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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
The Knoxville .Joa,nai, in a recent

The Knoxville Journal, in a recent
issue, says: .r
"One of the loud s'Greenbackers''
in this town asserts that Sherman has
Withdrawn 5000, 100000 of the green
back currency from circulation and
destroyed it. He processes to fully
understand this currency question,
and to be able to instruct his neigh
bors. We should be glad to have
this noisy Solon tell us how this Co.,
100000 could be destroyed when there
has never been quite 433,OOO,0W out
standing; and when Mr.. Sherman
went into office, March 4th, lsat, there
were outstanding only a fraction over
So, 100000. Mr.. "Greenback" tell us
how Mr.. Sherman could destroy 6OO,-
100000 when there were only 364, 600, :
0OO in existence. Another wise
Greenbacker says Sherman has des-
troyed $50 millions per month since
he became Secretary of the Treasury.
In five months this would make a to-
tai of $50 millions, or nearly double
the amount ever issued. This is the
sort of stuff being retailed to the peo-
pie by these wise financiers.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22

A Paulding, CAL, farmer, having
cattle trespassing upon his grain fields
and to rid himself of the nuisance
posted up the following: "Notis-If
any mans or woman's cows or oxen
gifts in these here otcs his or her tale
will be cut Off the cass may be. l
am q Christian and pay mi taxes, but
d-m man who let's his critters run
lvlse, saw l."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22

Excursions to the Rocky Mountains.
The Atchson Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad has arranged with the vari-
ous railroad lines in the country for
special round trip rates to the Rocky
Mountains, and thus secured the fol-
lowing rates to Denver, Colorado
Syringe, Canon City, Pueblo and re.
turn from Kansas City and Atchison,
e45; ST. Louis. $50 Chicago $65 Quin-
cy $50; Cincinnati $65; Buffalo SIS,
and correspondingly low rates from
ell points east, north and south. These
tickets are good for 80 days and 70
stop Ct all stations west OF the Aissou-
RI river. Tickets are on sale ct al
principal stations throughout the
country. This is the new route to
Denver through the garden Of Kansas
and Colorado. Send for maps, circu-
lars, time tables, etc., to
T.J. ANDERSON,
Gen. Pass. Agent, Topeks, Kan.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
The preat errnr - :

The great error in wheat husband.
ry consists in this: Sufficient time il
not suffered to elapse between plow.
ing for wheat and seeding to admit
Of that packing of the soil and that
preliminary decomposition of crude
vegetable matter which, on most soils
is an indispensable prerequisite to .
good wheat crop.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
r ExAs.
The following excellent and truth
full poetical description of Texas has
hean handed ua hy n friend.


Beautiful Texas! v hat do you think9
PLENTY ofgrapes, and no wine to drink;
Plenty of creeks, and no water 1t band,
No oats for your horses. but plen6y OF land;
Plenty of horses, but none fit to ride;
Plenty of poverty and some little pride;
Plenty of hides, and no leather that's tanned;
Though scabby mesquite incumbers the land.
Plenty ofcattle, no butter or milk;
No dress for the dairy, but plenty of silk;
Pl nty Of rain, when 1t comes down at all,
Enough and to spare. would it come at your call
Plenty Of wind, no drawback on that,
And WheQ talking OF stock, there plenty of chat
Plenty of rock, the cisterns to wall
But we cannot find time to do it at all
tlenty of bois d arc, not hardly q hedge;
Plenty of hogs an thin as wedge.
Plenty of bacon, year before last,
Plenty again when there comes good mast.
Plenty of chairs, but all so low
That to at, you must hang on your own elbow
Plenty ofgrub, such as poor beef and bacon.
Which reminds you OF the home You have sadly
forsaken.
o! Land of great promise, not yet fulllled,
What country you might be ii people so wliled.
IN teenhng with beauty, p enty, and wealth,
Every requisite here for comfort and health
But with corn bread and bacon, men have enough;
And women get happy over bottle Of snuff,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22

Most Of the .demagogues who are
crying around our streets about the
laboring men and their interests, new.
er did lick of work in their lives
either muscular, mental, moral, relig.
ious-nothing but hold down dry
goods boxes, and figure in bob-tai
political rings. They belong gener
ally to the class that "never miss 8
meal or pay cent" and have ne
more claim to the title "laboring men
than Sitting Bull has to Beecher'
Herald,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
Tho European Grain Tr.d..

