The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-05
THE 0TTUMWA COURIER
Localand Miscellaneous
CIV JOHNSON.

Hon RENTs.--A number OF our mer-
chants are complaining of the high rents
which they are compelled to pay for their
complaints are just--the rents being more
than the business of the merchants will
justify, A number are talking of build
ing on Green and Court streets during this
year, satisfied to do n little less business
and confident that at the end of the year
their profits will be greater. We COM
mend their resolves, and hope to see them
put into execution. We want larger
number of business houses than we now
have anyhow, and building now can be
done much cheaper than few years hence,
when our railroad connections have adj
vanced the price OF real estate SO much.
o. FRUITFUL.-We predicted at the hegin-
ming of the year that it would be fruitful
one, and so far our predictions are begin
ming to be fulfilled. For instance: Judge
Porter has issued for the first three months
of the year seventy-five marriage licenses;
everal parents have been blessed (?) with
twins, and there is no telling how soon
| others may be visited with triplets. There
is very flattering prospect ahead! d"
A QUFsTIoN.-Is The Hourk-Ey labor
ing for the interests OF Burlington or Os-
| kaloosa? From, the articles in that paper
in favor of the Iowa Central RR., we sho'd
Judge that it is the latter and not the for
mcr pl;,ce it is eXerting lis influence for.
Almost every day it contains some article
in favor of the above road, and to-days
issue contains shrewdly worded article
on the Iowa Central, which, to the unitiat-
ed, is calculated 10 deceive; one extract
from it we make:
q. -.# IOWA CENTRAL. RAILROAD.
-..t .r Office North Mo. r. r. Co.,
u..sf ST. Louis, Mo-, March l5, '66.
Ats special meeting of the Board of Di-
! recto of the North Missouri Rail Road
Company, held this day, the following pre-
amble and resolutions Were unanimously
|, aWherens, The Directory of the Iowa
Central Railroad Company have again
called our attention. To the Importance and
value of said Road to Saint Louis and to
thiscompany, connecting as it will with the
Road of this company at the Iowa State
line, and extending directly north to Ce-
dar .!'alls, and thence to Minnesota, and
whereas this Company is not unmindful
OF the advantages that would flow to it and
the city Of st. Louis, by the building of
this road of Iowa, and give this company
u railroad outlet to Omaha, at which point :
the main line of the Union Pacific Rail
road begins its construction west, it is
Resotred, That we are pleased to notice
the efforts now being made in Iowa to ef-
feet early completion of the Iowa Central
Railroad, anf. the North Missouri Railroad
Company hereby pledges itself to extend
li,fr ton tl,n,
cess Of such enterprise, not Inconsistent
'cith Meprepioas cotton of this Board. s47
Now, if the Haek- Eye had only been as
ready to publish the proceedings of pre-
Evious special meeting of the Board Of Di-
rectors of the North Missouri Railroad, as
it has this it would have known that the
above extract, and in fact all that follows
of the article, amounted to simplynothing
and was given merely for electioneering
purposes. That the North Mo. is interest
ed in building both the Iowa Central and
the st. LOUIS and Cedar Rapids roads cam
not be denied. Neither can it be denied
that at "A precious meetingh held by the above
mentioned Board OF Directors, that a reso-
luton, which is the same in effect, il not in
words, as the following, was passed
"rhat after first aiding the st. Louis &
Cedar Rapids Road, all the aid that they
could should be extended TO the Iowa Gem
trail ,Fmr G.a-.a .sli zs. .,s .u.2."
Is it to Burlington's interest to build the
Iowa Central, with which it will have no
direction or, TO pat forth its influence in
favor OF the st. Louis & Cedar Rapids, di-
rect communication with which will be
had through the B. 4 Nj. Rll. at this point?
We leave it to the candor and good sense
of the Ha,ok- Eye to answer: if in favor of
the former then its articles are well and
good; if in the latter, why, surely our CO.
temporary should show it by publishing
the doings of the st. L,uis IL Cedar Rapids
as well us those Of the Iowa Central. l..