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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
AWAKENING IN OUR SOUTHERN
CONNIE GiAI RELATIONS.

Evidently. from recent events. we
may take courage in regard 10 the
probability of renewed energy being
given to open up and extend our com
mcrcial relations with ST. Louis. We
would moi advise the entertaining of
Ia" ardent hopes, and so lead the pub
lie mind hcrcaboutS TO suppose that
there is certainty of Immediate act
ION, and that no cilor, is required up
ON our part, but we think there are
strong hopes of improvements being
made of vital interest to us as a peo-
pie, If negotiations shall be favorable.
now pending. and are. as a people.
shall lay our shoulders to the ear of
progress, which, judging from the
past, oar people will not be back
ward i'll doing. We are fully satisfied
that with the people of Iowa. the best
solution OF the ycNcd question of
cheap transportation.iS to see that the
avenues OF commerce connecting us
, with the lower Mississippi. through
~. Louis. are made more numerous
and perfect. Our people rccollect
well that upon the completion of The
~. Louis, Kansas City 4 Northern
X. II. 10 this city, in 1870. frcights
from this place TO Chicago dropped
TO luSi onc-half what they had form
erly been. This result will follow
the completion Of north and south
| roads everywhere. when they give
| good Facilities for reaching st. Louis
1t Is. in fact, the dcsidcratum OF
the great Northwest to utilize that
great channel of cheap transportation
provided for us by nature in the Mis-.
s'SSippi river. 81. Louis. captivatcd
by her large and profitable Southern
and Western trade. has for years laid
too idly by with much of Indifference
in regard TO The trade of This vast and
fertile region To The northwest
of her. We are satisfied that if she
awakens 10 the necessity of improv-
| ing our channels Of trade with her. as
she can, and we hope. will. the people
of this State and others, will meet her
gladly, and fully second her efforts.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
FATAL ACCIDENT.
Shocking Threading Machine
Casualty.

CENTERvILLE, Ia, Sept. %, rs.
A terrible accident occurred on tho
farm Of William Jarvis, near this
place, yesterday. A young man
named George Haxby, while engaged
in oiling threshing machine while it
was In motion, was caught by the
sleeve of his blouse in the bevel wheels,
which drew his arm into the gearing,
MASKING it completely to the shoulder.
One of his ears was torn of, and his
side terribly torn and mangled, the
flesh being stripped from the ribs,
leaving tho entire side Of his chest
bare to the bones. He bore up undo
the injury with remarkable nerve, and
submitted to the amputation OF his
arm at the shoulder, and the dressing
his other wounds without taking any
chloroform, and without groan. 1t
was hoped that his stout. heartednes
would carry him through ell right, but
after lingering in great agony for
twelve hours he died.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29

The Department of Agricul-
ture Reports the Corn
Crop the Best ever
Raised.
Average Yield Of All the
States.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 25.--Thc Re-
port of the Department. of Agricul-
ture says if the corn crop could be
thoroughly ripened, the aggregate
would exceed any previous crop. and
the yield per acre would be one of
the best. Notwithstanding the losses
by floods.
The general high condition still
maintains an average of one per cent.
higher than IN August. The State
averages are Maine los. New Hamp-
shire 100, Vermont 80. Massachusetts,
100, Connecticut los, New York 80,
New Jersey Ill, Pennsylvania los.
Delaware l05, Maryland log, Virgin
10 liz, North Carolina lO5. South Car
olina 81, Georgia 80, Florida 50, Ala
bama Ill, Mississippi l16, Louisiana
So, Texas 80, Arkansas lO3, Tennessee
ia, West Virginia 10Y, Kentucky lob,
Ohio 81, Michigan lOl, Indiana So
Illinois 95. Wisconsin 60. Minnesota
y, Iowa 80. Missouri Ill. Kansas 100.
California IS, Oregon 100.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
This is the way the Council Bluffs Non

