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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09

The st. Louis Globe Democrat says:
The Pullman Car Company have ta-
ken fearful vengeance on their late
Secretary, the fugitive Angel. They
have offered a reward of 81, 600 for his
apprehension, but this is doubtless a
mere excuse for publishing an unfiat-
tering description of his person and
manners. When he was in high
feather, the trusted confidential agent
of this grasping monopoly, he was a
leader in society, and one of the most
noted 'mashers' in Chicago. Now it
seems from the circular of his late
employers that he is slightly gray
about the temples, with ''hair thin on
top of head" his "ROman nose turn
ed slightly to the right" there is ''no
separation between lobes of ears and
face;" "has habit of winking eyes
and wrinkling fOrehead;" sometimes
''stammers slightly in beginning sem
tence, and occasionally repeats his
Words" last, but not least, s'has habit
of picking ears trimming fingernails."
Surely these ear-marks should make
him an easy prey for the detectives.
The company might have added that
he had q habit Of taking other peo-
ple's money dishonesty, but perhaps
the Pullman monopoly does not con-
slider that anything out of the way.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
A Weed Hook.

About twenty-five years agy, Cru
raj" then resident Of Cook county,
weed-hook. 1t consisted
simply of piece Of bent iron fasten-
ed to the plow-beam by . suitable
clasp. We have one now, made twen-
ty years ago, which is put to annual
use. No one ever thought of getting
q patent on 1t, but, instead, It was de-
scribed in the Tribune, and In all the
agricultural journals of the day. A
few days since we received q call
from an agent who had tor sale the
territory and rights Of "Ballard'a
Weed-Tucker," which is almost
identical with the shook" we
have used for twenty-five years.
The agent claimed that it was
patented, which we do not doubt
only that it does seem foolish for peo-
pie to pay for o right to use patent
ed article when one equally as good
can be had Of any common black
smith for 81. We should not be eur.
prised If these agents went around
among the farmers Of this region, and
attempted to collect royalty for the
use or the old weed hook, now the
patented "Tucker." No farmer
should be without weed hook
which enables him to turn under and
completely cover the tallest weeds OF
cOrn-stalks.-Nec York Tribune.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09

Sensible words are those to which
the Boston Journal gives utterance for
the benefit of the laborer. If there
is no prospect that the price of labor
can be advanced, it is of the utmost
importance that the money in which
wages are paid should be made to
have the greatest amounto purchas-
ing power possible. Labor cannot be
kept in storehouses. Services must
be sold every day and wages taken in
the money in use on that day. The
wages cannot be retained, but must
be paid out for food and raiment every
day. Thus the wage-receiving class
es can take no advantage of depre-
ciated currency or the markets, as
can the few who have capital.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09

The large and rapidly-in :reasing
importation into Germany of Ameri-
can fresh beef, hams, sausages, stoves,
glass, cotton goods, sole leather, cam
ned vegetables, fruits, oysters aud
Holsters, and machines of all kinds,
is worrying the English good deal.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: "There
cannot be doubt that the United
States are, year after year, taking
away from US our best customers,
and pushing trade in quarters where,
with the exercise of little honesty
and enterprise, We might have done
Q good business"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09

ONE prominent democratic politi-
clan has been found who confesses the
truth of his party adversary. Hon.
Samuel M. Clark, of the Keokuk
Gate city, in his recentspeech at Win
terset, said as follows in speaking of
the Craig defalcation: "When that
exposure first came, leading demo-
crat of this State Il think he would
not blame me for mentioning his
name-it was Jerry Murphy, of Dav-
export, )-said to me this: We'll, 1
don't care what may be the develop
ments as to the Craig case. This !
will say, as Democrat, that no party
ever managed the affairs of State
more faithfully and honestly than the
republicans of Iowa."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
,MlscEMlMg.
BuTLER AND kEARMEY.
AFTER ABoU BEN ApuFM

