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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14

A special dispatch from st. Louis,
says: "Father John Daily, Catholic
priest of Montgomery City, Missouri.
eighty-thrce miles west of st. Louis,
on tho st. Louis, Kansas City &
Northern Railroad, is charged with
the seduction of Miss Lizzie O'Don-
nell, q young girl aged 19 years,
daughter of his housekeeper. About
three weeks ago the priest himseli
produced an abortion upon her. The
seduced girl is now in st. Louis. The
Catholic congregation At Montgomery
City 10 badly demoralized on account
of tho exposure, and great excitement
prevails among his parishioners. The
church authorities are now endeayor-
ing to. smother the report"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14
An Iowa Petriractiom.
New York Sun. J

The new combination needed mod
ern ideas and living issue; and it
groped in primeval night and sought
tho leading candidate on a religious
dispute. With young men tuli of life
and enterprise, it went back of the
last glacial period and brought ont a
petrifaction. It's nominee for Govern
or is Mr.. Shepherd LETTER. In 1916
and lS49 he was a member of Con-
gress, simply because he was fair
speaker with perfectly negative char
acter. When the State needed efficient
representation, he did nothing. An
amiable man, and, 40 far as we know,
of faultless character, he retired to
private life, and has lived since in an
obscurity which no man has disturb
ed. In his most active days, he was
too indolent to brush flies from his
face. He made no mark upon his city
or neighborhood. He has no quality
Of revivification. What dreams OF
Rip Van Wrinkle lowered over the
convention we cannot divine. With a
preponderating party, the nomination
would have taxed its strength. With
q minority, it will swell the majority
against it.
What was needed was a perfectly
new departure, with young men in the
lead. Instead, the convention lighted
q feeble torch and unswathed mum
my from the pyramid of Cheops. Such
party and such engineers should GO
not to defeat, but to q burial ground
Of dOnkeys.
The above is from tho caustic pen OF
Gen. Fitz Henry Warren, who some
weeks ago and previous to the sitting
of the late anonymous convention,
wrote letter to Ed. Campbell, in
which his constantly overfiowing gall
oozed out its exuberanco on the Repub.
lican party, while at the Same time
building an air castle in theory for
Democracy to follow. Democratic
journals were cnraptured with the let
ter and throughout the State publish
ed it with great eclat
This restless dyspeptic, as treacher-
GUS and unreliable as many cratered
volcano, now vomits forth his wrath
upon the doings of the aforesaid an.
onymous convention. Will our Dem.
ocratic cotcmporarics please parade
this last efIusion of Fitz in their col.
umns. Fitz Henry Warren has lived
long enough In tho world to demon.
strate the fact that his Creator cndow.
ed him with wonderful powers oil
ply sical endurance, for were it not so,
ho would have long since passed to
that other bourne, from the effects oil
his incomparably unequablo temper
In all the wide range of our experience
VIC never saw such q bundle of angular
nervousness and colicky peevishnesf
wrapt in human form, as in this sell
boating descendant OF the Warren o1
bunker Hill. The Great God, If We
may 90 allowed the expression, must
have made him from the beginning te
DO impaled on the spit Of his gallo
mercurial temper, there to toast bcfor,
its constantly enduring fires till dealt
should come to his relief. He has al
ways been upon the invalid list, ant
In Heavens name it is no wonder, ant
yet his naturally iron constitution en-
dures it-he still lives.
| With . vaulting ambition and pro
digous vanity, he has wandered ul
aud down the country rudderless q
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14

Mark Twain. in letter to the in
vcntor of a mosquito net, talks in this
way about the only thing worth talk
ing about, now that the third term is
gone: srTherc is nothing that q lust
and right-fecling man rejoices in more
than to sec mosquito imposed on and
put down and brow beaten and ag-
gravatcd, and this ingenious contri-
vance will do it. And it is q rare
thing to worry q fly with, too. A fly
will stand off and curse this invention
till language utterly fails him. Ihave
seen them do it hundreds Of times. l
like to dine in the air on the back
porch in summer, and so / would not
be without this portable net for any
thing. When you get 1t hoisted the
flies have to wait for tho second table.
We shall see the Summer day come
when we shall sit under our nets in
church and slumber peacefully, while
the discomfitted flies club together
and take 1t out of the minister. There
are heaps Of ways Of getting precious
enjoyment out of these charming
things, If I had time to point them out
aud dilate on them little."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14

