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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
surface NNauuvlns.

SO1J0C0 WUUOuHDU&.
1t 10 conceded now by the more adj
vanced farmers that it is best to spreau
and leave manure on the surface till
the soluble parts are washed out. In
this way the land gets the benefit, and
in such a manner as can not be done
go well in any other way except by Ii
quid application, which, in effect, it
is. The ground thus becomes soaked
with it--every part of it, SO far as the
saturation extends-and it equally
penetrates 30 far as is wanted, occu-
plying the upper part of the soil
where the roots are, rs with grasses
and most of the grains. Tho effect
here is immediate; and what is not
taken up by the crop the first year
will penetrate more deeply, thus pre-
pairing the land for deeper roofing
crops, like wheat, corn, clover, hops,
root crops, etc. this, when heavy
application is given. Particularly
will the nitrogen, in the form Of nj.
trio acid, drop down; and. unless TAX
Ell up by vegetation, will disappear
and be lost, having little affinity for
the soil. The sooner also that manure
is applied the better, as the soil then
gets the benefit, and ut once, instead
of being carried away, as is the case
when put into heaps, thus enriching
the atmosphere and the gutter
There is also much less Labor if car
ried direct on the land, instead of first
putting in heaps and then removing
again. In all cases where manure
can thus be used at once it should be
done, and not kept for fall or late
summer application, where it might
have been applied the previous fall
or winter, the fall being preferable.
We find it advisable, on grass lands,
to apply often and somewhat lightly,
rather than less often with heavier
doses. On grain, however, the re-
verse is the case, especially If the land
is poor or run out. Then heavy ap-
plications are required, mixed with
the soil by cultivator or harrow, thus
keeping it still at the surface, but ben.
citing the soil more deeply. 1t also
if thus mixed, favors moisture in q
drought, as will surface manuring in
general, being protection against
both frost and the severe rays Of the
sun. In no case should manure be left
in heaps when drawn on the land, az
is so often done, but spread at once
and from the cart, and always evenly
auniform coat saturating all the sur
face soil. One thing we have noticed
which should be avoided. tits draw.
ing the manure when the land is we
so that the soil yields to the horses
hoofs and the cart wheels, leaving
deep, packed Impressions Ttict
Herald.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
IOWA.

Miss Louisa Rehkopf, of Keosauqua
a sister of Auditor Rehkopf, Of Van
Buren, county, is candidate for the
position of assistant postmaster Of the
general assembly.
Tramps can find nothing to do.
Let them learn a lesson from the
postmaster at South English, Iowa,
who attends to his duties faithfully,
according to the civil service, and
who makes superior class fake
handles.
Suel Foster, of Mnscatine, says that
a ncighbor sold from single tree Of
the Willow Twig apple, two years
ago, twenty-seven bushel of apples
for twenty-three dollars and sixty
cents and the trees that no shall now
set ont for profit will be Willow
Twig, Ben Davis and Wealthy.
Last Friday nighta Bohemian nam
ed John Jannesky was instantly killed
at Cedsr Rapids by being run over
by two Dubuque & Southwestern
flat cars. His father recently be-
queathed him $4,000 dollars, and he,
with his wife and child, were soon
intending to return to the old coun-
try.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
Fred Douglass gives the following
sound advice to his people:

"The very best thing the white peo'
pie can do for us is to stop doing for
us, and let ns do for ourselves.
have told the politicians 80 every
where. They have done 80 much for
us they have nearly nndone us. II
we cant i've honestly by our own
labor, then we ought to die. The
question with ns ID will we work rs
hard for ourselves as we did for ON
masters? If we don't we will go to
the wall, for liberty is as essentially
state Of hard work as slavery is Of
disgracefnl sloth. It is only by hard
labor that we can ever catch mp with
the white race, and by initiating their
virtues instead of vices. Emigra.
ton is delusion and sham. The
white race is everywhere on the face
of the globe, and we could not get
away from them if we would"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
A Louisa County Girl.
Slg0ufney NEWS.

Louisa county has the girl to take
at fairs. If all the women
in the State were like her there would
be no complaint such as the W0man's
Hour makes, that they don't have a
years notice to compete in baby
shows. The girl whereof va write
is married the second time, and will
not be fifteen until January, 1878.
Her maiden name was Rebccca Beam
err, and she married man named &.
w. Head when she was only thirteen
years and six months of age. She
got ahead OF all the girls in her circle
she came To a head remark
ably early, for we know a man
from that county who says he knows
girls twice her age who
haven't head now. This precocious
wife ia a pensioner, and still has a
guardian who sent to the pension
agency this quarter second certili-
cate Of marriage, which shows that
she was fourteen years, five months
and twenty-cight days old when her
name was changed to Mrs. John Go
Won. AS minors draw pensions nn-
I'll they are sixteen, she has the bulge
OH the Government for year and a
half yet. In the meantime, ifnothing
happens her and the men hold out
she may marry rich. Al any rate if
the country ever needs soldiers again
1t will have lost nothing by rearing
her.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
TO consunptlves.

