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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-01-10

proposed by the Powers, but would
possibly consent that the nomination of
governors be made subject to their ap-
prevail, and would stipulate that the
form of proposal be considerably mod
fled so as to conform to the arrange
ment existing in regardto Lebanon.
The Conference will probably conclude
its sittings this week. Hope of salts.
factory conclusion is very faint.
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appointment. We doubt if he or any
of his friends now think a resort to
arms feasible. What was intended to
be display of warlike purpose proved
by its very tameness to be peace
demonstration. Evidently jackson
Day" was not Tilden day.
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The Madison Democrat is disguise d
at the than things have taken in Ore
goD and almost wishes that Cronln
were dead. 1t deprecates the idea of
Democrats any longer claiming the
vote cast by Cronin for Tilden, now
that Cronin admits that he was bought
up with $4,000 of Tilden's money to
play the part which he did in the
fraud attempted to be practiced upon
the people of this State. Speaking for
Tildcn, the Democrat says:
We might add that every Democrat
in America would scorn to have him
accept the presidency on the Oregon
vote.
Will the Watertown Democrat please
copy5
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Six REMARKABLE MEN. - The
death of Vanderbilt ends the career of
three noted Cresus' of New York
First, VIM. b. Astor, the great land
lord and real estate monopolis,; second,
A. T. Stewart, the prince among dry
goods merchants; and now the king
among railroad men succumbs to the
King of lerrofs. The death of this
remarkable trio was preceded a few
years by that of the noted editors of
New York, viz: Raymond, the Con-
sentative Republican editor of the
Times; Greeley, the Radical and Pro-
tectionist editor CT the Tribune; and
third, Bennett, the Independent and
Satanic, of the Herald These six
men filled large space in the politics
and business of the United States
far larger than that filled by any six
living men to-day.
The eighth Of January has come and
gone. The "wah" meetings of the
Democracy were most encouragingly
tame affairs. Nowhere was manifested
spirit of belligerency. A few speak
efs tried to fire the Democratic heart,
out they did not make it out. AS he
surveys the field Mr.. Tilden must con-
clude that his conspiracy tie seize the
Presidency by force is doomed to dis.
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andR I.hereah ~ "1 WI 'eA 90
They are oenehd by favorable
condition
Ladies especially
e1ore ouying elsewhere KOERNER
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
postoftlce Change.


On Tuesday q special agent of the
Postoffice Department arrived in this
city and examined the books of Post
master Maxwell and found a defcien-
cy in his account Of 1886. For this
irregularity he was promptly re-
moved and Mr.. A. G. ROwell, select
ed postmaster ad interim. This sud-
den discovery took the people of this
city by surprise, and it was, indeed,
quite time before the rumor was
credited by many. Mr.. Maxwell has
always borne good character in this
community, and this trouble must be
ascribed more to careless manner of
doing business than to any intention
] al dishonesty.
r. S.-The bondsmen Of Maxwell
met last night and settled the matter
with the government agent by paying
the amount of the deficiency, and
Maxwell will be allowed to resign
Question Gazette.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
BUILDING.

Mershon Tindell is building two
good frame houses on twenty acre
lot which he and his sister own in the
rear of Col. Summers land and adj
joining an addition which J. M. He'd
rick is now laying off. We under
stand that John r. Shepherd will
build a good house on twelve acre
lot he owns out in the neighborhood
of the Cemetery. Our friend 10.
Wagg is building and reconstructing
his house on Fifth street at consider
able expense, making it substantially
new and much improved in appear
ance and comfort. Many other i'm
provements and buildings are al
ready under way all over the city and
its suburbs.
We have consulted several archi-
tects and builders and they all agree
the preparations indicate fully the
usual activity in building operations
for the pending season.
There is one thing quite certain,
that while the times are close and
money is hard to get and will be SO
until we raise another crop,yet this is
an exceedingly favorable time to buy
property and build, owing to the low
prices of real estate, building mater
ial and LABOR.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07

