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, 1878-05-01

The fairy tales of Hans Christian An
and ATr. Carlo ISlndberg, Dane living
in upper Egypt, writes that they afford
immense pleasure to the Arabs, who, af
ter the Oriental custom, sit in a group
while one of their number reads aloud.
Octave Feuillet Providence has se-
ordained it that only two women have
an INTEREST," in the happiness of man
his own mother, and the mother OF his
children. Beside these two legitimate
kinds oflove, there is nothing between
the two creatures except vain excltement
and painful and idle delusion,
, 1878-05-01

At last it has Come! In this Empire
State, which has hitherto resisted the ef-
forts of woman to obtain q voice in
her politics, woman has has at last
made her way to, the polls, At Utica
recently, the ladies Of ;hc various Chris.
tian temperance associations personerIly
served refreshments TO candidates voter
sandwiches, biscuits, bake, pie, crack
ers, and cheese. AT the various poll
g-pllces they handed. WITH their own
delicate hands FIVE tho sand seven hun
dred and twenty-five 'Ips Of coffee to
politicians and voters. .--Houc.
, 1878-05-01
SOAP MARLNG..

was asked by a lady friend of mine
the other day how l, made my soap.
She complimantsd' me upon having 1t
very nice. have thought since that it
might be useful for some of your friends
to know, and therefore send, my receipt.
My process has at least the merit OF SIM
plcity; In the first place we save none
but hardwood ashes, that our lye may be
strong and good; otherwise soap making
will very likely prove troublesome, if not
an absolute failure. Our soap grease is
generally variety of odds aud ends
scraps from the lard frying, rinds from
ham and shoulders, with an occasional
bone thrown in (Which will not injure
the soap the marrow makes excellent
soap greasr, while small proportion OF
bone itself is not deleterious. but helps
to give "body'D, along with whatever
drippings of lard or tallow we may have
not fit for other purposes. The whole
will make excellent soap if only kept
clean and free from taint and mold.
When soap-making day arrives. have
your soap kettle, il you have not II fur
mace, set upon stones, and. build a fire
under it. Start your fire with chips or
sticks, if you like, but have large chunk
or block tor your main tire. Il is not
necessary to get it wholly under the ket-
tie, but close up. at one side. This will
give you what is very essential, steady
heat, that you,may not have to run every
five minutes to fish out the blaze from
Under the kettle, to keep the contents from
running overheard Take a paiful or
two OF the first lyc that has dripped
though your leach, wich SHOULD be strong
enough to bear upan egg, and boil, stir
ring frequently, till the grease, scraps,
&C., are mostly eaten up; then fill up with
the weaker, and your soap is made. In
regard to teaching the ashes, the leach
should be good, tine ashess well packed,
and the water added slowly. pailtul at
time, a day or two before the lye is
needed.-Cor. Farmers. Adcoc0te
, 1878-05-01

A blind man in new York peddles
spectacles.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11

Tuesday morning about sunrise the
writer Of this observed two young
men and . middle aged man driving
a lot Of hogs down Center avenue in
the direction ofthe stock yards. They
attracted particular attention because
they were such nice pigs, fat and I'M.
usually clean. These hogs were to.
ken down near the stock yards and
sold to man named Payne. Payne
says he paid 50 to bind the bargain
On Tuesday afternoon j. M. Peel
saw these hogs and thought he knew
them and the owner of them. He
went out and saw Benz. Randell, who
upon counting his hogs, found there
was ten missing, and he came in yes.
terday morning, proved his hogs and
drove them home.
The thieves no doubt stole them
early Tuesday morning, and thought
theycould sell them and get away with
the proceeds. Payne says he suspi.
cioncd that the hogs were stolen and
he attempted to arrest the man tina,
he bought them of, but the fellow
skipped out before he could summon
an officer. We should not know thu
men il we were to see them again
but there are parties who think they
have clue to them, and 1t is to b,
hoped that they may be 0arrested and
duly punished.
Last week Farnum Whitcomb los
two and Thos. Bedwell l. fine hog, In
the same way, and there 10 no ques'
ton but there Is an organized gang cl
hog thieves who calculate to profit by
the demand for hogs here during the
busy packing and chipping season.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
Tho Radfo.a He,.,,b,;.,

