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Bulls !. 5 ,,, WORM RI! DESTROYER.

BULLS WORM DESTROYER.
TO My United Ntates and World sotde
professional and medical men, as my al
manacs and various publications have
shown, all of which are genuine. The fol-
lowing letter from highly educated and
popular physician in Georgia is certainly
one OF the most sensible Communications
have ever received. DR.. Clement knows
exactly what he speaks of, and his tssti-
gold. Hear what the Doctor says of
BULLS WORM DESTROYER:
Villanow, Walker County, Ga, |
June %, 1866.
DIR. JOHN BULL-Dear Sir: have re-
Gently given your "Worm Destroyer sew
cious. It has not failed in a single in
stance to have the wished-for effect. am
doing pretty large country practice, and
have daily use for some article of the kind
am free to confess that know Of no
remedy recommended by the ablest au-
thors that is so certain and speedy in its
effects. On the contrary, they are uncer-
tain in theextreme. Ny object in writing
to you is to find out upon what terms l
can get the medicine directly from you.-
III can get 1t upon easy terms, l shall use
great deal oft. l am aware that.the
use of such articles is contrary to the
teachings and practice ola great majority
OF the regular line of NJ. DIS. hut see no
just cause or good sense in discarding a
remedy which we know to be efficient,
simply because we may be ignorant of its
combination. For my part, I shall make
1t rule to use all and any means to allie
viate suffering humanity which may be
able to commandment hesitating because
some one more ingenious than myself may
have learned its Afiapta first and spCurnd
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MARRIED.-At Elkhorn, Illinois
April 9th, 1865. by Rev. James ALI
son, DIR. S. S. Smyth of this city to
Miss Lydia Ransom. of the former
place.
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ENGINE & BOILER For SALE

ONE FIFTEEN kORSE POWER
steam Engine. with Boiler, Smoke Stack
Hot and Cold Water Pumps all complete
and in good running order. win be sold
low for cash. Can be seen in operation on
applying 10 d. Eaton & Co., Ottumwa'
Iowa.
april7 -1Awtf
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THE OTTUMWA COURIER
CITY ITEMS.


CITY ITEMS.
W. G. Moss JR.. & Co.--ln calling
the attention ofthe wholesale and re-
tail trade to the annual announcement
of W. G. Moss, jr., 4 CO., to be foundin
another place, we desire to give them
more than mere passing notice, be-
cause they are representative
house and theirrapidly increasing, and
profitable trade, during the past six
years, is fair illustration of the bus
mess growth Of our fair young city,
during the most prosperous era of
It's existence. W. c. ir., and A. ID.
Moss, the brothers composing this
firm, came here in 1862, and estab-
lished themselves in the general Dry
Goods business under the above firm
name in September of that year, not
expecting at that time, that their
trade would increase so rapidly, as to
neccssitate their keeping at an early
day, a iobbing stock. They opened
out in 4 new brick sixty feet deep
three stories high, erected for them
on the corner of Front and Court
streets by Thomas Neville. 1t was
not long, however, until their bust
ness increased so much beyond their
room to accommodate their custom
ors, that they We're compelled to ex-
tend their house to 100 feet depth
all of which they have occupied
with their heavy trade from that
time to the present. The arrange
ment of their house which they at
first rented for three years, and then
released for five, is heavy goods and
groceries in the basem cnt, dry goods,
notions, &c, in the second story, all
exclusively ut wholesale, and the
retail department on the first, or
ground floor.
To their establishment aud gratifi-
cation their first years sales amount.
ed to ss7 900; second s1s5,000, third
S217.00; fourth $4,000; and the last
TO $50, 900, with q probability that
their business for the fiscal year clos
ing September next, will greatly ex-
coed any other year of their trade.
They keep an average stock on
hand of 100000 and are constantly
adding thereto, TO maintain their
variety This house is fortunate in
having an excellent travelling man
in the person ofH. C. Grimes, whore.
mains constantly in the country So
Letting orders, from Van Buren,, Da-
Wis, Appanoose, Wayne, Monroe, Lu-
cas-. Decatur, Union, Clark, Mahaska,
keollul, Jefferson, and other neigh
boring. counties in iowa: and Schuy
Ter, Putnam. Harrison. Scotland,
Macon, Sullivan, and Northern Mo-
generally.
In addition to their very fine Job
bing stock, they make retailing a
speciality, and it would puzzle the
ingenuity of Il woman, to enquire for
anything not found on their shelves.
Over this department Mr.. w. II.
Howerton and S. II. Moss arc the
presiding geniuses, while Samuel T.
Green, Esq, has charge of the books.
The success ofthis establishments
matter for just pride to the city of
Ottumwa, and to the cnterprising
proprictors, which they have fairly
earned by the application of industry
and zeal coupled with the highest
character for individual and CONNER
cial integrity.
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TESTIMONY OF MEDICAL MEN
Stoney Point, White Co., Ark.
May 23d, 1865.
DIR. JOHN BULL-Dear Sir: Last Feb.
ruary was in Louisville purhsai :
drugs, and got some of your SarsaparilIs
and Cedron Bitters.
My son in-law, who was with me in this
store, has been down with rheumatiin the
some time, commenced on the Bittesm for
soon found his general health imprrs and
Or. Gist, who has been in baeoyed,
tried them and he also improved.
DR.. Coffee, who has been in bad health
Tor several years-stomach and liver af.
fected--he improved very much by the use
OF your Bitters. Indeed the Cedron Bit
ters has given you great populsrity in this
settlement. think / could sell a great
quantity ofyour medicines this fall--espe-
cially ofyour Cedron Bitters and Sarsapa-
rilla. Shiplme via Memphis, care of Rick.
cit q Nelly. Respectfully.
G. B. WALKER.
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Notice in BankruDtcy.

