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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22
DEATH M BROWNING.
IL 1t a Hard or Pleasant Way % Die ,

DIR. Hoffman, who went down with
the Dixon bridge, and who was res
cued when in the act Of drowning, and
afterwards restored to consciousness,
gives q very interesting account Of
how he felt when in that condition.
He says:
"When / was still sensible of the
surroundings, went apparently very
close to the bottom. The current
rolled me over and over, and my
hands frequently came in contact with
the gravel. I could feel the water
running down my throat and my ears,
and all at once experienced the most
delightful sensation. l seemed TO be
at peace with everything and perfectly
happy. My whole life passed before
me like flash of lishtning, the events
appearing in sequence, the most prom.
iuent appearing indeiibly impressed
upon my mind. Circumstances had
forgotten appeared vividly, and did
not want to be disturbed. l should
have preferred to remain where / was.
While in the midst of o beatific rev.
erie, thinking what my wife would do
if she were saved, and I drowned, I
felt hand on my shoulder. l was
pulled out and placed on rock. 1
was almost insensible, but gradually
came to myself.
was greatly astonished at the num-
ber of events that passed through my
mimi WtiiIe under tie water. NOtn.
ing that occurred during childhood
was evident, but everything since /
was about 10 years old appeared bc.
fore me as If photographed. The
sensation l experienced while the
water was going down my throat was
not unpleasant. 1t seemed as If ] was
going on q journey, and was sur
rounded by all kinds Of beautiful
things. While on the rock felt very
bad and desired to be left alone. The
transition from the beatific state in the
water to dry land seemed to have .
bad effect, and made me Indifferent as
to what was going on around me.
Several people came to me and wanted
to take me home, but l told them to
let me alone"
Several others with whom we con-
versed at Dixon, whose experiences
were similar to that of DIR. Hoffman
while under the water, declared that the
sensations they had while in the very
act Of drowning were by no means
unpleasant but were on the contrary
of the most enjoyable kind.
We are apt to look upon this mode
of death as most horrible, and we
shudder at the thought Of one drown-
ing. But are our ideas regarding it
corroborated by the testimony of those
who have had practically the best
means of knowing its natures
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22
Tatsening Hsgs = MalntaiainY sheir
ApRetltea.

1t not unfrequently happens that
hogs put up to fatten show loss Of ap-
petite for week at time, eating but
little and wasting good deal. Messrs.
Lewis and Gilbert, the well known
English scientific farmers, have en-
countered this difficulty more or less,
in addition to positive disease, and af-
ter many experiments have prepared
q compound which they state has been
very effectual. The following are its
ingredients and the proportions:
20 lbs. finely sitted coal ashes.
Ibis. common salt.
l lb. superphoshate of lime.
They are duly mixed, and put into
q trough where the hogs can have free
access to them at all times. In case
where three pigs were troubled with
swelling and difficulty Of breathing,
they consumed pounds Of this mix.
ture during the first fortnight 6 pounds
the second, and 8 again the third
Tho expense Of materials 10 very light.
Those who have occasion to test the
prescription would confer q favor on
others by reporting the results -Co4a.
try Gentleman.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22

4 Our exhibition at the Vienna Expo
alton is the subject Of ridicnle from
i0ar English cousins. 1t may not be
that Yankee enterprise sees money in
koing so far to exhibit, and so are in
Elined to give the thing the go-by. We
are sorry if this is SO, for our pride is
such, that we don't like to see the great
Republic beaten when she has the
power, as in this case, Of rivaling all
others. The shameful furry among
our Commissioners has probably had
something to do with this result.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22

WASHINGTON, D. D., May IL, TS.

WAsHlNaroN, D. D., May IL, Ts.
EDrroRs CouRIER -:
Through the kindness of Mr.. Thos.
B. Marche, one of the gentlemanly
and efficient officers of the Post Office
Department, will be enabled to send
statement of post Office changes in
Iowa to the COURIER every week.
Mr.. Marche occupies the desk held by
the late Col. A. G. Cameron, formerly
of Charlton.
The following changes were made
during the week ending May 10Th:
Rome, Henry Gown. Scott APP
pointed vice j. A. McElhany resigned.
Gordon's Ferry, Jackson Co.--Mrs.
X. j. Clcavcland vice VIM. II. Simp.
son declined.
Wesley Station, Kossuth Co.-Geo.
Baker appointed vice Samuel Ormsbee
resigned.
Rising Sun, Polk Co.-Robert L.
Shannan vice Samuel Fleming re-
moved.
Webster, Keokuk Co.--Samuel Hal.
iUwcH appointed vice Israel Mcbride,
removed.
West Mitchell, Mitchell co.. Re-es-
tablished appointed W. w. Blackman
z. NJ.
Weller. Monroe Go. - Henry II.
Groves appointed vice NJ. Q. Sullivan
resigned.
Bethlehem, Wayne Co.-John w
Rankin appointed vice p. p. Black re-
signed.
Scotch Grove, Jones Co. Nj. i,
Blazer appointed vice James 5. Ap-
plcgate resigned.
Florenccvil!e, Howard Co. Wm
Barnard appointed vice Samuel !
Halsted removed. POTOMAC.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22

