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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
Cock watterson on Ms Dungh,i,.

Cock Watterson on His Dunghiil
1t is our purpose to sift the Florids
and Louisiana villainies to the bottom
to bring the rascals to justice, to stake
our all on that issue, and if need be-
to die in our tracks next time if, elect.
ing our ticket, we do not seat it. Mr.
Hayes can get in the way or get out
of the way, just as he pleases. That
is his affair. This is the meaning Oi
the Potter investigation. LOuisrilyt
Courier Journal.
The C0trier- Journal is a big paper
for the South; it comes as near being
cock of the walk as anything they
have got, and it appears to have been
wonderfully conciliated by President
Hayes. A little more such concilia-
ton and Watterson would declare
himself commissioned of God to pro-
ceed to Washington and, seizing Mr..
Hayes by the nap of the neck and the
seat of the breeches, incontinently
cast him out of the White House.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
The democrats of Tippecanoe

The democrats of Tippecanoe coun-
ty, Ind, held "mass convention" at
Lafayette, on Saturday, to nominate
county officers; got into a quarrel, and
then into rough-and-tumble fight, in
which blackened eyes and bruised
faces were prominent features. The
trouble arose about the nomination OF
a candidate for Auditor. The conven-
tion was mob, as democratic gather
ings generally are, and behaved ac-
cordingly.
The Chicago Journal, from which
we clip the above, announces plain,
unvarnished fact when it says
that democratic conventions are gen.
orally mobs. Every person who has
been in the habit of attending these
conventions knows the statement to
be true. Very often the proceedings
are disgrace to men of respectable
ty. For the most part democratic
conventions are good show for the
outsider, not unlike the exhibition of
a menagerie of wild animals when
well stirred up by the keeper. How
ever, we all know they are bully re-
formers.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
MlscElMGg.
NO TIME FOR HATING

Begone with feud! away with strife:
Our human hearts unmsting:
Let us be friends againl This life
10 all too short for hating!
So dull the day, SO dim the way,
So rough the road we're faring-
Far better veal with faithful friend,
Than stink alone uncaring!
The barren 1g, the withered vine,
Are types OF selfish living:
But souls that give, like thine and mine
Renew their life by giving.
While cypress waves DER early graves,
On all the way we're going,
Far better plant. where seed is scant,
Than tread on fruit that's growing!
Away with scorn! Since die we must
And rest on one low pillow;
There are no rivals in the dust
No foes beneath the willow.
SO dry the bowers, so few the flowers,
Our earthly way discloses,
Far better sto0p, where daisies droop,
Than tramp O'er broken rosesl
Oh, what are all the joys we hold,
Compared to joys above us!
And what are rank, and power, and gold,
Compared to hearts that love us?
So fleet our years, so full Of tears,
So closely Death is waiting
God gives us space for loving grace
But leaves no time for hating.
"A. j. H. Duganne.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05

BROTHER KEY, p. M. General in
his pointed letter on the situation,
seems to think that his party do mean
to unseat Hayes, do mean revolution.
He appeals to his Southern brethren
to oppose this movement. We are
very glad to see him take the stand
he does, but his appeal will not have
the effect to stay the deviltry of the
madcaps in Congress or their fiery
unreconciled constituency in the
South. Read the letter.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
"spongins" OF the Printer

Without comment, and with tears
all unused to bsing wept, we quote
from the Auburn Advertiser:
There are no business men in the
world 30 subject to the sponging pro.
cess % the publishers of newspapers
1t really seems that public corpora
tions, societies and associations in gen
eral, and many persons have q funny
notion about printers. They think we
ought to print, puff and publish all for
nothing, that is, free gratis. In other
words, they seem astenished If we
ask half price for an obituary notice
card of thanks, tribute of respect,
personal communication or anything
that only interest q tew persons and
not the general reader. They forget
that it takes money to pay the com
positors, to buy ink, type aud pager
and lastly, they forget even to thanl
you for gratuitously serving them Of
the public"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
Killing a "Niener.'