FROM the Investigations made and
reported recently, in regard TO the
Black Hills country, 1t 10 pretty cer-
tain that IL abounds in rich minerals.
Il must be borne in mind, however,
that this country cannot now be enter
ed by the pioneer, except at the ex-
pense Of law and the good faith OF the
nation. All attempts to 60 there
will be met by the whole power of the
Government to prevent entering that
country. Doubtless the Government
viii endeavor to obtain possession Of
the country and lay II open for settle
ment, bnt until this is effected, the
treaty with the Indians should be
faithfully observed.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14

As rule there isn't better class of
people in the world to deal with than
tho Germans, but occasionally you will
find one whose ideas concerning Ger.
tain business transactions are anus
ingly peculiar. For instance: A Ger
man subscriber to the Journal recent
ly called to advertise lost cow, and
according to the long established Gus
tom Of this we'll regulated print shop,
we Immediately wrote up the notice
and figured up the cost Of publication.
"Vat ish dat?' asked our friend
placing the butt end of his whip on
our little sum of multiplication.
We informed him that it would cost
him SO much for advertising his lost
COW three weeks.
"You make me pay for dat?n
Certainly; we always take pay for
advertising"
.sYou takes pay, eh? Vel, dat ish
Won tam shvindle. l shcribe nit dat
Skouyndl papers desc tree years, ind
now you sharge yoost for dot little
advertise Nv mine gow.'
"But we
"You shsop my Shouaal bapers.
hut YOU
"You shtop mine .Shou,nal bapcrs,
und got some more in Daytraw, py
shiminy, und you gone little end dat
horn oud.'
But see here, my friena-"
II 60 right away und dond got shcat.
cd init you, py krashus. Tink you
got somo sleep init weasel, dond you !
Sharge me yoost for advertise Won
gov! Itvas better nv you dond got
mo med ven come here, und scribe
init dat Shou,nat more "a tree year,
but you make me med und you stop
mine bspers before got it next dime.
Dat ish vat man l am kind NY, py
shiminy!"
| We tried to explain; we tried in
vain; We lost him and three weeks
advertisement of 'iost Cow, py
shiminy y Lo,uei Journal.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14
TEXAS.

GALVESTON, July S.--Tho Ne,rs
Brownsville special says force OF fif-
ty cavalry and twenty custom house
guards, under command of Col. Par
rot, escorted Cortina and other prison-
crs to Bagdad They shot and hung
Murico Portigul who had threatened
to shoot the officers of the cavalry
near Matamoras. The gun boat,
Juarez, with the prisoners sailed yes
terday with arms and ammunition.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14
ESTABLISHED 1S48.

The final success of the adherents
of Homeopathy in Michigan, in obtain
ing recognition by the Regents of the
State University, has only been OBJ
tanned after twelve years struggle.
Let the little pill keep rolling on in
Iowa.--State Register.
This vexed and bitter question,
raging between the different schools
of medicine ought never to have been
permitted to enter the Iowa Univcr
sity. We believe it never would have
succeeded had it not been done cla-
dcstincly and by sharp practice. There
ought not to be any medical depart
ment of the State University, for tho
identical same reason that there ought
not to be--as there is not-any thco-
logical department for clergymen.
The medical department was fret
instituted by means of a trick, which
injected into an act touching this in
stitution some dozen covert words.
that were held to give power to tho
Board of Trustees to institute such
department. Not one man in twenty
in the Legislature, at the time dreamed
that such authority was being confer
rod, and the parties engineering the
trick knew full well that if it were
discussed ii would be crushed in a
moment. We have to-day three or
four different State medical societies
holding annual State conventions in
Iowa. Thousands of people in the
State employ practitioners in all these
various schools. True, the majority
of the State are advocates of one
school, but so majority of the relig-
ious people of the State follow ono or
the other of, say two or three leading
religious denominations. Shallwe say,
therefore, that the money of the whole
people, that of the minority as well as
that of the majority, shall be appro-
priated by the State to sustain med
ical or theological school of the MAJOR
ity?
Wehaye from time to time expressed
our views upon this question Of
medical department in the State Uni
versity, and we must confess that we
have never been able to see any just
grounds for its establishment. The
Michigan University has labored for
years under terrible embarrassment,
resulting from the establishment of a
medical department. The HomGpath-
lists have fought year after year for
what they claim to be their rights, and
finally these two schools are mixed up
in that old and noted institution of
learning. There is no moro affinity
between tho members of the two
schools than there is between oil and
water; no more friendly association
than there is between the Catholic and
Methodist churches. Tho Michigan
University will now be more constant
ly and prodigously involved in hot
water than ever before. In Iowa We
have entered upon the strife, and the
plain, simple truth is, that the peoples
money has no business TO bo expended
in bitter war between sccts in med
icine no more than in contest be-
tween sects in religion. If the battle
between medical schools shall awaken
the public to true sense of the situa-
ton, and rid tho institution of the
whole matter, VIC shall deem it wise
act.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14
ALL SORTS.


