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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
Profit on Wheat.

Mr.. j. p. Thompson, Secretary Of
of the Michigan State Agricultural
Society, writes the Country Gentle
man: 1.-THE profit on wheat lie rela-
tive. Ifthe farmer can sell his wheat
early at q fair price, and thereby save
interest. save hazard, save waste, he
can make money by selling rather
than by holding. If he can sell wheat
even at cheap price and buy lumb Der,
nails, labor and building materials
at cheap price, he can make money
by selling rather than by holding
All farmers want capital. If a farm
err can sell his wheat even at low
price, and take the money and put it
into more wheat. into cultivation and
fertilization of land, into labor en-
more land, then he perhaps does bet
ter than to hold his wheat. He keeps
hi. money busy. He keeps his CAPT
tai employed. If man sells his
wheat at low price and buya land at
at a low price, which is sure TO doMhte
in value, then he has not lost money
by selling his wheat. Idle capital At
the present day, is winning no laurels
Idle wheat in the granary is dead
capital. The farmer does not want
any dead capital about. The man
who keeps his capital turning, even at
small margin. is the man who is
making money. The men who have
been waiting for large profits in
wheat are 1.-THE men who have lost
money. The men. who are making
money in farming are the men who
turn their capital often, who employ
labor, who make improvements, ~ho
put money into crops and stock Judi
ciously, and who do business satisfied
with small profits"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
Alphabetical Cuyiosities.

The protean nature of the vowel
sounds is familiar to all. A few
amusing examples will show that the
consonants are nearly "a bad:
B makes road broad, turns the eal
TO bear, and Tom into tomb.
G makes a limb climb, hanged
changed, a lever clover, aud trana.
ports lover into clover.
d turns a bear to beard, a crow &c
crowd, and makes anger danger.
# turns lower regions into flower
regions.
II changes eight to height
X makes now know.
l. transforms a pear into pearl.
N turns n line into linen, y crow Il
crown and makes one none.
p meianorphoses lumber into
plumber.
q Of itself hath no significance.
S turns even to seven, makes hove
shove, and word sword, a pear q
spear, makes slaughter of laughter
and cariously changes having hoe
to shaving a shoe.
7 makes a bough bought, turns here
to there, alters one to tone, and trans
forms the phrase "alloW his own to
shallow this town."
W does well, e. g., hose are whose,
are becomes ware, on won, omen wo
men, so SOW, vie view; it makes arm
warm, and turns y hat into-what?
Y turns fur into fury, man to
many, to to a toy, rub to ruby
ours to yours, and a lad to lady.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

We give the democracy the credit
hereabouts of not making an attack
upon any candidate, SO far as we
have observed up to this time, on ac-
count of the penitentiary defalcation.
But the democracy in some portions
of the State have been endeavoring
to make point on the failure to in
dict ex-Warden Craig. Torefute this
complaint and not only that, but to
cast the entire failure in this regard
upon the democratic party read the
following from the State Register:
snow, the only way he could have
been indicted was by the democratic
grand jury in the democratic county
of Lee, under the direction of the
Prosecuting Attorney of that District.
If any one is to blame for Craig's nom
indictment it is the democratic Prose-
cutting Attorney, and the democratic
grand jury. But it seems now that
the democrats do not blame the Pros
ecutor for not having done it, for at
the democratic district convention on
Thursday at Burlington, he Mr.. d.
N. Sprague) was re nominated, and re-
nominated by reclamation. So that
virtually the democratic party have
endorsed him for not securing the
indictment of Craig. This ends the
democratic howl in that direction.
The whole penitentiary scandal is a
blister on the democratic party from
beginning to end"
If we are correctly informed there
are some of those who took part with
Craig in the alleged frauds on the
state in that district and most of them
are democrats too, and why are they
not prosecuted? Does this explain
the non-action of the democratic Dis
trict Attorney, Mr.. Sprague?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER is one
of the most prominent Southern DEM
Ocratic members of the Lower House
of Congress. He has never changed
one particle his old secession views;
he maintains that he and those with
him when they rebelled, did not COM
NIT treason. A man thus believing
and thus avowing himself richly de-
serves to be dangling in the air at the
end of a rope, and not sitting in the
halls of Congress.
There was recently inaugurated at
Alton, Va, what is called 1.-THE Mil
Ter Labor School," Tucker was one
Of the speakers upon the occasion and
we quote from his remarks as follows:
IF you find in the hands of your
child book that teaches him that r.
i. Lee was perjured rascal because
he Obeyed the voice of his mother
State, and went with the land of his
birth, while u. S. Grant is one of the
worlds immortal heroes because he
sided with his section and succeeded at
last in compelling Lee to "yield to
overwhelming numbers and resourc-
es," burn the book and take your
child away from that school. Or, if
you find your child with book that
teaches that the people of the South
were traitors in resisting Federal ag-
erosion and defending their soil from
invasion, or which falsifies the history
of our great struggle for constitution
al freedom, burn the book and take
your child from the school, for the
teacher who would put such a book in
his hands is not safe guide. - At
this point the applause was deafen-
ing.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

