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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-11-30

Mr.. Grceley's chances for the
Presidency are improving, A Penn
sylvania paper gives four unanwer-
able reasons why he should be the
candidate of the Democratic and
sorehead Republicans, in opposition
to Gen. Grant. First, it says his nom.
nation "would not be as absurd as
it might appearto be at first thought
Second, che can express bis animos.
ity for Grant most forcibly by run
ming as the opposition candidate"
Third, she has been beaten SO often
in his efforts to reach public Office
that he will be able TO bear with
practiced equanimity the defeat
which will surely befall any gentle
men who ecure the Democratic
nomination." Fourth, "the NorthorD
Democrats admire him for his ha-
tired Of Grant, and his appearance on
the bail bond of JEFF. Davis long ago
secured him the affectionate regard
OF the rebel Democracy ofthe South
1t there is any other man who can
present such an array OF arguments
iAsupport Of his nomination as the
above, We should like to see him
trotted out.-NeU York Times.
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Mrs. Victoria G. Woodruff and her
crew of cantharidic co workers In the
cause of universal immortality are
really OVERRIDING it. The garbage
which they set before US is enough
to make a horse sick. The creed
which these people preach should
only be accepted by . man without
wife, sister or mother, or who re-
spects none Of them-some such man
as Stephen Pearl Andrews or Theo.
dore Tilton. Conjugal infdelities
are condoned If the parties thereto
confess them The right of woman
or a man to intercourse as promiscu.
GUS or bestial as any recounted in
mythology is advocated. A specious
array Of fallacies, q copious collection
Of errors, and q voluble display OF
turgid ungrammaticism constitute
the stock-in.trade of these pros.
titutes of the platform, if we ex-
cept bare bosoms, tilted skirts and a
general horsiness of demanor. The
whole business is become a crying
nuisance and a disgrace to q Chris.
tian land and o civilized age. II
the people will 60 to wallow in the
filth Of these Yahoos OF the lyceum
and the press, unarmed with rotten
eggs, then let the authorities inter.
fore. Nightly raids are made on the
bagnios of Fourth avenue or our
picayune gambling bells, but this
woman, Woodruff, is allowed with
lmpunity to debauch public morale
and offend public deceny. This ID
not ust.-C Chicago Republican.
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A lady was reading to her servants
an account of the Chicago fire. The
incident of the burning of thf
emancipation proclamation arrested
the attention of one old colored
woman, q slave all her life, who
viewed the proclamation much az
the ~Israelites did the ark of the GOV
enant. "What dat" she said, "burn.
ed up "Yes, aunty, burned up
"Den what gwine como of US again n
II don't know may be you'll be
slaves as BEFORE" "Den dis chile
gwine to die right now" And
throwing up her hands in dismay,
she left the presence of her mistress,
visiting dire imprecations on the
head oftLe man "what sot out dat
fire."-New Orleans Picdyune..
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NOTICE OF INCORPORATION.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
have associated themselves together and be-
fcr the purpose OF transacting business as an
Incorporation for ~pecuniary profit
LIST. The name of such Incorporation is
the National Coal and Mining Company, y
y Its principal place OF transacting bust
ness is Ia Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa.
I'd. The general nature Of the business to
mining OF and dealing in Coal and Coal
Lands aud other Minerals, and for preparing
said Coal and other Minerals for market. In
Wapelle County, i,wa. and such OTHER places
Sd. The amount of capital and stock ia
" Hundred Thousand. Dollars tauthortzed
capital stock Five Hundred Thousand Dol
lars), 10 be paid In at such times and In such
sums az the Board OF Directors may BY reso-
IA. The ommencement Of the rncorpora.
ton Is on the 2olh day Of October, a. I: 1871
and continues Twenty f2O years, with the
9th. The affaIrs Of the Company are to be
conducted by a Board Of not mora thar Five
Directors, to be chosen from tho memoer OF
Sic %Sk9SmlPasny "a e, b sns s. sas as ttbusmesMsaas on n' the the
second Wednesday In June IN each year (ex-
cspting that the FIRST regular .meetius for he
"Wednesday in December. 1871. who at said
time elect a President, Vtne President, $40
rotary, Treasurer and superintendent, AL Of
yesr and until their successors are elected
etb. The highest amount Of Indebtedness
or liability to which the Corporation shall al
any time subject itself shall not exceed one
half OF the capital stock of the Company at
the time the Indebtedness Is contracted.
9TH. The private property Of the Incorno
retors and stockholders shall be exempt from
ell corporate debts or liabilities.
on IN Wines snSs s., whereof We IN have hs ,s 3 set
October, a. .; ls7l.
:, & IS 81 R LAKE f-1nsorpor..ors
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Dan'l. w, Voorhees, the "talI
sycamore OF the Wabash is out in a
card favoring the abandonment of a
aistinctiye-democratic party, and the
holding at some central point of q
National Convention, july 22d, next,
OF all that is lett OF his party, and
the fag ends of all other parties, in.
Guiding the disappointed and sore.
head members Of the Republican
party. Dan'l thinks that these re,
cruits can if combined makea success.
full fight. against Grant in 1872. We
r inclined 10 the opinion that Dan'I
has not heard Of Donelson, vicks.
burg or Appomattox.
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The otAsr Side or the Question.

