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Ottumwa weekly courier., 1877-05-09

EDITORS COURIER We present the
name Of Capt. Lee J. Michaels, Of
Green Township, as a candidate fol
Sheriff before the Republican Con
vention.
Anextensive acquaintance, acquired
by a residence Of over thirty years il
this couDty,renders any remarks in re.
gard to Captain Michaels' ability OF
qualifications unnecessary.
L. d. Carpenter, s. r. Snyder,
w. T. Harper, f. L. McNair,
VIM. II. Caldwell, NJ. E. s. Rubel,
Sam'l Guthrie, E. A. Chambers,
s. Fl. Harper, and others.
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Mine Per Gent. MONEY.

We will lend 1880, $1,000 OF
e25OO on good brick 6,ssiness proper
" In Ottumwa, at . per cent interest
Small commissions.
1-3d &wtf j. o. BRsIcor 4 Co.
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Headquarters for Plow Shoes at
Phillips. a25wtf
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From Yesterdays daily

In the case of the State VS.. Harry
Wolf, on the charge of an assault
with an attempt to commit murder
Wolf was held to answer to the Dis
trict Court, this morning, by Mayor
Porter in the sum of $1,000. 1t will be
remembered that this is q case grow.
ing out of the recent Manog case.
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S. B. Mowry & Co. will ship four
car loads of Wapello county cattle
sheep and hogs to Chicago tomorrow.
They ship from Agency City. The
Mowry boys are always at the top of
the market, and from them farmers
get top prices.
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Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Pines
&c., at Moss. d&w-lw
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
a GA II II.

TO all who are suffering from the errors and To-
dtscretions Of youth. nervous weakness. early de-
cay, loss Of manhood, &C., Twill send recipe
that will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This
great remedy vas discovered By . missionary In
south America. Send ae1f addressed envelope
g the Rsv. JosRPH T. fNAAN. Station D, Bibls
House NeU York jan29dA won
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We will receive Fresh Fish eyery
Tuesday and Thursday. Moss Bros,
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Choice Butter-always on hand a
MOSS. dAw-lw
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Cheap Groceries.
Moss Bros.-Moss Building.
Best Sugar Cured Hams, 12k
Clear Bacon, l2L
Sugar Cured Shoulders 81
Raisins, l62.
White Fish, kits, Z!
half bbls. ~
Lorilliard Tobacco, q,
Choice Teas, 50,75 and 10
Prnnes, 81:
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Announcements

EDITORS COURIER: Please announce
my name as q candidate for Sheriff
Subject to the decision of the Repub-
lican Nominating convention.
j. e. SLAUGHTER.
The undersigned will be candi-
date for the nomination for Sheriff
of Wapello County. Subject to the
decision of the Republican County
Convention. 8. CHANEY.
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DIR. g. MCLANE'S
[lVERPIIIS

,LlVERPILLS.
These Pills are not recommended
as asaremedy" for all the ills that flesh
is heir to-, but in affections of the
liver, and in oil Bilious Complaints,
Dyspepsia, and Sick Headache, or
diseases of that character, they stand
without rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
Nobetter cathartic can be used pre-
raratory to, or after taking Quinine.
As asimplepurgative they are un.
equaled.
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS.
Thcgenuine are neversugar coated.
Each box has o red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression DR.. Mc-
LANES Liver Pills.
Each wrapper bears thesignatures
Of G. MCLANE and FLEMING Bros.
Sold by all respectable druggists
and country storekeepers generally:
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THE OLD PINE TREE.
BY HATTIE ANTLEY.

