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6, t\t i|ttllelhv FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23,1877. AFTER nil the talk about Bob Inger gol for the Berlin mission, it now turns out that he does not want it, and will «Dt take it, or any other position from tike Government. THE President has caused an order to be issued to army officers, informing tfcem that no further leniency will be exercised in the case of officers convict ed by court martial of being drunk on duty. Hereafter when such cases oc cur, the offenders will be dismissed the service. WHEN the army bill reached the Sen ate that body struck out the clause re ducing the number of men to 20,000 and placing Congress in command. The number of men was fixed at 25,000, and ill this shape it received the acquies cence of tho House, and will become law by the signature of the President. HON. GEO. S. BANGS, of Chicago, best known from his connection with the Railway Mail Service, of which he was the General Superintendent, and to whom is due a great share of the effic iency of that branch of the Postal De partment, died in Washington on Satur day. He was a man of genial manners and had many friends. A WRITER for the Paris Figaro re cently interviewed Gen. Grant. Refer ring to his taciturnity and imperturba bility, the Figaro editor says: We Frenchmen possess, in order to charac terize this kind of figure, a word which I would not employ if I thought it would constitute a want of respect, this is tete de bow—wooden head, Ulysses Grant possesses this peculiarity in the highest degree that which, after all. is perhaps a Quality and resource for a soldier or S statesman. To call a man a wooden head by way of compliment is not in the usual style of French or any other kind of pane gyric, to say the least. THE city and fortress of Kars, with an immense amount of stores, cannon, ammunition, &o., was captured from the Turks by assault on Sunday last, the Russians entering the city after a series of most bloody encounters, lasting twelve hours. The Turkish garrison evacuated in hot haste, but were pursu ed and captured by Cossack cavalry. This is the beginning of the end of the war in Asia Minor. A like result is dai ly looked for at Plevna, south of the Danube, and then the Turks, overborne by numbers, not by valor, will be found auing for peace. THE Des Moines Register concludes with a little sigh of disappointment that Senator Kirkwood is with the Presi dent and his policy a little more than he is against him." It would undoubt edly be more pleasing to the amiable youngster of the Register to have the Senator enact the role of rabid partisan ship without sense or reason, as exem plified in the columns of that paper, but the people of Iowa will be just as well pleased to have him maintain his own and the dignity of the position. They surely never placed him in the Senate to seek a pretext for a quarrel with the Republican President. REFERRING to the row between Judge Hubbard and the Commercial travelers, the Des Moines Register says: The estimate of Mr. Hubbard, while none too severe on many of the tourists, could by no Means apply to the many thousands of true Mid noble men engaged in the calling—the Many thousands who are as good men as any DkCD living. That there are a great many reputa ble men among the commercial travel elers is undoubtedly true, but these "good and noble" fellows would ex hibit more sense if they would refuse to make common cause with the scala wags among them. Judge Hubbard s severe arraignment will hurt nobody but those whom it fits. As applied to them it should have its perfect work. It is not a misfortune, or rather a sluron ln .•Gtpendence, that we have not enough legal Client to prosecute the liquor suits? Our tem perance people are compelled to seek outside aid from Creseo We advise our legal frater nity to "brush up" a little.—Conservative. Considering the fact that at every term of our courts attorneys from Du buque, Waterloo, Manchester and other points are in attendance and that they are engaged in suits which our citizens are alone interested, our neighbor s sens itiveness over tlie elur on Independ ence and our attorneys comes rather late. Are we not warranted in suspect ing that it was never thought of until our neighbor cast about to find some thing to slur the temperance work- PKOF HEINRICIIH, of the State Uni versity, desires all persons who experi enced the earthquake shock which was felt over a large portion of Iowa on the 15th, to make an accurate record of their observations, and send the same to him at Iowa City, in order that the exact course of the earthquake wave may be determined, and afterward published for 4he information of the public. Prof. Hiiirichs says that it is especially desir able that the time of the occurrence of the shocks, their number, the directions of the motions observed, and the effects of the shock should be given. It is the opinion ef Dr. Hinrichs that earth quakes in this part of the Mississippi Valley are due to the slow and partial washing out of lower strata, and not to igneous causes proper. THERE is an obscure and uninfluential paper, published in Mississippi, called