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New-York tribune., 1876-02-04

The special privileges of the law schools OF
this State have long been the subject Of COM
plant among lawyers, were last Summer
the occasion Of vigorous protest from tho
Justices of the Supreme Court, and are
now under the examination of the Judiciary
Committee of the Senate. The letter III
another column, which sets forth the arSu-
mcnts against the present right of these
schools to secure free and unqucauoncd ad-
mission to the Dar for all their graduates,
seems conclusive statement of the case.
Unless the law schools have something to say
for themselves which has not yet been heard
either by the lawyers. or the Supreme Court,
OF the Legislature action on the matter ought
to be summary. If it be true that
the law school principally affected has
been swollen TO such proportions by
the privileges granted its graduates that its
principal and almost its sole professor is III
receipt of an income of 10000 per year or
more from fees, to the exclusion of any rev.
enue to the college with which he is nomi-
nally connected, the reason for the struggle
of some Of the law schools to retain these
privileges will bo readily understood
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
Stable Floors.

The Scientific Farmer, after re-
marking that the best material for
the floor, next to the level bed of
earth, is chestnut or oak plank, says !:
The great objection to our common
stable floors is the pitch of from one
to four inches, which is given for the
purpose of draining the stall. Amy
inclination to the rear is injurious, for
the reason that the toes of the animal
are thereby turned up, and the back
sinews, especially Of the forelegs,
kept in sort of unnatural tension
Horses in. pasture are seen to stand
with their fore feet in holes which
they have stamped out of the soil
this enables them to remove the strain
from the back sinews and give them
rest. To apply this prin.
ciple, floor of plank, with an incli-
nation to the rear of two inches, is
laid in the ordinary manner, except
that the planks extended only to
within two feet of the front of the
manager. The space between the END
of the planking and the manger, are
covered with pieces which are Of
the same thickness with the planks
where they join them, but are sawed
SO as to be an inch and half thinner
at the manger. Thus pitch forward
of an inch and half in two feet il
obtained, and the horse can stand Al
suits him best either as when at res
in the field or on the line Of junction
with his forefeet level, or back of j
with his toes turned up. The extr,
expense is merely nominal.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20

Many thousands OF dollars has been
spent in distributing, free of charge
Sample Bottles OF BoscnEE's GERMAN
SYRUP to oil parts Of this country. to all
those suffering from Coughs, Asthma,
Hemorrhages, Consumption, and other
Throat and Lung Diseases, that the Attic
ted might satisfy themselves, that this
remedy would save them from those fatal
disease. No person has ever used this
medicine without getting immediate re.
lief. yet there are great many poor suffer
ing. skeptical persons going about our
streets will, suspicious cough, and the
voice OF consump;ion from their lungs, that
will not try it. Ifyou die, it is your own
fault, as you can go to your druggist, j. L.
Taylor & Co., and get Sample Bottle for
10 cents and try it; three doses will re-
iieve any case. Regular size only rs cents.
d&watt
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20


York, led by flaming posters adyer-
Using the play of"The Forty Thieves"
at Niblo's, went to the boX-office and
called for ticket-at the same time
throwing down a IS greenback. On
receiving in return So and ticket
Che had expected to pay about fifty
cents), the astonishcd countryman,
looking first at the money and then at
the ticket, exclaimed: "H-h-how
much dyer ask to (hic) see these s.For-
ty Thieves?" The ticket-seller in
formed him that the price was So
"Well," said Jersey, throwing back
the ticket and looking sharply at the
official, "You may k-k-keep yer
ticket don't care about seeing the
other thirty-nine." = New York
| Grdphic.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
From Thursday's Daily

EhVt1 AouIsuay D2lly
We are informed by Dave Hodge
that man was killed by the cars near
Osceola, yesterday. He was walking
along the track, was caught, run ov.
er and horribly mangled. There
were no papers or anything else on
his person to give clue to his name
or place of residence. He had, how.
ever, small slate on his person
which seemed to indicate that h,
was deaf and dumb. He was buried
by the county authorities.
The Short Horn cattle brough
here for sale by the Shropshire Bros
are being taken away to-day. On,
car load was shipped to Cincinnati
Ohio, one car load to Washington
Iowa, one to Kewanee, Ills, two t.
Monroe, Iowa, one to Des Moinel
and one to Alton, Iowa. OF cours'
these cars were not loaded to the full
est capacity. This was a very hand
some herd and we are very sorry tina
more of them were not bought b,
Wapello county farmers.
A man by the name of McClintock
who formerly lived in this city, GO
into difficulty with man in Wallis
ca on Tuesday, and cut him all t.
pieces. They first got into a fight
which McClintock was getting tn
worst Of when the bystanders inter
.fered. The man had Nc down, AMI
when he was released he raised to hi
feet and assaulted the man with
knife. infiicting a wound which, it i
feared will prove fatal.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
Iowa Items.

