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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07
From the Daily uiier. September 8.
aKTTTN0 AROUND.

Monday and Tuesday the Junior
of the COURIER spent in the country
visiting Eldon, Floris, Bolknap,
Drakeville, Unionville, Centerville,
Moravla, Abba, Frederick, and Chill
licoths. Eldon and Floris are in
statu quo. Belknap has got a house
up and painted, Drakeville has built
several new houses, and seems to be
awakening from a long sleep, ditto
same at Unionville; Centerviile Is
building good houses, and among
the most notable is fine brick resi-
dence of the modern style, being
built by Bradley, the banker. If they
get what is called the Drake road,
Centerville will grow rapidly. 1t is
in a good county, and has q good
trade. Moravia--is Moravia, and
Crist and Cummins live there, and
all who know them will know what
we mean. It has a good country
around it, and only waits for the COM
pletion Of the Central to commence
to improve. Abba is holding the
even tenor Of its way, though her
business men say the farmers are
chary about buying great deal now
a-days, the chinch bug having DANA
ged their crops very seriously; and
talking Of chinch bugs reminds us Of
q farmer we saw between Abba and
Moravia wading around in the weeds
with his head mp like . turkey COB
Ter, spying out an occasional stalk Of
corn the bugs had left, and cutting it
up to try to get shock together; We
have no doubt he succeeded for there
were rs much as fifty or hundred
stalks, we think, in ten acre lot
But pardon this depression, wc were
talking of Abba. The Presbyterians
are building a very fine brick church
there this fall, and Cramer George,
ofthe Cramer House) is having such
a run Of custom that he has been
compelled to again enlarge his house.
and is now putting on the third
story. We don't wonder at this, for
if George will persist in being clever,
and giving people good beds and
plenty to eat, he must expect to con-
tinue to enlarge his accommodations.
And there is Mcbride, q new station
on the B. & NJ. H., named after the
irrepressible coal man, LII. Mcbride,
formerly of this city, it, too, is begin
ming to make pretensions as vii.
lage, has post Office, store, coal sta
ton, &C., &C., and lift gets many such
men as Mcbride and Clark in it, will
make town, whether they want it
or not. friedrich don't grow to any
extent; it's a nice place. but
q little too close to Cuba, and Nc
Bride ever to make very large
town, although there are some very
nice men in it, and around it too.
Chillicothe has new saw mill and
has otherwise frightened up consid-
erably. With one Of the best mills
in the county, and three such men as
the Heacock's and Hull to manage
it, Chillicotho ought to make o good
trading village, and nice place to
live.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

They have raiscd hob with New
tons assessed valuation, this year. =
The Supervisors increased it ten per
cent, and the State Board put i've
per cent on top of that.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07
Nav Orleans Sinking.

From the New Orleans Picayune, Aug. 20.
For some thirty or forty days the
batture in front Of the Bazaar Mar
ket and Red Stores has been gradu-
ally sinking, until to-day, Just below
the Red Stores, 1t is seven feet below
the ordinary level and the settle
ment varies from three to seven feet.
The length Of the batture which has
thus sunk is about $50 feet, and the
width 100, and there is no telling
when it will stop. The City Sur
veyor has made borings to investi-
gate the strata, with view to the
construction Of work that will pre-.
vent any further sinkage, but has
not been able to find any strata sui.
ficiently firm to guarantee the per-
manence of any work. IS a4s
At a depth of fifty feet nothing
more stable was found than sand,
with very slight mixture of clay,
and just now The Surveyor is in a
quandary as, to what is best to be
done.
At intervals in the past tho batture
in this vicinity has sunk in the same
way, but not to such an extent, the
greatest sinkage, we believe, hereto.
fore not exceeding five feet.
Tho present sink is not in tho
water, but inside of the wharves, &c,
on the space over which the roads
of the Pontchartrain and Chatta-
nooga Railroad Companies pass.
These companies have been COMPEL
ed to fill up as the ground gave way,
and willprobably have to keep filing
for some time to come. aaa
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

l.. z. Rupc Esq, paid his regular
annual visit, with peaches, to the
COURIER, this morning. We like
'em-peaches and Rupe.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

School Books Of every description
can be had by going to Williamson
& Kelley's. sept 1-w4t.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

