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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-11-23
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Mutual ADMIRATION Carleton
of the lndianoln Leder and Hedrick
of the Ottumwa Courier. have estab-
lished = "mutual admiration society,
and are going for each other IN, .
stylc that is truly affecting. The
Courier goes for Carleton for his
attack on Brady and Carleton comes
back at the Courier, with its record
IN the Congressional campaign last
year. The Register also takes the
C0Nrier's boiling chicken home, and
places it prominently on the roost.
Go IN gentlemen. Make the fur fly.
= Osk0loosa Herald.
B We have no objections, whatever
to the comments Of the Herald in
regard TO the Leader or the CoURIER,
nor do we in any way regard the
flings Of either it or the Register.
But We think that when they both
are well aware that Gen. Hedrick
severed his connection as editor Of
the CoURIER on the first OF August
last, and has had nothing whatever
to do with 1t editoriaily since that
date, in fact has been absent from
Ottumwa nearly the whole time
since, that they would suspend
their inuendoes and little dirty at
tAcks, against him personally. We
respectfully ask them hereafter 10
have the decenoy whenever they
have any thing to say about the
CouRlEs, to place the responsibility
upon the real editors, whose names
they will 6ad at the head Of the
paper,
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Those eases in which tho brain is
hard at work sleep instead Of bcing
totally oblivious Of everything may
be called dreaming or somnam-
bulism,. according 10 the mode in
which tho activity displays. itself.
Many of them arc full OF interest.
Some men have done really hard
menta, work while at sleep. CoBd
orcet finished tram OF calculation
in his sleep which had much puzzl-
I'd him during tho day. In 1856 u
collegian noticed the leculiarities Of
4 fellow student, who Was rather
stupid than otherwise during his
waking hours, but who got through
some excellent work IN geometry
and q gel rss during sleep. Cpnjiilac
aud franklin both worked correctly
during some of their sleeping hours.
The work done partakes in many
cases more Of the nature of imagina-
tive composition than of scientific
calculations. Thus u sGanZa of ex-
cellent verse is in print, which Sir.
John Hersciel is said 70 have com
posed while asleep and TO have re-
collected when he awoke. Gethe
often set down on paper during the
day, thoughts aad ideas which had
presented themselves to him durin.
sleep On the preceding night. 4
gentleman once dreamed that he was
playing an entirely new game of
cards with three friends when he
awoke, the structure amt rules ot
the new game, AZ created in tho
dream, came one by one into his
mcmory, aud lac found them so ii,-
genions that he atlerward frequently
played the game. Coleriisc is said
10 have composed his fragment OF
."kub!a Khan" during slcep. lie
had ono evening been.readiug Pnrc-
hao' Pllgram some OF the romantic
incidents struck his ia;cy; he went
to sleep, and his busy brain compos-
ed "k nbla khsn." When he awoke
in the morning he wrote out what
his mind had invented in sleep, until
interrupted by u visitor with whom
he conversed for an hour on business
mstters but alas he could never
again recall the thread OF the story,
aud thus "kubla Khan" remains u
fragment. DIR. Good mentions the
case OF gentleman who in his sleep
composed an odo in six stanzas aud
set 1t to music. Tartiui, the cc!c.
braicd Italian vioiinist, ona night
dreamed that the devil appeared TO
him, challenged him to a trial ofskiIl
on the fiddle, and played piece
wonderful TOR its beauty and difficulty;
when Tartini awokc he could noe
remember tho exact notes, but he
could reproduce the general compost
tion since known rs the DEVILS
Sonata" Lord Thurlov, when
youth at college, found himself one
evening unable to finish piece ci
Latin composition which he had
undertaken he went TO bed full of
the subject, fell asleep, flushed his
sleep, remembered ii next morning,
and was complimented on the felci.
tous form which it presented.
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A lawsuit, which bids fair TO rival
ia interest the famous goat case a
West Virginia, is now exciting the
circles of Louisville, Ken
lucky. The subject OF contention is
u poodle dog, and the litigants are
two prominent citizens. The plain.
tiff claims that no purchased = dog
Of merchant, for the sum of ten
do!iars, more than year ago. IL
was then puppy. He raised it TO a
full grown poodle weighing at least
three pounds. About year ago.
ewing to misunderstanding be
tween the master and the poodle, the
latter receiving q severe kick, where.
upon it lett it's owner in disgust, and
was not afterwards seen until found
in tho yard ofthe defendant. On tbs
other hand, tho present possessor o.
the dog claims to have always owned
il, aud to own all Of its relations
and produces it's full pedigree IL
evidence. Prominent lawyers have
been employed on both sides of the
case depositions are being taken il
New Orleans q host of witneese
are ready to testify that both psrtie
are iu the right, and however To
question of ow ownership may be Dc
cided. big eill Of costs Is certs!nl.
tn seerne.
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Walls FROM WARRINGTON.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., !
Nov. IL. 1871.
ANNA DICKINSON.

