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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19
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The Danbury Netcs facetiously rep
rescnts the current times by carica-
turing the manner in which men now
a-days get under a cloud through
the devilshness of a wicked man who
manufactures the biggest of lies out
of whole cloth:
A Danbury merchant was standing
in his door, talking with several
friends, Saturday mofning, when a
passing stranger, a lank man in a
rough suit of clothes, approached and
shook hands with him.
Elbow are YEP" inquired the stran-
ger.
"Pretty well. How is yourself?'
responded the merchant, with bust
ness promptness, although it was evil
dent that he couldn't place the new
conner.
"You're looking heap better than
that night down at Ransom, you re-
member ?" said the stranger.
"Ransom?" calculated the mer-
chant. 81 don't know what you
mean."
"Mum's the word" said the man,
winking one eye with exquisite face
tiousness, while the several bystand-
ers looked inquiringly at the mer-
chant.
81 don't remember ever seeing you
before" said the merchant, coloring
slightly.
II don't suppose you do remember
seeing me, but you did see me at Ran.
som that night, and l seen you.
kinder reckon" he significantly
drawled, "that did"
81 never saw you in my lifc," as.
serted the merchant, smarting under
the insinuating language of the stran
ger. The party smiled.
want you Mt the hotel in Ransom
two weeks ago tomorrow 2" III
asked, shutting one eye.
"No, was not"
"Oh! And you didn't have the Jim.
jams, l suppose ?" demanded the
stranger, desperately.
"Never !" gasped the merchant.
can kick over the table," con-
tinued the stranger, land knock down
the landlord with a billiard cue ?"
! "Never, never !"
can I suppose you'll next deny
that two of us had to hold you down
to keep you from knockin' your head
against the wall, am that arter thu
doctor come l had to STAN around
with a club an swish around at pre-
tended snakes to keep 'em from bitin
on you p and the speaker looked in
tently at his victim.
"Its no such thing. It's lie,'
cried the unhappy merchant.
"Oh! You amt the man tina
sworc yo'd have the hearts blood o
all Ransom? You amt the man,
suppose, who tore all his own clothe
of, an jumped into his own hat,
new silky, an Knocked the crow
clean through 2"
81 tell you 1 amt the man and
want you to understand it," shoute,
the merchant, losing his temper en-
tirely.
"Not the man ?" gasped the stran
ger, looking very hard at him.
"No."
"Can it be possible" said the stran
ger, in tone of mingled doubt an
pain, 'that there are two nren i'm Dan
bury with just such heads, an sue
eyes, an such noses an such chins !?
wouldn't a thought It'll wouldn't
thought it."
| And shaking his head dubiously,h
passed on.
| THAT man must be lunatic," gasl
ed the wretched merchant, moppin
the perspiration from his fiery face
"1aasW drawled one Of his neigh
bors, looking curiously ut the other
j And they slowly and silently will
drew, and the merchant went bac
in his store, feeling very unsettle
and uncomfortable.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19

as though he was anxious to see as
much of you as possible, and by his
presence to iaake your stay with him
rs agreeable as possible.
In fact You were, in my opinion
treated by Gen. Geo. A. Custer du.
ring your visit at his post eft. Lin.
coD last summer with all the polite
ness, courtesy, and distinguished con-
sideration that he was capable of, OF
could think of. AS regards wines
&C., your stay at his house was toe
limited for any entertainment /: and
as everybody, in the party knew thai
the host did not drink liquor of an,
Kind, no one expected wine, or any.
thing Of the Kind.
i have yet to meet a single officer OF
the army who approves of the actor
of either Custer or McCook as Il
their testimony. 1t is nothing bu,
hearsay, which is largely made up o.
frontier gossip and stories. II
- y
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19

Al. Swain, of the Fort Dodge
Messenger, has letter from a prom
inent Democrat who has spent the last
four months travelling in the South,
in which he says: democrat, as
am and have always been, am candid
in my belief that if the Democratic
party succeeds in the next election,
under the rebel influences that have
attained in the present Congress, il
will be one of the greatest disasters to
the general prosperity of the country.
i have spent many weeks among the
people of four States, and the
only real lusty feeling l have found
has been hatred for loyal Northern
man, and desire to get even by fore
ing payment for the war losses in
property and slaves. You may count
me out of the campaign of 1876, save
as an independent voting for the good
of the country at large"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19

