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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20
ORDINANCE NO. 100.

AN ORDINANCE to repeal all of
Section one ~, except the enacting
clause of Ordinance number one
hundred and five QO5), entitled an
ordinance defining the compensa-
ton of City Marshal and Police Of
ficers-and to enact substitute
therefor.
SECTION l. Be it ordained by the
City Council of the City of Ottumwa,
that ell of Section one of Ordinance
number one hundred and five QO5),
following the enacting clause, be and
the same is hereby repealed and the
following is enacted in lieu thereof,
to-wit:
That the City Marshal shall receive
for his services in lieu Of all other
compensation a salary at tho rate of
one thousand dollars per year, and
the Deputy Marshal shall receive
for his services in lieu Of all other
compensation, = salary at the rate OF
six hundred dollars per year, payable
to each in equal monthly installments
out of the city treasury-but no in
stallment shall be allow cd or warrant
drawn therefor until each of said Of
ficers shall have paid into said treas.
ury all money belonging to the city
at any time coming into his hands by
virtue of such Office, and shall have
filed with the City Clerk a sworn
statement of the same accompanied
by the Treasurer's receipt therefor.
SEC. 2. This ordinance shall take
effect and DO in force from and afte,
its publication according to law.
Passed March 18th, 1878.
j. s. PORTER,
Attest: w. III. FETzER, Mayor.
City Clerk.
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For Breeders.

EDITOR COURIER IL have seen the
proposition of Mr.. Samuel Dorr, pro.
posing stake for two year Odds, the
stake to be formed by the owner Of
the sire Of colt or colts entered to add
to the stake $25. I hereby accept
upon my part, the proposition, and
agree to enter the stake for my stall.
lion Patchen Mambrino, and will see
that he is represented by his produces
in the stake. GEORGE WETHERED.
March 10th, 1878.
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TM0b TOff1OhO 0cOmt8es

Fever and aguc, and Its congener bill
ious remittent, besides affections of the
stomach liver and bowels, produced by
miasmatic air and water, are both Grad
icated and prevented by the use OF
Hostetter's Stomach Bittere, a purely
vegetable elixir, Endorsed by physicians
and more extensively used a. remedy
for the above class OF disorders, as
we'll as for many others, than any med.
icine of the age. A languid circulation
a torpid state of the liver, want of vi
tai stamina, are conditions peculiarly
favorable to malarial diseases. They
are, however, surely rcmedied by the
great Preventive hich by invigorat.
Ing the system and endowing 1t with
regularity 40 we'll 40 vigor, provides il
with s.resistant pc wer which enables !,
to Withstand disorders not only offs
malsrial type, but host of others te
which feeble and i'll regulated systcml
are maoe subject. The Bitters are I
safe 40 we'll - searching eradicant, anG
have widely superseded that danger
ous drug, quinine, which palliates, bu
does not eradicate malaria.
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0Y 4 HYfl0 Retail price 5000 only $500 Parlos
VI INyy Organs price $40 only sos. Pa
Hmm Hin per free. Daniel F. Beatty, Wash
= &kA4v w ington. Nj
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by virtue Of an execution to me directed from
the Clerk OF the District Court of Wapello county
Iowa, on judgment obtained in said Court o.
the l4th day of September. 1875, in favor of Law
renee 4 Garner, as plaintiffs, and against y. d.
Carpenter, as defendant, for the sum of Egh
Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars and costs taxed
at 800 10, and accrning costs, have levi.d upor
the following Real Estate and Personal Property
taken as property of said defendant. to satisfy
said Execution, to-wit;
8. ID. Carpenters undivided 1-5 interest In OF.
tumwa Bridge Company's Wagon Bridge proper
y and franchises, and upon One Hundred and
Twenty shares of stock in said Ottumwa Bridge
Company; also on the undivided 4 interest of S
D. Carpenter in Lot Isl in the city of ottumwa
Iowa, and on his undivided 4 interest of Lot
Myers & Wood sub division OF Mil Donation in
Ottumwa, Wapello County. Iowa.
And will offer the same for sale to the highest
bidder for cash in hand on the Both day of March
1873, in front Of the Court house. In Ottumwa
Wapelo County, lows, AT the hour Of o'clock
L. N of said day, when and where due attend.
ance will be given by the undersigned.
lated ct Ottumwa, Iowa, January 2hth, 1873.
ID. W. STEWART,
mar2o- w2t-d50 Sheriff Of said County.
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The Beauty of q Bath.