Dubuque is manufacturing potato
oil.
White turtles are found in an un
derground lake near Dubuque.
The award for building a new jai
in Jasper county has been let to {
Chicago firm.
r. Won Michalowski, of Dubuque
has applied to the court to have hi
name changed to something that viii
not scare anybody to death.
Kate Harmony, young girl six
teen years of age, has fed from thu
parental roof in Clinton, and canno
be found. She is thought to be Sc
GREETED somewhere in that city, and
several persons have been arrested
for concealing her, bnt all have been
discharged.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
Dull Children.

Don't be discouraged. Slow growth
is often sure growth. Some minds
are like Norwegian pines. They are
slow in growth, but they are striking
their roots deep. Some of the great
est men have been dull boys. Dryden
and Swift were dull boys. So was
Goldsmith. So was Gibbon. So was
Sir Walter Scott. Napoleon at school
had SO much difficulty in learning his
latin that the master said it would
take gimlet to get word into his
head. Douglass Jerrold was so back
ward in his boyhood that at nine he
was scarcely able to read. Isaac Bar
rows, one of the greatest divines the
Church of England has ever produced
was so impenetrably stupid in hi!
early years that his father more thar
once said that if God took away any
of his children he hoped it would b.
Isaac, as he feared he would never be
fit for anything in this world. Yet
that boy was the genius of the fam
ily.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
Special Telegram to The Inter-ocean.

Special Telegram to The mter-Ocean.
NEW YORK, Dec. ll.-The New
York Herald's Washington specia
says: "There is no danger of popu
lar tumult during the count of tht
vote, for the Senate has right to
close the galleries, and it was so or.
dered in the count of 1901. In my opin
ion Hayes is elected. That is what
the President believes, and the repub
licans are going to inauguratc him il
he proves on the l4th of February tt
have 1856 votes. They say: 'Tht
Southern committees will not be able
to show any cause why this should
not be done. AS to what the demo
Gratis can do about it, what can they
do2 We mean to move only by con
stitutional and legal methods. 1t il
all fudge about General Grant hold
ing over"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20

SHOOTING AFFRAY.-Last Tuesday
evening Sheriff Hetherington wa
telegraphed to go to Rose Hill and or
rest Goodenough for shooting on'
Ed. Smith, all Of the vicinity of Rose
Hill. The row took place in salooI
at that town, Goodenough being 81
drunk that he has no recollection Of
that transpired. In o con-
versation this morning he said there
had never been any feeling between
hun and Smith, and he thought the
aeed must have been done while fren-
zied with drink. When the sheriff ar
i ;a there he found Goodenough ly-
s she. On =; bed dead drunk. Smith was
; ;T,a ~ the breast, and when the sher-
~ sna le.I one report said he was only
slightly wounded, while another said
nc was MORALLY wounded and would
die. The prisoner was taken h w
) Justice Baugh, in this place. waived Uy,
, examination, and was held in 5000 4. nnnl
pail to await the action of thr ~rS1
Jury.-OskdLoosd Herald. s'"ho
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
The Best Sheen for The Farmer

