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10. rHx poor INDIAN.

Ths march OF years have cSTAe ans gone,
Nave passed like phsntous, "ne by cns:
And left within the sou, the power
& ~ .ich msrks 4 X dest' ntesofthe hpnr
The Gsds copeede 10 man consent
To span the worlds braad continent,
From swelling sea - distant mountain,
From spi-y grove TO sparkling fountain,
In qsest Of mysteries old and new,
The devious wsys Of life pursue. IL
Outreschins Ger this fair domain
VII. scertre swsys the conquered plan;
yorxotten now the blood and tsars,
The record If pa st weary years.
The war paint and he plnHsye bright,
II The tornahawk tAat klexMed ut sight.
The kindling hre that LIT our homes,
And they who only Knocked at means,
The fatal srrow swiftly sped.
And 10! pale moarners Tor the dead.
~ L Hsr, in the meilowed light OF time,
The suiien Indian seems sublime;
The dark lines Of his life are rare,
and with fairer race ceMpare. Is
- The eastern hes, t. in tender yearning.
l,s incense on the .itar burning.
Touched by the noble red mems wrong
r5s'7 II eloquent in speech and song;.I So
'sAe IN. can ye, midst The dar 'kaing light.
Discern for HIM ray Of lightf t RIB
!, Through the centuries that hare ilatd3 Ia
i-e- The forest lev which God had msda; !
byH3rhrosigh each advancing step to faste,
what is the indian bat n name2 Lssllf b
i,Fs. Dark shadows rnd oppressive gloom
Ming like a pail abeve HE noon
An antique child Of pntamea paesian;
A curious mold OF a. ur,'s fashion;
J 10 Heds.s not s,rugsle with his yfate--l III
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lit JOIN. y ARNuM. JR.. OF Lyndon. VT. is 2
practical joker. few Sundays ago, IN re-
1lrrrriuy from church. he was eonverSing
with his ~ife on the subject OF the sermon,
! am. he remarked that he couldn't belieyetlla.
saint and sinner ever slwelt SO near together
/ us the sermon His wife init
mated that they could. aid instanced tile
following case Haven't You and | dwell,
liz tl,r same house for several years?'' This
Was ! square hit, on Joiiii,o but he wormed
out OF it. md closed the casH with the fol-
lowing argument: 9. Y Yes. 70 be sure, but did
il ever call you sinner9" Judgment for
John and no appeal. 81, g..s..s5. !, y;
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N. y. cHuRcH (sorrH) SERVICES.

TIL. Rev. !. r. s:urti. will preseh ne 1t
Sabbath. at III 1. NJ. and Al 7. M. M the
! h District School hpusr. G>Asl2, sAass..4
The SUNDAY School meets st p. ".
, Eve.yh. iv Ia r, snectfiillv invited 70 at-
tend .hnse. 81 Eia e.. Wy, 49,. NJ. .ta4.l--,-
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III MRs, ELlzABsTH WALKER Is the name OF
the female .walkist,, Nhs proposes to do one
thousand miles III one thousand hours in Sail
srsnciscN EEhe says itisIio Fat, ..simply
the power -of the mind over the physical
Estfuct u -, Ma w. proposes 4ufthsf III
6s1oS1strate the sremarkabls power ot het
4 - ssss - TR @sASI@S& 49,,
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nAs FTxATMy

q, i4e.iII "a. EsH Nh
: n stated comm nicatfons OF Galiatin Lodge No, 9
NAFAA NJ. neld ut their hall on the first SRfur-
dsy evening on or before the full moon Of each
WAITING brethren are cordially Invited to stfrnd.
ts-Ft%'.+SJ TIL ". II, sEDWAHDs,, w. III.
'R.,P MsNHFxK. Sec.
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VYyysTERN STAR L0pGEfNo. 4, Il o %. r.,
= tfyru-.ta every Monday night, ut . o'clock p.
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D.. RAswAx ~ hare ha& e.ass Tsner and
kowas there hsss for
ssne H.s r.. nataisg sslged H. e.
ks.., hsd snsrsd M tvelvs tk bcttlea sf tbs
Rssovsnt Railways Pills | tws bottles Of sssF
RsaSy geisf: sign of be
snd Ell bss< s.ssr d f4rs Tor Twelve yszrs
ws you r tas bsasas u Other. YIN publish m
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WHIT a ttHNEONs' n
Associate .Justices|

