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

The Widow Maple was carefully
and cautiously handed out by the
officer and she repaid his tenderness
by doubling him up with punch of
her elbow in the ribs. His Honor
said she ought to be ashamed to act
that way, and she replied:
81 feel as if l could kill all the men
i'm the world"
When informed that she had been
picked up by the police rs she lay
drunk on the walk She replied:
"What made me get drunk? Who
knows my troubles as well as / do !:
o, sir, if You had to bear what do
you would get drunk and tear a
house down."
She opened clearinghouse a
while ago. and eight boarders soon
kicked their legs under the extension
table. One died owing her fourteen
dollars. Two others ran away owing
her six dollars apiece. A fourth stole
her watch and went to Canada, SHE
turned the other four out of doors be.
cause they had no money.
"Now SIR she added, in broker
voice "if you were me wouldn't YOU
take poison, or set a house on fire, OF
kill some one ~
The court replied that human char
acter was lead colored in its natura
state. Trials, tribulations and tri
umphs were polishing paste t.
burnish character ana give it thu
shine of a silver spoon. He couldn'
see how she could start anew by get
ting drunk She had a narrow es
cape from being FROST bitten, and HI
asked her if she wouldn't have look
ed handsome chattering around thu
house on toeless feet or with wood
en- limb. 1t was his duty, he though
to fine her about five dollars, but a
she expressed a strong desire to sc
cure work and take.a new departure
in morals, she was allowed to go.
There is no despair so absolute a
that which comes with the first mo
ments of our first great sorrow, whel
we have not known what it is to hav'
suffered and be healed, to have des
paired and to have recovered hope.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
Society Set Right.

A young farmer became enamored
of wood-chopper's daughter in the
bottoms of Ray, Mo-, and the happy
day was named. All the young peo-
pie Of the neighborhood gathered al
the wedding feast ten days ago.
Suddenly there was a great scandal
A colored clergyman, book in hand,
took his place in the center of the
room to unite the young couple in
the holy bonds. The neighbors cx.
postnlated. Why had "that niger
been called in? The bridegroom re.
tortcd that he had a right to employ
whom he pleased and the bride
thought SO too. The despised minis
ter proceeded with the ceremony
with all the dignity he could muster.
But the community was outraged.
Its sense of propriety was dreadfnlly
shocked. Sequel: AT midnight a
band Of white gentlemen visited the
sequestered cabin, dragged the
bridegroom out of bed and logged
him mercilcssly with hickory withes
until he fell on the ground bleeding
and lnsensible. Society breathes
more freely now i'm Lexington. 1t
has established the everlasting prin-
ciple that a "nigger'" has black skin,
and white man has a white-liver,
pos ,ibly.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

Nast's inimitable pencil, illustrates
in Harper's last Weekly, Gov. Tilder
pardoning out of prison, a long line
PERFORMERS, preparatory to the com
ing election The cartoon is based
upon the following facts, which that
paper has taken from the official rec.
ords:
"Pardons and combinations by Til.
den in lS75-SS.
PardOns and combinations by Til
den from January to July ~, 1876
-9S.
Aggregate of years of pardon and
communication in lS75-22O years and
8 days.
Aggregate of years of pardon and
communication from January to July
~, 1876-207 years, ) months, and six
days.
Total number of pardOns and COM
mutations by Tilden in one year and
half-lS6.
Total aggregate of years, 427 years,
months and Ia days.
clude nine convicts who were sem
fenced to be hanged, but whose sem
fences were committed to imprison-
mcnt for life; nor four others who
were sentenced for life, but whose
sentences were committed to impris-
onment, one for % years, ono for
eighteen years, one for fourteen wears
and one for eight years.
Since the LIST of January, 1876, Til
den has restored seventy convicts to
to citizenship, the larger portion of
them during the last three months
In each case it is marked on the rec
ord, mot to be published
That paper covers one whole side
OF its issue with the names Of these
villains whom Governor Tilden has
let loose to prey upon the people of
New York and elsewhere, during the
brief time that he has been in Office.
It's statement includes the offences
they committed, and the time for
which they were respectively SEN
fenced. They had committed all the
crimes in the calendar, many of them
being in for murder, rape, seduction,
manslaughter and so on down
through all the gradations Of hienous
crime, to the violation of the excise
law.
1t is remarkable showing and it
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
argues that this wholesale Jail deliv-

