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SPECIAL NOTICES . CANCER I If you «ut toot Cancer* permanently cored, CO to Dr. 8. COX, on Worth tfrMLOM door east of Um Normal «chool-koo»e, Ockalooaa, lowa. wti«r* hatua been dolnc boalnee* for aeveral year* pot; kl» treatment!* probably !e*» painful than any other now in use, ha* given entire satis faction every ca*e be ha* treated ; he warrauU a cure in every ca*e. thoa undertaken, or no pay.— The u*e of the knife never re* or ted to; he treat* successfully. Scrofula, Rheumatism, Fever, Sore*, Pile*, Ac.. Ac. n» m« TO CONSUMPTIVES. THE Advertiser, having .been restored to health in a few week*, by a very simple remedy, after having rufTcred several years with a severe lung affection, and that dread disease. Consump tion—l* anxious to make known to hi* fellow sufferer* the mean* of euro. To all who desire it, he will send a copy of the prescription used (free of charge), with the direc tions for preparing and nsmg the same, wnlcn they will find a sens Cra* fob CoNsostrTio«, Asthma. Bronchitis, etc. The object of tfc ; ad vertiser in sending the Prescription Is to benefit the afflicted, and spread information which hf conceive* to be Invaluable; and he hopes ever; sufferer will try his remedy, as it will cost tlieir. nothing, and may prove a blessing. Parties wishing the prescription, will please adores* Key. EDWARD A. WILSON. Williamsburg, Kings County, New York. ERRORS OF YOUTH. A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years from Nervous Debility. Premature Decay, and ail the effects of youthlhl indiscretion, will, for sake oi suffering humanity , send free to all who need it, the receipt and directions for making the simple remedy by which he was cured. Sufferers wish lng to profit by the advertiser's experience, can do so by addressing, with perfect confidence. JOHN B. OGDEN, nlSyl No. ii Cedar Street, New York. LEGAL NOTICE. STATS OF IOWA. I Mahaska County, C TO BENJAMIN HOLLINGSWORTH. You are hereby notified that there is now on flic In the oflice of the Clerk of the Circntt Court in and for said county, the petition of G. W’. Raw son claiming of you the sum of two hundred dol lars on an account, and that unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the next term of said court to be begun and held on the first Monday in April A. D. lf*TO your defanit will be entered and Judgment rendered thereon. Skkvehs & Cvtts, ntj Attorney* for Plaint if!. 8. J. DUTTON. VV. A. RINKER W H. SHAW’. Clerk and Bookkeeper. ISAAC I’Y'LK. Clerk anil Delivery mat. DUTTON& RINKER. Wholesale and Retail DKAZKRB IX FIRB7 CL At/8 GROCERIES, of all kinds and brand* PROVISIONS, GRAIN AND FEED, DRIED AND CANNED FRUITS, FISH, SALT, OILS, LAMPS AND LANTERNS Cutlery and Notion* in great variety. Carpet warp, Cotton yarn and batting*. IMi.MviM Sion Wares, to., A. 11 of which we will cell a* low a* the lowest. TERMS CAHU OR COUNTRY PRODUCE. Place of tr?*ine** 3 door* weet of north-west cor nerof Public Square, Oskaloota, lowa. Goo-r* bought of u« delivered in any part of the City with prom>tne*«. Our MottoJ Qnick Nblm and *m»ll Profit*. WTAII jrooda warranted as represented. and un less found »o can be returned. Thankful for the very liberal patronage her towed upon us In timer part, we solicit from our friends and others a continuance of the same n4t>tf. FasUon®! Attractive! Elegant! Mrs. L. P. Garretson, In the store formerly occupied by L. P Taylor, N. E. Cor. Square, has just re oeived a superb assortment of Millinery Goods, LADIES' & CHILDREN’S FURS Of the latent style*, constating in part of bonnets, hats, ribbons, LACES AND FLOWERS, W hlch will be old at price* but little in advance of coat. Hat* for children. Notion*, Trimming*, and other article* too numerou* to mention, may alway* be found at her e«tabli*hment. All are cordially invited to call. I have on band the THE CELEBRATED >1 Health Corset, Which for Beantr of Fit, Perfection of Shape, and for iU Health Principle#, la without a rival, nldly yf C. GARRETSON, WATCH-MAKER, And dealer in mVT|| watches, CLOCKS AND JKWKLRY , No. 1, northeast corner of tho Public Square, Oakalooaa. SI ri'Hß HERALD BOOK AND JOB 1 OFFICK, ie the only oißce in the clly that i» pr*P*r*S to An Book work of all kln<l«. THE ABOVE CUT REPRESENTS THE BLACK HAWK TWO-HORSE WALKING CULTIVATOR, «fci£h took the First Premium at the WhL lowa State Fair afur a thorough field trial with the leading Cultivatoi io<»n«ling the beat that have u*tt aold in tliia county. Cultivator* will he Hold FIVE TO TEE DOLLARS LOWER THIS YEAR TIIAS HERETOFORE. The best kinds will be sold at Urn AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE of J, H. Creen fc Co., |tf . OSKALOOSA, IOWA. Craig & Alexander, Hardwurt!, Move* mu A nd Farm Implement# Generally. Spouting and Job Work done with dispatch. n«tf CR tl(< A ALEYANUKK DUTTON A RANKER NEW HARDWARE r NEW . MJfl ' ~ sT.ltVt.c. And Tinware at P. A. WATTS * CO.’S. ALSO 20 TONS NAILS. Garden Rakes, Spades, Shovels, Garden k Stock Hoes, HAY AND M anure Forks, Japanned, PEEKED AND TIN W Alt ', «2,ASB, PUTTY, Strap and T Hinge?, JACK, SMOOTH, FORK AND JOINTER PL \NES, HALTER, TRACE, COIL AND LOG C HAINS, AXES, HATCHETS AND HAMMERS, CROSS CUT, HAND AND WOOD *AWS, CLOTH liS WRINGERS-, <fct. We return thanks for liberal patronage and invite all to examine our goqds before purchasing elsewhere. ItememUr ihe place—No. 4, Union Block. 