Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-26
From the Daily of April eith

nclent 10 hold the woman ana she
was discharged.
From the Daily of April cath
J. d. Laid Il Co. shipped sixteen
car loads of bulk meats east to-day.
Sanford Eastburn drove through
this city yesterday morning. eighty
head of splendid steers. A smoother
fed lot would be hard to find.
The farmers complain that there is
no stock in the country, yet from Sat
nrday evening at 6 o'clock until this
morning at 6 o'clock two hundred
and fifty-threc car loads of live stock
passed through this city going east
Two regiments of the 18th United
States cavalry passed through this
city yesterday en- route to st. Paul.
The train was composed of three pas
ger cars, seven car loads of horses
and mules, and six car loads ofequip-
page, stores, etc. They will leave st.
Paul after a little rest for the Black
Hills.
We saw a fellow in town to-day
with pants cut la Turk. The mate
rial used was 1.-TWO bushel meal bags.
They were decidedly roomy.
Yesterday evening. by the kindness
of Robt. Finley and Mort Heath, we
were favored with ride in their new
boat, the centennial" on which oc-
casion we took a general observation
of the condition of the watcr-works at
present. We got along very well
until we reached the canal about OPP
positc the foundry, where Heath
broke an oar, and from thence on
ward our progress for time was
slow. The canal below the guard
lock is broken in two places. The
break near the Oil Mill, where the
bank was built across the old slough
seems to be the most serious. 1t.
however, can be repaired very easily,
and without great amount of cS-
pense. The next and only other
break is on the opposite bank of the
canal, nearly opposite DIR. Carpenters
residence. There is probably from
fifty to one hundred feet of the bank
washed out but it can be repaired at
an expense of 800. Here we Dor
rowed an oar from Uncle Jonathan
| Carpenter without asking for ii and
soon were at the guard-lock. Capt.
Finley suggested that the .'Centen-
NAL should be carried around the
lock and that we should continue our
voyage by the river to the dams and
examine them. Fred. and Benny
| Arthur, w. l.. Il. Hirons and the par
| ty previously mentioned, launched
the boat above the lock, and i'm a few
moments we were ut the completed
the party found il necessary TO go
ashore again. The dam is rs solid as
| ii ever was, as matter of course, land
probably will be for hany years TO
come. The boat was iloated over the
dam and on the lower side the party
again embarked and were ferried
over on the other side. The earth
work across the island has stood the
lh;gh water WV well, although it is
evident that it will have :" be rap
raped OF it will soon melt away.
The abutment for the second dam on
the island side is wreck. The wing
wall on the upper side is down, and
about eight feet of the parallel wall
has broken off and viii fall The
water has washed In behind
the abutment and dug out large
amount of earth. The brush dam,
probably stands all right, but from
present appearances it is impossible
to tell that pile had ever been driv-
en-. On the opposite side Of the river
the rip-rapping seems to have SUSTAIN
ed but little, If any damage. Taking
il altogether, the work is not damaged
as much as was supposed, although it
has become Enthusiastically evident,
that the banks as well as the guard
lock are all too low, and a higher
dyke than was expected viii have to
be built on this side and above the
guard lock, for some distance.
After short stay on the island the
party again took passage for Rich
mond. This pleasant little village
will soon be among the things that
were, The river Is rapidly wearing
the town site away and three or -four
houses now stand flush with the river
bank. The next high water will start
them down stream, unless they are
moved back, which would probably
cost more than the houses arc worth
Pickwick is improving some. There
is one new house in process of erection
but the people over there have given
up having the county seat moved to
that place very soon. From the riy'
er IL Is evident that "Ncw Pint" |;
r gradually washing away and in 9
year or two more it will be a barren
sand bank, only this and nothing
more.
, No man should put of till to-mor
row, that which may be done to-day
therefore, we say to the people: &c
, to the Big Bonanza and buy what yo,
need in the Cloth, Clothing ant
Trimming line, while there is ;
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