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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19

Saturday last near Melrose, Grundy
county, and her body thrown into q
cornfield on the farm of C. F. Clark
con. The murderer has been arrested
and gives his name as w. G. Glendon.
He is Spaniard and is safely ironed
In Hardin county jail. Who is there
that will say that this man ought not
to to be hanged and that speedily.
You can get the finest green or
roasted coffee in town at Cockerilla
Tea Store. Call and see his goods.
4-3d-3w
We are informed that the farmers
never had as much land plowed for
wheat, at this season of the year, az
they now have. We also learn from
our plow makers that the demand fol
plows and plow repairing is unusu.
ally lively, and that the farmers are
in much better condition and spirits
than they have been for two years
past. The outlook now is decidedly
hopeful, breakers to the contrary not
withstanding.
Mr.. Robaugh, the inventor and
patentee of the Little Giant Pump,
acknowledged by the most competent
judges to be the best pump in use
has just received letters patent on an
improved piston attachment, which
is applicable to all pumps alike. BY
this device the pump can be repacked
by any person, at any time. without
taking the pump to pieces. That i'm
proved double-seated valve will,
without doubt, owing to its superb
ority, soon come into general use.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19
M EN- OF MAINE.

Enough Of tho Statement to Give
Connor ii,5tO Plurality.
Augusta Sept. l5.--The kennebcc
Journal estimates the final official ma
jority Of Common over Williams TO
slightly exceed 800.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19

The Des Moines. Leader, principal
democratic paper in Iowa, says
6tlbbs had only about two hundred
people out to heaf him, and says of it
that II was "half truths and false
"ights-abuse Of bondholders and
"the lovingest expressions for the
"'dear people'-a plea for silver
!" which democrats made while h
was voting the republican ticket
anot mach about greenbacks."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE SHIP

LONDON, Sept. 13.-Further details
concerning the collision of the ships
Avalanche and Forest, show that 1t
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19

The jury in the Boyer-Davis case,
which has occupied the attention OF
the oourt for some time, last night
brought III a verdict In favor of Boy
'er in the sum Of $40 and costs. Five
thousand dollars were claimed. We
understand a motion has been or will
be made for a new trial by the at.
torneys Cor the defense. aa
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19

Everybody has read of the oman
Without = COUNTRY" but Ottumwa
can beat that. We have two demo-
cratic papers who sre without . par
ty or . candidate for Governor, al
though there are four candidates in
the hell Is dhDose from.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19

We understand the Greenbackers
are mourning over the situation in
Salt. Nearly all the Ex-Democrats
have become wearied in the new
cause and returned to their old love
Straight Bourbon Democracy. just
what we expected.--Bloomfeld Re-
publican.
That is Just what the Democrats in
this county are trying to .do-get the
Republicans committedto new par
ty and then the Cops. will vote the
Democratic ticket straight.
The Ottumwa Courier calls KeO-
knk goose pond. All right. We
would rather be keoknk as live
goose pond than Ottumwa as dead
grave yard.-K eoknk Constitattiom
Thomas, you're another. Here is
what we said:
The KeOkuk Constitution describes
! asfavOrite amusement Of that goose
pasture as follows: "Quite a circus
took place on Sixth street this morn
! ing, wherein the hog bouncer, sever
al boys, an old women and four geese
composed the actors."
Now chsw over your own story
awhile, s@ 1a
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19

The Mitchell domestic scandal of
Milwaukee, has been settled and with
drawas from the courts. Mrs, Mitch
ell hrs been granted divorce; her
1ather-in-law, Alex. Mitchell, gives
bond TO pay her 5000 year, and he
is to have the custody of tho little boy.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily. as
A colored boy by the name OF Har-
ris was kicked in the face by a horse
ON East Main street to-day and badly
hurt. DIR. Lewis sewed mp the wound
aud the boy is doing very we'll unde,
the circumstances.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19
WAITING FOR THE WORD.


