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Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

There is scarcely q ssdder sight
than young man, intelligent and
educated, reeling through the street Q
drunken idiot. People have made
many mistakes in speaking of '.the
poor drunksrd," and placing all the
responsibility Of his drunkenness up
on the salOon-keeper. When we
place the responsibility upon the
drinker himself, and let him know
that it is crime against his family
and society, for which he will be held
strictly accountable, we will begin to
check the vice. A great many young
men have come to the conclusion that
it is good thing "to SOW q few wild
OATS" and a few drunks more or less
will not initiate against their respec-
liability and their entree into the best
society. Drunkenness ia crime, and
the drunkard is criminal. Ii he
fails to murder or run through the
calendar of crime il is because the
circumstances do not favor it. and not
because he has not fitted himself for
the work. Young man, you yourself
are responsible If you become a
drunkard and an outcast. You SOW
in the saloon, and you reap in the
prison yard and upon the scafl'old the
harvest of your ruined life.--Iater-
Ocean.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
Unfortunately Missed Him.

GLASGOW, Mo-, July l5.-John Dew
elm, an Irishman Of DAnville, Pa,
and lAborer ON the railroad here,
attempted to rape . white girl 5 years
old, on Saturday, and was caught In
the act, but before the girl was injur-
ed. The trial was held to-day be-
fore Justice Rock. As the prisoner
was brought out Of Jail james Long,
the girls father, shot at Develin four
times, inflicting slight wounds In the
shoulder. He also shot Marshal Gar
net in the thumb. The prisoner rush
ed in the court room, which was
crowded. Long fred one shot in the
court room, but nobody was hurt
Develin ran out and up the street
pursued by the crowd and Long, who
fired once. Develin was captured
and citizens summoned to protect
him. He was held in 81 900 bail to
appear before the circuit court of
Fayette, in August. He could not
give bail and was sent to Fayette to
prevent mob law. Long was held in
four hundred for assault. One hum
drod citizens signed Longs bond.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
All this time was trying to call
her I'M in my mind

All this time l was trying to call
her up in my mind.
She asked me If was not in the
war and stationed on the Big Black
river in Mississippi in 1868, and if 1
did not remember young lady who
was captured in attempting to cross
the pOntoon bridge.
ida Mitchell!' almost Yelled
1t is needless to say that a scene here
followed and that there was COM
motion on that boat.
Ida Mitchell, now Mrs. Harry
Decring, was again before me. Oh,
how l regretted that Sergeant North
fleet could not have lived to be with
US at that unexpected but happy
meeting. Mrs. Deering told me that
she had regretted a thousand times
that she had not taken our names and
addresses before leaving the bridge,
as she had often wished to communi-
cate with us and to know that we had
survived the war. The tears rolled
down her cheeks as | told her that
Sergeant Northfeet had been killed.
Mrs. DeeriDg compelled me to 60
with her to her home in San Francis
CO. They have beautiful residence
ON Bush street, adorned with all the
ornaments, elegance and comforts
that wealth commands, aud are re-
spected and loved by all who know
them, They have FIVE children, thI ee
girls and two boys. 1t was happy
family.
Mrs. Deering told me that after
crossing the bridge over the Big
Black river at our first meeting, she
made her way to the confederate
lines, was conducted TO the hesdqusr-
ters of Gen. Loring, and there learn
ed that Lieut.. Deering was in the hos
pital in jackson that his arm had
been amputated just above the elbow.
He was in critical condition when
she Joined him, but she remained by
his bedside until his recovery, when
he was transferred to Richmond and
assigned to duty in the war depart
ment. They married. Her.-husband
surrendered at Appomattox Court
House with the army Of Gen. Lee.
After the war they crossed the
plains, taking their child, little Ida,
with them. Arriving in California
Lieut.. Deering secured situation as
an engineer on the Central Pacific
He invested his earnings in stocks,
aud, like great many men in San
Francisco, he became independently
rich at that business, and now lives
in princely style in San Francisco,
and is an officer in one of the leading
banks in that city.
The eldest daughter. Ida, is the
very picture of her mother, and is
now fourteen years old. The boys
are twins, and Mrs. Deering laugh
ingly said. if she had known the
names of the two young men who
helped her over the bridge on the
Big Black, sho would have named her
twin boys for them.
She visited her home and the Cen
tennial in 1877; and was joyfully re-
ceived.
Her father did not survive the war.
She is now happily situated. May
heaven bless the remainder of her
days.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
MONROE COUNTY News cleaned
from the Union:

