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10 Builders and Lumber Dealers.

vic,ne subscriber has completed his new mill in
and ~ y and is now prepared to furnish lumber
rr- uhtnsion timber of almost all kinds. His
t,,ia az large, and he can furnish long and heavy
na al4tr T for especial purposes The subscriber hav
as,,eeh Zen IN the business more than thirty years.
W. himself he understands what builders
ry 'ii III ollis speeuIy anu Isnip saIIsIaS'o
". JOhnsburv. MAY 4 1s75 7ltf
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Name. Business and Location of the lead
nq Business Houses in st. JOhnSbury.
Agricultural Tools and Hardware.
HASKELL & SONS HOyt's Block, r. r. st
Apothecaries.
4. C.. BINGHAM. No. 5 Bank Block Main St.
Attorneys at Law.
NJ. MONTGOMERY, Jewett's Building R. R. st.
ELISHA NAY. over Hall & Fletchers Store.
EElDEN & IDE, No. Caledonian Blk, up stairs.
Books and Stationery.
HOWARD & ROwELL, Caledonian Blk, Main st
Book Binders.
G.. NJ STONE & Co. Agt's Monument Square.
Blanks--LegaI and Business.
C.. NJ STONE & Co, Monument Square.
Bakers and COnfectioners.
CROSS & BRADLEY, Main Street.
Clothing for Men and Boys.
EAT. FAIRBANKS & CO, Fairbanks Village
CrOckery, Glass and Stone Ware.
EAT. FAIRBANKS s. CO., Fairbanks Village.
Clrpeting, Paper-Hangings, Window-shades
T.. 4 T. FAIRBANKS & CO, Fairbanks Village.
Dentists.
j. L. PERKINS, CaledOnian Block, Main Street.
W. l. Goods, Groceries and Fruits,
MATHEWS 4 PETTENGILL, Eastern Avenue
Dry Goods, and Ladies' Fancy Goods.
o. Il. HALE, Avenue Block, r. r. Street
E 4 T. FAIRBANKS & CO, Fairbanks Village.
Furniture and Casl<ets.
NALL Il SWITSER, Main Street.
CALDERWOOD, & SEV FRANCE, lO.O.F. Blk
File Manufacturer.
st. Johusbury File Works, opp. Passenger Depot
Groceries and House. Keeping Goods.
Z. 4 +. FAIRBANKS & Co, Fairbanks Village
Insurance, Uife.)
b. +. SARGENT, (Etna) Railroad Street.
Iron Founder and Machinist.
LUKE BUZZELL, North end, K. X. Street.
Photographs.
b. \. CLIFFORD, CaledOnian Block, Main Street
Printers and Publishers.
e. VI. STONE & Co, CaledOnian Block, Main st.
Stoves and Tin Ware.
F. F. FLETCHER, Eastern Avenue.
II. Il ID. Q. WOODRUFF Railroad Street.
II. COWDERY, Eastern Avenue.
Watches, Jewelry and Toys.
HOWARD & ROWELL, CaledOnian Blk Main 81
c. J. HOUGHTON, Railroad Street.
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San Franciscans have always boasted
that their city was the healthiest on the
globe, but the yearly mortality seems
now to be steadily increasing, and the
papers account for it by the city's de-
fective system of drainage. One piece
of low land receives the drainage of 80
blocks, and the only exit for the col
lected filth of this portion of the city is
through a sewer about 10 by l6 inches
in size.
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INSURE
Against Accidents

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+ uay. Come and see me. EDW RID p.
Innu, Agent for Travellers Life and Accident
oysr 6illce Company of Hartford, Conn. Office
i nalihgham's Drug Store, st. Johnsbury, Vt.
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rngid in advance at the st. Johnsbury Post Office
Iob Printing of all kinds done at living prices
With new and modern machinery and skillful work
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Legal Blanks, Card and Paper stock constantly
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Robert College, ConstantinOple,
Feb. %, 1877.
P. S.-The Porte has since made an
apology to our Legation for refusing to
decorate their war ships on Washing
toms Birthday.
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Business pireftorp.

