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Connecticut western news., 1876-09-08

Is the best medicine ever offered to the public for ~ the cure oi diseases caused by an impure or i'm poVerlshed condition of the blood. 1t contains those elements which are essential to the build ing up ot the system to state of perfect health. It differs from other tonics in this manner. If ia not mixture of cheap barks in poor iouors nj which most of the so-called tonics are composed Ihe Iron Tonic contains alcohol ill no form. as cathartics and induce diseases which do inc patient harm. The Iron Tonic acts as n reE aiator oy tonlng up the system to state of per lect health, so that each organ will naturally and for itself. The Iron Tonic has been used as medicine in the private practice of a regular physician for number of years who had his office in our drug store. We were surprised at the good results and recommends it received rom those who had useo it, either as the physi- clan prescribed. or who took it on the advice of persons who had received benefit from it. We saw that the sale continued to increase; that or ders came from distant places-from ohio, New Jersey, New York city ana Connecticut The or uers increased Tn such manner that we were con Vnceo the Iron Tonic was medicine of no ordinary merit.
 Without any advertising on our part we have soIo o lh two years, from our store us a prescrip- th tton, over iooo bottles of the Iron T Onic and tn most of that number have been used by peO pie Wlthln radius of two miles from our store so tnai we nave been compelled to place it where tue public can obtain it.
 As to cases demanding its nae all csses or ,.oo1. ness, either the result ot sickness or of maiarin innueHces. For indigestion, lack of tone of the digestive organs. For q weak tatigued feelin,r an aching il the back such as so many of onr women conn lain of. For Neuralgia. Seryous hess and all cases where tonic treatment is de manded, this medicine is particularly designed to relieve and cure.
 - TESTIMONIAL.
 WILSON BRos.-l had for a long time been troubled with all irregular action of the bow els and Kidneys; loss of appetite, and as d conre- quence was very weak was so constipaled that was oollged to take cathartic medicine most ut tue tune. mere was want of action throug bout my whole system. A friend told me of Dr. ,. WILSON'S Iron Tonic. tried oue bottle ana my bowels became regular; the pain left my and now am we'll l was surprised at the Der. ehts ! received, and can cheerfulIy recommend your Iron TOnac to all who are suffering from debility from any cause. D. w HITCuCoCK
 kxpress Messenger F., Il. < B. k S. , For sale by all Druggists. Price $1. .OU per bot tie. WILSON BROS PronrinI6rp "'' 4Stf Pleasant Valley, Dutchcss Co k. W ROBINSON & SON, W Wholesale Druyuists
 l82, 1Si and 1s6 Greenwich St, New York.
 General Agents.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01
A TERRIBLE BLOW.
Property and Children Taken at
Once and the Wife and Moth
er Dying.
1nwa City Press astb


Yesterday morning about 10 o'clock
terrible calamity fell upon the house
of Sylvester Starkweather, of North
English, Hinkletown, English town.
chip, Iowa County. He was at work
in the field mile aud half from the
house and Mrs. Sarkweather was at
work in the yard a short distance from
the house, when she saw flames break
ing forth from the upper windows.
Realizing that her children, two little
girls three and five years old were in
the upper rooms, she rushed to the
house, and made her way up the mar
row stairs through sitting smoke and
flame, at the head of the stairs she was
overcome by the fire and forced back
from the children, then in the agonies
of a horrible death. The mother es-
capped with such injuries as must nee
essarily result in death. Her clothes
were burned from her peron, even to
the shoes on her feet, and she was left
an almost unacceptable crisp. Of
the bodies of the children, the only
distinct remains left were the charred
fragments of the backbone, about Is
inches in length.
The origin of the fire is not known,
but is supposed to have been caused
by the children playing with matches.
The unfortunate father and husband
bereft of children. wife, property and
almost reason, commands the deepest
sympathy and aid of every one. He
is a poor, Woodworking man, who by
labor and economy had gathered
about him the charms and comfort of
a little home, now swept away at one
hard blow.
With the house, was burned the
barn, out-buildings, hay, corn bins,
and granary, in word everything
he possessed. The loss in money is
not learned, nor as to insuran &c, yet
these, though severe, are nothing to
the poor man, in comparison to the
dreadful taking away of all that made
labor easy and life dear to him.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01
Iowa Butter Business.

