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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06
EtorEns.-From thc follow;no ;ic,

ELorERs.-From the following item
published i'm the Council Bluffs Nom
payiel it will be seen that our neigh
boring town of OskaloOsa has SEN
sation: deputy Sheriff Rath, of Ma
haska county, this State, arrived in
this city last Sunday, having in charge
a couple of persons who had cloped
from Oskaloosa short time since.
The name of the man was John Lee
and that of the woman Mrs. Emma
Floyd, the wife of q physician who
lives in the above town. 1t appears
that Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd were keeping
a boarding house and John Lee was
a hired man employed to chop the
wood and do the chores. While
working in that capacity he won the
affections of Mrs. Floyd and in due
time they clopcd, taking with them
two of her children--boys four and
six years. Assoon as their flight was
discovered the doctor sworc out q
warrant charging the parties with
adultery, and sent Officer Rath to
overhaul and arrest them, which he
did at Sioux City. The party left for
Oskaloosa yesterday, and that town
will enjoy the sequel of little sensa-
ton upon their arrival there"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06

Moses and his. court according TO
democratic authority, was the yilest
nest of thieves In tho world until
Wade Hampton got in bed with them.
Now, by the same authority, they arc
clothed with the erminc of judicial
purity and constitutional authority.
Let j. Madison Wells and his Board
give Tildcn just one electoral vote,
and by the same sign they will be
transformed from thieves into angels.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06
TER M 9; .~-
$3.50 PER YEAR IN ADvAMCe' Y!

Thc New york Tribune, in charac.
.o,;y;ng the difference between the
two partics, says: "In factis not this
about the difference the rcpub-
licans in the disputed southern states
are trying to hold what they honestly
believe they got, while tho democrats
in the northern states arc trying, by
hair-splitting technicalitics, to grasp
what they know the people never i'm
tended they should havcp"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06
TO-DAY or TOMORROW

The meeting of the Electors in the
various states for the purpose ofcast-
ing their votes for President and
Vice President, occurs on Wcdnes-
day, the 9th inst. Hence on to-day
or on tomorrow the Returning
Boards in Florida and Louisiana must
finish their count, aud declare whcth-
or Tildcn or Hayes has carried these
states.
There can be no doubt i'm the mind
Of any fair and intelligent man but
that judging from previous elections
in those states, the republicans ought
to have carried Florida by a fair ma
jority, and Louisiana by from $1,000
to 10000. The real fact at issue, the
Chicago Tribune puts very fairly and
'squarely as follows, in portion of an
editorial, which we quote:
Tho whole question in Louisiana
turns upon the question whether the
democrats carried the state, as they
allegc, by the aid of the negro vote,
secured by fair, legal and honorable
means. This is the disputed point
upon which the whole controversy
hinges. In judging of the merits of
this controversy it is to be taken into
account that the blacks of the South
are just as firmly attached to the re-
publican party as the Irish Of the
North are to tho democratic, and that
If there were q fair and free election
they would vote the ticket en- massc,
just as the Irish vote the other ticket.
Have the negroes in Louisiana, who
are republicans, been detached from
the republican party and carried over
to the democratic by fair means
Louisiana is very largely republican.
by the census taken last year the ma
jOrity of cOlored people amounted to
GO,OOO or 10000, SO on the mere color
line there is q clear majority of 1000
to 1900, and leaving out of the esti-
mates aliens and those who do not
vote on the white side, this majority
would be increased to 10000. Now
if the democrats have carried the
state they have either stolen the ma
jority or they have obtained it by
fair means. Which is it?
In deciding this question it is to be
remembered that the principal DEM
ocratic majorities were obtained in
the five counties where bulldozing
was most successfully practiced. That
there was an undoubtcd republican
majority in these parishes is shown
by reference to the vote of 1874, when
the democrats put forth every posi-
sible effort and exhausted every ef-
fort to carry the state. The vote in
that year, which was conceded to be
fair and full one, was rs follows:
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06


