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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-15
NEW ADVERTIsEMENTS,
I'm THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE

I'm THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
IL United States for the District of Nevada
In re r. E. Kelly and T. r. Hofer, bankrupts
Notice is hereby tiyen that r. E. Kelly and r r uofar
of Carson City, 0rnsby county, District and Ne
vada heretofore duly adjudged bankrupts according
law have filed in this Court petition for discharge
from all their ITS and other claims provable under Title
the Revised Statutes of the United States and that
TUESDAY, THE 25th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1877, at
10 o'clock NJ, in open Court, at Carson City aforesaid
have been appointed the time and place hearing the
same when and where any person interested appear
and show cause why said petition should not be granted
7. J. EDWARDS, Clerk.
Carson City, September Il, 1s77.-w
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-15
HUMBoLDT BEEF FOR CHICAGO. -Under
this head the Silver State of Sept Is says

HUMBOLDT BEEF FOR CHICAGO. -Unde
this head the Silver State of Sept. 10 says:
Yesterday one of the Central Pacific Rail
road Company's refrigerator cars left here for
Chicaffo loaded with 20, 900 pounds of dressed
beef of superior quality. The ice receptacle
was packed with $500 pounds of ice, which
is expected to keep the car in proper temper
allure for eight days, the length of time it is
expected to be on the road to it's destination
Should this venture prove successful the
principal cattle men of this county intend to
erect a suitable slaughter house and cooler
and make regular shipments of dressed beef
The terms for freight are very reasonable, and
as there is no doubt of the meat being kept
fresh while on the road, the success of the bus
mess depends upon the price at which the
beef can be sold in eastern markets.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-15
THE DISASTER IN THE ENGLISH
CHANNEL

dispatch dated London Sept - has the
following information regarding the late fatal
collision in the English channel:
Further details concerning the collision of
the ships Avalanche and Forest show it took
place at 9:15 Tuesday night, twelve miles
southwest of Portland. The ships were
beating down the channel on opposite tacks.
The Forest struck the Avalanche amidships,
and rebounded struck her twice further
aft, causing her to founder in about three
minutes from the first striking. There was
no time to launch the boats The night was
so dark it was almost impossible to discern
the mass of human beings struggling in the
water below, but survivors say they shall
never forget the scene The sea must have
been literally alive with human beings, to
whose cries for help there could not be any
response. There was a steady drizzle, with
occasional driving gusts of rain. The wind
was strong and the sea very high. The cries
were heard by the crew of the Forest, but
they were unable to give any assistance. The
Forest was very leaky, the water gaining SO
fast that the crew had to abandon her Three
boats were launched and in these the whole
crew of the Forest, as Captain Lockhart sup
posed, with three men belonging to the Avail
anche, took places. 1t appears, however,
that i'll the hurry and excitement of the mo-
ment some of the caew were left, for the
captain in his boat observed signal lights
burning. At that time, however, rescue was
hopeless, and the poor fellows had to be left
to their fate, the wind and sea being so rough
that the men thought that their boat would
be swamped every minute Unfortunately
in the case of two or three boats, there is too
much reason for belief that these fears have
been realized.
The third boat belonging to the Forest has
washed ashore, and all hope of any more sur
Vivors is now abandoned.
London, September 1.-THE wreck of the
Forest has not sunk as was supposed, but is
1oating about the channel bottom upward
The water is SO rough that it is impossible to
secure it.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16

