The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-03-29

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Ihe Muscatine Journal of the Goth saws
thet the dead body of an in fant child was
found yesterday morning, frozen and in a
state of nudity, secreted in "a wcod-pile
near Worsham d Phelps livery stable
The gentleman who discovered the body
Immediately informed the authorities, who
took it in charge. Coroner Beard held an
inquest over it at which Doctors Hershe
and Johnson were present. DR.. Hershe
gave it as his opinion that the child was
the same one he saw at the st. Charles
Hotel on the morning of the 1Ith inst.--
The child was found to have been partially
eaten by rats. There is but little doubt
that it was the same which was ruthlessly
abandoned by the unknown indi RITUALS
in their flight from the st. Charles Hotel.
Such an act of barbarity exhibits brutal
ity in the present age Of civilization, and
a deprevity which would better character
ize the inhabitants Of heather country.
The perpetrators of the deed should be
ferretted out and made to suffer the pen
alties OF the law which they so justly
merit. '@fE 2H @"aE rH heE7 a9T ~ n. ..T
The body was given decent interment
by the city authorities a"'' 7f@". "
A Washington letter in the Davenport
Gazette announces the presence in that city
of Colonels Penn Clarke, of Iowa City, and
Stanton, of Washington, Iowa, who have
been ordered to duty in Washington, In
their capacity as paymasters. '"
, The same paper says the city council of
Davenport has prohibited the keeping of
IN hot cit in fa, p{if
than thirty pounds in the case of dealers
in the article; while other persons, are re-
stricted to one pound. ~. 49,. =. 80.
The wool-growers of Henry Co. held q
Convention at Mt Pleasant on the Sd inst.
Resolutions were adopted giving owners
of diseased sheep notice to keep them up,
and cure them. On and after June LIST,
they declare that the law shall be strictly
enforced against those who violate it.. 1t
would seem from the resolutions adopted
that the flocks of Henry county were se-
verely afflicted with the scab. kan ..,,,,.-
The stables of the Pennsylvania House,
Davenport, were struck by lightning dur
ing a lhail-storm last Monday night, and
burned down. This is the second time the
troyed within the last nine years. ...-
The trial of LeGrand Byington, of Iowa
City, for evading the United States Reve-
nue. Law by neglecting to use stamps and
dating deeds back before the law went in
to force, &c., was to commence on the Goth
in the United States Court at Keokuk
About twenty witnesses IL the case have
1,oo I'll,
We CLEAN from the Muscatine Journal.
Mr.. Frederick Barrows, aged l6, was
married on the 2Sth ult., in Washington
township, Clarke county, to Mrs. Mary
Gayheart, aged rs. The Sentinel advises
"the youthful couple to board a few years
till their ages shall warrant them proba-
bility of success in housekeeping ssr
The Boone Co. Advocate learns "that
the citizens Of Boone are about to change
the name of that town to Montana"
The Advocate says "our worthy Coroner
was summoned last Saturday, to officiate
on what was reported to be the lifeless re-
mains of an individual who was said to
be lying dead in the road about a mile
west of town. The worthy Coroner sum-
moned jury and hastened to the spot, but
on arriving discovered that the subject of
the melancholy decease' was noncomata-
bic. He had revived and resurected him.
self, and staggered off for parts unknown
to the officials who had been summonedto
determine the case of his sudden taking
off," ...-." ''ei5aaasa1 ..- sae
The Montezuma Republican announces
that the District Court for Poweshiek Co.
will begin it's session on Monday, April
9th. We understand that the docket is
quite full. Judge Loughride presides.
A DIsGRAcE.-The State Register says
that ''several orphans Of Union soldiers
are now in the Poor House of Dubuque
County! So we learn from letter to
Judge Cole, making application for the ad-
mission of these children into the Orphans
Home" This is the way in which n dem
ocratic county remembers its soldiers, and
this is about the extent of their professed
love for Union soldiers!
The Gazette says the Indian prisoners at
Davenport are to be released on the lst of
April. 1t is designed to send them up the
Missouri River to missionary station or
settlement on Snow Creek, on the Min
nesota side, between Fort Pierce and Fort
Randall. .-.....--..... ..r
The Dubuque Times of the 2st announces
the return from Washington ito Dubuque,
of Major Gen. Van Dever. .. ...,.a..
The Cedar Valley Times SAYS steps are
are being taken to unite Cedar Rapids and
Kinston. This is move in the right d.
rection, and we trust that 1t will be success
full. .a.e eatE
Also that the election for school officers,
on Monday resulted in the election of Jas.
l.. Enos, President; Jno. w. Henderson,
Vice President; Benz. J. Harrison, Treas
urer; Geo. o. Haman Secretary; w. w.
Smith Director for three years, and J. F.
Charles, Director for 2years. ~
The Citizens ofTroy Township, Iowa Co
and vicinity. met in Williamsburg on Sat-
urday evening, the Sd day of March, and
organized Farmers Club, for the pur-
pose ofdiscussing all questions that may
come before it, relating to Agricultural,
Horticulture, Horticulture, Farm Stock
and Farm Implements. SO says the Re-
publican.
The Cincinnati Gazette says on on tho
Every highest authority" that a few days
after the Presidents 22nd of February
speech, n gentleman was "reprobating''
the speech in the presence OF Secretary
Seward, when Mr.. Seward contemptuous-
| ly said; "Damn it, you took tailor and
got a goose; what better could you ex-