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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
Double Up on Freight

New York, July 3l.-The Union
Pacific Railroad Co. will issue to-day
q circular to the dry goods trade, in
forming shippers of an increase in
rates on first-class merchandise from
New York to San Francisco, from six
dollars to twelve dollars q hundred.
The reason assigned is that when the
rates were low merchants only ship
ped light freight by rail and sent all
bulky merchandise by clippers
around Cape Horn, thus leaving to
railroad companies the light and cost
ly freight on which the risk was too
great for the small profit.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

The fangs of the republican mule
were drawn when the last Congress
passed law prohibiting the use of
the army B q posse cOnaitdt,ls. The
Governor Of the sovereign state of
South Carolina does not need federal
soldiers at present. The DEGREES OF
her courts are executed, and the maj
esty Of the law rec0gnized.-BUgi,sg-
ton Gazette.
As we expected the democrats OF
the North sustain the kuklux democ-
racy Of the South. A writ Of habeas
corpus is served upon the officer Of q
state court that writ which, in this
country or in England, has never
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
MAINE REPUBLICANS
In State Convention Declare II
Honest Monev.

IN state convention Declare fol
Honest Money.
PORTLAND, Me-, July 3O.-After re.
cess Lewis Barker was made perms-
nent chairman.
The resolutions adopted invite the
most rigid scrutiny into the manner
in which republicans have conducted
the affairs of the State; favor wise
prohibitory legislation and continue.
4. The Constitution declares citi.
zens of each State entitled to all the
privileges and immunities Of citizens
of the several States, and we hold II
to be the primary and sacred duty OF
the national government TO protect
and maintain the exercise of ali these
civil, political and public rights to
every citizen Of the United States.
As republicans we are solemnly
pledged to maintain these principles,
and until they are cheerfully obeyed,
and if need be vigorously enforced,
the work of the republican party .is
unfinished.
5. The republican party is commit
ted to unremitting efforts not only to
secure the legitimat results of the
war-sovereignty Of the Union, equal
rights Of all citizens and the free and
untrammeled rights of suffrage, but
also to redeem the pledges which the
government made to those who fur
nished means or gave their services
to save the Union, whether these
pledges are In the form of bonds or
greenback notes. We insist both
forms of the debt of the nation shall
be paid with the same fairness and
integrity with which an honest man
seeks to pay his individual debt.
8. We demand honest money for
the people. Our currency must be
made as good as coin, and redeema-
BILE in it. The government promised
this; the republican party has legis-
lated to perform it, and in the course
of resumption, now nearly accom-
plished, there must be no steps side
ways or backwards.
Z. We congratulate our fellow cit
izens on the unmistakable evidence
that the near approach to a stable
is preparing the way for an
early and permanent revival of busi-
ness and industry, 80 long depressed
by causes growing out of q gigantic
civil war, among which deprecated
and fluctuating currency is the most
prominent, and aggravated BY the
agitations of dema gogues
in and out Of Congress, for measures
which if adopted as the policy of the
would bring permanent
dishonor and ruin to business, dis
credit and dishonor upon the nation
and tend to subvert many of those
principles which are fundamental
to the existence of civilized society.
8. The evident purpose of the Dem
ocratic party, if it should come into
full power, to pay hundreds Of mil
lions of suspended war claims of dis
loyal men, already presented to Con-
grcss, or awaiting q favorable mo-
ment for presentation, makes it doub-
ly important, now that the Senate is
soon to pass under Democratic con-
troll, that the House of Representa-
tives to be chosen in the
coming elections should be under Re-
puhs;~. "a control. .------------
Governor Connor was unanimously
renominated, and after speeches by
Hon. Stewart l.. Woodford, Senator
blaine and Representatives Frye and
Hale, the convention adjourned.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
who Voted for cralr3

