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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-07-15

S.""Ss wv, 10 hooii y o'hipicAcu Aoie,
and the cars are expected to run to
tho south bank Of The river by the
first day of October next, Mt the
farthest. The Washington, O,tum-
wa, Cameron e. Leavenworth Rail-
road IL alsosurveyed, and tho west
ern portion of 1t, from Lcavcnworth
to Cameron, nearly done, while it's
completion through this city, putting
us by this route on the direct line of
communication between Chicago,
Leavenworth, and the Eastern Di-
vision of tho U. z. RR., is confident.
~ anticipated inside of two years.
Other railroad projects of a feast.
bic character are also claiming our
attention; so that Ottumwa may be
put down as The most important
railroad centre in the State, and with
our great abundance of timber, stone,
water, and coal, the location of ma
chine shops here, which our cores
pondents write about, can only DO
simply a matter Of time.
Agency City is a good, thriving
town, seven miles east of us, on the
b. 4 M. r. RR., while Eddyville is
also a place of considerable trade
and manufactures, sixteen miles west
on the D. V. RR., both in this county.
ttents are pretty high, both for
dwelling and business houses, on &C.
count of the demand being in excess
of the supply. We are now, how
ever, building some three hundred
houses, for both of these purposes,
which can BIO procured at rents not
considered high when our business
extent and Importance is considered.
The percentage of County tax is
ID mills; City, 10 mills. rrc,r
The average rate of Insurance on
brick houses is II per cent; wood
2 per cent. ''52
Board in private families, from SO
to IS per week.
Small houses, suitable tor family
Of ray three, can be rented at from
SIS to $4,000 per annum.
We have one Of the healthiest 10.
calitics ip Iowa, which If celebrated
for it's salubrious climate, and freedom
from malarious or climatic diseases,
Aud now, having answered cur
correspondents enthusiastically, we
may add that Ottumwa is elegantly
situated on the north bank of the
Des Moines river, in tho centre of one
of the bost counties in the State
which is densely populated with in
telligent, thrifty farmers. whose real
estate is rapidly approaching under
the stimulus of our superior railroad
facilities; that we have magnificent
graded school, large enough to &C
commodate one thousand pupils
that all the leading churches are
represented with creditable buildings
and prosperous organizations; thai
we have Pork House capable O
packing 30 to $4,000 head of hogs
and that, finally, it is town will
much more thrift, enterprise, ano
present growth, than can be found
in Iowa, if indeed in any western
State.
| With good schools, churches, so
ciety, and surrounded by an agricul
tural country Of inexhaustiblc fertili
ty and resources; and, moreover
having all kinds of manufacturing
advantages Of superior character
and in unbounded quantities, at oul
doors, we can recommend Ottumws
to the above correspondents, and t.
all others, as q place offering advan
tages tor permanent and successful
business Or manufactures, and as de
sirable place to live in. not surpassed
by any other in the entire country
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-07-15
Grundy Go. Missouri.

The Grand River Republican gives
the proceedings. of the County au-
thofities Of Grundy County, appro-
Priating Sl50.0nato cur Chicago and
so~oAr, o..4- ~ ,mpany in
County Bonds, of $50 at $1,000 each.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-07-15
OUR REPLY.