Grim and grey as Statued stone
Which feels not, kaOws not
! That the worlds moves on
BY all thy nearest friends forgot,
] Thou, in thy mantle OF white doth stand
/ Deserted, alone III thy native land.
Once thou dids't rear thy proud Young
Above the forests EN- rald crown,
Left far beneath thy leaf-strew bed,
. And with proud grandeur then looked
down
On comrades who had sought ungained
The lofty height which thou attained
Once Eolean breeze in Phrygian tones
At morn thy dark plume, tossed in gIee,--
At eve in sofJencd tender means
Whispered a wierd melody;
Telling the tale of the flooded world
When towers as proud were earthward
hurled.
Some hearts it touched as meath thy shade
They wandered in the twilight gloom
And fancied there had Titans played,
And there, perhaps, was Druid tomb;
such sweet fables were once believed,
We sigh to to think we're undeceived.
Proud ambition's height was gained
Thus far, no farther shalt thou co.
This earthly fiat once proclaimed,
Has laid full many an earth dream low;
Jacobs dream has Oft been ours,
Which day dispelled as dew from flowr's.
Thy towering top no more aspires
To reach the stellar groups above,
To grasp those far, relulgent fires,
Heavens skylights in the home of love.
No more thy voice in the soft choirs sweIs
Where the soul of music ever dwells.
It's best to be as now thou art
Than live to grieve thou stands't alone
Kind the Ii nd Il at sent the dart,
To base thee hence when friends had
flown,
For who would wish to live, when those
lie loves are hushed in deaths repose?
A monument thou stands't for me-
(Sink deep the lesson in my soul,)
lis better to depart, be free,
When LetheaH streams tween loved
ones roll;
Times ruthless nand cares not on whom
The blow falls heaviest in his doom.
Centennial years have often kissed
Thy brow a passed they in their flight,
The next p-oud pine, thou wilt be miss'd,
And thou and | shall rest in night,
And none will dream in the coming years
or the 50 lis that have passed 10 distant
spheres.
LAKE., MISS, Feb ,, 1877.
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prevent the election of Governor Tilden
as the House may the election of Gov
ernor Hayes. Admit this to be true,
| and still all the advantages are on the
side of the House.
ms disagreement could only result in
failure to declare either candidate elect
Ell by the count, in which event the duty
deVolves upon the House to elect imme-
dlately, by ballot, President, leaving
the Senate to elect Vice President.
L do not believe the supporters of this
bill can escape the force of this reasoning
by showing that it is failacious or un-
sound. Ii this be the true aspect of the
case, then why establish this commits
sion with such plenary powers in one
man, the fifth judge, and submit this whole
matter to chance, when a way of escape
from this labyrinth in which our I'M
scruPulous enemies have involved US is
open to US, clear, smooth, and free from
constitutional objections? 1t can afford
no more easy and certain solution of the
case; 1t may complicate it still further
and end IN disaster. A distinguished
republican member of this House declar-
ed in my hearing that the vote in the
Senate upon this bill virtually counted
Governor Hayes out of the Presidency,
as it settled the question against the right
of the President of the Senate to count
and determine the electoral vote, but if
the bill should pass this House it great
ly increased his chances. So l have
thought and so | have argued. We lost
our first chance for want of proper and
timely action. Shall we lose our second
by hasty and injudicious action? If so,
our blunders will be far worse than
crimes, and to an injured constituency
we will be called to make our plea for
mercy and forgiveness.
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LAEE. Miss. Feb. ,, 1877.
AN ACT to prov de for assessment Of the
real estate in the county of Rankin.

