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The daily gazette., 1876-04-06

MEDICAL ANEcDoTE. - Some time
since, a 500 disant quack doctor sOiu
water of the poel OF Bethesda, which
was to cure all complaints, if taken at
the time when the angel visited the
parent spring, on which occasion the
doctors bottled water manifested, he
said, its sympathy with the fount, by
being thrown 1nte state of perturba-
tion. Hundreds of fools were induced
to purchase the Bethesda water, and
watched for the comm0tion and the
consequences with the result to be ex-
pected. At last one, less patient than
the rest, went TO the quack and COM
planned that though he had kept his
eye constantly on the water for whole
year, he had never yet discovered any
thing like the signs of an angel In the
bottle.
That's extremely strange !" ex-
claimed the doctor. "Whatsized bot
tie did you buy, sir?"
Patient.-"A half guinea one, doc
tor"
Doctor.--"Oh, that accounts for it.
The half guinea bottles contain so
small quantity of the invaluable
Bethesda water that the agitation is
scarcely perceptible; but if you buy a
five guinea bottle, and watch it well,
you will in due time see the commo-
tien quite plainly sympathising with
that of the pool when visited by the
angel" The patient bought the five
guinea bottle as advised, and kept a
sharp lookout for the angel until the
day of his death.
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06
General Custer ON BeIknap.
In his testimony before Mr.. Clym,

In his testimony before Mr.. Clymer'i
committee, General Custer spoke in
high terms of General Hazen, who first
charged Belkpap with trafficing in the
post traderships. He said that as an
efficient officer he ranked high, and
that he had been kept at a distant po 4
in a wild and inhospitable country, far
from the telegraph, and even the civili-
zation of the frontier. Officers did not
report Mr.. Belknap's unlawful conduct
because they had been ordered by the
Secretary to report only to the Secre-
tary of War, and to hold no communi.
cation with members of Congress ex-
cept when called on to do SO.
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06
Natural HistOry-sea Birds.

The most common and best known
of all sea birds is the Petrel, of these.
there are three or four varieties, to one
of which our sailors give the appella-
tion of Mother Cary's Chickens. 1t
might be somewhat difficult to discov-
er the origin of this designation, but
the source of their more legitimate one
is we'll understood, and is tanciful
enough. Besides the faculty of swim.
ming this bird possesses the power of
supporting itself on the water by strik-
ing very rapidly with its feet, and
hence they have been compared to st.
Peter walking on the water, and have
got the name of Petrels. The French
call them Petit Pier re (Little Peter)
from the same cause. The stormy Pc
trel. or Mother Cary's Chicken, is not
bigger than lark, and altogether
brown in color except the posterior
portion of it. which is white. There
is also white stripe at the end of the
great wing coverts.
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06

The Canadian Farmer tells nice
story of man named Langley who
went to St. Mays bay geese hunting.
Seeing moose on the opposite shore,
he fired, and at the same moment a
perpoise leaped from the water and the
bullet killed both it and the moose
The porpoise floated to the shore, and
the hunter used it as raft to paddle
across to the moose. There he found
that the bullet, after killing the moose
had gone into hollow tree, in which
was store of wild honey, which was
flowing through the hole made by the
bullet. Reaching for what he thought
was stick TO plug up the hole, he
caught rabbit by the leg. Rather
startled he threw il violently from him
and struck covey of eighteen par
tridges, killing them all.
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06
National COIOred Contention.
In Session at NashvilIe-Nr. Pinch
back the Kuling Spirit,

In Session at Nashvi1le-NIr. Pinch
back the kulins Spirit.
The National Colored convention
assembled to day, at noon, at Nash.
Vile, Tenn. The delegates from Ar
kansas and Texas are reported as water
hound at Little Rock, and cannot
reach there before Friday. Mr.. Pinch
back, of Louisiana, and James s. Hin
ton, Canal Commission, Indiana, and
Prof. Langston are among the arrivals
Fred Douglass will not attend. Mr..
Pinchback is the leading spirit, and he
says he will make a bold speech in the
Convention, taking advanced political
ground. The Convention will recon-
mend no Presidential aspirant to the
Cincinnati Convention. A resolution
will be adopted, thanking Mr. Morton
of Indiana, for his defence of Pinch
back.
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06

AMERICANS ABROAD are writing home
that they blush for their country since
the Belknap, Orvil Grant and Schenck
exposures. The Richmond Wing says
one good turn deserves another; the
country has long been blushing for them.
If these Americans abroad" had re-
manned at home to help honest people to
remove the causes for blushing they
might not have been so much mortified
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06


