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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-26

p'tai Vi TINS 0tate, Jan. 1869 IL.
Number Of Students in Colleges,
Academies and Universities.
Number of acres of Land enclo :.
ed 144549.
Number Of acres Of Land in cul-
tivation 1887.
Number of acres Spring wheat
1881.
Number Of acres OF Winter Wheat
Number of acres Of Corn 41O9l.
Number Of acres Of Oats 8lO6.
Number Of acres of Buckwheat
494.
Number Of acres Of Barley 1859.
Number Of acres of Rye 1880.
Number of acres of Potatoes 5s7.
Numbe of acres OF Onions 10.
Number of acres of Tame Grass
1924.
Number Of acres Of Flax 225.
Number of acres Of Sorghum 59s.
Number of acres of Hops rs.
Number of acres planted for Tim.
Der 20.
Number Of rods Of Hedging plant
cd 1896.
Number Of Fruit Trees in bearing
1861.
Number Of Fruit Trees not in
bearing 59o43.
Number Of Grspe Vines in bear
ing 1880.
Number Of Grape. Vines not in
bearing 2l67o.
Number OF Horses of all ages s555.
Number Of Cattle Of all ages II.
474.
Number OF Hogs Of all ages IS.
722.
Number Of Sheep of all ages 4a.
O1O. t3 'ttt
Number Of Mules and Asses Of all
ages $50.
Number Of Mich Cows 576O.
Number of Work Oxen 29l.
Number of Dogs 1871.
Number of Hives OF Bees 2elp.
Number Of bushels Spring Wheat
Number OF bushels of Winter
Wheat 8O35O.
Number Of bushels of Corn l4O8.
391.
Numbcr Of bushels of Oats $780,.
529.
Number Of bushels OF Buck " heat
1850.
Number Of bushels Of Barley 245O,
Number OF bushels Of Rye 1896.
Number Of bushels Of Irish Pc.
tatccs 339sI.
Number OF bushels IF Onions ..36.
Number of bushels of Clover Seed
IS.
Number Of bushels of (irass Seed
1912.
Number Of bushes OF Flax Seed
1898.
Nun Der OF bushels Of Apples "a.
65s.
Number Of lbs Grapes 532s9.
Number Of gallons of Syrup from
Sorghum 66765.
Number lbs Honey 1928.
Number lbs of Butter made 174576.
Number lbs of Cheese made 5O66
Number lbs Wool shorn in 1868
131s49.
Number Of tons of Hay from tame
grasses 1880.
Number Of tons Of Hay from
wild grasses 1881.
Number lbs Hops raised 25s.
Value of Farm Produce during the
year 1868 81, OsO,SS5.
Value Of Stock sold during the
yea 1868 S3S6873.
Value Of Agricultural implements,
machinery and wagons $151, 627.
Value of Manufactures for 1865
$63764O.
Number of bushels of Coal raised,
go lbs per bushol, during the year
1868, 687584.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-26

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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-19

In RECENT LAWSUIT in California, the
plaintiff, in sueing Chinaman, resisted the
right of the defendant and his fellow-coun-
trymen to testify. If his position had been
sustained by the court, the Celestial would
have been completely in the power of his
adversary, and precedent would have been
set for the commencement of successful suits
of almost every description against the Chinese
portion of the population. State law was
quoted to sustain the extraordinary preten-
sions of the plaintiff. 1t was framed in the
same spirit as the laws of the Southern States
which formerly forbid colored men to testify
in Southern Courts, but it lacked the excuse
which was based on the seryile condition
of the negroes before slavery was abolished
Fortunately the Judge decided that the State
law was practically overruled by the four
teenth amendment to the Constitution, and
he therefore permitted the Chinese defendant
to give his version of the pending dispute. A
police judge, however, had previously given
an adverse decision, and it seems 10 be a
common practice to withhold from the Chi
nese the right of testifying in their own be-
bali or on behalf Of their low-countrymen.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-19

The STOCKHOLDERS of the Philadelphia Lii
brary vote to-day on the various propositions
in reference to the acceptance of the
Rush bequest. While we think it clear that
their individual interests will not be pro-
NOTED unless it is distinctly understood that
they can be permitted to sustain an independ-
ent library in the present or some other CEN
tral location, we are sorry to see in the dis
cussions of this subject so little disposition to
do justice to the commendable spirit which
prompted DR.. Rush to give the most liberal
donation to the cause of literature which was
ever made in this country. His gift was
magnificent in amount and value, despite the
singular and troublesome conditions with
which it was clogged; and, no matter what
decision may be rendered by the stockholders
of the Philadelphia Library, this fact should
constantly be gratefully remembered
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-19

