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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05
GOLD IN IOWA.
The Reported Discovery i'm Della ar
County.

The Reported Discovery i'm Della arc
The Cedar Rapids Republican Of
tho eth of April says: "The
good people of Strawberry Point, in
Clayton county. Iowa, are in the
throes Of . tremendous excitement
over the reported discovery of gold in
their midst. The Free Press, OF last
week, says that mining company has
been formed, dams built, and sluices
are at present being constructed. Ev-
cry day of the past week has brought
forth new discoveries, which has
strengthened the now firm belief that
gold can % found in paying quaint,
iiss s5ses = p. shs company while
working on the dam, unearthed q
piece Of quartz about the size of a
chestnut, which contained, according
to old miners judgment, 50 so of gold.
Washing with pans has been going
on from time to time, and in every
pan of dirt so far, color has been found.
In three pans washed by Mr.. Kimber
on Monday last, between sixty and
seventy pieces were secured. A small
stone was picked up by Mr.. G. Cooley,
on Monday afternoon last, while In
the mines, which, upon being closely
examined, was found to be very rich.
Aquafortis had no effect upon 1t. The
writer, while at the mines last Friday,
obtained three pieces of metal which
are extremely good for sore eyes.
They are kept close at hand for this
purpose. Very little washing has been
done, the want of water being the
principal drawback. Mr.. Kimber has
made the richest discovery in the
ravine known as the Bushee Hollow,
in which there is An abundance Of
water. In fact, gold 10 being found all
about US, and when the sluices have
been put in and worked, more can be
said in regard to finding the gold In
paying quantities. There is scarcely
ravine about us In which gold can.
not be found, it having washed from
come pockets or leads ON the higher
grounds. The excitement still con.
tinues, and parties from e distance
have arrived and gone to work. The
first discovery was made on the farm
of Jarvis Barker, half . mile northeast
Of town."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05
Corrected weekly BY Messrs. Kirk / walker.
Accident Mt DlO0m0cld.
BLOOMFIELD, Iowa, May 3, 1876

EDS. COURIER: VIM. Petit, q buss
driver, In the employ of r. Barton, of
this place, was fatally injured, yester.
day at 4 o'clock. The mixed train on
the B. y 8 W. Road was ct tho depot,
and was switching. The caboose was
on the switch. Petit was assisting
some ladies to cross to the platform,
the engine and part Of the train In the
meantime being on the main track.
The engine came back on the switch
and backed mp TO the caboose. Petit
was standing In front Of the bumper,
and didn't notice It coming. It caught
him squarely ON each hip and carried
him betweeD the bumpers about ten
feet. He was at once brought TO town,
and medical aid was summoned. At
8 O'Clock this morning he was still
alive. but no hopes arc entertained OF
his recovery. One Of his hips 70 terrl-
bly, mashed and broken, the other has
: cash in It about three inches deep
md four long. Ho3to.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05
ILLINOIS.

CHICAGO, May 4-Tha common coun.
on last night canvassed the votes cast
at the recent election on the adoption
ol inc incorporation act Of 1872, despite
the Injunction passed by Judge viii.
liams restraining them from 40 doing.
on account of illegalities. The CONT
shows o majority in favor of incornor.
alton under the general laws of IA 0ss
against a minority representation OF
1894.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

About 1000 families of those sober and
industrious people, the Mennonites, are an
nounced as preparing to start for this coun-
try at an early date, to settle 10 Manitoba
the coming season. There has been large
immigration Of these people to this country
during two years past, the number being in
the vicinity of 5000 souls. OF these there
are already settledin Manitoba $50 families
in. Minnesota is, in Nebraska so, in Kan
sas BIG, In Dakota Territory 200, and tie
remainder in other localities. Tho Kansas
Mennonites have just completed the pur.
chase Of 10000 acres Of Government land
which they propose to cultivate the coming
season.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

BENZ. L. Jessie, an incestuous Kansas
City Murderer, has been convicted for MUIR
der in the first degree for leaving his infant
child out in the cold until 1t froze to death.
The child was born to him by his own
daughter, girl sixteen years old. He
belongs to one Of the most respectable
families Of Clay county, and his wife is the
possessor Of $4,000 In her own right.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05
Tho Rankin nefaic.,,on.

