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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-07-28
Original Notice.

AyA4kAE88
In the District Court Of the State Of lows,
In and for Wape7io Comfy:
4. D. Rand q Co., Asts
A. NJ. Burton. M g
/ To said Defendants:
You are hereby notified that on or be-
fore the LIST day OF August, 1879. the peei-
ton of d. ID. Band q Co., plaintiffs, Will DO
filed in the Clerks Office Of said District
Court Of Wnpello County, claiming Of you
one hundred dollars, fes lnnlher and build
ing materials sold and delivered to you
by plaintiffs. and praying The establish
ment of their niechAnic's lien on the fol-
lowing described real estate, fo-wit
BEGINNING At the northwest corner o.
the southwest quarter OF the northeast
quarter of section nineteen t19], township
seventy-two [72jt north OF range thirteen
[l3], west thence south ten IL Of chains to-
corner, thence east eleven fiji chains to
street, thence north three degrees east to-
north limo OF said southwest quarter OF
north east quarter: thence west to place
of beginning, containing l1:25 acres, and
asking that N special execution issue for
the sale OF tho Sane in satisfaction or their
Judgment at law. And that unless you
appear and make defense thereto ut or be-
fore noon of the second day Of next term
offaid Court, to be begun and held at the
Court House at Ottumwa, in said county,
on I've Goth day Of August, 1870, your do
fault will be entered and a judgment rem
dered thereon against you.
JACQUES q FAWCETT,
julyl4.w4t PLAINTIFF Attorneys.
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The Generals.

Much interest centers in the gen.
erals who are to command the forces
in the Franco Prussian war. Prom
inent among the French generals is
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice
Mcmahon, a descendant Of an ancient
Irish family of nobility. He was
born in Auburn, in the department
of Saone-et-L Loire, France, in the year
1907. His father belonged to the
French pecragc. He received his
education at tho military school of
St. Cyr, after leaving which he took
q prominent part in the Algerian
wars, and distinguished himself in
the capture Of tho fortified city of
Constantine. His name in connec-
ton with the Crimean war isfamiliar
to all, He succeeded in taking the
supposed impregnable Malakoff by
storm, and by his skill and prowess
put an end to the siege. He also
played prominent part in 1859, and
for his heroic achievements at
Magenta was created q Marshal of
France and Duke of Magenta on tho
the battle field. According to the
latest accounts he is to have COM
mand Of the French army operating
on the Rhine.
Count Paliko, who, it is said, is to
have command of the troops opera
ting against Spain, is known as the
commander of the French troops in
the war with China, in which he dis
played dash and skill which are SO
essential qualifications in q military
leader. But the barbarities commit
tod on the Chinese by tho troops
under his command, have stamped
him as one OF the most inhuman Of
generals.
Marshal Canrobert was born in
Brittany, or Bretagne, ON old prov
ince in the northwest of France, in
the year 1909. Although q student
in tho military Academy Of St. Cyr,
he enlisted as private soldier, and
was soon promoted to q sub-lieuten-
ancy. In 1885 he went to ALGEBRA,
and for meritorious services at the
storming Of Constantine received the
decoration of the Legion Of Honor.
In the coup d'etat in 1851 he had
command OF one of the divisions of
the army of Paris. He distinguished
himself in the Crimean war, and on
his return to Franco, Napoleon con.
ferred on him tho military medal of
theCrimea and raised him to the rank
of Marshal of France. Queen Victo-
ria bestowed on him tho Grand
Gross of the Bath. In the present
war he is to have command of tho
lst army corps Of France.
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The War.