Our population is now fully $500
souls, and is estimated by many CON-
petent persons to be 1000.
Our manufacturing facilities are
not surpassed BY any other point in
the west. We arc in the midst of
the great coal fields of Iowa, which
material can be delivered at from 10
to 12s cents per bushel; IN addition
to which excellent timber for fuel
and manufacturing purposes, is in the
greatest abundance; moreover, the
fall in the Des Moines river at this
point (Which is by oil odds the finest
stream in the State, is some eight
feet in one mile, masking mag
niicent water-power, only awaiting
the magic touch Of capital to make
it available and an inexhaustible
source of wealth. Building stone of
SURPRISING excellence, in the greatest
abun lance, is found everywhere on
the Des Moines river, and on all its
tributaries in this county, which will
make plain to our correspondents
that our manufacturing facilities are
of an unusually favorable character.
The manufacture Of Frear's patent
Building Stone, Furniture, Sash,
Doors, and Blinds, Wooden Goods,
Plows, and other Agricultural Imple-
ments, Wagons and Carriages, Beer
and Ale, Flour, &c, &C., are now
quite extensively carried on here.
Our population is increasing rap
idly, say at least 1000 since the first
day of last January. 2e'f f.rt
A large rart of the business is
done for cash; still, our jobbers and
retailers also do an extensive line of
credit business, to class of trade
secured to this point which is prompt
and good. ~ Z a
The retail trade Of the city extends
over a large portion OF Davis, Van
Baren, Jefferson, Keokuk and Ma
haska counties, adjoining this (Wap-
ello), while the wholesale trade of
the place, which rivals that of any
other city in Iowa, extends some
fifty miles north and north west, and
over two hundred south, south west
and due west. i-
The nationality ofour farmers and
town people is principally of all ma
t,ons, Indianians, Germans, Ohioans
and New Englandors predominant
ing.
We have only one exclusive boot
and shoe store, but many of our 9th
or mercantile establishments deal in
them. tsii! HrHt he
We already have two railroads
completed TO this city and beyond,
to-wit: the Burlington and Missouri
River Railroad, to be completed to
the Missouri River by the first Of
January next, and the Des Moines
Valley Railroad, now finished thirty
miles beyond Des Moines. The st.
Louis and Cedar Rapids Railroad,
which is the Iowa, extension of the
North Missouri Railroad, is already
finished to Bloomfield, : only twenty
four miles south Of us, while the
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-07-15
Letter From East Tennessee,
KNOXVILLE, TENN. !
July 9TH 1869.

EDITOR Comma
Throughout Tennes.
see the absorbing topic Of the day in
all circles, is politics, and from the
character of the issues involved in
the present canvass differing ss they
do from those IN Virginia, Mississippi
and Texas no question of recon
struction being involved, but that Of
universal enftanohisement solely,
they are creating something Of a
National interest. The disgraceful
proceedings inaugitated BY the State
Convention at Nashville extending
from the 10th to the ed day Of May
has completely dividedthe Republican
party Of this state, as the Charleston
Convention of 1850 divided the
Democratic party. Both organiza-
lions thus formed at Nashville claim
to DO part Of the National Repub-
lican party, while the respective
platforms are directly opposed, and
the contest waged between them ID
bitter. The Radical party under the
leadership Of Gen. Stokes opposes
further Acknowledgement of the late
Rebels At the present time,-while
the conservative party lead by the
present Governor ID. G. Senter adopt
the broad platform Of universal and
unconditional enfranchisement. Up.
on these platforms the canvass is be-
ing conducted with . degree Of bit.
terness and personal abuso-viliica-
ton and SANDER which seldom il
ever enters into q political canvass In
tho less impulsive North. W est-and
the means used to carry political ends
on tho natural outgrowth of the fos.
teringl years Of disorganization and
discord from which Tho state is Just
emerging.
Probably from the fact that the
majority of the stock Of the compa.
MES publishing the leading Journals
Of the state, has been recently bought
~, or has been all tho time held BY
Southern mon, these journals have
almost unanimously gone over to the
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-10