The delightful condition of peace
and brotherly love which the demo-
cratic statesmen in Washington and
Mr.. Hayes assure us obtains between
the whites and blacks in the South
since the conciliation policy came into
vogue, is well illustrated by the fol-
lowing paragraph from the Sherman
Courier of Texas:
We met yesterday Col. Shumate,
father of the young man who killed
the negro Ike Southern. Col. Shu-
mate is a model of the Kentucky gen.
tleman, and while he realizes the fact
that his son has violated the law, but
under the circumstances he applauds
him for it, just as ninety-nine out Of
every hundred of the best white citi.
zcns of this country would do, if plac-
ed in similar circumstances. A South.
ern man, nor q Northern one either,
OF pride Of character, will not appeal
to the law for redress, when assaulted
by a negro. The law cannot give ad'
equate redress for such otfense. They
will almost invariably take the Law
in their own hands. 1t is instinct
with them to do so, and they would
rather suffer death twice over thar
theindignity of abuseand assault from
a negro. This young man, we have
it from the best authority, is peacea
bic, quiet and unOfiending generally
almost at the verge of the grave witt
consumption, and the family wer'
here in Texas more in search Of healtf
for the young man than any othe
reason, while the father has been II
Missouri, where the home is, attend
ing to his interests. OF course we can
not sanction the violation of law, bu
ut the same time we cannot but sym
p0thize deeply for the young manan.
cannot blame him for the act Of kill
ing.
The total disregard of all rights Q
the negro is very apparent in tn
above according to the Ob,sier's ow
story. Besides this the Courier bold
~ acknowledges that 1t is right an
just for chivalrous Southern whit
man to shoot down negro wheneve
he conceives himself insulted, Th
mills of the gods grind slowly, bu
they do grind, and there is day {
retribution to follow for such inhu
manity and wrong and it will surel
come.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05

LORD JOHN RUSSELL, whose death
was recently announced by telegraph,
was one ofthe oldest prominent living
English statesmen; hewas born in 1872
and hence had arrived at the ripe old
age of Sc. He entered the House OF
Commons at % years Of age and be-
came prominent leader in the Wing
party. He was strong supporter OF
the Reform bill of 1882. In 1916 he
became Premier, which Office he re-
signed in 1852. On the death of Lord
Palmerston he became second time
Premier.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05

The democratic House cut down
the army to 10000 men and put upon
it at the same time additional labor
by transferring to the War Depart
ment the Indian Bureau. The pres
ent Senate, however, will check this
step toward Handwriting the national
government. The man who does not
see in the present democratic move
ments preparations to forcibly take
control in this nation, if need be, by
the old ex-rebel element, aided by
their late sympathizing allies, totally
ignores the lessons of the past.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05

The indianapolis Jomndl thinks
the democrats who joined i'm the Pot
ter Mexican movement are already
in a condition to sympathize with the
man who was run away with by the
horse he was leading, after hitching
the end Of the halter around his own
body, and was nearly killed. "The
horse hadn't run more than fifty
yards" said he, "before l saw where
i had made a mistake"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05

AT Standing Rock, Indian Terrific
ry, there have been charges made
against the officers and soldiers, of de-
banching the squaws, and the matter
has been investigated. 1t has been
ascertained that out of eighty-two
children, half-breeds, only six of them
had soldiers for fathers; the rest were
the children of civilians about the
fort. What shameful, what an
abominably disgraeeful state Of facts
this discloses! To what pitifully low
depths of depravity even the civilized
white man will descend! Now If
they could sell these half-breed chill
dren into slavery, we should have a
re-enactment of what was the chief
cornerstone of the old Southern civ
ilization.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
A curious case in England is abou,

A curious case in England is about
to be tried in the courts. A Rev. Mr.
Besant, clergyman of the English
Church, married lady, who it ap.
pears after the marriage, turned out
to be an atheist. The husband de.
clared he could not live with her un.
less she recanted her views and be.
came a Christian. They agreed there
fore upon a separation by the terms
of which the mother took the young
daughter into her own keeping
yearns for the possession Of tho tctiifd
and has commenced suit to obtain
her, alleging es reason, that the
mother, being an atheist, is unfit to
rear the child. Singular enough this
case is brought before an Israelitish
judge and the lady defendant gives
out that she shall plead her own case
The trial is becoming matter OF
great interest in English circles.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05

The Boston Travellers reporter, al
the late Republican State Convention
in Vermont, telegraphed to hispaper:
II have not yet found a Republican
delegate who has ever entertained
any faith that the President would
succeed i'm the course he has taken.
They consider him honest but badly
duped.n
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
A STORY WITH A MORAL.
the 1nconvenlence Of Dying un,
expectediy.
From tho Hartford Cour.,

