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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

THE democrats in South Carolina
propose to have no fooling in politics
at the next state election. Col. Goth
ran, who is called the ''war horse of
the Abbeville democracy" ina recent
speech on the party question, said, as
reported in the Charleston Courier:
Icaution you to select the best you
can find. Stamp out every man who
opposes the regular party organization.
Cut him down! Applause and cries
of "we'll do it.''l He is no friend of
the democracy. / don't care by what
name he goes. If he is an s'indepen-
dent' he is already at the halfway
house on the road to the other side.
Every man can do his duty and there
is work for all. Like the passenger
in the ship in a storm who couldn't
pray nor sing, you can pass round the
hat and take upa collection. Laugh
ter. Every man can vote. command
you to unity Of purpose and zeal in a
good cause. What is our victory
worth unless we maintain ourgr0und?
/ had rather we had remained i'm the
low grounds of sorrow than to have
reached the mountain tops only to
go down again. We have driven the
nail in the radical coffin; let us clinch
it forever.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
SPECIE RESUMPTION.
A Chicago Bank Redeems II
A~HAA N~1A

A Chicago Bank Redeems It's
Notes In Gold.
CHICAGO, April l3.-The following
correspondence passed to-day:
CHICAGO, April Is.
To JOHN j. KNOX, Comptroller of
the Currency, Washington, ID. c.
Can We by making our redemption
fund gold have our circulation re-
deemed in gold IL 90 we will adver-
tise our gold resumption tomorrow
and send you gold check for the re-
demption fund. Answer.
(Signed.) JAMES ID. STURGEs.
Cashier North western National Bank.
WAsHlNaToN, d. q. April 49,
JAMES ID. STuRGEs, Cashier North
western National Bank, Chicago
The Treasurer says the proposition Is
impEacticable at the present time
YOU can redeem at your own bank.
JOHN JAY KOx.
The North western has accordingly
advertised that il will redeem in gold
all Of it's circulating notes that may
be presented at its counter. 1t is tbs
first OF the national banks to take thiI
| step.
The practicability of resumptor
has been instantanced here in vari
Gus ways to-day. AT the sub-treasury
II twenty dollar gold piece came in K
be exchanged for currency, and three
coin checks issued by the collector o
customs were deposited by bank q
currency Cold is beginning to b.
paid out by banks quite freely.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

The New York Herald thus sum-
marfzes the life and character Of Gen.
Shields: Gen. James Shields, who has
been the subject of SO much turmoil
in Congress, was born in Tyrone, Ire
land, 1910; came to this country in
1926; settled in Illinois; studied law;
was a legislator and judge; was made
by Polk Commissioner of the General
Land Office; was made Brigadier Cen
eral for the Mexican war; was shot
through the lungs but recovered;
fought at Chepultepec bareheaded and
in his shirt sleeves, without horse;
was again wounded; rescued from
outrage u lady and her daughter in
the night time by a secret and DISC
bedient sally; became Senator from
Illinois; was afterward beaten by Ly-
man Trumbull; went to Minnesota;
was, as farmer, elected therefrom to
the Senate of the United States as a
democrat; became a Brigadier Gener-
al in the Union army; succeeded Lam
der; drove out StOnewall jackson
while Fremont was pursuing jackson
through the Shenandoah, both Fed
eral Generals being victims of a war
department.; was nominated for Ma
jor General, but was not confirmed,
and removed to a farm i'm Missouri,
where he has since lived ON pension
raised from S3l to $50 a month. He
is five feet eight inches tall; has a
swarthy face and dark hair; speaks
fuently, and is little visionary, en-
thusiastic and adventurous.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

d
( SENATOR DENNIS, of Maryland
sat down on the Blair resolution ever
more severely than our telegraph,
dispatches reported. Hesaid: 81 vot
ed for the appointment of the Electo
raj Commission, and / will stand by
the decision of that commission.
feel in honor bound to sustain it.
feel that if were to do otherwise
should be unworthy as a member OF
the Senate, to a seat upon this floor
What Senator Dennis said is appli.
cable to every other man in the coun,
try belonging to the twogreat parties
The final agreement that resulted in
the counting in of President Hayes
was a solemn compact carefully and
considerably perfected, and for either
republican or democrat to now com.
plain Of it or seek to overthrow it, is
unworthy an honest man.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
An Ola .entavpr,.e Rev,ved.