1\ A. Watts. Co. n3l DEALERS IN Tinware, flails <*!&»«. Putty, Hon*, Rake**, fccytlie* nn«l Siialla. Kli«vel«, Cradles, Pirlt*, a**€f Plow* &e &e. caprrn and Jlowers, NELSON * NICHOL S Furniture Btore, On Ilia florf li-IRu*»l Corner oi ties* Public Mqitars* MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN j . f Tallies, Clairs, Balstaals, taps, ail Bireaas. MATRSSES OF ALL KINDS. INCLUDING fIIE CELEBRATED ELASTIC SPONGE, WASH STANDS, CUPBOARDS, SAFES, Book Canon, Looking Ginnsen, Picture Frame*. Ready-made Coffin* eon *t*nl!v on hand*. it, .(t* nd u<e. NURSERY STOCK. The undersigned offer for saleon the premise* ol J. 11, BOWEKMAN, a little north-east olOskaloo a, for the Fall ofßlSjrai of 1810 100,000 Apple Trees From one to three year* old, very largo and flni. growth. 3000 Cherry Trees, Of the best varieties. PEAES, Piute, CRAPES, Raspberries, merries, Gooseberries and Ms, Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, DECIDUOUS AND Evergreens. We respectfully invite all person* wishing to bny, to call and «see our Bloch before purchasing elsewhere. an we are confident that our stock will frleaae purchaser**, all of which we offer at the oweat price**. J. II BOWEKMAN & GARVIN. Oskaloosa, Mahaska County. lowa. nfitf. NEW GOODSI At the old stand of B. Hollingsworth, west side of the Square. N. J. SMITH, lia* just received a large stock of BOOTS AND SIDES, (Leather find Shoe Findings, Which now makes his assortment complete, and will be sold for cash, at as low prices n«at any | other house in the city. |BOOTS &. SHOES Made to order, and WARRANTED. W*- in\ i!e everbody and their families to call and i see ns. ntf N. J. SMITH. ‘spades. N K\V GOODS i AT THE SOUTH-EAST CORNER OK THE PUBLIC SQUARE. i J. C. WHETSTONt, SUCCESSOR TO WHETSTONE <* RRO Are now receiving a fresh stock of Staple anfl Fancy Groceries! KM BRACING dt’tliittrf :»»»<! fbri«‘<l Fruil«, TEAS, COFFEES, SUGARS, SYKUPd, WOODEN & WILLOW WAP.E ! | AND IN FACT EVERYTHING VOCALLY - KEPT IN A FIRST CLASS Grocery EstalsMeit All good** promptly delivered within th • city limit** FREE OK CHARGE. <iiv** in* a call. [ntHtt} .1. C. WHETSTONE THE OSKALOOSA HERALD Thursday, March 3, 1870. PLAYING KITTEN. Have you seen a kitten playing with a;ball ? -She clutches it tight iu her sharp little claw* Tosses It up, and then lets it fall; Rolls it away, and, after a pause, Brings it again to her side; with a spnn*. Bounds far from it w ith motion active. Yet ne'er for an instant, loses the thing Oh ! a kitten playing is very attractive. Just so a maiden plays with my heart; A moment she bolds it meshed in her smiles Then seems to forget me and turns apart; And. when I am almost free from her wiles. Calls me back with a glance so sweet That only her in the world I see. And again He captive before her feet, Though I know she is playing kitten with me —Hurraed Advocate. HALF CASH AND HALF BARTER-- A CUTE TRICK- A Connecticut broom peddler —a shrewd chap from over among the steady habits, wooden clocks, schoolmasters, and other fixins— drove through the streets of Provi dence heavily laden with corn brooms. He had called at several stores and off-red his load, or ev n so small a portion of it; but when he mated the cash, and nothing else, in payment, they had uniformly given bun to understand that they had brooms enough, and that he might go further. At length he drove up to a large w holesale store on the west side, and once more offered his wares. ‘Well, I wan’t the brooms badly enough,’ said the merchant, ‘but what will you take in pay ?' This was a poser. The peddler was aching to get rid of his brooms; lie despised the very sight of his brooms; but he'would sooner sell a single bn om for c ish than tin- whole load for any other article—especial!\ that whi h he could m t dispose of so readily as lie could brooms. After a moment’s hesitation, however, he screwed his courage to the sticking point —it required some courage after having lost his chance of selling liis loa i h;»if a dozen limes by a similar answer—and frankly t4d the merchant that he must have cash. Of course, the merchant pro tested that cash was scarce, and that he must purchase, if he purchas ed at all, with wJiat he had in his store to pay with, llereally wanted the brooms and be did nol hesitate to say so; but the times were hard, and he had notes to pay, and hud goods that must be disposed of. Finally, he said he would put the goods at the cost price, tor the sake lof trading, and would take the I whole load of’ brooms which the I peddler had labored so unsu. cess i fully at the other stores to dispose of. ‘So unload the brooms’ said he to the man from Connecticut, ‘and se lect any articles from my store, and von shall have them at cost price ’ The peddler scratched tiis head.