The Bedford Republican OF last
week gives the following chapter OF
calsmities that befel mover to the
west, who started from Pennsylvania.
Zone of the most unfortunate men
we have seen in long time Is q gen.
tleman whom we met yesterday and
who had walked to this city from>Mt.
Ayr. He started sometime ago from
Erie, Pennsylvania, with seven hun
dred and Lfty dollars in cash, four
hundred dollar team and an extra
horse worth one hundred dollars.
He had his family with him, consist
ing of his wife, two children, and .
crippled brother, and was bound for
Crete, Nebraska. At Zanesville,
Ohio, his oldest child WAS attacked
with diphtheria and died; on reach
ing Joliet his wife sat up fer . night
or two with . woman who had .y-
phoid fever, and contracted the dis.
ease herself. She died after an illness
of several weeks. At Bloomington,
Illinois, one of the horses In the team
got into corn field near the bivouac
for the night, and died Of an over
feed of corn. At Bonaparte, Iowa,
the remaining horse belonging to the
team broke through q bridge and
killed himself. Here the man had
but thirty dollars left of his money.
He paid twenty dollars Of the amount
for . plug horse and continued his
journey to Leon, where the plug gave
out and laid down and died. lie
then traded his remaining horse and
two-horse wagon for . pony and
. single Wagon with which he got az
far as Mt. Ayr, dead broke. Here he
offered the pony for sale for five dol.
lars, when some Samaritan under.
took to get him ten for it by rafting
it of. The plan succeeded, and lea7.
Ing his youngest child and crippled
brother At Mt, Ayr, he walked to
Bedford to telegraph to his father in
Pennsylvania for money. This 10 one
Of the steadiest runs Of lad luck we
ever heard of outside the Book OF
Job, and It 10 to be hoped that his
misfortunes are at An end. He bears
them with great forritudo and his
courage 10 far from being broken.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11

D. D. Calhoun informs us that one
of tho boilers of the Touring and
saw mill at irmingham, Van Buren,
county blew up Saturday evening.
There were two boilers 26 feet long
and 10 inches ia diameter laying in
tho same bed together each weighing
about 5000 lbs. No person was kill
ed and only three wounded. One
boiler was thrown about GO feet in
the sir and 100 feet weat OF its bed,
and turned end for end and In getting
in that position 1t made complete
wreck of tho boiler house and the
two story saw mill. G. L. Moss, prop
prietor, slight wound in back of head ;
3. 3. Shott was thrown between two
piles of lumber and the boiler thrown
directly across him and the lumber
and pinned him to the ground. He
is hurt badly, but it is hoped not IA
tally. D. c. Cramer was in the boil
er house and was badly scalded. He
will lose all his hair, but will be
around in few days. John S. With
row, the engineer, did not get q
scratch. lie says he was carrying IS
pounds of steam at the time of the ex.
plosion, and that the cause was a
worn out boiler which has been in
use since 1851 almost constantly. The
loss by this accident is perhaps s3,-
600.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
TIVE a,c po2k nousE.

The erection of John Morrell &
Cos. big pork house here was COM
menced in this city about tho 7th of
September last and completed on No
vember 30th. Ninety acres of ground
was purchased in body, so az to
make room for all the conveniences
and additions which will In time
make one OF the most mammoth pack
ing houses in the United States. The
present building is of brick; its main
part is l60x9G feet and the ell is 96x46
feet, all three stories high. Itis fitted
up within and without with all the
most modern machinery and ap-
pliances that can be found in such
institutions.
The company commenced killing
on Saturday, November Both, and
they are now slaughtering 600 hogs
per day. I. d. Foster has general
charge of tho business of the house
here, and is assisted by f. r. Camp
bell, Thos. Swords, Richard N. Nor
rell Jr., and others, The pens have q
present capacity of about 1000 head
of hogs. We are informed that they
have NO difficulty in purchasing all
the hogs they want. The number of
hogs they will kill during the active
packing season this winter is some.
what uncertain as yet, but will not,
probably, fall below fifty thousand.
Upon the grounds there is quite a
little lako of pure water, and upon
its bank they have now advanced to
near completion en- ice house l2SxlOO
feet and 30 feet in height, having q
capacity of ten thousand tons. This
is to be filed with ice for summer
packing. a side track, running along
side of the pens and the packing
house, has just been completed from
the g., 3. g. @. railroad.
John Morrell It Go. is Liverpool,
England, house, and they have been
packing largely in Chicago hereto
fore. They still continue to pack in
that city and probably will for year
to come. In time, as we understand
it. they will transfer to Ottumwa their
entire business which includes the
packing of both pork and beef with.
out iutermission during the whole
year. Ths house of Morrell g. Go. is
one of the largest in Europe and its
yearly sales of meat are immense
It can be readily surmised, from the
large purchase Of land made, situate
below the city, having an extended
front upon the Das Moines river and
lying upon both sides Of the c., B. s.
c. and e., r. I. s. P. railroads, tha,
Morreli & Co. have laid the founda.
tiou for sn immense business here.
From what we have said 1t will be
eeen that within less than nine.
ty days even there has been accom-
plished remarkable results, which re-
fleet great credit upon the gentleman
| in charge
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
RA1IRoAD GnANT-Tha Gov

