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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

TIE UNIVERSITY BUILDING.-Workmen are
now engaged in digging the trenches for the
University building on the Almshouse grounds
The contract for filling in and grading the lot
has been given to Messrs. Massey Il Co. The
streets that border on the property-Spruce
are being opened, and will be graded and paved
as soon as possible. 1t is expected that the
entire building, which is to be of serpentine
stone from the Chester quarries, with dressings
of Ohio buff free-stone, will be completed in
time for the opening of the fall term of 1872,
in the month of September.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

CUSTOM HOUSE CHANGEs.-Ex-Captain Henry
Porter, resident of Harrisburg, Pa, and bro
ther to General Horace Porter, President
Grants private secretary is announced as De-
who goes out of Office with his chief General d.
w O. RaXter.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

FRUIT STORE ENTERED.-A pane of glass in
the door of Frederick p. Lemaistre, Nos. and
South Ninth street. was removed by thief last
night. The fellow entered the store and stole
three dollars from the cash drawer. aud small
quantity of candy.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26
CHARITY.

The Family of Il. Bean-SubseriptiOns In
Aid ThereOf-The Family well Fixed.
Fire Marshal Blackburn, in addition TO the
sums already acknowledged reports the follow
iEg additional subscriptions for the relief of the
family of l. BEAM
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

THE Coal TONNAGE of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad and branches for the week
ending Saturday, April %, 1871, was as
follows:-
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

LARCENY OF SHoEs.-Robert Wesner, while
taking drink at the bar of the tavern Thir-
teenth and Coates Streets last evening" laid
down a pair of CATERS during the refreshing
process. A negro standing by grabbed the
shoes and bolted for the door. The colored man
was arrested and held in 5000 bail by Alderman
Massey. His name is Wilson Miller.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

AN IMPOsTOR.-Our citizens should be on the
alert against an impostor, we'll dressed, medium
in Size, wearing small moustache, and having a
light complexion and sandy hair. His method
is to call at house, and represent himself as a
private officer in the Second National Bank,
located, as he gives it, at 804 Walnut street, and
as having been ordered by the cashier to visit
that house and inform the head OF the family
that the of n neighbor had forged his name
to a promissory note which was now about
maturing; that the neighbor was in great distress,
and his son had confessed his crime. Upon their
lacerated feelings the impostor dwelt at length,
and when he had worked up the pity of the
hearer to the proper point, asked him to
advance about IS to pay the lntesest on the
the crime might be kept from the public and
the matter amcably settled. In some cases he
succeeds in getting the money. The imposition
was certainly ingenious.
CoMMEMoRATIoN OF GERMAN VICTORIES
On Sunday. Monday, and Tuesday, the 18th,
18th, and 10th of Nay, the German people Of
our city will celebrate the establishment of
peace between France and the Fatherland
There will be an imposing parade and great con-
cert. One hundred societies will participate.
On Sunday there will be appropriate religious
services; on Monday agrand parade; and on
Tuesday picnic at the Philadelphia Rifle Club
Park. The Chief Marshal OF the parade will
be General John F. Ballier. The arrangements
for the festival are under the charge of a COM
mittee composed of Ernest Reistle, q. f. Kolb
and r. Heinrich. Tie Committee on Decorations
consists of o. Kaiser, j. Zilz, and A. Rothe.
A MAN KILLED ON THE JUNCTION ROAD AND
FRIGHTFULLY MANGLED.-An unknown man
this morning, between and o'clock, was
found ons the track of the Junction Railroad
near Coopersville. The body was frightfuly
mangled-the legs were torn off, the arms were
crushed, and the clothing completely stripped
from the body. The man was struck by train,
and from the blood on the sleepers the body
had been dragged along the track q distance
of over three hundred yards. Deputy Coroner
Sees held an inquest on the case this morning,
and verdict in accordance with the facts was
rendered.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

DISHONEST SERyANT.-Isabella Mcbride, a
servant in the dwelling No. 1915 Chesnut street,
was arrested yesterday on the charge of the
larceny of clothing from her employers. She is
under bail for her appearance at court.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

FOUND DEAD.-The body of an unknown
man, apparently thirty years of age was fouud
this morning on the farm of William Listers. on
the line of Forty-ninth aud Pine streets The
deceased was dressed in such clothing that il is
inferred he was an emplOYe in a factarv
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