— There was an idea there, as the se quel shows plainly enough. ‘I tell you what it is, 1 he answered at last, ‘just say them terms for half the load, and cash tor t other half, and I'm your man. Biowed ef 1 don’t se’ l eout, if Connecticut sinks whh all her broom stuff, the next minute.’ The merchant hesitated a mo ment, hut finally concluded the chance a good one. He would be getting halt the brooms for something that would not sell as readiy : as for the cost price, ii was an easy gam mon in regard to it. The bargain was shuck, the hrooins wa re brought in, and the cash for half of them was paid over. “Now, what will you have for the remainder of your bill ?” asked the nun chant. The peddler scratched his head again, am) this time more vigorous ly. lie walked the lloor, whistled, ami drummed <\ it h his lingers on the head of a barrel. By-and-by his re ply cann —slowly, deliberately and en phatieally: ‘You Providence fellers are cute; you st 11 st cost, pretty much all of you, and make money. I don't see how it's done. Now. 1 don’t know about your goods, burrin'one article, and ef I take anything else I may be cheated. So, seeiti" as twont make any odds with you, I guess i’ll take brooms. I know them like a hook, and can swear to jest what you paid for ’em.’ And co Raying, the peddler com menced re loading his browns, and having deposited half oi his former load, jumped on his cart with a regular Oonnecticuit grin, and leav ing the merchant curbing ids impu dence and his own stupidity, drove of! iu search of another customer. HISTORY' OF THE BALLOT. Hep worth Dixon has explored tiie history of the baliot box, and suc ceeded in showing that is a very old and respectable part of the British constitution. The ancient Greeks were the inventors of the ballot. From them it deseeded to the Romans; and from Rome it came down to the modern world, — after being lost and forgotten during the Dark Ages. The Dutch were the tirst people of modern Europe to use the ballot generally in voting; they were indeed in almost all re spects the pioneers in European lib eral politics. The ballot-box w’as introduced in Loudon in the dark days of Charles First, in the year 1637. The Mer chants’ Company in London in that year had to elect an agent to con duct their affairs at Rotterdam.—- Charles urged and commanded them to appoint a tool of his own and of Laud. The merchants took the vote by ballot and refused. The King and his Council got into a great rage against the “unmanly in- M illion” ol the ballot-box—for it I r< vented them from being revenged on the men who had thwarted their will. The King in Council ordered the discontinuance of the ballot, and declared ‘his utter dislike thereof.” It has been found that the ballot was used iu London in connection with corporation elections as early as 129 M. Iu thi* country we still have one State that cries » ut against this “unmanly invention”—Kentucky vote* vii'c voce. Joseph NVeslt \ Harper, the third of the lour brothers, who for quite forty years constituted the house of Harper & Brothers, died early on Monday morning, February 14, at his residence in Brooklyn. He was born in Newton, U. I M in IsOi, and had therefore, almost reached the age of three-score years uud ten.— When he had wo me to the years of early manhood, his elder brothers, James and John, had fairly estab lished themselves as printers and publishers. Wesley joined them at first as an employe; but soon after— about 1825—he, with the youngest brother, Fletcher, became members of tl <* linn, which took the name of Harper A Brothers. Wesley at first took charge of the composing room, as foreman and proof reader. Men now old say that he was the best foreman they ever knew. Soon the business of the Harpers grew, and each brother had to take charge of a department in which thought took place of mechanical labor. To Wes ley was assigued tho work of Litera ry Correspondent. This work he performed for many years, aided, in late years, by his elder son and namesake. IOWA. Mrs. Jellison, at the Christian Church in Des Moines, fell on the fkior and dislocated her knee.—Per Pallet in. A Cedar Falls publishes the following notice; “Lost or strade from seriber a sLeep all over white —one leg was black and half his body—any p erson shall receive five dollars to bvlng him. He was a shee goat.” Henry Van Evera, a scholar in the Haver port High School, jumped in to the Mississippi river and drowned himself, a few’ days since. “ Another poor unfortunate” at tempted to commit.buicide at Brigh ton, but was prevented by the land lady of the hotel at which she stop ped .... A boy of fourteen, named Ilira i lloottnan, committed suicide in C equest township, by hanging himself in his father’s stable. Pa rental severity is whispered as the cause, but suspicious persons say there was lbi.l play, and his body was exhumed for f a st mortem exami nation.