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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
"Aead Us Somebody"

The democratic papers are dissatis-
fed with General Buffers manage
ment of the Potter investigation, and
that there is too much Butler and not
enough Potter i'm the business. They
claim that bluff old Benjamin is a
mystery. He does not consult with
the democratic members, and they
don't know what he is driving at. He
is constantly springing surprises on
them, and papers like the Cincinnati
Enquirer express the fear that Butler
will drag the Democrats into all sorts
of serapes.
Butler was put on the committee
by the democrats. MIR. Potter was
yoked to the gentleman from Massa-
chusettS as a matter of choice. He
was keen to try the experiment, and,
now that he is being dragged along as
burly Ben wills, he finds it oflittle avail
to call a halt. The situation recalls a
little story told by the Rock Island
Press. When the town was small
village, and its people had lots of fun
all to themselves, one of the very So
ber, dignified citizens put his own
IItstu uliutI pHc eIlu Vi ,yOhc anu Il
little bulls under the other, to teach
the animal how to be useful and work.
When he found the bull was running
away with him down dirt road to-
ward a crowd around the country
store on Illinois street, he measured
sixteen feet at a jump, kept up with
the bull, and yelled at the top of his
voice: LOOK out! Here we come,
darn our fool souls. Head us, some
body;' and, when halted and the
yoke was being lifted from his neck,
he yelled, "Unyoke the bull; never
mind me. l will stand"
So with Mr.. Potter at this juncture.
He was going to show Mr.. Butler how
to conduct an investigation, but now
Butler is running away with him and
his committee, he is ready to shout:
"Stop Butler; never mind me; Pll
stand"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
A MODEL LOVE LETTER.

The following epistle was written
by an Onandaigs lover to the "object
Of his Affection" widow lady, the
mother Of three children. After his
passion had cooled, and he failed to
"come to time,," the lady sued him
for q breach of promise Of marriage,
and recovered $500 as q healing balm
for her laceratcd heart, the letter be-
ing part of tho evidence produced on
the trial:
My Dear Mrs. M
Every time think Of you my heart
flops up and down like churn dash
or. Sensations of unutterable joy ca
per over it like young goats on sta
BILE roof, and thrill through it like
darning needles through ! pair OF
tow linen trowsers. Az q gosling
swimmeth in mud puddle, SO i swim
in . sea of glory. Visions of ecstatit
rapture thicker than the hairs on q
blacking brush and brighter than the
hues Of humming birds pinions
visit me in my slumbers, and borne
on their invisible wings, your image
stands before me, and l reach out tt
grasp 1t like . pointer snapping ct /,
blue bottle fly. When I fret beheli
your angelic perfections, l was be
wildered and my brain whirle;
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
shingle Your Own House

ScENE-bar-room. Time, mid
night.
Wye-"I wish that man would go
home, If he has got one to go to-
Landlord-"Hush! hush He'll
call for something directly
WVe-"I wish he would make haste
about it, then, for it's time every hon.
est man was in his bed"
Landlord-"Leave him alone; he is
taking the shingles off of his own
house and putting them on ours"
At this time James began to come
to his senses, and commenced rubbing
his eyes, and stretching himself as il
he had just awoke, said:
II believe I will CO."
"Dont be in hurry, James," said
the landlord.
"Oh, yes, ! must co. said James,
and he started.
After an absence of some time the
landlord met and accosted him with
"Halloo, Jim, why ain't you been
down to see us ?"
"Why, l had taken so many shin.
giles of my house it began to leak
aud have stopped it," said James.
The tavern-keeper and his wife
were astonished.
James is now happy man, and hi.
wife and children are happy, too.
Young man, whose house are you
shingling?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
tiemenber This.

