Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-09-18

After meeting he said to the negro.
Tom, what were you doing in the
| church Z" Taking notes. massa all
| de gemmen takes notes. Bring your
| notes here and let me see them.a ToIa
| nfonght his notes. which looked more
| like Chinese than English. "Why,
! Tom, this is all nonsense" II thought
so, massa, all The time that you was
| preaching it,"
| Why will these scientific men fright
en- us so. They ;rc continually irving
to bully us with Il comet. or the con.
junction of half dozen planets. or
some other horrid thing that does not
| give us the ghost OF a chance Now
Professor Winchell says that the earth
is continually cooling, and in doing SO
is absorbing water. and in time It's
| thirsty crust will not only drink up
| the ocean. but even the atmosphere,
and then the dry and shriveletl old
globe will go meandering through
| space without living thing upon its
| surface. And the sarcastic Professor
| calls this kind of talk "recreations in
popular science"
| The soldiers of 1872 and the Mexican
war are having a grand time this 18th
inst, at Des Moines. Eleven veterans
! of 1872, and eighty odd OF the Mexi-
can war, are present.
Judge Love, of this city, who was
to have delivered the oration is con-
fined at his home on account of illness.
The Register says:
Intelligence was received by Cap-
| tain Griffith last evening that Judge
Love was confined to his bed by dis
ease contracted while in Mexico. and
| the announcement that he would be
unable to attend the Reunion aud de-
liver an address. Capt. Griffith teie-
| graphed to the Judge, in behalf of the
assembled veterans, their rcgret both
l at his illness and absence, and request
! ed manuscript copy of the remarks
| the Judge would have made had lie
been here. This was sent. and will be
read ct the Fair Grounds this after
| no0n."
Discussing Congressional regula-
tions of railways, the Washington ID.
c. Chronicle says:
Nearly all of these railroad compa-
| nies are chartered by or derive their
| existence from the laws of the several
| states, and may operate them within
| State limits without coming under
Congressional jurisdiction. But aside
from this difficulty it must yet be set
tied iudicially what is meant in this
connection by regulating commerce.
Does that phrase mean to determine
the rate of pay for carrying goods and
merchandise? If so il will embrace
charges for canal, river, lake and
ocean as well as by rail, 1t can not
have been intended to be applied tn
commerce carried on between the sew
eral States by railway only, for when
the Constitution was adopted there
| were no railways. It must, therefore.
be general in its application. and ap-
ply to the cost of carrying Eerchan-
l disc by any and all modes of convey
ance ii to railways.
| A horrible story comes to us from
Kentucky. Two brothers, Jasper and
Clay Wadkins, residing ~ Btlrksyille
have heen at enraity for nearly TWO
years, and time, instead of sottenine
their passion, seems only 10 have in
tensified it. Ten days ago the broth
ers met, and after some heated words.
Jasper shot Clay, intlicting a wound
, which cofincd him to his bed. A few
days ago Jasper, accompanied by his
young wife, a bride..of a week. went
to his mothers house. where Clay was
| lying, and entered into short CONVEX
sation with the wounded man, his
wife meantime stealthily drawing a
revolver and advancing to the bedside.
When she was within two feet of the
bed she suddenly presented the reYol-
yer and sent bullet through Claws
heart. killing him instantly. The
shocking deed has no parallel in the
history of crime. The girl is but IL
years of age, had no personal cause OF
ill-will toward her victim, and that
she could be induced to espousc her
husbands cause to such an ex senre
almost battles belief. The guilty couple
are now in Jail, and we must now
await the trial before learning her
| motive and the origin of the qrsrrel
that ended so tragically. ,s1
1 State Senator Lowry, of Scott eniti-
ty, who is Iowa's Centennial Com lis.
missioner, delivered an address upem
this subject at the State Fair at c lar
Rapids m which, among other things,
he made the following pointel re-
marks:
I'VE could not have had year oF
jubilee before the rebellion IL would
have been mockery, an Insult to tie
Almighty and to the nations OF tIye
earth. 1t has been costly la blood and
in treasure, but we can now collPi@
with that command: tce hdre fetasaed
eeesy man unto has possessions end
ecery man unto he's family. No more
slavery. All are free and Independent.
Then let us make the one hundfedth
year of our birth one year Of Jubilee.
| We have great reason to be thankful
to the Almighty God for his goodness,
his kindness, and the mercies, that he
has so freely bestowed on us as d poo
pie and as a nation. Then let us hepe
to make the year of jubilee the Gem
mencement of the millennium, WHEN
the lion will lie down with the lamb,
l when all the different bodies and bran
ches of the different churches VIII
cease their quarreling and splitting
hairs ON the dogmas of theology. viii
all unite and follow the glorious en-
ample set by the old and new school
Presbyterian churches-go back TO the
mother church from which they have
been separated so long, and frosa
causes so trifing. Then lei all the sey-
eral remaining branches of the Pres
byterian church unite in one church,
and leave all the bodies and branches
| of the Methodist, Baptist, and all oti,-
er churches that have been separated.
all meet BY commissioners on the 4th
day of July, 1876, at Independence
Hall, Independence Square and Car
pentcr's Hall. Philadelphia, viii make,
room for all. Let us all forget anil
forgive each other, take by the hand
our brothers and sisters OF the Ssutlls
they are of our flesh and onr blood
shake hands, kiss each other, enibraes
4 each other, and agree to live together
| as brothers, AS Christians and fight si,
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