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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

Great bodies move slowly. Gov.
Tilden, after weeks of silence has at
length spoken. He replies to the
charge of perjury, for which he
stands indicted before the bar of pub
lie opinion, in connection with his in
come return for 1862, and states that
in 1861 he advanced in the aggregate
several hundred thousand dollars to
keep the drug manufacturing house
of Tilden & Co., at Lebanon, N. V,
from going into bankruptcy, and that
these moneys were all or nearly all
lost. What Mr.. Tilden's losses for
1861 have to do with his income of
1862 is not very apparent. Admitting,
however, that he made such advances
in 1862, the claim for exemption is
still exceedingly gauzy. Had Mr..
Tilden lost these several hundred
thousand dollars" i'm pool tickets on
the Jerome Park races, would he
have been allowed to make deduc-
ton of like amount from his income
return2 Had he presented these
several hundred thousand dollars
to his brothers would he have been
exempted? The law makes no pro-
vision for any such events. Mr.. Til
den's income in 1862 from wrecking
railroads and other sources was far
in excess of the amount returned.
What he did with it was no part of
the Governments business. lie may
have invested it in mining stocks,
mortgages, or faro-checks, or donated
it for political purposes, but it still
remained ''income' as the basis for
the assessment Of an income tax law
fully and righteously due the Gov
eminent, and this tax he eyadcd.-
Chicago Tribune.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

The grand jury, very properly,
have been paying their attention to
some of the houses Of prostitution in
town, and have found indictments
against several of them. The pres.
sure has become so great that the
Murphys, whose house has long been
stencil in the nOstrils of all decent
people, have found it convenient tC
skip out for more congenial quarters
The public generally, and especially
tax payers, would be largely benefit.
ted if our city was rid of the last one
Of these institutions.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
Efforts to Prevent Reinforcing
IchaYHaAff.

LONDON, Sept. l5.-The Standards
dispatch from Belgrade says the Turks
made an attack Tuesday, on Mali
Zwormeck, to prevent the Servians
from sending achievements to Gen.
Tchernacff, but the fighting on the
Drina cannot influence the issue Of
the war at Alexinatz.
TURKISH PLAN OF OPERATIONS.
A correspondent with the Turks
says that their plan of operations is to
cross the Morava, storm the Servian
position at Deligrad, occupy it and
then return to take Alexinatz. Both
positions are strong, and the task is
one of enormous difficulty. The first
attempt to carry out the plan by
bridging the Morava on Monday, was
unsuccessful.
BAD CONDITION OF THE TURKISH ARMY.
A Belgrade telegram to the Daily
NeWs says rain has been falling in
torrents for the last two days. The
Morava valley is now a great swamp.
BY Systematically burning villages,
the Turks have destroyed what would
have been their shelter, and they are
now exposed without cover to the
storm. Important military opera
tons are impossible, and a week of
rain will render the valley untenable.
The Servians have supplies for
years campaign at Deligrad and
Alexinatz. The Turks are obliged to
haul everything from Nisch. Their
withdrawal to that point is expected
daily.
GERMANY WILL NOT JOIN RUSSIA.
A Telegrdph's special from Vienna
asserts that Germany will not move
in aid of the Russians demands upon
Turkey, and in the event of war will
remain absolutely neutral.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
GOVERNOR TILDEM AS A PER-
JuRER.

A Part Of the Record Against Him
cago and Alton Railroad are
Right, however-They Partly Sus-
tain the Charges Against tho
Great Reformer.
Special Dispatch to the New York Times.
CHICAGO, Sept. SIN that great ca
lamity of October, 1871, Governor
Tildcn finds crumb Of comfort, for
the books and records of the Chica-
60 and Northwestern Railroad Com
pany were lost in the sea of fire which
then swept through this city. There
is no reasonable doubt that during
1862 as we'll as in subsequent years,
this company paid him large sums Of
money, but as the records are gone
the officers of the company decline to
say precisely when he sucked its SUBJ
stance outofthe corporation, or to what
extent. The case is different with the
Chicago and Alton Railroad Com
pany. There Tilden is plainly on the
record; SO plainly that whichever
horn Of the dilemma he takes he is
equally impaled. The answer to the
charge of perjury made against him
by the Times was that while $4,000
were received in 1862, the money had
been earned in previous years, and
therefore should not be counted as in
come of that year; but on April lS,
1863, he received twenty bonds of the
Chicago and Alton Railroad, num-
bered from No. l,25l to No. 1,27O both
inclusive, which at the time he got
them were at par value, and
therefore worth twenty thousand dol
lars. Although actually received
in 1863, this money was earned if
ever earned at all, between Septcm-
Der ~ and November l, 1862. On
the first named date Tilden and five
others were made Trustees of the
road, and OH the last named date
turned it back to the bondholiers.
Whatever services he rendered, what
ever money he earned, the books Of
the company show beyond all ques-
ton that he rendered and earned be-
tween the two dates which have been
given. The impression here among
the few prominent republicans who
have to-day become cognizant of the
facts which are shown by the books
of the Chicago and Alton Railroad
Company is that the charge of perju-
ry made by the Times against rilden
has now been so fortified that he can
not possibly escape from it.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