An authoritative judgment on this subject
should be speedily rendered. The credibiiity
OF Chinese testimony, like ell other
evidence, may be closely scrus
tinlzed, but it is a mockery of Justice to
contemptuously reject it in all cases. One of
the most important objects of judicial in
Vestigations is to ascertain the whole truth,
and the absolute exclusion of large body
OF intelligent men from the witness-stand
not only defeats this end in many important
cases, but encourages fraud, extortion, and
various other forms of rank injustice. When
Cinnamon cannot be heard in their own de-
fense, they sink to the unfortunate position
OF having no rights which white men are
bound to respect, and in thousands of cases
they have been subjected to treatment based
on this monstrous idea. While they have
gone on year after year increasing in numbers
and in usefulness on the Pacific coast, the
emigration would be much greater if they did
not in many instances send back to their
countrymen tidings of maltreatment and in
justice, encouraged by the illiberal California
laws. When the validity of the late decision
of Judge Sawyer is universally recognized,
this evil will be- to a large extent, corrected.
1t is an important step in the right direction,
but more conclusive action of a similar char
acter is needed to completely establish justice
on the Pacific coast
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-19
A Monster Cannon.

The monster cannon cast in the end OF the six
teenth century by the Emperor FedOr Ivanovitch,
which is OF the principal ''li0ns" OF the Krem
en and has hitherto enjoyed the reputation OF being
the largest piece OF artillery in Russia, has at length
found rival and superior in the colossal gun re-
Gently cast at Perm. This military 1'itan according
10 the account OF correspondent OF the st. Peters
burg Ne1os Is fully two-thirds larger than its prede
cessor, and throws ball weighing eighty Russian
by a commission OF engineers, the Government hay
ing announced its intention, in case the report be
favorable OF ordering-dye other pieces OF similar
calibre,
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-19
THE NOVEMBER MAeAzINIs.--From Tur

THE NOVEMBER MAGAZINES. From Turner Bro
theirs Co. we have received the November num-
Der OF the Atlantic Monthly, which has the following
table OF contents:-
'"The Small Sins OF Congress-" "The Foe in the
Household" TX; "FrOm the Orient direct "Eartl-
quakes OF the Western United States;' "Our Phil :;
"a Dredging Excursion in the Gulf Stream" ii; 'In
Memoriam;" "Ihe Increase OF Human Lne,' III;
"A Pedestrian Tour" ''rhe Brick Moon," II; Mo-
hammed and his Place In Universal History" "The
Old Bankers OF Florence " ''Bonaparte Aug Is, 1869
Humboldt, Seps "A, 1885," "Reyews and Literary
Notices."
our Young FolEs for November has continuation
OF Mr. Aldrichs 'Story OF Bad Boy an interesting
article on SHOW Ships are Built" and other enter
tanning reading for young people.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-19

L ~.
The Coroner's Office is one of great import
ance. 1t is essential that it should be admin
stored in a capable and efficient manner
This it is almost impossible to do now with
the miserable accommodations that are pro.
vided.
The Coroners Office is down in a cellar:
it is dark, cramped, and inconvenient. There
is no place for the proper disposition of the
jury, the witnesses, the reporters and others
who are compelled to attend when an inquest
is going on, and when the room is full of per-
sons the ventilation is so bad that it is almost
impossible to remain there.
1t is disgraceful that in a city like this an
important officer like the Coroner should be
provided with no better quarters, and every
citizen who has been unfortunate enough to
be summoned as a witness to an inquest can
certify that change is imperatively neces-
sary.
Councils ought to move in this matter and
provide the Coroner with rooms where he
can conduct the business of his Office in a
proper manner-a place where the Jury will
not be crowded by the witnesses and specta-
tors, where the reporters can have elbow-room
and not be placed in the midst of the
prisoners, where the female witnesses can
have decent waiting room, and where the
loafers that hang about Fifth and Chestnut
streets can be excluded. This is matter of
considerable moment, and we hope that it
will receive the early attention of Councils
Dr.. William H. Taylor, the newly-elected
Coroner, is gentleman in every way fitted
for the Office. When he formerly held the
position he made one of the best Coroners we
have ever had, and his convenience in this
matter ought to receive some consideration.
The SECRETARY of the Free Trade League
has issued manifesto, setting forth that the
disposition is rapidly increasing to break
down the bulwarks established for the pro-
lection of American industry, and that free
trade is attracting to her British standard
many converts in the West and in New Eng
land Numerous meetings have been held,
newspapers have been established, tracts have
been published and distributed, and he con-
siders that so much progress has been made
that it will be safe to carry the war
against the struggling industries of this ma
ton Unto Africa by the proposal of q revenue
tariff during the coming session Of Congress. ="
These are boastful if not brave words, and it
behoves the guardians of the national inte-
rests to be on the alert Approximate free
trade has had but one result in this country
heretofore, and it can have but one result,
under the present industrial organization,
hereafter-fnancialr ruin. Since this is threat
ened, it behooves every patriotic citizen to
endeavor to avert it.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26
Militia Murders Across the
 ESiyer.

