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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20

AEolNp Pennsylvania now gathers
much Of political interest The Ohio
rag-hahy was precisely idrn:ica, with
the present hantlinm among the PEN
amite>. About Two weeks are vet TO
eiapse before the Stran"ulatiou uflhis
last Democratic population infant.
II /, highly probable that Governor
Hariranft viii attend lis obscuiics,
followed 10y - Republican majority Of
five or six fines tha; of the Ohio Re
pnblicaus. We apprchend that the Re-
publican pyramid begun on Tuesday
last. will he built still higher Nv the
greater part Of the States voting on
the second of November. and that II
will 50 efieciuallv oycrshadow the
Republic with Republican triumph.
that great victory for our cause in
lSI6 will be plainly disceruablc.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20
OHIO ELECTION.
The Weed County Frauds.

TOLEDO, Oct. l8-The Commercial
has Information that the Wood county
canvassing board decided Saturday to
throw out the Perrysburg vote, in
which case Brown and Swan 6Repub-
licsns) would be elected Senators, and
Haye'H majority in tho county;wonld
be Goa instead of 459.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20
TO he Hanged,

JAMESTOWN, Oct. 1G.--Nelson Cool
was to-day sentenced to be hanged on
tho Goth of November for the murder
of Charles W hiInple in Little Valley
in March last.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20
Milwaukee Market
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 10.

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 10.
[ By telegraph
Wheat Weak and lower at 81 l2L
cash 81 U9Rc Nov. No. ISL COZ.
Corn-Steady 56hc.
Oata-Firm Bike
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20
THE SMOKE mas CLEARED AWAY

Aud the Republican party rolls
back the cx-rebcl horde and sweeps
on to II glorious centennial victory.
We can now safely set down Ohio as
having given Republican majority
of 1000. and having carried both
branches ofthe LEGISLATURE handsome
~. Iowa's Republican majority win
be over 10000 by from one to three
thousand. and the Legislature will be
Overwhelmingly Republican i'm both
branches. Nebraska gives about ten
thousand Republican majority. and a
Republican Legislature. This is good
enough. The die is east. and the peo-
pie OF this countryside glorious old
Republican party, that saved the ma
ton in spite of the treason Of the
Democratic party, viii have the grand
privilege of celebrating the centcn-
NAL year of the nation, with If still
in the hands of its friends Also eer-
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20
st. T.onis Live Stock Market.

Sr. Louis, Oct. 10.
BY telegraph.
HOGS-The receipts were LOCO
The market ia steady. Shippers Sc rs
OF 10; bacon grades 81 25@7 IS !;
butchers 81 50@SO.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20

tain lease for the future. and moi I'M
der the control ut those men who. had
they succeeded. would have made
national ccntcnnia impossible,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20

sleeping room. It is utterly plain.
His bed IL but single mattress upon
a narrow and common bedstead.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20

Babies are described as coupons
attached to the honda of matrimony.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20
Some stnriling Ram s,as,.,,c...

Few people. probably, have ever
taken tile pains to calculate the enorm-
Gus quantity of rain that falls during
heavy and extensive storm. Let us
take the storm that traverscd Minne-
sofa on the night of August 3Oth, and
make a few calculations. Whether
that storm reached Northern Mime
sofa, where telegraphs and railroads
have not yet penetrated, we cannot
determine but supposing it did not,
it covered enough in Northwestern
Iowa, Southern Dakota, and Western
Wisconsin, to balance the account and
render it safe to consider that storm as
covering an area equal to the State of
Minnesota ,540,S4O acres. But to
be entirely within bounds, let us re-
gard the storm as covering but half
the state-26,770,42O acres. An acre
is 6,272, GAO square inches. One inch
rainfall is equivalent, on an acre Of
surface, to 6,272,G4 cubic inches, or
exactly 5000 cubic feet; or 22G22 4
gallons; or 720 barrels; or in weight.
lib tons. During the storm referred
to there fell an average of four inches
of water. A simple calculation, COW
ering half the area of Minnesota, would
show the amount that fell to be 1885,
04S, 5GS. 400 cubic feet; equivalent to q
trough or bar of water one hundred
feet deep, and seren thousand three
hundred and ftIy miles long and in
weight. t,gelre hundred and eight mil
lions Of tons. This, remember refers
not to the weeks series of storms, but
to the single storm of the night Of
August 30. The result is almost in
credible, of course, but those who
question it are respectfully invited to
make the calculations for themselves.
And ell this moisture. before it fell,
was upheld by the mild summer air of
that August afternoon.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20
News Items.

