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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17
State Agriculture, Society.

From Capt. Garfield, who was in
attendance, we learn that there was a
large and interesting meeting of the
State Agricultural Board at Des
Moines, yesterday. S. T. Spofford,
of Dcs Moines, was elected president ;
John r. Shaffer, Secretary; S. G. Be-
yer, Treasurer and F. L. Downing,
John w. Porter, Oliver Mills, Geo. C.
Duffield and E. N. Clark, Directors.
Cedar Rapids was selected as the
next place for holding the annual
meeting without any serious opposi-
ton, Dcs Moines and other leading
cities not being prepared at present
to incur the heavy expense necessary
to fix up the grounds, etc.
The board of directors had not fix
ed the time for holding the next
State Fair, when our informant left.
The disagreeable fact was develop
ed that the society is some $4,000
short, growing out of the fact that
the exhibitions for the past two OF
three years, have happened during
exceedingly unfavorable weather.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17
RQYdoned:

In the summer of 1870, in an ARRAY
in q house of ill-fame, on the oppo-
site side of the river, a man giving his
name as Chas. Coburn. alias Turner,
shot and killed raftsman named
Watson, known as "Dutch Fred"
Turner was tried and convicted of
murder at the August term, 1870, OF
the Henderson county Court and
sentenced to fourteen years in the
illinois penitentiary. He remained
under the sentence till January l,
1877, when he was pardoned by Gov.
ernor Beveridge, having served about
six years and four months.
There were several palliating cir.
cumstances in connection with the
killing, though the testimony was
quite contradictory. When sentenced
Turner was splendid specimen Of
physical strength, weighing 49,
pounds. He is now much reduced
in weight and presents broken
down appearance. He was in The
city yesterday on his was to Ottumws
where he has friends. The murder
at the time, created nearly as mucl
excitement as the Bill Lee affair has
since done.-Buylington Gazette.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17
s,.so-sz.oo.

The terms of our Weekly are $1.5O
per year IN ADvANcE-Daily, 500
per annum, also IN ADVANCE. A great
many Of our patrons seem to think
that if they pay their subscriptions at
the END OF THE YEAR they meet the
requirements of our terms, but that
is not treating us fairly. We furnish
you just as good Weekly as you
can get anywhere in the country for
$500, and just as good Daily as
would cost you $1,000 in any other
town, and we want our patrons to dc
the fair thing, and pay us according
to our printed terms, quarterly, by
the six months, or yearly, IN ADVANCE
Money is worth just as much pei
centage to the printer as it is to any
one else, and he should have his jus
dues.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

SYNOPSIS OF THE Iowa TAX LAW
Taxes become due on the LIST of No
vembcr of each year, and delinquent
on the LIST of February. On the LIST of
March per cent. interest is collect
ed; LIST of April, per cent; LIST of
May, 3 per cent. LIST of June 5 per
cent. list of July,7 per cent. LIST Of
Augusta per cent. LIST of September,
IL per cent; LIST of October, Is per
cent. ; LIST of November Is per cent,
and 3 per cent q month thereafter.
On the first Monday of October of
each year property is sold for taxes,
when a penalty Of 20 per cent. at
taches, and that with the principal
draws interest at the rate of 10 per
cent. per annum. On the LIST of March
after the sale the purchaser has the
right to pay subsequent taxes and col
lect the same penalty and interest as
on the sale. Three years after the
sale the purchaser is entitled to q deed
of the property,pr provided he has given
ninety days notice to the owner of the
property.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

A sanctimonious whelp entered one
of our churches the other evening
during prayer meeting and speaking
exercises. He was not at all troubled
with bashfulness, and Immediately
drew near to the front and entered
into the spirit Of the occasion with
the zeal of a new convert. After the
meeting adjourned he introduced
himself to the pastor by name, and
said that he was just from Custer
City, Black Hills, and that he came
here expecting to meet remittances
from his beloved parient that he was
disappointed, and hadn't cent for
food or lodging. Our benevolent
pastoral friend directed him to the
boarding house of Mrs. MCGEE, and
On that recommendation she kindly
out the fellow in bed with one of her
,ther boar ders, who works for shoe
maker Pcarce.
The next morning the temporary
odger from Custer City failed to put
, an appearance; his bcdfcllow was
hort ten dollars, and our ministerial
riend is now disguised and disconso-
ate,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17
TAKE NOTICE.