NOtlce III bankruptcy.
In the District Court of the United States
District of Iowa.
In the matter of GEO II SHELTER,
Bankrupt
The undersigned hereby gives notice o.
his appointment as assignee of George II
hhefler, of Ottumwa, Wapello County and
State OF Iowa, within said District, who
has been adjudged a Bankrupt upon his
own petition by the District Court of said
District.
Dated at Ottumwa, Iowa, this the 10th
day of April 1868.
j. Il. HACKWORIH,
Assignee.
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Attention is called to Captain
Jacques advertisement OF the Winnie
sliek Insurance Company in another
column.
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Important Insurance Notice.

! have this day appointed Messrs Full
ton, Mast & White of Ottumwa, agents
Company Of Qnincy Illinois. persons
holding Policies in said company, issued
by W. A. Burton or by the firm Of Rogers
q Burton, are hereby notified to call at
their earliest convenience upon Messrs
Fulton, Mast & White, Ag'ts, bringing
their policiest with them, that any errors
or mistakes relating to their insurance
may be corrected, the Insurance Compa-
ny being anxious to learn what policies
have been issued by VIM. A. Burton
Rogers a Burton; and to whom.
WIN. GLADDEN.,
State Agt, FIN. Co. IAns
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The balance of the time at my Office, in
Ottumwa. All persons failing to make
return for Income will be assessed on the
best information that can be obtained, and
so per cent. penalty added: see sec. llS
Internal Revenue Laws.
r. II, WARDEN,
| Asst. Assessor 10th Div, 4th Dist, Iowa.
feb26, d1, WITT
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To Beeders Of Fine Stock
l. have purchased the fine Blooded
Trottinr Stallion

