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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

The stockholders of the Union Bank
of this city have resolved to discon-
tinue business, believing that they
can employ their capital more profit
ably in their private business. Con-
sequently the bank will go into liquid
alton at once, and divide up its capi-
tai of 500, 900. Notwithstanding the
withdrawal of this large amount from
our banking capital, and also the re-
duction which the City National Bank
made in its capital from 100000 to
$4,000, there will still be in Cedar
Rapids sufficient banking facilities to
fully supply all the demands of pres
ent business. The banks generally
throughout the country have had a
large amount of their capital lying
idle for months past, and in fact the
banks at the money centres have
their vaults stuffed with idle, musty
bills. And yet the greenbackers are
bowling for more currency, while the
country has neither use for the amount
now in existence, nor the cOllaterals
to borrow it n."-Cetir Rapids Re
publican.
Just SO, and these banks of the coun-
try have for business, making mon
ey, and the blatant greenbacker who
knows nothing what he is talking
about, ala Weaver, says they are
making four times what is a legiti.
mate profit. Why then in the name
Of time, are over a hundred millions
of currency to which the banks ART
entitled on their present capital, not
called for and put in ncirculations Why
is it that the Iowa National Bank O
this city retired some $4,000 of it
authorized circulation. The fact ii
the banks are retiring all over thu
country, from day to day, a portion 0
their authorized issue. Why are the,
doing it? Because it don't pay to keel
it. If it did pay, as charged, is Their
any man fool enough to suppose tina
bankers are fools enough to give up
lgood thing.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
Remarkable Robbery

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, July 3l.-At 8
o'clock this morning it was discover.
ed that remarkable robbery was
committed last night in the private
bank of L. L. Holmes, who has been
carrying on a loan agency and pri-
vate bank for money lenders in Will
limantic, Conn. Bonds valued at
$4,000 were carried of and "a 900 in
currency is missing. The record
book, in which the records Of bonds
were kept, ia SO badly mutilated
that the bonds cannot be described.
They are of the denomination of $3.50
and upward, payable at the bank of
North America in New York, and "a
they represent real estate loans are
mostly not negotiable. The safe was
opened by a combination, which was
supposed to be known only by
Holmes and his clerk, who is absent
No clew to the robbers has yet beer
obtained.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

BY the recent decision of Secretary
Schurz the public lands given to Ger
tain railroad companies and remain
ing unsold, may now be purchased by
the settler at s1.25 per acre. This de
cision is based upon the provision o.
the law that all lands granted the
companies should be subject to settle
ment which remained unsold by the
company three years after the road
was completed. This decision we un'
derstand, affects the following roads,
Union Pacific, Central Pacific, Kansas
Pacific, Central Branch of the Union
Pacific, Sioux City Branch of the
Union Pacific and the Western Pacific
between Sacramento and San Fran
cisco.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
Politics in GeoYeia.

Politics enter into even the cookery
in Georgia. A colored citizen in the
state sought employment recently,
with this curious certificate of recon.
mendation: "This is to certify thai
Henry Garnagsh (colored) has beer
in the employ of the Georgia and Al.
ALBANIA Steamboat company, as cool
on the steamer Magnolia, for one
year and has given satisfaction al
cook, and while in my employ has
been sober industrious and well-be.
haved man. Also a good Democrat
This ia signed by the captain of the
steamboat. This final sentence is
dropped in much in the same way
that the solemn young man who
brought his poetry to John PhGnix
dropped in his final remark on the
fate Of the person who "was accident
ally shot" "The pistol was one OF
the old fashioned kind, brass mount.
ed, and of such is the Kingdom OF
Heaven"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