At the election i'm 1874 ii will be
observed that these parishes gave a
republican majority of 1851. They
now give democratic majority of
4,4l7, which exceeds the total demo-
cratic vote Of 1874. How have the
democrats made this gain of nearly
5000 votes in two years? Was it BY
fair mcans2 Mr.. Itcdficld, one of the
most impartial correspondents i'm the
South, who hears and writes both
sides, throws some light upon the
processes OF converting the rcpublic-
an states in the South into democrat
ic states. A Louisiana planter in one
of the parishes, witt, whom he coil-
yersed, told him he had had no
trouble until the campaign COM
menced. Then the bulldozers rode
through his plantation nightly and
fired into the cabins Of his laborers.
For two months before the election
his hands had to sleep in the woods.
All law was overthr0wn. Fonr OF
five negroes were brutally murdered
In various parts of the parish to strike
the rest with terror and frighten
them into voting the democratic tick
ct. lie says: "iaight in the busy sea.
son the bulldozcrs would ride through
his plantation throwing down fences
leaving them down, looking for nc.
groes whom they had driven from
their cabins, and who would hide be.
tween the cotton rows for protection
The terrorism was SO complete thai
his hands finally slept in tho woods
every night, coming out in the morn.
ing, working all day, and returning
to tho woods at night" Tho election
at his polling place was farce. III
was perfectly quiet and peaccablc
and the blacks, all tho manhood ter
rificd out of them, mournfully voted
tho ticket they hated. just one re.
publican vote was cast at his precinct
and that he voted himself"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06
A Gard to the Public.

For many years We have made two
medicines suited to the ailments Of a
vast class of sufferers. Thousands of
cures have been made by them, and,
in fact, the word failure could not be
coupled with them. But within the
last two years countcrfeits of our
medicines have sprung up, dangerous
in their close imitation of our Trade
Mark. To secure the people we have
placed upon each genuine box of
Holloway's Ointment the face similc
of the signature of our agent, Mr..
Jos liaydock. To counterfeit is fell
ony. We shall relentlessly pursue
any one who initiates this with the
utmost vigor of the law. We mosl
earnestly beg that the great mass Of
the american people will and us in
our efforts to protect their health, and
help us in our task of bringing thcs,
most unprinciplcd men to the bar q
justice. Uniformly refuse 10 pur
chase Medicines purporting to b,
ours unless Mr. Jos. HaydocEs sigma
turc is attached to eack box of PHI
or pot of Ointment and the end will
soon be reached.
The public's obedicnt servants.
d&w ly lst em HOLLOWAY Il Co.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06
aou1A cARoLlMA.


President Grant and his cabinet
had from Gov. Chamberlain, from
the Attorney General, from Distric
Attorneys and from Gen. Rugcr, thu
clear statement of belief on thcil
part, that Wade Hampton and hi
party, were bent upon forcing them
selves upon tho state by fair or foul
means, even to the extent of rcvolu.
ton; that the assembling of rifle
clubs to enforce revolution at Colum'
bia, seemed imminent.
Having such information, and Atty
Gen. Taft, with all the balance Of the
cabinet agreeing with, him that the
proceedings of the State Supreme
Court wcrc clearly illegal, and fur
thcr, that, beyond all question Cham.
berlain was tho rightful governor ai
present; the cabinet unanimously ad-
vised tho President to sustain Cham
berlain, and agreed that the crisis de-
mandcd tho presence Of o. s. troohs
to preserve order. Tho President
therefore, had tho proper instructions
issued to Gen. Ringer. If the result
Of all this contest places colored men
in the lower House of the general as
in the proportion of ten to
one white, 1t is only the necessary is
sue Of tho class, the race policy which
the democracy have forced upon the
people of this state. Tho fact is, the
policy there, is the doc
trine of caste; ofa ruling aristocracy.
It is conflict they bring on them
selves. It is the same conflict that in
in reality led the south on to rebel
lion. II persisted in it will again
lead to disastrous consequences in
South Carolina. This is q nation
where all are frcemen where there
arc no slaves, no vassals and no aris-
kOcracy.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06

