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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26
Iu0Hiring FARMERS.

4 wide-awakc farmer in Iowa, in
writing TO his brother farmers on what
is known AZ The Oranges. an insti'u-
tion having their headquarters in This
city, asks this significant, question:
Why send $i2,23O 10 Washington to
be used by :. side walk farmer and
his followers ! an seeker after
light, and want more Than now have.
We don't know who hc means. But
he has evidently been reading up the
question. The state Grange of iowa
appointed a committee TO examine in
10 what is known rs the I" National
Grange" 1t having COS, the Grange
of Iowa SiT0UD0 year for this gcner-
ons protection. this Patron asks
brother farmers. ! would ask wheth-
er the expenditure OF $4,000 by us
will bring our corn out Of the fifteen
cent depths VIII this " insurance
money protect MS rs We desire 10 he
protected ?
"A pertinent question. Now will
some Of the e horny listed farmers,
who are blowing in the Departments
here, and who are the guardian patrons
of this National Grange" please an
sWer. If not, we shall have TO put
that dnty OH Chronicle reporter, and
We promise orr friend Interested. IL
shall be well dong. Wash. Ghronic1e.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26
The Ola. old Seory.
From The Albany Evening Journal.

From Inc Albany evening journal
The hot season has come. The Pres
ident has gone to Long Branch. And
now every Democratic paper is tenn
ing with the old story of .'sea-side
loiterings full as though ii were
not a tlirice-told tale, as indignant as
though il had net been contemptuous-
ly spit upon by the people.
We are solemnly told that every ma
ton has a capital - as if anybody
questioned IL. We are treated to a
formal history of the proceedings by
which Washington became the capital
Of this country--as if anybody doubted
it! We are assured that the President
and other fnnctionaries took up their
departure for their new seat Of Gov
crnment--as If anybody denied It'll
And when we gel through this long
and dreary chain Of logical and histor-
zeal reasoning, we are expected to fall
in with the conclusion that the Presi-
dent ought to remain and swelter I'M
der the burning sky of Washington.
True, the President often repairs to
the capital. True, he can communicate
by mail twice day and by telegraph
every minute. True, also, that Wash
ington used to spend large portion of
his time at Mount Vernon, where he
could not communicate with the capi-
tal as readily as Grant can from the
sea side. John Adams remained for
weeks in Massachusetts,. Madison
made a tour lasting for months. jack
son was absent for large portion of
the season. Still Grant must be de-
nounced.
Cannot these cynics see that this sort
Of stuff is played out ~ II was fresher
n year ago than now, but produced no
effect even then. If they must assail the
President, why not invent something
new! Say he killed his grandmother
say he plotted to blow up the capital
when the Senate opposed San Domin-
go-say, even, If Long Branch must
be referred to, that he Is bribed by the
hotel keepers to spend the summer
therc--anything Tor variety.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26

The Vinton Eagle gives the follow
ing advice about the way to do away
with middle-men. This advice will
Apply to Ottumwa, just as well as Vim
ton, and if carried out would increase
the population of Ottumwa 30 per
cent. in very short time.
Standardization TO DISPOSE OF
THEM.-One of the vexed questions of
the present time is to devise some
means whereby middle-men may be
enectually consigned to the limbo of
iorgetfulness. Various methods are
suggested, and numerous plans are
Just now undergoing the test of expe-
riment. But unfortunately, the really
practical method, and the only one
which seems to afford hope of success
dealing directly with the manufac-
turer-ls not receiving as fair test as
u deserves. All over the State of
Iowa, during the six months, bodies of
men have resolved, and re-resolved,
that they will not purchase of middle
men or agents--they will go to the
manufacturer. But singularly enough
not body of men in Iowa, SO far, as
we have heard, have yet resolved to
put the resolutions to q practical test,
at home! Suppose all the men who
do their trading in Vinton were TO re-
solve.-actiag upon the resolution,-to
| purchase no boots or shoes except d.
rectly from the manufacturer at home.
| What wonld be the. effect upon that
branch of trade within twelve
month? Instead Of twenty or thirty
workmen in that trade, which the
town now has, it would number at
least two hundred. The business
would occupy the finest buildings in
the town, and the middle-men or
merchants, who sell nearly all the
boots and shoes, would be driven to
the wall, as far as that branch of trade
is concerned. And besides, such q
course would increase the population
of the town from three to five hum
dred. and every mouth of the three to
five hundred would need its three
meals day, thereby consuming the
products ofthe soil around
the town.
Possibly this simple test of the matter
is too simple. 1t possesses none OF
the enchantment which is said to be
given by distance, such as attaches
when we send to q manufacturer in
New York or New England.
The sending of to New York or to
Chicago, in preference to purchasing
of merchants in Vinton, in no sense
dispenses with Indictment simply
transfers the place of business from the
present location to New York or to
Chicago. 1t builds up middie-men a.
a distance; rather than at home-that
is all. To make the thing really prac.
| teal we should send to China for our
tea to the West Indies, or somewhere
else, for our coffee and sugar; to the
peach orchards Of Michigan for canned
peaches to the salt works somewhere
else for our salt, etc., etc.
I. We suggest that this thing be put To
the test at home. Let us buy home.
made boots, homemade clothing, home.
made wagons, homemade cheese
homemade hams and bacon, etc.
Isn't this practical? If not, why
! not?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26
The Chicago journal Of June 2ls