Eight years ago the Cuban war
broke out.
1t has been definitely settled that
Henry Clay Dean is relic of The
Dirtiary period.
brigham Young wants his son,
brigham. Jr., to succeed him as 'hoss"
Of all Mormondom.
An elm. lately cut down in Derby
Conn.,. was l3 s feet in circumference.
and contained eight cords of wood.
There is a man in Iowa who can
honestly say that he never opened an.
other mans letter by mistake. Ills
name is John Pfafelkacflingarr.
In the four Pennsy lvania counties
of Crawford, Venango, Erie and Mer.
cor. there are l0l cheese factories, pro-
ducing yearly an aggregate of $780,
GOO pounds.
The charity patient in Baltimore
hospital, who owns two farms, and
carries about in his old clothes $4,000,
has been foung ont, and will pay his
own doctors bills in the future.
Florida papers report on almost
total failure of the sponge crop, while
Northern free.lnnch saloon clerks say
that there are moro sponges around
this fall than they ever saw before.
"A loyal Albanian, who had lust
been turned ont Of his post Office for
incompetency, relieves himself az fol.
lows: ut may BIO possible that ] am
incompetent to do the low, mean, filthy
work OF the little blue belIied y ankec,
Jewell"
--"Does blue hitching.post look
better than red ono ~ is the question
which agitates Duluth and sends the
hot blood of excitement couraing ,hro
the veins of her most lcthargic citi-
zcns.
Tho internal revenue returns for
September show an increase ofreceipts
of about $250.O0O over the correspond
ing period last year. A higher tribute
to Secretary Bristow could hardly be
paid than is found in these figures.
Horace White says England is more
republican than the United States. -
Very likely but we should like to SEQ
Grant or his family asking for an APP
preparation OF f750, 600 to go to India
with Rochester Democrat.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee
has declared thrcc policies of life in
surance issued by the 4Etna of Hart
ford void al inifio, on account of mis-.
representations by the agent. and
directed the return Of four animal
premiums raid.
The county fairs have mostly been
held, we'll attended, and closed for the
year, and if McGruder's pig, or John
sons watermelon didn't win tho blue
ribbon, those gentlemen can rest as
sured that there was gross partially
shown.
-Pshaw It's easy enough to put IN
stove-pipe. All you've got to do is to
put on your kid gloves, take up your
cane. and leave word at the timers,
and when he gets ready, and can't
think of any other job, and he does
not want to go a.tishing, he'll put your
stove up.
If your arc introduced to the Sui
tan of Turkey, don't yawn. Ono of
the five delegates who had an audience
with him few days ago, forgot where
he was, opened his mouth aud said
s'ho.hum," and he was sitting on the
c,,rss, . ono Z sycnt v-t;ue seconds after
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20
Robcr: CoIlyer ON the Bible In the
Public Schools

think the reading of the Bible In the
public schools is not wholesome, but hurt
full to the children, because it is done in
such a way, as rule, as to rob their ma.
lures of any growing reverence for 1t they
may gather in the home and the church. 1t
is done in hurry, when their minds are
set on something else. and when they want
to be doing something else and il is really
no part of the days work: neither is it n
pleasant interference with ii, or else the
children u;sht like it ON that score. The
action OF the board is right, too, because it
is in accordance with the spirit of our COM
mon school system, which, as I understand
it, is intended to give the children what we
call a secular education, and to leave their
religions education to the home and church.
This idea is so wide and gracious and so
suitable to the spirit OF a popular govern-
ment like ours that any one to interfere
with it is likely to narrow the ground, and
must bring in all sorts of ill-fccling and
hinder the right action of the best system
of education the world has ever seen. The
practice is unjust, also, because we insist
on reading a version OF the scriptures that
is not acceptable to vast numbers of those
who send their children to school, and it is
no more fair to compel Catholic children to
hear our version read, than it would be for
the Catholics, if they were 10 a majority, to
compel our children to hear the Douay or
their version read. And so, as it is read
now, it really promotes sectarianism, where
such a thing should never be heard of. |
believe the German free thinkers are right.
too, in objecting to the reading of the Bible
in the public schools, because they do not
believe 10 the book as we do at all. while
they believe entirely as we do in common
school education. Whether they are in
fides or not. it is none of my business when
we touch this question. We want to es.
tablish the system upon broad foundations
that can never be moved. believe we
can eststlish it in this way and in no other,
and that religious divisions, if we permit
them to come to head, will finally break
1t up. We cannot afford to have it broken
up, and even if we all believed in the worth
of the Bible in this connection, it would be
good thing to make this concession to the
Catholics on the one side and the free
thinkers on the other, that we might occu.
Ply the strongest possible ground if there is
to be fight.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-20

lSigncd. G.. G.. ANTOINE.
Lieut.. Coy. and Acting GOV. of La.
By Act. Governor.
+. G. DESMOND, Sec'y Of State.
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A THIRD TERM RECRUIT.
Forney's sunday Chronicle out In Faver OF
Gen. Grnnt's Recollection.

