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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
F1END1sH WORK.
The Horrible Crime Of an Unnatural
Mother In iohio-Clvilization a
Failure.
FlENDs 1NCARNATE.

FlENDS 1NCARNATE.
Special Telugram to the Inter-Ocean
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 30.-One of
the most flen0ish crimes ever perpe-
trated in our State comes to light to-
night from Lockbourne, this county.
A widow, Mrs. James Erwin, last
February prevailed upon William
Haslop, young man aged "a, to
come and board with her. He was
given all the comforts of a home, and
an intimacy soon sprung up between
the widow and Haslop. This did not
satisfy the british nature of the viii
lain, and he yearned for Mrs. Erwin's
little daughter, a small and beautiful
child of Ia. But his attentions were
repulsive to the child, and, finding he
could accomplish nothing by fair
means, he and the unnatural mother
drugged the girl, when Haslop out
ragged her person. As soon as this
object was attained, the intimacy in
creased 10 almost daily occurrence,
and what the poor girl suffered no
tongue can tell. After this they COM
PEELED the child to take poisonous
drugs constantly to avoid pregnancy,
but their dosing did no good, and the
girl was soon discovered to be preg.
nant. They then put their heads to-
gether and procured the services of a
midwife, who administered power.
full drug to kill the babe. In this they
were successful. On Saturday eve.
ming last the girl gave birth to still
born child, and Sunday noon the un-
willing mother was a corpse. The
death-bed scene was one Of the most
horrible that can be imagined. She
suffered the most circulating pains
Ten minutes before she died her
mother asked her if she was prepared
to 60. The little sufferer exclaimed
81 am, but, mother, you are the cause
of all this" The fiend who outraged
her stood by with an air of indiffer.
ence. On Monday he was given six
hours to leave town, and left for parti
unknown. A warrant is out for hi.
arrest, and Judge Lynch will proba
bly, take care of him, and it is the uni
versal feeling that the mother should
suffer with him. James Erwin, hel
husband, was drowned two years
ago, and he being an Odd Fellow
that order saw that the young moth.
er was respectfully buried.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. Russia
has accepted Austria's proposal of q
conference for settling the European
questions resulting from the war,
but the place has not been determined
on and will not be until the basis OF
Russian peace conditions have been
signed.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
SIZING Rull-
HE WILL RECEIVE ONLY WAR FROM TIL
GOVERNMENT.

lie WILL RECEIVE ONLY WAR FROM THE
GOVERNMENT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The various
reports that have reached the Gov
eminent with reference to the where
abouts of Sitting Bull and his band
have not been disregarded at the War
Department. There is settled de-
tel mination to make war on that par
ty, whenever and wherever they are
found in our dominion. Permission
has been asked and granted by the
Indian Bureau to military authorities
to enlist the Crows against the hos
tile Sioux. The Crows are old enc
mics of the Sioux, and have been for
long series of years friendly to the
government. If there is any danger
of Sitting Bulls crossing the line, the
recruiting of Crows will be immedi-
ately begun.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
Locomotive Works Fall.

Boston, Feb. 2.-The Hinckley 10.
connective works have suspended the
Liabilities are about 100000. Hall
OF the paper is held by the Boston
banks. The property of the company
is assessed for $35O,OOO; $4,000 are
required to tide over the existing
trouble and committee of creditors
has been appointed to consider the
best course to pursue.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
Editorial Excursion

MuscATINE, Feb. 2.-E. II. Smith,
agent of the M. X. Il I. r. r., was
here to-day, comforting with John
Mahin, President of the Iowa Press
Association, concerning an excursion
of the Iowa editors to Texas, some
time in March or April. The terms
are about the same as those given on
the Salt Lake excursion Of 1872. The
trip is to include Galveston and San
Antonio, and promises to be one of
universal interest and pleasure. Ed
itors desiring to go should confer
with Mr.. Mahin or with A. II. Neidig,
Secretary, at Marshalltown.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
Ia pef,,...&oA..