The daily papers of Keokuk are
having time with the managers Of
the late District Fair down there
Judge Clagett sent his daughter
talented and brilliant lady-to report
the Fair for his paper, who was sd-
mitted to the grounds only after pay.
ing half-fare for q ticket, and the
Gates reporter was treated like the
vilest dead head by the management.
Never did papers do more gratuitous
work for anything than did these
two cited for that fair, and then, for
their reporters to be treated so shabi-
", shows want of decency. Our
fair people don't do that way-they
don't grudge man gate money who
goes to write up tho exhibition. 1t
would simply be hoggish to do so,
and we propose to have our swine
exhibited in pens and not as manag.
ers of the fair.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

A man and his wife, who had not
met for eight years, recently found
each other in a Chicago police court,
both charged with drunkenness.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

Forty acres under cultivation, the other ,
good Timber land: twelve hundred beafins
Grape vines, one hundred Young pearihs Az
pie trees, two good Gardens.
a large Sugar Camp,
Coal BaHk--rein B feet M'ch,
Log dwelling, smoke-house, grainery, corn
crib. and good stabling. are someypf the specfe'
advantages OF this farm. d..
II the farm Is not sold by the l3th OF sep
TENDER. 1871. 1t will he sold at public sale on
the following day--thc 10Th. If sold, NOTE.
will be given. The farm Is two miles east o.
Ottumwa Iowa. JOSEPH LriNfiHpSGn-
Aug 3lst ,n2ow3t@ ra
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Estray Notice.

hENyiCuINE Hos Gleanias, Eeautlfytng
uEN nd Preserving the Teeth.
| Persons who have used Fatnham'. French
Tooth I.o1enges are delighted. Enclose
cents to VIM, II. Farnham 4 Co., SPARTA ". s.
| consin, for sample box, something new
| nd novel. Inll,wly.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

Our County FAIR.--Notice in our
columns the advertisement, announc.
ing the Baby Show department OF
our County Fair. Everything has
been done that could be to insure
success this fall, and we can assure
our readers that the promise is good
for the best Fair, by far, that we
have ever held in the county. Wap-
clio county has the elements and re-
sources to enable her 10 have Fair
that shall be second to NO County
Fair in the State. With you, farm
ers OF old Wapello, rests the respon-
sibility! Will you come up to the
work and do your best? Our Fairs
ought to be such as to call together
ten thousand people. Every farmer
Of the county should consider himself
o committee of one to work and labor
for success. From these Fairs you
derive the greatest benefit, and thro'
you the peopl. at large. Come along,
all of you, and mako the Fair just
what you want it should be, for You
have the power and can do it.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

Go and see Williamson L. Kelley,
when you want to 'Duy any White
Lead, Linseed Oil. &C., cat low
prices" iass |+ sD
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

A BANTER. Vinton Eagle
offers his hat to any one who will
beat this item g.. e.. u I,
aE. NJ. Lewis, Of jackson town.
ship, sowed twelve bushels of oats on
Eve acres of ground, and threshed
four hundred and tftyJiue bushels from
his harvest, being atnety-one bushels
to the acre. a,s fe er,ssj
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

The Phelps Ontario Co. N. "
Citizen, published and edited by Jay
W. Neighbor, graduate OF The
COURIER Office, comes to us this week
enlarged to a 9column sheet. The
Citizen is one ofthe best printed and
edited county papers in New York,
aud we congratulate our old pupil on
the success and prosperity that he
has attained among the Workers.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

The Wapello County Teachers In
stitute is holding daily sessions,
morning and afternoon, in the High
school room of the Public School. -
The exercises are very Interesting.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

if it can be prevented. Permit the
funds now on hand to accumulate,
and in the course of time rent and
fit up nice hall, and establish q
library-make that hall desirable
place in which to spend the leisure
hours Of the firemen in some prof.
table way, and eventually, the Fire
Department will become one Of the
most CONSPICUOUS ornaments Of our
city. Let us help the boys literally.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