WASHINGTON, Nov. H.-The Sunday
Chronicle, which has for two years been osteDsi-
bly Liberal Republican newspaper, comes out
to-day with a column editorial article for third
term for Gen. Grant. 1t vs. that ~ is evident
that the old issues OF the late war, aud the new
issues about To be forced upon us by an oil
garchy as intolerant as that OF slavery render IL
necessary for the Republican party TO take
Grant ~ "A candidate Tor third term IN order TO
secure victory for next year. II W Gen, Gr mt
alone that saved the party in 1868, and again
In 1872, and he alone can save II, aud through
II the country, from the domination OF the 10
rebels and tue Catholic church. The old issues
OF the war are to be resuscItated, and hese,
with Grants keynote In his Des Moines speech
are TO be the battle cries for 1870 The Repuoli-
Can party has no other candidate who odn 5 We
IL. Gen. SheTm IN will not do because his vile
Is a Catholic. Phil Sheridan won't do because
he is both Catholic add foreigner. The party
has no civilian who can carry OHIO, Pennsylva-
MIA and New York. Hence Grant alone can be
Its Moses his Is the gist OF the article, which
has evidently been prepared with care.
IL was publicly announced here few days ago
tnat Zick Chandler had purchased the Chronic
Clc but this statement is not credited. 1t Is be-
yond question, however, that pccunitry ss
slstance has been extended to Forney, the pro-
prietor II this new recruit 10 the third term
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GALVESTON, Nov I3.-The body OF Capt.
Wolfe the Galveston pilot who went out on board the
Inflated steamer City Of waco, has been found near
the vessel went down HIS remains bear several
narss wmch Esprar to be burns. Capt Wolfe ~As Al
e1per .ved pilot and &c man
There Is hope q AT any OF those on board the
vessel escaped II s thought tnat the bodies viii a be
recovered Nithln Q lev days Memorial services Will
be held ~ the differ ut hurches, and ali vessels In port
will display their cOOrs NJ haitmsst tomorrow us
Oh rtspect for those who perisned on the City Of
Waco
Tue remains OF Capt. Wolfe were taken BY the Ma
fr ternlty this morning on board the Sic mship
State OF Texas to proceed 10 Mystic, Conn., his former
home, fol inter nent.
The steam rug BucKt orn has been outside tod
searching for other. one Dody was found washed
ashore on Bolivar POini, when Capt. IRWIN says was
from the Waco. IL having been ~ Ong IN the water II
was ImpOssDle to encourage It.
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Ten Days on Blackweirs Island Under a
tnisc Charge Of IntoXicaiiop.

George Barrucker, q deaf mute employed
as n carrier In the Post ONCE, disappeared on
elcc,ion night, and his father had photographs
Of him distriou.ed through the city. The Post
Once authorities Interested themselves in
tue search, suspecung foul play. lie re-
turned To the Post Once on Saturday
and told O strange story. He SAID that
he was with some deaf mutes In the Eighth
Ward on election night and that after the party
separated he was arrested, but why he did not
know. lie could not near the charge made
against him IN toe police statip and could not
AXE the IN ers understand niin wnen he mo-
toned to them for papet aud pencil. lie Was
locked up IN cell, and ON the next
moruiug was taken before police magistrate.
lie tiled to make his inhrmIty known to tue
Jus Ice by gestures, bul the officers stopped
uim, and he was nustled In % a cell down ais
lie was subsequently taken to Blackwelfs
Island, ana kept there for ten days Before ne
was discharged he IL rned III 1 ne mad ueen
connnttsu for intux xiCauun. Ho denies that ne
was intoxicated, AID the Postmaster believes
hun.
some time ago letter carrier named Flynn
was arrested on complaint Of hts wife, with
whom he was not on good terms. she VII he'd
the magistrate ia the TOmOs ~ compel her nus
b aud ~ give her his salary. lhe Court would
not accept the husOsnd's story, ana he was
locked uD. Iue Post Once people say Tia II he
has dicd since irom the effects of ms imYrison-
meut.
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PURSUING THE PLUNDERERs.
The Attoruev-Gcnernrs First step Toward
smnshina the BrookIyn Ring.