—Per Bonaparte Democrat. The Washington Press says: “Ed Tw inani has an lowa hog, two years obf, a Chester White and White McGee, which weighs 700 lbs., is 7 feet long and girths feet. That’s a dainty pet. A little daughter of Maj. J. W. Moore was accidentally scalded re cently. The wound was a painful one, but not dangerous John Black, at Summit, was badly injured by caving in of an excavation at which he was at work. Several ribs were broken.—Per lveosauqua JRe publican. I he Vinton Ewjle says a woman named Sarah Kelli was found dead in Bruce township, of that county. IShe was ironing, ami likely to be uu late, hir husband retired and Jeft her at work, lit the night by awoke, found lo r absent and the room dark, arose and not finding her in the house started over to his brother’s a short distance away, and not finding her there they commenced a search, and found her in a trench made by throwing out dirt to bank up the house. t?he was half nude, without bonnet or shaw l. The jury returned a verdict, “came to her death by causes unknown.” On last Saturday a car load ol oys ters hound for San Francisco, from the Chicago oyster dealer, Booth, passed through Chariton. It con tained twenty tons of oysters and the freight bill was £I,OO0 —Per Patriot. Of a dry and practical vein was the humor or the Irishman who found himse f cleaning windows on a bitter cold morning in Scotland. The bea i of the house had given him about half a eupfull of whiskey, and enjoined him to rub it with a small cloth on the panes previous to polishing them. Going out shortly afterwards, he noticed that the cup was empty, and that the man wa» working with a will. ‘How’s this, sir?' .-aid the master, angrily,‘what’s become of the whiskey ?’ ‘Sure, an’ 1 drank it, yer honor,’ said the exile, cheerily ; ‘good health to ye this cold mornin’—but I blow my breath on the windows, which is just the same, an 1 1 have all the good of it besides.’ There w r as a meeting held in Petersburg, Va., the other day, to nominate a candidate fur Judge, and among those present was one ot Lee’s veterans. The meeting was a large one, and it was found necessary to make the voters stmd in line to count them. The line bei"g some what irregular, one of the toilers cried out, “Right dress!” where upon our veterain exclaimed, “Look here, Mister, if you are going to start another war, you must count me out. I’ve had enough of that sort of thing;” and, with a spring to the rear, he made double-quick time away for his home, and thus one vote was lost. The Hoosii r Democracy are iu for it. \t their State convention in January they denounced negro suffrage and put it in their platform. Now that the Fifteenth Amendment is ratified, the Iloosier darkies will vote in spite of them—and, of course against them. As Indiana is so close the new voters will determine the battle. The old saw about the way of the transgressor being hard is still true, and the Iloosier Democrats begin to see it. One of the Southern women who fled to Brazil when the rebellion was crushed, has written hack an appeal for aid, sating: ‘lf the American Government mean to take ns home, hurry and do so, or it w ill have the dying eu.se of starving Americans. For God’s sake, take the unfortunate, dece.y ed people out of here, while they are able to walk.’ This is one of the women who was determined to do or die iu the last ditch with her brothers. A New Haven, Conn., scheol ma’am, instructing her class of girls in home geography the other day, had iO txpla n what a Mormon was, and fetched out this pertinent re mark from a little chit of nine years : “Will I don’t see how they manage it. I should think that when he kiss *d one of his w ives the others would all get jealous, and pull every hair out ot her head. My mamma would I'm sure.” The office of the Wisemi-in State Journal is not a good olli e t<» be :«i editor in, if you don’t w ant to be made into a big officer. Last fall, one of its editors, Mr. liublee. was made Min'.slet to Switzerland, and now the Republicans of that Dis trict, have taken the other, General Atwood and made him a (Congress man in place at Hopkins, deceased. Tho State Printer also belongs to the same office. Register The Fifteenth Amendment is now safe, whether New York can or can not w ithdraw her ratification. The Texas Legislature has approved the measure, and Nebraska will probably follow suit to-day. Nothing now re mains hut tee ollicial promulgation of the amendment by the Secretary of State Then all men will be equal before the law, and the law a righteous one. ‘Mammy,’ said a precious little fellow, who against his will, w r as made to rook tho cradle of liis baby brother, ‘if the Lord's got any more babies to give away, don’t you take ’em.