LEON, Ia, April ia. Dilsaver
sheriff of Decatur county, was strucl
by lightning at four o'clock yester
day and instantly killed, togethel
with the horse he was riding. He wa
six miles out of town and had beer
overtaken by heavy storm. TIL,
lightning cut terrible cash across
the ccrebellnm, about two inches
wide, and ran down his body, appar
emily leaving him at the knees, rid
ding the skin in threads as it passed
down. The hair and beard wer.
scorched and his cap and clothes were
torn into fragments, and with his re.
volver and pocket-book, were scat.
tered fifty yards around. The corpse
was brought home at one O'Clock last
night, and as pen these lines is be.
ing visited by hundreds. Dilsaver
was elected sheriff last fall, was very
popular, and his sudden and violent
death has caused a great sensation in
this part of the State.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19
CHICAGO BALLOT BOx.
And Appoint . Bvan new Set 81 Tevu
W0CeFO.

CHICAGO, April 15.-The Common
Council held a long meeting to-day,
which closed at late hour tonight,
and after much discussion of the SUBJ
Ject it declared the recent town cleo
ton null and void on account of the
frauds perpetrated and by virtue of
the power in them vested, appointed
the following town officers Bernard
Callahan, Collector, vice Evans; VIM.
Gray, Assessor, vice Philips; Robert
Lincoln, Supervisor, vice Ryan, and
VIM. Carver, Clerk, vice Gleason.
This ends all the trouble SO far as
these officers are concerned.
The Mayor has as yet made no re-
Spouse to the written demand made
by the citizens committee for his res
ignation.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19

The New York graphic wants tho
ladies who are working for temper.
ance so earnestly i'm the land, not to
forget how rapidly the use of ''ncr-
vines" anOdynes, and narcotics of the
various preparations of morphia, OF
ether, chloroform, HORTICULTURAL, and
bromine is extending among women
to the certain detriment and probable
ruin of their minds and bodies.
Out in Council Bluffs, last week
two young women, schoOlmates, in a
gush of affection, went before a jus
tice of the Peace and demanded that
he should unite them in marriage,
that being the only way, they said, in
which they might be indissolubly
joined for life. The next day the low.
ing pair met young man whom
they both admired, and this week are
not on speaking terms.
This is how Elder Pike tries to de.
fine chronic rheumatism: "SwallOW
two quarts of carpet tacks, take a
running jump bare-legged into bar
rel of broken beer bottles, let a
swarm of enraged hornets roost on
yonr head, and then roll out into a
bed of tishOoks, and you will get a
faint idea of the nature and sensation
of first-elass rheumatism when il
once gets hold of you and means bus
iness.'
The custom of appointing young
lawyers to defend pauper criminals,
received backset the other day in
our District Court. His Honor,
Judge Noonan, had appointed two
young lawyers to defend an old and
experienced horse thief. After in
speeding his counsel for some time in
silence, the prisoner rose i'm his place
and addressed the Bench: "Air them
to defend me 2" dyes, sir,' said his
Honor. "Both of 'em ?" inquired the
prisoner. "Both of them, RESPONDED
the Judge. "Then 1 plead guilty.
and the poor devil took his seat and
sighed heavily.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has laid
down the following platform for the
Ohio Democratic Convention to meet
on the 18th of May:
mo national banks of issue; the
substitution of notes of the United
States for the notes of the banks. The
prompt repeal of the resumption act !;
no forced resumption. No repudia-
tion,' no unlimited infation,' but
a sound and sufficient cur
rency, equal to the wants of trade,
and such legislation by Congress as
will permit the wants of trade to de-
termine its volume. The government
to begin to honor its own currency by
receiving it for part, Mt least, ofcus-
toms Dues"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19
THROUGH THE nARs.
Thc ~. See Crooked s.UA,s' Seat W
BY Juage Ksekle.