Attorney General Pratt, as q result OF
his de Iteration over the proposed prosecution
OF the Brooklyn Ring, has referred the subject
In the form OF two questions, In which he has
asked MIR. Jno. W. Parsons, OF the firm OF Mann
& Parsons, lawyers, 90 Wall street, TO report.
The questions are, whether there Ia probable
cause OF action against any resident Of Brooklyn,
accused OF defrauding the city, and whether
there is any good reason why CORPORATION Counsel
cution. These questions are to be answered
after Mr.. Parsons has heard the testimony
against the BROOKLYN Ring, which the Law Com
mtttec OF the TaxDayers Reform Association
have prepared In Aflidavits relative to the reser-
vOlr and paving Jobs Of Kingsley, kinsella Co 4,
davits and proofs OF fraud have been prepared
bv Mr.. Nathaniel Cothren, a lawyer, In the inter-
ct Of the Law Committee OF the Reform Asso-
citation, and some preliminary proof has been
this week. The testimony viii be given In pri-
vate. MIR. Parsons's OplniOD will 90 to the Attor-
ney-General and his decision Will settle the
question The refOrmers expect tO.srOngly op.
pose the employment OF Corporation Counsel
DE Witt to prosecute the Ring men. De witt,
they say, has been made by Kingsley. lie was
formerly the convivial companion OF the tie
Granville L. JenKs, klngsley's former counsel.
Kingsley got acquain ed with him, and when
the King desired an orator to nave on nand 10
gloss over their operations In stump speecnes,
they choose DE Witt and made him COrpOrati n
Counsel. Ills opinions have uniformly been in
favor OF the Ring Jobs. lie Is the counsel Tor
the Eagle Association, OF which kingsley,
Keeney and kinsea are the most import Mt
members. II the suits proceed and mr. De witt
serteu that eminent New York counsel will con-
QUOT the prosecution.
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BROOh l. YN.

VIM. Cavnn'Rh, laborer Of s5 Wallabout
street B OOknu ws arrested ON Sai urnay Tor ettanl
5000 wortn OF soil froma vacant lot in Hayward street,
Edward kalph, who WAS run Overland seriously
Injured by KOut uVcnne horst Car IN 1874 taneu
Ve,act Of $4,000 m the CIy Court on Saturday Tue
mpanJ Is 10 appeal
A party OF wals left a bundle In q Montrose
avenue car on Saturday night which looked and frll
'' hOOy " an infant. The driver ran TO the pUhce
-, a.. '"self, and the Officers found that tho
parcel ontsn he BODY v.
Persons VINO formerly worshuped with tb.
rev Joseph Bradford Clcaver In q spel Church Lin.
COIN place, nave organized a Church ION the Hole
hnhe hlthoul any written creed or articles VI faths
"u W. n oedihs oil Troy 10 TO be thtr preacher.
me Common Council committee, after tom
as astding hslr annual budget in on turdAy lefl II
tpiYisi"oV< Inc Hem street AynR was reduced,
and the item Of t26@O In Prospect Far, uppropriaOn
Nhlc1 the C0mmSsloncrs tay they borrowed on their
own responsibility, was left out.
At the ninth annual meeting OF tho Unitarian
Union ChistAu WORK thr Church OF our Saviour
IA rrrpOnt street, BrOukYn laat even ng. lOhert Fus
ter The Pr hldrnt read report agalnt The 20 sOda-
lOL with TN Y. NJ g. A. Drs Nyo, Putnam. ana ANN
made prrches m fayifO Of n tlitnnal raise Of 5000
TO curry on the Work of helping tue irlenuless ~ ths
gra-t ritlaA-
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ONE or THE EAST SIDE GANGs.
A Sick Man Gaeged and Robbed In His own
Bedcbamber.