Towards noon the Russian infantry
pushed forward in skirmishing order,
driving back the outlying Turks.
The artillery followed and came into
action at short range. The Turks re-
turned the fire, which was chiefly d.
rected at TIE Russian first line of
artillery. The firing is very heavy,
but very little harm is done. Further
on the lett to the crest of the range
beyond Radisova, which was one ar
ray of field batteries.
THE FIRING WAS VERY HEAVY,
the Turkish shells doing great dam
age among the gunners and falling
behind among the infantry on the re-
verse slope and in Radisova. At
three o'clock the Russians advanced
toward the Turkish positions and
continued to fire; somewhat slack
ing fire must have reached into Plev-
ma.
There are no indications of an as
sault to-day. believe it will be COM
menced tomorrow afternoon. The
Russian cannon is drawing close
around the Turkish positions; but
the test will not be made with cannon,
but with the proves of the men,
The Losses arc much heavier than
yesterday. III
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19

When Wilbur F. Storey, editor of
the Chicago Times, finds out that the
Cttumwa Times man calls him Va
liam instead of Wilbur, he will be
nad enough to 60 out into the back
yard spd lick his mother-in-law.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19

SERIOUS ACCIDENT. - Yesterday
evening a boy about s or years of
age, the son of Dennis Curran, fell
from the trestle work at the opposite
end of the wagon bridge, . distance
Of about Il feet, and was very badly
hurt. He was taken home and DR..
Thrall sent for. He gives it as his
opinion that the boy will soon be
around auain all r;uht
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-19
Fatal accident.

This afternoon q man by the name
OF Martin, miner working in Ea-
kins' coal bank, . few miles south Of
the city, was Crushed to death by q
piece Of slate falling on him. 1t
seems that all other people working
in the bank had left for dinner, and
when they went back they found Mar.
tin as shove stated with the slate lay
ing on him.. The deceased had wife
and two children. Mrs. Martin was
in the city 1t the time of the accident,
and the man who came for the coro-
ner brought her the notice Of her ter
rible bereavement.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-05
OUR DEBT TO THE INDIAN.

We are indebted to the Housatonic
Indians of Massachusetts for a knOwl
edge of maple sugar and how to make
it. In 1925 John Sergeant. who acted
as missionary among these Indians,
taught school on week days and
preached to his dusky audience on
Sunday. But when spring came the
Indians forsOok school and meeting,
and went off into the woods to make
maple sugar. Sergeant followed them
and learned the methods of their man
ufacture.
We also owe to the Indians our
knowledge of the great vegetable, the
maize, or Indian corn; we are also i'll
debted to them for that necessity of
modern life, the potato; we also owe
them that bird which Ben. Franklin
thought ought to be made the en-
blem of our country, instead of the
eagle, the turkey; we also obtained
from them the tomato, the sweet po-
tato, and certain of the squashes and
beans, to say nothing of tobacco.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-05

\ letter from Texas to the Manka-
to Review states that the grasshoppers
are doing immense damage to the
growing crops in that State. They
are at present destroying the wheat,
which four weeks ago promised u good
crop. The 'hoppers are now about
six weeks old, and are moving south
east. They are even eating the bark
off the fruit trees, and it is feared
that the fruit crop will be destroyed
in consequence. Corn is being eaten
to the ground as rapidly rs it springs
up. The writer, who has witnessed
the worst ravages of the grasshopper
in the southwestern counties of this
State, says that the Minnesota hopper
is not to be compared in voracity or
in numbers with the Texas scourge
of that name.
This proves conclusively that the
grasshoppers never migrate TO any
extent from the south to the north.
If they did we should have full-grown,
flying 'hoppers from Texas in May
and June. AS it is flying 'hOppers
have never entered our State before
these hatched here had their wings.
AS the country to the north and north
west of us is now free of the pest we
have reason to hope that this is the
last year we will suffer from them.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-05
THE RESULTS OF THE GREEN
BlCK POLICY.

