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Torn. MINING CORIPAH
Location Of principal place OF business,
kIko, Nevada. Location of works. Cornucopia
Aiiring District. Eno county, Nevada.
GorlcE-Thcre delinquent upon tho fol-
.HGflsNin8 testrbed stock iun rccvtpIi of asscs-
nIent go. - levied tue 18th day OF Feb.
rusry, lsTT.he several amounts set opposite the
names of the respective shareholder as follows:
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THE ELEO
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,

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r., And In accordance with law nuh an order OF
Inc beard q Trustee IGhIu on ithc 18th
day OF February, 1877, SO many shares Of
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STOVES AND HARDWARE.

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'.'7 DEIlNQUENTT NOTICE.

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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
What the MiIielamen Want.

The military convention at Du-
buque adopted the following report
Your committee to whom were re-
ferred the revision of the military
law respectfully report that in our
opinion the code of Iowa should be
amended:
l. As to exempt active members of
the National Guards of Iowa from
poll tax, from two days labor on the
highway now required by law, and
from compulsory service on the jury.
2. That the State require each reg
iment, battalion and separate organ
ization to meet for drill and instruc-
ton once each year in addition to the
meetings now provided for by law
in a camp of instruction for five days,
at such place as the commanding Off
Ger of such organization shall desig-
nate. and that during said time they
shall be paid $500 per day for such
service.
3. That the State should appropri-
ate the sum of So per man for each
company of militia of the State for
the purpose of defraying hall rent,
fuel, and other incidental expenses !;
the amount appropriated to no one
company to exceed 5000.
We further recommend that this
meeting appoints committee of one
from each separate organization for
the purpose of drafting memorial
to present to the mex: legislature,
and to draft a suitable militia law to
present at the same time.
And, further, that an adjourned
meeting Of the officials of the Iowa
militia should be held at Des Moines,
on the Sd day of January, 1873.
N. w. WILLIvEH,
Captain Co. l., LIST Regt. 1t. Art.
w. III. G. JAoUEs,
Captain Go. 9, 9th Regt.
JAS. Rush. LINCOLN,
Captain Co. +, Sd Regt.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
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ANOTHER BATTLE.
Result Of the Recent Fighting in
Montenegro.
Three Thousand Turks Left Dead on
the Battlefield.

LONDON, June San Ostrok COR
respondent who gets his information
from official Montenegrin sources,
telegraphs the following account OF
the recent operations, under date Of
Friday: The Turks moved in two
columns, one going to the relief of
Goransko, and the main force, under
Sulieman Pasha, to Krstaz. The lat
ter column attacked the entrench-
ments of General Vokovitch with
great gallantry. but were repulsed,
being twice driven back on their
reserves. The third attack was also
repulsed, the Turks taking up posi-
ton opposite Krstaz, where they
still remained when the courier left.
In spite Of this third repulse of the
Turks, the account proceeds to state
that General Vokovitch fell back on
his second line at Dugat at three
O'Clock next morning, where he has
not been molcsted. 1t appears from
this report, which certainly does not
unduly exaggerate the success of the
Turks, that General Vokovitch's po-
sitions were not actually stormed,
but was placed in such position as
to be obliged to abandon them. The
account continues: The Turkish loss
in dead in this engagement is about
three thousand. Six hundred dead
Turks were counted in front of one
Montencgrin battalion. The other
Turkish column, going to Goranska,
was met by General Socica and driv-
en- back to Muratovitza, where it was
encamped at the latest information
AS the defeat of this column would
leave the rear of Sulieman Pasha's
army exposed, it is probable that he
will attack General Socica before
moving on General Vokovitch again
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
100000 Bottles
Cent auR
LinimentS.

