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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
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The Superintendent says that with
SO great an expanse of territory vast
omission of value in the gross has been
unavoidable.
The estimated cash value of farms
is 80, 252, 500, 86l, and OF farm products,
implements and live stock, ~, 3O9, G93, :
Less than one-half of the area of
inclosed farms is under cultivation,
and less, in the whole, than One-tcnth
Of the national territory.
Of the total vast product here cxhib-
tied. the proportion of nearly three
fOurths is raised in that most fertile
part of the globe, the Mississippi
valley.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
CLEVELAND, April %.

CLEVELAND, April ~.
The organization of the North Amer
lean Sangerbund was perfected last
evening by the election of f. II. Bonn
President; the other officers are Chas.
Saclzer, vice-President, Herman Buck,
Financial Scc'y. J. Wcisser, recording
secretary, and Frederick Buchre, cor
responding secretary. All the officers
are residents of Cleveland. The next
Sacngerfcst will be held here in June
of next year. Preparations are ma
king to render II the grnndest festival
the International Association has yet
held.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
ST. LOUIS nAnKEr.
ST.. Louls. April %

st. Louis. April %.
FLOUR-Dull and unchanged.
WHEAT-Drooping; only sample
lots selling.
CORN-Firm at 37@7H in olevs-
tor. On
OATS-Firmer and fraction higher
at 80 in elevator.
BARLEY-Unchanged.
RYE-Quiet at 81 for prime.
WHISKY-Quiet at 81.
PORK-Higher at $l9.25 for june.
LARD-Firmly held, but no sales.
HOGS-Firm at 4.80@5.25.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
New YoRK April %.

A dispatch from San Francisco, says |:
Gen. Gillem reports to Gen. Schofield
that the Modocs have been discovered
in the lava beds, four miles from their
old strong hold. The Modocs were
compelled to evacuate their first hiding
place in consequence of the scarcity of
water. The Indians are now three
miles from water. Gen. Gillem thinks
he has the Modocs completely in his
power and that there is now no chance
for them to escape. He was actively
engaged for three days before their
hiding place was discovered.
Gen. JEFF. G. Davis, successor of Gen.
Candy, arrived this evening. He will
depart Immediately for the Modoc
country.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
FRAEKFoRT-oN- THE-MAlN }
April %. 1873.

The rioting in this city, yesterday,
was caused by an advance in the price
Of beer. The disorderly dcmonstra-
tons lasted until midnight, and the
troops were pclted with stones several
times during the evening. Sixteen
breweries were wrecked by the rioters
and there was much plundering du-
ring the conflicts which took place
Twelve persons were killed and forty
wounded. One hundred and twenty
of the rioters were arrested.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
WiscoNsIN.

MILWAUKEE,, April q.
The Bay is full of floating ice for
miles out. This has never occurred
before at this season of the year.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
A Touching Incident Of the Aslansic
Tragedy. sssssg

John Charles Eilery, n steward, tells
of Rosy Sheat, about three years old.
"She sat at my table" said he, "with
her father, mother and brother, end
was fond of me. When got ont Mr..
Shcat placed her in my arms in her
night dress and asked me to save her.
] thought of my own little girl Of the
same age in Liverpool, and kept her.
as long as Iconld. I saw her father
apd mother swept away by the sea
the little one moaned and continually
called "Papa! Papa! am so wet. She
died in my arms, and / had not the
heart then to let her drop, but handed
her toa man that was stronger than l
was" lux
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
pennsylvania.
sr, PrrERspuRe. Anr,l b..