Miss Anna E. Dickinson's TRADE
against trades unions, delivered here
last Friday evening under the name
of lecture on "Demagogues and
Workingmen" appears to have pro-
duced in this city an effect exactly
the reverse OF the one intended; for
there is scarcely one of the leading
newspapers which has not criticised
her in terms strangely in contrast
with the partial tone in which they
have always been accustomed to
speak of her performances. Some of
their articles have evinced degree
of careful thought and acquaintance
with the subject which certainly did
not appear in Miss Anna's fluent, but
exceedingly fiippant, utterances.-
She has in fact been convicted of
blunders in respect to matters Of fact
which, in person who assumes the
functions of public teacher, are
simply disgraceiul, as well as insult
ing TO the intelligence of the listener;
and as to the laws and principles IN
volved in the question she presumes
to discuss. she is freely accused of an
utter inability 10 comprehend them.
IL 10 qaito evident that she has made
q great mistake in undertaking to
.reat an economic theme, especially
one involving such vast practical in.
terests as does the labor question. -
Eloquent periods, saucy cpigrams
and brilliant flashes of wit may an.
swer very well when directed against
no one in particular, or against an
object of general popular dislike
But it is indispensable to Miss An
mas success that her rhetoric should
not be subjected to searching criti
cism and the fact that she has ven
tured to provoke such criticism BY
attacking tho dearest interests OF g
large portion ofthe people Indicates
that she is not only ignorant Of hel
subject, but blissfully unconscious 0
her ignorance and equally in the darl
US to the general level Of intelligence
among those who Tor the most par
compose her audiences. She nigh
find more than one intelligent me
chanic in almost any average aud
encc who could not only correct he
on her statements OF fact, but coul
make very short work with her logi,
Her talent is essentially dramatic
and she is exceedingly indiscrect j
attempting to deal with questions ]
whose treatment she must necessaril
expose the weakest places in her il
teliigent armor.
: But even her pitiable lack of info
0 u,ation and her feebIeness OF arg
ment might have been overlooke
had not tho animus Of her lectu
boea essentially hostile to tho enti
working class movement. This
looked upon as an evidence that 81
has deserted the cause Of the DO
and oppressed, for whom in tim
0 past she has uttered spch feeling al
b eloquent words. 1t was this app,
ent sympathy with ths, weak a.
down trodden, far more than her al
ity, which won for her the affecti
. OF the humane public /; and popular
she has been, it 10 extremely doubt
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The Prssidsncy In le72.

A new apportionment Of Reprcsen
tatives will follow thecensus Of 1870.
A bill was reported at the last session
of Congress which, we presume,
will DO taken up and passed at the
coming session. According 10 this
bill, the House of Representatives
will consist of 280 members. As
the number of electors of President
and Vice Presinent is equal to the
whole number Of Senators and Rep
resentatives, it follows that there
will be 354 electoral votes cast in the
next Presidential rcanvass. OF this
number, 178 will be required to
choose q President. The party or
candidate which can secure that
number Of electoral votes will be the
triumphant party or candidate in
the next national contest. We ex-
press our conviction Of the result in
the following table:
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-11-23