ST. Louis, April l5.-The following
sentences were passed to-day by
Judge Krekle of the u. S. District
Court, at Jefferson City, upon the
persons convicted in that court of
connection. with the whisky frauds
l.. Bittinger, ex-gauger, st. Joseph,
two years in the penitentiary and
$1,000 fine. Simon Adler and Abra-
ham Furst, distillers' and rectifiers,
st. Joseph, each one year in the coun-
ty Jail and $1,000. John G. Shehan,
distiller, st. Joseph, eight months in
the county Jail from September last
and 81, Zoo. Henry II. Harting and
Ernst f. Harting, brothers, st. Joseph,
each three months in tho county Jail
and $500 fine. Jas. Il. Marsh, ex-
gauger, Kansas City, six months in
the county Jail and 81 600 fine.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19

A Cincinnatian who had purchased
an oil painting at a private sale, called
in Tom Lindsay, an artist, to consult
him as to how he should hang it..
Tom looked at it long and cHriously,
and then said, 81 wouldn't hang it if ]
were yon." "Wouldn'thang it! Why
not 7" Because the sentiment of the
age is rather against capital punish
ment. l would commute its sentence
to solitary imprisonment for life" =
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19
BREAKING OF A LEyEE.


MEMPHIS, April ia letter from
Bolivar Co., Miss, says the levc,
broke in front Of Col. Wades planta
ton on Friday evening, about mil.
below Buck Ride crevasse, and ths
water rushed through with frightfu
velocity, and 1t was with difficulty
Mrs. Wade and her daughter were
rescued, the whole of this alluvial
region. being submerged. The waite,
is pouring into Williams Bayou and
Deer creeks, and will overflow many
valuable places, including Col. Moores
and the Hedge place. The water il
now running over Egypt Ridge which
never occurred before.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19

New York, April ia call has
been issued for conference to be
held in this city on May 18th, to con-
slider what may be done to secure the
election of men in the national cleo
ton to the highest Offices of the re-
public, whose character aud ability
will satisfy the exigencies of the
present situation, protect the honor of
the American name, and prevent the
national election of the Centennial
year from becoming o mere choice of
evils, and satisfy the popular desire
for genuine reform. The call is
signed by VIM. Cullen Bryant.
Theodore D. Woolesy, Alex. A. Rul-
lock, Horace White and Carl Schurx
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19

WEpublish a communication to-day
from one of our prominent citizens,
touching the candidacy Of Prof Will
son Palmer, of this city, for the position
of State Superintendent of Schools.
The writer is very conversant with
the capabilities of Mr.. Palmer, and
speaks from the record. Prof. Pal
mer has gained such a wide reputa-
ton in the State as pre-eminently
leading man in common school work
that he hardly needs any commenda
ion from us. He is very energetic
with large experience, and is most
thoroughly imbued with an cnthusi.
astic love for the teachers calling, and
we cordially endorse the action of the
Charlton Patriot in naming him for
the Office of State Superintendent,
which is in few months to be yacat-
ed by Col. Abernethy.
In 1871, while Professor Palmer was
Superintendent of schools at hide
pendence, Iowa, his friends then
brought him forward as a candidate
when Col. Abernethy was first nom.
mated, and the Patriot in announcing
him, fell into the error of stating thai
he then received the next highest
number of votes in the convention
This, Professor Palmer took the earl.
lest opportunity to correct, requesting
the Patriot to give publicity to it. We
give below Mr.. Palmer's letter as il
appeared this week in that paper.
OTTUMwA, Iowa, April 6, '76.
W. II. Maple, Esq, Ed. Charlton
Patriot. Dear jSir:-Thanking you
heartily for the honor You do me in
suggesting my name in your yester.
days issue for the office Of State Supt
of Public Instruction, / hasten to cor.
rect an error that appears in your
complimentary notice of my candida
cy for this Office in 1871. l was not
the next highest candidate before the
Convention after the vote given Col
Abernethy. / make this correction
thus early in justice to those whose
names have already or may hereafter
be favorably mentioned for this posi-
ton. The impression that l was the
second choice of the State Convention
in 1871, am anxious shall be cor
rected in your journal of next week,
in order that may do no injustice to
other candidates. Thanking you again
for Your good words, remain
Yours truly.
WIu Da
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19
KILBouRNE.