AFTER ABOU BEN ADHKM.
BrawiiDg Den Butler (may his tribe decreasc)
Wakefui at night because he knew no peace,
Beheld . .cherub" through the murky air,
Communist Kearney, with m OFFICE CHAIR.
Exceeding cheek had made Ben Butler bold,
And to the Presence from the land of gold.
He spake and said: 'What hast thon In thine
hand
Bearing go far In journeys overianlGn
This" said Black Dennis, with his DEVILS
grin,-
.'This Is a chair to seat gov ner In"
"And 10 IL mine?'' said Ben. ''ThOu crOss- -eye ed
cIss
It is, II thou become as ono of us.
forswear allegiance to all sacred ties,
The love OF country and homes paradise;
Throw honor, faith and self-respect aside,
Religion, iyou haye 1t, let II slide,
OF truth and virtue keep not cen the show /"
''AM These said Ben, ~ squandered long
ago.,
with evil tongue incfte the maddened throng
To deeds OF vengeance for some fancied wrong;
Bring loss of credit to the Nations door
And stir up strife betwixt the rich and poor.
Throw down thy paltry swag, . stolen spoon,
And take instead the torch OF the Commune.
Do this. and on the honor of my knaves
swear thy hand shall grasp the power Il
craves''
He spoke and vaniehetl. to return some night,
And wake the cities with incendiary light;
And in his list of bad men east and west
Lot Buffers name henceforth leads all the rest
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
our FoREIoN.TRADE.

VVW OWeu0W ] WAOE.
EXCESS OF IMPORTS OVER EXPORTS.
Special Telegram to the Inter-ocean.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The balance
OF trade continues largely in favor of
the United States. The returns for
the month of August, which are just
completed, show the excess Of exports
over imports to have been over s22,-
600, 900, an increase of nearly $l9,-
OOO, 900 over the corresponding month
last year. The balance in our favor
during August was greater by eleven
and one-half millions than it was in
July last. The twelve months end
ing with August, rs compared with
the previous twelvemonths, show an
increase Of exports of merchandise
amounting to $ll7 ,2O4 1881, and de-
crease in the imports of merchandise
amounting to $34, $780, ,73l. In specie
the August returns show a slight in
crease of exports over July, and de-
crease in imports amounting to over
$500, 900. The decrease in the exports
of specie from the previous twelve
months was nearly $40, 600, 900, while
the decrease in the imports of specie
was $40, 600, 600. The months of July
and August (of the present fiscal year)
compared with the corresponding
months last year, show an improve
ment In trade In favor of the United
States amounting to over $36, 600, 600.
We shipped from our ports over $685.
10000 worth of merchandise more
than we did in July and August, 1877,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09

THE Commissioner of Pensions has
written letter advising pensioners
to apply for legal advice and assist
ance to their local attorneys and mag
istrates, and not to put their conf
dence in Washington claim agents.
The new law passed at thelast session
of Congress, in relation to claim
agents fees, does not require advance
payment. 1t reduces the fees which
the claim agent may charge from $25
to $40 for pension claim, and re-
quires the agent to collect it directly
of claimant instead of from the agent.
This act applies to all claims filed af-
ter June 20, 1873.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
How the West 10 Suffering.
From the indianapolis journal.

During the past summer and since
the opening of the political campaign,
. well-knOwn gentleman of this city
went to New York foe the purpose of
borrowing money at . low rate of
interest to reloan here. In New York
he met friend, . resident of that
city, who informed him that he had
recently borrowed $25,OOO for four
months at l per cent. year. He said
he could have got the money for q
longer time il he had wanted it, and
the broker who loaned it to him
wanted him to take 100000 at the
same rate. The Indianapolis man
was greatly encouraged by this infor-
nation, and at once made known his
business to his friend. The latter
heard him through, and said: "Mr.
-, il ia useless for you or any other
Western man to try to borrow mon
ey here to be nsed In the West while
the present financial agitation lasts.
There 10 plenty Of money to loan on
very low interest, but the owners will
not loan it except under circumstanc.
es Of the greatest security. Tie infla-
tiOn movement in the West has alarm
cd the capitalists 10 such and extent
that l do not think il will be possible
for q Western man to borrow money
here" This was discouragiug. The
next person approached was another
friend of the indianapolis man, q
gentleman who WAS known to have
money to loan himself. When the
business was opened to him he said !:
"Mr.-, have about $40, 600 in bank
which have no present use for, but
l do not propose to invest it till the
money question is settled, and espe-
cially could not think of letting it go
West" Other capitalists gave the
same reply. Our informant says he
talked with At least forty persons in
the East who had money to lend but
not one was willing to invest while
the imitation agitation continued. As
q leading capitalist said, 81 do not
propose to invest any money until
know what kind Of money l shall
get back" The gentleman who re-
lates these facts says he could have
obtained all the money he wanted at
a very low rate of interest but for
the uneasiness and distrust caused by
the financial agitation.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
From the Nemphis Appeal