peen sold the last year, and not one complaint
esohed us, That they have not done all that Is
o",A'e' ior Them. Indeed, scientific skill cannot
~ tie result reached in these wonderful
~ sa auaeu TO Carbolic. Arnica, Men
tina, seneca-0il and Witch-Haza, az a;,a.,..
gradients. which makes a family yin,n,n.. Az, ,n
defles rivalry. Rheumatic and bed ridda. ..,'' '
pies have by it been enabled to throw a,yar M.
crutches, and many Who for years have been o.
hicted with Neuragis, Sciatica, Caked preas,s
Weak Backs, &c. have found permanent rclicr
MT. Josiah Westlake, of Marysvllle, o.. writes.
For years my Rheumatism has been 40 b.d
That nave been unable to stir from the house /
have tried every remedy could hear or Fina,Ir
learned Of the Centaur Iinment. The first three
bottles enabled me to walk without NV crntches
simply marvel.'
This Imminent cures Burns and Scalds without
scar. Extracts the Poison from bites and stinrs
Cures Chilbla'ns and Frosted Feet, and is very
efiicacious for Farache, Toothache, Itch, and Gu
tancous EruptIons
The Cen taur Lfnime emit, yellow
wrapper. Is intended for the tough flbers, cords
and muscles of horses, mules and animals.
READ! READ!
kev. Geo. W. Ferris, Manorkiu, schoharie Co. !.
N. Y, says:
MY morse was lame fora year with fetlock
wrench AZ remedies utterly failed to cure and
considered him worthless until i commenced 10
use Ccniaur Liniment, which rapidly cured him.
heartily recommend ito
~ makes very little difference whether The case
De wrench" sprain, spawn, or lameness Of any
KIND, the effects are the same. The great power
oil the Linment is, however, shown in Poll-eyil.
big-head' sweeny, SPAWN, Ring-bone, Calls and
Scratches. This Liniment is worth millions of
dollars yearly to the Stock growers, Livery -men,
Farmers ana those having valuable animals tn
csre for. We warrant its effects and refer TO anv
Farrier who has everuset it.
LABORATORY OF j. B. ROSE 4 Co.,
46 Dey Street, New York.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
A Picture bv Gail Hamilton.

Gail Hamilton, in a recent letter.
says: Last winter--only this very
last winter-a pretty young southern
girl, just emerged from childhood
bright, innocent, affectionate girl
was queening it as young girls in
alienable right it is to do, among the
young people in Washington. How
gay and gentle and sweet she was!
When the time came to go to their
sunny South her father said, / am
going home to be murdered And
murdered he was: and murdered was
his young son, throwing himself
vainly between his father and his
fathers assassins; and murdered was
the fair young daughter, yainly
shielding her father with her cling
ing warm white arms. l think the
worlds annals hold no higher hero
ism than the instructive martyrdom
of love in these two simple children,
and If anything were wanting to il
lustrate their glory it would be found
in the blackness of darkness which en-.
shrouds their cowardly murderers,
and which, at sober second thought
let young girls life go out in agony
because not fiend of them all was
man enough to minister to her dead.
ly hurt.
"But Mr.. Evarts, we are told, il
writing a letter about it which will
make a sensation in the country; and
we crush back the tears and thinl
what proud and sacred thing it i.
to be an American citizen!
And especially what a magnifi
cent piece of Christianity it is to have
done away with the policy of force
and adopted the policy of concilia
| toni"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13

G. s. Wilson ESQ.,, for years the ac-
complished city editor of the Des
Moines Register withdraws from the
Legislative contest in Polk County.
They are throwing too many stink.
pots in that campaign to suit him,
among other things he says:
~ have no doubt that shall be sue
cessful in securing that nomination if
l continue candidate, but have no
taste for the filthy contest my candi-
dacy has occasioned and have no time
to deny the falsehoods that are told
concerning it and myself. Two of my
opponents for the nomination are en-
ploying their time in the circulation
Of the report that am Democrat
and always have been. The state
ment is lie in whole and in every
part. / never have been Democrat
since / had vote, and have never
voted any other ticket than the Re-
publican. l have no COULTER false
hoods with which to retaliate; that
has never been, never will be, nv
method of electioneering. A private
soldier in the Union army, subse-
quently Federal office-holder under
President Lincoln, five years an editor
of Republican papers, six years since
an associate editor of Republican pa
pers, twice elected by Republican
House of Representatives to q clerk
ship and a member Of five State Con.
ventions of the Republican Party in
Iowa-these are probably sufficient
refutation of all charges of my dis
loyalty to the Republican party"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
The Function of a Newspaper

