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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
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1t would seem as though in view OF
the low prices Of everything that peo-
pie, with any sort.ofeconomy, can live
cheap and we'll. AT w. A. Gamers
the best spring wheat flour sold yes
terday evening at $l.15 per sack,
which is the only change in flour.
Wheat is coming in pretty freely,
and the price for fall wheat SOILS cts.
better, and where it is well cleaned II
may bring trifle more.
There is such a range in the grades
Of barley that reliable quotations are
difficult to give, and most that has
been marketed is only fit for feed.
The quotations below were correct
yesterday evening:
Ottumwa Grocery Market.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
ApEMocRATIc PROTEST,

A large NUMBER OF the leading DEM
ocrats of Polk county have published
a protest declaring that they will not
support Gillette, the greenback DEM
ocratic nominee for Congress. The
forty odd signers to this protest COM
prise dozen of as prominent demo-
Gratis as there are at the State capital.
We publish below the protest with
the first dozen names on the list:
The undersigned, members of the
democratic party, who entertain posi-
tive convictions of the truth of its
principles and desire to maintain its
organization intact and vital, as the
only instrumentality through which
to secure the ultimate triumph of
those principles, wish to urge upon
their acknowledgements of the Seventh
Congressional district of Iowa, that
the late democratic convention, in
nominating candidate for represent
alive, who has ever been and now is,
radically and avowedly opposed to
the fundamental principles and de-
clared policy of the democratic party,
and a nominee Of an antagonistic po-
litical organization, has thereby abso-
lutely absolved us from all obligetio
as democrats to support its nominee.
And they believe that the party Or
ganization can be better maintained
and its final success secured, by their
positively refusing to vote for such
candidate, thereby declaring their
full utilization with the national DEM
ocratic party and maintaining posi-
ton in which, if they canrot materi-
ally assist the party, they shall at
least not help to defeat it in the great
struggle of 1880.
M. ID. McHenry, Thos. Cavanaugh,
T. E. Brown, M. ID. McHenry, Jr.,
Geo. F. Mcclellan, +. w. Lehman,
S. ID. yelling, ID. o. Finch, j. NJ. st.
John, w. S. Sickmon, b. Rice, H. n.
Woods, and 80 others.
We regret this action in the light
of an easy victory for the republicans
Of this district, because it will have
the effect to frighten our democrats of
the Sixth Dist. from the Endorsement
of Weaver. We hope the Weaver
democrats will not finch from their
resolve on this account. Stand by
your colors, boys. Complete the
Knapp-Weaver trade,-besides the
trade on country oflicers-die in the
last ditch, boys, if you must-never
go back on your contract. We hope
our democratic brethren will find it
good policy to accept Weaver'sp pledges
made in private to the sachems that
he is democrat in all things but on
the financial question and will caucus
with the democrats of the House, if
elected. Take him, democrats; you
can't do better. Give usa square fight.
| We don't want any three-cornered
contest. If you democrats go back
on Weaver we will head you off by
coaAing him out of the fight as sure
as you live. Weaver wants meat; it
is meat he is after and meat he is
bound to have some way. Better
keep your bargain with him, gentle
men.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14

,Excess of imports. Excess of exports.