Consumption, that scourge of humanity, Is
the great dread Of the human family in all civil
lied countries.
I feel confident that am in possession Of the
only sure, infallible Remedy. now known to the
profession for the positive and speedy cure Of that
dread disease, and its unwelcomc concomitants.
viz: Cdidsrh, Asthma, Bronchifis Nervous Debility
&C., &c. Twenty EIGHT years experience, - .
busg practitioner, 10 the best Consumption Hos
pitfalls Of the Old and New World. hiss taught me
the value OF this medicine In the cure Of all
Throat and Lung Complaints.
Those suffering with Consumption Or any Of the
above maladies, by addressing me. giving symp-
toms, they shall be put 10 possession Of this great
boon, withouf charge, and shall have the benefit
Of my experience In thousands OF csses success
fully treated. Full directions for preparation
and use. and all necessary advice and instruc-
ton for successful treatment at Your own home.
will be received BY you by return mall, free OF
charge, by addressing
DR.. JOHN n. BURNETT,
107 Jeffersom street,
apll WHY 1OU10VIkLEs XIV.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07

Hoe CHoLERA.-Nancy Agree, of
Missouri, is claiming the premium of
$4,000 offered by the Legislature of
that State for cure for hog cholera.
Her specific is as follows: "Take of
the inside bark of the wild cherry
tree and boil it down with water so as
to make strong solution, and give it
to the hogs to drink, excluding them
from water. 1t has proven with me a
perfect cure even in the last stages of
the disease. Ialso recommend an ad-
mixture of the root of the bull net
t1n
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
& 80 !.
signs Of a prosperous Farmer.

Ot8Vo OF u prosperous 0bW9t'
When you sec, says the Balletin, his
barn larger than his house, it shows
that he will have large profits and
small Affections. When you see him
driving his work instead of his work
driving him, II shows that he will
never be driven from good resolu-
tons, and that he will certainly work
his way to prosperity. When you al
ways see in his wood house a suffi-
cheney for three months or more. it
shows that he will be more than a
ninety days wonder, in farming OPP
crations, and that he is not sleeping
in his house after drunken frolic.
When he has house separate from
the main building, purposely for
ashes, and an iron or tin vessel to
transport them, it shows that he new
er built his dwelling to be a funeral
pile for his family and perhaps for
himself. When his sled is housed in
summer, and his farming implements
covered both winter and summer, il
plainly shows that he will have q
good house over his head in the sum.
mer his early life and the winter OF
old age. When his cattle arc proper.
ly shielded and fed in winter, it evi.
dences that he is acting according t.
the Scripture. which says that "a
merciful man is merciful to his beast.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07

Joseph Vance Evans, q relative of
Capt. s. b. Evans. of the Ottumwa
Democrat, died in Bloomfield on the
oath ultimo.
A few days ago, SO says the Abba
Union, little daughter of w. II. Nc
Cornell fell backwards into a kettle
of hot water and was scalded TO death
CHAMPION CABBAGE.--Jos. Mabry,
of Dahlonega, has presented us with
a cabbage raised in his garden, tina,
weighs 81 lbs. Now let us hear from
the man that raised a larger one.
Thirty-eight couples were author
lied to marry in Polk county during
the month of October. Approaching
cold weather and the beautiful snow
is having its effect.
Mrs. Mary Miller, living 5 miles
north of Agency City, will have an
extensive sale of stock and farm i'm
plemcnts on Thursday, November
18th. A credit of Is months will be
given.
And now comes Rev. Reuben My.
ers, of Washington township, with {
radish two feet one inch long, twenty
inches in circumference, and weigh
ing II lbs. 9 OF. Anybody that ca,
beet this can cabbage our radish.
Death is often caused by a scver'
Cough or Cold. DIR. MARSHALL
Lung Syrup should always be takel
in time, for it never fails to cure tn,
worst cases of Coughs or Colds al
most instantly. Price % cents. Sol,
by DIR. j. l.. Taylor & Go.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07

We heard a good election joke to-
day. There is fat, jolly doctor in
town who is an enthusiastic demo-
crat. On the afternoon of election
day he went mile and a half into
the country for voter, who was an
invalid,to bring him TO the polls in his
carriage. After he got there it struck
him that he would inquire into the
politics of the voter, and he said,
"Ahem! believe l never knew the
way you vote ?' ~ am republican
and always vote that way" said the
farmer. This disconnected our DEM
ocratic friend, but finally he said,
"Lct me see your tongue again." The
tongue was thrust out and after
survey of it the doctor said: "My
friend, you are in dangerous con-
dition, ! would advise you, profess
sionally, not to attempt going 10 the
city to VOTE The republican came
to town and voted. but he didn't ride
in the doctors carriage.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
Seven hundred American girls are
afndvin q vocal mnaic in Paris