A N ORDINANCE to open Jersey street,
IA from Spring street to New Point road.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and City Council of
the city of Elizabeth
Section 1. That street to be called Jersey street.
shall be laid out and opened, from Spring street to
Clinton street, said street has been laid out by
the Commissioners named IN an act entitled a. An
act appointing Commissioners to lay out streets,
avenues and squares, in the city of Elizabeth ap-
proved March 10, 1867, and laid down and de-
signated map filed by them in the office of the
Clerk of the city OF Elizabeth; said street to be 10
feet in width from Spring street to Division street
and 60 feet from Division street to the southerly
line of New Point Road, and beginning at stone
monument in Jersey street and the center line OF
Spring street, and running thence easterly at an
angle of Sc degrees so minutes 30 seconds with
said centre line 2ll2.38 feet to stone monument
in the centre line of Division street, thence eastery
at an angle of 1877 degrees 20 minutes, to the left
1902 feet to stone monument in the centre line
of Seventh street; thence southeasterly at angle
of 161 degrees IL minutes to the left 400 feet more
or less to a point in the southerly line of the New
Point road where the same is intersected by the
centre line of Clinton street, the line herein de-
scribed being the centre line of said street; and
that the land and real estate necessary therefor
shall be taken and appropriated, upon making
compensation to the owner or owners thereof.
Section 2. That the whole amount of costs, dam
ages and expenses incurred in the prosecution aid
completion of said improvement, shall be duly as
sessed according to the provisions of the act en-
titled An act to revise and amend the charter of
the city of Elizabeth, approved March 4, 1868.
Section 3. Said improvement shall be made and
completed under the supervision and direction of
the Street Commissioner, and according to the
provisions of the city charter and ordinances.
mil 2w
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-10
WHAT is A BLUSH What is blush

WHAT Is BLUSH What is blush?
1t is an act of the heart in its extreme
ramifcation, the capillaries The small
vessels become distended and fill with
blood, and the face and neck become
red with the increased quantity Of the
vital fluid seen through the transparent
skin. What occasions this An emo
ton of the brain, you say. The eye of
the modest young woman sees the form,
or her ears hears the voice of some in
teresting youth who is approaching or
close at hand, and her mother or aunt
give her wink, and her young female
friend gives her humorous caution,
and behold, in a moment her face
Pushes, and perhaps she even runs away
to hide her emotion, and the young man
imagines he is avoided. 1t was brain
that did it all, was it Truly, with
ont brain she could not have been SO
affected. but neither would she have
been so affected without eyes or ears,
And yet no one AYERS that the eyes and
ages are the seats of emotion. The direct
earnt in flushing is the blood, and the
blood is in the heart-the liquid of the
heart, as all the blood vessels are merely
its twigs. The heart also palpitates
with emotion--the pulse is affected di'
rectly by our feelings. The heart even
bursts with grief as the blood rushes
forcibly back upon it under the infu-
ence of excitement. Fear exhibits itself
in paleness, or deficiency of blood in
the capillaries rage on the contrary ex-
hibits itself in redness or rushing of
agitated blood into them. In extreme
cases it amounts even to blackness. The
veins and the arteries swell or shrink
with emotion, the pulse tells the condi-
ton of the body as we'll us of the mind.
A fevered body and fevered mind will
both quicken it and tranquility is ex-
hibited in the slow and the regular beat
of the pendulum of life.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-10
ASSESSMENT OF PAVING JERSEY SIRE

ASSESSMENT OF PAVING JERSEY STREET.
NOTICE is hereby given. That the assessment
i of the whole amount of the costs and expenses
of regulating. grading and paving Jersey street
from Spring street to the bridge of Amos Clark Jr,
has been delivered to me- and that the owners of
land and real estate, assessed and named below
are requested to pay the amount to me, with inter
est thereon, from the 14th day of April, 1869, be-
ing the date of such assessment at seven per cent
um per annum, at my office, within sixty days from
the oath day of April 1862 instant within the said
time deliver to me bond, entered into by said
owner or owners, to the city of Elizabeth, condi-
toned for the payment of such assessment in five
years from the date thereof, by paying twenty per
centum per annum of the amount of such acsess-
ment, or such part thereof may remain unpaid,
at the rate of eight per centem per annum, payable
-; ,,o1Ix-
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-10

ETNo grade and gutter DeHart place, from Railway
i avenue to Jersey street. .. f
Be ii ordained by the Mayor and City Council of
the city of Elizabeth:
Section l. That Dehart place, from Railway
avenue to Jersey street, shall be graded, curbed
and guttered
Section 2. That the whole amount of costs and
expenses incurred in the prosecution and compile
ton of said improvement shall be duly assessed
according to the provisions of the act entitled An
act to revise and amend the charter of the city of
Elizabeth approved March 4th 1863. i
Section g. Said improvement shall be made and
completed under the supervision and direction of
the Street Commissioner and according to the pro-
visions Of the city charter and ordinances. az
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-10
COrporatiO1a Notice.