The second annual gathering of the
Sunday School Assembly of the
Northwest has been called to meet at
Clear Lake, Aug. 22d, and continue
in session till Sept. It'll.
The division of work for the As
sembly is as follows: Sabbath School
work; Christian Congress, including
Y. NJ. G. A work, this will be under
the charge of j. V. Farwell, of Chica-
go, the leading laborer in the Y. NJ.
G. A. work in the United States
Science an Ally to Christian Work,
this division will probably be under
the charge of L. Il. Townsend, D. D.,
of the Boston Theological Seminary
Christian Temperance Work, this te
be under the charge of many of the
leading apostles of temperance
From the first bulletin, which has
been issued. we learn that the course
Of study will be the Chatauqua course
of Normal lessons which were pre-.
pared by committee Of all denomi
nations. This course consists of /:
lessons, by whose aid the student viii
be able to read understandingly thai
greatest of all works-.thc Bible.
In reference to the cost of living a
Clear Lake, information may be had
by addressing Rev. J. III. Lozier
Webster City, Iowa, or the Cores
ponding Secretary of the Association
Rev. j. r. Berry, of Waterloo.
Among the many theological light!
which are expected to take part in The
exercises we notice the names of Rev
J. III. Vincent, D. D., of New York
Rev. L. Dewitt Talmadge, d. D., o.
Brooklyn; Rev. j. P. Newman, d. ID.
of Washington, and others. All those
who attend may be assured of a very
enjoyable and instructive season.
Those desiring detailed pro
grammes, bulletins, ETC., should ad
dress Rev. j. r.. Berry, Waterloo.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16

Cough is getting personal in his old
age. In his temperance lecture at
the Moody Tabernacle the other night
he said when he came first to Boston
in 1888 he soon made acquaintances,
but what had become Of them? Where
was Charles Eaton, q graduate of
Harvard and whose Iago, according
to the critics, was equal to that of the
elder Booths? Fell over banister
at the Exchange Hotel in Pittsburgh
during drunken folly! Where was
George Greenleaf? When on a final
spree, and then shipped on board a
whaler and fell from the top-mast be-
fore he was sober. and was killed
Where was Philip Russell and where
was George Hyatt Both in untimcly
graves from intemperanc Ifhe had
invv.tula afty Aaats in an old director
ry, he might have continued in this
strain fora fortnight, while the ap-
plauding citizen RECALLED himself on
apple-jack in original packages al
three shillings quart.-Ne,c York
Graphic.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
Another Enemy Coming.

While the Colorado bug is sweep.
ing over the world eastward, we are
informed by some of our Eastern pa
pers that the Rape Bntteray, or cab
bage beetle, is making its way west
ward, having a few years ago arrived
from England. 1t is native Of the
old world, and travels west. 1t is in
New York, Canada, and Prof Mitch
ell. in the Farmer, informs us that it
has reached Indiana. The image Tor
when it is in its perfection as but
tcrfy) is white spotted with black. re-
scmbling the old cabbage butterfly.
The larva is pale green, finely dotted
with black, and when full fed are an
inch and half long, and have most
ravenous appetite, and if not destroy
ed, soon make an end to the cabbage
patch. 1t is two-brooded, one coming
in early spring and laying their eggs
under the lower side of the cabbage
leaves, then change to their pupa
state, and arrive at the full-fedged
butterfly in July. The second brood
remain in the pupa state through the
winter. Prof. Cook says the butter
fly is o slow flyer, and can be easily
caught in the fingers and destroyed !;
or by placing boards in various places
over the cabbage patch, three or four
inches from the ground, resting on
blocks, to keep them up; the Larvae
will collect under the boards, and
can then easily be destroyed. 1t is
not probable Iowa will be troubled
with it this year.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
Planting Corn.

Among the experiments of the
Kansas Agricultural College last year
was one having for its object to ascer-
tain the relative value of the two
methods of planting corn-in hills and
in drills. Four plats were laid off
across portion of the field, very uni
form as to the character Of the soil.
Each plat contained four rows of corn
the rows being three and q half feet
apart. In the first plat the corn was
planted in drills, in the second in hills
after the common fashion /; again, the
third was planted in drills, and the
fourth in hills. When the corn was
about six inches high the drilled plats
were thinned out, leaving the stalks
as nearly as possible ten inches apart
in the rows; the plants in hills were
likewise thinned out, leaving the
same number of stalks in every plat
throughout the experiment. In cul-
tivating the plats care was taken to
give each the same treatment, and be-
You'd thinning, hoeing once and Guilt
waiting twice, no special treatment
was given the plats. The corn was
husked November IL, and the weigh
Ing showed for the drilled plats a
yield or seventy-one bushels pei aoro,
for the plats in hills sixty-lwo and a
half bushels per acre, an advantage
in favor of the method Of planting in
drills of eight and half bushels per
acre. BY the bushels of corn men,
toned in these experiments it is to be
understood in every case seventy-two
pounds of ears.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16