WAsHINGToN, Feb. 2.-Judge Brad
ley has decided adversely upon the
applications of the Louisiana return
ing board, requesting that their trial
now pending be transferred from the
state to the United States circuit
court, claiming as the reason for the
change that they cannot secure their
equal civil rights under the state cir.
cult.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06

The democratic majority in the
House Committee on elections seem
10 be acting on the theory that no re-
pvblicans we're elected TO Congress.
They seated Patterson from Colora-
dc, who had not shadow Of claim to
the seat. They have decided to over
rule the decision of the courts and
seat the democratic contestant from
California; and now, as they cannot
lad IN excuse to seat q democrat
who wants Rainey'splace from South
CarOliAa. they will recommend the
passage of q resolution declaring that
there was NO election. Rainey's ma
jority was over 5000, notwithstand-
ing the White League, and his dis
trict has given him rs high as 5000
majority.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06

EVERYBODY recollects Fitzhugh, the
frst Democratic doorkeeper of the
House since they got possession of
that body. He was the "biger man
nor old Grant," whose corruption
was so open aud scandalous that he
was hustled out of ofiice by his party
in . hurry. Next came John w. Polk.
Of Missouri, to take his place; and
now he is charged with the grossest
corruption. The few offices that the
democracy have at Washington seem
to trouble that party terribly to fill
with even qxasi honest and respecta-
BILE men. Polk is q shade different from
Fitxhugh In that he (Polk) claims to
have . eeraer on Congress, if he il
not - bigger man nor old Grant
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
the RETURNING BOARD TRIALS
At NEW ORLEANS,

Our dispatches indicate that Gen.
Anderson's case will go to the jury on
the 9th inst. 1t is clear that the court
and jury predetermined the case and
that the verdict will be guilty
Wells, who has been missing, has sur
rendered himself. His secreting him
self was for the purpose of availing
himself of the advantage of having q
new jury empannelled so that he
might have some chance of obtaining
Justice. If reports from Washington
are to be relied on, the President is
not pleased with the course his concil-
lated friends are pursuing.
A special in the Inter- Ocean from
Washington under date of the Sd inst
says:
Gentlemen who have conversed
with President Hayes recently were
impressed with the seriousness which
his countenance evinced when allu-
sion was made to the failure of the
Southern leaders to keep faith as to
letting by-gones be by-gones. The
President is certainly disappointed
and many Of the prominent gentle.
men who have counseled acquiescence
in the pacification policy toward the
South give evidence, by very positive
utterances, of their encouragement
saying that, in the light of the ten.
months experiment made with the
Southern policy of the administra.
ton, there is nothing from which real
encouragement can be drawn.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
New York Market.

New YORK, Feb. 5.
BY Telegraph.
Wheat-dull, 4 gle lower, 81 90 fol
No. 2 Spring May.
Corn--dull and dropping; 45@59h
for western mixed.
Oats-dull; 1896 for western mix
ed, 33h GAO for white.
POrk-dull, unchanged.
Lard-quiet; ST 65.
Whisky-$1 %.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06

THE Davenport Gazette is shocked
at the proceedings of the State Medi-
cal Society at Des Moines, On account
of its action in regard to the Medical
Department of the State University
The following is q part of the Ga
zette's article:
Now the unsophisticated locker
on might suppose that such resolve,
from such source, meant only two
things, blow at the heterodox Ho-
meopaths and desire to cut off the
manufacture of any more young doc
tors until those now in the field have
secured more remunerative practice
or have gone to their reward in Abra-
ham's bosom. But all. those who are
less jolly green know well, that the
said resolve meant only that the Keo-
kuk, or Hughes faction had stole q
march on their opponents and had
come out ahead That's all there is
of this petty and contemplate feud
of these medicine men.
But the facts suggest this lesson |:
The State University at lows City was
not established to please doctors, but
to serve the people. If it is to be q
University there must be in it educa-
tional facilities for those young men
who want to be doctors, lawyers,
tradesmen, farmers or what else. If the
University is not to be one in fact,
then let it be so understood and the
whole affair be abandoned to the
moles and the bats, so far as the State
is concerned. But we respectfully
submit that If this retrograde move
ment is to be entered upon, the COM
mand to about face shall not be ia
ken from the abettors and disciples
of a medical school which owes its
existence to-day mainly, if not who'll
ly to the fact that at an opportune
moment it appropriated to itself some
thirty thousand dollars at the expense
Of the State and its taxpayers"
We want simply to say that the
charge made that this move against
the Medical Department Of the Uni
versity springs from the Keokuk
Medical School is false. This meth
cd of impugning the honest motives
Of much better men than those max
ing the charge is shameful. It is in
keeping, however, with the conduct
Of many of those who have from
time to time been chaperoning the
University. The Medical Depart
ment of the University was begotten
by their fraud in the first place.
Ever since it has been established
there has been Q continued wrangle
over it between the ailopath and 9TH
er schools, and will ever continue to
be SO long as Medical Department
remains in the University.
The claim that the school cannot be
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
CATARRHAL AFFECTIONS,