The last column shows the net re-
suits. For many years prior to 1874
the balance was against us; we bought
more than we sold, and the excess
represented gold and silver, or bonds
shipped abroad to make the transac-
ton even. In 1872 this extravaganza
for that is what it was-reached its
height, and the balance against us
was SlS2, 417,O 900. In 1874, the year
after the business collapse, we curtail-
ed orr purchases, and there wasa bal
ance in our favor of $lS,07G, sos; and
from that time, with the single excep-
ton of the year 1875, there has been a
large excess of exports over imports.
In the year ending June 80, this eX-
cess was $257 1872 ,667, the largest ever
witnessed. In other words, instead
of buying $lS2,4l7 600 more than we
sold, as in 1872, we are now selling
1887 ,S32, 600 more than we buy; and
this balance in our favor has to be
made up either in shipments of gold
and silver to us, or by returning bonds
and other evidences of our indebted
ness held abroad. Atpresent it is be-
ing made up by sending our bonds
back, but after q while the Cid World
will have to remit gold and silver
and this prospect is already spoken of
as likely to produce monetary disturb
ance in Europe.-,S Louis Republican.
The above contains a lesson that
should be well studied. 1T is alleged
that the contraction in money, an in
sufReiency of money, has caused the
hard times. This is the never-ending
wall of the communist, the national,
the greenbacker, the demagogue and
the misguided laborer. Facts do not
show ii. The purchasing power of
money in this country to-day is great
er than it has ever been; that is, the
real value that in money is given in
exchange, in traffic, exceeds that of
any previous year. There is not a
single particle of proof that close
times are the result of money contrac-
ton. 1t is wholly the result of other
causes. The greatest cause is the con-
tracing Of indebtedness by the ma
ton and by the people fthe nation
the getting poorer by getting in debt,
by not cutting the garment according
to the cloth; the estimating of our
means, our riches, upon an inflated
basis, growing out of irredeemable
money and not making our calcula-
tons upon real basis. We have
based our estimates and governed our
living upon basis that is a lie, a fall
lacy, and in the days past and present
we are paying the penalty. In 1915
We We're balancing, as nation, upon
the turning point of whether we
should live on our means or go in debt
for a living. We had, as nation, for
many years been going in debt. In
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
YeIIow Fewer Al a. loui,

ST. LEWIS, Aug. l3.-Capt. VIM. L..
Nelson. who arrived from Port Eads,
Saturday last, died this morning from
disease, said to be a modified type of
yellow fever. Two or three other per-
sons, recently from the same place,
are now sick here but Of what mala.
dy the Doctors have not fully deter
mined. Capt. Nelson was mechan-
ical engineer and commander of the
dredge boat at the Jetties, and led q
life of unusual industry and useful.
ness
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
Political Huckster,ne.

The call for q Greenback County
Convention on the Oath prox., appears
in this issue Of our paper. We have
to-day interviewed several leading
members OF that party, and they
pledge us there will be no county
nominations made by their party if
the Democrats put no congress: onal
candidate in the Ottumsra
Times.
We have always had an opinion
that Father Ives had selfish motive
in his efforts to secure the Democrat
ic Congressional nomination for a
sore-headed Republican. but we did
suppose that he had enough cunning
to conceal it But in an unguarded
moment while elated over the pledg-
cs of the "leading members of that
party" he let's the cat out of the bag,
and reveals the real motive that has
prompted his efforts in Mr.. Weaver.
interest. II the Democrats in the
sixth district will sacrifice their self.
respect, and make Republican of.
fice-seeker, who has been unfortunate
in his own party, their standard bear.
cr, then the Greenbackers of Wapellc
will not put q ticket in the field In
opposition to the Democratic county
ticket, and Father Ives will stand {
chance of getting some county print
ing. 1t seems to us tina, the Demo
cratic delegates from Wapello county
will come into the convention Will
very bad grace and ask Democrat
from other counties to support Mr.
Weaver, after the Times has publish
ed the terms Of this most disgracefu
trade.
The Greenbackers of Wapell,
county might as we'll know first q
last that the Times is contractin,
goods that il cannot deliver; for
will do Mr.. Weaver very little goo,
to get the nomination if the delegate
from two counties GO homo with
determination to labor for his defea,
And Democrats from other cOuntic
may as we'll know as at any othe
time, that the Democrats of Keokul
county will not support a Republican
who has been forced upon them il
pursuance of local trades, such as tn
Ottumwa Times has unluckily reveal
ed.-Sigourney RevieU.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
AN IMPORTANT CURRENCY
QUESTION.