MORE Observation-Disclosures ap-
pears to have become epidemic. Yes
terday, the Register contained an ac-
count of the attempted theft of a
child at Muscatinc, as reported by the
papers of that city, the affair happen
ing one day last week. The same
day a similar attempt at abduction
was made in Des Moines. A young
lady residing on Cherry street had
been down town early in the evening
and on returning home noticed car
rage standing in the roadway near
the gate. just as she was entering
the yard she noticed parcel wrap
ped in newspapers lying on the side
walk. She stopped to pick it up and
as she did so she was seized by man
who placed his hand over her mouth.
At the same time another man Jump
ed from the vehicle and seized her by
the arm. She struggled to free her.
self and in SO doing managed to re-
lease her mouth so that she could
scream. AS soon as this transpired
the villains hastily jumped into the
carriage and were driven off. The
lady was unable to recognize either
Of them and from motives of delica-
cy has foreborne to inform the police
Of the transaction, The time of the
occurrence was early in the evening,
and on etrnnt lighted with GAS
lamps. 1t boldness and villainy are
alarming Register.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16


The Gate City, of keokuk, paper
of some local reputation, thinks the
tramp nuisance is bad enough, but
complains that newspaper borrowers
arc the worst of the two. The criti-
cism is little harsh, perhaps, but
when we consider the fact that the
publisher, at venture, expecting to
be rewarded for his enterprise and
outlay of money, employs the tele-
graph at an expense of hundreds Of
dollars per month for the purpose of
laying before the readers the latest
news from every part of the habitable
globe, it can scarcely be expected of
him to view with patience the habit
ual newspaper borrower stealing the
paper, before it is scarcely dry, from
the press, from the person who pays
for it.
We are sorry to learn that people
in Keokuk are in the habit of stealing
or borrowing newspapers. In some
instances we have lost subscribers
simply because the person who paid
for the paper was constantly annoyed
by these pests, who are the first to
read it in every instance. 1t is nui-
sance of the greatest magnitude, and
while we are sorry the Gate is an
noyed. "Misery loves company" and
we mingle our disapprobation with
yours. stEF*
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16

The National Camp Meeting July
18th, to the 18th, 1877, under the aus
pieces of the "National Association for
Promotion of Holiness" Rev. John
S. Inskip, President of the Associa-
ton, and editor of the Christian Stan
dard and Home Journal, is positively
engaged to have charge of the meet
ings, and will be assisted by Rev
VIM. Mcdonald, of Boston, Editor Of
the Advocate Of Holiness, and other
eminent ministers.
The local committee will provide
ample accommodations, at economical
rates, if properly notified.
For entertainment, address Rev. j.
II. Lozier, Webster City, Iowa.
For supplies, address Rev. r. w.
Keller, Epworth, Iowa.
For other information, address Rev.
j. R. Berry, Cor. Sec'y, Waterloo,
Iowa, or Rev. S. II. Henderson, De-
corah, Iowa.
N. B.--Remember that the only
meeting of the National Association
for 1877, west of the Allegheny Noun
tains will be held at Clear Lake.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
The Market Value of Poultry
and Eggs.