A report comes across the river that the three citizens mentioned in our last issue as having been spirited away, were designed for execution. and that two of them were put to death nj or near place called Frcnch's Bayou. The names of the victims were iiarney, q nephew of General Harney, and a Mr. Skipp. They were hung up sever al times to extort confessions from them, but nothing was elicited. and finally they were made way with in q summary manner The third man was aiterward seen al Oceola, and It was supposed that he had escaped. The general correctness of this report is not doubted, although we are not able to give tull particulars.-Me Memphis Ava lanchc, 20th inst.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26
Life Lengthened.

l. Cultivate an equal temper; many a man has fallen dead in a fit of pas sion.
 9 Eat regularly, not over thrice a day, and nothing between meals.
 5. Go to bed at regular hours. Get up as soon as yon wake Of yourself, and do not sleep in the day time, at least not longer than ten minutes before noon.
 4. Work always by the day, and not by the job.
 5. Stop working before you are ''lagged out"
 6. Cultivate generous and an accom- modating temper.
 '. Never eat when you are not hun- gry, nor drink when you are not thirsty.
 8. Never cross bridge before you come to it. for this will save half the trouble Of life.
 9. Let your appetite always come uninvited.
 10. Cool off in place greatly war mer than the one in which you have been exercising this simple rule would prevent incalculable sickness and save millions of lives a year.
 II. Never resist call of nature for a single minute.
 F. Never allow yourselfto be chill ed through and through;" it is this which destroys so many every year, in few days sickness. from pneumonia, called by some lung fever, or inflama- ton of the lungs.
 13. Whoever drinks no liquids at his meals will add years of pleasurable existence to his life. or fcold or warm drinks. the former are most pernicious drinking at meals induces pcrsons to cat more than they otherwise would as any one can verify by experiment; and it is excess of eating which devastates the land with sickness, suffering, and death.
 A. After fifty years of age, if not a day laborer, and sedeniary persons at- ter forty, should cat but twice a day in the morning and about four in the afternoon; persons can soon accustom themselves to seven hours interval be- tween eating, thus giving the stomach rest; for every organ without adequate rest must give out premature'y.
 I5. Begia early to live under the be- nign influences of the Christian reli- gion. for it 'has the promise of the life that now is. and ot that which is to como '-Hails Journal of Health.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26
Special Notice.

We wish to call the special attention oi our friends to the advertisement headed uuh- LsY's Aaus ToNIc This is the best remedy known for Chills, Fever and intermittents in any form: now is the season for this dis IF ssing complaint. IL has never been known to fail to effect n cure, no matter of Low long standing. if used by directions. where all other remedies have failed IL is purely veg etahle. and no bad effects from over dosing ueed be feared--buy one bottle and get cured Also Hnrley's Worm Candy for children IS tn. best and most pleasant known; any child will take it. IIurleys Bitters is the most pleasant as well as the pnrest and best now known or offered for sale; and for debility. 1 loss of appetite. cannot be eqnaled. Also. l for purifying he blood. nothing equals pr 1 iIurley's Comp. Syrup of Sarsaparilla. this is the genuine extract of the root. nr. Sea brooks Soothing syrup for children is war ranted the best and safest remedy known. or the money refunde,i--price 25ctS. per bottle. l Also. his Elixir of Iron and Bark, especially | for females it is one of the best Tonics known, and pleasant and easily taken not like other remedies of the kind, it does not sieken CT nanseate. If you need any of the above
 remedies try them. as we feel confident they
 will do all we claim for them they are gotten
 up by men of experience and good chemists who know their business snd pro reliable and heu~st
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26
Sold by Dealers generalI
C \ 3: D.