"a correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, writes in behalf of mems
rights : 81 am" says he, "a bachelor,
81 years of age, in sound health, and
in receipt Of q salary of $500 q
year, and, therefore, a good match
for any woman, no matter who she
may be; yet / remain unmarried
from principle, and will remain single
until the laws are 80 altered as to
make me master of my own house.
am the owner of real estate acquired
by my owniabor. l do not mean to
allow any woman to control me in
my disposal of that property simply
because she should happen to be my
wife. She would have done nothing
toward earning that property, and,
therefore, have no moral right in its
sale. Any law giving her a dover
third il simply a fraud on me the
more SO al the law does not give me
any dover third in her property
And then the ceremony ~now-a-days
called marriage does not give me a
wife-it merely gives me a woman
who can leave me whenever she
pleases. / can not keep her against
her wishes. She may 60 back to her
father or elsewhere, and l can't CON-
pei her to come back but should |
leave her for any reason she can
have me arrested and compel me to
support her. Such a thing is one
sided and Unfair. A woman held by
such a loose tie is not, in my opinion,
a wife in the holy way a decent man
has shrined IN his thoughts. The
laws have degraded her into a CON
cubire."
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NEW YORK.
0onnelly held in Ouraues Uaabls 70
Obtain Bail

0onnelly held in Duranes uaabis -
NEW York, Nov. ~.
1t is stated that the st. Patrick
Mutual Alliance Society made threats
of r%escuing Connolly yesterday.
They declared that the Sheriff was
very severe on the Ext Controller in
not allowing him to 60 to his family.
Connolly's friends expect to be
able to procure bail before tho close
Of the day.
The Grand Duke visited Brooklyn
Navy Yard to-day.
Ten new cases and four deaths
from the smallpox to-day. There
we're l53 deaths from this disease
last week. Ninety-two cases were
reported yesterday.
Connolly was not balled late this
afternoon. The securities found
early in the day, Washington Con.
molly, Michael Trnamy, Thomas J.
Cahill, John Morrissey and Bernard
Kelly, were unable to Justify in the
required amount. 1t is said that
Connolly will be permitted to occupy
rooms at the New York Hotel for .
reasonable period, but if bail be not
obtained he will be committed to the
ludlow Street Jail.
Rumor says Tweed has resigned
the Office of Commissioner of Public
Works, and Francis NJ. Bidby, a
merchant, has been appointed his
successor by Mayor Hall.
NEW YoRK, Nov. 20.
Ex-Comptroller Connolly was ar.
rested at noon on q charge of fraud.
Bail in 81, 0O0, 600 il required Of Con.
molly, which has not been obtained
yet.
Connolly's arrest to day created
quite an excitement ct the City Hall,
Shortly after it became public it was
generally talked about throughout
the city. The arrest was made by
Sheriff Brennan in person. Connol.
" was taken wholly by surprise.
The arrest vas based on the same
summons as was used in the case oil
Tweed, I~ngersoll, Carney, and Wood.
ward, Connolly's name being added
to the others afterwards. Connolly,
in charge Of the Deputy Sheriff,
started IN search of bondsmeE, 1,
was announced late in the afternoon
that Eugene Kelly, q banker, who is
reported to be worth eleven millions,
would give the required bail.
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TAKEN mn By William Clarkson, Of DehIns.
ean 1Township, wapeiio county. Iswa,oa ne
18th day of.Nov. ISL. An estray horse g.
scribed as follows: Bay color, supposed % 2
Ia wears old, IA hands high, white spot IN ne
forehead, blind In the right eye, right 1o1ss
foot and left hind foot white 70 the fesioca
Joints. %N&&9%&M&k &
Taken MP by j. 9. Ives, OF Competino town
ship, Wapeilo County, Iowa. ON tho5nr1s DAY
Of Nov, ISL, an estray steer, descglbed e
follows: One yeaf old, red color, 0usn o. tne
tall white; no other marks or brands.
Taken UP by J. 9. Ives, OF Competine town.
ship, Wapello county, Iowa, on the "a DAY 81
Nov, 1871, an estray steer, described - io!-
lows: Small, two years old, red color, with
| some white on the belly.
TAKEN up by A. D.. Phelps, of COMPOSING
| Township, Wapell0 county, Iowa. ON the lgth
| day of Nov, 1871, an estray marc colt, Dc.
| scribed as follows: Red roam color, snppoeed
to be one year old last spring, both hind feat
l white above the pasterJ1, d some. bit
| hairs In the forehead, lump on the right SIDE
of the nose.
Taken up by John shuriey, Of Center town.
ship, WRpetlo County, lows. on the 6th day
| OF Nov, 1871, an estray heller, described ~
follows: Two years old, white nd red color,
some streaks Of brindle, the bush OF the tail
gone, q swallow.fork in the right ear, and q
hole In the lett ear. $500
Clerk District o Of Wapello Co. lows.
no33-w2te n
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WASHINGTON.
Arizona Indians to 30 Dealt with Sum-
marily-Presidsnt's Message, &c.