Seven hundred American girls are
studying vocal music in Paris.
didn't think it would go Off" is
another excuse that idiots have for
shooting themselves with guns and
pistols.
A country exchange has this:
"Sweet cider is now plentiful, and the
Baptist church was crowded last
night
A Scotch paper gives an incident in
Gen. Grants war career by remark
ing that he lost thumb and finger
at the battle of Michigan!
The Oregon Supreme Court has de-
cided that a candidate for County
Judge, who promised to throw of
$500 each year from his salary If
elected, was guilty of bribery.
"Too much cattle' is the verdict in
Texas, Kansas and Missouri ON men
whose bodies are found hanging by
the roadside or perforated with bull
lets. 1t saves ideas.
Tack Chandler says if he had boy
to-day he would rather have him 60
to work upon al SO-acre farm than
into the best political Office that
could be found.
A Colorado beetle was found in
London (Eng.) woodward, the other
day, and great excitement prevailed.
The newspapers say: "The Insect
was finally taken to the police sta
ton"
The poetical Muskegon (Mich.)
Nears rises to remark that "fowers
are the alphabet of angels, whereby
they write on hills and fields myste-
rions sweet truths"
A Shaker community at. Pleasant
Hill, KY, has been almost broken up.
First young .couple eloped, next an
elderly pair went the same way, and
within month nine more marriages
have occurred.
| Pumpkin pies are luxnries. II is
stated that pumpkins can be kept un-
til next spring by placing them on a
high shelf in dry collar, where the
temperature does not get below 80
degrees nor above so degrees.
A Mr.. "a. A. Andrews,' Of New
ark, N. J., fooled around II. w. Peeps
store at Davenport, under pretense of
buying it out, long enough to abstract
$75 from the till. He didn't get far
ther than the next station on the cars.
| Rev. DIR. William L. Munsey, not
ed preacher of Tennessee, died at
Jonesboro, that State, last week.
The great and good man died while
knceling at his bedside. He was at
one time regarded as the most elo-
gnent pulpit orator in the South.
Thrope, the Auburn IN. Y.) mur-
derer, who was sentenced to death
few days ago thus pointedly informs
his father of the fact: ~ have the
pleasure to inform you that ] am SEN
fenced to DO hung on the It'll Of De-
cember next
The Protestant Episcopal Congress
at Boston has won its highest claim to
popular respect by the pastoral letter
or the House of Bishops, exhorting
the clergy ito denounce sins specifi-
cally and by name" Practical preach
ings and not vague generalities are
what the church most needs.
A new town away out West has
been named Miles City, as q compli-
ment to General Miles. 1t is beauti-
fully situated on the south bank OF
the Yellowstone, about three miles
below the fort, and 10 being settled
up in rapid aud permanent man
liner.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
CONTEMPLATION c,;..r,,

An old physician retired from active
practice. having had placed in his
hands by An East Indian Missionary
tho formula OF simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and permanent
cure of Consumption, Bronchites ca.
tarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and
Lung affections, also n positive and
radical euro for general debility and
all nervous complaints, after having
thoroughly tested it's wonderful cura-
tive powers in thousands Of cases, feels
it his duty TO make il known to bis
suffering fellows. The recipe will be
sent free OF charge, tc all who desire
it, with full directions for preparing
and successfully using. Address with
stamp naming this paper, DIR. J. O.
STONE, Al North Ninth st., Philadel-
phia, Pa. oct25Gmd2w
just one price and that the lowest
at PHILLIPs.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07

There are strange theories among
hog raisers. j. III. Green, farmer,
at the Farmers Club at Adrian,
Michigan, said his experience taught
him that hogs did not need any wa
ter either to drink or wallow in.
Had kept lot Of 81 in pasture where
there was no water. and they gained
on the pasture and rs bushels of corn
in less than five months 1876 pounds
each
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
Tho Franklin County. Und.. ) Demo

4Ac L IdHkllu COuHty, NAnO.,) DeUtO.
crat, sent us by Mrs. S. S. Harrell,
(known by many of our people in
former years as Miss Sallie Carmich-
aelD gives us an account of the falling
of the roof CT the court house in that
city, while some twenty persons were
in the court room, the court being in
session, and also some ten persons on
the roof engaged in repairing it. The
ruins present such a dilapidatcd APP
pearance as to render it almost mira
culons how all these persons escaped
alive. but the result showed that no
one was seriously hurt. The twenty
persons inside escaped only by rea-
son of the furniture and a high rail.
ing keeping tho roof from crushing
them. Mrs. Harrcll's husband, an
attorney was one OF the twenty in tho
court room. He escaped unhnrt.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
quick Time.