That the COURIER has no travelling
or canvassing agents out at present.
Postmasters and their deputies are
duly authorized to do so and they
frequently forward subscriptions to
this paper for which we are duly
thankful.
If any one else pretcnds to have
authority to canvass, secure subscrip-
tions and collect money for this pa
per, make him show his credentials.
If we should take occasion to send
man out on such business, whose
connection with this paper is not well
known, his authority to SO act will
be announced in the COURIER in adj
vance.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17
he barn Of VIM. Hollenbec

The barn Of VIM. Hollenbeck, wht
ives two miles east of Batavia wa
destroyed by fire on the night Of tn
21st nit. Mr.. H. was awakened abou
by unusual noise in thu
barn and rushed out to sec what wa
the matter, carrying small lantern
in his hand. Upon entering the barn,
some one inside knocked him down,
hurting the lantern from him, break
ing it and setting fire to the hay and
hnaAly the barn. He afterwards seiz-
ea the chap who hit him and they
struggled around the barn until some
ohe came to the robbers assistance,
and both finally escaped. The barn.
with all its contents, was totally con-
sumed. 1t is supposed that The man
, IN the barn intended STEALING ~.
horses, and would have done so haa
J not Mr.. Hollenbeck been aronsaa
|. when he was. The barn was insproa
. in the Watertown, but for what snno
I'VE do not know.-Fairfeld Ledoe.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17
CHIPS,

You can never tell when Death
will foreclose mortgage.
It is this laziness between meals
that is running the country.
There are few people who have
not noticed how penitent man feels
of sin after being caught at it.
Brandy has done for Peru what hot
mince pie is doing for our beloved
country. Look in the faces you meet
and note in their lines the ravages of
the last mentioned deadly COM
pound.
Susan B. Anthony has our promise
that she shall have her desired change
in the constitution the moment she
produces q woman. who will not
scream when she feels a pinch-bug
crawling up her back.
"My son." said Mr.. X, kindly, to
his youthful heir, "accustom yourself
to be polite to the porter, the servant
girl, the coachman,to all the servants |;
thus you will come in time to be
courteous to all people, even to your
parents"
Miss May, whose wedding trous
seau lies idle at cost of $50, 600. uses
the word Carrie for first name, while
her big brother, who tried to horse
whip Jim Gordon Bennett into the
matrimonial traces, bears the warlike
cognomen-Fred.
Norristown Herald: Two young
brothers may be as devotedly attach.
ed to each other as were Damon and
Pythias, but you will never hear OF
one snatching the scuttle from the
hands of the other and insisting upor
going down cellar to bring up the
coal.
The man who goes from home
whining and fault-finding to NEE
his business perplexities whining be
cause times are hard, whining be
cause his plans fail, and to believe hi
own surly dispositions q burden up
on his friends and the community II
which he lives.
The heavy fall of snow on tn,
plains of Western Nebraska, which
are usually available for grazing pur
poses throughout the entire White
season, seriously threatens to rcduc'
to starvation the vast herds of cattl
that roam that region.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

Many thousands Of dollars has been
spent in distributing, free of chagre
Sample Bottles OF BoscHEE's GERMAN
SYRUP to all parts of this country. to sll
those suffering from Coughs, Asthma
Hemorrhages, Consumption, and other
Throat and Lung Diseases, that the afflic-
ted might satisfy themselves, that tbs
remedy would save them from those fatal
disease. No person has ever used this
medicine without getting immediate re-.
lief. yet there are great many poor suffer-
ing. skeptical persons going about our
streets with suspicious cough, and the
voice Of consumption from their lungs, that
will not try it. Ifyou die, 1t is your OVID
fault. as you can 60 to your druggist, J. L.
Taylor & Co., and get Sample Bottle for
10 cents and try it; three doses will re
iieve any case. Regular size only Is cents.
dIwait
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17
Another County Heard From.

