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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
A Rema rIkable Sale Of ShOri- Horns
From the Detroit Free Press.

A Remarkable Sale Of ShOri- Horns.
From the Detroit Free Press.
There was remarkable sale of short
horns at AyIesby Manor, Grimsby,
Eng, on the I'd of September, being
the sale of tho herd of the late VIII
liam TORI. The cattle are what are
known as Booths" and were all bred
at Aylesby. Among tho bidders at
the sale was Il. q. Booth, one OF tho
members of tho famous Booth family,
and it Is stated that the sale was tho
first public one within the memory of
those present at which any member of
that family participated rs bidder.
Mr.. Booth bought twelve cows, pay
Ing therefor the large sum Of el2,l22,
an average of over fl,O0O per head,
For one of the animals-Bright EN-
press-which was conceded on all
hands to be the best COW offered for
sale, Mr.. Booth gave 2, lG0 guineas, the
largest sum that horned female has
hitherto realized In Great Britain.
Seventy-one cows and thirteen bulls
were sold. The cows brought in the
aggregate f39, 906 Ia, an average of
f533 L. Sd, or over 500 guineas The
aggregate price paid for tho whole was
f42,3l9 los, an average of $50 19s.
Seven cows brought 1000 guineas or
upward. Three bulls each brought
700 guineas. There were bidders pres
ent from all parts Of the United King
dom, from the United States and Aus.
tralis. One cow-Bright Queen
which is now IL years old, and lame
from rheumatism into the bargain, was
purchased by Lady Pigot, the Queen
of the Booths" for $50 guineas.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
The English Arctic Expc-
ditiOn Heard from.
An American Vendetta in
France.
Two Young Bloods Fight
Il Duel.
One Of them Gets Pincked
i'm the Arm.

New YokK, Get IA special tele-
gram from London says letters have
been received from Capt. Young and
one of the officers of the Pandora dated
Dcsco. Aug. 9th, and Waygart Strait,
Aug. 9th. The letters describe the
voyage as pleasant. The Pandora
coalcd at Desco. There had been somo
collisions with icebergs, but the YES
sol was not injured. The officers de-
scribe the crew as working well, and
all on board fare alike. AT Ouirtut
Bay they saw the Fox.
Another London dispatch states that
duel was fought with swords, at
Vcsinet, near Paris, on Sunday be-
tween two young Americans named
Riggs and Paine. The cause was
on old family vendetta which was re-
ncwcd last Thursday night in the Re-
naisson Theatre, where blows were
exchanged. The result of the duel
wss that Paine was wounded slightly
in tho arm.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13

TO the Colored People Of the State of
Iosca: In accordance with a petition signed
BY 100 colored men, calling for State
Convention to meet At Oskalooss, Iowa, for
the purpose Of selecting delegates to repre-.
sent the colored people Of Iowa at the Cen.
tennial, in 1876, you are therefore requested
to meet in convention at Oskaloosa, on
the FIRST Tuesday in January, 1876, to elect
such representatives as may by You seem
proper; You are further asked to call County
Conventions where the majority ofthe PEG.
pie live, and send delegates to represent YOU
at Oskaloosa. II is hoped that all prelimi.
nary steps will be taken BY December, 1876
20 that the Convention will be fully attend
ed.
The petition above mentioned bears sucl
names a. the Hon. Alexander Clark, Mus
catine; j. d. Bush, Oskaloosa A. II. vii
lis. Grinneil; Wiley Lloyd, New Sharon
London Dairy, Montezuma; Ham Gray ant
R. j. Wright, Marshalltown; Revs. Simon
and Thomas, j. H. Bowlin, Cedar Rapids
F. o. Welker and George Hatfield, Pete
Holmes, Ottumwa; Isaac Jones, Des Moines
G. W. Black. Washington, lows; A. Wal
Ter, Toledo, Iowa; Joseph Carter, Indianols
and seveuty.five others. Meet us, then, il
Convention, ut Oskaloosa, Jan. 4th, 1875.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13