pertinent in the end. Meanwhile, il
we do not mean to repudiate, we must
find some way of reducing the inter
est burden. Tax the per cent. bonds
and they would net l01l per cent.
interest, and it can be readily seen no
body would touch them. But if the
debt is not refunded at q lower rate,
how is the interest burden to be light
ened?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
A Queer Case.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-Charles Mon.
tague, on complaint of Geo. Clarke
of Springfield, Otsego county, wat
lodged in jail in default of s., 500 bail
in a suit brought by Claake for $46,.
600 damages for property burned by
Montagues tenants mutual society
of which Montague is alleged to have
been an active member, between De.
cember 90, 1873, and September l
1876. Clarke is said to be the largest
land owner in this State, owning be.
tween 10000 and $4,000 acres.
Clarke's affidavit sets forth that he
acquired the land through grant by
the colonial counsel to VIM. CORY
and others, The associates OF Cory
transferred an undivided moiety tC
George Clarke, ancestor Of the pres
ent owner. During the anti-rent OK.
element from 1916 to 1850 suit was
brought on petition of tenants by the
State against said Clarke to vacate
his letters patent on the ground oi
original fraud in obtaining the grant
The suit was decided in Clarke's fa.
vor in every court. Clarke's father
had let out the land in farms of about
200 acres upon leases of two lives in
being, but not less than thirty three
years, at an annual rental of 121s
cents per acre. These leases began
to expire in large numbers about 1870
and new leases were offered tenants
at increased rates of from so cents te
81 so and 81 an acre. This increase
met with great opposition from ten
ants and the Montague tenants mu.
tual society was formed.
Fires have constantly occurred up
to the present time and property
worth thousands Of dollars has beer
destroyed. 1t is believed the society
still exists, although its movementl
are conducted with the strictest secre
sy. Affidavits of detectives relate
conversations with people of Charles
ton Four Corners and state that OF
several occasions Montague admitted
to them that the sole object of tn,
mutual society was the destruction
of Clarke's property. To bind 1T
members the society had oaths will
penalty of death for their violation.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
THE Clinton Herald speaks pithily
and most sensibly as follows:

The republicans created the green
back, and limited the issue to keep ii
good. The copperhead democrats
tried to kill it by calling it unconstitu-
tional money, and worthless. When
the war was over the same democrats
tried to kill it again by demanding
an issue of two thousand millions to
repudiate the debt with. The repub-
licans sustained the glory of the ma
tional triumph unimpaired, by pro-
tecting the greenback from this dis
grace, when it was worth only half its
face in gold. Now, after it has come
up to the value of gold; when all
prices have been adjusted to its pres
ent status; and when two hundred
millions of gold and silver are about
to be liberated and added to the vol.
ume of money, comes the financial
greenhoyn, under new party name,
trying once more to kill and disgrace
the greenback, by an issue'of unnum-
bered millions, in the hope of cheat
ing somebody out of the money in.
vested in the bonds which saved the
Union. Republican greenbackers will
defeat this madness, too.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
IOWA.
Atlantic is ten years old, and claims
$500 inhahitants.

Atlantic is ten years old, and elaine
$500 inha abitants.
The Corning Gazette is twelve
years old, and prospering.
A few women tramps are reported
from different sections of the State.
The Cedar Rapids temperance re.
form club will have an excursion to
Iowa City on August 2lst.
Eldora saloon keepers now mix up
and sell to customers new and fam
cy drink called "rattlebelly."
A life-size doll baby was shipped
Dy mail through Keokuk the other
day. 1t was stamped and duly label
ed zone body
The foreman of the Des Moines
daily People was waylaid and pound
ed with brick bats while on his way
home the other morning.
One night last week the barn OF
Mr.. Swinger, Hardin county far
mer, was struck by lightning and six
horses were instantly killed.
The town of Boone has lately been
sued for $4,000 by a man named
Caldwell to recover damages sus.
tanned by him from being pounded
by the city marshal.
The residence of John Kuns, near
Stuart, was burned up on the 2lst.
Everything contained in it was de-
stroyed and the family left homeless
and in poor circumstances.
George w. Read, son of Rev. j. e.
Read of Des Moines, was the lucky
lad in the competitive examination
held at that place on the 24th for ap-
pointment as cadet to the military
school at West Point.
Yesterday NonpareR representa-
tive ran across the man who is "really
unable to take weekly newspaper"
lie was from the country and invest
ed $500 in circus tickets for himself
and family. There are many such.-
Council Bluffs NonpareH.
Newton Mirror, %: CDR. A. s. El-
wood removed finger from the
hand Of Mrs. Highland, one day this
week. The finger had catfish bone
run into it some three weeks ago,
and after paining for short time
ceased hurting and gradually with
cred up"
Hon. 9. w. Won Coelin, State Su-
perintendent Of Public instruction, is
an industrious laborer in the educa-
tional field. This season he has al
ready attended seventeen County
Teachers Institutes and still has en-
gagements for thirty-three MORE
These allot all his time-every even
ing except Saturdays and Sundays
for seven weeks yet to come. Such q
Jealous educator is a prize for Iowa.
Gazette.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
A Victim for Judge Lynch.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo-, July M.-An
interesting rape case is the latest SEN
sation here. Thos. j. Nugent, white
tramp, met Dora Bradford, colored
girl, aged eleven years, on the
track of the Kansas City and
Eastern Railroad, q short distance
east of here, overpowered her and
ravished her. He was caught in the
act by party of boys who were out
hunting, and they took him prisoner
and brought him to this city. The in
human villain was examined before
Esquire Bean this afternoon, and COM
mitted to Jail to await action of the
Grand Jury. There was very strong
talk among the colored people of
lynching the brutal wretch,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
IOWA, AUGUST Z, 1873.