THE NEW FAIRMoUNT BRIDGE.-The contract
Tor the iron work OF the new bridge across tue
SchuylkIl at Fairmount has been awarde /
John w. Murphy. The bid of Mr.. j. f. Ken
nedY for masonry, graduation, etc, has been
approved. II is intended to commence work on
the new bridge at once.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

STEALING NEwGPAPERs.-A lad of fourteen
years, giving the name of John Geibel was
arrested at o'clock this morning. at Twelfth
and Callowhill streets, in the act of stelling
newspapers from the doors of several houses in
that locality. The boy has been held in 5000
bail by Alderman Massey
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

LIQUOR OR No LIQUoR.-Hon. Neal Dow of
Maine, the lifelong advocate of total absti-
nence, win speak on this subject at Hortic cultu-
raj Hall, on Friday evening, the 2Sth instant.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

CARPET THEA thief yesterday afternoon
entered the yard of the residence of Mrs. Steel,
No. 1918 North Twelfth street, and stole FROM
the porch roll of ingram carpet valued at $50.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26

UTEDDING AND PARTY INVITATIONS
ENGRAVED AND PRINTED IN THE LATEST
STYLE.
A fine assortment or FRENCH, ENGLISH, and
AMERICAN PAPER with Envelopes to Match
PAPER and ENVELOPES, ready stamped, always
on hand.
JOHN LINERD
II 80 wamsp NO. 92l SPRING GARDEN Street.
a. FOR sALE-GERMANTowN, SHOE
makers Lane, adjoining Residences OF Messrs.
Cabeen, Morgan, Clements,
POINTED STONE DWELLING,
large lot 100 by sO0 well shaded old trees etc. I'm
mediate possession. II. @. THOMPSON,
No. Q26 W. WASHINGTON SQUARE,
or, ]. NJ. GUMMEY SONS,
4P56t' No. 79s WALNUT Street
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-26
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES.
Reported by De Haven Bro. No. 40 Third street.

VXTEDDING AND ENGAGEMENT RINGS
w OF solid 1s-sarat fine gold. QUALITY WAR
RANTED, A full assortment OF sizes always on
hand. FARR BROTHER, Makers,
No. s24 CHESNUT Street. below Fourth
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07
DEMOCRACY BEHOLD.

At last, o, Lord are the scales
beginning to fall from the eyes of the
dupes, and the $4,000 Irish voters,
who had won the distinction of be.
ing labeled the sold guard of Tam
many" have stacked their arms, and
raised their caps in obeisance to dame
Justice. The old organized conspira-
cy OF scoundrelism is beginning to
quake, and SO sure as the "old guard"
withdraw their support Tammany
falls. Such rebellion as is promis-
ed in our telegraphio dispatches to-
day will fall upon the rotten old hulk
like a thunder-bolt. All calcul ations
of the crew Of Tammsny were based
upon the ignorant, blind and stupid
fidelity of this cold guard" they
counted upon it as regularly and per.
sistently as we count the coming of
the sun with the morning. The
"old guard" are not the mon who
directly robbed the treasury Of New
York Of millions every quarter and
every year, but they furnished the
men to do the fraudulent voting and
ballot box stufing to keep the great
thieves in power. Of course we do
not mean to cast reflections upon the
Irish as race, because there are
among them as intelligent, respect
able men as eyer breathed the air of
heaven, but New York has a great
army of the other sort, and these
speedily brought all their fellows who
arrived in that great port TO adopt
the political ways in which they
have been so firmly, fixed. But
thanks to the persistent and un.
flinching devotion of that paper, sup.
ported by the intelligent Irish reserve
which lead the forlorn hope against
the walls of Tammany and carried
it by storm. The gates are thrown
open and the most ignorant of the
land can read as they run the fig
ures stand out so glaringly fraudu
lent that none need be misled blu,
those who willfullY shut their eyes
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

Plant straw berries Oh the first Of
September, with some Juggling Of
water-pots and shingles for shade
weed and hoe them four or five
times before winter checks the
growth of tho vegetable pest that
invest a strawberry bed, and frost
begins to play tho deuce with the
roots of backward plan.s-spend no
end Of pains in mulching and watch
The mulch all winter to see that it
neither blows away from or smothe,s
the crowns--observe with chagrin
during warm days in March and
early April, that your strawberries
look winter worn while all manner
ofgrass, and grains, and weeds, are
through the mulch as fresh
and green as leeks-find as blooms
come and pass away that all but
Wilson's blast, and as berries begin
to rodden that the birds carry off
every scattering berry-rato tho
birds of spring a nuisance and small
fruit growing bore, and let weeds
run rampant upon the berry patch.
That is the fate of too many fall |
planted strawberry beds. Better
wait till April-so you are adj ready
here.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