| A Charlton man was in this city
Sunday, and learning something Of
the benefit to be derived from bath
as administered by medical institu-
ton down town, concluded, contrary
to the rule of the people of his village,
to take a wash, and was one of the
early callers at the institution. How.
ever, he was little late and found
the managers of the Institution all
out or engaged, and the prospect for
bath not very fiattering for the time
being.
One of the occupants of the office
was a young sprig of q lawyer, who,
fresh and rosy from the bath tub was
arranging his spit curls a la mode,
carelessly glanced at Charlton, saw
what was required and volunteered
his services. He remarked that he
did not belong to the institution, was
lawyer, but was well acquainted
with the modus operandi. He advis-
ed vapor bath as the most delicious
and invigorating arrangement in the
world, producing sensations that were
perfectly indescribable. Charlton
wasn't bit particular and shucked
himself to the buff and was ready for
the tub in an instant
This vapor bath tub is composed of
large wooden box lined with wire
screen, to keep the body from coming
in contact with the box. The body
when managed by the DIR. is also pro-
tected by other means to keep it from
being scorched. The amateur bather,
in the absence of anything better, COW
cred Charlton with newspaper. put
him down in the box, put on the COW
er, which fits closely around the neck
and prepared for work.
In the tub, the steam is raised by
placing pan of water over spirit
lamp filled with alcohol. Tho fellow
in the box was getting tired and in
vited his attendant to hurry up. By
accident, without doubt, the young
fellow got the lamp above the water
and when he touched a match to the
alcohol, away it went, the flames flash
ing up, around his exposed person,
caused an unpleasant sensation indeed.
In an instant the newspaper caught
fire, which was more than Charlton
could stand, and with the exclama-
ton, 0, III, gave bound, burst
ing the top from the box which chung
fast to his neck like the yoke to an
OK. Away he went, the paper blaz-
ing in stream behind, and the young
fellow following yelling, "head us
off," he's got the box. The racket
reused every person about The house
and before the man got on the street
he was caught, released from his UNI
pleasant predicament, the scared flesh
gently bathed with the appropriate
liniment, and the patient made as
comfortable as possible.
After he was dressed and while
smarting with pain, he turned to the
young man who had given him the
bath and remarked, "Young man, you
may be the making Of a good lawyer
but id if you'll ever do for Doc
for"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

The surest sign of a prosperous cit,
10 the kind of a newspaper that citl
zens permit to 60 out Oh their home
When person picks up for the frs
time a paper well and neatly printed
and ably edited, masterpiece in ty
Biography, he is Immediately prepos
sessed with the city from whence it j,
issued; the same in regard to one
that is badly printed and slovenly ed
tied, which suggests the kind OF peo
pie in whose midst that paper is prin'
ted. tits, therefore, TO the interest Of
every business man to do what he car
to support his paper, to do all he can
to promote the interests Of q paper
which must in turn promote the in.
tcrests of its city and be the means OF
building up the town and county gen.
erally.-Central (Cof.) Register.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

A citizen Of Davenport, Iowa, who
has had extensive experience ON both
grand and petit juries, tells the Ga
zette, of that city, that in all his many
Investigations into street fights, tav-
ern rows and even in murder cases,
the witnesses and participants inva-
riably and unanimously have sworn
that soda water" was the drink used
by any Of them, and the saloon-keep-
era always testify that "soda-water"
is the only beverage kept or sold on
their premises. In view Of this con-
dition of things the Gazette is moved
to suggest that it might be we'll per-
haps II tho Legislature would permit
the sale of some other drinks and pro-
hibit the deadly "soda-water.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

The editor of tho New York Er.
press calls out to shameless ladies in
full dress, pull up your vest.'
Mrs. Mary Sailor died, at her resi-.
dence at Primrose on Tuesday, at the
advanced age of more than one hun.
dred years.
Isaac Cooper, the last survivor OF
the crew of the Shannon, the British
frigate that fought the Chesapeake
has just died in England at the age Of
1856.
The drunkest young man picked W
in Washington for the year had let
ters from twelve Senators recon-
mending him IS sober. steady ana in.
dustrious.
Jefferson county, w. Va, was Wis.
tied on Tuesday by frightful storm
i OF hail and rain. Thousands of acre.
Of wheat and other grain are said I,
have been destroyed. Houses wer,
unroofed, buildings blown down, an,
cattle killed. The total damage is cs
itimated at $4,000,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

Frank O'Conner, who has been in
jail here for some months charged
with rape and the prostitution of his
own wife, after attempting to procure
change of venue, withdrew his plea
of not guilty and plead guilty under
some arrangement as to his sentence,
and was sent to the penitentiary for
five years, two and one-half years on
each charge. He got off very lucky,
for if what is charged against him be
true he deserved at least five hundred
years, with hanging both before and
Citizen,
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JoTr1Nas.