aosernor. ! .ssss Rss.s y. eoITs Virginia CITY
Secretary -. !. q. sfU .. sLALhAWkr.l - 49,
Chief Justice. alp. 8. WADR $50. Helena
.s..x..., x.s,.ax.jF, a. Sxayls Virginia City
Associate JusucesflIIRAa Know II. llrer Lodge
. u 4 Dist Akt,y In C. PACE -. ersburg *
" eurveyOr General. JoiIS e. BLAlStA iItelfuaA
Register Of Lands Sol. STAR Helena
Reeev.r Nv e (HILDs =. Helena,
an Inai.n Al rsIJAsprn A WALL. Helena.
u. s.. Marshah o.. IWAsEs WHEKLERl Heiena
ASSESSOR Int. Rev, IL. SHrRCiI.. iteIena,
!. Collector tskt'sail Is L. " ATsoN. I. J. Helena,
Collector Customs w W JOHNSON ,fHeiena. =
q. 8. Commission. In. W. CARPESTRH Helena. =.
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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17
FOR Said
AT
Bargains on Long Time!

Houses and Lota on Court street.
Two acres on Court street, between city and
| cemetery.
Two good Houses and Lots ON Jefferson street.
| tween Main street and the bridge.
Several lots Of r. gronnd on Main street 6etWeer
Market and Jefferson streets.
| Houses and lots on Second and Fourth streets.
Several houses and lots In Bake's addition.
| Improved farms and wild lands In southern Mis-
souri, at low prices and on long time with pei
cent interest to actual settlers.
chard. all improved, good coal land. Situated tive
| miles east Of Ottumwa. win sell .cneap or .ex.
80 Acres No. / farming land. is acres timber,
balance prairie In Highland township.
lao Acres, good orchard and Is acres improved,
$50 Acre farm In Green township.
Wild lands In Washington, Agency, Keokuk
Green and Adams townships.
House and l91 acres, nice farming land. Two
Is Acres, two miles west OF Ottumwa.
Several small farms in Washington township
Reserving coal rights. Would exchange some oil
the above for Ottumwa real estate.
Several nice faSma In Wapello county. to en-.
Good farming and i timSered lsnds ia western
Iowa, Northern and Southern Missouri. to ex-
change for city property and horses and mules
some desirable farms to exchange for merchan-
A tract Of 1880 acres heayy t:mbered lands nea,
rsu road IN Missouri and 5000 cash for . stock
$50 acres, farm and timber, near Queen City, on
North Missouri railroad, and 5000 cash to ex.
change for stock OF Dry Goods or desirable resi-
dence property in Ottumwa.
Good farming lands, in Southern and Western
Missouri, and Western Iowa. In tracts to suit pur-
chasers and on long time with per cent interest.
ALSO. farms OF 40 TO 900 acres wen improved. ii
different parts OF Wapell0 county, s0me near OF
tumwa on liberal terms, At low prices.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad lands
at low prices, on long time with low rate Of int
Free transportation 10 land buyers. For railroad
Tickets maps pats and fun particulars apply 10 OF
address
LsFoRUB 4 MORSE.
1anlSd&wtf Ottumws, Iowa.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17

The Marion County Democrat has q
call in II for a county convention. to
meet in Knoxville, Iowa, on the frs,
Saturday in. August next to pnt In
nomination county ticket aud also to
select delegates TO the anti monopoly
state convention to he held on Au.
gust 18th at nes MONIES. The call
says "ths basis of representation TO be
three from each grange in the county,
and one additional for each member
ship Of fifteen. or a fraction over eight
as shown by the roll books of each
grange" Here, then. as in Maliaska
county, aud severa, others, the grange
launches forth iuto the sea Of politics
IN direct opposition TO the constitution
OF their order. ln so far ~ the grange
takes this action we must oppose it,
and such action cannot butbe the death
knell of oranges that enter it. We
cannot and will not espOuse the cause
of political party founded upon class
demands or prejudice, and the more
especially so when that party acts nm.
der the ban Of secrecy. We are hear
lily sorry to see this course pursued
by any oranges, because Of the inevi-
table consequences that must attend IT,
viz: the injury of the order. if there
were no other good reasons why we
should lament such action.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17
The xoney.erder system.