L Vs1 Sso kAoHuOru COur0nI.
The habit of dying suddenly and
unexpectedly is not in all respects 8
commendable one. It is one tha1
should be confined strictly to men oi
cleanly lives. Otherwise the comm o
OF the merciless messenger may lead
20 disagreeable revelations, may show
that life of outward respectability
hss besn whitened sepulchre hiding
ghastly and unclean skeletons. x
terrible warning against untimelv
dying is furnished in an incident A.
the Central Park in New York las,
sunday, some details of which have
already been given. The leading ac-
tor was J. Marshall Paul, Of Philadel-
phi. He was in the prime Of life, un-
der 40 years, the son of a wealthy
merchant, who died few months
since leaving him half million dol
lars. He had been living iu Colora-
do for the last fourteen years, promi-
Dently engaged in mining and poll
tics. Last year he declined a nomi
nation for Governor, and was talked
OF for candidate for the United
States Senate. He was married to
an adopted daughter Of the late Ad-
mira! Dahlgren, moved in the highest
social circle, and, so far as was known
had lived an exemplary life. But
last Sunday evening woman's
scream was heard by policeman ia
Central Park, and, on:.::investigation.
Mr.. Paul was found dead with his
head resting in the lap of woman.
who had tainted away on making the
discovery that her companion was
dead. On reviving che told her sto-
ry, which is accepted as true, and the
death was pronounced q natural one,
She was young German woman not
especially attractive in appearance.
and course in her language. She said
that she met Mr.. Paul at a picnic
some three weeks ago. Since that
time she had had several clandestine
meetings with him. She kept an ap-
pointment with him last Sunday even
ing and they walked to the park
He complained of being very cold
and soon after they had taken a seat
put his head on her shoulder, and a
moment afterward she discovered
that he was dead. Being unknown
the body was taken to the Morgue -
Meanwhile the poor wife, to whom
he had always apparently been de-
voted, was waiting at home for his
return, and sent out repeated messen-
gers during the night to try and as
certain his whereabouts. What her
feelings must have been in the morn
ing, when the sad truth and the st-
tendant revelations were made pub
lie, it is needless to fancy. But the
story has its moral, part of which is
in the reflection that the disgrace aud
sorrow must fall upon the innocent
and blameless.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
ACCIDENT TO WIN, CULLEN RryANr

ACCIDENT TO WIN, CULLEN BRYANT.
NEW YORK, May 3O.--At the exer-
cises in Central Park yesterday, on
the occasion of unveil;ng the bust of
Mazzini, William Cullen Bryant met
with a severe accident by falling and
striking his head on heavy stone
with some violence. He had been
suffering from his heart and had
grown dizzy. He was removed to
his house and physician called. He
is not fatally but seriously hurt. and
IS suffering from concussion of the
brain and his friends are still anx-
iOus.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
PotterItes In MEXICO.

GALVESTON, May 3l.-A Ne,cs from
Eagle Pass says Escobedo is reported
to have captured Saragossa and 10 ex.
pected TO- attack Pilgras Negras. The
Mexican government troops, under
command of Col. Muncio, have gone
TO meet him and fight is expected.
The First National bank at Dallas
has suspended payment. The sus
pension is owing to the Withdrawal
Of $4,000 Of deposits since Monday
and inability to realize at present up
on assets. Its liabilities cannot b.
ascertained to-day. 9here ID due de
positors $4,000; nominal assets $ll0,
GOO; capital stock authorized $500. .0U
paid up $75,O0O.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
Mob at Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, May 3I.-A mob of
10000 people this morning overpow-
cred the guards and broke into the
Jail yard, intent on seeing the execu-
ton of the colored murderer, Webb.
The Sheriff telegraphed Gov. Bishop
that the execution must be public or
tho mob would tear down the jail
The Governor responded that the ex-
ecution should proceed and at l2 90
the drop fell in presence of the whole
crowd assembled.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
Terrible ItSssay.