There has grown up sort of COM
mon law of obligation, recognized
mutually by the press and by the peo-
pie, by which the people expect that
the press, as distributors of useful in
formation, shall inform them, as we'll
what is to be avoided as what is to
be sought, as we'll who is to be sus-
pectcd as who is to be confided in.
And newspaper as a garnerer, and
distributor of news, is a public mont
tor, and it is its duty to admonish the
people against frauds and shams, and
impostures and dishonesties. 1t is to
be u beacon as well as a guide, and
whenever a public newspaper,
through its diversified appliances for
the collection and distribution of in
formation, discovers anywhere in
public life and in public avocations,
whether it be a lawyer, or a clergy
man, or physician, a man who, in
stead of securing the public welfare
by honorable methods and practices,
simply prowls about in the back yard
of his profession, and uses the means
and instrumentalities which honora-
BILE title gives him to pander to his
own lust or avarice, or any other vile
passion, and that paper fails to send
out some admonitory voice, and
sound some signal Of warning, it is
recreant to every principle of duty
and responsibility, and should be
stigmatized by the public which il
prctcnds to represent and to serve.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
PLEA FOR s'WAPELLo.'

Editors Courier:-On the farm
owned by James Linn, one half mile
east of Agency City, lie buried the
remains of the once noted In
dian chieftain, Wa-pcl-lo. Thirty-five
summers have come and gone since
the Sac and Fox tribes laid this chief
here to rest. Wapello was the friend
Of the white man. A brick founda-
ton covered by large fiat stone,
perhaps three feet by 8, is the only
monument now remaining. This
foundation is all crumbled away, and
the large stone cracked and very
much injured for want of prop
or support. 1t seems to me that
this grave, the last resting place of a
noted chief of the tribe which roamed
and lived on these prairies before us,
should be cared for and kept in per-
petual remembrance by the people of
Wapello county. This county was
named after this chieftain. Civiliza-
ton is marked by the care we mani
fest toward our dead. A small outlay
would enclose and repair this sacred
spot. / plead for this Indian grave.
Would it not be we'll for the County
JupCrNlsOTs W AOuA uACSI lhiS mhtLCI.
Hon. G. Dudley had flock Of
choice sheep, and some dogs played
havoc with them the other night.
Now Mr.. Dudley don't allow any
dog to live after eating of his sheep,
SO three dogs now lay away at rest.
If people would raise less dogs and
more sheep, they would not complain
SO much of hard times.
j. @. A. Dawson is in the field
again to buy wool, and ] see by the
Independent that A. L. Chamberlain
wants to pay cash or trade for $4,000
pounds.
The North Carolina Minstrcls will
sing here in Chamberlain's Hall, on
Monday eve, the 18th inst, and this
entertainment, it is said, will be the
best of the season, and no doubt will
draw a large audience. CARO-.
Agency City, June IL.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
TERRIBLE FLOODS
In Missouri and Kansas.
Railroads Submerged and
Stopped Running.
Immense Damage 10 Crops ON
the Missouri River.
Rad Prospect For a Crop in
Michigan.
Floods In W,s.our, and k.n.ae

Floods In Missouri and Kansas.
ST. LOUIS, June 9.-The Kansas City
& st. Joe and the Council Bluffs rail-
way is under water between Kansas
City and Winthrop, and has stopped
trains.
A break in the Missouri Pacific
road at Pomeroy, Kansas, and deep
water on the track at other points.
has stopped traffic on that road.
No trains were running on the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road
yesterday.
On the Kansas Pacific there is a
washout of several hundred yards,
and on the Smoky Hill Division one
of about hundred feet.
The.St. Louis, Kansas City & North
ern road is washed away at Harlem,
near Kansas City, and trains are de-
layed.
The Hannibal & St. Joe trains are
detained at Liberty, Mo.
The Kansas Central road is also
damaged SO trains can't run.
The bottom lands between Kansas
City and Wyandotte, where the de-
pots, elevators, ETC., were situated, il
in great danger of being submerged
Tho Missouri river below Kansas
City has overlooked its banks on both
sides for some distance, and the des.
truction of crops is very great.
Railroad companies are actively en-.
gagged repairing tracks, and trains
will be running again to-day or to.
morrow. A heavy rain fell here
nearly all last night, and it has con
tinued this morning with a prospec'
of lasting.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13