Carriers Champion Moss.
PARsNIP-Large Early Sugar.
Hollow Crown.
PaAs-Fxtra Early. Dreer's improved.
Carter's First Crop.
Early TEN Thumb. very dwarf land
early,
Little 6em.
Dwarf Blue Imperial.
Large White Marrowfat,
Black-eye Marrowfst.
Champion of En ngland,
DWarfSngar.
Fresch Wrink'e Sugar, the best.
PBPPRR-L,rge Sweet Bell,
PEPPER GRAss-Curled.
PuMrKIN-Cashawo or Yellow Crooknsck.
Cheese,
Field.
RADIsH-Long Scarlet Short-toD.
Long salmon.
White Turnip-rooted.
Scarlet Turnip rooted,
White Summer or Naples.
yellow Summer.
SALsIPr or Oyster plant.
SPINACH-ROund Leaf Savoy,
SGuAsH-Fariy White Bush OF Patty Pan.
Boston Marrow.
Mammoth. attains n weight of
200 lbs.
Crookneck.
ToMATo-ExtIa Early Red.
Feejee Island.
Cooks Favorite.
Large Sm 00th hed.
Philad slphia Market. extra fine,
solid,
Trophy
TuRNiP-Early White Flat Dutch,
Red or Purple Top Strap Leaf,
Purple Top Swedish or Rut abaga.
Golden 1lobe Rutabaga.
oN-MOuntain Sweet,
Ice Cream,
Black Spanish,
Citron, for preserving.
Caraway seed. 500 Gladinlus bulbs.
Sage, lOO0 Dbl.Tuberose bulbs.
Summer Savory. 10000 papers flower seed.
! Thyme, Hungarian Grass seed.
White DutchlClOver Lawn grass seed.
Broom corn seed, Usage Orange seed.
| Canary seed, Yellow Aberdeen.
Hemp seed, Flax seed.
Rape seed. Fennel seed.
Cuttle-fish bone,
20 bushels very cnoice Onion Sets.
fine as,ortm ant of ew and choice turn y seed
n due seas IN. all of which may be relied upoI
to tho nutting mp and selling the above Seeds
mar 10 III JAMES CRIPPEN.
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WEAIHEk REPDSY'.
WASHINGTON, April 6, l A, Nj
PROBABILITIES

PROBABILITIES.
For the Middle Atlantic States war
mer, southeast, veer to coolor, north
west winds, rising barometer, and
partly cloudy or clear weather.
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06

"A IL Ia ~ Ia IA ~
s"h'.' Back Dwarf German Wax.
White
Valentine,
Newington Wo der.
White Marrow.
Large Lima
Giant wax
rI,,s Early Red Turnip.
rS,ntan Earliest,
Are Blood-red,
u ndns Red Mangel wurtzel.
Yellow Glove Mangel.
.cr-. reer's Large Early YORK.
A'' " Early Sugar loaf,
e." Jersey Wakefield.
" Stone Mason of Marble
head, very choice.
rulers Improved. very
large.
" Curled Savoy.
Large Early Winningstod'.
Late Drumhead.
Fiat Dutch,
Red Dutch.
nrumhead Savory.
,Ry-Dreer's white Solid.
Dwarf,
Turnip Rooted.
Adams Early.
Large Sweet Sugar.ns early as Adams
stowell's Evergreen Sugar.
ygER-Early Russian.
Frame,
White spined,
Long Green Turkey Tor picking. /.
West India Gherkin.
pt Long Purple
TR-Green Curled.
l-lireen Curled.
rcB-Early Curlsd Silesia.
Cabbage or butter.
Royal Cabbage or drumbead.
Hanson.
Large Musselburr,
/" London.
L MELoN-Jenny Lind.
Pine Ample, yer fine;
Turks Cop,
Wards Nectar,
Gosden ORANGE,
Large New York improved.
Prescott. very superior.
Melted Citron.
,S sEED-Yel ow Danver,
White or Silver Skin.
sLEy-Curled or Double.
ID will have in proper season large and
a good assartm ent of all kinds of seeds
epreseDted.
i give my personal and whole attention
guarantee them true to name.
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06
mar2l-2taw4w