* A little three year old girl in New Orleans recently astonished her mother —who attempted to correct her —by motion/ng her away with a chubby little hand and scornfully saying “Shoo fly, don’t bodder W« f* A young Portland woman, recent ly married, received from a gentle man friend, a large corn broom as a wedding present, accompanying with the following bit of poetry: “This trifling gift accept from me ; Its use I’d recommend In sunshine use the brushy part, In storms the other end.” A gentleman being asked by a clergyman why he did not attend evening prayer meeting, said he could not leave the children. ‘Why, have you no servants?’ ‘Yes,’ he replied, ‘we have two servants, who keep the house and board us. We are allowed few privileges.’ A church in Dupre, Brown, coun ty Wisconsin glories in the name of the UuUed-Evangelical* Melhodist— Baptist- Congregatioual ist—Presbyterian-Mora*. ian- Protest ant- Episcopal-—Lutheran-- Gernian- Duich-Kefonned-Catholio and Uni ted Evangelical Church and Chris tian Brethren of the Glorious Re formation ! A young man in Louisville, ex amined a keg of damaged gunpowd er with a red-hot poker, to see if it was good, it is believed by his friends that he has gone to Europe, although a man has found some hu man bones, and a piece of shirt-tail, about twenty miles from Louisville. Better bk Going. —‘Come, doc tor, it's ten o'clock ; l think we had better be going, for it’s time honest folks were at home.’ “Well, yes,’ was the reply ; ‘I must be off’, but 5011 needn't burry on that account.’ What is the ditfereuce betw« rn a man paralyzed with it ar, and a leop ard’s tail ; one is rooted lo the spot a id the other is spoiled i<» the root. “I had rather no lake a horn with you,” said the toper lo ibe mad bull : but ibe bull treated him to two, and ihe toper got quite high. If you would find :t great many faults, lie on the look-out. If you would find them in still greater abundance, be on the look in. It is said that short, dumpy peo ple are more humorous than long, lank folks, on the ground that brevity is the ground of wit. FOR SALE. The undesigned offers his residence in the city und a one half interest in the Herald office for -ale. I take this course because of continued ill heauh, uiui a desire to ch ;nge location and busi ness. The office is in a healthy condition, and is at one of the most desirable points in the State. W. A. HUNTER. ST. LOUIS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY LINKS VIA THE Norih Missouri Railroad. The short link connecting the UIiEAT PACIFIC RAILWAYS WITH ST. LOUIS ASi) TEE EAST The through train* over this road run in clos connection with ull the Western Railroads, land ini' passengers in St. Lous in time to make close and immediate connection" with the EASTERN LINES FOR Cincinnati. Indi'rnapolit, Chicago , Lot/if riUe, Cleveland* Pittsburgh, Buffalo. Philadel phia. Baltimore, Xew York, Bos ton, Washington and all Eastern Cities. To facilitate the increase of business over this road, the management have decided to run THREE THRU Veil EXPRESS TRAIXS, Giving passengers their choice of routes to the East, and the advantage of the fast time now being made by the roads leading from Sc. Louie. When purchasing tickets see that they read via NOiCIll HISMiIKI It A 11,ICO AD. To be obtained at all Railroad Ticket offices. S. 11. KNIGHT. Gen i Supt. A. W. MILLSP.AI'GH, Gen’l Ticket Ag t. L M DUNN, Gen'l Western Ag’t. J. MEREDITH DAVIES, Geu'l Adv. Ag t. St. Louis. .Mo. Time Tries all Tans! (IKE ONLY PIItMMHS TUB Fl* NA Mi TEST ! Opinions of the skillful may be of value: but time is to confirm them. All failures have had and will have advocates. The WHEELER I WILSON SEWING MACHINE has been before the public for over seventeen years, it has been subjected to the severest tests and most bitter competition. It alone took the first prize at | LONDON Ai\i» PARIS. j when all the machine* of any note competed. READ THE TESTIMONIALS: We had in our family a Singer Sewing Machine for several years, and not being fully satisfied with it, exchanged it for a Wheeler & Wilson. , and now after n year's use. we do not hesitate to say that we prefer it decidedly in everv respect. Rev. K. a. McAYAEL, M. E. McAYAEL. To alt whom it may concern /—This may certify that during the spring of 1867. we had in our house the Wheeler «£ Wilson Sewing Machine, and the Singer, noiseless improved, on trial with the view of purchasing one or the other, or-neith er as we might seleat, and after several weeks’ tri al, we chose the Wheeler & Wilson, which to our mind for family use is very superior to the other, is just the thing; and to’ which in our opinion, the Singer bears no comparison in several res pects. If. O HUNTSMAN, Mns. 11. C. HUNTSMAN. Oskaloosa, Sept. 10th, 1*69. I had m our family a Singer Sewing Machine, after usiug it for three years, sold It, and bought a Wheeler & Wilson of Mr. Hedger; now after four years' use. Ido not hesitate to say that I prefer it in every respect. Mr*. I). OGILVIK. Alter having used the Wheeler & Wilson ma chine for nearly three years, and have done all kinds of sewing, from heavy over coats to fine swiss, and have never found any trouble in using it on either. I take pleasure in recommending it to those wishing to buy machines, as being the best and nptst cas'iy kept in repair of any ma chine in use. MAGQIE STEVENS. This is to certify that we had left ns a Wheels? & Wilson Sewing machine to try, after w« had it a few days the agent of Singer's’ machine brought two different machines oi that make, and we tried them both, and bought a “W. W.” of Mr. Hedger. Mrs. JOHN N. DIIICN. 