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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

The Methodist ministers of New
York invited the Rev. Miss Oliver to
preach before the association next
Monday. Last Monday they recon-
sidered the invitation, and, by vote
of AS to 80, refused to invite the lady
to preach. The Rev. Mr.. Buckley led
the party in opposition to Miss Oil
yer, and made some astounding de-
clarations. He thought the desire to
run after female preachers and to
force them on the church was an abb
Grafton of amativcness. Among 9TH
or things he said: 81 am opposed to
inviting any woman to preach before
this meeting. If the mother of our
Lord were on earth 1 should oppose
her preaching here. There is no
power in the Methodist church by
which a woman can be licensed to
preach" There was much excite
meut in the meeting, and the result
of the vote was received with ejacu-
lations of s'Thank God" and "God
bless Brother Buckley"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14
ALL SORTS.

"A beggar ate a dinner ut Con-
necticut farm house, and then inquired
where he could buy a bottle of good
whisky.
England has waged forty-nine
wars since 1900: France thirty eight /;
Russia, twenty-five Austria, twelve ;
and Prussia, eight.
"A Kentucky farmer says that his
old SOW is in the habit of chewing off
grape-vines that grow upon conven-
lent trees, and with the tree end in
her mouth, swing over the fence into
the corn-feld.
"A man who tried to drown him.
self by jumping from an excursion
steamer in Boston harbor, recently,
was so fat that he could not sink, and
the boat sent for him found him float
ing like cork.
The united glass-makers of Ger
many have given Herr Pieper SIC, 900
for his patent for tempering and
hardening glass, which is done by
submitting the material while at red
ueut " tuC uCtioi VI oupCl-HCutCu
steam,
1t is not easy for man and wife
to become legally separated in Can
ada. There is no divorce court; to
obtain divorce the applicant must
obtain q special act of the Dominion
Parliament.
Fall River, Mass, is OVERLOOKING
with orders from South America. An
agent recently sent down there to
open market for cottons has had
admirable success. He reports the
way as clear for lively trade.
Work on the tunnel across the
British Channel is to begin the first
of July, 1878. The tunnelling ma
chinery to be used can bore a drift
nine feet in diameter across the chan
mel in two years, at a cost of 81, O0O,-
600. Four years more and an addi-
tional cost of S20,OOO,O0O will complete
the tunnel.
The number of vessels of war of
all the maratime nations amounted in
1876, according to some official statis-
tics lately published in Germany, to
3,O39, of which 209 were ironciads.
The armament comprised $4,000 men
and $1,000 guns; ITO war vessels, in
Guiding 56 iron-clads, were in course
of construction.
"A project is to be introduced into
the French Chambers for the mar
riage Of priests. By it IL is declared
that no law prohibits the marriage of
priests, and penalty is imposed on
any civil officer refusing to marry
them. In other words it is intended
to legalize violation of the ordin-
ances of the Roman Catholic Church.
and to give the priests the same rights
as other Frenchmen.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14
Good Advice.

Now is the time OF the year for
Pneumonia, Lung Fever, SC. Every
family should have bottle of Bos-
CHEFS GERMAN SYRUP. Don't allow
for one moment that cough to take
hold of your child, your family or
yourself. Consumption Asthma
Pneumonia, Group, Hemorrhagea, and
other fatal diseases may SGT in. AL.
though it is true GERMAN SYRUP IL
curing thousands of these dreaded
diseases, yet 1t is much better to have
1t at hand when three doses will cure
you. One Bottle will last your whole
family q winter and keep you safe
from danger. If you are consumptiye
do not rest until you have tried this
remedy. Sample Bottles 10 cents.
Regular size Is cents. Sold by your
Druggist, j. L. Taylor & Co.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14
Iowa Items.