RAILROAD GRANT.-The Governor
has certified to the Secretary Of the
1nterior, that the Chicago, Milwaukee
= st. Paul Railway Company has
completed the land-grant railroad
from Algona 10 Sheldon, thus enti-
tling It to the lands inuring to the
grant, not heretofore patented to the
McGregor b Mo. River r. r. Co.,
for road built east Of Algopa. This
completes all the roads deriving
grants Of lands through the state gov.
ernment from the United Statee, ex-
cept the Sioux City & St. Paul r. r.
Co., which 10 to be built frvm Lemar.
to Sioux City. It is q matter Of graf
idcation that the lands belonging to
this grant are now In q condition 10
be opened to purchase and settle.
ment.-State Reqister.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
An undeniable Truth.

You deserve to suffer, aud IL sou
lead miserable, unsatisfactory life
in this beautiful world, it is entirely
your own fault, and there 10 only one
excuse for you-your unreasonable
prejudice and skepticism, which has
killed thousands. Personal knowl.
edge and common sense reasoning
will soon show you that Green's An.
gust Flower will cure you of Liver
Complaint, or Dyspepsia, with sll its
miserable effects, such a. sick head
ache, palpitstion Of the heart, sour
stomach, habitusl cost!veness, dizzi-
nsss Of the head, nervous prostrstion,
low epirits, etc. Its sales now reach
every town on the western continent,
and not . druggist but will tell you OF
tts wonderful cures. You can buy q
sample bottle for ten cents. Three
doses will relieve you. Sold by J. L.
Tayl b Co., Ot,umws Iowa.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
Freake of orthouranl,v

The Gate CITY says the following
are some of the euriosities Of orthog
raphy which came under the observa
tion Of q route agent on the K. 3 d
M. Division during q single month
Adsre for Adsir.
Book City for Polk City.
BeakwAitk for Beckwitb.
Bornpars for Bonaparte-
Chilacofee for Chilicothe.
Croaon for Croton.
Cilburn for Kilbourne.
Eutsugh for Utah.
Eityviele for Eddyville.
Edgisson City for Agency City.
Ft. Mactesion for Ft. Madison.
Hickoiekory for Hickory.
Hycore for Hickory.
Jercingl for Percival.
Lyton for Leighton.
Oskalucie for Oskaloosa.
Ker Sock for Keosauqua.
Sent Loise for St. Louis.
Waploigh for Wapello.
Wapelly for Wapello.
Weier for Viewer.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
G. F. w. Bachman is now receiving

u. r.. w. DacnMaH ~ uOW Receiving
daily, invoices Of Furniture suitable
for holiday presents and all other
purposes. You can find no better &C.
lected stock anywhere, and parties
wishing to buy goods in that line can
do no better than give him call.
He also kee ps well-selected stock of
Cooking Stoves, which are being sold
at low figures. 2l4 Main St. d&wlt
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
Fairfield is CRYING out for q nieh

Fairfield 10 crying out for q nigh
police. The Ledger says:
"Within the last week Eichorn'l
store has been robbed OF $3.50 worth
of goods the Southwestern depot
plundered and quite stock Of stolen
goods belonging to some one else
found by the sheriff. Probably
$400 stolen, and all the counties not
vet heard frOm.w
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
Theodore Danquard has issued ,

