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Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
A CHILD MARVEL.
Scripturai Lectures by q Four
Y00r-0 Old NexHaaR.

Scriptural Lectures by q Four.
Year Old Negress.
There is now in Louisville a me-
gress who 10 perfect child wonder.
She 10 Scriptnral marvel. She does
not even know her letters, yet she can
quote accurately almost any passage
in the Bible. G
At the age Of nine months she could
talk, and would frequently tell her
mother what her idea of heaven was.
As she grew older she would sit for
hours and expatiate on the beauties
and glories of the other world. The
old colored folks would listen to her
sayings for hours.
At the age of three years she began
to lecture on heaven, i,s wonders, or
God and His omnipotent power. She
has lectured in many places, and has
created a furore in every place she
has yet visited. The prodigy lectured
at the York Street colored church
yesterday afternoon, and at night
spoke to large crowd at the Green
Street c0lored church. Her speech
was good and her delivery impress
sive.
A reporter of the Courier-Journal
interrogated her last night.
"What is your name, little girl?"
''Alice Coatny."
GLOW old are you?"
''Ise just four years and twenty
eight days old tonight"
"Where were you born?"
IL was born in Liverpool, England
cross de Atlantic"
''How long since you telt the power
within you?"
81 don't know Ise always felt the
power of God"
"Whatdo you talk about when you
speak to q crowd -
81 talk about Jesus, about heavenly
things, about how Jesus died and was
crucified how he rose again in three
days and sitteth on the right hand of
God"
"Can you spell 2"
"No, sir I don't know my A, b, Is
yet"
She then went on in rapturous
strain about things biblical and spirit
ual, completely nonplussing the re-
porter.
She was accompanied by two col
ored men. They talked in an cnthu-
siastic manner about her. She said
in her conversation that she believed
in two kinds of baptisms. She spoke
of the different modes Of salvation !;
how to reach paradise; how to be
converted from a bad man toa good
one, etc. Her savings were entirely
original, and we're not spoken in a
hesitating voice; but in quick, keen
and forcible manner. As young IA
she is, a negress, without education in
the principles she sets forth, her pow
err partakes strongly of the marvellous.
|-Louisville Courier. Journal, Septem-
ber l6.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
Sound Sense from vice-PresIdent
Wheeler.

On his return to st. Lawrence coun-
ty, recently, the Hon. w. A. Wheeler
was received at Canton by some 15,-
900 of his fellow citizens. He adj
dressed them i'm fitting terms, and
among other things said:
My friends, we have great many
panaceas offered in these days for the
financial ills under which our coun-
try suffers. l was born in the old
school, and have no faith in new nos
trums. The fact, hard as it is. re-
mains that we can never regain our
old-time prosperity without a return
to old paths. We must have soberer
views Of life. We cannot regain this
prosperity until q far larger portion
of our people become willing through
patience and manly toll in she useful
and productive arts of life to earn ev-
cry dollar they receive. Applause. |
Our young men must learn that they
cannot with impunity ignore the low
er rounds of the ladder on which
their fathers climbed with patient,
toiling steps, and come to property y
and reputation with a bound.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
John lrlsh.Asks 3 ouestIon.

The republican candidate for Con-
gress against Sam. Randall, in Phila-
delphia, is socialist, nihilist and
communist and was first nominated
by the fiatists.
Now we ask Sam. Clark, and we
ask it boldly, If he lived in that dis
trict and therein edited a republican
paper would he support Sam. Ran
dali or the other fellow?
Let not day go by without an an
swer, Sam.-Lo,ca city Press.
We get right up and answer that a
socialist, nihilist, communist and
tiatist is no republican. He is an en-
emy of the republican party, its prin-
ciples, its promises, its honor, and its
duty. Such a man should be beaten
on whatever ticket he runs, and we
would be very willing to help do it,
Gate City.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
Wade Hampton Indignant.

