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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
OTTUMWA, IOWA, MAY 20, 1878.
STARVATION IN LABRADOR:
Tho People Eating Dog Food and
Even the Dogs Themselves.

evVss SUuO OOAO uV0HvvB0uv00.
A Labrador correspondent of the
journal Ede Quebec gives heart.
rending account Of the condition OF
the people along the Labrador coast.
The fisheries failed them last Fall and
the traders who gave them provisions
In barter for their fish and oil aban-
doned the territory, not caring to let
the wretched people have goods on
credit. Thus before Winter set in
the whole population were left to
starve or subsist until Summer on
FISH offal, for crops are impossible on
that sterile shore. Whole families
have lived through the Winter on
rotten, half frozen carcasses of seals
driven ashore by the ice-floes. 9th
ere have kept body and soul together
by .devouring the nauseous flesh of
the black tONp-naurtn, q species of seal
which In prosperous times would be
summed even by the dogs. Many
deaths have. occurred from sheer
starvation. OF five families contain.
ing forty souls, in one settlement, on
" five survive. Scurvy is epidemic.
The women haunt the shore like
specters, picking up the dead seal,
while the men and boys gather sea
moss or shell f1sh. The correspond
ent, French missionary, says: ~
know several families who have eat
en- nos only the salted seal flesh put
away for the Winter provender of
their dogs, but even the dogs them
selves. Those who happened to have
q stock of provisions have been COM
PEELED to 60 on short rations and
share with their gaunt neighbors.
The people have been cut Off from
the outside world since September.
When they found death staring them
in the face it was too late to make
wants known, for navigation had
clored and they were 200 leagues dis
tant from Quebec without any means
of overland communication in Win
ter" The Lieutenant Governor of
Quebec. in answer to this appeal, has
ordered a quantity of provisions to
be sent to the coast, and clothing,
ETC., will follow immedi-
stely.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
THE Missouri Republican is very

THE Missouri Republican is very
able, considerate and astute democrat
ic journal. 1t criticizes the action OF
the democrats in their investigation
move and gives its reasons as follows:
"In our political campaigns the ad-
ministratiOn is formidable power.
1t can nearly always decide a close
contest by throwing its influence in
favor of one side. A few weeks ago
it was understood that Mr.. Hayes had
decided to stand aloof from politics
in the states and leave the parties to
fight out their contests without the
federal interference. Nay, more than
this; there was some reason for the
hope on the part of democrats, that if,
in 1880, the republicans should seek
to condemn the Hayes policy by NOM
mating Grant, the influence of the adj
ministration would be thrown direct.
ly against them. But all this is prob
ably dissipated by the investigation
resolution. That measure is aimed al
both Mr.. Hayes and the republican
leaders; it makes them common OBJ.
jects of attack and it presents to them
a common ground of defense. In
short it reunites the divided party
and assures the employment of all
the influence and authority of the adj
ministration against the democrats in
the congressional elections of this
year and the presidential election two
years hence. The folly of driving
Mr.. Hayes over to the party from
which he was standing aloof is tOt
plain for dispute"
There is no doubt wisdom in thu
view taken by the Republican, ant
there can be no accounting for tn.
democratic House taking the cours,
it did except that upon the theory o.
belief on their part that the republic
an party had become so lukewarm to
ward the administration thatit woul(
not oppose them in their nefariou
plan. Here they erred greatly, ant
if we mistake not it will have the ef
feet Of correcting another error which
lies at the door of the President, viz
too much confidence i'm Southern dem
ocrats.
I
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
Presbyterian. General A..emb,x.

