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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31
HITCH.


The sudden abandonment of Scna.
tor Hitchcock, as a candidate for re-
election from Nebraska, resulted from
piece of the most audacious rascali-
ty attempted on the part of the
friends tf that gentleman, which re-
acted to his overwhelming defeat
They induced clerk in the employ
of the b. & M. Railroad Company al
Omaha, J. ID. Flanagan by name, to
forge letter, purporting to be signed
by w. Irving, Superintendent of that
road, authorizing Mcssrs. Briggs and
Saunders, candidates in opposition to
Senator Hitchcock, to draw on the
said company for any amount oil
money needed to insure the defeat OF
their last named competitor. Thi.
letter was used, as il was intended, to
the injury of both Saunders and
Briggs. An investigation was de.
manded. Mr.. Irving, of course, de-
MED having written the letter. Flan-
igan meanwhile had dccampcd, leav-
ing behind him an explanatory letter.
stating that he was off for England
with the money paid him by Hitch.
cocks friends for committing tic
forgery. Senator Hitchcock's 8 private
sccretarywas then placed ON his oath
and admitted that he paid the 5000 to
Flanagan, and that the money came
from the funds of his principal. The
Republicans forthwith dropped
Hitchcock like shot potato,' oil
rather, like thoroughly dishonest
man, and gave every one of their
votes for Alvin Saunders.-D Dubuque
Times.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31
Hog Cholera.

We wish to put on record every
good idea, or sensible suggestion of
men of mind on the disease, Of hog
cholera. At the late meeting of the
State Agricultural Society, DR.. Tracr,
of Tama county, who is also an eX-
tensive hog breeder, is reported i'm
brief as saying:
We should have u careful eXamina-
ton into the cause of the disease. 1t
appears in great many forms. FIRE.
quently it is congestion of the lungs.
Whenever l could l have inquired
into the cause of the disease, and
can't find it. Neither feed, ,pasturage,
water, or anything of that kind seems
to explain it. Again it is disease oil
the bowels, and still again it appears
in the throat the hog swells up and
chokes 10 death. After looking the
ground all over, conclude that it is
a blood disease. The blood becomes
enfeebled. They will not bleed. The
blood is black. 1 think the primary
cause is impurity of the blood, then
weakness, then predisposition to
disease. 1t may appear in the form
Of congestion, or worms, or sore
throat. The hogs die which live on
rich vegetable mold where there is no
iron in the soil. favor the use OF
iron as medicine in some form OF
other. believe it will prove spec.
ific.
Before the close of the session of the
Society, at the suggestion of Mr.. Sta.
cey. a committee was appointed to in.
vestigate the disease of swine, and re-
port next year. The committee are
Messrs. DIR. j. c. Traer, Professor NJ.
Stalker, M. w. Robinson, Capt. IL.
w. Fyffe, G. Z. Duffield, John Stew.
art, and N. II. Jones.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31
How to Feed Cattle.

II. +. Fitzpatrick. who resides neal
Iowa Falls, believing that the cost OF
feeding cattle for market could be
lessened, tried the experiment with q
car load of steers. They were oil
carefully weighed December l. He
then, instead of feeding, as is the Gus.
tom, all corn at once, divided the
quantity into three equal parts, Civ.
ing it at different periods in the day
and SO that each animal should get
what was given it, and not allowing
the boss steer to gobblc up the whole
lot. They also had what clover hay
they wanted. TIE result was on the
3Oth of December. of the three that
were weighed, No. l. 2-ycar old, had
gained so pounds No. 2, a 4-year old
had gained l2O pounds, or foul
pounds day, and No. 3 had gained
l6O pounds, or s. pounds a day. Or
the lst of February he will weigh
again. and will stop feeding. At the
date of weighing, the 3Oth, No.
weighed ,270: No. 2, lao, and No
3, l,6lO pounds. The remainder o1
the carload made equal growth. liz
is sqtiiied that with this method ol
feeding, one peck of corn per da,
will produce more increase in weight
than halfa bushel fed in the ordinar,
manner, with poor hay.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31
AGRICULTURAL. A
Plant Trees.