The extent to which certain inter-
est-bearing securities entered into and
inflated the monetary circulation of
the currency about the close of the
war, is an important question because
the greenbackers insist that there has
been vast contraction of the curren-
cy, an assertion that can be sustained
only by including the whole, or at
least the greater part of these interest
bearing notes as money. The follow
ing letter from Hon. j. T. Power, the
chief of the warrant division of the
treasury department, is thelatest offic-
ial and authentic statement on this
subject. 1t ought to and doubtless
will set the matter at rest with all fair
minded men. Nothing can be ex-
pected to convince inveteiate green
hackers, for
Convinced against their will,
They are OF the same opinion STILL
and will continue their campaign OF
deception and Misrepresentation. But
those who want to know the truth
and who do not want to believe lie
and be deceived by it will read care
fully this letter, which the Hd,ckeyt
is permitted to publish for the i'm
portant information it contains:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. l, rs.
Hon. CHARLES BEARDsLEY, Bur.
lington, Iowa, Sir: am in receipt OF
yours of the 25th ultimo, asking
whether any of the seven-thirty
notes were a legal-tender, and what
proportion, in my Judgment, of the
compound interest notes, five pei
cent. notes, and one and two year
notes entered into the circulation.
In reply l have to state that the
seven-thirty notes had no legal tender
feature impressed upon them by law
as in the case of the compound inter
est notes, and the one and two veal
notes, yet to some extent, they enter
ed into the circulation.
Immediately after each interest pc
Rod, January and July, these note'
were liable to be thrown upon thu
market as currency, but as soon a.
interest began to accumulate agar
they We're boarded. 1t is difficult t.
make any ineligible estimate as t.
the extent the compound interest
seven-thirty, and one and two yea
notes inflated the currency, but, basin.
an estimate upon the denomination
issued, and giving to the circulation
all the tens and twenties, one-half tn
fifties, and one-fourth the hundreds
and excluding the thousands and fiv
thousands altogether, the currenc,
would be inflated to the extent ofone
fifth the amount of the two yea
notes, one-third of the compound in
terest notes and one-fifth the sevel
and three-tenth notes outstanding a
any one period; but even this est
mate should not be admitted in tn
case ofthe compound interest and on
and two years notes after June &c
1866, as they had ceased to circulat
at all after that date.
Only three and a half million
dollars of the latter We're thel
outstanding, and on each note of tn
former from nine to twenty-on
months interest had accumulated.
To recapitulate, of these denomina
tions outstanding / estimate the fol
lowing amounts entered the circula
| tiOn.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
THE following extract from one of

THE following extract from one of
Dennis Kearney's speeches i'm San
Francisco explains the sort of a man
he is who is now entertaining the
Boston people:
If we don't get our rights by fair
means we will by powder and ball.
We will drive all the Cinnamon out
of San Francisco, and hang all the
thieves and politicians. recommend
that mark be placed upon the backs
of all who employ Chinese, and, if
necessary, hang them to the nearest
lamp-post. i'll givean order to hang
Croker, Croker shall be hanged. The
dignity of labor must be supported,
even if we have to kill every one who
opposes us. When you hear an in
cendiary speech the Chinese question
will be ended. l will turn legions OF
workingmen loose with their daggers,
bayonets and muskets. Wear going
to bring down the finest rope, and ev-
cry morning you will see twelve men
hanging to these ropes. / am afraid
you will see two or three men hang
ing to the same rope.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
FATAL AFFRAYS.
a Row at a Political Meeting-A
Fatal FinaIe-Other Dis
turbances

turbances.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 10y esterday at a
meeting held in Apperson Grove,
near Jones' landing, Ark, few miles
above Memphis, VIM. f. Beatty,
Democratic Sheriff pro tenn, appoint
ed by Governor Miller, and Ed. Lew.
Is, former Sheriff Of the county
with their friends met and began dis.
cussion which divided the people OF
the county. Lewis, who is the Re-
publican nominee, was the fret to
speak. After he had concluded Ma
lor Earl mounted the stand and pro.
posed to give the record of Lewis
This the crowd ofcolored people who
were present objected to and Major
Earl was forced to desist. He asked
his friends to go with him to a hill
near by where he would speak with.
out being interrupted. AS Major
Earl was descending from the plat.
form pistol shot was fired. This
was the signal for a rush by the white
people present to wagon near al
hand, which was filled with arms OF
every description and general fire
was opened on the followers Of Lew.
ls, and in the melee one negro was
killed and several others wounded.
Another fatal shooting afI'ray DC.
Cured at Austin, Miss, this morn.
ing, between Bud Evans and VIM
Fretwell. Both parties are reported
killed.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
aen. autler seva Mis- piece.