The Best Sheep for the Farmers.
The Kentucky Lice Stock Record
in speaking of the best breed of
sheep for farmers says:
The best sheep for farmer to keep
are those that yield tho heayist ffeeccs
and the greatest number Of rounds Of
meat. The scrub sheep will yield
from three to six pounds of wool per
heads while Merinos will range
from ten to twenty pounds, and thor
oughbrcd Cotswolds more. Why is il
that farmers do not raise the sheer
which will give these heavy flceces ?
Then, as to meat, the fine sheep pro.
duce enormous amounts of flesh, and
do not eat any more than scrub
But besides these facts, the fine sheer
do not only yield larger fccces pei
head, but the wool is of superior
quality. The same is true of the
flesh of fine sheep in comparison with
scrubs.
| Southdowns, for instance, are tho
finest mutton in the world, always
commanding an extra pricc--a flesl
princes desire-while the fleece il
medium. The Shropshircs stani
next in meat quality, and are next Il
Cotswolds in ficeces. The profits o.
these breeds lis very great in times
of ordinary prosperity, and under
all circumstance it is best for the far
mer to breed them, because they pay
bcttcr-the grand result which is thu
: supreme object of the farmer-th'
highest possible remuneration for hi
capital and labor.
And all this concerning sheep is tru,
of fine breeds of cattle, horses, hog
and poultry. In the face of these in
disputable facts the mass of the PEG
pie should not handle scrub stock
: and entertain an ignorant opposition
to fine breeds. There is one suprem,
, reason for this. The mass of peopl,
do not read papers devoted to liv,
stock interests, and are wholly igno
, rant of the vast progress that is be
ing made by the more intelligent
, ranks of farmers. There are sections
of Kentucky where the improved
breeds of stock are almost unknown
| 1t is only small number of men wht
, are alive to it, and keep themselve
thoroughly posted in regard to tn
progress of agricultural science ant
the breeding Of the best animals
} the masses remain in the old ruts
: following after the old customs of
hundred years ago. If farmer
would elevate their calling and rem
der it more remuncrative. they mus
put themselves in living connection
, with the intellectual spirit of the age
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20

THE POLE BY BALLooN.-A French
man proposes to reach the North Pole
by means of balloon. All other
methods of travelling in the Arctic
regions having failed, recourse, he
says, must be had to 1rostation. By
this means alone can the hitherto in
surmountable difficulties experienced
in attempting to traverse the noun
tains of ice which bar the way to the
desired objects be overcome. Capt
Mares, he maintains, might have
reached the Pole in very few hours
had he been provided with erostatie
appliances. Whether it would have
been prudent of him on reaching the
Pole to have effected descent is an.
other question, for some difficulty OF
a serious nature might have arisen Of
to the return journey; but he might
at all events, have passed over it and
taken observations which could hard.
ly fail to have been of great interest
and value.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
Spring STYLES.

1t may, on the part of some people,
perhaps, be considered little pre-
mature to anticipate spring styles, so
far in advance of the season, but the
readers of the COURIER, accustomed
to receiving the news at very early
date, from all parts of the world, will
be justified in considering them re-
liable.
In architecture, the only change
likely to affect the people in general,
is the new style of gates. This year,
gates. will be cut bias, with the large
end of the opening upwards. This
is made necessary from the habit peo-
pie have of getting fast in the old
style, especially when in hurry. II
is thought the new arrangement will
meet the requirements exactly.
In agriculture, it will be the style
to plant horse radish deep. 1t il
thought it will come up sooner il
planted at midnight. Lager beer
makes good subsoil, but late plants
should be watered by natural rain
fall by moonlight. This has beer
tried with the happiest results.
The style of serving meats will b.
very materially the same as last year
Beef, pork, and bologna sausage, viii
be eaten cold by fashionable people
Gentlemen are expected to make &
hearty meal just before going to bed
This has also been tried, and so fal
has become somewhat celebrated
However it is not good for digestion
that has also been proven.
1t will be questionable for news
paper men to attend bar except OF
the outside, and draymen who max
exhorbitant charges for night trip
will hereafter have their licenses re
| yoked.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20

A COURIER reporter visited the
manufacturing establishment and
whosesale saddlery and leather store
of Messrs. Porter Bros. & Hackworth
of this city, this morning, and found
business flourishing finely. Through
the politeness of Mr.. Smith, the bust
ness manager, he was treated to 9
general view Of the establishment
The building they occupy is lao feet
long, by "a feet wide,and four stories
high, including the basement. This
vast building, from cellar to garnet, il
literally full of leather, saddles, har.
ness and saddlery hardware. They
employ IL men in their mandatory
and besides have six or seven men
employed in other different capaci'
ties. Business with them is not con.
sidered dull by any means, although
not quite SO good as last year. Mr.
Smith assures us that their business
this year will approximate 100000
Their travelling men are now all ovel
the West, and wherever known sell
large bills of goods. 1t is one of thu
most reliable establishments in thu
city, and like all other well managed
manufacturing establishments here
has fattering success.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
NEWS ITEMS.