the Meridian Mercury, which despairing «f securing notiee, beyoud its own im iocality., in any of tho legitimate meth ods by which a newspaper is brought in to prominence, has, like Brick PomeFoy'a La Crosse Democrat, bid for, and secured a certain bad notoriety by indulgence in Vcurrillity and rampant rebelism. This paper, which has no standing or influ ence as a correct index of public senti ment, which represents nobody but the crazy though impotent incendiary who runs it, and perhaps a score or two of Confederate bummers who hang around the village grog shop in the town in which it is published, and which certain ly has no respectability, is just now a great favorite with the implacable press. Its unreconstructed rubbish is given welcome space in such papers as the Inter-Ocean and State Register, as going to show the failure of the Policy to pac ificate the South. But, as usual with .those high pressure concerns, they over do the thing. The Meridian Mercury Sias been worn thread-bare in this work, and tSb« fact that it is quoted so much aad iovarffcbly, is pretty good proof that stands aiawst, if not quite alone in its disloyal and ofcatmtive attitude. The papers that fc*v« taep »#king so much of its lunatic sayings iiXfi pwr ifoiingkro in political finow. The Preslient and the Republican Sen* attrg* A caucus of Republican Senators was held last week, at which a committee, consisting of Senators Edmunds, Howe, Kirkwood, Don Cameron, Dawes and Christiancy, was appointed to wait upon the President, with a view of finding some means to heal the difference ex isting between the President and some of his party friends in Congress. The committee performed that duty last Saturday, and the special correspondent of the Chicago Tribune thus describes the interview: The committee had an interview of two hours and a half. The chief topic considered was that of the appointment of Democrats to office in the South. Senators Hamlin and Howe manifested the strongest opposition to this policy. Hamlin was the most extreme, and said that he did not believe in appointing any man who had ever been a Democrat to office. Senators Christiancy, Kirk wood and Bruce, on the other hand, ex hibited very liberal views, and were dis posed to thoroughly and cordially co-op erate with the President. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, contrary to expectation, stated that, in his judgment, it was the party policy to stand by the President. He stated that he felt compelled to do this as a matter of party wisdom, The main point at' the discussion, as stated, was the appointment of Demo crats to office in the South. They were agreed that, in the event of the appoint ment of such persons, none should be appointed except those who give most unqualified assurance faithfully to exe cute the Reconstruction laws. The President's reply to this was that he always had and always should make a Jience revision that there should be full obe to all laws growing out of recon struction, and that as a matter of course he never intended to appoint any one to office who would not cordially and un questionably carry out the spirit and the letter of those laws. As to the result, with the possible exception of Ilowe and Hamlin, it is said that the committee left the President satisfied that there was not the ground for misunderstand ing that they had been led to suppose existed. The President explained at length his Southern policy, and was en thusiastic over it. He was convinced that it would conciliate, stimulate, ener gize and vitalize the Republican party that under this policy in 1880, through elements of disintegration now at work in consequence of it in the Democratic ranks, it would be possible to carry for the liepnblicans iorth Carolina, Flori da, Tennessee, Alabama, and possibly Georgia. If any of the committee ex pected that the President was inclined to abandon the Republican party, and to seek an alliance with the Democrats, they left the White House thoroughly disabused of this this mistake. They were convinced that the President is as strong a Republican as any Senator can be, and so much opposed to tho appoint ment of any unreconstructed Democrat. A member of the committee says, how ever, that there will need to be several more meetings before any definite con clusion which shall satisfy all Republi can Senators can be reached. There was. he said, no substantial result. Another Specimen of Greenback Reform. When Mr. Stubbs, the'Greenback can didate for Governor, was making speech es around the State in the late cam paign, one of his most effective cards by which he attempted to prove that the demonetization of silver was brought about by the corruption of a Republican Congress was a story to the effect that an Englishman by the name of Lloyd came to this country 1873, bringing with him half a million in British gold, with which he bribed Congress to de monetize silver. This story Mr. Stubbs told with great unction to his credulous audiences, and held it up as a fair ex ample of the way that all financial legis lation has been influenced during the past few years. The story, however, was pure fiction. A few days since Mr. Riddell, of