1 have used the Wheeler & Wilson machine in yy family lor c-glit years. I think it the beet lamijy machine in use ; would cheerfully recom mend it to a|l those nislijng to purchase a first | class machine. Mrs. lia. DA W siOltf. TUe Mi** iSt- W j n her Teen**, Mrs. Petiitt has a Wheeler «fc Wilson Sewing ma chine. No. 8.577 —piv-eiit No. 397,684. This ma chine was manufactured in 1533 or 1854, ami will do just as tine work to-day as any new Shuttle machine. Head wbat Mrs. Pcttitt says: “Oskaloosa. lowa, Sept. 13th, 1869. This is to certify that I have used in my family one of Wheeler & Wilson's Sewing machines for over thirteen years, and it now does as good work a* when new. Mus. Jt. C. PJfTTITT.” The following extract from a private letter from Jfre. Elizabeth JJaiicy. York. Eng., was hauded us fcy Mrs. A. Comstock: “I have lately returned from the Paris E posi tion, where amongst the works of industry and art of all nations, your adopted country u is well represented: and lam now in possession of a Wheeler at Wilson Sewing machine, the one that received. «nd I can say well deserved, the highest prize, a Gold Medal; and I find it a treasure, in deed, in my family, and feel grateful to America for the invention of what I think might be truly called the Woman’s Friend.’’ To the Public,’—We take pleasure in referring by permission to the following ladles who have used the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing machine, from one to fifteen years, in all the varieties of work iu family sewing, would say that as for du rability, ease of tuoiiou, speed and great range of Work it has no equal: Mrs Shrive?, Mrs J W Tiiilis. Harriet J Ellis, Mrs H l) Huntsman, Mrs J C Green, Mrs K H AlcCarn, Mrs C P Senile, Mrs C S Know!ton, Mrs I K Bckart, Mrs C A Cavcn, Mrs Ji ury Howard, Llf Crocker, Mrs J 11 Warren, Charlie M Williaiue, Miss Sarah M button, Mrs W W Wallace, Alias Tticey K White, Mrs T A Brown. Mi s D W Morrison, Mrs Mary E Dodge, Mrs 1, P Garretson, Mrs A M Kills, Mrs O J Bmnett, Mrs J W Faxon, Mrs Win v. Briggs, Mrs M J Palmer, Mrs A S Nichols, Mrs M U Carreltou, Miss Carrie Fahr, Mrs M a Barr, Mrs Alice Bliss, Mrs D J Swearingen, Mrs Dr O T Palmer, Sarah Katbach, Mrs Clias Blattner, Maggie Quick, Hsuirnh H Updegruff, Lou JLMaebmutt. Mrs John Narver, Mrs Dr Hoffman, THESE MACHINES ARB FOB BALK R j D. E. UEOfiER, nl Oskaloosa. lowa- j pROBATE NOTICE. On the 3d day of tiepL 1660 there was hied In the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, up In- , s'ruutenl iu writing, purporting to he the last I Will mid testament of James Harris, deceased, j late of Mshasks Cou 4y, lowa, which was read by the Clerk of said court, aud ordered that proof of the same be heard on the Ist day of the next term of said court to be held In the City of Osk&looaa, on Ist Monday of April. 1870. an O. P. SEARLE Clark. REMOVAL I TRASK * WILLARD, IN TIIEIR NEW STORE! Trask & Willard have rented, refitted, and filled the room formerly occupied by I Frankel it Co., one door east of their old stand, with a large and new stook o! DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS, HATS & CAPS, BOOTS & SHOES, ETC., ETC, Trask & Willard bought their goods in New York anu Boston at panic prices Trask & Willard Lave the largest stock of DRESS GOODS in town. Tr«sk & Willard have a full line of WHITE GOODS. Trask A Willard have a splendid stock of TABLE LINENS, NAPKINS, TOWELS AND CRASHES Trask it Willard have all grades of SHEETINGS, TICKINGS, STRIPKS, DKNIMS, COTTONADKS. V.LOTUS AND CASSIMKJtKS. You will find the largest lot of BASKETS in town at Trask it Willard's. Trask it Willard have the latest style of li oop Skirts and Corsets, finest and cheapest lot of LAtfeS, UlJGfcft, COliliAUSi UANDK’fr*, liTCL, to be bad in the city at Trask & Willard’s. Go to Trask ifc Willard’s tor your HATS and CAPS. Go to Trask »& Willard’s for your BOOTS and S (OES. Go to Trask & Willard’s for everything to be found in a first-class Dry Goods Store Trask A Willard will give you more goods for a dollar than any other place in to wn. REMEMBER THE PLACE, NO. s, NORTH SIDE OF THE SQUARE H. P. Ninde, Nohtnj Public. NINDE * WILLIAMS, OSKALOOSA, MAHASKA COUNTY, IOWA, Office—Street’s Block, west side of Square. Have for sale much more REAL ESTATE, than they can advertise. A few descrip tions will serve as an average: Ist. 1200 acre? jn a body, good improvements, timber, water, pastnre and piow iand, near the line of the I. C. It. R.. fourteen miles of Oskaloosa. Price $33,000. 