Name, Business and Location Of the lead
j,q Business Houses IN st. JOhRSbury.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14

Our western exchanges arc filled
with glowing accounts of rich dis
covcries in the Black Hills. These
articles are, for the most part, inspir-
ed by frontier outfitters, who have
whisky to sell at twenty five cents
per drink.
Thousands of men, old and young,
who could, with proper application.
make money within the lines of CIV
ilization, will sacrifice their property,
give up comfortable positions, leave
family and friends, to join in this
wild goose chase after mythical gold.
After lying on the ground and in
water, living on bacon and hard tack,
working like slaves, say for a year or
so, they will be marching back to
Gods country, Crowded they escape
the Indians scalping knife) without
US much money as they started with.
But then they will have accumulat.
ed very large and valuable capital
OF experience.
The man who has the almighty grit
in him to succeed, can make more
money and make it faster in lows
than in any other place in the world
1t is notdone however, by loafing
around saloons, drinking torchligh,
procession whisky, punching bill
lard balls and discussing the return
ing board.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14

Bull-dozer Field called Lew Wash.
ington, a banker of Washington, d. c.,
to testify as an expert, that the Ver-
non parish returns had been mutilat-
ed.
This Washington, like G. W., can
not lie, and under cross-examination
admitted that he had seen these same
returns at Nephew Pelton's rooms at
the Arlington House two weeks ago
Those fellows stole these re-
turns and have had them around their
robbers roost at the Arlington
where they have been horse-shedding
witnesses over them. They wouldn't
tamper with and alter these returns
to cast suspicion on the Returning
Board! Oh, no; Pelton wouldn't do
that! Neither would Field! Perish
the ignoblc thought!
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14

CHARLES O'CoNoR, the eminent
New York lawyer, wrote a letter
sometime ago in confidence to a frienG
at st. Lonis, in which Grant was de.
nounced rs the drunken Galens
butcher, and in which he stated tha,
the Union was destroyed when Nc.
Dowell marched on Bull Run.
The st. Louis idiot published the
letter, and O'Conor has been in hot
water ever since, as the press gener.
ally denounced the brutality of the
letter.
Mr.. O'Conor is over in Washing
ton as Tilden's counsel, and he took
occasion, Sunday, to call on the Pres.
idcnt in company with Secretary
Fish. Mr.. O'Conor said that he had
arrived at an advanced age; that he
did not wish to die leaving behind
him over his own signature what he
now believed to be a libel upon Q
great name; and he begged the Pres.
idcnt, in all sincerity, to forget tho
letter, and to consider this voluntary
and friendly visit as his best apology
lie was received by the President in
the spirit in which he came.
We predict that O'Conor is moi
the only man In this country who will
be stricken with remorse for foul
abuse of President Grant. Let us
see how many Of them will have the
manliness of Chas. O'Conor, to ac.
knowledge themselves unmitigated
liars.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14

THE legislature which we choose
next October elects a United States
Senator, to succeed Senator Allison.
This together with the Gubernatorial
contest, will make the next political
campaign, in Iowa an uncommonly
lively one. So far we have noticed
only the names of the incumbent,
and Messrs. McCrary and Kasson,
mentioned in connection with the
Senatorial Office, while Speaker Gear,
Auditor Sherman and General Weav-
or. are the most frequently mentioned
in connection with the Governor
ship.
The Register protests that it is too
early to discuss these questions, and
it may be true that some of the aspi-
rants might suffer in wind and bot
tom over such long course, but a
candidate who got distanccd in that
way, would not be good one to run.
The COURIER has no pet candidates,
except The ones who are finally nom-
mated, and it is in favor of letting
them all go into the race; Of having
q full and fair discussion of their
merits; of nominating the best and
strongest men, and then let the dell
take the hindmost.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14
Look here, Messrs. Senators /! il has