We arc particularly rejoiced that
tho managers forgot to rut us on the
committee to decide the handsomest
baby which will DO on exhibition at
the Fair. We werc not consulted in
regard to the matter, but if wo had
should have absolutely, porcmptorily
and positively declined acting Is
committeeman, We value our curly
locks, our sparkling eyes and our
rosy checks too much to place them
in jeopardy by giving decision in
presence of expectant and positive
mothers, upon any one baby. Thank
you, gentlemen, for overlooking us,
but, of course, the show will go on
just the Same. You just let our baby
out of the scrimmage by a few
months.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

Major J.J. Safely arrived in our
city to-day. He remaines here for q
short time until the arrivalof his CO.
commissioners, Isaac H. Sturgeon, of
st. Louis, and DIR. James Scott, Ut
Lebanon, Ohio, before proceeding west
to examine and report upon the COM
pleted portion of the B. u M. railroad
and telegraph line between Platts-
mouth to section twenty-six, dis
tance of eighty miles.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

Hair is the robe which curious Nature weayes,
And does sdorn our bodies, ~. +.
Aud that alone remain when every other
beauty's gone. 5t3 t4E3e5EE f-a Ffs as
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-09-29
Scenes in Railway Cars.

Howells, in his genial half-story'a and
half-essay, t'Their Wedding Journey"
inEthe September atlantic, sketches as
follows the everyday scenes on the
cars, which everybody will recognize:
Yes, it is a very amusing world, if
you do not refuse to be amused; and
our friends We're very willing to be en-
tertained. They delight in the very
precise, thick-ingered old ladies who
bought sweet apples of the boys
who came aboard with baskets, and
who were so long in finding the right
change that our travellers leaping in
through with the boys from the NOV
ing train, felt that they did so at the
peril of their lives. Then they were
Interested in people who went out and
found their friends waiting for them,
or else did not find them and wandered
disconsoIately up and down before the
country stations, carpet-bag In hand A;
in women who came aboard, and
were awkwardIy shaken hands with
or sheepisaly kissed by those who
hastily got seats for them, and placed
their bags or their babies in their laps,
and turned for a nod at the door in
young ladies who were seen to places
by young men (the latter seemed not
to care II the train did go OF with
them, and then threw up their win
dows and talked with girl friends on
the platform without till the train be-
gan to move, and at last turned with
cleaning eyes and moist red lips, and
painted hard in the excitement OI
thinking about it, and could not calm
themselves to the dull level OF
the travel around them in the con-
ductor, coIdly and i1accessibly Yigilani
as he went his rounds, reaching bliudly
for his tickets with one hand, while he
bent his head from time to time and
listened with faint, sarcastic smile to
the questions of passengers who sup
posed they were going to get some in
formation out of him in the train
boy, who passed through on his many
errands with prize candies, gumdrops
popcorn, papers and magazines, and
distributed books and the police jour
nails with a blind impartiality or 9
prodigious ignorance or q supernatural
perception of character in those who
received them
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-09-29
PERSISTENCE.

Because L begged so hard,
She has at last unbarred
The treasure-chamber Of her fastened heart,
And Loves feet enter in,
That waited long to win
Their way, nor would from closed door de-
His fpatient. faithful feet
Find favor with my Sweet.
Because I begged so hard,
This, then Is my reward
Love the Wayfarer becomes Love the guest 4;
No more in streets of scorn
He turns away fOr1Orn,
His tired feet find rooms of shaded rest,
Where all their dusty heat
Is cooled by my Sweet.
Because 1 begged so hard,
For once my fate il1-starred
Is swayed by the mild might OF happy
moons.
Only one light touch!
Only but, oh, how much!
Love Wear1eS out whom well he I'm perfumes.
And well ne did entreat
@ This march Of my Sweet.
Because I begged so hard
Years, with sad seasons narTed,
Are lighted backwards as with sudden suns.
Yea, over life's whole skies
The light of her dear eyes
Travels, like dawn and sunset shed at once.
Mixed in one glory, meet
All days this day, my sweet. .-'.--
Because I begged so hard,
The shadow doth retard
IJpon the dial one delicious hour;
One hour that is not found
Within the days dull round,
But added by great Loves g xerted power,
Let time move ON, its beat
Is music, now, my SWeeti
Still, do beg her hard,
For inner gates still guard,
As he passed, so Love again would pass;
Il, Entering in fear and bound,
Returning free and crowned.
The going of his feet shall fall, alas
But now their eager heat
Must win its way, my Sweet
~ = C0rnhtJt Magazine.
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BOLIVAR HARDENAN COUNTY TENNESSEE sEPTEDBER 29 49,