Messrs. Griggs and Johnson. real es-
tate dealers of st. Paul, have employ
ed III. :. Fairchild to sell quantity of
real estate in that city at public auc-
ton; and have issued circular show
ing what in their judgement would be
the effects of the RECOMMENDATION of
silver on business and the value of
property. We quote:
The remonetization ofsilver is now
an assured fact. rs the President and
all parties have declared in its favor.
thereby giving assurance of the right
ing of 4 great wrong perpetrated upon
the people. which in effect doubled
the burden of debt, and at the same
time reduced the value of real estate
and other fixed property at least fifty
per cent. Gold and silver being about
equal in the world. the demonetiza-
ton of either would have had the
same effect. That such is the case,
any unbiased and candid thinker who
studies from cause To effect. must adj
nit. The monetary commission ap-
pointed by Congress to enquire into
the causes of the depreciation of fsilver.
ascribed our panic and the world wide
distress to its demonetization. The
error in legislation will he corrected
at the next extra session of Congress.
and the dollar of our fathers" viii be
restored TO us. the immediate effect
of which will be to dowb!e the price Of
all real estate.
1t must have surprised the citizens
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-05

The Chicago Times publishes the
following communication:
.sTo the editor of the Times:
The following is an editorial from
first page, first column of The Chicago
Erening Journal of this day June 81,
1917:
''Some fears have been expressed at
Washington that ii public opinion should
side with Judge Hilton in his recent exclu-
sion OF Mr.. Seligman, the Jewish banker of
New York, from the Grand Union hotel at
Saratoga, and open the way for any further
persecution of the Jews in this country, the
Rothchilds and other foreign money kings
might be induced to withdraw their support
from American credit abroad, and leave our
government bonds unsold. The secretary of
the treasury has already expressed his opinion
in opposition to Judge Hilton's extraordinary
course, and there is no probability that any
other hotel-keeper in the United State win
turn guest away because he happens to be
ither Jew ora GENTLE
Is not this nauseating! Americans
declared their independence one hun.
dred years ago, and many think that
independence has been achieved.
whereas we are slaves, miserable,
cringing. cowarbly slaves.-slaves to
a syndicate of foreign money kings.
who, like spiders in the center of a
web, reach out and appropriate to
themselves at pleasure the products of
the industry of the world.
The commercial and industrial
world has too long been at the mercy
of a centralized foreign oligarchy
more powerful and more skillful in
effecting its ends that Cesar or Napo-
leon. 1t holds in its gloved but metal
lie hand the power to make or mar at
will, the prosperity of every nation
and every individual: it
compels all who trade to be forever
promising to deliver gold which that
power alone commands and controls.
and TO rely in all transaction on like
promises; promises the fulfillment of
which is physical imposibility, and
has been So proved by the frequent
recurrence of suspensions and disas-
ters through many generations.
Bow low TO the money kings: trem-
BILE before their golden sceptre. de-
generate Americans too
ignorant to be aware that we are
slaves. Nox.
Chicago June n.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-05
EVEN THE BANKS SUFFERING.

EVEN THE BANKS SUFFERING.
The national banks, too long the
the supporters of the policy of contrac-
tion and forced resumption, are at
last learning, to their sorrow, that
even the business of money-lending
cannot be carried on with profit in a
ruined country.
The New Haven Conn., Union
says:
The National Banks are undoubted-
ly better off relatively than other
business corporations. But instead of
being gamers by their war on the
greenbacks the national bankers find
their profits seriously curtailed. Bank
dividends have been and will be less
this year than for any time during the
past ten years. The fact simply is
that the financial policy which we
have been pursuing has crippled or
ruined large number of the best
customers of the banks-the bank
ruptcy of many merchants has COM
PEELED the banks to be very careful to
whom discounts are made-bank
deposits have fallen off and the difficult
ty of safely loaning money has greatly
increased. A single New York bank
in it's last report to it's stockholders
reports that the suspended debt due
the bank is over one hundred and
sixteen thousand dollars, only a small
portion of which is ever expected
paid. A similar state of things exists
all over the country. Banks have
been forced to accept such dividends
as their bankrupt customers were
able to pay. The price Of bank stocks
did not begin to decline until about
six months ago, but since that time
their decline in price shows that the
evil effects of our present financial
policy has reached quarters which the
gold advocates did not suppose would
be tOucOed.
1.-The mills of the gods grind slowly
but they grind exceeding fne;" and
even bankers will yet learn that a
policy which impoverishes their
customers and destroys the value of
all forms of property will eventually
bankrupt them.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-05
WHOLE no. 1856