8oa1 Eo4 oWoes FosoaOeo
The author Of circular on sweet
potato culture says; -.
The quality of the sweet potato
greatly depends upon the soil in which
it 10 grown. On our common uplands
of light, clayey texture, they grow
short and Of . light color, and excel
lent quality. New land, II dry, pro-
duces bountiful crops Of fine potatoes.
In our loose prairie soil they grow long
and Of dark color. Wet or very rich
soil produces plenty Of vines but few
tubers. In all cases the ground should
be well worked and finely pulverixed
to q moderate depth. If worked
very deep the tuberss$grow long and
stringy. When the ground is warm
and moist, and your plants are ready,
throw two furrows together with Z
large plow, and form high sharp ridg-
es, three feet apart going up and down
hill. II the ridging Is done IN dry
weather, and two 'furrows arc thrown
together, tho center of the ridge will
be dry dirt, not At to plant In until
wet and settled BY rain. Ifthe soil In
the ridge 10 quito moist the planting
may proceed Ill day without watering
If properly done.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22
MISSOURI.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, May

ST. Louis, No., May II.
Judge John s. Dryden, filed Pc
tition In the U. s. District Court yes
terday, praying to have the st. Lcuis,
4 Keoknk Railroad Company adjudg-
ed bankrupt. The claim of the petit
tioning creditor amounts to $246,25O.
Work on one end Of the bridge tun.
mel was suspended to-day owing to
the strike of about 100 teamsters, who
demand five dollars a day, instead of
four dollars and half.
Zachariah Phillips, an old steamboat
man, we'll known on the upper Miss
issippi, died at his residence here last
evening.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22
25.

1 Tho members Of Congress iron
Iowa, in attendance upon the Conven
| ton at st. Louis, are George w. NJ
Crary, A. r. Cotton, w. q. Donnan
I'll. O. Pratt, VIM. Loughridgc, John
A. Kssson and Jackson Orr.
To-day the members Of the Conven.
ton start on the trip to Galveston
Texas, to return by way of New Or.
leans.
The resolutions passed by the Com
vention are very lengthy, too long tol
our columns. The chief things de.
manded in the resolutions are as fol-
lows:
First, that the General Government
shall improve the mouth of the Missis-
sippi river, and to this end that one
channel shall be selected and improv-
ed by, SO far as practicable, damning
up the other mouths; second, that ap-
preparations shall be made for the
Improvement Of some Of the danger
Gus bends and eddies in the river, and
for the Improvement of the large tribu-
taries Of the Mississippi; third, the
improvement Of the levees on the
lower Mississippi and also the rapids
in the upper Mississippi; fourth, the
Improvement, by the Government, of
every practical water route to the
Gulf and TO the Atlantic; fifth, that
Congress shall define, by statute, the
length and height OF spans in bridges
over navigable rivers and finally clos
ing with asking for the removal OF
the tariff from ship building material
and the repeal Of the law that forbids
an American citizen from registering
his vessel as American when she was
built in foreign country. 1t would
appear. SO far as we can observe from
the report of the proceedings of the
Convention, that tho members of Con-
gress were invited to a kind of show
to witness the carrying ont of pro-
grammc fitted up to order long before
the assembling of the Convention.
We noted that for some three days
some half dozen columns Of the Globe
and Democrat have been taken up
with the speeches of gentlemen Of St.
Louis or Missouri. Genl Busy, Of
New Orleans, got in a short speech
and Gov. Walker, of Virginia, had the
privilege accorded him Of saying
about the Improvement of
The Kenahwa river. The resolutions
were prepared beforehand by the
Merchants Exchange of St. Louis.
We do not observe that Iowa had any
hing to say 80 far as the report we
get gives the proceedings.
1t is a clear case of st. Louis MAX
ing an organ and getting our fellows
to turning as the organ-grinders, only
their turning did not make any noise
It was merely kind Of Quaker dox-
ology, after the tune was played.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22