CHARLESTON, s. G., Sept. 25.-Gov.
Hampton has addressed letter TO
Gov. Rice, of Mass, regarding the re-
fusal Of the latter to surrender Hiram
II. Kempton, for trial in South Car
olina.
Governor Hampton says: II re-
gret that the Chief Executive Of the
great state Of Massachusetts should
have committed so fragrant a viola
tion Of the supreme law of the land;
q violation irreparable in its nature,
as the state suffering thereby has no
possible redress.
Had you confined yourself to Civ
ing simple refusal to the surrender
of tho fugitive, l should make no fur
ther comments upon your letter, as
the disregard by the executive au.
thority Of one state concerns the
whole people Of the United States
but iinasmuch as you have seen fit
to base your action on the ground
that, In your judgment, the object in
the Indictment against
Patterson, Parker and Kempton does
not appear to be for tho purpose of
trying Kempton for crime, but for
different purpose. 1t is my duty as
Governor of South Carolina, to add
that your statement is entirely un-
warranted and to repel the unworthy
imputation, as i do, with indignant
scOrn."
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
Massachusetts Democracy.

BosToN, Sept. 25.-The Democratic
State Convention met in Faneuil Hall
pursuant to adjournment ordered by
the Committee at Worcester. Ad-
mission to the galleries was gained
only by tickets furnished by the State
Central Committee. Edward Avery
called the Convention TO order. j. G.
Abbott was then nominated for Gov
ernor by acclamation.
The usual committees were appoin-
ted, and committee to report list
Of candidates other than governor.
Gen. John 8. Whitney, who was
appointed chairman, in his address to
the delegates, said: "No mob can
here interfere with your legislation.
No ruffian threats Of bloodshed and
use Of brute force can shape or in the
slightest degree influence your action.
No such document as that which shut
tho doors of Mechanics Hall against
Worcester will ever emanate from
the honorable Mayor of Boston. No
not yet are all our cities and
towns 90 far bulldozed by thu
mObs which follow self nominated
aspirants to the Gubernatoria
chair that the regular delegate
to the State Democratic Conventiol
shall be informed in writing that
mob cannot be removed from . ha.
here, engaged BY. . regular Demo
cratic state committee for . state de-
egate conveation,
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
Bishop James, Humor.

New York Correspondence Boston journal.
Bishop james was modest, unprc-
tcntious man. lIo had great practi-
cal wisdom and was levol- headed.
He had great amount of dry humor.
He often settled commotion in his
conference by "telling a story" Ono
day young man preached before the
conference on Lots wife. He had q
poor time; once or twice ii seemed
that no would break completely
down. lie saw the old Bishop before
him, and that made matters worse
"Bishop, what do you think was thu
matter with me this morning? L car
do a great deal better than thu.
"Quite likely. The trouble w.eIet
your subject. You had .ssssw sssw any
women Alone. ! neyG.sist minister
good to come to . Ma other mems
from meddlinp
wives
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02

Tuesday night, September 9th,
Alexander Clark, of Muscatine, the
colored orator of Iowa, was advertiz-
ed to speak in this city. He spoke at
Mt. Pleasant the evening before.
For some reason he failed to fill his
appointment here. The audience that
had assembled called upon A. III.
Hamilton to speak and he addressed
the meeting.
The Ottumwa Democrat made the
following mention of the matter:
Alex. Clark, the colored brother,
failed to materialize last Tuesday
night, and Brudder Hamilton, white
man) acted in his place. This was
substitution not of greenbacks, but of
white for black, which we, being for
a white mans government" fully
endorse.
This is of no consequence, of course,
only to show how tenaciously our
democratic friends cling to ostracism,
politically, of the colored man. Our
democratic friends will still ask the
colored voters to vote the democratic
ticket.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02