"Althougha majority of the men,
bcrs of the South Carolina Legisla-
turo bore the certificates of the high
est court in the state, of their election
by the people, because this majority
differed in politics with the governor
and this national administration, they
were excluded by the military arm oi
the government Ec-
change.
That is simply q democratic lie.
Fifty-nine republican members and
fifty-fivc democratic members were
returned elected to the South Carroll.
ma Legislature by the proper legal
canyassing board. The nine demo.
cratic pretcnders, from Laurens and
Edgefield counties were thrown out
by the canvassing board because OF
gross frauds. They had their re.
course TO the legislature on a contest
but were not willing to submit their
claims to that body. They therefore
procured certificate from the clerk
Of a court, which has been agreed up
on all hands to be infamously cor.
rupt, and which otherwise had about
as mnch authority to issue certificates
to members of the Legislature as a
blacksmith shop.
Whan the legislature met, the fifty
five legally elected and legally COM
missioned democratic members, put
in an appearance, with the nine mem.
bers from Laurens and Edgeficld,
with their bogus credentials, leading
the column. The properly elected dem.
ocratic members wouldn't take thcil
seats unless the contested members
with bulldOzed commissions were al.
lowed to be admitted also, and given
the post of honor. The admission oi
these contestants was q matter fol
tho whole legislature to act upon, as
the entire question had been relegat-
ed to that body. But the democrat.
ic members really elected, put these
fellows in their front very much as 8
man gets behind a substitute in action
These nine persons had no more 10.
gal right there than five other citizcni
and they were properly excluded =
This put the other fifty five demo
cratic members with regular papers
in the minority and hence they KEEP
out Of the Legislative halls and the re-
publicans with fifty.ninc members
proceeded TO the organization of th'
Legislature and to regular Legislative
business.
In other words, tho South Carolin,
rebels, as of old, finding themselve
in the minority, proceeded to secedc
and all the apparent irrcgularity ant
revolutionary measures, which hav'
disgraccd the country, arc justl,
chargablc TO tho democratic Tildcl
reform party of South Carolina. Thcy
have not met in convention and dc
libcratcly resolved themselves out o
the Union, as they did In 1861, bccaus
| u. 8. Grant is President and jaime
Buchanan is not.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06
The Fort Madison Democrat has

The Fort Madison Democrat has q
Washington correspondent who
writes thus of Southern Republicans
II am personally acquainted with q
fe W Senators aud Representatives OF
republican type, from those States
and in their presence your hand must
be on your pocket book"
How could you expect democrat,
especially one hailing from tho peni-
tentiary city of Iowa, to get acquaint-
cd with any other sort? He has sim
ply been unfortunate in his associa-
tons.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06
AGRICULTURAL TALK

| IotatOeS are failure in PennSylya.
mia, and large quantities are being
imported into that state.
Four years ago, two Californians
planted l,OOO acres in walnuts and al.
monds; this year the crop.of nut.
will net them $250,0OO.
First-class apples have recently beer
bought in Boston for 81 a barrel fol
shipment to England, 10 which coun
try large quantities arc now being
sent.
The Sonora CAL, Democrat, tells IL,
that dozen peaches, grown on Gal
lagher's ranch, near Browns Flat
weighed fourteen pounds-an aver
age Of 10 ounces avoirdupoisc, each
1t is reported that the authoritie,
of Blue Earth county Mimi, have
paid for 1000 bushels of locusts, and
that i'll the entire state where these in
sccts occurred, not less than 5O,OOt
bushels were destroyed for the pres
ent season.
A lew days ago several car loads o.
cattle sold for six cents pcrlb. The,
were high grades of Durham blood
and rolling fat. At the same tim,
scrub stock sold for from two to two
and half cents.
| "A grange in South Carolina. re
quires the lecturer to keep book, il
which the prospects and forwardncs,
of the crops arc recorded from meet
ing to meeting. His record will, of
course, make a comparison of til,
crops OF various years easy, and may
ultimately prove of much interest ant
values.
The California papers report th,
widespread prevalence of potato,
blight or rot in the state. In some
localities there will not be half
crop, in consequence of this disease
The Colorado potato bug, as destruc
tive as ii has been i'm the East, thi
season, is preferable to the old-tim,
potato rot.
Some one asked the New York Far
mers' Club, the other day, the follow
ing questions: (which is the hes
|pig of a litter to keep for breedin.
SOW? Some farmers say that the tit
man will have more pigs, and bette
ones, than any of the rest of the lit
ter" A New Jersey man replied
"As soon as the pigs arc week or tel
days old, each one, if they have no
been bred in and in too much, will
select its own peculiar tcat. The pig
that suck the fore teats arc said to b.
the best for any purpose, whether cho
sen for breeders or for fatcning pur
poses. The titman is the smallest ri.
of the litter. Intelligent breeder
aver that the titman will never max
a satisfactory breeder"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06