jim Thorington, United States Con-
sui at Aspinwall, writes characteris-
tic letter to the Davenport Gazette,
concluding with this paragraph: "Let
me say in all earnestncss, Iowa is a
better place than those at home think
it is; that all the wickedness of this
world is not among you; that there
are more skeletons to be alarmed at in
foreign countries than you find under
your own roof; and that health is not
always found abroad"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22

A shocking case Of homicide oc-
Cured at Glenwood last Sunday even
ing, just before dark. A company
numbering fifty or sixty young men
and boys had congregated at the depot
at that place to see the afternoon ex-
press train on the Burlington road
pass, and among them two boys
named AL. Cook, aged seventeen years
and Mead Rogers, aged nineteen
Cook had a field glass with which he
was looking at surrounding objects,
and Rogers came up to him and
asked for the loan of the instrument.
Cook refused to surrender the glass
and Mead, after short struggle, got
hold of it and wrested it from Cooks
hand. In doing so he pushed Al.
from the platform down one step, and
then adjusting the glass to his eye
looked away in another direction
Cook seized club, mounted the plat
form and struck Rogers q blow over
the head, which the latter partially
warded off and struck Cook in the
stomach with the back of his hand--a
light blow, and thought by most of
The bystanders TO have been given in
sport. Nor up to this time does 1t ap-
pear that Rogers supposed Cook was
really angry. When he struck him
with the club, however, Rogers asked
what he meant, and when Cook camp
toward him the second time, he dealt
him light blow on the neck. A few
seconds later, and while they were
standing face to face on the platform,
Cook threw up his hands and fell back
ward-dead.
Rogers turned away and at first re-
fused to believe that the spirit had in
Geed left the clay that he was con-
tending with . moment before, but
when satisfied that it was really so, he
walked rapidly up the railroad track
a hundred rods or so, and then turned
off and entered . dwelling-house near
by. The bystanders state that he did
not leave the depot until he had been
told that brother Of Cook was armed
and seeking for him.
A constable that happened to DO in
the crowd at the depot Immediately
followed, and arresting Rogers at the
house where he had gone, conveyed
him to Jail. The boys had been school
mates together, and Rogers expresses
the greatest regret, affirming that he
had no evil intent.
A coroner's inquest was held but no
cause was assigned for the death other
than blow by Rogers--which blow,
whether that on the neck or the st0m-
ach, was not found. A post morten
examination revealed that there was
no dislocation Of the neck, NO other
apparently mortal injury.-State Reg
ister.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22
wAPELLO COUNTY FAIR.

The proprietors of the Ottumwa
COURIER offer the following premiums
to be paid upon the certificate OF the
President and Secretary of the Socie-
ty, to the party to whom the award is
made:
For the largest variety and best
show of grains, (all kinds) $500.
I'd bcst, Weekly COURIER one year.
For the largest variety and best
show of vegetables, (all kinds) $500.
I'd best, Weekly COURIER one year.
For The largest variety and best
show of poultry. $500.
ID best, Weekly COURIER one year.
For ton Of best coal, $500.
Cd best, Weekly COURIER one year.
For largest variety and best collec-
tion Of potted plants, $500.
I'd best, Weekly COURIER one year.
For largest variety and best collec-
ton of fruits, $500.
I'd best, Weekly COURIER one year.
For best butter, of not less than 10
pounds, $500.
I'd best, Weekly COURIER one year.
For the best cheese, of not less than
20 pounds weight, $500.
I'd best, Weekly COURIER one year.
To the lady displaying the largest
variety and best needle work, Daily
COURIER one year.
I'd best, Weekly COURIER one year.
In case there is but one entry for
each premium, only the second premi-
um to be awarded.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22

