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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

PIrTsBuRG, July 21.-Shortly after
: o'clock the Philadelphia militia un.
der Commandant Brinton, arrived al
Union depot. Sheriff Fife, who has
sworn in large posse Of deputies,
has warrants for the arrest Of Is of
the leaders in the strike ON the Penn
sylvania road. The sheriff with his
posse and military will at once pro-
ceed to the outer depot and endcayor
to make the arrests. The strikers are
are congregated there and the result
is anxiously awaited.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
nartranft.a proc,ar,ation.

PrTTsEuRG, Pa, July 20.-Governor
Hartranft has issued q proclamation
admonishing all good citizens against
aiding or abetting unlawful proceed
ings, and commanding all persons
engaged in riotons proceedings to
disperse or the military will be used
to force obedience to law.
There are one hundred and thirty
cars of cattle, hogs and sheep at East
Liberty ready for shipment and a
hundred more are reported to arrive
tO-nay from the west over the Pitts
burg and IT. Wayne road. Stock
loaded yesterday for shipment had to
be unloaded in the evening. tits be-
lievcd here that if tho Pennsylvania
railroad men hold out tillnoon to-day
the Pan Handle& 1T. Wayne will join
in the strike. The strikers say in case
these roads join the Michigan, South.
ern & Lake Shore will also go in and
thus strong effort will be made ia
stop all freight trains between the
east and west, and SO bring the rail-
road companies to terms.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

Mr.. Ed. r. Mason, of Des Moines,
Clerk of the United States Court, is
out in the Register with a long defence
of Judge Dillon. The latter has been
charged in certain quarters with i'm
proper favoritism in the matter OF
appointing a Receiver, and other
things connected with the Central
Railroad of Iowa.
We think Mr.. Mason is super
serviceable in this effort and don't
believe that anyone, whose opinions
are worth . rush. will believe for a
moment that Judge John 4. Dillon is
capable Of doing an unworthy act,
either personal or judicial.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

The President has issued procla-
nation commanding the strikers at
Martinsburg to disperse,> and to aid
them in dispensing, he has sent por-
tion of the United States army to the
sacred soil of West Virginia, at the
request Of both Governor Mathews,
of that state and and President Gar
rett, of the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road, whose strikers against reduc-
ton in their wages has caused the
trouble.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

PlTTsnuRG, July 81, 2 p. m.-The
situation is practically unchanged.
The Pan Handle road is moving To-
cal freight and if distractions on the
Pennsylvania railroad were removed
conid easily move through freight.
The strikers on the Plttsburg &
TT. Wayne were joined this morning
by zoo men from the company's shops.
The strike is wholly against the ten
per cent. reduction which went into
effect June 18th.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

have not dispersed, the troops under
my command will proceed to enforce
the order of the President"
AT present everything is quiet, and
it is doubtful whether anything more
than demonstration will be rcquir-
ed. Whatever action is taken will
be after consultation and with the
full concurrence of Col. De1Iaplaine,
aide to the Governor.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

BAyARD TAYLOR has been rendered
and has accepted the mission to Rus
sia So for as we can Judge, this is q
good appointment. He is already
we'll known in the literary circles of
Europe, has travelled much upon the
Continent, and was at one time acting
Charge de'Afairs at st. Petersburg.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
New Hampshire on the Policy,

CoScogp, N. H., July l9.-Thc
Committee on National Affairs in the
Legislature introduced majority and
minority reports, Yesterday. The
majority report sets forth that Hayes
was elected by the people and so de-
clarcd by the electoral commissions,
and that any movement to reopen
the question would be both mischicv-
Gus and contrary to public interests.
The minority report recites the with
drawal of troops from South Caroli-
ma and Louisiana and approves tho
Presidents course.
The majority report was adopted.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