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-E. X
Smith, Surveyor General of Montana
has been suspended. The charges
preferred are misdemeanors in office.
A despatch from the u. S. Minister
to Greece asserts that the United
States can now and henceforth con-
troll, to large extent, the grain mar
kets Of Europe. He says Russia has
been our only competitor in this trade
and under the most favorable circum-
stances for Russia the United States
has had the advantage Of the great
cereal producing country. Anticl-
pating the future course Of this trade
British capitalists are now building
six of the largest sized iron vessels
| for transportation.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
#. VA,
J. N. HEDRICK & CO., PRoPRIEToRs.

and . buggy, to hunt for the trail OF
q drove of cattle he was expecting at
that agency, and not returning, a
search was instituted, which resulted
on yesterday in the finding Of his
dead body twenty five miles from the
agency, having been shot through the
head with a rifie-ball and instantly
killed. His horses and all his per-
sonal effects, gun, ETC., remained un.
touched in his buggy. The motive
for the assassination can at present
only be conjectured. A telegram was
received this evening from DIR. Liv-
ingston, Indian agent at Brule, ying
the remains, when found, were much
decomposed, and were buried where
they were found. Steps have been
taken by the relatives Of the deceased
to have the body removed to this
place for burial. Mr.. Hedges was one
Of the most prominent and wealthy
citizens Of this place. No man was
more closely identified with the in
terests Of our city, and his loss is felt
to be public calamity. He leaves a
wife, who is at present visiting Cleve-
land, o., brother, who was his part
ner in business. and father, who is a
resident of Des Moines."
The deceased was q son Of N. G..
Hedges, of Polk county, prominent
democratic politician, who hAs gepEe=
scnted both @Polk xHd Lee county in
the State Senate.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
FROM THE FRONT.

LONDON, Aug. 16.-In the Balkans
fragments of General Gourka's corps
are entrcnching Shipka Pass. The
Eighth Corps, appointed to support
them, is escheloned between Selvi
Brenova and Tirnova. A division of
the Eleventh Corps occupies Koyara-
WITT. Against these troops, which
form the bulk of the Russian forces
in Western Bulgaria, Turkish army
corps is steadily advancing from
Schumla via Osman Bazar. Sulei-
man Pasha, with portion of his ar
my, is advancing in the direction of
Elena. Lastly, some of Osman's men
are marching from Lovatz on Gabro-
va. The Russian reinforcements are
more than counterbalanced by the
troops which the Turks are receiving
from Asia. The sanitary condition
of the Russians is so much worse
than that of the Turks that the gaps
occasioned by sickness among the for
mer almost establish the equilibrium
of the forces,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
Chicago TrIbune VIII.

"Great credit is taken to itself by
the Burlington Haaokeye for running
several editions off on hand car du-
ring the railroad blockade. That's
nothing. The Des Moines Register
has run itself offo hand-press ever
since it started, and does it in less
time than it takes to publish any 9TH
er paper in the country"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22

An editorial friend in New Hamp.
shire sends this to Harpers Magazine
Some time ago an aged man who had
just lost his wife, came into our sane.
tum, and, with tears standing in his
eyes, eulogized the memory Of the de-
ceased, and asked us to record the
death In our next issue. Sand" said
he, while you are about it, make an
item about one of my Bramah hens
laying an egg measuring seven and a
quarter by eight and three-quarter
inches in circumference" Thus sud-
denly our thoughts of sympathy were
directed to the sterner realities OF
life
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
On Your Policy.