The National Association for the
promotion of holiness has been invited
by the Upper Iowa Conference to
hold one of the meetings for 1873 in
Iowa. The following information is
published for all concerned:
GROUNDS.
The local committee have secured
the State Fair Grounds, containing So
acres, we'll closed, one mile from the
city and on the line Of the Dubuque b
South Western Railroad accessible by
carriage ways and amply provided
with water for man and beast.
ACCOMMODATIONS.
/. For WORsHrP.-Seating for many
thousand people under cover, includ-
ing the Tabernacle of the National
Association with the capacity for three
thousand additional, and two large
halls, for social meetings, capable Of
holding from fifteen hundred to two
thousand each.
2. TENTING.-Suitable grounds Tor
tent holders who desire to provide for
themselves will be assigned within the
general inclosure in the order Of their
application and arrival. The local
committee will furnish water proof,
duck tents with fiys 12xl6, already set
up, for so, with floors ~ extral on
application to Rev. s. A. henderson,
Cor. Secretary, at Cedar Rapids, lows,
before June Let.
3. BOARDING.-Ample provision for
boarding at not more than fifty cents
per meal, and by the day, not more
than one dollar per day. for three days
aud upwards.
RAILROAD FACILITIES.
The Chicago h Northwestern Rail-
road will carry passengers attending
the meeting at one and One-fifth the
usual fare for the round trip. Lug
gage at one-half the tariff rates.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Minnesota Railroad will carry passen-
gers and freight at half the usual rates,
as will also the Dubuque & South
western.
Negotiations are pending with all
other lines in the State, the result Of
which will be hereafter given. No
trains.
The law of the State forbidding
within one mile of the
Ground, will be strictly enforced.
A. B. KENDra,
L. HI. HENDERsoN,} Com.
L. HI. CARHART.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22
Boston shipped 10000 barrels
apples to Europe last February.

y Il
Boston shipped 10000 barrels of
apples to Europe last February.
The Chicago newsboys own . cor,
ner lot in the heart Of the city.
Bangor, Maine, is having sun-strokes
before it has fairly got over its snow
drifts.
"The Pedalprotectoron" is the name
that they give to shoe-shops in Ply
mouth. g
A Missouri girl washed oil day, ate
twelve boiled eggs, and danced all
night.
The Terre Haute, Ind, blast flrna-
ces turn out twenty-five tons of pig
iron per day.
The length Of the Hoosac Tunnel
when completed will be 5000 feet, or
about four and one-half miles.
One of the sweet girl graduates at
the Hartford high school anniversary
says, in her ''essay," that New Haven
is i one-horse town and Yale College
is the horse"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22

CINCINNATI, May II.
The fire at the corner of Walnut and
Pearl, which occurred at noon to-day,
was not 80 disastrous as at first sup
posed il would be. Loss on stock Of
Weis = Meyer, and McNawora 3 Co..
will probably not be over $4,000.
The damage to the building was in the
roof, and will amount to about fifteen
hundred dollars. Insurance on stock
forty thousand dollars, principally
held in home companies.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22
MARYLAND.
BALrIMocE, May II.

BALTMocE, May II.
The Pres byterian General Assembly y
to-iay receiyed report from the COM
mittee appointed to prepare the s'book
of nraise" announcing its completion.
The report was referred to = special
committee. The proposition to estab-
lish . professorship Of missionary. in
sfructious was referred to the Commit
tee on Theological Seminaries.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22


/. Oalv good fassasssg pays. He who
surance of good crops annually, had
better earn wages OF some capable
neighbor than work for 20 poor . pay
master as he is certain to prove him
self.
2. The good farmer is prored BY the
steady appreciation Of his crops. Any
one may reap an ample harvest from q
fertile virgin soil; the good farmer
alone grows good crops at first, and
better and better ever afferward.
8. II is far easier to MAINTAIN the
productive capacity Of farm than to
restore 1t. To exhaust its fecundity,
and then attempt its restoration by
buying costly commercial fertilizers,
is wasteful and irrational.
4. The gOod farmer sells mainly such
products as are least e1hanstire. Ne
cessity may constrain him for the first
year or two to tell grain or even hay (;
but he will soon send OF his surplus
mainly in the form of cotton, or wool
or meat, or butter and cheese, or sOme-
thing else that returns to the soil near
ly all that is taken from It. A bauk
account daily drawn upon while moth.
ing is deposited to its credit must soon
respond, mo funds So with farm
similarly treated.
3. Rotation Is at least negative fer
tilization. 1t may not positively en-.
rich Q farm 1t will at least retard and
postpone its impoverishment. He who
grows wheat after wheat, corn after
corn, for twenty years, will
nee1 to emigrate before the term is
fulfilled. The same farm cannot sup
port (nor endure) him longer than
that. All our great wheat growing
sections of fifty years ago, are wheat
growing no longer, while England
grows large crops thereof ON the very
fields that fed the armies asf Saxon
Harold and William the Conqueror.-
Rotation preserved these, as the lack
of, ruined those.-Boston Jo1nai of
Chemistry.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22
VIENNA, Nav II