MONROE COUNTY NEWS cleaned
from the Union:
Mr.. Francis Kendall, an old and re-
spected citizen of Abba, died at
the residence Of his son j. w., last
Friday.
Mr.. w. II. Teller, q young married
man, of Bluff Greek township, a son
Of Mr.. Ii. r. Teller, proprietor of the
Bluff Creek nursery, was adjudged
insane last Monday and sent to the
hospital at Mt. Pleasant.
Another pupil of the Abba street
school graduated. Last Thursday an
officer from Marshalltown was here
armed with q warrant for the arrest
Of Lewis Moffet, who ia charged with
stealing q horse at OskAloosa from A.
w. johnson, (formerly q sewing ma
chine agent At Albia) aud selling the
said horse at Marshalltown. The ac-
cused is . lad of seventeen years of
age. the son of respectable and indus
trl0us parents who have lived in and
near Abba for several years past.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
Southern Defiance Of Government
al Law and Authority.

al Law and Authority.
General Sewell, Chief of the Inter-
nal Revenue Agents, writes to the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue at
Washington, an official report of the
opposition which the revenue officers
meet with while endeavoring to col
iect the Government taxes in certain
portions of the Southern States.
In North Carolina, ''the law-break-
ers, i'm their resistance to the officers
OF the revenue, are as bold, defiant
and malicious as ever" In Virginia
there have been fresh outbreaks of
lawlessness and fOrcible resistance to
law" In South Carolina, "three of
the Deputies who were arrested as be-
connected with the justifiable homi-
eide of Ladd, are confined in Jail,
Judge Kershaw having refused to ad-
nit them to bail. Such state of
feeling exists i'm the western part of
that State that our officers are power
less to enforce the laws" In the
Third District of Georgia, the Collec-
tor writes that "there is much Opposi-
ton and open resistance to the force
employed by him for the suppression
OF illicit distillation. One man has
been almost fatally wounded; and but
recently colOred man, who acted as
guide for some of our officers, was
shot" In the Second District of
Georgia, Collector Clark has been
enabled latterly to conduct his opera
tions withoutm much opposition, though,
within the last few months, resistance
has been offered to the officers, who
have been fred upon, and one inform
er guide has been killed." "In the
Second District of Alabama, especial
ly in Cleburne county, reign of ter
ror exists. 1t is openly proclaimed in
that county that no person shall be
arrested for illicit distilling, and, in
fact, that no revenue officer shall be
permitted to visit certain localities
there" "In the Second District of
Tennessee, the same spirit prevails,
only with more force than ever before.
Collector COoper's officers have re-
Gently been attacked and fired upon,
and efforts made to rescue prisoners"
"In the Fifth District of Tennessee,
Collector WoodcOck has vigorously
pushed his work for the seizure of
stills and arrest Of parties operating
them, and has met with serious oppo-
sition. Deputy Collector Davis, his
most efficient and vigorous officer, is
now under indictment by the State
courts for murder, in case where he
killed distiller in self-defense, and
who was openly resisting arrest, This
occurrence has had the effect to rem
der the arrest of persons more haz-
ardous, and has encouraged the vio-
lators of the law to open resistance,
as they are given to understand that
the State courts will protect them."
''The districts above named are more
turbulent and insurrectionary than
any others, though there has been,
from time to time, bold and defiant
resistance to law in the Second, Eighth
and Ninth Kentucky Districts, and
the Eighth District of Tennessee"
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

BRICK POMERoY, in summing up
his two hours speech at Maquoketa,
Jackson Co., Iowa, a few daysago, said
in closing:
$50 / can take any man by the
hand, black or white, native or foreign
born, republican or democrat, if he is
willing to work for the greatest good
to the greatest number, for the ac-
complishment of this grand object of
ripping out an ,nald,cfUl, unnecessary,
unconstitutional national debt.
This same individual issues contin-
uously campaign tracts and organizes
clubs, or sort of secret greenback
lodges all over the country.
In one of his campaign tracts, call
cd "Meat for Men," on page 8, will be
found these sentiments:
"If this government will not pro-
tect us, in issuing absolute paper money,
then we owe it no allegiance; and we
had better unite the West and the
South, and
sECEDE FROM THE UNION
So it is that we sight
the gun directly at your black hearts!
You can give us back the
full silver dollar-the greenback dol
lar absolute money! as a m,0aition Of
peace and q part Of the Government,
or 1880 nerer rises a sun on the Repub-
lie as IL nOiU stands! You de-
sire to have your banks broken open,
your houses plundered, your spoons
and furniture stolen, your pos
sessions confiscated, and your north
eastern States held as appendages to a
united West and South, hand in hand
cooperating as the
NEW AMERICA!
Give to us (the Greenback party the
property = or you shall be de-
spoiled of your possessions and left in
desolation. Young men of the Vest
and South, we can clear all
out of homes and their property.
We can do all this by organizing
Greenback clubs-acith bdyolets in re-
se,yep
This is Greenbackism according to
PomerOy. What do men of sense,
and who have some interest in socie-
ty, think of it:
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
Big Fire at k,ttanlna.