The New York Herald Of Sunday,
has some interesting figures showing
the growth of thepostal money -order
system at the general Office in that city.
The system was established November
], 1864. The New York Office had
three clerks to conduct the business,
and when the Office closed the first day
only nineteen orders had been issued.
The first orders for payment were
presented the third day, when fourteen
were cashed, amounting to &l84.92.-
Since then the business has increased
SO that now forty-two clerks are re-
auired. During the quarter ending
the Both of June, 1866, orders amount
ing to $28,O76 were issued by the New
York office; 5,l99 orders paid, amount
ing to $S1, 2O5; $751; received from
Postmasters, and drafts. for Postmas-
tiers to the. amount of al, 100 paid
These figures were for the month end
ing June Both, 1878: Orders issued,
l5S, 3l9 ; orders paidy 81, GIG, amounting
to $l,285,9G; deposits received from
Postmasters, $500, 900; Postmasters'
drafts paid, 81, 1858, 232. The largest
number Of orders presented for pay
ment in. one day was on January 4,
1879, when 1859 orders, reaching, in
the aggregate, $39, $3.50, were receiv.
ed and paid. The figures given only
include the domestic transactions.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17

There are 202, l54 acres of taxable
land in Washington County, and the
assessors place an average valuation OF
1895 an acre upon it, while $40 al
acre on an average would not purchase
it. Onr present manner Of assessing
all kinds Of property is wrong and in
many cases works great hardship.
Real estate should be assessed at lust
what il is really worth, and the same
way Of merchandise aud all kinds OF
personal property. Under the present
system there is no equality in the bur.
dens of taxation different parts of the
State bear. az some counties are not
assessed for 0ne-half as much as other
counties are. while the value Of the
lands are in every respect equal. Ey-
cry man should be compelled to list
his own property and swear TO the
cash value OF it, then we would have
something like equal taxation.
This great inequality in assessing
real estate cab in some measure be
remedied by the State Board OF Equal
ization, but 1t never can be wholly
rentified. The coming Legislature
should devise some better plan for
assessing property than now exists in
our statutes.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17

The Central Railroad of Iowa has
issued a circular to the bondholders
respecting the non-payment of inter.
est. The circular states that the earn
ings Of last year were less than the
cost of operating, and that the floating
debt is now about $4,000, of which
more than half. or S52f,OOO, is for
money advanced to pay interest, The
interest due in April on the second
mortgage bonds was passed, aud that
due ON the first mortgage bonds in
July cannot he paid. The road cannot
be properly worked without "a large
increase of equipment, aud 43 miles OF
il is practically useless without The
construction of 81 miles Of new line. -
In orderi" obtain means of equipping
and completing the line, the bond.
holders are asked TO deposit their cou
pops for the new two years interest
with The Farmers Loan aud Trust
Company in New York, and to receive
for those coupons scrip bearing 7 per
cent. interest in gold aud running
until January l, 1874. When tho inter-
est is thus funded the company propo-
ses to issue preferred stock to take up
the floating debt and obtain the money
required for equipment, iron, etc. A
large amount Of conditional subscrip-
lions have already been obtained and
provisional contracts for five l0como.
tives made. The amount of the first
mortgage bonds is is $3,7OO,OOO, and
the second mortgage, $925,OO0.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17

Jacob Thompson, Buchanan's Secre-
tary of the Interior, charges that the
deficit Of 1921 600 occurring in his de-
partment, was the work Of Floyd, Sec
rotary of War, and clerk named Bal
ley. He AYERS that he knew nothing
of the transaction until after it was
done. This was simply a part of Mr..
FIoyd's steal from the Treasury In his
effort to put the South on a war foot
ing, and inasmuch as Floyd had al
ready gone into rebellion when IL was
ascertained and Thompson had not
got quite ready, but was still i'm
Washington, it looks as though it was
u convenient way for Thompson to
shelter himself by charging it upon
Floyd. 1t is hard to believe but that
all the Southern members of Buchan-
ans cabinet who went into the rebell-
ION understood one another and were
acting in concert to prepare the confed-
eracy for war by stealing from Uncle
sam a.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17
News and other Items.