Speaking Of railroads . wag remarked
that they are now built Of three gauges,
viz: Broad gauge, narrow gauge and
mortgage.
Boarding school miss: Q, Charlie l ex-
pect 10 graduate at next commencement
"Gnduate7 what will you graduate in?''
"Why, Ia white tulle!"
"F'dlsus in uno, falsus in omni6us"-
as tho Brooklyn man said when he chucked
a pewter Eve cent piece into the fare.box
ola Broadway stage. Worcester Press.
"Where are you going, ny love ?" in
quircd Rhode Island wife Of her husband
last evening. an be back in Eve mnl-
utes." he replied. "The license law passsd
to-day, and, I'm only going over to Connect.
cut for a few moments"
The Mobile Tribune commences An edi.
torial by saying: s.There are 10000, ,OO(
people within these United States. De.
Quoting the girls from the aggregate. what
will be the residuum We giveit up.
Wouldn't have single girl deducted for
all the residuums In the world.
That was rather a,touching allusion to Z
deceased spouse, made recently by farmer
who came to the village store to purchase
things. "Can't show you anything elst
to-day ?" politely asked the clerk. "No,
reckon not" replied the sad looking custo.
mer, 81 lost two horses and my wife last
fall, and feel putty poor. Good span o
horses too.
At camp meeting last summer, q ven.
erable sister began the hymn
my soul Be on thy guard
Ten thousand foes arise"
She began in shrill quavers, but it wa,
pitched too high. "Tsn thousand Ter
thousand" she scresched, and stopped
.Start her at 6,000v' cried convertet
stock broker present.
A cool matron Of Philadelphia swoke on,
night recently and found . burglar ia hel
room. Did she scream out? No She JUS
got him into On argument on the Beeche
scandal, and thus detained him until day
ligbx and the milkman came, when Oh
mad6 her situataon known and the burgls
was arrested.
The Milwaukee News says that in tha
| city II is an insuperable objection to femal,
lawyers that hey cannot put their fee
upon the table aud sit 90, while they ar
! lounging in the courthouse, looking OF
while other lawyers are trying cases. N
lawyer is regarded as at all up to bis bus
who makes habit Of sitting with his fee
on the floor.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14

In digging into the remains of one
one ofthe prehistoric cities in Egypt,
the exploring party discovered q
school house, on tho outside walls OF
MnieA were plAinly TO be seen the in
loAsg ot the names of scholars, scratch
~ sooely o. stone, the same as school
Doye fender themselves immortal in
snece Gays. "a = block of old red
eano etone they found the letters rs.
J. r." in hisrogyphic Ervntisn which
being Interpreted by the boss eyniorar
10 rendered 8. J. Kirkwood. Oid Sam
10 . ripe scholar, becAuso he com nan. a..
ced early.
The same party discovered from ,
parchment that Shop LETTER had fool.
Cd away some time ct the same schoo
house . hundred years previous te
Kirkwood being there, but a. II wal
common then, - now, for Democrat
70 b unable to write, his name 10 no,
Inscribed on the sand stone, and b.
was utterly forgotten until resurrec /.
ID by tho What-is-It Convention .,
Dss 1oines on the oath Of juno. 1875
In October he win be buried again AZ
deep that even Gabriel with his trum
PCT can't raise him.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14
MISSOURI.

ST.. LOUIS, July 9.-Gen. Frank p.
Blair, jr., died at half-past IL o'clock
last night, although the General had
been sick long time without any
hope of recovery. His death was sud-
den, and at the time, unexpected. Some
weeks ago he received q TRANSMISSION of
blood, but though at first it seemed
successful he soon after began to droop
again,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14
SHARP BUT DAsrARDLy PRAC-
TkGE.