The Investigation into the charges
against the suspended American Com
missioner has been completed, and the
details have been forwarded to WASH
ingten. The inquiry shows that the
congressional appropriation is nearly
exhausted, and that thirty thousand
dollars were charged as expended on
the roof of the sewing machine de-
partment, when the actual cost should
not have been more than one-tenth of
that sum. Other reckless expenditures
were proven also, and charges of bri-
berry. Goods are arriving rapidly, and
it Is expected that the American de-
partment will be ready by the tenth of
June.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22

The Nation describes the Democrat
ic party as 90 party without policy,
a party of mere negation, which never
has anything definite to offer; which
was opposed to the war, opposed to
emancipation, opposed to the consti-
tutional amendments, and which never
rises higher than an obstinate opposi-
ton to everything that is done or at
tempted by its adversary.
The Nation should have given De-
mocracy one positive quality, viz; A
burning desire and great willingness
to hold the Offices of the country
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22
LOUISIANA.
NEW ORLEANS. May l6.

New ORLEANS, May IL.
Generals DeBlanc and eCloud a nd
others, from st. Martins, arrived this
evening in charge of the Deputy Mar
shall and squad of Federal soldiers.
They reached the railroad ferry land
ing in front of Jackson Square about
five o'clock. Upon stepping from the
boat they were received with tremend-
ous cheers by from five to seven thou
sand persons who had assembled to
welcome them. They were taken to
the custom house and released to APP
pear before the U. S. Commissioner
tomorrow,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22

The Davenport association of Con-
gregational ministers at Muscatine
adopted tho following resolution nn-
animously:
Resotued, That the abolition Of cap
ital punishment by our State, is, in our
opinion opposed to the scriptures and
sound policy, and impairs the SAFETY
of fhuman life.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22
A large number of the members of

A large number of the members of
ffhe bar of Iowa in attendance at U. S.
Courts, now being held at Des Moines,
kAd a meeting Tuesday evening, and
appointed committee consisting of
i following gentlemen to draft res
61utions expressive of their choice for
0ief Justice of the U. S.:
q ES Gov. Ralph p. Lowe. Keokuk.
dge j. NJ. Love, Ottumwa.
u. w. f. Sapp, Council Bluffs.
bn. G.. G. Nourse, Des Moines.
bl. Dewitt G. Cram, Dubuque.
Van valkenburg, Fort Mad
j. McCrary, Keokuk.
kpt. S. p. Adams, Dubuque.
harles A. Clark, Webster City.
hdge D. Rorcr, Burlington.
Ehe Committee retired, and after
hsultation reported as follows, which
Iport was adopted by an unanimous
k1te and signed by all the attorneys
esent:
~ WHEREAs, Tho duty now devolves
lon the President of the United States
appoint some suitable person as
bief Justice Of the Federal Supreme
burt, to fill the vacancy occasioned
y the lamented death of the late
thief Justice, Salmon p. Chase /; and
WHEREAS, We, the members of the
legal profession in Iowa, now in at
tendance at the U. s. Circuit and Dis
trict Court at the city of Des Moines,
feel special interest in maintaining
the future high character of this i'm
portant Judicial tribunal and
WHEREAS, We recognize in the Hon.
Samuel #. Miller, associate justice OF
he Supreme Court of the United States
Ia man of high moral characters
lawyer of distinguished ability, and a
3hdge Of unblemished reputation, as
vell as possessing in an eminent de-
nrec the qualities that are specially re.
6uisite to fill the office of Chief JUS
lice with credit to the nation: There.
fore
I Resolved, That we respectfully ex-
gSkress to the President Of the United
h States our earnest conviction of the
TN kkre fitness of Judge Miller for the
i kh place in question, and suggest
3 Il he may receive the appointment
he same shall be consonant will
feelings and Judgment OF the ap'
8 hitting power.
Sesotred, That these resolutions bt
med by the Chairman and Secretary
IA the members of the bar, and the
me forwarded to the President.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22

Gonl. Crook has brought the Apache
Indians to beg Justify for quarter and
made with them very advantageous
treaty. 1t will probably be kept for
a season because it was seasoned with
a sound drubbing given the Indians.