Yesterday we met A. r.. Dickey, of
Hazel Green, Delaware county, mem
Der of the butter manufacturing COM
pany at that place. From him we
learned few facts which show that
Iowa is fast coming to the front
among the butter producing states.
His company has been engaged in
the business but short time, and al
ready have two factories, with a ca
pacity to use the milk of 500 cows.
They purchase the milk from far
mers, paying from 20 cents to $l.10
per hundred pounds for it, according
to the season. They manufacture on
ly what is known in the eastern mar
ket as the creamery butter, all of
which is now marketed in New York,
bringing the handsome figure of 40
cents per pound. At present they
ship about 900 pounds per week.
And this is only one of several COM
panies engaged in the same business.
As an evidence that it pays and will
continue to grow until Iowa will sup
ply a great portion of the eastern de-
mand for good butter, Mr.. Dickcy
says that many farmers in the locali-
ties where these factories are cstab-
lished are turning their farms cxclu-
sively into dairy farms, and constant
ly increasing the number Of their
cOWs.-DNJUGNe Times,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01

BRAVE AcToF A RAILROAD ENGINEER.
That was brave act of the engin-
Ger of q locomotive drawing a train
of eighteen loaded cars on the Port
land Il Ogdcnsburg Railroad the 9TH
er day. just as it had commenced the
descent ola heavy grade between st.
Johnsbnry and the Connecticut river
the engineer deserted three cattle on
the track just in advance of him. To
drive or brighten them from the
track. or to seasonably stop the train,
was impossible. Instantly he decided
what to do. lie sent his fireman to
disconnect his engine and tender
from the train, whistled .down
brakes" and with full steam on,
plunged forward alone, and with the
fearful impetus thus gained, threw
the cattle from the track. He then
quietly allowed the train to overtake
him again, connected it and continued
on, his passengers knowing nothing
Of the fearful danger they had es-
capped by his bravery, his quick wit,
and his fidelity to duty.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01

lie was as dumb and mute upon that
question up TO late hour, as he has
been and still is, upon the murderous
Ku-klux. AT last he is pushed to the
wall. His fear of defeat has so got
the better Of him that he is induced
to make death bed repentance, and
go back upon all his opinions during
the war as to the justice of the ma
tons cause, and say that notwith-
standing, according to his often ex-
pressed Judgment, the war was all
wrong, and that the rights of the
Southern pcoplcAwere invaded, yet
he will not recompense them for the
wrongs they suffered, as he alleges.
This move of the cunning Tilden for
Northern support, he withholds until
it will be too late to have his views be-
come known to over one-third of his
friends in the South. This last cum
ming move of Tildcn's will not be
known to two-thirds of the South
until long after the election. 1t will
be studiously kept from them down
there, and indhstriously circulated in
the North. The letter is nothing
more nor less than a hypocritical
promise of dcccncy for the future, by
criminal guilty of quasi treason to
his country and fraud upon her rev.
cnues and upon elections, made to
save himself from condemnation by
an outraged people.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01
Audible Speech Conveyed Two
Miles by IeleRYani1.

The boston Adcertiser of October
18th prints an interesting account of
an experiment in carrying ON con-
yersation by word of mouth over a
telegraph wire, made on the evening
of the 18th inst, by Alexander Gra-
ham Bell and Thomas Watson. Tel
ephones were placed at either end OF
a telegraph line owned by the Wal
worth Manufacturing Company, ex-
tending from their office in Boston to
their factory in Cambridgcport, a
distance of about two miles. The
Company's battery, consisting of nine
Daniels cells, was removed from the
circuit, and another of ten carbon
elements substituted. Articulate con-
versation then took place through the
wire. The sounds, at first indistinct
and faint, became suddenly quite
loud and Ineligible. Mr.. Bell i'm
Boston and Mr.. Watson in Cam
bridgeport took notes of what was
said and heard, and the comparison
of the two records shows that the
transmission was almost perfect ac-
c,lrate. Conversation was carried on
for about half an hour, generally in
an ordinary tone, but often in whis-
per. The credit of this important
discovery is due to Mr.. Bell.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01
IMPORTANT TAX DECISION.
The Supreme Court Holds the Ac
of 1877 = "a lae Con of;$,.<;nnnl