PITTsBURG, Pa, July ia spe-
cia: from Kittaning says, about l 80
O'Clock . fire broke out and owing to
delay In applying water gained great
headwsy. The following are the
losses and insurance as far as known !:
Brown, dwelling, $1,000, insurance
$3, 1000, contents saved Jas. McCul-
Tough, hardware building, $1,000,
stock 5000; E. r. Mcconnell, hard
ware building, $500, insurance ST.
600; stock $1,000, insurance 5000 ;
Anderson 4 Marshall, timers, 5000 {;
Mcconnell Il Campbell, dry goods,
building $1,000, insurance $500,
stock 10000, insurance $4,000; Jas.
Gault & Co., dry goods, building SIS,
600, insurance 5000, stock $25, 600
Gault & Caldwell, building $1,000,
insurance $4,000.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

WASHINGTON, July 17.-Case Of
Taylor, Collector of Customs, at Buff
falo, against whom charges of immor-
al conduct been made, 10 now before
the treasury department and is un-
dergoing investigation. The United
States Treasurer has written to the
Assistant Treasurers authorizing
them to use standard silver dollars in
their vaults in payment to persons
presenting checks and to parties desi-
ring them upon disbursement of pay
rolls aud In exchange in moderate
amount for greenbacks and national
notes, and for payment in lieu Of l
and dollar notes,
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
Ground to Death

KEoKuk, L., July l7.-About ten
O'Clock this morning Chas. Sellers,
master mechanic of the st. L. X. & N.
w. railroad was crushed to death
between passenger coach and coal
chute. The accident occurred just
below this city, at the shops of the
company. Sellers was knocked oil
the car while making flying switch.
His body fell against the chute and
was ground to jelly by the coach
The space between the car and chute
will not exceed six inches.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
Then and Now.
State Register

During the war "Brick' Pomeroy
came through Iowa sporting fiashy
watch chain formed of fifty small
gold dollars as the only true money
democratic hard money'-and de-
riding the "LincOln scabs," as he call
ed the money that sAt6d the country.
A few years makes quite revolution
in the theories of this blatant dema-
gOgue.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
A Big arasshopper.

The Stockton (Cal.) Independent
tells about the boss grasshopper as
f0llows: "The most grasshopper we
have ever seen is ON exhibition at the
Office of F. NJ. West, county treasurer.
1t 10 preserved In alcohol, and WAS
captured some time since near Cop
peropolis. 1t is nearly six inches
lang, and Its body is an inch and q
r nArter in depth, while its head Is as
|big ss . mans thumb. The wings
when spread must have measured 10
inches from tip to tip. The legs are
- largo % lead pencil at the body.
and about four or five inches long.
The enormous body 10 quite transla-
cent, and its ribs can be distinctly
lseen."
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

AGENCY ITEMS, clipped from the
Independent:
G. A. Bryan Il Son have their new
boiler in place and have started up
their mill again.
G. D. Bailey's little boy met with
painful accident Wednesday. He
climbed up in tree and lost his bal
ance, fell to the ground and dislocat-
ed his elbow.
A bill poster from Ottumwa drove
horse from Andy Peck's livery sta
BILE, in that city, until he died near
this place one day last week.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

The Monroe Mirror, Leroy w. AL
lum, publisher, is being issued tri-
weekly during the campaign. Mr..
Alum is a gentleman of pluck and
ability, and he makes a paper that
the people of Monroe ought to be
proud of.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

SENATOR OGLEsBY and General Lo-
gan will make canvass of Illinois
during the fall campaign, speaking in
every county before the day Of the
election. Their appointments will be
announced i'm due time.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