the farm could be rented on a long and
satisfactory lease. But before this
can be done the owner of the land
must hold it as permanent invest
ment, and not as a property to be Off
cred for sale to the first conner. When
farm land is so held by the owners,
there will be some probability, if not
certainty, that it will be permanently
improved, and then such property
will be eagerly sought for by tenants
who will be able to rent it on long
leases, and cultivate it in a more pro-
ductive and profitable manner than
farms are now worked. And then will
begin new era in American agricnl-
ture, and one that seems to be very
desirable.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-05
BANQUO UP .4GAIN.

We thought the Minnesota State
Railroad bonds were decently inter-
red, and would stay in their grave
for Il few years at least. But it seems
that those who were loudest in their
denunciatiOns of the programme of
of settling them for fifty cents Oh the
dollar, are now cOntriving and propos-
ing other plans of settlement. Mr..
). l.. Pierce. an attorney of st. Paul,
made himself very conspicuous in the
recent, canvass by his speeches and
publications against the proposed
scheme of adjustment; and he is now
out in letter to the st. Paul Dis
patch, in which he says:
1t is the first duty of the legislature
to appoint committee to take all the
testimony that can be obtained as to
the parties to whom the bonds were
negotiated by the railroad company
and as to the questions of good faith
of those parties in the purchase.
Chamberlain claims to own more
than one-half of these bonds. In the
archives of the state there are many
official documents and papers charg-
hing him with the grossest fraud in
their procurement.
Let all his transactions be fully in
vestigated.
Let the testimony obtained be pub
lished that the people may have that
information on which alone they can
act intelligibly.
Let the legislature by the aid of
this evidence propose basis of settle
| ment with the bona fide purchasers of
the bonds and with them only. and
greatly err if the plan when submit
ted to the people for their approval
will not be indorsed.
/ have conversed with MANY men
who opposed the late plan and with
many who supported it. and | find but
one sentiment-andt that is. it is time
TO have the matter settled.
The talk of the Pioneer Press about
the legislature waving its exemption
from liability to be sued and author
izing action to he brought against it
to test the validity of ithe claims of
the bond holders against the
state. could only he done BY amend
ment TO the constitution. and the p.
p. can rest assured the people will not
surrender the final decision of the
matter TO costly tribunal.
There would be no objection to sub
mitting the constitutionality of the
five million loan amendment to the
supreme court. if that court is willing
to entertain the question. But while
do not believe the amendment was
constitutionally submitted to the
people. do not or shall not claim
that the state should not grant relief
the bona fide purchasers of the bonds.
The determination of this single
question would not take from the peo-
pie the right to pass on the final plan
of settlement.
All of which proves that we were
right when we said that voting down
J the recent proposition would not kill
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-05

silver was legal tender at the time
Congress authorized their issue; and
he argues that it would be a gross
breach of good faith for the govern
ment to take any other course.
John Sherman did always enter
tain such views of public right and
duty.
His course on the 500 bonds is
fresh in the minds of all who are
familiar with that subject. AS is well
known, those bonds made no provision
for the payment Of the principal in
coin, though there was such condi-
ton as to the interest. An attempt
was unsuccessfully made in the Senate
to have the bonds paid in gold, and on
that occasion Mr.. SHERMAN said:
''If the bondholder refuses to take the same
kind of money with which he bought the
bonds, he is an extOrtioner and repudiator
There is no such burdensOme loan negotiated
by any civilized nation in the world as our
500 bonds If it is to be paid in coin.
At a subsequent time he went even
further. and surpassed any declaration
made by Mr.. Pendleton. who was
held up to odium for maintaining
that these bonds were payable in
greenbacks. Mr.. Sherman, at the
second session of the Fortieth Con-
gress, said in the Senate:
'.Isay that equity and justice are amply
satisfied if we redeem these bonds at the end
of five years in the same kind OF money, of
the same intrinsic value it bore at the time
they We're issued. Gentlemen may reason
about the matter over and over again, and
they cannot come toanyAther conclusion; at
least, that has been my Conclusion after the
most careful consideration. Senators are
sometimes in the habit, in order to defeat the
argument of an antagonist, to say that this is
reputation. Why, sir, every citizen of the
United States has conforned his business to
the legal-tender clause. Every state in the
Union, without exception, has made its con-
tracts since the legal-tender clause in curren-
cy, and paid them in currency"
Here we have sound sense and just
views. John has sadly changed his
tune in these latter years.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-05