Col. ]. w. HAMMOND takes charge
of the political editorial columns of
the Prairie City Ne,es for time. He
puts things so logically and so plainly
that none can fail to understand, and
his arguments ring as clearly and
sharply as the dollar he advocates:
If it is impossible for legal tender
paper dollar to be less than dollar,
it must also be impossible for a gold
dollar to be more than dollar. Dur
ing the war a greenback was a dollar
and gold piece weighing % grains
was dollar. Hence following the
axiom that "things which are equal
to the same thing are equal to each
other" we have a greenback dollar
equal to gold dollar, or 100 cents
equal 2s5 cents. Is it possible that
any one cannot see that dollar" is a
word and not thing? You can name
anything dollar. Do you thereby
change the thing or the Specification
of the word? Please tell us?
Greenbackers ask why money
adapted to our own country alone is
not best? For these reasons, that a
money good anywhere in the State is
better than money not good beyond
the county line. So money good
anywhere in the nation is better than
money not good out of Stan, and
likewise money good anywhere in
the world is worth more than money
not good outside of a single nation.
Hence money must be "some product
Of labor, achich IN ere,y region Of the
earth to acIich exchanges erte,ad, Is de
sired by all men, IN oil quantities, and
at all times" Gold and silver alone
fill the requirements of thisdetinition.
So long as men seek money as that
medium which will buy every object
of human desire so long will gold and
silver be used as money. Will some
of our greenback friends ''rassel" with
the definition and see if they can i'm
prpya upOn ito
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
the SOCIALISTS.
Give Them Rope Enough and They
Will Hang Themselves.


If the social agitators are only given
enough rope they will surely hang
themselves. For this reason the COM
naerciM advertiser esthat the num-
Der of these gatherings will increase;
that they will make more speeches
than ever; that the rabble will ap-
plaud to the skies the incendiary ut
terances of the speakers. The Amer
lean workingman is not dolt. He
can think for himself and draw his
own conclusions. When he sees a
fool he knows him. When he hears a
demagogue he can intelligently weigh
his worth. There may be infectionin
these speakers. A man may listen
and be for the moment impressed,
but reflection will quickly show him
the right road. In panic brave men
lose their senses for the moment, but
in a few minutes they regain their
wits. The socialists at one time APP
peared formidable, but time has prov
ed their mushroom growth. They
can never thrive here, for, paradox
cal as it may seem, their first success
would be the signal for theirown over
throw. The lot of the American
workingman is the happiest in the
woodland he knows it. The consul
lar reports that are published from
time to time show this to those who
will read. In every country of Eu-
rope there is great distress and suffer-
ing; wages are small, and the poor
seldom taste meat.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