argues that this wholesale Jail deliv-
cry is being made for the purposes
plainly indicated by Nast's pencil, or
else that Governor Tildcn is chick
on hearted sort of man, unfit to be
Governor of New York, much less to
be President of the United States.
Reader, do you reoollect that not
long ago pale-faced young wife
came to the President with her child
in her arms, pleading that her husband
might be pardoncd out Of the peni-
tertiary at Jefferson City, and how
she showed by the strongest array of
evidence that her husband was wrong
fully imprisoned on the unsupported
testimony of fellow conspirators, no
bought their freedom by swearing
William o. Avery into prison, and
how the kind-hearted President, be.
lieving Avery to be more sinned
against than SHINING, nevertheless
properly referred the papers to the
law officers of the Government, and
how Attorney General Taft decided
to refuse the pardon? Do you recol.
lect how these Tilden reformers from
one end of the country to the other
with great cutlery and Indignation
abused Grant for even this DISPOSE.
ton of mercy, as an evidence that he
was in the whisky ring? And yet
il is apparent from the official books
that Samuel j. Tilden, "the inexora'
bic foe of fraud and the terror o.
criminals" has pardoned and set fire.,
upon the community in the shor
space of eighteen months lS6 felons
And it is probable that Avery, or tn,
worst man in the whisky ring, is fl
to be called an angel of light, il
comparison with the best one of til,
jail-birds which are now supportin.
the Reform movement in New Yorl
City with Gov. Tilden's pardon il
their pockets as their sufficient ere
dentials.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
To Find the Age Of Eggs.

To determine the age Of eggs, the
London Lice Stock journal says
dissolve about four ounces of com.
mon salt in quart of pure water, and
then immense the egg. If it is one
day old, it will descend to the bottom
OF the vessel but if three days, it will
float in the liquid. Ifmore than five
days old, 1t will come to the surface
and project above in proportion to it
increased age"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
Democratic Literature.
From Pomeroys democrat.
PANA, ILL.,, July 80, rs
g RricI.2 pou,prou.

Brick Pomeroy:
You ar d-lows, and don't wan
your sinking paper no more. Ifyor
don't stop sending it to me, ! wont
take it. You failed in New York
for the money you stole from the city
to pay for the bogus diamonds you
wore when you had Tammany
JUICE give you adiavoars from YOU
wife, and then turned your children
into the street in one Of your drunk.
en- fits of drunkenness. l keap @
saloon but it is a moaral one, for
don't allow no THROWN of disc or
cards. You ain'tn no democrat, and
you know 1t, or yon would voat for
the devil, if he was nominated, 10
beat the republicans, and if you
doan't stop sending yure polluted shet
to me, I'll see if the law won't make
you stop printin it. Keep it to home.
mean II. 10 FLEMING.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
Scarcity Of Money

There lie no doubt but the present sit
nation Of all kinds Of business and industr j
is fearfully depressed, and it behoovc
every family to look carefully after theil
expenses. Winter is coming on when
children are liable to Group, Whoopinl
Cough, etc. Coughs and Colds will prevail
everywhere, and Consumption, with Throat
and Lung disease will carry off many
These diseases should not be neglected, Doc
tor Bills are expensive, and we would ad
wise our people to use BoscHEE's GERMAN
SYRUP. II never has failed. One bottle
at rs cents will keep your whole family
we'll during the winter. Two doses will
relieve any case. Sold In all towns in Tie
Uni,ed States, and by your druggist, j
L Taylor & Co.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
TO CONSUMPTlVES,

| The advertiser, having been permanently cured
| OF that dread disease, Consumption, by simple
| remedy Is anxious TO make known to his fellow
sufferers The means of cure, To all who desire 1t
he wilt send copy Of the prescription used
Gree of charge), with the directions for prepar.
ing aud using the same. whleh they will dnd
| SURF CURE FoR COssuMPTloN, ASTHMA, BIZ IN.
CHIris, DO.
Parties wishing the prescription will please
address, Rev X. 4. WILSON,
| decl5w6m 1911 Penn st., WILLIAMSBURG, New York
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