If the Ottumwa Courier is not lost
to all decency, it will correct the
slanderous article it published last
week, in which it said Oskaloosa had
had "thirteen failures within short
time" The report is most emphatic
ally untrue, as half q dozen will cover
all we have had IN gear, mostly
small. The Courier never misses q
chance to dig Oskaloosa.-Herald.
The Ottumwa COURIER is not lost
to decency, and is not given to pub
fishing slanderous reports of our SUBJ
stantial neighbor or any other city,
although we may have been misin-
formed in this instance. Ottumwa
has no hostility toward Oskaloosa,
but rejoices in the prosperity of that
place, as well as all other cities in the
state. 1t may be proper for us to
state that we received our informa-
ton from what we considered a trust
worthy source. The gentleman, our
informant, q near relative of the edi-
tor Of the Herald, got his informa-
ton from very near the sanctum of
Herald, and both the affirmation and
the denial come from the same fami-
~. We offer our apologies to the
Herald, and will not offend again if
we know it.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
rHE OTTUMWA COURIER


An Eddyville man was in town this
morning early, and was looking fora
relic of the fire. He got il by part
of light Of French plate glass fall
ing from Cooper & Hammond's win
dow, cutting through a buck glove
and into his fore-finger.
Frank, the youngest son of Frank
O'Neil, living in the upper part of the
city, was horribly burned this morn
ing. 1t seems that the mother left
the little boy, between three and -four
years Of age, with his sister, q child
aged eight or ten years, while she
went to church. Somehow the little
fellow got some matches, which he
lit and set fire to his clothes. His
screams attracted the attention of thu
little girl who, with great presence O.
mind, dashed bucket of water o,
him and extinguished the fire, bu
not until he was fatally burned. Tn
physicians express no hope of his re
covery.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
AGRICULTURAL.
Eggs a. an Article Of Diet.


There is no article of food more
wholesome or nutritious than that
by eggs. There is differ
ence in their flavor and quality, ow-
ing to the difference in the diet of the
birds ; yet there are no eggs of winged
creatures which arc unfit for nour-
ing the human body. Their chemical
composition is nearly the same, for
the white and yolk are almost invar-
iably present, and these consist in the
first case, of albumen and water. Eggs
require about as much time for di-
gestion as mutton--that is, from three
to four hours. They are most readily
digested when boiled until the white
becomes partially consolidated.
An ordinary hens egg weighs from
one and half to two ounces ducks
egg from two to three ounces; the
egg Of the sea-gull and turkey from
three to four ounces, and the egg Of
the goose from four to six ounces. The
solid matter and the oil in the ducks
egg exceed those in hens egg about
one-fourth. According to DIR. Edward
Smith, in his treatise on floods" or
egg weighing an ounce and three-qual
tiers, consists of l20 grains of carbon
and 1871 grains of nitrogen, or 10. 2!
per cent. Of carbon, and 2 per cent o
nitrogen.
A writer in the Scientific Farme,
estimates that the value of one pount
of eggs as food for sustaining the act
i've forces of the body is to the valu,
of one pound of lean beef as 1854 Il
$40. AS flesh producer, one pount
of eggs is equal to one pound of beef
A hen may be calculated to con
sumo one bushel of corn yearly, an
to lay twelve dozen or eighteen pound
of eggs. This is equivalent to sayin
that three and one-tenth pounds Q
corn will produce, when fed to her
one pound ofeggs. A pound of por
on the contrary, requires about fiv
and one-third pounds of corn for II
production. When eggs are twenty
four cents a dozen, and pork to
cents q pound, we have a bushcl {
corn fed producing $2.SS worth {
leggs and $1.O5 of pork.
Judging from these facts, eggs mu
be economical in their production an
in their eating, and especially fitte
for the laboring man in replacir
lmeat,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
An Anti Curculio Scheme.