BENNINGTON, vt, Aug. 16.-Presi-
dent and Mrs. Hayes, Miss Foote,
Secretarys Evarts and McCrary, At
torney-General Devens. Postmaster
General Key and Burchard Hayes
were driven to Bennington this NOR
ming, escorted by the 1st regiment
of National Guards of Vermont, and
took their places in the procession.
The crowd is variously estimated
at from 3O,0C0 to 1900. There was
slight delay OH Main street, of which
several persons availed themselves TO
rush up to the Presidents carriage
and shake hands. One of these,
prominent local politician, remarked,
II like you personally, Mr.. President,
but d--n your policy" To which he
good humoredly replied, "Comc now,
no politics to-day"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
49,
- lsDl01A

From both City and Country
should not fail to visit Mrs. Plat 4
Heyland's millinery Store In Curlew
Block, In L. 81. Wilson's old stand
and see their nice new Goods and
price them before they buy else.
whore. Especial pains win be taken
to please customers - to style, quail.
~ and pries. m11-dkWH.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
Stubbs and Stubs
Davenport Gazette.

Down in the southern part of the
State, the Ottumwa COURIER says,
the Democrats are giving decided
encouragement to Stubs. Up this
way the gamins, and all others who
are "dead broke" are ever ready to
pick up "stubs" when they can't steal
whole cigar.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
Bad insurance compan.ss.

ST. Louis, Aug. I5.-The State In
surance Commission has debarred the
following companies from further
prosecution of business in this state !:
Franklin, of Wheeling; Old Do
minion, Richmond, Va; Residence,
Cleveland; Homestead, .Watertown,
N. y; Atlas, Hartford, and Missouri
Valley Life, Leayenworth, Kansas.
Armstrong Beattie, of st. Joseph,
Mo-, one OF the sureties for Adler &
Furst, distillers, ofthat city, paid into
the U. S. District Court, at, Jefferson
City, yesterday, ST., 1900, being the
amount Of Judgment rendered a gainst
that firm for violation of the revenue
laws ft sfs $3.50 Z
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
TROOPS FOR coNsraNrrNopLr

CoNsTANrlNorLE, Aug. l5.-The
Turkish army in the province of Bag
dad, numbering $4,000 men, have
been summoned to Constantinople
and will come by the valley of the
Euphrates. 1t will be replaced in
Bagdad district by militia.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
The creenback Convention.

TRENTON, N. j., Aug. lI-The
Greenback party to-day nominated
Gen. Thomas y. Horcy for Governor.
The resolutions demand the immc-
diate repeal of the resumption act,
attributing to it the contraction OF
currency, and the general distress of
the country, and warn workingmen
that it is part of the conspiracy Of the
money power to pauperize and dis
franchise labor. All parties who de-
sire relief from the present burden
are invited to join. Z stss@
The resolutions also denounced the
demonetization of silver and demand
cd the repeal of the law.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
Senator Morton's l,,ness.

WAsnNGToN, Aug. 15.-The illness
OF Senator Morton causes much SYM
pathy here. His absence from the
Senate chamber in October would be
q great blow to the Administration.
President Hayes remarked before lie
left last night that the balance wheel
would be wanting if Morton could
not take part in the Senate delibera-
tions. Politically, the Senate is now
nearly evenly divided, and the alb
sencc of Morton, with the contest be-
tween Blaine and Conkling, must
result in giving the Democrats con-
| frol
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
AMonth's wages squandezed.

The Delaware and Hudson Com
pany's pay car passed over the Sara
toga division on Thursday and Fri.
day. At Ballston Spa, one of the
track hands received his months
wages, $26, with which he went to q
clothing store and purchased sui,
at cost of $14. From thence he
went directly to a hotel and com.
menced drinking, and continued to
go from bar to bar, drinking and
treating his comrades until his last
cent had been squandered. This man
has a family Of eight children, and is
one OF those who wanted to join the
great strike because he couldn't feed
his family on 80 cents a day."-Al5a-
ny 4 r1us
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22

Davenport Gazette: The boys in
blue who fought and whipped the
Nee Perces must have deemed Il
sweet TO die for ones country at sls
per month charged up to Uncle Sam.
uel, but not dollar Of pay voted or
promlsedl
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
Death o. Charles Z. Asasss.

