The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-12-17

day night, on business, and came
down on Saturday morning. W.
found Givins, the Conductor on the
up train, and Griswold on tho return |
trip, as usual with the employees
with that tip top Railroad (the D. v. |
R. r. the personiication Of saavity |
and accommodation.
We found the Supreme Court in |
session. Dillon, Chief Justice, Wright,
Cole and Beck associates, Stiles Re-
porter, O'Connor Attorney Gent, and
Lirderman Clerk.
The highly important case TO many
Counties in the State to-wit, the
Township Railroad stock law, was
before tho Court on appeal from
Henry county, and which will prob-
ably occupy the Court until the mid-
die of this week.
After the decision Of this case, an
important one to be decided is the
Harrow estate case, which has been
in our Wapello County Court for
years.
1t is entitled James Stephens, ct
al, versus Frank Harrow's Heirs, and
involves the title to several hundred
acres Of valuable land lying adjacent
to this city, which would have all
been built over doubtless long ago
had 1T not been for the shadow Oh
the title. Hendershott 4 Burton for
Plaintiffs, and Williams, Stiles and
Withrow, for Frank Harrow's heirs,
ct al. The case will be submitted to
the Court ON oral and written tests
mony this week.
Hon. r. II. Stiles and Judge E. L.
Burton we met in Des Moines engin>
eering this case for their respective
clients. The latter will be remem-
bered by many of our citizens as a
very worthy gentleman ofthe dem
ocrstic persuasion, who received q
few scattering votes for Judge of the
second circuit of the second Judicial
District. at our last election.
We called in to see the Register
people and found Mills l. Clarkson at
| the wheel up to their eyes in work
running that splendid newspaper.
Des Moines is one OF the towns
made by manifest destiny. 1t re-
quires no argument to prove to an
observing intelligent: man that ma
ture and combination of favorable
/ circumstances has marked it out as
one ofthe largest and most flourish
ing Capitals Of one of the very best
States in tho Union.
| With all these natural, and artifi,
cial advantagesunerringly indicating
her present and prospective great
ness, one would naturally conclude
that she could afford to be just, moi
to say magnanimous to her neigh
bors. We are sorry to say, however
that she is not.
We have before us q map just pub
lished by Mills l. Co., giving what
purports to be all the railroads and
principal townsin Iowa, and of course
making the fact prominent that like
Rome, all the railroads and dirt roads
in Iowa lead direct to Des Moines.
! A close examination will show tina.
two important roads, already com,
pleted, cross in Wapello county, ant
the natural inference would be tina,
it is certainly good place for ,
town; but we defy the reader to dis
cover the fact that there is q shadow
of Ottumwa there, with her 6OOl
people.
Then our st. Louis & Cedar Rap
ids Railroad, already nearly compile
ted with the iron down to near Bloom
field, and the grading we'll advanced
toSigourney,is entirely ignored, viii
the latter fine town as as well Ottumw,
tot ally omitted. veracious de
lineator, however, had room to show
the Iowa Central running straigh,
from Macon to Abba, Oskaloosa, &c.
and all the small towns in the State
Such studied attempt to ignor,
and belittle Ottumwa, and It's neigh
bors tributary to it, and its railroad
connections, evinces the fear ani
jealousy that Des Moines entertain
towards Ottumwa, and its rapid
growth and business, and is uncom-
monty small, pueriye and impotent
and totally unworthy the people O
the Capital of . great State.
Dixon, the blind editor, is stopping
at the Slavery, and is led about by
his wife like a helpless child.
| He will commence lecturing thil
week under the auspices Of the lows
Good Templars, while the new organ
will soon make its appearance edited
by Fleming & Dixon.
! We had along and pleasant CONVEX
sation with Dixon. We confess that
one of the most incomprehensible
things to us in the world is to under
stand how o man with all of Dixonyt
vitality and genius, can find philoso
ply or religion enough to enable him
to live under such q terrible calamity
as total hopeless blindness in the very
mid day of life.