Our readers will remember an &C.
count, published in this paper in
November 1869 of an ARRAY which
took place near Dcedsville, between
Henry Bunt aud. man named
Bramble. The two men got into q
quarrel when Bunt seized club and
struck Bramble over the head, crush
ing his skull, causing death. Bunt
made his escape and has succeeded
in avoiding the officers until last
Friday, when he was arrested, in
Greenwood county, Kansas, by our
Sheriff Spearmsn. Sheriff s. has
been tracking the gentleman up ever
since his escape and of course he
feels feole good over the capture. In
July Sheriff s. learned that Bunt
was in Greenwood county, Kansas,
and armed with u rcquisitiop upon
the Governor OF that State he pro-
ceeded to make the arrest, but upon
arriving at the place of Butts resi-
dence he found that the bird had
iiown. The Sheriff returned home,
and had been quietly setting the
traps to catch his game. On last
Tuesday he got word that Bunt had
returned to Greenwood county, and
he left Immediately to make the
arrest, which he succeeded il doing
on Friday. At the time of his arrest
Bunt was in corn field. Sheriff
Spearman was accompanied by two
men aud all were armed with guns.
They got within twenty toct of the
prisoner before he discovered them
and when be looked up he found
three shooting irons leveled upor
him, and in jitfy he was handcuff
ed. Sheriff Spearman arrived in
this city with his prisoner, on Mon
day morning and Bunt is now lodged
in Jail. Bunt does not deny the Kill
ing Of Bramble, but claims thai
instead OF killing him with club a.
was reported at the time he knock
cd him down and tramped him viii
his heel. Tho prisoner is larg
man, measuring six feet and tw
inches, and is rather good looking
He served in the Union army durin
the war and has wife and on
child who reside in Greenwoo
county, Kansas.-4M. Pleasant Jou
I al.
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l.eona Dare, aged seventeen years,
and beautiful in form and feature,
has been doing the trapeze business
At the Theatre Gomique, New Ha-
ven, for somo time back. A few
nights since, While at the height OF
thirty two feet from the floor, she
lost her balance and fell, and would
have been killed had not ayoung man
caught her in his arms. We need
not add the result. She was at the
time perfect stranger TO this young
man but last Tuesday she married
him, and now every night he watch.
es by the trapeze while she performs.
There is murh romance here but it
is pity that the daring young lady
hasu acquired, with her husband,
sufficient property to enable her to
retire ffom hsr reriious profession,
| However, Iuere and true love were
never yet associated, perhaps il is
just as we'll.
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The Havksye of the 18th says that
that "the scheme proposed in Ohio
TO prevent tho election of u Repub
lican To the United States Senate
has failed. because there has not been
found q single Republican member
willing to betray his party, and it
would take not less than five traitors
to consummate the conspiracy.
Such is the situation in Ohio, and
the result will be the re election OF
Senator Sherman or some other
equally pronounced Republican.
Here in Iowa there are actually
Democratic newspapers groe,
enough to suppose that forty or liiiy
Republicans can be found among the
l20 in the Legislature, who will b.
ready TO sell out their party aos
form coalition with the thirty
Democratic members, and elect |
'.go between satisfactory to botl
factions? Ii there is man in th
State who seriously anticipates sucl
| a result as this, his friends should a
once apply tor his admission to th
Hospital for the Insane, or buy
scholarship for him in a school fo
idiots
: DR.. aint you litrle too hard o
your neighbor of the Gazette.
T.
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From time immemorial it has been
the custom at West Point Military
Academy, upon the entrance Of .
new conner, for the older cadets to
