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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
DETROIT FREE PRESS
BURNED OUT.
Loss OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES $42,
600.

DETROIT, April 29.-At s 40, this
morning, an explosion of gas main
leading into the Fress Press building
took place, ignited and instantantan-
eously the whole edifice burst into
flames. There were at this hour in
the building the chief pressman, two
mailing clerks, the night engineer,
and five pressmen, all of whom es-
capped after the fire broke ont, two of
them being slightly injured. The
Free Press company occupied two
four story brick buildings, corner of
Woodbridge and Griswold streets.
The leaking gas ascending the stair
ways ignited at once every floor of
the two buildings. Efforts were
made by the pressmen to put on q
safety hose and throw q stream on
the stream below but the attempt
was abandoned as futile. The press
es were stopped and the forms Of the
paper saved.
The city tiremen were promptly on
hand, but despite their efforts the
two buildings were thoroughly gut
ted. The twelve presses and machin.
cry of the Free Press were more or
less damaged. The job rooms con.
tanned about $4,000 worth of mate
rial which is utterly destroyed. The
rooms above the job rooms were us
ed as a stereotype foundry and az q
mail clerks room In the Office OF
the latter every paper was saved
intact, even the subscl iption list. In
l thu nj 90
the composing rooms and editorial
rooms. The composing room with
its equipments was burned and fell
through, destroying the material. A
similar fate befell the editorial roomt
with the exception of the -earmost
room. In the latter was stored q
quantity of new type, which was un'
injured.
| The Free Press company had ar.
ranged to set up the present week 9
new Bullock perfecting press, with
combination folder and paster and
the foundation for the press was al
in readiness in anticipation of the
new press. Several thousand dollars
worth of new type had been purchas
ed and was stored in the building
most Of which was lost, including {
dress of type now in use. The Pos
and Tribune, Eeening Ne,Os, Folks
bladt, daily papers of this city, ant
job printing Offices came to the pro
prietors of the Free Press with offeri
of assistance.
The Weekly edition will be delayed
a few days and the publishers beg in
diligence Of their subscribers and tn
news dealers. The new Bullock per
fecting press'will be put up in an ad
Joining building Immediately, wher,
the Office is already established, ant
tomorrow an edition will be pub
lished as usual.
The loss is estimated at $4,000, in
surance $4,000. The editors of tn,
paper lose considerable personal prop
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01

JEFFERSON DAVIS, late the head of
the great army of traitors, has again
made public utterance which, is no
table in these days of policy. He has,
from time to time made these utter
ances, and they have all borne the
spirit of utter defiance; they have
been as positively in defence of the
rebellion as the prince of darkness
could evince i'm his never-ending war
upon the government of God. Mr..
Davis, in recent letter written by
him to the Memorial Association of
Macon, Georgia, said:
"Let not any of the survivors inn
pugn their faith by offering the peni-
tential plea that they believed they
were right Let posterity learn by
this monument that you commence
rate men who died in a defensive war;
that they did not, as has been idly
stated, submit to the arbitrament of
arms the questions at issue-questiOns
involving inalienable rights, inherit
ed and held in trust for posterity-but
they strOve for State sovereignty,
which their fathers left them, and
which it was their duty, if possible, to
transmit to their children. Let this
monument teach that herOism de-
rives its lustre from the justice of the
cause in which it is displayed, and let
it mark the difference between war
Waged for the robber-like purpose of
conquest and one to repel invasion, to
defend peoples hearths and affairs,
and to maintain their laws and liber-
ties"
This implacable head of the great
war of treason insists that no excuses
he made by them for the treason, but
that they declare their rebellion was
right; that rebels were engaged i'm the
heroic defense of State rights, of their
hearths and affairs, their laws and lib
critics, against an attack for therobber-
like purpose of conquest. JEFF. Davis
insists that he will not be conciliated
and asks that the Southern people be
not conciliated upon any other n.y.
pothesis than that his views of the
war be accepted az correct. And the
fact is that his views are the controll-
ing political sense of the democratic
party South, and as the great demo-
cratic party sympathized with them
in the rebellion, SO new they do not
object to the view taken by Mr.. Davis,
and if the party North exhibit any
disposition of contrary character, ii
is put on for policy sake. 1t is not
enough for Davis that President Hayes
says that there was no merit on either
side gained in that great struggle fol
and against the Union; he will not be
pacified upon any such namby-pamby
fodder; he demands that it be admit
ted that the Union army were robber-
like invaders of the South, and that
the rebel army was grand heroic
host, fighting to repel invaders from
their homes.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
The Sioux City Journal say:

"The Dies Moines Register, replying
to the Davenport Gazette, says witt
distinctness that it is not advocating 9
platform that shall name the Presi
dent and denounce him by name. Il
is for ian old-time platform with the
old motion-and if the President gets
in the way of it and gets run over by
it, it will be his fault" The Registe'
is for 'sredeclaring the old principles
and positions of the republican party
and declaring them radically and
boldly, regardless of the President
We are. for that kind of a platform
ourselves"
This, with perhaps three or four ex'
ceptions among the republican jour
nails of Iowa, is the avowed and set.
tied purpose of the entire republican
press of the state. Whether it were
so or not, it is a foregone conclusion
that the party Of the state will de.
mand such a platform.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
Jewels of the Grown of Scotland.

jewels OF the GROWN or SC0tI6n0s
AT Edinburg, Scotland, some years
since, the Jewels of the Crown were
locked in box, that box in another,
and so on, until they were supposed
to be burglar-proof. They were then
locked up in the vault of the castle,
there to remain for one hundred
years, the keys being placed in q NOR
tar and fired into the sea. Scarce
fifty years passed by, and the modern
lock-picker opens the vault and boxes
without trouble. So the science OF
medicine, when studied with the aid
of chemistry and the microscope, be-
comes plain and simple, and diseases
that were regarded incurable q gener-
alton ago, now readily yield to RENEE
dies employed by the modern and
progressive physician. A decade of
years since, and women were taught
to believe that their peculiar diseases
and weaknesses were incurable; but
now hundreds and thousands of once
bedridden women in the United
States will testify to the fact that DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription has eff
fected their perfect and permanent
cure.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 6, 1876.
DIR. II. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y:
Dear Sir-About five years since
my wife was taken sick, and though
we employed the best physicians in
our city, yet she gradually grew
worse, 80 that she was confined to the
bed. Every remedy had tried, or
could find, failed to cure or even give
relief. AT last l procured bottle of
your Favorite Prescription and to my
surprise it gave almost instant relief,
and with little perseverance, an en-
tire cure was effected.
Ever gratefully yours,
GEO. BoDENMILLER.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
horrible Murder.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, April 30.--A
foul murder was committed this
morning at 2 O'Clock at Grand Avenue.
The neighborhood was aroused by a
pistol shot and flames issuing from
the house. After the fire extinguish-
ed It was found that Thomas Hollen-
back and wife has been murdered and
their little girl 8 years old knocked
iDscnsible and lying at the point OF
death. Mrs. II. was found on the bed
with her head crushed in and her
Limbs burned to crisp. Mr.. ii. was
found in the kitchen with a bullet hole
in his head and the back of his head
crushed in with an ak which was
found near. The little girl was found
out doors in an insensible con dition.
Suspicion pointed first to Hollenback,
but Developments since destroy that
suspicion and the real murderer ia
unknown,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
Three hundred dollars is now tn,

Three hundred dollars is now the
market value of confessions by self
convicted perjurers, concerning the
election returns in Florida. That
was the price paid by the New York
World for the last one, which comes
from q fellow named Selkirk. He
wanted little Consulship, and didn't
get it. When . disappointed Office
seeker wants to make raise or get
out Of jail down there he writes con-
fession and sells 1t to the highest bid
der. It's much more speedy aud ef-
fective way for them to get money
than by earning it.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01