ST LOUIS, May M.-A widow NAM
ed Thompson. about 90 years old and
highly connected and respected, kill
| ed her daughter Nettie, about Ii
years old, with razor while sleeping
in bed, at Springfield, Mo-. night be-
fore last and then cut tler own throat.
Temporary insanity, occasioned by
sickness is assigned as the cause.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
Machlne sNsp. burned

INDIANAPoAs, May D.-The ma
chine shops Of the indianapolis, Peru
Y Chicago r. r., at Peru, Ind, Wal
struck BY lightning last night and
with its contents entirely consumed
by fire. There were s locomotive,
and 2 stock cara N the shop. Los
estimated st 100000 No insurance
A heavy rain saved the round kous,
tand other buildings and cars.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05

IOWA.

Washington will celebrate Fourth
of July in true temperance style.
The Villisca Recsesc wants ex-Sen-
ator Wright for President in 1880.
There are still several cases of the
smallpox or varioloid in Montezu-
ma.
Monroe county has seven represen-
tatives in the Fort Madison Peniten-
tiary.
Cows in Burling ton are dying rap
idly from some un accountable mala-
dy.
Clinton Dill, lumber dealer at
| Columbus Junction, has failed for
5000.
Egglesht, the Davenport forger, at
Grand Rapids, Mich, got fifteen years
in the Jackson Penitentiary.
| One hundred and twenty well bred
short-shcrn cattle will be sold under
the hammer at Kellogg the 9TH of
June.
| A baby was recently sold in Allan
tic for $50. The parents of the child
had parted, and the sale was to the
grandparents.
The name Of the Sabula, Ackley
and Dakota Railway has been chang
ed to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul, Western Union Division.
The Times is new democrat eight
page weekly, published at Ackley,
Hardin county, by f. M. Lineham.
ION its banner is inscribed tho name
of Samuel J. Tilden, for President in
1880.
i Mr.. Carroll Wright, son of ex-Sen-
ator Wright, graduate of the State
University. has just been chosen val
edictorian Of the law class that grad
yates from the Iowa Law School at
Des Moines in June.
i Since the 1st Of March, 1900 acres
of Agricultural College lands situa-
ted in the northwestern part of the
State, have been sold, the heaviest
sales in an equal time ever before
tmade. The college has still $4,000
acres Of land in the Northwest.
II The wife of S. j. Roberts, of Du-
4 buque, and Preston Sharp, . husband
: and the father of large family, elop-
+ ed together last Thursday. The de-
Y serted husband procured detective,
!. by whom the guilty couple were traced
n to Epworth, where they were found
l. Occupying the same room at hotel.
a Both were arrested and taken back
r to Dubuque on charge of adultery.
It may not be universally known,
- but section 4042 of the code of Iowa
= lforbids the sale of watered or adul-
!, lteratsd milk, but also "milk from
= which any cream has been taken,
:. commonly known as skinned milk,
: !. and to cap the climax, applies all the
I penalties of the law-for the viola
ton Of which one becomes subject to
a fine of from $25 to 500, beside liza
bility for damage-t0 any person who
: shall keep back any part of mill
7 known rs s'strippings."
e VIM. Boyd, prosperous farmer
near Iowa City, was shot severa
t times in the neck and face, on Satur'
Q day last, by his brother-in-law, Glib
}, Pinney. After the first shot wa.
10 fired, young Pinney's mother, an in
y firm old lady, rushed between thu
h two men and received very painful
If though not fatal wound in tho fore
ct head. Mr.. Boyd's injuries, it i
10 thought, will not prove mortal
70 though time only can tell. Aftcr tn
A. shooting Pinney walked into towl
" and gave himself up. Tho cause o
l the trouble between Boyd and tn
l. brother-in-law dated back numbe
n- of years, when Boyd was schoe
30 teacher and had collision with Pin
then his pupil.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05

didate for judicial honors, who, long
years ago in Ohio, first submitted his
name for nomination to Whig con.
vention; next toa Democraticconven
ton; next Free Soil conventions; and
still again to convention of the old
Liberty party; all in the same cam
paign, and was finally advised to &c
before Woman's Rights convention
which followed upon the heels of all
the others. Judges Knapp and Beal
should study the following couplet:
1.-THE devil sick, monk would be,
The dell well, a dell of . saint was he.''
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
College sports-A Faculty Amaz-
Adj

