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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
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Sr. LOUIS, May PA greenback
party was organized in Sedalia yes
terday. Delegates at large and par
tial district delegation was elected 10
the NationalC Convention at Indianap-
oils. A State Executive committee
was also elcc.ed. The trial of A. C..
Dawes, general passenger agent of
the St. 10. 4 Council Bluffs railroad,
indicted for completely with distillers
and revenue agents, at Scdalia, is now
in progress at Jefferson City.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
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PARIS, May 12.-Amabell Ricard,
Minister of the Interior, died yester-
day. He was on the point of pub
fishing his long announced important
change of projects and sub-prefects.
A council of Ministers was held al
Elyzee this morning. Nothing is
known about their deliberations.
Ricard was the minister on whose
appointment the organization of the
present Republican compromise cab
met turned. His death is likely TO
renew the political troubles which
resulted from Bullets retirement, in
consequence of the result of the late
election.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

The Homheye says Judge Charles
Mason. Of Burlington, Iowa, is prom
inently named in Eastern circles as q
candidate for Vice President on the
Democratic ticket. Judge Mason is
man OF ability, but the history of
the last fifteen years of the country
shows few men of the north who have
been as disloyal to the nation as has
Mr.. Mason. Beyond question, he
would be considered very fitting
candidate by the men who control the
Lower House Of Congress.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

MIEwAuKEE, May l0.--The hide
pendent Grcenback State Convention
was held Mt Madison to-day. Dele
gates were chosen to the National
Convention at Indianapolis. Among
the resolutions adopted was one NOM
mating Judge Davis for President.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
Munn,s rrlal C..,mencea.

CHlcAGo, May l2.-Thc trial Of ID.
w. Mum, formerly Supervisor OF
Internal Revenue In this District,
commenced this morning on the joint
indictment against him and 4. +.
Bridges, EN-ncpaty Collector. They
are charged with conspiracy to de-
fraud the Revenue.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
s,s,Aa.a AGa,r..

HAVANA. May l2-Fiye hundred
more rebels have appeared in the ju-
risdiction Of Colon, Queseda, a
Spaniard, has been brought here from
Cardelas, on the charge ofsmuggiing.
Several employees OF the custom
house are implicated in the affair and
all are to be tried by court martial.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
A SPECIMEN REFORMER.
ChIcag0's Reform Collector sktPs
ont with 100000.

CHICAGO, Illinois, May Il.-City
Collector George Van Hollern
left this city last night for Eu-
rope via Canada. He has con-
fessed to his friends that he is a de-
faulter in the sum of 100000, and
his confession is verified by an exam
ination of his accounts. The great
er part of this amount has been used
to pay gambling debts, which, it is
said, he was constantly contracting.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
II H II M 81
$3.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE

THE Pella Blade, under its new cdi-
torial control, has declared for the
Hon. Josiah T. Young for Secretary
of State.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
THE yicksburg (Miss.) Plaiadeaie,

THE Nicksburg (Miss.) Plaindeaief
SAYS:
sThe difference between Demo-
crat and Republican may he very
small in Boston,. but il is very great
here in Vicksburg. In Boston the
Democrats recognize the negro as a
man and u citizen; but'in Vicksburg,
if a Democrat happens to go cunning
and sees negro in the woods, he
takes him for fox and shoots him,
and nothing is done with him. Shoot
Eng negroes down here qualities Il
snan for the thirty-third degree in the
Democratic fraternity. And yet
Sheridan was vehemently denounced
when he called such scoundrels ban
ditti.'"
The above Is no doubt n rather
strained representation of things, and
yet, SO numerous have been instances
in that State, not far removed from
such criticisms, that the Plain
deoier is justified, perhaps, in thus
putting things. Ex-Governor Ames
states that during the last year a very
low estimate places the number of
colored men murdered in that State,
at 800. There are a very large class
of white people in the South (and
they are Invariably members Of the
Democratic party) who place hardly
any higher estimate upon the life OF
a black man than upon that of a
dumb brute. and they kill thcm with
out n pang or twingc of remorse,
Our own personal observation has
forced this terribly nnwclcomc truth
upon us. 1t was this which wrcstcd
by frand and violence the State OF
Mississippi from Republican hands in
the last election in that State, and
which has since the reorganization 0l
the Southern States been gradually
overthrowing Republican rule in all
the Southern States. Ii only awaits
the national success of the Democrat
ic party To completely place under the
mercilcss heel Of the white race thu
whole colorcd population of I'll,
South. The irrcpressiblc conflict
(which i'm the last decade was entw inct
i'm the Federal Constitution and Laws
it Is true, has been disposed Of, bn
that iryeprcssible conflict which j.
dcep-seated, by education, by custom
in the minds Of the Southern people
through over two centuries oi slave
hoiding--thc abolition Of slavchold
/. ing laws--has not eradicated. ant
hence there is the prejudice of tha
education yet left to keep nplits owl
irrepressiblc conflict. 1t is, too, q pat
ent and Iamentablc fact that in ,
slight degree the same prelndic
against the black race, influence
and controls the major portion Of th
Democratic party north, and whicl
derisiyely and iiippantly rolls iron
theirtongues the appellation .sniggcr,
and spurns him as having no com
mon rights with white men in til
battle of life. The legal bonds whic
held men in chains in this countr,
have been broken, not voluntarily, bil
as a war necessity in the midst Of
fearful struggle for national existence
( Not so, however, have the sbackles Q
prejudice been broken, and these lai
ter shackles are to-day annulling th
law Of the land, which declares thi
nation, in SO far as IL can, nation .
freemen--a democratic goyernmen
In this great struggle the two polit
cal parties are IN fact contendin,
ao'c just as m,lcl, as they ever wer,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
The State Leader is tor Tilden-a
all events. this seems much like it,:

The State Leader is Tor Tilden-at
all events. this seems much like it.:
ssThe New York Herald trnthfully
says: Samuel j. Tilden, Of New
York, President of the United States,
with Thurman of Ohio, and Bayard,
of Delaware, i'm his Cabinet, would
lead the nation back to the best days
of the Republic, and win for us once
more the respect of the world
The Democrat of this city, also
favors Tilden, though it sort of re-
serves personal liking for Senator
Bayard. The Burlington Gazette is
going to be left alone, at this rate, in
love for Bill Allen. Memory reminds
us. however, that The SPIRIT Of the
Times is sort OF ally of the Gazette.
As the Democracy of Iowa We're
rampant for time for Pendlcton,
eight years ago, and finally shut their
eyes and swallowed the action of the
delegates at New York, in cuddling
in the bosom of Seymour, so now
they have started early to submit to
the intliction of another New York
man in the person of Tilden. Tilden
can carry New York, they say, and as
the South is with them, they must
look out fora few votes more to help
out. There is much truth In the fact
that the South is for Democracy
They were so before and during the
rebellion, and it is their wondrous
fellow-feeling upon the questions and
issues involved in the rebellion whicl
makes them thus fraternize. Let il
be Tilden. Such a nomination will
make certain the carrying Of eyer,
Northern State, save possibly New
York, Connecticut and Oregon, and
leave no possible doubt bnt that the
Republicans win succeed.
We append the following from thu
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel
to show a very weak spot in Governor
Tildcn. That paper denying thu
story that the Georgia delegates ar,
for Tilden, says:
$50 far. as Mr.. Tildcn is concerned
we believe him to be the last choic,
of the delegates from Georgia. w,
believe they prefer Bayard, Hancocl
or Hendricks to the man who's,
friends caused the loss Of Ohio las
October, and whose only recommen
dation is tho threat altered by tn,
Democratic Convention of his owi
State,i that unless he is nominated a
st. Louis, New York win vote fo
the Republican candidate"
Our readers will remember that oil,
bitter fight. T'ilden could not be in
dnced TO do one thing in the Obi,
canvass, indeed many Of his stronges
supporters openly said they hoped 70
/ the defeat Of Allen. This will TAX
deep hold in Ohio and Indiana an,
even in Connecticut, where a greel
back party is organized, which drew
about two thousand votes from Ehg
lish last month; this very sore spo
in the Tilden record will have II
effect.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

LONDON. May 10-During the rae
ing at Chester to-day temporary
stand erected for the use of spectators,
fell. Two persons Were killed and
many seriously injured.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
A cens an.ai Cannon nsassss.

1.PestR VIE seefsso''
DExTER A,, May l0.--In celebrat-
ing the cpe.iing OF the Centennial
Exposition our cannon bufsted and
slightly crippled two men. Some
pieces were carried twenty rods. 1t
is mystery how SO many escaped.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
wcs. virginia Cor Blaine.