ing, and it does not give me half SO
much pain as it does to drink a glass
of cold water. 7 always likes it just
as hot as can get it." I then inter
rogated him as TO the effect heated sub
stances had upon his flesh, and asked
him when he handled them with bis
hands if he did not suffer more than
when he took them inwardly, to which
he replied, mo Boss ] often take my
iron out Of the forge with my hands
when red hot,
But IT DON'T BURN.
Since was a little boy I have never
been afraid to handle f1re.n He then
stated that often when by himslf he
would pick up red hot iron because his
tOngs were not handy, and that he
never felt any discomfort from it.
He felt no more harm, he said, from
handling fire than stones.
I could cite a great number of in
stances besides those mentioned, and
give the names of a large number of
gentlemen of high standing who have
witnessed the wonderful doings of this
untutOred African but do not deem
it necessary, as what have stated can
be more than authenticated by almost
any prominent man living Ia this To-
cality. I am thoroughly convinced,
from personal observation, that
FIRE HAS NO EFFECT WHATEVER
- UPON HIS H,
And am sustained in that belief by
the united judgment of all gentlemen
who have seen him, including large
number Of physicians.
This man should be seen and exam
ined by our scientific men, and the
causes and effects of his remarkable
performances duly investigated for it
is certain that his power to handle fire
does exist in a remarkable degree, and
that, too, without the aid of any thing
save what nature has bestowed.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-09-29
WOman's Dress.

Miss T.. Stuart Phelps thinks a rea-
son for the mental inferiority of wo-
N, en- is to be found In the amount of
6nte !'lect that is wasted upon the pre-
1paration and preservation of their
Slr,ss. Taking this for the text, she
Voes om Ia the tollo wing style:
[ once sAW young woman ride
whole way from Portland TO
the fN the ears without leaning
bostoh 'Vst the cushioned seat, so
back aga; ND not tumble her black
thet sne sho; Nsrber told me that he
SILK sash. a '4dV" once for ball +,
"curled young ,1dred and fortv-
and she had two hu -ss doDe- 1And
seven curls when he " de- Tn0gnin0
| began at ten o'clock in ,afI nins
and never got through Ia. lewis
O'Clock at night" DR.. Dio S,5-
tells of a woman who put four l. =.
dred and twenty-five yards of trim.
mings upon one single dress. -Four
hundred and twenty-five yards
Conceive of the Hon. Chas. Sumner,
or Professor Longfellow, in four
hundred and twenty-five yards OF
trimmingl Immagine the speech on
San Domingo or the Psalm of Life
written in black silk sash tied in q
snarl to the authors coat-tails, he
pausing at every classical metaphor,
or at the close of each moral stanZa,
to sec if he has tumbled himself be-
hind. Fancy Brown-Sequard at n
consultation of two hundred and
forty-seven curls. Picture him tim
ing the pulse of a dying man with
one hand and lightning his hair pins
with the other. After contrasting
very racily the apparel of woman
with that of man, She concludes by
.raying the 'usc" of dress is his, th'
=, ilss" is hers. And even about thu
g.sa, ,ty she hesitstes, for though MAJ
Is Sot graceful being, yet in thi
,cI,I4Scat, cd year of our Lord on
thousand eight hundred and seventy J, ~ J,
cnet c Weld the field to the unparallel
cd and anapi1 preached and unaI
nroachable deiorl1aity of woman's a.
tire.
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stOhcwan Jackson's sunday-schOOl.