Theodore Danquard has issued ,
now German paper, under the title o,
Free Press, and A. Danquard has is.
sued the Journal on new type, and
It is now an eight column folio. The
Frees Press 10 issued from the old
journal Office, and the Journal Il
printed on the COURIER steam press
The proprietor Of the COURIER has nc
interest whatever in the Journal fur.
ther than the amount he receives for
the press work, and Of course wishes
zach Of these papers success financial
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11

MALIGNANT AND SUBTLE INDEED Il
the poison Of Scrofula, and terrible
are its ravages in the system. They
may, however, be permanently stayed
and the destructive virus expelled
from the circulation with ScovILL'i
BLooD AND LIVER SYRuP, . poten,
vegetable detergent which eradicates
all skin diseases. leaving no vestige
Of them behind. White swelling
salt rheum, tetter, abscesses, liver
complaint, aud eruptions Of every
description are Invariably conquered
by 1t. Druggists sci! 1t. j. L. Fay.
l0r & Co, wholesale agents.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
DELIGHTFUL PERFUMES.

DR.. Price has prepared . rich vari'
ETY. Of perfumes, from which the mos,
fastidious can select IN odor with
agreeable satisfaction. DR.. Prices
Pet Rose, Meadow Flowers, and 9TH
er perfumes, are great favorites, ~
their sweetness and freshness are 90
decided.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
Butter and Egs Refrigerator.

esttTuay LOU URiER reporter VS.
tied the new building now in process
OF erection by Messrs. Wilson & Low
rie, for butter and egg packing
house, on the corner Of College and
Samantha streets, and found business
1ying slong at q rapid rate. The
building is to be l00x66 feet, two sto-
rys and basement high, and fitted up
especially for the butter and egg bus;-
ness. The building ia under the su-
pervision of j. l.. Bridge, of Chicago,
although Messrs. Chiffon s. Kendall
have the contract for tho stone and
brick work, ana 2. Pickett furnished
the plans aud does the carpenter
4 work
Chiffon & Kendall have between
twenty five and thirty men ON the
| brick work, and not much wonder that
the building grows rapidly. If they
have ten days or two weeks seasonal
bic weather, they will have the build
ing completed. Scarcely any other
firm would have undertaken the con-
tract at this time of the year, but that
they will complete it, there is no man
ner of doubt.
| Pickett too, is 3 rueher, and with
his eighteen hands is keeping well
up with the brick work, and will have
it ready for the roof, and have that
ready too, nearly, as soon as the ma
cons are out of his way. The .imbers
are very heavy, and on q style with
the rest of the building. For genu-
inc and systematic hard work, " hen
work ia to be done in hurry, the
propr;etors could not have made bet
ter selections.
Chiffon & Kendall inform US that il
will require between 400 and 500
perch of stone, and 100000 brick 10
build the house, and 10000 feet OF
lumber will be required in Picket's
department. We may say here that
the brick are all purchased in Keo-
kuk, there being none TO be obtained
here at the time the building was
commenced The house is to be
covered with a truss roof.
The refrigerator, or the department
for summer-packing, will be large
enough to contain GOO tons of ice, and
besides room sufficient to store away
any amount of butter and eggs dur
ing the hot weather, enabling the
proprietors to hold ii until such time
as their interest seems to demand its
shipment. The balance Of the build.
ing will be used as ware house
packing rooms, office, etc. They have
affairs so arranged that side-track
will run close by their doors on the
Samantha street side, by which cars
can be loaded or unloaded without
the expense OR trouble with drays
which will greatly cheaper and facll.
itete business.
| We are assured by persons compe.
tent to judge, that th!s will bo one OF
the larges, and most convenient and
complete establishment for the bust.
ness in the Western country.
We await the completion Of the
building and the inauguration Of this
new enterprise with interest.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11

Sheriff McKibben sent one OF his
"lajy" boarders, Of the soiled variety,
npto Ottumwa week before last
Bloomfield Republican.
All the vags, paupers, thieves, and
soiled doves seem to be shipped to
Ottumwa, and 1t keeps our police
busy looking after them. Ottumwa
seems to be fair game for the ri6 raj
of all the towns within 100 miles, and
the only way for our officers to do Il
to ship them back to the places they
were sent from,
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
8 Per Cent. Money.

/ can loan in sums Of $500 and up
wards, to suit borrowers, at per ct.
and smaller commission than any
person in tAe city.
sl7wtf w. Fl. G. JAQUEs.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
Nice Residence.