Tennessee, repeated it in a speech on the floor of the House, but was interrupted by Hon. W. D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, the chief apostle of greenbackism, as follows: I ask the gentleman to yield to me to correct an riror into which he hag been misled as I was. I know that he wants to state the facts, and that a misstatement injures a cause. The Er nest Lloyd referred to by the gentlemnn is Er nest Seyd, and his name has been published as Ernest "Lloyd. The record is that Mr. Seyd is and always has been an opponent of the de monetization of silver. Therefore the nforj/ i" an invention put afloat to his prejudice, anil I think to the prejudice of the cause in which I have used it, as the gentleman has, supposing that It was Ernest Lloyd. I know Ernest Seyd by his writings to lc now, and has been, uni formly an op]Mnent of the demonetization of silver. Therefore the gentlemen will not care to give publicity to a statement which can be exploded by our enemies. He would sooner be corrected by one who agrees with him in opinion." We have been sharply criticised by some of our greenback friends in this county for characterizing some of their leaders as lunatics. Perhaps they would prefer that we change the term so as to make it correspond with the develop ments in this and the Buell matters. It would seem that some of the prominent men among thein are pot so much fools as the other thing, Hayes vs. the Senate. Chicago Post. The attempt of a delegation of Re uublican Senators to "bulldoze" the President into a surrender of his right of appointment does not "pan out" very much. The committee find the Admin istration wedded "to the letter of ac ceptance" and to "the inaugural ad dress," and very firm in the position that the functions of the Senators begin when nominations arc sent to them, and end when they are confirmed or reject ed. The President regards the Senate as a court to sit in judgment on his nominees, and, therefore, he denies that the members of that court should be, directly or indirectly, interested parties. If Senators dictate nominations, or make themselves active agents for candidates, they are, in the opinion of the Execu tive, disqualified lor thijt calm, impar tial, judicial contemplation of tlic lints of names sent to them, which is' essen tial to a just decision. Under the old plan the nominees of any State were the henchmen of the Congressmen and Sen ators thereof, and, therefore, the custom sprang up of confirming, in a circle, all nominees, each Senatorial State repre sentation depending on the support of the other State Senatorial representa tions for the confirmation of its own candidates, and therefore lending a hand the one to the other in a perpetual ring held together by the cohesion of selfish interest. TJic only way to restore the Senate to the judicial .epiiejderation of the nominations contemplated by the Constitution, was to break the cohesion of the ring by refusing to permit Senators to interfere in appointments while they were under advisement, So far as Sen ators are concerned, the position taken by the President is impregnable. They ought never to have anything to say in respect to matters which may come be tween them in judgment, until issue is made. Moreover, Senators being only two from a State, even if the above ob jection did not hold, are unfit to ditatc in regard to appointments from their lack of local and personal acquaintance. Their knowledge of the citizens of the State is almost wholly limited to its ac tive politicians, and their estimate of relative fitruess will turn almost inevita bly on their opinion of capacity and dis- §enator iif^kI osition to do personal worlf for the who backs them up, There is far greater show of reason for the members of the House to have influence in regard to nominations than there is for the Senators. The former represent limited districts, one chosen every two years, arc fresh from and ac quainted with the people, are easy of access, arc not hardened with so large a number of applications, and do not act fs court of final resort in confirmation ii of nominees. Therefore, members of the lower house may, with some propriety, become advocates of candidates, and the President might, without manifest im propriety, entertain their suggestions and give their arguments due weight. The only drawback would be the fact that as members of the House are al most always candidates for re-election, they, too, are liable to estimate fitness by personal affinities and the prospect of political advantage to themselves, when again before the people. Still, with due care to discriminate, between them in regard to character, motives and honesty, we sec no reason why the Pres ident should decline to give members of the House a reasonable percentage of influence in fixing nominations inside the district of each. They will average probably as well as an equal number of other men drawn from any pursuit. They have excellent opportunities to be come acquainted. an4 to discriminate fairly and justly between competing ap plicants. The real question is: Will they do it? That can only be found out by experiment, and tested by seeking information from