We publish elsewhere d coniniiini-
cation to the Cedar Rapids Republican
written by Mr.. John Weare, Presi-
dent of the LIST National Bank of that
city, concerning the completion fthe
railroad SO long In hand between this
city and Cedar Rapids. The country
through which the line passes is not
eNcelled by any otherportion of Iowa.
There cannot be found in the state a
portion of country through which a
railroad is more needed or that will
pay better than this road would. The
fact is, Iowa and Keokuk counties are,
in agricultural products, among the
very richest in the state, and having
eastern connections, the great desider-
alum with them is now a railroad
outlet south. We think it exceeding.
ly wise that we of Wapello county
should earnestly and heartily join the
Cedar Rapids people in reviving this
project. 1t will take sometime to or
ganize and this should be done at once
and if sixty days hence the crop pros
poets continue as now very promising
there will be nothing in the way t,
prevent putting this road through, a
we think, at an early day.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
It's Turkey for the Democracy all
tho Time. 80
.t IN.r1,~r

The democrats in the Sixth district
seem to be far more bitter and uncOm.
promising towards the greenbackers
than towards the republicans. They
are very willing to make concessions
with the view of effecting cons0lida-
ton OF democrats and greenbaekers,
but they insist upon one condition and
that is that the nominee for Congress
shall be a democrat, out and out. They
are willing the greenbackers shall
vote for greenback candidates for con-
stables, town clerks, school directors,
and even higher officers if there is no
chance Of electing them, but for Con-
gresham the nominee Of the coalition
must be q democrat. "l'll take the
turkey and you the huzzard, or you
take the buZzard and l the turkey
is the democratic alternative, and il
must be confessed that it is very
generous one. 1t was the same In
this district four years ago: DIR. Gil.
bert could have been nominated but
for the Bourbon democratic purp0st
to have democrat or republican
greenbacker never!
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
The New Metric System.

"William," began Second street
woman the other morning as she laid
aside the daily paper, "what is this
new metric system proposed by Alex
ander Stephens?.
"It lie very wise measure indeed,
my DEAR" he replied. Suppose you
want q new dress costing 81 per
yard z"
eyes,"
"Under the metric system you write
to your father in Wisconsin for the
money to buy it with. The money
comes, you take half of it and buy me
pair Of pants, and then you use the
rest in purchasing 80 cent dress goods.
It is . very good measure, very
good"
"And they propose to make it a
law, do they 2"
"They do"
.sWell, sir!" she exclaimed, show
ing red spot on each cheek, when
the metric system comes into prac-
tice in this family, divorce will fol-
low, and Alexander Stephens 10 q
fool, sir, fool |"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
rELeolApulc cLIpPINcs.

Governor Tyler Bigelow, L. J.. D.,
ex-Chief Jnsticc of the Supreme
Court Of Massachusetts,, died yester-
day.
James Ward, tho senior of the firm
Of James Ward 4 Co., iron merchants
Cleveland, Ohio, failed yesterday.
Liabilities, 81, OO0, 600; assets 5000, goo.
A Paris dispatch says the prices of
lodging and necessaries of life will
be largely advanced during the ex-
position. The proprietors offurnish-
ed apartments already make extrava-
Cant demands. Hotels and restali-
rants will advance prices largely.
Secretary of State Valtarta, OF,
Mexico, telegraphs the Mexican Rep
rcsentative at Washington, that Min
lister Foster recognized the Diaz
Diaz Government April 9th, estab-
fishing official relations.
In accordance with the request in a
letter written to the President, on the
9th inst, by Gen. Fitzjohn Porter,
urging . review of his case by the
Executive, and declaring that the re-
suits of the court martial are follow
ing him perpetually, the President
will make such review, and the fol-
lowing board have been appointed
to place before him all the old evil
dance and such new matters as Por-
ter claims to have at hand Major
General j. M. Schofield, Brigadier
General A. H. Terry, Col. G. II. Get
ty (3d artillery, Major Asa B. Gard
ner.
Tweed, before he died, said to
Lawyer Edlestein, mentioning the
names
TILDEN AND FAIRCHILD WOULD DE
SATISFIED NOW.
He had tried hard to do the best &c
conld latterly, but they would not
let him and had killed him at last
INo member of his family was in the
room when he died, but lis daugh-
ter, Mrs. Douglas, was in an adjoin'
ing room. His immediate family
are in Europe. His
. but the form was still corpulent. The
! coroner returned verdict according
to the medical testimony of deatl
| from Inflammation of the membranes
about the heart. The body will b
removed to tho house of Mrs. Doug
lass, 77th street.
Dispatches from nearly two hun
, drcd points in Illinois, Wisconsin
Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakota
! Kansas and Missouri, covering tn
whole of the western spring whea
region, show, when summarized, tina
f the acreage is nearly so per cent great
er than last year; that the condition
. and prospects are better than at any
: time Since 1860; that the seasons worl
: and vegetation are three to six week
' ahead of the usual time, and tina
= there il an average of Is to 20 pc
cent of the old crop on hand.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