put him through series Of indigni-
ties, such as carrying water, boot
backing, etc., which, by the cadets,
Is termed hazing. Two months since
tho Hon. jackson Orr, NJ. G., Of Iowa,
appointed young man named De-
vino, Of Hardin County, TO West
Point, and soon after bis admission
he was waited upon By aan older
student who insultingiy ordered him
to black, his boots. This was de-
INJURED to, and the young tyrants Of
Of the older order entered in con.
spiracy to bring him to terms. An
officers name was forged to an order
commanding Devine to bring buck.
ct OF water from q spring, and upon
going to obey the same he was set
upon by some thirty Of the lads and
strung up by the neck in pursuance Of
a determination to extort a pledge
from him to perform such menial oc
cupation as should be dictated to him
by the older boys. The young man
was true grit, and when cut down
was but half conscious aud the pro-
cess had to be deferred for fear Of
killing him. Instead of preferring
charges the lad wrote to bis father,
who acquainted Congressman Orr
with the state of things. The latter
called the attention of the Secretary
Of War to the occurrence, and an in.
quiry was promptly instituted, re.
snlting in the expulsion OF two cadets
and the punishment of othsrs, which
was just what they deserved.
The Register in commenting upon
it says:
1t required no little nerve fer the
Secretary to do it, for "bax,ng" is
ono of the time.honored horrors OF
the West Point institution, and the
two cadets expelled were sons of Ex-
Congressman and had to be expelled
in the face of most influential plead
ing and protest. Tho country has
seen with pleasure the barbarous
practice abolished, while Iowa feels
pride in it, in that the good
was accomplished by th. resolute
will OF an Iowa man and to the win.
dication and redress of an Iowa boy.
We are gratitied ut the part Con.
gressman Orr took in the matter,
and particularly proud of the good
reform which Secretary Belknap had
the courage to inaugurate and ac-
complish.
We are free to acknowledge that
when Gen. Belknap, was first given
his portfolio, we thought the Presi.
dent had made q mistake, and said
SO. We did not know the man,
and allowed prejudIcial reports to
influence our opinion. We were
not long in seeing, after he
had squared himself in his Office, that
We had boon taking a superior man
for quite an ordinary man. And
now, since be has been in his place
two years, we clearly see and as
frankly say that he is to-day the
best man 10 the Cabinet. We could
say no more in his praise, and yet
We can say nothing less,
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We have receivod tho Daily Nev
AeEiccs Of Nov. Z, published ut
Santo Fe. New Mexico, from which
We learn that "Tbe Hon. ]. NJ. He'd
rick of the Ottumwa Courier Super
visor OF Internal Revenue for Iowa.
Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico
and Capt. J. X. Simpson Of Iowa are
at tho Exchange Hotel. These gen.
tlemen visit our city and Territory
for the first time but we trust not
tho last. Visits ofsuch gentlemen to
New Mexioo> are always received
with pleasure, and while they remain
with us We hope that our citizens will
givc them oil attention aud show
them the courtesy that they are en-
titled TO-"
One side Of the paper is printed il
English, and the other in Spanish
which goes 70 illustrate the heteroge
heons character Of the population Q
The immense possessions Of Uncl,
Sam.
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The Daily Ledger. o democratic
paper published Vt Louisville, KY,
which is understood TO be in favor of
either Wade Hampton, Alex. d.
Stephens or the Cardiff Giant for
P esident. heads : telegram announc-
ing it's nomination Of Col. Scott for
President, as follows: "All aboard
the Compromise Cars-Anothcr Pat
ent President Factory Started-Tom
Scott's Last Achievement"
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osiae Dass On HIS Friends.