Iowa will have an exhibit in the
Paris Exposition.
The Police Judge at Des Moines
gets $4,000 year in fees.
Iowa City has raised $l,73O to start
a blue ribbon club room.
Frank Alumbaugh. ,of Oskaloosa,
has turned temperance lecturer.
We examined some peach buds to-
day, and find them all right yet.
T. P. Baker shipped car load of
eggs to San Francisco Saturday even
ing.
Des Moincs city orders are worth
80 cts. to the dollar. Ottumws city
orders are par.
1t is said that 100000 colored people
in the South have made application
for transportation to Liberia.
A revival of religion is in progress
at Asbury Church, Mt. Pleasant.
Rev. Haney is conducting the
meetings.
Another dead man has been found
in slough near Council Bluffs. The
population of that city are getting in
to the habit Of becoming sloughed.
John Morrell s. Co. are. fitting up
Murphy's new brick, on East Main
street, and will'sremove their retail
meat shop to it on the 1st Of April.
On Thursday, the 18th of March, j.
L. Dove, two miles northwest Of
Floris, Davis county, will have sale
of live stock, farm implements and
furniture. Credit Of one
year, 20 per cont. offfor cash.
Henry Weese and Frederick Knoch
of Lee county, have been arrested for
the murder Of Henry and Margaret
Grazer. Considerable German and
American coin were found in their
possession that is beloved to have been
taken from Grazer's house.
The latest robbery dodge is for a
man or woman to ride up to bank
or business house, call out the pro-
prietor on some special pretext while
two or three pals go through the
safe or money drawer. 1t is very
effectual where pretty woman
serves as decoy.
t. G. Randall, of Columbus, Wis
consin, has purchased DR.. Orr's inter-
est in tho Drug Store, at the corner Of
Second and Court streets. Mr.. Ran
dali will remove hero with his family
in few days, and will be welcomed
rs valuable acquisition to our bust
ness community and to society.
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b. j. BoULToN,
1. N. MAST,
KINsEY JORDAN.
nee on hand $50, 800 g.
Respectfully submitted
WADE KIRKPATRICK, Treas.
Receipts during the year.

OF the financial condition of tho City
of Ottumwa for the year ending
March Is, 1878.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

Mike O'Neil, for ten or fifteen
years conductor of the construction
train on the X. & ID. M. railroad has
been promoted to the position of
roadmaster of the st. Louis & Cairo
narrow gauge road, position which
he will I'll with distinguished credit
to himself and with fidelity to the
company by whom he is employed.
Mike O'Neil is good citizen and we
are glad to hear Of his good luck.
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"Says the Detroit r.,

"Says the Detroit Evening Post =
"Money spent in advertising may
be wasted or may bring golden fruit
age, according to the degree of intel
ligence with which it is dispensed.
Put it into good, live, popular news.
paper, which will carry your adver.
tisements to the counting-rooms and
the tiresides of the people who have
wants to be met and money with
which to meet them. This is the
whole priceless secret of successful
advertising"
Yes, plant your advertisements in
the Daily or Weekly COURIER il you
wish them to produce golden fruit.
age.1
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John Jordan returned from New
York on Saturday night. He brought
with him one of the new silver dol
lars, perhaps the first one that has
been seen in Iowa. 1t is . very
handsome coin, with the single ex-
ception of the eagle, which looks
a little too much like buzzard to
suit the average American. 1t was
designed by an English craftsman,
named Morgan, which accounts for
the crude-shaped bird delineated and
yclept an eagle, we presume out Of
courtesy to our English cousins.
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Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
R.R.