MEssRs. EDITORS: SIRs-Herewith
please find $l.50 to pay for my paper,
and also $1.5O for another years sub.
scription, the paper to be sent to the
address of VIM. H. Neil, Conway,
Taylor county, Iowa. We cannot get
along without the COURIER. We find
it always full and fresh. It is very
welcome visitor. If I can, I will send
you other subscriptions to it. 1t is q
matter of Importance to have our
country well supplied with good
reading matter. Yours,
JOHN NJ. uARRELL.
CONWAY, Taylor Co., Jan. 8.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17
Good-Bve Charley.

RED OAK, Iowa, Jan. 10, l877.-ED.
COURIER. Chas. Winner (colored) was
found guilty of assault with intent to
commit murder, by the District Court
of this county, Jan. 8, 1877, and sem
fenced to Imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary at Ft. Madison for the period
of six and half years. N. YAGER.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

In Observation-Disclosures Bur-
lington, Bloomfield and Davenport,
have had pretty much of monopoly
of the bankruptcy business in the U.
s. District court at this place, but
Ottumwa has entered the field now
and comes forward with q case which
for the magnitude of the liabilities in
proportion to the assets, will compare
with any of them. j. L. Stewart a
music dealer at that place, filed vol.
untary petition in bankruptcy ycster-
day. His liabilities are $35, 735, and
his assets $4,000. He was adjudged
bankrupt and his case referred tc
Register Rice.-Gate City.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

SOMETHING OF A JoB.-The Post
master General has ordered the count
ing and weighing Of all mail matter
deposited in the mails for four weeks,
commencing Jan. 18th. All letters,
postal cards, circulars, newspapers
from offices of publication, transient
newspapers, samples of merchandise
and seeds and cuttings, must be
weighed and counted separately, and
strict account kept Of each one.-
This is q big undertaking, and will
necessarily entail large amount of
labor.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

If there is anything that can arrest
the ravages of that horrible scourge,
diphtheria, the remedy is sadly want
ed just now, when thousands of dar-
lings are being carried over the riv-
er. We have published several So
called remedies, and herewith give
another from the Davenport Gazette,
sent by q correspondent. II send you
a remedy which I have tried in ma
ny desperate cases, and invariably
with complete success. Take ordi-
nary garden sage, make a strong tea,
put in boiling heat in an ordinary
teapot and let the patient inhale the
steam from the spout By adopting
this process relief is soon obtained,
and in short time the patient is re.
stored to health" The best thing to
do, however, if in reach of one, is to
call good physician.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17
ALMOST A DISASTER.
An Express Train Rushes Through
Train Of Empty Cars-A Cool
Headed Fireman Avevts a
Calamity,
From the New York Times. Iannar. g