Dies MONIES, May 3.-ln the Rankin
case to day, Isaac Brandt testified that
the account of tho agricultural fund
was kept on ticket In the State Treas
ury. The defense claimed il could be
proven that Brandt, during Rankin'a
absence, converted $4,000 Of agricul.
tural college money orders to make
up a deficiency. Brandt's examina.
ton will be continued in the morning.
The excitement here over the case Il
growing more intense daily, and start.
ling developments are expected soon
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

MILWAUKEE NEWS: You may talk
about marrying an heiress, q delicate human
blossom, fairy, an angel, but give us a
girl like Nancy Terwillinger of Lacrosse,
who ran out of doors the other night, and.
straddling . horse yelled out, ::"Good-night
old man Tn off for the spellin' MATCH
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05
Chicago Market,
CHICAGO, May 4.

CHICAGO, May 4.
by Telegraph
Wheat-Weak and lower at 81 O4ss
cash; 81 OF bid Juno.
Corn-Weak and lower at "a 70 cash,
May 76c.
Oats-Active and lower, 62kc cash
$3.50 june.
Rye-Unchsnged.
Barley-Nominal at 81 80.
Pork-Dull, weak and lower, al
$2l 60@2l GO cash; $2l Is bid May
aud June.
Lard-Weak and lower at SIS 81
cash; SIS so June.
Whisky-Dull at 81 IA.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

The CHEST Of Noah Webster came to a
spiritual medium in Alabama, not long
since, and wrote on piece Of paper: at
is lite times" Noah was right, but we
are sorry to see he has gone back on his
dictionary.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

In responding to the toast. "The Queen
a jolly Englishman at the Massachusetts,
Centennial Celebration, said: II wish to
express my satisfaction in being with you
here to-day, and my equal satisfaction at
having been absent hundred years ago."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05
THE OSHKOSH FIRE.

The burning Of Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
is even q more destructive condagrs-
ton in comparison to the size of that
city, than was the great fire in Chicago
in October, 1871. The loss 10 now e..
timated at 100000. The population
of Oshkosh is between fifteen and
twenty thousand, and this the third
severe fire which has befell IL. The
city is situated on Winebago Lake,
and high wind off the lake, famed
by the increasing flames, soon gave
such impetus to tho fire, that II was
wholly uncomfortable. Fragments of
burnt articles carried away by the
fierce winds have been picked up
twenty miles distant from she city.
Here il an excellent place to say
what has come into our minds and
that is, that we are fast increasing in
population and becoming OF such size,
that We could furnish first class fire
and the question 10, what are We doing
to supply means to put ont fires? The
best reply We can make in the world is
that If we act like sensible people and
not like simpletons, we win improve
the water power nature has given us
and so furnish our whole city with the
very best possible means to secure her
self against great fires. From thirty
to sixty horse power taken from this
water, silently and continuously, with.
ont any attention from anybody would
pump the water of the Des Moines In.
to reservoir upon our hills for all
time to come, from which the whole
city could be cleansed, wstered and
inundated, il need DO in case OF fire.
This is strong, very strong point
to consider by all our citizsns In max.
ing up their minds upon this all i'm.
portsnt question. With such means
at hand IS this power would 30 cheap.
ly'furnlsb, Ottumws could never be
devastated with great fire.
Here we are to-day literally %
helpless as child against the ravsges
OF great fire, unless indeed the IRE
should start at some very convenient
point to the river, where our firemon
could get supply of water from II
and succeed in overcoming the fire In
its incipient stages.
When We contemplate the situation
we are in-that we arc now rest;ns
quietly In condition that only awaits
the time when the fire fiend shall get
the start of US as in Oshkosh, to DO
thoroughly wiped out, and after such
q calamity to sit down in deepest grief
amidst the ashes Of our homes and
lament too late our short sightedness
and worse than negligence,-we can
not refrain from sounding the note OF
warning.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

