Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-01-27
For the Ottumwa COURIER
BATAVIA RRESPONDNNCE.

For the ottumwa COURIER
BATAVIA CORRESPONDNNCE.
AZ the COURIER comes to us weekly
with its varied and valuable news, we
propose to reciprocate, and, for once,
offer you such news as sre have. Ba.
tavia does not claim to be city, nor
even very great to,ca, but, located in
the midst OF q fine farming region she
enjoys prosperity. Our business men
prosper, single one of our houses,
that of Welday Il Bro, having sold
over $4,000 worth of goods during
the past year The shipping business
has been active. Over 5000 head of
hogs have been shipped from Batavia
over the Is. & M. r. r. the past year
During the same time the shipments of
| cattle were about 800 head oats So
| 900 bushels corn $4,000 bushels and
timothy seed 5000 bushels.
The sales of live stock, grain and
grass seed have probably aggregated
100000. Whether farmers are aware
of their prosperity l cannot say
Probably, like other mortals, when ia
vored with success they keep quiet and
press on for further achievements, but
when failure or disaster comes then
wc hear from them.
There is greater activity. however,
| in farm lands than formerly. Ten or
twelve farms within sight Of Batavia
have changed hands within the past
year, half of the number within three
months past, The number of farmers
and others who have left this region
for Kansas and Nebraska and other
regions West within the past five years
has been large. but their places have
been taken by Others, many of them
valuable immigrants from the East.
The fine farm formerly owned by
John McQucrry, who with his family
removed last summer TO Oregon, is
now occupied by Thomas r. Law, late
Va w SOu OOuhVys L Us
Educational and religious affairs
with us are quiet. Our public school
under the efficient principalship of Mr..
M. L. Sweeney gives general satisfac-
tiOn.7 Union religious services were
held in one of our churches during
tho first and second weeks of tho new
year, conducted by the ministers of tho
several churches.
The character of our community for
good morals and good order has suf-
tered lately by several instances of
r0wdyism and breaches of the peace
1t requires no ingenious detective, nor
even very sentative nostrils to find out
the spirit and source ofit-in saloon,
opened by some stranger. in an old
building just outside tho town limits.
In . quarrel near the saloon some
weeks since q bystander who interior.
ed, was shot, Internationally, through
the body. The injury was very seri-
GUS, but he still lives, with present
hopes of recovery.
Are the public generally aware OF
the great convenience and extensive
business OF the money order arrange
inent connected with the Post Office
Department? l had the opportunity
lately of looking over the records in
the money order business of Postmas-
ter Greenland. The first money order
from the Batavia Office was issued July
rs, 1872. During that year the num-
Der issued was 13l. In 1873 the num-
Der was 630. For 1874 the number OF
orders was 9lO averaging 1886 per
order, and amounting to over eighteen
thousand dollars.
To the grasshopper sufferers our
community have contributed freely, in
cash, provisions, and material for
clothing something over $500.
Dear me! What an age of progress
Somebody sent the writer lately prin-
ted circular calling attention to great
medical metaphysical discovery by the
use of which disease is eradicated from
the human system, deafness and all
other bodily ailments cured, and life
prolonged to two or three hundred
years!!! This ethereal discovery is
materialized in three separate prepare
tons for the eye, ear, and scalp re-
spectively Cat 81 to Sc per PACKAGE
The remedy for all ailments is thus
3ppileu 10 ears, eyes, scalp anu pocket.
The scalp renovator ia said to be very
effective cathsrticl 1t seems to me
this would be greatly preferable to
EPSON and the Castor Bean! The
@ met ya "a my opinion the perform
anccs of doctor of whom we read in
the Saline county Democrat, who, by
the word of command, or by the snap
ping of his fingers heals disease. This
is little too thin. Perhaps however
our difficulty is the want of .foith.-
We have not been accustomed, how
ever, to exercise faith, or inculcate it,
without something on which to base
it. Faith without evidence is creduli.
ty. Perhaps when this present writer
hears the fingers snap he may think
better of it.
Verify the world loves humbug, and
is willing to pay for it, too, ii done
cleverly. And when it employs me-
chanics, promotes trade, and increases
travel it is highly respectable.
BATAVIA, Jan. %, 1875. JIM. M.