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The New York herald., 1877-09-02
scorT1sH-AMKRrcAN ATHLETIC CLUB.

The Scottish American Athletic club will hold the
fourth of series Of handicap games on the club
grounds, No. s2s West Ffty-ourth street, Saturday,
September 15 commencing ut half past live o'clock p
NJ, consisting Of the following games tor members -:
One mile run, throwing hftysix pound weight ana
medley race consisting OF hopping walking and run
nng)
Inc third annual falD games of this club, opon to all
amateurs will be held on the grounds OF the New
YORK Athletic Club about the middle of october
The New York herald., 1877-09-02
YACHTING NOTES.

Yacht Agnes, AVG, Mr. L. Smith, from tho East
ward. passed the HERALD Telegraph Station yesterday
en- route to New York.
The yacht Palmer, from Labrador for New York, ar.
rived Yesterday at Glace Bay, Cape Breton, y. S.
The New York herald., 1877-09-02
REGATTA AT NEWPORT.
THE TIrANIA WINS THE FIRST PRIZE.

NEWPORT, X. L. Sept. l. 1877.
To-day boets Of the Newport Yacht Club sailed Tor
all elegant silver cake basket as first prize and ma.
rinc match safe OF the same material as a second
prlze the gifts OF the Commodore Mr. Louis l.. Loril-
lard, oil New York 1t was handicap race the fol.
,ynr 10 en- O ALE
The New York herald., 1877-09-02

The TitaDla, therefore, won tho first prize by 2m.
ijs., although the Clean went over the course in
Is q m. less Time than sho did
The New York herald., 1877-09-02

TotaI. aI................ 40 Total a............... So
Runs Scored al TIE F'dH Of Each Wicket
Innings Isl 2d st Az 5N. oM 7HL sM. 9M. 10h-
FIRST ........ IL IL 20 ~ 80 81 40 49 - 40
Second IL 2i so 10 03 66 ~ So LII
Cmplres -Messrs. Smith aud Brewster.
The New York herald., 1877-09-02
p O L O
Seven Well Contested Games Played at
Newport Yesterday.
THE BLUES VICTORIOUS.
A Large and Fashionable Attend
ance on the Grounds.
[aY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD ]

NEWPORT, T. l., Sept 1, 1877.
The polo sports resumed this afternoon and
NOTWITHSTANDING the threatening weather there was
the usual attendance and the spectators appeared
interested in the games they did when they wero
first Introduced They remained on the ground from
five O'Clock unul dark, which IS sufficient proof
polo Is the most popular outdoor attraction ever in
troduced here.
The New York herald., 1877-09-02

Total. SO Total Is
Innings Isl. "a. 81 al. 5M. 9th. In. sth 9th. l0tt.
Runs Scored at The Fan Of Each Wicket
First......7 10 33 ~ 6l - so 30 96-9d
second. IL -lS
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21
coRNANn poax

There have been various careful
tests as to how much pork bushel of
corn will produce. 1t seems to be
conceded that with the best breed of
hogs and the greatest care in feeding,
there may be certainly So pounds to
the bushel. With this data, it is easy
for farmer to know what he is do
ing, and what is best to do. He will
see at once if corn is twenty-five cents
per bushel and hogs five cents he
should sell hogs and not corn. But if
corn be fifty cents and hogs five cents,
it is more profitable to sell corn. Corn
at 40 cents and pork at five cents
are equal. And in this waya farmer
can easily tell what to do. Or in
other words, find out what he can
obtain for his corn, then multiply the
price of pork by So, and he can at
once see which is the most profitable.
Pork ought to be the standard by
which to ascertain the price of corn,
not by what they will give at the
railroad station. We have said fire.
quently that most farmers do not
know whether they are making or
losing money, for the reason that they
do not make any effort to know what
their wheat, corn, pork or beef costs
them. But when they have the raw
material on hand they should careful
ly ascertain what is best to do with it.
And the rule which we here present
TO them will solve the question OF
what to do with their corn. But in
these calculations we make no allow
ance for poor breeds of hogs or for
careless feeding or Indifferent quar-
tiers for the comfort and Improvement
OF the animals. All these must be
taken into account. Some men by a
slip-shod system of feeding and bad
treatment do not get five cents per
bushel for corn. OF such we are not
writing Or calculating. We are fig
uring for the careful and prudent
man, who understand his business and
attends to it.-C. n. Clarkson in the
State Register.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21
A Sam nv Aponv.n