From q Lexington (Va.) Letter.
A visitor will be struck, on Sunday
afternoon, at the crowd of negro BOYS
and girls who may be seen vending
their way to the Presbyterian Church,
the largest and most influential in the
town. IF he will go in, he will see
experimenting a colored Sunday
school Col. J, T. i. Preston, Profess
sor ia the Virginia Military institute,
and one of our most prominent citi-
zens, and will find teaching in the
school others Of the professors in the
Institute and College, a number of the
students, and some of the most ac-
cOmplished young ladies of the town.
Ifhe asks about the school, he will
be told. '"This is Stonewau Jackson's
old school," =.
The facts are that this colored Sun
day school was organized by Stone
wall Jackson when he was a quiet
professor Of the Virginia Military In
stitute, that he took the deepest inter
est of its success (never going to It or
from it without earnest secret prayer),
and that when called into the army he
expressed himself more 10th to leave
his colored Sunday school than any
Of his other public duties. His deep
| interest Continued to the day of hfs
death, and be was never known to
write a letter to Lexington without
/ making special inquiry after his col
Ored Sunday school.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-09-29

THE WORLDS ENTIRE DEBT.-The
national debts OF the different couu-
tries Of the world amount to twenty
two thousand million dollars. OF this
sum forty-four hundred millions are
due by france; four thousand millions
by Great Britain; three thousand mill
lions by the United States, including
individual States, counties and towns;
sixteen hundred millions by Austria;
fifteen hundred millions by Russia,
one thousand millions by Prussia and
the German States; four hundred mill
lions by Holland; twenty-one hun
dTed millions by the other European
! States; and four thousand million by
/ Asia, Africa, South America, and the
other countries of the world
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-09-29

Brooks of the New York Express,
writes Of the drama ia Japan; 81
went to q theatre the other night, in
Kanagawa-a big institution, with no
seats, but with rails to lean on. We
all squat. The natives leave their
penny and two penny straw shoes at
thedoOr, near the ticket box, and take
tickets for them, as we take tickets
for our bats and cloaks. 1t was a
very funny sight to see four or five
hundred shoes ticketed with wooden
straps attached to them, the straps
written over in japanese characters.
No American can stand ia a japanese
theatre oyel fifteen minutes. 1t Is not
like the Chinese, all bang bang
bang smash, crash, thrash, but it is,
if possible, stupider Ito us, at least. J"
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AKNoUNCEaBETs.-Anno the name Of
person for County Office, IS; State oflee $40;
Federal Office SIS. Invariably in advance.
81 The above Terms and Rates will be
strictly adhered to.
~ Religious, Marriage, Birth and Death
Notices solicited, and viii be willingly insert
cd FREE or CHARGE. Obituaries will be charged
or at advertising ratea
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-09-29

Advice 10 mounting mustang !;
stranger, reckon you d6.at under ,-
stand that animal. There an oniy
one way to get along with a muetan 3,
aud that is TO let him go just as he is
q mind TO, and then steer him"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-09-29

Mrs. Stanton says she never knew
what it was 10 be perfectly happy
until she found herself III the Yose-
mite (Cal.) valley in big straw hat
bIoomer costume, astride Of mule.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-09-29

SMITHS UNIVERSAL L0OSs-AG the
exposition of the Industrial AssOcia-
tion of Lower Austria, for 1870, Mr..
Smiths so-called "Universal Loom"
excited great interest, on account of
its quick motion, easy application Of
member of the Association was in
duced to test its efficiency. He took
it to his factory, in Vienna, spared
neither time nor money in the trial,
and reported essentially the following
result: A great deal of lsbor and prac-
ticaI skill was required to bring the
loom into working order. This was
partially owing to q defect in the
machine used Ito which, indeed, the
agent Of the inventor had alluded),
but, so complicated is its construction,
that it is asserted there is no prospect
that it will ever be used by the common
weaver at his home. The mechani-
| cal skill of the experienced machinist,
which is only available in the factory,
will always be necessary to its proper
| working. The operation of the tFea-
die is of special Importance with this
| loom, and its working requires great
| judgement and tact, essentially faciIi-
| tated, however, by the convenient ap-
| pIicatiOn of friction rollers. One hun
| dred shots per minute would be the
utmost possible, even for q skilled
workman. With greater speed the
labor is too fatiguing, breakage too
frequent, and the products not so nice
and clean. This single experiment
was, however, thought insufficient to
positively decide the value of such
! looms in factories. a report received
| by the Association from q manufac-
! turer in Ladz russ, Poland) agrees
essentially with the above. 1t men
| tions in addition the poor workman
ship-says that not a single part is
well made-and doubts also whether
| the power Of one man would ever be
| sufficient to move the loom cOntinU.
ously at the intended rate of $50 to 1SC
| shots per minute.