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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

Dan Voorhees, is defeated for Con-
gress in Indiana. We are very sorry.
His head is one Of the number cut off
by the Greeley scythe. We are sorry
Tor Dan. He ought to have been elec-
ted. He wanted to be. When man
who has slept in two beds, ridden two
horses and been on both sides of u
question at the same time cannot be
elected, there is no certainty of success
for some Of the country. We are very
sorry Dan is defeated. Honored DEM
.ocratic leaders are scarce.
Drop him In gently
Cover him with stones
Hes nothing but u Liberal
Whom nobody owns.
Drop him down from:
ON his hack so hat
With picture OF Greeley
And his old white hat.
--NCU York Democrat.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24
Row sho Did Il.

/ will tell you a rather barefaced
story of how Dublin chambermaid is
said to have got twelve commercial
travellers into eleven bedrooms, and yet
to have given each separate room
Here we have the eleven bedrooms:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. loI IL
ssNow," said She, iii two of you gem
tlemen will go into No. l bedroom, and
wait there few minutes, iii find a
spare room for one of you as soon as
I've shown the others TO their rooms.'
Well, now, having thus bestowed taco
gentlemen in No. l, she puts the third
in No. 2, the fourth in No. 3, the fifth
i'm No. 4, the sixth in No. B, the seventh
in No. 6, the eighth in No. z, the ninth
i'm No. 8, the tenth in No. 8, and the
eleventh in No. 10. She then came
back to No. /. where you will remem-
Der she left the twelfth gentleman along
with the first, and said Il have ROW
accommodated al the rest and still
have room TO spare, so, IT one OF you
will please step Into No. IL, you will
find II empty" Thus the twelfth man
got his bedroom. or course, there is a
hole in the saucepan somewhere; but
Ileave the reader to determine exactly
where the fallacy is, with just warn
ing to think twice before deciding as
to Which, If any ofthe travellers was
the 'odd man out.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

Brick Pomeroy's Democrat, the most
extensively circulated paper of that
kidney in America says:
"rhe Tammany-Greeley Liberal
combination is dead, and to all intents
and purposes, damned for all time to
come.
"rhe death kneli Of the Greeley Goa
lition has been sounded. The Liberal
Republicans will hardly lift another
iinger.. Virginia and Maryland repu-
diate. The question is not how many
States Greeley will carry; but sswhat
State!"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

According to reports current in this
country the exodus from the Eench
provinces of Alsace and Lorraine,
comprising the territory annexed to
the German Empire, is beyond paral-
lei. In single town in Alsace, all but
three persons Of those who were there
at the close Of the war, remain. Metz
is literally depopulated. The bitter
hatred that the people entertain for the
German rule is universal.
These provinces will have to be TAX
Ell possession Of and settled by the
Germans, or remain desert waste
The French people do not hesitate to
abandon large landed possessions in
order to get away.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

Max Adeler is responsible for this
celestial story: There is a Mrs. Smith
over in New Jersey who has engaged a
cOolie to do her honse-wOrk for her.
Like all Cinnamon, he uses exaggera-
ted and preposterous terms when adj
dressing a superior. And 80. few
weeks ago. when he wished to know
if he should bring the wasl-tubs up
out of the cellar, he approached Mrs.
Smith and used the following formula,
which he had studied mp with great
care: "Wonld the bcanieous dove
who brOods like an angel Of peace
over this fair heaven of domestic fc-
licity, cooling soft notes to her Affection
ate mate, desire me TO conduct the
wooden vessels from the sublime SUBJ
terraneam apartment where they are
excluded from the glance Of her soft
eyes" Perhaps it was his broken
English, or it may have been his
warmth Of manner, but Mrs. Smith
imagined that the wretchcd Mongolian
outcast was making love to her, so shr
foored him with broom handle, roll
cd him down two pairs of stairs, and
then sat on him and thumped him mp n
lot, while Mr.. Smith held him by the
legs. The coolie conceived an idea
that this ceremony must be invariably
incident to the removal of tubs from
American cellars--that it was some
kind OF religious right which was 10
be performed always on washing days
and now. every Monday morning, he
stuffs newspapers under his clothes in
order to go through with the perform
ance with rs much comfort as possible.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