A melancholy instance of reversal
Of fortune in brave man was lately
brought to light in Cincinnati. Major
General William II. Wheeler, of the
late Confederate army. applied TO the
ts ift hSimsaless: lEisnhistsss::
and moneyless, and TO have walked
all the way from Indianapolis on his
way 10 his old home and birth place
in Culpepper Court House, Va. whore
he wanted to die. General Wheeler
was a dashing officer, who figured
brilliantly during the war in the cav
airy service He is 60 years old, and
graduated at West Point in tho class
Of 80 while commanding at the bat
tie of Shiloh his own son was shot and
killed; in less than two weeks after
intelligence came Of the death of his
wife, then the escape of his slaves
numbering 20-and lastly, his Vir-
ginia farms that he had signed over to
escape confiscation, had been seized or
sold by his brothers creditors, leav.
ing him pauper. At the close of the
war he alleges he drifted from ono
place to another, finally bringing up
in Mississippi, where, until few
weeks since, he had lived. He was
ragged and haggard and had ell the
marks Of extreme dissipation about
him. Detroit Free Press.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13

How n TuttletOwn Man got n Seat I'm n
Coach.
From the Sonora Democrat
The stage coach from Milton was
about to leave Tuttletown after chang
ing horses. Every seat, both inside
and ont, was full except one, which
was occupied by tourist wrapped in
his supercilious dignity and a heavy
linen duster.
A resident Of Tuttletown, wishing
to ride to Sonora, approached the
stage and inquired for seat.
"All full inside" growled the tour
list, spreading himself to the full eN-
tent of his dignity and buster.
"But you are occupying two seats,
argued the man from Jackass Hill.
IL amt going to be crowded; l pay
for my comfort and intend to keep
it,"
"Did you pay for two seats?"
sI've only secured one seat, but
there is no room for another in this
coach, sir" and the tourist settled
himself back, while the other passen-
gers grnnted their disgust in tones not
particularly vociferous but exceed.
ingly deep.
"You are not acting as a gentleman
should, sir. nor exactly in accordance
with the etiquette of our trade in Cal
ifornia society,"" calmly reglied the
man ON the outside, smiling in spite
of his annoyance at tho dog-in-the.
manger style of this boor.
"Ido'nt hold myself accountable Il
the society OF California. 1 pay m,
way and ask odds of nobody, ant
your inferencs that am not gentle
man might be termed where l came
from an indication that you want Il
fight"
"Wo don't fight in this country,
calmly replied the man from Tuttle
town.
"You don't. Then l must hav
been misiniormed. Pray, what do yol
do then when man insults You ~ an,
sort of triumph cleaned in tho ey
OF tho stranger.
"Do, why wo shoot him on tho spo
and that ia the end of it. We don
waste time after we start in. BY III
way, think l can squeeze in along
side OF you there, can't II"
"Don't know but you can" and
full half seat appeared beside tho dig
nified fool, as ii by magic.
. The Tuttletown citizen rode yer
comfortably from the hamlet to Sonc
{ ra, and heard no more about fightin
from the tourist. although remarks i
regard tossdead shots and the rapidit
, with which insults are avenged in th
Sierras, formed the staple of CONVEX 81
, ton among the passengers until the
: reached the City Hotel.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13

President Welsh, in his address at Du.
buque, plainly sets forth the dignity Of
labor:
"With every farmer whose work is gen.
uine, and whose heart is true, ! will join
hands in fraternal sympathy, but with the
farmer whose fences lie PROSTATE on the
prairie, whose weeds overtop his corn,
whose cattle are the pictures of skeleton
starvation, and in whose home the odors of
the kitchen and the odors of the stable
mingle together-with such q farmer ! will
not fraternize /; and in the dignity of true
life and in the practice of genuine skill
and q genuine system of farm management,
l will rise head and shoulders above that
lawyer who prostitutes the law to mere
trickery, or that doctor who shames noble
profession by malpractice"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13

Little Josey Sullivan, the New York
lad who had been missing for three
weeks, and had been searched for far
and wide as kidnapped child, was
found dead Wednesday morning,
wedged between hay bales in q store
within block of his homo. He had
fallen there while playing. Through
q blunder, his mother was only told
tina: her boy had been found, and not
that he was dead. She was ovcrjoy-
cd, and dressed herself to 20 and see
him. She tainted when told tho truth
and is now in II very precarious con.
dition. The boy was SO wcdged in
that he was not smothered, but the
place was not often visited, and his
cries were not heard. Hc starved to
death.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
Crawling into tho New Eighty-One-
lOss Gum.