II 10 claimed at Washington that
the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has effected combination with
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Company, and that this latter road,
which is now completed to Trinidad,
is to be pushed forward rapidly to
Albuquerque, New Mexico, where
1t will connect with the Southern Pa
cific, which expects to reach that
point next summer. The object of
this junction is to give the southern
road an outlet to st. Louis, and thus
strike its rival the Texas Pacific, ai
tho Northwest as we'll o. in tn
Southwest.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09

A farmer Of experience says that
the feet of a horse require more care
than the body. They need ten times
as much, for in one respect they are
almost the entire horse. All the
grooming that can be done won't
avail anything If the horse 10 forced
to stand where his feet will be filthy.
In this case the feet will become dis
ordered, and then the legs will get
badly out Of fix; and with bad feet
and bad legs there is not much else of
the horse 1T for anything.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09

Brazil's experience in an irredeem-
able currency is highly suggestive.
There greenbackism has had fair
trial, and what do we find? Just what
we would naturally expect-a paper
currency deprecated and worthless.
The government recently offered SO
millions of fiat money for millions
of gold-and it is doubtful if even
that much can be realized on it.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
VOLUME so.

and nearly $4,000, 900 less specie, while
our imports of merchandise decreased
over $6, 600, 900. At this rate, If the
same conditions continue during the
current year, the balance Of trade in
our favor for twelve months will have
increased $2lG, 900 above what 1t was
last year, and and amount to the enor-
nous aggregate of $477, 900, ,OOO.--
Treasury officials all concur in the
opinion that both internal and for
eign commerce and all other impor-
tant conditions areshaping themselves
for a resumption of specie payments
on the 1st of January next.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
Labor In the South and in the
North.

The condition of the ISraelites in
Egypt was one OF comparative ease
and comfort compared to that of the
colored laborers of the South to-day!
1t is utterly impossible that labor in
the North can be fully employed or
receive just compensation while the
4 1000, 900 laboring population in the
South are subjected to the appalling
oppression and grinding extortiOn OF
Southern democracy. There is "a
dearth of ofemplOyment" and "a dearth
of wages" in the North, particularly
in the manufacturing end commercial
States and centres of population.
Must it not be apparent to every rea-
sonable working man in these States
that if the laboring class in the South
were paid wages, even at what would
be considered almost starvation rates
at the North, there would be an in
creased consumption of products of
Northern labor in the South, sufficient
to employ every mill, every engine,
every machine, every laborer in the
North that now remains unemployed.
Laborers in the South do not average
over fifty cents week, about 800 a
year, paid i'm corn meal and goods at
two prices. Must it not be apparent
to that il Southern laborers We're paid
honest wages, such wages as labor is
worth, there would be such an in
creasing consumption of Northern
products in the South as would insure
a permanent prosperity hitherto un-
known in this country; such pros
perity as our best natural resources
entitle us to!
The lab0rer fthe South sCiU achieve
for himself the rights of manhood
and the honest reward of labor il the
laborer of the North will do his duty.
If he will dissolve the unholy bond
that binds him to a party that is as
much the political serf of the South
as the negro is the labor serf of this
section of it; if the Northern laborer
will say, 81 will no longer affiliate
with party that is the slave ofSOuth-
ern democracy that cruel, relentless,
inhuman tyrant of free labor;" if he
will extend a brotherly hand to his
fellOw-tOilsman of the South and say
II will defend your right to protect
your labor by your American citizen
ship, by your ballot, because you are
a man, because you are an American
citizen, because you are an honest fel-
low-toilsman, and because in protect
ing you ! am protecting manhood,
my country, any my labor, and my
self and little ones and all that is dear
to me as q man and as q citizen, and
will do all that is in my power to de.
stroy your oppressOrs, the Southern
democracy, and its serf and minion,
Northern democracy" then will la.
Dor be enthroned in justice and en-.
dowed with its just rights, and moi
before.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
Butler Worries the Democrats.