This is the way the Council Bluffs Nom
payeil tells It.:
iowa is growing State-scarcs thirty
years old. Among Sther products she will
this year add to the sum total, will be 14O,-
100000 bushels OF corn. Now let ns see
what this means when put in comprehen-
stve form. 1t will require an army Of $780,.
600 Changers twenty days to pluck aud
crib the ears. If shipped, it would require
1866 ships of 1000 tons each to carry the
crop. II transported upon cars, it will re-
quire 100000 cars, and would make q
train $3.50 miles in length. or space nearly
across tho continent. If loaded upon wag-
ons, with carrying capacity Of thirty bush-
els each, the train would form . line p 900
miles long, or 1000 miles more chan the
Circuit OF the globe. Ii emptied down up
on the city Of New York, it would over
whelm that city like a. were Herculsncum
and Pompeii. If made Into whisky, it
would aoat the United States navy, or
make every man, woman and child upon
the face Of the earth drunk. It makes fat
horses. fat beef, fat hogs. fat poultry, and
fat pockstbooks. Itmeaus that it will open
bank vaults and start the wheels of com.
msrcs. Here in young Iowa ars mines
richer than California, or Ophir or Peru
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
CROOKED TESTIMONY ON
CROOKED WHISKY.

In the United States Court, now in
session, at Jefferson City, Mo-, the
Government proved conclusively that
Simon Adler & Co., had been in the
habit of refilling barrels, that is to
say, making stamps do double duty.
After the United States rested it's case
on this showing, Adler put one of his
employees on the stand, to-wit: one
Henry Korf, who swore that he took
the stamps of Of the packages and re-
turned them to the distiller, Sheehan,
to be again applied to new barrels OF
High Wine, and that ne done it for
the pure love of the thing, and that
Adler, his employer, didn't know any
thing about it. As soon % he had
concluded this highly probable piece
of evidence, he was arrested by the
bench warrant of Judge Krekel, as
appears from the following statement,
in the State journal of Jefferson City,
uader date of the Oath inst:
"While the witness, Henry Korf.
was making his disclosure of the
agreement with Sheehan to steal the
stamps from packages of spirits he
emptied, and to return them for a
price, and of the further fact that he
did steal them and return them, the
Judge directed the clerk to issue .
warrant for his arrest, for conspirinR
with Sheehan to defrand the Govern
ment, which was issued and when
the witness stepped down from the
stand, nc was quietly informed OF his
arrest and taken into custody. The
move created quite a sensation: and
since the attorneys of Adler e Co..
had assured the witness that his self.
convicting admissions could not be
used against him. his arrest immedi-
ately upon the heels of the admissions
did not reflect very considerably to
their credit"
1t is probable that the last state OF
that witness will be worse than the
first.
The United States Judge, Krekel,
who is trying these cases, and who, by
the way, is relative of the Rev. John
Krekel, of this city, 10 not disposed to
be party to any great amount OF
foolishness, in these liquor cases. The
other day, two ex-United States At
torneys, to-wit: Judge Krum and
General John w. Noble, who had
been brought up to Jefferson City, to
defend Adler, spent . day ana an inn
mense volume of fervid eloquence. to
procure continuance of tho case to
the next term, to enable the accused to
doctor up, or get away with, the evi.
dence. After they had blowed them
selves out, to their entire satisfaction,
and to the amusement OF . large
crowd in attendance, for . live-long
day, and when Judge Krum finally
took his seat, late In the evening,
Judge Krekel quietly looked over his
spectacles, and said: "Shudge Kroom,
"youst You be ready to 60 on init this
case tomorrow morning, ct nine
O'Clock, precisely" and the case
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29

COLORADO, il would seem has rome
Republican. This fixes the position
of the new State. The Kansas City
Journal Of Commerce says, ''the Adj
ministration party has made a clean
sweep in the Territory, clectinga ma
jority in the Legislature, leaving their
opponents only Il few county Off
GERS. Now there is to be Constitu-
tional Convention on the 10Th Of De-
cember, 1879, and the election of del
egates thereto viii be on the 18th OF
October preceding. il looks well at
this time to see Maine and Colorado
standing by Rcpublicanism firmly.
Colorado will have the honor of en-
tering the Union on the Centennial
year. Its area is 1910 miles. near
Nv. as large as Iowa and Illinois COM
bined, and the population is now
estimated at 100000, of which Denver
city claims about one-ienth.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Sept. N.-The Signal
office reports as follows: In reference
to the recent cyclone, at Indianola, the
lowest barometer occurred on the az
ternoon of September l6, when it stood
$3.50 inches with maximum velocity,
and the wind at the same time blowing
ct the rate of 86 miles per hour,
Thousands Of drowned cattle are
strewn over the prairies south OF In
dianols, and several light coasting
steamers are lying from six TO ton
miles inland.
Secretary Delano will return to
Warrington tomorrow for the pur-
pose Of closing his official and private
business.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
A Kentucky Bridal Tour.