Let every citizen know and ever
bear in mind that the republican Sem
ate passed the bill directing the Sec
.etary of the Treasury to receive
greenbacks in payment of customs on
and after October 1st next, and to at
once receive them in the purchase of
4 per cent. United States bonds, and
that the republicans of the House la
bored with all their might to get this
bill up in the House and pass it, but
were prevented by the democratic
House, and chief among those op-
posing was Tom Ewing, Of Ohio,
who, as leader Of the greenback
doctrines, saw in this move the death
of his pet soft money schema. The
republicans have, by their policy,
brought the paper of the country up
to within fraction of one per cent. of
specie and accumulated over hum
dred millions of specie in the Treasu-
ry for redemption purposes, and they
felt the time of practical redemption
had come so that they were ready to
place greenbacks on par with specie;
so they tried to do so and were defeat
ed by the democrats, chief among
whom were the noisy soft money men
who saw in this move the life blood
of their demagOguery ebbing away.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03

THE news comes of complications
arising in the European Congress
which portend much trouble and a
possible disagreement. Lord Bea-
consfield is very firm and decisive in
his demands and the Turkish pleni-
potentiaries are very much dissatis-
fed at the disposition evinced by the
other powers demanding a kind Of
supervisory government over large
part Of her territory. England wants
to supervise in Turkish Asia and Aus
tria wants to control in the provinces
bordering upon that kingdom.
We are decidedly Of the opinion,
however, now that the powers are
face to face in congress, they will
effect a settlement of some kind how
ever much they may disagree at the
outset. The stern necessity that
stares them in the face, of making a
settlement, if they would avoid a
most terrible war sure to follow a dis
agreement, leads us to feel certain that
all differences will be compromised.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03

Gov. HENDRICKS, of Ind, has gone
to Charlotte, N. c., to speak at col
lege commencement there. On his
way and while at Washington, he, in
the course of an interview sat down
upon the Potter investigation. lie
said, substantially, that it ought nev-
er to have been instituted and will
prove failure. Whenever Hen
bricks sees the tide setting inevitably
in a certain direction he is always sure
to Immediately trims his sails to catch
The popular breeze if possible. He is
the boss political gymnast in Ameri-
ca. The joints of his conscience bend to
all points of the compass with equal
readiness. He never in al his life
lad an honest political conviction,
His views are always trimmed as the
sailor trims his sails, viz: to catch the
broeZeS.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
what a Good Queen Costs.

When Queen Victoria came to the
throne in 1887 the usual steps were
taken to provide for the support of
her Majesty and the royal household.
A select committee of twenty-one
members was appointed by the House
of Commons to prepare estimates for
such support. The charges for the
household of William Nv were made
the basis of their calculations. They
seemed to have taken il as a model
household, and to have arranged the
present one on almost exactly the
same plan. and with just about the
came expenses. For her Majesty's
privy purse they set apart $500, 600
yearly, for household salaries, $685.
800; for ordinary household expen-
ses, $685., 500; for royal bounty, etc.,
$66, 600, and for various other small
items, $40, 200. The total is E3S5, ,O0O,
or about $l,925,OOO. The estimate
was agreed to by the House of Com
mons, and SO the account stands to-
day. Some of the offices for which
provision was made in that list have
since become obsolete, and the incum-
bents have absolutely no duties to per-
form. Yet the offices are still filled
and the salaries are still paid as be-
fore.
Those items by NO means constitute
the whole expense of the Queens
household, and that lump sum of 81,
925, 900 fs by no means her whole in
come from the national treasury. She
also receives the revenues of the
Duchy of Lancaster, which amount to
$2l5, 600 net. The amount from this
source is not uniform, but that was
the sum received for the last year re.
ported-l876-77. This swells her
Majesty's privy purse to $5l5, 900 pei
annum out Of the funds of the nation.
On this sum she has absolutely NO de.
mands for her actual ordinary expen.
ses. 1t 10 clear pocket-mOney. She
is under no necessity of laying out Z
single penny of it, for every possible
expense seems to be provided for in
other allowances. If she travels by
water, a yacht is placed at her dispo.
sal at Government expense. If sht
travels by rail. the country likewise
foots the bill by an additional allow
ance. Even for charity she need no
draw upon her own purse, for lib
eral grant is made for this express
purpose. Not only does she trave
by water in royal yachts, but small
fleet of these yachts is built and KEEP
in repair for her particular use. Thi
of itself Is an enormous extra bill
bat I have no means Of finding tn
amount of it. The maintenance o
royal palaces takes an additions
$l57, 800 year, and the maintenanc
Of royal parks and pleasure garden
takes anbthcr $529, ,655 per annum.
Adding the annual allowance /
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
'schwindIing Going on"
smell a rat--I nip 1t in the bud. .--ISpokeshave
Yesterdays OttumWa Times says:

q
Yesterdays Ottumwa Times says:
eve understand a conspiracy is on
foot, headed by the stalwart bourbon
element in the democratic party, to
postpone the congressional convention
beyond the time of the call, evident
ly for the mean underhanded purpose
of exasperating the greenbackers and
wearing out the democratic friends of
General Weaver. Wewill warn those
persons who are contemplating this
snide game that it will meet with the
humiliating defeat that such sharp
practice deserves. We hope the DEM
ocratic friends of Weaver and success
will put their feet squarely down on
such crafty schemes to cheat the vO-
ter5 out of their plainly expressed
opinions sentiments and preferences"
No doubt but the Times is trying to
sell the democratic party QUIT Weav.
er, but there is going to be trouble in
the delivery.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
MARSHAL PITKIN, of New Or

MARSHAL PITKIN, of New Or
leans, was before the Potter commit
tee on the 25th inst. He gave a clear,
succinct statement in answer to all
questions and his testimony was very
damaging to Anderson. He contra
dicted Mr.. Anderson, point blank, in
regard to the latter's denial of having
signed the protest, as it was, to the
East Feliciana Parish returns. Pit
kin states that he was present at the
time Mr.. Anderson signed that pro-
test and that he signed, knowing just
what he signed and did it of his own
free will and accord. He further
states that they were suspicious OF
Mr.. Anderson all the time, and that
he was watched, rs it was feared that
he would sell out to the democracy.
He corroborates, also, Judge Lewis
sees statement as to the latter's hav.
ing been tempted with an offer ol
100000 If he would 60 back upon
Hayes and cast his vote as an electol
for Tilden. Pitkins testimony was 6
salter on the democracy.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
VOLUME 30.

among the poorer classes in the Fe-
licianas. The idea of her French ac-
cent has created considerable fun here
at the Potter knowledge of our Gre
ole dialects. She has been intimate ly
associated for a number of years with
the prominent radical leaders in her
section of the state, and has the repu-
tation Of being remarkably sound and
enterprising."
We would not guess that Mrs. jerks
would make good wife for any but
the meekest of hen-pecked husbands,
but she makes splendid witness to
intensity the Potter investigation
farce. She is good to teach Ben But
Ter that the bricks he SHES are as
nothing to what woman can do.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
Judge Sampson.

The republicans of the Sixth district
have done themselves credit in the
denomination of Judge Sampson for
Congress. We invite the scrutiny of
every citizen of this district upon the
character of the Judge throughout his
whole life, as boy, as a man, as a
student, as lawyer, as a soldier, as a
Judge, as congressman, rs a gentle
man in public and private life. We
say we invite from everybody the
closest scrutiny of our candidates life,
and we do so with the utmost conf
dence that the verdict of every hon
est and fair inquirer will be that he is
a man of energy, of industry, of abil-
ity, Of unstinted fairness in his every
purpose and deed, and of the most
unfiinching integrity. He has dis
played his patriotism i'm the field
most gallantly; no soldier of Iowa
bears better record and none who
more modestly and unassumingly, as
is his wont in all things, made up
that record. He has been State Sena-
ator from hiscounty, eight years judge
of his judicial district and now on his
fourth year in Congress, and never in
his life has he pushed himself for
ward, but invariably he has been
sought by the people for the places he
has filled and put forward even be-
times against his wishes and in spite
of them. E. S. Sampson has invaria-
bly, been called by the popular will.
He has never been found pressing
himself forward. He is the very an.
tipodes of the man who, year in and
year out, has been pushing, working
and demanding something; the man
whose unbounded desires for prefer.
ment and exalted estimate of himself
winds in and out, to find lodgment
in some Office, and if his demands art
not gratified in one party finds anoth
er on which to fasten like vampire
and if this does not meet the end de
sired, straddles around and accOmmo
dates his principles SO as to gather il
one or two more parties.
! 1t Is favorite idea with the people
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
that Office should seek the man and