THE Oregon democracy have been
in State Convention and by resolution
announced the declaring of Hayes
elected, q fraud. The brazen effronte.
~ that looks over Cronin's nose and
cries fraud in others can only be ex.
hibited by democracy. The leaders
Of the democracy of Oregon deliber.
ately, for hire, undertook to steal an
electoral vote. Sam Tilden paid the
money, the wire-pullers did the work
and Cronin's nose was the figurehead
If Oregon, this year, does not sit
down on her democratic party, ther
are majority of her people dolts o.
scoundrels.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
Reeumption,

Resumption is practically at hand
and no man need be surprised to see
it an accomplished fact in ninety days
throughout the country. Gold reach
ed ac premium, to-day, though it af-
forwards rose to 1901. Some banks i'm
Chicago are paying specie and others
in New York. Te-day in the Senate,
Morrill,, of Vermont, speaking of the
matter of resumption, said that it
would be an accomplished fact thro'-
out the country before the question
could come up and be passed upon by
the Senate. The Nationals or Green
hackers of Iowa and Illinois will,
however, we suppose, keep right on
resoluting for the repeal of the re.
sumption act. Besides the democra.
cy of these states, in trying to hood.
wink the nationals to join them, will
sing, 80 far as possible, the same song.
The stock market shows sharp
and general advance in consequence
Of the certainty of resumption. There
will, with resumption, come activity
in all business circles and an increase
in the circulating medium, for people
will no longer hoard it ON account OF
fear of resumption.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
The Sucker Democrats In Con.
v0Ntion.

The democracy of Illinois met in
State convention ON the 18th inst. and
in their resolutions they CROPPED away
down in the dirt to secure the green
hackers if possible. We will just dish
up, at this time, their third resolu-
ton.
Sd. That we are in favor of United
States bonds and Treasury notes being
subject to taxation the same as other
property.
Never i'm the history of the world
did nation permit its own bonds
to be taxed. Why? The answer is
plain, that if the local authorities,
state, county, city, school district, &C.,
We're permitted to tax the nations OBJ
legations, they could, if they so chose,
destroy its credit. Let us take an ex-
ample right here at home, because
what comes right home to a man is
most felt and is about the only thing
that a great many people will pay
any attention to. Take for example
a 4 or per cent. U. S. bond owned
by an individual here in OttumWa:
The interest Oh a 800 bond is n or IS,
according to the rate. Our taxes, in
this city, are $3.50 on the 500. The
owner of the bond would have, in one
case, ~ cents interest ON his bond left
and FLO on the other. Who would
buy government bonds under such a
state of thingse But suppose such a
bond sought investment where the
local taxes are from 81 to Sc on the
hundred and, we have had such rates
in Iowa cities, would anybody invest
i'm them? Were government bonds
then subject to taxation they would
not find a market anywhere in thi.
country at present rates, and the cred
it of the country at home would bt
subject to the fluctuations of local tax
alton. Again, suppose, in order tt
sell the bonds when subject to taxa,
ton, we raise the rate to from to II
per cent; this would double the inter.
est on our public debt and the rate oil
taxation would have to be doubled
and who would have to pay these in.
creased taxes? Who but the people!
Besides this, when the local rate OF
taxation was as high as six per cent.
it would take ten per cent. bond OF
it could not be laid at all, for that
would leave the holder with only foul
per cent. interest on his investment.
A platform containing such q pro.
vision as the one above, is a dema-
gOgue's cheat and fraud, or q fools
folly. a Is
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

w. w. OBRIEN, of Chicago, un.
dertook, towards the close of the
Democratic State Convention at
Springfield, ILL.,, to have a resolution
passed, thanking democratic congress.
man Springer, of that state, for vot.
ing for Gen. Shields for Doorkeeper Of
the House. When introduced it was
declared out of order; then a motion
was made to suspend the rules that i,
might be entertained; this raised Sc.
rious hubbub, during which some one
moved to adjourn and that motion
was, the chair, declared carried. Thu
Chicago delegation was very mao
over being thus ridden down and me-
by themselves and passed the resolu
ton.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