At church picnic, near Addison,
Vermont, where such innocent games
as "Spinning the Platter" and "SimOn
says wiggle-waggle," were played,
with "forfeits," it was decreed that
Deacon Ezra Smith should kiss the
fair Mrs. Mary Champlin by way of
forfeit, because they hadn't "wig.
gle-waggled" at the right time.
Then it was arranged by the devils
own private secretary that the same
forfeit should be performed again
The deacon did it as if he liked it,
and declared to friend that "the kiss
was 80 luscious and tender that it
went right through him." The dea-
con began soon to take the lady out
buggy-riding; but there were draw
backs on each side in the shape of
some little deacons and little Champ
Inns.
The affection between this pious
couple became warm, but was evil
IDENTIFY platonic and fraternsl, because
the lady would freely embrace the
deacon in the presence of the children
and of Wilbur, the brother Of her
husband.
Then brother Wilbur, struck with
admiration at this picture of pure
love, decided to let the husband Of
tne lady see what model of disin-
terested affection che was with the
deacon. He showed him the wife
embracing the deacon religiously.-
The husband saw the embrace but
not the plstcnic He swore he'd shoot
the deacon but then brother Wilbur
reminded him that he was chris
tian and man of prayer, aud that
one commandment couldn't be set
right by violating another. Champ
lin then besought the deacon to spare
him and his honor, and also to re-
member his own (the deacon's) wife.
The deacon said he would. And
sure enough he did, for his wife sud-
denly died, and the widower and his
pure friendship lady friend mourned
for her together.
Champlin, however, thought the
mouln ming friendship too loud, and
complained, at which his wife cried,
and said he was always maltreating
her. At last, as the pure friendship
got louder and louder, Mr.. Champlin
took his children and left for another
town, begging in vain for his wife to
follow him. Sho didn't see il, and
stayed near the deacon, who began
then to take her out of moonlight
nights, but the people Of the town
who did not appreciate pure friend
ship, snuffed largo sized mouse all
along of the sudden death OF Mrs.
Deacon Smith, and upon . post-mor-
tenn examination it was found that
the deacon and Mrs. Champlin had
actually made the deacon . widOwer
by using arsenic on his wife.
That the two pious practisers of
pure friendship and arsenic would
hang seemed certain, when suddenly
the cOmmonwealth's attorney died,
the place was filed by an indifferent
lawyer, and the defence saved the
poor friendshippers by proving that
the homeopathic doctors had given
the defunct . thousand -billionth IS
much arsenic as was found in the
murdered woman's stomach. The
deacon and Mrs. Champlin were ac-
Quilted and declared that the Lord
had stood by them. The jury at least
appreciated pure friendship, while
the absolute truth is that the murder
lay in tho game of forfeits.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
Says the Davenport Democrat.

Here's hope for Weaver and Gill
lette. j. Milton Turner, formerly
TO Liberia, is very much dis
gusted with the republican party
since he lost his office, and says he Is
going to turn over as much of the col
ored vote as he can dispose Of to the
greenbackers. He declares that the
African has been the political newer
Of wood and drawer of water long
enough.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
Money to Loan

AtS9o, 81a95, and 99S interest, (prin-
cipal and interest payable in curren-
cy) ON long time. City property or
improved farms as security.
We have good facilities for neg0-
tiating wster, gas, municipal and all
kinds of bonds.
julyl2d&wtf LADD HARROW.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

The sale of postage stamps, postal
cards and other postal matter by the
government for the last fiscal year
shows an aggregate increase of II per
cent?, or between one and two million
dollars, over that of theprevious year.
These sales are considered good in
dex of the condition of business, and
the large increase is therefore especial
Iy gratifying.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

Des Moiaes Leader: The editor of
the Blue Ribbon Gdzette announces
that that paper will be published no
more under tho present management,
the reasons given being that cOllec-
tions could not be made and that the
further expenditure Of money on it
was deemed inadvisable.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
Heavy salss Of Bends.

NEW YORK, July l7.-There was
an unusual heavy movement in U. 8,
bonds yesterday, the sales at one na-
tional bank alone amounting to near
ly 100000. 1t was stated that .
number Of Government bond sales
are being made for European account
and that bonds amounting to three
millions have been disposed of in this
city during the past week.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

JOHN r. SHAFFER, Secretary of
the State Agricultural Society says
that the prospects for a successful
State Fair were never better than
they are this season. The demand
for premium lists has been very great,
and with good weather the exhibition
will even surpass the one Of last year.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

An ounce Of prevention 10 better
than pound of cure. A dose of DIR.
Bulls Baby Syrup will assist your
Baby in teething, and prevent it from
being attacked by Cholera Infantum,
Collie, or other diseases from which
Babies suffer.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

