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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
Georgia Crackers.

Mr.. +. v. Smalley, writing from
Georgia, gives this lucid description
Of the people in the pine-woods belt
in that State: The settlers are of the
tall, lank, raw-boned, yellow-visaged
Georgia Cracker" type. The men
look like some of the caricatures of
Southern bull-dozcrs. Their hair,
worn long, is of a peculiar dirty,
brown color, their beard, scant and
short, seems to find All insufficient
amount Of nourishment for healthful
growth on their cadaverous cheeks.
They are angular, awkward and
loose -jointed, chew tobacco vigorous
ly, and dress in the cheapest of home
spun. The women are, if possible,
more unattractive than the men.
There is not trace Of comeliness or
shapeliness about their faces or forms.
They loose their front teeth at an ear
ly age, and the vacancy in their
mouths serves as an aperture through
which they thrust o pine stick daub-
ed with snuff. The vile habit OF
smearing the gums with snuff is uni.
versal among them. The rudest
peasantry of Europe present no such
specimens of superlativc feminine
ugliness as do these Georgia "crack,
ers."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
In Boston the prohibitionists hay,

In Boston the prohibitionists have
been running third or temperance
tickets until they have defeated the
republicans and elected blatant
democratic demagogue by the name
of Frederick O. Prince, Mayor.
The other day Mrs. Livcrmore head
ed delegation of ladies before the
Mayor, filing an earnest protest
against the city of Boston furnishing
the presidential party with any mu.
nicipal wine. Mayor Prince inform.
cd them that prohibition was played
out, that he was in favor of wine
drinking; that he had wine in his
house every day; in other words
that he was democrat in good
standing. and that he should be false
to his ideas of municipal hospitalit,
if he failed to wine as well as dine
his expected illustrious guests.
At last accounts the prohibitionisti
of Boston were not rejoicing much
over the Mayor they indirectly help
cd to elect.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
What Broke the National Bank
of Missouri at st. Louis.

On the 2Sth of May new board
was elected, composed Of J. II. Brit
ton, Barton Bates, Julius s. Walsh,
Jas. Il. Eads, Henry S. Mills, Web.
M. Samuel, Calvin +. Burns, N. S.
Choutcau and John B. Henderson.
The capital stock of the bank was
formerly 81 100000. Some time ago
it was reduced to 100000 with a
view of escaping the onerous burden
of taxation. The shrinkage, howey-
er, which has been going on in all
securities as well as the heavy taxes
and expenses, convinced the directors
that there was little prospect OF doing
successful business for some time to
come. The bank has been leading
one in fostering home enterprises. II
carried a large amount Of Bridge
stock, which a. one time commanded
80 per cent. premium, but is now
nearly worthless. 1t had, also, large
investment in the stock of the old
North Missouri Railroad, now the St.
Louis, Kansas City & Northern Rail-
way. That stock once sold at so, but
it is now slow at %. During the past
two years the road has been doing a
good business, and making money.
With good season the stock will
advance. The bridge has not, as yet,
made the return expected from ii, but
the stock may in the future prove
valuable.
The bank has also suffered in the
shrinkage of real estate, just as most
other banks have done the past four
years. One instance may be mem
TONED. A few years ago the bank
bought the southeast corner Of Fourth
and Olive streets, the intention being
to erect a building for the institutions
occupancy. Shortly after the pur-
chase an offer of $lSO,9OO was made
and refused. When tho Chamber of
Commerce was inaugurated. the bank
subscribed for stock to the amount of
$50, 1000, and on the completion of the
building took offices in it. Since then
efforts have been made to dispose of
the property on Fourth and Olive
streets, but the most that was offered
for it was 100000.
The deposits of the bank amount to
about $2,O00,OOO. All sorts Of rumors
prevailed yesterday as to how much
the various interests would realize.
1t was generally believed that the
stockholders would be very fortunate
If they escaped without a deficit to
make up. Depositors are hoping to
realize their full credits, but not
without some delay. They rely con-
siderably on the provisions Of the
National Banking law. If the capital
stock is exhaustedbefore the deposi-
tors are satisfied the law makes the
stockholders liable for q similar sum
in proportion to their stock. 1t is a
matter for congratulation that unlike
the results in some other banking
failures the hard earnings of the poor
are not sacrificed or even tied up in
this instance. The customers of this
bank were generally Of the wcalthier
class, and most of them can wait un.
Ill the securities of the bank can be
realized upon.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
CURIOUS CASE.
Mrs. Victor, the Woman who Pre-
fers hanging to imprison-
n1ent for Life.

