Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-19
Ingersoii's greeley.

Insersoifss Greeley.
Col. l.. ID. Iugersoil's Life OF Horace
Greeley, printed by The National Pub
fishing Company of Chicago, is jusi
out and it seems to meet with favora-
BILE compliments from every quarter.
We have received a copy but have
been too busy to read it. Wo shall do
SO shortly, and then give our opinion
of its merits.
In the meantime we submit the fol-
lowing handsome notice from the pen
of the literary editor of the Chicago
Times of Yesterday:
lit is rather gratifying that to Chica-
go belongs the honor Of producing a
writer who has the ability to make
superior biographer without the fail,
nre Of being violent partisan. This
fairness will go far toward making In
gersoll's valuable work production
that will secure general confidence
and patronage.
In all respects the book Is reliable
one, II is exhaustive In its treatment
not merely Of the direct action Of Mr..
Greeley's life, but also Of the political,
social, and moral events in whose hap
pening Mr. Greeley formed animport.
ant part.n caa8 III 80 j
{ Prof. John Wise Insists on starting
from Boston, Mass, on the 4th of July
to make q. voyage across the Atlantic
IN q balloon. He expects to reach
Great Britain inside of seventy hours
from the time of starting. This will
make pretty rapid travelling and 1t any
un oto ward circumstance should occur.
'or which there lie abundant room for
many, the Professor might be very in.
conveniently situated so far from sue.
conr His theory is that At . certain
height there is a tide 81 air setting
strongly and continuously eastward.
He expects to rise over the ocean until
be finds this eastward current of air
ay4s sAen that there will be no difficult
ty in sweeping across the ocean. But
# bis theory don't work, what then \?
Thirty-two Representative and
twelve Senators have thus far return
ed their back payinto the u. 8. Treas.
ury, from whence 1t came. The total
amount Of money thus returned, is
$lS3, ,32l. Some have said they would
not take the money, but yet, so far as
the country knows, it stands still to
their credit and has not been returned
to the Treasury. We cannot see any
reasonable excuse why, when the
money is returned, the people should
not know it. 1t is not easy for the
country 10 rely implicitly upon the
men saying they will not take 1t, and
no evidence adduced that il does not
vet stand to the credit of these mem-
bers. sEt d1tf- sf.j .sit le sR
The Inter-Ocean thus chronicles the
arrival In Chicago OF one or oar prom.
inent Iowa men Among the names
registered at the Sherman House yes
terday day was the Hon. Irving w.
Card, of Mason City, Iowa, late Dis
trict Attorney of the Twelfth Judicial
District of Iowa late delegate atlarge
to the Philadelphia Convention m en-
ber Of the Committee on Rules and
Order of Business; Commissioner for
Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts,; United States Com
missioner for the District of Iowa;
Chief Teller in Grand Square A. F. Sc
A. NJ, and Grand Orator for Conyo-
cation A. t., 5,S64, Des Moines."
And the Inter Ocean might have ad-
aed--egotist.
1t will take an Arkansas hand to
beat that Card, i. -Four Jacks and a
bowie knife.
At a woman preachers convention
in Boston recently, the first cow ention
Of the kind ever held in the world,
Rsvs. Julia Ward Howe, Olympia
Brown, and several others, not so
prominent, delivered excellent ad-
dresses. The report of the convention
makes mention of two Iowa women,
Miss Augusta s. Chaplin and Mrs.
upper Wilkes, the latter daughter
Of Mrs. Ellen Tupper, Of Des
Moines:
Rev. Augusta g. Chaplin, of Iowa
City, Iowa, said she commenced preach.
ing with the idea that twas her own
business and not the business of others.
She asked no one, and therefore met
with no opposition. Vi God commission
ed her. She had ever found in the
fourteen years of her ministry, more
than she could do.
Rev. Mrs. Tupper Wilkes, lately of
Minnesota, butDow preaching in Web.
ster, Mass, said she had met her first
obstacles which came from the in
fuence OF certain quarters In Boston.
She urged women who had lights in
their souls to prepare to let them shine.
But said she, sneyer enter the min
istry until spiritual fire burns within
you" s2pslts ~ 'it54 .natlS 3ts8
The following letter is from the
Grand Master Of the State Grange Of
Iowa, and coming from such source
Is matter Of interest to many Of our
readers a
DEs MONIES, June 3.
EDITORS Iowa STATE REGISTER: In
your paper of the 6th inst, there APP
pears . paragraph which possibly con-
yeys wrong impression, both as to