Up to tho date of our latest dis.
Patches, no serious collision between
the Prussians and French, if we may
be allowed to except a raid of some
Prussian lanocrs Upon French terri
tory, ia which many railroad tbs
werc torn up, but no casualties re-
ported.
There is a silly report in our dis
patches to-day, that Napoleon and
Bismarck are about to patch up some
sort of truce, and become better
friends than ever. This story of
course, had it's origin in the fruitful
brain Of some stock speculator, and
is the sherest absurdity. Napoleon
on the 10Th instant, formally declared
war, and has been constantly since,
with his characteristic energy, NOV
ing his army to the line of the Rhine,
while the Prussian government with
the utmost alacrity, took up the
guage Of battle, and are now con.
fronting their enemies face to face,
with, perhaps, On equal force. At
the announcement of the rupture,
many American people were disposed
to sympathize with the French,
mainly because they werc oar allies
In the Revolutionary war, and our
traditional friends; but since the
withdrawal of Leopold, and the sub
sequent frivolous pretexts given out
by Napoleon, that sentiment has
rapidly changed, until to-day, judg-
ing from what we hear, and the tone
Of the press at large, we should say
that our people are well-nigh unaui.
nous in the opinion that Napoleon
is, without cause, waging an afro.
cious war of conquest, and, that the
Prussian people are fighting right.
eous war of defence, and are conse.
quontly entitled to the sympathics Of
the world, and the favors Of
Providence.
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Won MoitLc, the chief of staff OF
the Prussiaa armies, is one of the
very abIest military officers now
living. In keeping his own counsel
he is much like General Grant, as he
is known throughout the European
continent, as "thc man who is silent
in six languages"
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NOtlce.

We have this day appointed Mr.. l.. r..
oliver. as the sole agent for the sale of our
Celebrated Perfected Spectactcs, for which
we claim the following advantages, viz =
Ihey assist, as well M prese,ve, rendering
lrequentc changes Unnecessary. They con.
ler clear and distinct vision as in the
hard and brilliant, hence not liable 10 hgb e,,
come scratched. The frames, whether in
gold, si!cer or steel, are Of the finest quality
and finish. They are fitted by 4 now
mode Test types) by which mistak es arc
impossible. LAZARUS Il NORRIS.
apr5dGwly Opticians, Hartford. Conn
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LEGAL NOTICE.
To VIM, Whetstone:

You nre hereby notified ff.at there Is now
on file in the office of the Clerk on the District
Court in and for Wapello county, Iowa, the
solution of the bonds of matrimony Iow ex-
listing between you for the reasons stated I'm
You are also notified that unless you appear
thereto and defend on or before noon Of tho
second day of the next August Term Of raid
pello county, Iowa, August 18th, 1870, default
will be entered against you and Judgment rem
dered thereon according to the prayer Of petit
ton. HEND8R9MOTr q BUk1ON,
tuly2l, '70-wAt Attys for plaintiff.
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It is gratifying to the friends of
Chilicotho and Livingston county
that the proposition for the county
to subcribe to the capital stock Of the
Ottumwa, Chilicothe and Lexington
Railroad Company the sum of two
hundred thousand dollars is rapidly
gaining strength in every part Of tho
county. In Grand River, Fair View,
Mooresville, jackson, Blue Mound
and Wheeling townships, all of which
gave majorities against the subscrip-
ton to the Chicago and Southwes.
tern Road, there has been q great
change of opinion, and in three Of
them at least-Fair View, Blue
Mound and Jackson-the prospects
are that good majoritics will be roll
ed up for the subscription to our
homo Company. The strong feeling
throughout the county in favor Of
the now enterprise speaks volumes
for the good sense of our people
They will accept this proposition of
the Ottumwa Chilicothe and Licking.
ton Company for the reason that to
do SO, will be. TO effect a good bar
gain, and il an investment of their
money that will DO profitable.-Ml-
icothc Constitution.
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Mr. Smith, of Che Family.