outside parties of known probity and intelligence. There are arguments, however, which have force, against permitting interference in appointments of championship of can didates on the part of either branch of Congress. We do not consider the ques tion perfectly clear concerning the low er House in regard to the Senate, there is no doubt that President Hayes is right and the Moss Backs wrong' The Liquor Raid. This is the all engrossing subject on the street, and of course worthy of a place by the press. On this, at least, our two rival sheets in the main agree, viz. that indiscriminate liquor-selling is a curse to any community, and that our saloon-keepers had engaged in it to that extent that something was needed to be done to check, and, so far impossible, prevent the evil. Although there is much difference of opinion as to the proper means to be used in accomplish ing the desired end, one great thing, at least, has been accomplished that is. the universality of opinion that some thing needed to be done. And it is as to the means used that our tempcrancc friends have made their great blunder. They ought to have foreseen that our leading men, bank directors, merchants, physicians, lawyers, sheriffs and emi nent citizens would be jealous of having detectives come into our city from abroad to gather laurels that legitimate ly belonged to them. Common courte sy, at least, would have demanded (the great necessity that something should be done being admitted) that they should have been invited to do it. And can there be any doubt but what in view of their great influence and interest in everything that pertains to the mor als of our community, they would have been willing to have engaged in it if they had only been invited. And ther another blunder: These detectives engaged in this enterprise in a clandestine and secret manner. Why, what would you think of a Sheriff that should go down to Cedar Rapids and mouse around secretly in endeavoring to catch a horse thief? Why. of course, you would expect them to proceed in a gentleman-like manner get out bills and posters giving general notice that they were police officers, and expected every body to help them in the object of their mission. And, worse than all, the mov ers in this are ''young upstarts and wo men!" The heighth of absurdity! The last straw! Why, I heard a man say the other day (and a friend of temper ance, too. lie said: not total abstinence), that he should like to see hi* wife en gaged in such business. There would be a row. True, he had a very flush countenance, and the veins on his face were filled with a purplish fluid called blood, and branched out like the antlers of a buck. Who ever supposed that a young man and, especially, a woman ev er had any right to express an opinion, or be active in promoting even a needed moral reformation. I have known men that allowed their employes to vote as they chose all wrong money should be king. 1 like to have forgotten the druggists "all as conscientious, respectable citi izens as are usually found in any com munity." AH honorable men. True!— "Brutus was an honorable man," but by long use he became careless in the use of his dagger—that was all—but what would he have given afterwards if he had been more careful. I am told that some went and paid their back accounts to the men whose wives were engaged in this crusade, and told them they should not trade with them any more. Served them right it is not much of a man that will allow his wife to act as if she had a soul of her own. And then nobody supposes that temperance peo pie would oe actuated by such unworthy motives as to give a preference to those I who may suffer somewhat by the spleen of rum-sellers. One word to these upstarts and wom en that have made thcmselues conspic uous. You are in for it. Everybody despises a coward. "Rally round the flag '—"Stand by your colors,v and the law, and you will come out right, my word for it. Q. h- Pleasant Reminiscence of Senator Mor ton. Cincinnati!* Commercial. One of the pleasantest occasions of that visit to California, when your cor respondent had the honor of accompany ing Senator Morton and his family, was a trip to Virginia City. Among other places of interest we visited was the Consolidated Virginia mine. Yery agree able arrangements were made to convey the Senator down the shaft into the mine. The platform was covered with eanvux. and «u3fitp wero provided for the party. At the last he declined going on account of his wife not being quite strong enough, but he came and seated himself by the side of the shaft to wit ness the descent of the other members of the party. When I add that the la dies were obliged to don a complete suit of male attire, tome idea will be formed of the undertaking. The ladies were three in number, two lovely young girls, the daughter and niece of Senator Cooper, and an elderly lady, Mr, Maek ev and another gentleman comprising the party. The costume of the ladies was a dreadnaught overcoat worn over the blue flannel shirt and cloth panta loons. Heavy shoes and a slouch felt hat on the head completed the outfit.