IOss Gum.
[London Correspondence New York Timesl
After the first shot, an extracting
rod broke off inside the gun, and o
small gunner volunteered to 10 In Of.
ter It He was Immediately hoisted
up by his comrades, and rammed In
his head first, like 80 much ammuni-
ton, till nothing was visible OF him but
The soles of his bouts. He had to 20
ia five times before he was able to tie
= rope around the obstruction and pull
it out. II is supposed that the new
gun would probably carry q half-ton
shot seven or eight miles but though
there are already guns which can carry
five or six miles. something over two
miles is tho maximum Tor practical
purposes. So that the capacity of the
eighty-one ton gun in this way, what
eyer may DO Its full extent is not of
much consequence. Tits expected that
it can pierce from eighteen to twenty
inches of iron-plating. Though the
eraser" il, for the present, the biggest
gun in existence, there are, 1t seems,
guns of 100 and ITO tons being made
for the Italian and como other foreign
governments, and Sir w. Armstrong
has also in view . l5O.tonner. Mr..
Fraser, however, 10 quite In the mood
to keep pace with tho age, and looks
forward to l60-ton monster which
will fire one.tOn shot that at q wido
range will make fissure equal to that
made the other day in the Vanguard
by the grow of the Iron Duke.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
A a,,s,ual PrOspect

There IL sort of grim melancholy
in Spotted Tails statement of his
price for the Back Hills. Six million
in money, suit of clothes for every
Indian and guaranteed annuity for
so years; "for when that time has
gone" says Spotted Tail, there will
be no Indians" This estimate of the
probable duration of the Indian is in.
teresting, coming as it does from the
greatest living aborignee chicftain.--
Like many OF HIS predecessors, he fore
aces the inevitable fate of his race
Eighty yearp, he thinks--not more
than two gencrations-will suffice for
the greed, the cruelty, the diseases OF
the white man to extcrminatc the In.
dian. But Spotted Tail, unlike his
predecessors. does not indulge in any
oratorical pa,hos about the last In
dian following the setting sun until he
disappears In the far western seas, but
| simply stipulates that his people shall
be we'll fed and clothed during TIT
few remaining years of their exist
/ once
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
A M,salnR Link.

When he entered the store, no laid
his whip upon the show case and de-
posted roll of cotton batting on the
floor; then he put on his specs and
looked at the boy behind tho counter.
'.IIev 20 got airy almineck, my son,
of eighteen an fifty-fo's Z"
"No, sir. You moan seventy-four,
don't your"
the shape Of flity from seventy bout
az we'll as you
.WelI, wo haven't got = fifty-four
almanac, SIR replied the boy.
'sTut! tut that's powerful strange!
I cant make out how the familyIl 9it
along withouten 1t, becosc my next
youngest was born of . Sunday in
July, fifty-fo', but . refugeen around
in the war knocked the day of the
month clean outen my memory"
After examining . pack of dime
novels in search Of tho missing book.
he took up his traps and wandered
sadly into the street,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
Humorous

Peter Cooper, of Mississippi, set a
spring gun to shoot chicken thief,
and shot the wrong man. Peter was
not arrested because he happened to
be the wrong man, and his funeral ex-
penses amounted to more than all his
chickens were worth.
"A wit once asked peasant what
part he performed in the great drama
fife. II mind my own business"
was the reply.
-Conductaw,' simpered a young
lady on an eastern train yesterday,
twill ycow be so keind rs to bwiDg
We a glass of wataw."
During the approaching cold
weather that Detroit paper thinks that
all tho other men who murdered
Nathan had better come toward and
confess.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
How Quarrel. I.cgin