Look here, Messrs. Senators il has
been nearly two months since the
House of Representatives passed the
Bland Bill rcmonetizing silver by an
almost unanimous vote. They were
moved to this action by the voice Of
the people during the late campaign.
And yet no action is had on the bill
in the Senate. The people are slower
in getting at their Senators than al
their Representatives, but they will
relegate every Senator to private life
who neglects to carry this measure
through before Congress adjourns.
Stick pin there.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14
THE ELECTORAL coMM,ss,oM.
The Commission Decides on lnves-
t'gating the lneligibIlity
Question Only.

| WASHINGTON, Feb. THE commits
sion by their decision to-day will
have before them in the Florida case
three sets of papers, namely: First
the certificates of the Hayes electors
secondly, that of the Tilden electors
and third, the papers containing the
record of the circuit court of Florida
on the quo aUayrdnt0 and the subse.
quent action of the legislature of that
State. The republicans express them.
selves gratified with the decision OF
the commission, while the democrats
are somewhat discouraged. The for.
mer claim that no consequence will
be attached to the quo wayyaato pro-
ceedings OF the circuit court of Flor
ida, as they are now under appeal to
the supreme court of that state, and
therefore not final.
TALLY ONE FOR HAYES.
1t seems to be the prevalent belief
that the ultimate decision will be in
favor of the Hayes electors, and that
the course in this case will be pursued
in regard to Louisiana, where there
are two alleged ineligible electors,
and more than one return. A prom
inent democrat of the commission
said this afternoon that the meaning
ofthe vote of the commission is that
the ministerial acts of a state execu-
tive officer are to be represented, but
not those of the judiciary. He added
however, that if the democratic GER
tificates embody the proceedings of
the court, they will by this decision
be fully opened up for consideration
and argument. The democrats also
find some satisfaction in the fact that
the rule established by the commits
sion will lead to the ascertainment
that Watts, the republican elector in
Oregon, was ineligible at the time of
his election, and hence only two re-
publican electors from that state, can
be counted, Cronin (democrat) being
the third elector. On this supposi-
ton they think the democrats still
have a chance for the presidency and
that the election may be thrown into
the house, where Tilden would be
elected, and that in such event the
choice of Wheeler, as vice-president
would devolye on the senate. The
decision of the commission is dis
cussed at the hotels and in private
political circles tonight, all conceed-
ing that the republicans have the ad-
vantage. The democrats express
their regret that the parties were
strictly divided on the subject.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14
J. NJ. HEDRICK & CO., PROPRIETORS.

We clipped from the Inter Ocean
and published in our daily of yester-
day, a brief peuonnel of each Of the
members Of the High Joint Commits
sion, which was written by Curtis, the
very cnterprising and able Washing
ton special correspondent of that pa
per. We notice very grave error
in what is said of Hon. II. b. Payne,
of Cleveland, Ohio. Curtis has him
the son-in-law of Commodore Perry,
and has him also residing on the es-
tate of the deceased Commodore, on
that most beautiful street in America,
Euclid Avenue. The romance of this
story is spoiled by the fact that Com
modore Perry never lived in Ohio,
and never owned an inch of Clcve-
land territory. Payne married a
daughter of one Nathan Perry, one of
the very earliest settlers in Cleveland
and who had the good fortune to
squat on farm which had front on
Euclid street of something like mile.
This farm he hold until it was for
tune of vast proportions. Payne mar
ried into the family some thirty-five
years ago, and owing to the fact that
the Perry male descendants did not
pan out much, the shrewed Henry B.
handled good part of old man Per-
RVS pile.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14

