In the
jareful manner,
R^jve
r.biirmnf stud-
Au,
Charm of Htud^
1W4l,ed
same
Uiblpdtiwn and brush tion
Co. Sup't.
Mr.J.B. ^earns onthe
document is that a wrtifi.^to was jacket of liame. The Mt. Pleasant
lacing a Signify November 1C4. Sectlo.i 1771 Of the people thought it about I
that seemed to allude to his own follows: railroad near O-kaloosa, is
trouble. If he i» an innoci
this beautiful song of the swe
er of Israel has a wonderful
in if jnstine
tion to his cas«»,—as you wiil see, the
was given, after an investigft-
of
the
facts
you get jour Bible ve^tigation the teacher shall hate P"~
the dust from It. and read this P«*-
S4„,ni
u'. k
Not* to the above oeutlon reads a* the published reports that ought to
follow*: I be corrected. Oue is that these me-
Tho notic* provided for in this Sec- teorie masses which alight upon the
tion sbnnld contain *n ex plleit statement
th® ebitrges ng&!nnt which the teacbor
ia expected to make bis defence."
watt 110 charge prepared, no
notice given, no investigation had, at' a part of any body came down and
which Mr. J. B. Yearns was permitted to another part went on itn course and
be present and make his defence. There i another is that these bodies art* coin
waa considerable said out of doora but 1 po-^d almost entirely of iron, where
as there are some in which the pro
Yearns was not present, be being In the
house attending to bis school. Oo .the
8tli d*y of December Mr. Yearns receiv
ed a notice from Mr. Mershon of which
the following Is a true copy
OlTlce of Sup't Common School for)
Marlon County.
KNOXYJ Dec. 4th, 1*74.
MR* J. B. YKARN«,-~t»LR Too are
hereby notified that a meeting wiil be
held held at Pleasant Hill school house.
Perry township. Marlon Co. Iowa, on
Satuwlaj- the l'Uh of Dec. 11*11, at2 o'clock,
i'. M., to investigate the matter of dixsntis
Irtc-tion connect**.! with your being em*
ployed as teacher of|the aforesaid school.
The ditticulty alleged against vou is that,
vou gave the impression to some of the
1'ntrwns of the School and director that
Now the issuing of the above notice is
a tacit admission (list tho revocation of
the certitivaio of Yearns wins not iu ac
cordance with the letter and spirit of the
law, and thereby rendering said revoca*
tion null aud void. At the investigation
held on tbo Wthof I)eccmler 1874, iu pur
suance of tho above nptice, it was mani-
4'Ah
»no. What
time that be will be allowed t» occupy
tbo poeition that he does at present.
A PATltON.
i )'h« illeleur*
.....
Marshall town and Newton. Doubt-1 pleases the llawkeyes, hut they can
less it may have been seen outside of not get to her. It is vastly more
these bounds, hut these were th«| ph-nsant to trade with a stable and
... sound city than with one where you
limits so far as heard from up to tlie|d()
2oth ult. Prof. L. thinks the meteor f,,rth where you have to keep one
entered the State at an altitude of eye on a telegraph instrument to
''""v,"", ,r:r"
near Keokuk, and that its course was
very nearly from south-east to north-J
WHy
west that the explosion took place will go through
nearly over a line from Iowa City to
Sigourney that the main body must
have fallen a few miles east of Ma
rengo. A fragment was found near
Homestead, Iowa county, weighing
aeven pouns. Mix ounces. It has the
appearance of granite rock, with peels of the proposed addition to the
a black. Hcuffy coating over that
which formed the outside of the
original body, and a lighter coating
1
fell in a pasture field, and bounded
a distance of \V1 feet and stopped,
melting slightly the snow under it.
Was found Monday, February l'th.
Several fragment* were aeeu to iall
in that vicinity.
Prof. ILeonard's letter to the Iowa
railway
h.tpe, greatly elongab d,
\t* n viMiMiii n.i tiu» sth of i observers il«'Hcrile shaped,, ,K
t||tJ t.it
m,as
i. n I. ft I .A ..... A# tl Utula Al I /tMfsl OOli/lM AM I '. i I t. .. ^.