Such as Sore. Weak, Innamed. Red, and Watery
Ewes. liberation and Inflammation of the Ear !;
Ringing Noises in the Head Sore Throat; Elonga-
ton of the uvula and Swelled Ionsiis Nervous
Loss of Nervous Force, Depression of Spirits, are
all carefully and scientifically treated with thls
remedy according to directions which accompany
each bottle, or will be mailed to any address on
receipt of stamp.
lnhalng Tube, with full directions for use IN Oh
cases. Price 500. Sold by all Wholesale and he.
tail Druggists throughout the United States ana
Canadas. WEEKS Il POTTER, General Agents
and Wholesale Druggists, Boston, Mass.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06

A careful analysis of the vote in
the House on Stanley Matthews sill.
yer resolution shows that u Repub.
voted for it aud Sc against. OF the
Democrats ll2 voted for it and q
against il.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
hendrIcks on Silver.

New YORK, Feb. 1.-The Herald
publishes a letter from Hendricks to
August Belmont on the silver ques-
ton. The conclusion is as follows:
"Should silver money be restored /?
| have thought SO. The pledge of
1869, Of payment in coin, and the
assurance in the act of 1870 of pay
ment in coin, at their standard value,
would seem to authorize, almost re-
quire, it. Compliance with contract
is not breach of public faith.
Our country is large producer of
silver. The quality of money is i'm
portant to its value. l think that
when restored, silver will approach
and perhaps reach gold in value, but
should experience prove that it must
remain below gold, because of its
greater production, Congress has am
pie power to provide against any
events likely to ensue.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
Another Nasaal laSf

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The signal
service observer at Ocracoke Inlet.
North Carolina, reports ashore there,
bottom up, the brig C. C. Overton,
from New York for Nashua, and the
entire crew are supposed to be lost
A hat and other articles picked up,
showed marks of blood.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06

LONDON, Feb. "A correspondent
at Vienna telegraphs: The situation
is still regarded here as serious. 1t
has TRANSFERRED that Russia is concen-
trating troops in the interior of Rou-
mania, and l20, 600 men will be massed
towards the west and north, evident
ly for defense against Austria.
A Berlin correspondent says: The
situation is still considered critical.
The Czar's address to the troops at
st. Petersburg on Sunday and the
calling out of forty new battalious
have further checked public conf
dcnce in the early establishment OF
peace.
MoNTENEGRINs DISSATISFIED.
A Vienna special says the Monte
negriDs seem inclined to resist the
armistice, which was concluded just
as they were meditating an attack
on Scutari.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
4 Dig Revenue Case Decided In the
y. Q. Supreme Court.