— Oil account of the intense heat of the mine the oyerooat was worn only in de scending the shaft, and in the absence of suspenders the pantaloons were tied with a tow string tightly around the waist, The costume of the gentlemen was not less striking, and no one enjoy ed its ludicrous aspect like Senator Mor ton. He laughed immoderately, and had the patience to remain seated until we returned, flushed with heat and dripping with perspiration. There was not the suspiction of a curl left in the locks of the young ladies, and they looked as fresh and pretty as a child just out of the bath. Senator Morton, who relish pti the exit even more than the depar ture, said they reminded hiu» of thp old song of the rose just washed hy the rain, An Appalling Cunte, Carefully prepared statistics show that there are over six hundred thous and drunkards in the United States, and that seventy thousand die annually who go to the grave of a drunkard. Every year one hundred thousand men and women arc sent to prison under the in fluence of intoxication, while three hun dred murders and four hundred suicides occur from the same cause. Two hun dred thousand orphans are annually thrown upon the charity of the world by this curse of intemperance. Nine tenths of our crimes ana not less than seven-eights of the pauperism is the im mediate result of whisky, and that at a cost to the government—besides indi vidual want—of not less jhai) #60,000, 000 every year, "THKYCUBK!" Whatoure? Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for a Cough, Ayer's Pills for a purgative, and Ayer's Sarsa parilla for the complaints that requre an alterative medicine. OUR WASHINGTON LETTE*^ Correspondence of tho Bulletin. WASHINGTON, D. C., NOV. L(J. '77. The Senate has passed both the Ar my and Navy Appropriation Bills, the latter without amendment. As the amendments to the Army Bill do not radically change it, we expect the House to concur directly or through a conference committee within a few days. There is great need of improvement in our mode of enacting laws. Wo not on ly should have a vote of "ayes and nays', upon every measure which involves ap propriations of money, but should fine appropriation acts exclusively con to that purpose. In this Army Bill, Sena tor Thomas very properly condemned the addition thereto, by amendment of matters purely legislative, and which should be first matured in the commit tee to which matter belonged. For in stance, the Bill makes appropriation for support of certain regiments of cavalry, antl then directs the disposal of the troops in a manner which, Mr. Thur man claimed, was in gross usurpation of the rights of the Military Committee, whose duty was to mature and report all such measures. The demonetization of silver was first rendered possible by this boarding an appropriation bill with a legislative burden belonging alone to the Committe on Finance to determine, and the sooner we abandon this most pernicious practice, the better for the interests of the country. Appropria tion bills are discussed and amended of ten when not nearly a quorum of mem bers is present. No one is interested enough to demand a call of the House, by which the lack of quorum would be shown, hence the facility with which dangerous provisions creep into our laws may be appreciated, when the peo ple reflect that a baker's dozen of men can determine, and often do, the nature of these laws. But were appropriation bills restricted closely to providing means for the Executive officers to dis burse, and the directory needs thereof left to the proper committees, and were I the "ayes and noes'* compulsory requi site to* the passage of the bill, we fear I the trade of public filchcrs by means of vicious laws would be narrowed dowu to a small point so small that the lobby would nearly lose its power for ill. Whether Congress will adjourn as soon as the Army and Navy Appropriation Bills are finally disposed of is still un determined. Th e pressure for an imme diate adjournment comes mainly from those whose homes arc within a day's ride of the capital, while those more removed, who would have little time to spend at home prior to Dec. 3d, the be ginning of the regular session, are more inclined to work than to remain here doing nothing, hence we look for a re cess of a few days only. Mr. Bland's silver bill will be sadly punished in the Senate, for there is a strong feeling among many of the Senators to give it a black eye. New York and Philadelphia sent large delegations of bankers and capitalists to protest against its passage and it seems settled that a material modification will be secured. Its free coinage clause is doomed, as the Senate will not rescind the Finance Commit tee's action, which struck it out. and it is very probable that the full remoneti zation feature will be essentially chang ed, hence we opine that Mr. Bland will hardly recognize his measure when it is returned to him by the Senate, as that body seems disposed to limit silver as a legal tender, as well as to bar free coin age. The fat* of the anti-resumption bill will be similar to that of Mr, Bland's bill, for there is not the satue desire in the Senate to change the policy of the government in regard to finances that the House has evinced recently.