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Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19

AT the Republican County Conven-
ton held at Sigourney, Iowa, on the
sth inst, his home friends passed the
following complimentary resolution
of Judge Sampson:
"While we, as citizens of Keokuk
county, looked with pride upon Hon.
=. 5. Sampson as soldier leading his
brave followers on the bloody fields
OF Iuka, Corinth, Champion Hills,
Lookout Mountain, Vicksburg, and
other battles among the fiercest of the
war, with that GOODNESS and bravery
characteristic of the man, and which
has justified the historian in saving
that +. s. Sampson led the regiment
as Lieut.. Colonel during the weary
marches and bloody contests which
gave to the 9Th Iowa much of its bril-.
liant record among the bravest and
best of Iowa regiments; yet we view
with greater pride his victories wor
in time of peace. AS a citizen of un
swerving integrity and irreproachablt
character the people have repeated
ly called him to positions of trust t.
become their servant, and in no in
stance has he failed to meet the high
est expectations of the public to such
an extent that he has escaped censure
from men of all political parties. We
endorse his career in Congress, rapid
ly winning for himself prominence
upon the floor of the House, and a
leading position among the safest
counselors of the nation. During the
present Impending crisis" we real
ize the danger of withdrawing an ex-
perienced Congressman who has the
courage to do the right, as God gives
him to see the right and therefore
this Convention instructs its delegates
to the Congressional Convention to
urge and vote for the denomination of
Hon. f. s. Sampson to Congress, and
to use persistent and honorable means
to accomplish the same."I
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19

..
ADvIcEs from West Point indicate
that the court Of inquiry ordered to
review Gen. Fitz-John Porter's case
will begin its session next Thurs
day. 1t will not take many weeks to
lift the veil that covers the wrong
done this gallant officer, and his
friends continue confident in the be-
lief that the result will be his tri-
umphant restoration to the army
Mo. Republican.
Yes, when we come to think about
it, since all those who fought in Lees
army, from general officer down are
fully restored and many sitting in the
halls of Congress, it might be wav.
ing of the "bloody shirt" not to let
up on Fitz-John, who refused to bring
his reserve corps into action, and SC
secured a rebel victory,
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19


OF United States patents issued to
the inventors of Iowa, for the week
ending June 4, 1878, and each pat
ent in the list will bear that date.
Reported expressly by telegraph
for the COURIER, by A. II. Evans &
Co., Patent solicitors, Washington,
ID. c.
Z Handley, Perry, door sill etc.
7. G. Orwig, Des Moines, door
stills etc.
ET Rate, Edens Bluff, corn husk-
er, etc.
W T Bowen, Ridgeway, store
shelves, etc.
w L Hess, Belle Plain, store
shelves, etc.
F. & c Ruchrig, Ft. Madison, lamp
burners.
Croker & Wilcox, Clarence, foot
baths for horses.
d F Brown, Newton, potato har-
vesters.
Hartley & Dickens, Waverly, fence
posts,
E G Hastings, Gilman, hay rakes.
L Passoo, Dubuque, knock down
tables.
J Heberling, Iowa City, Sewing
machines.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19
THE VERY ABUSIVE, THREATENING LET
SUDDEN DEATH OF ADANITE.

Career of the Notorious Porter Rock
sceN Ended-Has Conviction for
Murder and Important Revelations
Thereafter acknowledgment
of Foul Play.
BY Telegraph to the New York Herald.
SALT LAKE, U. T., June 9.-The
notorious Porter Rockwell died here
in stable at 6 o'clock p. m. He was
under indictment for murder of the
Akin party of emigrants in 1857,
and was to be tried at the September
term of the First District Court.
District Attorney Vanzile had pref
ty sure case worked up against him,
and thinks he would have secured
his conviction, in which case Rock
we'll had promised his attorneys to
make confession of all his crimes
and give the names of those who were
guilty with him. He was usually
well yesterday, and attended the the
ater in the evening. He was driving
some distance from the city to-day,
and, on his return to the stable, got
out of his buggy and died almost in
stantly. 1t is thought in view of the
facts of the case, that he was foully
dealt with by some of his fellow Dan
ties. A post-mortem examination
will be held tomorrow morning. He
was about 60 years Of age.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19