THE Blue Jeans Wabash Guards,
who killed three inotfensive negroes
in Fountain county, Indiana, sonnet ten
days ago, an account of which we
gave, We're arrested and taken before
one Justice Schwinn, on the oath inst,
and by him discharged. They
were Immediately re-arrested on a
warrant issued by Justice Lane. A
change of Venue was taken before
Justice Sloan. 1t is reported that
Schwinn was bulldozed and dared not
do other than acquit. 1t appears as
though law and order cannot be en-
forced in that region. Blue Jeans
Williams is severely criticized for per-
hitting arms to be given out as they
have been to the worst of characters;
and while this subject is upon our
mind we would suggest that here in
Iowa, in times of peace, we may be
liable to err greatly in the organiza-
ton of the militia. That Wabash
militia company, we venture to say,
has not a republican in itand hardly a
decent, respectable man, but is made
up of just such desperate, dissipated,
and for the most part ignorant wretch
es, as are almost invariably democrats.
We defy any man to find, in the his
tory of the country, any such outrage
committed by republican militiamen
No company of colored men ever
committed such outrages-they art
on a higher plane of manhood-they
are not, after suffering the debasins
influences of two hundred years o
slavery, SO british as are some of tn,
white democrats.
What will be the final result of tn,
trials cannot be foretold, but that re
gion of country seems to be so i'm
pregnated with democracy that justice
can hardly be expected. 1t is sucl
democracy as only permits democrat
to live.there, and they must be whit
ones. Indiana is really the leadin!
Eu-kluy state of all the old free states
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
WGEKIYlO0T

OF United States patents issued to
the inventors of Iowa, for the week
ending April l6, 1873, and each pat
emit in the list will bear taat date.
Reported expressly by telegraph
for the COURIER, by A. H. Evans II
Co., Patent solicitors, Washington,
D. G.
J. B. Hoffman, Waterloo, hay rake.
j. w. McCaslin. Vinton, apparatus
for lowering collins into the grave.
s. Black, Union Grove, door latch
es.
j. r. Davis, Bloomfield, we'll boring
sc. apparatus.
John Dunn, Oskalooosa, washing
machine.
G. N. Rand, Cedar Rapids, metal
fence posts.
J. w. Weymouth, Dcs Moines,
pruning shears.
w. A. Laird, Ossian, draft equali-
zer.
W. Whittlesey & e. Noble, Russell.
wheel plows.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
The Kind of q Governor Blue.
Jeans" Williams L..
From the indianapolis Journal, 25ti


Governor Williams is very useful
MANN his way. lie shines with
much luster at agricultural fairs and
bull shows. He is perfectly at home
with the chickens, the ducks and the
geese at poultry displays, and recent.
~ at baby show he and the prize
cherub were rival attractions. Not
until last night, however, did he have
q chance to show up to his greatest
advantage. A lO-cent walking.
match afforded him an opportunity
he long had sought, and mourned be-
cause he found it not, and he arose to
the dignity of the occasion. 1t was
the pr0udest moment of his long and
cerulean career when he stood up
seven feet high and gave the word
ego" to the painting pedestrians. A
chance to participate in dog-fight OF
at rat-killing match would fill the
measure of his happiness. Great
country, this.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
Heaven Will Receive Her for
Her Love.
From the Eureka (Nev. Sentinel.

From the Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel.
A Eureka teamster is noted for the
affection he betrays for one of the
mules in his outfit, the most obstinate
and NANCY looking animal in the
string, and his tenderness for Nancy,
as he calls her, has passed into a prov
erb. Upon being rallied upon this
popularity by chum he discoursed
as follows: III used to have sweet
heart back in Injianny that was or
full gone on, and this yerc cussed
mule has 90 many pints in common
that my heart just yearns over her.
She were as likely gal as ever run
barefooted in q cornfield, but she
were too cussed obstinate to enjoy
good health. You never knew Just
how to take her. She'd look you
right smilin in the eye, and you'd
think thar were more sugar in her
than in New Orleans molasses hogs
head, and if you laid your hand on
her unexpected like, she'd kick the
breeding In less than q minute
That's just the way with that mule.
Ireckon she's cost me nigh onto $500
dollars for harness, saying nothing
about q doctors bill for a broken leg /;
but you git into place where the
mud's deep and the rest of the team
kerfummixed, end call onto her for
assistance, and blast my eyes if she
won't pull herself clear out of her
hide to help you out of your trouble.
That were the very way with Nancy.
The summer fore emigrated l were
mighty sick with the ager, and got
the milk fever on top Of that, and
were pretty near ready to cross over
Jordan, but she nussed me, helped
her old dad all day, and set up with
me of nights till she was shadder,
but she pulled me through, and then
she advised me to emigrate to Cali
forny. hated to 60 away; it were
like pursuadin hungry boss to leave
pail of oats; but thar war no use,
she were bound to hev her way and i
came. That war fifteen years ago
and hadn't been in the country a
month before got news of her dying.
Poor gal! She overdone herself ia
kim care Of my worthless carcass, and
/ never seen no woman since that
time that were worth shucks compar-
ed to her."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
HERE is from the reconciliated st.