had been a wide range as to the effect
of such failure to elect, upon the 9th.
er candidate. In q Pennsylvania case
where the candidate was disqualified,
the election went back to the people,
In the Indiana cases the next highest
candidate had been elected, and in
other cases the party had been nm
seated without seating his opponent.
The acts of Congress indicate q dis
position to furnish o remedy where
disqualified electors had been chosen,
as when it was provided that q state
might select q new elector where one
disqualified had been chosen. The
state having failed to take advantag &c
of the 134th section of the revised
statutes, and having failed to remedy
a non-election, there was vacancy,
and one vote was claimed as lost to
the state. He referred to the decision
Of the Judges in the late Rhode
Island case, to tho effect that the incl
igibility of one of the candidates
created vacancy which could be
filed only by the Legislature, and
argued that had the Office not been
filed there would have vacan-
cy existed. Florida, like Rhode ISL
and, had ample opportunity to correct
the error and fill the vacancy, had she
chosen to avail herself of IL.
Green called the attention of the
commission to the claim that the let
ter of Humphreys to Judge Wood
and the reply of the same were not
an act of the court, and that the
certificate of the clerk of the
Circuit Court of Florida, read
this morning, showed that his
resignation had not been made a mat
ter Of record in the Office of the
court. He discussed the case under
the first part of the order of the
court to consider only papers con-
tanned in the package opened by the
President of the Senate. He argued
that the formal character of certificate
number 2 entitled it to the same con-
sideration by the Commission, and
that the statutes and
action of courts of state
were matters that the Commission
should inquire into and establish the
of certificate No. l. The
commission had before them in the
Sd certificate not only the certificate
Of the Governor, but q tabulated
statement Of the precise number of
votes cast in each county in the state,
for the different candidates. This
certificate had the authority of the
executive, judiciary and legislative,
all speaking in unanimous and united
voice upon the question which is to
be decided by this tribunal. 1t might
be said the third certificate did not
arrive at Washington by the first
Wednesday in January, and was too
late. He cited authorities to sustain
his proposition. That clause was di-
rectory mot mandatory. The main
fact was, did the electors vote accord
ing to constitutional requirements and
the mere transmission of their mes
sage to the Vice. President was an in
matter and the time within
prescribed limits was not the essence
Of the transaction. The main point
was that the votes should be received
before the count took place.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14

ferent arrangement of things. Ifnot
you can come up here and cut your
own wood. Will you divvy on them
candies ?"
"Why-why-I-I hardly would
like to Go that Tommy. l got These
for Fanny you know"
eyes, know" said Tommy, grim.
ly. "When see you coming up here
again shall expect to see you lug
ging an ak over your shoulder"
"Mr. era wford looked aghast.
"But, Tommy" he expostulated,
"You won't 60 back on me like that ;
I'll pay you for doing it."
"Oh! What will you pay ?"
"I'll give you fifty cents week."
"Hope to die ?"
"Yes," said Mr.. Craw ford, eagerly.
"Then I'm just your cheese" said
the youth, the hard lines melting en-
tireIy out of his face. "There's moth
ing mean about me, but / don't want
to go along in the dark, This thing
had to be settled one way or another.
But now that it is settled you'll find
me up to the mark every time, and if
l don't make that stove rare right up
on its hind legs, l am bald-headed
leper without q pedigree"
And with a flourish expressive of
the deepest earnestness, he stalkcd
out of the room.-DanGury Ne,cs.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14

PRESIDENT GRANT did an exceed.
ingly graceful thing in calling on the
dying Stephens, at his hotel, in Wash
ington.
Ever since Vice President Stephens
interviewed Lincoln and Grant at
City Point, during the war, he has
had high opinion of our President,
which he has never hesitatcd to ex-
press, either in Congress OF in his
paper.
The non-combatant men of brains
in the South, like Stephens, and the
really distinguished Confederate SOL
diers, like Lee, Longstreet, Hood,
Bragg, and many others, who
felt Grants skill and mettle on the
field of battle, always had profound
respect for his genius.
The fellows who always thought
that he was q drunken butcher and a
t'rand, were the chaps like Isham G..
Harris, who run off to Mexico, on
the rebel side, or the other sort on
our side, who skedaddled to the
mountains to avoid the draft.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14
Kc0knk Constitution.
A STRANGE STORY.
Father and Son in Love with an
Old Maid "A Child is Born
Both Men Claim it, and
Both wish to Marry the
Lady.

