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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
CALIFORNIA,

SAN FRANcIsco, Feb. 15.-The sgd.
ney Herald, Of January 18th, gives an
account of the maseacre Of the Captain,
officers and crew Of the trading brig,
James Bernice, Of Sydney, by the ma
tivcs Of Howe's Islands. Tho ships
company consisted Of the Captain, two
officers, carpenter, steward, six seA-
men, forty colored laborers and one
passenger. On arriving At the Island
the Captain stationed three parties on
different islands. The natives sur.
prised and captured the brig and all
three parties except that OF tho second
officer, VIM. Rhodes, who escaped
with sixteen colored men 10 . boat.
After five days without food or water
they reached Solomon Island, aud SUBJ
sequently reached the Island OF 6tieh.
resteval, when the American whalcr,
BENZ. Cummings, took them up and
carried them TO Bird Island, from
whence they were taken to Hobart
Town by the brig Wolverine. II 10
believed the rest Of the party were all
massacred. It is reported that six YES.
sels have been captured by the natives
of these islands, and their crews mas
sacred.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
CONGRESSIONAL.
Proceedings Of Asa Congress.
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL.
The House subsequently went into
Committee of the Whole for the pur-
pose OF taking up the pension and mil
itary academy bills.
After passing the Military Acade-
my and pension bills, the bill for the
equalization ofbounties was consider
edit provides for the pay mcnt of every
non-c0mmissioned officer aud private
including slaves who served in the ar
my and were discharded, $8H month
for services between April 81 and
May '65, with the deduction of all
bounties heretofore paid by the Unit
ed States. Substitutes or prisoners of
war at the time are excluded; also
those discharged as minors or from
other causes unless such discharge
was for re-enlistment or promotion
Where soldier 10 dead, the bounty
reverts to the widow, If not re-msr-
ried; or to o minor child or child
rem.
Mr.. Gunkcl prefaced the bill with
tho platform of both parties pledging
justice to soldiers. The government,
he said, had already paid four hundred
millions bounty. Why shOnld 1t not
pay . few million necessary and re-
move all inequalities. The pending
bill would not cost over twenty mil
lions. Had the Republican party been
half "a anxious to pay its debt to the
soldiers az to pay foreign bond hold
ers, 1t would not be in . minority to-
day.
Messrs. Kellogg, Willard, Hawley,
of Connecticut, and others opposed
the bill because the soldiers would
reap but little advantage therefrom,
having already been paid bounty by
the State.
Mr.. Comings' amendment, extend
ing the act to all soldiers mustered in
to the service, subsisted, clothed and
paid by the Government, was agreed
to.
advccasssaF afs o IRgRslSs up ph MEASURES
provide for the Governments obliga-
tlon, and not how to expend more.
Messrs. Coburn, Saylor and Speer
advocated the bill.
A vote was then taken, with the
several amendments attached, and 70.
sulted,-ycas III, nays 80.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
VIRGINIA.

WHEELING. Feb. 13-Thc bill for
removing the Capital OF this State to
Wheeling within the next ninety days,
has passed tho House by vote Of 81
to %. The same bill passed tho Sem
ate few days since. It only awaits
the Governors signature to become q
law. ]. J. jackson, of Petersburg.
was placed in nomination for the Ser .
ate to-day. Hc received on joint bal.
lot 30, Walker %, Price l6, and the
rest scattering.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
UnstasapcA checks.

The Little Tariff bill" having be-
come . law, the attention of business
men and bankers is drawn to tho
change thereby effected in the law for
stamping checks. The provision Of
the "Little Tariff bill" is - follows:
SEC. l6. That the words "bank
check, draft or order for the payment
of any sum of money whatsoever
drawn upon any bank, banker, or
trust company at sight or ON demand.
2 cents, in Schedule B, of the Act Of
june 80, 1854" be and the same 10
hereby stricken out, and the following
paragraph inserted in lieu thereof:
ABank check, draft or order, or vouch-
or for the payment Of any sum what.
soever drawn upon any bank, banker,
or trust company 2 cents."
The change consists in dropping the
words "at sight or on demand" and
adding the word voucher" Its ct.
feet 10 to render liable to stamp duty
tho checks worded zone day after
date" which have been used 10 evade
the stamp tax.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
NEW YORK.

