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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

An aged sister Of General Meade,
lately discharged from the Interior
Department, at Washington, has been
given clerkship In the War Depart
ment,
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By Cable TO the Cb,capo Tr;l,une

LONDON, March 14-6 A. M.-The
British Admiral has changed the an
chorage of that portion of the fleet in
the Sea of Marmora to the Gulf of
Ismid. Orders have also been issued
for the Besika Bay squadron to
MOVE UP TO GALLIPoLI
to join Admiral Commerell, second
in command. This will add four
heavy iron-clads to the fleet
INSIDE THE DARDANELLEs,
and it remains to be seen whether
they will be allowed to pass the forts
There is already
SERIOUS UNEAsINEss IN RUSSIA,
where England's warlike prepara-
tions are regarded IS foreboding an
intention of depriving the Russians
of the fruits of their ard-earned VIC
tories, and these movements of the
fleet are likely to add to tho feeling
of distrust. / have
THE BEST AUTHORITY
for the foregoing information, and it
is limited that the Channel fleet, now
waiting orders at Malta, will soon 90
on to reinforce Admiral Hornby in
the Sea of Marmora.
NEGOTIATIONS
as to the meeting Of tho Congress
seem to make little progress, and
alarmist tendencies begin again to
manifest themselves.
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Cremation Among the Mormons.

EALI LANE XAuACh DEAn LA
1 fele that l must tell you what bles
sin Kremation is to tho Mormons. 81
fur it wurks like . charm and is |
CRATE saving of tomb stones, and th'
wimmen was so particular abou
their Epitaffs! If enything goot
was said about one of thu wimmen OF
her Tomb Stone, then all the rest wal
ravin mad and it was unpleasant fol
the man
But now EVERY Elder has Kre.
matin masheen of his own. If emmy
Of his fammily gets sick, he just lays
in five or six cords of wood extra,
and wates to see how its coming out
The first Krematin / did was when
burnt up Sadie. She went of quite
sudden, and when I see she was reley
gone, 1 hurried out to fire up the ma.
sheen and send for Jim-the Krema.
tin man-for it takes praktised
hand to do 1t rite.
The first order Jim give was to have
all the wimmen sent off. He wouldn't
have 'em hangin' round am lookin'
on, 'twant no place for 'em. They
was provoked at this, and begun to
skream and kry about leavin' "dear
Sadie" as they wanted to see the Kre-
matin' goin' on. 1t worried 'em to
think ennything under Hevven should
be goin' on, and they not know all
about il.
But Jim was furm, and 1 got out
four Lumber Wagons and loaded
'em in, and started 'em off for the
country, and they were the maddest
lot of wimmen you evver see. They
klimbed up into them Wagons as
dignifide and stately as could be !;
never even sayin' "good-bye." altho'
they was goin, off to stay all day.
But Jim, he just laffed and said
"wimmin was alike, and they'd get
over it by mite and be ashamed )" and
so sayin' he went to work. He had
tho Krematin masheen out in the old
and everything went love-
ly. The wood was rele dry, and made
3 red-hot, and you never see emmy
body burn up nicer than Sadie did.
But just as we was most thro, and I
had gone into the house for the Urn,
Jim heerd slight cough and gig
JIG 1EOW up 0rOuuu tuo EOOI, anu,
lookin' up, there was them twenty
four wimmin, as had krept around
The COW shed and klimbed up on the
roof, and was peekin' through the
cracks!
The smoke was pourin' up and al
most stranglin' 'em, but they didn't
care they was perfectly willin' to
suffocate if they could only see how
dear Sadie" Kremated. Jim was
rele enrsged at 'em, but it didn't do
emmy good. They had planely got the
start Of him. So called 'em down,
md they helped rake up the asshes
and get 'em into the Urn.
She made nice big lot of asshes,
md we set the Urn on the Parlor
Mantel Piece, and wrote these lines
md pasted on it:
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GERMANY BACKS ENGLAND.

