Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-11-06
We ar" mol going Ia guess at VIVA,
!, Ia. ,rnsapt ttua,niol l;aso,,l,;,. $50.


We are not going Ia guess at what
the present financial difficulties may
resnlt in. " is enough for us 10 saw
shat while bright strraks appear 10
cheer w. in the midst of the dark
clouds. The hcst plan is to look sharp
ami keep close in shore. Evidently
ii - The East aud not the Yves,
with whom the trouble arises. We
are certainly in good condition here.
We have. not dealt in stocks. the won
acFius tasi IN which is grinding ont so
many who counted their wealth by
millions. We have done amorc lesii-
innate business, and crops brings good
prices and we have a goodly abund-
ancc OF them. The East and the Old
World must hny them and so we mus,
get money. Nevertheless. as we said
we are not going to conjecture as to
things TO come. for we don't feel our
selves fit for such duty. II is very
gratifying however, to know that in
The midst OF all this, Chicago still
stands up nobly. aud this but confirms
us in our view of the reasonably fair
condition of the West
The Tichborne case still moves alopo
at snails pace. On the 18th of Octo-
Der. Tichborne introduced as a witness,
Norwegian by The name Of line,
who swore that the claimant was the
identical man who was rescued from
an open boat by the brig Osprey,
which sailed from New York in Fe.
binary. 1854: that <'said T4iiie was a
seaman on the Osprey, that he nursed
The claimant after his rescue, through
severe sickness, resulting from his
exposure; that he remembers the scar
on his neck. also peculiar mark on
his body above the hip, which he saw
At the time he was nursing Kim. Tha
the claimant then told him that h,
had been ship-wreckcd on the shil
Bella, which was lost of the coast o
Brazil. II is claimed by those, who
deny that the claimant is the res
Fichborne, that the genuine Sir Roge
Tichborne was drowned in the shiI
wreck Of the said ship Bella.
We believe that the laws of Tia
State need to be changed in regard
property exempt from taxation. W
refer more particularly to the exem
tons in behalf Of religious socicti
snd schools. There has grown up
this State, aud throughout the cou
try, large and valuable properties
churches and schools. which under o,
laws are exempt from taxation. "
believe that the principle is erroneon
and that the error may be product,
OF evil, aud that in tue more populp,
portions Of the United States its @,
effects are now quite obvious III
abnse OF the privilege is where Il
most OF the evil comes in The ps
ment OF taxes on the entire portion
this class of property would prevcl
this abuse. aud really work no har,
ship. In fact if;we reason accordin
TO the letter OF exact Justice, there
no sufficient reason for cxempting an
OF this class of property. Still Will
This is so if the privilege was not alb,
sed, il might be practiced without d,
triment. We would be glad TO see il
laws of this State so amended as
wipe ont large portion of this G,
cmpted property in tins State.
WHEN the Republican party TOO
charge OF Louisiana there were hft
schools inNNew Orleans and fifty i
the balance of the State. Now the,
is 100 schools in the State and OF
hundred thousand pupils aitendir
them
La the month Of July last the d
posts in the Freedmen banks ",
18,336.24. Since The organizatie
of these banks their gross rcceip
have bee SOL 100000. Freedmen a
the owners of twclSc millions of n
ANIMAL products of the State.
This is the result with freedmt
who less than ten years ago we
slaves, and instead of owning prope
ty were themselves knocked on nps
the auction block.
Pedagogical.