Oskaloosa is to have a new military
company.
The Supreme Court meets at Coun-
Gill Bluffs on the 10Th inst.
Horse thieves are said to be nu-
merous in all parts of the State, and
are in well organized gangs.
No less than 5000 hogs have died
from hog cholera in Monroe town.
ship, in Clay county.
From the Marshall Times it is
learned that the Marshalltown Com
mon Council has accepted the new
city water-works and engines.
Judge NJ. V. Burdick, who has
been confined in the Hospital for the
Insane, at Independence, for some
months past, has SO far recovered that
he has been released.
The Marshalltown Times says:
"There is likely to be a first-class scan
dial made public in few days, where
in one of our prominent lawyers will
appear in the case as defendant"
1t was almost TIE unanimous vcr-
sion of the Iowa Dairymen's Associ-
alton, that it did not pay to make full
cream cheese, as the people did not
appreciate a good cheese. That
twice as much mild cheese could be
sold as strong.
Four of the eight classes into which
the pupils at the Institute for the
Deaf and Dumb were divided, will
remain and be cared for at that place,
where some buildings belonging to
Asylum will be fitted up for them.
The other four, the first, second, third
and eighth classes, have returned to
their houses.
The Cedar Falls Gazette states that
Alonzo Helm, of that town, lost eight
hogs by quinsy or throat disease. On
the ninth hog, nice one, he tried an
experiment. He took camphor gum
and mixed with turpentine; this he
rubbed OH the throat of the hog, and
forced large tablespoonful down its
throat. This effected q perfect cure.
Says the Cherokee Times: eve are
told that a married woman in O'Brien
county teaches school In her own
house, her only pupil being her own
daughter. The county pays rent for
the house, furnishes fuel and gives
the teacher a good salary as an In
structor Of youth. No wonder the
county warrants are at such great
discount"
Mr.. o. G.. Mcintosh, of Wright
county, thus accounts for the bark
loosening on apple-trees in the
Spring, close to the ground: "When
timber freezes it shrinks, and forces
the sap out, and it forms coat OF
ice between the bark and wood, and
so loosens the bark that it kills the
tree. When this happens the bark
will be found loose at the root"
The revenue offenders in Hampton
Chickasaw county, have been made
to put things to rights. Four of then
took out license, paid costs and
were released. Their crime was
selling beer at wholesale on retail
license, by the key instead Of by the
glass. Three of the party, concerned
in running an illicit still, were bound
over in the sum of Al 900 each. Tit
coppersmith who made the still wa
discharged.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14
A PERLEE PICKLE.
Courtship, Marriage. Honeymoon
and Separation in twenty
four Hours.

This week it is Perlee, the metrop-
oils of the coal district of Jefferson
county, which steps before the gaze Of
an admiring public with her bit of
gossip. She is satisfied, however, and
She stands at the head of the list, for
there is no place in this broad conn-
try where they could produce a like
sensation.
To this village, from Muscatine,
came man aged about forty years,
with the romantic name of Smith.
BY profession he was a.soap-fat man
this, too. was romantic. Smith had
a very soft side toward the gentlcr
seX-in fact he loved them, ono and
all, but wanted one at least whom he
could love, honor and cherish. How
to get her was the problem. But it
was easily solved. Making his wants
known to an early friend, and giving
her S. bill, she agreed to get him a
wife. This happened Sunday eve
ming. Then the heroine appears up
on the scene in the character of Lau-
ia Brannon, aged is. They met,
were mutually smitten. She wants
home. Smith proposes and is acccp-
ted. Monday the license was pro-
cured and they were made one flesh.
The usual banquet was given to the
boys, and all went well till night,
when Laura found she had been base
lv deceived. She had supposed Smith
was well off in this worlds goods,
but it was all bosh. He wasn't worth
the soap that he daily made in his
little kettle. This made her deter
mined in her resolution to leave him,
and after they had retired for the
night she skipped from the bed and
board of her lord and master,
and took up her lodgings in a
neighboring mansion. Next NOR
ming, she, with the assistance of some
friends, procured her clothing of
Smith, and after giving the people of
Perlee her opinion of marrying in
haste, and of her own dear Smith
she boarded train for the East, and
was soon on her way rejoicing.
Smith couldn't stand this, and soon
he packed up and followed his bride.
This is the latest. Whether he caught
her or not, no one can tell, and we
don't know that we may wish him
such luck. It's only chapter of high
life in Perlee, and will be delicious
morsel for certain class of people.
OF course such affairs are to be dep
recated, but some times they can't be
helped. 1t romantic, but fact, and
as such we give it to the gentle read
er.-Foirfeld Ledger.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14
SOMEBODY LOVES ME-.