A constable of Kentucky made the
following return on tho back of a
subpoena given HIM to servo on a
witness
II executed this speeuey by trying
to read it 10 John Mack, but he was
drivin cattle on horseback, and run
faster than I could, and kept up such
a hi OF q hollerin l don't know
whether he heered or not. This ID
the best l could do, and don't know
whether the speeny is served accord.
ing to law or not.
ATTEST, ELI SMITH. Const."
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

Won't somebody hold Claggett
The election of his radical son as del
ogate to Conffress has turned the
gray-haired sire's head completely
round. Listen to him:
What radicals called vallandig.
hams Dayton platform, is i term
which they, not democrats, apply to
all democratic resolutions accepting
the late amendments as portions Of
the Constitution and recognizing
their binding obligations to them o.
such; This is no new departure for
the democracy. They have always
held, and still hold, with Washing.
ton, in his farewell address, tina,
"the constitution is sacredly obliea.
tory upon all until changed by an
authentic and explicit act Of the PEG.
ple."
until changed by an authentic
and explicit act of the people,
Good, old friend. An eleventh hou,
repentance is held to be good. You
DO, then, acknowledge that the
amendments to the Constitution are
sacred and right, and that they arc
made SO by the authentic act of The
people. Clerk, record Claggett
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

II
A correspondent of the Providence
journal attempts to show the origin
OF the can't phrase ''put head on
him. In 1868, he says, he was cor.
poral OF the first relief on certain
cavalry picket, and in posting his
men heard from corporal of the 70.
net then on post a queer story, to
the effect that the sentinel on ono Of
the posts, which happened to be near
an old grave, had been horribly per-
turbed by the appearance before him
In the dead hour of night OF a man
on horseback without u head. TO
Jones, the man whom the Journals
corporal correspondent was to station
at this post, the tale was duly told,
and then The correspondent added:
Look out for the man on horseback
any head ont" Jones was
ust frins up his "orier-wood" for
company, and replied between whiffs: |
We'll (puff,) it a man puff puff on
horseback (puff) without any head
n (puff) comes around me (puff,
uff, puff iii put q head on him p
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

| A very singular item occurs in tn,
table Of expenditures by the New
York Ring, as exposed by the New
York Times, to-wit: rent for Armo
ries and drill-rooms, for only one
quarter-3 months, the round sum
of s117,00O.OO. There are some
tweDty-three places paid for, but five
Of them are not occupied, and the
city of New York is paying 1880
per quarter, or S27, 10000 per year
for the privilege of looking at empty
houses. One Of the armories cost
tho city only 100000 per quarter,
Or s36, 100000 por year!
And another item, which strikes
US as being pretty handsome pay, is
s82, ls4.Oo for advertising Novem-
Der election in twenty-three papers.
% into ss2,1s40O goes s3,573 and
'orae cents, which each paper chucks
INTO it's pockets-aocording to Tam.
many igures--for telling the people
hat an election is to be held in the |
ity of New York.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

The horse disease is on the in.
crease in New York, and seems to
attack and prove more fatal among
the street car horses. Some ~
horses died of this disease-labled
"spinal menengetis "-last week.
Probably that's what's the matter
with Hall, the Mayor of New York
Mare or horse, the disease is no re-
specter of sex.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07
FARMERS WIVES.