ram /. v.,n,n .ton a,.n.,.h - ~. pb;,aae,nn,.
Press.
Whatever may be the result of the
Butler political emeute in Massachu-
sett, It is certain, Judging from the
talk about the headquarters Of the
tee, ~ that their leaders are sorsly per-
general upheaval which now threat
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09

Vile leather men woodent Civ him .
bit nv leather for our money, and
that is all he hez. He offered en-
three prices, but they declined frigid-
~, and he come home without . sim
gle side. He swears he has bin rob-
bed, and he is so disloyal ez to d-n
the COUNSEL, and me. the originator
Nv the idee. I told him to start tan
merry hisself, and be independent NV
the outside world, but he wantid to
know how he wuz agoin to do It with
fiat money? The fact is sosiety needs
reorginizin. There must be some
way devised to compel Looisville to
take our money. Ez no fiat money is
ever goin to be redeemed in gold or
anything else, why amt ours jist ez
good ez anybody's9
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
NAUGHTY ACKLEN
The Louisiana Congressman Again
Charged With Seduction \
His Victims Confession on Her
Death Ded--Wltnesses Car
ried Away by the Pest
The Sensation Of New
Orleans.

New ORLEANS, La, September %
The death Of Harry l.. Smith lasl
evening brought the Hon. j. III. Ack-
len again into UNPLEASANT promi-
nence. About three years ago . scan.
dal was rife in the Bayou Teche in
which Acklen and young woman
connected with the Palfrey family,
one of the oldest in the State, were
implicated. 1t was publicly stated
that Acklen seduced and then mar
ried her to his hostler to cover up the
crime. 1t is certain that the hostler
married her, brought her TO this city
and then deserted her. Not long af.
ter child was born. The affair was
generally discussed and Acklen se-
verely censured. He, however, pro-
duced certain affidavits from the girl
and her mother setting forth that the
alleged outrage was fabrication.
The matter was then dropped
About three months ago Acklen and
Smith had some trouble about pub
licatiOn bearing upon the Washing
ton scandal. Shortly after ward
Smith heard of the presence ia town
Of the girl above alluded to and
sought her out. She was in an inn
condition and Smith Of
fered her shelter In his house. Short
ly after she contracted fever and died.
Before she died, however, according
to Smiths statement, she gave him an
affidavit duly sworn to before a jus
tice .of the Peace, to the effect that
Acklen had drugged her with wine
and seduced her.
Last Sunday evening Smith told the
Times correspondent, in the presence
Of witnesses, that he not only had that
affidavit but others, clearly proving
Acklen's guilt. These statements he
said hc would produce before the |
State Central Committee
and make Acklen retire from the tick
et. On Tuesday Smith contracted |
The fever, but was doing we'll up to |
Friday morning. At that time q |
member of the Democratic Central
COMMITTEES called upon him, bearing |
The affidAvits that Acklen had obtain- |
I'd for his defense and asked Smith |
Tor the proofs Of his charge. Smith |
became greatly excited, relapsed and |
lied within few hours. Before his |
death, however, Justice of the
Peace. at his own request, it is said,
put oil his effects under seal, in which |
condition they will remain until ex-
by the administrator.
Acklen AYERS that the affair was An
attempt at blackmail. There has
been considerable excitement in the
,ity over the affair and the examina-
ION of Smith's effects is waited for
with intense interest. Smith claimed |
hat the affidavits in Acklen's posses
'ion were partly forgerics and partly
obtained by hush money. The affair
a decidedly the sensation of the city
It present. An attempt was made |
asst night to get the child of the dead |
girl away from her colored nurse at |
smiths house, but 1t was frustrated.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
Virtue u il Own Reward.