D. w. Kaufman, of Des Moines,
Iowa, writes to the Prairie Farmer
his method of treatment of plum
trees for the curculio, which is evil
IDENTIFY worth trial for the coming
spring. He says:
"Some few years ago saw where
q man by the name of Pindoe, by ac-
cident, got one Of his plum trees
smoked by burning gas tar, and on
which tree he failed for some days to
catch any curculio. l gave this mat
ter some thought, and concluded to
try this possible remedy, as l had a
fine plum orchard, but always lost
the fruit by curculio stings. / had
always relied on catching the insects
in sheets, but as this remedy could at
best be but partially successful, l sell
dom succeeded in getting much fruit.
During the summer of 1874 pro-
cured from the gas-house several gal
Ions of coal or gas tar. l put about
quart into long stew-pan,
and with few shavings and a match
soon had dense black smoke. This
1 carried under my plum trees SO that
the dense smoke pervaded all parts
Of the tree. My first effort was very
gratifying in seeing insects of all sorts
hurry out of the tree. Ants came
running down the tree, various kinds
of worms, and spiders letting them.
selves down by their webs, and al
winged insects flying out and thus
leaving the tree deserted of all insect
life. lspent about half an hour il
smoking forty-two trees; and this
repeated three or four times eacf
week, unless rain had washed OF
the smudge, when ] again repeated
the smoking.
CATER my first efforts / tried tn,
Earring process, but invariably failed
to catch single specimen of the cur
culio. continued this operation un
til near the time of ripcning, and go
my first crop of plums, over 30 bush
els.
"The whole cost of coal tar FOL
these AZ trees, during the summer
was less than 80. / began the smok
ing little too late, after l had trict
for sometime the Earring into thu
sheet, and, therefore, some of thu
fruit had been stung, or my crop OF
ripe plums would have been still
greater.
During 1875, the plum crop wa
an entire failure, and l, therefore
had no opportunity to continue thi
experiment; but the summer of 1917
brought large plum crop, and al
once rcsorted to my favorite remedy
| commenced smoking my trees al
soon as the plums were the size of {
hazlenut, and continued up to thu
time of ripening, and not a single
curculio sting was to be seen on an!
fruit, the trees of which were trcatet
to the coal tar smoke. l purposel!
left several trees of different varietie!
unsmoked, and all the plums excep
one sort were stung, and dropped be
fore ripening."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07

Warm Shoes cheap at Phillips.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07

The St. Louis Republican Demo
cratic) states that in several counties
of Missouri there has been an actual
decrease in population during the
past six years. The causes arc to be
found in the immunity with which
outlawry flourishes in that State, bad
government, public dishonesty, and
other features of Bourbon rule. To
help on the depopulation of the State,
it is now proposed by the Democratic
Legislature to abolish the State
Boards of Education and Immigra-
ton. Missouri is a Democratic State,
and six years of Democratic reform
rule have brought about this humili-
ating condition of affairs in that State,
for which the people have no one but
themselves to thank. At the same
time it is very fair illustration of the
humbug of so-called Democratic re.
form.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
mur.,ar of Prof. = y. Nitche,,,

A special from Cairo, few days
since, announces the murder of Prof.
Mitchell and q body of 80 soldiers in
Abysinia by the natives. Mr.. Mitch
ell was in the service ofthe Khedive as
scientific explorer, and had met
with great success. At the time of
the massacre he was conducting ge-
illogical and neurological survey of
some newly acquired territory. He
was q graduate of the scientific de-
partment of Union College, of the
classical department of Harvard Col
lege, and the mining school at Erie
berg, Germany, gentleman of rare
gifts, a fine scholar and excellent
civil engineer, and skillful mining
engineer. He was at one time engag-
ed with the Hon. A. S. Kissell in the
public schools of Davenport. He has
q brother residing in this State, and
several very intimate friends in this
city. His loss will be deeply felt by
a large circle of friends, as he was
one of the most promising young
men of the country.-Keokuk Consti-
tuition.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
NOTICE.