Assessment of curb1nS and guttering DeHart place,
from Jersey street to G. r. r. of N. j. Y.
NTOTICE is hereby given, That the assessment of
Y the whole amount of the costs and expenses of
grading, curbing and gathering De-
Hart place. from Jersey street to the Central
Railroad of New Jersey, has been delivered to
me- and that the owners of land and real
estate, assessed and named below are requested to
pay the amount to me, with interest thereon, from
the 14th day OF April 1869, being the date of such
assessment, at seven per centum per annum, at my
Office within sixty days from the oath day of April.
1862 instant, within the said time deliver to me
a bond entered into by said owner owners, to
the city of Elizabeth, conditioned for the payment
of such assessment in five years from the date
thereof, by paying twenty per centum per annum of
the amount ofsuch assessment or such part thereof
as may remain unpaid, at the rate Of eight per
centrlm per annum, payable semi-annually.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-10

Corporate Notice.
ASSESSMENT OF SEWERING EAST GRAND
STREET, FROM CATHARINE STREET TO
MEADOW STREET. ..l .-.-l.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the assessment
IN of the whole amount of the costs damages and
expenses of constructing and building sewer
in East Grand Street. from Catharine street
to the summit Meadow street, has
been delivered to me- and that the owners of
land and real estate, assessed and named below,
are requested to pay the amount to me, with in
terest thereon, from the 21st day of April.
1869, being the date of such assessment. at
seven per centum per annum, at my office, with
i'll sixty days from the LIST day of May, 1869.
instant, within the said time deliver to me
bond entered into by said owner owners, to the
city of Elizabeth conditioned for the payment of such
assessment in years from the date thereof, by pay
ing twenty per centum per annum of the amount of
such assess ment, such part thereof may re-
main unpaid, at the rate of eight per centum per
annum, payable semi-annually
No. of Names of Assesses
Lot. Owners. ment.
EAST GRAND STREET SEWER. FROM cATHARINE
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-10
Corporatio1a Notice.

Assessment of curbing and guttering High street,
from Elizabeth Avenue to Division street.
NOTICE is hereby given That the assessment of
In the whole amount of the costs, damages and
expenses of regulating grading, curbing and gut
tering High street, from Elizabeth avenue
to Division street, has been delivered to
me, and that the owners of land and real
estate, assessed and named below, are requested
to pay the amount to me, with interest thereon,
from the 18th day of April 1869, being the date OF
such assessment, at seven per cent. per annum at
my Office within sixty days from the oath dat of
April 1869, instant, or within the said time deliver
to me bond entered into by said owner or owners,
to the city of Elizabeth conditioned for the pay
ment of such assessment in five years from the date
thereof by paying twenty per centum per annum
of the amount of such assessment, or such part
thereof as may remain unpaid at the rate of eight
per centum per annum payable semi-annl1ally,
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-10
A N ORDINANCE to open REID street,, from

A N ORDINANCE TO open Reid street, from
N Magnolia street to South street.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and City Council of
the city of Elizabeth:
Section /. That street to be called Reid street
shall be laid out and opened, from Magnolia street
to South street. said street has been laid out by
the Commissioners named in an act entitled " An
act appointing commissioners to lay out streets,
avenues and squares in the city of Elizabeth, ap-
proved March 10, 1867, and as laid down and de-
sgnated map filed by them in the Office of the
Clerk of the city of Elizabeth said street to be 60
feet wide, beginning at stone monument in the
centre line of Magnolia street 1864 feet from
monument at the centre line of Magnolia and Spring
streets; and running thence southerly at an angle
of 80 degrees minutes 80 seconds, with that part
of Magnolia street which lies east of the point of
beginning 618.72 feet to a stone monument in East
Grand street; thence in the same straight line L.,
1868 feet to stone monument in the centre line OF
Jersey street; thence in the straight line $780,.
% feet. to stone monument in the centre line OF
Elizabeth avenue; thence in the same straight line
to South street; and that the land and real estate
necessary therefor shall he taken and appropriated
upon making compensation to the owner or owners
thereof.
Section 2. That the whole amount of costs, DAM
ages and expenses incurred in the prosecution and
completion of said improvement shall be duly
assessed according to the provisions of the act ent
tied IAN act to revise and amend the charter of
the city of Elizabeth" approved March 4th, 1868
Section 3. Said improvement shall be made and
completed under the supervision and direction Of
the Street Commissioner, and according to the pro-
visions of the city charter and ordinances. mil Nv
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-10
CORPORATION NOTICE.
Assessment of CURLING, &C., Marshall street, from
First street to High street.