For the information of all we pub
lish below from the official record
the proceedings, page 80, Journal Of
the Senate, and pages 81 and 81 Of
House Journal of 1876:
The convention then proceeded to
the election of Warden of the State
Penitentiary.
Mr.. Irwin of Lee nominated Seth
HI. Craig of Pottawattamie for War
den of the Penitentiary.
The joint roll was then called with
the following result:
Whole number of votes cast 129
Necessary to a choice 81
OF which Mr.. Craig received - 125
OF which Jonathan Jones received
Mr.. Craig having received a major
ity of the votes cast was declared duly
elected.
Those voting forSeth H. Craig were:
Messrs. Allen, Arnold, Aud, Bal
ley, Baker, BENTON, Bestow, hotter,
Brooks, Brush, Bush, Calvin, Camp
bell of Audubon, Campbell of Jasper,
Carr, Chapman, Cbristy, Clark, F. of
johnson. Clark, r. of Johnson, Cleye.
land, Colvin, CoNAFAy, Cooley, Cra-
yer, Crawford Of Scott, Danforth,
Dashiell, Dows, Dwelle, Elliott, Ev-
ans, Fuller, Gallup, Gear, Gibbons,
Gilliland, Gilmore, Giltner Given,
Glendenning, Glover, Graham, Graves,
Gray, Hall, Harmon, Harmed, Harts-
horn, Hebard, Hemenway, Hersey,
Hitchcock, Hoag, Hobbs, Homer,
HoRTsMAN, Horton, Hotchkiss, Hunt,
Irwin of Lee, Irwin of Warren, Ja-
qua, Jessup, johnson Of Benton,
johnson of Winneshiek, Johnston,
Jordan. Lane, Lathrop, LOWELL,
Lynch, Mccartney, McCoid, McCune,
McElderry, Mcneil, Madden of Polk,
Madden Of Taylor, Madison, Magin-
ms. Maris, MENTzEI.. Merrill of Wa
pello, Miller of Appanoose, Miller of
Black Hawk, Mills, Mitchell, Morse
of Adams, Morse of Wris hit, Mueller,
NEWTON, Norris, Palmer, Pease, Per-
kins, Prondfoot, Rae, Reed Of How
ard, Reed Of jackson, Rees, Robin
son, Rumple, Said, Sewers, Shane,
Shepherdson, Simmons, Smith, Stone,
Teale, TICE, Underwood, Ure, Willet,
Williams of Des Moines, Williams OF
Iowa, Wilson of Jasper, wilson of
Washington, Wona, Woop, Woolson,
Wright, Young Of Cass, Young of
Clinton.
Those voting for Mr.. Jones were
Messrs. Clark Of Marion, Crawtord
of Dubuque, Stuart and White.
Republicans in Roman, democrats
in italic, and anti-monops in small
CANS,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
The zth District Miscegenation

The 7th District Miscegenation
We We're mistaken yesterday in say
ing that the resolution offered in the
Democratic Congressional Convention
at Des Moines to nominate none but
democrats was carried. 1t was ta-
bled. There is some further impor-
tant history of this convention which
we take from the State Leader. That
paper says, in its issue of the lst inst.
''The notions uppermost in the
minds of the Gillette side were for
any party which would succeed in
overthrowing the republican party
and its nominees; that Mr.. Gillette
and the greenback party would SOON
er or later cooperate with the demo-
cratic party, and pledges were secured
of Mr.. Gillette that he would help
democrats to organize the house if he
was elected, and that he would in all
essential respects labor with the west
ern and southern democrats. This
made him friends among democrats" !"
We thought as much. Mr.. Gillette
got his Endorsement from the demo-
Gratis by promising to act with the
democratic party when in Congress
on all essential points. This same
pledge will be made by Weaver if he
has not already made it, should he be
indorsed by the democracy, or should
they do no more than decline to nom.
mate candidate. The Leader fur.
ther contains the cards of two leading
democrats of the Seventh district, re-
fusing to be governed by the action
of the convention in indorsing
Gillette. These parties are l.. E.
Brown and Geo. F. Mcclellan, both
delegates in the convention. Says
Mr.. Brown in his card:
"Now, for one, as an humble men,
ber of the party, deny the right OF
any convention to place the delegates
or any member of the party under
the slightest obligation to support q
nomination unless it is made within
the party"
And he proceeds to say that he will
not support Gillette.
The Leader does not commit itseli
editOrially, one way or the other, but
after having published two columns
in regard to the convention and the
views expressed, says, "This much
only in review. Comments are re-
served. ."-Ddily of Friddu.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
An Enteyprising Agriculturist.