— Amendments will be made, and of siuli nature as to most materially alter the present intent of the Act. Hence we cannot now indicate for your readers that Congress has succeeded in fixing upon some definite financial policy. But the chances are that hy the next letter we can see precisely how great is the divergence of views between the two Houses. There is undoubtedly a radical difference at present, and we do not perceive how it can be reconciled, unless the House of Representatives re cedes materially from its positions. A most brutal outrage was recently com mitted by a negro named .Jones upon the person of a young white girl, who was passing along one of tliG thinly set tled streets near the boundary of the city. The citizens of that locality and friends of the girl were so highly incen sed that violent threats were made of rescue of the man from the police, with a view to lynching him. Prompt mcas urcs to prevent were taken by the po lice, and now the courts will not be in terfered with. So frequent are these outrages becoming that our people arc beginning to feel that more decided prc I ventive measures must be taken with the class whose instincts seein so low and vicious. FKLIX. The Tourists' Tribulations. (late City Instead of getting into a worry over Mr. Hubbard's sweeping and rhapsodi cal elocution, we would advise the great body of traveling men who are gentle men, and who have to travel in the prop er interests of their business to be as ac tive and positive in putting down and out the insolent curs and pimps who are discrediting the traveling brotherhood, as they are asked to be in lighting Judge Hubbard and the C. fc N. W. road. For if these moral pests who are infecting communities are not put out- of the so liciting business, then the whole solicit ing business will be put down by the public. Trav will suffer for being in a (tad crowd, imd communities will pro tect themselves from the moral leprosy of traveling pimps by tar and feathers and ropes. Twenty .years ago every bu siness man or representative of a busi ness who went into town or country was assumed to be a gentleman and treated as such. The great majority of these traveling business men are gentle man to-day. but they are largely treated now in town and country as though they were unmitigated nuisances. And so I the gentlemen in this vocation have to pay a penalty of public discredit because of the pimps engaged in it. This mat ter is more important than ephemeral outcry, because of Hubbard's severe words. Business men here and else where, heads of families, men who value the sanctity of their own homes and the purity of their own children should take more pains than they are doing to see that they are not demoralising eoni(nu nitics and destroying the purity and happiness uf other homes hy paying the license of a traveling salary to seducers and licentiousness, We don't care how good a iravcline salesman and solicitor a man may be, unless he is a man of pure lifo and conduct unloss he is a man who does not carry moral leprosy into communities he visits, a firm has no business to employ him instead, it is guilty of a baseness and a crime against morals if it docs. The Narrow Gauge Railroad. Montieetlo (Iowa). LjUorol, The surveyors on the Farmers' Union llailway reached Monticcllo from the west last Saturday evening, and stopped with us over the Sabbath. Two of them returned last Monday morning to level up the work and when they arrive at Liscomb will figure up the expenses of the road bed, and then the working up of local aid will bo in order. The route as surveyed, is about 150 miles from Bellevuc. on the Mississippi, to Liscomb, in Marshall county, via. Garryowen, Cascade, Monticcllo, I'rairioburg, Troy Mills, Brandon and La Porte to Liscomb, and westward to the Missouri river. The route, most of the distance, will be first-class, cheap feasible. The first 12 miles west from here will be of the best —little or no grade, small cuts or fills and most of the way air line: iu fact the same might be said of nearlythe en tire line. Tne distance from here to Brandon is 48 miles. The following nfimpd gentlemen comprise the engineer corps: Geo. Elliott, Snperintentj Alex. F.Tracy. Chief Engineer Lewis H. Smith, forward chain man G. C, Day, rear enainman O. Suiitb, stakeman R. O. Tripp teamster. They left for home last Monday. Mi Eastern Iowa Horticultural Society. The eighth annual meeting of this so ciety will be held at Monticcllo, in Jones county, on the 4th, 5th and (it-h days of December next. Among other topics relating to Horticulture, the following will be presented in reports, essays and discussions: Botany in its relation to Horticulture, Geology and Soils, Ento mology Experimental Horticulture. For estry, Evergreens, Pears, Small Fruits and Gardening, Marketing Small Fruits, Hedging, Orchard Culture and Manage ment, Cherry and Plum, Grapes, Com mercial Orcharding, Utilizing Fruits, Floriculture, etc., etc. The friends of fruit-growing and hor ticultural progress in all parts of the State are invited to attend. Special rates of fare on railroads lead ing to Monticcllo have been obtained for those attending the meeting. Entertain ment free. Papers in the State friendly to the objects of the Society, are requested to give this notice an insertion. ('. W. GTRNEY, Pres., Mont icello, Iowa. H. W. LATHROP, Sec'y., Iowa City, Iowa. AN EDITOR'S APPKAI,.