MaftteA Al sltOrY Wis6oUc -. ~,
niIg.
New YORK, Feb. l5-The following
is q report in full of an outline of cv-
dence sent entire to-day:
Mr.. Evarts-With regard to your
wife,you answer, I think, "My wife is
everything good, and hates every
thing bad, and / believe to-day that
she is good woman" Now, Mr., Til.
ton, want to ask your foundation for
this belief, in view of the charge pre-.
ferred against your wife? In other
words, how have You reconciled that
statement with the fact that she Is
charged with adultery
Answer (hesitatingly- Well, sir,
that Is sad question. I can answer
only for my own Judgment of her be.
havior, not for other peoples opin
ions. You must know sir, that I
knew Elizabeth when was ten years
old /; that was her confessed lover at
l6 that l was married to her ct 20, and
that for 10 years of our married lives
l held her In my reverence almost to
the point Of making her an idol OF my
worship, and when she came to her
downfall, it was the necessity Of my
heart that must find some excuse for
her. Other people might blame her,
but ! must pardon her. found that
excuse in the fact that she had been
wrapped up In her religious teacher
and guide. She had surrendered her
convictions to him. She followed his
beck and lead trustingly. She would
60 after him like one blinded. / think
she sinned, and that her sin was -
one in . trance. don't think she was
q free agent think she would have
done his bidding II, like the heather
priest In the Hindoo land, he had bid
her ding her child into the Gangeos, or
cast herself under the jnggernsut.
That was my excuse for Elizabeth"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

The situation of the grasshoprer
sufferers appears to be imminent in this
procrastinated cold weather. The
General Government has mado provis.
ions to distribute $4,000 worth of
rations to them. but this must be hur-
ried up to prevent starvation and then
it will 60 buta little ways after all.
The State of Kansas has also voted to
distribute $4,000 in supplies. There
can be no question but that there IL
ample room for the largest liberality
on the part Of citizens generally, to Dc
what they can 10 relieve the destitute
though the State and National gov
eminent distribute the aid above
stated.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
Murder &C Nswssn.

On Wednesday evening two young
men, at Newton, named Andrew Par
ker and George Mccain, got into
disputation over q debt Of four dollars
which Parker owed Mccain, and
which the latter was endeayoring to
collect. Mccain seized . pitch-fork
and struck Parker ON the head. The
blow was not supposed TO be such -
to produce serious injury. PArkers
father Immediately after the adray,
told Mccain that DO had better leave
town in two hours, which was design.
ed o. menace moro than ANYTHING
else. Mccain ct once cleared out. Soon
after, Parker began to show evidence
Of serious hurt, and continued 70 grow
worse until yssterday morn!pg whsu
10 died.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

The Scheme of obtaining govern.
ment aid for the Texas Pacific railway
is likely to fail in Congress. We
think Congress will do right to equelch
this project-aside from the question
CT granting, or not, aid to railways by
land grants which tho country has
quite generally condemned, we think
this enterprise is to say tho least, sus.
piciously represented, aud that IL aid
should be given, as the case now
stands, corruption would pan out of i,
to an alarming extent. We trust thai
Congress will speedily kill the meas
ure.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
MISSOURI.

ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 16-A special from
Topeka, Kansas, says near Helena,
Colorado, on the 8th inst., thirty Wig
ilants went to the house Of one Gibbs,
and upon his refusal to surrender him.
self to them to DO hung, set fire to tho
house, in which were Gibbs, two wo-
men, and several children. Gibbs
leapt out through the flames with .
revolver and shot three Of the party
dead and wounded . fourth, when the
rest took to their heels and fed. Gibbs
had recently been acquitted ON q
charge Of murder, and the vigilants
proposed to take summary appeal
from the decision which set him ct
liberty.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

RAMSAY and Davis, Republican cam
didates for Senator in Minnesota, hav.
ing both withdrawn from the contest,
the Republicans still seem to have
great difficulty in effecting an cleo.
ton. Governor Washburn and Cor.
don L. Cole are now the leading Re.
publican candidates.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
love- NA~-.~--