despatch was received at
headquarters this afternoon, dated
Loredo, from Capt. Cunningham in
I have just seen Gonzales, COM
on the opposite side. He
states that all the revolutionary par
ties are broken up or disbanded for
the present, except Escobedo's, who
has small force about GO miles above
here near Armal. He has sent out a
force to that point and expects Esco-
bedo to cross over into Texas to-
night or tomorrow. l sent Lieuten-
ant Fountain with forty men last
night at midnight, to point opposite
Armal. He will be there tonight.
Gonzales gives list of the killed and
wounded in the fight of the 9th. Rev :
olutionists killed IL; wounded, Z;
prisoners %. The government troops
lost l killed, Z wounded. The num-
Der of Revolutionists engaged was
100; governments los. He also
states that Gems. Salina and Garcia,
Agala, Revolutiouists, who were in
the fight, are on this side of the Rio
Grande, endeavoring to reorganize
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19

TEE Subcommittee which went to
Florida to investigate has returned to
Washington, and they have found
nothing of vital importance to report.
The testimony of Driggers, the coun-
~ Judge Of Baker county, who testi-
fed that he threw out the two pre-
cincts of Johnsonville and Darbyville
fraudulently, is pretty much all that
was obtained of any positively fraud
ulent character, and this does not affect
the result at all and really is matter
of no importance, because this fraud
was discovered before the votes were
canvassed and the Driggers fraud was
corrected in ncanvassing the vote which
gave the State to Hayes. 1t is folly,
therefore to talk of the Driggers fraud
when it had nothing to do with the
result, having. been corrected upon
the spot and in the original canvass
of the State. Finally, Judge McLin
now ays-infernal scoundrel that he
is, we admit-that if he had the work
to do over again he would do it again
just as he did before, unless the mat
ters that he had since heard about
were presented in proper legal form,
and these matters he now states only
from hearsay and not of his own
knowledge.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19

THE greenbackers of Iowa have in
vited Brick Pomeroy to stump this
state. TO show what Brick can do in
the line of saying something we quote
the following from recen issue of his
Democrat:
THAT red-handed butcher and bawl-
ing brute, His lncompetency Useless
Simpson Grant, has written to Judge
Long, of st. Louis, letter from
Smyrna, Asia Minor. That blunder-
ing butcher of the Wilderness did
more than any other man to steer this
nation into the financial breakers in
which it is tloundering. The venal,
trucking, miserable scamp should be
hanged higher than Hannah. Let
there be no abolition of hell and cap
ital punishment while such a heart
less monster and odious wart on hui
manity continues to lives
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19
On the 18th inst. the Senate passed

On the 18th inst. the Senate passed
the bill coming from its Finance COM
mittee, which provides that per ct.
bonds may hereafter be sold for green
backs, and that on and after Oct. 1,
next, legal tenders shall be receivable
for customs and all other duties due
the government. This shows that the
time has arrived when the govern
ment feels that it is abundantly able
to resume, that practically resump-
ton has been attained. Specie at only
a fraction of.one per cent. premium is
as good as it ever used to be in this
country before the war, and the
governments taking its greenbacks
for everything due it is the last step
step which bridges the chasm to re-
sumption full and complete. There is
no longer danger of a crisis or panic
in such step. Our own people and
the people of all nations have the full
est confidence in the nations ability
to resume, and hence nobody feels
alarmed at all. There being no alarm
there will be no crisis.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19
creasers After Mackenzie.

EAGLE Pass, TEXAS, June 1.-THE
Mexican Government having discov.
cred that Gen. Mackenzie is on theil
soil with American troops, has order
ed Col. Muncio, falsely reported dead
to take 100 soldiers and 60 after Mac
kenzie. His troops being poorly
mounted it is not expected he will
overtake Mackenzie. Gen. Maranjt
is expected to arrive at Piedras Ne
gras in few days and assume com
mand of the department, Vice Gen
Falcon deceased. The genersl im
preston is that the revolution is 8
failure.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19
Cures for Hoven or Bloating.