Assessment OF CURLING, &c, MafshaI Street, from
First street to High street.
NOTICE is hereby given that the assessment of
~ the whole amount of the costs and expenses of
regulating grading, curbing and guttering Mar
shall street. from First street to High street has been
delivered to me, and that the owners of land and
real estate, assessed and named below request
ed to pay the amount to me, with interest thereon
from April 81, 1862 being the date of such ASSESS
ment, at seven per centum per annum, at my Office
within sixty days from the oath day of April 1862
instant, within the said time deliver to me
bond entered into by said owner owners to the
city of Elizabeth, conditioned for the payment of
such assessment in five years from the date there
Of by paying twenty per centum per annum of the
amount of such assessment, such part thereof as
may remain unpaid at the rate of eight per centum
per annnm. payable sem-annually.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-10
Corporatio1a Notice.

Assessment OF tagging Madison avenue, from
. t.t,ls Anna street to Port avenue. o.r,
NOTICE is hereby given, that the assessment OF
In the whole amount of the costs and expenses of
regulating, grading curbing and tagging Madi-
son avenue, from Anna street to Port avenue,
has been delivered to me, and that the owners of
land and real estate, assessed and named below
requested to pay the amount to me, with interest
thereon, from the 21st day of April, 1869, being
the date OF such assessment at seven per centum
per annum, at my Office within sixty days from the
oath day of April 1862 instant, within the said
time deliver to me bond, entered into by said
owner owners to the city of Elizabeth condition.
ed for the payment of such assessment in five years
from the date thereof by paying twenty per centum
such part thereof may remain unpaid, at the rate
of eight per centum per annum payable semi-an-
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-10
CORPORATION NOTICE.
CORPORATION NOTICE.
,ssEssMENT OF MAGNOLIA STREET SEWER

ASSESSMENT OF MAGNOLIA STREET SEWER.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the assessment of
In the whole amount of the costs, damages and ex-
penses of constructing and building sewer in
Magnolia street, from Catharine street to
Meadow street, has been delivered to me,
and that the owners of land and real es-
tate, assessed and named below, are request
to pay the amount to me, with interest thereon,
from April 8. 1869, being the date of such assess
ment, at seven per centum per annum, at my office,
within sixty days from the 18th day of April 1862
instant, within the said time deliver to me a
bond, entered into by said owner or owners, to the
city of Elizabeth, conditioned for the payment of
such assessment in five years from the date thereof
by paying twenty per centum per annum of the
amount of such assessment, such part thereof as
may remain unpaid, at the rate of eight per centum
per annum, payable semi-annually
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-10


ASSESSMENT OF SEWERING MAGNOLIA
STREET, FROM CATHARINE STREET TO
SPRING STREET.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the assessment OF
v the whole amount of the costs and expenses of
constructing and building sewer i'll Magnolia
street. from Catharine street to Spring street, has
been delivered to me- and that the owners of land
and real estate, assessed and named below, are
quested to pay the amount to me. with interest
thereon, from the 21st day of April, 1869, being
the date of such assessment, at seven per centum
per annum, at my Office, within sixty days from the
LIST day of May, 1869, instant, within said time
deliver to bond, entered into by said owner
or owners to the city of Elizabeth, conditioned for
the payment of such assessment in five years from
the date thereof, by paying twenty per centum per
annum of the amount of such assessment, of such
part thereof may remain unpaid at the rate of
eight per centum per annum, payable semi-anuay
No of Names of Assess
1of penuted owners nent