FROM the State Leaders, quite
lengthy editorial on the result of the
democratic congressional convention
in this district we CLEAN the following
tit-bits:
"The question to be solved was,
whether or not it is best, at this time,
to try to save our local officers and re-
deem the State of Iowa from the ene-
my, or to cling to an idea already
grown dim in the East, for the sake
of according our action to that of the
party in the more eastern states"
And again:
"When Judge Trimble threw his
great weight into the Weaver side
and vouched for that gentleman's po-
sition to the democracy, his success
was assured"
There is significance i'm both these
outcroppings Of the Leader. First, q
bargain between democracy and the
nationals as to officers; secoad, that
Weaver has surrendered to Trimble
democracy, at least until better
thing offers.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
Weaver's Democratic Godfather.
From the Qftrim ura m snonra4


BLooMFIELD, Iowa, July Is, 1878 -
j. g. Cook, EsQ.-My Dear Sir.
Your very frank and kind letter re.
ceived. Since have read your let
ter l have seen Gen. Weaver. He
says he did not say to any body he
twas yet Republican, all except on
the finances" That he is not and
never expects again to be Republic
can. That he has cut loose wholly
and forever, and is now fighting the
Republican party, and expects to
fight it in every position in life. lie
regards 1t as having sold out to the
bondholding and gold interests of
the world, and as utterly abandoned
to all popular interests and rights.
OF course he means the organization
not the voting masses. He says he
has not surrendered his convictions az
to slavery, and the war, but regards
that as finally settled. That he ia full
ly satisfied with Hayes management
and policy as to home rule in the
South, and thinks no attempt ought
to be made to disturb the Southern
States on these questions.
That If elected he expects to labor
for reform in finances, and will CO.
operate with such men as believe
with himself in regard to finances.
and when he cannot find, on any Civ.
en- measure, such men, will act with
those who come nearest his views.
He expects to cooperate with the
Democrats as against the Republican
organization, and will assist the
Democrats in the organization of the
House.
He was Democrat before the war,
is now and always was opposed to a
protective tariff. He is not an extre.
mist on currency does not believe in
unlimited imitation, and thinks We
ought TO have an increase of curren-
cy, either by full silver coinage o,
more greenbacks; is opposed to max.
ing the nation pay interest. directly
or indirectly, on its currency, and il
opposed TO any policy looking to q
perpetual national debt. He, with
thousands of others, begins to realize
the growing and dangerous power
of Federal Government, with Gran
for its head, and '.pedce" "a standing
army for it's motto.
He proposed in his talk with me t.
write you, but 1 concluded that
would first write and hear from you
and then if you wanted to hear from
him in person, would 40 inform him
Yours very truly. III H. TRlMBLE.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

THE Davenport Democrat, a leading
organ Of the democratic party of this
State, does not go off after tramps;
does not become their apologist. 1t is
most singular and yet not singular af-
ter all, to see the democracy and soft
moneyites numbering about over the
ind6lent and shiftless and seemingly
wanting to cram everybody's hands
full of absolute money. From the
lugubrious face these demagogue
speakers put on, one might suppose
that they We're in earnest if it was not
certain that the demagogue is looking
out for meat fOrhimself, without turn
ing an honest hand to get it. Read
the following genuine hard sense from
the aforesaid Democrat:
Who are at the head of our COM
mercial houses to-day? The boys who
ran errands thirty years ago. Who
are running the metropolitan neWspa-
pers? The former journeymen, grown
gray in the service. Who are the
men that look out upon farms of
broad acres of waving grain and herds
of stock feeding in rich pastures?
They are the men who grubbed those
acres or worked early and late for poor
pay and endured the hard lot of the
pioneer generation ago. And thus
the same facts run through the entire
list, and so it will be in the years that
are to follow-they who patiently toll;
who keep close company with pru-
dence and economy: who by patience
and industry fit themselves to grasp
opportunities that will certainly pre-
sent themselves-these young men
will take the place of those who
are doing the business, handling the
capital and operating the world OF
trade, commerce, agriculture of to-
day. None others can. They will be
men of the land, while grumblers,
idlers, tramps-seekers after the very
smallest amount Of labor, if any at all
at the very highest rate OF pay
these will be the same forever. 1t is
the industrious attentive, saving poor
apprentice, or hired man in the shop,
store or farm that proprietors are
made of. No other material is fit for
such positions-none others can sue
cessfully achieve and hold them. The
choice is with the young men-the
boys of to-day, as to which class theY
will belong. 1t is but to choose and
abide the consequences.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