Nasby's grief when he learned that
Hayes had been inaugurated could
only find expression in the following
"Sam NV Agony: "In the dust Nv
heomiliashun are we. Ashes we
throw upon our heds by the scuttle-
ful, Hair-cloth we wood wear next
to our skins, actooallv, ef we could
git any one to trust us for a supply.
Wood that goin about neerly naked
wuz a proper mode NV expressin'
grief, for then we Good go into the
deepest kind NV mournin without
changin our costoOm. There be
three things wich are too wonderful
for me, yea, four wich Pm blest eff
know: Wat the Dimocrisy wanted NV
a High Jint Commishn at all. Why
it didn't hcv Dimecratic High Jint,
ef it he'd to hcv one. Why it didn't
bust the concern afore it waz ever
lasiinly too late when it found il
wuznt Dimecratic High Jint.
Why we wuz Gust with men in leeder-
ship which hcdn't cunin enufl to win
by strategy, or courage enuff to take
by force. For three things Dimocri-
sy is disquieted, and four which near
ly killed it: Tilden, Hewitt, Pelton
and Field. When l think NV the idi-
ocy NV these men, wich we trusted,
and into whose hands we gave our
selves, | lift up my voice and howl
with King Lemyoocl's mother, Give
not your strength to old wimmen.
Young ones take away strength, but
it returneth; old ones destroy by
their counsel, and it is irretreevable
Eff they'd he'd ez much sense cz they
he'd money, we'd never bin made
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NV, and bin turn.
cd out to grass in this way"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21
J. N. HEDRICK & CO., PROPRIETORs.

In THE editorial columns of the
Daily Chicago Tribune of the 18th
inst, the following item from the
Chicago Times, with the 7ribune's
comment appeared:
Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tri-
bunc, it was currently reported al
I4ogan's room tonight, is to be tend
cred the position Of Commissioner Of
Indian Affairs. 1t is stated tonight,
with great positiveness, by Logan's
friends, that the ex-senator will be
rendered one of the four first-class
missions.-Times' Washington DIS
patch.
The editor of the Tribune is not
after any more Of Logan's scalp than
has already been lifted, and therefore
would have no use of the Indian
Commissionership. The ex-senator
can safely discontinue his "current
report" and take one of the first-class
missions if rendered to him.
There is the era Of pacification, of
good will, for you, as exhibited by
the would-be great apostle Of such
era. First, the Tribune siezes upon
the lying Times to get false basis to
excuse itself for stabbing Gen. Logan,
and then facetiously chuckles over
the exit of almost the last distinguish
ed Union soldier from the United
States Senate, remarking that the
Tribune sis not after any more of
Logan's scalps." The pacificator of
Confederate soldiers, of Southern
political banditti, at the same time
gloats over getting its knife into Lo-
ran.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21
How He Lost His Damages.

Soon after dinner Thursday, citi.
zen of Third street entered a lawyers
Office and began:
"My wife has been bitten by a
dog"
''Good y replied the lawyer. "You
must claim damages in the sum ol
$500"
''Ges she was bitten three times by
the BRUTE" continued the husband
"and of course | want damages"
"Wcil, now, you go home and tel
your wife to go to bed and stay there
for at least a week. Have her groan
and take on and suffer great pain
and distress, and call in tho ncighbors
to witness her sutierings. Wen just
make the man that owns that dog &c,
up and howl"
The man left in joyful frame OF
mind, but yesterday he returned look.
ing sorrowful.
mo use trying sadly said he
shaking his head. "My wife waited
just long enough to find out that tho
dog wasn't mad, and then she started
out to make twenty-five calls this aft
ernoon, and i guess we havn't got {
case. ."-DetroH Free Press.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21

The Railscay Age makes the start
ling statement that during the year
1876, 80 railroads, operating 3,SlG
miles of railway, and having $2l7, ,SlS-
GOO of securities were sold under FORE
closure. 56 other roads, operating
lO,333 miles, and having stock and
bonds of the nominal value of 1904, :
O6I, 600, were ordered into charge of
receivers, or subjected 10 proceedings
for foreclosure on default made pri-
or to 1876, or default during that ear.
And even these enormous figures are
supposed 10 fall below the truth. A
thousand million dollars lost in fl
nancial disaster to railways in single
year
FATAL AccIpENT.-An accident oc-
CURED Saturday at coal shaft at
Summcrset, the junction of the Win
tersct and Indianola branches, that
resulted in the instant death Of an
employe. A man named Struggled,
who was employed in the mine, vol
untcered to go to the top and adjust
the rope on the hoisting apparatus
He was s o engaged when the. cage
and water barrel at the end of the
rope was precipitated down the shaft
and in falling the slack in the rope
was taken up. BY some means the
loop at the loose end of the rope be.
came looped around the mans neck
and the sudden jerk of the heavy cage
instantly broke his neck.-Des M0iae,
Register.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21