A New York coroncr's jury has just
declared a verdict upon man who
"came to his death by some unknown
wagon"
fla Louisiana elector was offered
100000, how much did Gov. Grover,
of Oregon, receive?
The Christian Erpositor (Daven-
port,) printing office was sold this
week at sheriffps sale. The entire out
fit brought $500.
The London Eng.) Post says it is
reported that there is to be fresh
exodus from Russia of the Menom-
ties, $4,000 of whom desire to settle
either in Brazil or the United States.
When rural Wisconsin woman
gets into Milwaukee and wants an en-
velope to send home letter in, she
asks the stationery clerk for "some of
them ere yaller developments SIGH as
they stick letters inside
When st. John IN. b. little boys
get drowned while skating, the daily
papers of the city produce map
showing the scene of the disaster.
That is the place to go, boys.
A writer in last weeks Prairie Far
mer, who travelled over most of the
corn-growing portions of Illinois,
gives it as his opinion that the corn
crop Of Illinois for the present year
is only about one-half as large as that
of last year. He estimates the total
corn yield of 1876 at 1SO,OOO,OOO of
bushels.
The Toledo Blade says: "The pop
ulation of Kentucky and Iowa are
nearly the same in number. In Ken
lucky one person in every four is un-
able to read, and Tilden's majority
was 62,O3O. In Iowa only one person
in fifty is unable to read, and Hayes
majority is 1929. AS the man said
after being run over by a freight
train, comment is unnecessary.
"Have you any rebutting testimony
to offer, Patrick ~ asked the Justice
of prisoner arranged for goat kill.
ing. Pat scratched his head-a new
light seemed to dawn on him. ere.
butting is it? Sure an that's just
what's the matter, yer Honor; the
bloody haste butted me till the divi
a stitch of safe was left on me breech
es, yer Honor, and that's why I'm
here to-day" Pat was acquitted.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
Ladies' andC hildren's Suits

The ladies' and chldren's department contains
many novelties, both imported and of our own
manufacture. Cashmere suits for SIS; camel't
good idea OF the very low prices at which goods
are sold In this department. A handsome dress
or suit is very acceptable present.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20

Last Summer Frank Mewhirter, q
wealthy citizen of Pottawattamie
county, murdered one DR.. Hatton.
For this he was tried and sent to the
penitentiapy, Then criminal suit
for damages was brought by the
Doctors heirs, and now the court
awards them $500 therefor,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20

IMPORTANT CAsE.-The Supreme
Court, yesterday, rendereda decision
in the case of the Sisters of Vista
ton, Ottumwa, ct al VS.. Mary A.
Glass ct al. This case was brought
before the Supreme Court on an ap-
peal from Lee county. The defend
ant claims to be heir at law of Ber-
nard Slaven, and objected to the pro-
bate of the will which gave his prop
erty to the Sisters of Visitation,
claiming that at the time of the exc
cution of the will Slaven was of UNI
sound mind, and incapable of making
. will, and that the same was obtain
ed through duress and undue influ-
ence. There was trial by the Court
and decision rendered, deciding
that the will was not good and that
Slaven died intestate. The Supreme
Court yesterday affirmed that decis.
ion, and in doing SO stated that Sin
all actions or special proceedings not
triable de noco in this Court, the find
ing of Court upon a question OF
facts stands as the verdict Of jury
and cannot be set aside if there be
any evidence upon which it can be
supported. "-Des Moines Register.
Bernard Slaven was resident o
Oskaloosa. and in the summer of 1877.
was sojourning temporarily in Keo
kuk for the benefit of his health. Oh
the 18th of August, 1874, he died a
the residence of John Farrell, o
Keokuk, leaving a will in which, aft
err setting aside $500 for the con
struction of vault, he gave $1,000 tt
the Sisters of Charity in Keokuk, So,
600 to Margaret Farrell, child o
John Farrell; $1,000 to the Sisters o
Visitation, of Ottumwa, and $1,000 t.
w w. Dunn, then Catholic prizes
of Keokuk, and further made Duna
his residuary legatee of all he pos
sessed. s'to be used by him according
to the intention expressed by him t.
said Dunn"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
Death Of Hon. Caleb BALDWIN.