Last evening we took occasion to
look through the new residence of
Samuel Lilburn, erected on the north
side of Fourth street, between Green
and jefferson streets. This fine bull
ding was commenced about the mid
die of June, and is now just compile
ted in all its parts, The plans were
were drawn by Chas. Watkins. The
building is about 52x42, outside
measure, two stories Of brick, with
cut stone foundation. and cellar un-
der the whole building. On the
first floor front IL the entrance hall,
stairway and parlor 15x16, setting
room and dining room, l4x2l, and
l5xl9, inside measure. and in the rear
of this, the kitchen and pantry, both
of which are Of ample size. On the
second floor ere five bed cham hers,
all of which are Of capacious dimen-
sions, and bathroom and water closet,
Large and handsome bay windows
run from the ground floor to the
roof in both dining and sitting
rooms. There 10 hot and cold
water In every room except the
parlor and dining room, and marble
top ewers. In the parlor, setting
room, dining room and family bed
chamber, there are CRATES and beau
tiful marble mantels, manufactured
at Burlington, Vt. Tho brick and
stonswork, woodwork, plastering,
painting and plumbing are done in
first class style, and we would recon.
mend all persons designing to build
another season to see this house and
get some ideas Of how to do it. In
fact, the house is one Of the best II
not the best, and most handsome OF
any ever erected in the city, and Mr.,
L. can set In almost any Of his rooms
and view one of the prettiest land.
scapes In the world. His grounds
also are beautiful, being terraced and
sodded in handsome style. The cost
of this nice residence, including
grounds is about $4,000, and VIC
should say was well worth the mon.
ey. Chiffon & Kendall were con.
tractors for the stonework, Owens &
Hoyt for plastering, James Bush for
painting and graining, and J. w
Sheahan for plumbing, and their
respective parts are all well done, and
give Mr.. Lilburn entire satisfaction
Kirk & Walker furnished the lum.
ber. We congratulate our genia
friend Lilburn on possessing this fine
place and shall enjoy seeing 1t almost
as much IS he will in occupying 1t.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
Fish.


3. F. Shaw, Fish Commissioner
was in the city short time yesterda,
and left last evening for Wisconsin
where he went to procure trout eggs
He intends to get one hundred thou
sand and will place them In the Stat,
Matching house at Anamosa. Tht
young fry will be ready for distribu
tion next spring. Mr.. Shaw says
there are many trout streams in Iowa
some Of them in this vicinity. II
Delaware and Iowa counties, wher,
trout were planted . few years since
the fish are now from eight to ten in
ches long.-State Regtster.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
LICKsKILLET.

Miss Harris, the school teacher, has
returned from Corning. where she
has been for several daye, visiting
her sister who has been seriously Ill
with typhoid fever. She resumed her
school this morning and the merry
shout Of the schoolboy once more
sounds through the streets Of our
quiet little village.
Our village was made still more
pleasant this r. ". by the sudden ad-
vent of Mr.. John Winters, who, as he
passed along the street, was carefully
surveyed by the little boys, who
wondered who was the man with the
big boots on. LII.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11

The Davenport postofice the other
day took In . silver dollar of the coin.
age Of 1870, bearing this legend
"Stolen from the New Orleans mint,
1861, by JEFF Davis"
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11

The average price for oil staple Or.
ticles is 1875 per cent. lower than In
1850. This makes the cost Of living
cheaper than Il has been for forty
years. Therefore work, live, and be
happy.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11

Mr.. Dible, one of our subscribers
ct Frederick, Gays the C. B. & @ 10
doing . good thing for the farmers in
that neighborhood by making the
new grade, and are scattering good
deal Of money among them for sup.
plies. The Abba Union says the pay
roll Of the workmen for November
was 80, ,O00in Monroe county.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
ottumwa FIRE Company.


The Ottumwa Fire Company No.
held their annual election Of officer
Wednesday last.
John Gray was elected foreman fol
the eleventh year in succession, on
the first ballot.
L. j. Allen was elected 1st aseistan
in the 1st district.
W. T. Walker, let assistant, 2ni
district.
T. J. Ward, lst assistant, Sd dis
trict.
M. W. Moody, lst assistant, 4th dis
trict.
John Guthrie was elected treasurer
and j. M. Winn, secretary.
The company was never In better
condition or more efficient than 1t Il
now, as this election of officers viii
show.