covered her buoyancy of spirit before
we arrived home, and had promised TO
keep our adventure n secret, as l in
formed her the 'owner of the horses
would charge me a fearful price if he
know to what tests the steeds had been
put And that is my adventure with
wolves, and how ] came TO marry,'
"But did your wife never find out
the deception you praciised? p we ask
cd the old settler. as he laughed again.
while thinking of his boyish pranks.
"Not until eight years ago. he re-
piled. "whcn | told her of II ono even
ing when she was ironing
"What did she say p
sNot much--not very much,r an
swcred our old romancer. but remov-
ing his hat, lac showed us q triangular
space upon his head. such as might
have been made by hot smoothing
iron, and with not II hair upon its
surface. We thought Fanny was re-
yenged.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

Several OF my neighbors have lost
all their chickens, from some disease
resembling cholera. have not seen
them, but from the symptoms describ-
cd, several of my own n0slgsels have
been attacked with the same disease.
have been fortunate in effccting a
cure in every case, and .with few
weeks experience / feel sanguine that
Twill in future be able to check the raw.
ages OF this fatal disease.
The symptoms are, first a dull. stupid
appearance. accompanied with diar-
rhea; when disturbed the fowl at
tempts TO run, hut seems either blind
or dizzy, and goes stumbling and stag
gering until finally it falls on one side,
after which it seems TO fail very rapid
ly; the crop is full. hut soft and fabby
in some, in others fNll aud hard. The
first cases came very near proving IA
tai as did not know what treatment
10 resort to. but my wife came to the
rescue. Two or three seemed at the
point of death, being unable to move.
and she gave them some red pepper
first, but that failing TO give relief, she
poured two teaspoonsful OF good 81
per cent. whisky down each one, and
put them in their coop, saying s.if that
did not cure. they must die" The
next morning we found them appar-
emily as well as ever. We have treat
cd all those attacked since with simple
whisky and have lost none NV pre-
ycntive il. TO take rye or wheat and
soak il well in Highwines or strong
whisky, feeding the whole flock with
ii once or twice each wcek.--Cos7ys-
posdcat Poultry BMietia. 4.i,
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smart Boy.

The following conversation between
q man named Jones and q boy was
overheard by ST Louis man the 9TH
er day:
81 say Jim. what is the difference
between the commencement and the
beginning of anything?
Il don't know" said Jim, what is
it?"
"There amt any" was the reply.
II see,- said Jim. .Now you tell
me this: A jackass was on one side
of river and some hay on the other
and the jackass wanted to get at the
hay without wetting his feet. How
did he do it?"
II don't know" said Jones, Il give
it up
$50 did Ihe other jackass,' said
Jim.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24
VOLUME "a. .
THn rLAPDooDru sus1Nnss.