Tho Iowa Democracy dance mer.
rily to the music caused by the
]ingling and clinking of hard money.
Having a candidate for Office to
chose. they persistently. ignore the
brains, and weigh the pocket-books
Of their partisans. In the days Of
Democratic glory and strength, the
wearer Of the filthiest shirt in the
party was unusually the recipient of
the party's highest honors. Now,
however, the man of much money, or
Of monstrous bowels, or of both, is
invariably chosen to experience
defeat in behalf of the great "un-
washed and unterrified."
The sufferer in the coming Con-
gressional contest bears the wierd
and uncommon name of Smith-Bill
Smith, Of Mahaska county. The
Democrats have put him up to be
knocked down like a big ten-pin in
short alley. If q strict family vote
were to be taken, all our betting
would be in favor of Mr., Smith, but
upon party vote we think the
Smith family will split up, and SO
Billy will be beaten.
The democrats are tricksters-we
have always heard that of them
but this last trick Is their shrewdest
of all. Neither Deans filthy shirt,
Irish's brains, nor Gillaspy's bowels
having sufficed to do anything for
the party, in the way of a lift into
office, they now trot outSmith with his
money. Money is nice for campaign.
ing purposes, but money isn't Smiths
best card. Smith runs principally
upon his family namo. If he can
carry tho entire democratic vote and
draw the votes Of the Smiths who
belong in republican ranks, demo
cracy may triumph.
The Democrats knew about this.
Ii took them two years to plan out
that trick, and then it wasn't original
with them. Mark Twain is the inno-
cont author of the mischief. Didn't
Mark dedicate his book to John
Smith, hoping all the Smiths would
buy it? But we don't find fault
with Mark. Who expected Iowa
Democrats to coin Marks humor-
GUS suggestion into political capital
If Bill Smith were only John
Smith But; no matter. Even as it
is, our only hope lies in the continued
loyalty Of tho Republican branch of
tho Smith family. A plague upon
Observation-Disclosures Republican.
The suicide of Mon. NJ. Provost
Paradol is fully accounted for at last,
from tho announcement of the fact
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-07-28

Governor Stones organs have
finally abandoned tho SANDER on
Judge Loughridgc, that he voted
against the 18th amendment which
they either ignorantly or maliciously
repeated during the first two months
Of the Congressional campaign, with
o spirit worthy Of better cause.
They are however now rallying to
the charge that Loughridgo sold out
the Oskaloosa Post Office TO man
(who even yet supports Loughridge)
with their same old spirit. But
we submit that under a well
known provision of law which de-
clares witness who ia false in one
thing is false in all !; these defa-
mers of Judge Loughridge are not
to unlimited crcdence, and
that therefore the Post Office story,
like the other may be a canard.
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County Convention.

ihe Republicans of Wapello county will
meet in Convention ut the Court House In
nttamwa, on zar#E L,sE
s. Saturday, August 9Th 1870,
nj aoclock p. M, for the purpose Of nomina-
ting candidates for County Clerk, County
Recorder and three candidates for County
state and Congressional Conventions. There
will also be taken into consideration the
propriety of changing the present basis of
Township representation.
The republicans of the various Townships
will meet at their usual places of holding
Soth day OF July next, and chose i've dele
gates fot each Township to said County
Convention. j. H. MERRILL.
Cheirlnan County Central Committee.
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EXPLAINED.-In the Grand
Junction Headlight we find a fling at
our member, Judge Loughridgc,
which is fully accounted for by turn
ing to the personals in that paper,
and noticing that his excellency, ex-
Governor Stone, was in the city OF
Grand Junction at tho time.
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Republican Convention.
FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

Notice is hereby given TO the Republican
Electors OF the Fourth Congressional Dis
trict of the State of Iowa, that Republican
Convention for the nomination OF Republi-
in said District, will be held at oskaloosa,
On ThW&t,y the 18th day Of august,
at clcccn O'Clock a. M.
The ,hisiS OF representation In said couven
ton, win he one delegate from each county
athe District, with one additional delegate
TOR every three hundred votes, or traction
.lae.,of OF one hundred and fifty votes or mp
ward, cast for Gov. samuel Merrill, Mt the last
election.
The Executive Committees OF the several
counties are charged with the callin& of the
necessary County Conventions, for the cleo
stnn of delcgatcs.
Ry order of the Republican Central Com
mittee for said Congressional District,
rQ4I.fglZ ( dOHN CONNELI.. Chairman.
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PENsIoNs.-Pensi are to DO paid
hereafter under d recent net OF Con-
gross, quarterly, which is . good
thing for the benefciaries, including
the poorly paid Pension Agents, who
got . foe on every claim paid. 90 that
the oftcner, the better tor them.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-07-28