BEDFORD, Me-, Aug. lO.-E. III.
Cove, Greenback candidate for Con-
gress in this district, presided at a
meeting at the City Hall last night, of
the citizens of York County, and in a
short speech introduced Gen. Butler
who spoke for two hours. Butler
said he came not to make speech, but
to commune with the people on pub
lie interests of the day. He had left
the old parties. He belonged to the
Democratic party until it attempted
to destroy the Union, and was with
the Republicans till it deserted itf
founders, the laboring men. Cap.
italists now hold the Republican par.
ty bound hand and foot. Hayes had
violated every pledge and had betray.
ed the negro of the south. The effor,
of Grants administration to strength.
en- the public credit, was swindle
He reviewed the history Of the
Greenback currency and claimed tina
it should be made a legal tender fol
all debts, public and private.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14

GEN. BEN. HARRISON, of Indiana,
opened the republican campaign in
that state at Richmond, August 9th.
The speech is very able one. We
give the following notable paragraph
from it which occurs in his discussion
of the labor question:
"The demagogue is potent factor
of evil in the settlement of the labor
question. His object is to Use the la
borer to advance political ambition.
He flatters him with professions of ar
dent friendship, beguiles him into
turning the stone for his aX-grinding,
and when the edge is on sends him
away without wages. If labOring
men would appoint committees to in
uuire into the personal history of these
self-app0inted champions they would
not unlikely find that the noisiest of
them do not pay their tailor or shoe
maker. Their mission is to array one
class against anOther-to f0ment strife
They talk largely of the producers,
but never produce anything them
selves except a riot, and then they
~ 1lOU <lu VltC AuClI
fs that every man who hires labor is
an cppressor and tyrant. That the
first duty of every man who works is
to hate the man who gives him work.
The fruit of this kind of teaching is
unrest and fear"
There Is great truth in the above.
We call especial attention to a consid-
Grafton it. 1t is common with these
demagOgues, when this feature Of
their character is alluded to, to say
it is a personal attack upon them; that
it is not a proper political considera-
ton, and they thus seek to defend
themselves and take shelter behind
the sacredness, as they term 1t. OF pri-
vate character. We maintain that
there is nothing which the individual
would be justified, for his own securi-
ty, to investigate, in the employment
of help, OR an agent or attorney to
transact his private business, that the
people have not the same right to in
vestigate in the employment of their
agents,-in other words, the same rule
should govern the people in the selec-
ton ofpublicservants thatgover the
individual in the selection Of private
servants. If a man is loose, IMPROVE
dent, reckless of meeting his obliga-
tions and his promises, he will not be
trusted by the careful, prudent man,
and this matter is one of the very
FIRST and most important things that
every prudent man inquiries into in
regard to an employee. The people
should do the same thing, and the
lack Of doing it in many cases, is the
precise cause of peculation in the pub
lie service; of so much on the part, of
public men Of selling out their con-
stituency for their own private gain
and their own personal ends. Sterling,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14

1876 we traded with the balance of
the world and made gain of s0,OOO,-
600; the next years gain sl50,OOo, 900
and now for the last year we have
netted gain of S25S, 100000. AS q
nation we are making money; we are
drawing from our neighbors largely
and as sure rs the sun shall shine We
are feeling and shall soon feel more
perceptibly this economy, this balance
on the right side Of the ledger. While
it ran the other way a hundred mil
lions annually it is no wonder that i
| bro,,uht close times
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14

unflinching integrity, strict compli-
ance with all obligations; prompt pay
ment of debts; frugal, methodicalliv-
ing, are a fortune to any man; they
are passport to confidence; they in
sure employment; they give the best
warrant of the honest, proper per-
formance of duty, as well public du-
ties as private duties. Per contra, the
imprudent, careless, unmethodical
man; the man who makes debts with
a careless indifference as to payment;
who will live in fine style, put his all
and more than his all, into fine
house, and fine dress, and not pay his
debts, though his income be hand
some or though it besmall, is not such
man as the individual trusts with
his treasure nor as the public should
trust with important position, and it
istrue that ofsuch are largely the men
who are the candidates for Office
going about the country, to-day, ar
raging capital against labor; who
abuse men of the highest honor and
stir up the populace against them.
| That man who, having met with
no unfortunate loss, against whom the
wheel of fortune has not, as it We're,
unforeseen turned its dark side, but a
man who, having a large income for
years, has spent it in improvidence
and who worms himself into debt
from day to day and then does not
pay-he is the par excellence individ.
ual, if we are to believe him, who has
the wants and the rights of the labor.
er in his especial keeping. The secret
with this man is, he hopes to dnpe la
borers into his support for his owl
personal gain-nothing more, nothing
less. He and his family will veal
about thegarments that Woodworking
hands have made without paying fol
: them, and eat the groceries he ha.
: not paid for, and yet stand up and sa,
, he is the immaculate champion
of the poor man. He is the pool
mans friend, the laborer's friend, jus
as Old Nick is the friend of the saint
Such men have played-out in obtain
ing employment from individuals il
. their profession, their calling in life
and become a wandering lazaroni fo
public favor, at the expense of publ,
: peace and the rights ofproperty.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
Imitation Prices.