ST. PETERsBURG, April 70.
A fire broke out this morning in
st. james Hotel, Main street, and be-
fore the flames were extinguished, half
the block was burned, and two houses
on the opposite side of the street were
badly damaged. Loss $25, 600; insur-
ance $1,000.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

CHICAGO, April q.
WHEAT--Lower and active at e1.2l
for May $1.251k@A for June.
CORN-Inactive and nominally at
37T@3S for May; 5000 for June.
OATS-Firmer ct 35@35L for cash;
3OM for May.
Rhythm car lots at SO.
4 BARLEY--Dulla Ut 7O@70.
PORK-Irregular' and easier Ut
1915 for June or July.
LARD--Active at 9.35 for May.
WHISKY-Easie at 66K.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

Charles Francis Adams, on the 18th
inst, at Albany, New York, delivered
most admirable .eulogy upon the life
and character of the late VIM. IT.
Seward. It is the production Of a
scholar, polished rhetorician, and a
fair thinker. 1t gives q very good
analysis of the political history of the
nation, commencing more particularly
with the contest for the Presidency
between his father and Genl Jackson,
and coming down to 1860, when Mr..
Seward retired from public life.
The analysis is quite faithful de-
lincation. of the leading ideas which
gave shape to politics. He falls into
I one grave error as we think, and yet it
is natural for such mind az his. He
gives to Mr.. Seward too great promi-
nence, at the expense Of belittling
President Lincoln. The pride of fam
ify, and the culture of New England's
fayo. lite schools, pertaining to Mr..
Adams : re quite likely to unwittingly
bias his judg,..a tent as to the character
of giants reared non the prairles o.
the West. After plac,1 y 'ne c,eui'
of Mr.. Seward the real POW 81 ponino
the throne that moulded all i. nss
the man, as he says, whose acquh>
inents were not only superior (Which
all admit.) to Mr.. Lincoln, but whose
native ability also overshadowed the
the President (Which very few will
agree to- he pays the following COM
mon-place tribute to Mr., Lincoln.
which had better boon left unsaid. If
nothing better suggested itself TO him J:
Let me not be understood Che says)
as desiring to say word in spirit Of
derogation from the memory of Abra-
ham Lincoln. lie proved himself be-
fore the world, a pure, brave, honest
man, faithful to his arduous task
And then he proceeds to say he must
however, be faithful to the facts, and
IN doing 50, places the President in |
the hands of his Premier, as his honest
and faithful instrument simply. Here
llie man Of Belle Lettres egregiously
Iails to understand or comprehend the
yreat man without such advantages.-
Is we have said such view is not to
g wondered at coming from Mr..
ADAMS. l,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

The New York Sun thinks that at
the VIENNA Worlds Fair, there will
be exhibited the greatest collection OF
American loafers, bummers and dead
beats that was ever assembled togeth-
or on any occasion since present geol-
ogical epoch commenced.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
NEW YoRk, April %.

Eli Brown, said to be well known in
the Western States as the associate of
Sam. Rivers, Harvey Homer and Jim
Carrie, was arrested in tho Fifth Av-
enue Hotel to-day OH n charge of rob-
bling j. w. Fuller of fifteen hundred
dollars and o gold watch.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
MAssAcHUsETTs.
Bosros, April q.

5000 ----I-7 OVSNV1Sy - PHNA -
Yesterday afternoon the boiler at
Grand Junction wharf exploded, injur.
ing Thos. Robinson, engineer, fatally,
and seven others slightly. a man
by the name Of Sullivan, an eight Of .
mile from the scene was struck by 4
piece of flying iron.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

In the case of Mrs. Workman, wife
of minister, who murdered her llus-
bands mistress at Eureka, H., the
Grand Jury failed to find q bill. The
jury stood nine for bill and three
against. M
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
NEW YoRK MAnkEr.

NEW YoRK, April %.
FLOUR-Quict.
WHEAT-Firm at 1.62@651k for
Chicago; 1.65@67 for Milwaukee,.
CORN--Firm at 68@8Is.
OATS Firmer at 56.
BARLEY-Quiet and flrmer ut 85@
LOS.
PORK-Quict at 1915.
LARD-Firm at 95s.
WHlSKY-9l.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

MADRID, April %.
Tho -fancrai of the wife OF President
Figuras took place to-day. Members
Of the Government, Foreign Ministers
and great throng of people attended.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
MADRID, April %.