Better known as" HONESTY " or the
CHARLTON HORSE" and paid for
him such sum of money as people wo'd
| have called me crazy for doing few
years since, but times and mems ideas
have undergone a wonderful change. 1t
! costs no more to raise a colt that will sell
| for large price than it does to raise one
that sell for no more than any other COM
| mon steer. l have been offered and can
take any day $4,000 for this horse. Ifyou
have a fine mare there is no reason why
you should not raise one as valuable, If
you commence right, and have bought
| this horse that the stock growers of the
Des Moines Valley might have starting
| point.
BISM ARCK has made faster time than
| any other horse of his age in the West, is
| six years old, full ls hands high, q beauti-
| full mahogony bay. possessed oflarge bone
and music, remarkably fine style, great
action, wonderful endurance. kind dispo-
sition yet high spirited and energetic.
He was bred by Hatcher and Berry in
Belmont county, Ohio, and sired by Up
degraff's Flying Hiatoga-Grand Sire
| Hanley HiatOga-his dam was fast trot-
ting 1amiltonian mare, supposed to be
| the fastest OF her age in Ohio-Grand Dam
the celebrated trotting mare Black Fig
| ure. He is sure Foal Getter-produces
| large, healthy, fine stock. Colts OF has get
| in tbs State, when only one gear old, hare
readily sold for three hundred dollars
1t is my purpose to stand BISMARCK, at
my LIVERY STABLE in OTTUMWA,
Iowa, during the ensuing season. Com
mencing April 10Th, 1868. for the service
of a limited number of good mares.
know that lie is THE BEST FLOODED TRoT
TING STOCK IN THE WEST. Has never been
trained or driven on the track until last
October, when he took the second prelni-
nm Mt the Wapello county Fair, Tom
Hyer taking the first; but afterwards at
the Fair at Des Moines, he beat Tom
Hyer three out of four heats and took the
first premium. 1 no,0 sag without boast
ing, bnt as a matter of record, that I am
prepared to match hin. after the close Of the
present season, al q trial of speed against
any IOpa horse IN the State Of his age and
training. At The Wdpello county Far
for the gear 1869 I shall offer an, indipidudl
cash premium Of ffty dollars, to the oaU,,er
of the best colt there exhibited from, this
horse.
Good pasturage Tor other care) furnish
ed, but no risks assumed for mares from
a distance. Careful attention paid to
breeding. Terms liberal. Call and see
him. CONN LEWIS.
Apr, 9,-dSw-tf.
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boot AND SHOE MAKER.
N. VvAcHTLER,

Main street, one door east ofthe Express 0fcs.
Keeps constantly on hand . good assortment o
omers with good work In his line.
-v Repairing done on short notice.
May2, 1854. spr9leo
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J. T. HACKWORTH,
A L L o Il N GY AT l. A w
And NOTARY PUBLIC.

All professional business entrusted TO him will b.
promptly attended to.
Special attention win be given to collections, ex
animation OF Titles and convsyancing.
Once at Court Hous IN Ottumwa, Iowa.
Ottrmwa. Iowa, Oct. Goth, 1868. 3215iy.
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JAS. ID. LADD d Co,
BEEF AND PORK PACKERS

General Commiss: IN Merchants,
OTTUMWA IOWA.
Our facilities far packing cattle and hogs and &c
ing product are equal to any house in the West.
orders solicited. Charges reasonable.
". UgALnps JAS. d. LkDD,
acyv, ,u Ottumws.
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The proprietor of this celebrated medi
cinejustly claims for it a superiority overall
remedies ever offered to the public for the
safe, certain, speedy, and permanent cure
ofAgue and Fever, or Chills and Fever,
whether of shorter or longer standing.
He refers to heentire Western and Sonth-
western country to bear him testimony to
the truth Of the assertion, that in 10 case
whatever WILT fail to cure, If the direc-
tons are sttictly followed out, In a great
many cases q single dose has been suffi.
cient for a cure, and whole families have
been cured by single bottle, with per-
feet restoration of the general health. It
Is, however, prudent, and In every case
more certain to cure, If its use Is contin-
ued In smaller doses for week or two af-
ter the disease has been checked, more es
pecially in difficult and long standing ca
SEES. Usually, this medicine will not re
quire any aid to keep the bowels in good
order; should the patient, however. re.
quire cathartic medicine. after having
taken three or four doses of the Tonic,
single dose of BULLS VEGETABLE
FAMILY PILLS will he sufficient.
DIR. JOHN BULLS Principal Officer
No. 40 Fith Cross Street,
LOUISVILLE, KY.
AHof the above remedies for sale by
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G.. F. w. BACHMAN,
Announces to the public. that ne has.pnl
chased the
Family Grocery

Family Grocery
of II. A Gangs, on Market Street below
Main, where he is now prepared to offer
for sale, everything usually kept in his
line, at the
Very Lowest Prices, and OF the
Best Quality.
We will pay the farmers the highest
market prices for every description of
COUNTRY PRODUCE
and hope by keeping good goods at reason
able rates, to merit and receive our share
Of public patronage.
Remember the place on market street,
where ou may always expect to receive
the full value of your money or produce
feb.2l-dSw3m.
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COUNTRY PRODUCE

We will pay the farmers the highe
market prices for every description of
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INCOME & SPECIAL TAXES,

In compliance with Act Of Congress,
passed March I'd, 1867, Income and Special
Taxes are assessed in Marsh; and all per-
sons liable are notified to make returns for
Income, and application for License, inn
mediately. For the purpose Of making it
more convenient to all to make their re-
turns | will he MT
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WOOL CARDTNG !!