AN ACT to provide for an assessment Of the
real estate in the county of Rankin.
SECTION /. Be IL enacted By the Legislature Of
The State Of Mississippi, That the board of
pervis0rs of the county of Rankin, be. and
they are hereby authorized and empowered to
order and direct an assessment of the real
estate of said county during the year 1877;
and it is hereby made the duty of said board
10 meet at the county site of said county on
the first Monday in FebruarT, 1877, or as soon
thereafter as practicable at which meeting
they shall order and direct the assessment al
lowed by this act, if in their judgment they
deem such assessment advisable and proper;
Prov ld.d however the order for said assess
ment shall be made and entered upon the
minutes Of said board on or before the third
Monday in February, 1877.
SEC. , BE IL further enacted, That should
said beard order and diIee: such assessment
within the time allowed In section one Of this
act it shall be the duty of the clerk of said
board, Immediately upon the ordering OF such
assessment by said board, to notify the auditor
of public accounts of such action of the board,
and 1t shall be the duty of said auditor. upon
receiving such notification, to furnish the
clerk Of said board three land assessment rolls
for the purpose of making said assessment
which rolls shall be prepared according to
section nine of an act entitled AN Act in re-
lation TO pGblic revenues ard tor ether lilir-
poses approved April 10Th 1876
SEC. g. BE IL further enaeted That SHOULD said
board order such an assessment, the assessor
of said county shall have prepared at the ex-
pcnse OF said county, suitable blanks for
making salh assessment, which blanks shall
have attached thereto oath 10 be taken aud
subscribed before said assessor er Lig detut J.
~ thee parry whose land Is assessed, which
| oath shall, in all respects, meet the require
nents OF section eighteen of the act abGVo re-
ferrsd TO-
SEC BE 1! further enacted, That the asses
scr OF sald county shall receive as a compen-
satIon for making said assessment, the com
missions now allowed by law for the assess
ment OF real estate, the same to be paid out of
the county treasury of Rankin county, on the
completion of said assessment ard the recep-
ton CT the same by the said board.
SEC. ;. Be it further enacted That this act
take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
APPROVED, January 80, 1877.
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AN ACT authorize State Treasurer appropriate
tain moneys to the payment of State warrants and for
other purposes.
SECTION 1. BE 1t enacted By tie Legislature
Of the State Of Mississippi, That the State
Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered
to apply any cash in the State Treasury to the
payment of any warrant warrants drawn by
the Auditor whether payable or not out of the
fund to which such costs belong, but such
transfer shall not be made unless provision is
made by law to replace the amount Of cash so
applied in time to pay any warrant or warrants
which may be drawn on the fund from which
such application is made; and it shall be the
duty Of the State Treasurer to credit the fund
from which the application is made, and to
charge the fund to which applied.
SEC. ,. Be 1t FURTHER enacted, That this Act
take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
APPROVED, February LIST, 1877.
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AN relief payers State.
SECTION l. Be IT enacted by the Legislature
the State Of Mississippi, That whenever any
injunction shall have been obtained by any
taxpayer, tax payers in this State, restrain
ing the collection Of any tax imposed by the
board of supervisors of any county in this State
for the purpose of paying the principal or
of or subscription to the stock Of any rail
road company in this State, on the ground Of
the Illegally of such bonds, the said board
of supervisors shall hereafter levy no tax any
of the citizens of such county or counties for
the purpose of paying such bonds or interest
thereof, until such injunction shall have been
dissolved
SEC. 3 BE II FURTHER enacted That all Acts
inconsistent with this Act be and the same are
hereby repealed, and that this act be in force
and take effect from and after its passage.
APPROVED, February LIST, 1877.
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Gods of ISL in relation representation iu the State
Legislature.
SECTION L. b. II ea0cts3 5y The LsgiIoturs
cf ne state ~ WisSissppi That section 2gOI
shall be amended so thar the whole number of
Representatives shall be one hundred and
twenty; and further amended as follows, viz:
The county of Warren shall be entitled to
four representatives. only. The counties of sun
flower, Lehore, Harrison, Jackson. Wayne,
Green Marion, Perry, Covington and Jones,
shall be entitled 10 one representative each,
and much of said section 29Ol as unites any
OF the two last named counties into one repre-
sentative district is hereby repealed
SIC. ,. b It .tiythsr saartsK, That This Act
take effect and be in force on and after the first
Monday in November, 1877.
APPROVED, January 3lst. 1877.
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trict attorney assigned, appointed or elected
for that district perform all the duties Of dis
trict attorney during the terms of the circuit
court held in the county where such district
attorney unassigned or refusing to serve may
reside.
SEC. 3. Eeit .turthly eaarts3, That all laws
and parts Of laws in conflict with ,his Act, be
and the same are hereby repealed, and chat
after its passage.
APPROVED. February I, 1877.
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AN ACT to assign district dutv in the
Districts Of this State.
APPROVED, February LIST, 1877.