mortgaged for $4,000, only sold fo1
900, and Thompson lost the differ
ence, but he was Grasper for al
that. 1t was taking advantage Of
him, Mr.. Hay said. He had been led
into speculation
What did know of your specula
ton ?" demanded Thompson. 81 len,
you money-you-but what is tht
use Of talking"
Mr.. Hay considers Mr.. Thompson
an Enemy to Humanity, q Human
Spider, an Octopus, Vampire, and
everything else that is grasping and
sucking, and so do all the Hayses OF
Poolesville. They have all joined the
National party, and they resolve that
property is robbery, that banks are
extortion mills and the grinders
therein deserve ropes and short shrift.
And he demands an unlimited Issue
OF greenbacks, to the end that the
price Of his lots-as they won't sell
they are still in his name-may 20 up
to the point that he may still realize
something on them.
Mr.. Hay has moved into an humble
home, and Mrs. Hay does plain sew
ing, while Mr.. Hay is saving the
country-between drinks. He has
sent to Toledo for the talented Rev.
Cravens and the learned Counsel or
Miller, for he wants them at great
demonstration he is getting up, in the
interest of labor, and against the
hanks. He proposes to hold up this
wretch Thompson to the execration
of mankind, as one of . class made to
prey upon honest men whose wives
mothers were saving women. His
soul chafes under the humiliation of
having his drinks charged. He has
no objection to living on his wife's
plain sewing, but the iron necessity Of
being under obligations to q bar
keeper worries him. He wants about
q thousand million of greenbacks is
sued next year, and as much more
thereafter ss may "be demanded by
the necessities of trade"
We do not know how it would have
been had Mr.. Hays speculation
proved differently. Possibly had
the imitation of the currency kept up
till he could have sold his lots, and
got pay for them, he would have
started a bank in opposition to Mr..
Thompson, and would not have been
q National at all. Possibly had he
been prudent and saved the money
that was paid him down ON his lots,
and worried through, he would still
have been a good Democrat. But it
was not go, and so he strikes hands
with the Nationals, and howls as
wildly as any of them. And every
time he passes his old home he grits
his teeth and calls down fire upon
the head Of the fiend Thompson, who
"robbed" him of it.
This is why Mr.. Thompson. of
Poolesville, Ind, is considered an
Enemy to Humanity.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
Brick Pomeroy was traitor during

Brick Pomeroy was a traitor during
the war. He tried to break down the
greenback currency and the Union as
well. He is still engaged in the same
business. This great oracle of the new
National Decentralization party is
trying to use the new fiat money de-
lusion to break down the National
Treasury note and to inaugurate a
new scheme of secession. He says:
1--WE can clean all of those Eastern
pirates out of the homes and the prop
erty they have stolen. We can unite
and whip them to reason and COM
prehension of the right. We can
leave the country northeast of the Al
leghany mountains to pay the Ma
tiOnal debt"
Every many of sense knows that
any kind of National money would
be valueless if the National Govern
ment should be broken to pieces as
Brick P0meroy's sinister threat about
leaving "the country northeast of the
Allegheny mountains to pay the Ma
tional debt" contemplates.- Gate city.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

