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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-06-22

The X. X. extension from Wash.
layton to Sigourney is hanging fire
on account of $25, 900 worth of right
of way.
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KANSAS.
Tornado.
~

PARSONS, June 20.
A terrible tornado swept over
southwestern Kansas on Friday eve.
ming, which destroyed or greatly
damaged over one hundred houses.
The loss is estimated TO be about
100000. The storm also greatly
damaged the crops.
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O8aC1go Live Se0ck MARKET
CHICAGO, June 20.
CArTLE-Receipts 1914 head; mar
ket dull and unchanged; at 5.25(06;
bulk sales 5.5O@5.75.
Hoas-Receipts 5961; market &C.
tive and higher; extreme 3.60@4; for
common to choice, bulk sales $50.
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Chicago Market.
Chicavo Jnun On

Chicago Market.
Chicago, June 20.
FLoUR-Dull and unchanged.
WHEAT-DulI; at 81 264 cash.
CoRN-Steady; at $3.50 cash.
OATs-sSteady; at 1910 cash.
RYE-Dull; at 73c.
BARLEY-Inactive; at 75o.
PRovIsIoKs-Steady
PoRK-$14 cash.
LARD-Steady; at SIC cash.
BAooN-Salty.
WHIsKY-Dull; at 800.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-06-22

Chas. A. Dana is the editor Of the
New York Sun. He is tho same
chap who was Stanton's assistant
Secretary of war, and who in con-
junction with Cavalry Wilson wrote
the most fulsome campaign autobio-
graphy of Grant which appeared.
He wanted the New York Collector
ship and didn't get it and now vies
with Storey of the Chicago Times in
abusing Grant.
He is also equally hostile to Gree
ly, and keeps the following standing
announcement at thtshead of his
Column
FOR PRESIDENT.
Farmers and Mechanics Candidate,
THE GREAT AND GOOD
HORACE GREELEY,
of
TEXAS AND NEW YORK.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-06-22

The democratic papers of Missouri
from one end Of the State 10 the
other, are raising a universal howl
over tho Vallandigham departure,
and swear "By the Eternal" that
they won't swallow any such stuff.
As a fair sample Of the sentiment
of the Democratic papers of that
State, we copy the following from the
Caucasian, published ut Lexington !:
'OUR MOTTO:
Never Despair of the Republicl
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-06-22

A fellow stole $l60 out Of the Vim
ION p. o. the other Sunday and was
caught with it while en- d,shabilte in
house of nndoubtful repute. He
confessed the corn and charged it to
wine and women.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-06-22

at q State Temperance Conven
ton held in Wisconsin last week ten
delegates were in attendance. A
rather slim show for the election Of
temperance ticket in that State.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-06-22
Down with Bondholders and Taxes
Subordination Of the Military to the
Civil Authorities !
Down with the Satraps
Equal Taxation and the Rightful
Representation of all the States,
or Another Rebellion!

Revolution must DO met by ooun.
Observation-Disclosures by force-vlo-
lence by violence, and usurpation
should be overthrow il need be, by
the BavOnet r.
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This is o White Mans Government,
Made by White Men, for White
Men and their Posterity
Forever! Down with tho
XVIII Bedamned-
aEf monf
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-06-22

The people of Iowa City, fearing
that their town may acquire tho un-
enviable sobriquet of the "Resurrec-
ton City" have, to the number of
over one hundred, petitioned thoir
newspapers to stop the resurrection
bnsiness.
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OUR MOTT
Never Despair of the Republicl
DIR pLArFoRM:
OUR DOCTRINES:

The Constitution of 1860, and the
Rights Of the States!
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Total Reputation of the Mon
strous Yankee War Debt-Accursed
Unconstitutional Burden, accumu-
lated by an Unconstitutional Mob,
styling itself Congress, for the &C
complishmert Of an Unconstitutional
and horrid purpose!
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BooNH STATION, June 10.
The most Of tho grain in this sec-
ton OF the country was laid dat by
last nights storm.
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EARLHAM, June 10.