"A Sioux City dispatch says: "a
brief telegram was received here from
Brule Agency, Dakota, this morning,
the 14th inst, announcing the death
by assassination Of Charles E. Hedges,
OF this city, who recently went into
that section TO look after his cattle
contracts with the government. Last
Thursday he started ont alone from
Brule agency, with pair Of horses
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
REINFoRCEMENrs CROSSING,

SHuMLA, Aug. l5.-Thc Russians
yesterday completed second bridge
over the Danube at Pyrgos, and
troops are now crossing over.
1t is stated that a Turkish recon.
noitering party found Kustenji evac.
uated by the Russians. The Turks
reconnoitered in several directions
from there without meeting the enc.
my.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
Washing Stamps.

New ORLEANS, Aug. l5.-U. S.
Commissioner SOuthworth has COM
mitted Cass Davis to appear before
the Circuit Court in default of $780,
600 bail for selling washed revenue
stamps. Davis was an old rag ana
paper dealer and carried on the bus-
iness of removing caneelling marks
by means of chemicals, from revenue
stamps collected in his trade. The
accused had several thousand single
two cent stamps which had been rem
Oyatcd, ssfj. N
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
/ Norman woman recently

A Norman woman recently fog.
ged two elders who went to remon-
strate with her concerning her intem.
perate habits. One of them was SC
much injured that he had to 60 to bed
and the other carries q bruised and
blackAned eve
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
BEND for II!vssrasea Guide to Col

st. Louis, Kansas City, h Northern
Railway has just published guide
to the famous Rocky Mountain Re.
sorts In Colorado, containing valua-
BILE informrtion for the Tourist, In
valid and Sportsman, also rates OF
fare for round trip tickets.-Address
Q. O. Lord, General Passenger Agent
st. Louis, Mo. dAWtf
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22

LONDON, Aug. 16.-The Herald
correspondent with the Turks at Err
zeroum telegraphs under date OF
Tuesday that General Melikoff has re-
ceived large reinforcements, and the
Russian center has commenced a gem
eral forward movement. General
Melikotf
ATTACKED THE TURKISH ADVANCE
POSTS.
which were mainly composed of cav
airy, on the 18th inst. and sharp
engagement followed. The Russian
attack was kept up with great deter
mination for considerable time, but
the Ottoman cavalry behaved with
remarkable bravery, and after q stub
born struggle the Russians were
compelled to withdraw.
Ismail Pasha is still on the frontier.
The Herald correspondent at Vien-
ma reports that the news from Asia is
UNFAyoRABLE TO THE RUSSIANS.
The Kurds of Ardahan have de-
featcd the Russians twice. In the
second engagement the Russians lost
600 in killed and wounded. These
trivial successes have so worked upon
the Turks as to luli them into the be-
lief that the Russian campaign i'm Ar
menia is over for the winter.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22

Ibt0WeWluUluS m&Cnlne W tuc UVuy
politlc, 90 that he can regulate all the
political and financial ills our system
| is heir to, by slight turn of the
wrist. In other words, Porte is Re.
former, and wants to regulate every
thing by law, and in trying to inaug.
urate the millennium for other people,
he has allowed his own business to
| 60 to pot, which il the common fate
Of Reformers who essay the feat Of
attending to everybody's business ex-
cept their own. y,
You will find these misguided peo-
pie in every class and community.
When the disease attacks . farmer he
will spend about three days out of the
week in town endeavoring, perhaps,
to show that what the country wants
to restore prosperity is more green
backs. He is, however, oblivious to
the fact that If Nick Baker had his
warehouse full of greenbacks to pay
out for produce, it wouldn't aid this
particular theorizer any if he had
nothing to exchange for these green
backs. s.
A visit to his farm will show that
he will probably be buyer instead
of q seller during the ensuing winter,
while his neighbor across the road
who worked through thick and thin,
wet and dry, and who 10 not affected
with pet plan to inaugurats univers-
al prosperity by law, has good aver
age crop, and will have plenty to eat
and sell too.
The fact is, that the national finsnc-
es have been managed with wonder
full success since the close Of the war.
The principal Of the public debt has
been decreased nearly seven hundred
million Of dollars since 1865. The
rate of interest on the bonded debt
has been reduced from six to four
per cent, or fifty per cent. reduction
In the rate in ten years, and now our
new consolidated four per cents are
the best and most popular securities
in the markets of the world.
To-day there is less discount on
gold than there was before the war,
or in other words, you can get gold
at a less shave on our present curren-
cy than you could on the paper mon
ey bequeathed to us by the late la
mented democratic party. The losses
on each thousand dollars collected
and disbnrsed by the Federal Gov
ernment have fallen off from $l1.71
under Van Buren,, 1852 under Jack
son, $6.4O under Tyler, $3.50 under
Pierce, and $3.S1 under Buchanan, to
thirty.four cents uader Grant.
The truth about the matter is that
the finances Of the country are admir-
ably managed, and all they want is to
be let alone by the financial doctors
and theorizers. Let every man attend
to his own business and raise sur
plus, and thus become seller instead
of buyer, and this will give indiyid-
ual and public prosperity.
Your "Greenbacker, and your
"Reformer," and all your other patent
nostrun political economists "may
2 resolute till the cows come home,"
but to this complexion must you come
before the spectre of hard times is
laid out.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22