Hugh Hastings' latest story is that
an old subscriber wrote to him to stor
his newspaper-the New York Com.
mercial Adrertiser--on account of his
hostility to Gov. Tilden. Hugh re.
piled by letter: "My antagonism be.
gan in my youth when, from the win.
dow Of Erastus Corning's store in
Albany, saw old Moses Tilden and
his son come into town from Lebanon
to sell herbs, and that boy, Sam, wal
pointed out to me as the chap who
sold Job Gould the herb doctor, graf.
ed turnip for horseradish. l think
Sam Tilden has been selling turnil
for horsersdish ever SINCE" The sub
scriber renewed.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
,MlscE@ANg.
CURIOUS MEDLEY.

By the Lake where drooped the willow,
want to be an angel,
And jump Jim Grow.
An old crow sat on . hickory limb,
None knew him but to praise;
Let me kiss him for his mother,
For he smells Of 6chweitzer kase.
The minstrel TO the war has gone,
With his banjo on hts knee,
He aw0ke to hear the sensries shrek,
There's light in the window for thee.
A frog he would wooing 20.
His hair was curled to kill,
He used to wear an Old gray coat.
And the sword Of Bunker Hill.
on in the ssilly night,
Make way for liberty! he cried
won't 60 home till morning,
With Peggy by my side.
lam dying, Egypt, dying,
Susannah, don't you cry;.
know how sublime 1t is,
To brush away the blue-tsiled fly.
The boy stood on the burning deck,
With his baggage checked Tor Troy;
One Of the immortal names,
His name was Pat Mslloy,
Mary had little lamb,
He could tale unfold,
He had no teeth to eat . hoe-cabe,
And his spectacies were gold.
Lay on, lay on, MaeduA.
Man wants but little here below;
And I'm to be Queen Of the May,
So kiss me quick and 20.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

Americans eat twice as much salt
as the English.
Minnie Warren's maiden name
was Hnldah Bump.
II there were no relief to be had
there would be NO vagrants.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
JOHN STUART MILL on Fiat money

said:
Although no doctrine in political
economy rests on more obvious
grounds than the mischief of paper
currency not maintained at the same
value with metallic, either by con-
vertibility or by some principle of linn
itation equivalent to it; and although,
accordingly this doctrine has, though
not till after the discoveries of many
years, been tolerably effectually drum
med into the public mind, yet dissen-
tients are still numerous, and project
ors every now and then start up with
plans for curing all the economical
evils of society by means of an un-
limited issue Of inconvertible paper.
There is, in truth, great charm in
the idea. To be able to pay off the
national debt, defray the expenses OF
Government without taxation, and,
in fine, to make the fortunes of the
whole community, is a brilliant pros
pect when once man is capable OF
believing that printing few charac-
ters on bits of papers will do it. The
philosophers stone could not be ex-
pected to do more.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

Mothers will grow weary and sigh
over the responsibility that Baby
places upoI them, but they have the
high privilege of shaping q character
for usefulness. The exercise of pa.
thence and the preservation of Baby's
health by the proper use of DIR. Buil,
Baby Syrup will give them grea
present comfort and prospective hap
piness. 25 cents per bottle.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
Killed by lightning,

DHs AoINEs, Aug. Warren
Cooper, brother to the postmaster of
Winterset, Madison county, was kill
ed by lightning, yesterday, while
Hildebrand was severely stunned.
Two horses were killed and . stack
set on fire. The amphitheatre and
judges stand at the fair grounds at
Winterset were totally destroyed by
the storm last night.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
When Cary viii Have Enough.

General Sam Cary is about to invade
Indiana with view to stirring up a
greenback rebellion. General Cary
will never be satisfied until the far
mers of the West can be seen riding
to mill with grist of wheat in one
end of bag and a half bushel of
greenbacks in the other.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