COLUMBUS, O., June 2S.-A singu.
lar, perhaps unprecedented criminal
case has just been passed upon by
Judge Bingham of the Common Pleas
Court. Mrs. Sarah NJ. Victor, who
was convicted in Cuyahoga county
of murder and sentenced to be hang
ed but afterwards had her sentence
commuted by the Governor to life
imprisonment, confessed her crime
while in prison and subsequently be-
coming moody and tired of such life
applied to the courts of this city TO
have the original sentence carried out
on the ground that she never con-
sented to the communication. This
was in January, 1876. Judge Bing-
ham has had the case under advise
ment eighteen months and now rem
ders opinion that Mrs. Victor is in
law an escaped prisoner after convic.
tion. and has issued an order to the
sheriff for her delivery to the author.
tiles of Cuyahoga county TO await
action by the courts of that county.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
OBITUARY..
ROBERT DALE OWEN.


Robert Dale Owen, who died at
Lake George on the 9th inst, was
born at New Lanark, Scotland, in
1904. His father was Robert /.
Owen, an English social rcformer,
who founded the Communist Society
at New Harmony; Indiana, in 1923.
Robert Dale, accompanied his father
to America, and embraced the poht-
ical views Of the democratic party /;
was elected to Congress two terms
in 1888 was appointed Charge
fAGairs at Naples, which place he
held until 1858, when, upon his return,
he took a prominent part in the or
ganization of the Smithsonian Insti.
tuition. Since the above named date
he has imbibed good deal of the
Communist views of his father, and
finally became q noted believer and
writer on Spiritualism, but since the
exposure of the Katie King fraud, he
me- had little to say on the subject
ny ses noted as highly cultivated
an" sSial gentleman of the old En-.
ns" ~ and the author of several
pooAs = iderable merit.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
Burlington Hdwkeye

Relics Of the war periods of eigh-
teen centuries begin to figure in the
present war. The Turks, who were
forced south from the northern ex-
tremity of the Dobrudscha by the
Russians, who crossed on Friday at
Galatz and Ibrail, have made their
stand along the line Of Trajan's wall,
which crosses the DObrudscha Just
south of the railroad from Tcherna-
voda and Kostenje. The old wall was
built by Trajan during his numerous
wars that led to the final subjugatiOn
of the warlike Dacians and Scythians.
The great Roman Emperor fought all
over the Wallachian and Moldavian
territory, spanned the Danube by a
colossal bridge, besides capturing the
very territory in Asia Minor for
which the Russians and Turks are
now contending. Traian built three
walls,-One in Spain, one intended to
run from the Rhine to the Danube,
and the third across the Dobrudscha,
between the points we have indicated,
to prevent the incursiOns of the Scyth-
ians across the Danube down into the
rich country Of the present Roumelia.
At present, the wall consists Of q
double, and sometimes triple, line OF
earth ramparts, from ten to nineteen
feet in height, bounded on the north
by marshy valley which answers
the purpose of fossc. This same
wall was the Turkish line of defense
against the Russian invaders in 1854,
and the scene of two Russian defeats
before they were able to cross it. The
seat of war in Asia is not only mem
orable for Trajan's victories, but also
as the line of Xenophon's famous re.
treat with his 10000. After the vic,
tory of the Greeks at Cunaxa, neal
Bagdad, and their desertion by theiI
allies, instead Of retracing their steps
by the route they had entered Asis
Minor, they marched along the Tigris
to point corresponding to the pres
ent town Of Moush, in Armenia
northwest of Lake Van, made cir
cuitous route through Armenia unit
they were well up to the Caucasus
then retracing their steps passed
down between kars and Bayazid
across the mountain passes where the
Russians are now operating, unit
they reached Erzeroum. From this
point guide took them to the top O
a mountain from which the Euxine
was visible, and their wandering.
| were at an end.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
Arrested for Raising Estate War
rants