Porte WEIGH in his last paper, the
loUa Reform Leader, gives the go-by
to Irish, Knapp, Gillaspy, johnson,
ct i'd omne genus as follows:
We say let ~ haze a ne,o party,
Oith new leaders, though zoe haze to
select our leoders from among the
Reoenue Reforners no,o in the Repub-
iican party We could march with
y more elastic step and keep time to
the music of Radical Reform more
readily under such leaders than to
continue the existence Of ko-called
Democratic party, under 80 called
Democratic leaders.
Porte's doctoriDg up the Demo-
cratic party reminds us of a fellow
named Nichols, who used to keep q
livery stable in ottumwa, and who
on one occasion had a sick horse.
Being totally ignorant Of "hoss'
dootoring be gave the animal all the
nostrums that msddlesome parties
prescribed, and finally as last resort
some one suggested that plug of
tobacco be used as an injection, when
Nichols fred up and said, "Oh, yes,
gentlemen, you are all ready with
your subscriptions, and l have given
him everything you told me, but it
don't do any good no soay; and the
old horse may 60 to hi for all l
care"
Porte you had better let the old
"hoss" die without physicing him
too much.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-11-23

Pork Packing has commenced at
Kcokuk, and the Gate reports that
tho hogs are much better than in
any previous year. So per hundred
is the prico paid By packers there.
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Muecatine is going into the sauer
kraut trade. Cabbages are worth
II to l8 cents at that point. The
kraut is shipped to New Orleans and
is worth at that place sl3 to GA per
barrel.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-11-23

The long agony in New York, over
the arrival OF Prince Alexis is still
kept up. Alexis don't "come any
more ut all.
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FAT TAKE.-The office of Register
OF New York, to which Sigel is elect
cd by $4,000 majority, is said to be
worth $3.50 900 annually.
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A ut;Iitarian cuss. with no ,oe,,

A utilitarian cuss, with no poetry
in his soul, sends to the Omaha Her.
aid the following parody on Il would
nge die in autumn:
would not die In autumn,
With oysters At for eatin',
When buck wheat cakes il comm on
And candidates in treatin'.
When sassage meat Is fryin',
And hickory nuts il thick,
0, VINO would think of drin',
Or ever gettin' sick.
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The Odd Fellows of Keokuk con.
tribute $500 to the suffering brethren
Of Chicago.
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Harden county has got 900
pound pig. What will it weigh
when it grows to be . hog?
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A GooD THING.-The B. & NJ. Rail.
road Company propose to publish .
descriptive book Of 200 pages, hard
somsly illustrated with maps and
Photographic views of towns and
cities and notable scenery along the
route Of their road in Iowa and Ne.
sbraska. Thirty Thousand of these
books are to be printed in English,
German, Danish and Swedish, and
circulated iD the eastern States and
Europe through their agencies. The
agricultural, commercial and manu-.
featuring facilities of counties and
towns are to be fully represented and
it is proposed that as the work will
costa large sum Of money, and will
be worth more to the localities rerl Q.
sented 10 the book than to tho road
that each place Of Importance on the
line Of their road shall contribute q
moderate amount to assist in The
publication and distribution of the
book.
Now the question We wish to ash
right here is this Shall the rict
county of Wapello and the live city
ofOttumwa have q good showing il
the proposed book. We say, yes, BY
oil means. A small amount iron
large property owners, aud business
men will be all that is needed, aue
We think that if the matter is pre-
ssnted to them in proper light tha
there is no doubt but that it will b,
forthcoming.
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Sour grapes

The Z. NJ. at Newell, gets s12 per
year. Another bloated federal office
Aolder
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In Marion county tho fat hogs are
dying off by the hundred.
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John Mahin, editor of the Musca.
line Josrna' is in Geneva, Switzer-
and.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-11-23

Bolts, the butcher, who killed
"Pet' HaIstead, is to bc hung De
cember 2lst.
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Wc notice that Hon II. G. Angle
is at hone again. If Mr.. Angle
would accommodate us, we should
like to hear something about the St.
Louis l. Cedar Rapids Railroad. and
ita prospects, Cedar R,pids Obseru-
er.
just what we would like TO hear.
We cannot see the advantage of hav.
ing 80 miles of road graded, bridged
and ready for the iron. without its
going on.
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The Insane Asylum at lndepen-
dence is rapidly going up, aud it is
said will be one OF the most substan
tial buildings in the State. 1t is
built on everlasting granite founda,
tions.
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Carl Schurz congratulntcs himself
on being foreigner as precludlng
the possibility of catching Presiden-
tial fever.-Er.
Sonr rranas1
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publishing the following commenda.
tory letter
Sioux Cry, Iowa. Nov. II.
MEssRs EDIroRs: enclose u dol.
lar and halt for this years Weekly
CoURIER; please excuse my neglect
IN not sending it before. | get more
Ottumws news in one Of your papers
than any half dozen Ottumwa men
can remember and tell when this far
from home. Sioux City is still 8
booming; more dollars worth of new
buildings this year than last, though
not rs many dwellings,.
Yours truly, F. @. THOMPSON.