THE NEW ATTORNEY GRNERAL.
Judge Edwards Pierrepont, the late.
ly- appointed Attorney General OF the
United States, ranks deservedly high
as jurist and lawyer. He was born
at North Haven, Conn, In 1877, was
graduated at Yale College in 1887, and
studied at the New Haven law school.
In 1905 he practiced law in Colum.
bus, Ohio, and aftorward removed to
New York City, where he has since
resided. He was in 1S57-6O a Judge
OF the New York Supreme Court; q
member of the Constitutional Conven-
ton of 1867, and in 1S69-7O United
States District Attorney for the South.
ern District Of New York. He was
formerly q Democrat, but became q
Republican and ardent friend Of Pres
ideut Lincoln in 1861. He voted for
President Grant, and would long ago
have been appointed to the position he
now holds had be consented to accent
it. He will honor the Office Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

The total loss by the Oshkosh confagra-
ton Is now computed at $2,5o0.0oo and
the total insurance at $950,000. The
vaults Of the three destroyed banks were
opened yesterday, and their contents found
we'll preserved.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

Many man would blush if an oath fell
from his lips in the presence Of a woman,
who has no thought for God whose favor
is much more to be desired, and whose
heart is more sensitive to the depravity OF
His children. Porter.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

The State of New York now has two
representatives In the Presidents Cabinet
Hamilton Fish, the Secretary Of State and
Edwards Pierrepont, recently appointed
Attorney General. Both are good and
able men
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05
New York Market.
New YORK, May 4.

NEW YORK, May 4.
[By Telegraph
Whest-Quiet; No. 2 Chicago 81 is
@$l 81; No 2 Milwaukee 81 23@1 "a
alloat; winter red western 81 37@l 40.
Corn-Dull and dropping; western
mixed GOO Isl 90; yellow Ole.
Rye-Firm.
Oats Firm mixed western lotto.
Pork-Heavy at $22 20.
Lard-Heavy at 1870.
Whi,ky-$l 16.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, May 3.-Mr. Beecher
received yesterday into Plymouth
Church one hundred and five new
members. Henry G. Bowen and wife
were among the communicates.
NEW YORK, May 3.-Wall street
was this morning startled by the re.
port that John T. Tracy, President OF
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railroad Co., and identified as Di.
rector with many other Western roads,
notably the Chicago s. Northwestern,
was dying. Mr.. Tracy was yesterday
Frustrated by stroke of paralysis, at
his hotel in this city, the Gilsey House,
and today is very low. tits the third At
tack he has had and it is the more seri-
GUS becanse complicated with Brjght's
disease of the kidneys. Mr.. Tracy has
for many years been leading spirit
in Wall street, and his illness has had
a decided effect on tho stock market.
In the early dealing the market was
strong, prices advancing 1s@3H per
cent the latter on Panama; but on the
announcement CT the critical condition
of Mr.. Tracy the market became heavy
and prices have since fallen hslf to 2
per cent, the latter on Panama. It IL
not known what Mr.. Tracy's interest
in the market is, but it is not believed
to be large. Everyone, however,
seemed disposed to await exact infor.
nation before extending operations.
New YORK, May 3.-The earnings
of the U. p. r. R., for April were
81 ,o62,952 against $742,S46 last year,
an increase of 1920, LOG.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

David Craig, of Americas KY, aged SO,
sdvertises for wife about his own sge.
He Is, to use his own words, "as spry as o
girl 1G years DID," has "life about him."
and does not want an old lady "who is not
as gay and spry as he is"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

The captured Black Hills miners have
arrived at Sioux City, and been met by a
brass band and dined. This is very nice,
but it cannot be kept up all summer, and
hardly compsnsates the members Of the ex-
petition for their lost time.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

The building of the Tribune and !SLaats
Zeitang in New York city will be more
celebrated for the magnificent beer saloons
they contain, than for architectural beauty
or the fact that large newspapers are pub.
lished In them, Subscription of these drink.
ing establishments are not suppressed. To
the men about town the word "Tribune''
now has scarcely any other import than
beer, and the same may be said of"Staa!s
Zeitung,n
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05
HIGHWAY NOTICE.