The Supreme Court Holds the Act
of 1872 to be Constitutional.
The Supreme Court of Iowa. now
in session at Dubuque, has just filed
an opinion in the case of the City of
Dubuque VS.. the G. d. & M. and G.
c. q ID. Railroads, which finally set
ties a much mooted point touching
the taxation of railroad property for
municipal purposes, and one which
effects all the cities and towns in the
State through which a railroad may
pass. The case involved the consti-
nationality of the act of 1872. The
Times says:
"The city authorities being advised
that, being in contravention of Sec
ton 2, article 8, of the constitution of
the State, which provides that, "The
property of all corporations for Pc
cuniary profit shall be subject to tax
alton the same as that of individuals. .
this act was unconstitutional, refused
to obey its provisions, and proceeded
to sscss the property Of the C. d. g.
Nj. and Z. {. Il ID. Railroads for the
year 1872, without reference to its
provisions. The companies claimed
that the assessments thus made was
without warrant Of law, and in or
der to settle the question thus raised,
an agreed case was prepared and SUBJ
mitted to the District Court of Du-
buque county, which held the act of
1872 was unconstitutional, and that
the assessment made by the city au-
thoritics was valid and binding. The
case was carried to the Supreme
Court. In the opinion just filed, the
Supreme Court, Rothrock J. giving
the opinion, reverse the District
Court, holding that the act of 1872
was constitutional, and that the ac-
ton of the city authorities in refusing
to follow the provisions of this act in
assessing the property of the COM
panies, cannot be sustained. The
Court places its opinion on the
ground that the Legislature has the
right to declare where certain kinds
of property, like the rolling stock of
railroads, is situated for the purpose
of taxation, and has the right to pro-
vide different modes of assessing the
valuation of different species of prop
erty that the different modes of as
sessment are required by reason of
the difference in the nature of the
property to be assessed and that the
act of 1872 did not contrayene the
constitutional provision, because il is
intended simply to point out the
method of ascertaining the valuation
OF this peculiar species of property.
and not to exempt such property from
the same burdens Of taxation as are
imposed upon the property of indi-
viduals.
Judges Beck and Adams dissent
from this ruling of the majority of
court, and Judge Beck has filed an
elaborate opinion, in which he dis
cusscs the points involved very fully.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01

The following classification of the
awards thus far made by the Centen-
NAL judges, is Of interest at this junct-
ure TO the S,l75American exhibitors,
5000 medals have been given, and
5,l07 to the 22,6S9 exhibitors from the
rest of the world. In the department
Of ores and metals New England had
So Medals; the Middle States l22;
the Western States IS; the Southern
States %, and the Pacific States 95.
In general manufactures New Eng
land obtained $40 medals; the Mid
die States S37 the Western 1875; the
Southern S6,and the Pacific States 13.
In agricultural and miscellaneous
products New England has 1O4 med
ais; the Middle States have COZ; the
Western "a the Southern 48, and the
Pacific l6. In the department of ed
cation and science, including music
and instruments of precision. New
England has Go; the Middle States
have 1873; the Western States GO; the
Southern 26, and the Pacific States
l. In the fine arts group, exclusive
Of medals awarded to Oil paintings,
New England has s medals; the Mid
die States have As the Western States
9; the Southern 9, and the Pacific 3.
In machinery and inventions New
England has Ill medals, while the
Middle States have 303: the West
ern 50 the Southern Ii, and the Pa
cific States l, The total number of
medals for New England thus far
awarded is 800: for the Middle States
2,0l0: for the Western 400; for the
Southern 2l3, and for the Pacific
States 100. There are 80 awards for.
oil paintings.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01
Sudden Repentance

Yesterday forenoon q farmer en-
tered a restaurant on GriswOld street,
hat on the back of his head and a joy
full look in his eyes, and flinging his
hat on the floor he exclaimed:
"Whoop! Sold my wool, and now
| want thanksgiving dinner
lie was invited to sit down to a Ia
BILE, handed bill Of fare, and asked
to name his dishes.
II want chicken, turkey, oysters,
fish, quail, snipe, pie, cake, soup, wine
bring on the best you've got in the
shanty !" he said as he pushed the bill
away.
The waiter started out, and the
farmer hauled out his wallet and
counted his money. Ills face grew
serious, after moment, as he began
to realize that Injuries cost money.
and in another minute he pounded
on the table and called out:
81 want to sec that waiter !"
The waiter entered and the farmer
continued:
"Yon hold OH little. You may
scratch out that other order and bring
me in some meat and Eaters and bread
I've sold my wool, as / said before !:
but l just happened to think that the
corn crop may bust on me, and
where'd quail ON toast be then p
Detroit Tree Press.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01
A SOUND CURRENCY.