That is the name Of the man who
still lies in prison, sentenced to lie
there by the edict of the Confederate
House of Representatives, which is
the par excellence advocate and pro-
tector, if we are to believe them of
the extreme States Right doctrine,
and yet they seem to find sufficient
power lodged in one-half of one
branch of the government to place
and keep citizen of the country in
prison, and to refuse even to let that
citizen have hearing of his case in
the courts of the country. What is
the case? Kilbourne was subpenaed
before committee to investigate the
Government affairs of the District Of
Columbia. In the course of his testi-
mony he was called upon to produce
for the inspection of the committee
his private books of account, as the
Secretary or bOok-keeper of real
estate agency. He declined to do SO,
Mt the same time stating that there
was nothing in his books showing any
transactions with any public official
Understanding which had any
connection with any official, and fur
Their saying that if any responsible
person would make oath that he had
good reason to believe that there
was anything which could be of a
public nature in his books, he would
then produce them. This condition
al refusal was unsatisfactory to the
committee, and Kilbourne was i'm
prisoned, and has now laid i'm Jail
nearly two months, if we remember
rightly.
In the meantime, Judge Carter, of
the Supreme Court of the District. has
.on two different occasions, on appli-
cation therefor, caused his writ of
hdbeas corpus to issue for the body Of
Kilbourne, and twice the House has
refused to accede to the writ, so that
the legality or illegality of KiIbourn' 8
detention cannot be tested in the
proper court of the country. So il is,
therefore, that in time of profound
peace-the Confederate House of the
United States Congress, the first
House Of that character since the
members constituting it were in open
or quasi treason against the nation
that grand safeguard of liberty to the
citizen, the writ of hdJeas corpus. is
made nudity of. In the days when
these men were graphing at the throat
of the nation, and their emissaries
flooded the northern half Of the I'm
ion either openly or incog as Copper
heads, when in times of great emerg-
ency this writ was disalloWed, these
same parties, who now defy ii in this
case without cause, used to howl from
all quarters of the Republic that the
liberties of the people were being
subverted by a tyrannical Govern
ment. The end Of this case is not yet,
and if Kilbourne has the real pluck
of q true American citizen, he win
see them through on this line il it
takes the whole centennial year.
LATER.-Since writing the above,
we learn that the House, late Monday
the 18th inst, passed resolution or
dering the Scrgeant-at-Arms to pro-
dnce the body Of Kilbourne in court,
and make return upon the writ.
The Republicans voted solid for the
resolution, and enough Democrats to
AIRY 1T
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19
ReceptlOn of the Emperor ANA r,,,
NreAn Nr Hrmvan -''e-

New York, April l5.-Thc steam
ship Hcvlittls, bearing the Emperor
and Empress of Brazil, entered the
lower bay about noon. The batteries
fired salute of one hundred guns in
honor of the Royal party, aud the
Brazilian corvettelonored the Emper-
or by royal salute as did the q. S.
f'rigate Minnesota. Secretaries Fish,
Robson, Taft, Vice Admiral Rowan,
the Brazilian Minister with the Bra
LILLIAN Centennial Committees, and n
large party, met the. Emperor's steam
or IN the steamer Alert. The Gus
tom House and city officials went
down the bay in a Government cut
ter and delivered. n tender of the hos
qualities of the city, made through
Mayor Wickham. The marine band
on the Alert greeted the Emperor
with national hymn and Secretary
Fish made brief address of well
come.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19
The Great Clock fer she Centennial
New Haven ltegister.l

The clock for the Memorial Hall,
which has been building at Thomas
ton, is completed. 1t has 100 pieces,
and the estimated weight of all being
six tons. The main wheels are four
feet in diameter. The pendulum ball
and rod weigh respectively 100 and
800 pounds, the rod being l4ls feet
long, and connected with the clock
work by what is known rs gravity
escapement, and makes twO-second
beats. The rod is of steel, and to
compensate for contraction and ex-
pansion, is encased in two cylinders,
one of zinc and one Of steel, which,
by their relative expansion upward,
maintain uniform centre Of Oscilla-
ton.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19

Mr.. Blaine declares most cmphatical-
" that he had nothing whatever to do
with the Morton. Bliss 4 Co. trans
actions with the Union Paciiict Road.
He says the current story that he sold
the Arkansas bonds for constituent
and received the $4,000 ON account
of this constituent is absolutely false.
lie neither handled the bonds or the
money for himself or anybody else.
In regard to the demanding of an in
vcstigation, as the matter now stands
he does not intend TO do ii. His
friends say that the Democrats would
have an opportunity to CRAFTY their
personal hostility to him by allowing
such an investigation to drag along
without conclusion till the Cincinnati
Convention. Ii the Democrats. how
ever, determine upon an investigation
he will then demand that ii shall be
prompt, and shall be Vigorously and
eNpeditiously pushed to conclusion.
His friends are bitter upon the Indi-
ana persons who started the story.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19