Arizona Indians to 30 Dealt with sum
marily-Fresidsnt's Message, 81.
New YORK, Nov. q.
A Herald dispatch from Washing.
ton says that the leading features Of
the Presidents message will be inter-
nal taxation, finances, Washington
treaty, Indians and Kuklux distur.
Dances in the South. 1t is under
stood the message will recommend
the abolition OF all internal taxes ex-
cept on spirits, malt liquors, tobacco
in every form and stamp, and a gen.
eral recommendation is made for a
revision Of the tariff, although no
articles are specified for reduction OF
abolition Of duty. 1t is however sug
gested that those only should be
lowered in the revision with the
least injury to the country. No ma
terial change in the Indian policy
will be recommended.
The message will allude but briefly
to the Kuklux. 1t will be left to tn,
Attorney General to report at length
on the question.
The result Of the labors of tn,
High Joint Commission will be
subject Of congratulation.
What further measures will be Ia
ken respecting the recent campaigl
IN Corea, have not yet been de6ritel,
determined on. A strong policy
however, is indicated. The punish
ment of Coreans for the murder 6
shipwrecked American seamen
considered complete.
The San Domingo question lie ye
under advisement.
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UTAH.


Continuation Of the Storm In Utah
Further Loss Of Like by Snow Slides
SALT LAKE. Nov. 81.
The following dispatch was receiv.
ed by the Herald this evening from
Cottonwood
@Since the last report the storms
have not in the least abated, but, 1.
possible, are more fearful than ever.
Parties who have been here for the
last two winters say they have never
known az terrific o storm in the car.
yon. We have not seen the sun
since Sunday, the 10Th. The wind
il blowing, the snow is drifting, and
everything is gloomy. Work is
generally suspended. Though there
have been no slides In the last az
hours, they r momentarily expect
ed, and especially in the vicinity Of
Umia Hill.n
A later dispatch from the Tentic
mining district saysa terrible storm
storm has been raging there tor the
last thirty.six hours, and il is still
showing and blowing.
Another slide at Cottonwood is
reported, by which tour men lost
their lives.
The snow ut Alta City is ten feet
deep, and at last accounts il was stlll
storming furiously.
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the. Irish coast between the ships
Marmion and Osceola. Several OF
the crew escaped by jumping aboard
the Marmion. Five men are miss.
ing. II is hoped they saved them.
selves in one of the boats.
For the first time since the oc.
cupation Of Rome the Italian parlia.
ment met in this city to-day. The
opening speech was delivered In
person by His Majesty King Victor
Emanrel. At the commencement
he alluded to the city. Italy restor.
ed to herself has reconquered hel
place in the world. He was convino
ed that Rome would remain the seat
OF the pontiicant. The relations
between Italy aud all other nations
His Majesty said, are friendly, and
he believed that peace would con.
tinue, but informed the parliament
that they would be held to strict no
count in the future if they neglected
to perfect q thorough organization
of the military and naval forces o
the Kingdom.
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sH%ERIFF's.sALE.