WVoopy10ps00 G0u0T0s A0S0m0uvs
PITrsBURe, May 22.-The Presby-
terian Assembly received and refer
red q resolution setting forth the me-
cessity for keeping inside the church
such members Of Presbyterian fami-
lies rs are sent as cadets to Annapolis
Naval Academy.
Rev. DR.. Morris, of Cincinnati, read
the report of the Committee on For
eign Missions. The receipts for the
year were $463, ,351, expenditures, in
clnding debt of $43, 600 of last year,
$5ll,7S0. Early in the year the gift
OF Mrs. John c. Green, of $50, 600, ex-
tinguished the debt. The expenses
have been carefully scrutinized to
avoid recurrence Of debt and it is
with unusual regret that the Board
reports deficiency Of 47,329. No
BILE liberality and great self-denial
have characterized the year, but sup
port has unavoidably been withheld
from some quarters and embarrass-
ment is the result. The question was
discussed whether to retreat and re.
trench in the work or to continue it,
praying for and expecting better
times.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

Mayor Moore, of Cincinnati, wants
. a"Peace Jubilee" ," in which Thousands
of ex-soldiers, both Union and Con-
federate, are to join hands, take .
drink, and unite in praises of the great
policy of reconciliation. "Peace Ju-
bilee |" Seems TO us that it 10 rather
late for peace jubilees. However, il
It is to take place, Wa would like to
see it made grand success therefore
we suggest that the opening scene
consist of Stanley Matthews decorat-
ing Wade Hampton with the Ameri-
IAN flag, while in the background
Charles Foster and Hamburg Butler
mako faces at the portraits Of Judge
Chisholm and Ben. Wade. The op-
ening music should be . quartet
hymn-"When can read my title
clear"-to be sung by Hayes, Hamp-
ton, Nichols and Congressman Ban
ming. The great State of Ohio is ex-
pected to contribute many thousands
of dollars toward the expenses of the
"Grand Jubilee"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

The bill for placing Gen. Shields
upon the retired list has been defeat
ed as it should have been. He has
not performed the continuous service
which, under the law, entitled him to
such consideration, and if his case
was to be made an exception thereare
agreat many soldiers, from generals
all the way down to privates that
ought also to be made exceptions,
The democracy did q mean thing by
defeating him for q respectable posi-.
tiOp whereby he could earn for him.
self good living, and SO they under,
took to do an injudicious and excep,
ti0aal thing to get themselves out o.
their dilemma.
Now there probably will he move
to increase the Generals pension, and
this we regard as proper and just
thing to do.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
HAVING seen the ireproceedings

HAVING seen the entire proceedings
of the Davis county democratic con-
vention we find that the delegates to
the State and Judicial conventions
were given the same instruction that
the Congressional delegates We're, viz:
to vote for none but democrats and to
leave no vacancy on the ticket for
greenbackers to make hay with. The
Davis County Republican says:
"The Knapp-Weaver combination
does not seem to prosper. The first
democratic gun in this part of the
state unhorsed Weaver and distinctly
repudiated Knapp. The sentiment
here seems to be that since Knapp
went to bed with the greenbackers he
must continue to sleep with them.
While this is true of Davis county,
we do not believe it will be of the
state. Wethink the Democratic State
Convention will endorse Knapp, even
against the protest of Davis county,
but we consider the action of this
county as an evidence of the willing
ness Of the democracy to turn Weav-
er's political toes up to the daisies.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

HERE Is Brick P0meroy's latest ut
terance on the finances. He Is the
apostle of one wing of the greenback-
ers and claims to have hundreds OF
thousands with him. He says:
BURN EVERY U. s. BOND, as
they who hold the bonds obtained
them by taking in and burning the
gs'eenbdcks, or as they term it, retire
them. IN AS the greenbacks
were burned and used as a base for
bonds, now let the bonds be burned and
used as base or bottom for gree,.6dck
money, the MONEY OF THE PEO-
PIE, that shall be as sacred, as last
ing, as eternal as the government it.
self!
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
Davis County Democracy.