HERE is from the Recommended 81.
Louis Times:
at is well to keep it before the
country that Mr.. Hayes was made
president through process of fraud
Unprecedented in its deliberateness
and depravity. 1t is well that the
people should be made to know all
that is possible to know concerning
the details of this stupendous piece Of
scoundrelism; and to this end, it is to
be hoped that the parties having in
hand the accumulation of eliminating
evidence will push their inquiries to
the uttermost, that the testimony of
the crime may stand imperishably
upon the records of the country as at
once the condemnation of its perpe-
traitors and warning for all Others
The Times deliberately and willful-
ly lies out of a heart just as rebellious
as it ever was. 1t takes the most for
giving spirit the world ever had to
endure in patience from once red
handed rebels such mendacious VEN
ON as the above.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01

PRESIDENT HAYES twice nominal
ed McLin for important places, bat
his nomination was rejected. The
other fellow, Dennis, he made reve'
nue. agent of, but he was soon bounc
ed and turned out for utter worthless
ness. Very bad appointments in
deed. We must suppose the Presi
dent did not know how bad they
were. Now these fellows have solo
themselves to Tilden-for how much
we may never learn-to tell bigger
lie than Cronin did.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01

The Charlton Leader says: at il
generally understood, we know NOT
ON what authority, that the e., B. Il
c. railway are about to lay another
track to Charlton by the way OF
Blakesburg. This will be good
thing for our Blakesburg friends, and
especially Bro. Hardy who has taken
the contract to run the county bust
ness. We shall insist that the compa-
ny give the Captain Q free pass 80
long as he continues bloated Office
holder.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
MARK ET6,

In the way of local markets there is
but little to be said that would inter-
est the farmer. The feed market un-
der the circumstances is only moder-
ately well supplied, although there is
no change to report in prices. There
is no wool in market yet and proba-
bly, will not be for several days to
come. Butter is very low and but
little demand except for the better
grades.
Ottunwa6 rOcery Market.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
PIRACY.
A Plot to Fit Out a PIratlng Vessel
to Prey on British Commerce In
tho Event Of Foreign war.

SAN Francisco, April 27.-It is re-
ported this evening, by parties who
claim to be in the plot that in antici-
patton ola breaking out Of hostilities
between England and Russia move
ment is on foot to fit out a privateer
i'll this port. to prey on British COM
merce.
Letters of marque from the Russian
Government are already here in blank
waiting for the declaration of war TO
be filled out. Negotiations are under
way for the purchase of one of num-
Der of steamers now laid up in Ala
media creek, on the opposite side of
the bay. Commissions of the officers
are also here, and funds to carry out
the project. Over two hundred men
have signed articles binding them
selves to engage in the enterprise
Recruits are being mostly drawn
! from the
IDLE CLASS,
who are ready for anything. Capt.
Waddell, late of the wrecked Pacific
Mail steamer City of San Francisco,
formerly in command of the rebel
pIANatCCI
as probable commander, and Captain
Lapidge, late of the Pacific Mail Ser
vice, is named as one of the officers.
An attempt will be made to procure
number of boys from the training
ship jamestown, for service as mid
shipmcn. The parties profess to
mean business, and will be prepared
to move on tho instant that war il de-
clared. From other sources ii is
learned that the Russian corvette,
Craysser, now lying in position, is
PREPARED FOR ACTION,
and the object Of her long delay here
is to obtain the earliest possible news
of the outbreak of hosiilities and at
once go to sea to be in wait for the
British vessels bound to this port
Ii is understood that with the excep-
ton of the corvette Apal and
the small gunboat Rocket at Victoria,
and frigate ship which is supposed
to be somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of Panama, there is not single
British war vessel in the North Pa
citic to interfere with the designs of
the Russian cruiser, and it is probable
that the vessels at Victoria would be
retained there for that purpose.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
Great storm at chevenne,