The scheme of the so-called Ma
tional Greenbackers means the dis
honor of the country.
1t means the reputation of our ma
tional obligations.
1t means the unlimited issue of
Treasury notes which, from their vol
ume, must sink to comparative worth
lessnesS.
1t means the defrauding of every
man who is unfortunate enough to
hold demand against neighbOr.
1t means the sWindlirg of the pen
sioners of the country, by paying
these wounded veterans in notes COM
paratively yalueless.
1t means such an unsettling of val
ues, such a revolution i'm finance, such
an absolute change in all our business
methods and manner of estimating
property, as to strike at the very
foundation of the government, and
alarm all save those who have moth
ing to lose and everything to gain,
and who know no rule of action but
selfishness.
We once more. ask the sensible
greenbackers of the West, if they can
afford to contribute to the success of
this gigantic scheme of confiscation,
confusion and anarchy Chicago In
ter Ocean.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
THE OLD STORY.
Which the Bourbons Repeated
Years Ago.



The republican party has fulfilled
its mission, and having no living prin-
ciples, it turns to the past and like a
hyena tears open the graves of buried
passions in order to sustain its life.-
Lynchb,oy Jnyinidn.
This is the old, old story of the
Bourbons which they repeated years
ago, and now relate to their children
to lull them into security and sleep.
The northern branch of this party at
Chicago, in 1864, pronounced the war
to crush rebellion failure, but it
didn't fail to crush. Ever since then
the Southern and Northern Bourbons
are singing in unison at intervals
'the republican party has fulfilled it's
mission;" but still where the shot gun
and rifle do not bear upon the ballot
box, or suffers are not permitted to
corrupt the suffrage, the republican
party goes right along "conquering."
Through the shot-guns and rifles of
the South and the gross democratic
frauds in other quarters of the coun-
try, it came near being defrauded out
of its mission" in 1876, but it was
''saved as brand from the burningo
to prosecute its unfulfilled mission,
which will never end until it attends
the funeral obsequies of Bourbonism,
notification and rebellion at COM
mon grave. Its mission may end af-
ter that funeral, bnt not before.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

Our readers will notice elsewhere a
letter from Judge Trimblc, of Bloom
field, Iowa, to j. c.. Cook, Esq, of
Newton, Iowa, written under date of
July 18th last. 1t appeared last week
in the Ottumwa Democrat. 1t shows
what is now well known, that Judge
I'rimble has been grooming Weaver
for the race some time. Cook inelines
to hard money ideas and Trimble
seems to have beat little shy of the
greenback craze in writing him. This
would seem to have been an uphill
business, for Weaver on the 29th OF
June, two weeks before this letter
was written, had made his speech at
Newton, in which, as all will remem-
Der, Weaver asked for the issue of
800, GOO, 900 of greenbacks to pay
bonds with, also to have the taxes
for two years and issue green
backs to run the government, &C., &C.,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

The associated press report of a
fierce conflict, and violent language
in the democratic convention to OF
tumwa, does not seem to have been
warranted by the facts. The report
had the earmarks of the Ottumwa
Courier animus and style, and the re-
port was doubtless worked up for eff
feet. The Courier has been terribly
alarmed of late, lest Gen. Weaver
should be nominated by the demo-
Gratis, and wishes to throw as much
wet blanket on the proceedings as
possible. Burlington Gazette.
The press report was strictly accu-
rate. 1t could not be expected that
the Gazette would acknowledge the
report was correct. There is no posi-
BILE need for working up anything for
effect in this district in regard to Con-
gressional matters. 1t is not our bust
ness to learn democracy good sense in
the management of campaign, and
we don't engage in that business, but
the result Of the election this fall will
show that at least in the matter of not
nominating candidate for Congress,
they placed the surest possible victo-
ry before the republicans.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
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AN ANGEL ABsCoNDs
He Carries With Him $12O,OOO
i'm Cash and Securities.
Which Rightfully belongs to the
Pullman Palace Car Com
pany.