Alton has purchased q Little Giant
fire engine for $3.50.
Keokuk lie scheming for narrow
guage to Mt. Pleasant.
Dubuque is preparing for the spring
races, and has already put up the first
purse.
Mr.. Jesse Beecher, living near Lisbon
sold 165 head of hogs the other day
for $1,000.
Burlington now contemplates build
ing street railway to her stock yards
and fair ground.
A Prairie City woman chased her
husband, who 10 physician, into tho
street with an az, recently.
The gross earnings of the Chicago
& Northwestern Railroad for the year
1874, show an increase of $40, 1851
over those of 1873.
The third annual convention of the
State Sunday School Association will
open at West Union, February 16, and
continue in session two days.
A stratum of rock has been discov-
cred near Prairie City, some twenty
feet under the surface, containing .
petrifed tree embodied in the solid
rock.
Burlington has voluntarily abandon.
ed the special charter under which it
has for many years been working, and
is now under the general law Of the
State.
It costs - to whip . school teacher
in Winterset. The discovery was re-
Gently made by three boys, who club
bed their teacher Sc worth in the ag-
gregate.
Last spring Mrs. James A. Gray. of
Grandview, got . divorce from her
husband because he treated her cruel
ly and abusively for years. Last week
she married him again.
A Wisconsin farmer named Ray,
while on . laud-purchasing visit to
Montgomery county, in this State, at
tempted to board the cars at Villisca,
when he slipped and fell and had his
leg crushed 20 badly that smputation
was necessary.
Cedar county boasts of profit ON its
poor farm and aims house, of 1896 last
year, and challenges q showing from
other counties. johnson takes pride
in pointing to her sl,T00 profit from
the same source.
Detroit Free Press: A clergyman
In Iowa stood in his door and warned
. donation party that the first ono that
entered his gate was dead man. He
said It was bad enough to take halt
his pay In beans, without having his
house destroyed.
A man by the name Of Stone, Sec
don-hand ON the c. & s. W., met with
IN accident which resulted in his
death, on Monday last. While cross
ing . bridge near Floris, his feet
clipped, the bridge being covered with
Ice, and he WAS hurled to the ground
below, distance Of some thirty feet.
and instantly killed,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

The bill introduced by Representa-
tive Loughridge of this district, to
equalize bounties to soldiers of the
rebellion, passed the House on the 18th
inst, by the strong vote of lit to
80. 1t now goes now to the Senate.
What the terme of the bill are, az II
finally passed, we cannot yet tell.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

One of the most singular operations
of the moon are the cracks or assures
which appear on its surface. These
radiate out from . common center,
generally from the center Of . volcano.
They are of vast extent, one of them
being six hundred miles long, from
one to three miles wide, aud Of . depth
90 great that NO telescope has yet been
able to penetrate its Abyses. They
appear to have been formed by vast
eruptions and upheavals.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

: A. aseln- ID CHICAGO, Feb. 16
By telegraph
Wheat Easier ct 1880 cash /; 842sc
March.
Corn-Rnled weak and lower, the
quotations to-day being 62kc cash ;
62Tc March.
Oats Steady at $3.50 cash; 5sAc
March. -
Rye-Steady at 9S1Sc.
Barley-Firm and higher, tho quo-
tations being 81 l3K cash or March.
Pork-Steady at SIS 45@7T March.
Lard-Quiet at $l3 As cash ; SIS 70
April.
Whiskey-Nominal ut 81 OF.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

Prof. SUMNER, Of Yale College, re-
Gently gave capital description of q
prevalent style Of journalism, some.
times called independent, whose prin-
ciple seems to DO 'sto throw mud ON a
man anyway, and if it don't belong to
him he can scrape 1t off,"
The Professors hit 10 admirable, TO
the shame Of very many Of the Lead.
ing journals Of this country. The ut
ter disregard Of justice, Of fair and
honorable dsslipg on the part Of
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

Down 90 ahc Frcights.
The action of the Baltimore s. Ohio
road has had its effect-Freights are
coming down and business is likely to
be done at a low figure.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
UNION ChURN.
TINE BEST CHURN EVER MADE