ArpITon's OFFICE, WAPELLo COUNTY,
OrTuMwA, Iowa, April II, 1851
To all Whon IL may Concern:
The Commissioner appointed to locate high.
way as follows, viz: Commencing at the w
corner of 8 w u of $ e u of Section No O. run.
ming thence south to the half mile corner on the
south line of Section No Eleven QD. To be -
feet wide All In Township No. 72, Range IL;
has reported in favor of the location thereof and
all objections thereto or claims for damages must
be filed in the Auditors Office on or before neon
of the 10th day Of June A. D., 1875 or such high
way will be locatedwithout reference thereto.
WM. H. CALDWELL,
n14w4t County Auditor.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05
TEEEGRAPHIC.
Eas EgEEGN.


LONDON, April 90--An explosion oc-
Cured yesterday in the Bunker Hill mines,
at North Staffordshire, while the miners
were at work. Twelve bodies have been
taken out, and twenty-three men are still
IA the mines. No hopes Of any being re-
covered alive.
LONDON, May Tho French and
English gun boats ordered to the banks
Of New Foundland, arc to prevent
threatened trouble between tho fisher.
men OF each Nation this summer.
Il. B. Stephens, the sculptor. ia dead.
Forty-one bodies have been taken
from the mine at North ShaHordshire,
killed by the explosion yesterday.
Most of them leave large families.
LONDON, May 3.-The Carlist com.
mittce have received kilograms report
ing great victories by Don Carlos
forces, under command of Laballs, at
Breda, Lerida and Santa Coloma
King Alfonso's forces numbered 4 900
men they lost five chief officers at
Breda, and three hundred and fifty
men at Santa Coloma ; another victory
resulted for the Carlists under Castel.
les. 1t lis reported from Arragon that
the Government troops are said to
have lost all their artillery and many
prisoners, and the Alfonsist General,
De LaTree, was killed.
LONDON, May At is said that
Solicitor General Holker succeeds tho
late Judge Pigott on the bench.
A steamer arrived yesterday from
the Cape of Good Hope with fifty
thousand dollars in gold from the dig
glngs. This is the largest consign.
ment yet. One of tho nuggets weigh.
ed nine pound.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

1t must have been woman who COM
piled the table Of figures to show that the
average man who patronizes the barber
spends for shaving in forty years the sum
of S4.6OO.67.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05
LEGAL.
Administrators sal,

~sSh"toA'o SuAcs
win sell at public auction, commencing at 0
O'Clock, a. m, on the 2eth day of May, 1876, at
the premises In Ottumwa, the w n of Lot Sl9
and the $ y of Lot $40, in ottumwa, Iowa, for
cash to the highest bidder,
Propositions for purchase at private sale will be
received and considered up to the morning of May
18th, 1875. ALEX. G. REED, Admit s'tor,
aps8-wat Estate Of John Reed, deceased.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