From the New York Times, Janusry6.
The st. Louis express, which was
due in this city at 1880 o'clock yes
terday morning, did not reach its
destination till nearly o'clock in
the afternoon. 1t did not leave Buff
falo for three hours after its running
time, and, after minor detentions, It
ran through a short train Of freight
cars, about a quarter of mile this
side of Cold Springs, on the Hudson
River Railroad. At this spot the
West Point Foundry has q track run
ming to its dock on the river, and
crossing the main limo almost at right
angles. AT the moment the express
came round the curve in the Cold
Spring cutting, dummy engine was
backing two freight cars and q plat
form car over the crossing-the flag
man having omitted to go back to
the curve and stop the approaching
train. He says that, seeing the train
approach without warning from the
depot he called to the engineer of
the dummy to ego ahead" The en-
ginecr, who says he did not hear this
order, instead Of going ahead, backed
his cars, and the express dashed
clean through them at the speed OF
forty-two miles an hour, according
to the estimate Of the employees on
the train. The engineer of the ex-
press first caught sight Of the freight
cars at a distance of about $50 yards
from the crossing. He Immediately
whistled "down brakes" aud pulled
violently at the cord running through
the cars and connecting with the pat
ent Dreamer brakes. The passengers
on the train, 70 in all, were at once
alarmed. The next moment the en-
gineer, having reversed his engine,
threw himself into the snow-bank,
and the express went through the
freight like cannon-shot-not COM
ing to stop till it was ON the trestle
bridge $50 yards away. A terrible
disaster was only escaped by a mira
Gle. The engine happened to strike
a car of the barely moving freight
train right in the middle, carrying a
bed-beam and splinters of the wreck
along with it, but driving the wheel
trucks on either side of the track, and
thus enabling the cars, none of which
left the rails, to pass through the
wreck without injury. The fireman
stood manfully at his post and shut
off the steam, and thus obviatcd the
chance of the bursting Of the boiler.
The front of the engine, the cow
catcher, headlights, smoke-stack,
sand-chest and one of the steam-cyl.
indcrs were broken; but otherwise
the train was uninjured. and the pas
sengers escaped with a shaking up.
Had the speed of the train been less,
and had the engine struck a truck
instead of tho body of the car,
serious loss of life would in ali
have ensued. About
year ago precisely similar accident,
with the same lucky escape of the
passengers, occurred at this crossing.
It is a very dangerous one for all
trains coming east unless it is very
carefully tagged and signalled.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

The G. B. & @ Railroad are occupy
ing their leisure time in ballasting
their road out near Tyrone, and long,
heavy trains, loaded with rock are
passing this city every day for that
point, at which place the road will
be as good as anywhere else on the
line.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

A few nights ago some young
friends of William Connect, living
near Prairie City, played joke on
him, frightening him in the most ter
riblc manner. Connect has since been
taken to the insane asylum at Mt.
Pleasant.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17
Correspondence oftbe State Register,

correspondence VI tHc CtutC ACSi5tSis
AMEs, To-, Jan. 9.-On Sunday last
our town was thrown into state of
feverish excitement over the arrest of
gang of organized thieves composed
of young men respectfully connected.
Ono of Pinkerton's detectives has
been working up the case for about a
month. 1t eliminated on Friday
night, the gang then breaking open a
N. w. r. r. car loaded with NOR
chandise, and secreting themselves in
it. When the car arrived at point
near the Agricultural College they
rolled out the goods, consisting ofsu-
gar, coffee, oysters, etc. One of the
gang was ready with his team and
hauled the goods away. On Sunday
Hugh Compton, j. Walker, John
Kinsler, and one Young,werc arrest
ed while enjoying feast of stolen
oysters. They had been committing
depredations for some months, and
had been spotted by the railroad com
pany, who employed Mr.. Wood
ward to watch them. He entered up
on the task with zeal, but in the opin
ion of most citizens,used questionable
means to accomplish his ends, and i
the thieves are to be credited, incitet
young men to enter the gang VIII
needed much persuasion.
1t was fortunate for the commuit!
that the gang was broken up at thi
time, as plot had been formed ant
the details agreed upon to wreck tn
passenger train at the bridge, nea
here, for the sake of plumber.
I The prisoners were examined be
fore Cyrus Turner, a Justice of tn
Peace, and bound over for trial il
$500 each. The examination was hcl,
with doors closed and locked and bu
little could be learned of the devel
opments. I have an idea that sucl
trials are usually held in open court
Why this was not, perhaps the coun
sci for the railroad could give sab
stantial reasons. l. III.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

A Parasian has invented q method
of sending photographs by telegraph.
He undertook to send the face Of an
American lightning rod agent the
other day, and it knocked down one
hundred and forty-four poles and
tore down seventeen miles of wire
before it had been on the road the
shortest half Of a second.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

The Washington county Press tells
Of young woman Of that county
"who was betrothed to young man,
who, about year ago, met violent
death, and meditates sueing the es-
tate (some 5000 of the deceased for
damages, OIL the ground of breach of
pvOm;cn -
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

The ordinance granting the X. s. d.
M. the right of way for new bridge
and a new depot at Des MoiDes, was
finally passed by the City Council OF
that city on Monday evening by a
vote of 8 to 5.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