By virtue Of an execution 10 me directed
from the Clerk CT the Circuit Court Of WaPel-
10 County, Iowa, on etudgment obtAined "a
in favor OF w. II. Bower, a. plaintiff, and
gains Marymand Harrison q defendant,
for the sum Of Three Hundred Dollars, md
interest and costs taxed at S0.7t and AccrulnG
costs, i have levied upon the following ree1
estate taken - the property OF said Defead.
ant, to satisfy said exesntion, to.wtt: /.
addition 10 Ktrkvflle, Wapello County, Iowa.
And will offer the same for sale TO the high
est bidder for cash in hand, on the 18th day
House door, In Otlumwa. 1T the hour of. one
o'clock, 2. NJ, OF said day, when and wnore
due attendance will be given by the undes.
signed.
Dated at Ottumwa, Iowa, Nov. 18th 1871.
s. A. sWIGGETT, Sheriff of said County.
By WIN III. IL. AsHURY, Deputy. ln62-w2
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Death in the Pot.

Six thousand kegs of Dutch her
ring arrived at New York recently
in a very bad smashed up condition,
on account of the vessel experiencing
ii storm at sea. But worse than this,
80 kegs Of arsenic were on the ship
and they We're also smashed by the
storm, and it was pretty ~promiscously
mixed up with these little fishes
which were on their arrival lepacked
in kegs and sent to market. One
chap named Barry, aged Is, has
already quit, in New York, on ac.
count of his iondness for Dutch
herring.
We have no spite against the
dealers in Dutch behring's at large,
yet u duty as a public journalist
compels us to chronicle this item OF
news to the end that if any of our
good friends die Immediately after
partaking of "a light dish Of these
sinners, that their FRIENDS may have
no trouble in getting mp on intelligent
epitaph for them.
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sHERIrE,s SALE.


BY virtue OF an execution to nae directed
from the Clerk of the District Court OF Wa
ptllo County, Iowa, on q Judgment obtained
1871, in favor of Patrick Hughes, Is Plaintl6.
and against Mary Burk, ct. al. AZ defendants,
Dollars and So cents and interest and coste
taxed at s5.25 and accruins costs, | have levied
upon the following real estate taken ~ the
execution. to-wit:
Lot No. twelve, u2) in block Nc. twenty-five
CD in Blake's addition to the city OF Ottum-
wa, WRpello County, Iowa.
And viii offer the same for sale to the high.
est bidder for cash In hand, on the !9th day
& use door, 10 Ottumwa, at the hour Of one
o'clock, 7. NJ. Of said day, when n whore
due attendance will be given BY the under.
signed.
Dated at ottumwa, Iowa. Nov. 18th 1871.
b. A. SWIGGETT,
Sheriff OF said County.
BY WV. 3. n. AsBuRY, Deputy.
n32 W.T..
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T. j. COLLARS, !
G. G. BLAKE,
]. O. BRfSCOE {
w, NJ. KING,
sQYember Ii. lH7l.dlt. W4f.
NorTon or rNcoRPoRAr1oM