Read the following certificate:
COMsToCK, Iowa, Jan. Is, 1875.
O. K. ABELS. Dear Sir THE Churn (Union
No p which got OF You, gives the BEST sATIsrAC.
TON. and my wife says she "would not take four
mes the money paid for it, II she could not get
another" Yours, A. B CoXsToCK,
We also by permission, refer to Jacob Houck,
OF Comstock; VIM Wilson, Of Kichland Town
chip; and Davis Hinton
They are arranged with thermometer and are
the moot complete ever made. VIII churn In from
10 TO 10 minutes in the coolest weather, and 8
small child can do the work. Every one warran.
ted to give satisfaction. Call at my store and see
them. d. K ABELS
Ottumwn, feb 10 ls75-w1y
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

How BALLROOM k140oeo W30 mo00s
There may be seen daily, on Chest
nut street, says the Philadelphia But
letin, o man dressed in faultless APP
parel, with great diamond upon his
breast, vainly endeavorisg to outglitter
the magnificent solitaire on his finger:
In q German university he learned
chemistry, and not evsn Liebig knows
it better. His occupation 10 the mix.
ing and the adulteration Of liquors.
Give him dozen casks of deodorized
alcohol, and the next day each Of them
will represent the name Of . genuine
wine or popular spirit. He enters .
Wholesale drug store, bearing q large
basket upon his arm. Five pounds OF
Iceland moss are first weighed out to
him. To raw liquor this imparts de-
gree of smoothness and oleaglnousness
that gives 10 imitation brandy the glib.
moss Of that which 10 most maturcd.
An astringent called catechu. that
would almost close the mouth of . glass
inkstsnd, is next in order. A couple
of ounces of strychnine, next called
for, are quickly conveyed TO tho vest
pocket, and pound Of white vitriel 10
40 silently placed In the bottom OF the
basket. The oil Of coguac. the sui
phuric acid, and other articles that give
IRE and body to the liquid poison are
always kept in store. The mixer buys
these things in various quarters. They
are staples OF the art.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
New York Market.

NEW York, Feb. 16.
[By Telegraph
Wheat-Dnll No. 2 Chicago 81 O41s
@l OF do. Milwaukee 81 cool liz;
winter red western 81 20 to 81 %.
CONFIRM; western mixed and
yellow 500 10.
Barley-Dnll and heavy.
Oats-Firm; mixed western ESQ
Tie.
Pork-Heavy at $40 Is.
Lard-Quiet at l3Tc@l5-l6c.
Whisky-Lower at 81 O5.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
KANSAS.

WICHITA, Feb. l3.-The Reucon
states that last Saturday night the
greater portion of tho bArracks at Fort
Sill burned. Almost all OF tho Indian
prisoners held there escaped.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

c. W. Jones, Democrat, was elected
Senator from Florida, on the l1th inst.
Which of the Joneses this lie, other
than that his initials are G. ". we are
not informed.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