New YORK, March ia dispatch
from Berlin says Germany upholds
the proposition Of England submit
ting all the terms of the treaty OF
peace to the Congress except the
question of pecuniary indemnify.
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A pefau,tlnr countv onacer

ELDoRA, H., March l4.-Ed. Regis
ter: Eldora was somewhat excited,
last evening, over the announcement
that the books Of ex-Auditor d. B.
Morse had been examine ed and found
to be $1,000 short, and further that he
had made clean confession of the
whole affair. Right away there were
ever SO many 81 told you SOS" all
over town, but your correspondent
must confess that he hardly thought
SO severely of Mr.. Morse, although
we well knew from reliable sources
that he was being bled all through
his term by the old ring that came
near bankrupting our county, and
when the Ledger of this place bought
its engine and boiler. and Mr.. Morse q
name appeared upon the note as guar
antee for payment, there was many a
good citizen who at once came to the
conclusion that the Auditor needed
watching. And it will be remember
ed how last year the ring worked
valiantly for his denomination, and
when he was defeated wall went up
through the Ledger that "good man
had been sacrificed" etc.
From the Developments it seems
that Morse commenced operations as
soon as he went into office. 1t is well
known that county auditors have
charge of the permanent school fund,
loaning the money, etc. As the in
terest became due Morse would re-
ceive the money and receipt for it,
and in many cases the principal of
notes was also paid. Instead of turn
ing the money over to the Treasurer,
he commenced regular system Of
pocketing interest, principal, and all
that came into his hands.
Since vacating the office, January
lst, he has been teaching in our pub
lie school, and was possibly not
aware Of the investigation that was
going on of his accounts, and when
brought before the Board he owned
up at once.
After the confession he asked to be
allowed to 60 home, promising that
he would return when wanted, and
the Board let him go. Soon after a
warrant was sworn out for his arrest,
but strict search failed to discover his
whereabouts, and up to this hour he
has eluded the vigilance of the Off
GERS. The county will lose nothing
by the defalcation, as Morse's bonds.
men are all good. If caught, the
giand jury will have q chance at him
week after next-and the District
Court will make quick work of his
case.
This certainly cannot be laid to
keeping man in ofiicc too long, for
Morse had only served one term, blu,
he developed more irregularity In
that short length of time than the
general run of office holders usually
do. News.
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CHICAGO, March l4.-A number Of
the creditors of tho Marsh Harvester
Company, of Sycamore and Chicago,
have fled petition that 1t be adjudi-
Gated bankrupt. The creditors rep
resent $4,000 of indebtedness, and
the claim is set up that the debtors
made . fraudulent assignment Of =
large amount of property to Arthur
M. Stark. The company has been
greatly embarrassed by the recent
failure of I. ID. Easter y Company,
Chicago, with which firm il had inti-
mate business relations. A speedy
adjustment is expected and the man
ayers will probably resume business
immediatolv.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

ATHENS, March 15.-The official
journal announces that Russia has
rejected the proposal for the admis-
sion Of Greece to the Congress. Pub
lie feeling is consequently much ex.
cited against Russia.
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Sakred to Sadie.
Who was kremated Feb. 10, 1878.
In this Urn her ashes be,
Wht1n Il, HoApav, ~hnvn 10 sbo

Since then Bessie has died and been
Kremated too. / will deskribe the
masheen in the next.
Yours aft, ELDER PoTTs.
P. ST. wouldn't leave the ashes
ON the Parlor Shelf if I was you.
Mamie got mad this morning and
knocked the Urns down and scatter
ed the asshes all over the floor, and
now Bessie and Sadie is all mixed up
and can't tell which is which. What
would you do?
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CONGRESSIONAL.
WASHINGTON, March 13.
SENATE.