The reading of essays by the ladies
ls ono of the exercises which give life
and interest to the meetings of the
Springfield (Vt.) Farmers Club
From one of the essays by Mrs. DAN
lei Rice published in the Vermont
Farmer, we copy the following para.
graph:
ibid you ever think Of the amount
OF thought requisite to plan three
meals day for three hundred and
sixty-five days in succession? To
prepare enough and not too much,
and for those living at a distance
from the village, to remember that
tho stock Of flour, sugar, tea, ETC., is
replenished in due timer Do you
ever think Of the multitude of her
cares and duties7 She must rise
early to prepare breakfast or oversee
it. Perhaps there are children to
wash, dress and feed, or get ready
for school with their dinners. There
is baking, sweeping, busting, making
beds, lunch for the men, may be-
dinner, supper to be made ready at
the proper time-the washing,
starching, folding and ironing Of
clothes--the care Of milk, including
the making Of butter and cheese
and the inevitable washing of dishes.
In Autumn there is an additional
work of picking, preserving, canning
Of fruit, drying apples, boiling cider,
making apple sauce, with the still
more unpleasant task which falls to
her lot in butchering time. Then
there is haying, harvesting, sheep.
shearing, etc, when more help il
needed, bringing an increase Of her
labors. Twice . year comes house
cleaning. By the way, of all the
foes . house-keeper has to contend
with, dirt is the greatest. She may
gain complete victory, and think
to repose upon her laurels after hel
semi-snnual engagements-but it il
only temporary. The enemy scor
returns, and even daily skirmishine
does not keep il at bay. There Ii
the mending, too. Sewing machines
are great blessings, but they can't sc,
in patch.or darn the stockings.
don't mention these things by way
Of complaining Of woman's lot il
general or asking for her any right.
which she does not possess. l dom
know as there is any remedy in tn,
present state of the world. 1t seems
to be one Of the evils of lite which
must be born a. we bear other ills
but what l do ask is q due apprecia
ton Of the important part that wo
man acts, and q concession that hel
labors, mental and physical, arc q
great, all things considered, as thos'
Of the other sex. Women are not o,
childish that little sympathy nov
and then, or Acknowledgements 0
their efforts and sacrifices max
them imagine their case worse thai
it is. ! tell you, men and husbands
it doeth good like a medicine an,
many q poor, crushed, broken-dow1
wife and mother is dying Tor wan
of it.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

Mr.. Lorne's path is not strewn
with thornless flowers. At recent
ball, Mr.. Wales was immensely dis
gusted that his brother in law should
have been admitted at the royal
entrance, and gave orders at the
next ball he should be told that his
face want good there. Accordingly,
when the "noble Markiss" presented
his ticket the door-keeper told him
that was played. Mr.. Lorne said he
wasn't IN the back stair business just
then, and Mrs. Lorne said that what
was good enough for her husband
was good enough for her, and il they
didn't let him in she wouldn't 20
there. And sho didn't go to tho ball,
but went home and played draw
poker with her husband aud John
Bright. r.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

lee county Republicans, on the
I'd, nominated r. P. Creel, for Sheriff
}. W. Frow, for Treasurer Chas.
Koehler, for Auditor; A. J. Wilkiu.
son, Capt. J. NJ. Evans and Capt. J.
3. Brackott were nominated for Rem.
resentatives. A splendid ticket, and
ought and can be elected if Republi.
cans do their duty.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07
The Order for IL Execution or Jssu,
Christ.

| y1o order 1o1 tho Execution Of Jaau,
Among tho manuscripts that wer,
probably burned in the recent con.
fagration of the Archiepiscopal
Palace, at Bourges, France, the most
remarkable was, without doubt, the
order for the execution of Jesus
Christ which was the personal
property Of tho family De Ia Tour
d Auvergne. The order ran thus:
Jesus Of Nazareth, of the Jewish
tribe of Juda, convicted of imposture
and rebellion against the divine
authority of Tiberius Augustus, En-
peror OF the Romans, having for this
sacrilege been condemned to die on
the CROSS by sentence of the Judge,
Pontius PLATE, on the prosecution of
our lord, Herod, Lieutenant Of the
Emperor in Judea, shall be taken to.
morrow morning, tho 23d day of the
ides of March, TO the usual place of
punishment, under the escort of u
company Of the Pretorian guard.
The SO called King of the Jews shall
be- taken out by the Strunean cato.
All the public officers and the sub.
ects Of the Emperor arc directed TO
eud their aid to the execution of
his sentence.
"CApsL.
Jerusalem, 22d day of the ides Of
darch, year Of Rome. 783."
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07
A woMAN's EXECUTION, PARIS
MAY, 1871.