From the Courier-Journal.
There came one day to q little inland
town In Kentucky . young rural
couple who had just been bound by
the "silken bonds" Their destination
was the depot, aud the bridegroom
was evidently quite impatient for fear
the train should arrive before he
could reach the Office.
Buying ono ticket, they stood on
the platform until the train had stop
ped. When they entered the car the
bridegroom found his bride q seat,
kissed her goodbye" and going out.
seated himself on . box and COM
menced whiting most vigorously
He watched the train out If sight, re-
greet depicted on his face, when by
stander, thinking the whole proceed
ing rather strange, resolved to inter.
view him. Approaching him care.
lessly, and chewing q straw to keep
up courage, he said:
"Been getting married lately 2"
eyes" with sigh.
IA likely lookin' GAL" said our
questioner. Anybody sick, that she
had to go away7"
mo" but here he grew confidential.
"You see me and Salhe had heard
that everybody when they got married
took bridal tour. So I told Sallie
hadn't money enough for both of us
to 60, but she shouldn't be knocked
ont of hern. So just brought her
down here, bought her ticket and sent
her on visit to some of her folks, and
thought I might get some work har-
vesting till she came back"
That afternoon found him basily at
work, and when day or two after
Sallie came back, he welcomed her
cordially and affectionately, and hand
In hand they started down the dusty
road to their home duties.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29

FIFTY years ago. yesterday. viz: on
the 9th day of September, 1926, Geo.
Stephenson made his first successful
effort in running train of cars into
Darlington. England. What grand
and mighty revolution has occurred
IN this direction in so short period.
so short that it is wildly in the men,
DRY OF many men of to-day.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
Fatal Asailroad Collision,

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 27.-About 8
O'Clock tonight an excursion train re.
turning from New York on tho Penn.
sylvania Road, ran into . dummy car
on the Fifth and Six b Street Railroad
at Harrowgate Lane and Kcnsington
avenue. The dummy, which was fill.
ed with men, women and children,
was cut in two by the train and de-
molishcd. Mrs. O'Donnell, of Frank.
ford, aud Thomaa Adams, connected
with the railway, were Instantly kill
ed. Six persons, including one child
were dangerously, and about ten
slightly injured. The train was stop.
ped. the engine being knock cd of the
track. It s expected that three or four
of the injured will die,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
InAaan Cev,ncil.

NEW YORK, Sept, N.-Special dis
patches from the Red Cloud Agency,
Of the oath, via Fit. Laramie, of the
26th, report that the Council, on Thurs-
day, closed without any results and
with every indication of failure. The
feeling among the wild Indisns Of the
North are openly hostile and an attack
on the Commissioners by the young
men of the Cheyenne, Arrapshoe and
Ogallalas was only prevented by the
GOODNESS and promptness of "Young
Man Afraid Or His Horse" and "Sit-
ting Bull whose warriors drew away
the various Indians and afterwards
formed In battle array about the Com
missioners and their cavalry guard to
prevent conflict.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
The BslleGontaine, Onto, Rape and
Murder.

CINCINNATI, Sept 24-The Gazette's
Bellefountain special says Mrs. Schell,
wife of the man arrested Tuesday, for
the murder of Miss Laughlin, near
Belle Center, on Thursday, was ar
rested and testified before . Coroner
that her husband had tod her that he
intended to ravish Miss Laughlin and
kill her afterward +; that this ride on
Thursday was planned for that pur-
pose, and that her husband threatened
to kill her If she followed him into the
bushes with Miss Laughlin. She says
that he returned in about two hours,
stating that Miss Lsughlin fought 80
hard that he did not succeed in ravish-
ing her, although after he had stabbed
her, she said, Don't kill me, Jim,
won't resist any more;" but y he
feared she would tell and so he killed
her, threatening also, to kill his wife
II che told Of 1t.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

AT the coming election in this State
on the 18th of Oct. the voters are 10
determine by ballot the adoption or
rejection of two pending amendments
10 our State Constitution.
One is TO strike ont the word
'iwhite' from the third line of section
four of article three. The effect of
this viii be to make colored men eli
eible to membership in the General
Assembly.
The other proposed amendment is
to strike out the word s'male" in see
lions two and three. so as to permit
women to vote and hold Office,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
The Army Meeting