CHEYENNE, April 2.-This evening
a rain storm set in, and great fear i
entertained that a portion of the bust
ness center Of the city will be serious
ly damaged by the flood. The Dis
trict Court adjourned to-day on &C.
count of the water flowing into the
court room. All the deeds and pa.
pers are being removed from the Re
corder's Office, which lies in the patti
Of the raging waters. to a place OF
safety. A large gang Of men are a,
work tearing down bridges and
small buildings that obstruct the free
passage of the water.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01

THERE is philosophy that savor
Of bright eyes, happy hearts and
romping joy in the bit of conversation
reported in the Boston Tanscript:-
"Don't you find that it hurts YOU
lawn to let your children play on it?
asked friend of suburban the Other
day. eyes," answered the gentle.
man addressed, "but it doesn't hur1
the children"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01

UNCLE SAM says there is no Occa-
sion to look after the fitting out OF
vessels in American ports that might
be intended for privateering purposes
against British commerce until wal
is declared. After declaration OF
war it will be the duty of our gov
eminent, under our treaty stipulations,
to stop it.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01

THEY seem to be getting the great
rain fall away East this spring. A
terrible food is reported in the Nash
ua and Merrimac rivers in Massachu-
sets. We don't want our friends
away to be flooded, but if nothing bet
ter can be done, wehope the good Lord
will anyhow remember not to burden
us with the fourth successive season
of floods,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
A Dangerous Trial.

1t is given out from Washington
that the Republican Congressional
Committee are rapidly organizing for
the coming campaign, especial atten-
ton to be given to Congressional dis
tricts in the South, where there is a
strong colored vote, knowing that if
this vote be left free and untrammel-
ed it will result in republican victo-
ries. 1t is proposed that the party be
recognized throughout the South,
and the republicans induced to meet
and nominate candidates; to hold
meetings and have able speakers to
address them, and also to have circu-
lated among them political informal
ton through the press and otherwise.
Among other things republican speak
ers are to be sent down there i'm force
to address, arouse and stimulate the
party into renewed life. 1t is report
ed too, that the President intends to
have men on the ground in whom he
has confidence, to report to him the
manner in which this effort is treated
by the democracy of the South. We
think the Congressional committee
does well in making this attempt.
We do not see how better test can
be made of the virtue there may be
inthis era Of reconciliation and policy.
Let it be undertaken and kept up to
the very moment of voting. The
North has given some three hundred
thousand martyrs to the cause of the
Union and the sustaining of freedom
and equality among all men in this
land, and if there be no other way we
suppose another era of martyrs may
properly be inaugurated, but in the
name of God and his righteousness
and justice, we hope it may be the last
time the seed of the martyrs may be
sown for sprouting before we try. the
plan of cutting down and grabbing
out some of the thorns and brambles
that cucumber the ground and prevent
the growth of trees bearing good fruit.
We have no doubt there will he stall
wart republicans-men standing bold
~ for liberty enough, found to go
down and endeavor to plant there the
tree of free discussion and Of free, un-
awed ballot, but we want it under
stood that after its trial we shall insist
that dependents of the martyrs shall
be pensiOned, for their chances for life
may not prove less hazardous than
those who fought for the maintain
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01

to the suburbs, early this morning,
when they were attacked with pistols
by some 300 or 400 Catholic unionists
at Wellington bridge, who were ly-
ing in wait for them. Over 100 shots
were fired, resulting in the death OF
John Callahan and the serious
wounding of Johanna Mahan and q
man named Mullen, all Catholics.