From dispatch found in our tele-
graphic columns, it will be seen that
Hon Caleb Baldwin died at Council
Bluffs, this morning, of heart disease.
The deceased was born in WASH
ington county, Pa, April 3D., 1924,
and consequently was about iifty-two
years of age, at the time of his death.
He was graduated at Washington
College. in his native county, which
was then as now somewhat noted
educational institution, James G.
Blaine and b. II. Bristow, of national
fame, having received their diplomas
from that institution about the same
time with him, and DIR. w. L. Orr
and Rev. J. M. McElroy, of this coun.
ty, having been his fellow classmcn.
In 1916, he moved to Fairfield, la.
and entered upon the practice of law
and was chosen by the wings fol
three successive terms as Prosecuting
Attorney of the District Court.
In 1856, Gov. Grimes appointed
him Judge of his District, to fill {
vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of Judge Sewers.
In 1857 he moved to Council Bluffs
and from that time until the day o
his death, he was regarded as tn,
leading public man on the Missouri
Slope.
In 1859, he was taken by the repub
licans from lucrative and rapid,
increasing law practice, as a membc
of the firm of Baldwin & Wrigh,
and put on the Supreme Bencl
of Iowa, remaining there wit
great acceptance to the pcopl
as well as to the legal pro
fession until 1864 when he retire'
on his own motion to resume til
practice of his profession. While o.
the Supreme Bench he became il
, 1862, Chief Justice by seniority, whicl
responsible and dignificd position h
filled with uncommon credit. III
was appointed United States Attor
ney in 1865, by President Lincoln
which office, however, he declined.
; President Grant, in 1874, appointe'
under the law commission of fiv
eminent legal men, all of them ex
Judges, we believe, to sift out an
distribute in detail the fifteen and
. half million of dollars awarded b.
the High Joint Commission to tn
Alabama and other claimants for yes
sells and property destroyed durin
the war by rebel cruisers. Thi
court is called the "Alabam
Claims Commission" and the Prcsi
, dent, very appropriately, appointe
the subject of this sketch as one of il
members, and to that work he ha
been zealously and faithfully devo,
ing his time and fine legal and judd
clal abilities, up to recent periot
when sickness interrupted his. wor
: and ended in his death.
Judge Baldw in was we'll and f,
vorably known in this communit
having been from very early perio
a visitor here to his father, Nehemial
and his brother, John T., who wei
> among our earliest merchants, an
to his two sisters here, Mrs. DIR. o.
and Mrs. Joseph Hill.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20

,ne Muscatine Tribune, one of thu
so.es' democratic papers in the State
.a No, eoun'enanee the outrage at
..mp'ed by the democratic Governor
u WI oregon Here is what 1t says:
We do not believe that ,hn
cratic party Of the country IL 1 sa ueno,
that the electoral vote Of Osalsn ed
rightfully, if legally, theirs. s'n Is
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20

Pray, Mr.. Professor, what is per.
iphrasis p MADAME, it is simply a
circumlocutory cycle of oratorical
sonorosity, circumscribing an atom
of idcality lost in verbal profundity.'
ssThank YOU, sir.n
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20

We are informed that the freight
business of the X. & d. M. railroad
is fully 50 per cent greater than ii
was . yeas ago, and is still increasing
at proportionate rate.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20

The highest market price paid 70,
produce at the grocery corner ~ -.
Court and Second streets, Ottumwa
JOHN c. STEVENS,
may 29-wtf. MANAGER
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20

Farmers will 6nd, when they are in
The city, enc Of the most convenient
Wagon Yards and Feed Stables on
Aain street few doors above Law
eoneo i Gamers. Call and see.
sA VII
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20

"A RUSSIAN VIsITOR.-Most people
are ignorant of the fact that thi
coaatry possesses distinguished
Russian-Mr. Tildensjohnmorrissey
urbetsoff.-Ch Chicago Post.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
Farmers and Merchants

Will do we'll to remember that SAMUEL
L1LBuRN pays CASH for all the butter
and eggs he can get.-Bring them on
opposite the Post Office, Ottumwa.
Mari % I