In the Ottumwa Courier we find the
following resolution reported passed
by the Davis county democratic con-
ventiOn:
Resolred, That the delegation from
Davis county to the Democratic State,
Congressional and Judicial conven-
tions, are hereby instructed to vote
for the nomination of straight demo-
cratic candidates, and none Others,
and to vote against all propositions
tending either to pledge the support
of democrats to the candidates of 9TH
er parties or to leave the tickets va
cant.
This is General Weaver's own coun-
ty and it shows that he is not in any
great favor at home. The General
has not had the fortune to make him
self popular at home with any party.
For years he has sought favor with
republicans and this he thought he
could do best by abusing his oppo-
nents. Democrats have evidently not
forgotten this and hence their conclu-
sion when assembled in council. The
LEADER has doubted from the begin
ming whether the General could win
the affections and cooperation of the
democrats of the Sixth district, but it
was disposed to let the democrats of
the district settle upon their own poll
cy, especially, inasmuch as the repub-
licans seemed to show SO many signs
of alarm at the possible prospects that
their opposition might be united. The
union would doubtless have been eff
fected had more conservative man
been chosen by the greenbackers. As
it is there is little prospect that the
democratic congressional convention
will run counter to the protest of Gen
eral Weaver'S own home representa-
tives, and if the convention should
disregard this protest his election can
hardly be expected.
The State Leader, the capital organ
of the democracy, has at last snuffed
the real situation in the Sixth district
as to the Weaver democratic misce-
genation. We would correct the
Leader, however, i'm one of its state
ments, and that is that the republic
cans of the district have seemed
alarmed at the danger Of a union.
We will not say we did not expect
this from the Leader, for we did; but
of course the Leader did not expect
anybody to believe it. We want the
democracy to endorse Weaver SO that
the gentleman may have a chance to
ascertain just how much the people
take him for. when he has all the mo-
litical wires arranged just to suit his
liking. The common people have a
good fair share of common sense and
that article is very damaging to the
Generals aspirations.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
.'lndlcat,ons.,

The New York Graphic, under the
head of ''Indications," notes five facts
showing the revival Of prosperity.
These are, the revival of foreign inn
migration for the first time in five OF
six years; steadily increasing for
eign commerce; buoyant undercur-
rent of the stock exchange, with no
"bear" movement since the silver bill
became law; the resumption of rail-
road building, especially in the Far
West, reacting favorably on Eastern
iron industries; and finally, the 'phe-
nomenal" prosperity of the Far West.
Nothing similar has been known
heretofore; the harvest promises great
abundance, and the tide of settlement
is flowing in rapidly. New lands are
being brought under cultivation,
feeders to the great trunk lines of
railroads are being constructed and
the demand for manufactured articles
is sure to be large"
The Graphic is very sensible paper
and continues to show it from day to
day. We have no doubt that the
country has commenced upon tide
of prosperity which we shall soon
sensibly appreciate. The democracy
in Congress appear to be afraid that
good times may set i'm and they no
longer have this leverage to hoist
them into power, and so they go to
work to frighten the country by
threatening revolution. 1t won't do
to pooh this matter down the wind.
If the people of this country have not
had a lesson which they will heed in
the great rebellion, as to what the
democracy will do land they
are the soul and director Of the party)
then we confess experience is not
much of a teacher or ourpeople or they
are poor pupils. If man is shown
to be a deliberate thief we must say
Nutt Iildl 10 a lOOi WIN lS cit<tlu IlS
will not steal again, and the same
rule is even more applicable in the
case of the traitor. We want to be
we want to place all the
possible in our fellow-men;
but a decent regard for the good of
society, for the national welfare, pre-
cludes that we. should be assured that
the man once traitor in behalf of
slavery will always be a patriot.
The fear. arising from the recent ac-
tion of Congress will alone retard re-
turning prosperity at present, and
there is no other way to remedy this
but to place securely in power those
men who have not committed trea-
son or sympathized with it. 1t is no
idle remark for us to make, that there
are great and vital interests at stake
in the determination this fall of which
party shall control the next House of
r. Representatives. From the moment
it should fall into the hands of the
if it should, from that
time there will be distrust among the
business and commercial men of the
land, for they will be justified i'm fear
ing bad reSllltS-eyen revolution.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
POSTAL CURrosrTIEs.
The Strange Uses to (which the
sMajl Bags ara Put.