General velardc has resigned the
Captain-General-ship at CATALONIA, in
consequence of the disapproval by
the Government of the vigorous meas
ures he had taken to re-establish dis
cipline among the troops.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
FRANKroRr. Anril. 23,

The military guards throughout the
city have been greatly strengthened,
but up to this morning the riots in
consequence of the advance in the
price Of Deer have not been renewed.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
lMplAMA.
INDIANAPOLIS, April q

INDIANAPOLIS, April %.
"A severe snow storm prevailed here
last night. About four inches have
fallen. The weather 10 still cold and
cloudy, with indications Of moro
snow.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
OHIO

CINCINNATI, April %.
Half o block of frame buildings, In
Guiding the Putnam House and Barns
House, were burned at Mitchell, Ind,
last night. Loss, $4,000. No insur-
ance.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

A rise in the price OF beer caused a
serious riot in Frankfort, Germany,
in which sixteen brewcries were de-
molished. So says our dispatches Of
to-day.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

"Docs hanging prevent murder Z"
asks an excha uge Few men feel like
numbering any body after they have
been well hanged.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
q 4. ID. WAEHBURNE.
j. l. DUNLOP, Dwight, Ill.
Barliuwaon and Missouri Halfway Land
Grant.

Grant.
A lengthy statement is gaining gen.
eral circulation, both Fast and West,
charging the Secretary of the Interior
and the Commissioner of the Land Of
fec with corrupt action in allowing
the Burlington u Missouri Railway to
select lands beyond the limits usually
prescribed. in the acts of Congress
granting lands. The facts are, that i'm
the case of this road no limits were in
serted in the act which which gave IL
the lands, for the reason that it aionc
ofall roads named in the bill received
no bonds, and the intention was 10
give 1t the full quantity Of lands named
in the grant, because 1t received lands
alone. Secretary Harlan decided in
strict accordance with what was known
to be the intention of the committee
reporting the bill; that this company
was not restricted by limits in the Sc
lections of its full quota of lands
Secretary Browning reversed this, but
Secretary Dclano, after taking full leg.
al advice restored Harlan's decision,
and the road has selected its lands. II
was, however, obliged by Commits
sioner Drummond to observe all the
'rhts of settlers, and to take the poor
,nct;., with the good just as they
- mo IT, whole transaction has been
strictly withic the requirements Of the
|aw.-Inter-Oc Ocean.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

Rev. Hammond is now in Ss. :,
among the Saints and "Saintesss..
He. thinks they need good deal of
feryent praying for.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, April %.
WORCESTERSHIRE this morning 5000 !;
market active bulk Of sales at s.. 40@
so.
CATTLE-Market active an unch'd.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

BUFFALO Co., NEB.
April 18th, 1878.