STATEMENT OF the "Farmers Mutual Fire
- Insurance Company"
The Office of this Company is located in
Mill Creek Hundred.
In insurmg property the company in terri
tory is limited to the Hundreds of Brandy
wine. Christiana, Mill Creek and White Clay
Creek.
Ihere is no money paid by the members OF
the Company. except the frat cost of their
policy. (Sl 50) until loss. by fire occdrs,
when the assess ment is made upon the taxa
BILE basis, and each member pays his share
il the loss pro-ratd, according to the amount
Of his or her insurance.
This Company was chartered in 1858. 1t
has no salaried officers and the annual cost
OF insurance in this Company for the past
fifteen years. has averaged eleven cents on
the thousand dollars.
Amount of insured property on
the books of the Com
pany at this dat ......... $74s,3l3 90
Texable basis ....... '''''.'. ...... 1.9339t' 90
Outstanding debt ''''''''' ''' ..... 100 90
ash in Treasury y'''''''''''''''''' 16 So
isburse ments ....' ~ 10
No toss y hre yet'.
mar22.Stw ". Seo'y
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06

dem der A. .sSll.ks.-Hsving placed our or.
France n, "iih the manufacturer at LYONS.
Sndrs bIaossh me celebrated Cachemere, Alex
tuI GUSTAV oilks, We are enabled to offer
70 oners extra Inducements in these
oet2s W, b. SHARP,
Fourth and Market strt cts.
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06

To SUFFERING LADIEs.-"Dr. Rogerson's
Female Hydrastin Pos0ders, for all female
ompiaInts. By mail, 81. Address, Dr.
Rogerson P. Q. Box. 1855 N. Y. Clty.
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06
RAILROADS.
PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON u BAL
TIMORE RAILROAD.
NOVEMBER %. 1875.

Trains leave wilmington as follows for
Philadelphia and intermediate stations, 100,
$40, 800, 952, 1880, a. m. 200, 4l0, 1920 $50.
=. m.
Philadelphia and New York, 1.3l. a. m.
l2.l4, 1887, SAG p. m.
Baltimore and intermediate stations, 1852,
9.05 a. m. $40, p. m.
Baltimore and Washington, 1852, 1.55, S.05,
a. m. 1856, L.23, $50, 7.10, p. m.
Trains for Delaware Division leave for
New Castle. 500. GO, $50. g. m. LIS. $40
Harrington and intermediate stations. 500
$50, a. m. $40 p. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS:
Philadelphia and intermediate stations, $40
q M, ,4.45, $50, p. m.
Philadelphia and New York, L3l, a. m.
Baltimore and Washington, 1852, l.55
For further information passengers are re-.
ferred to the time tables posted at the iepot.
ii. II. KENNEY. Superintendent
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06
look and Ready

No More Breaking Chimneys.. Some
thing new; it sells at sight AGENTS
Wanted to sell e. NJ Bulls Patent Fire
Proof Mica or Isinglass Pyramid Lamp Chin
neys This is one of the greatest money.
saving articles of the present age. They Will
last for years; they give steady light; they
can be used as a nurse lamp; they will heat
water in a few minutes. Samples sent post
paid, for 30 cents, TO any address: state
what territory you wish when sending To-
samp c. Large profits made tor terms Sc'
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06

sDsYCHoMANCY, OR SOUL CHARM
ING" How either sex may fascinate
and gain the love and affections of any per-
son they choose, instantly This art all can
possess, free by mail for % cents; together
with Marriage Guide, Egyptian Oracle,
Dreams, Hints to Ladies, etc. l,O00, ,00o sold.
queer book. Address, L. WILLIAM x
Co, Pubs, Philadelphia
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06
sTEAM FRIGHT LINE

lep6SiSs- "a ,S, wharf above Chestnut street Ph,la
.hari, v Tuaay az ., p. m, and French street
plsd carefullv asd at q, P. m. Freight han
and forwarded with dispatch.
q. W. BUSH.
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06

do 81 day at home. Agents wanted. Out
p1N tit and terms free, TRUE " co. Angus
tn, Maine.
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06
NEW ADYEhTIS ENfEN1S.