"Reform," says the democratic
platform, is necessary to Establish a
sound currency" A sound currency
When was the national currency as
sound as to-day-composcd of United
States notes and national bank notes
Who established that currency Who
has maintained its high and sound
character under every disadvantage,
and who labors TO advance these
notes to par in gold under all the
hostility Of the democracy? Was it
not the republicans How would the
democracy reform it? BY abolishing
those notes? BY destroying the sys-
tenn upon which they are based? BY
flooding the country with yalueless
rags under Tic old wildcat system
Or by the imitation Of the legal ten
dcrs TO an extent that would render
them practically valueless, and amount
to virtual reputation of the national
debt? Who can contemplate the con-
sequences without q shudder?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01

A witty Persian illustrated the pc.
sition of England on the Eastern
question at gathering of diplomats
in Paris, short time ago, by telling
q story. lie said when asked what
the probable course of England would
be: "She will do as the monkey did"
On being asked for an explanation he
said that "a learned man Of old, wish
ing to test the power of maternal af-
lection in the monkey, took female
of the species, with her young one,
and put them in large tin box over
a hot fire. When they began to feel
the heat the old monkey seized the
young one in her arms and danced
about on the hot floor. Finally, when
she could not save herself from being
burned by leapng any longer, she
put the baby monkey down and stood
on it, saving her feet by roasting her
offspring. In like manner" said the
Persian, England will sacrifice Tur-
key when the heat becomes intoler-
able, in spite of her former maternal
solicitude."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01

When the Lincoln (Ncb.) Journal
editor steps out doors, he is called
upon to describe a panorama scene
like this:
An immigrant wagon passed
through the city on Sunday, drawn
by a first-class team of ring-boned
and spawned nags, a bob-tailed dog,
tied with a log-chain, trotting be-
tween the hind wheels, and a half
dozen quinine-visaged people under
the canvas. They came from demo-
cratic Missouri, and were bound for
the frontier of republican Nebraska,
to ciyilize and grow up with the
country. On one side of the cover
was daubed ''Tilden and Hendricks
and on the other was inscribed in
beautiful letters, "Soft Money"
Wen wager our profits on the results
in November that in less than two
years that man will not acknowledge
that he ever was "rahfawmah."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01
The PHYSICAL Benefit Of Sunday.

Sunday is Gods special present to
the workingman, and one of its chief
objects is to prolong his life, and pre-
serve efficient his working tone. In
the vital system it works like a COM
pensation pond; it replenishes the
spirit, the elasticity and vigor which
the last six days have drained away,
and supplies the force which is to fiji
the six days succeeding; and in the
economy of existence it answers the
same purpose as in the economy of
income is answered by a savings
bank. The frugal man who puts
away a pound to-day, and another
pound next month, and who, in a
quiet way is putting by his stated
pound from time to time, when he
grows old and frail gets not only the
same pound back again, but good
many pounds besides. And the con-
acientions man, who husbands one day
of his existence every week--who, i'm
stead of allowing Sunday to be tram
pied and torn in the hurry scramble
of life, treasures it up-thc Lord Of
Sunday keeps it for him, and in the
length of days the hale of age gives it
back with usury. The savings bank
of human existence is the weekly
British Reriep.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01

Woman nature is much the same
the world over, and is always just as
amusing when ii breaks ont one place
as in another. The Carson, (Nev.)
Tribune illustrates this point as fol-
lows.
Two China women, dressed in all
the grandeur of the uppertendom of
Canton, We're walking up the east
side of Carson street, along the capt.
tol fence, and had the appearance Of
perfect satisfaction concerning their
personal appearance. AT the north
corner of the capitol grounds, oppo-
site David's stable were seated two
young Washoe squaws, and as the
China bells approached them they
rose to their feet and confronted the
moon-eycd ladies. One Indian spoke
as follows: "You bad China You no
good; you all same monkey i'm circus
you no got him hair, you all tail you
put on him airs all same white meha-
la; you get him of in, street pretty
quick; me Indian me 'Mericall, and
me put head on You monkey The
Chinese bellies beat hasty ctrcat.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01