NOTICE
Of the Annual Meeting Of Independ-
ent School District of Ottuma0a, in
Wapelo county, Ioaca::
Notice is hereby given to the cleo
tors of Independent School District
of Ottumwa, in the county of Wapel-
10, State of Iowa, that the annual
meeting of said District will be held
at the City Hall, in Ottumwa, Iowa,
on the second Monday in March. A,
d., 1877, at 8 o'clock, A. NJ, for the
election by ballot Of two Directors, to
continue in Office for three years, OF
successors to j. w. Edgerly and DIR
s. B. Thrall, whose term of Office ex
pire.
The meeting will he open from
O'Clock, A. M, until 4 O'Clock, p. M
And the said electors are requested
to be present at said meeting at
O'Clock, p. NJ, March 18th, for tn
transaction of the general business o
said District.
March LIST, A. d.. 1877.
w. Il. CHAMBERS,
m1-d2-wl Secretary.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07

The FESTIVE HOPPER. = Expert
ments made by w. E. Haviland, Fort
Dodge, with hoppers, do not give
much encouragement for getting rid
Of the pests. He exposed clods of
earth filled with them to uniform
heat of 20 to rs degrees in an oven
for eight days before they were all
Matched. He then placed them in a
glass bottle covered with gauzc, and
the little cusses lived nine days with.
out food. 1t is hardly probable that
there will be sufficient continuous
warm weather to bring the hoppers
all out before cold storm will come
And then they will stand twelve
hours solid freezing. Farmers may
make up their minds that the hop
pers will be on hand, and take what
ever they can get to eat.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
Want = Mew Count.

EDDYvILLE, Iowa, Feb. ~, 1877.
EDS. COURIER business in the
Mayors court has been lively for the
past two days. A couple were mar
ried the other night, and crowd of
large boys and small men gave them
. chariUari, and the next morning a
large number of them were arrested,
and the result is that the calaboosc is
full up to the joists, of parties board
ing out their fines, which range from
1898 to $1,000.
The cases are not all disposed Of
vet, and It will require returning
board to determine the number yet tc
be tried. III.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
DIE D.

In Chilicothe, last night, A. ]
WICKER, aged 50 years.
He was q member Of Lodge No.
lis, /. o. o. f., and was buried
with the honors Of that order on Fri
day.
Mr.. Wicker was one of the old set
tiers Of this county and was man
respected by all who knew him.-Ddi-
~ Qf Mar. I.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07

AMERICAN CoMPETITIoN.-Ac COM
munication from one of the repre-
scntatives in Canada of O leading
firm of hardware merchants in Stat
fordshire contains the following: II
have just returned from trip through
the lower provinces. / find that the
whole country is overrun by Ameri-
can travellers soliciting orders for
their manufactures at almost any
price to secure a sale. feel sure in
my own mind that very large pro-
portion of the hardware trade is al
together lost to England. From all I
can learn they are in position to
retain the hold they have gotham
chester Guardian.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
louisiana.

WASHINGTON, March 2.-Reprcscn-
tativcs Ellis and Gibson, and Colonel
Burk, of La, to-day, called on the
President, who showed them two tele-
grams prepared to be sent to General
Anger and Gov. Packard. In the first
Gen. Anger is informed that hereafter
troops must not be used for political
purposes in Louisiana, but for the
purpose only of preserving the public
peace and in aid of the civil authori-
ties, when tho latter were powerlcss
to do so.
The telegram to Packard was to thu
effect that the policy of maintaining Q
State government by Federal troops
was against public sentiment, and un
just to a majority of the people.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
,nsta,,atIon Of = New governor.

COLUMBUS, o., March 2.-When
Governor Hayes departed for WASH
ington, he left his resignation in the
Governors Office to be filed on future
notice. A telegram was received
from Gov. Hayes this forenoon to file
his resignation upon receipt Of the
telegram. Lieut.. Gov. Thomas L.
Young was notified of Gov. Hayes
resignation, and he at once proceeded
to the Executive Department, where
tho oath of Office as Governor was
administered to him.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
FROM CALIFORNIA.
Eugene 3. ohef5leld Arises to
Explain.