THE FkArD0oDiH BUSlMH0S.
1t is amusing to notice the little dlill
sergeants of the office-seekers coalition
s.flourishing their truncheons mcna-
cingly" in the face Of their recalcitrant
recruits. They have themselves COM
pletely fapdoodled. They have gone
back on all the traditions oftheir lives.
They have in their platform declared
substantially that everything done by
the Republican party for the past
twelve years has been the very sublim-
ity Of political wisdom. They have
accepted a. their candidate for Presi-
dent q man they never held an idea in
common with. They are splitting their
throats in bawling for Horace Greeley
who has never hesitated to dcnounce
them as thieves, pimps, vagabonds,
liars and pickpockets, and who de-
clared that during life be expected to
be their enemy, and at death in no way
their debtor.
By this course they have declared
this to be an off year in democratic
politics; that political obligations are
no longer binding because there is no
longer democratic candidate in the
field. they ignoring o. 'Conor. It would
seem, therefore, that If under the Cir
cumstances an honest intelligent DEM
ocrat should prefer to support the dis
tinguished Republican soldier and
statesman Grant, rather than the dis
tinguished Republican demagoguc
Greeley, that there ought not to be
much fuss about 1t in tho ranks of the
Dolly Vardens, who are all themselves
fiapdoodlers. But this is not the case.
They seem to claim patent right to
the summesault business, aud SO they
60 about cracking their little impotent
whips over the shoulders of the demo-
Gratis who can't see the Greeley fraud,
with the idea in their poor little heads
that they, are driving the Same old dcm-
ocratfc team. They have forgotten
that they have themselves set the ex-
ample Of mutiny; that they are all
boilers that they have but taught these
fellows "bloody Instructions which
have returned to plague the inventors.
In the meantime let the good work
Of reform 60 on by the scallawags Of
the Republican party flapdoodling into
the chow-chow party where they be-
long, and by the best men in the late
democratic party coming into the par
ty of true Reform; Of liberal ideas,
and of Progress, where they really be-
long, and where they are at all times
weIcome.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

We add South Carolina TO our col
umn OF Grant States, and subtract Wy
oming from the Greeley column, which
leaves Georgia alone In her misery.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

( D4VenpOlH is 70 nave city market.
The Hardin County Jail is without
q tenant. .4rs $3.50 ,,1!trI sT.
Des Moines has invested $400, coo in
new bridges this season.
One of the walls Of the Council Bluffs
gas works fell in, the other day.as.
There are 9S students in the Deaf and
Dumb Institution at Council Bluffs.
Scarlet fever is raging Nth fearful
mortality at Jefferson, in Greene Co.
Ths nanseot Springyale, Humhaldt
County. is to be chang Ifufnboldta
A Davenport dyer has taken in 25O
Greeley hats since the Sth, TO be dyed
black.
Muscatine has already shipped this
season, 1000 barrels Of sweet potatoes,
grownin the city and vicinity.
A Pottawattamie farmer dug four
hundred bushels of fine Peerless pota-
toes from one-halfacre of ground.
Charles Rosenburg, living with his
father near Dcs Moines, was accident
tally and fatally shot, on the l4th inst.
j. McElroy, railroad ticket agent
employed by the Southwestern rail-
road, has been arrested for embezzling
S2,Ooo.s9saii =
Richard La Croix was SO badly
mangled in a threshing machine, on
9th, near Sioux City, that he died in q
few hours.
The contract has been let and the
work commenced to complete
! the Central Il II. from Northwood to
Albert Lee.
Mr.. Sharffe, of Dcs Moines, received
fatal injuries, on the 18th inst, by his
horses running away aud throwing
him from his wagon.
Nearly all the grading ON the NJ. /.
& N road is completed to Centerville,
tand it will be but short time until
rains wilrun to that place.
Mary Kurtz, l4years old, living in
Taylor county, had one arm crushed,
the other day, in a sorghum mill she
| was tending on her fathers farm.
A Guthrie county man went to pay
mis- taxes and he could not tell the
| Treasurer in what township he lived
nor what direction from the county
seat.
Trains are running regular from
Dubuque TO Brownsville, Minn.,
where they connect with steamer,
thereby opening direct communica-
tons with Lacrosse. Communication
will be opened in u few days, south to
| Clinton.
Iowa has the smallest debt of any
State in the Union, its taxes arc the
lightest, and we believe it has the larg.
est permanent school fund, which is
about $3,OOO000, the interest on which
is applied to the education of the
young. During the year ending Oct
Sd, 1871, there were 7,S41 schools in
the State, attended by 342, ,440 pupils
The value of school property and
apparatus at that date was $685..
490.16.
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that the Burlington, Cedar Rapids 4
Minn II, X. company, did on the frs,
of October last, control more miles ol
railroad than is controlled by any
other company in the State. Theii
main line from Burlington to Austin
is 26l miles, the Muscatine Western i:
l27 miles. the Milwaukee branch run
ming from Cedar Rapids to Postville
is loo miles, and the branch leading
west from Vinton, 40 miles, making /
total of 42S miles.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