OUR FOURTH VOLUME.

With our next issue will commence
the fourth year of the existence Of
THE ANTI-MONOPOLIST
We have tried to give the people a
faithful advocate of their interests !:
and to preach the truth whether it was
popular or not.
Our pecuniary success has exceeded
our most sanguine expectations. and
we will commence next week our
fourth volume upon sound financial
basis, and with a determination to
stay.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-05

of St.. Paul to see great real estate
firm using the very arguments of the
despised Independent.
The truth makes it's way by slow
and painful steps, but still it makes
it's way.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-05
JOHN SHERNiNS CHiNGE Of
BASE

John Sherman. Secretary % the
Treasury. has lately written a letter
for publication in which he takes the
ground that the United States bonds.
must be paid in gold alone, although
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-05

the bonds, but that Banquos ghost
would rise again.
Go ahead, gentlemen, and see if yoN
can settle. We couldn't.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-01
MISCELLANEOUS
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best in the world. The inventor shas used this
SPLENDID Hair DYE for 81 years with benefit to the
hair and no injury to his health; proof that ii ia
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-01
N. N. STURGEON. LtNIAN ADA7a
STURGEON & ADAMS,

ATTORNEYS AND CoUNsEL0RS AT LAW:
n Office in Mitchell & Lyndes block, Rock Island
III. Have complete set of Books # Abstracts
Title of Lands in Rock Island County.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-01
Ghf 9ailp Ateas,
Rocr ISLAND. ILLINOIS.
[Concluded from second page. J

lC0ucIuQeQ ITOm seCOu0 paRS.g
not answer any good purpose to have them
very thick it does not do to have them thin.
The process we put our glass through
simply thickens the hard she'll. You will
notice that the fragments of broken
chimney of our make, while they are
tougher than ordinary fragments OF glass,
are not nearly as tough as complete
chimney. This hardening OF the glass or
thickenlng of the hard surface also de-
creases its conducting properties. Ordi-
nary glass is a poor conductor, but our
glass is much poorer one. 1t is an easy
matter for us to treat any piece OF glass
| bv our process, whether it be cut or blown
glass. and the effect is the same. We can
treat the most fragile wine glass so as to
make it much stronger. but OF course, be-
| ing so thin, such glass would still be very
liable to breal age But one of the most
valuable applications of the patent con-
ceiye TO be the toughening OF window glass
and vault cover and sky light glass"
And he took out pane of corrugated
glass three-eighths of an inch thick and
about inches by "a. Leaning it up
against his desk he dropped 5-pound
Iron weight from height of about feet
on the oblque surface, and the weight
bounded off,
Professor Chandler found, he said,
that a sheet of the prepared glass similar
to one of ordinary glass that would b.
E broken by the fall of pound weight ont
foot, would stand the fall OF the SAM
weight five feet without breaking.
The application of this invention seem
t almost endless. 1t has been found tina
n nhotograDhers' plates are equally sensltly
: to the sun rays after being subjected t
!. the De La Bastie process, and no one who ha
It suffered from the loss Of negative" wi
!. fail to see the importance of this fact
d How the proverbial queen of the kitche
will regard the introduction OF unbreakabl
- glassware is problematical, to say the leas
- but to the long suffering head OF the house
hold long vista of economy opens at onc'