The other day when Gent futile
went to Keokuk to speak, fellow
named Hickey served legal notice
on him for damages alleged to have
been sustained by plaintiff during the
war, at Natchez. However the deln-
ocrats Of Keokuk with Dan Miller at
their head who got up the suit for
political purposes, were glad enough
to sneak out of it when futile show
ell that the only damage he had ever
done to Hickey was to shut up his sa.
loon in Natchez, because, he, Hickey,
had shot a man in it. ts#...
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

The Buffalo Erpress seriously as
severates that the papers read before
the Scientific Convention in that city
have an average weight of pound to
tho square inch.
It Ia not believed that there Is an
artist in the world who can catch tho
expression of a woman's face IA she
puts her nose to the milking and
finds that the thunder has soured the
contents.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

was done, and done well and cheaply,
and that's all there is of it.
When the work has heretofore been
done in other offices, the COURIER has
not complained about 1t, among other
reasons because it never made any
money off of the society, and because
it always recognized the fact that its
prosperity was identified with the
agricultural and manufacturing in-
terests of the people. 1t therefore
was always anxious to have good
and successful County Fairs, and
done every thing to that end it could,
without respect to the printing, and
without caring who gotit
The two spiteful paragraphs which
we have publish as the text for this
article, were written while it was
raining great guns last week, and
when it was feared that the deluge
would drown out the approaching
County Fair. Our contemporaries
hoping to profit by such a calamity,
indicated that the printing had been
given to the COURIER as q matter of
favoritism, and that the society had
become political machine, rs rea-
son.for the prospective failure which
their statements foreshadowcd and
seemed to desire.
The prominent democratic and re-
publican gentlemen composing the
officers of the society, and the intelli-
gent people Of Wapello county with
out respect to party, who know how
false and mean are these accusations,
should put their seal of condcmna-
ton on them, by coming out TO our
Fair en- massc.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

The regular meeting of the Hayes
and Wheeler club, Of Highland Tp.,
will meet at Highland Center school
house ON Sept. 23rd, at 7:3O p. m.
Speakers will be present.
j. 9. WHIpPLE, Pres.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

Ed. Gerlach has an AlbiMO Rae
coon. Its eyes are red and its fur il
as white as snow. II was raised over
on skunk river, in the neighborhood
of where John Alderman raises
krOut
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

Two bents Of the st. Louis, X. \
N. railroad bridge at the mouth of
Des Moines were washed out Sunday
morning. 1t ia wonder they were
not washed out long ago, as the
bridge sets down in the water al
most @Ig
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
Nominated.

SARATOGA, Sept. l3.-Lucius Rob-
inson has been nominated as demo-
cratic candidate for Governor by ac-
clamation. 73e 4Hd
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

If amy one says that General Weay-
er told us that he intended voting for
Conley he states something about
which he knows nothing. We do
not know how the General intends
voting farther than the general pre-
sumption that being a republican he
will vote the ticket. As we consider
him Of lawful age we have not at
tempted to dragon" him.-Dari.
County Republican, Sept. l4th.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
HOW NOT TO poIT.


New York Tribune.l
When enemies threaten
with musket or fist,
The way to resist them
Is not to resist.
Sound Copperhead doctrin.
And 30 they assume
The way to resumption
ls-nOt TO resume.
As Hendricks and Tilden
These doctrines affect,
The way to elect them
Is not to elect.
The TRIu.
We three
RefOrmers he,
Ti.den, Tweed
And MOrrissey.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

Large preparations are being made
for the forthcoming Horse Trot.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
The Malna Election.

Augusta, Me-, Sept. l2.-Retnrns
from 2S7 towns and plantations give
the total vote at 1909; Conner Co.,
743; Talbot ,296. Connor's MAORI
ty is l4,4l7. The same towns last year
gave total of 90, GOT Conner As, 434 !;
Roberts 44,l72. Connor's majority
l,262. The Republican net gain is
l0lS4.
PoRTLAND, Sept. 14-Returms thus
far give loo Republican and q Dem
ocratic Representatives elected. Thir-
ty towns to hear from will probably
make the final showing Ill Republic
ans and 10 Democrats.
AUGUSTA, Sept l3.-Returns, most
ly official, from three hundred and
eight towns give a total vote of lbs,
III; Connor, 7O,53O; Talbot So 81.
Connor's majority 1929. The same
towns last year gave ConnOr $3.50,
Roberts 1906. Ninety-thrce small
places not yet reported. Their total
vete last year was 8, lib.
AUGUSTA, Me-, Sept. 14.-Carefully
revised fOotings from IA towns give
the total vote l33,5O4; Conner 74,6Ol,
Talbot $500; Connor's majority Is,
Cos. Nineteen small towns and thir-
ty-five plantations are yet unheard
from. Returns from eight counties
are complete. The Republicans elect
ed lH Representatives and perhaps
two others. and % Senators.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