mail Bags are Put.
some person having neither the
fear of the law nor regard for his fel.
low man before his eyes, sent load.
ed pistol through the mail, which, be.
ing discovered in the st. Louis Post.
office yesterday, was stopped in tran.
stu aud possible accident prevent
ed. Such man ought to be killed
at least that is what the people who
handle mails think.
Another sends to some reptile-lov-
ing friend live horned frog from
Texas. which, impatient in his match
box prison, and possibly objecting to
the odor of sulphur left by the match
es, employs his time in scratching
noisily to get out How he has es-
capped with his life in the rough hand
ling of the mail bag ia wonderful ;
but, having survived the perils of the
road, froggy stops in st. Louis, and
will be sent out to the Fair Grounds
to Join the 200"
Another drops into the mails two
packages of shoes for "W. N. Raines
u Son. (no other address), and ex-
poets the postoffice officials to know
by intuition where they are to be sent.
Had they been addressed to the Pres
ident of the United States or the
Queen of England they would have
been forwarded, not withstanding the
defect in address, but s'Raines & Son"
have notyet attained q worldwide
reputation, and their shoes will soon
be landed in the dead letter Office at
Washington.
Then comes the lady (the hand writ
ing shows that it is lady this time),
who writes to her friend ut "Excen.
trio, Mo-" Now this address stump
ed" the superintendent of mails for
moment, for there is no such post
Office in the United States, but he
soon rallied and found himself equal
to the occasion by sending it to Pc
onliaT, Mo-, where it has since been
discovered, it belonged.
The sender of the dead snakes, in
case he should see this, is informed
that by the time his snake reached the
st. Louis office they were in such q
condition that soon ten foot POLE
would have been the only thing
which could have touched them.
Snakes of any kind are not allowed
in the st. Louis post office.
And so it goes loaded fire. arms
and snakes, gun cartridges and taran-
tulas, percussion caps and bottles of
oil. contraband samples and sharp
pointed instruments continue to be
mailed only to find their way to the
dead letter office or to the rubbish
heap, as the case may be.
Among other misdirected aad con-
traband packages yesterday was q
box Of iron washers with thirty-three
cents postage on them, and no ad-
dress whatever; also box of percus.
sion caps snd pair of eye-g glasses,
which had become broken and iu q
condition liable to main mail hand
dler st. Louis Times.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

General and ex-senator George W..
Jones, of this city, has written letter
to his lifelong friend, Hon. Alex. H..
Stephens, the one democrat in the
House who has had the courage to
declare that he was asopposedt to the rev.
OlutiOnary resolution of the Mexican
democracy. The General compliments
the courage and bravery of Mr.. Ste
phens in the stand he has taken, and
heartily thanks him for his patriotic
and enlightened conservatism in the
midst Of the fire-eating fury displayed
by the Bourbon crowd about him who
seem to be drunk with wild ambi-
tion.-D,,bugue Times.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, May ga fire
last night within the precincts of the
Sublime Porte destroyed greater
portion of the buildings including
those of the Ministers of Justice
and Consul of State, ministry of For
eign Affairs. The Grand Vizierate
and the archives were saved. The
origin of the fire is believed to be ac-
cidental.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

WHEELING, w. Va, May ga fire
this morning at Petersburg, W. Va,
destroyed five dwellings and ten bus
mess houses. The business portion of
the city was seriously threatened.
steam fire engines were brought
from Marietta, but the fire is now un-
der control. The fire originated from
q negro lighting q cook stove with
coal oil. It is impossible to ascertain
the loss at present but it will not be
less than $50, 900, insurance very small
about $4,000 or $4,000.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

If the democrats yesterday in the
House did not intend their investiga-
ton to work out the unseating of
President Hayes, if possible, why did
they not pass Harrison's resolution
which declared that such was not the
intention. This resolution was intro
duced by a democrat and the repub-
licans waited to see the democrats say
what they meant by their resolution,
and the democracy did not come to
time. After this who can be deceiv-
ed about the intention Of the conspir-
atOrS?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

The Buffalo Express says of the adj
dress of the Congressional Campaign
Committee: "All division of party
growing out of differences regarding
this or that line of policy, is ignored
in it, and it will serve as a rallying
cry for the concentration ofrepublican
strength throughout the country. II
is timely stroke, appearing as itdoes
at the same moment of the announce
ment Of the crowning infamy ofdem-
ocratic rule in the popular branch OF
Congress, and cannot fail to attract at
tention and command respect"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
Another Judge For iowa.
;, Ahn 6n~ I-sxcxl 4,