Having pnrchasedthe Carding Machines
of Messrs. Hammond & Co., Ottumwa,
known formerly rs
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apr 8, lSSS-w2t.
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Notice i'm Bankruptcy,

Apr. "a, 1868. dive. "
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-07-30
me Modern DemocrncH.

The present hostility of the modern
Democratic party is directed chiefly
against Gen. Grant, the Republican
Congress, and the measures adopted
for the reconstruction of the Southern
States. In 1860, when they had at
least one branch Of Congress, and
could have held Mr.. Lincoln in check,
as Andrew johnson so well argued in
December Of that year, their hostility
was against the majority Of the North
er79 people, from whom they proposed
to sever forever; and in this work
they were as much a unit as they are
to-day.
In 1854 their hostility was directed
against Mr.. Lincoln. He was as Bit
teTiy traduced IN the North as in the
South. Their calumnies of him were
not surpassed by their present abuse
of General Grant. When they failed
to defeat him, their despair was illus
trated by the most gloomy predictions.
But for the Republicans they would
have divided the Union in 1850, in
1868, and in 1864.
Once more they appeal TO the ballot
boxes to eOnsumate what they failed
to effect on the battle field.
IF they succeed it will be the imme-
diate reOpening of the disaffectiOn,
turbulence, and anarchy rapidly ceas-
ing under the laws of Congress.
They have no remedy for their own
diseases.
Indignant at the success Of the
check resulting from their own in
gratitude, they simply offer TO throw
the nation back into rebellion and war.
United in hunger for Office and hate
Of Grant and Congress, they are hope
lessly divided in regard to the admin
istratiOn of the Government, unless q
Is the plan Of restoring the SJaUe POtCer,
which they dare not dUOJD.
One faction prOfers Reputation OF
the national debt.
Another pTOffers the overthrow OF
the republican governments OF the
South by an appeal to the sword.
And still another would cODhne SUI
frase IN the same section TO the men
who organized the rebellion.
The mere reeapitulatiOn OF thelI
schemes and their schisns reveals the
| terrible danger of entrusting these
wicked men with power. Every true
Conservative has only to contemplate
this view of the case to be convinced
of his duty in the coming election.
The fact is, there are few Of the lead
! ing men Of this modern Democratic
party whose records are not a warn
| ing against trusting them with the
responsibilities Of Government, and al
the ides Of November the people vii
oveYwhelm them with defeat.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-07-30
Frank Rlair,s Platform.

We have no wish to misrepresent
the sentiments of our opponents, and
so we give place to the full text of the
Blair platform. The acts of A. J. are
mild and conservative compared with
what this disappointed and ambitious
member of the Blair family proposes
to do. He is a Louis Napoleon with
out the latter's brains or shrewdness.
The idea of a Presidential coup de
etdt, taking Of the responsibility
with vengeance, the result of which
is to be-the utter subversion of eonsti-
tutional government the declaration
that certain laws are null and void,
may be democratic enough to suit the
rebels, in whose interests the laws are
to be set aside, but will hardly meet
the approval of thinking men and
loyalists. Frank P. Blair-the man
who managed the burning operations
in Sherman's march through Georgia
to the sea-board-wiIl be in a mad
house before he will find himself in a
position to carry out his little pro-
gTamme for the destruction of our Re
publican form of government.
We commend the Blair platform to
the careful perusal of our Conserva-
tive and Democratic friends.-NatiOn-
al Geo Republican.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-07-30
The ''BIaCk Man. .
BY JOSH BILLINGS.