Matthews called up his resolution
to refer the communication of the
Secretary of the Interior, In regard
to timber depredations, to the COM
nittee on public lands and have il
printed In the Record. Mathews
said he asked to have the document
printed in the Record as matter of
justice as the Department from hich
it eminated had been attacked yester-
day in the Senate.
Blaine said that he thought it fair
that the Secretary of the Interior
should bc heard, but at the same time
the Senator from Ohio must be aware
of the fact that he was asking an ex-
traordinary privilege, to have this
document so printed. He reserved
the right to reply to it because the
document was in reply to what he
said in the Senate upon recent oc-
casion.
Sargent opposed printing the doc.
ument in the Record as setting q bad
precedent and not because the con-
tents of it was SO very creditable to
its authors that he feared them. He
argued that the document was, made
up from statements Of spies, who fol-
lowed men into their places of busi-
ness and reported their conversation.
He referred to the action of Congress
in abolishing spies in the custom SER
vice and said that Congress then put
the stamp of condemnation upon us
ing Pouches method Of spies.
After some further debate Mat
thews read the reply of the Secretary
of the Interior as part of his remarks.
The communication having been
read, Blaine spoke at length of the
action of tho Secretary of the Inte-
rior. He said the Secretary did not
happen to be q native of this country.
He could not help that and he, Blaine,
did not mention it as reprosch to
him. He was born in the Kingdom
of Prussia which was fifteen thousand
square miles less in extent than Mon
tana and the Secretary, perhaps, with
the instinct of his boyhood applied
the land laws Of Prussia to Montana
and not the land laws which have
been used in settling the United
States.
The Secretary Of the Interior for
got the magnitude of our country,
although he was charged with the ad-
ministration of that Department
which should study it carefully, and
that the one dollar per acre stumpage
exacted by him from the people Of
Montana was excessive. The wood
land within sight of the spire of Trim
ity church, New York City, would
not bring the stumpage which tho
Secretary of the Interior demanded
of the people of Montana.
It was thing conceded by the
Government that the hardy pioneer
who went forward to settle
the country sheuld have
the water, air and wood free. Refer
ring to the abolition Of the informer
system in the customs service, abol-
ished few years ago, he spoke of
the course of the Secretary Of Inte-
rior, then q member of the Senate,
and said he waxed wroth because q
rich importer was interfered with
by detectives, but now the lonely set
tier in Montana could be visited by
spies and pimps.
HOUSE.
Hales amendment to the diplomat
ic bill, increasing tie salary of four
principal ministers from $4,000 as
provided in the bill, to $l7,5OO, the
pro cou% oolo painctaI 90 - 110
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SHOT HIMSELF,

WAsHrNGToN, March 13.--Dr. b. s.
Schorn, recently discharged from the
Interior Department., shot himself
last night.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

The Cincinnati Saturday Night
thinks that "Dame Rnmor" ought to
have her name spelled without the ..
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

mittee on Banking and Currency this
morning agreed upon bill provid-
ing for issuing silver bullion certifi-
Gates. Bullion is to be counted at its
equivalent in coin less mint charges
and cost Of transportation. Ger.
tificates are to be issued by any
silver coming mint or assay Office in
New York and the mint in San Fran.
cisco. Certificates are to be legal
tender in payment for all government
dues.
The vote in the Banking and Cur.
rency committee on the bullion certifi-
cate bill was as follows:
In'favor Of reporting it for passage,
Buckner, Ewing, Hartsell, Bell, Yates
and Phillips, g.; against it-Harden-
bergh, Eames and Chittenden, 3d.
Hart was absent, Ford did not vote.
POSTAGE RATES.
The committee on postoffices and
postroads Of the House, have nearly
completed the bill for the classiiica-
ton of mail matter and rates of post.
age thereon. Mail matter is to be
divided into four classes:
Flrst-Wrltten matter.
Second-Printed matter CT two
kinds, privileged and ordinary.
Third-Other printed matter.
Fourth-Merchandise.
The rates now existing will proba-
bly, not be changed, but the classifi.
cation is simplified. The bill will
prohibit the carrying of mail matter
outside of mails and authorizes the
Postmaster General to use return
postal cards and combined letter
sheet and envelope.
The committee is divided whether
any distinction should be made in
rates on second class matter and the
probability is that the law will re-
main as it is, making rates 2 and 3 cts.
per pound.
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MooMShINEa MOB.
ILLICIT DISTILLERs IN SOUTH CAROLINA
DELIVERED FROM JAIL.