In justice io the Company, l take pleasure in making the statement that my late husband, James w. ilowerton insured his life inthe Carolina Life ln- surauce Company on the lltll oi March, 1S6S, for the sum ot five thousand dol lars, and that on the lst inst. that amount was handed me by the rcpres- en,atives of inc Company in this city. l have found the Company ever prompt, courteous and obliging; and take this occasion of thanking them for their kindness To me. and of bearing testimony 10 the integrity Of the Com pany.
 My claim has been received without cost or anxiety on my part; for winch I an sincerely thankful to the gentle men entrusted with the management oi the aflairso the Company.
 Very respectfully,
 FANNIE A. HOWERTON.
 Jacksonpori Herald please copy and send bill to this office.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26
Ereatth in Drugs.

Heretofore we have shown how peo- ple snti'er and are swindled from adul- terated food we now exhibit the gen eral poisoning by means of adulterated drugs. While chemicals proper, such as the preparations of morphine. for in- stance ,arc generally comparatively pure the gross adultcrations iii drugs are frightiul. This is especially the ease iu rhubarb and in opium, the present high price oi the latter particularly opening d most tempting door 10 traHd. How this drug is reduced, by whom this and other drugs are manipulated aud 10 whai extent drugs are atlulterat- isiully shown in the article we present to-day. So general and so extensive are these frauds that it is a reasonable doubt as to the possibility procuring perfectly pure drugs Of certain classes in this city. IL is not our purpse to alarm the public. but we do mean to protect the public by calling attention 10 these frauds and by demanding a rc- form. An interest so vast and vital --affccting as it does. every family and every individual in the community - warrants the prominence which we gives to this exposure in our war upon the adulterations and pois- onings praeticed in this city.--New-
 ork W orld.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26
SrECEss. NOTICES.
AETEsENTIC DOCUMENTS. EXTRA SPECIAL NCTiCE.

Beware of Commercials! Smiths Tonic Syrup has been counterleited, and the counterieitcr brought to grief.
 Smith's Tonic Syrup.
 The genuine article must have Dr. John Bulls private Stamp on each bot tlc. Dr. John Bull only has the right to manufacture and sell tue original John Smiths Tonic Syrup of Louis- vile. Ky. Examine well the label on each bottle. If my private stamp is not on the bottle, do not purchase. or yon will bc deceived. See my column ad- vertisemcnt. and my show card. I will prosecute any one infringing on my right. The genuine Smiths Tonic Sy- rup can only be prepared by myself.
 The public's servant.
 Huntsville Ky DP JOJJN RTTII
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26
vrLL NOW. WALKER Couxry, Ga,

June 29 lsf6.
 DR. JouS BuLL- Dsdr Sir: l have recent ly given vonr ..Worm Destroyer" several trials. aud find il wonderfully eticacious. II has mol failed in single instance to have the wished for effect. am doing pretty large country practice. and have daily use for some article ot the kind, 1 am free to confess that l know of no remedy recommended by the ahles authors that is SO certain and speedy in i:s effects On the contrary they are un- cefteain in the extreme. My object in writ ing you is to find upon what terms l can gel the medicine directly from yaa If can get it upon easy terms, 1 shall use great deal of lit l am aware tnat the use of such articles Is contrary to tic teachings and practice of q great majority or the reqAfiar line of NJ. D E. but | see no just cause or good sense in lis cardng remedy which ne know to be et cient, simply because we may be ignorant ot it's combination. For ny part. shall make |, n rule to use all and any means 10 alleviate suffering humanity which l may be able 10 conmand-not hes,aiing because some one more ingetious than myself may have learned it's ei.ecis first. and secured tslc soic right to secure that knowledge. However, am hy no means an advocate or supporter ot the thousands oi worthless nostrums that flood ihe country, ,hai purport to cure all manner of disease to wnich human flesh is heir Plea se reply soon. and inform me of your best terms l am. sir. most respectfully,
 JULIUS ?. CLEMENT, NJ. D.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26