MJ
li mi ni^iiriiiB |/V«»|"v ••••"•p—
A
of the visible
disc.
There
•wew to
in the case of wni"li in-
notice, and h"shall be pern itted to
be prmtni and wmk* M»
m)uth
*-4
earth are but fragments of parsing
meteors of much larger size, where
as there is small reason forsupposing
that any ease has ever occureii where
portion of iron is very small, as for
instance thu (J tier nsey county mete
or, the most noted of modern times,
whone fragments weighed some
700
pounds the Linn county, Iowa me
teor the fall in L'Aigie, Franco-
these were all stony in their struc
ture. I think we may safely jwiss, a«
a mere pleasantry, such remarks as
we find in some of our journals, as
would imply that a meteor is a mere
lotiiif/rr in space, having no orbit In
which to move, nor any special part
to bear in the universe. It may be
well, however, to remember that
some of the youths who read these
statements will take them for facts.
here was no difficulty In the' way ofj lA»t it always lie insisted upon that
vonr getting a certificate but the local
(difficulty existing in '.the neighborhood
here, ftrbicb hi oontrarv to the facta iu
he time. Yours truly
'l 1. MERSHON.
i
PKR*rTOWNSHIP, MARIOS CO.,IA.,I
February 17, 1h7
MR. EDITOR:—I see in the
the laws which govern the motions
of the bodies of the solar system are
the same, whether applied to the
niighly Jupiter or to the smallest
meteoric grain. What design they
are to fulfill, whether they are to
feed the failing fires of the suu, con
triiftun in,
UHMIU-
rest ail through tbelhvestigatlon that he! without losing our faith in
the dH'trine that nothing was made
without an intelligent design.
was determined to revoke Yearns' certi
ficate, although thore was no testimony
that went to show that either the Patrons
or Director had been deceived by any
misrepresentation made by Yearns, yet
at tbe close of the same he said be would
revoko his certificate and "I will now
make it out indue form." Since that
tlinML^e have hoard nothing ofticially
frofp him until I saw his report, thereby
depriving Yearns of his right to an ap
peal which IK guaranteed to him by law.
Mershon, having commenced wrong,
seems determined to stick to the wrong*
until the last. In the fourth paragraph
of bis report he says
Pro£ Leonard, of tho State Unl
versity at Iowa City, has given more, |,rj(.f, jmy j00 much, but it is prob
Inquiry and study than other man to nble terms will be agreed upon, so
the phenomena, presented by the that the work will go
meteor of Feb. 12th. From his coin-
u
.I
Ual-»l.urK,
iiiiiiiUU'i i* "ft*
as they have to some extent for ag
past, to the growth of the earth and
her sister planets, or are reserv«*d for
some other as yet unimagined pur
pose, we may leave our future to d*'-
Dee Bf*iues, Ml. Louli Mod Uit
Road.
The following correspondence we
clip from the 0t. iiouie of tbe
2-Jd ult.:
]KS Mother, TA.,
will become of Marion couuty if many
more such wonderful educators as they
were take leg-bail." I think if tho selfj
important individual who pretends to
lift tbe office of Superintendent would
follow in their wake that the educational
Inte ?-Wol Marion county would be con-1
BldeVaOiy advanced, as heliWf rtrtlHi tt»e'
cause more injury in this vicinity than nearly all the important cities and
he will be able to repaii during the abort towns nearly touch the line. The
Feb. IP, 187.1.
What is St. Ijouis about that she
don't take hold of the (Juincy and
St. Paul liailrond project, ami help
build another railroad contorting
with the les Moines Valley aud
Central Iowa? It would add im
mensely to her tialfic, and supply
her with articles she needs. Situated
as she is, the great commercial cen
ter between the North and the
South, the new route from Quincy to
Albia, Knoxville and Des Moines!
would be of immetisu brnelW to her]
and this section. Draw a lino on th*
be
III!.,I1"1
Davenport, Dubuque, Cedar Rnpidw,
JjOI1|»
||ol k| oW w,mt (,H
HtMrt
can be secured.
edge lieing very bright,| proposition Is nl*o most im-
u
„yt |Uf
nre
not a train, but a sort of _flowing) ivila. The farmers iu the vicinity
Hrt,
f„penr
nil(»st.
tIirn from
that
,|)ay ,,rlll(j
a bank check on lis
with any positive aasurauce it
Good Word* lor our Kailroad.