"A colored preacher remarked
"When God made do fust man He SET
him up agin do fence to dry" "Who
made de fence ?" interrupted an eager
listener. ''Put dat man outi' exclaim-
ed the preacher; such questions %
dat upset all dc theology in de world"
"A sympathetic newsboy in Lex.
ington, Kentucky, seeing . convicted
murderer on his way to prison for life,
gave him . newspaper, saying: I'm
sorry for yer, boss-that's the best
can do" It Was the first kindness
shown to the prisoner, and he quite
broke down with emotion, while .
witness OF the scene rewarded the boy
with currency.
! An old fashioned couple who
were waiting at the Central Depot re.
gently to continue their journey west.
ward, were strolling up Third street
and gazing around, when the woman
espied one of the street cars Of the
city railway line, which happened to
be empty at the time. "Thats hoss
car" replied her husband to her ques.
tion. $50 that's q hoss car, eh ~ she
unused. mounting the step and look
ing in. .Well, now, who'd ever think
that they'd 60 and fix up cars a. nice
as this to ride bosses in !n-Dctroit
Free Press.
The Baltimore american has been
making observations Of the effect Of .
slight gratuity on hotel walters, and
this 10 the result: Three cents, slight
bow, apt to inspect coin 40 IL expect
ing II to change into something larg-
or; i've cents, obliged !" six cents,
Thank you;" ten cents, 'sThank you
Colonel !" fifteen cents, "Thank you,
General" twenty cents, low bow,
flourish Of napkin, formula 40 aboye /;
quarter, profound bow, alAcrity to
find hat feint to brush ii with elbow,
door held open; half dollar, happi-
ness dollar, bliss.
The Omaha Smelling and Rein.
ing Works have been In operation
four years. The works turned out
81, 100000 In 1873, and the operations
during 1874 may be briefly stated
thus: Amount OF base bullion separ-
ated and refined, 1000 tons ore smelt-
ed, 1900 tons coal and coke consum-
ed, 6,7l5 tons value Of gold and silver
produced, 1880, 0O0; lead shipments,
$500 tons, valued at $500 600; number
of men employed, 90; wages paid,
$65, 600 paid Of freight. $3.50, 600; for
expressage, $4,000.
EDO you know the prisoner, Mr.
Jones ?" ayes, to the bone" "What
il his character" "Didn't know he
had any!" "Does no 1.-Two near you ?"
$50 near that he has spent only i've
shillings for frewood in the last eight
years." "Did he ever come into col.
lision with you In any matter 2" "Only
once, and that was when no was drunk
and mistook me for lamp-post."
"From what you do know Of him,
would you believe him under oath ?"
THAT depends upon circumstances. II
no WAS 90 much intoxicated that he
did not know what he was saying, /
would II not, / wouldn't.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

The correspondence, just published,
between the President and General
McCook, shows clearly that the latter
was not removed from the Governor.
ship of Colorado.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
Gen. and Ex-senator John III. Thay.
or, Of Nebraska, has been appointed
Governor of Wyoming Territory.

European news says that Marshall
Bazainc is to be invited by King AL
phcnso to take . hand in the war rag
ing in Spain.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
ENGLAND.

LONDON. Feb. ia Singapore tel
egram says that the revolt Of the
Chinese prisoners in jail there was mot
suppressed before sixty seven persons
were killed and injured. inclndin~
sixteen Of the wardens.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

GEN. SHERIDAN, as the result Of his
investig alton, gave report to the In
veslgating Committee, that in nine
wears, since the close OF the rebellion,
4,256 citizens have been killed and
wounded in Louisiana. This slaugh.
ter has greatly increased since the rise
of the White League, and in the past
year, equalled one quarter of tho
whole number. This il the state Of
civilization that democracy are trying
ing to perpetuate. This state of civil
ization is deliberately brought about
by the democracy Of Louisisna, to in.
t;midate the negro and force them.
selves into tho political possession of
that State. What they have done in
Louisiana has to greater or less ex.
tent been practiced in all the old slave
States. In this work they are Gus.
tanned by the democratic party north,
lust as they sustained them before and
during the war.
The leaders of the Democratic party
are deliberately planning by such
means to get control OF the nation. It
may be considered by some a. erron-
cons to Judge the Democratic party
thus harshly, but how any wise man
can think it erroneous, who lived and
witnessed democracy before and at
the time Of the rebellion, we are ut.
terly at q loss to devine. It is as plain
to us as the sun at monday that the
elements which fought the rebellion
and those who sympathized with it,
are to-day seeking not again to go TO
MAR to disrupt tho Union, but have
ado pied the plan to carry every South
ern State by means Of intimidation
snd prescription of the colored voters,
and to this end they refuse to en-.
ploy them, unless they comply with
their demands, AND they threaten and
murder. negroes in largo numbers
The proof of this 10 ample. With THU
work Of Southern democracy, the par
" north sympathize and daily defend
them through the press, on the stump
and In legislative halls. Democracy
cannot long conceal its eiovon foot
Il tried it with Greeley, bat II has to,
tally soured on that, has spewed ul
al the Greedy II hypocriucally swsl.
lowed, and Is out in the old simon.
pure garb.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17

Az an instance Of the depreciation Of pro-
perty In tho oil regions, Il 10 said that
walls that once brought $3.50, 900 cen now
b purchased for $4,000.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
Kearney's Ext. Buchu
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