Il wish that pony was mine," said a
littlo boy who stood at window
looking down the road.
"Whst would you do with him.
asked his brother.
"Ride him; that's what I'd do"
"All day long?"
ayes, from morning till night"
"You'd have to let me ride him
sometimes" said the brother.
"Why should L? You'd have nc
right to him if he was mine"
"Father would make you let me
have him part of the time"
"No, he wouldn't"
"My children said their mother
who had been listening, and now saw
that they werc beginning to get angry
with each other, "let me tell you of i
quarrel that happened between two
boys no bigger or older than You are
that read about the other day. They
were going along the road talking 10.
gether in a pleasant way, when one Of
them said:
II wish ! had all the pasture land in
the world
"The other said, sAnd I wish I had
all the cattle in the world
a.What would you do then ?" asked
Why I would turn them into youi
pasture land"
"'No, You wouldn't was the reply,
"tYes, / would
"'But l wouldn't let YOU
"tYou shouldn't do it,"
"tI should
You shan't.
"'I will and with that they seized
and struck each other like two silly
wicked boys as the were
The children laughed, but thei
mother said:
"You see in what tribes quarrel
often begin. Were you any wise
than these boys in your half.angr!
talk about and imaginary pony? If
had not been here, who knows bu
you might have been as foolish and a
wicked as they WERE"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
Nat,onnl rou.al Teleurnpn.

CINcINNATI. Oct. 9.-Tho Cincinnati
delegates to the National Board of
Trade, in report to the Chamber of
Commerce, recommend the Chamber
to use its influence with members of
Congress to the end that the General
Government may purchase the existing
lines of telegraph, and manage the
whole business.
- A resolution in opposition declared
that the Chamber does not commit ~
sclf in favor of a National Postal Tel
cgrsph.
This question, which has been one
of interest to the Chamber, was voted
in favor of postal telegraph by .
handsome majority,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13

--"Bub, is your mother In ?" asked .
Vicksburg lady the other evening of .
lad Of To- who was loungiug over his
widowed mothers gate. .No; shes
out" he answered. "Gonc up to visit
your dead fathers grave !" che contin-
cd. "Not exactly" no smiled -"shes
gone after ice cream with . chap who
has three inches OF fat on his ribs, and
I'll bet ten to one she'll halter him In
lesa'n 4 month. TyicksbAyg Herald.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
Death. Bed Repentance that was
Premature.

Premature.
A remarkable instance of death. bed
repentance has just occurred in Butler
county, kentucky. A man who was
very i'll, confident that his last hour
was fast approaching, sent for mag
istrate, and made confession that in
the year 1870 he had murdered nan
named Charles Mitchell, on Green
river. His story was that during the
war he and Mitchell murdered man
named Davenport, in Warren county,
and that in the division of the spoils
Mitchell had taken more than his
share. In revenge, the self-confessed
murderer watched his victim for ton
years with the purpose of killing him,
and at last, when a favorable oppor-
tunity presented itself, he shot him
through tho heart. Mitchell when
shot was standing on barge and his
body fell into the river. 1t was never
found, and though suspicious of foul
play werc entertained, there was no
proof even of his death. The man
who fired the fatal shot, having eased
his conscience by confession, imme-
diately began to get better, and now
promises to regain his health entirely.
In the meantime, the officers OF the
law are preparing &c arrest and prose-
cute him whenever he has recovered
sufficiently to be safely removed from
his bed.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
Hints Tor tho Family

Plants kept in tho windows shonld
DO turned every morning, or the light,
striking one side only, will draw the
plant to that side so that all its branches
and leaves will turn toward the win
dow.
When color on fabric has been ac-
cidcntally or otherwise destroyed by
acid, ammonia is applied to neutralize
tho acid, after which an application OF
chloroform will, in almost all cases,
restore the original color. The appli.
cation of ammonia is common, but
that of chlorolorm is but little known.
Moths will work in carpets in rooms
that are kept warm in the winter a
well as in the Summer. A sure method
of removing the pests is to pour strong
alum water on the floor TO the distance
of half yard around tho edges before
laying the carpets. Then once or twice
during the season sprinkle dry sal
over the carpet before sweeping. In
sects do not like salt, and sufficient ad
heres to the carpet to prevent theil
aIighting upon it.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13

Abiding to the Presidents recent speech
at Des Moiues, the Albany Euening Jour-
nal says:
"The greatest Of German and continent
statesmen treats the ultramontane conflict
~ the one paramount question Of Europe.
Tho greatest of English statesmen turns
aside from the ordinary field Of politics to
expose the pretensions and aims of the
Vatican as the most subtle and threatening
danger of the times. What the foremost
man in Germany and the foremost man in
England hold, the foremost man ofAmerica
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13