WASHINGTON, March 16.-The Pres.
ident sent the following nominations
to the senate to-day:
Frederick w. Seward, of N. Y, to
be Assistant Secretary of State.
j. N. Tyner, of Indiana, to be first
assistant Postmaster General.
Postmasters.-G. o. Merwin, Evan
ston, Ill. s. W. Hubbard, Centralia,
Ill. Geo. +. Dick, Bloomington, Ill.
G. M. Mitchell, Charleston, Ill. Thos
F. Hall, Omaha, Nebraska.
U. s. Marshals.-Jesscc S. Hildrup,
northern district of Ill.
Peter Schwenck, Register Of land
Office, Norfork.
The senate in executive session con-
firmed the nominations of Philip III.
Emerson as Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Utah.
Jno. c. Lee, U. s. Attorney for the
Northern District of Ohio.
Asa o. Adds, of Vermont, Jas. B.
Howell, of Iowa, and Orange Ferris,
of N. Y, to be southern claims COM
missioners.
Jessee II. Moore, pension agent at
Springfield, Ill.
In executive session to-day, Dorsey
chairman of the committee on District
of Columbia, reported back the nom-
ination of Frederick Douglass, to be
Marshal of the District, with recon-
mendation that it be confirmed. One
objection being made to its immedi-
ate consideration, it went over under
the rule until Tomorrow.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21

NEW YORK, March 16.-Peter G..
Sweeny, whose name was associated
with Boss Tweed in the great ring
swindles, and who has been an exile
for the past five years, has returned.
He has not been taken into custody
because it was arranged with the4At-
torncy General that if he would re-
turn and be present at the trial
against Tweed's all proceedings, civil
and criminal, so far as arresting him,
should be suspended, during trial.
and for thirty days afterward. Tho
trial is set down for the third Of
April. The claim against Sweeny is
that he is liable in the same way that
Tweed was rendered liable in the
suit that was recently tried against
him, and in which there was verdict
for the people of $6,0O0000.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21
j. T. Raymond's Mania.


John I. Raymond (Col. Sellcrs) is
very strong as a hatcher. He is not
averse to little game of poker or an
occasional touch of lansquenct, but
his special alteration is matching for
money. If he can catch friend
while travelling from place to place,
he will match him day and night.
He will go off the stage and match till
he goes on next night. He will
match between the acts. He has now
of late invented system of match
ing with Willie Deutsch (Florence's
manager) by telegraph, and he occu-
pies many of his spare moments in
this delcctable occupation. When he
first struck the "Gildcd Age" he was
$4,000 behind, all the result Of match
ing. He paid all this up with his first
profits, then bought his wife, Marie
Gordon, a carriage and pair, and aft
er that he went to matching again.
If he meets friend on the street, he
asks him to take a drink, and then
wants him to match. He will go out
with couple of hundred dollars in
his pocket in the morning and return
in the afternoon for more. 1t is a
mania with him, and is said to cat up
a goodly portion of his profits. Last
fall, when in San Francisco, Ray
mond met Maurice Grau on the street
and they went together into the bar
room of the Palace Hotel. Raymond
proposed matching. They matched
two ten dollar pieces. Grau won.
They doubled it. Grau won. From
tens and twcnties they went up to
hundreds, a streak Of luck accompa-
nying Grau throughout. From hun
dreds they soon got to thousands.
In less than half an hour Raymond
had lost $4,000. 1t was on honor, of
course, as neither had that amount of
money. Raymond was excited and
nervous, and proposed matching the
whole S32, 900 on one cast. Grau con-
scnted, put down head. Raymond
matched him and won. This gave
him lesson for q time, but he was
soon at it again, invetcratc as ever.
A few days ago Raymond met Grau
opposite the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Raymond pulled out q $50, Grau had
$50, and in five minutes the latter had
lost it. BY chance he found a FIVE
dollar bill in his pocket and matched
that; he won, and ten minutes after
had Raymond's $50 and his own S25
safely stored back in his pocket.
That day Grau sent soto st. Johns
Guild. Willie Deutsch is about 81 200
ahead at presentin his matching with
Ra,,p,npl
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21