passes to be continued the same rs
before, and passes to be issued to
brakemen and switchmen.
These demands were at once COM
municated to Receiver Jewett in
New York.
The reduction in wages by the Erie
railroad company, of 10 per cent !, Ju-
ly 1st, applied only to the,above class
cs of employees who were not affected
by the reduction of the previous year
and with this reduction in effect the
train and road hands on the Erie rail-
road now receive higher compensa-
ton than any other eastern railroad.
Late in June, when the committee of
trainmen visited New York in rela-
tion to the reduction of July 1st, they
were kindly received by Receiver
Jewett and the necessity and
propriety OF the reduction
explained, which, after a
few days of delibcration, they ap-
parently accepted, and the men
continued at their posts with the ex-
ception of a few incendiaries, who
were discharged. All of the men on
the Erie Railroad have been treated
by the Company with consideration.
They arc not only reasonable but lib
eral, and it there are any employees
expressing dissatisfaction, the Re-
celver is ready to pay them Off
promptly and hire others, and ex-
presses his determination to carry
out the order of July to the letter.
The Erie company has arranged to
have its through passengers and
baggage carried via New York Cen
trail until its own trains resume run
ming.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
ASK YOURSELF rnEsEauEsrIoas

Arc you despondent sufferer frcm
Sick Headache, IIabiiual Costivoness,
Palpitation of the Heart? Have you
Dizziness Of the Head? Is your Ner-
vous System depressed? Does your
Blood circulate badly? Have you
CoIghr Low Splrits2 Coming up OF
tho food after eating? &c Sc All of
these and much more are the results
OF Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint and In
digestion. GREENS AUGUST Flower
is now acknowledged by all Druggists
to be positive cure. 9 100000 bottles
were given away in the u. 5. through,
Druggists to the people rs q trial. Two
doses will satisfy any person of its
VOL lderful quality in curing all forms
Of Indigestion. Sample bottles l0cts
PECULIAR size rs cts. Sold positive by
all first .class Druggists In the q, S.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

The Iowa City Republican says q
gentleman who delivered a number
of speeches before the Tilden and
Hendricks club of that place, says he
regards the defeat of Tilden as the
best thing that could have happened
for the country as he is satisfied that
he (Tilden) is one of the most corrupt
public men in the country.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
THE RAILROAD sreIxEs.

IL Is great folly, and is totally
wrong for laborcrs, when they cannot
agree as to the price of their labor
with their employers, to attempt to
deny to other laborers tho privilege
Of taking their places. To refuse to
labor themselves at reduced rates
Is their right, and it may be
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
authorities are unable to guard the
nraner erfN. .---
. .
WASHINGTON.
Report of the Silver Commission
and What It Recommends.
Secretary Schurz on the Dock
ing Of Employees During
Sickness.
THE SILVER COMMISSIONS REPORT.
Special Telegram to the Inter Ocean

speclal lelegram TO tile Inter Ocean.
WASHINGTON, July lS.-As was
stated in these dispatches few nights
ago, there is no telling when the sill
yer commission report will be ready.
1t has been amended and radically
| changed so much and so frequently
that the document, when pub
llshed, will be entirely unlike the
original. So far as the report proper
is now constructed, it recommends
the reconciliation Of the silver dollar,
placing 1T on par with gold, and
giving it the place Of gold in the pay
mont of duties on imports, interest
on tho public debt, and the rcdemp.
ton of greenbacks and coin bonds
in short, proposing to require specie
payments by the coinage of sutl-
cheney of silver for that purpose.
This position is argued at great
length, and fortified by a variety of
authorities, eyincing tact and pro-
tractcd labor in compilation. The
writings of acknowledges r0iit.eua--
economists and financiers i'm England
and continental Europe, as we'll as
our own country, are largely quo
ted in support of the position assum-
ed.
THERE ARE A GREAT MANY JUSKETING
TOURS
allowed this season. A party consist
ing of General Smith, Appointment
Clerk; Twigle, Chief of Special
Agents, and other officers of the
Treasury are starting out ON trip
for the ostensible purpose of inspect
ing the custom houses on the Attain
tic coast. 1t has not developed what
an appointment clerk has to do with
the inspection of custom houses, and
special agents who are on duty do
not travel in crowds.
SECRETARY sCnURzIs is CHARGED
by several Washington correspond
ents with having issued an order to
the effect that clerks in his department
who were kept from their desks by
sickness would have deducted as
many days as they were absent from
their annual salary. Secretary Schurz
says no such order has been issued,
and will not, because he considers it
unjust.
A CHARGE AGAINST GEN. ItAZEN.
1t is stated that General David
Stanley, of the Twenty-Second Tnfan-
try, has preferred charges against
General Hazen. of the Sixth Infantry.
in the matter that he bore false testi-
mony in the Belknap Impeachment
trial. Gen. Hazen has Just been APP
pointed an attache of the Russian Le-
CATION TO observe the war in behalfof
the War Department., and is about to
leave for Europe. His friends charge
that this is a scheme to detain him as
a revenge for his evidence against
Belknap.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
Broken ope..