Messrs. J. Prugh & Co., yesterday
received an importation Of Pearl
ware that was shipped direct to them
from Staffordshire, England, just one
month ago. This ware is very
handsome imitation of China. and
comes very much cheaper. People
who need any goods in this line will
do well to examine Prugh g. Co. 8
large stock Of China, Stone and Glass
ware before purchasing elsewhere.
BY importing their own goods they
are enabled to give much better bar.
gains to customers than dealers who
pay several profits to other parties
before getting their goods in store.
They take pleasure in showing their
goods to all who call.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07

The Comptroller of the Currency
reports the additional amount of ma
tional bank circulation issued during
the month to be $3,03O,O00 eighty per
cent. of this amount, or $2,424,04O
will be retired in legal tender notes
by the Secretary of the Treasury,
leaving the amount of legal tender
notes, November LIST, $354, 400, 800
whole amount of additional circula.
ton, January IA, 1876, to date $34 1856,
1856.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07

III. M. Cockerill's TEA store, on
Market street, rear of First National
Bank, is the boss place to get FINE
TEA. Remember he will sell you
lbs. for $l.00. Don't fail to go and
see him. 1O.l6 Std 4tw
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
Sad Accident.

Yesterday evening, Mrs. Mary Z.
Williams, wife of Judge Williams,
met with very serious and painful
accident. She had been to the city on
business of some sort, and on return
ing in the evening the horse she was
driving took fright suddenly at some
thing in the road and plunged down
the embankment at the end of the
bridge, near Pickwick, throwing Mrs.
w. to the foot of the embankment, a
distance Of several feet, from which
she suffered compound cominuted
fracture, of the left fore arm, the
bones protruding from tho flesh and
running into the ground. DIR. Lewis,
the attending physician, informs us
that Mrs. w. was rs comfortable this
morning N could be expected under
the circumstances.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07

Cockerills TEA store is the place
for farmer to go and get choice
ROASTED or GREEN CoFFEEs; $500
will buy AZ lbs. of good Coffee and
3 lbs. of Tea at CockcrilPs Tea Store.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07

The largest real estate owner in
America, if not in the world, is ex-
Governor Abner Coburn, of Maine,
whose possessions include $4,000
acres of land
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= lKAns C Anr cor,onApO


Take the Aichison Topeka & Santa Fc
Railroad, extending from Kansas City
and A.chison, on the Missouri river,
via Topeka, tho capital of Kansas, thro'
the fertile Arkansas Valley, to Pueblo
where direct connection 10 made with
tho Denver & bio Grande Railway for
Colorado Springs, Msnitou, Denver.
Canon City and all points of note on
the Denver & Rio 0rande. Tho track
is excelled BY that of no road in the
West, and the passenger equipment
embraces all the modern improve.
ments. for comfort and safety
Through express trains leave nnion
dcpots, Kansas City and Atchison
daily, on the arrival Of trains from
the East, and run through to the
Rocky Mountains, with Pullman
Sleeping Cars attached. For maps,
circular. and detailed information
send to 7. j. ANDERSON,
General Pass. Agent, Topeka Kan
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEvENs

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 81. This
morning, the presidential party were
driven to various places of interest
escorted by the city's Reception Com
mittee, and at IL o'clock taken to the
Fair Grounds and introduced to the
authorities of the State Agricultural
Society. The party were conducted
to the building occupied as the head
quarters of the Society, and from the
upper porch speeches were deliver
ed. The crowd that gathered around
the building was large. The officers
of the Society, members Of the City
Council and distinguished citizens
were stationed on the porch with the
President. Governor Kemper deliv-
cred the welcoming address. and the
President responded.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-07
astonishing success

1t lie the duty OF every person who
has used BoscHEE's GERMAN SYRUP 20
let its wonderful qualities be known
10 their friends 10 curing Consump.
ton, severe Coughs. Group, Asthma,
Pneumonia, and in fact all throat and
lung diseases. No person can use 1t
without immediate relief. Three
doses will relieve any case, and we
consider it the duty Of all Druggists
to recommend 1t to tho poor dying
consumptive, 1T least to try one bottle
as 10000 dozen bottles were sold last
year, and no one case where It failed
was reported. Such . medicine q
the GERMAN SYRuP cannot be Toe
widely known Ask your D,uggisl
about it. Sample bottles to try sold
at 10 cents. Regular size. Is cents
For sale by J. L. Taylor & Co.