WHEELINe, May 1.-THE Republic
can State Convention met Mt Clarks-
burg to-day. Ten delegates were
appointed to the Cincinnati conven-
ton. Resolutions were adopted ex-
pressing preference for Blaine for
President. The exact standing Of the
delegation is not known, but is no
doubt largely for Blaine.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

GOVERNOR TILpEE seems at this
juncture, to be the leading man for
the Democratic Presidential nominee.
This win worry the Burlington 6o-
zette badly. We must say, however
that the Gazette makes gallant Ight
for its Bill Allen style Of candidate.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
THE Cleveland, Ohio, Leader has an

The Cleveland, Ohio, Leader has an
editorial favoring the payment OF
pensions by the State to teachers who
retire from that vocation after cer-
tain long term of service. Senator
Woodin, of New York, has intro
duced into the Legislature of that
State q bill which allows TO men who
have taught thirty consecutive years,
and to women who have taught
twenty-five consecutive years in the
public schools of that State, pension
of onc-half their monthly earnings
at the time of their retirement.
We do not believe such n move
practicable. There is no precedent
for such course, and if il were
adopted it would give rise to claims
in many other directions of like
character. If there be need of a
remedy, arising from the inability of
teachers making due provision for
after life from the proceeds of their
labor, LET them be better paid. We
don't think they should be made al
moncrs upon the public bounty. Snch
a policy is degrading to the profess
sion.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
RIso mn yva,tew, ssaersca

DAYTON, ONO, May lO.--The Fourth
District unanimously endorsed Allen
and adopted greenback resolutions
to-day. Allen delegates We're elected
to the State and National Conven-
tions. $50
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

The dandies are ordering their
tailOrs to build their trowsers very
loose this Spring, and old inhabitants
are predicting an unusually warm
summer on the ground that the tai
'lors will have extra hot times col
lecting pay for so much cloth.'
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

HENRY A. WISE opened his mouth
in Washington, d. G., the other day
before a committee OH contested
election case i'm the House, and he
gave the following hard lick upon the
last Democratic candidate for Prcsi-
dent. Wise is good, reconstructed
Democrat, no doubt, though it be
hard to sec where the reconstruction
comes in. He said:
"There was no time between John
Browns sentence and execution that
if his friends could have brought me
the living Greeley, l would not have
exchanged John Brown for him, and
that, Andrew Jacksonville, l would
have taken the responsibility Of cans-
ing him TO be hung in John Browns
place. II would have been n desira-
BILE vicarious offering of the instigator
for the victim of the highest crime"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

A Davenport girl being asked BY
her lover whether she had ever read
Shakespeare, answered that she did,
when il first came out.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
prss. Il. is.a.


Fashions changed a hundred years
ago rs they do now, and perhaps it
would be. impossible to give an exact
picture Of the costumes of different
classes at any one given time. Hut, in
general, it may be said that gentle-
men wore sMall-clOthes, knee-buckles
and buckled shoes coats, broad skirt
ed and wide-cufied, and lace-ruffied,
and of brown, gray. claret, or other
color long waist coats, with broad
flaps over the pockets, cooked hats.
and in many cases wigs and POWDER
ed hair. The small sword was a
common article of full dress, while
scarlet cloth and gold and silver lace
with snowy buttons, were resorted to
by patricians on important occasions.
The ladies made up their silks and
satins and lbrocades into sacques and
petticoats, hooped and trailed, set Of
with rufiies, and yariously patterned
and bedecked, according to the style
of the hour, They spent much..time
upon their hair, and the arrangement
Of the head-dress for the grand ball
was very complicate operation
ERarard Abb0tts "Rerolutiondrs
Times i "a. ,a 4
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 1.-THE
johnson Gingham Manufacturing
Company, Of North Adams, failed to-
day. Two hundred hands out Of
work.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

What Is to be done about Decora-
ton Day? Would ii not be well to
talk the matter up little9
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

Want 9 wife, young man? Bcrks
county, Pa, has q girl, 10, pretty, who
rises 2t 4, milks ten cows, feeds the
pigs and gets breakfast. F'g IN.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

A notice id Davenport boarding
house reads: Don't fool with the
girls while they are filing the coal
oil lamps III 81
The Philadelphia papers all oppose
closing the Exhibition on Sundays,
and are making a big hubbub about
a
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

/ The iron horse has but one ear--the
engineer. E.8
The coming placards--No peddlers
of Centennial articles allowed Here,
Three lakes in Georgia have disap-
peared lately. They found that water
was not otappreciated in that State, and
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

The fashion OF black lace mits,
which was the style some twenty
years ago, is again getting TO be "the
thingo
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

Mrs. Fitch has received her famous
diamonds, and st. Louis society has
come to the conclusion that it is bad
taste to wear many diamonds.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

"Iandlord, didn't you ever have a
gentleman stop with you before y
"Are you gentleman? p "Yes, am
''Then / never had one stop with me
before"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

1t has leaked out that the bullets
with which those two Pennsylvania
students were going to shoot each
other in q duel, were made of dough
the same rs their heads.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