—AS the re port that we are wealthy has gone abroad among our subscribers and has made them awful slow about paying up, thinking, doubtless, we don't want the money, we hasten to say the report of our wealth is false in every particular. If ocean steamers were selling at a cent a dozen, we couldn't make the first pay ment on a canoe. The lightning of pov erty has struck us square, and had it not lie en for an armful of hay our devil stole from behind a mule, our large and interesting family would be without a mouthful to eat this moment. Is not this a sad picture, and can you. delin quent subscribers, look on it without feeling the greenbacks rustle with indig nation in your pocket-books? We don like to dun, but we must if you fail to take the hint.- AV. GROCERIES. THIS SPACE BKUIMiSTO I. H. JOSLIR, Of Joslinville, WHICH IS ON GHATHAM STREET. Our youugeBt clerk, Georgie, wishes to know how they take sreat big men up to heaven when they die. Glove, Mitten and Fur Factory. One door west 1' the Opera House, up stairs, I am prepared to manufacture all descriptions of Buckskin (ilovcs and Mittens, and to manu facture and repair Ladies' Furs in the liest style. HUVIUK many years' experience In the Iiusiness, 1 can guarantee satisfaction. J). M. MOOKI 1'. S -Mrs. Moore's dress making rooms are in the same building:, wliero she would he pleased to sec the ladles who may want her scrvlcc*. 13-itJu£. FOR SALK. Mjr on rimthnni street. My honne is almost new. with l~ law rooms, two stories i iituh. UOx.'t I'eet, also winfr attached :S-V-.' bearing apple trees, (I bearing cherry I trees, plenty of raspberries, grapes, and other i shrubbery C.ood solid copper lightning rods on house! 1 will sell the above property very cheap,one-half cash and balance on good time if required. illitf) 11. KAXDY. MILLINERY. New Millinery Parlors! Mils L. V. RAYMOND Would inform the ladies of this citv and vtcia ttv that she has secured rooms ia Leytxe's lllork, over Tucker's ltent&urant, i And is again ready to receive orders iu the line of Millinery and Dress Making! Her good s apu all ni w and of the latest and mogt fashionable styles, and she is conlldent from her long experience in this city that she can give I'KKFKCI' SATISFACTION to all who may favor her with their patrohajfe. S.adics are invited to give her a call, I0m:t JHWKLK1W. O. F. HERRICK, fcUG I N Watch- Maker and Jeweler [Established In Independence In 18"itl.] HAVIXG the experience of Twenty-Seven Years In the business, (twenty years in thin city,) I feel confident in giving entire satist'ne tion. All work entrusted to my care will rceeive my personal attention. Thanking tlie public forthefr liberal patronage in the past, I shall endeavor to merit a continuance of the same. 12-fltf C. T. HKHItH'K. New Music Store! nruifs BLOCK, Independence, Iowa, SECHLER & DEV0LT Detlers in Pianos, Organs, ANI General musical Merchandise, Which I hey are selling at very low prices and on most favorable terms. t^'Thev are Agents for tho ESTEY AND PACKAKl) OHCHISSTIIAL OUGANS and other favorite Instruments. Come and examine goods and prices. Or ders tilled for Sheet Music and llooks. lOtf FOR MALE. A litfkt, geoond-hand buggy, cheap. Also building lota lu the vicinity of the old briok school house, west side. Terms of payment made very easy. Inquire of 49tf ©.DICKINSON. GROCERIES. Itegf Your Groceries of JpSLIN, The Grocery Man. &EbCBEIBS Cor. Main and Independence, Iowa. The HiiltseriberR have on haiul a choice and well selected Stock of FAMILY GROCERIES! Which they will sell at the very lowest bottom prices. Their stock consists of Sugars, Teas, 4 e Coffees, Spices, Syrups, Confectionery, CANNED A NO DRIFT) FRUITS, Kerosene Oil, Wood and Willow-Ware, Earthen Ware, &c., &c, N. B.—All they auk is to call and see their goods before purchasing elsewhere. Highest price paid for Produce. Remember the place, corner Main and Chatham streets. THOS. EDWARDS A CO. Buy Your Groceries of JOSLIN, The Grocery Man. J. W. Johnston Has just removed and is now located in LEYTZE'S BLOCK, MAIN-St. i In these dry times remember you can always get. something good to drink at the ouly store iu Joaliuville. The crit ter" in it is young, but lively. I Where he keeps on hand a large Slock of I Groceries, Crockery! ar^.ss i 1 AXD— "Wooden Ware Please give him a oall a*# he will pay you Oath for A BUTTER AND EGGS. Buy Your Groceries of JOSL.IN, The Grocery Man. MONTI Y TO LOAN. MONEY TO LOAN. On Improved Farms at 8 per Oat. in Sum* of $1,000 or Over. Address, IWcCAXN* & CRAWFORD, nrni Qi'K, IOWA. N. 11. In writing tons state tin- amount you want to borrow, the numbers and description of your land, and the nature and extentof your mprovements, the number uf acres under eul ration and under fencc. 