We were visited last night BY .
severe tornado which did o great
deal Of damage to property, but no
one was seriously hurt so far as heard
from. The Methodist church was
destroyed Friends church moved
about ten feet from q good stone
foundation; Presbyterian plaster bad
" cracked; two dwellings, blown to
atoms, and several moved. From
the country the news comes that
many houses, barns, stables are
blown down; one man had his barn
and two miles of fence Destroyed
John Early living about nine miles
south, had his house unroofed. It
was fine stone building, and the
walls we're not much damaged.
Corn, that promised fine crop, is
badly broken but wheat was light
and is not hurt much. OBsERvER.
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10 Charles 8. Allen. ds5sndant

/. now On ie ~ ~. ~ H. cosS a. ma
District Court Of WApello County, lows, the
petition Of pltG Catharine p. Allsn, claiming
b. ISIS. ycn deserted her. ana sinee Which
time you have absented yourself from her
Without any reasonable cause; and askinI
also that she Be restored 10 her maiden name
Catherine e HungerfOrd. You are further
nOtihed that unless yOu appear and make
Of the next term OF said Court, to b begun
and held at Ottumws, In eaid county, on the
4th day OF eeptember, 1871, . defAult will be
cree rendered thereon CORY q MAST,
June l-w4tl Att'ybfu R Pitt
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paper-alasi the Republican party
is split into fragments-remarkably
small fragments. Grant assaulted
Sumner in the Capitol, last Monday,
Logan hes been stoned by the Repub-
likins Of Philadelfy on his way home,
the Central Committees nv Ohio,
Injeany and Illinoy, hev divided, and
each frackshen her called Conven-
shen, and the Moo York Iri6oon
throws up the sponge and SEE that
nothing under hevin kin prevent the
success nv the Democratic candidate
for the Presidency; no matter who
he may be or wat platform he is put
into. In view Of the dlssolooshen
nv the Republican party, and the
fact that the niggers amt now got
no perteckters, its really generous
that 700"
"The Republican party has gone
to piecesl hez it?" gasped my twenty.
two white friends in korions.
"lt hez I" responded Bigler.
"Then," said Deakin Pogram, his
eyes flashing with unwontid fire,
"what we've done and sed don't
count! Take that, you black cussl"
Aud with the strength and actlH.
ity wich / hadn't lookt for IN one so
agid, the deakin fecht the darkey,
whose hands he had bin graspin, q
most powerful blow atween the eyes
wich histed him clean off the plat
form. The others tolIered SCOT, and
in their zeal sprung off the platform
after EN-, and wux executin war
dances of the most frantic descrip-
ton onto PROSTATE bodies. It wuz
with difficulty that Pollock and
Bigler restrained en- from takin Nv
EN- ont and hangin nv EN-.
Ez q matter Nv course the resolu-
ton wuz rescinded, and others
adopted affirmin our adherence to
the constooshen ez it youst to be,
the illegality nv the amendments,
and the natural supremacy nv the
white man over tho did niger,
after wich we adjourned to Bascom's,
ez is our custom, and there organized
fresh raids onto our natural enemies,
The next mornin notised q Pc
coolyer look ON Bigler's face, and
likewise on Pollock's. They grinned
at me ez l passed, with q broadnie
wich l couldn't account for. Lub.
book, the niger Postmaster, burst
into roar ez / walked into his offis,
and l angrily demanded the reason
or his hilxrity.
"Dat mistake OBJ Bigler's," return.
cd he, laughing louder than before
"What mistake ?" / asked turnin
pale, for . suspicion was creepin
uver me.
"Why, he didn't get no paper at
all, and"
Sand all that story about the split
in the Republican party North, was
one of hie, Internal lies ~
"Dat's about de correct state OBJ de
easel replied the niger, showing
all his worries. "Blgler wanted to
ses if your pentance was genooine-
OATS about all dab wuz OBJ it. he
'spresth desire to assertane Jest how
peaceable yood be to de niger and
de Northern people down heah, el
dab wuzr't no Publican party up
North to hold you, dat wuz ALL"
And the niger LATED a fiendish
laff.
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DE Soro. To-. June 19. 1s71.