AGENTS wANTEDi Medals and Diplomas
AASnHas's ASfESfa 'sF NEW PICTORIAL BIBLES.
1,SOO illustrations. Address for new circu-
lars. A. s. HOLMAN " CO., 93s Arch street,
Philadelphia.
The daily gazette., 1876-04-06

ALL NEW AND liable,
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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-27

IT is evident that the democratic
House committee at New Orleans has
granted the premises of the republic
ans, viz: that there was intimidation
of voters in Louis ana, which greatly
effected the vote of that state, and
caused the apparent count TO be Diff
ferent from the wishes Of the people.
The committee have done this by
hunting up all the colorcd men that
can be bribed into saying that they
were intimidated by the republicans.
They have found a few such. In
most of this testimony it would ap-
pear that the colored women were,
for the most part, the intimidators.
Dinah cuts a very important figure in
threatening democratic colored vot-
er with a refusal to cook and wash
for him or to keep his company if he
voted the democratic ticket. Not a
case appears where the democratic
colored voter has been bull-dozed
with lashes, clubs or bullets, as APP
pears in hundreds of cases with re-
publican voters. The House commit
tee avoid, as much as possible, to get
before them the real cases of bull
doing, but the Senate committee has
got to work and are piling up such a
mountain of infamy upon Louisiana
democracy, and hence, in part, upon
the American name, that it will bring
upon the nation such disgrace as has
no equal in our history.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-27

There were several good stories
told at the conductors banquet on
Thursday evening, but the one that
created the most laughter was that
related by Conductor McElroy, from
Pennsylvania. He said that con.
ductor on an Eastern railroad was
approached by seedy-looking indi.
vidual, who wanted a free ride, as he
hadn't any money.
"All right" said the conductor, ego
forward into the smoking car, and III
fix you all right"
Soon afterward the conductor ap.
pearcd in the smoking-car to collect
fare from everybody except the dead
beat and another man, who happened
to be the Superintendent of the road
The Superintendent noticed that he
had overlooked this man, and asked
him why he had done it.
"Why, that's conductor" was the
reply.
"His appearance does not indicate
it. Look at those Clothes" said the
Superintendent.
Swell" said the conductor, s'he
can't help that. He's conductor Oh
q Western road, and he's one Of those
fellows who are trying to live within
his salary, and that's what he has
come to-"
This was satisfactory to the Super
intendent, and the man obtained hi
ride without further inquiry.
Mr.. McElroy stated that there wa,
nothing personal i'm the story
Omaha Bee.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-27
J. NJ. HEDRICK s. CO., PROPRIETORs.

George William Curtis i'm his Har-
pcr's Weekly, General J. Il. Hawley
in his Hartford Courant, and ex-Sen-
ator Carl Schurz i'm his st Louis
Westliche Post are giving the Repub-
lican party. at this time great deal OF
gratuitous advice.
The brilliant manner in which these
editors and statesmen managed their
own cities, Congressional Districts
and states, ought to entitlc their add
vice to great weight.
Their plan Of running the Republi-
can party is something like that Of
the young doctor whose first move
ment was to throw his patient into
fits because he was hill on fits.
Their idea of politics and Journal
ism, is to spend eleven months in the
year showing that the Republican
party is no better than it should be and
that it ought to die, and make way for
q newer and better one constructed on
their own ideal. The other month
they give to frantic efforts to get into
Office through the same old Republic
can party, and to showing that the
countrysis gone to the dogs unless it
succeeds. Perhaps this is their way
of throwing the Republican party in
to fits.
And if the Republican party in
New York, Connecticut and Missouri
under the treatment of Doctors Cur
tbs, Hawley and Schurz hasn't got fits,
will someone please tell us what is the
matter with it.?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-27

"Gen." M. c. Butler, the hero of the
Hamburg Massacre, has finally Sc
cured his reward. He was yesterday
honored by the admiring and appre-
ciativc democracy of South Carolina
to the utmost extent of their ability
to confer distinction--was elected
United States Senator by the Hamp-
ton wing of tho Legislature, the dem
ocratic members of the Senate uniting
with the rump House in adding this
fresh blot upon American civilization.
The Hamburg butchery was con-
demned without stint at the time of
its occurrence by the more moderate
and decent element Of Northern DEM
Ocrats as an atrocity utterly without
provocation or palliation, and in
heaping honOrs upon its leading
spirit and chief director the South
Carolina White Liners have once
more demonstrated their complete
approval of the policy of murder and
terrorism which SO nearly resulted in
electing both Tildcn and Hampton
Chicago Tribune.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-27
A Brutal Butcherv