SO to GO per cent, and promise that
with return to good times when
currency was at its cheapest, that ad.
vance will come again. Let no man
dependent on labor for support, be
deluded by such financial juggling.
An example or two will be snffi.
cicnt 10 expose the arrant humbug-
gerry, II mot downright knavery, OF
such delusivc promises. The skilled
mechanic, who, in 1S60-6l, earned SO
per week, received his pay in money
possessing . purchasing power of 100
cents to the dollar. In 1864, with an
advance OF 60 per cent. on his earn
ings, his weekly pay was $14 40, only
equal to $6.5l coin standard, which
standard regulated the whole cost of
his living. From this it is apparent
that, while nominally receiving in
creased wages to the extent Of GO per
cent. in 1864, he actually suffered q
decrease as compared with 1S60-6l of
more than q per cent. So, too, with
the unskillcd laborer, who received
$6 per week in lSGO-61. An advance
of 30 per cent. in the paper money of
the period nOminally gave him 80
per week. The average purchas-
ing power OF his nine paper dollars in
1864, was simply $4O7 thus he really
received $l.93 less per week for his
labor than before the war.
No amount of sophistry can over
come these facts yet this is the sort OF
feast to which Voorhees,, Ewing But
Ter II Co., are inviting the working
man. To some extent bankers, capi-
talists and rich men can protect thom-
selves agalnst the evils ofa depreciat-
ed currency, but the poor man, .he
salaried man. the mechanic and day
laborer are robbed, and plundered
without escape, and without remedy.
In the discussion of this question, the
laboring men should remember this
important fact, attested by our own,
by the worlds experience: A debas-
ed money invariably widen the space
between the rich and the poor to
those who have it gives more, and
from those who have not it, takes
away even the opportunity Of getting.
No scheme was ever devised by the
wit of man SO effeciual to make the
rich richer and the poor poorer as an
irredemable currency of "cheap mon
ey"
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
Facts Worth Knowing.
From the Pittsburg Commercial.

The public debt reached it's highest
point In August, 1865, the amount be-
ing, less cash in the Treasury, $2,756,
431 ,571.43.
At the present the debt, less cash in
the Treasury, is 81 ,999, 49,, ,2sO.45.
Reduction of public debt during
thirteen years OF Republican Admin
istration, $757, ,O49, ,29O.9s.
The debt, to individual citizens in
1865, was $7S.25. 1t is now $4l.G7
Reduction, per capita, in thirteen
years, 1868.
Interest on the debt, per capita, in
1865, $4.29. Interest, per capita, now,
$1.97.
Largest volume of nominal curren-
cy circulation, in 1865, s9s3, 1913, ,6s5.7G.
Gold value of the above amount,
$692, ,25G BAIT.
Gold value of present volume of
currency, 1854, ,465,69l.27, to which
should be added over 500, O,OOO, 900
gold and silver now held by the Treas
ury.
Difference in gold value between
the currency in 1865 and now,. not in
cluding the gold and silver in the
Treasury, 1880, ,6G3.5O.
During five years preceding the
panic of 1873, we imported more than
we exported, or, in other words, ran
in debt to Europe 1854 ,OOO,O 900.
During the five years since the pam
ic of 1873, we have exported more
than we imported, $44s, ,OOO, 900.
The change since the panic, as COM
pared with five years before the panic,
is in favor of the prosperity of the
country to the amount $1,000, ,OOO, 900.
Since the panic we have called
home $SOO,OOO,0OO of our national
bonds held abroad.
We now owe on foreign-held ma
tional bonds 5000, ,OOO, 600 to $3.50, O,OOO,-
600.
From the above we deduce the fol-
lowing conclusions: l. The panic
was not produced by contraction of
the currency. 2. 1t was caused by
running into debt to Europe. 3. That
this nation is solvent, having paid
about One-third of its debt in thir-
teen years. 4. That is is in better
condition now than ever before, as
shown in its increasing exports over
imports. Finally, that we have only
to be steadily honest, and to work, to
reach the most permanent prosperity
the country ever enjoyed.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
REASONS Why.

Tho reasons why DIR. Prices Fla
voring Extracts, Lemon, Vanilla, etc,
sre superior to all others is because
they are prepared from choice select
cd fruits and aromatics without col
oring or poisonous oils, al tho flavor
ing principles arc retained unchang-
cd by chemical action, highly concen-
trated, requiring less to flavor.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
Exploration Of the Amazon.

NEW YORK, Sept. N.-The United
States steamer Enterprise, c0mman-
der Selfridge, arrived off Brooklyn
Navy Yard yesterday afternoon after
. voyage Of 8 months exploring the
Amazon river and its principal tribu-
taries, more particularly Madeira.
Most of the officers and men suffeA ed
from modified type Of malarial fe-
yer and some of them are not yet
quite recovered. Capt. Selfridge
says the exploration was . perfect sue
cess. The Madeira was found navi-
gable 500 miles. The Captain adds
we found the volume Of the Amazon
to be seven million cubic feet . second
and II tho Mississippi were flowing
into it it Wouldn't raise it's surface
perceptibly. The Enterprise brings
as passenger Alice Stroope, aged {
years. Her father was formerly I
Doctor in Texas and with his wifi
and othsrs emigrated to Brazil afte
the war. The Doctor and his wifi
died and the child was thrown alon
ON the world. She will be sent I
friends in Texas.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
Shark Boardman as a Creonback
Candidate.
From the Muscatine Journal.