Mildness conquers-and hence it is
that the gentle yet positive. influence
OF DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup overcomes
90 quickly the disorders of baby
hood. Price 25 cents.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
II y our opinion that the tenth res
olse.ohSfshS RspubHcan State Con.
vention of Maine is worthy of especial
mention. II ia q folloWa:

The steesp Of South Carolina. Florida and Lou.
isiana Neso firiI aqA Legally carried By the Re.
publicalDk IT, Notembee election In November
iS7e, No3 u e&A1 asl National tickets. and the
undoubVs sfignt o. President Hayes and vice
President WHISTLER to the electoral votes Of thost
staeDEaa aMrmed by the highest and most Inn
par14 MSqA that co1id g oEganized under the
70 MY ~ uemo0ka3 b both bmnch0 Of Con-
Gse6gEaNS tle4f delibefate assent. For the Dem
ocratio party now to raise the cry Of fraud is both
unManly and dishonest, and IL persisted in, must
beaccaptsd - an indication that the party, in its
dSsire for power is willing to incur all hazards Of
an1FuAy and revolution.
!" It ID truc that the party of treason
and rebellion only show their lawless
disposition in crying fraud in the
election Of Mr.. Hayes. Having SOL
emnlyg agreed to adjudicate, they now
cry fraud, after being beaten by the
result Of that adjudication.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
karoaana Aorror.

FLUSHING. N. Y, Aug. Is 5-Two
children of f. M. Lovalley were
burned to death yesterday by the
explosion ofa can Of kerosene,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22

BUCHAREST, Aug. 15.-Thc Russian
batteries at Slobozia bombarded
Rutschuk last night, and caused a
conflagration which lasted until mid
night. The Turks have been bonn
harding Gniergevo, since o'clock
this morning. The Russian batteries
are not replying.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
a WEEKLY list

y
OF U. S. Patents issued to tho inycn-
tors of Iowa, for the week, ending
July 3lst, 1877; and each patent in
the list will bear this date. Reported
by telegraph. expressly for the Cou-
RIER, Ottumwa, by A. ii. Ev-
ans ~ Co., Patent Solicitors,
Washington, d. G. Charge for
obtaining a patent, 5000. A copy OF
the Patent Laws sent free A3
Z. G. Gilman, Eldora, Safety Cars.
Baldwin 4 Parkhurst, Oskaloosa,
Wringing Machine. IS
G. f. Drake, Avoca, Grain Distrib-
utor. n 4{H ss4g,
l.. s. Woodside, Attachments for
Corn Planters. s# 3s. Z
S. r. Dawson, Council Bluffs,
Force Pumps.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
THE NEW YORK INDEPENDENTS

The State Committee of the Inde-
pendent Party has issued call for q
State Convention. 1t asks for the
immediate consideration of the plat
form and resolutions adopted in the
National Convention of 1876; de-
nounces the resumption act and asks
for it's repeal, and denounces the AZ
per cent. bonds as q barefaced rob-
berry Of $l8,OO0,OOO; laws to sustain
labor are called for, and to contest
railroad and other monied monopo-
ly