{State Jiii/iKfcr.)
Klsewhere will be found an im
portant and interesting communica
tion from Knoxville, upon the pros-
facilities of tin--Capital City.
*1 ,i The Ouiucv A St. Paul Railroad i
H()(, lu
over the line of fracture where it, lisle, on or before the first day of
Was separated from the main body. It January, 1*77, and to Knoxville, on
tl((!
r(}l(J)
the cars running to (Jar-
or before the same date in IH7b.
This proposition is of the utmost
impoitance to Des Moines. For
years we have dreamed ami talked
of a southern outlet, but adverse cir
cumstances have prevented our ac
quiring it. Meantime the territory
of our trade has been shorn of Its
proportions, and the business that
should have come to Des Moines has
been drifted intootherehannels. This
proposal of tin* Q. fc. St. P. It. R.
furnishes solid ground for the hone
that the desired iron route to the
The general appearance of thf» me
teor is thus described by Rev. K. B.
Taggart, of Washington: It was of a
horseshoe
the outer n
then* a, narrow dark spa e, with al port ant to Knoxville, lor the |H*ople
core of intense brilliancy so vivid there have not, even one line ol laii
that Ill's eyes were blinded. It had i
forced to pav tribute to
by just'the aoiouut.of mo-
r.Minn-dto
The
!t„.V
to t.raiM|ort tm Ir grain
prince a rail r.«td, and tore-
it „fter eflV-ctiug their sale.
inductor on tbe The mercbauts, in order to compete
with railroad towns, must shear
their ofits of so much money as is
required to
pay lard carriage from
Kuoxvilb* to the
professional
Pel la depot. 1 be
man called by business
I
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are two impressions which twelve mile journey by staire in or
prevaU to some
extent in'
ll,.n /tf 4 Ka Uttlfi*
to any other portion of the State
must endure the affliction of a
Uerf W reach u railroad,and if the ice
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Special Notices, er AdTartk»««Dts ef UouMrwMth
or oXtraorUlosr dWpisv. lo pere«ai. aUditloael
to th« abov* rates.
LOCAL
N0T10K8, IKK
CKNTS FXlt UNI, KlCS
INfKKTIU.N.
in the Des Moines river is moving,
is frequently compelled to await its
subsidence before he can leave home
or return to it. The immense ctwtl
deposits of the south-western portion
of Mariou county are now of no val
ue save, for an insignificant local
trade. In short tbe people of Knox
ville are isolated from business Aud
almost from the world on account of
the absence of rail communication.
The Citiincy A St. Paul Company^
ofivr to remedy all this. For a town
ship tax aud a sum of money, by no
means large in comparison with the
benefits that will accrue from the
building of the new line, they pro
pose to place Knoxville and all that
portion of the county on a footing
with other portions of the State.
These considerations should cer
tainly be sufficient to urge every
man in that vicinity to allow noth
ing to come between the project and
s'lccess. The wealth is there. There
is scarcely a similar number of aeru
in the State so profitable to the hus
bandman as those lying on either
sideof the proposed line from Albia to
Carlisle. Knoxville is the very heart
of a country wealthy in every product
and poor only because of its isolation.
Can the people there afford to neg
lect profiting by this oiler? Raise
the amount ret pi i red stretch your
iron arms to Carlisle, and Des MohtfH
will meet you and greet you uver
the wuinlvtlou yf the ^eat jjiunk
line thai shall unite the Lakts (MVcl
the (iulf.
I'lOUl 14'.MINUS.
FOUNTAIN TOWNSHIP, OTTAWAC§iQ
KANSAS, Feb. 20,1875.
KDITOK JOURNAL:
1 notice in a recent issue of yoyr
paper the proceedings of the KaosflM
and Nebraska relief committee, yf
Marion county.