COLUMBIA, S, c., June 29.-L. Cass
Carpenter, U. S. Internal Revenue
Collector for the district, was arrest
ed here at the instance Of the inyesti-
eating committee of the General As
sembly, now sitting in Columbia,
and held in $4,000 bail for examina-
tion. The charge is that Carpenter,
while editor of the Union, obtained
two State Treasury warrants of sos
and $95 respectively, for public print
ing which he increased by prefixing
a figure 6 in each instance, SO as to
make the amounts read $3.50 and 1896.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
Mississippi.
O n~.sAl A. ,n >.

WASHINGTON, June s6.-A we'll
known officer of the old army writes
from Vicksburg: "Thc Kemper
county murders show how Mississip-
pi goes. The truth is, that while Re-
publican in this state who keeps qni-
ct may be tolerated, if he takes an ac-
tive part in politics with fair show
OF success, he must be sluelched even
il bullet hole has to be put through
his carcass. Just now they are not
killing very lively in the state, but if
Republicans should SO far elevate
their heads as to show signs of dam
gerous life in political matters you
would frequently hear of 'unfor!u-
nate ARRAYS tragedies and fatal
occurrences but never under the cor
rect designation of infamous and di-
abolical murders. The very old dew
IL seems to be in these people any
way."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
Vanderbilt will Add to HE Pile bv
Grinding Little More Out OF
. ..#.a. tha pnnr

CLEVELAND, o., June 2S.-The fol-
lowing circular explains itself:
NEW YORK, June 2S.-To the off.
GERS and employees of the L. 8. d N. S.
Co.--On and after July l, 1877, a re-
duction of ten per cent. will be made
in the compensation of all officers and
employees of every grade in the serv-
ice of the Company, where the amount
exceeds ten cents per hour, one dol
lar per day, or $50 per month, but
in cases where the ten per cent.
would reduce the pay of hour men
below !0 cents per hour, or daily men
one dollar per day, or employees Of
such shall be fixed at 10 cents per
hour, one dollar per day and $50 per
month. Respectively,
(Signed) WM. ii. VANDERBILT,
President.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04

PRovIDENcE, r. l., June 2S.- Pres
ident and party left Boston in
special train at s o'clock this morning
for this city. At Mansfield the train
was met by committee Of the Rhode
Island Legislature. The train then
proceeded to Providence, where, Oh
arriving, the party alighted and were
escorted by the military, under Gen.
Burnside, to the Executive mansion.
The streets were profusely decorated
and thronged with people. Governor
Van Zandt made brief address of
welcome.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04

LONDON, June 29.-The army corps
stationed at Lublen, Poland, has
been ordered to the Danube and an
other corps is ordered to be in readi-
ness for immediate advance.
Various correspondents fix two
miles below Sistova as the exact
point of Russian landing on the
Turkish bank of the Danube.
At the bombardment Of Gnrigeyo
the Turks chiefly aimed at the house
OF the German Consul, believing the
Car was there.
Ten thousand Russians have occu.
pied the island of Barcea, near Silis-
tria. 1t Is unknown whether they
succeeded in crossing to the Turkish
side, but the report that the Turks
have abandoned their positions at
Tchernayodo and Medisgo is thought
to be explicable if the Russians
have crossed near Silistria.
Ii is stated at Pera that Count
Schouvaloff, on behalf OF the Car,
viii, raise objections to the presence
of Sir Arnold kemble, English mill
tary attache with the Turkish army
in Asia.
AT Nicopolis and Sistova, on
Wednesday, the losses on both sides
were appalling.
Sixteen thousand rifles and 200, 600
cartridges are expected at Constanti-
nople from Egypt.
A Danielograd dispatch says the
Turks, after junction of the armies
of Sulieman Pasha and Ali Saib, oc-
cupied Martinitza heights. Sulie.
man Pasha's next movement Is ex-
pected to be by way Of Lychanska
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
c. r. !. 4 p. Railroad.

