The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-07-13

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/ Establ blished in IS 40.
T1EH aAIRY NATION, Ae.
4 On Thursday we boarded the d
II ". 1910 train, and 10 about 40 min
utes landed At Eldon. We remained
there about AN hour, long enough "a
do the town md SEQ what they wore
at. Eldon 10 not looming up into
| Importance very fast, as but few
buildings have been erected since last
year, but morally, we the think the
place is improving vastly. Last fail
there wore fourteen saloons there,
and now there are only four. They
are won accommodates, however,
with hotels, Of which there are
three, and, although the buildings in
which they are kept arc not Of the
most elegant character, still, q man
may obtain as good . square meal
at them as any other place in South.
srn Iowa, Of its size. At 2:55 P. NJ,
We got on the great asce .sawer's''
road and headed for Centcrvillc, pass
Il Z Al - =. =. l
ing Floris, Drakeville and Unionville.
All along the route through Davis
and Appanoose counties, the ravsges
Of chinch bugs were plainly to be
seen and, having devoured all Of
the spring wheat, they have gone in
On Che corn and oats. A good deal
of the corn we saw looked as if fire
had scorched off oil the lower blades,
md some Of it is entirely eaten up.
| Fafners, everywhere on the route,
have plowed up the wheat fields and
have sown buckwkeat, and in con-
sequence, there will be the greatest
buckwheat crop in Davis and Appan-
oose counties that ever was raised
there; and, % too great an indul-
gence in buckwheat cakes induces
tho scratches, or prairie mango,
scratching posts will be the order
there, during the next winter and
spring.
The damage anne in Appanoose
county, from the chinch bugs, is es-
timated at 100000, and our old
friend, Judge Harris, thinks that il
ought TO be penal offence for farm
ers to SOW spring wheat in this ooun.
Try. We may expect the ohinch bugs
70 visit Wapelio county next year,
Eand, as they do not trouble fall
wheat, would il not bc we'll for our
FARMERS to remember this and SOW
all they possibly can this fall.
FIoris seems to be improving con-
siderably, and, il has nice coun-
try around it, It will, in time, make .
nice country village. Drakeville and
Uuionville do not show any very
great signs Of awakening from their
long sleep; but still, they are nice
little places, and contain some
| mighty good oltisen. Csnterville is
improving good deal, but not as
much as might be expected; its citi-
zens, like all new railroad towns,
have an idea that property is worth
q great deal moro than il really is,
and hence its growth is materially
retarded, by keeping out new comers
who would buy real estate and build
ifthey could get it at something less
than Chicago or st. Louis prices
Next Monday the citizens of Gen.
terville, and the township in which
it Is situated, vote on proposition
to levy q tax Of five per cent. in favor
| Of what is known as the Drake road.
If they carry this tax and raise some
$4,000 in stock, this will secure
them another railroad, and Confer
| vile may then expect to occupy q
position that will make it . respect
able interior town. She has . GOOD
many live, energetic men, and like
all other places some old fogys, and
it is somewhat doubtful about the
tax proposition carrying. Thursday
evening we attended very pleasant
festival, given for the benefit of the
NJ. E.. Church aud after q good
nights rest at the keystone, next
day we see-sawcd down the South
western to Eldon, and up tho d. v.
RR. TO Ottumwa, and as usual, felt
| good TO get back to the best town in
Southern lows.
The Constitution 10 1t its old tricks
Of vilifying and berating soldiers. II
now publishes, with much gusto, .
long article which it credits to the
Springfield, Ills, Register, Demo
cratic,) which article ss nothing bul
q TRADE Of abuse upon Col. Carpcn
ter's war record. Copperhead abuse
Of soldiers has long been 80 much be
low par, that it does not make ever
. ripple upon the body polite. Th'
falsc dofamatory character of th'
witness is such that his testimony i
. considered always worthless.
: Bro. Claggott pats Bro. Rich yer.
: approvingly on the back, and pub
9 lishcs lengthy comment on Bro
Rich's comments upon tho Hon. Jas
: Harlan's recent lettor. Bro. Clagget
thinks as Bro. Rich docs, that MI