TAKE IT Blackstone ofthc papers
are publishing the Peter Cooper vote
Of Mahaska as 638. That Is slander
that requires correction. The highest
vote cast for any Keetcr Pooper man
was $40, and a3S, is really tho vote.
Mako your apologies, gentlemen.
Qskaloosa Herald
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06
THE TREASURY ROBBERS.
All the Parties Engaged in the
Robbery Captured Except
Harry Williams.
Recovery of 100 More Of the
Missing Money.
From tho Pel,a Blaile

1t now transpircs that the man and
woman arrested in st. Louis are the
notorious John Brannon, living above
Red Rock, and his sister-in-law, Miss
Eliza Flanders. As soon as Mr..
Hawk and Mr.. Faris had secured
Brannon and Miss Flanders, they re-
turned home, and Mr.. Hawk was at
work all last week ferrcting out and
arresting others of the gang.
From information received while
in st. Louis, it was learned that John
Brannon, man named Barkus and
Harry Williams, all living near Red
Rock, in this county, were the men
who entered the treasurer's office, and
robbed the safe of its contents, Will
liams and Barkus being the men who
went inside, while Brannon stood
guard on the outside. 1t was also
learned that Miss Della Alley, living
near Red Rock, made the masks worn
by Williams and Barkus from an old
velvet cloak, and that an old lady
named Mikescll, also living near Red
Rock, concealed the money for the
robbers q short time after the robbery
Hawk went to Red Rock last Satur-
day morning to arrest these two wo-
men and see if the old velvet cloak
could be found from which the cloth
to make the masks was cut.
1t was also discovered that man
named Matteson, brother-in-law OF
Brannon's, living in Prairie City, was
in some way connected with the af.
fair. lie was placed under arrest
last Friday and 81, 900 of tho money
found in his possession.
|. When Brannon's trunk was opened
in st. Louis and evidence discovered
duplicating Barkus in the robbery, q
st. Louis detective sent Barkus a dis
patch to meet him at some point be
tween st. Louis and Kansas City, on
a certain day without fail, and signed
Brannon's name to it. The bait took
and Barkus was secured, but how
much money was found i'm his pos.
session we have been unable to find
out.
Ono of the most important charac.
ters in this bold robbery, was Harry
Williams, who has been running al
large in this county for months, under
n sentence of twenty years in the pen.
itcntiary for murder, having escaped
from the Deputy Sheriff of the coun
ty, after he had been sentenced and
while awaiting his transfer to thu
pcnitentiary at TT. Madison. Williams
is notoriously bad character. and i
was important that he should be ar
rested. But, it is supposed that ht
snufled danger from some source, a.
it has been ascertaincd that he wen
to Oregon. Whether our county au
thorities will think it best to incul
the expense of sending an Officer
after him, we do not know, but i
seems to us that he should not be al
lowed to escape punishment this way
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06
wIII Have = New Eiector.

PIovIDENcE, Nov. 2S.-A special
session of the General Assembly
meets Friday to elect presidential
|elector, rice George II. Cornish, {
". S. Centennial Commissioners
whom the S~preme Court holds i
disqualified.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06

I tremble for ,ny country schen I re.
fleet that God Is just, and that Hts
vengeance aoiU not sleep forever
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
What horrid offcnscs, committed by
the southern democracy, are now be-
ing laid before the country No
brutality, SO brutal, ever surpassed
these outrages in any land, even
among the most dcbascd of human
beings. We confess, we admit that
such outrages stagger the credulity OF
a civilized people who have had no
personal knowledge of the people OF
the South. 1t is entirely credible,
however, to honest men who hare had
personal knowledge of those miscre.
ants Of the south, and what is most
horrible, those miscrcants arc so great
in numbers as TO control the society
of the states in which they live; their
deeds go unwhippcd of justice, and
the pretended decent people wink at
such atrocities. Yea, even more, the
leaders of the democratic party north,
will, actuated by sheer satanism, turn
deaf, cold ear to what they know to
be true of this terrorism and cruelty.
Win a just God always permit this ?
No! the Almighty has surely pre-
pared the whirlwiEd for all such
sewers of iniquity, and the dreadful
feature of it is, it will, in some meas
ure, cngulf the innocent with the
guilty. Within the past few months
this whole nation has been shocked
by the recital of Turkish barbaritics
in Bulgaria, and we INDUCED in most
indignant anathemas upon the fol-
lowers of Mahommed, but here, with
in our own borders, have Turkish
barbarities been equalled in atrOcity,
not in time Of war; as was the case in
Europe, but in time of peace. Shame
on the American name! What by
word we become in the eyes of the
world. Such are the measures used
by the great so-called reform party,
to purify this nation.
For ourselves, we never have doubt
cd these atrocities. In the time of the
rebellion we saw with our own eyes
atrocities committed upon defenscless
colorcd men, while We, also defense
less, begged that they might be
spared, which, if they did not equal
the worst of those now being made
public, were sufficient to horrify the
onlooker, and compel him to gravely
reflect whether it be true that all who
wear the human form arc in fact
human.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06
MORE DAMNABLE WORK AN At
TEMPT TO KIDNAP MRS. rINKsToN
AND ANOTHER FEMALE WITNESS.
Special Telegram to the Inter Ocean