JAMES c. HOLMAN, formerlya well.
known citizen of this city, but fol
many years resident of Oregon, ha.
been appointed by the President, Sur
veyOr-G General of that state. This il
an appointment that will meet with
the approval of all true republicans
Mr.. Tolman has filed many response
BILE positions since a resident of Ore
gon and sustains an irreproachabl,
character. He was the republican
candidate for governor of Oregon
against "Gobble'' Grover at the las
gubernatorial election and was heater
by only $50 majority.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
MARKETS.

Our market report it will be oh.
served, remains almost precisely the
same as week ago. Hay, feed and
produce generally has been plenty
and as q rule where prices have
changed they have gone lower.
Wool has not vet commenced to
come into market, and therefore we
can, as yet, give no quotations.
OttuAwa Grocery usFket.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

GOLD In New York, yesterday
touched Slices, the lowest point ye
reached. Secretary Sherman's con
tract for the sale Of $50,O0O,0OO bond,
had the effect Of sending ii down.
Gold to-day is only lc premium, and
it is reported that one New York
hank Is paying out gold at par. Re
sumption Is virtually accomplished
and the Confederate House has thus
lost chance for an electioneerine
dodge in repeating theresumption act
-Dai}u of the 1871,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
THE proceedings against b. f. A

THE proceedings against b. +. AL
len, by the United States, for viola
ton of the national banking law, has
been dismissed by order Of the Attor-
ney General on the ground that it was
4 mere technical violation of law, and
that the charges against him were
made for malicious purposes, and are
not suflicient to entitlethemt to hear
ing. .FI..
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
RESUMPTION.
Gold Goes Down to q Quar-.
ter ola Cent Premium.
NEW YORK.

Down Goes Cold-NeN York Banks
Paying Gold.
New YORK, April lathe feature
of the day in Wall street is the de-
cline in the price of gold to 81 COZ
the smallest differ nce between gold
and U. s. legal tender notes since the
issue of these notes at the beginning
of the war.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
NUI.Ra
UABRoKB MULES.
Chicago Wool Market.

From Tribune OF April 18th
Wool was quiet and easy. The stock Is light,
but holders want to sell Il in order to be ready
for the new clip, and prices favor buyers.
Quotations. Medium unwashed woods
22a2oc; fine do. 1sa23c; coarse do. 20a2Sc
fine fleece washed 85a3sc; medium do. 36s8Sc,
coarse do. S3a85c; tub woods, choice 3saS9c, fair
TO good, 34a37c. Colorado wo0l-Medium do. ga
y5: coarse do, l7a19c; coarse common. l5al7;
black l6k
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

OHloAeo, April l6

CHICAGO, April l6.
{ BY Telegraph
Wheat-steady, firmcr, closing cas-
Ter at 81 O9s4 @l0 cash, 1893 April,
l O9H@k May; No. 3 041a @5.
Corn-firmer 4O1 cash, and April,
AIS May, 4l2s June.
Oats-firm, shade higher, 25h@A
cash and April, 26A bid May.
Rye-5S.
Barley-firmer, 494 bid.
Pork-firm, 897h cash and May
9O711s bid June.
Lard-firm, 6971s cash, 05 June
Alcohol-$l 331a bid.
Storage becomes due to-day and
prices for cash grains advanced &C
cordingly, the seemingly large ad
vance is only nominal.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

be filled with wounded and crippled
Union soldiers, so far rs the same is
practicable. Yes, and more too, let
the act he retroactive so far as to
apply to the office of doorkeewir of
the House.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
A Vessel Wrecked,

SAVANNAH, April l3.-The revenue
cutter Boutwell, arrived to-day with
the passengers and crew Of the wreck
ed steamer Agnes. The vessel is
tbilged and high upon the beach and
the cutter Was unable to do anything
to save her.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

A Washington dispatch says that
the President has nominated Gnstaye
Schneider, Of Iowa, United States
Marshal of the Territory of Wyom-
ing. Now, who in the name of
schweitzer case and pretzels is Schneit-
ger? IL he Russell man? bs'
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
4 WEEKLY l. 81