The Christian Church building
that cost "a, 100 is entirely demolish-
ed. The Presbyterian Church is
moved from its foundation but not
damaged to exceed $500 to $4OO.
HemphilPs brick block was unroofed
and inside of building much damaged
by rain. Part of the roof of Hemp
hills block struck against J. s. De
Motifs store and Fish 4 Mahan's
building, breaking in the front of
those buildings, and goods inside
were damaged by rain. The east
end of Rev. VIM. Campbell's brick
residence was blown out. Two car
peDter shops and one small residence
were entirely demolished, and many
other houses moved from their foun-
dations. Yet in all this no one, as
far as heard from, has been seriously
injured. Had il been thirty minutes
later the Christian Church would
have been crowded with people, as
Elder Hobbs, Of Des Moines, was to
preach in the evening. 1t is report
ed that the damage is much greater
west OF here but have no particulars,
We are thankful hero that the loss
is only OF property. A. COLLINS.
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TEXAS AND NEW YORK.

And this is the fellow and this the
paper which arc constantly quoted
on US by tho cops as being Radical.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-06-22

I0e fresidents son stands very
much below the indications of his ex
animation. His class record, from
which this general standing is av-
eraged, is quite uniform. In engi-
neering he stood 90; ethics and law,
20; mineralogy and geology, 26 ;
ordnance and cunning, 90; cavalry,
Il.
Tho class is admitted to have
work finely, and the best comment to
be made is that none OF it's members
were found unable to keep up with
the tide, as in other years, when
numbers were rejected and turned
back, some even being dismissed for
incapaclty. Curiously enough, very
nearly all the graduates are Eager
for the cavalry arm, and most of
them are accomplished officers in
that branch, first, because they
"took kindly to it, and secondly,
because there are facilities tor learn
ing here not excelled in the world.
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STUART, June 19.

STUART, June 10.
The lumber here was blown all
over the prairie by Sunday nights
storm. The grain about here was
blown fiat, and the trees uprooted.
Several houses badly damaged.
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GLADDEN. STATION, I'm. W. RR. !
June 10.
A man was killed, and several
women and children injured, at this
place By the storm OF Sunday night.
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UoLrAx. June 10.

IS O0LFAx, June 10.
Isaac Schesslers barn, near this
place, Was destroyed by Ere on sun.
day morning; he got ont his horses,
but lost his agricultural implements
and grain. This was the largest
barn in the county, and the loss is
about q, 900.
The storm Of Sunday night blew
away the windmill ct the Rock
Island water tank, besides doing
other damage to our city.
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MITcHELLvILLE, June 10.
The smoke stack was blown of
the mill and several fine houses
blown of their Foundation, In the
storm Of Sunday night.
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DALLAS CENTER, June 10.
Two houses in process of erection
were blown down ct this place in
Sunday nights storm:
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PELLA, June 10.

ELIZA, June lSe
Engine house blown down, and
engine badly injured by late storm.
Some houses unroofed, and crops bad
ly damaged.
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the 6ountry was blown to pieces, and
q lady was injured some. We have
learned of no loss of lif6, which
seems the most strange and luckv
feature Of the hurricane. Roofs
fronts, chimheys, doors, and win.
dows are missing from nearly every
building in town. DfxrrR.
NswroN, tunx 70.
Mershon's mill was unroofed. and
his wheat and -four wetted damage
1900. Col. Myers store had Is
front blown out; damage $500. Rock
Island depot had it's root badly dam
aged and the windmill Of the water
tenk blown away; damage $780,
Newton foundry had one end blown
in, the roof taken of, and valuable
patterns destroyed damage 5000.
Christian church-a new buildinR-
was blown off its Foundation and
badly wrecked; damage 5000. A
great many other buildings damaged
more or less. Orchards, fruit and
shade trees damaged to q fearful OK.
tent, and damage to crops about
here very serious.
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CONSUMPTION.
. LYAyH NO sTINC BRHINn.n

The Mandrake Pills sse composed Of one of Ma
lures nOblest gifts-the PodOphilium feltntam
They pOosc1e Ill the bl0od-se6rcAina, alterntaV(
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Ottumwa Markets.

Corrected by MoarARTY d MLAuaHL,s.
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-23

The buffalo is said to be the auant
courier of civilization, a curious conceit
of some chap who analyses the subject
in this manner: The great Western
plain on the eastern slope of the Rocky
Mountains is about one thousand miles
square. Across this great desert the
buffalo instinctively found three routes
the Platte Valley, the Smoky Hill and
the Acknowledging some streams
for grass and water and avoiding the
sterile portions Of the desert. The abo-
riginese followed the track of the buff
falo, the white trapper came next, then
came the emigrant piloted by the hunter,
and lastly the great element of civiliza-
tion-the railroad-obedient to the same
natural laws and necessity for water and
a smooth route.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-23
OLD Folks.