Gov. PALMER, of Illinois, has been
before the Potter committee. He was
one of the democratic visiting states.
men. He is compelled to admit the
evidence that was produced of the
most inhuman bulldozing, and his
whole testimony is that ofan unwill-
ing witness who admits the charges
of intimidation made by the repub.
licans.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
Mer,ted honor to the Dead.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-Dispatches from
Muskegan, Mich, state that the mon
ument erected to Capt. Jonathan
Walker by Rev. Philetus Fisk, OF
Greece, was unveiled at that place yes.
terday, with imposing ceremonies
Capt. Walker was known ~ the mar
with the branded hand, q cognomeu
derived from the fact that the palm
of his right hand was branded s. s
(Slave Stealer) ON account of his hav.
assisted in running fugitives over in.
to Canada ON his vessel. Parker Pills
bury, Ex-C0ngressman Williams
Gen. Pritchard and other orator.
m ade addresses.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
A MONSTER SKELETON.
Tne Discovery Which Created In
tense Excitement In an Easter
vilo00o

| sUo OsSCOV0Ty "nlCU created IN
tense Excitement In an Eastern
| village.
Especial Correspondence OF the Globe. Democrat
STARRUccA. Pa, July 26, l87S.-The
most intense excitement was created
to-day and general rush made to
Mt. Ararat, on the Jefferson Branch
of the Erie Road, between the Sus-
quehamna Depot and Carbondale,
when it was announced that the fos-
sill remains of mastodon.h had been
found in cave near the station.
Hundreds of people, both on foot
and in carriages, visited the scene,
and the constant stream of arrivals
awoke the people Of that drowsy
suburb Of Carbondale to the fact that
they must bestir themselves if they
wanted to become acquainted with
what was transpiring in their very
midst. 1t seems that some workmen,
while excavating at the point named,
came upon what at first seemed TO be
part of tusk of an elephant, about
twelve inches long, but upon exami-
nation 1t was found to be a peculiar
kind Of tooth which had once done
service in the jaw of q mammiferous
animal, and upon inspection by q
naturalist who lives in the vicinity,
and to whom it was Immediately
conveyed, it was pronounced to be
the tooth of mastodon, one of those
extinct animals which ages ago,
larger than the largest elephant,
roamed through the woods and wales
of aboriginal America. The work
men at once returned to their task,
and under the direction of the natu-
ralist already mentioned, aud an anti
quarian, whom he summoned from
Carbondale, the search for further
FOSSIL remains were prosecuted until
nearly IL O'Clock last night, by which
time nearly the entire skeleton of the
monster was unearthed, and is now
on exhibition, carefully guarded, at
the mouth of the cave. During the
time the men were bringing the curl
GUS remains together from the recess
in the cavern. where they have lain
for SO many, many years undisturbed
by the hands of meddling man, hun
dreds of people from the country
round about looked on and wondered
as each additional section was laid
beside its brethren, aud the colossal
leg ELECTED much comment, all mar
yelling that such monster ever ex-
listed. The skeleton is being placed in
position, and is magnificent speci-
men. Its proportions are immense,
and of actual measurement, to-wit:
Jaw bone, four feet long and thirteen
inches thick, studded with remains of
tusks, which must have been, Judging
by what remains, equally remarkably
huge; vertebra, twenty-three feet
eight inches long and indicating i'm
mense strength in the animal knee
cap eighteen inches in length and nine
and half inches in width at the
narrowest point; thigh bones six and
quarter feet long, and the bones
from the knee to the foot seven feet
in length. The people Of Susque-
hanna Depot and surrounding coun-
try are greatly excited over the dis
covery. We are informed that the
skeleton will be carefully packed and
shipped to Washington as . present
to the Smithsonian IDstituta
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
The Most Remarkable Lady Sci.
enlist in the Country.