Moving for new trial--courting 8
second wife.
How to make slow horse fast
don't feed him.
Sympathetic ink is now the rage fol
writing on postal cards.
The Emperor and Empress of Aus.
tria are on fighting terms.
The hay crop this year is the heav.
lest ever known in Oregon.
Forty EIGHT children adorn the fam.
lily board Of Michigan papa.
Dogs do not bite more hydrophobi.
cally in July than in January.
The Milwaukee police are about to
be armed with croquct mallets.
Richmond, Virginia, is experiencing
q powerful temperance revival.
Hon. John A. Bingham will start
for Japan about the 1st of August.
Fashionable ladies' in the Eastern
cities are makinga crusade against false
fair.
A Nevada Sheriff locked up an &C.
quaintsnce and ran away with his
wife.
| Twenty-Five persons want to fly
with Professor Wise across the At.
lantic.
Y -
Ex-Congressman Ashley, of Ohio
is about to engage in the manufacture
OF steN.
Texas showls for more economical
funerals, although they are. down 10
$2.65 at present.
A homesick San Franciscan who Is
visiting the East finds occasional relief
by having sand squirted in his face and
down his back with bellows.
"Good-by l am going to Jesus p
was the exclamation Of William Clin-
ger, aged "a years, who died suddenly
in rocking chair at Lancaster, Pa.
A member of the Ohio Constitutional
Convention asked to see young
lady home the other night, and he had
$40 gently lifted out of his pocket.
: Vice President Wilson was able to
appear on the speakers stand at
Natick, Massachusetts,, on the Fourth,
but was too weak to do any public
speaking.
A court In Grayson. county, Texas,
has sent one man to prison for fourteen
years for stealing horse, and impris.
oned another for five years for COM
hitting murder.
Two hundred men in Stamford,
Conn, are reported to have formed q
building association on a new plan.
Each member pays 50 week, and as
fast as houses are built, lots are drawn
to see who shall be the possessor. The
successful drawer mas lot thrown in
with his house.
Fifteen years ago the first Atlantic
cable was laid. 1t merely conveyed
the congratulations Of the President of
the United States and the Queen of
England and then refused to utter an
other sentence. The next cable was
that of 1865, which broke few weeks
ago. The third cable is that of 1886,
and is still in working order. The
fourth cable, the French One of 1869,
has lust been broken about 208 miles
from Brest. The fifth was landed on
Friday at Hearts Content, Newfonnd-
land. On the return voyage the Great
Eastern will grapple for the broken
cable of 1865,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17

The Morgan Envelope Company are
now turning off about 100000 postal
cards per day, working only from 7 a.
m. until 8 p. m. Regular night and
Sunday work was suspended about
two weeks ago. Up to Saturday there
had been difficulty in getting paper
enough, but the Hudson g. Cheney
company haye now completed arrange
ments that will enable them to deliv-
err paper sufficient for million and a
quarter cards per day, and this week
the Morgan Company expect to work
up their production to 10000 cards
per diem. The total number of cards
ordered up to July l, was 81, 03S, 600,
and over 5000, 600 have been called for
since that time. Large orders have
also been held back at Washington,
among which is one from postmaster
Lee, Of this city, for 10000, the hum
dred thousand received in June being
nearly exhausted. The total amount
Of orders ahead at the factory ID about
l4,OOO,OOO. The paper containing the
small water mark was first used on
Saturday.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17
wonderful Offers Received By the Con
missioner Of Patents.