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, May 3O.-The fac
ulty Of st. Johns College failed to
try the disorderly students because
of insufficient evidence. While the
faculty was in session a student
pushed open the door and blew
blast in their midst with tin horn.
water. HE bafldiRg lmfzsa wa!s.r4enesr A1ser
in vain for the perpetrator.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05

LONDON, May 3l.-A telegram to
the admiralty says by the sinking OF
the eraser Kurfurst about 300 per.
stone. fsa-s-
A dispatch from Dover says it il
reported that the Grasser kurfurst
carried crew Of GOO men, Of whom
between three and four hundred are
supposed to be drowned.
A telegram 10 Lloyd, from Folk
stone, repeats the report first tele-
graphed that only lS men were rescu
ed, but its correctness is doubted.
All previous reports say life boats
were lowered from the other iron
clads Immediately and q large mum.
Der of small crafts from Dover and
Folkstone hastened to the locality.
According to a report of the disas-
ter received by the Admiralty, the
collision occurred seven miles south
east of Folkstone. The latest dis
patch from Dover says the forward
part of the iron clad Koenig Wilt
helm is under water.
w. III. Smith, First Lord of the Ad.
miralty, stated in the House of Com.
mons this p. M, according 10 the re.
ports received by the Lords of Admi.
ralty, from $50 to 200 of the crew OF
the Grasser kurfurst had been saved
and 300 perished. The Grasser kur
furst was the flag ship of the squad.
ron. The Admiral commanding the
squadron was among the saved.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
Boiler REPRESENTATIVES, Men XIII

CINCINNATI, May 3l.-On the farm
Of Robert Linn, four miles from Hills.
boro, Ohio, this morning q portable
saw mill engine exploded, killing
three men, severely soalding several
others. One man was thrown com.
pletely over tall tree. The boiler
! was found 900 yards distant,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05
What they say ofthe Potter Inves'
tiRatjon.

Washington Correspondence N. Y. Graphic.
The House Of Representatives il
full of Confederate officers and their
friends. They think it would be
worth the cost to plunge the country
into civil war i'm order to discredit
the armies as at present existing, and
so force reorganization in which
Southern officers would be allowed to
resume their old position under the
U. s. Government. Hence South
Carolina member wants to sell West
Point, and the Southern members are
generally opposed to all measures for
the maintenance of the army, only
excepting the members from Texas,
who fear raids from across the MeXi-
can border:
Advantage has been taken of the
discomfort of the working classes, =
for the riot last summer pointed out
the way of bringing about revolu-
ton in all the large cities. But some
national question was needed upon
which to create a general row, and
the title of President Hayes was Sc
lected rs the point upon which to be-
gin the attack and start the attempt.
ed revolution. The cOnspirators have
skillfully used the press, the discon.
tented Granger element, and the dis
orderly laboring classes, and have re.
ally deceived well-meaning democrats
regarding their true aims. There is
said to be evidence i'm existence prov.
ing this conspiracy.
1t should be understood that, while
1.-THE Potter movement i'm the House
was acquiesced in by the Southern
members, yet, in order not to show
their hand, not one state south o
kentucky and Virginia is represent
ed on the Committee. 1t is distinctly
understood that the Investigating
Committee propose to attack the It'll,
lof Hayes, and they believe they car
lput him out Of Office. They also be
llieve that war will result, and the,
lare prepared for that i'm order to reha
bilitate the Southern officers in thei
old places in the army.
I 1t should be noticed that every on
4 of the conventions of the Democrat
and National Labor Greenback BE
formers bitterly assail the regular al
my, SO that, when the. confiagrati0l
commences, there Will be no mean
, of checking it.
Washington Correspondents Philadelphia Pres
i Careful comparison of the view
expressed by the democratic leader
upon the objects and purposes of fthei
, present course in the House leads t
the conclusion that the country is raj
idly drifting into revolutions; and
would be well for the law-abidin
e people i'm every part of the countr
4 to shakeoff the apathywhich enchair
4 them, and anticipate the calamitou
! state of things which now appears II
oevitable.
g A prominent democrat i'm the Hous
n said tonight: 1--WE will have Hayt
4 out of the White House within 81
! months, or there will be another n
bellion."
ell Another one remarked: "Som
e might you will hear of Hayes and h
il family landed at the depot and shil
= ped to Fremont"
u Another remarked, '"rhe publ
mind needs to be educated up to tn
i thing. When Montgomery Bla