CUMBERLAND, July 2l.-The freight
cars at this place were broken open
this morning by the mob and large
quantity of provisions and other
things carried away.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN WITH BAGS AMI
BASKETS
assisted in the depreciation. The
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
THE TROOPS Ar TIE rRoNr.

MARTINsRURG, July l9.--The train
with the troops arrived at 6 80, this
morning, and bivouacked in the
Round House. Most of the strikers
are outside Of the western limits of
the corporation. At noon the pro-
clamation Of President Hayes, COM
manding them to disperse, will be is.
sued.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
U. S. Comm ander Arrests a Mexican
General

Rio GRANDE CRY, July 21.--There
is great excitement here. Genl Es-
cobedo and staff were arrested before
daylight this morning by Col. Price,
ofthe Z. S. Army, commanding Ring
gold Barrack. Escobedo intended 10
cross the river to-day or tomorrow,
fterreceiving arms by this mornings
boat
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

A wild rumor got out the other
day, that Old Ben. Wade had weak
ened and given in his adhesion to the
Southern policy, whereupon the
policy papers, which had been abus-
ing, set to praising him, Gas sturdy,
honest, brave old Ben. Wade" And
now comes B. w. and pronounces the
story false, whereupon the policy pa
pers say that the opinion Of Wash
ington, North Pacific Railroad Lob.
byist don't amount to much anyway.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
STILL, ANOTHER srnrkE

CLEVELAND. July 2l.--The fifteenth
regiment of Ohio National Guards,
stationed in this vicinity, have been
ordered to report for duty at Newark
Immediately. 1t is reported that the
train men on the Cleveland and Pitts
burg Il. r., struck this morning,
at Wellsyillc, Ohio,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
KILLED AND WnuNnEn.

BALTIMORE, July 2l.-The result of
the firing last night is nine persons
dead, several that will probably die,
and as far as ascertaincd, twenty
wounded.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
FIRST TRAIN MOVED.

MARTINsEuRG, July 19.-Lient. Ke-
os, with detachment of battery d.
4th artillery, cleared the track and
the first train westward moved. A
coal train for the east left this after
noon. AS it moved off several of the
strikers occupied the hill alongside
the track; the military presented
arms, and there were no uemonstra-
tions made. Engine 423, with train
of horse cars, is just moving out, and
all is quiet. The eastward train in
took detachment of ten men under
Lieut.. Lewis, and 423 took ten men.
The troops on the eastward bound
train will so as far as Harper's Fer
ry and ON the westward bound train
the troops will go as far as Kcyser..
It is thought that the departure of
these trains will break tho back of
the strike. Warrants have been is
sued for the arrest Of ten of the
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

Old Storey calls Mcdill q liar and
Medill calls Story mendacious
scoundrel, which shows that they are
getting well acquainted with each
other.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
Run on Banks.

New YORK, July l9.-Runs on the
Patterson Saving Bank, yesterday,
also caused run on the Passaic
County Savings Institution in Pat
terson.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

"That parrot OF mines a wonderful
bird said Smithers; she cries Stop
thief 30 naturally that every time 1
hear it ! always stop. What are you
all laughing at any way2'
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

How can have clear and brill
liant complexion? Simply by using
DIR. Bulls Blood Mixture and OBJ
serving the rules of health.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
MUST DlspeRsE.