of officers is composed rs fairly
towards the parties and Of as honest
men as can be found In the county,
and Of men who will resent with in
terest the imputatlon that they carry
politics into the management of their
County Fair.
All these people who have from
time to time managed our county
Fairs will bear testimony to the fact
that we have not sought their job
printing, much less to monopolizc It,
and that we have uniformly advised
the officers to divide it up with the
other papers here, to prevent growl.
ing and injury to tho cause, which has
usually been done.
This spring, Capt. Garfield and L.
F. Newell came to our Office to gel
our prices for printing the premium
lists and posters, stating at the same
time that they had been to the other
Offices and had received prices, and
that we must come down to the low.
est notch, as the society was poor, etc
Pursuing our usual course, we gave
them about such prices as we would
do work for churches or other benev.
client or impecunious bodies, and Il
turning out that these prices were
either lower than offered elscw here
or else that these two men, represent
Ing the two prominent parties, as 4
happened (but not Intentionally SOY
concluded we could do II better
than elsewhere, in due tim,
gave us the work, which wa
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

holds forth over there in Chemung
county, make use of this vigorous
comparison: "A hypocritical Chris
tian can no more get into heaven than
a raccoon can climb a stovepipe with
a tea kettle tied to his tall"
Says the st. Louis Republicans. at
has been observed by frequenters OF
watering places that the female
swimmer never learns to use her 9TH
er limbs as gracefully as she does
her arms. This fact should be con-
sidered by the strong minded sister
hood as natural proof that lovely
wOman's mission is to embrace and
not to kick"
The stern sense of justice and right
that resides in tho Western mans
bosom was never more beautifully OIL
fOrcibly illustrated than at Waupun
Wis.,, a few days ago, when a visiting
brass band from Fond du Lac wenl
flying through the principal street
closely pursued by shower OF last
years eggs.-N. i. Com. Adc.
| No poor rate of tax levied directly
for the support of the poor is in OK
istence In France. The support lol
poor relatives is strictly enforced by
the civil code; the obligation presses
in the direct ascending line from til,
child to its great grandmother; and i
son-in-law or daughter-in-law where
no closer relation intcrvcnes; sucl
obligations are also reciprocal. Al
almshonsc or hospital relieving a pau
per belonging to another commune
can sue the relative to recover ex
'penses.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-17
L.T EZ.SEAs..

M'COEEICK.-Narriel. at the res
Iience of the brides father, on Thursday. March
I'll, 1876. by Rev. Eli Reese, Mr.. CHARLES HENRY
End Miss SSIE. daughter of :. B. Nj MCormick,
Esq, all OF Herced county, California.
We cannot permit the occasion to pass without
extending to the daughter of our old friend Rob
Roy the compliments befitting so important an
event In her iic's history and sincerely hope that
she has won the love and secured the rejection OF
who will prove true to the trust and show him
self worthy in every respect of the lifelong devo-
tion and sincere affection of good wife and faith.
fUl hclUmcet-ail which we believe our fatr young
friend Annie Will prove herself to be.
EDWA PDS-UW ENS.-5Iarried at the resi-
,Ience of the brides father, Mr.. David Owens on
THURSDAY March 2. 1876, by Rev. John l. Hughes,
MIR. RowLA3D l.. EDWARDS and MISS MAGGIE
OWENS. all of North Ebensburg, IA.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-17
A FEW WORDS TO FEEBLE AND DEL
ICATE WOMEN.

BY T.. V. PIERCE, VI. d, of the Worlds
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Peoples Common Sense Medical Advis-
cr. etc, etc.
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mind never to take another dose Of medicine,
or be tortured by any further treatment.
They had rather die and have their suffer
iagS ended than TO live an0 suffer as they
have. They say they are worn out hy suf-
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If you would use rational means, such aS
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its use is kept up for areasonahie length OF
time the special cause of these pains is per-
maucntly removed. Further light on these
subjects may he obtained! from The Peoples
Common Sense Medical ADV iSer, in which
| have devoted a large space to the consider
alton of all forms of diseases peculiar to your
sex This work will be sent (post-paid) to
any address on receipt of S1.50. My Favor
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-17