2d. Farm of 219 acres, well fenced, and good timber, good house, harn and bearing orchard, 5 miles from Oskaloosa. Price SIO,OOO. 3d Farm of 834 acres, well improved, house worth $2,500, timber adjoining farm, extra land, 14 miles of Oskaloosa. Price $7,500. 4th. 310 acres, under fence and mostly plowed, V* mile from New Sharon, good land. Price $27.50 per acre. sth. Farm 327 acres in all, 250 in high cultivation and meadow. No. 1 farm house. 7 rooms and large sellar. 30 acres of good corn and 35 hogs, and other things thrown in. Price less than S3O per acre - 14 miles from Oskaloosa. 6th. 40 acres, farm 2 miles of Oskaloosa, good. Price $2,000. 7th. 109 acre farm, very fine and well improved, bearing orchard, and all right, 7 miles from Oska loosa. Price SSO per acre. Bth. 210 acres prairie, extra, over 100 hundred acres plow’cd. new land, good honse, etc., 18 miles of Oskaloosa. Price $25 per acre. 9th. 400 acres, lst-and 2d bottom, some timber, / 00l mill seat, with a saw mill in operation. Price $6,000. Jo:h. 40 acres. \of a mile of Oskaloosa, well improved and desirable. Will be sold low. 11th. 80 acres, 2 miles of New Sharon, mostly in cultivation, land good. Price $2,300. 12fh. Timber in lots to suit purchasers. 13th. Wild land in lots to siiit purchasers. 14th. Lots in town to suit purchasers. 15th. Coal lauds in lots to suit purchasers. 16fh A number of suberban residences, improved and unimnroved. Moms at low dgures. 17th. A business lot 60x120. near the square, and eligible. F rice $2,300 18th. A large number of city residences and unimproved lots. Som« at bargains. 19th. A very flue city residence and large lot. Price SB,OOO. 20th. Some good business houses and eligible business lots. Parties wishing to sell are invited to give ua a fnU description, and lowest price , »s best terms, and we will make extra effort* to sell. Parties wishing: to purchase are also invited to examine our books and property. No charge for showing. Give us a call. 5. NINDE 8c WILLIAMS, .T E. MOORMAN MOORMAN Sc GREEN, Wholesale and Retail OKA I,Fits l> Dry Goods and Notions, BOOTS AND SHOES, Ha,ts and Caps, READY-MARE CL<>THING, We have just returned from NEW YORK and BOSTON where we have purchased a large aud well selocted stock of goods from MANDFACTOBS 41 FIRST HANDS, And we feel confident oftieiag able to please ali who may favor us with a call both In UI ITV, *VYIaE PKICKS The trade in general are respectfully solicited to call and examine our go«kis and prices, store iu Street’s Block, West Side Public Square. RED FRONT. MOORMAN A? GREEN OSKALOOSA, ...... IOWA. Osltaloosa Made BOOTS AND SHOES. AM MANUFACTURING AT MY ROOMS IN OSKALOOSA, IOWA. BOOT? AND STTOTCS Oi nearly all descriptions, and of the best materials the country can afford. My work is all Manufactured in my own Shop, and WARRANTED to he as good as represented. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, To suit purchasers. Jobber* will ounßult their own Interests by examininir my stock before going or sending to Chicago or any other market; as I will tml! upon as pood if not better terms, than the same article can be procured there. * Wo*k of *ll kind* made to Order em the Shortest Possible Notice. I ain just receiving from the cast, a large stock of BOOTS ami SHOES. u% OP _ der, for Men, Women and Children'* wear. ’ Bmae or uM ' tf MIBI IVc<|<JltTolV. —:o: —:o: LAND OFFICE OF I AM OFFERING MY STOCK AT M, I’. Williams, Alt'y at Lino oshima Mlt Works, F. W. McCALL. SHOP a few doors West of the North- West corner of the Square 27-tf We do not wish to inform yon. reader, that Dr, Wonderful, or any other man. ha- discovered a remedy that cure* consumption, when the lung* are half cou-nmed, in thort, will cure all dinea*,-* whether of mind or body or estate, make men live forever, and leave death to play for want or work, and is designed to make our sublunary sphere a a bliseful paradise to which Heaven itaelil* but a sideshow. You have heard enough ofthat kind of humbuggery. and wc do not wonder that you have by thi- time become disgusted with it. But when 1 tell yon that Dr. Safe's Catarrh Kernedy will i>ositice.ly cure the worst cases of Cittarrh, I only assert that which thousands can testify to. Try it and yon will he convinced. I will pay #SOO REWA H D for a cas • of Catarrh that I r ,nuotcure. pint BALE BY McST DRUGGISTS, EVERY WHERE. PRICE ONLY 50CENTS. Sent hy until post-jtail for sixty rents. Four pack ages tor #g.oo : or 1 dozen for £5.00. Send a two cent stamp for Dr. Sage's pamphlet on Catarrh.— Address the. proprietor. It. V. PIERCE. M. D.. nlti :sin Butlalo, N. Y. EAST "AND WEST I * 1 . 