13-42-3m Money 2 Loan, Ox I\ii'itivi:i FA it MS IN Srsis or $500 K OVELL, A.T 8 PER CENT INTEREST. Loans speedily effected. Any one desiring a 11 by applying, either in person BK1VKAKT & N'EV, loan will do well by or by letter, to 12-7-1y Independence, Iowa. Money to Loan. feet, also wood-house l:.'x III l'eet. A urood, never failing well. «ood cistern and cellar, and a lanre pantry also a hen-house one story liljrh, ltixlHi, about 110 In Sums to Suit Borrower. RATES AS LOW AS ANY AGENCY, Apply to ARCH C. SMITH, Office of James Jamison, oyer l^t National Riink, Independence, lo\va Money Loaned by C. D. JONES, The Insurance Man Money to Loan, On (wpiioved Farms or City Frofcrtf l» Sums of tGOO or Over, At 8 per Cent Interest. I I O A Office over Tabor's Drug Store, 1XDKl'EX 1)KXt'K, IOWA. FliOntlXC MI 1,1.. FARMERS OF Buchanan County! tiie Independence Kills, Havinjr nuulo extensive improvement? tfedr mills this summer, arc prop^TriJfo I S I N by the exchange method, ghing flour. Mid dlings, and Uran in exchange for wheat Our rates of exchange an' from :W tit !tii pounds of Flour to the bushel, with offal!. We shall aim to do what Is Just by all. and will give as good returns as can be made by any mills doing llrst-elass work. The excellent reputation of our Hour warrants us iu saying that we are do ing better work than ever before. The high est market price paid for milling wheat. TO THE TRADE. Orders promptly tilled for the following brands of Hour: Patent Process, Fancy, Fami ly mid Graham. Orders and (unTcjipoudeiioe solicited. MILLS ro. Independence, iowa, Sept. '-.I), 18T7. FTItNlTUJlE. O. Marquette, DEAL Kit IX Furnitura, No. 0 B*at Mala Street, INDEPENDENCE, IOWA. The largest and tlnest stin k of Plain and Fan cy Furniture in the city, at priees lower than at any other establishment. AIHO Agent for Henry M. Sherwood's School Furniture. BUSINKS8 COLLEGE. ATTKNI) CLINTON Commercial College, To learn Book-keeping. Penmanship. Tele- 1 be EDUCATIONAL. TILFORD ACADEMY Vinton, Iowa Winter Term Commences December 3,1877. Spring Term Commences April 3,1878* Everything the Public Requires is Taught. Boarding and Tuition, including everything taught in the Academy, except CHI Painting and Music, §36.00 per 12 weeks. SBI^BOARDING—Rooms with Cook Stove, Bcdstcnd and Tuition ASftbOVe, $19. Advantages of the Institution: •~Thci*f» arc .» distinct departments. «.—There are 5 experienced, competent teachers con* stantly employed, There are 3 courses of study, Classical, Scientific and Normal. Ther5 is a complete buslnegs department with especial arrangements for Book-Keeplnjr. 5.— Students from abroad can be accommodated with homes in the Academy at the lowest rates, and be con tinually in the society of the teachers. 0.—1The Academy is loelfied to for the schools in Benton county, and many other counties. TESTIMONIALS: Wc, citizens ol" Benton county, in expressing our appreciation of Tilford Academy, would say that we are well pleased with the efficiency of the school, and the success which has marked its career since its establishment. We have watched with much pleasure the rise this institution, and feel that we have occasion to rejoice that so worthy an enterprise was pro* Jected and so well maintained in our city therefore, we, citizens of Vinton, express our warm* est sympathy with Tilford Academy, and hereby pledge ourselves to do all that we cantoadh vance its educational interests, and the welfare and happiness of its pupil* that we welcamflr all students to our citv and its social privileges that further that we wilt cheerfully recommend Tilford Academy to the favorable consideration of the public, as an institution of high order* and in every respect worthy of the confidence of all parties desiring the best educational ad vantages. Matthews, David White, Withrow, .Jacob Sutton and S Goodwin. Address tho Principal, l.Vw4 MIIILJNKITY MRS. GILLETTE lias just arrived from Chicago with a Stock of MILLINERY, And That surpasses any previous gtock that she has ever brought to this city both in STYLE AND LOW PRICES 1 MRS. GILLETT WILL AIM TO PLEASE All of her many Customers with THE BEST QUALITY OF GOODS A.KT Satisfactory Work and Prices. All are invited to LOOK AT HER LARGE STOCK, Next to the Brilre. Inforc purchasinir elsewhere. IL Mrs. O. M. GILLETTE. 3S£:rs. Turner, .Ajsro Ladies' Furnishing Goods! Keck Wear, Laces, Corsets, Underwear, Hair Goods and BERGMAN'S FULL-WEIGHT ZEPHYRS, A N GERMANTOWN YARNS! ALWAYS A FULL STOCK. .A-gent for tlie DOMESTIC PATTERNS. 24 Main Street, Independence. N. B.—Location with Herrick's Jewelry House LIAUMVAUE. PREPARE for WINTER. C. w. TAYLOR & Have received a stock of Hard Coal Stoves including th©. vell'tned^ and favorite Crown Jewel and Argand, Remodeled and Improved for this Season. Also the first-clas rooking Stove.*. NO. 34 MAIN STREET. INDEPENDENCE, IOWA. DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING. Jl'HT ItEOKTVKP AT THE CITY OF PARIS STORE, 4 ifagiiMfeeut and Varied Stock of FALL and WINTER GOODS, The First Arrival of the Season, embracing everything in the Line of Dry Coods & Clothing, AND SELLING AT Ante-War Prices. u^This Last Assertion is no Humbug. Come and Verify i| and Astonished at the Bargains we can offer yon. '1 •M. and growth T. TOBIN Co., Charter Oak and New Early Breakfast."' These Stoves Combine all the Latest Improvements, and their Reputations are Second to none Oth ers. Call and See Them at A.