it was the case Of the e. 5. vs.. the
Distillery Of Samuel II. Nissley, at
ConAache, lows. While Gen. j. N.
Hedrick was Supervisor of Internal
Revenue, he. assisted by Capt. C. P.
Brown and others, after spending
noaths following up suspicious con-
ssrning Xisaley's violation of the
revenue lava made . descent upon
Nrs6ey and the distillery. They
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.
The following bills were introduce
ed:
By Saunders supplementary to a
joint resolution in relation to the
Paris Exposition. 1t authorizes the
President to appoint eighteen addi-
tional commissioners. Saunders ask
ed present consideration but objec-
tons being made, after the morning
hour consideration of the silver bill
was resumed and Beck submitted an
amendment directing the Secretary
of the Treasury to purchase from time
to time silver bullion to the amount
of not less than 100000 per month,
or as much more as can be coined at
the minis, the United States to have
the benefit of the gain or seignorage:
provided that whenever the market
price of bullion is such that it cannot
be purchased at less than par in legal
tenders he shall give notice Of the
fact and then any citizen of the Unit
ed States owning bullion may depos-
it the same at the mint and have it
coined. The amendment further
provides that subsidiary coinage shall
contain the same relative quantity of
pure and standard silver as the silver
dollar.
HOUSE.
Among the bills introduced and
referred during the morning hour is
one by Southland authorizing the pay
ment OF customs in legal tender notes,
and one by Mills providing that all
bonds hereafter issued by govern
ment shall be payable, principal and
interest, in gold, silver, or legal ten
der notes.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb, s.
| Conkling presented petitions from
a large number of citizens of many
counties Of N Y, in favor of the re.
monetization of silver. Referred.
Conkling presented petition
signed by q large number of promi.
nent citizens of New York in regard
to the famine and suffering in North
ern China and suggesting Commits
sion be appointed from residents OF
China to act in connection with the
U. S. ministers in procuring and dis
!, tributing relief. They also suggest
that the unexpended balance of mon
ey received from China in 1856 be
used to relieve the sufferers. Re-
ferrcd.
| Wallace from Committee on FL
. nance reported with amendment his
bill to authorize long bonds for in.
. vestment for savings. Placed on cal.
endar. He will call it up soon.
Edmunds submitted a resolution
instructing the Committee on Appro.
priations to report bill making AIDE.
quate provisions for employment oil
additional Clerical force in the Pen.
sion and Surgeon Generals office, tc
|. promptly examine and dispose of al
claims for pensions. He asked FOL
present consideration of the resolu
ton but objections being made by
Davis, of W. Va, it was laid over til
tomorrow.
After the morning hour Eaton spoke
in opposition to the silver bill.
! HOUSE.
Memorials from Boston and N. y
asking Congress to adopt some meas
ures of relief for the sufferers by fam
inc in Northern China were referred
The morning was consumed in pre-
senting petitions and resolutions.
: Northern Pacific bill was reported
and recommittad
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
Frlend,vCal,.

MEcHANIcsvILLE, N. Y, Feb. O.
Chauncey Van Schick last evening
called on James Walker and wife, Of
Bemis Heighths. and after friendly
chat suddenly assaulted them with q
pistol inficting serious wounds
He later killed himself.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
Cen. Miles Proceeds Against sittina
Bull

BISMARCK, Feb. 2.-Gen. Miles, un.
der date OF the 18th ult., reports from
Tongue River that the main body OF
his command has taken the field, and
he only waits for $50 recruits from
Fort Smelling before proceeding in
person against Sittin. Bull, who, he
confidently believes, is on United
States territory. His force will on.
crate from Fort Peck as central
point.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06

Horace Greeley's estate was inven-
toried 1t $2O6,0O0. His executors re-
port that they have realized only $780,.
600 from il. and can get no more.
They report that his shares in the
New York Tribune company, at pres
ent, have no market value, as under
the management of the present direc-
tors and editors of that concern, it is
paying no dividends, nor is it likely
soon to do SO. Whitelaw Reeds va
carries have taken all the value out of
Tribune stock, just as George William
Curtis is running down the stock of
Rarpers' Weekly.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06

The Comptroller of the Currency
reports the amount Of additional cir
culation issued during the month Of
January 1t s, l4l $50; total amount is
sued since the passage of the act ssoi
July IA, 1875. $51, ILL, $40; total le'
gal tender notes retired 10 date since
the act of January IA, 1875, $685.
SIG; amount retired the present
month, $685. 52; leaving the amount
Of legal tender notes outstanding
Feb. i, $S49, ITO, 424 amount ofnation.
81 bank notes outstanding Feb. l
$3.50, rs, 500, together with 81, 4S2, l2(
national gold bank notes.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06