Casiorla Il certain t. operate. 1t do
not nauseate grippe like Castor Oil, but 10 Pleas
ant to take, digests the food, regulates the bow
els. cures wind collie, expels worms. and causes
natural sleep. 1t Is equally adaptedto adults ant
infants 1t contains neither Mineral, Morphine
nor Alcohol. Children tee,hing may have health
and mothers find rest If they use Castoria.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
ApgCIAl. NOTICES.
n cARD

To all who are suffering from the errors and
.niiscretions of youth, nervous weaA ness, early
decay, loss Of manhood. etc., will send recipe
that will cure you. Free OF Charge. THIS great
remedy was discovered by missionary In South
America. Send q sef-addfessed en- velope to the
Rev. Joseph T. lnman. Station D, Bible House,
New York City. mar l-dAw6m.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
For Sale Cheap.

Lot No. IL on Fifth street, and Lo,
l of out-lot "a, Marion street, Ottum-
wa; 4 lots and l lot and house will
II rooms, in Mt. Pleasant; twelve
hundred acres rich prairie land. Long
time given on part. For particulars
call at gallery. II. s. HOVER.
aug 5-d&w2m
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

The Centaur l.inimsnts have create,
a revolution In remedies for Rheumatism
Strains, Swelllnga, Pains, Burns, Scslds, Stings
&c. The White Lfniment Is for the human fam
lily, and the Yellow Liniment Is for horses
They are certain, handy and cheap.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

From both City and Country
should not fail to visit Mrs. Plat 4
Highlands millinery Store in Curlew
Block, in L. IL. Wilson's old stand,
and see their nice new Goods and
price their Before they buy else
where. Especial pains will be taken
to please customers as to style, quail
ty and price. mll-d&wtf.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

The highest market price paid for
produce at the grocery corner of
Court and Second streets, Ottumwa.
JOHN G. STEVENS,
may 29-wtf. Manager.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
CONFESSIONS OF
A VICTIM

Published as warning and for the benent OF
Young men and others who suffer from Nervous
OF Self-Cure, after undergoing much suffering
and expense. and mailed free on receiving post.
paid directed envelope. Address NATHANIEL
June 30-w6n
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

Will do we'll to remember that SAMUEL
LILBuRN pays CASH tor all the butter
and eggs he can get.---l5ring them on
opposite the Post Office, Ottumwa.
Mari 9W !,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

Farmers will find, when they are In
the city, one Of tie mOst convenient
Wagon Yards and Feed Stables on
Main street few doors above Law.
renee & Carriers. Call aud see.
sl4 VII
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

Read the advertisement in this pa
per Of the only located Specialist in
Lows, Dr.. NoAffee, Davenport, Iowa.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
RESUMPTION.
srl, ,,o,,,r4;o ~ lo,,t o,n,, :

The resumption act don't apply to
yon and /. Currency must be pre-
scented in sums of fifty dollars or
more in order to get payment in gold.
If we know currency is as good as
gold we keep it. We have the same
Kind of currency in circulation and
we have gold in circulation at the
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
ERRORS AE YAIlTH

A gentleman who has suffered for years from
Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, and all the
effects OF youthful indiscretion will. for the saAe
OF suffering humanity, send free to all who need
1t, the recipe and thu direction for making the
sim pie remedy BY which he was cured. sufferers
wishing to profit by the advertisers experience
can DO SO by addressing In perfect confidence,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

lie Petit Journal, of Paris, now re-
turns its circulation as 100000 a day,
"the largest Of any newspaper in the
world"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20
AStantion. Far.narnl
Farmers ana nusrchaass