that Office should seek the man and
not the man the Office. This has been
peculiarly the case with Mr.. Sampson.
Modest and retiring, with no glitter
ing eloquence to entrance the people,
his solid, enduring worth as man,
universal confidence in his ability
and his integrity, has brought him
forward, has defied successful criti-
cism and has entrenched him in the
affections of the people. 1t is the
highest wisdom for the individual to
entrust his private business with just
such man, and the successful man,
if he seeks honest results, does entrust
his affairs to such men. 1t is the great
need of the country that our legisla-
tive bodies should abound with such
men, in fact that their presence should
permeate every department Of gov
ernment, and it is the want of it that
spreads all over our national escutch-
con the blotches upon our country's
honor and fame.
Eloquence of expression; rabble-
rousing power of speech, guided by
unconquerable, overpowering ambi
ton, marked in the life evidences of
a man; vacillating, trimming, and
continually pushing, teasing and bor-
ing his fellows for place; making a
weather-cock of principle at the die
tation Of personal ambition; disre-
pecuniary and all other obli-
cations; playing the gentleman in
fine raiment upon other peoples
means; donning hypocritical robes
for personal ends; in fine, shaping ev-
binding everything to self
ish purposes, regardless of the public
good, marks the course of too many
men seeking Office, and too many who
in obtaining Office. This is
the great bane of our country. Place
men in public positions made of such
as is the Hon. f. S. Samp-
son and the prosperity, the perpetui-
ty Of the nation and the rights and
of all our people would be
forever secure so far as it is possible
for good, honest and wise government
to secure such results.
We go into the canvass, this the
third time, with Judge Sampson feel
ing certain that the republicans of the
Sixth district will do their duty and
the Judge be reelected by hand
some majority.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
Vanderbilt on Pools

CHICAGO, June 26,-WilliAm III.
Vanderbilt, President of New York
Central Railway contributes COM
munication to the Times on the pres
ent railroad situation. He refers to
the depression in business, the great
number of bankrupt roads and the
uncertain future for other roads, un-
less there is change in its manage
ment and favors the pooling plan.
He says superior natural advantages,
better management and greater vol
ume Of business will necessarily keep
some solvent much longer than 9TH
ers, but every bankrupt line tends to
drag others down. Such road pays
nothing to stockholders or bondhold-
ers it has no responsibility to own
ers, patrons or tho public; it does
business comparatively for nothing,
its property deteriOrates and the
country through which it runs will
in the end experience the disastrous
possibility. If all the great trunk
lines were brought to that con-
dition, not only would immense
properties be destroyed but cred
it and trade be 80 paralyzed that
every interest and the whole country
irreparably be injured. The pool
tries to avoid this. The only danger
that can be urged against it is that it
may establish exorbitant prices, but
this is impossible. The public have
become used to very low charges and
will submit to no other. The best
skill, the most prudent management,
the utmost good faith cannot provide
for moro than barely living prices.
The whole effort of the pool cannot
raise or keep the rate of transpor-
tation to q figure so high but what
the most rigid economy and the ablest
management will be required to ena-
BILE the companies to live. The Il. RS.
now existing, ifcrowded to their full
est capacity, could do four times the
business of the country. If there
were only two rates during the year.
. summer and winter one, and ship
pers knew just what to expect and
1 were uniformly dealt with ii would
add immeasureably to tho prosperity
and stability of our commerce.
Combinations heretofore made, based
upon different principles, have been
violated by the local agents in their
anxiety to secure business and favor
friends. Under the equitable distri-
button of tonnage this become very
difficult and greater sense of fair
ness and security prevails. l believe
that all the plans yet suggested or
tried the division Of tonnage under
the present system produces satisfac-
tion and the most beneficial results.
If any other scheme will work better
then l am in favor Of that. High
rates in the future are utterly impos-
sible. The people are safe from ex-
tortionate charges stability of prices
fair rates for transportation equita-
bic dealings with shippers and gener-
al property can only be had through
some form of understanding embrac-
ed in what is generally called pool.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
q Sthe bills unearthed by GLOW