The st. Paul Il Pacific Railroad
Company, from the first instituted |
system of tree planting along the lin,
of their road. Men of experience
were put in charge of the work, and
the following propositions are made
public, the result of experiment.
made:
l. The farmer on the bleakest por
tions of our treeless regions, can, will
less ready money than il would take
to buy a breaking plow, surround hi
st0ck-yard and buildings with Il
wind break within five years, which
will protect him as effectually as tho
he was in the middle of the big
woods.
2. A crop of trees can be grown
as surely, and, in proportion to Its
value, with far less expense than a
crop of corn.
3. Ten acres properly planted in
timber, and properly cultivated, will
in five years supply fuel for a family
in great abundance, and also fepcipa
for farm Of 1G0 acres.
A. That the most worthless lands
of our trecless regions can, through
the Intervention of tree planter, be
sold for 500 per acre within twenty
nine years.
5. That the net profits on quarter
section of prairie, properly prepared,
planted and cultivated with forest
trees, will, within ten years, exceed
the net profits of ten quarter-sections
of wheat.
6. A single cottonwood seed,
though smaller than a gram of'mus-
tard, can, by intelligent cultivation,
be developed into cord of firewood
within 20 years.
4. That any young man of muscu-
lar development and good "horsc
sense" can accomplish these results,
providing always that he is not in too
great haste to get rich.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31

How is the following for LAWYER
fees: The New York Tribune pub
fishes bill presented by William r.
Martin, President of the Park De
partment, against the Windsor Hotel
Company, for legal services, the gross
amount of which is 100000. Mr.. Mar
tins lowest charge is 500. For
drawing the assignment Of lease he
charges $1,000; for his services i'm
three foreclosure suits, $4,000; and
for tho negotiation of one mortgage
he asks $4,000. Then there is anoth-
or item of $2O, 900 for Saving proper
ty.n This reminds the New York
Graphic of the case of the poor wo-
man who was fighting in the courts
for her fathers property for nearly
ten years. She had clear case. bnt
when she was finally awarded $4,000
almost the entire claim was absorbed
by the claims of the lawyer who vol.
untecrcd TO prosecute her case. The
matter was referred to commission
of lawyers, who did not Ego back ON
their profession" but confirmed the
justice Of the charges. The poor
creature died soon afterwards of a
broken heart.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31

a very searching Investigation was
carried on q few years ago in the
north of England by two families who
were searching up their respective
ancestry. The strife was great be-
tween them, each one determining
TO look back into antiquitp further
than the other. One of the families,
whose name was Spencer, employed
an artist to paint an historic scene
representing the building of an ark,
and the loading up Of the ship by
Noah and his sons with its multifari.
GUS and various cargo. On the gang.
plank leading to the deck Of the ark
two men were seen rolling up large
box, one side Of which was painted in
large letters, "Relics, insignia, and
papers belonging to the Spencer fam.
ily.' This was considered coup dt
etdt hard to beat, but the other fam.
lily not to be outdone by the antedi.
luvian pretcnses of their name, pre-.
pared at great cost and research, 9
record of their antiquity. In describ
ing the exploits of one of their an
cestors, at very early day, who wa.
represented rs man Of some author
ity, this remarkable passage occurs
"During this year Adam and Ev,
were driven out of Paradise"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31
patent Right swindIers.

The Newton Headlight reports the
following in reference to patent
right swindler:
Patent right men still occasionally
take in a 'grceny' and clean him out
of his pocket change, or gobblc all OF
his earthly possessions A short time
since, Mr.. Arthur Eastman, of Lynn
Grove township, by the slick tongue
Of one Of these sharpers, in highly
colored representation of the thou
sands 10 be made out Of it, gave away
q $1,000 farm for the right to sell and
manufacture a patent right in nine.
teen counties in Michigan. On visit.
ing the field of his expected fortune,
Eastman found how badly he had
been sold that his farm, his home
his expenses, time &c, were all gone
and he had nothing to show for it
lie has taken legal steps to recover
his property, but with doubtful
case. Who will be the next sucker.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31