Eugene 3. sheffield Arises to
Explain.
Not long ago the COURIER con-
tanned the following paragraph:
zone Of the greatest hotel places of
the future will be Santa Barbara,
CAL, where invalids are congregating
from all parts fthe world. At the
present time the hotel accommoda-
tons are very bad"
To which one of our subscribers,
to-wit: Eugene S. Sheffield, formerly
Cashier Of the Iowa National Bank
Of this city, makes the following re-
ply:
SANTA BARBARA, CAL,
February 2l.ss lS77.
EDITORS COURIER, Gentlemen San
Ia Barbara possesses, in this country
of fine hotels, one, the darlington,
which in appointments and keeping
ranks with the best.
Situated in this climate of perpetu-
oil spring, amidst evergreen lawns
surrounded by tropical shrubery:
affording from its roomy piazas ex.
quisite views of sea and mountain
and containing alardersupplied with
the delicacies of two climates, tho
most fastidious epicure. among it
guests, receives surfeit of satisfac
ton.
In addition to this, which was bull
and furnished at an expenditure o
$l25, 600, we have q half dozen othel
places of public accommodation, rang
ing through all grades from first-clas
hotel to the large boarding house
So, whatever may have been the stat
in the past, it cannot now be sal
!. with accuracy that our "hotel accom-
modations are very bad"
Respectfully,
; e. 5. SHEFFIELD.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-07
Agricultural Items.

Osier Willows are raised at Coal
Creek, Keokuk county, Iowa.
Hard times mean that a large class
stand idle or resist by strikes such
prices as business men can afford to
give.
1t is a safe calculation to plant seeds
in hot-bed six weeks before the
time at which plants can be set out in
open ground.
Order your garden seeds at once.
Seed wheat can be cleaned up. Seed
corn shelled. Wood all cut and piled
up. Clean up your yards.
For full success with clover our
prairie soil should be plowed from
twelve to fifteen inches deep. Let no
soil scratcher be frightened at this.
Preventive in cases of hog cholera
are evidently of far more value than
specifics. Give hogs bituminous coal,
ashes, salt Carefully, copperas lin
limited quantlties), charcoal, and such
vegetables as can be furnished.
We know an old man sixty years
old, with one foot, who makes d0z-
ell AK handles per day, for which he
gets 30 cents apiece. Stout, hearty
men have to feed on public soup.
As the spring opens and before
putting in crops. let every farmer see
that all the manure ON the farm is
hauled out and spread where corn or
other crops are to be grown. 1t will
N NJ do IN norloct Tho inno,.to NJ mo 4.
ter in farming.
Mr.. Smith, of Jones county, after
visiting various Eastern butter and
cheese factories, says he is convinced
that they make no better product than
does Iowa. Also the price netting
the milk producer here is better than
there.
A good bushel basket, fit for farm
ers to carry corn to his hogs, is worth
q dollar. A man that has sense
enough to find back kitchen door
could make three such baskets per
day. Amy man can learn in three
hours, and there is the right material
in all our groves. Still, baskets are
brought from Michigan.
In arranging for the corn crop this
spring be careful not to have too
many acres and too few hands.
Twenty-Five acres per hand is enough.
Corn should be plowed at least five
times, and the weeds which escape the
pillow must be removed by the hand
or hoe. Cultivate it as to increase
the average product, and keep the
farm cleaner of weeds.
Now is the time to purify your
chicken houses to prevent disease,
Burning sulphur in the houses
sprinkling with carbolic acid white
washing with hot lime; cleaning out
frequently; providing new nests
providing literally ashes, charcoal
lime, gravel, pure water, will all aid
in stopping or warding off disease.
At the discussion at the Waterloo
Farmers Club the following conclu-
siOns were made: That in putting
in corn stalk ground to wheat it il
not best to stir the ground very deep
but stir all the surface, if possible.
Flowing under stalks and sowing OF
drilling afterwards was not as good
as sowing and cultivating with double
shovel or sulky pillow and dragging
same way as cultivated, SO as not to
drag the wheat in the furrows.-C. r.
CldrksOn, in State Register.