A young man named Swickard,
near West Liberty, because he liked
a girl who wouldn't like him, tried to
get out of bis trouble by the use of
chloroform, but q doctor pumped the
nonsense out Of him, and now he
says he don't care for her any how.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-07-28

The damgee Powder is taking the lead
ofali preparations of the kind in the mar
ket. Ills nm invaluable remedy, and no
lover stock should be without it.
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Iowa County for Loughridge

Iowa County for Loughridge.
Iowa county held its Republican
County Convention at Williamsburg,
on the 9th inst, and we take from
tho Republican tho following sum-
mary of it's action:
As will be seen by the proceedings
oil the Convention, the delegates
were nearly unanimous in their pre-
ference for Judge Loughridge to
represent us in the next Congress
Of the townships represented in the
convention, only one voted solid
against HIM, and gentlemen present
claimed that the delegates did not
really represent the sentiment of the
people Of their township. Troy
township was divided, two of the
delegates supporting Clark while the
other one supported the popular
candidate. Stones name ives not
mentioned, notwithstanding his
friends from other counties had been
distributing circulars throughout the
southern part of the county for the
purpose Of influencing the action of
the delegates. The injudicious course
Of Ex-Governor Kirkwood in aiding
the circulation of these falsehoods,
and alec taking upon himself the
responsibility Of vouching for their
truth, had also the effect Of doing his
candidate more injury than good. 1t
had been intended to ask the conven-
ton 10 endorse Mr.. Clark as its
second choice, in the event of Mr..
Loughridge failing to receive the
nomination; but in consequence of
this action, nothing was said, and the
delegates are left at liberty to act as
in their judgment will be for the best
interests Of the people ofthis district.
The following extract from the
proceedings Of the Convention show
that it mattered little whether the
delegates were "ncarly unanimous in
their preference for Judge Tough.
ridge" or not;
"On motion, the delegates to the
Congressional Convention were in
structed to vote for Hon. William
Loughridge."
That will do for Iowa. Tho
Loughridge column grows WE'LL
Vinton Eagle.
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Can Prussians Whip French
men ?

Referring to the battles of 1912,
1914, and 1916, in which the RUSSIANS
wero often exclusively pitted against
tho French alone, so as to afford test
trials of the relative fighting PROV
ess Of those two peoples, d well in
formed European writer In the Gin
oinnati Commercial, Mr.. Daniel
Roemer, says:
There were ten great battles in
1872, namely: Luton, May 2;
Bautzen, May 20 and 81 Lucknau,
Juno 3; Gross. Beeren, August % !;
Katzbach, August 20; Dresden, Aug.
20 and %; Kuhn, August 30; Denne-
witz, September 6; Leipzig, October
Is, Is, and 10; Hanau, October 20
and 50, besides the engagement of
Wurtonbcrg, October 8, tho combat
Of Moekern, near Magdebhrg, April
s, not to DO COMPOUNDED with tho
battle of Moeckorn, October16 which
formed an episode in the battle of
Leipzig. Tho combats of Koniys-
wartho and Weissig, May IS; the
combat Am Goerdcr Wald, Septem.
Der 1G; the combat near Weimer,
between Tetienborn and DO Fevre
Decrohottes, whose date havo
forgotten, and innumerablo smaller
fights, impossible to remember.
"The only battles in which Prus-
slams alone without being encountered
by Russians or Austr,ans, fought the
French were Lucknau, Gross-Beren,
Katzbach and Dennewitz, and the
engagement of Wurtenberg, in all
five of which the Prussians were
victorious. The battle of Donewitz,
is moreover the most glorious victory
Of this century. Forty thousand
Prussians under Bulow utterly rout-
ed seventy thousand Frenchmen
under Ney. No nation can show
such glorious victory in the present
century. In tho year 1914 there
were six important battles! La
Rother (Feb. y, Bar sur Aube Feb.
20, Leon March 9-lO), Montereau
(March Is, l believe), Arcis sur Aube
(March 20), and Paris March 800,
and then the engagement Of Craonne
March s; if I remember rightly, the
combats OF Chen1paubert, Vau-
champs, Etoges, Montmirail, besides
minor fights, as for instance La Fore
Champenoise. Ofthesc the Prussians
alone engaged tho French, at Leon,
Etoges and Monttnirali, in the FIRST
victofiously, In tho two lattet they
were beaten. In 1915 there were
two battles, Ligny and Waterloo,
and two engagements, at Quatrebras
and WAvre. besides the smaller fights
Of these the Prussians fought alone
at Ligry and Wavre. In the former
they were beaten; the latter was
rtndecidrd
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Original Notice.
In the District Court of the state Of Iowa,
in and for Wapello County.
John 2. Mingusl