The home remedies for this disease
are strong solution of salt and wa
ter, or a tablespoonful Of saleratus in
a pint of water or new milk, with q
proportion of tar equal to one-sixth
of the milk, to be given in the form
of drench. Or take tablespoonful
of spirits of hartshorn, for an OK or a
cow, or teaspoonful for sheep and
dilute with water or milk. This rem
edy acts by decomposing the gas gen.
Grated in the stomach. The chloride
of lime is frequently found effectual
in bad cases, administered in small
quantity of water. The doses of
chlorinated lime being from three to
four drachms. Used in wine, it ef-
fectually neutralizes the carbureted
hydrogen gas. In it's action the chlo-
rine quiets the lime and unites with
the hydrogen and forms substance
-muriatio acid-with which the new
unites, and the result ip harmless
substance-muriate of line.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19
WASHINGTON.

WAsHINGToN, June 1.-THE SEN
ate elections committee to-day post
poncd still next session considera-
tion of the claim of d. L. Corbin to
the seat occupied by M. G. Butler.
Cameron, of Wisconsin, of the sub.
committee to examine the subject
submitted report in writing to the
effect that Corbin was entitled to the
seat. Hill, the other member Of the
stated that he had ar
rived at exactly the opposite conclu-
sion, but was not ready to submit a
written report. The committee of
conference on the Legislative appro-
priation bill has reached an agree
ment. 1t provides that the House
shall recede from the proposed abol-
ition of the offices of 4th and 5th Au-
ditor of the Treasury and from the
reductions of pay ofSenate employees.
The Senate is to recede from its disa-
greement to the Houee provisions re-
ducing grades and pay Of clerks in
executive departments so far as they
effect about half the clerks, and the
grades and mum bers of the others are
to be left unchanged.
The President has nominated Jo-
siah Dent and A. L. Phelps as COM
missioners for the District of Colum-
bia.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19

THAT detestable scoundrel, Brick
Pomeroy, has put on his old copper
head war paint. Hear him in the
Democrat of June l:
Gin the organization of greenback
clubs, we counsel every able-bodied
member of these organizations to be-
come as proficient as possible in the
manual of arms. In time of peace it
is well to prepare for war. In every
greenback club there should be drill.
master-that is, in every club whose
members are brave enough to stand
at all times, under all circumstances
to defend their rights as citizens.
** We, the people, are in rebel
lion against the untaxed nobility o.
this country. We, the people, pro
pose to have our rights, peaceably
and by means Of the ballot, if possible
by the bayonet, if we must"
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19

Nesc York Tribune: McLin reiter-
ates his statement that Mr.. Manton
Marble tried to bribe him to vote in
favor of Tilden's case in Florida. Mr..
Marble has denied the charge over
his signature, and it was at once con-
ceded by republican journals that the
denial disposed of the case. But the
democrats are in aquandary about the
matter. They want to believe that
McLin tells the truth when he hits
the republicans, and lies when he hits
the democrats. They can't call the
charge against Mr.. Marble a slander
without destroying the whole out
come of McLin'squickened conscience.
1t is perplexing question, but the
same situation is furnished by every
witness they have produced.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19
Murderous Miners,

INDIANAPOLIS, June 15.- At Coal
creek to-day John Kelley shot Thos.
Mills (colored) in the abdomen, in
f1icting a mortal wound. He then
emptied the remaining loads of the
revolver into squad of colored mi
ners near by, wounding two of them.
The miners, procuring their guns near
at hand, pursued him. He ran into
the residence of Charles Hobbernan,
the men firing into the building and
keeping him prisoner until sheriff's
posse arrived when all parties were
arrested
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19
Nasby knows thing or two and
puts in his oar for Sammy Tilden in q