April lZtn, 1910.
Editors Courter::-Having informed
you while renewing my subscription,
that intended to start west to avail
myself Of tho homestead privilege,
my brother and myself started to this
place on the oath of March. Although
the weather was not very cold, snow
fell that night to tho depth of four or
five inches, nevertheless we managed
to boil coffee and fry meat.
Next morning by sun-up we were
again on our journey The weather
grew cold and colder all day, yet we
kept in motion until about half past
four o'clock, when we found good
quarters for ourselves and horses.
The morning of the sixth was ap-
parently as cold as the dead of winter !;
however our progress was not ma
terially impaired, although the snow
was drifted from one to two feet deep
| in the lanes, which, while melting, did
not leave the roads in very good con-
dition.
From Ottumwa we went to Oska-
loosa, thence to Knoxville, Indianola,
Winterset, Fontenolle, Lewis, and
thence to Council Bluffs.
On the morning of the first of this
month, we crawled out of our wagon
and prepared breakfast in the snow,
which was falling very fast, SO that by
the time we were ready to start we were
wet almost through and very chilly
The next day I had a shake of the
Ague, but being somewhat like old
mother Pennington: l held Ayers
Ague-cure, on this trip, next to the
Bible. As I had been subject to chills
and fever, of co urse I had supply OF
the Cure on hand, and routed the
enemy at once; but still 1 was in poor
plight for travelling thirty miles per
day.
After we crossed the Missouri river,
at Council Bluffs, we passed through
Omaha, and then came up on the north
side of the Platte. This side of the
Elkhorn river we found as beautiful
level country as there is in the world.
The Platte Valley, on the north side, il
some six or seven miles wide, but the
land for miles and miles is nearly ali
held by speculators.
Fremont, Schuyler and Columbus
are thriving villages and beautifully
located.
On the 9th, we arrived at our old
friend Spooner's place, near old Fort
Kearney.
Kearney Junction is on the north
side of the Platte river, opposite the
old Fort. It is a town about six
or seven months old and has about one
hundred and flfty houses, and Judge
from four to six hundred inhabitants.
There is no vacant land, of any value,
near this place. 1t is said there is
some yet up the north Loupe river
about forty miles from here.
We expect to cross the Platte river
and try our luck for good location
on the Republican river.
The Sioux Indians are now giving
the settlers some trouble some thirty
or forty miles north OF this place.
1t is reported that they had fight in
which three white men and one In
dian were killed. The settlers here arc
very much excited over the affair.
may have something to say here
after concerning the prospects on the
Republican river. A. w. Smith
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
An abstract of the principal crops
gives the following result in bushels !:
Tho amount Of farm wages paid du-
ring the year (lS70), including the
value of board, was $3l0, CSC, 236.
OF other products were.

1iuO VI rIdtButcIcu NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
alue Of orchard and garden prod
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

The editor of the Utah Mining Jour
mol calls one of the church dignitaries
an "old ecclesiastical pelican"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

John 4. Tiacy, President of the C.
F., and Chicago & Northwest
ss, has declared his inten-
more railroads in Iowa
tlon 70 ouiid no Grange excitement
or Illinois until the F.
has subsidized.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

The Chronicle of this morning con-
tains the following denial of the state
ment of Mr.. Filley, of st. Louis. That
on one occasion the Kansas Pacific II.
r., paid Secretary Harlan $4,000 be-
. &c he would recommend the issue of
= due the road. "Falsehood trav-
-. Lii "fore the truth can put on
~ hoa.sD ~, 'e publicity is being
$500 rejecting upon
lven 70 s'aselnsa' Mr.. Filley, OF
Mr.. Harlan, made byaA H..
st. Louis, but at the close tn. I.
ingeniously remarked: 81 say il,
know this to be q fact" Such test,-
nlony is of no use except to crafty a
malignant appetite for SANDER.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
FOREIGN.

MApRIp, April %.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

To keep the Indians quiet requires
considerable Ingin-anpuity.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

The name Atlantic has proved ILL
fated to many noble vessel which has
borne it. The Cleveland Herald notes
the following instances of disaster -
The steamer Atlantic was lost on Long
Island Sound with nearly all on board !:
the steamboat Atlantic was sunk on
Lake Erie, opposite Silver Creek, in
1852, by collision with the propeller
Ogdensburg, and went down in half an
hour, carrying two hundred and fifty
out of five hundred passengers the
river steamer Atlantic exploded her
boiler, causing the loss of nearly two
hundred lives, on the Mississippi: the
East Indiaman Atlantic was lost off the
coast of Malabar, with all on board.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

The Ottumwa (Iowa) Courier won't
mend matters much by declaring the
Changers to be dead beats, who are
always anxious to make themselves
notorious.-Dauenport Democrat.
The protection that we have against
such falsehoods as the above in regard
to what we have said about Changers is,
that falsehoods are what the public
expects from notorious liars.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

Between the LIST Of September, 1865,
and the LIST of April, 1873, the amour:
paid on our national debt was about
500, 100000, or something like sec, oOO,-
600 year. At the same rate, the
debt could be paid in twenty-seven
years, as it amounted to $2,l55, 736, gal
on the LIST Of April. Thus the last of
the debt would be paid in the last gear
of the century, 1900.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