CHICAGO, Aug. II. The papers TO-
morrow morning will publish the
particulars OF defalcation by Charles
w. Angel, Secretary of the Pullman
Palace Car Company. From an in
terview with Mr.. Pullman, tonight,
the following facts ale learned: Mr..
Angel is man forty years of age,
agreeable in manner, and exceeding
ly competent for the position he occu-
pied. His social relations have, until
recently, it is believed, been Of the
very best character, and by years of
good conduct he has won the entire
confidence Of the Company, and of
his associates in business. About
three years ago his wife died, leaving
two infant children. This loss seem.
ed for time to impair his mental
and physical health. Lately he has
gradually been recovering his good
spirits, but having suffered, during
the past winter disappointment in
some social affairs, it now transpires
that he fell into disreputable associa-
tions, which, however were unknown
even to his intimate business friends.
At about the usual time for his Sum-
mer vacation he proposed to meet
Mr.. Pullman in New York, IA he
(Mr. Pullman) was about returning
from Europe, and started East with
that avowed purpose. Mr.. Pullman
reached New York by steamer on the
7th inst, and, as Mr.. Angel did not
appear for a day or two, became anx-
ious regarding him and dispatched
Angeles brother to Saratoga and 9TH
er places which he had intended Wis
ting. Nothing has been learned of
his whereabouts up to this date. The
fact that Angel left no address or
communication in Chicago excited
comment and caused Mr.. Pullman to
hasten home and institute q thorough
examination. This developed the
fact that Angel had disappeared
with funds and securities of the com.
pany. The amount taken, although
considerable, is not sufficient to coca.
sion the company any embarrassment
or to interfere with its regular bust
ness or dividends. The possible
maximum OF the loss sustained is SAID
to be about $4,000, partly in cast
and partly in securities of the compa
ny which were in his custody as sec
rotary. The money he drew out u
the bank was upon two checks fol
$25, GOO, he representing to the Com
pany's cashier that he was sending i
to the office of the company in New
York and that the proper voucher
would be returned. thus evading o
Overriding the custom OF the otiic'
which required vouchers ,n sccompa
ny every payment NJ money. s.
great was the confidence reposed il
his honor and integrity that this &C
ton created NJ un.asiness until hi
mysterious and pro,racted absence
became Of itselfa cause of suspicion
1t is possible he had converted tn,
securities. and with the proceeds AM
the money gone TO Europe. Tn
company is making most vigorou
measures tor Mr...Angell's apprchen
sion, and proposes ii possible to re
cover the funds and securities alb
stracted by him. But, for obviou
reasons. the measures adopted canno
be made public.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

by which he would get out more than
n billion of greenbacks. The Judge
had then evidently got his parrot
learned, or at least thought he had.
His mouth had been closed to South
ern kukluXing and States rights,
home rate, another name for the justi-
tication of the use of rifles and shot
guns in politics. The Judge also got
Gen. w. sot on joining the democrat
lie side Of the House when he got
there, and so the twain had gone on
counting their chickens prior to their
being Matched. There is a twinge OF
pain comes over man as he contem.
plates how puttied man can become
in principle and how easy he can be
made ready for the rubbish pile be-
hind the door.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
MEMPHIS.

MEMPHIS, Aug. l9.--Up to noon s
new cases of fever are reported at
the Office of the Board of Health, OF
these six are within the infected dis
trict, one near Charleston depot, and
one, Henry Schultz, At IS West Court
street. In addition To the above one
death and one new case are reported
in Chelsea. The indications are that
the fever il spreading. The citizens
committee are actively employed in
getting persons 10 remove to Camp
Joe Williams, south OF the city, and
q train will leave this afternoon, wi it'll
about 200 families. tents also will
be given to persons with families
who wish to flee from the plague but
are unwilling to go into the common
encampment. These persons will
camp out at points along the railroad.