DELlVERED FROM JAIL.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-The COM
missioner Of Internal Revenue last
night received the following tele-
gram from Collector Brayton, at Col
umbia, S. c.; "Information is just re-
ceived from special Deputy Collector
Hoffman, that on tho 9th inst. three
illicit distillers were arrested by his
force and committed to Jail at Pick
ems Court House, by Commissioner
Thornby, and were released by an
armed mob, supposed to be led by the
outlaw Redmond. The Sheriff, who
surrendered the keys to save his life,
refused to aid in the recapture of the
prisoners. Deputy Collector Jillson,
Grenville, telegraphs that he has ad-
vices that an armed mob, last night,
surrounded the house of VIM. Garry,
who aided the revenue officers in ar
resting the released prisoners for
the purpose of hanging him. When
satisfied he was absent with the Off.
GERS, the mob started in pursuit,
threatening ; to capture Garry, and
drive the officers from that section.
Danger Of the officers being overpow-
cred is imminent. Redmond's gang
is organized and desperate" The
Commissioner telegraphed Collector
Brayton as follows: "You are author
lied to employ one hundred men, il
necessary, to aid as posse in enforc-
ing the laws and making arrests.
Call upon the marshals and deputy
marshals to act at once, and leave
nothing nndone to vindicate the mai
esty of the law. Telegraph your &C.
tion tomorrow. GREEN b. RAUM,
Commissioner" /"
The Collector reports to-day that
he has called upon the United States
Marshal and the District Attorney
for assistance in capturing the rescu.
ed distillers and bringing the Jail.
breakers to justice, and that he has
arranged for the employment of a
sufficient force, and was about leav-
ing to superintend operations.
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ouarEa os 4xpARrxxNr
Run on : Rank-poivsamv.

BosToN, March ia run ID now
being made on the Five Cent Savings
Bank, one Of the largest savings
banks in the State.
State detectives ct Tewksbury yes
terday arrested number Of men on
charge OF living in open polygamy.
An attempt is being made to estab-
lish . polygamous society at Tewks.
bury.
BosToN, March 15.-The run ON the
Five Cent Savings Bank, begun yes
terday, has developed into . general
panic. School street, where the bank
is located, has been blockaded by
crowd to-day and the excitement has
been intense.
The committee examining the se-
curities, state that after deducting all
depreciation, which the assets, en-
bracing stock, bonds etc, have suf-
fered, and allowing $l87, 900, with
which to pay interest falling due the
1st Of April, the bank will still
have Q surplus upwards Of &4OO, 600.
The uneasiness has spread to the
Franklin Bank in Boyleston street,
one Of the strongest savings institu-
tions in the country. The managers
of the Franklin have limited the
amount to be paid to depositors on
demand to twenty-five dollars, and
sixty days notice is required for al
sums over that amount. This action
reduces to three the number Of banks
in Boston paying in full on demand.
An unusually large number Of depos.
itors in provident institutions for
savings are partaking Of the general
scare and have applied for and OBJ
tanned their money to-day.
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Accident on the y. p. Road.

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March A.
Che west bound passenger train was
thrown from the track six miles west
of North Platte at 2 30 this morning
by q broken rail. The engine and
mail car passed over all right but the
baggage and two coaches and Sleep
er were badly wrecked. Fortunately
no one was hurt. There were three
emigrant cars attached to the rear of
the train which werc replaced on the
track and taken back to North Platte
with the passengers who will remain
there until the next regular train west
tonight.
The Colorado Central train, 90 long
snow bound at Taylor and Lone Tree
arrived here at 10 q. m.
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SOUTH CAROLINA OUTLAWS.

WASHINGTON, March Collector
Brayton, at Greenville, 8. G. tele-
graphs the Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue that he has organized a
force of thirty men who are now on
their way to Pickens county. Red
mons with 30 men followed Capt.
Hoftman's force of eight men all day
Tuesday. They being powerless to
contend with Redmons' gang retreat
ed to Easily, waiting reinforcements.
Redmons has ordered citizens at their
peril not to furnish food or shelter to
revenue officers. Warrants will be
procured for the Jail breakers and
other revenue culprits. They will
either be captured or become fu-
gitives.
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Tho Raountaln snow Rlock.de.