1t is estimated at the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau that the tax collections
under the new Internal Revenue law
will be increased fifty per cent. because
of the impossibility of defrauding the
Government out Of its special taxes,
owing to the publicity which every
manufacturer and dealer is compelled
to give his special tax receipt by keep
ing the same open to the view of his
trade.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

The N. Y. World, the organ Of Dem
ocracy in this country, says:
"The farmers Of Iowa are organizing
new party. 1t is to be called the
Democratic party, and is to leave out
old dead issues"
The World.doubtless gets the infor.
nation from democratic exchanges in
Iowa. 1t is a fact that they are sha.
king that bush with all their might.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

what We Havc 60 Eat Per Annum.
From the New York Evening Post. :
We gather some interesting facts
relating to this subject from the ad-
vance sheets of the volume on "The
Industry Of the United States, Ninth
Census, 1870" soon to be issued by
the Department of the Interior. The
classification of lands is an improve
ment on our former reports, as, for
example, instead of the old division
into Improved" and "unimproved, 2
the acres are given under the several
heads of the following compilation:
Acres in farms in the United s2l, 9.
Acres In woodland $40, III
Acres unimpr0ved.. t940zGt
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
Minister Washburne is evidently a
great friend of the Oranges. He writes
the following letter to friend in his
old home. 1t is certainly plain talk:
AMEhICAN 1IMbASSf,
PARIS, FIR, March %, 1873.

PARIS, En-, March ~, 1873.
Dear Sir:-A week ago wrote to an
old friend OF mine in 10 Davies county
that, If the farmers of his neighborhood
should get up q subscription in aid OF
the parties who are made the victims
| of the audacious prosecutions of the
Chicago and Alton railroad company,
to put me down for the small sum OF
twenty-five dollars. / see to-day in
the Chicago Inter Ocean the proceed
| ings of a recent meeting Of the farmers
at Odell, and that you were made
chairman of committee to raise funds
to assist in carrying ON tho defense in
those atrocious suits, instituted for the
purpose of intimidating ana breaking
down every man who will not submit
to the illegal extortions of the corrupt
railroad monopolies in our State. For
| fear that what l have ordered SUBJ
scribed may not be made Immediately
available, beg to send you twenty
five dollars more by New York draft
for that amount.
made speech to farmers con-
vention in Morris, Grundy county, in
1866, in regard to the extortions and
expressions Of our Illinois railroads.
and then proclaimed that the whole
railroad system of the State had be-
come vast and terrible monopoly,
never before known or dreamed Of in
free country. l confessed, however,
that l had little hope of any immediate
remedy, for the people had not then
suffered enough. But six years of un-
interrupted and shameless plumber by
these corporations have aroused q
people who have slumbered too long
on their rights. While there is to be a
terrific contest between the oppressed
and the oppressor, victory will finally
perch upon the standard of eternal
right and justice. AS I said in my
speech on that occasion, "the longer it
is delayed the greater the oppression,
the more fearful will be the retribu-
ton"
Though in q distant and foreign land.
l watch with intense interest the fight
now going on between the people and
the monopolies. All my sympathies
and interests are with a people among
whom ] have lived for . third of q
century and from portion of whom
have received SO much support and
kindness as to make my heart swell
with emotions of pride and gratitude
which no words can express.
lam, very truly, your Didn't serv't.
E. B. WAsHBuRNE.
j. /. DUNLOP, Dwight. Iii.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24

Senator Summers health has not ma
terially improved. He has, however,
changed his physician, and is now at
tended by Frenchman, who attributes
Mr.. Summers pain about the heart to
an affection Of the spine, which is
traceablc to the assault made upon him
by Preston Brooks in the Senate years
ago. Mr.. Sumner takes long ride
each day.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
TELEGRAPHIG |
NEW YoRK.

nEpoRrED ron THE CoURIEa.