We have received the Daily Chcy-
cnnc Sun, of which J. p. G. Poulton,
formerly the "Potomac' corrcspon-
dent OF the COURIER, is one Of the
editors
1t contains, from Ponlton's hand, a
well-written sketch of the court
which has just convened there to try
Gen. j. j. Reynolds. The detail con-
sists of Gen. John Pope, President
and Generals King, Gibbon, JEFF. G.
Davis, John E. Smith, and Sykes and
Colonels Flint, Bradley, Lugenbecl,
Huston, Beckwith and Ruggles and
Major Swian, Judge Advocate.
Reynolds is nearly at the head OF
the Colonels in the army, by virture
of his lineal rank. He is a native of
Lafayette, Indiana, and graduate OF
the Military Academy at West Point.
He arose to the rank of Major Gen.
eral Of Volunteers during the war,
and held high commands in the Army
of the Potomac and elsewhere. lie
succeeded Steele in command at
Little Rock.
He is charged with the responsible
ity Of the failure of one of the carli.
est expeditions against the Sioux over
year ago, in which it is alleged he
disobeyed Crooks orders and mani.
tested inefliciency, and, perhaps, cow
ardice,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31

Six years ago Hitchcock was elect.
cd Senator from Nebraska by taking
his faction of the republican vote in
the Legislature and forming fusion
with the democrats, whereby a very
high toned compromise democratic
reform republican was elected Unit.
ell States Senator.
The following testimony which
was the other day elected before an
investigating committee at Lincoln
perhaps prevented Hitchcock from
going back by similar operation
1t is interesting as showing the cur
rent value Of a Nebraska democratic
legislator six years ago.
"2d. d. J. Quimby (dcmocrat),
member of the House.
Specification - Quimby received
$500 for his vote. That sum was paid
him during the senatorial campaign
in Hitchcock's room at the Tichenor
House in Lincoln. He brought the
money in bunch into the room of
Senator Tenant, who counted it for
him, and to whom he personally con-
fessed that it was paid as bribe.
3. John Rouse (dcmocraD member
of the House.
Specification--Rousc confessed to
G. c. Housed, commission merchant
of Omaha, that he received 81 900 for
his vote. He was openly charged
with this act at democratic convcn-
tiOn held in Plattsmouth.'
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31

Every man likes to ride on new
moving machine. A good way te
have one next year is to leave the old
one out in the hay field all winter
The winds will rack it I: the sun crack
It, and the rain swell it, and mex,
june you will have to get new one
and perhaps give your note for it.
Ii not convenient to leave it in the
field, bring 1t home and put it in the
yard where the cattle and colts can
run against the sickle and get pricked
by the guards. 1t will teach them to
let the machine alone and next year
perhaps yOu can have some new
horses too. If you find time to put
the machine under cover, don't paint
the woodwork or oil the metallic parts
for If you do, the wood will not dc.
cay near so fast, and you will be de-
priyed of the pleasure of riding on a
new mower for sevcra years.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31
Poultry and Pigs.

A hen may be calculated to con.
snme one bushel of corn yearly, and
TO lay twelve dozen or eighteen
pounds of eggs. This is equivalent
to saying that three and One-third
pounds of corn will produce, when
fed to this hen, one pound of eggs.
A pound Of pork, on the contrary,
requires about five and one-third
pounds of corn for its production.
When eggs are twcnty-four cents a
dozen, and pork is ten cents pound,
we have the blshel of corn fed pro-
ducing $2.SS worth OF eggs, and but
sl.O5 worth of pork.
Judging from these facts, eggs must
be economical in their production
and in their eating, and especially
fitted for the laboring man in repla-
cling meat.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31

NERVE ONLY REquIRED.--Young 9
men who have no work and are
spending their time in smoking ci-
gars and parting their hair in the
middle, will be interested in the fol.
lowing from the New York Clipper
~ want a man Of courage, who ii
wiiiing to take chances, to take charge
Of and hold q disputed silver claim
IL Mexico. FREQ transportation
there, and good compensation will IS.
allowed. No labor--ncryc the nnl,
qualification requisite"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31
SENATE.

