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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12
The Closing Scene.


Christ was born in a manger. On
Monday afternoon Mrs. Abe Will
liams, with plain gold ring on the
first finger of her left hand, q pair of
low walking shoes on her feet, q drab
calico dress on her poor body, and q
basket of broken victuals ON her arm,
asked permission to lie down in q
North Alabama street stable, which
was graciously granted. When they
came to look at her short time after,
she was dead comfortably dead, and
beyond the reach of all cold, hunger
or unkind words. 1t was not bad
place to die. 1t Is true many Of the
comforts of home were lacking, but
as dying is matter that does not
have to be done every day, it is pre-
sumed that this degraded woman
managed to stand it with q degree of
commendable fortitude. The straw
was nice and soft, though possibly q
trifle damp, ami the friendly horse in
the next stall nickered his sympathy
as the weary soul left the worn body,
and winged its way to the unknown
land, while the curious hens cackled
their surprise, and the hungry rats
devoured the broken victuals which
grudging charity had contemptuous-
ly tossed into her basket. Dead
dead in . stable, with the rattle and
roar of busy life all about her, and
the spires of hundred churches glis-
tening in the upper air. Possibly she
was once young and fair, and into her
willing ear had been poured the old
but ever new story OF mans love-
But here she lies at last, dead, in a
stable. She has fallen low, but who
dare put q limit to Gods mercy.
Who will say that this dwarfed soul
has not winged it's way straight to
the New Jerusalem, where there are
no more broken promises or broken
victuals for the poor.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12
The "New Chapter" in the Beech
eY Scandal.

The new man in the Beecher scan
dal, James b. Mix, comes out in q
statement in which he claims to set
forth what he calls "the origin, pro-
gress and denoument of a gigantic
and elaborate plot concocted by q
clique of free-love propagandists,
having for their object the rule or
ruin Of Beecher." According to Mix
the plot really began at woman's
rights and free-love convention in
New York, about the year ITO, and
was participated in by Victoria
Woodruff and three other women
not named, with the determination
to make MI. Beecher co-operator in
the promotion oftheir vile social doc
trines. When all else failed, Mix
claims, Mr.. Bcecher was accused by
Tilton of intimacy with the latter's
wife, and threatened trouble, which
was averted at the time on the re-
ceipt ofs7,00O. This was at the time
of the "tripartite treaty"
Mix states that after this Tilton
told him of his intention to crush
Beecher, because the Plymouth
Church pastor had constituents by
the thousands, while he (Tilton) was
ruined In fortune and reputation
Then came q demand for more mon
ey from Beecher, says Mix, and sub
sequently came the publication of the
scandal. The rest of the his tory is
known.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

The special correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune, writing Of Ander-
sons cross-eXamination by Reed, of
Maine, OH the 4th inst, says:
"Every American may well flush
with shame at the proceedings Of the
Potter investigation to-day. If there
are lower depths i'm American politics
than were sounded in that committee
room to-day they have not been re-
corded in our history. 1t was proved,
by the most brazen, open, shameless
confession of the principal witness,
that the programme of the party of
revolution is based upon the testimony
of a perjurer under oath. 81 misled
the committee purposely, and went
through the whole testimony in that
manner,"-that substantially is the
confession of Anderson as to his testi-
mony before the Senate Committee in
1876. If Anderson has been bought
to play part he will earn his money.
There seems to have been a fatal pre-
science about his request for a Consul
ate in warm place. Brought face to
face with every important passage of
his testimony before the Senate Inves-
tigating Committee of the last Con-
gress, Anderson, to each material
point, calmly said he withheld the
truth or stated it falsely under oath
with the intent to deceive the Com
mittee, and there was not a tremor in
his voice, quiver of a muscle, or the
slightest blush. "But, do you not
call that perjury?" said the skillful
cross-eXaminer, Reed of Maine. "YOu
might consider it perjury" replied
the witness with brazen unconcern,
81 do not" But, with like indiffer-
ence, the witness added that he would
not deceive this Committee"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12
FATAL STING.
The Terrible Death Of d BOy of
Sixteen.

Daniel Wehner, q boy sixteen years
of age, met strange death yester-
day. A wound no larger than pin
point did the mischief, and entailed
upon him agony most intense, pre-
liminary to the final result. On Sun
day last he was one Of . crowd who
sought comfort at Union park, and
like many others he lay upon the
grass until quite late hour st night.
He felt no evil result, but went to his
home, No. SIG Allen avenue, and
slept soundly till morning. He work
ed all day Monday, and toward even
ing began to experience q sharp pain
on the right side of his face, near the
right ear. A close examination re-
vealed very small infiamed spot un-
der the eye, and in few hours the
Inflammation extended downward to
the neck, causing great swelling
He suffered much that night, and by
morning was terribly disfigured. Be-
coming alarmed, he visited DIR. Haus-
man, who at once discovered that the
case was serious one Of poisoning
by the sting of some insect. He CALI
ed DR.. 7. E. Holland, and after con-
sultation, they used every effort to
reduce the Inflammation and correct
the state of the blood, although satis-
fled that the boy could not be saved.
The poison gradually crept through
his system till it rendered him a
frightful object. his head being four
times it's natural size, and blood and
pus issuing from mouth, nose and
ears. At four o'clock on Friday af-
ternoon he died. OF course, it was
impossible to determine what kind of
an insect stung him, but it seems prob
able that he received the sting at the
park.-Mo. Republican.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12
OTTUMWA, IOWA, JUNE 12, 1878.
A Butchery in Virginia.