'V '■ '-t- •''i ■. . ’ "" ' . | BURLINGTON & MO RIYER | Railroad OFFERS TO THE PEOPLE MAHASKA COUNTY, THE Cheapest, Best and Quickest ROUTE TO THE East and Par West! T* CO.NNKCTION WITH THK CHICAGO, BURLINGTON * QUINCY R. R. By means of the Magnificent iron Railroad Bridge At Burlington, gives unbroken route, without change of cars to Peoria, Meiidot;, and Chicago, where connections are made for all leading points in the South, North and Ea-t. ELEGANT DAY COACHES Pullii's Din Cars, ANS» I'IiLLIIANS PALACE Day and Sleeping Coaches, are run through between Chicago and the Mis souri river without change, milking close cornice- UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD AT OMAHA. Rates always as low as the lowest. Baggage checked throngh to any leading point in the United States from Burlington or from Ottnmws. c. K, Perklnst, Superintendent. * TO! ZAUN, Gen. Pass. Agt. n46-tf. I C. GREEN ON ABRIDGED DICTIffllSy 10.000 Word* and Meanings not in other Diction •.ric*. 301)0 Engraving*; 1840 page* uuurio. PRICE sl3 00. “One of my dniiv companion*. My testimoni al to it* erudition, Die accuracy of it* definitions md to the vast etymological research by which it has been enriched through the labor* recently be stowed upon it, can hardly he of much value, sus tained a* the book i* in world-wide reputation, by *o general an approbation: but 1 have no hesita tion in thus expressing my sense of its m.-riv ' - Hon. John L. Motley, Iht Historian, ani now American Minis/tr at the Court "f St. Joint*. lcfis. This work, well used in a family, will he o!'m<>r advantage to the mem Vers thereof than hundreds of dollar* laid up in money Atlian.ce Monitor. The most useful and remarkable compendium of human knowledge in our language.— IF. S. Clark. President Mass. Agricultural Csilegc. Webster’s National Pictorial Dictionary, 1040 Pages Octavo. 600 Engraving*. Price £•;. The work is really a gem of a Dictionary, just the thing for the million.— American Educational Monthly. Published by G. & C. MERRIAM, 14 Springfield, Mass. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. 7 o*l PI KIFYIKG TiaiE l .\i*G 3», !| The ivptttati,i!.i i \ ••client medicine e- to»- Ais derived from it-ci.: . - /A JX many of which Iffl marvullou. !;m -. /? 1 v!i ' h ’ w,u ’ r *' ' ‘ rf x 1 seemed .- .in . i «, Ll fcKr'S** f¥ Cpt corruption. ~g •.V —yy purified and • cr.-: . ■ r they were painfully athi u.ig, have i nr. r -.; ,- cured in sn •!» gneat nuutliet in . tion of the eouutry, that the i>tildi<-- ’ he informed of iu* virtue- or ti-«--. Scrofulous poison is one of tie' »■.<• : • • • enemies of our race. Often, thi* un-ec: * ■ : tenant of the organism mule:mine* )Pe eon nr, and invites the attaek of enfeebling o i without exciting ;i suspicion of it * • •• , i in, it seems to breed infection thrc-uci. ; tin- ho.|\ | then, on some fr.von;Me o<-c::>i, n, i, | ;.u v ,t--\ into one or other of its liideou- form*. either »>i: u • -•urface or among the vital in t:,e |.- : t:«•». des may be Middenh depo-ited in . i heart, or tumors formed n, tl:t- live:, o u 1,. u , its presence by eruption ,on the ski:.,or i-.u! n ct ations on some part of ti;e body. lieu V ti cc- .a sional use of a brittle of this Snrso/x;; ilto visabie, even when no active *vmp,b:jv- of e, appear. Persons affli tefivu tin- foll.>nii , ldainta generally th.d hmuediate reS-ef id t length, cure, by die u e of tie.- .s ij;.\ ,/m L. 4- St. Anthony's Fire, T..,sr ,< r 7 Tetter, Salt K hen hi. Scald Head, Hiufjiiorm, Sore Eyt». Sore Ear*,,. mi e re: •• uptiour oi visible lorms of .S,-,v»;V. dfseo c. V'--- •. ;i . more concealed form-, a* e\,. Heart Disease, ttfs, /’• a rah i-t. and the various Fierro a.* affections of tin- i. brand uervou- system.-. Syphilis nr l'< hr real and M'-rearltl f'iseer-.-. arc cured -by it,tkcugh a tongiunei- ’•eniiiiet: !’> . stipituingthe-e obstinate in:,die-1«\ ; . But long eoiitinueri n*e of this meiii- ire « M . 'he complaint. /.«•*»<•», rrhera or Unit-*, tit e>tr. Fleerations, and Ernialt Dis. a.a s, monly soon relieved and iiltmuilely cured n purifying ami inviyoraliug effect. Mi n:• !>, , . tions for each ease arc found iu our Aim , ~. plied gralis. Jihruinatiam and (.*„/. \. i caused hr nminmlatirms pf i-m . . , I( . H in the blood, yield quickly t>» if, ,->* ; \ . ~ Complaints. Torpidity, Con,., ,tit „ motion of the J.irrr.nntiJaiA ./«>, -.w\ ,. ,i t , as they often do, from the r: :.kli»a .• e blood. This S. tL'S il'Altll.l.i i - ; storer for the strength and vigor ot i! .• ilio-e Who aiv l.antjnid and | istlos. 7>. >, , - amt, Slet pirss, ami troulitod w ith ;., -. , , prthenaioita or l iars, or any of tie ; , s syinidomatic of WeaK-unt*. u'.i) rcdiei and convincing evidence of :: i\ . power upon trial. PREPAY ED BY Or. J. C. A l’L'H »V (O..Lond' - Practical and Anali/tiral Clin SOLD BY ALL DRUtJG»WI’-i RVFRVWI.I ’ W. M. WKL’JS, u 36 Ofkxlooaalewa. APURE WHITE CATsCoi; • FiroTo3tl7sotoiC~Oi» . ? The most perfectly refined Oil iip w : 1.-. T -i longest, brighlert.and lied. „ H“ IS ABSOLUTELY SATE. . ; Jio change of burner). Goo. PicrtrltUfo U Co -U: •i'-, Ollalcrcnaiits. »t. 1.0 in.-i, 1.0. For Bale toy Win. n. WELL*. uAU Sol* AfMk Oskaloosa, low*. FOB PBINTING. U . The UKKALD OPPICE to the oa if place Ui rtie eltr you eaa #et Job work done rlftoL GET THE BEST. WEBSTER’S