-
Sweet-breathed and young,
The peoples daughter
No nerves unStrung-
Going to slaughter
"Good morning, friends!
You'll love us better,
Make us amends:
We've burst y our fetter!
"How the sun CLEANS!
Women are snarling
Give me your beams,
Liberty's darling!
"Marie's my name
Christ's mother bore it!
That badge No shame:
Glad that wore it :!
= (Hair to her waist,
Limbs like Venus;
Robes are dlsplaced):
soldiers please screen us
HE at the 'front.' I'd
That Is my lover:
stood all the brunt: N-
Now the fights over!
Powder and bread
Gave out together,
Droll to be dead
In this bright weather!
& Jean, boy we might #
Have married in June
This the wall2 Right a-l
VIvE LA CoMMUNE!"
Edward King, in Scribner.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07
C0RRHSPoNDaNCH,
Horse CREEK, !
CHEROKEE NATION, !
u Aug. Both. 1871


i Messrs. Hamilton and Warden -
-Four or five days ago lett Fontana
Kansas, for a..trip through the Indian
Territory, and to day find myself
almost in the center of the Cherokee
Nation. <#-4laa
The corn crops in Kansas are as
good as l have ever seen in my life.
Old Kansas farmers think that many
fields Of their corn will yield from
Is to 100 bushels to tho acre, and
saw corn that bad no cultivation,
since planting, that / am well salts
fed will yield so bushels to the acre.
If any Of your Wapello county
farmers, who have some means, de-
sire to locate in Kansas, l would
recommend Linn or Bourbon ooun-
ties; or with but little capital, Mont
gomery or Howard counties.
As l am writing you q letter, / OK
pect some of your readers would like
to know something.about this Terri
tory and the people who inhabit in ::
About 10 miles south of Baxter
Springs, Kansas, the Miami Indians
have reservation and some Of them
have worry fine and we'll improved
farms. The Shawnees, Quipaws,
Ottawas, and Wyandotts, also live in
the same neighborhood. They are
only a remnant of their several tribes.
numbering in the aggregate about
1900, and they seem to Be sensible
and we'll behaved-in fact pretty
well educated for their opportunity.
My acquaintance with the Chero-
KEGS have not been very extended,
but | find they live in good, comfort
able houses, and and seem to be sur
rounded with a sufficient amount of
outside accommodations TO render
them independents.
About an hour ago, as was pass.
ing house, / heard some very good
music, Cat least it sounded so to my
uneducated ear), and, on looking in, |
saw o dusky maiden Tor matrosj
on an organ, and she ap- |
peared to 60 through the motion as
we'll as many Of the ladies of Wapello
county could have done.
This letter has been written with
very poor Accommodations for writing,
md | will conclude by saying that
his Territory has good soil and
imber, and would, if in tho possess
ion OF white men, make splendid
armers country.
As soon as l get time will write
gain. J.C.J.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07
Telegraphic Newg|
WASHINGTON
Eiaancial.
WANHTNnrn,


WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.
G ~ ~ not yet known what course the
secretary proposes to pursue in rela.
ton to the three hundred million Ave
per cents which remain of The naw
loan under the funding bill. but the
impression prevails in financial cir.
cles that no more new bonds viii na
offered tor a month to come, and that
when Boutwell, decides to place more
new loan on the market, he will Offer
all three classes of bonds authorized
under the funding act in equal por
tons Of each class, unless Congress
shall in the meantime authorize him
to withdraw the 4 and Al and s per
cents, from the market altogether.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07
DR.. Loring, one of the many ast

DR.. Loring, one of the many aspi
rants for the Republican nomination
for Governor of Massachusetts,, has
some notion ofthe pride of ancestry.
AT the recent Miles Standish celebra-
ton at Duxbdry the doctor revealed
this incident in the captains court
ship not related by Longfellow. Said
he: III claim lineal descent from Miles
Standish. My great-g andmother's
name was Alathea Alden, whose
husband, John Alden, was sent by
Standish to court her by proxy, but
who accepted modest hint from the
maid, and won her tor himself in.
stead of his leader"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

The Des Moines Register rejoiceth
thus upon the accession to that city's
population
"Mrs. Capt, Harbert, formerly Miss
Lizzie Boyton,--the gifted girl, who
attained to the reputation of being
able to make the best speech and
bake the best loaf of bread of any
woman in the Hoosier State-has
added recruit of her own to the
ranks OF the woman.suffragists. We
don't want to discourage, nor vet a
false prophet be, but we fear that the
boy will vote before his mother does
yet. But we hope not. Mrs. Har-
bert, it will be remembered, was the
lady who had petition prepared to
present to our last Republican State
Convention, asking for woman the
ballot.