RICHMOND, Va. June 1.-Two
tramps met with deserved fate at
the hands of plucky widow, whom
they attempted to rob, near Tazewell
Court House, in this State, last night.
For several days past Mrs. Becky
Baldwin, young widow living few
miles from that place, had observed
three suspicious looking tramps lurk-
ing about her premises. On yester-
day the three men came to the house
and requested the woman to change
q $40 bill fer them, which she did, but
unfortunately displayed considera-
BILE amount Of money in their pres
ence. At late hour last night the
tramps again visited the widows
house. Mrs. Baldwin, seeing them
approaching, made fast the doors
The men, being refused admittance,
battered down the door and entered.
As two of the men came in the wo-
man threw the pocket book contain
ing oil her money into the fire. One
of the villains stopped to snatch the
money from the flames, and as he did
so the plucky woman dealt him q
heavy blow with an axe, almost sew
ering his head from his shoulders.
One of the mans comrades came to
the rescue, and was in turn disposed
Of by the widow by we!l-directed
blows on the shoulders and chest with
her weapon, nearly severing one arm
and infiicting fearful gashes about the
mans head and body. The third
tramp, who had been left on guard
on the outside of the house to pres
vent the robbers from being surpris-
ed by persons who might be passing
along the road, hearing the scuffle
which, bloody in its results as it was,
only occupied few minutes, came
to the succor of his fallen comrades,
when a fight commenced between
Mrs. Baldwin and the remaining
tramp. The plucky woman, being
wounded in several places and ex-
hausted, was easily disposed of by
the man, who stabbed her three times
in the back and shoulder, and fled,
leaving his companions on the floor.
Neighbors visiting the woman's house
this morning discovered the dead
bodies of the two tramps, and the
woman in dying condition, who re-
lated the facts as given. A vigilance
committee was formed, and search
instituted for the fleeing tramp. If
found he will be lynched on the spot.
Mrs. Baldwin died this morning.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

James Il. Anderson on the 5th inst.
went square back on that agreement
he said he lodged in the hands of
Stanley Matthews. Representative
Cox, of Ohio, a member of the inves-
tigating committee got the original of
Matthews, and it was presented to
Anderson for Identification, and he
pronounced it a forgery. Here is his
testimony:
q. Do you say that it is not your
handwriting on this paper the copy
OF the Weber agreement as furnished
by Matthews)?
A. l say that to the best of my
knowledge and belief it is not my
handwriting.
q. Can you make it no stronger?
A. can make it stronger by say
ing that think it an excellent coun-
terfeit of.my handwriting.
q. DO you know whether it is your
handwriting or not?
A. i know that it is not.
Q. And. you swear that it is not
your handwriting:
A. | swear that it is not my hand
writing; that copy was not written by
me.
q. And you swear that thisi not
the original paper?
A. 1t is not the original paper.
q. Is this Weber's signature to it?
A. 1t is neither Weber's signature
nor my signature.
z. Did you never see that paper
before?
A. l have no recollection of ever
seeing that paper before.
q. Is not this the paper that you
mailed to Senator Matthews?
A. 1t is not. know by the fact
that the sheet of paper on which /
wrote the agreement had two spots of
red ink on it, one on the top right
hand corner, and one just below the
center, which spots / erased. | re-
member it very distinctly, and this
paper has no mark of any such era
sures. Then, too, it was double
sheet of paper, and this is Il single
sheet.
q. Is that the signature to it OF
Seymour, the Notary Public?
A. AS nearly as l recOllect, 1T is.
q. You are pretty confident that it
is:
A. | do not say that it is, but, to
the best of my recollection and belief,
it is. The seal is his.
Q. Do you know i'm whose hand
writing the paper is, if it is not in
yours:
A. do not.
Q. mean the body of it.
A. do not know.
Q. Is the body of it counterfeitol
your writing?
A. The body of it is a counterfeit
Of mine.
@. Was the original all in your
handwriting?
A. 1t was without erasures or in
terlineations, except the erasure of the
two blots.
Thi knocks the only prop of the
democracy from under them SO far as
Anderson is concerned.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasty Hasn't Time to Erpress
his Tieacs, as lie is Engaged in
Pushing the Investigation.
From the Iolelo Dlaln