Districts Of this State.
SECTION /. Be II enacted. by the Ze1is7oture
Of the State of Mississippi. That it shall be
the duty of the Governor, by the first day OF
March, 1877, TO assign to each and every Judi
clal district in the State, one of the several
district attorneys heretofore elected and now in
commission in this State
SEC. 2. Be At further enacted, That in max
ing such assignments, district attorneys shall
be assigned, whenever it shall be practicable
to the respective district in which they NAV
reside, and when there shall be no district at
torney resident in any judicial district as now
constituted, then in such vacant district shall
be assigned the district attorney voted for by
the electors of plurality of the counties in
such district; Pr0Uided, the district attorney
so voted for shall not be the only district attor-
ney resident in some other district
SEC. 3. BE 1t further enacted, That should
any district attorney refuse to serve in the dis
trlct to which he may be so assigned, it shall be
the duty OF the Governor to appoint district
attorney to serve in the district left vacant by
such refusal until district attorney shall be
elected, and TO order an election for district at
torney for said district at the next general cleo
ton, and the person then elected in said dis
trict shall hold said Office and perform all the
duties thereof until the next regular election
for district attorney In 1879
SEC. 4. Be at further enacted, That the sala-
~ of each and every district attorney who is
not assigned by the Governor under this Act.
or who shall refuse to serve in the district TO
which he may be assigned shall be- and the
same is hereby fixed at the sum of one hundred
dollars per annum; and any district attorney
not so assigned, or who shall refuse to serve
when assigned, shall, in the absence of the dis
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SECTION 1. BE It enacted by The Lcgislature
of the Suite qf mississippi, That whenever
the term Of Office OF the county superintendent
Of public education in any county shall expire,
or the office be vacant from other cause, and
the county board Of examiners shall fail 10 re-
commend any for the position, IT, shall be
the duty Of the State Board Of Education TO APP
point some person to fill said Office until ap-
pointment is regularly made, as now required
by law.
SEC. ?. BE Htirtl4 enactea, That when the
term Of office of county superintendent shall
expire during the recess, or between the regu-
lar sessions Of the Legislature, 10 shall be the
duty of the State Board of Education to ap-
point successors during the sessions of tho
Legislature, previous to the expiration of such
term, in the manner now required by law, TO-
take effect after the expiration Of the term of
the incumbent.
SEC. 3. BE IL fisther enacte2, That this Act
shall take effect and be in force from and after
its passage.
APPROVED, February !, 1917.
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AN ACT to amend an Act entitled 'iAn Act TO
provide for and regulate the custody and
control of the School Land Fund arising from
the 10th Section in Choctaw county, and
other counties. approved, April 18th, 1876
so as TO include the county Of Calhoun.
SECTION l. Be Il enacted BIZ the Legislature Of
fhs State 81 Mississippi, That act entitled
An Act TO provide for and regulate the GUS
tody and control Of the 10th Section in Choe-
taw county aud other Counties approved
April l1th, l87e. be, and tie same is hereby
so amended as to extend the provisions and
privileges of said act to the county Of Cal
houn.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted. That the first
election of trustees provided for in the first sec
ton Of the act, to which this is an amendment,
shall be held in the said county of Calhoun on
the first Saturday in April 1877, at which
time the election of said trustees shall be held,
whose term of ofhse shall expire at the next
general election of board of trustees, as pro-
yided for in section eleven of the act to which
this IS amendatory.
SEC. z. Be e further enacted, That this Act
take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
APPROVED, January 80, 1877.
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AN ACT to regulate the order of Issuance ymen
of certain Warrants.
APPROVED, February 1st, 1877,

SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted By tie Legislature Of
the &qte Of Mississippi, That the sum Of
two thousand dollars, so much thereof as
may be necessary, is hereby appropriated on
account of the judiciary expenses for the year
1876 and warrants issued on said account shall
be receivable by the State Treasurer for dues
of 1876, the same if said warrants had been
issued during said year.
SEC. 2. BE 1t further enacted, That as soon
as the amount of deficit in the school fund to
be supplied from the general fund as provided
in section of san Act to reduces taxes and
for other purposes, approved April 10th, $40,
is ascertained, the Auditor shall issue his war
rant or warrants on the State Treasurer for the
same, and the amount necessary to pay such
warrants is hereby appropriated ard sot apart
out of the general fund Of the State to be paid
before any other warrants issued in 1877, ex-
cept those provided for in section Of this Act
SEC. 3. BE 1t FURTHER enacted That this Act
take effect and be in force from and after its
passage
APPROVED, February LIST, 1877.
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AN ACT provide the distribution Of the Common
School Fund and for other purposes

