The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-07-14
The News.

4 uuqu0 Ou stuc OuFtu ~ Sulys -
/ Chief Justice Chase has returned
/ from tour Of recreation to the Lake
Superior regionss Y eesa lAd hs.t {,
Iowa City was q afflicted By 6re on
tho fourth Of July, to tho extent of
$4,000! asaen s'5sa a'9isa.
An exchange says that the Peach
crop Of Centralia is estimated 81
400, 900 boxes this year. y as5 u
Two hundred Chinese hAvo gone
to New Orleans TO work on planta.
l tious.a "a u A gJsl "
Pskin, llli6oas, hhd . go, 900, and
E1myra, \. Y,a seo, 900, and Keno-
sho, Wis, . $4,000 fire cracker Ere
on the Fourth. la ~ irds ].
An siitor ID philadelphia, named
George Thomas, was chokod to
death, on the Fourth, by piece of
meat ssickingin his throat aa! sg 81:
Iowa is tho second best State in
the Union for wheat, taking the
crops of 1869 as . basis. Illinois ID
first with 27,2O0,oOo bushels, and
Iowa next with $4,000, 900. Gala
fornia next, and Wisconsin fourth,
Hon. J. P. irish has given the
State University at Iowa City a
$1,000 lot, upon condition that q
residence for the President be erec-
ted thereon. eFea
George Albertson, Of the Corydon
Monitor, in the issue of the 9th inst,
comes out with his salutatory as
editor Of that paper. We welcome
him to the ranks newspaporial.
We notice it going the rounds of
the press within and without the
State, that Hon. D. N. Cooley an
nounces that he is not candidate
for Congressman at large. What
matter is it whether he is or not
Such candidacy would hardly create
q ripple if ho was.
A subscription is on foot in Keokuk
to assist Mr.. Barrett, proprietor of
the Barrett House, which was des-
troyed by fire there on the fourth,
and which left him in Strengthened
circumstances.
Whittemore's opinion of John A.
Logan: II don't think he told the
truth when he said he would vel
come me back to the Senatep Well,
we should think Mr.. Whittemore
met with very hot reception.
julius T. Hartwell. y financial king
of Boston, for certain Irregularities
in manipulations, has been sentenced
by Judge Lowell to pay 6ne of
100000, and rcmain five years in
prison. His money, influence nor
brass can't save him.
Davenport and the Wisconsin Ed
itoriai Association have got into o
row over the behavior of the latter,
during their recent raid in this State.
The Democrat says that the cause for
all the misunderstanding and boys
play of that Association was whiskey
on tho brain of the President and
Secretary.
Frank Hatton, with Vol. 15, No. l,
of tho Mt. Pleasant journal, assumes
entire control of that excellent paper,
and speaks out boldly and independ-
emily of tho manner in which he
shall do it. At the Same time he
puts the paper into now form and
otherwise greatly improves its ap-
poaranoo.
Congress- has passed tho bill for
tho Improvement Of tho Wisconsin
and Fox Rivers, and appropriated
$lO0, 900, for this season. This work
is to open up aship canal, from the
Mississippi RIVER to the lakes,
through Southern Wisconsin. If
this work shall be a success, it will
ono day loom up as ono Of the most
important public improvements in
the country.
| One Samuel Branan has suod the
directory Of the Pacific Central
Railroad, in San Francisco. The
petitioner, among other things in his
petition, charges that tho directory
have been swindling the stockhold.
ers, to the tune of say, sl56, ,o0O, 900,
by bestowing subsidies to that
amount, and that tho directory have
received large portions OF these SUBJ
sides. President Stanford denies in
toto the charges, and says they are
falsely and m aliciously made.
| Tho national debt was reduced
over twenty millions in June, making
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q reduction during the last fiscal
year of s123,s ,4O2.2l. Silently
and without ostentation has the
administration been whiting down
what Democracy called an incubus
upon the nation which it could never
recover from. But General Grant
has demonstrated that this govern
ment is capable of handling with
ease this debt, and has placed the
credit of tho nation, at tho topmost
round of the ladder
/ The Chicago Post discharges q
hefty editorial ut Grant about the
appointment Of Thos. Murphy to the
coilectoship Of the Port Of New
York. Wo are not sufficiently