ag'st August Term, 1870.
To said Defendant :-You are hereby noti-
fled that on or before the 18th day Of Aug. 1870
the petition of John D. Mingus plaintiff. will
be filed in the Clerks office OF said Dist. court
OF Wapello county. praying the anar!nance
quarter OF section Is, township II, range ID
west, Except twelve acres out Of the north
acres on the east end 81 lot ia. 4. in asction.
township and range Aforesaid, and praying
that You may be forever estOpped and de-
barred from claiming any right, title or In
terest in or to said real estate adverse to the
estate OF petitioner. or those claiming through
and make defense thereto at or before noon
Of the second day OF next term Of said Court.
TO be begun and held At the Court House at
Ottumwa, in said County, ON the 18th day Of
August, 1870, y0ur default viii be entered and
. decree and Judgment rendered thereon
JACQUES 4 FAwCErT,
July7wat Petitioners Attorneys
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Charlton.

George Holmes. Of Charlton, was
was appointeas Sheriff OF 1ucas
County, on Saturday last. He fills
the vacancy occasioncd by the death
OF Gaylord Lyman, who was foully
murdered in that city some time
ago.
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Ha~ BE sure to read the advertise
10 ent "Greatest Work of the Age
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SulcIDE.-From the davenport
Gasettc Of July 2l, We learn that a
man named o. II. McKissack, Of
Boards town, ILL.,, committed suicide
at Rock Island, by taking morphine.
No cause is assigned for the act,
other than that he was an habitual
topper.
The Davenport Gazette has the
following concerning the cause OF
tho riot at Ashland Crossing, on last
Friday .4..
The sub.contractor on tho Chicago
Southwestern who fed from Wash
ington last week. was Gabriel Arm
strong. The Press says he took
$4,000 in cash with him, leaving
$4,000 Of indebtedness. He had q
force of two hundred and fifty men
and Atty tsaths at work Oh his four
mile contract, whom he had not paid
q cent for the month ending July
18th, and was owing them balances
for May and June. His bills at
different stores in Washington, sum
up to $4,000, Tho hetasiest losers
being Sargent, $1,000; Dougherty,
5000; Van Nostrand, $3.50; Corette,
$3.50. His debts to boarding
houses along tho line amount
to $4,000. His clerk and foreman
have also ,vamqosed. They live at
Port Byron, tn. Tho. hands and
divers swindled parties held a meet
ing on the scene Of operations on
Saturday, and resolved to do no
work, and allow no work to DO done
on tho road, until they get their pay.
Armstrong is Q man about 40 years
old, short, thick set, flight complex.
ion. He formerly lived in Cordova,
llls., but lately in Albany, q few miles
north Of Rock Island. A telegram
says his family il still there. He
lately sold two farms near A. 1t il
believed that no found he would
lose money on his contract, hence
this move of his.
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The suicide of Mon. NJ. Provost
Paradol is fully accounted for at last,
from the announcement Of the fact
that he got his hash at Wormley's.