The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-05


ton: This immediate locality is OK.
clusively a mining one, and every
other branch of industry is depend.
ent upon the activity of mining in.
terests. This present season many
claims that had been temporarily
abandoned have resumed operations,
and for the most part paying expens.
es, and not unfrequently handsome
dividend. Adjacent to Central, the
new discoveries are scarce, owing to
the fact Of the territory having al
ready been thoroughly prospected |;
yet the declination in the price of the
reduction Of the ore, occasioned by a
lively competition, is bringing in ma.
teriai which was heretofore debarred
by higher rates. In Georgetown,
the greatest impeachment to mining is
that, the best property there is in
course of litigation, which efectually
forbids the Investment Of capital, and
opposes q great barrier to the pros
perity of the country.
Day wages are three dollars and
half while board is from eight TO nine
dollars per week.
The supply Of professionals, clerks,
ct I'll on,ne genus, is rather in advance
Of the demand. Thus we frequently
see emerge from the same hole the
doctor, the preacher, the mechanic,
and laborer, all clad in the mining
armor, begrimed with mother earth
obliterating all traces which would
distinguish them In their several ca.
pacities.
The shipment of bullion from this
part of the world is fair evidence of
the prosperity at least OF a portion
Of the mountain population. For
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the young, arduous, and enterpris.
ing, there is promising field of op
erations; but serious attention to the
old adage Of "Look before you leap, =,
might be advantageous to those ad-
vanced in years, or are comfortably
situated in their respective locations.
The advance Of the pig-tailed c.
lestials arrived here recently in the
person Of one representative OF our
antipodal brethren, but has since
returned with tho intention of in
ducing more of his countrymen to
emigrate hither. There is no doubt
but they will no longer be a stranger
here, and they should be welcome, as
the theory Of the democratic Casser-
ly that, thrift and frugality are ad-
verse to prosperity, is BY every meas
ure of political economy false and
absurd.
A few weeks ago this community
was shocked by the announcement
that Robert A. Clark, city marshal
Of Black Hawk, had been shot while
in tbs discharge of his official duties
in arresting one Thomas Crammer.
Clark was man universally es.
teemed, and was a prominent candi-
date before the Republica nomina.
ting convention for Sheriff of Gilnin
county. He was instantly killed.
Crammer is still at largo. One Thou
sand Dollars is offered for his cap
ture.
Last week q man by the name of
Sullivan, in Georgetown, having in
vested largely in Calamity fluid"
and during a melee of his own orig
mating, received a mortal wound.
A negro is to be hung here next
month for murder committed some
time since.
Two brutes, one Looney by name,
lboth looney by nature,O the other,
rogers, are about to contest within
the prize ring their claim to superior
Brutism, for one thousand dollars
side.
Fires here, which at times make
sad havoc, are frequent at this sea-
son of the year. About two weeks
ago thara were -thrao DISTINCT and
separate CONGREGATIONS which could
have been seen raging from one stand
point. 1t was grand scene to wit
ness, but fearful to contemplate the
destruction which followed in its
wake. Huge columns of smoke rose
from acres of seething flame, grad
ually obscuring the rays of the sun
which on that day shone with unu- |
sual fervency, and was not the orr
gin known many temporary con-
verts to Millersm would likely have |
been the result. Hundreds of acres |
Of valuable timber; thousands OF |
cords of wood, a good many mining |
camps, all were licked by the raging
element. By the most strenuous Of.
forts Brownsville was rescued from
The jaws of destruction. Browns
vile is the site of one Of the most
reduction works in Colo
RADIO, and it's loss would have been
almost irreparable. A wagon loaded
with powder, was abandoned to the
lanes, the effect of which can better
DO imagined than described.
cannot close without few words
If congratuiation upon the patriotic
'ecord left by that array Of talent
'ecently assembled in Chicago, des.
grated as the "Irish Republican
Placing themselves
n the van of the progressive party
# the nation, their position is con-
istent, and in harmony with those
whose every pulsation throbs in uni
on with the down-trodden OF the
world. May This noble band en-
race within it's liborty-loving fold
very true representative Of that
loble race, aud may those principles
hey SO eagerly desire TO prevail in
he councils Of their adopted coun-
~ meet with the approval Of the
eoplc, and the veil of forgetfulness
e drawn over the prescriptions Of
he past. Ill
GuILLELMUs. l.