DEATH or MISS ROSE ANN CURRY.-It
is with sincere sorrow that we record the
DEATH in Altoona, on Saturday evening last,
after Il somewhat protracted and very pain
ful illness, (caused bv bronchial consump-
ton in it's most fearful form,) of Miss Rose
Ann Curry, third daughter Of David and
Maria Curry, aged "a years, months and .
days. Having been near akin TO the de-
ceased lady, it does moi, perhaps, become us
to speak in terms enlogistic of the lamented
dead but we feel nevertheless that we are
ouIy expressing the sentiments of all who
knew her when we declare that she was in
every respect model daughter. faithful
friend, an amiable and edifyirg companion,
ever efficient and intelligent in the perform
ance of the duties which pertained to her
position in life, and devout and earnest
member of the Catholic church.
Her funeral cortcge was composed of
large conrourse of sorrOwing relatives and
friends, all of whom followed the remains to
the basement of St. John s church, where a
solemn High Mass for the dead was offered
M by Father Gallagher ard an Impressive
funeral sermon delivered by Bishop Tnigg,
during which he took occasion TO cite the
early death of the good girl whose inani-
mate CLAW Law before him as n warning TO all
to prepare for that last journey from which
there is no return, and also paid n heartfelt
tribute to the deceased and to the pious pa
rents who had brought her mp III the love
and fear of God: after which the burial ser
vices were performed and the remains were
taken to St Johns cemetery, where they
were interrek abeut the hour OF noon on
Monday May she rest IL peace.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-17

CENTENNIAL PICTTRE FRAME.-J. W.
Oliver and Albert Eiway, of Altoona, have
just constructed a centennial picture frame,
40 tools being used bat pcn<nives and a
small plane. The frame is composed of one
hundred varieties of native American woods.
It is thus described by tue Mirror:
Tho frame is a pyrami idal, nine feet from base
to summit composed or six sections, seven feet
wide jne base upi two and II half fect wide
nt the rup. The basn section contains six open
ings for t,hOt,.grpl his each opcnjng being seven
ami n-hali Inches wide by tea and "a ha # inches
long. The second section contains five openings,
tho third e,cli.,n tour opcnjug the fourth sec,
tIon three openings, the 4 ith section two open
iu-s. and the sixth, or top section, one opening,
a;ih the countertrit prcscntment Of good old
Christopher Columbus placed therein. Below
and to either side of him are the pictures Of
william L, M and John Hancock. The remain
OF the Presidents of the United States. The
body of the frame is corr posed OF walnut, cedar
wood are contained in I he many elevat q points
seen at different places in the frame. TIE pro-
of work and u';d greatly to the general appear
aacc of the affair, Pendant from the base
the thirteen orig mai States of the Union. Mid
way the lower part of the base section is
sources entirely reliable. In the centre OF the
tablet is The star of peace, then piece of old
spirc Of he first 81. F. church 3uilt in j moricn,
in S;rasturg, Virginia, in i1j7. Next is a piece
of WHshiug on 3 cIaisc, i'm ported tr@m England
by Wushiu II ton aud bt ucathC i Ivy him to Wash
.nSton Curtis. There Is also n piece Of ne hAg-
stan OF tort ouiiptcr' WhiEl was GU on un'
ing the hnmbardincnt Ivy the COnfcd rates ia
\ Uril. 1901 piece OF the wood which the
.Jui,auCSt brought with them to this country,
aud Of which they are now constructing their
building Jbe Centennial grounds, Is also III
the tablet. One of the most interesting OF the
relics is piece OF the old ship IA, The Consti:u-
ton, launched at Boston in 1874. Another int r.
ceting relic IS piece Of the fl ST home of the
Pilgrims, bUIt at Cape Cod 253 years ago.
piece Of the elm tree under " hich william Penn
made his famous treaty with the Indians is Also
among Inc most interesting relics In the tablet
There are III teen thousand different pieces III
the frame and not a nail or particle OF glue was
used in it's construction. 1t will he removed to
Philadelphia and placed in the art gallery of
the exposition buildings about the first of next
month.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-17

AN OLD CITIZEN GONE.-Col Patrick ii.
Shields died at his residence in Loretto, af-
fer n brief illness, on Friday last. He was
born in the county Down, Ireland, in 1903,
and came 10 this country in 1926. In 1S41,
or about that time, he settled in Loretto and
engaged. in the mercantile business, in which
he continued mo:e or less actively untli The
,Iav of his death He leaves two children,
both sons his wife having died about one
wear ago. Col. Shields WAS one of our most
respected and prominent citizens, aud was
we'll known at home and abroad as a man
whose word was as good as his bond and
yyI,ose name was ever the synonym of in
teoritv and honest dealing. His death,
though not uue expected, will cause genuine
feeling of regret among his wide circle or
friends and acQuaiutances, all of whom VIII
remember him as good neighpor, klhu
friend. and "a sincere and devout member OF
the Catholic church. May lie rest IN peace