lNT. NdsOy hasn't Itme 10 EIpreSs
his Tie,cs, as lie is Engaged in
Pushing the Investigation.
From the Toledo Blade.
WAsmGToN, May 25, 1878.
Don't ask INC to write or to do any
thing NV the sort. / hev other fish to
fry, and this time l hev catch. l
am assistin in investigatin the frauds
and there are cnuff of them to unseet
the yooserper, Hayes, and put in his
place the gilelcss patriot, Tilden.-
The ends nv justice will be subserv.
ed, and l shel hev my post offs The
long rane NV impecooniosty at the
Corners will be ended, and Bascom
will soon be enabled to do cash biz
mis-. When Tildcn is President Isa-
ker Gavitt is collector, and am Post
master, there will be a change in
things!
Halleeloogy!
All the trouble we hev is to keep
the fellows away which we don't
want to testify. We hev too meny
witnesses for they don't all know
what to swear to. For instance. Dee
kin Pogram, the blessed old imbecile
wanted to come on here and testify to
his givin $500. .,tu arm a company NV
Dimocrats in Mississippi to carry
that state fur Tilden. and it TUX nifty
smart figgerin to keep him away.
Tilden hez reputashun for hevin
money, and witnesses are comm here
to us in swarms. We shell prove that
ther wuzn't no sich thing ez y fair
eleckshun in Floridsy and Louisiana !;
that in both them states men took our
money and then voted agln us; that
our rifle clubs wuz intimidated, and
that our repeaters in Louisiana wuz
kept away from the polls by force.
There amt agoin to be no trouble
about it. We hev men here which
will swear til enything, and--in fact
we hev an embarrassment NV swear.
in material.
woodn't give 1O-cent piece to be
inshoored my Post Offs. Justis is at
last a-goin' tn be done !! Truth, which
wuz crushed tu earth is rise agin.-
Tilden aud reformz. The old man is
comm down handsomely. Hove to
labor for him, for he knows a mans
valyOO.
We hev got 'em. We shell investi-
gate jist as fur ez we want to, and
that will be in jist enuff states to elect
Tilden. We hev got Mr.. Hayes this
time. We shel tech the Ablishnists
that when a pure man like Samyool
j. Tilden hez bot and paid fur an Of
fis, he is goin to git it. We hev swore
- -
ours by purchis. Tilden liz q CRATE
man. 1t cost him tn much to buy the
nominashun and the eleckshen, not
to hev EN-. We are goin to be Presi-
dent. l am arrangin it.
You will hear from me next week.
The corners will be electrified! The
country is safe, and Dimocracy is on
the high road to success. Jubilant.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
Investigator.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

Gen. Ben. Harrison speaking of the
needs Of the medical profession to
have bodies for dissection (hisremarks
being called out by reason ofthe theft
of his fathers body says that he ac-
knowledges the needs of science in
this direction, but suggests that if the
feelings of the family friends are to be
panied, it would seem more appro-
pirate and just that the sacrifice should
be made at home by the medical pro-
fession contributing the bodies of the
members of their own families as fast
as they die-of their wives, mothers,
sisters, brothers, fathers, and children.
This proposition seems to be a fair
one, certainly, if the profession shall
undertake to defend or excuse body
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

1t has been proposed, our readers
will remember, to have northern
speakers go down into the south to
talk in behalf of the republican cause.
The New Orleans Democrat speaking
of this matter says:
"We are free and independent
States, and have the same right to
manage our domestic affairs that any
other State has. We certainly have
the right, inherent in all communities,
OF protecting ourselves against the
deliberate schemes of aliens (?) to
create disturbance and riot in our
midst, and provoke bloOdshed and
misery among all classes Of our peO-
pie. we warn these people in adj
vance that, If they come here for any
such purpose, they must take the con-
sequences, and these will rest upon
their own heads"
There again is the crack of the old
slave lash. 1t is a fact that i'm very
many portions of the south to-day il
is very dangerous for the best and
truest man living to frankly declare
and teach his honest sentiments DO.
litically in the most gentlemanly and
courteous manner. We said when We
heard of this project to send republi.
can speakers south, they go as it were
into a lions den. Take from the
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12
MlscE@ANG.
MY llTTLE WIFE AND /,
We are travelling DER LIES road together,
NV ljttlA wife and I.