We were greatly gratified to see tho
following in the Chicago Journal OF
the l4th inst. 1t states but simple
truth, but very wholesome one, and
we could wish that the Chicago jour.
mails, and for that matter the metro
politan journals everywhere, would
practice upon the suggestions therein
contained. The fact of it is; thai
upon the pretense that news must be
given by newspapers, the reputation
of men and women, the dearest thing
to them on earth, is triflcd with and
handled about as one would kick from
out his way a cast off and worn ou1
garment. The truth is, that there is nc
license to newspaper men, tt
wantonly OF negligently injurc the
character of people, and when they
do this, public opinion should sustain
the courts and demand that the wrong
doors be taught a wholesome lessor
which will cause them to dcsist when
their sense of dccency will not cfIec,
such a result. 1t is nothing else, to-
day, which gives this license to the
public press but the universal dis.
countenance which the public sort o.
nnconsciously exhibit towards thos,
who seek redress from and endeayol
to punish the lawlcss press. TIL,
Journal says:
Tha.--ss~acse~Of.-4 he SENSATIONS
newspapers which publish all kind
and styles of dispatches, rumOrs and
reports rs true, including the mos
reckless of ISLANDERS and calumnies
should learn to be exceedingly dis
eliminating when wading through
the columns of telegraphic bosh whicf
has of late become such conspicuou,
feature of Contemplating" journalism
To say that there is generally mer,
grain of truth in these heaps of chat
would be very reasonable allowance
especially the Washington heap
Stripped oftheir partisan electioneer
ing object and their sensationalism
at least nine-tenths of the charges ant
scandals which constitute the burden
of the Washington "news" in tn,
Chicago morning papers woult
amount to nothing atall."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19
New York Market.

by Telegraph.
New YORK, April Is.
Wheat--firm. No. 3 Chicago 81 IL
@15; do. 3 Milwaukee 81 1901 Is: do.
2 Chicago 81 23@27 /; do. 2 Milwaukee
81 27@D; No. Spring 81 $3.50 80, and
winter red western 20 @3S.
Corn--dull. New western mixed
7O@72c; old do. 70@72c.
Oats-steady Mixed western and
State 44@50.
Pork-steady at $22 S7ls $50.
Lard-heavy at $13 Is.
Whisky-Sl liz.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19
serious Rios In Leavenworth.

ST.. Louis, April Is. The propric-
tors of Missouri State Lottery have
brought suit against the board of
police commissioners, asking one hun
dred thousand dollars damages for
breaking up their business by the
late raids upon their offices, and the
seizure of their property.
Quite serious riot occurred at
,Leayenworth Kansas yesterday, be-
tween body of striking miners and
some negroes, who the owners of the
mines intended to set to work. Pistols
knives, rocks, brickbats, ETC., were
used and some heads and bones
broken, but no fatal casualties are re-
ported.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19
Chicago Live Stock Market.

CHICAGO, April II.
by Telegraph
Hogs-Receipts 5000 head. Quiet
and firm. Light grades are quotable
at 81 75@9O, generally at 81 so; heavy
at 81 75@S TO- generally at 81 SO@S 90;
Philadelphias scarce at IS l5@S 80.
Cattle-Receipts 5000. Prices cas-
Ter. Good to choice SOB 80, and
medium $4G4 %.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19

Tew Best saAk-Niss Hacn Drowned.
ST.. Louis, April 1.-THE tow boat
Dictator, belonging to Huse, LOOMS
4 Co, ice dealers, Ofthis city, collided
with the bridge at Hannibal, Mo-, al
8 o'clock this morning and was COM
pletely wrecked. Harry Young, the
clerk, and eight others of the crew,
names not reported, were drowned.
No particulars yet.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19
~. Louis Market.

ST.. Louis, April Is.
by Telegraph.
Wheat-dall. No. 2 Fall 81 49, bid;
do. 3 81 81 bid.
Corn-excited and higher; 49, @49
cash, $1,000 April, and 47l5@Ic
May.
Oats--tirm but inactive 36GD11 bid.
Whisky--steady at 81 OS.
Pork-dull ut $22 IS.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19

The Clinton Herald has announced
itself for Blaine for President. He
seems to be the taking man with
Iowa Republicans. For what reason
we cannot ACKNOWLEDGMENT Dem
ocrat.
Who ever expected Mr.. Democrat
that you could ever discover any good,
honest reason that you would be will
ling to avOw in q case of this kind?