The call for q greenback county con-
vention on the oath pr0x. appears in
this issue Of our paper. We have to-
day interviewed several leading mem
bers Of that party, and they pledge us
there will be no county nominations
made by their party If the democrats
Otttlm,Ca Times.
It Is very easy for the leading mem.
bers of the democratic and greenback
parties to make any sort of bargains
regardless of principles, but it may be
very different thing to induce the
people who compose the parties to
agree to the bargains SO made. We
desire now to have it ofrecord as free
ly and fully put by the Times, viz:
that il Weaver is endorsed by the de-
mocracy (which, as we have always
said, we hope he may be), that it is
the result Of bargain made between
the leaders of the democratic and
greenback parties, so far at least as
the action of Wapello county is con.
cerned. The Times folk are very
smart fellows and hence they early
tell US themselves all about this mat
ter.
The Times people have some anx-
iety, of course, that this trade shall be
effected and the very high and holy
ground upon which they stand in.
wolves principles of great concern and
are purely unselfsh. 1t will moi
make any pecuniary difference per.
haps with the rank and file, but il
the Weaver bait can be thrown to the
greenback gudgeon, (just be nominal.
ed, not necessarily voted for), why
we, US democrats, can have our fill o.
the county spoils, and these are the
high and holy principles, which prob
ably lie nearest the heart of the Ilnae'
folk. OF course the voters will dig
about In this truck patch of principles
belonging to the Times. The Time
wants them to, and why should they
not do II?
The plan is acknowledgement it
Father Ives. We hope this article
may help you along. We will d.
anything IN reason for your success
and when 1t Is done we shall know
j,ast hosc Il Is done, viz: that it Is tn,
result Of fair and square dicker,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

WHAT is the gay old bird of Amer.
lean freedom screaming about, and
what in the name of common sense is
the rule Of the republican party good
for, If tramps can't lie in the shade
and play cards or leaf on the street
corners in our cities, instead of earn
ing from $1.5O to $3.50 in the harvest
fields alongside the industrious far
mer in order that the farmer may
have the privilege Of feeding the
tramp from the proceeds of his own
toll?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

FROM the Davis County Republican
we learn that the Legal Tender Green
back, a paper published at Bloomfield
has been guilty of the most outrag.
eous deception as to what the Federal
Constitution says in regard to the
coming of money. We do not see
this paper and hence our information
8 secondhand! This paper, called
the Legal Tender Greenback, is edited
as we understand, by M. H. Jones,
Esq, and is the organ Of Gen. Weav-
er. This is its quotation from the
Constitution:
Congress shall have power to coin
money, to regulate the value thereof
and of foreign coin, emit bills of cred
it or make anything besides gold and
siluer coin legal tender in payment Q,
debts. Constitution United States.-
Legal Tender Gree,a6dck.
M. III. Jones is lawyer; General
Weaver is a lawyer, and the Legal
Tender Greenbdck must have inten-
tionally published, for the purpose OF
deceiving its readers, a falsehood as
to the text Of the Federal Corstitu-
ton in the above quotation. The
following is the true language of the
Constitution which this Weaver or
gan has SO wantonly garbled-Article
l, Sec. 8, Subdivision 5:
Congress shall have power to coin
money, regulate the value thereof and
of foreign coin and fix the standard
of weights and measures.
This true quotation and the garbled
one, taken together, show that there
must have been deliberate purpose
to villainously deceive. Section 10,
subdivision l, says that no state shall
"make anything but gold and silver
coin tender in payment of debts"
The Constitution thus taken togeth-
er, taken in the light of its construc-
ton by the authors of it in their prac-
tice, taken in the light of the U. s.
Supreme Court decisions, makes gold
and silver the only thing out of which
legal tender can be made under it.
The only exception was in time of
the great rebellion when the Supreme
Court, by a simple majority of the
judges, decided that self-preservation
in time of iminent peril, warranted
under the Constitution the making of
its promises to pay in coin legal ten
der. This was something like the
principle of law that holds it lawful
when two men struggling for the pos
session of a single plank that can save
one of them only from watery
grave, justifies the one that shall OBJ
tain the mastery, though thereby the
other is forcibly plunged into wa
terry grave.
1t is sorry commentary on human
ity to see it deliberately uttering a
falsehood and one most pernicious in
its effects, to succeed in a grand
scheme of fraud; it is thus that fraud
is the parent of all forms of wicked
ness.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
CARDINAL FRANcu1 nr,n

ROME, Aug. l.-Cardinal Alexan-
der Franchi, pontifical Sec'y of State,
and Archbishop of Thessalonia, died
this morning. Cardinal Franchi was
q native Of Italy, born in 1919, and
nominated Cardinal in 1873.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
pemocvatlc Nominat,ou.