We are travelling o'er LIES road together,
My little wife and 1;
We are happy In fair and stormy weather.
My little wife and I;
The reason why Is very plain,
There's nothing queer about Il;
We never give each other pain
When we can do without It.
We have toiled DER many road most dreary,
My little wife andI;
But our hearts were light when our feet were wear
My little wife and l.;
The reason why we journey On
Since hand in hand we started,
We ne'er had seen the battle won
BY those who were faint-hearted.
Though our home be plain, that Never leases
Ny little wife and Il;
Though humble cot, right well il pleases
My little wife and I;
The reason why We arc content,
We do not fear to labor;
And though In toll our time is spent.
We envy not our neighb0r,
We never dream Of i'll for the morrow,
My little wife and 1;
But take what may come, be II Joy or sorrow,
My little vile and L;
The reason why, we do not fret;
And you do well to try It.;
We ne'er have found person yet
That was gamer by it..
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

Senator Kellogg says that SO far as
Louisiana is concerned the Democrats
will find their gun loaded for plover,
and need not be surprised if it recoils
and kicks its owner over. Kellogg
says he will be able to take care of
Louisiana, and if the Democrats have
no better case in Florida than they
have in his State, they must ask the
Lord for mercy,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

The richest women of the Pacific
coast are Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. Nc
Donough, their combined wealth be-
ing estimated at $l3,OOO.OOO. Being
widow ladies, the Iowa unmarried
local editors are discussing whether
to 60 there or to the religious meet
ing at Clear Lake. 1t is thought the
are for going to see the
wealthy women. Darlington Ga
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

The Rev. George Vosburg, of Jersey
City, on trial for the alleged poison
ing Of his wife, was acquitted by the
jury Saturday. A remarkable feature
of this case is that his wife has been
all along his most ardent defender,
and before the trial vowed that, If he
was found guilty, she would share
his punishment, whether it be i'm
prisonment or death.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

James E. Anderson the great pillar
of strength upon which the revOlu-
tionists rely to smirch General Sher-
man and Others, acknowledges that he
swore falsely before, but is now tell
lug the truth. While we think of it
we want to call to the attention of our
readers the fact of how many of these
kind of dead beats the democracy
have been making use of i'm the last
few years for political purposes. 1t is
IA well known fact recognized by DEM
ocrats that there is virtue in the re-
publican party, and if by any means
a taint true or false can be fastened
upon a leading republican, it makes
him unavailable in the republican
party. Hence they do not hesitate to
employ any means to fasten such
taint upon leading republicans. Not
SO with the democratic party. Sam
Tilden can defraud the government
out of many thousands of income tax;
he can be an acknowledged rail-
road wrecker; he can be a prominent
member in manufacturing company
that issues its scrip to pay its labor
ers, and then repudiate that scrip un-
til the courts compel him to redeem
it; he can deliberately buy with money
an electoral vote, as he did in Oregon,
the proof being too clear to admit of a
doubt, and yet he can push that party
to adopt revolutionary measures in
his behalf, and, more, he can as he
has done buy again the nomination OF
the democratic party, and still that
party will support him with great
unanimity. George ii. Pendleton, OF
Ohio, as the relative and confidential
adviser financially of the two wives
(sisters) of the late secretary of war,
could counsel them to their disgrace
and lobby through an old claim that
has been often rejected out of which
he got $4,000, and less than six
months thereafter be made president
of the state convention of his party in
Ohio, and then elected United States
senator. 1t matters not how much
rascality is developed against a lead.
ing democrat; with his party it rolls
OFT him as water from a ducks
back. The commission of treason
never shook their faith or absolved
their allegiance no more than the re,
bellion of Satan in the courts above
caused desertion in his ranks.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig, En-
peror of Germany, who on the 9TH re-
tired in favor of his son Friedrich Will
helm Nicholas Karl as Regent, was
born March %, 1877, and is therefore 81
years Of age. We suppose the critical
condition of the Emperor on account
of his wounds received ut the hands
of the assassin, DIR. Modelling, is the
cause of his retiring.
In 1910 he was made Grand Mas
ter of the masonic order in Prus
sia. He became King of Prussia
January I'd, 1861. A Leipsic student
named Becker attempted to assassi-
nate him July II, 1861, and recently
two more attempts have been made,
and the last may prove fatal.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

Stanley Mathews comes up smiling
to battle with the vigor of an athlete.
Give him fair show. We have
never been Stanley Mathews man;
his extreme tlaunt of reform COM
mencing with his running after virtue
in the liberal convention of 1879, did
did not have a tendency to increase
our faith in him, and since then our
faith has not been strengthened by
his political course, but we have more
confidence in his good sense than to
believe he has done any foolish thing
like that related by Anderson. Give
him chance we say, and we have no
doubt the democracy will wish in the
end they had never called Anderson
as their witness.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

A man was scared to death in Ber-
ryyille, Mo. lie was passing grave
yard at midnight, when two men
sprang from behind a monument and
shouted at him. He ran home and
went to bed, but was SO nervous that
he could not sleep, and before morn
ing he died in convulsions.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

If Tilden runs again for President,
Anderson will probably stump the
State of New York in his interest.
Since the days of Boss Tweed, the
Democratic party has not had more
consistent representative,