d0Q 6SS6.
The value of poultry and eggs
raised in this country is certainly
enormous, but we were scarcely
ready to place as high an estimate as
the -Fdnciers Journal, from which
we take the following:
The market value and amount of
ponltry and eggs annually raised and
consumed in the United States is inn
mcnsely greater than most of us have
any idea of. To say nothing of the
thousands of prime "fancy" fowls
and fancy pigeons every year dispos-
ed of to amateurs, small breeders, and
public exhibitors in America. the
quantities of farm poultry and eggs
including the products Of turkeys.
geese, ducks, fowls and pigeons
produced on this side of the Atlantic
arc enormous.
These is no doubt of the truth of
the statement recently made by an
agricultural lecturer, that "thc ag-
grcgate weight of dead poultry sold
yearly in this country exceeds by
many tons the weight of dead beef
consumed In our markets -
The produce Of poultry is continu-
ally on the increase, also. There
never has been, and probably never
will be, any glut in the market of
these desirable edibles--good chickens
and fresh eggs. The price has kept
steadily up to paying figures too /;
and whether the times be hard or
easy, the change in the current value
of this product is not noticeable.
Ii we were to set down here some
OF the figures lately given of the esti-
mated millions of dozens of eggs sold
in single large city market in 1876,
or note the millions Of pounds of
chickens and other poultry there dis
posed of in the same year, the facts
would be almost startling and seem
incredible. Yet it is true that no
class OF live stock in the country
foots up in solid money value, annu-
ally, the sum that is realized by far
mers, poulterers, and egg dealers, in
the United States, at the present time,
for these always desirable and ready
saleablc commodities.
Of course the business of poultry
and egg production is disseminated
over wide field, and great numbers
Of persons are engaged in producing
this aggregate, which is brought
about in individual small quantities
monthly. But when we know that in
a single county in Ohio, last year, ac-
cording to official statistics, there
were over $3.50, 900 worth of eggs and
chickens marketed, we can fancy
what the grand total value Of all
counties in all the States may be.
1t is by no means trivial business,
indeed. There be those, as we limited
lately in these columns, disposed to
ridiculc this occupation, and the par
ties who follow it, But if those who
incline to jest at the chicken fanciers
and fowl breeders of this country
would reflect upon tho solid import
ance and large value of this interest
in America, such ridicule would be
turned to wonder at the real facts in
the case.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
A Strange Death.


Grief is kind of death, in the SEN
timent of the poet, but few know that
death comes so soon from sympathy
as we must state to-day. Mrs. A. S.
Burdic, IS years of age, died Satur.
day morning at 8 o'clock after an ILL
ness of 3 days. Death came naturally
and after long lease the good old
lady yielded up the spirit which had
for nearly four score years animated
the body. But the strangest part OF
the separations is to be told by its in
fluence upon her daughter, Mrs. T. D.
Jewett. She was in her usual vigor
when her mother died Saturday
morning but was SO much overcome
with grief that she became sick, re-
tired to bed, and last night in spite Of
all the attention possible, her broken
heart refused to perform its functions
and death resulted at s o'clock-Des
NJ ONES LeUdey. -
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
Murder will Out.

The evidence is that you are buy
ing an inferior grade of -four when
it is offered to you for less than the
cost of the material to make a good
sack of -four. What better evidence
do we want that "Fawcett's Best" and
"Red F" are appreciated in this mar
ket than the fact that twenty-six
groceries and one bakery use it and
sell it in Ottumwa alone, and their
customers are all happy. We war.
rant that our prices shall be just as
low at all times as the quality of the
flour will Justify. 5-11-3td w3,
A. w. DIGGs &c Co.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
Cheaper Groceries.

Standard A Sugar lbs for $1.OO
Coffee from 221sc to 25c for very best.
Choice Sugar-cured Hams l2c DR. lib.
Kinks White Russian Soap II bars 81.
5 boxes matches 800 in each box only 25
Standard White Fish full weights, for
half barrel $500.
Slack weights $3.50.
Best new Raisins 2 lbs for 25c.
Best Carolina Rice IL lbs for $l.OO.
5000 bags of Flour from $3.50 per cwt
upwards.
200 kegs Of California Syrup at $3.50
per key.
We have received the agency for
Davis's celebrated st. Joseph Flour
the very best made, and will sell il
for less price than any of same grade
in market-patent, fancy, all grades
Davis's No. l is the best flour ground
and we will sell it for $3.50 per bag
Goods bought of us in reasonable
quantities delivered free.
MORTALITY & MCLAUGHLIN.
5-lOd6w4 Main street
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
Stolen.

The copy of the Assessors book for
the city, just completed, which has
been in use at the City Hall, for the
equalization of taxes, for the last week
or two has been missing since We'd
nesday morning. The books have
been kept in a desk in the hall for
sometime, and the room carefully
locked up, but some person effected
an entrance by the way of the balco-
ny in front from which they raised a
window and the theft was easy. The
books for the assessment Of 1875 was
also taken. The city will suffer no
loss, copy had already been filed
with the Auditor, and the Assessor
also has his blotter. What the object
OF the thief was we cannot tell, but
we are glad to know that the city
cannot possibly suffer in any manner.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
IOWA ITEMS.