Carl Schurz goes to Europe to while
away year or two, with the intention
however of returning to make this
country his home. He is a learned
and able man-especially gifted in the
preparation of o fine spun thcoretic
speech ieveled at all things existent,
but he never in all his public life orig
ated anything to take the place of
what he sought to tear down, He al
ways essays to tear down and scatter
to the winds and then stands survey.
ing whatever of ruin he accomplishes,
as helpless as child unborn, to insti'
tute anything in it's place. He is an
impracticable theorizer-a hypochon.
driac demoralizer-utterly useless ex.
cept to tickle the car with his rhetoric.
1t would be we'll If we could say that
he is harmless for evil as he is pow
erless for good. The vain, foolish,
political history of this man for a few
years past is we'll put by the Washing
ton Chronicle. 1t says:
"The chief point made by cx.Sena.
tor Carl Schurz in his after.dinner
speech in New York q few evenings
since, in justification Of his desertion
of the Republican party, was its fail
ure to effect such reforms in the civil
service as he deemed advisable. On
this account, he concluded that the in
dependent action of each individual
citizen, in the selection of public off,
cials, was desirable. 1t is therefore
strange that he and his associates in
that movement should have at once
met at Cincinnati in the form of q
party convention to nominate candi.
dates for President and Vice President
on distinct enuncistion of principles
and measures, called "The platform of
the Liberal Republican party" And
II was still more strange that this new
party organization should have con-
certed means to secure the nomination
of the same candidates by the Demo
cratic party at Baltimore.
The superstition that any set of prin-
ciples can be carried out in practice in
civil government, in the absence of
party organizations the greatest folly.
Those who believe in any specified
theory of government cannot possibly
elect candidates favorable to their
views without concentration of their
votes on their favorites. Concentra-
ton is impossible without consultation
leading to an agreement, fret on prin-
ciples and measures, and secondly, on
candidates to represent them. An
agreement on principles and measures
is properly styled party platform
an agreement on men as candidates is
called nomination. Those who unite
for such purposes are properly called
9 political party. If called BIZ some
other name, the effect ia the came.
And all such nominally bipartisan
combinations are certain to result
either in the organization of new po-
liticsl party, or In a detection from
one to another of the political parties
previously organized. The efforts OF
Mr.. Schurz and his conferres, which
he defended SO eloque.ny, rSsnAsSo
merely In carrying a handful OF Repub
licans to the support of the aims and
purposes Of the Democratic party.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

Disperse, 70 rebels!' was what
Pitcairn said in l775, and aDisburse
ye rebels" is what the carpet.bag Pit
cairns of the South say in 1875. or
the two, Pitcairn's crowd was the most
respectable.-Bvlingto Gazette.
Our contemporary tumbles into one
hotch-potch all the men, all the sol.
diers, and others, who, after the war
took up their residence in the South,
assuming tho rights of American citi.
zens, and then says they are not Al
respectable as was Major Pitcairn and
his red coats, whom our revolutionary
fathers met at Lexington. This, OF
course, says to tho hot-headed Demo-
cratic allies of the Gazette In the South,
You are doing even 3 better decd to
shoot Northern men who have settled
among you. out of the South, than
were the Revolutionary patriots at
Lexington in driving back the red.
coats. 1t can mean nothing else; II
can have no other effect than to inoite
Democrats South, to deeds of violence.
We suppose this is what the Gazette
means by clasping hands across the
bloody chasm.
The Gazette would make first clsse
organ for the Southern Ku Kluk and
White Lesguers, and ought to start q
branch Office at least in Louisiana.
The Gazette Is model Of modern Re.
formers and once Republicans ought
to aid 1t and its party IN getting into
power, for it would be 60 nice 10 have
the sentiment dominant in the coun-
try, that Southern Democratic rebels
are doing Gods service In driving ont
Northern men from their country like
as the old patriots drove from Lex
ington tho rod coats.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

wINTER WHEAT PROSPECTS.
Tho report for Apri: from tho Agri-
cultural Department at Washington
says: Theaggregste increase of acreage
Gown last fall over tie year before is
seven per cent, or one and
one.hAlf million of acres. The report
says ''the condition Of tho crop, so far
- can be judged by Its appearance in
April, In the more northern localities,
before the ground is bare and FREQ
from frost, 10 below an average, and
far below the status Of last spring.
In the South the prospects generally
ore quite flattering, and the crop secure
against all probable contingencies ex.
cepting rust. In California . large
breadth hss been seeded. Prompt
termination and vigorous growth
have followed the winter rains. The
early sown area is probably secure,
but drying winds and the absence OF
the later rains excite approximations Of
failure In the late paintings. The
States in tho valleys Of the Ohio and
Missouri report an inferior condition
Of the wheat 90 result Of winter kill.
ing. The protection Afforded by snow
has been exceedingly valuable in ill
the ares OF country north Of the thirty.
ninth parallel Of latitude the injuries
sustained resulting mainly from thaw-
ing and subsequent freezing in March.
IN the Middle States this protection
has been more uniform than in the