Nasty kuoWS Il lIllllS VI TWO dilu
puts in his oar for Sammy Tilden in a
lively way. He says:
We shel investigate ijist as fur ez we
want to, and that will be in jist
enough states to elect Tilden. We
hev got Mr.. Hayes this time. We
shel teach the Ablishnists that when
poor man like Samyool J. Tilden
hez bought and paid for an offs, he is
goin to git it. Wo hev swore not to
be swindled out NV wat wuz ourz by
purchis. Tilden is a great man. 1t
cost him too much to buy the nomi-
nashun and the eleckshun, not to hev
'em. He liz goin to be President. /
am arrangin it. There amt goin to
be no trouble about it. We hev men
here witch will swear to anything.
Tilden heZ reputashun for hevin
money, and witnesses are comm here
to us in swarms. We shel prove that
there wasn't no sich thing as a fair
elecshun in Floridy and Looisiany;
that in both them States men took
our money and then voted agin us;
that our rifle clubs wuz intimidated;
and that our repeaters in Looisiany
wuz kept away from the poles by
force.
And Nasty strikes another key note
as follows:
Ny friends, never agin doubt the
control you hev. So long ez there il
Irish in Moo York, and distilryes run
min twelve hours day, there will bt
a democratic party. And SO long e,
there is democratic party, 700 kir
bet your bottom dollar that the South
will controle it jist as she yoosed to
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19
The Tramps.

ST. LOUIS, June 1.-THE Times
says no strike is anticipated there,
but ample provision has been made
to suppress any out break through
organization. Among tramps and
wandering harvesters there has been
discovered some who wear red scrap
of flannel on the left breast, have grips
and passwords and talk mysteriously
of trouble to come during the sum-
mer. They say they wont start a rev.
olution but will help it and when all
the telegraph wires are cut the coun-
try will discover that the tramps have
some power.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19

New Britain township, Bucks coun-
ty, Pa, contains an eccentric old far
mer by the name of Elias Black, who
believes in keeping everything on his
place. He has not sold any hay for
years. He never thrashes more grain
than he can use. and the rest is allow
ed to stand in the stacks for mice and
vermin to feed on. One field of about
four acres is literally covered with
stacks, some of them fully Is years
old. Over 200 stacks may be counted
on the place. 1t is the most novel sight
ever witnessed on a farm to see hun
dreds of stacks all closely huddled
reminding one of the pic
lures OF an Indian lodge or on Afri-
can kraal,
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19
A Suggestion for the Greenback

At the recent convention of the
Maine Greenbackers one of the dele.
gates, in pleading for better times for
the laboring class, remarked signifi-
cantly that che had worked forty
eight years and was tired" This has
provoked some one to suggest the ad-
dition Of the following planks to the
Greenback platform, to catch the
votes of large and sympathetic por-
ton of the community?
RESOLVED, That to all persons resi-
dent in the United States who have
"worked forty-eight years and are
tired" there shall be paid from the
Treasury of the United States the sum
of $50 for each and every remaining
month of their lives, such amounts to
be assessed and collected from all vo-
ters between the ages Of q and 48
years.
Reso1red, That so much of the nine
teenth verse of the third chapter of
Genesis as is contained in the follow
ing words, sin the sweat Of thy face
shalt thou eat bread till thou return
unto the ground" be and the same
hereby is repealed.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19

Mr.. ARTHUR, Chief of the Broth
erhood of Engineers, is out in pub.
lie statement in which he declares
that there is no danger of a railroad
strike this year, as has been feared by
some. He says the employees and of.
ficials are on terms of amity and that
there is no disposition to reduce wages
and no disposition to grumble on the
mart of the men,
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19
The ~.


At last overwhelming public indig-
nation on the part of the republicans
of the nation and a tacit condemna-
ton by business men who are
! democrats, has forced large part of
the democratic members of the House
to vote for the resolution which de-
clares that this Congress has no pow
er to disturb the title CT President
Hayes. Twenty-one democrats, how
ever, held out and voted no. One
month ago, when the resolution au-
thorizing the Potter investigation was
passed it was strenuously attempted
to modify it by similar declaration,
that Hayes title could not be disturb
ed, but the democrats of the House
would not hear to it; they even chok-
ed down Alexander Stephens and
would not let him speak upon this
point. Now they are frightened at
their plot because of what the people
say, and so back down, not willingly,
but grudgingly; not because they
want to, but because they feel that
they will be sadly defeated as a party
if they still refuse to do it. It is too
late, gentlemen. 1t is easily discerni-
BILE what the intent was, and what it
still is, if it be possible to reach it.
The solemn declaration of men once
traitors and again contemplating rev.
olution, is not worth farthing, when
opportunity offers to break it. A ma
ton of wise men become fools if they
depend upon such men.
It is noticeable that Potter and
Hewitt, of New York, did not vote.
They stayed away. Hewitt ran the
campaign for Tilden in 1876, and Pot
ter lead off in obtaining this investi-
eating committee for Tilden. They
dared not face the music. Sam Til
den, childless millionaire of sixty
odd years, has been and is sinking his
fortune to crafty his consuming am
bition to be president, and he uses the
same unscrupulous means-means that
are employed only by scoundrels-to
obtain the presidency, that he did to
make his fortune.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19
A Good Deed in a Naughty
World.
From the New York Tribune.