The Chicago Journal Of June 2lst
cditorially says:
Congressman Walden, of Iowa. is
having a discouraging time of it,
Quite number Of the counties of his
district have returned TO him The allot-
ment of his back pay" which he dis.
tributed to them. This is right enough
and we like to see such spirit exhib-
tied by our Iowa friends. Mr.. Walden
had no business to draw his black
pay" in the first place. and when lac
found that public opinion would not
sustain him in keeping it he should
have returned il 10 The United States
Treasury, where it belongs, and not
tried TO purchase popularity with il
The idea of Congressman giving their
back pay to counties and to public
charitable institutions. after finding
that its retention would be damaging.
originated with unprincipled dema-
gogues. and we are sorry to see MIR.
Walden follow such n pernicious ex-
ample. Such tricks will not be re-
ceivcd with favor by intelligent com
mnnities. When public representa-
tives prove so weak in resisting mer-
cepary temptations, il is encouraging
TO find their constituents superior Ia
them in this respect. The safety oil
our institutions does not SO much de-
pend upon the integrity of public men
as upon the integrity Of the MASSES,
Iowa. has Mt least one sound district.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26
Surprising Resuscitntion.

A remarkable case of resuscitation
has just taken place at the Hospital of
the Val-de- Grace, Paris. A man had
hanged himself in garnet in the Rue
Saint Jaques, and having been cut
down and examined by the medical
men. was pronounced to be dead. The
clinical lecturer, however, desired to
try one last experiment, and he opened
the chest and attempted artificial res
piration, but without success. He
then applied the pole of an electric
battery to the pneumo-gastric nerves,
and passed strong current at inter-
walls of four seconds. Soon after, some
signs of respiration appeared, and in
five minutes the cardiac pulsations
were perceptible. The epiglottis was
tumified, and the tongue had to be
drawn ont with pinchers to leave q
blood was obtained frofi1 rne mpurof
cephulic vein, the dilated pupils con-
tracted, the signs of life became more
and more manifest, q few drops of al
cohol were administered, some slight
muscular contractions become visible
without the aid of electricity, warmth
returned to the feet, the pulsations in
the carotid arteries recommended, and
the patient was saved.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26
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BACK PAY.