The Philadelphia Press puts the follow.
ing question: "What is the issue in Phil
adelphia?" and answers it by saying,
"Simply that Of maintaining good govern.
ment." Nine years OF Republican admin
istratiOn in the State have cut down the
debt from $35,922,652 to $24,59s,6as.
That is the kind Of operation the people
would like to see continued"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13

Of Europe; and the gold interest
which the Government now pays to
stockholders of National Banks at
home, 1t would then have to pay to
foreigners abroad.
IL. BY authorizing National Banke,
the Government thereby creates home
inventors for $3.50, 0OO. 600 ofits bonds,
which would otherwise be held in
Europe.
Is. By having the bonds held by
stockholders Of National Banks at
home, instead of being hold in Europe,
the Government 10 enabled to &c.
back . large part Of the interest il
pays on the bonds by taxing the circu.
lation and deposits of the National
Banks. The total amount of interes,
paid by the Government in 1874, or
bonds deposited to secure Nationa
Bank bills, was $22, SOC, 900 gold, equa
$25, 000, 600 currency. The total amoun
received from the National Banks IL
payment OF tax on circulation and de-
posits, during the same time, was SIS,
100000 currency. Therefore the Gov
eminent gets back thrse-fifths Of al
the interest Il pays to National Bank
on bonds owned by them or thei
stockholders.
IA. Anybody who has money, prop
erty or credit, can start . Nationa
Bank, or join with others in starting
one, any day he chooses, and there il
no limit to the number Of banks o
amount Of circulation. The business
10 free to oil.
Is. Honesty 10 the bert policy,-al
ways has been and always will be.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
A New Secretary Of the Interior
Appointed, but his Name
Kent n Secret,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-Postmasier-
General Jewell and Acting Secretary
Cowan to-day stated that the now Sec
rotary of the Interior would probably
arrive Monday and at once enter upon
the discharge ofhis duties. They both
declined TO divnlgo the name of the
appointec of or what State he is res.
ident, saying that to do go wonld be q
violation of confidence.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
ano,ner su,t asnin., Tvoci

New York, Oct. 9.--Another su:t
was instituted yesterday, in the name
of the people, against Tweed to recov-
cd s933,G40, which ii is alleged has
been fraudulently paid on six warrants
certified by Tweed and which form
the principal allegations in the suit
against Peter b. Sweeney. An order
of arrest wac served yesterday return
able Oct. 2lst. Bail is fixed at one
million.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
Milwaukee Market

MILWAUKEE, Oct. IL.
[ By telegraph.
Wheat-Higher and closing firm at
81 10 for No 2, each and Oct, 81 O86
Nov, and 90 tor No Fall.
Corn-Steady 5Sk.
Oa,s-Firm; IS.
Rye-73.
Barley-l IL.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
Composiiion on SC liOnl,

A Wisconsin school boy recently
handed in the following composition:
III 60 to school to learn to read and
rite and siphor to slide on the ice and
traid Off on old nifc il / have one. in
summer pick wild flowers and straw
berries and to get out of work on hot
days, some boys have to go to school
to get out of their mothers road. but |
would rather stay in winter than TO go
two miles and set by cold stoyc and
freeze my toes. like to go to school
to see the teacher scold the big girls
when they cut up, some goes to school
to fool but go to study when We are
old we can't 60 to school and then we
will feel sorry that we fooled when
we was young and went to school ]
don't get no time to fool anyhow for l
have enough to do when it comes 10
my geography
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13
Hung by a Mob-A Terrible Fight.

ST. Louis, Oct. 9.-This morning
about dozen men, supposed to be
from Forest City, Mason county, ILL
nois, succeeded in getting William
Pemb the escaped convict, away
from a constable. Several shots were
fired into his body F; not succeeding in
him % = troc ani HING rim. rho con.
stable made desperate fight for his
prisoner, MORALLY woundiHg one OF
the mob. Pemberton cut one of the
lynchers terribly, lie was under ar
rest for horse stealing