1t was a mystery what the object of
the defense in the Beecher case was in
tho Introduction Of tho Locder and
Price allidavits with an application for
a re-opening of the case just before il
went to the jury. The object is now
plain. 1t was q dastardly attempt to
make an impression for the defense on
the jury to bolster up hopeless CASE
1t probably had the effect desired, and
indeed it may have been the stumbling
block which precluded final agroc-
ment. These afiidayits wero not, Of
course, testimony, but containing as
they did sworn statements to the effect
that two persons had actually seen
Beecher aud Mrs. Tilton in the very
act as it were of adultery, and this
knowledge coming to the ears
the jury who shall say that it
did not prevent an agreement of that
jury. This testimony is now proven
by the open confession of perjury on
the part of Price, and by other abund-
ant testimony, to have been manufac-
tured entirely, and not one word of
truth in it. The guilty men are now
in Jail for perjury bound over for
their appearance to higher court
Tilton, Moulton, and their whole batch
ofattorneys are abandoning the guilty
men, and endeavoring in every posi-
BILE way to show that they had nothing
to do in getting this testimony. The
mischief has been done however, SO
far as the jury is concerned, and the
trick accomplished its intended object.
1t however greatly helps the cause Of
Beecher, and shows tho disposition
and debasement of the defendants
Those papers who greedily devoured
tho full particulars of these afiidavits
of Looder and Price 30 as not to DO
content with rubiiahinp a hriof tols4
graphic report will now sec where
their debased bias led them. To an
unprejudiced mind it was from the
first quite clear that the testimony was
false, and without doubt was purchas-
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14

A wealthy man died some months
ago. Some of his heirs were slighted,
aud tried to break the will on the
ground of unsound mind on the part
OF the testator. The effort failed. Il
was shown in the evidence that the
man made most of his money by judi
cious advertising. The Court re-.
marked: "We need look no further
for proof of this mans sound judg-
ment." And tho Court was right.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14
TELEGRAPHIC.
THE CROPS.
Tho Damage tho Rain is doing low =

CHICAGO, July 6-The following
crop reports are sont from Iowa:
Ames-Corn will not bc over half
q crop in this county il it rains mnch
more. The small grains will be in
jured.
Marshalltown-Corn in low lands ia
badly damaged; about quarter Of a
crop is expected. On the highlands IL
10 in good condition wheat and oats
arc not injured yet.
Tama-Rains have done great dam
ago, but unless they continue crops
will come out all right.
Stanwood, Norway and Clarence re-
port crops injured by rains.
Dsvenport-Report from Wyom-
ing, Fayette, Muscatine, Fairfield,
Wilton, Brooklyn, Newton, and about
Davenport, are very favorable for
crops the past three days. The storm
seems to have no other effect than to
stop farmers from work.
State Center-The rain has made
the ground so wet that farmers cannot
work much; some corn 10 suffering
very much; wheat, oats and barley are
doing fine.
London-Rain has not injured crops
in this vicinity.
Naquoketa There is q good pros
pect for everything, but corn 10 back
ward. No danger of rust in wheat.
Mechanicsville- The rains have hurt
crops Of all kinds but little. Fifteen
miles south of here there il consider.
able damage, but farmers here say
crops will come out all right il no
more rains come.
Luzrene-It has been very wet the
past three or four weeks. Crops look
badly, and wheat is beginning to rust,
and II it continues, farmers say that
wheat and barley will not be worth
cutting.
Des Moines- Heavy rains have
injured the crops here considerably
particularly wheat and oats. Much OF
the small grain 10 beaten down and 1t
1t 10 feared will not rise again.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14
Oranges in California.

The San Francisco Chronicle says
that California consumes 10000, ,OOO
oranges per annum, or about eighteen
apiece to each man, woman and child
In the State. There are, of course,
some who far exceed that figure, and
many who never taste an orange from
the lat Of January to the 3lst of De.
cember; but eighteen is the average.
OF the l0,0O0, 600 of oranges consumed
over SO pcr cent. now come from Los
Angeles apd the other southern coun.
tias of tho State, and tho supply from
that source d constantly increasing,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14

Mr.. Toombs declines to take part in the
18th Of July celebration at Atlanta, and
says lie Is ASHAMED even to sing peans to
tho lion-hearted heroes Of that grand epoch
in the worlds history until we shall have
rcgained these eternal principles OF self
government which they won, and which
we have both lost and betrayed. Icannot
shake hands with those who dug in and
filled it with the corpses Of the brave and
the true, over the bloody chasm which en-
guiphs also the principles of '7G. l want
no fraternity with States or people without
liberty and equality
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14
II II r. M g:
SI,5O PER YEAR IN ADVANCE,
40 90 ~ tho end OF SIX Months.