VASHANoAoN, w oAhs ~1s
The electoral compromise bill was
then considered and Conkling has the
floor, but not having arrived, short
recess was taken.
On re-assembling Sargent took the
floor and opposed the bill.
Sargent said he had endeavored to
acquiescc in this bill, because he
wished the complication satisfacto.
rily arranged and desired equal and
exact justice done to every candidate
ard to parties, but he didn't believe
this bill would accomplish any such
result. There were suspicious of un.
fairness about the bill. 1t gave i'm.
proper power to the tribunal which
it constituted. If fairness was desir.
ed the bill was very unfortunate, be.
cause the result to be accomplished
by it depended upon one man to be
selected aud as yet unknown. The
supporters of the bill had addressed
their arguments to two questions.
First-Was the bill constitutional
Second-Was it texpedient?
lie then argued that it was never
intended that congress should count
the electoral vote or discriminate be
tween returns. If the trainers of the
constitution had intended to lodge
any such power in congress few
words would have made it certain
1t was not intended to lodge such
dangerous power in congress, be.
cause the two houses could them.
selves create an exigency in which
the constitution provided that The
house should elect president and
the senate e-president. He ar
gued that the power to count the elec'
toral vote, was lodged in the presi'
length from Madison's papers and ar.
gued that the clause of the constitu.
tion in regard TO counting the electo.
raj vote, as at first agreed upon by
the constitutional convention, read
that the president OF the senate shal
open all certificates and the vote shall
be then and there counted in the
presence of the Senate and House ol
Representatives. II was referred Il
tho committee on revision, and sub
sequently reported to read the Pres,
ident of the Senate shall, in the pres.
ence of the Senate and House Of Rep.
resentatives open all certificates
and tho votes shall then be counted
Members of the committee on revi.
sion argued that the clause as revised
aud reported was substantially thu
same as that originally agreed upon
by the convention.
Hamlin dnterrupting) read re
turn from the state of Georgia in 1901
and said there was no certificate &C
companying it that the electors hat
balloted. The paper did not conform
to the Constitution. There was moth
ing upon its face to show that tn,
votes were cast for anybody, yet tn,
record showed that it was counted
andno objection made. How coult
it have been counted save by the dc
cision of the person in whose custod,
| it was? Thomas Jefferson was tn
President of the Senate, who preside,
over that joint convention.
Edmunds replied that If Hamlil
would read contemporaneous histor,
he would find that Jefferson Openc,
that vote. handed It down to tn
tellcrs, who examined II, entered tn
number Of votes Of Georgia, an,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31

Mr.. Spurgeon is in favor of using
Saxon English. He says: 81 heard q
story once of a number Of sailors who
were playing cards up aloft, and had
a light for that purpose. The Cap
tain sent a midshipman to tell then
to put it out and the midshipman
told them to 'extinguish that lumina
ry." But the sailors did not under,
stand him. Then the Captain called
out Douse that glim,' and out wen
the candle. should not have said that
but should have taken middle
point, and said, Put out that candle
boys believe 'hifalutin' is too
much used in the pulpit. We preach
ers should speak so that the people
could not misunderstood us if the!
tried to do so."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31

Hewitt recently charged that hi
letters had been tampered with in the
New York Postofficc by Postmaster
James, republican official. And now
comes Sunset Cox, to whose commit.
tee the charge was referred, and pro.
nounccs Hewitt liar. We are graf.
fed to be able to agree with Cox once
In his life.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31
nAxIn DAVIS