The most remarkable lady scien tist
IN this country at the present time 10
Mrs. Simeon II. Smith, the wife of q
gentleman residing in Jersey City.
She was educated at Mrs. Willard's
famous Troy Seminary, and after her
marriage resided some years in Chi
cago, Her taste for abstruse studies
early found expression in a collection
of shells and minerals, which was
the germ of what is now one Of the
finest private collections in the United
States, and valued at twenty-five
thousand or more dollars. 1t CON-
prises, among other treasures, over
LOCO choice minerals, as many fossils,
and about 100 precious gems. Mrs.
Smith was nearly two years in the
School of Mines at Freiburg, Saxo-
ny, the most celebrated institution OF
the kind in Europe, where she associ-
ated with many of the learned scien-
fists Of the day. In this vicinity she
procured numerous rare and valuable
specimens of silver ores, of arsenic,
spars, etc. Into some of the mines O
Europe she descended over l,SOO feet
in one instance went down in q
bucket. She obtained very rare spec.
linens from the Hartz Mountains, not
the least of which is a beautiful fish.
lizard--the Ichthy hyosaurus--some three
feet long. She has also large mum
Der of fossil fishes, collected from va.
rious localities. Her suit of coppers
is very complete; cobalt and all me.
tallic ores; agates Of every variety
one specimen is foot in circumfer-
ence; onyx; malachite; lapis lazuli,
and rhodenite in exquisite forms
One curiosity Is perfect lizard in
amber.
Mrs. Smith is perfectly familiar
with every feature of her vast cabi.
net, and imparts information in a
clear and comprehensive manner
She possesses remarkable memory
and is highly cultivated on all general
topics. She has contributed many
valuable articles to scientific publica.
tlons. She is . fine linguist, has
been exceptionally successful in trans.
lations from the French and German
and is at present engaged on the
translation off work from the French
She is member of the American As.
sociation for the Advancement of Sci.
ence. And she was the first lady
member of the Academy of Sciences
of New York. She entertains gen.
erously in her pleasant home on Pa
citic avenue in Jersey City. During
the past winter she has given series
of literary and musical entertain.
ments which have drawn many cele.
briiies from New York as we'll as
New Jersey, her guests often num-
bering rs many as two or three hund.
red. She has four promising sons
one Of whom is at present in Colum
bia College. She is lady in middle
life, little above the average height
with q pleasant, open countensnce
agreeable manners, and is one of the
most noble-hearted and benevoleu,
Of women.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

The Council Bluffs NonpareH says
"The farmers are offering $l.5O per
day and board for harvest hands, and
yet find it difficult to obtain enough
help to secure their crops. At the
UAion Pacific depot in this city $500
and 1926 per day is offered common
laborers, but the takers are few and
far between. In view of this state OF
affairs, isn't it about time for the "Na-
tionap papers to stop their howls
about the scarcity Of work and the
wrongs and indignities of the poor
tramp, and commence swallowing
some Of their lies?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
Crime.

New JERSEY, Aug. 1--Henry Smith,
policeman of Jersey City, with his
wife retired last night at IL and at 4
this morning Mrs. Smith awoke to
find her husband dead with his skull
crushed. He had been murdered in
his sleep, and it appears that the as
sassins fret chloroformed the husband
and wife, as the deed was perpetra-
ted without Mrs. Smith knowing
anything about it. The body was
terribly mutilated. Smiths domestic
affairs were curiously complicated,
and he has been living with q we'll
known woman young woman, named
Jennie Powers. The woman was ar
rested, and will be closely watched.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
Public Debt statement.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The public
debt statement for July shows de-
crease of $206, 1907, and the following
balances in the treasury:
Currency, 81, ,lOS,3l7.
Special fund for redemption of
fractional currency, $lO,O0O.OOO.
Special deposit Of legal tenders for
redemption of certificates of deposit,
$5l, 100000.
Coin, 2O7,OO7, 7,S52, including coin
certificates 1861 ,O3O.
Outstanding legal tenders, $346,
eS1 01G
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
FOREIGN.
INsuRRECTIoN OF CUBAN sLA

F@V'f0N OF CCbdN SL1 ESs
NEW YORK, July 31.-Reliable re.
ports from Havana state that q negro
riot broke out there on the 22d inst,
in tho locality of Knowvas Los Silios.
The principal cause of dissatisfaction
among the blacks seems to have been
their continuance in slavery after the
liberation of all those who surrend-
cred at the collapse of the rebellion.
During the disturbance the police had
to charge sword in hand, killing and
wounding great many. The rioters
then dispersed and fled to the swamps
around Atares Castle. Only a few
arrests were made. Some of the
Spanish line regiments have been
mustered out of service, and few are
to remain on the island as settlers.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

In 1875, the value of carpets made
In this country was $32, 376, los. In
1872 the value of the carpets import
was $6, GOO, 600, which fell of in 1877
to $674,9ll. Thirty years ago it took
two persons to weave seven yds day
of Brussels carpet, but with our i'm
proved machinery girl can weave
fifty yards day.