/ II Is reported that fourteen ont of
seyeuty-fhree United States Senators
have returned what is called "bock
pay TO the Treasury of the United
States. and thirty-one ont Of two hun-
dred aud forty odd members of the
T House have followed The example of
The fourteen. This manifestation of
public virtue all relates 70 the increas-
"a pay for the Forty-Secona Congress.
iio Will be the first 10 restore this
excess of pay for the current Congress
| ( the rate OF pay WAS loo great for
the former Congress. il is also TOO
great for lie present CONGRESS-.
The above we clip from the Wash
ington Chronicle DAILY OF the 10th
inst We cannot agree with tho spirit
or sentiment of the article.f The
rhroateie has placed itself upon the
basis of a great paper published at
the Capital of the Nation, and we are
very glad 10 see il. II seeks tircula
ton throu ehout the whole country.
both in the rural districts and in the
! cities Of the land.' If il Keeps pace
with the sincere. honest popular pulse
of the country. il ought 10 obtain such
u circulation and we trust will.
The fact WAS that during the last
session of Congress, that body wa.
thoroughly educated by The people a,
| 10 their wishes in regard 10 increast
Of salaries. Congressman cannot sa,
| that they did not know before tn,
| passage of the bill that the voice of The
people was strongly against il, but il
order TO avoid advantage being take,
by either one OF the great parties
members of both OF them united I,
carry it, solely through motives of per
sonal gain.
| The country felt poor. money was
and is close. and it was peculiarl,
burdcnsomc, offensive and inopportun
10 raise salaries at such time, an,
. nobody knew this better than did til,
! members Of Congress, No candle
man can look upon ihc action of tn,
congressman in this matter, who voteG
| for the bill, in any other light, than {
determination to 90 counter to In,
wishes Of their constituents for scltisl
| purposes.
i 1t Is folly, however. to say.that Their,
is no difference between the I'D Con
gress taking tho retroactive pay ant
members-of the next Congress taking
their increased pay. 1t seems 10 ~
no talr-ninded man can so argue
One vital difference. is that the frank
ing privilege no longer attaches I,
Congress, while the last Congress hat
the full benefit of it. and this makes
no small difference in the actual OK
penses of members.
Another difference. which also inn
pairs the pay OF Congress yer,
greatly, is the cutting OF of mileage
and allowance OF only actual expenses
IN travelling, TO and from Washington
Without pretending to be accurate
This will make difference with four.
hfihs of the members of Congress o.
from $500 to $1,000 each, per session
There arc many Of these reasons we
might urge but these alone are quite
sufficient
90 plain is this view of the case
that we can ascribe the incentive ia
such articles as we quote from tho
| ehfoHfcte, to no other course. than q
ieeiing in favor of the law in toto aud
an excuse for the failure Of Congress.
|'hen to return back pay. We believe
the chronicle fails TO assume the bicl
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26

The Rev. John Hozarih Lozier, of TT.
Dodge. has received a letter purpori-
ing to come from the captain ola band
of one hundred and forty men, mott
Tying him TO leave the place within AZ
hours Of the receipt thereof, OF the
captain with his little army win pro-
coed TO hang the Rev. Lozicr. But
the "iigitiug preacher don't scare
worth a cent, and at The expiration of
the allotted time, the captain seems 10
have changed his mind, and Brother
Lozicr still lives.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26


There is man selling candy on Park
Row, N. Y, who was once Baron
and Colonel in the Russian army.
Five New York ladies have gone to
Paris this spring for the express pur-
pose of having their faces enameled.
When telegraph operators have no
other news to transmit they can always
branch off on another murder in New
York"
A Cincinnati man, who is going to
get married in September, sits around
boiler shops so as to get his ears train
ed to it.
The Burlington and Missouri River
Road is opening land Office at Omaha
for the sale of its 100000 acres north
of the Platte.
The London Times says that English
society, dignity and courage are deteri-
Grating, and that little is left except
English vanity.
"Gravity," said one of our learned
judges, sis no more proof of wisdom
th"H q paper SUiiat 10 VI uidu uot-
ing shirt on"
A Memphis lawyer fell down while
speaking the other day. An inkstand
thrown by the opposing counsel hit
him before he fell.
spiritual lickers" was the shape in
which Pennsylvania justice Of the
peace put It in an affidavit relative to
application for license.
There are now in Chicago's new no.
tel, the Grand Pacific. fifty-nine flights
of stairs, thirty eight miles Of wire
999 windows, and 1,070 doors.
Miss Susan Junk, a beautiful, accom-.
plished, wealthy, etc., girl Of Roxabel
O., had more nnrequited love than she
could conveniently wrestle with, &c
she plunged beneath the dark pillows
Of the raging canal.
The editor of the San Francisco
Chronicle, after stating that he has sesnt
desire to engage in personal contro
versy," proceeds to characterize the
editor of rival newspaper as Il
drunken and cowardly idiot"
The editor of the Fredericksburf
(Va.D Netcs was asked by q stranger
If it was possible that that little
town kept up four newspapers" anG
the reply was, No, ittakes four news
papers to keep up the town."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26

Every newspaper has some especial
claim to notoriety, but the Red River
Gozetle, published ut Glyndou. Mimi.
seems to be ahead, and should be taken
under the fostering care Of the Gov
ernment, as it is "PNbltshed nearer the
Worth Pole thu, ang other paper in
NE Enifed Statec.
A steam vessel should be sent in
search Of il al once, duly armed
train oil and EsqSimaux.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26
AN AUDACIOUS LIE.