A month or two ago a young girl
in Boston, the daughter of one of the
wealthiest men there, being about to
marry, asked her father to let her
wedding be as quiet and inexpensive
as possible, and to give her the money
which would have been spent in flow
ers, wine, etc. With this sum she
gave a certain sum to the poor of
each city which she visited on her
wedding journey. She had the bles-
sings of the hungry and naked strew-
ed along her path instead of roses
The story, without the names crept
into the newspapers. Last week the
wedding of one of the great capital
lists in this city was marked by as
touching and beautiful an incident.
One of the gifts to the bride was the
sending of hundred orphan boys to
homes in the West. A good deed is
not so much like candle throwing its
beams upon the night as a beacon
which is no sooner kindled than it
lights a hundred others in the dis
tance.
Our people are learning each year
not only to appreciate better the es-
thetic side of charity but to indulge
their esthetic and emotional tastes in
practical way, helpful to others.
Instead of stained windows in church.
es to the memory Of those who are
gone, we see memorial beds in chill
dren's hospitals. In spite of the hard
times too, the amount given in chari-
ty, as shown by the reports of church
es, asylums, etc., has not decreased
half as much in this country during
the last two years as the amount spent
on individual luxury. We know of
no finer indication of the integrity
and genuine right feeling of the
American people than that. See how
heartily and promptly, too, they seize
upon any new hint of how to help
the poor and unlucky! Five years
ago thousands of children died in the
tenement houses and cellars Of New
York and Philadelphia during the
hot season for the lack of breath of
fresh air. Some good soul thought
of free excursions, and the kindly
idea spread like wildfire from city to
city all over the country. Some 9TH
er friendly soul conceived the idea of
cheap Summer hospitals by the sea-
shore, and it has enlarged now into a
dozen sanitariums, boarding-houses
at cost, etc.
Two summers ago, the Quakeress,
Eliza Turner, whose life is as true and
simple as her poetry, brought one OF
two sick, poor babies with their moth
ers to her country home for a fort
night. The fortnight over, she
brought others, and asked the neigh
boring farmers to open their houses
to the little waits. The Tribune told
the story, asking that others should
inaugurate this cheap, simple, and
most helpful charity. This Summer
we hear Of organized systems through
several of the farming districts of
New York, New Jersey, Delaware
and Pennsylvania, by means of which
many lives of innocent children will
be saved. Let us have more of them.
Now is the time to take the matter in
hand. Any woman with kindly
mothers heart can inaugurate the
plan and carry it out. Surely it is
better to fill up the idle Summer
hours in saving little children's lives
than in even medieval art work.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19

OHIoAeo, June Is.
by Telegraph
Wheat-quiet, weak, easy, 941S
cash, 9l8@1a July, IS August.
Corn-firm, shade higher 361s cash,
363s OF july, 37A Aug.
Oats-dnll, firmer, "a cash, 23A
July.
Rye-52@h.
Barley-47H.
Pork-strong, higher, 50 90 cash,
8 O2h July, 9 20 Aug.
Lard-firm, higher, $6 rs cash,
6 77h Juuly s 8ST Aug.
Whisky-$l O5.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-06-19

BRICK PoMERoY,, under. date of
June 10, says, that he has chartered
nearly four thousand greenback lodges
and that more than four hundred of
them are in Iowa. There cannot pos
sibly be any other possible direction
in which Brick Pomeroy will lead but
straight into the democratic party,
and into the worst part of that party
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