galten.e sthe bills unearthed by Glov-
the en-. ,1nittee was that of $l96 paid
tiona.d n for members of the Demo-
Investigating Committee sent
to New Orleans in 1876. What the
lunch consisted of appearsin the items
as follows; Eatatles of various kinds,
$3O.75; cigars and liquors, $l6l.OO;
cork-screw $1.25. What in thunder
they wanted of thirty dollars worth
of SO much to eat, and only sl61 90
worth of liquor, is beyond our COM
prehension. There is really no need
of labelling committee democratic"
with that kind of a record. Every
man in American would know with
out any other explanation that it was
either democratic or hard-shell Bap-
tist. Then you could be sure, too,
that it was blatant reform commit
tee.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
In the sixth district Congressman

In the Sixth district Congressman
Sampson was nominated on the first
ballot.Gen. Drake being his only
competitor. Mr.. Cults refused to al
low his name to be used. Mr.. Samp-
son Is now on his second term. He
has made a faithful and efficient Con-
gresham, has acquired fine stand
ing and influence in the House, and
will 60 back to his seat much stronger
by reason of this fattering honor
paid him by his district for the third
time. That he will be elected admits
of no doubt in the mind of any one
except that of the bedazzled and in
fatuated Mr.. Weaver. Register.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03

The democratic papers are getting
sick of the Potter Butler committee
investigation. Too much Sto7 in the
witnesses to suit them. Why don't
they subpoena Trumbull? We want
to know the particulars of that quad
room ball,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03

A New ORLEANS special to the
New York Herald says: "Mrs. jerks,
whose examination before the Potter
committee showed her to be by no
means common woman, is Scotch
Irish by descent, and was born in the
North of Ireland. Her fathers name
was Murdock, and he was drowned
while in the Confederate army near
New Orleans. Her mother was doc
tress, and practiced quits, extensively
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
Tit for Tat.

The Ottumwa Courier is not as gen.
erous with the Sigourney Ne,cs' pic
turesque defense Of it and its editors
as the Registe, was. The Courier was
ashamed to print all of it, and gives
only small and nicely pruned por-
ton of it, while we were not ashamed
to print it all. =. Register.
But people who live in glass houses
oughtn't to throw bricks. The Regis
ter was not generous enough to pub
lish all the Curriers' defense against
the Registers very unjust attack and
went SO far estray as to misquote
what it did pretend to copy.-1iDia
J Union.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
LET it never be forgotten that in a

LET it never be forgotten that in a
democratic House the democratic por-
tion of the committee were 50 drunk
and many of the democratic clerks in
like condition that the adjournment
ofthe House was delayed thereby, and
that finally the republican member
of that committee, and he colored
man, was the only reliance, and that
,|he worked hour after hour, without
- and finally appeared in the
ct-,, earring aloft the enrolled sun
rsuN appropriation bill, the work
~ ~ ,.h,iduous efforts, and relieved
.:,e 20 e from the dilemma into
t, non' "'iie. was forced by drunken DEM
WV, lembers.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03

The State Leader says Hon. Josiah
T. Young will probably open law
Office in Des Moines when his official
duties at the capital cease. He will
form partnership with his son. Des
Moines people will be glad of this
and the people of the state will prob
ably give him all the law business he
can attend to.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
FOREIGN
THE QUEEN DEAD.
MADRID, June 26.-The Queen of
Spain is dead.


MADRID, June 27.-The announce
ment of the death of the Queen of
Spain has been received with pro-
found sorrow and sympathy through
nut Enrnnn- The faalin1 ain Spain
almost approaches consternaffon.
Hopes were raised at the crisis of the
disease that the vigorous constitution
of the Queen might triumph over the
of maladies, but her
condition was made doubly perilous
by the fact that she was expected to
be a mother before the end of the
year. The Queen died at noon in the
arms of the King and surrounded by
the royal family. Her remains will
lie in state to-day, and will be con-
veyed to the royal Mausoleum at the
Escurial on Friday.
The president Of the medical facul-
ty of the royal palace, in bulletin
announcing to the president of the
council of ministers the death of the
queen, attributes the painful event to
nervous gastric fever, accompanied
by severe intestinal hem orrhage.