Our readers will remember that Alb
beville county, South Carolina was
one of the places where the democrats
took forcible possession of the ballot
boxes and committed all sorts of out.
RACES in the fall of '76, by means OF
which they changed an overwhelm.
ing republican county to strong
democratic one.
In this county is published the
Press and Banner, and here is a little
tit bit from an issue of that paper OF
a recent date:
As long as the white man is permit.
ted to stir up strife in politics, there
will be contention and dissatisfac tion
Whenever the white radicals retire
their pretentions we will have peace
Will they do SO peacably, or do they
intend to force US to violence? VIC
lence is sure to follow when they ma
lign the whites and attempt to alien
ate the negroes from us. Whenever
q head of this sort shows itself it will
be q service to the country to cut il
of. Since the death of Joe Crewf
there has been no trouble in Laurent
county.
The Joe Crews referred to was a
republican who was murdered by
democratic ku.klux in 1875 and his
only offence in the world was, that he
was an active republican.
1t does seem as though the unre.
Quilted toll of the black man and his
deep wrongs suffered are not yet
avenged and that the madened fury
ofthe oppressor will bring down up
on his head the avenging rod of Gods
justice still further.
President Lincoln, standing near
the close of the great rebellion, in his
Inaugural, the 4th of March, 1865
said: "The Almighty has his own
purposes, woe unto the world be.
cause of offences, for it must of needs
be that offences come, but woe to the
man by whom the offence cometh'.
And further on he added, referring to
slavery as the offence: aft God Wills
that the war continue until all the
wealth secured by the bondmcn's
two hundred years Of unrequited toll
shall be sunk, and until every drop Of
blood drawn with the lash shall be
paid for by another drop drawn by
the sword, still it must be said tina,
the judgments of the Lord are true
and righteous altogether
1t does appear that the sure retribu'
ton of great wrongs are not yet atom
ed for and that the wicked Oppressol
is determined to heap up other yiall
of wrath to be sooner or later let t.
deluge the land.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
The Keokuk Gate City calls Charles
Francis Adams "carbuncle on the
frigid edge Of American respectable
ity."

Fish Commissioner Shaw received,
q few days since, from the United
States Commissioner in Maine, q
present of $1,000 Schodiac Salmon
eggs.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06
MISS Mckee, of Chicago, Acquitted
of Mansiaughter.

CHICAGO, Feb. I'm the case of
the trial for manslaughter, brought
against Miss Mckee, who shot con-
stable McElligott while the latter was
levying on her property to satisfy
a Judgment, the jury after one-haif
hours delay, brought in verdict of
not guilty. The points made by the
defense were that the constable's
writ of execution was illegal, and
therefore worthless. He obtained
entrance surreptitiously to the house
to make the levy, that he did not
show his authority, and that Miss
Mckee had been prosecuted by a re-
lentless creditor who had ALREADY
been overpaid by her.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06

Miss Elizabeth West, of Cleves, o.,
has recovered 5000 damages (second
trial and same verdict) from the es-
tate of dead lover, Enoch Hayes,
who had promised to marry her, but
failed to keep his promise.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-06

The Cincinnati Times, the leading
Republican paper Of the Presidents
own State, thus puts it:
The Louisiana Commission, organ
lied by President Hayes to suppress
q local government having as clear a
title as his own, has it's direct and
natural sequence in the present scan
dalous prosecution of the Louisiana
Returning Board. Care was taken to
extinguish the Packard government
in every ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ex.
ecutive and judicial-and by civil in.
Prevention in favor of mob govern
ment, not a whit more justifiable, on
the Presidents own theory, than mil
itary Intervention would have been
in favor of the lawful government.
On the conviction of the Returning
Board of fraud, by a form of judicial
proceeding that is mockery of JUS
tice, another step will have been TAX
en- toward the final logical result of
the Presidents Louisiana Commission
Intrigue.