CHICAGO, June 27.-The annual re-
port of the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific railroad just issued, shows
that the total distance owned and
leased by the company, is 1908 miles,
and gross receipts from this for the
last fiscal year were $6,9lO, Cos; oper-
ating expenses and taxes were So, ,533,
1874; net earnings $3,3S4, ,462 deduct
ing dividends, interest on bonds and
other accounts, it leaves a surplus Of
$43l ,4S2. The present balance, in
cluding the income account, is $8,-
1884. Last year $4,000 more per-
sons were carried than in the preced-
ing year, resulting in an increased
revenue of $1,000. The freight was
slightly increased, but the freight
earnings, owing to the Iowa Granger
law. decreased $4,000.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
THE OUTLOOK.

Weare now fairly into our third
year of wet weather, and since the
first day of March it is safe to say that
it has rained more than half the time.
Grass, potatoes, rye, small fruits, ETC.,
will be good, but under the mos. fa-
vorable circumstances we cannot now
expect full crop Of wheat, oats or
corn.
Owing to the great competition at
this point between Chicago Il St.
Louis, which gives us the lowest
freights Of any point in Iowa, Ottum-
wa draws trade from not only
Wapcilo, but from all the adjacent
counties, hence it is no uncommon
thing to see wool, corn, and other
produce of the farm brought to this
market from the immediate neighbor-
hood Of Oskaloosa, Sigourney, Fair
field, Bloomfield and KNOXVILLE. Hav.
ing trade extending over such an
extensive country, it must necessarily
cover much territory where good
crops are grown. Thus the trade of
this city is not now, and is not likely
to suffer as in localities more circum-
scribed in their trade limits than
ours is.
There is no use in Disgusting the
fact that the three years Of incessant
and unprecedented floods have great
ly discouraged and impoverished the
farmers, and to the same extent en-
barrassed our business men. But il
is also notable, and remarkable, that
all hands have stood it as we'll as they
have. We know of no country upon
the face Of the earth, except this Des
Moines Valley, which could have
stood such prolonged flood without
having been in its agricultural, mer-
camille and manufacturing interests
at the door of financial bankruptcy
AS it is, we are doing remarkably
we'll. No serious failures have oc.
Cured, and none are likely to. A
great many houses are being built
and a great many more will be con.
structcd during the season If the
weather will permit. Farmers will
make up for short corn in an increas,
ed acreage Of buckwheat, Hungarian
sc,
In the meantime it is the duty of al
to help along as mnch as possible
without growing against the newt
able. Those who are able should
give the poor labor, by building and
otherwise, as lumber, brick and Other
material are cheap, and labor is plcn
ty and needy.
Above all, remember that there il
silver lining to every cloud, and tha
even Noah's food had an end.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
Hon. John a, Gear

of Burlington has been nominated
for the next Governor OF Iowa on the
first formal ballot by the Republican
State Convention at Des Moines.
The Gazette, while condcmning Mr..
Gears politics, has nothing here to
say against him personally, and trusts
that in the heat Of the campaign it
will not be driven to utter discour-
teous word respecting the standard
bearer of Iowa Republicanism. Mr..
Gear is one of our most cnterprising
and influential citizens. lie has,
moreover, long been in political life
and at last attains the ambition of
-BariinqtoR Gazette (Uen)
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04

BY our dispatches it will be seen
that the President is going South
He will come back confirmed i'm the
assurance that all is peace, that the
conciliation policy is success, and
that the leaders down there are good
and loyal men. If he would go down
there incog., buy q small farm, buckle
down to labor and at the next elec-
ton vote and work for the Republic
can ticket, he would have occasion to
return bringing home very different
ideas. - Dubuque Times
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
Great Horse Sale.