MARTINsRURG, w. Va, July l9.---
The following proclamation has been
printed and is now being circulated !:
"After IL O'Clock, II the insurgents
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
TE r. M g.:
$i.5O PER YEAR IN ADVANCE

DIR. John Y. Hopkins, formerly of
Oskaloosa, and Asst. Surgeon of the
33d Iowa Infantry, died at his home
in Guthrie Center, Iowa, last Mon
dav.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

GETTING READY.

TRENTON, July 2l.-Gov. Bedlc has
ordered two regiments, one here and
one at Jersey City, to hold themselves
i'll readiness for any emergency.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
ANOTuER CAII, Fop Tnoops

WASHINGTON, July 2l.-Collector
Thomas, of Baltimore, having asked
for troops to protect the Custom House
and government property, Secretary
McCrary asks in return if he can OBJ
tain citizens for the work if author
lied.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
Tho U. s. Commander Issues q Proc
lam alton.

MARTlNsBuRa, w. Va, July To-
The commander Of the United States
troops has issued proclamation
warning all persons engaged in the
interruption of travel on the Balti-
more u Ohio and that the Troops must
not be impeded. Whocvefs under
trkes it will do it at their own peril.
Additional soldiers have been for
warded to Keyser to aiAthe detach-
ment of thirteen already there, and
where strikers are in force. The fire.
men are taken off the trains as they
arrive at Keyser.
ToRPEDoEs
were placed on the track but did no
damage.
The stoning of a freight train at Sir
Johns Run is attributed to canal boat
men who were refused the privilege
Of riding on it.
There appears to be little difficulty
thus far in obtaining men to work the
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

force in the neighborhood of the 9Th
regiment armory. The liquor saloons
are all closed and street gatherings
are prevented.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
Tho Rioters in Baltimore Having 1t
their Own Nav,

BALTIMORE, July 2l.-Dnring a fire
at Camden station, last night, Lieut..
Governor Carroll sent dispatch to
President Hayes, stating that the de-
pot had been fired by n mob beyond
the control of his forces and asking
that assistance might be afforded by
the United States authorities. Early
this morning a telegram, addressed
to Gen. Berry, commanding at Fort
MclIenry, was received through the
signal Office, by Gov. Carroll from
the Secretary of War, in answer to
his application to the President for
troops. The Secretary of War di-
reefs that you Gen. Berry, report to
the Governor OF Maryland with
guns and all your men to act accord
ing to his orders. The message was
sent as received to Fort MelIenry, by
a mounted orderly, who returned
with word that the troops are in
readiness at a moments notice.
The firing at the Lee street portion
of the Baltimore Il Ohio railroad
depot was caused by the mob attempt
ing to interfere with the tiremen
The mob cut the hose and put out the
lire OF engine No. and fired upon
the police who returned The fire and
drove the mob back.
The mail train from Baltimore for
Washington and west was blockaded
in Camden station. Members of the
fifth regiment, who arrived at the
armory after the main body had left,
started for Camden depot but were
attacked on Howard street with
stones and some of them hurt. They
afterwards returned to the armory.
The Police Commissioners have is
sued an order, in view of the pre-
vailing riot, to close all bar-rooms,
bars, drinking houses, and other
places where liquor is usually sold.
Martial law is threatened.
No trains arrived at or left Cam
den station station after S o'clock,
last evening. There was no inter-
ruption on the Baltimore & Potomac
or Northern Central road.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
on THE ERIE.

BUFFALO, July 20-Passcnger and
freight trains on the Erie Railroad,
except the Falls branch have been
abandoned. Tickets now issued will
be honored by the New York Cen
trail, and tickets issued by the Erie
road over the Atlantic & Great West
ern will be honored by the Lake
Shore II Michigan Southern, or the
Buffalo 81 jamestown road. All qui-
ct in this vicinity.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

CINCINNATI, July 21.-Nothing new
concerning the strikers. The most
threatening case seems that of the
Ohio & Mississippi road. The pay
car which left st. Louis few days
ago has paid the hands Of the lower
division. 1t is said orders have been
issued that the car go no farther east
than Seymour, Ind.
Four companies of Militia of this
city under Col. G. B. Hunt, have Just
been ordered to Newark, Ohio.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