Noticei Is hereby given that the unde. signed
have associated themselves together and he.
come Incorporated under the Laws If Iowa,
Incorporation for pecunisry profit.
LIST. The name of such Incorporation II
The Ottumwa Gas Light Company, 1" and IL,
principal place of transacting business 10 In
ID. The general nature of the business Il
Construction Of Gas Works in said city, the
and Coal Tar to said city and its in%habitants'
inclading the purchase and sale of Coal there.
Sd: b anoant Of Capital and stock is One
tai stock W Hundred and Fifty Thousand
dollarsl twenty per cent. of which is to be
paid when subscribed, and the balance with
calls not TO exceed twenty per cent. Of the
amount subscribed, nor be oftener than once
In sixty days.
4th. The Incorporation shall commence It's
1871, and continue foi the term OF Atty years.
9Th. The affairs of Company are to be con-
Quoted by q Board of Directors of not less
than Three nor more than Seven, who elect
Tuesday In November, at Ottumwa, a Presi-
dent, Vice President, Secretary and Treasrr-
er, and who also appoint an Executive Com
spective offices for one year and until their
Successors are elected or appointed.
9th. The highest amount of Indebtedness
or liability to which the Corporation shall at
any time subject itself shall not exceed two:
thirds Of It's paid-up Capital stock.
9TH. The private property OF the Inoorpo.
rators and stock -holders shall be exempt from
In witness whereof we have hereunto set
our hands this LIST day of November. 4, ID.
" In u l;y WyHETTTLA, Inoorp'tors
Nov, edit. wit.
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A funny paragraph is on it's trav-
els about a girl in Vermont who,
having sued her lover for breach of
promise, laid her damages as follows:
Nine shillings per week for "setting
up" with cost of lights and fuel ad.
ded in. The New York Tribune
says, we may laugh as much as we
please at this, but the girl is a sensl-
bic damsel, and we hope that she
got q verdict. Bringing actions for
damages to the feelings and injury
to the heart, and for the value OF
pangs and delicate disappointments.
is a great deal more mercenary than
asking for recommendations for loss OF
time and even Of fires and lights. A
sharp girl has a perfect right to say
that, but for the wicked conduct OF
the dishonest swain, she might have
married some one else ; and lawyers,
when they go to the jury for the
swindled plaintiff, should put the
case in that way. 1t might spoil their
elegant pathos but after all, that
sort of thing has become hackneyed
and unimpressibe. Business is bust.
ness, and most women in this kind oil
litigation mean business and no.hing
else.
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A CHEAP IcE-H ousE.-Throw q
dozen or two of old rails or poles on
q piece ofground sufficiently inclined
to carry off water ; ill the crevioes
between the poles with sawdust;
cover with old boards, slabs or bark;
get from the saw.mill a few loads of
slabs; take four, say twelve feet long;
notch the corners like q log.house /;
set them on the platform, and you
have a crib about ten and . half feet
square by the width of the slab deep;
fill this crib with sawdust and pack
it down hard. Cut your ice 80 that
it will pack close, and two by four
feet; lay it on the sawdust; put on
another crib of slabs. and fill up and
pack hard with sawdust all around,
and 80 60 on until you get up six or
eight feet; then put q foot and a half
of sawdust on top over this put q
shed-roof of slabs, one end Of the
slabs nearly to the ice, raising the
other three feet. Ifice Is all that Is
wanted, it will keep in this manner
as we'll as in a vanished house.
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CANDIDATEs.-Mr. John Virgins,
of Secash. humbly announces himself
as ole of the candidates for the office
Of Third Deputy Assistant Doorkeep-
er to the peanut stand on the corner
opposite the House of Representa-.
tives. J. Erostratos, OF this county,
has the pleasure of announcing him
self as a candidate for the Office of
Deputy Keeper Of the Brooms in Or.
dinary to the JAnitor of the base
ment of the Capitol. He fatters
himself that his past services to the
party entitle him to recognition
KnoGUiNe Toter.
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Railroad Blunders

Is the title Of a long article in the
last number of the Shady Side, pub.
lished at Keosauqua. In speaking
ofthe d. Y, r. r., it says;
"The first great blunder, as we
conceive, was the tapping the Bur.
lington road at Ottnmwa, from which
point there was a direct eastern con-
nection ; it thereby became a feeder
to the Burlington road, and assisted
in building up Burlington at the ex.
pense of keokuk. To that road it is
a feeder now to some extent,
Tinstead of going to Ottumwa il
had been located through the south.
ern tier of counties, passing through
this place, Bloomfield, &e.,--a conn
try then better settled up than al.
most any other in the State, it could
have got a trade and controlled ii i'll
it's own interest and in the interest
Of keokuk, such as it never has had,
and there is but little prospect of its
ever having by It's present route"
Then this Rip Vanwinkle editor,
in another article in the Shady Side
ofthe same date sage;
We have county here that ought
to have a population Of thirty thous.
and inhabitants, and n hourishing
town within its boundaries of from
five TO eight thousand. But instead
of that we have less than twenty
Thousand, in the county--and that,
LOO, one Of the best and oldest coun.
ties in the State--and no town OF
prominence, or worthy OF special
consideration, without il is on the
score of dilapidation. Keosauaua
being the best and its population
scarcely reaches one thousand, and
its taxable real estate less than one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars"
Now amt he a brilliant railroad
%financier. The D. V. r. R. ought to
employ him at once, and he would
build Il railroad from Summit to
Sleepy Hollow, (Keosauqua) thence
to Dog Town, Nip,and- Tuck, Tick
Ridge, etc, etc. He would avoid all
towns such as Ottumwa, where the
ireights alone amount to more an.
nually than the whole taxable value
ofthe property OF Keosauqua and
go exclusively into the hoop pole
trade, and buiM up a business. In his
estimation towns are a nuisance on
railroads, especially towns that have
any life, population or wealth in
them. VIZ vote that the ID. v. II. r.
put their business into the hands of
the Shady Side editor forthwith, if
not sooner.
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Horatio Seymour has been heard
from: He has made a flaming speech
against Bill Tweed, now that the
latter has lost commend of the Re-
peatsrs and has no more votes to
peddle out. 1t is the u~ngrateful
kick Of the living ass, into the culver
ing side of the dying lion.