The annual barbecue of the Old Folks
Of Shelby county will come off at the
Fair Grounds, on the Memphis and
Charleston railroad, on Thursday, oath
inst.
Special trains will leave the Memphis
depot 8 am, 1920 am, ll:l5a.m,,
1915 p. m. and pm, and return from
Fair Grounds at $50 pm.
Orator of the Day-Maj. George W.
Winchester. The address will be deliv-
cred at IL m.
An excellent string band will be in
attendance.
Tickets may be procured through
members and Of Mr.. j. S. Wilkins, at
Clarks jewelry store.
Committee on Reception-A. j. Hays,
Col. j. II. Edmondson, A. c. Belts, j.
j. DuBose and S. H. Lamb.
Floor Committee-G. r. Powell, Jack
Halsted, W. o. Loaand, Chris Steinkuhl
and W. j. B. Lonsdale.
E. A. Benson, 3l7 Main street, the
great music dealer, has kindly furnished
us, for the accommodation Of the ladies,
a splendid Steinway piano.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-23
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
PUBLIC LEDGER 0PVIuE, |
MEMPHIS. Tenn. August %. 1871. !
Nancy.

There has been but little stir on Madi-
son street to-day, and, excepting a light
checking business done at the banks, but
little has been done. The demand for
accommodations, though fairly active, is
not pressing, and just now there are no
indications of a stringent market at any
time during the season. Prime COM
mercial paper is taken at 10 to IL per
cent. per annum, and in the open mar
ket II to p per cent. per month are the
ruling rates, as to the quality of the pa
per Offering.
The exchange market rules quiet, with
the demand small and offerings limited.
Cotton bills are taken at par and selling
rates for Eastern checks are ic premium.
Very little is being donein coin; the
opening rate for gold in New York was
ll21; subsequently it declined ll2f, and
again advanced to ll2s, which was the
rate quoted at pm. Dealers purchased
such small as offered at lll3.
Local stocks and securities are quiet
and without the slightest change. There
is still heavy pressure to force Arkan-
sas levee bonds upon the market, and
just now capitalists do not seem to con-
slider them profitable investment, and
are turning their attention more to our
city bonds, which are offered at Coo for
the currency and 66c for the gold issue.
One sale of Arkansas levee bonds is re-
ported at 37lc, which is an extreme price.
Railroad and insurance stocks and bonds
are quiet and unchanged.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-23