MEMPHIS, Dec. .l9.-Y Yesterday morn
ing l.. S. Hill, an old and highly re-
spected citizen, living four miles north
of Shelby depot. was shot and killed
by Gally Bond under the following
circumstances: Bond had been pay
ing his attentions to Hills daughter
and visited Mr.. Hill an hour before
the shooting, and in some conversa-
ton said he would return in an hour.
Bond went and procured double
barreled shotgun, returned to Mr..
Hills and shot him through the door
of his own house, firing five pistol
balls through his body after he fell
from the first shot. After seeing that
his victim was down and dead, he
seized the young lady, actually drag
ging her over the dead body of her
father, and carried her by force be-
fore neighboring minister and de-
mand to be married to her. The girl
refused, when Bond threatened to
kill her. At this juncture party OF
armed men appeared, and the young
lady was taken from her captor and
locked up in room secure from any
possibility of his carrying out his
threat to kill her. Bond deliberately
shot one of the horscman, SO wound.
ing him that he fell from his horse,
which he mounted and rode to the
residence of Mr.. Parsons, few miles
distant and made forcible exchange
for a fine gray animal on which he
was last seen riding westward to.
ward the Mississippi river, making
good his escape from all pursucrs.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-27
Another Fire at Little Rock

LITTLE Rock, Dec. 2I--A fire broke
out at seven o'clock tonight on the
corner of Louisiana and Fifth streets,
which threatens to destroy 100000
worth Of property. 1t was incendiary
in origin. Borg's paper ware house,
Hafi's bakery, Robinson's grocery,
Reilley's store, and other buildings
are already burned, the insurance be-
ing light. This is the sixth fire here
in six days.
LATER.-Hagcrs mills are saved.
The loss on the other buildings foot
up $4,000. A vigilance committee
will be formed Tomorrow. An at
tempt was made tonight to fire the
cotton warehouse in the rear OF
Fletcher u Hobe's block, but the
flames were extinguished by the night
watchman. An attempt was made to
fire the residence of Chas. Brunkrock,
on Fifth street. by putting bag of
combustibles under the building, bu;
it was discovered,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-27
SPeople shouldn't get in a panic.
Now if those folks had only retained

"People shouldn't get in panic.
Now if those folks had only retained
their presence of mind and gone
quietly out of the theater they'd all
got out safe" This is Mr.. Peter
Prosy's lecture about the fire. He
has delivered it 500 times to as many
people since Tuesday morning. And
last night, just as Mr.. Prosy had got
into bed, two bricks came tumbling
down his chimney into the CRATE.
scattering few live Goals about and
setting the carpet on fire. Then Mr..
Prosy got out of bed, picked up coal
with his fingers, got burnt, stepped
on another, put on one boot ran up
stairs, hollered fire, ran down again,
got partly into his drawers, ran out
of the house, tried to find the crank
to post office box for the fire alarm,
ran back to his house and met Mrs.
Prosby, who had easily extinguished
the flames with water from the pitch
er. And she grabbed him by his
night-shirt and yanked him on the
bed and said, "You old fool! Keep
quiet, or I'll choke you" !" And when
she took her fore!inger off Peters
thorax the first thing Peter commen-
ccd saying was, ''People now should
not get in panic, you know !"-NeW
York Graphic.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-27
hewitt cornered.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 2O.-Aftcr vain.
ly trying for three days and nights to
prevail upon the democrats to oppose
the proposition to open telegraph
offices for the inspection of political
dispatches, Mr.. Hewitt to-day sur
rendered, and tried by a short speech,
first, to put himself in accord with
his party, and next to produce q great
sensation at the expense of tho re-
publican management Of the post
office. He deliberately charged that
the opening and examination of his
political correspondence was q fire.
quent occurrence in tho New York
p0stofiice; that letters were opened
by some application of steam, and
afterwards resealed, but not without
leaving traces which experts could
discover. He was completely taken
aback, however, by the declaration of
Messrs. Garfield and Hoar that it was
his duty to move for an immediate
investigation, and the republican side
would give him prompt and efficient
assistance. In the face Of this prop.
osition twice forced upon him, he sal
silent, and the whole House seemed
to feel his embarrassment. A little
later 1t was SO increased as 10 becom,
painful to his friends by republican
offering . resolution providing for
committee to investigate the latter
and in Hewitt's interest. So apparen
was It that he had simply uttered
sensation that the democrats felt con
strained to object to the consideration
of the resolution.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-27
WASHINGTON.

WAsulSGroN, Dec. q The Speak
er has announced the following COM
mitteo to ascertain and report what
are the privileges, powers and duties
of the House of Representatives in
counting the votes for President and
Vice c-Presldent;
Knott, Sparks, Tucker, Marsh,
Burchard, of Wisconsin, Seelye aud
Monroe.
On counting the electoral votes,
Payne, Hunton, Hewitt, Springer,
McCrarv, Hoar and Millard.