A respectable callous on the palm
# the hand can be raised by the use
~ milestone in two or three days.
publish this for the benefit OF the
.tiOnal candidates. Toledo Blade.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
sapp RonomInated.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, July 1S.-The Re-
publican Congressional Convention
for the Eighth District of Iowa net
in this city to-day. Hon. w. w.
Sapp was renominatsd unanimously
: by acclsmmatiou.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
To the boys around town who are
the BARRIERS lawn mower !:

EGO straight, young man, " the maiden said,
And get your head sand paper-ed;
For BY yOn moon I'll never wed
A fellow with frowzy head!'
He went. And no " the nies delight
To roost upon him day and night,
And hum sweet praises while they bite.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

BARNEsvILLE, ONO, July 1.-THE
boiler in Davis planning mill exploded
this morning destroying the entire
building and killing threof persons
outright, three more frta)1 |and sew
|eral badly injured. Log bout $25,.
lOOO.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
FOREIGN.
-erBAN MOVEMENT.

HAVANA, July 19.-The Official Ga
zette publishes royal degree divid-
ing the government and administra-
ti0n Of Cuba into six civil provinces,
named Penar Del Rio, Havana, Mat
tanzas, Santa Clara, Puerto Principe
and Santiago dc Cuba.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
A Train Plunges Down 40 Feet and
KIlaA r~as~

Kills TWO Men.
INDIANAPOLIS, July l8.-As an east
bound freight train on the r. G. 3 ST.
Louis railway was passing over the
bridge at Monticello, yesterday, the
bridge gave way, precipitating the
engine and twenty cars into Tippeca.
noe river, 85 feet, killing the engin.
eer, Louis Beam, and the bridge
watchman, Jerome Durfee.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
,MlscEMMg.
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
BY JOHN @. SAKE.

BY JOHN q. SAKE.
Fat men, iniatuate, fan the stagnant air,
In rash essay to cool their inward glowing,
While with each stroke, In dolorous despair,
They feel the fever growing
The lean and lathy find o fate as hard,
For all dry, they burn like any tinder
Beneath the solar blaze, till withered, charred
And crisped away to cinder!
The dogs lie lolling in the deepest shade;
The pigsare all a-wallow in the CUTTERS,
And not household creature-cat or maid,
But querulously mutters!
',Tis dreadful, dreadful h0t!" exclaims each one
Unto his sweating, sweltering, roasting neigh
Dor,
Then mops his brow, and sighs, as he had done
A quite herculean labor!
And friends who pass each other in the town,
Say no good morrOws when they come together
But only mutter with dismal frOwn,
"What horrid, horrid weatherl"
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
A Bitter Dose.


It was bitter dose, but Porter, (of
the Standard) swallowed it like little
man-we mean his retraction of his
article on the Ottumwa lawyer and
MaVOr,
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

PORTLAND, July l6.-The follow
ing dispatches have been received
from Gen. Wheaton, dated Umatilla
Agency, the 18th:
The hostiles are reported to be
moving from their position near the
head waters Of Mckays creek.
send, Forsythe with the cavalry col
umn In quick pursuit. follow him
with Miles column. Mclean, the
Umatilla interpreter, with the Una.
tilia scouts, are now fighting the Ban.
nocks raiding parties and the Snakes.
Chief Egan is reported killed.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
More Bonds called .

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE Sec
retary of the Treasury to-day issued
tho sixty-second call for the redemp-
ton Of $50 bonds of 1866, consuls Of
1866. The call is for rs, 600, Of
which ~ millions are coupon and
2ls are registered bonds.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
Another wuts Murdered.

SAN FRANCISCO, July l7.--Mrs. Tim
othy Lynch died yesterday from
wounds inflicted withsa jack knife by
her husband last Saturday, In fit OF
drunken frenzy. Both parties are
sexagenarians. The murderer is a
wood sawyer.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

Best Thing Out.
O'Harra's Patent Lifting Jack for
raising buggies, wagons, threshing
machines and billiard tables. Call
ct Peck's livery barn and see Il.
junea9dAwte
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
The President Goes to ohio.

WASHINGTON, July 19.-The presi-
dent leaves tonight to attend the
soldiers reunion at Newark, Ohio.
He will be accompanied by General
Sherman and Attorney General Dew
ems. The president will spend Sum
day in Columbus.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24
THE BoRoIA BUSINESS.
An AtSoclous Double murder Dis,
closed In 0onnootlcut.

A dispatch from Norwich, Conn.,,
July ii, says: Prof. Doremus, OF
New York, who has had the vitals Of
Mrs. Bishop under examination for