Said an Irish Justice to an obstre-
porous prisoner on trial: "We want
nothing but silence, and very little Of
that 3t.iI nj @{t" .3N f
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

thus proving yonr clients to be liars
as well as scoundrels, which We will
prove them to be. The question as to
the extent of the rupture was then
allowed, but the court ruled out the
testimony.
Gen. Hedrick concluded his testi-
mony by addressing the court and re-
questing to have his attention called
to any question affecting himself
which he had not satisfactorily an
swcred so far as his relations to the
case were concerned. s
The court and counsel on bothsides
freely said that they knew ofno point
which required fuller explanation.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

anu MS UHcfc, uIsO pfcsluIHS III ItNt
vicinity. "JA es
So far rs it is known publicly, there
is no clue to the perpetrators Of the
lynching. 44
His father arrived i'm Lyons about
noon and will take the body Of his
son home with him. ~
The better class Of the community
deeply regret the occurrence of last
night, and, although no sympathy il
expressed for the victim, it is felt that
the. community is deeply disgraced
by the transaction.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

A Michigan church is advertised te
give a "Mother Goose Reception" in
which $40 veritable geese will take
part And how many Michiganders
"My Onthonkful hearers" said a
backwoods preacher, "you air like
onto hogs eatin' acorns. They never
look up to see where the acorns come
FROM"
Standard didn't Won cynr bayo n
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

"Vill you dake sumding ?" said a
German teetotaler to a friend, while
standing near a tavern. II don't care
If ! do" was the reply. "Vell, den,
let's take walk"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

exhibit ready III time.
BY general consent the exhibition
is appropriately held in the city OF
"Brotherly Love-" Yondcr. almost
within your view. stands the venera-
ted editice wherein occurred the event
this work is designed to commcmor-
ate, and the hall in which the first
Continental Congress assembled
Within the present limits of
this great park were the homes
Of eminent patriots of that era !;
where Washington and his asso-
ciates received generous hospitalities
and able counsel. You have observed
the surprising beauty of: the situation
placed at our disposal. In, harmony
with all this fitness is the liberal sup
port given the enterprise by the State.
the city, and the people individually.
In the name of the United States YOU
have extended q respectful and cor
dial invitation to the Governments of
other nations TO be present and to
participate in this exhibition. You
know the very acceptable terms in
which they have responded, from
even the most distant. nations. Their
commissioners are here and You will
soon see with what energy and hril-
liancy they have entered upon this
friendly competition in the arts OF
peace. 1t has been the fervent hone
of the commission that during this
festival year the people from all states
and sections, OF, all creeds and
churches, all parties and classes, bury
ing all resentments. would come up
together to this, birthplace Of oM lib
critics, to study The evidence of our re-
sources, to measure the progress OF
an hundred years, and to examine to
our profit the wonderful products
Of other lands, hut especially to join
hands in perfect fraternity and prom
ise the God Of our fathers that the
NEW, century shall surpass the old in
the true glories of civilization; and
furthermore that from the association
here of welcome visitors from all
nations there may result not alone
great benefits to invention, manufac-
lures, agriculture, trade. and conn
merce, but also stronger internatiot-
al friendships and more lasting peace,
Thus reporting to you, Mr.. Presi.
dent, under the laws of the Govern.
ment and the usage of similar .occa.
sions, in the name of the United State.
/ Centennial Commisson, present IL
your view the International Exhibi
ton Of 1876.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

One of the FIJI cannibals that Bar
nun imported four years ago is TO be
married shortly to a young German
girl, whose father keeps cigar shop
i'm New York. He is a good-looking
fellow of twenty-five, with European
features and light yellow complex
ion. His name is BM-a-boo-yac. He
speaks English, and has become
Americanized.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
IN THE REBEL ARMY,

and since the war has probably COM
mitted half the crimes in the calendar.
He served two years in the peniten-
tiary and innumerable shorter periods
in the city and county jails. He was
unmarried, but has relatives living
about five miles west of the city, his
father, Mr.. Owen Hand, being a
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

A frontier Texan who was asked if
he was going to attend the Centenni-
al Exhibition, guilelcssly replied !:
I'D like to, but I'll have to put it off
till next year"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
Centennial Hymn.

The following is the hymn written
by Mr.. Whittier for the Exposition
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

A California clergyman, Rev. r.. E.
Parshall, has just recovered $4,000 in
prosecution for SANDER Every vii
ified reverend owes it to religion and
morality either thus to vindicate him
self or abdicate the sacred Office.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17

A Maryland man has sent to the
New York San two pills. which he
says are certain cure for hydropho-
bia. He has sent them to the right
place. No one can read the San ten
minutes without reaching the conclu-
sion that the editor is mad-especially
at Grant for not giving him an office.
-NOITistO,rn Herald.