More divorces were granted in the
United States last year than ever be-
fore in the same length of time, and
yet good men 60 on marrying women
for their beauty and pure girls wed
wild young men in the hope of re-
forming them.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

VIM. Mckinney was digging a
five foot well on the farm of James
Stringfellow, and Friday night when
he left it, was down 30 feet, with but
little water. Saturday morning
when he went back to work the well
had eighteen feet of water and still
rising. Just think of it, eighteen
feet of water in one night, in five
foot well. Bill says he has dug q
great many wells, but never saw its
equal. He would be good one fol
an artesian well digger.-Oskaloos
Herald.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

w. W. Hanford, editor and pro-
prietor of the Tiaton Eagle, died at
Vinton on the 9th inst. He had been
connected with the Eagle since 1856,
and was highly esteemed citizen.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

People who wish to go to or come
from Europe should read c. A. Tel
leen's advertisement. Charley can put
you over the briney deep as cheap
and safe as any other man.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

y. V Cloud, a Muscatine attorney,
~. Al curious personal pica while
ueIehalng client in hog case the
o'her gay he said he had been kept
from church whole season bv
watching slab-sided hogs which
showed a disposition to edge them.
selves through the cracks Of fencos.
to geta his garden truck. An a..
tumwa lawyer would lay his sins to
the cows.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

There are two times in mans life
when he eagerly scans newspaper
once when he has been in an awful
scrapc, and again, when he is looking
for puff.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

The Iowa game laws prohibit the
killing, trapping or possession of
prairie chickens, pheasants or quails
after January LIST, Those interested
will please take notice.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17
led.

This morning, Homer d. son of
George and Emma Pierce, aged 3
months and 2 days.
Funeral from residence on Wapello
street, north Of Fifth, tomorrow at
one O'Clock.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

Nowadays look out for a good deal
of mutual admiration literature in
the newspapers. When you find the
bucolic Jimpcute of Liberty putting
the metropolitan Daily Buu-dozey, as
a paper edited by lineal descendant
of Faust, who has the nose Of Ray.
mond for news; the head of Greedy
for politics, and the general make up
of Franklin for wisdom, don't bug
your eyes out with amazement.
1t is the tribute which the country
pays the city; the difference in the
exchange value between the limp.
cute, with its patent insides and the
Bull-dozer, with its daily news.
That's all.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

Matilda Fletcher's new lecture asks
"Why don't You laugh?" Cause no.
body tickles us. Ask us hard
"question."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

The highest market price paid for
produce at the grocery corner of
Court and Second streets, Ottumwa.
JOHN C. STEVENS,
may 29-wtf. Manager.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

Pope Pickel is preaching at Mount
Pleasant. He wants Sankey to go
around with him, and expresses a
preference for female Sankey.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

We publish to-day lengthy letter
from the Hon. James F. Wilson, of
Fairfield, Iowa, upon the subject of
the electoral count. It is an able ex-
animation Of the subject and is in ac-
cordancc with the view the COURIER
has all along taken. We do not see
why Mr.. Wilson's conclusions are not
perfectly correct
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

Jake Herbert let w. Karkuf out of
his cell last night to help get some
coal and kindling. Herbert got his
coal and turned around to see if Bill
had got the kindlings, when 10, and
behold, the bird had flown. Karkuff
was in for stealing horses, and is a
tough pill, as is also the whole litter
of Karkuff's. The sheriff offers $50
reward for his apprehension, and de-
scribes him as follows: "About s
feet 6 inches high, light hair, large
nose and stopped shoulders, smooth
face, has q down-cast look and seldom
looks up when talking, and is % or "a
years old; under suit when he left
was light grey, and old black over
coat and oldslouch black hat.-Mar.
shat Times.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

All tho free lunchers in town are
excited over the news that there are
81. 900 counterfeit bills In circulation.
Supposin' one of 'eal was TO take one
what thcn2
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-17

We are informed that the Board of
Supervisors have awarded the print
ing of the proceedings to the Ottum-
wa Times.