''Sombody loves me, but won't tell who,''
Said the merry bird as he slipped the dew;
somebody perched In yon waving tree
Sits deity watching and waiting Tor me-
somebody loves me, the butterfly sings,
Floating high up on Its fairy-like wings;
"SCmebody loves me, asleep on the leaves,
Where the brown spider his gossamer caves"
Somebody loves me, the infant implies,
In It's gentle COO, and its baby tighe;
In those beaming eyes, SO teudely fair,
somebody loves me" is written there.
somebody loves me, !" quoth the gray-haired sir,
As children cling round him beside the fire.
While he presses kiss on the infants check;
The elder ones p'ayiog at hiae-and-seek
The genial law ofour nature is love,
DistilliDg and drel ping like dew FROM above;
somebody loves me- but Won't tell who.
That is my secret and nothing to you.
H. e. p. in American Cnlfipafor 1
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14
Agricultural Items.

William Rand, of Fayetteville, VT,
imprisoned a potato-bug in a glass
case, last fall, and it was found a day
or two ago to have deposited 1900
eggs.
The appearance of the wheat fields
in Indiana since the snow disappear.
ed is very fine. The danger to wheat
in early spring comes from thawine
and freezing after it has commenced
growing.
Minnesota farmers appear 10 BIZ
making strenuous efforts to suppl,
themselves and future generations
with timber, or at least firewood, anl
it is reported that 100000 cutting
were planted last year.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14
The Ashtabuia Verdict.

lie COTOHCI july sSSeSA""s aSH
dered their verdict on the Ashtabula
disaster that the fall of the bridge
was the result of defects and errors
made in designing, constructing and
erecting that the chief defect appear
ing in many parts was the depend
ence of every member for its efficient
action upon the probability that all
or nearly all others would retain
their position and do the duty for
which they were designed, instead of
giving each member positive con-
nection with the rest. The members
of each truss were, instead of being
fastened together, rested one upon
the other, as illustrated by several
particulars which arc enumerated and
explained in technical terms. Thick
beams were placed where the plan
required thin ones, and vice versa.
The railway company used this bridge
eleven years, during all of which
time examination by a competent en-
gincer would have certainly disclosed
these defects. For this neglect the
railway company is alone responsible,
and upon it rests the fearful response.
bility for the loss of life. The cars
which plunged into the abyss were
not properly heated according to the
plain requirements of law, hence the
responsibility of the fire also rests
upon the company. The responsible
ity for not extinguishing the fire wheI
it first appeared rests upon those Wit
first appeared upon the scene, wh'
seem to have lost all presence of mint
and failed to take such steps as nigh
easily been taken to extinguish tn
fire. The fire departments steame
arrived too late to save human life
/, but the chief engineer is responsible
]. for not making all possible efforts t
I extinguish what fire remained. Th
5 deceased, therefore, came to thei
deaths by the precipitation of cal
into the chasm left by the fallin
4 bridge and burning cars, for all
@ which the railway company is respol
sible.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, late
candidate for Vice President on the
Democratic ticket, passed through
the city to-day, enroute for Califor-
MIA.
He is a man beyond the ordinary
size, in bnild not unlike our Captain
Madison, with hair quite gray. He is
an open-faced, pleasant-looking gen.
tleman, considerably past the middle
of life in appearance, although he
seems to have been leniently dealt
with by the world. In conversation
he is very pleasant, and on introduce
ton conversed quite freely. He
spoke to our reporter in terms Of
praise of the part of Iowa which he
had passed through ON this trip, ad
miring the appearance of the city
and said that our state was one of tn
most prosperous in the Union.
He informed our representativ
that he was cnroute to San Francisc
on business; did not know exactl.
when he would return. He was greet
cd by several of our citizens. He en-
quired for Judge II. ii. Trimble, San
Hendrix, and perhaps other acquaint
ances in this city and in the neigh
borhood.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