The Black man emigrated tew this
free and Plus country about 200 years
formerly, in the lower story of a YES
sci; he was kindly furnished with a
free ride, and some rice and water for
vittles.
Immejitly on hiz arrival he COM
menced biznes, for other folks, on our
Eastern coast, and had plenty to do.
He was very ekOnOmickal in his
habits of cloths, wearing but flu, and
those seldom, made out of cashmere.
He okkashunally changed his loca-
ton, moving into an adjoining State,
but in these journeys he was always
furnished with a guide, so that there
was no danger of getting lost.
In these trips he seldom took his
family with him; they were allowed
to remain at hum or made excursions
to other States in search of work un-
der the guidance of experienced
guides.
Once in a while the Black Man
would stray in the cold bitter North,
and get cruelty lost. a
Hiz guides would mourn for HIM
then. and search for him but his fam
iIy soon get recOnciled to the loss.
Everybody sed, where he lived, that
he was the happiest critter that had
ever been discovered yet, with moth
inc to do but work, and a kind guide
to watch over him all the time, and
mourn for him when he got lost.
But the Black Man is very phoOl-
ish cTitter.
After 200 years Ov this bliss, he grew
cross to his guides, and would not fol-
low the guides, and the COnzequentZ
il that the guides have got mad, and
I am afraid that the Black Man will
have to take care of himself now.
He will find it very different now
from what it was before.
He has got to educate his own
Young ones now, and learn them how
few spell correcktly, one of the most
difficult things in the world and he
has got tew vote, and keep his familee
tOgeather, and pay when he rides in
the street kars.
1 am afraid that the Black Man haz
made a mistake; if he has it is bad
one, for his guides viii never take him
into their hands again-never. They
are mad, and don't like the way the
Black Man quit them when they wu7
driv with bUznis and after they had
took so much care of him for so many
years.
1 feel sorry for the guides; they al
wUz seemed to have CRATE interest III
the Black Man, but they are mad now
and / don't know as I blame them
much, for Black ingratitude IL the
poorest kind of pay.
1t perhaps would be well enuf FOL
me to staff for the benefit of new be,
giners, the Black Man formerly resi-
ded in Africa before he came here tC
look for work.
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-07-30
Attention. ReDuf5Iicans!

with the nomination, at New York,
of HOratiO Seymour, by the National
Democratic Convention, the Presiden-
tial campaign has been virtually open
ed, and is going to be fought, by
both parties, with energy and vigor
1t is, therefore, time that the Re
publicans of this County, should also
organize, and being to agitate for the
good of our cause. At the last Rep
ublican County Convention, the Cen
trail Committee was instructed to ap-
point an Executive Committee for
each precinct, who were 10 tend to
the organization Ofclubs, the distribu-
ton OF campaign documents, &c. But,
as is well known, agood many changes
have been made of late in the several
precincts and as we have received
large accessiOns to our population by
immigration, the Committee is unable
tOappOint such Executive Committees.
The shortest, easiest, and most prac-
tical way to effect an organization.
would, therefore, be that the Repub-
icans of the several precincts meet,
organize in clubs by choosing officers,
and send statement of the names of
officers, with time and place of meet
ing to the Southern Nebraskian, for
publication, in order to insure concert
of action.
republicans, organize, our oppon-
ents have done so already and although
our State is sure for the Republican
ticket, yetOur county is rather doubt
fuI case, This fall we have to elect
State and County officers, and we
shouldwork, with all lllegitimate means
to redeem our county and re-establish
our good old reputation.
Let US go to work with a hearty
good will and with such leaders as
GRANT and COLFAx, we shall con-
quer our county as Grant conquered
Vicksburg and Richmond.
L. ALLGEWAHR,
Memher OF Cnntral Cnrnr,nittae
Nebraska advertiser., 1868-07-30
The Dtrtiest Thing Vet.

When General Grant left Washing
ton to come West, he was followed by
a sneaking spy in the employ of the
New York World, who wrote dirty
letters of personal abuse to that paper
about the Generals trip. The only
fact which this hired sneak really
discovered during his journey was
that three glasses of beer were actually
taken into the car which General
Grant and the party accompanying
occupied, but whether the said beer
was consumed by the General or by
others of the party the smeller could
not positively state. The same con-
temptible spy, after trailing around
after the General, when he went to
visit relations in Ohio, and finding
nothing bad to report, was finally OBJ
served and accosted by a friend of the
General, and the fellow admitted chat
he was sent by the World to find out
what he could to the discredit of the
General but that he had orders to re-
port nothing ia his favor.