JEFF DAVIS recently said of Tildcn
and Hendricks: 81 know Tildcn and
Hendricks we'll. While the Southern
people were hravcly contcnding in
the field, for four long years of cruel
war, your nominees, both in the TO-
rum and as private citizens, were
giving their political aid and COM
fort to our righteous cause. think
that sce aciltgain all sce lost By The scar
between the States IN the election Of
those g1orioas champions of State SOW
ereignty and the Constitution as IL
,cus."
That JEFF Davis, in the above spoke,
from the very depths of his inner
most soul, there is not the least doubt.
He makes up a part of that solid
south for Tildcn. lie is the man who
still lives and enjoys full citizenship
in this land, save the right to hold
Office, but has from time to time de-
clared since the close of the rebellion
that the "Lost Cause" is not lost. lie
disdains to ask the clcmency of the
Government for full and complete
pardon, because he maintains that he
never committed any wrong, but was
right in his rebellion. lie knows that
Tildcn and Hendricks are now, as
they were during the rebellion, his
friends, and no man in this nation
would throw his hat higher should
their election occur, than the Prcsi-
dent of the late Confcdcracy. Should
Tilden be elected and take his scat at
Washington on the 18th day of next
March, JEFF Davis will be there to
welcome Mr.. Tilden upon his inaug-
uration, and join in the general ac-
claim of solid south.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01
Cent auR
I,ininentS.
TLetter from . Postmaster

hNiAoous ALisS Dec. i, 1874.
Messrs. J. D. RosH 4 Co.:
my wife has. for long Time been terrible
sufferer from Rheumatism She has tried many
physicians and many remedies. The only thing
| am reloiced to say t6ishas cured her. an
' - W. W. II. RING.
lnls sample IT many thousU testimonials
leceive', OF wonder ul cures effected BY the Cen
tsur Eminent: The Ingredients Of this article
sre puoLsned around each bottle. Il Contains
WHICH Hazel, Mentha, Arnica, ROCK on carho,-
ic, and Ingredients hitherto little known !. !.
an Il dlsru able fact that the Centaur Iinnan, !.
performing more cures Of ewtliings. stler Jo,n,.
Eruphons, rheumatism, Neuralgia, sciattca'
Caked Breasts, Lock-Jaw. Ac.. than all other Lin.
tments. Kmbrocatious Extracts, saly,s. oint-
ments, and Plasters now in use.
For Toothache. Earache. Weak Back. Itch and
Cutaneous Eruptions, It IL admirable. Il cnres
Burns and Scalds without scar. Extracts moi.
son from bites and stings, and heals frost.b,tes
and chilblains In q. abort lime. No family can
afford to be without the CentAur Linimenf, white
wrapper.
EThe Centaur Lfniment, yellow Wrsp-
per, is adapted to the tough skin, muscles and
neah Of the animal creation. Its effects upon Sc
we're cases Of SPAWN, Sweeny. Wind Gan, Big
Head and Poll Evil, are little less than marvellous
Messrs. ]. Mcclure 4 Co., 'Druggists, cor. him
and Front SITS. Cincinnati, O., say:
"In our neighborhood q number of tesmstera
are using the CentAnr Linimens. They pronounce
tt superior to anything they have ever used we
sell as nigh ~ four 70 five dozen bottles per month
to these teamsters.o
We have thousands of similar testimonials.
For Wounds, Calls, Scratches, Ring-bone, &C..
and for screw.worm in Sheep 1t has no rival.
Farmers, livery men and Stock -raisers have in
this Liniment remedy which is worth hundred
times Its COST
LAHoHAr0RY.or J. B. ROSE 4 CO.,
10 Dey street. New York.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01
Pitchers
CastOria,

Mothers1may have rest and their babies may
nave health ~ they, will use Castoria for Wind
oollc, worms, Feverishness, Sore Mouth, Group,
OF stomach Complaints. 1t IL entirely veeeta-
Die preparation. and contains neither mineral.
morphine nor alcohol. 1t Ia as pleasant to take
as honey. and neither gags nor gripes,
d.. 4. Dimoch. Of Dupont, o., says:
~ am using Ca. toria In my practice with the
most signal benefits and happy result y
rms 70 what every one says. Most nurses In
new York city.use the Castoris. 1t 10 prepared
BY Aessrs. J. B.: Rosxs& Co., 4s.Dey,st, New
York, successors to:samuel Pitcher. n. D.
6-28.W-cha