Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-09-10

An Alabama editor winds up an ed
itoriai on the corn crop with the re
mark: "We have on exhibition in ou
office pair of magnificent ears"
Washington county republican,
have nominated J. A. Cunningham
for Clerk: T. S. Rowan, for Recorder
and M. Goodspeed, for Supervisor.
"Pa, who is m any Voters p" asked
a young hopeful of his sire. "Don'l
know him, my sd M. Why?" "Cos
l saw you signin' his name to that let.
ter you got the other night, askin' yor
to run for alderman" "Sh-h-h, m,
son; here's nickle; 60 and get som'
candy"
Judge Sampson is running for Con
gross in a way thst is refreshing to be-
hold. He has held court every day
since the first Of July, and expects tt
keep at it until after election. A can
didate who lets tn e Office seek the man
like that, ought to be elected. Grin.
nell Herald.
The Atlantic Steamship Companies
have reunited on the subject of the
charges for passage and freight. The
corporations have thus put an end to
the competition which has existed be.
tween them. They say that the new
rates of tariff are exceedingly low.
How long will they remain SO? This
is the question which interests intend
ing emigrants and shippers.
The Democracy in the 18th Ohio
Congressional district had five hun.
dred and Twenty-Five ballots before
deciding who should be their candi-
date. Andrew Jackson Walling was
the winning man. In these days OF
old Bill Allen Democracy in that
State, it is supposed that the christian
name of the successful candidate
turned the scale in his favor.
At Cincinnati, Iowa, Gates said:
Fellow citizens, to illustrate the
corruption of the Republican party,
will call your attention to the fact that
under the soil of the United States,
there is iron enough to girt the globe
at least eight times, but it lies there
dormant, and useless. Aud why ? Be.
cause the Republican prrty has put SO
high tariff on The importation of iron
from England. that the American peo.
pie cannot afford to develope our iron
mines !"
Great God, what intelligence for a
Congressmcn.-Appanoose Times.
The result of the soundings made by
Commander Belknap, of the U. S.
steamer Tuscarora, in the Pacific ocean
are rather disappointing, and indicate
that the proposed cable route must be
abandoned and longer one attempt
ed. The reasons for arriving at this
conclusion are the extraordinary depth
of the water, bottom not having been
found in places with five miles of wire
and the rapidity and force of subma.
rine currents. The latter were so pow
erful as to mutilate the apparatus and
in many cases to snap the wires used
in sounding. In making his report to
the Secretary of the Navy, Command.
er Belknap expresses his belief that
although the proposed great circle
route is failure, the discoveries
made by him will be of great value to
photographic science, as establishing
the facts that depths existln the Pacif-
ic hardly before supposed. 1t is al
most certain tina. vast trough has
been made by the Japan Stream SINH
lar to that worn by the Gulf Stream
in the Atlantic.
The first snow of the season is re-
ported from Wyoming Territory. In
the Green river valley It fell to the
depth of an inch ON Tuesday night.