In Arlington township, near Sioux
City, on Thursday, James O'Conner
aged II, while out watering stock
with his brother, told him that his
head felt bad, and started for the
house. Half way between the well
and the house he fell to the ground
but dragged himself to the house
door, and family called his MOTHER
She helped him in and in a few min.
utes he died. He was laid out and
in less than two hours thereafter the
house was found to have caught fire
near the chimney. The corpse was
carried out into the snow, and small
portion of the furniture and Other
property saved, but the most of il
was burned with the house. Thi,
sad combination of disaster is record
ed in detail in the Sioux City Journal
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21
Louisiana and South Carolina.

WASHINGTON, March A.-Ex-Sena-
tor Robertson, of South Carolina,
and Congressman Wallace called on
the President to-day, protesting
against Senator Patterson's PROPOSE
tion for new election on the ground
that the substantial or industrial in
terests of South Carolina would be
materially damaged by such an cleo
ton; that none of the republican
members of that State had been con-
suited on the subject and therefore it
was in the nature Of an independent
proposition on the part of Senator
Patterson, stimulated perhaps, by
Gov. Chamberlain. Robertson stated
that the solution Of the South Caro-
lima complications could be accom-
plished by more simple measures, by
the withdrawal of troops from the
State Capital when the people would
adjust the difficulty.
The President received Robertson
and Wallace courteously and as they
are natives of the State, said they
would at all times be welcome.
The democrats and conservatives
of Louisiana and South Carolina are
opposed to new gubernatorial
election and the President will not
encourage such election unless both
parties favor the proposition. He
will, however, receive from represen-
tative men of both parties any sug-
gestions in writing they have to make
to the administration as he has moi
matured any plan.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21
DjSgruntled.

The appointment of Stone, broth
cr-in-law of Corbin, lately elected
Senator by the Chamberlain legisla-
ture, is most serious disappointment
to the democracy. who hoped to have
the entire distribution of offices in
the State Of South Carolina under
their own immediate control. Stone,
in addition to his relationship to Cor
bin, has been noted in south Carolina
politics for his examination into the
Hamburg massacre, and in the re-
port he drew up inculpating General
Butler and the South Carolinaians in
the atlair.-Chicago Times (Wah
Denny
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21

| hcpICScIIhLlOus ultuc Dy pTOUll-
nent South Carolina republicans now
in Washington are to the effect that
the Chamberlain government has
reached the last ditch, and that with
out the presence of the Federal troops
the te-House could not be held an
hour, and Hampton's authority would
be supreme and unquestioncd. The
case seems to be hopeless for Cham
berlain, who is said to be far weaker
in South Carolina than Packard is in
Louisiana, and everything points to
the probability of the early with
drawal of the military support by
which alone Hampton is prevented
from taking possession of the State
House and from exercising the re-
naming small fraction of the guber-
natorial functions from which he is
now debarred.-Chicago Tribune.
The person who has read the Chi
cago Tribune for half q dozen years
past will recollect that Governor
Chamberlain has been laudel to the
skies by that sheet as an honest man
as q Grcely Reformer in 1872, and as
man in every respect worthy of
public confidence.
The reader will, moreover, remem-
bcr that during the late prolonged
presidential struggle, the Tribune in
sisted that Chamberlain was fairly
elected governor of South Carolina,
and as such, entitled to the moral and
military support of the government
of the United States, provided the
latter should be found necessary to
maintain him in his position as Gov
ernor and to protect the people of
that State from outrage.
Now then, the Tribune has all at
once become the champion of Hamp-
ton and his armed Kuklux and
Hampton's Legions, and favors with
drawing all support from Governor
it has declared elected, which it
knows would result in driving out
all Unionists there from Chamber
lain down. It is simply an assertion
of the law of might against the law
of right.
Did it ever occur to the Tribune
that if the same policy had been pur-
sued at Washington; that if Grant
and Sherman had not quietly put a
few regiments in the capital in adj
vance, Tilden would have been inau-
gurated March the 5th instead of
Hayes, by the moral suasion of Wat
terson's and Corse's bayonets? Had
that event occurred the Tribune
would have been without doubt to-
day as earnestly seeking to champion
Tilden's administration as it is that
of Hayes, and would have just as
much ridicule for Hayes being in the
last ditch as it now has for Chamber
lain.
Such are the wonderful ways of
twistifying Reform Journal.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21