Office of General superintendent
Topeka, Kan, March Is, 1873
GENERAL ORDER NO g.
Mr.. T. j. Anderson having been
appointed General Agent Of this
Company, the separate Office of Gen.
eral Passenger Agent will be discon.
tinued.
Mr.. Anderson will have charge of
matters pertaining to the Freight and
Passenger Departments in Kansas
Colorado and New Mexico, with of.
flee at Pueblo, Col.
Mr.. w. f. White, General Tickel
Agent, will assume charge of both
Passenger and Ticket Departments
with title of General Passenger and
Ticket Agent.
These changes2nd appointments t.
take effect March 10Th.
G. F. MORSE, Gen. Supt.
Approved VIM. B. STRONG,
Vice-Prest. and Gen. Manager.
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Losr.-Either in Ottumwa or on
the road to my residence, in High
land Tp., = pocket book containing
$3l.O0 or more. Please leave with
COURIER Office and be rewarded.
d&w o. M. JONES.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

N. Dornsifc and VIM. Chittum will
have an extensive sale of live stock
and farm implements at Eldon, on
Saturday, 3Oth inst. w. Ii. Cross
will do the auctioneering.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

PRICES TRITY-sEvEN YEARS AGO.
From paper published at Iowa
City, September 10Th, lS4l, we learr
the price of living in Iowa thirty-sev.
en- years ago: Flour per barrel, SIS to
So ; corn meal per bushel, so to Is cts
corn, % to 81 cents oats, 81 to 81 cts
bacon, per pound, 10 cents beef t.
6 cents; chickens per dozen, 81 Il
$3.50; butter per pound, II cents
cheese u cents ;scggs per dozen, l:
cents. These prices can be appreciat
cd better by quoting the Cincinnati
prices at the same date, towit: Flour
per barrel, 81 to $3.50; corn Is cents
bacon 6 cents beet, retail, TO 4 cents
butter 6 cents; eggs, cents: whoa
so cent.
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PROOF OF WILL,
WApELLo CouHTY. ss

STATE OFlOWA,( co
WAPELLo COUNTY
Notice is hereby given to whom it may concern
That on the Let day of March, 1878, there wa.
opened and read by the Clerk of the Circuit Cour
Of said County and State, an instrument of writ
ing purpoting to be the Last Will and Testamen
of Lucinda Ware, late of said county, deceased
and you are further notified that the 10Th, day
March, 1878, has been set for final hearins
and proof of said Will, at which time
all persons interested may appear and
show cause why the same should not be admitted
to probate.
March LIST, 1873. L. NJ. COOLEY,
mal6-w3t CLERK
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THE SPRING TERM Of II weeks Of
Agency High School win begin Apr.
8. Tuition $500. Room rent from
81 to ~ per month. Day board $l.75
per week. Rare facilities offered for
those desiring to fit themselves thor
oughly for teaching. A. HULL,
l9-w2t Principal.
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You Must Cure ::shat Cough.

With Shiloh's Consumption Cure
you can cure yourself. II has estab-
iished the fact that Consumption can
be cured while for Coughs, Bronchitis
Whooping Cough, Asthma, and all
diseases Of Throat and Lungs, 1t is ab.
solutely without an equal. Two doa-
es will relieve your child Of Group, il
II 10 pleasant to take and perfectly
harmless to the youngest child. and NO
mother can afford to be without it
You can use two-thirds of bottle
and IL what we say IL not trne, We will
refund the price paid. Price 10 cts
so cte, and 81 90 per bottle. II your
Lungs are sore or chest or back lame
use Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Sold BY
j. L. Taylor & Co., Ottumws, Iowa.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

Have you Dyspepsia, are You Con-
stipated, have you . Yellow Skin,
Loss Of Appetite, Head Aches. IL so
don't fail to use SHILOHS SYSTEM
VlTALIZER. It Ia guaranteed to re-
lieve you. and will you continue to
suffer when you can be cured on such
terms 40 these. Price 10 cts aud rs
cts. Sold by J. L. Taylor 3 CO., Of
tumwA lows. decl9 dAwaltwtf
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First-class Grape Vines for sale,
one and tv o years old, in fine condi-
ton for trsnsplanting; at wholesale
or retail, at prices to suit the times.
Enquire OF the undersigned in ?. O.
building or at his place on upper Sec.
ond street. ]. NJ. HEDRIcK.
3-lS-d&Mtf
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Can be had at Morisrty s. McLaugh.
Inns for a few days, as they arc going
out of the Grocery Trade. They will
sell what they have at wholesale or
retail. Store fixtures cheap, the build.
ing for rent, from the 10th of April,
Call and get bargains while they last
Great bargains in flour l9-dGw3t
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New Firm.

