The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-05-18

''''eH can again. without Tear, and with per-
feet impunity, traverse the town, there be-
ing none lett to molest nor insult them.
This is as it sheuld be. and let 1: be the
care and determination of the citizens to
make. Centerville a model of sobrety sad
morality - Citizen. .a ay
+ ATTENTION The members Of the Appa.
moose Vigilance Committee will meet at the
Court House, in Center lille, on Saturday
May 2sth, for. the purpose Of raising the
none, now due for wolf scalps also to
make arrangements to insure the destruc.
ton Of sheep killing dnps which '.~. i-+~e.'-
ing the county Centeroills Citizen.
A good idea. that, and one that should be
followed by the citizens or every county in
the State. Dogs are nuisance in other
ways besides killing sheep. .a28a
CHANGE.-The W. s. Company are now
running seven coaches week from Ottum.
wa to Nebraska City. This is new ar
rangement, and hereaft .r the passengers
from the West will not have TO lay over here
as heretofor e, and it will also give us mail
on Monday in addition to what we now have.
Leon News.a r ,3 b.ga IL ,5rfz
3 H. D'B. Cutler, one of the editors of the
Corydon Monitor, gives his valedictory in
in the last No. of that paper. He has been
appointed to fill an important office in Dixie.
He says: zone of these events Is an order
from the Secretary of War to report at once
to Gen. Reynolds at Little Rock, for assign.
ment to duty as A. A. G.. An order Of that,
kind is not to be lightly disregardeJ, and
we CO." ..,........rr .-.. - ,-.
Before closing his valedictory he address.
es few words to those who it is impossible
for ar, editor to please, those who are'always
ready to ''fare up at every little mistake,
or anything else that does not please their
taste. He says: "Tf there are any who
have any i'll will toward US. to them we say,
if they will each give us S., we won't say
anything more about it. Errors we may
have committed. but we can't call any to
mind that we care about correcting-cxcept
perhaps, typographical ones.
FIRE SHIP "A woman, personatins the
wife Of . prominent officer in an Indiana
Regiment, played of on several of our citi.
zens few lays since. After accomplishing
the purpose Of her. reconnaissance in this
quarter of the world, she drew off her forces
in good order. and departed for Oskaloosa.
She is an impostor, well q1alified to deceive
a credulous public. One of her racri;.ritics
IS this: When stopping at hotels, she fre
auently foraefs where her room is 10 Gated,
and invites some gallant stranger of the
persuasion to assist her in hunt.
ing for her lost apartment! He assists.
State Register.
NEW KIND OF AssAssINATIoN.-Ani indi
vidual from Boone County was trying the
other day to coerce firm in Des Moines to
restore certain piece of property to him,
or give him an equivalent in money. The
OF the firm couldn't see it, and of
course refused to accede to an unrighteous
demand. The aforesaid individual gratified
his spirit Of vengeance by threatening the
firm with assassination like that which cut
off the President. The threat was no sooner
uttered than he found himself getting out
into the street with greater quickness and
force than he had anticipated. He ran up
one street, and down another, and through
several alleys, and over divers fences and
when last heard from, he was still engaged
in violent locomotion, with no indication
that he designed to stop during the present
century. Register. a,.# ~ -' 'i
A JAZZ DELIVERY NEARLY.-About twelve
O'clock Tuesday night. the jailer's suspi-
cions were excited; and on going down to.
investigate the condition of affairs, he found
that the six prisoners were about to escape.
Near the floor in the western wall Of the
vault, they had taken away the bricks.
leaving an aperture large enough for them
to crawl out. Their job was well nigh com.
pleted. In another half hour they would
have been free. Immediately after the. dis.
covery, Sheriff Bush was sent for, and the
scamps were Gagged. One Of the prisoners
is Mich. Gleason who was recently brought
up from Oskaloosa to be tried in the United
States Court for the murder Of Federal off.
GERS in Poweshiek county in the summer of
1864. State Register. ''
Rent The Davenport Democrat denoun.
ces the disposition displayed by sunary prop.
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erty. holders in that city, to demand exorh,.
tant rents. Excessive rents always have
retarded, and always viii rctard, the healthy
development Of towns, and cities, II Isl
probable that the lesson fa,lmonition taught
by the Democrat snould be needed by other
cities besides Davenport State Register.
just so, Mr.. Register. but i, is impossible
for those men to look after any ether inter.
est than their pockets. When thev have
driven away large population, who were
unable to pay their exorbitant prices, then
they wonder how other places improve 81
much faster than their own. Perhaps "they
will see how il is done" when too late.
The Grain markets just now are in very
unsettled condition and have a downward
tendency. Since Saturday last Flounhas
declined fully soc per barrel, Wheat stQD9c
Corn 4Gn5c, and Oats sGo9c per busheL--
Highwines dragged heavily to-day aud were