Eldora has nearly $1,000 in the
treasury and no fire engine.
Open-air temperance meetings are
fashionable in Des Moisnes.
Marshalltown wants to entertain
$4,000 people on Decoration Day.
Five circus shows are already ad.
vertised for this State the present
summer.
Three fires in four days and al
supposed to be incendiary, is Mar.
shalltown's record for last week.
Bob Burdette's phiz appears in the
New York Graphic. 1t look very
much like picture of Jesse James
published in the Police Nescs about 6
year ago.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16

The Ottumwa COURIER has time
~ article on the carnival of crime,
and thinks the reason is that human
life is held at too low value-that
ten years is the maximum punish
ment for murder, etc. 1t should have
added that since hanging was abol-
ished in Iowa, murder has increased
four fold, and that the death penalty
should again be speedily put on our
statute books.-NeiDt0n Journal.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
A WEEkLY LIST

OF U. S. Patents issued to the inyen-
tors of Iowa, for the week ending
May 8th, 1877; and each patent in
the list will bear this date. Reported
for the COURIER, Ottumwa,
by A. II. Evans & Co., Patent Solicit
ors, Washington, d. G. Charge for
obtaining patent, $4,000. A copy OF
the Patent Laws sent free on applica-
ton:
w. d. Griffith, Vincennes, Wind
mill.
w. Ireland, Oats Spring, Bridges.
G.. H. Wilson. Davenport, Gang
Plow.
w. C. Burton, Des Moines, Churn.
A. X. Brown, Newton, Cooking
Steamer.
Long & Lyon, Iowa City, Devices
for Converting Motion.
NJ. Waterbury,, Mason City, Lamp
Extinguisher.
A. Foley, Atlantic, Horse Collar
Pad.
T. w. McGill, Batavia, Cultivator.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
AGENCY News CLEANED from the

AGENCY News cleaned from the
Independent
The Masons are putting new tin
roof on their Hall.
d. Sautbine expects to start to the
Black Hills in a week or ten days.
Mr.. C. A. Bryan has sold his fine
large draught horse to L. F. Newell,
who shipped him and lot Of cattle
to Chicago, this week.
Clay Wood, County Superintend-
ent of schools, has been confined to
his room for the past three months,
sorely afflicted with his eyes, being
perfectly blind.
The Independent thinks that: off
teen dollars is cheap for wife.
That is what man living out in the
country paid an Ottumwa lawyer for
securing him one."
Now we want to know what law
yer in Ottumwa ever had so much
money at one time.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16

l have 1000 bags of Choice Kansas
Flour, bought before the recent ad-
vance, which will sell Is cents per
bag below the market price. Call and
examine Flour and prices before pur-
chasing elsewhere. Garner Bros. old
stand, opposite First National Bank.
SO DIT wit VIM. A. GARNER.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
August Flower.

The most miserable teings in the world
are those suffering from Dyspepsia and
Liver Complaint.
More than sayenty.fivs per cent. OF The
people Of the United States are afflicted with
these two diseases and their effects: such as
Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habtual
Costiveness, Palpi,ation of the Heart,
Heartburn, Water-brash, gnawing and
burning pains at the pit Of the stomach
Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue and disagree.
able taste in the mouth, coming up OF food
after eating, low spirits, &c Go to your
Druggist, j. l.. Taylor & Co., and get a
rs cent Bottle OF August Flower or Sam.
pie Bottle for 10 cents. Try 1.-Two dos.
CO will relieve you.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16

From both City and Country
should not fail to visit Mrs. Plat &
Heyland's millinery Store in Curlew
Block, in L. 81. Wilson's old stand,
and see their nice new Goods and
price them before they buy else
where. Especial pains will be taken
10 please customers as to style, quail
ly and prize. m11-d&wtf.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16

TERRIBLE.-An awful crime was
committed in the Third ward school
the other day. A boy, ordinarily a
well behaved urchin, came home
deeply grieved with having six de-
merit marks set down against him.
His mother went to see what the boy
had done, and was informed that he
had, during the forenoon-gaped
six separate, distinct gapes! So the
boy had to be made an awful exam.
pie of.-DuIuque Times.