The firm of w. l.. Orr & Co. was
dissolved by mutual consent on the
10th of March, 1878, w. L. Orr hav-
ing sold his interest in tho same to
f. q. Randall. f. G.. Randall 81 Co.
will continue the drug business at the
old stand, corner Of Court and Sec-
ond streets.
w. L. Orr will pay all liabilities of
tho old firm, and all accounts due the
same must be paid to him or to d. A.
Pool, who remains in the new firm DIV
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

From 800 to 500 bushels of fine,
clean lump coal constantly on hand
at the dump at Ennis bank, 81 miles
below town on X. & ID. M. r. r.
Price 6 cents per bushel at bank.
m19d6w4 JOHN MCCoLGAN & Co.
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r. A. Wilson has for sale superior
Roof Paint which is u per cent. Iron.
He guarantees it to be the best and
cheapest paint that can be used for
tin roofing. Call at 66, East Main st.,
up stairs. febl1-d&wtf
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.Mey1MM@N15.
From MartInsbure.

MARTfNSBURG, March liz, 1873.
EDITOR CoURIER.-I wish to give
the readers of your excellent paper
some items of interest in and around
this place, hoping all will be profited
thereby, and learn from the past how
to act in the future.
| Our school, taught by Mr.. jackson,
OF Sigourney, closed last Friday, ii
was q great day for the children, they
were as happy as they could be, all
went off pleasant for the little ones,
and would have been much more
pleasant had it not been for the noise
made by some six or eight children
running loose through the room du-
ring the exercises, to the disgust of
those that wanted to hear the little
ladies and gentlemen speaking their
pieces. How strange ii is that parents
will, on such occasions, let their chill
dren gallop around through the house
go that . person can hear it thunder.
1t is to be hoped that hereafter
there will be better order by old and
young. On the following morning
the voters of independent district No.
10 Gown district) met for the purpose
OF electing two directors to fill the
places of w. H. Young and w. ID. Ma
lonee, who were appointed last fall
to fill the vacancies occasioned by the
resignation of r. s. Marlin and Geo.
Pollock. There were several candi-
dates for the Office (all good mem.
The result was Sam. Waddy and r.
). Hogue were the successful parties.
All hands appear to be satisfied with
the choice. There is already five ap-
plicants for the school, three ladies
and two gentlemen, with bids left to
teach, from $50 to $35 per month. 1
hope whoever gets the school will
keep better order than has been in
the past, for VIC believe that good
government is as essential in school
as it is in any other department of
life. So far as we know, all of the
applicants are qualified, unless it is
in government, but this with the aid
Of parents, can well be remedied in q
short time. Mr.. Robson, of this
place, is now at his fathers in Morn
ing Sun, on q short visit, will return
soon. Josie Bottorff is very sick
with chronic disease of the stom-
ache. She is suffering dreadfully
her old, but kind mother is doing her
duty as parent should do, waiting
on her day and night. Taking all in
all, think we have one of the best
communities in sickness that l ever
have been in, and still there is room
for improvement. G.. L. Eyestone
has moved into the country on farm
east OF town, his brother, Theodore.
has taken charge of the store. and
postoffice for the time being. Sam
Waddy thinks it big thing 10 be
school director, he thinks there
ought to be donation for him COON
he hasa dreadful sight of trouble Che
has it bad too) but he is good boy
and no doubt will do his duty we'll
and to the satisfaction of all con-
ccrned. FRYMUTT.
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To Rent.

A house with five rooms in the
rear of the COURIER Office, on Court
street. One Of the rooms is well
suited for business purposes and the
others for fiices and lodging rooms
Enquire Of j. NJ. HEDRICK.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

When you buy Homeopathic medi.
cines, be sue you get the regular
preparations such as physicians use
A full line of these on hand from
Luyties' Homeopathic pharmacy, St
Louis, and for sale by
JOHN l.. MOORE, Ottumwa.
aup,ist % deod.EvIy
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20

Time 10 money but health is happi-
ness. II you have q bad Cold or
Cough use DR.. Marshall's Lung Syr-
up, it will cure you. % cents a bottle.
large size 80 cents. Sold by j. l..
TAYLOR & Go.
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Garden Seed. declined.

.. Tower, on Market street, is SELL
ing by the o., pound or bushel, at
lower figures than any house in town.
Call and see him. mlSdlw4