OF u. s. Patents issued to the ipven.
tors of Iowa, for the week ending
April 2, 1878; and each patent in
the list will bear this date. Reported
by telegraph, expressly for the CoU-
RIER, OttumwG, by A. II. Evans & Go.
Patent Solicitors, Washington, ID. q
Charge for obtaining patent $1,000.
A copy Of the patent laws sent free.
T. G. Orwig, Des Moines, barbed
fence wire.
w. X. Hill, Brush Creek, feed
steamers.
y. N. Root, Dubuque, we'll augur.
N. u. Roundy, Marshslitown, fence
pOsts.
Il Hoover, fsnonaborongh, feather
renoyater.
Z. =. Sears, Ainsou, viys fence
tightueV. ssl
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

THE N. Y. Nation is a Journal Of
this country which, perhaps more
than any other, represents the silk
stocking gentry of the land. Its con-
trolling head is the kind of man who
would hold as his chic fcause for dis
belief in the bible, that he did not
write it. The Chicago Alliance, speak
ing of postal savings banks, takes oc-
casion to refer to the Nation as the spe-
cial pleader for this bank capital.
The Alliance says:
1--WE took occasion, not long since,
to refer i'm these columns, to the indi-
cations of opposition to postal savings
banks, or their equivalent, from the
money power of the East. This OPP
position begins to show itself in vari-
GUS nnmistakable ways, and notably
so in the columns of the New York
Nation. That journal devotes consid-
cradle space to a consideration of the
plans for postal savings before Con-
gress, and discusses them with the
adroitness of paid attorney and the
Inconsistency inseparable from being
retained on the side which, having no
case, must make one. The Nation
seem to be the special pleader of the
private savings banks, and, after ad-
hitting that they are generally in a
bad way, for which the hard times,
however, furnishes an excuse, it mod
estly suggests that the national gov
eminent ought to initiate Massachu-
sets and shield these concerns which,
have endangered their own existence
and their depositors money by their
own bad management, all inconsider.
alton Of the ''immense value of the
banks and their distinctly charitable
character" So far as heard from OF
late, these institutions have been OF
"immense value" only to the abscond-
ing or bankrupt" managers; and il
they are distinctly charitable the
beneficiaries are evidently of the
class of whom it has been said: 'TG
whom that hath shall he given L,
is perfectly appropriate for journals
which, like the Nation, championed
Wall street interests in opposing thu
restoration of the silver dollar, ant
which called Western men idiots
and 'swindlers' and Frauds tooppos'
plan in the interests of the whole
people and espouse the cause of thu
moneyed class. Postalsavings banks
or what amounts to the same thing
lare foreordained, and the Nation ma,
as well get ready for them. Privat
savings banks, honestly managed
may still have a legitimate field, an,
will occupy it, just SO far as they con
tinue to deserve the confidence of tn
people,"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

NEW YORK, April Is.
BY Telegraph.
Wheat quiet, receipts $1,000 bush
els, sales 5000 bushels; No. 2 spring
81 4May.
Rye-about steady 73174ia.
COrn-4@k C higher reefs $1,000
bushels, sales $4,000, at 5O9@34 for
western mixed.
Barley-quiet.
Oats-firm, receipts 1000 bu. sales
q 600 bushels prices unchanged.
Pork--steady, 9 ST..
Lard-less firm 81 32a.
Whisky-$l O8.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
.The Wages Of Sin is Death.

BosT0N. April l3. - Edmund f.
Masurett, cashier of Fremont House.
shot himself fatally. He had lost
funds Of the house ct faro and sought
. compromise with the prOprietors OF
the hotel, who declined aN offers and
sent for an officer.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17

by . desire for reunion with her
husband and was the price she paid
for asserting the same. He said he
would continue his course just the
same Notwithstanding the renewal Of
the scandal.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
lEoiioM a,,it

CHICAGO, April l6.--Reports are
coming from cities in the northwest
sho wing that many National Banks
are already paying out gold for their
circulation and that gold 10 begin
ming to circulate.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
AT CINCINNATI.

CINCINNATI, April lathe Third
National Bank will commence on
Monday next to redeem its notes on
presentation, in gold. 1t il expected
that other national banks in this city
will adopt the same course.