McGREGoR, Iowa, June 1.-THE
Republicans of Allamakee county,
Iowa, assembled at Waukon. Iowa,
yesterday afternoon in county con-
yention for the purpose of electinl
delegates TO the State Convention to
be held at Dcs Maines next month.
The delegation in favor of Dudley
w. Adams, WHO'S candidate for Lieut..
Governor of this State, were elected
by small majority. Upon the report
of the result al the ballot, several OF
the leading politicians OF the minority
side moved a reconsideration Of the
vote. This not being agreeable to the
minority, they formed themselves into
assailants, attacking The majority with
clubs, fists, &c.. several prominent
members becoming sadly dcmoralized
The affair was ono OF The most dis
graceful things ever witnessed, and
shows HE small amount of respect
which is felt io,. Mr.. Adams ,by his
fellow politicians
PosrsyILIE. Iowa, June 10Th 1872.
Ems. OF THK GouEiEE:--
The above from the Chicago Times
of yesterday, contains the following
errors, otherwise ii is II correct ac-
count of Allamakce County Republi.
can Convention:
The Convention was not on the 10th
but on the lith. The State Convcn-
ton is not next month. but the 18th
OF his month. The delegation in favor
OF Mr.. Adams was chosen unag,ib,ous-
W. The result of the ballot was not
49, "a Z y - - '.~-i.,. Lcipy aleatod
hy acclamation. Politicians Of the
minority did not move,a reconsidera-
ton, there being no minority, for there
was not 4 negative vote in the Con-
vention ON any question, resolution,
or election. Resolutions endorsing
Mr.. Adams were adopted upuj,tanousiy
There was no fight or even angry talk.
1t was large, dignificd and harmoni-
Gus Convention.
/. NJ. MCCORMACK,
Sec'y of the Convention.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26
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State News.

Linn county has population of 30,
OIL.
Marshalltown is to have new ma
tional bank.
The hot sun is developing the corn
everywhere.
An Abba COW yields seven gallons
of milk daily.
Crops in the section of Wapcllo are
looking splendid.
The crops in Hamilton county will
exceed the most sanguine expecta-
lions.
All the money required to build
railway from Des Moines to Ames has
been procured.
The station agent at Independence
has lost hand--smashed in the car
bucIling business.
A Methodist Camp-meeting will be
held in Grove near Birmingham, Van
Buren, county. commencing August
Doth
A Physician is wanted at the village
OF Fairview. Jones county. Two hnn-
drcd inhabitants. and four miles 10 a
doctor s-shop.
Waterloo thinks il sports more first
class huggies, phetons and other
stylish turu-outs than any other city
Of its size in the West.
A Manchester man came home
drunk, aud his wife shouldered a club,
went TO. the saloon where he got his
whisky and smashed the bar para
phernalia TO flinders
An attempt was made on Monday
night to rob the Citizens National
Bank, at Winterset The thief was
discovered by an officer, when several
shots were exchanged, Int the rogue
escaped.
A man was found dead in the road
short distance from Waukon. recent.
~. His horses had stopped, and a
wheel of his wagon was resting upon
his chest when found. Intemperance
was the nndonbted cause.
Iowa is looking so promising for a
bounteous harvest that 50 days ride in
the cars give one the impression that
he is being whirled through an en-
chanted land, where only beauty and
richness feast the cye.s
The Hon. John +. Duncombe. oil
Fort Dodge, has accepted the Attor-
neyship of the Atchison, Topeka and
Kansas Railway, in connection with
the superintendent of the Land De-
partment. and will make his residence
At Topeka.
David Hill, a liveryman of Daven-
port, recently sold six year old
Hambletonian horse to st. Louis
gentleman for S2,400. The animal is
one Of the most promising in the
country, and was bought by Mr.. Hill
one year ago for $50.
The Atlantic Telegraph affirms that
John w. Scott, the Audubon county
lawyer, who is blessed with a good
understanding" accidentally stepped
one foot into the Botna river the 9TH
err day and the waters parted like the
Red Sea Of old, and all the surround
ing country was overlooked.
Riley Wescoatt, has COW from
Which he extracts seven gallons of
ufactures twelve pounds Of butter per
week; and he believes, with careful
handling, sixteen pounds may be
made. That beats the Birmingham
COW, from the milk of which in seven
days llA lbs. were made. The COW
mention is owned by Mr.. Wescoatt. Of
Abba.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26
G1aubb..s.Caf,