10 PRESERVE EeGs.-Takc nail
keg or anything more convenient, and
put layer Of salt in the bottom, about
a quarter or halt inch deep, then, as the
eggs arc gathered, place them point
downward on the salt. When the
layer is complete, fill all the intersticcs
with salt and put layer of salt over
the eggs, then another layer of eggs,
and SO on until you have enough, fin
ishing with a layer Of salt. IL your
eggs are fresh when packed, they will
be rs good as fresh ones in six months
Keep in 4 cellar or an equally cool
place.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

Perhaps the sickest man who has
yet heard the news from Pennsylva-
mia. is John w. Forney. He Is as bad
" doubled up as the maiorities for
Hartrauft In his own city.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24
l.sttsr from Hon. p. W. VOORHEES,.
special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.
oyV AsutScTov II r. Oct 10

-
A letter received in this city from
Mr.. VOORHEES,, dated Terre Haute, Oct.
IA, says that he does not regret his de-
feat for Congress, but is glad to be re-
mitted to the practice of his profession,
which is more congcnial and lucrative.
As to the cause Of his defeat, Mr..
Voorhees, says he foreseen il when he
said that the Democrats could not or
ganizc in the short time given them
before the election, and that it was
simply a stay-at-home vote in his party
that beat him, aud hurt the cause
everywhere. Nobody thought there
was possibility of his defeat, and
over-confidence led hundreds to stay
away from the polls. He writes, as
follows, in regard to the Liberal move-
ment: "a word or two now about the
movement itself. 1t is right in its
principles and objects-a movement
destined to restore sclf-goyernment to
the people Of the South, and to relieve
them from thieves and pirates, to bring
about general amnesty, peace, and re-
cOnciliati0n between the sections, to
purify the departments Of the Govern
inent, now infested by a plundering
ring engaged in tho civil service of the
country. A movement, say, contem-
plating such results as these, cannot
fail to elicit my Jealous and unfalter-
ing support. The only mistake our
friends made was in supposing that the
prcjudiccs of the masses of the Demo-
cratic party Of thirty-five years stand
ing, against Mr.. Greeley, could be en-
tirely overcome in brief canvass of
sixty days. It takes more time than
this to work such . change in the minds
Of honest, sloNAthinking people. /
thought SO when tried to prevent the
nomination of Mr.. Greeley, and now
know il was right. have entire re-
spect for this element in our party, and
in time it will harmonic with the
cause in which we are engaged: but it
takes more time than was given in this
movement. sfEs5.E a - $500 81
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

ee0auded 70 Oongress
We publish statement tabulating
the Congressional result ID p6st tsef the
States which have thus far held their
olocfiona.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

The Congressional Republican Com
mittee, ut Washington, viii soon pub
lish in extenso, review Of the politi-
cal situation. This will in brief, give
the following forecast of the result in
November. Grant and Wilson, they
say, will carry every one of the origi-
nal free States, and also the border
States of Missouri and Delaware. Of
the old Slave States, the Committee
says, tho two Carolina's, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Arkansas, are sure, and
that we have equal chances of Alaba-
ma, Florida and Virginia. The Com
mittee comedies that Greeley is likely
to carry Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Georgia, Maryland aud West Virginia
56 electoral votes in all. This figuring
which we feel certain is quite accurate
will make q very thorough rout O.
Democracy, in its newly put on Skin
of the ass.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

Variety weddings" have been intro
duced into Rhode lsland. They take
the place of wooden, tin and crystal
weddings. the happy couple receiving
. variety of presents, instead ofhayirg
them all Of one material
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