The old mint at Charlotte, North
Carolina, is about to be opened, for
the convenience of the gold and sill
yer mines in that region. The dcvcl-
opments thus far made fully justify
the impression that there is wealth
of gold and silver in the mountains
of North Carolina and Georgia suf-
iicicnt to supply the world, and only
needing the application OF capital and
enterprise to bring it to the surface.
On Saturday evening, Maria Miller,
girl employed in the service of the
lIufschmidt house, at Lansing, was
fatally burned by the explosion of a
kerosene lamp. She was taking ii
down from bracket, when it slip
ped from her hands and exploded in
falling. The oil saturated her CLOTH
ing and she was instantly cnveloped
in flames. She died at ten o'clock on
Sunday. The house took fire, but
the flames were extinguished before
any damage was done.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21

A Washington correspondent Of
the Inter-Ocean says: "There has
been quite little rivalry here among
the Methodist Churches to obtain the
new President for their parish. lie
has been rendered pews in all Of
them, but has uniformly replied that
Mrs. Hayes would choose the place
of worship for the family. Yester-
day the choice was announced in a
characteristic way by the family, with
the President at their head, marching
into the Foundry Methodist Church,
an unpretentions place of worship,
but the nearest to the White House.
The occupation of DR.. Newman, of
the Metropolitan Church, who for
eight years has acted as court chap
lain, is gone. The children, Scott
and Fannie Hayes, were sent to the
Foundry Sabbath School,"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21
A W.su,NcroN snccial to the New

A WASHINGTON special to the New
York World says:
1t is again asserted in Republican
circles tonight that Chamberlain is to
resign the Governorship of South
Carolina, and be provided for else
where.
The personal fortunes of few Of
ficc-holders have no vital bearing
upon the Southern issue, and any such
settlement as the foregoing would be
a base surrender of principle. There
is no good reason to suppose that the
plan is so much as entertained by the
Administration.-Chicago Journal.
The comment of the Journal is very
appropriate. No attempt at compro-
mise or settlement of the South Car
olina imbroglio should be huckster-
ing arrangement buying up Cham
berlain and others, and knocking of
the rank and file of the Republican
party of the State to Hampton on the
auction block.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21
FAREWElLS.
JUSTICE DAVIS RETIRING FROM THE


WASHINGTON, March 13.-Judge
Davis, in his farewell letter to the
Supreme Court Judges, says: In sew
ering the relations that have existed
between US for SO many years, beg
leave to bear my testimony to the
eminent learning, ability and integri-
ty which have characterized your ju-
dicial labors. From the organization
of the government the Supreme
Court has been composed of honor
able and upright judges. In my
judgment it is now as worthy Of the
confidence of the American people as
it ever has been at any period in its
history.
The remaining Justices in reply to
Judge Davis express the hope that
his life in the future may be as useful
as it has been in the past, and that
the ties of personal friendship which
now bind them so closely to him may
never be broken.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21

CATCHING HAwKs.-As the season
is approaching when hawks are most
destructive to young poultry, a
method Of catching and killing these
marauders will be in order. 1t is a
well-known fact that hawk will al
ways light on some conspicuous place
close to the poultry yard, from which
to swoop down on their victims.
Taking advantage of this erect pole
with n flat surface at the top Just
large enough to hold strong steel
trap. Fasten this trap by chain to
staple in the pole, and await results.
No bait will be needed, for the
hawk will be quite certain to light
on the trap and be caught. A gentle
man who has tried this method has
succeeded in killing all the hawks in
his neighborhood, and now can raise
poultry without loss except by acci-
dent.-Calyo,nid Horticultwalist.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-21
Run Over and Killed,

Council BLuFFs, Ia, March To-
Harrison B. Nichols, of Denver, a
railroad man, well known in conncc-
ton with Western mining interests,
was run over and killed, in this city, ,
by a runaway team.
An ice gorge has formed in the
Missouri river, a short distance north
of this city, and considerable damage
to property is anticipated. Already
the adjacent territory is submerged,
and a number of light river crafts are
sunk or swept away in the flood.