Special Telegram to the Inter Ocean.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. 9Th,
woman Eliza Pinkston, whose har
rowing story dcmoralizcd the demo
Gratis yesterday, was visited last nigh
at her place of sojourn by three dem
ocrats. one Of whom she declares by
name to be one of the scoundrels who
outraged her in Ouachita. He drew
a pistol on her as she lay PROSTATE
when she leaped from her bed and
fled through a door to the kitchcr
down stairs. The evident object wa.
to kidnap her and Cora Williams
also a Republican witness. Sht
shricked and the villains fled before
the police arrived. The United State.
Marshal drove at Ii o'clock at nigh
to the house and posted guards. Tho
woman is in very feeble condition
The democrats are much chagrined a
the wrath of Palmer and Gen. Smith
and are
TRYING To LAUGH DOWN THE INFAMN
AS A RADICAL TRICK.
The New Orleans Democrat, th,
central organ here, says this evening
"The principal actor overdid he
part. A certain amount of blood ant
thunder is necessary to make q mod
ern drama go, but an excess of i
shocks and disgusts. Eliza was butch
cred too much. She dealt in horror
too profuscly. Eliza is the most cx
traordinary fabricator of modcri
times. She lied boldly, conspicuous
ly, and immensely. In the cxamina
ton the woman faintd or pretendc,
to faint"
Such terms concerning a poor won
an who has almost had her Who'll,
life shot out of her, and only by vi
olent effort was able to leave her be,
to testify, have only added to tn
wrath of Mcssrs. Sherman, Palmer
Smith, Courtlandt, Parkes, and 9th
ers. The attempt before the boart
to-day to prove an alibi by an olt
man named Thilbaalt, the father o
one of the villains who committc,
the murders and outrages. was
MOST SIGNAL FAILURE.
On cross-examination he admittc,
that his son had left home at o'clocl
on that day and did not return 70
three or four days. The Democrat
have utterly failed so far to impug
the testimony of Eliza Pinkston. Gee
Julian left the room with pape
held before his eyes streaming wit
tears at the pitcous recitation of thi
wOman's wrongs, and has not sine
ventured to return there. The morn
ing Democratic dailies have not
word of Mrs. Pinkston's evidence, fC
the reason, as they say, that they hav
no room. The bulldozer's intimid;
ton extends to and pcrvadcs a
classes and occupations in city an
State. No business man in New O
leans dare publicly condemn the on
RACES committed upon Mrs. Pinksto
as his business would be ruined an
his own life endangered.
GENERAL GARFIELD, ALLuDING TO I'll
i SITUATION, SAID,
"No, no, no! never did believe
tho North half that was told me abo,
the condition of Republicans in Il
J South, because did not think yc
could live in an actual hell until
came here and saw y with my ow
i eyes,"
II Hundreds of other witnesses a
} now here to testify to othergreat on
RACES committed upon the epub lies
: voters, but there is not timc for u
Q returning officers to hear them.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06
counrnendebIe chaIltv.

ST. HYAoINrHE, QuEBEc, Nov. 3d.
President Mcmahon has contributed
three thousand francs in aid OF tn,
sufferers by the late fire.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-06

The entire coffee crop of the world
last year was 9O0,OO0,O0O pounds, of
which the United States imported q
full one third part.