--The New York Commercial says the editors who have heretofore done the writing for Brick" Pomcroy's pa per have all been Republicans.
 Thieves lately stole the carpet from Il rural church near Cincinnati. and when it was newly carpeted brought back the old and stole the new.
 The town of Wells, Vt, has a citizen who married at l7. His first child was daughter, who married al I3 and eighteen months alterward made her father grandfather at the early age of 3l years.
 pr. II. A. Swasey will soon be- gin the publication of a monthly paper at Canton, Miss, to be styled the southern Horticulturst. The price will be only one dollar per annnm.
 -Three hundred and seventy mar riage licenses were issued in Vigo county, Ind, during the year lSGS- one for each day in the year, and five extra for the holidays.
 "A charming style for young girls is 10 comb the front hair back loosely and join it with the back hair, making a single chisnon arranged over several crcpes. Band and bow are ol black velvet ribbon.
 - A few nights since man named Weathers, in Louisville. while under the influence of liquor. asked his litle | boy, four or five years of age, to spell q word which it was impossible for the child te do. Wes..::ners then seized | nim by ..,,,e hair. picked mp stick and beat the child until the flesh upon it, body was lacerated in many places l IIeeding not the cries of the little one 4 who pleaded for mercy, he picked i up and held it over hot fire in th, stove until it's whole body was burned to a blister.
 -Cotton planters in Georgia pro pose to construct spinning machiner, in their gin-houses, to be run by tn same power which runs their gins. an, spin their cotton into yarn and send i to market in this concentrated an, partially manufactured form. saving
 large portion of the cost Of transpor;a tion and many of the expenses whic
 now attend the sale of the raw ma
 tcrial.
 A severe snow storm came owe
 this section of the country commenen , on Sunday evening averaging wher ! the fall was lightest, fully six inche [ md from that to thirteen What
 strange is that fifty miles north of thi ! point to the west there was no sign ( l snow. and the same day in Memph
 was very pleasant one. The sno'
 laid on the ground for some time bl [ "Wednesday the sun was quite war s enough to melt the snow. Thursda
 if was cold, rainy and very disagrecl
 blc.-Grenada (Miss.) Sentinel, l6th. [ -Georga has at present three P l per mills in successful operation, an
 will have three more shortly.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26
MEDICAL.
DIR. JOHN BULLS Great Remedies.
Bulls CedrOin BittcrS
AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS. Arkansas Heard From.
 IENTlMaNY Or MEDICAL MEN.

Stony Poin White Co.,. Ark. May 23, G6 DR Joux BufL--Dcar Sir; Last February I was in Louisville 'hircIasing drugs. and got some of your Snrsaparilla and Cedror Bitters.
 My son n-law who was with me in ih' store, has been down with rheumatism foi some time. commenced on the Ditters m soon found his general health improved. pr. Gist. who has been in bad health, tried them. and he also improved.
 Dr. Coffee. who has been in bad health fo' several ycars--stomoch. and ficer affected = ht improved very much by the use of your Bit ters. Indeed the Cedr9n Bitters has giver you great popularity in this settlement. think could sell great quantity of youi medicines this tall-espeeially of your Ced ron Biiers and Sarsaparlla. Ship me via Memphis care of Rickeit \ Nicely.
 Respectfully.
 C.B WALKER
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26
A Senat0rias sarpei-ksagger Ex-
 t.a9eGinary.

The Tallahassee Sentinel gives the following account of one of Floridas $ Senators. whom if dubs Il ''ca, pet bag ger extraordinary IL will seem SO io all who will read what the Sentinel says of the Senator. The Hon. A. ;. Welch. of Iowa, President or the Agri- cultural Cullege Of that State, II says ..with S4.0o9 Il year. and iurnishe;' house, aud Senator From Florida tuntil . March next.) will s.Gsoil be announced bv the Jacksonville Union as a candi- date for the task of busting MT. Gil bert from his seat as United States Senator from this State. Mr. Welcl was elected last July. to serve the un- expired term, and shortly alter accept ed the lucrative position of President of the Iowa Collegr, gave up his resi- dence in Florida, removed his tamil! to Iowa, and his property here was lei for sale. His saw mill sold for Sl2.000 His residence is held at S5.50J. will furniture. MT. Welch has just re turned to Florida. He proposes [. stay if the Legislature will oust Mir Gilbert and put him in his place. H. proposes to pull up stakes instanter l inc Legislature will be so naughty a not to gratify him.
 .Gentlcmen Of the Legislature, W have tle high honor to take the bul by the horns and introduce to you acquaintance in January. the Hon. Mi Melch. of Michigan. President of college in Iowa. and at present Unite States Senator from Florida.