ASee0t1o0y : ekm0xus
Seasoned Fence Posts for sale by
5. v. Hoyt, Ottumwa, Iowa. S-304w
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

to cram some Of their faith down us
l for one don't propose they shall dc
it. am glad they have some pre-
lenses. ! respect hypocrite some
times. Laughter.) They re-affirm
their devotion to the constitution.
They raised men and money and
came pretty nearly raising the devil
to destroy that constitution and now
come and re-afiirm their devotion to
it. I have not much faith in such
patriotism-their "devotion to the
constitution and its amendments"
You cannot point out single prin-
ciple of the republican party but these
reformers affirm that they have de-
votion to. Now, before we take them
at their word, let them prove their de-
votion by words and deeds; prove
devotion to the permanence Of the
union faith in the permanence of the
constitution, and devotion to the con-
stitution let us have their deeds in
proof thereof. The devotion and faith
of the republican party have been
proven. For fifteen years it has been
demonstrated, and on many a hard
fought battlefield it has been proven
again and again. Now, I don't be-
lieye in these sudden conversions. l
never knew Of but one, and don't
know whether II would have held out
if he had not died soon and the dem
ocrats taking example from him,
think that every thief can be saved
by that kind of conversion.
xhnk ,,1f,,,,S,
to have sound currency and
public credit restored and maintain
the national honor. say it is false.
What is the matter with the currency !;
where is the reformer who has found
any currency he was no. willing to
use? Speak up, speak up! How is
the currency to-day compared with
the days of the old Democratic rule,
when there was an utter want of con-
fidence in the banks?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

cnafScu FZU,UUU attorney ices, E1U,UUl
to the first mortgage bond holders
paid November I, and another $40
GOO to the second mortgage bond.
holders, paid Oct. II, 1862, and he
swears IN making out his return of
income to the United States Assessor
that during that year his income was
only 81, lis. Now which time does he
tell the truth. Both cannot be true.
l would like to see the performer
who can prove the truth of both these
statements. One of them is false,
and both of them sworn to. He has
perjured himself in one if not
10Th the statements. Is he a
fit man to be president of our nation,
to fill the highest Office on earth, to
be president of forty-five millions of
free people? [Sensation]. And this
man, who is the candidate of the re-
formers, swears to two different
things at two different times, and he
certainly had more than one law suit
in that year-he must have had. Is
he an honest man? Ny democratic
friends, do you believe he is honest ?
OF course you don't. He is charged
in his law suits with having stolen
$250,0OO and charges the bondholders
for forclosing the mortgages at the
same time, and He and three others
bought in the road on execution, and
now claims he did it for himself, and
made this $25O,O00 profit, and at the
same time charges them $4,000 for
foreclosure, disclaiming that he
bought it in as attorney for the COM
pany. If he bought it in for himself,
what business had he to charge for
foreclosing. He is fit candidate for
president-a perjurer, secesionist
and reformer.
Thos. A. Hendricks was nominated
for Vice-President. He was u. S.
senator from 1868 to 1869. He voted
against every measure introduced for
the abolition of slavery or the sup
preston of the rebellion. He voted
against the issue of greenbacks-
against the arming of the negroes
against every amendment proposed
to the constitution. He was with
Tilden at Chicago in 1864 and faith
fully supported the resolutions there
adopted. Nota measure introduced
to aid in suppressing rebellion but he
opposed, and suppose he had been,
President then in power, what would
he have done he would not have had
any country over which he could
have been President if his party had
been successful.
Let me call your attention to
speech that he made at Seymour, IN
diana AuU 1894 His na;Uhhors
knew the character of the speech he
would make, and hand-bills were
and all in favor of peace
and reunion were invited. THE
speaker here read the hand-bill re-
ferred to. This was after the bat
tie of the wilderness, when Grant
had got below Petersburg, and gold
was at $3.50. Oh, he was jolly re-
former! Here is verbatim report
of his speech at Shelbyville, Ind on
3, 1864. THE speaker here
read extracts from the speech He
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-11
STATE OF MICHIGAN. /
COUNTY OF VAN BUREN, !