CEDAR RArIDs, lows, July 31.-The
Democratic Congressional Conven-
tion Of the fifth district this afternoon
nominated George j. Boal, Of Iowa
City, by acclamation.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
The storm-sioo. ooo Fire,

CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-The striking ting
men are at work again this morning.
Their employers have reconsidered
the proposition reducing wages and
taken them back at old prices.
kilograms from Central Illinois
state that Wednesday nights storm
did considerable damage to crops and
In Clinton and vicinity the loss is
estimated at $4,000.
The etorm was less destructive but
measurably violent in Champaign,
Havana, Springfield, Bloomington,
Decatur and Tuscaloosa.
At Pekin the loss is $4,000.
A special to the Daily Ne,cs from
Salt Lake says at the town of Alta
the Little Cotton works is in ashes,
the fire having originated from the
cigar of Judge Warn, who was lying
On lounge in the Swan House, and
spread rapidly, consuming 200 wood
en- buildings. Loss estimated at
xl0O.OO0.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

Our railroads are now supplied en-
tirely with iron Of American manu.
fscture, and instead Of importing
rails, our manufacturers are actually
sending them abroad.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
al||ll|ia[I|ll|Ep
judicial Conventions i.
SECOND D1 STRICT.
Special to Courier

BLOOMFIELD, July 3l.-The demo-
cratic Judicial Convention assembled
here to-day, nominated E. L. Burton,
Of Ottumws, for District Judge, and
Rufus Townsend, of Abba, for Dis
trict Prosecuting ATTORNEY.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

Coal oil lamps are coming into gen.
eral use in Cincinnati. Twenty thou
sand have been sold within the past
three months, and 1900 gas-metsra
taken out.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
O---
Tornado and Fire

CINCINNATI, Aug. 2.-Advices from
southeastern Indiana, state that q
tornado swept through that section
of country, yesterday, destroying
crops, trees and buildings.
At Liberty the Methodist church
was badly damaged and the residence
of. M. d. Arco partially burned.
AT Eaton, Ohio, corn was flattened
out over a large area; apples and
pears covered the ground in the vicin-
ity.
Reports of the same tenor are Also
receivedIfrom Greenville, Ohio West
Alexander, Ohio; Rushville and
Connersville, Indiana.
A FIRE
at Parkersburg, w. Va, yesterday,
destroyed V. Rathbone's acid factory,
and Blaede & Co.'S dye house. Loss
about 10000; partially insured.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07

THAT is sound advice which an
Ohio paper chips in: Eight all your
battles before the convention, but none
after it.0
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
MEN OF THE TIMES.

Lay on, lay on, Naedu3.
Man wants but little here below;
And I'M to be Queen Of the May,
So kiss me quick and 70.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-24
FOURTH JANUARY, 1875.
fSt. LANDRY nemocrat

Lieut.. Gov. Witt ON calling the Senate TO
order on the 7th inst. took occasion TO address
them at some length. As usual, his remarks
were brimful Of common sense. From his
terse and appropriate address we take pleas
ure in quoting the following:
Senators, | am glad To meet you once
more assembled in your chamber and our
own Capitol, with your doors open to the
honest public, in the midst of q peaceful city
and tranquil State | congratulate you in
the proud position you occupy as the chosen
Legislators of the people Of sovereign com
tnonwealth. | congratulate you ON the re-
stofation of our State to her rights under the
Federal constitution, as we'll as on the alb
sence Of the armed intruders. whose inter
ference but lately disgraced these halls
How different indeed was this assembling to
that OF 1876, which pictured itself to the
Speakers mind as the words fell from his lips
On this occasion all was peace and order No
clanking OF swords; no hurrying to and fro Of
caparisoned aides de camp. No batteries with
their guns feveled at the chosen representa-
lives OF the people No DeTrobriand with fuss
and feathers walking up the aisles of the legis-
lative hall eiectlng members from their seat
at the point OF the bayonet. viii the veil OF
oblivion ever efface from our memories the
hllmiliating scenes enacted on that memoir
able fourth Of January? They certainly can
never be repeated in Louisiana. The reign of
the carpet-bagger is gone for ever. Every de-
partment Of the government is entrusted to
the men OF our choice