DAVID DAVIS, one of the Justices o1
the Supreme Court of the United
States, was elected United States Sen.
ator for Illinois, at Springfield to-day
on the fortieth ballot, in place of Gen.
eral John A. Logan.
He has resided at Bloomington 70,
over forty years, where he acquired
vast fortune in real estate and tax
titles. Years before Mr.. Lincoln's
election, Davis was Judge of that
District which they had the habit OF
itincrating over together, and the
lawyer who had Lincoln and Davis
both against him, was substantially
out of court.
Among the earliest appointments
which President Lincoln made was
that of David Davis for Justice Of the
Supreme Court, and when that illus
trious man was stricken down by the
hand of an assassin, his old friend
Davis was designated as his principal
executor.
In 1872, he was prominent Labor
Reform candidate for the Presidency
although it was as difficult then as it
would be now, to show what bond of
sympathy there could be between the
tax-titlc lawyer and the laboring
man.
He was candidate for the demo-
cratic nomination at st. Louis last
summer, but his four hundred pounds
avoirdupois didn't hold out long
against Tildcn's "bar'F' of money.
On the Supreme Bench he has been
distinguished in his decisions, for
subserviency to the railroad interests
of the country, which action, how
ever, has .lot prevented the grangers
and independents in the Illinois Leg
islature from uniting with the demo-
Gratis and elccting him Senator.
Personally, he is a fair man, of re-
spectacle ability and intcgrity-his
political integrity we deem of the
nondescript order. He claims to be
utterly non-partisan, but we presume
his votes will be more often cast with
the democrats than with the rcpubli-
cans, and especially since he is their
Senatorial progeny.
His election is a triumph of the
Chicago Tribune tribe of guerillas
over the great majority of the people
of Illinois, as expressed al the ballot
box in November last, and it means,
among other things, that John A.
Logan was good enough to bear the
loyal standard for that State in the
front, in the hour of peril, but that
the time has now come for him to
give way to a Constitutional trimmer.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31

could just as well spend another fort
night in Philadelphia, and do be-
lieve l could have that lovely pink
coral set I wanted so badly.
l don't understand politics, but l
am so glad live under republican
form of government, and I do feel
sure, if any one makes good resolu-
tions, and tries to be q good wife and
daughter, way will open out of diff
ficulties.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31

The Dubuque Times reports the
following which is pointed and just
treatment of an irresponsible class OF
male bipeds who disgrace tho name
of gentleman, specimens of which
are to be found in every community
A Chicago drummer going west, tried
to make acquaintance with q young
lady on the cars yesterday, saying he
was "traveling alone, was lonesome, =
etc. She simply said, II should adj
wise You to speak to the conductor. II
10 his business to take charge oil
FOOLS" And he departed for the
smoking car.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31

A ToUcHING PIcTURE.-Democratic
leaders, cracking champagne bottles,
and under the influence of Tilden's
wine and boncd turkey, clamoring for
war because If oppression and hard
times, Is one of those touching pic
lures Of human suffering that are cal
culated to bring tears to the eyes of
q cast-iron statue.-.Exchange.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31
CRoN IN.
A knave, Liar, and Self Convicted
8ribe-Taker.

0FtO0s dN0Fs
Cronin was before the Senate com.
mittee on the ID inst, when he con.
fesscd that he had at first refused to
accept a certificate of election from
Grover; after meeting one Patrick
from Omaha, who told him Tilden
would give him anything he wanted
If he would accept the certificate as
elector from Oregon and cast it 70,
him, he changed his mind, and said
would take the certificate of his elec.
ton as elector, and act as messenger
carrying it to Washington, provided
his expenses were paid-and $3,OO(
were raised and paid him for tho
service that he was then performing
as said elector for Oregon. The Inter.
Oceans correspondent says Cronin's
confessions have filed the democrats
with dismay. Cronin is no more g
man, but knavc, liar, and self-con.
victed bribe taker. So it seems thai
all those persons connected with tht
the infamous fraud attempted upor
the voters of Oregon, are coming tt
grief one by one.-Osegon Statesman
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31

The Republicans of Illinois last
night, to placatc the Ishmaelitish
Chicago Tribune, withdrew Logan
and nominated ex-Chicf Justice Law
renee, of the law firm of Lawrence,
Trumbull & Campbell. The result
of this profound strategy will be
found in our telegraphic columns.
The nomination of Joseph Medill
is the only thing which will satisfy
the Chicago Tribune,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31
Iexas Cattle Starving.

Owing to the drought which pre-.
vailed for SO long in the fall, prevent
ing the fattening of cattle and the
growth of grass, and reducing their
power of bearing the inclemency ol
the weather, many thousand cattle
are dying daily of starvation and 9th.
er causes. The loss to the country
and to the owners Of stock will bt
very great.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31
WASHINGTON.

WAsHINGToN, Jan. 24.-The Secre-
tary ofthe Treasury to-day issued the
hirty-eighth call for the redemption
of ten million $40 bonds Of 1866, May
and November. Principal and inter-
est will be paid on and after the Gath
of April next, and interest will cease
that day,