whatsoever Of Patents.
A letter was received recently by the
Commissioner of Patents from one
Roberts, Of Portsmouth, England, Of
fering to this Government the benefit
of an Invention of his own for utili-
zing water-power, so as to force the
water to great heighth when confined
i'm reservoirs constructed for the pur-
pose. Roberts offers the invention free
Of all charge, as he states that it pains
him to sec 'snch mighty great power
rs there is at Niagara wasted" He
offers in addition his own services at
the low rate of e1,OO0 per annum to
build and operate the invention. He
says in his letter that ''if the mighty
great powe, in Niagara was accumu-
lated It would move great deal" He
states in addition that he has good
plan for a velosipeed and biceed" that
he thinks would be good thing for
this country, although, las he admits,
"people around England don't like It."
Referring hack to his water-power, he
claims that ii this Government will
build the road, he can take ships across
the Isthmus Of Panama Gin o box
water and all. And yet the Commits
sioner declines to accept Mr.. Roberts
offers, "velosipeeds" and all.
Many strange offers are constantly
received from foreign countries of all
kinds ofim2ossible and useless schemes
and inventions. One of the latest and
most ludicrous of these is from .
Frenchman. who proposes u plan "for
expurgating lions and tigers nom the
United States of America" He states
that it is. well known that lions and
tigers, and oil animals of that kind, are
very fond OF Ncatmint," and on this
basis he proposes to dig, throughout
this country, vast pits of great depth,
and fill these with sscatmint" nearly to
the surface. He states that the lions
and tigers would immediately 70 to
those pits and jump in; they would
roll about in the Hcatmint" and sink it
down, when they would be unable to
Jump out, but would become an easy
prey 10 men stationed with arms for
the purpose CT killing them.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17

There is some consolation for aspir-
Ing youths studying for journalism in
the fact that the Rhode Island Weekly
Mercury is ll6 years old, has never
missed . publication day, and the vet
Gran reporter who has been on the paper
since its birth, in 1850, now gets 10 per
week salary, but manages to pay his
wash bills by passes to negro minstrels,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17

The Centerville Citizen - ex- Com
gresham Walden's paper-says that
the back-pay which the Mahaska
county Board of Supervisors directed
its Auditor to return, has not been re-
ceived, aud il is understood that meas.
hres have been instituted to prevent
the Auditor from complying with the
instructions of.the Board. In Marion
county the State Superintendent has
been appealed to, and he says that the
right Of an individual to give money
for the benefit Of common schools
cannot be questioned, aud that, such a
gift having been made, the Board OF
Supervisors have no control over it,
and that il must be used as the law
directs. II is singular, truly, IL there
is no power lodged anywhere to de.
cline an uhwelcomed gift to the
schools. We hope some way will be
found, however. TO prevent any of the
public schools in Iowa from being
supported to any extent from Con.
gressional larcenies.--B Burt. Hawkeye.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17

Vicc-President Henry Wilson, is, no
doubt. suffering from quite severe
attack OF paralysis. 1t is confined to
one side Of him as is quite common in
such cases, and his face is yet sOme-
what disiignred. There is no doubt
hui that the public have been SO far "a
possible kept iguoraut for q long time
Of his real condition. His physicians
shy IL he will keep entirely free from
mental work they hope yet for his
entire recovery. Ii is however plain
to any intelligent maD, that at the age
ut which Mr.. Wilson has arrived no
reasonable hope can he entertained
when attacked with paralysis that he
cnn ever go fully recover AS not to be
at any time subject to a return Of the
disease that will be worse than the
first attack and so continue until final
" HE death will follow. Though he
'0ay recover SO as to ill with ability
his Office, yet hc will be all the time in
a prccarions state and liable to sudden
death.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-17

At the time of the passage OF the
act giving back-pay to Congressman
we published a vely complete resume
of the vote as TO the parties, but it ia
perhaps well enough to keep it before
the people that there were eighty two
Republican members voting against
the bill aud seventy -four for it, a ma.
jority of eight against. OF Democrats,
sixty-ouc voted for and forty one
against, majority of twenty for the
bill. We mention this as no sort Of
extenuation for Republicans voting
for it, but to show that a majority OF
Democrats supported the bill and .
majority of Republicans opposed it.
This is convenient for the purpose Of
shutting the mouths of Democrats
who are wont to charge the response.
bility OF the act upon Republicans.