Having lived for the last year and
a half (nearly) in that portion of
Kansas most terribly devastated by
grasshoppers, I have taken consider
able infeiest in this mutter of relief,
although not expecting nor needing
anything iu that line myself until
have determined to drop you a line
for the benefit of those disposed lu
help alleviate the sulleiings of lite
destitute settlers of ihis.^adly alllicted
region. We have at Topeka a Si Jilts
entral relief committee, of which
Kx-Lieut. (»ov. K. !»i. Stover is chair
man and to insure free transporta
tion over the railroads of tho Stale,
all goods for relief must be directed
to (lov. K. S. Stover, Kalians Slide
lie lief Committee." For relief i»f
county, (here Insert tlwj
ititti i mr a* v ituiit |/ian tt nii'i on mo
map from St. Louis to tb.s city, and name of parly lor whom inleud^l,
von will to Mirprt«rt*iT nri fttm mat i either tor their iualri«iutu reiier 4MN
lor diMirilmtivtirt
Quincy A- St. Paul Company are al
ready negotiating with tlie Albia,
Knoxville A- Des Moines to extend
their line to Knoxvillu. They ask
the sum of #HK,o»o and all the fran
chises of the company. Considera
ble of the road-bed is already grad
ed. The latter company consider the
work will go forward.
There is need of another and direct
route to St. Louis. Now, owing to
munications to tho pre*s wo find thut^ jj14, numerous changes and different
it was seen at various points in the roads, ihe trade between this section
region bounded by Osceola, Birming-i and St. Louis is comparatively limi
hum, Keokuk,
_i i route it would become large. 1 here
jH u htrt|,ility
„l)OUt Ht
Goods have been went for distribu
tion in thiscoiinty, to private parties,
that have dime more real good and
afforded more substantial relief to
the actual needy than all the good*
as yet sent to our couuty relief com-
uit tee.
There are several reasons why I
would discountenance the sending i»f
goods for distribution by the com
mittees. First, there are reports of
dishonesty and foul play among the
members of tbe several commitlees.
Second, goods distributed by the
committees often tench those uhoaie
not rightfully entitled to them.
Therefore, I believe that goods
sent to private individuals Mill be
much more likely to reach the really
needy and destitute, than if ucut
through relief committees.
Respectfully submitted,
ANDKKW
I
NYE.
RayMOSTO, IIICE CO. KAN.,
Feb. 21, lH7o.
Ei. JOURNAL:—There has been
received here from other States,
since January 1st, nearly enough
flour, hominy and beans to supply
the urgent daily needs of our people
iitid a tolerably good supply of sec
ond-Inn.d clothing, for which the re
cipients will ever feel grateful to the
generous contributors.
That you may have some idea of
the destitution here
I will
say brief
ly that there are 87 families in this
municipal township,
(12 miles
square),
and HI of them are entirely
dependent upon supplies received in
this way. In the township north of
us there are 07 families,all of whom
draw rations.
leant from your paper
that there
is an aid society in your town. If
they could send some portion of
their collections to Uaymond our
people would
l»e truly thankful lor
the favor. We have on band now
for distribution in the whole county
only :10 barrels of flour aud 20 of
meal.
This is a good country, if tne
grasshoppers will only stay away.
They UejAjalfcal uo eggs here.
J, M. PKOFFIT.
-V-
Mr. Josiah Brobst, of Osboru county,
Kansas, sends to our table a copv ef
the Osborn county Farmer, a sprightly
sheet just halfas large as tbe JoUHNAI.,
containing an elaborate article repre
senting that tbe situation of tilings in
that country is not as bud as it might
be, tbat prospects are good for the fu
ture, urging Immigration to that
country, «»e' announcing tbat' this i*
the time" for people to eouie to the
west and secure one of the beautiful
furins which CneluSani is distributing
anion# litM rliildr^n lu Kuiihuh ^lluout
money and without price."
In one day Fe»'. I'M the relief eom
mitUf' for that county distributed
pounds of flour, meut, beans, hominy,
meat and onions, to 1.720 persons, and
bad 4.7CO pounds left. W ithln the
week tbe committee received for di*r
triI»ution SI 10 cash and eight bo*e»»f
clothing.

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