ST. LOUIS, July 2l.-Nothing new
has transpircd here, this morning, in
regard TO the contemplated strike on
the o. Il M. r. r., next Monday. 1t
is said, however, that the yard men
and machine-shop men will probably
Join the brakemen and firemen and
that the engineers, while they will
not strike, will refuse. to run trains
with green crews. The yardmen and.
switchmcn on the western division of
the Wabash road, yesterday, raised
S775 which was sent TO the strikers on
the Baltimore & Ohio road, and they
say three times that amount can and
will be raised if necessary.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

MARTINsBuRG, July 2O-The tele-
graph wires have not been cut but
have been tapped by operators among
strikers to get information of the
plans devised to circumvent them.
EAST BUFFALO, July 20.-Orders
have been received at the Erie Rail-
way shipping Office to take no stock
for shipment cast to-day on account
of tho strike. On trains reaching
Hornellsville the men quiet them.
Stock shipped yesterday, it is said,
will go through,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
ThECRoPS.

The wheat crop of Wapello county
is the best in quality that we have
had for many years. It is now nearly
all in the shock, and we are thus as
sured Of excellent flour for the year
to come. We have heard many mil.
lers and farmers estimate that the
crop of wheat is ample to bread
the people Of this county. Last year
we had comparatively no wheat crop
MT all, and this difference in our favor
this year is big thing. For six
months last past, the county has been
drained of a vast sum of money, run
ming up into the hundreds Of thou
sands Of dollars, to buy breadstuffs
from abroad. The corn crop may not
be quite as heavy as it was last year,
but yet it is coming out much better
than was expected three weeks ago,
and there will be thousands of acres
of the very best of corn. The grass
crop is full as heavy as last year, and
great deal better in quality. Last
year the rain continued through har-
vest, and the grass never hardened
up, but was cut and cured in the rain,
and was, therefore, in quality, ex-
tremely poor. So poor was the hay
last year that hundreds of horses
were seriously injured by eating it.
This year the hay crop is immense in
quantity and excellent in quality. The
oat crop is fair, and well cured, and
is q great improvement over last
year. The potato crop bids fair to
be excellent. 1t is only in fruit alone
that we are far behind last year.
Taking all in all, we estimate the
crop of this year to be considerably
better than that of last year in this
county.
The Iowa City Republican has this
to say in regard to the expense ol
useless litigation. johnson county i.
not the only county in Iowa that il
made to suffer in that way:
Much indignation is felt through
out the county, and indeed over ths
whole State, over the great expense
saddled upon the counties by tho nu
merous trivial and malicious lawsuit.
brought into the courts by pecuniari
ly irresponsible parties. The time o
the courts and court officers and ju
rors is often taken up for days to
gether over some suit in which les
than score Of dollars arc at stake
Generally the jury disagree, the cas-,
goes over to tho next torn and th
county bears the expense. An exam
ination of the docket for the Jim
term of the district court reveals tn
fact that thcre were 1856 criminal an,
civil cases, of which LeGrand Byinp
ton had 20. The people of this coun
ty have been taxed thousands Of dol
lars for litigation in which that gen
tleman was interested, and in seycra
instances suits have been brought b.
him with the evident purpose Of har
rassing persons for whom he ha
formed dislike, and not with q viey
of seeking redress for any wrongs h
may have sustained at their hands
We have no feelings against Mr.. by
ington and il he has any wrongs /
right in our courts of justice we d
not wish to see him suffer any injus
tice because of the prcjndicc'that eS
lists against him, but we do protei
against tho payment of hundreds {
dollars annually from the count
treasury to meet the costs In frivolol
suits brought by him at every teri
of court.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25

NEWARK, Ohio, July 2l.--Thc at
tempt to move a freight train was
contemplated, under a guard of mill
tary, but after consultation with the
strikers, the movement was abandon
ed. The troops were marched into
the yards, but afterwards withdrew.
The bridge over the canal, contigu-
GUS to the railroad yards, on which a
large crowd is constantly passing fell
this morning, seriously iniuring or
4 persons.