A. R. Wright, the Democratic Liberal
Republican Anti.Monopoly Liberal Whis-
ky partys nominee for Superintendent oI
Public Instruction, declines to run on the
Whisky ticket, believing that the educa.
tional intererts Of the state can best be
served by the reelection of Superintsn-
dent Abernethy.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14

In some ginseng root received at =
store in Nashville, Tenn, the other day,
piece was found that had a bullet
embodied entirely in it. II hsd either
been shot into II while growing or the
plant had grown near the bullet and
enveloped it as II grew, completely
covering and hiding II. The ball was
mot discovered till the root was broken
In tWN
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14

In recent number of the Daven-
port Democrat we find the follow
ing:
"The Burlington Hankege is guilty
of one of the most despicAbIe of mean
nesses yet attempted, even by an Iowa
Republican paper. 1t garbled in q
most shameful manner a speech deliv-
cred by Mr.. Letter in that city few
days ago, and this report is being
copied into other papers having about
the same amount of deccncy and hon
or as the Hasrkeye. OF course no
such speech was ever delivered by Mr..
Lcffler; he is gentleman who uses
as good language as any Of his Wilt
tiers."
1t affords us great pleasure to state
that every line Of the above extract is
wholly and utterly false. The Hank.
eyes report of LETTERS speech was
taken by photographer, and if the
Democrat wishes it, We can cite reput-
able men, Democrats as well as Re-
pnblicans in this city who heard the
speech, were heartily ashamed of it,
and can vouch for the accuracy of the
Ha'cteye's report. The speech did
not need to be garbled. 1t could not
burlesqued. And on our professional
honor we assure tho papers which
have copied our report, that it was ac-
curate; as faithful duplicate of the
speech as can be obtained by a re-
porter. Itwas clothed in rude, un-
couth language, a tissue of disjointed
awkward sentences !; almost devoid of
ideas, and the intelligent Democrats
who heard II were ashamed Of it and
their candidate. Even when re.writ-
ten by Mr.. Leifler tho following day,
although the language was somewhat
improved, the tone and sentiment and
feeble chickering's ofidcas OF the speech
werc rendered flstter than ever. We
have not referred to this speech since
publishing II, and should not have
done SO now but for tho ill-advised
championship Of tho Democratic paper
which stigmatized Mr.. Lefller as "a
miserable pettifogger.' The Demo
crat will find it much easier work to
coniine itself to calling its candidate
names, which The HaWkeye has never
done, than to defend his Burlington
speech.-Burliagton Hacheye.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14

The Republicans of Wisconsin and
4innesota are In the field with full
State tickets, and good sound plat.
forms. The ticket In Wisconsin is fol
Governor Harrison Ludington, Of
Milwaukee Lieutenant Governor, H
I. Eaton Secretary of State, B. War.
ner; Treasurer. Henry Baetz; Attor.
ney- General, John X. Bennett; Super.
intsndent OF Public Instruction, Rob.
ert Graham.
In Minnesota the ticket 10 for Gov.
ernor, d. L., Buell.; Lieutenant. Gov.
ernor, E. W. Durant; Secretary OF
State, AdoIphus Bieman /; Auditor OF
State, N. Doran; Treasurer, Albert
6cheffer; Chief Justice Supreme
Court, L. Emmett; Attorney General
r. Jones Railroad Commissioners, J.
W. Sencerbox. The party in eaoh OF
these States starts out on Q good basis
with the best assurances of success.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14
IGouarER 3Jos 0spAsTMENr,
Complete with new
TYPES AND PRESSES.

vote and passed unanimously. There
were about four-iifths of the pew
holders of the Church present Mt the
meeting, which was very enthusias-
tic one. 1t is generally understood
among the congregation that this
enormous salary il only for this year,
and mainly intended to help deiray
the expense OF the trial.