The Society of the Army Of the
Tennessee is the pioneer society of the
kind except the Society of the Cincin-
natus after which it was modelled, sa-
wing 80 to incorporating into its char
ter the rule of primogeniture, without
which the Society last named would
have long since ceased to exist.
1t was organized at Raleigh, North
Carolina, Blair being then the moving
spirit. Rawlins was President until
his death, and Sherman has been since.
1t 10 purely social and fraternal, and
utterly non-partisan, % might be in
ferred from the character of its Presi.
dent.
1t takes care Of the history of its
living and dead, aids its needy mcm-
bers, fosters and encourages those
principles of patriotism and fraterni-
ty engendered in the field and camp,
and has . good time generally at its
annual meetings.
Ii Odd Fellows, Masons, Good
Templars, Drnids, knights of Pythiae,
Insurance Agents, Female Shriekers,
Brewers, Distillers, and eli the rest Of
mankind find it pleasant to meet to-
gether annually, why may not the men
who fought shoulder to shoulder du.
ring fonr years of bloody war do the
same, and il not, why not?
The Armies of the Cumberland, and
Potomac, and the Cavalry Corps have
now societies in imitation of the Army
OF the Tennessee, and the OK Conled-
crates are following snit
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29

THE quarrel over the bones of
Joseph Guibord began six wears ago.
and has been matter of con-
iroyersy ever since. The courts have
recently decided that this man Gui-
bord can be buried in his own lot. and
the Government, probably. will see
that the thing is done. We have no
knowledge ola case in this country,
or in Canada, where ecclesiastical law
has superseded the civil law. and un-
happy viii be the day when such Il
position is admitted. Woshingtou
Chronicle
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29

BURLINGTON has raised the necessa-
ny amount to commence onerotionS
ON her Northwestern Narrow Gauge
Railroad, and has advertised TO LET
me work to Winfield, in Henry coun-
~. Now for the wind work.and gem
erai scramble through the country
IN inc counties OF Kcokuk, Powe-
shcik, Marshall, Ne. We trust that
our neighboring city may prosper and
flourish in this enterprise, but we
know from experience that Jordan is
hard road to travel in such under
takings.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
New York Market,
NEW York, Sept. %

NEW York, Sept. %
[ By Telegraph
Whest-Sound wheat is In fair re-.
quest; unsound is dull and declining,
No. 3 Chicago 81 09@1 IA; old No. 2
Chicago 81 q; No. 2 Milwaukee 81 Is
OPT !; No. ! Spring is quoted 1t 81 "a
@l 30 new and old western mixed 10
quoted at 81 l5@1 40.
Corn-Firmer steam western mixed
ia quoted at 6S@69kc; sail do. 700
10; high mixed and yellow IL quoted
at 7l@72c.
Rye and barley quiet and steady.
Oats-Firm and quoted at 37@54 for
new mixed western and white.
Pork-Firm $21 Is
Lard-Steady at $l3 87k@l4.
Whiskey-$l 81.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29

The new Legislature of Maine will
have a Republican majority of twen.
ty-eight on joint ballot, a Republic
an Governor is elected by nearly 5000
majority, and Republican Congress
man ito fill vacancy, by 9I7 majority.
Will our Democratic friends who
have elevated their roosters over a
supposed Democratic victory in
Maine. please tell their readers the
truth, and correct the false statements
they have made heretofore. in regard
10 this matter:
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29

CHICAGO. Sept. 25.-The Fourth
National Bank, which for nearly a
year past has been taking measures
toward liquidation, effected that stop
to-day. The immediate cause was
call in the clearing house for some
$25, 600 to which the bank was prepar-
ed at tho moment to respond. The
officers have reduced the deposits and
other liabilities to $50, 900, while the
bills receivable are over $350,OOO. Mr..
Godell, the President, says that the
depositors will lose nothing and that
the stockholders alone will be obliged
to wait until settlement ia effected.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
A Rebellion End ed.