The National Lace Stock Journal
of Chicago, which is the ablest and
best journal of its kind in the coun.
try. has a very fine cut Of the import
ed Clydesdale stallion Donald Dinnie,
owned by Downs and Sanders, of
Talleyrand, Keokuk county, Iowa.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14
JOS. J. HADFIELp,

DEALER IN HIDES, PELTs, Wool, FuRs,
TALLow, RAGS and FEATHERS.
Twill pay in the future, as in the
past, the highest market price. l
have no street buyers-they cost mon
ey, and farmers have to pay them.-
Bring your Hides to my store, corner
of Court and Second Sts., and get full
prices in cash. l2-l5W6m
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

A little girl named Eberly, in
Shamokin, Pa, is lying very low with
brain fever brought about by being
penned in dark closet by one of the
lady teachers of that town for sever
al hours.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14
Special Notice.

We desire to inform our friends
that since the fire we have rented and
occupy the Green Front store, occu.
pied by b. f. Pratt, opposite the
Iowa National Bank, where we will
be glad to see all our old customers
and as many new ones as feel like ia.
voring us with their patronage
Manufacturing, and repairing 9
specially. We will very soon be
stocked with full line of eastern
boots and shoes, direct from manufac.
turers, which we will rs usual, sell as
cheap as the cheapest.
m6d3wl S. ID. PIERCE & Co
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

You need not neglect your business
when troubled with a cough or cold,
If you use reliable remedy at once.
DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup is the best
remedy we know of. Price only 2;
cents.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Gate Citv:-At the city election in
Burlington on Monday, Eleanor
Hoefer was reelected City Marshal
by majority Of II votes over the
next highest candidate. There were
eight aspirants for the Office, and By
a strange coincidence seven of them
got left-the old story to Z.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14
From IAnrslAy1 Daily.

On Tuesday of last week, Mr.. Lid
dell, a gentleman who owns the
largest brewery in Allegheny county,
was elected Mayor of the city of
Piitsburg. Where was Murphy's
forty-five thousand converts to the
temperance cause a-Saltsburg (Pa)
Press.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

We have not noticed that the de-
mocracy have for, at least fortnight
past, piped in with their usual batch
of C@serism. We protest that the
final foot should not be longer delay
ed, or it will be stale.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

An old lady sleeping during divine
service in church in Liverpool, let
fall her bible with clasps to it; and
the noise partly awakening her, she
exclaimed aloud, "What you've bro
ken another jug, you slut, have you ?"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Bauer and Keister are manufactu-
ring an unusual number of plOws,
harrows, and cultivators, this spring,
and more than the usual amount of
other agricultural machinery. This
firm are entirely reliable, guarantee
every article Of their manufacture to
be made Of the best material, and put
up in . manner not to be excelled.
Their prices, also, are very low, and
considering the guarantee, the we'll
known integrity Of the manufacturers,
their work is preferable and decided
ly the cheapest. They are also man.
ufacturing . wagon which, 50 far
has proved to be of the very best.
Call on this firm, who are fully
identified with the interest Of ouI
city, and leave the money with them
In preference to sending 1t away from
here.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

~ rise to announce"-said a speak
err, the other day, at democratic
war meeting. sYes," interrupted a
disagreeable person in the audience,
ian ounce is about your fighting
weight
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