In the senate or the United states,
March ii, 1878, Mr. Kirkwood asked,
and by unanimous consent, obtained
leave to bring in the following bill !;
which was read twice and referred
to the committee on judiciary. May
IA, 1878. Reported by Mr.. Davis of
Illinois.
A Bill providing the times and places
of holding the Circuit Court Of the
United States in the District of
Iowa, and the appointment of an
additional judge In said district.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives Of the Unit
ed States of America in Congress as
sembled, That the Circuit Court of
the United States in and for the dis
trict of Iowa shall hereafter be held
at the times and places provided by
law for holding the United States
District Court in and for said dis
trict; and one grand and one petit
jury shall be Summoned and serve in
both Of said courts at each term there
of. Causes removed from any court
of the State of Iowa into said Circuit
Court within said district shall be re-
moved to tho Cirouit in the division
in which such State Court is held,
unless the parties thereto shall other
wise agree, or the court, for good
cause, shall otherwise order; Provid-
cd, all causes that may be removed
from tho District to the Circuit Court,
either by appeal or . writ of error,
shall be taken to the Circuit Court at
Des Moines.
Sec. 2. The President by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate,
shall appoint an additional district
judge In and for the district of Iowa,
who shall have the same salary as the
present judge of said district. Either
Of the district judges Of said district,
separately or together, may exercise
any Of the powers or jurisdiction con-
ferred by law ON the district Judge
for said district, and may hold any
term Of the District and Circuit
Courts OF said district % provided by
law; and said courts may sit 1T the
same time In different divisions of
said district. But the district Judge
Oldest In commission shall have the
right to appoint the clerks Of all dis
trict courts, and shall, from time to
time, designate what court shall be
held by the junior district Judge.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

TORONTO, May 23.-The little steam
er Empress, of India, which was car
ried over Blain's dam, Grand River,
last night, had seventeen passengers
on board, of whom nine were rescued.
The names of the lost are III. j. Jaf-
frey, proprietor of the Gait Reporter,
James Montgomery, Edward Wren,
and from Jackson, John Frazief
Frederick Cane, Robert Elliot and
David Scott. Up to the present
time only Mr.. Jaffray has been recov-
cred.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

THE National Greenbackers held a
State Convention for Indiana Mt In
dianapolis yesterday, and nominated
a full ticket. The resolutions passed
are base surrender to the commu-
nistic elements of the country and
present financial system such alone
as either rascals or idiots would adopt.
The adoption of the financial theory
recommended for the nation would
make us the laughing stock of the
civilized world and be totally destruc-
tive to every business, social and NOR
al interest in the land,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

THE superintendent of the Mount
Pleasant Insane Asylum gives notice
that the asylum is overcrowded, and
large numbers of the inmates will be
returned to the proper counties, which
must prepare to receive them before
November 1.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
Ternado--Three Persons killed

CHICAGO, May "a. - About six
O'Clock last evening tornado struck
. settlement about three miles from
harrington, q Chicago suburb, and
desolated the country for q radius OF
about two miles. The farm house OF
VIM Branes was completely demol-
ished, Mrs. Branes instantly killed
and two young children carried
through the air by the whirlwind and
hurled dead to the ground distant
90 rods away.
A laborer was lifted from his feet
and on striking terra firma again his
legs were broken by the shock. No
other damage to life is reported, but
the destruction of property was con-
siderable.
Many pranks of last nights storm
reported from various points in Wis.,
consin and more loss Of life is feared.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

The democratic investigating COM
mittee have caught tartar in John
Sherman. He boldly confronts the
committee in the charge madeagainst
him and we have the utmost conf
dence that he will make it very hot
for them. We shall lose our guess if
the democracy have not, in ordering
this investigation, committed the
gravest error yet made by them
among the several damaging things
they have done this session. BY the
action of Congress yesterday, we un-
derstand that the democracy were
compelled to open the door of inves-
tigatiOn.