The nineteenth century is not de.
void of romance, the assertions Oi
those who romance" to the contrary
Notwithstanding, and one of the
greatest romances we know of was
told to lis this morning. We give the
tale as we heard 1t, clothing it in our
own language, Of course.
A maiden lady, of good reputation
has been keeping house for Keokuk
widower and his son for number of
years. The father is pretty well along
in years. and the son, we believe, has
arrived at manhood's estate.
The maiden lady mentioned, fulfill.
cd her duties well, and by her atten-
tions to the wants and comforts oi
the father and son, won first their es-
teem and friendship, which rapidly
ripcned into love and affection.
As time passed on it became plain
ly evident that both pdter and Ills
were smitten with the charms of the
maiden lady, who was neither very
young nor very fair, and they paid
her the attentions that a lover paws to
the girl with whose charms lie is
smitten. Every little delicate atten-
tion was offered by the father, while
the son kept even pace with the old
man by those little offerings, delicate
ly presented, SO acceptable to ladies
who are not quite heart whole or
fancy free.
1t was hard to tell which the lady
favored the most, the father or the
son, those who watched the progress
of events, say that sometimes it was
one aud sometimes the other, and the
denouement proves that this was true,
and the lady herself didn't know
which she loved best, although it was
evident that she had an affection for
both.
The days grew into weeks, the
weeks lapsed into months, and the
months merged into years, and still
the affairs of this household went on
as above stated. No quarreling or
pickering ever occurred between the
father and son, though our informant
states that each was aware of the
passion the other had for the house
keeper, and each kept. up an unrc-
mitting attention to her.
Several months ago it became evil
dent that the house-keeper was no
longer virgin, indeed, the fact was
plainly evident that she was soon to
become mother. A few days ago
she gave birth to child, and now
comes the strangest part of the story.
When the child was born, each party
father and son told the Doctor in
attendance that the child was his, and
insisted on his claim to it. OF course,
neither was able to offer proof, and,
we understand, the lady herself. was
unable to tell, and now both parties
wish to marry the mother.
How this romantic love story will
terminate, we cannot divine, but it is
evident the lady will choose one or
the other, q marriage ceremony will
be performed, the household affairs
will go on in harmony as usual, and
nobody be the worse for it.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14
RETURNING BOARD.
First Blood for Hayes.
The Vote in Florida will Stand
for Hayes.
sncclsl 70 couriar

WAsnrNeroN, Feb. Z, 4:5O p. NJ
The Electoral Commission by vote o.
8 against Z have decided that no evi
dence can be admitted or considered
by them in the Florida case except
the various electoral certificates and
such evidence as shall be submitted
on the question of the eligibility oil
Humphreys as presidential elector
The vote stood in favor of this de-
cision, Justices Strong, Miller and
Bradley; Senators-Edmunds, Nor
ton and Frelinghuysen, and Represen'
tatives-Garticld and Hoar.
Against, Justices - Clifford and
Field, Senators-Thurman and Bay.
ard, and Representativcs-Payne,
Hnnton and Abbott.
The Commission adjourned until
ii O'Clock tomorrow, when the pro-
cccdings will be in public.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14

We notice that the democratic
House of Representatives, in addition
to playing the tyrant enough to i'm
prison the Returning Board Of Lou
isiana without cause, have also sepa-
rated in their Imprisonment the
colored members from the whites,
and placed the former in pleasant,
commodious, well-lighted quarters,
on the upper floors, while Wells and
Anderson are confined in dungeon,
damp and unfurnished, and from the
ceiling of which the water drips.
Evidently this treatment is for the
purpose Of placating the colored
members of the board, and, IL posi-
bic, win them over to desert the re-
publican cause, and at the same time
degrade the white men who have
treated the colOred man as an equal
in civil rights.
The fact is that there is not an auto.
crat in the civilized world that is
to-day SO much overriding the God.
given rights of man to liberty, as il
the Confederate House Of Congress
There is not an aatocrat of any en-.
lightcned nation that begins to delib.
erately set to work to blackcn and
ruin a mans character without giving
him an opportunity to defend him,
self, as this Confederate Congress il
doing and has done. The annals o.
this country will be examined in yair
to find, even in the critical DAYS q
the democratic rebellion, Instance,
where the liberty Of the citizen ha,
been SO disrcgarded, and his good
name made the foot ball of democrat
ic needs, hate or fancy, by the briber,
a scoundrcls to swear against him
as the present democratic House ha
furnished.