The Iowa City Republican has the
following to say of a branch house
in that city, Of the firm of Robinson
Bros, Of this city: Several years
ago Robinson Bros, established their
dry goods and notion store, and by
their fair dealing and polite treat
ment of their customers have become
one Of the leading firms in the city.
These gentlemen having other stores
throughout the country are not here
much of their time but have been
very fortunate in their selections of
clerks so that their presence is not
renuired.v -------
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

bloomfield, at the recent election
voted in favor of beer license. This
city will now, probably, lose some
of its charms for the average Bloom.
fielder.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Mrs, Catherine c. Trotter who re-
Gently died in Cambria county, Pa,
and had no children of her own.
raised and educated no less than
twenty-nine orphans.
And she ought to have monumen,
twenty-nine feet high.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Farmers can still be accommodated
by making application soon, at the
Kirkville Mills. A. RooP e Co.
7dAw1t
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Mort Heath, agent of the United
States express company, last fall
agreed with Bob Finley thatif Hayes
was made president of the United
States, Finley was 10 be furnished
with a free ride around the post office
block in wheel-barrow, Mr.. Heath
furnishing the motive power /; or, in
other words, working inside the
shafts to accomplish the aforesaid air.
ing. Mort now asks to be released
from his. self-imposed obligation on
the ground that Robert refuses to take
the tide, although safe conduct is
guaranteed. Robert get there.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

No. NINETEEN.-The Bloomfield
Commonwealth says: "Mrs. Horns
grocery was closed by the sheriff, last
SATURDAY."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Miss Lizzie Hull has been elected
Secretary of the School Board of
Boone.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

The highest market price paid for
produce at the grocery corner of
Court and Second streets, Ottumwa.
JOHN G. STEVENS,
may 29-wtf. Manager.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

r.. D. Condit, banker of Cham
paign, Ills, has disappeared, leaving
debts to the amount of $4,000, while
his assets will not reach over $4,000
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Put it on record that the Des
Moincs river, above the point oppc-
site this, was frozen over, March Sth
1877.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Brooklyn, in Poweshiek county,
has revival which is sweeping the
town, and already numbers l75 con-
verts.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

A new post office has been estab-
lished in Cass county, which has been
named McDill.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Says an exchange: "When he in
vited her to marry him, she gazed in
to his face and tenderly inquired if
he knew what costly thing he had
asked fora woman's life, a woman's
wondrous love. Four months after
the wedding he climbed through the
scuttle on to the roof, and when a
neighbor came with a ladder to take
him down, he put it to him, as fell
low creature, whether it wasn't mans
duty to run when q woman rose up
after him with hot tea-kettle in her
hand? ~
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

The anti-license party in Oskaloosa
elected their Mayor by 1875 majority.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

George Alfred Townsend is writing
very booty letters to the Philadelphia
Times (Democratic) over "Gath' in
which he predicts a democratic vic
tory in 1880 under the leadership of
Bayard.
This talented versatile liar is also
writing republican letters over
"Laertes" to the New York Graphic.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

The Ledger reports that Fairfield
is increasing in numbers, wealth and
business,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

The Nonpareil says the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad COM
pany have been doing an immense
amount Of bridge repairing on their
line during the past week. A party
Of surveyors and bridge men have
been over the road making thorough
examinations Of all bridges. They
contemplate filling many of their
smaller bridges during the coming
season,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Full line of mems Boots and Shoes
just received at Phillips.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14
Oak Kip Boots at Phillips.

The best Woman's Calf Shoe in the
State at Phillips. J23w4.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Farmers will find, when they are in
the city, ono Of the most convenient
Wagon Yards and Feed Stables on
Main street few doors above Law
renee b Carriers. Call and see.
e14 "
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14
Apnle--lulCo.

Fifty barrels-common refined, and
boiled, oil in good condition, and for
sale by o. TOWER,
On Front street, opposite w. c.
Moss, Jr. & Co. 2 26-d2t-w1t
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-14

Matilda Heron, the celebrated
actress, died in New York on last
Wednesday'cy