HctchnmOeFs
Lewis Clark, of 211 Division street, was
bound. gagged, and robbed while IN bed yester-
d morning Mr.. Clark is a Hebrew. and serves
a number OF families Of his faith with bread
Five months ago he fell from his wagon, and his
injuries have confined him to his bed ever since
His wife and hired boy have been delivering
the bread to his customers since. They went
out to do their morning work just before I'VE
o'clock, and Immediately afterward the thieves
rushed In and gagged Mr.. Clark with his own
velvet skull cap. One OF them then went to the
bureau drawer and found the money. Then
they all went away.
one Of their number, who seemed TO direct
opcr tions, stood in the Dark hallway seemingly
unwilling To be seen. Once, however, he stepped
into the light, and MIR. Clark recognized him IS
a man who called ON Thursday last, protesting
to be physician who could cure such stubborn
ailments ss that under which MI: Clark was M SUI
Moloney recognized David Dundes, OF II Hester
street. DIndes was taken to Mr. Clafk's bed
side and was recognized both as the director Of
the thieves ami the sitor OF Thursday. Alter
his arrest the police searched his apartments,
anu found a coll ction OF silver vi to aud IA gold
watch whlc they b heve 10 he the proceeds OF
other robberies. Amung them were fourteen
table spoons, seven tea spoons, two dies, seven
forks, Two knife handles, one casket all Of ster,
silver, gold inliid, richly chased ana embossed
tut look like p .rts of ceremonial or preselta.
tiDn service. he table service are marked X
c. r. 4 s., IKJ7, :" aud Il. stephan 1888"
lhero t. no doubt that every detail Of the rob-
berry was tanned ia advance. On wedn sd ,
last a woman called upon Mr.. Clark ostensi Uli
to offer to purchase his bread route. She man.
aged by artfu q4esdpning to learn that he paid
the bakers of wnom he bought bread on AlOn
d y, and tnat he usually paid them $50. Then
Dr." DundeS called on the next day nd ex
amined tpe fasteninss OF tue apartments aud
learned the habits OF the inmates. lhe polio,
believe that In Dr. ID .Ddes hey have tine chic
OF very successful gang OF sneak thieves.
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JOrTINGs ABOUr TOWN.

Mr.. George Griswold returned to his home Oh
Saturday. lie had not been robbed
Moses Hummel Of SO East Fifth street dropped
dead IN the back yard ot ms resupnce last evening
Tho collections In all the Roman Catholic
churcnes on sunday, Dec L. BY command 6i Lp' d Al
Met skey, arc 70 be used for the completion VI s"e
new Cathedral.
Miss Nanette Fannie has been missing since
last Tuesdy evening She lived with Mrs. solomon
DieZ OF IVd SECOND avenue, and was salcswOman in
Bernard Eisg Bros DRY goods store, al elS sixth
nue.
A matinee performance OF Frou FrotI," es-
pecialy for the OF ladies will be- gwen At
tnr i,vv.,., Theatre Wednesday afternoon when Mime
Julete Clarence will Is!pesohA'e 6"oere Tor the last
time,
TAXPAYER recommends those taxpayers who
wish TO see where the money goes to Tenth street
Hnd Avenue 4, ana eee about two hu uidred men each
with about shoNehul Of earth III his Hheeuarrow,
walking around the square.
York COmmandeTy, No. IS, knights TemDlar OF
this city VIII make hacrual Yst 10 st. johns Com.
mandrrS, No. y Of Ellza0et, \. D.. the 10Th lnst
accompanied by the Eighth Re.laent Bgnu and Tue
Grand Commander OF Toe stAus
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the DISTRICT BONDS.
The Attorney-GeneraI III. CT nisagreeinE with
the Atorpey-renerai Incumbent.

ALBANY, Nov. 4.-Assistant Attorney
General Fairchild has addressed the following
letter to Attorney General Pratt:
Ilrsrn that you have recenty gyen opinion 10 the
Superintendent Il tLe banking Department, In Nuich
d. thIt officers Of sayluss banks may lnvest the
CoiumUia 3.o5 ponds"
Ddnks OF this STATE In pursuance Of the opinion OF tue
Attorney Generals ohlee, as given bT myself on the
2dh OF July Usually, the IA that the chet OF
department had oyerrued TIT opinion OF his subOf
dinAte wOuld OF neither public nor private monen
but as the questions involved IN your opinion are OF
ATTORNEY Ceuerd on The lst OF January next, silence
should len apparent assent my part to this new
rule the oice Lhus miscad savings bank Officers
TO tie which viii be taSen by the Atofnei
Generals Department 10 this matter during a. term
Should hey Invest In these securities heJ migut
Of my intention. 1te fact thst yours II
and other eminent lawyers have given opinions
IN favor Of the right OF Investment By savings
banks In these securities ~ course casts eroat uOuDt
upon soundnees Of the contrary opinion JefOre xiv
lug which saw that there were many Arguments VIII h
denee my own opinion "a impaired by your own ~ d
the opinions VI o.her lsWyers yet my dOubS are not
removed.
Mr.. Fairchlld says that there is doubt as to
whether the United States should assume the
District Of Columbla's debts and until Congress
removes that doubt before savings banks ar1
encouraged to invest their funds in the 3.6j
Donos. lie says he shall deem II his duty TO
take such steps alter Jan. AS shall secure an
early decision Of tho Court Of Appeals on this
subject.