CINCINNATI, June 2S-There was a
very large attendance at the stock
sales. A. j. Alexander sold the
blooded horses Lexington and Ken.
lucky. The great feature of the sale
was the sale of five yearlings, the get
of the celebrated horse Lexington
w. II. johnson, of Nashville, pur.
chasing one at $3,lO0. The total
amount realized by the sale was SIG
500,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04

In moving barn last week in Grin.
nell, about 500 half-pint whisky bot.
ties were found. And still Grinnell
is temperance town.-Marshal
Times.
Now, there are $50 barns in Grin.
nell; supposing each barn has SOC
half-pint bottles, Il fair average, il
would be safe to conclude that there
are 25,OO0 alf-pint bottles under the
barns at Grinnell. 1t beats thunder
-Ma,yhdH Statesman.
And Grinnell has about 1900 in.
habitants. That makes |, ,l25 half-pint
bottles for every man woman and
child in Grinnell. Great Casar's
ghost! What crowd that town
ought to send up to the state temper.
ance conyention.-HaUkeye.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04

SAN FRANCISCO, June Give have
news from Acapulco that on the 10th
Installer bombardment of nearly 10
days, by Diaz's gunboats, Alvarez
capitulated. He surrendered the fort
with two hundred and fifty men, to
the naval forces who thereupon enter
ed the town. The opposing armies
are holding high carnival in the
streets of Acapulco. Arm in arm
they are drinking and carousing and
apparently are the best of friends.
IL is limited that Alvarez has gone
over to the enemy. Residents of Ac-
apulco, as yet are undecided whether
to leave the place or not. They have
so far escaped serious molestation,
but have announced their intention of
to the q. S., if they are sub
ject to insults or the hardships of civ
il war.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
New Hampshire wont Endorse.

CONCORD, N. H., June 29.--In the
House the resolution presented last
Tuesday, endorsing President Hayes
and his policy, was called up and an
effort made to pass it, the measure be-
ing strongly favored by several mem
bers, among them Sinclair, who is a
democrat and who originally intro
duced the resolution. Without com.
ing to q vote the matter was laid on
the table.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
THE "THuNDERER' AMAZED.

LONDON, June 2S.--The Times says
the neutral states are painfully inter-
ested by the report that the Russians
have been violating the laws Of war
by the intiiction of wanton injury. If
they wantonly directed their guns
against the Consulates and defense
less parts of Rutschuk, their guilt is
only surpassed by their folly, and that
folly would be all the more glaring
because if, as reported. they continued
to fire on the English Consulate after
the Consul had hoisted the American
flag, as thus they would have gone
out Of their way to assail a power
which is peculiarly friendly to them
selves. 1t is difficult to believe that
the Russians wonld have deliberately
inflicted such an outrage, and it will
do to remember that similar charges
invariably accompany every bonn
bardment.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
G0n0v0l Grant.

LONDON, June 2S.-Aftcr ex-Presi-
dent Grants return from Liverpool
he has no special engagement until
july 3D.. On the 4th of July Minister
Pierrepont will give reception at
his residence, exclusively to Ameri-
cans ia London, when General Grant
will be present Next day he will go
to Paris.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04
Tho New Hampshire Democracy
Endorse tho Admini stratlon.

CONCORD, N. H., june 27.-In tho
House yesterday, Sinclair, (dem.) in
troduced n resolution of unqualified
approval of the National Administra-
ton in removing U. s. troops from,
and restoring self-government to
Florida, Louisiana and South Caro-
lima, prohibiting officeholders from
holding the machinery of politics for
the purpose of controlling political
organizations, and declaring that no
assessment for political purposes on
officeholders shall be allowed. Tho
resolution created good deal oflev-
ity and discussion and finally, on mo-
ton of Stevens, republican, was by
strict party vote referred to the COM
mittee on national affairs.