CHEYENNE, Wy. T., March l2.-Tel-
egraphic communication is open
|northward to Custer. There are
four feet of snow between that point
and Deadwood. The recent storm
was as severe at Forts Mckinney,
Fetterman, Laramie, and along the
route to Deadwood as in this vicinity,
and freight trains have lost many
head of stock frozen and cramped.
The body of Jack Lindsay, who per-
ished in the storm on Pole Greek, Is
miles north, was brought in to this
city tonight. The body Of Mexi-
can was found at Riggs sheep
rancho, seven miles north, and when
found was with six feet of the door.
Wsgonmaster Nau, whose train was
in camp ON Bear Springs Creek, start
ed for the rancho, 600 yards distant,
and wandered twenty miles to Lo-
gan's, on Horse Greek, where he turn
ed up with his feet frozen. There are
still many persons missing, and it is
impossible to conjecture as to their
safety.
The snow blockade on the Union
Pacific is raised. Assistant General
j. T. Clark, from the East met Super
tendent Davis in the long cut east of
this city at noon, and cleared it, when
two trains, which in anticipation had
started from Sidney, soon passed
through, arriving here at 4 and 5 this
afternoon. Two more will arrive at
ii tonight. The combined forces of
these two officers Immediately pro-
ceeded westward, and, notwithstand-
ing the immense drift, succeeded in
clearing every obstacle, some Of the
cuts being twenty-five to thirty feet
deep, and tonight they met the party
from the Western Division at Sher-
man and leave q clear track from
Omaha to Ogden. To make assur-
ance doubly sure, their respective
trains will pass over the ground ear
ly in the morning, and subsequently
all the delayed trains will start from
Cheyenne and Laramie. Passengers
from tho train which laid 50 long at
Antelope state that they had an abun-
dance Of provision, and were well
cared for by the railroad people,
whom they gave credit for sparing
neither money nor labor to get them
to their destination. The others, al
Laramie, of course had plenty. The
Colorado Central and Denver Pacific
are still snow-bound, the former with
fair prospects of clearing the track to-
morrow. their train having returned
to Denver awaiting that event.
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Hales amendment to the diplomat
ic bill, increasing tie salary of four
principal ministers from $4,000 as
provided in the bill, to $l7,5OO, the
present salary, was rejected So to ITO.
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DEs MONIES, March I4.-Young
presented . petition of 500 citizens OF
Cass CO., against the repeal of the r.
r. tariff law.
The following bills were introduc-
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Captain Trudeiic's Fog Route Co
Sandy Hook.

The peculiar dangers incidental to navi-
eating the comparatively shallow approaches
to New York Harbor are frequently increased
by the prevalence of dense fogs and blind
ing snow storms, which render il difficult
for inbound vessels to make n safe anchor
age outside the bar until the weather clears.
Tho existence of a southwestward current
of varying velocity, il is noticed, tends to
setting vessel toward the treacherous
stretch Of coast between Sandy Hook and
Barncgat. Nearly oil The steamers wrecked
on the New Jersey coast by running ashore
in foggy or snowy weather have been
drfted into danger by this current, which
creates an error in the "dead reckoning
on which the navigator is forced
TO rely when he is n,eloped for day or
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the people of Paris to govern hem
selves. And in the name of SO innocent
a theme as that labor should stan in
the world before and above all other ocial
forces, what the practical socialistpro
poses is the immediate butchery of al OPP
ponents, the coniscation of all proerty
and the destruction of all rights andaws
that seem to him obstacles to the fruitin of
his wild fancies. He proposes the rduc-
ton of the world to chaos that he maycre-
ate therefrom new order, because h be-
iieves that he can make better order han
that which exists. Germany is fillednow
with people eager to try this; France has
had some experience of them; Russo is
troubled by them, and even on our sidtthe
Atlantic they are clamorous with theiragi-
tation. From what has boen seen ofthe
temper and methods of this propaganda it
is but too clear that if they once gainthe
upper hand in any country there will be
made history that will Guido the Reig OF
Terror in its atrocities
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OBITUARY.


M,jor William J. Mcdonald, Chct Clerk OF the
Senate, died at hs residence, in Washington, yester
day, aged sixty .Gvc years. Major Mcdonald has bean
IN tho service OF the Senate clerical capacity be-
tween twenty and thirty years Hc was regarded MS
authority on questions OF parliamentary practice. and
Il was he who assigned the important duty, during
tho electoral excitement IN tho winter OF 1877, u
mr., parna Tor the use OF the Senao compeL di I'm or
svlabus OF the Senaic's action counting the oec
torai vote from the nrst presidential election down
TO the second election oil President Grant Ihia
syllabus was Adopted aud used by the Elec
tcrat Commission work oil Reference
and viii probably continue be used as such by par
IIa,oeutnrtans IA Congress It's author " VI the
most widely known OF CONGRESSIONAL attaches. and
has received during his illness great attention from
People In aud about Congress as we'll as hosts oil other
trends