The man who lives just back of us,
Chubb, has yellow tom-cat whose in
telligence is almost human. Chubb's
cat possesses voice like Tuscarora
Indian, and when ii gets out into the
yard on q moonlight night and meets
a cat with different political views,
and reasons with it and INDUCES in
animated. conversation and lifts out
hand-fuls of fur, you can hear the de-
bate for mile and a half. Chubb
used TO be much annoyed by the con-
tinual disturbance, and he would dis.
perse the meeting with bullets and
other projectiles, but at last he noticed
that his circumstances had no effect
The more soap-cups and boots he
fired into the yard the louder the vel
low tom.cat would scrcech; and when
he would bang away with his gun, The
cat would send out wild, unearthly
yowl which would wake people
within fifteen squares, and set 5000 or
10000 dogs to barking. Ii seemed so
queer to Chubb that his cat never NOV
ed Oh when hit that he determined one
night 10 watch it. Just at dusk he OBJ
served that cat drag about twelve
inches Of old stovc-pipc from under a
bush and crawl into it. Then the cat
inserted its legs through holes that had
been punched in the iron, with its head
projecting through the end, aud its
body clad in armor it winked at
Chubb and wandered OH to attend the
mass-meeting. Chnbb says he would
not take thousand dollars for that cat
but il we don't Tunnel under Chubb's
yard some night aud blow his tom-cat
into eternity with submarine torpedo,
1t will be very singular. We admire
ingenuity, but "a vociferous tom-cat
makes us unhappy.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26
News and other Items.

New York ladies are on q strike
against the milliners.
st. Louis journalists would rather
"retract than be horsewhipped.
Kingston, N. Y, spends $46S,24S a
year for rum and $4,000 for -four.
Cincinnati church-goers don't be.
lieve in services over an hour long.
A ST. Louis paper refers to McCoole
and Allen as 'the National brutes."
Four members of st. Louis family
were done in oil acknowledgements.
One of the indispensables at the In
diana picnic Is wagon load Of brick.
bats.
The Kickapoos that Mackenzie chss-
ed over into Mexico left Kansas in 1861
for Texas.
A New York lady wears set Of
Etruscan jewelry made over thous-
and years ago.
The Maryland frnit.growers have at
last invented bushel box which holds
but three pecks.
The first half of this year will show
about 10000 foreign immigrants ar.
rived at New York.
The women at st. Joseph, Mo-, par
AIDED the other day carrying the motto !:
"We'll vote or fight"
In economical Oberlin, Ohio, invita-
tons to a fashionable wedding were
issued on postal cards.
Connecticut had one divorce to ev.
cry eleven marriages last year. One
didn't leayen the whole.
The first victim to cholera in Indian-
apolis was q heightened bar-keeper,
who wore cluster pin.
A New York man has dog kennel
with mansard roof, plate glass win.
dows and Brussels carpet.
II is suggested that some Of the am
bilious aeronauts try their hands at
reaching the North Pole.
I'm not getting married as much
as was" is the latest way of saying
mo" to an imprisoned sutton.
Seventeen factories in East Killing
ly, Conn, have stopped work, owing
to the prevalence of smallpox.
Recorder Hacket, of New York, SEN
fenced man to State Prison for pick
ing up and spending ten cents.
A murderer at Meridian, Miss, ask
ed tO he hing on the FOurth Of .Julv.
and the Judge kindly consented, as ii
would help along the proposed celebra-
il0h.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26

Everybody should recollect that al
Bank Checks have 10 be stamped
,rhea issued. A failure to do this, sub
iects The panty so offending TO heavy
penalty. The Commissioners rules that
stamping by the Bank, Oh posting mp a
depositors accounts is a violation of the
law
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26

The Gate CitY Of The 22d inst, con-
tanned the following in lis editorial
columns:
A correspondent of the A lbia Ta.)
Tatof. says of the howl being made
against Gov. Walden by few petit.
Jogging politicians:
But with all the lying those fault
finders can do. Walden is backed BY
the people. No man was ever more
endorsed by. the masses of the people
than he is. 10 moi know one farm
Ser in al This section but what an.
"proyes Of The course Of Coy Wal.
:. aen.'
Time at last makes all things even
and Hate defeats itself. The fellows
who are fighting NJ NJ. Walden. blind
ed. by hate. cant see that they are max.
ing him The strongest man with the
people there is in that Congressional
District"
We are very sorry that Samuel's
precocity and brilliancy had not been
a little toned down in his composition.
II would have been better for his con
s,itmiion and an improvement upon
his manners.