During the late war domestics sold
in this place at sixty cents per yard
Hogs were worth from So to $40 pei
hundred domestics sell here now al
from 5 to y cents per yard. Hogs a
from $3.50 to $500 per hundred
Now, let us do little figuring. One
hundred pounds of hog will purchase
at s. per hundred, nearly 35 yards
(at 8 cents) of domestics; one hun.
dred of hog Cat $40 per hundred) pur.
chased nearly seventeen yards of do.
mestics Cat GO cents per yard), max
ing difference in favor of the pur.
chasing power of the greenback cur
rency Of to-day, of 81 yards over war
times. What more do you WANT
Indidnold Herald.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
The Agricultural stat;st;c;ans

The agricultural statisticians al
Washington have been reading the
crop reports carefully, and now esti'
mate that the wheat crop for 1878, in
twenty states of the Union, foots up
3Ol ,OOO,0 900 bushels. OF this amour,
Minnesota is put down for $4,000, O0O
bushels, Iowa, 45,00O,O00; Kansas,
10000, 600; Nebraska, 50, 600, 900; Wis
consin, 100000; Michigan, 10000
600; Illinois, 100000; Indiana, co.
OOnO00; Ohio, 100000; Texas, r.
O,000; Arkansas, 100000; Ken
lucky, s, 0OO, 900; Tennessee, 10, coo, 600
Pennstlyania, New York ard New
England States, 25, 100000.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
More Dead.

MERlDEN, Conn.,, Aug. 1O.-Four OF
the injured at Willingford, Mrs. Ma.
~ Lynch and her daughter Maggie
Mrs. Patrick Cashen and her sor
John Cashen have died since last
night, making the number killed %
No more bodies have been taken from
the ruins. Arrangements are being
made for funeral services to be held
at the town hall on Sunday afternoon
A relief committee has been appoint.
ed and are caring for the survivors
Large crowds Of visitors throng the
streets. Liberal contributions OF
money are collected for them, also
from passing trains and the public
generally.
The tornado also swept over the
southern part of Durham and thro'
the town Of Killingworth. Several
buildings were blown down, trees
uprooted and crops injured. All sa-
looms in the town have been closed by
the selectmen.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
A New Remedy 70. Potato Bugs

Mr.. Harrington writes the Waverly
Independent that some of the mem.
bers of Elk Run Grange 10 this coun-
ty have tried alum water on potato
bugs and found it more destructive
than Paris green, and no bad effect
can possibly follow it's use. To ap-
ply the alum, dissolve dimes worth
in two gallons of water and sprinkle
the potato tops which are infested
with bugs, using for that purpose a
fine sprinkler or short-handled
broom or whatever will answer well.
Three applications may without fear
be used upon tomatoes. or any plants
infested with bugs.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
AT MEMPHIS.

MEMPHIS, Aug. l3.-Mrs. Kate Bi.
anda, an Irish woman living at 2l2
front street, corner of Adams, nearly
the center Of the city, is officially re.
ported this morning as having gen.
,line case of yellow fever. The place
has been most entirely frequented by
roustabouts and river hands. DR.
Erskin. health officer, has taker
charge of the building and block and
goes to work at once disinfecting and
fumigating the entire square.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14

terrific storm visited this city at 2 p.
m. to-day. The wind blew with the
force Of q tornado. Trees we're up
rooted, carriages and wagons over
turned and great damage done in va
rions parts Of the city. The large
plate glass windows of the Western
Union Telegraph office were blown in
and messenger boy lacerated in a
fearful manner.