The great bane of Young orchards in
winter is the rabbits. They will eat
the bark OF the yougg trees and thus
kill the orchard outright. There is
remedy for this. IL is to plow the en-
tire orchard in the fall, to thus leave
the ground bare and naked. and you
need have no fears of tho depreslations
OF the rabbits. To slo their work they
want shcItcr-protcction They like
to be in tall weeds. brush on other rub
bish. They don't want 10 BIC seen, and
they don't like the sharp winds aud
naked ground. II isa good thing for
the orchard for the ground to be plow-
ed in the fall. II will cause the trees
TO grow with increased vigor llcxt sea-
son. Trees need culture just rs much.
as corn or potatoes. The loss by rab-
bits every winter, il summed up, is
amazing. and II little care would pre-
vent il. II is pitifal 10 see a fine young
orchard DESTROYED in this way. It is
true. that by rubbing blood, the liver
or lights or dead animals. or carrion
Of any kind. on the bodies of trees
two or three times during the winter.
the rabbits can be kept OIL; but the
rain gradually washes Off the smell of
fhe animal substance. and it may be
forgotten To- apply again in time, and
trees may be injured. But by plowing
clcanly in the fall the orchard may be
saved. II is well 10 keep q close watch,
and Whenever il ID seen that they be-
gin their work, trees should be gone
over immediately with some such apss
plication as we have recommended:
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE ON NE.
0x0 SUrrRA01.
Positively the most astonishing self
contradiction that ever we saw inside
of single paragraph may be found in
an article on "The Negro in Politics" "
in the New York Tribune Of Oct. 10th.
The paragraph begins by declaring
that Nv
No one who has seen tho negro only
in Northern cities, where he has had,
if not school training in youth, at
least that education that Is got by con-
slant association with Intelligent peo-
pie, can conceive Of the dense ignorance
and stupidity of the field hand on q
Southern plantation. Often
one hears of amusing and not .sch0llV
reprehensiblc devices to keep the me-
groes from the polls. For instance, a
Mississippi planter told me he intended
to stay at home, himself, on the day Of
the Presidential election, and give q
big dinner to his 50 hands. He would
say nothing about the election, he said,
but would have music, dancing, and
feasting ali day long, SO that the ne
groes would forget all about going to
vote. He could bug, theis. Uotes for Jsre
dolinfy apiece, but he did not want to
resort to such means. tb72
! But here is another extract from the
same paragraph,
Try an ordinarily intelligent negro,
and tell him of what Mr.. Greeley has
done for his race, and his debt of graft
tude to him, and the answer you will
got will be about like this: "Dat may
be so ; but If he used to be on our side,
he's done turned agin us now. Desc
white folks is all gwin to vote for him,
and dat shows he amt ON de side of us
colored men no longer"
And this is an article written ex-
pressly to show thatthat the negro has
not enough sense to be trusted with the
BALLOT
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We recognize in the Confederate
movement success in reform in this
State in this particular, the leaders of
the Liberal party of the State, the
bright and shining lights, such as
Grinnell, Stone, Stubbs, and others who
have gone out Of the Republican party,
have by their absence from among us,
given us some measure ofreform as q
party.
To this extent we gladly acknowl-
edge that there has been reform brought
about in our party by the movement
1t may be that this is the reform that
our Liberal and Democratic friends
talk so much about; if it is we will
yield the point, and no longer contro-
vert the issue with them.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

Senator Allison, of Iowa, disap-
pointed . Des Moines audience, last
Wednesday evening, by not coming to
time. The Senator has had little heart
in the canvass for Grants reelection.
Chicago Tribune.
Senator Allison was the first man In
Iowa to take the stump for Grant dur
ing this canvass. He has made mag
nificent speeches for him at all the
principal cities in Iowa. He was es-
pecially anxious to speak at Des
Moines, where an immense audience
awaited him on the occasion referred
to, but at the last moment he was COM
PEELED to telegraph from Boonsboro
his regrets that severe illness predis-
posed by long and srduous speaking
campaign, put il out of his power to
appear. AL these facts the Chicago
Tribune man knew when he permed
the aforesaid lie, as well as any in
telligent journalist in Iowa. He must
have stupendous capacity for lying,
coupled with unbounded confidence in
the ignsrance and gullibility Of his
readers. But then, anything to beat
Grant,