A generous New Yorker, who has
bcen spending his summer in Mont
gomery, lost his pOcket-book, con-
tanning $44O, ON the road to Westfield
the other day. It was found by the
stage driver and returned to the
Yorker, who counted II over and
said: Eyes, its al here. Much oblig-
ed. I'll speak Of your honesty to my
New York friends"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09

IF our Fiatists will dispatch the
Porte at Constantinople we doubt not
they can obtain o few ship loads ofab-
solute money and save the expense
of printing it. .. It has played out over
there and won't buy bread, hence we
conclude they would consent, upon a
pinch, to pay freight on it to get it
out of the country.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09

JAMES G. BLAINE was introduced
to o thousand people at the depot to-
day, and spoke for some ten minutes.
In moment after he commenced he
had that crowd on his side. There is
a magnetic power about him that is
possessed by but very few men in any
one generation. That ten minutes
from Blaine was full of such invinci-
BILE logic and electrical power as to be
of immense value in a campaign like
this. Iowa will never regret, now
that they have seen and heard Blaine,
that they stood SO solidly for him for
President in 1876.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
In Training.

Trimble is sugar-coating and greas-
ing Jones for the next Circuit Judge
two years hence. OF course it will
be a nauseating dose for the democra-
cy, but if they take Weaver this time
without too many wry faces, Jones
can be fixed up with Trimble'sgroom-
ing SO that he can be gulped. But
pleasant or not he must be gobbled.
This is the price of his treachery to
his party, and Trimble was never
known to 60 back on a bargain of
this kind when it was to his interest
to stick to it. Bloomfield Republican,.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
THE Illinois Republican State Cen

THE IIIlnOls Republican State Cen
trail Committee have made arrange
ments for vigorous prosecution of
the campaign from now till the day
of election. Hon. Jas. G. Blaine will
make a series of speeches, beginning
i'm Chicago some time next week.
Other prominent speakers secured are
Hon. James F. Wilson, of Iowa; Gen.
James A. Garfield, of Ohio; Gen. Ben.
Harrison, of Indiana; Gen. John A.
Logan, and Senator. .Oglesby.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
A Hint to 0runblers.

The Burlington Hasckeye recently
HImered to business men these excel
-oa! ssnggestions:
|r.-sc ssanding advertisement in q
.ons srr.pssf, rlss set boldly out, attracts !
9ood Geai of attention and becomes
transfixed in the men. anu Secomes
reader. II may not be nn;;oea - eeesy ac.y
but after while the lines 49, s.' ="
miliar and become stamped Ww nnov ~ ~
mind. The advantage is made an s,e
parent in this way, the subscriber In
the course of time wants something
In the line Of goods kept by the mar
whose Advertisement he is familiar
with. He naturally visits the adver.
tiser's store and buys what he wants,
for though be may never have been
inside the place before. he feels thor
oughly. acquainted with everything
about it, and this removes that em-
which no one likes to
show when on shopping tour. A
good advertisement kept constantly
In . paper, 10 like , finger-board at :
cross road IL removes all difficulty
10 finding the right place."
To this another journal promptly
"The above 10 all true, and we may
ldd more. Some Of our patrons cay
[ don't want . standing advertise
nept. will invest in locals But
ew men in the hurry Of business at
end to sending in locals to . weekly
,aper regularly, aud much of the
ime they are not represented. This
western country is constantly
icing peopled with new comers. |
They come with money and stop with |
The county paper is |
he first thing asked for. IT the ju-
licious advertiser is represented by
n attractive advertisement, he may
rofit thereby, but If his face in the
ray Of type. has been omitted, and
he locals forgotten, as they often are,
be now conner, when he goes to pur-
hase his outfit, will look for the sign
f store which he found announced
q the standing ads. They are taken
. an index to business places just as
luch as the painted sign, or the
oods displayed in front. Locals in
onnection with an advertisement
changed are good, but the
10 should 60 together, and in the
nd are the most profitable"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09
One Of Thurman's Plans.
From the Cleveland Herald.

The free coinage Of silver is insist
cd upon by Mr.. Thurman. This
means that the Government shall take
80 cents worth Of silver from the
mine owners and tullion brokers and
give them In return coin that ia 10.
gal tender for one dollars very nics
Transaction for them aud for nobody
else. Eleven per cont. profit ON eaci
transaction-why, the .tlecharou
bondholder" business 10 nothing IL
this.