SECTION 1. b. II enacted by the Legislature
Of tie lState Of Mississippi, That the Audi
tor of Public Accounts shall Immediately pro
ceed to distribute to the several counties, ac-
cording to the number Of educabe children i'm
each, all the school fund provided for by sec
tons and Of San Act to reduce taxes and for
other purposes approved April 10th, 1876.
And the Auditor of Public Accounts shall issue
his warrant to the county treasurer of the sew
eral counties upon the State treasury, which
shall be paid on presentation at the State
treasury or by the sheriff of the counties res
pectively, and if paid by the sherifrs then said
Continued on 4th page.)
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AN ACr amend in relation the compensation
of

SECTION 1. BE 1t enacted by tie Legislature
Of the State Of Mississippi, That the second
provisO of section one (l) of An Act, in rela-
ton to the compensation OF assessors be so
amended as to read as follows: That no person
shall hold both the offices of assessor and col
l. ctor, except in the counties of Wayne, Greene,
Jackson, COvington, Jones, Perry, Pearl, Marion.
Harrison, and Hancock.
SEC. 2. Be 1t FURTHER enacted, That all Acts
or parts of Acts, whether special or general, in
conflict with this Act, be and the same are
hereby repealed, and that this act take effect
and be in force from and after it's passage.
APPROVED, February LIST, 1877,
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APPROVED, February LIST, 1877.

7,
ton to sales madeby sherifs other officers.
Of the State Of Mississippi, That section $40
of the Code of 1871, be and the same Is so
amended as to allow sales by sherifs or other
officers of personal property levied upon by
them, to be made upon any day, Sundays and
legal holidays excepted. upon their complying
with all the other requirements Of said section
SEC 2. BE 1t further enacted, That this Act
take effect and be in force from and after its
passage,
APPROVED, February 1st, 1877.
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la VS.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
published BY AUTHORITY. I

AN ACT the relief of taxpayers in this
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-13

Of the nation, it belittles and Injuries
them. If any interest should dread
parental government; if any interest
should dread ''entangling alliances
and demand fair field, it is labor.
And l say this with an anxiety great
Ell than care to express tonight, that
labor should be relieved of it's care
and suffering: with a heart touched to
the quick by the misery and wretch
edness, the weary life, the breaking
human hearts, which see around
me, and the heroic fortitude with
which men and women and children
encounter them. If these weary ones
some struggling for bread alone.
some straining every aching nerve for
a higher moral and mental life-could
be lifted up, and every obstacle to
their progress could be removed: il
every human being could be elevated
and made to take
HIS PROPER STATION AS MAN.
above forms, above property, above
capital. | would welcome the means
whatever they might be; revolution
in government, revolution in society.
the subversion Of every cherished
theory. the abasement Of every cher
ished idol-and thank God that / had
| lived to see them successfully employ
ed. This question has been brought
into special prominence just now by
| the strikes and subsequent riots. No
man approves. every ight-thinking
man condemns and deprecates lawless
violence toward person or property.
II oh no tD.1Ip IL
and punished by the strong arm Of the
law. Few believe that strikes accom-
plish any immediate good. They
agree with the platform of the work
ingmen' party adopted at Cincinnati.
that they are the fruitleSS efforts of
workingmen to secure their ecOnOm-
zeal emancipation by guerilla warfare
against individual employers. Yet
let us not deceive ourselves Or dc
wrong to others. Strikes are the loud
mutterings. the open acts which sui
ferings produce. Strikes are the pro
test which scant food and scant cloth
ing. and poor homes. make against
greater reduction. Strikes are the
voice of discomfort. and discomfort
; restless as it is. for long time. aye
SO long as possible. bears 1.-the ills WI
have" Happy men do not strike
Prosperous men do not strike. Thu
smiling faces Of well-fed wife AM
) children do not permit men to strike
There were bad men and wicked men
! and ill-adyised men. who Wilfully di'
wrong and committed crime, but a
: the bottom of this great upheava
: there was cause, and that cause wa
: the inability of willing, honest, indus
trious men to obtain work and ear
wages for wife and children.