FROM the following Washington
special to the Chicago Tribune Civil
service Reform organ) it would ap-
pear that the George William Curtis
Joe Observation-Disclosures blackboard
plan of selecting public officials is in
bad way in the Cabinet:
WASHINGTON, June G.-The fact
probably would not be denied by
members Of the Cabinet themselves
that the Cabinet is not united upon
the question of the civil service re-
form policy. Indeed, Sec'y SchurZ,
probably stands alone in cordial APP
prevail of what the civil service re-
formers of the Curtis school would
declare to be the real civil service.
The President himself has recently
expressed some doubts as to the abil-
ity of any administration to thorough
oughly reform the civil service thro'
the medium of appointments alone,
and in the absence of some definite
legislation. There are indications that
as to the service in general, the re-
form which the President will en-
dcavor to introduce will largely con-
sist in more scrupulous inquiry into
the fitness Of the candidates, rather
than in a conformity to the technical
examinations which came to be known
as the blackboard SYSTEM" The
latter will, undoubtedly, to great
extent, be used for appointments and
promotions in the Executive Depart
ments; but as regards the general
offices throughout the country, where
such system without law, is scarcely
practicable, the appointing power
will probably find itself necessarily
restricted to an inquiry into the per.
sonal fitness of the applicants by the
| best means at its command.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
SIXTH DAY.

June 8, 1877.
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment; members all present.
President Michael in the chair.
Minutes Of yesterdays proceedings
read and approved.
f. Finnegan presents petition for
abatement of poll tax for the year
1876.
On motion granted, he being over
age and not liable for such tax.
Board proceeded to the examine
ton of claims.
The road petition of j. M. Arnold,
ct al, being set for to-day, Mr.. Pos
tlcwaite moved 10 grant the location
of said road as recommended by COM
missioners, conditional that the said
J. M. Arnold, ct al, petitioners, pay
to John Wintermutc, the sum Of one
hundred and twenty dollars ($l20.OO)
as damages and cost accrued on ac-
count of said location, said damages
and costs to be paid by the first day
of September 1877.
Chair declared the motion carried.
In the matter Of the road petition
OFF. NJ. Wilson, ct al, for vacation of
road in Richland township, Wapcllo
county. Iowa
Mr.. Wright moved to reject the pc
tition and called for the yeas and
nays.
Mr.. Wright aye, Michael aye, Pos
tlewaitc aye.
Chair declared the petition reject
ed.
L. d. McGlashon reported a sur
vey made by him on the Ottumwa
and Eddyyille road, near A. l..
Graves.
Report read and ordered placed on
file.
On motion adjourned till Monday
at o'clock. M. b. MYERS,
Auditor.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
PITKINs REMOVAL.
And What 10 Thought Of 1t at Now
Orleans.
Special Telegram II the Inter-occan !


Special Telegram II the Inter-occa
NEW ORLEANS, June 1O.-The sus-
pension of Marshal Pitkin without
any charges, and simply to install
Jack Wharton, who held the notori-
GUS Maddox blackmail letters, is re-
gardcd by all the Republicans here
and by many Democrats as an act of
gross injustice. Mr.. Pitkin is a native
of New Orleans, is of an old Wing
family, is a leading Republican ora
tor, a man of culture, and Packard's
closest friend and strongest champi-
on. Since 1862 he has been an indie
fatigable laborer for the party. He
organized and disciplined the party
here for its November battle, and it
was owing to him especially that Mr..
Hayes got the Louisiana electoral
vote that saved him.
WHARTON is A MIssIssIPrIAN,
was in the rebel army throughout
the war, was given a nice little bu-
reau by Warmoth, but never rendered
the party one whit of service till the
last canvass, when he made ten or fif-
teen mediocre speeches. The Prcsi.
dent
ASKED FOR P1TKIN's RESIGNATION
over o month ago. The substantial
reply was: Resignation under con.
straint is confession of malversa.
ton. have none to confess. Remove
me without cause If you want the
to meet your bargains. l refer you to
your own civil service postulate.'
Pitkin is frank, Independent, young
man, and when asked six weeks age
by the President what he thought, he
is said to have replied: "a hazardou.
experiment, first to Louisiana and
South Carolina Republicans, and by
recoil to yourself"
Governor Packard, who will no
address Hayes, dispatched to Secrc
tary Sherman some time since: "Pit
kin's removal will be an outrage"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
Banning BulIdozed.