Personally appeared, John 5. Van Klrs
Frank Harrington. and stephen Stoddard, W.
being duly sworn depOses as follows
The sad John Van Kirk, deposes ana says.
that the mare Brown Jane, owned 10y the "a.
stephen Stodard, was served by hls stalao
Night Hawk, on or about May Sd, 1870.
The said Frank Harrington, deposes an
says, that said mare, Brown Jane, was served
by his stallion, now owned by HIM. on or about
May Sth, 1871, and that SAID mare, Brown Jane,
has never been served or tried By any stallion
owned by this deponent, either before or since
said date, and that at that time the stallion
Robert Whaey, was a colt some nine or ter
days old.
And the said Stephen Stoddard, deposes and
says, that he was present when said mare,
Brown Jane, was served by the stallion Night
Hawk, as stated above by said Van Kirk, that
he owned said Brown Jane during the entire
year OF 1870, and before and since, and that
she was put to no other stallion during said
year there as above stated, and that said stall
lion, Robert Whaley, now owned by this de-
poneDt, was sired by said stallion Night Hawk,
May Sd, 1870 and was foaled by said mare,
Brown Jane, on April 29th, 1871, and that said
mare, Brown Jane, was afterward on May 9Th.
1871, served by Frank Harrington's sorrel sta,~
lion, but never before that time.
JOHN s. VAN KIRK,
&. +. HARRINGTON,
STEPHEN SroDDARD.
Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 1st
day Of February, A. ID, 1876.
o. w. ROWLAND, Notary Pubic 1888
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-11

The Boston New Age says: The existing
conditions in secular affairs, and the signs which
are appearing in the religious world, are lndi-
cations of approaching changes in human opin-
ion, and prophecies Of human Arrangement
One Of the most encouraging symptoms is the
discomfort which everywhere finds expression
When the tide of apparent prosperity IN church
and in market places rises so high az to cover
the marshes where want, aud woe, and vice
abide, those who float serenely on the surface
are not easily persuaded that the w0rld is to be
made better, and regard any hints OF reform
as the rankest heresy. But when the tide re-
codes, and the poor voyagers find themselves
suddenly stranded, in the disappointment and
distress which follow they become interested in
the improvements designed to keep humanity
all the time ahoat. When your own bark is
smoothly gliding over the waters, you may not
care what other ships, laden with freight as
precious, are fast upon the fats; when you
find yourself in that hopeless condition, you
are ready to listen to schemes which propose
to lift all keels together. This 70 the hope
which beams upon us now.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-11

Cardinal McCloskey in little speech, puts
in the plea of lamb-like innocence for himself
and his church, and processes to believe that
they are the assailed instead of the assailants
in the matter Of the public school controversy
All men know that this is the precise reverse
OF the truth. All the discussions and disturb.
ances relative to the school question have, IN
all instances, been commenced by the Catho-
lies. They took the offensive and now com.
plain because their disturbing efforts have not
met with resistance. The Cardinal cannot, in
this case successfully play the game OF the
wolf who pretended that the lamb had rolled
the stream. The facts in the case are eminent
y against HIS Eminence."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-11

How The present breeze over the public
school question was raised, and the politics of
the country got an infusion Of religious hatred
unknown for 20 years. Is thus told by the
Cleveland Herald: 1.-The school question was
precipitSted into politics by the eager and i'm
placable foes of the American common-school
system. Those who demand denoninatonal
schoos-we will not say those who are opposed
to any popular education-have for the past
two OF three years been preaching a crusade
against the common-school system Their
purpose to enter the political field has been
openly proclaimed. A bishop Of the Roman
Catholic church has gone up and down the
country, the Peter the hermit of this new cru
eade, telling the people of his faith to band
together, make themselves a political power,
and sell their influence to that political party
which will comply with their demand for Sec
tartan education. The press Of that church
simultaneously broke out all over the country
with denunciations of the common-school
system, and advice to those they professed to
teach and lead that they give their support to
the political party most likely to yield to their
just demands for sectarian education. 1t
was thus the school question was thrown into
politics"