at $4,000; insured for $4,000 in Pitts
burg Offices.
The Legal Tender arrived at Paducah
yesterday.
The Tom Jasper, Bismarck aud City
of Alton will be due from below to-mor-
row.
The Commonwealth and Mary e. Poe
passed down yesterday.
The elegant little steamer Sallie V
will leave Devall's Bluff tomorrow on
the arrival Of the train from this city,
and carry passengers to Des Arc, West
Point and Searcy. Capt. James Rice is
in command, and Charlie Sharpe clerk.
The New Albany Standard says:
Dick Meeker, one Of the pilots OF the
Charmer has stopped off to take charge
of the matrimonial craft May he ever
handle the wheel with as much grace as
he has ever done the Charmer in the
past"
Generals Warren and Weitzel, and
Colonel Merrill, United States Engi-
neers, were at Cincinnati on Saturday,
noting surveys Of the progress Of the
work on the Newport bridge, and state
it is being completed in conformity with
the instructions of the Board Of United
States Engineers.
The T. f. Eckert returned to Cairo a
few days since. She could find only
one hundred kegs of nails of the four
thousand FIVE hundred lost by the Hope
at Grand Tower; part of these were
found in forty and part in ninety feet OF
water.
The Rising Sun Recorder has the fol-
lowing, showing the Indebtedness Of
Cincinnati:
Rising Sun is city of as much mag
nitude.as any other place of similar size
that can be found on the map. In wit
ness whereof we have affixed hereunto
the following truthful anecdote. Mr..
Cons. Millar, the affable river editor Of
the Cincinnati Commercial, started out
recently with John j. Piatt, the well
known Western poet and newspaper
writer, among the sights of the Queen
City. Stopping in handsomely-fur-
nished office on Third street, Mr.. Millar
resented Mr. Piatt to the presiding
genius Of the place in these words:
+" Permit me to introduce Mr.. s. f. Gov
ington, Vice President of the Globe In
surance Company, and President of the
Board of Aldermen of this city. Mr..
Covington came from Rising Sun, a little
city in Indiana, down the river thirty
FIVE miles" The two gentlemen had
hardly finished shaking hands when an
other entered the room. Mr.. Piatt,
said Millar, this is Captain j. III.
Pepper, one of our leading steamboat
men, who is now building about the
the finest steamer that ever piled on
Western waters. Captain Pepper was
born at Rising Sun, Indiana" Happy
to meet you, Captain Pepper" said Mr.:
Piatt, and Just then new conner stepped
in. "Ah, Mr.. Piatt," said Millar, this
is DR.. L. A. James, prominent physi-
clan of Cincinnati. / must add that Dr.
James, too, first saw daylight at Rising
Sun. You will want to go down and see
that town that sends so many leading
men to Cincinnati" ooh, there's no
occasion for that, replied Piatt, :" / was
born at Rising Sun, Indiana, myself.
"Well, good Cod" exclaimed the aston
| ished Cons, what would Cincinnati do
| if it wasn't for Rising Sun? Wonder if
old Cincinnatus himself didn't hail from
there2 The Sun boys assured them
that there were plenty more where they
came from; so Cincinnati need not get
frightened.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-23

Major James E. billiard, the efficient
and popular general agent of the Pied
mont and Arlington Life Insurance Com
pany, left last evening on business trip
to Richmond, Virginia, and will be abb
sent for few weeks. During his brief
absence the office Of the Company will
be occupied by his assistant, Mr.. W. d..
Trader, who will attend to all business
connected with this sterling Life Insur-
ance Company. The Piedmont and
Arlington Life Insurance can be recon-
mended to the public as one of the
safest and most prosperous of home com
panies
Mr.. Finnie, of the well known family
grocery house of Oliver, Finnie * Co.,
on Maine street, near Madison, returned
to the city last evening from a trip to the
great lakes and Eastern cities.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-23
The stolen. Heifer.

Officers Brown and Clancy arrested
last Saturday negro, Phil. Haines, hav-
ing in his possession q stolen heifer-
color, dark red; age, between two and
three years. The heifer can be seen at
the Adams street station-house, where
the negro is imprisoned, awaiting the
arrival of the owner Of the stolen animal
for the purpose of prosecution. The
party who lost the animal described
above will be expected to appear inn
mediately in order to recover his proper
ty and prosecute the thief.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-23
Revenue Decision.

A cigar maker recently asked of the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue the
following question: In making my
monthly returns as cigar manufac-
turer, am compelled to show my actual
invoices of purchases of leaf tobacco at
the request of the Assistant ASSESSOR
The Commissioner replied as follows
"In answer to your query, l have to say,
that while you may not be compelled to
show to the Assistant Assessor your ac-
tual invoices of purchases of leaf to-
bacco, you are required to enter in your
manufacturer book accurate accounts
of the quantity of leaf tobacco purchased
from time to time, either with or without
invoices of the same; and this book
must at all times be open to the inspec-
ton of your Assistant Assessor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-23
Puxps at Bis Second street.
Attempted Assassination.

This morning about five o'clock Mr..
A. Doriac, a butcher and a resident of
Fort Pickering, while on his way to the
Beal street Market with wagon load Of
meat, was fred at by some person un-
known, on Third street, Fort Pickering.
The weapon used was rifle, and the
smoke from the shot enveloped Mr.. Do
riac. The assassin was hid behind
house when the attempt was made. 1t
will be remembered that not long since
Doriac was attacked by gang of masked
men, near Fort Pickering, was dragged
from his horse and terribly beaten.
This is repetition of the otfense with a
deadly purpose added The cause of
these attacks is a feud Of personal
character between Doriac and other
residents of South Memphis. 1t is time
the authorities were taking hand in
the matter by arresting few parties
against whom strong suspicious exist.