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

from the street cars, at Davenport,
one day last week. What for2 Be.
cause he was a negro.
The Iowa Collcgent Grinnoll holds
its annual commencement on tho
18th and 18th of tho present month.
The fall term will commence August
3lst next. n ~, Co.
Rev. Mr.. Wilson, Presbyterian
minister, of Sidney, Iowa, WINS found
drowned ten days ago. Two opinions
prevail as to whether he d,owned
himself or was accidentally drowned.
Louisa county, Notwithstanding
tho presence Of the marshal
to enforce payment, SOLEMN
ly resolves that she will not pay the
railroad bonds issued by fraud for a
road that she never got mile Of.
Rev. II. 8. DoForest, so long the
popular and accepted pastor Of the
Congregational Church, at Des
Moines, preached his farewell sermon
to his congregation last Sabbath, and
takes new field of labor near
| Anderson Theological Seminary. It,
The Davenport Gazette says
Governor Stone is stumping the
fourth district in regular political
campaign STYLE" Yes, he socks to
force himself upon the $4,000 repub.
iican voters of the district, by hook
or by crook, whether they want him
or not.
At the Judicial Convention for the
| 9Th District, held at Cedar Rapids,
on the Both ult., Hon. J. r. Rothrock,
present incumbent, was re.nominat-
ed for Judge, and Major W. g.
Thompson, for prosecutor.
| At Abba, Monroe county, on the
goth inst, a mass convention Of the
people Of Abba, and of the Abba,
Knoxville and Des Moines railroad,
chose solid delegation to the Con-
gressional Convention, in this, tho
4th District, for Ex-Gov. Stope.
The President of the Atlantic City
School Board, negotiated $4,000 in
bonds for school purposes, in Chicago,
| and only took $500 for his trouble
| We don't believe our President
would stretch his conscience that
much, would you Doc?
The-people of Fort Dodge and the
Des Moines Valley Railroad have
effected compromise, and now if
the people Of that city comply with
the demands Of the company, as no
doubt they will, the main line Of the
road goes through Fort Dodge. So
o much.vexed question is settled.
The democracy of the State will
probably nominate for Secretary of
State, Colonel Wesley W. Garner, of
Columbus City, Louisa county. The
Colonel is a whole.soulod good fellow
and could take defeat with as good
grace as any man, and we would
like therefore, TO see him nominated.
Cedar Rapids wants the ma
chine shops of the B. G. R. 4 M. r.
r, and the railroad company wants,
before SO doing, that the people OF
| Cedar Rapids give them, say, about
S75, 600. Railroads are always very
modest, you know, in their wants.
We are informed by a gentleman
from Green County that Colonel Orr
stands q good chance to recelvo the
nomination for Congress in the 9th
District. The Colonel is an excellent
gentleman, who will at all times
represent his people faithfully and
honestly. "
| Keokuk is excited, and we'll she
should be: On Friday evening last
a viIlainous attempt was made by q
colored man, to ravish a little white
girl, aged fourteen years, named
Barbara Hans. She was returning
home in the evening, about o'clock
and when on the street, was seizeo
by the throat, her mouth stuffed with
dog-fennel, and was thrown violently
on the ground. Her stiffled cries
attracted some people who were
passing near, and the hellish hound
fed. No clue as to his whereabouts
is yet obtained.
| Be he white or black, such inferna
villainy should be punished by the
severest penalty of the law. II such
outrages are allowed to pass, when
will our families be free from danger
| The Iowa Stale Register, says
While Massachusetts, has repre-
sentative for every 1851 voters, Iowa
has but one for every 32,406, and
| while Maine has representative for
every 26,553 votes Indiana has bnt
one for every 33,775-or in other
words, Maine and Massachusetts,
have nearly two representatives
where Iowa and Indiana have but
!, one. While the Al, 900 voters in the
Fourth Iowa District are compelled
to have but one representative in
| Congress, the same number of votes
| in Massachusetts have two reprcsen-
tatives. Forty thousand Iowa votes
send Loughridge to Congress, and
| forty thousand Massachusetts votes
send Butler and Dawes This is the
situation Of the States under the
present superintendent, and yet the
east, when the opportunity for
remedy came, refused to mako the
wrong right. This is an atrocity OF
bad faith which make the Union no
stronger, and an injustice such as we
hope the west may never be guilty
of attempting to parallel.
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