SAN Francisco, Sept. Pa dis
patch from San Diego says the revolu-
ton in Sonora was ended on the 23d
Of August by an engagement near
Altar between the government troops
and the reyolutionists In which the
latter were defeated, losing about fifty
killed and wounded, and prisoners.
About five hundred were engaged on
both sides. Martial law has been pro.
claimed until affairs are quieted.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29

WE regret to learn that Sam Clark.
of the Gate CITY. is so i'll as to be of
duty. Mr.. Clark is live newspaper
man. and when he writes. leaves the
stamp and ring of an earnest. able
man upon his editorials. We trust he
will soon be restored to health and
his loved field of labor, the Gate.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
PREHISTORIC AMERICA.
A California City One Hundred and
Eighty Thousand Years Old
(Ernm the Sciantidc A naxican Inl,r o.


Eighty Thousand Years Old.
(From the Scientific American, July 3l.)
In the current number of the Over-
land Monthly a California geologist
reviews the geological evidence of the
antiquity Ola human settlement near
the present town of Cherokee In that
State, and estimates the age of that
most ancient OF discovered towns to
be not less than 10000 years.
The traces in question are numerous
stone mortars, found In undisturbed
white and yellow gravel OF Q subaque-
GUS formation, not fluviatile, underly.
ing the vast sheets of volcanic rock Of
which Table Mountain 10 . part. In
ing upright, with the pestle in It. ap-
parently just a. it had been left by its
owner. In some cases the mortars
have been found at the depth of forty
feet from the surface Of the gravel I'M.
DERIVING Table Mountain. The dis
tribution Of the mortars is such o. to
indicate with great positiveness the
former existence of human settle
ment on that ancient beach when the
water stood near the level ct which
they occur . time anterior to the vol
canic outpouring which Table Noun
tain records, and anterior to the glacial
epoch.
The recent geological history Of that
region may be briefly summed 40 fol.
lows: Previous to the placing of the
position in which they have been found
the early and middle tertiary sea level
had reduced to the position Of tho
coal beds underlying Table Mountain,
fully one thousand feet below Tho Iovel
of Cherokee. Subsequently,, n the
pliocene period, there MAS . farther
snbsidence of about fifteen hundred
feet, something like six hundred feet
occurring after the mortars had been
abandoned. All this, % has been
noticed, took place before the volcanic
outfiows which covered up all the an.
cient deE,itns OF the region, including
that of tho ancient rivers (whose gray
els have furnished 90 much Of the gold
of California; The geological age OF
the river period was determined BY
Lesquereux from specimens of vege-
tAtion, now extinct, collected In the
survey of the ancient rivers specimens
indicating flora Of the pliocene age,
retaining some characteristic mioceno
forms.
After the volcanic period the land
rose again, the time of emergencies
embracing the glacial period and the
new eroding period in the sierra, dur.
ing which tho states, and the hard
metamorphic greenst0nes, and the
GRANTEES were slashed with canons
three thousand feet deep by the action
of leo and running water. Taking the
rates OF continental movement deter
mined by Lyell, our geologist calcu-
lates that the time required for the
changes thus outlined could not have
been less than eighteen hundred CEN
turtles. For . period 90 long proceed.
ing tho glacial epoch ~ the time whom
ancient Cherokee was buried by the
waters of the advancing sea, his es-
innate IL certainly not extravsgant,
though It does transcend 90 enormous.
~ the time men have been accustomed
to allow for mans residence on
earth
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
freight Rates 10 be Increased.

CHICAGO, Sept. 2i.-At meeting of
the general freight agents of the east
ern lines in this city, to-day, 1t was re-
solved to adhere positively to rates on
. basis of 30 cents on fourth class, Fer
hundred from Chicago to New York,
and equivalent rates to other points.
1t is also under consideration to In
crease the rates to take effect on the
first of October, which will also be q
,1olHsAsO "a Anco from 81. A0uls Ano
other southeastern points. taking ef-
feet on Sunday.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
ut. Louis Market.
Sr. Louls. Sept %.

st. LOUIS. Sept ".
By telegraph
Wheat-Higher; No. 2 Fail 81 63
@4I cash 81 Ga Sept; 81 26k@7k
No. 3 do for cash.
Corn-Lower; SIC cash; 1870 Oct. /;
400 70 Nov.
Oats = Lower to sell SIC bid cash
and Sept.
Rye-Higher al 72c OCT.
Whisky Steady 81 l6H.
Pork-Firm at &22 7h@23