New YORK, June "a West Point
letter says: "Hon. II. b. Banning, of
Ohio, joined his fellows on the Board
of Visitors yesterday. Upon arriving,
he was met by one of the officers, who
asked him what he meant by stating
that the officers at the post had their
houses furnished at government ex-
pense and in most luxurious man.
ner. Banning did not recollect ever
having said that in any speech of his
in the House. Before he reached the
hotel, he was spoken to about the
matter, and about his opposition
to the army in general, by some gen.
tlcmen who rode with him in the
stage, and when he got to the hotel
he was accosted in the same manner
by some of his fellow members.
Why he cried, as Senators Blaine
and Maxey began to talk the matter
over with him on the piazza, Il am
beginning to think / have been bull
dozed. The army has no better friend
than am General Banning leaves
for home to-day"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
Some 500 dozen frogs limbs from
Detroit reach New York daily.

Some 500 dozen frogs limbs from
Detroit reach New York daily.
The Presidency of a life insurance
company has its sorrows. 1t takes an
official so long to count over his salary
that he has no time to 60 a-fishing.-
Detroit Free Press.
While Mrs. Brooks is making but
ter busts, Mrs. Sullivan, of Jefferson
vile, Mo-, is making canoes from
hickory nuts. We shall get ahead of
the Greeks yet.
Stanley Matthews, feeling around
in the republican party for old line
wings, looks about as hopeful as a
bald-headed man combing his hair
with a garden rake.-Haack- Eye.
Olive Logan tells how English wo-
men overpower their bumptious SER
wants with a cold, stony stare. A sim
gle look quells the boldest presump-
ton, and the mental shrivels back in.
to her original insignificance, never
more to venture from the miserable
crevice.
Nothing so thoroughly pleases a
man who has learned that a collection
is to be taken in his church on Sum
day morning, and who has conse-
quently been unable to present on &C.
count of severe pain in his back, as
to attend the evening service and hear
| the Clergyman announce that sas
many who desired to give were moi
present at tho morning collection, il
will now be repeated.-Noracich Bul
lettR.
About the time when James and
John Harper set up for themselves
their younger brother, Wesley, also
wished to become printer. The
father removed from Newton to New
York, so that his sons might all have
a home with him, and Wesley was set
at work in the Office ofhis brothers, al
first as compositor, then as proof.
reader. All the time his father charg.
ed him for his board, somewhat to
the boys surprise, for his father had
no special need Of the money. Soon
after he came of age, The reason OF
this apparent harshness appears. 81
think you should go into business
soon," said his father: "the money
you have been paying me for your
board for six years has been saved
for you. 1t shall be your capital te
start with" With this money Wesley
Harper bought into the firm, becom'
ing an equal partner.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13

: Marshal Pitkin, of Louisiana, who
was recently appointed and just now
removed, is man Of unexceptiona-
BILE character, so far as the public is
Informed.
He is succeeded by Jack Wharton,
. Rebel ex-Colonel and one of the
most loud mouthed dead beats in
New Orleans, according to the state.
ment of gentleman of this city, who
knows them both.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
New York Gamblers,

New YORK, June 12.-Henry p.
McGrath, the well-known owner OF
race horses, was ON the witness stand,
yesterday, in the John +. Chamber
lain referee case. When asked if he
was Interested with Chamberlain in
1876 in his business at Long Branch,
he replied haven't sat up as late as 8
o'clock for three years. During the
last few years he had conditional
interest in Chamberlain's business.
He was to share in the profits but not
the losses. haven't seen any profits
out of that plan in long time. In
the days Of club house popularity he
had percentage. He was asked
what business was carried on in the
house, and in q hesitating manner,
said, "You want me to state that John
Chamberlain kept gambling house,
and / won't do 1t. Now you have
got all out of me that you cam"