Senator Kirkwood tells a good sto-
ry which the greenbackers will relish
hugely. III. +. J. Boardman, of Mar
shall county, who is a candidate for
District Judge, is stumping this dis
trict in the interest of the greenback
party. Well, not a long while ago,
one of his neighbors, Mr.. Worley,
wanted to build good house and de-
sired to borrow a considerable sum of
money to use in his building. He APP
piled to Mr.. Boardman for the loan !;
he could accommodate him, and the
preliminaries as to the interest, secur-
ity and time (which was to be sever
al years. were all agreed upon. Then
Mr.. Boardman, fearing that the G.. B.
movement would by that time so de-
preciate the currency that $4,000 OF
1t would not be worth so much to him
as his bonds which he now held, stip-
ulated that the $4,000 when due
should be paid in coin, and that spoil
ed the trade between them.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
THE BABY FOR ME.

have heard about babies angelic,
With heavenly look In their eyes,
And hair like the sunbeams Of morning
When first they appear in the skies,
And smiles like the smile of cherub,
And mouth like the buds of rose,
And themselves like the lilies and daisies
And every sweet flower that grows.
My baby's the jollicst baby
That any one ever did see;
There's nothing angelic about him,
But he's just the right baby for me!
Bis smiles not ut all like a chefub's,
But rather a comical grin;
And his hAtr-weli, IL fav ors the sunbeams.
When sunbeams are wondrously thin.
His eyes. though they're blue like the heaven,
Are remarkably earthly " ith fun;
And his mouth rather large Tor rosebud,
Unless 'twere half opened one.
His hands, don't resemble q fairy's
In the least. They re strong little pair.
As you'd think, am sure, ifhe'd ID got you,
As Oft he gets me-by the hair
And he isn't bit like lily;
Or any sweet blossom that grows,
For no flower on earth, i am certain,
Has a dear little cunning pug nose.
He's himself-full of mischief, the darling,
And as naughty as naughty can be;
And l IN glad that he isn't angelic,
For he's just the right baby for me.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02

Marshal Lee, of Pella, a strong
democrat, and by the way an influen-
tial citizen of that town, says he can
not and will not vote for Weaver.
AS between Sampson and Weaver,
he would much prefer the former and
will vote for him. We know plenty
of the more sensible democrats who
talk about the same way, and being
as honest and straightforward men as
we have, will vote as they talk. Mar
shal Lee says he has known Judge
Sampson for twenty years, and knows
that he is a good and true man. He
knew him as private citizen for
eight years, eight years as a judge
and four years as Congressman, and
as M. G. and judge he was citizen
Sampson still.-MoWOe Mirror.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02

The Manchester Press puts these
plain questions: "Do the farmers of
this cOunty-and we speak now, not
to democrats or republicans, but to
all, as sensible men-wish to encOur-
age the growth of the communistic
idea that 'all property is robbery, and
that the homes and farms, the docks
and herds they have acquired by years
of self-denying labor and the closest
economy, do not rightfully belong to
them? Do they believe they are just
y called upon to even up with the
first wandering idle vagabond who
comes along? These are questions
that II now looks as though we should
be called on, pretty soon, to consider.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02

The following sound sense we clip
from the 81. Louis Republican, a lead
ing democratic paper of the West.
1t says:
sit is very mischievous error
which assumes that the government
can extricate the country from hard
times by mere financial legislation,
particularly by the issue of an enor-
nous amount Of irredeemable "fiat"
money, as it is called. tits mischiev-
GUS because it teaches the people to
look to some other source than them
selves for deliverance from embar-
rassment. How can the government
do things which the people cannot
do? 1t is not power above them.
1t is their creation and ageEt. There
is no power higher or greater than the
people, and what they cannot do cam
not be done. Governments cannot
create wealth. They cannot make
the people rich by multiplying cheap
money. If Congress should direct
the issue of the $1,000, ,OOO,OOO legal
tender fiat paper money proposed
by some Of the greenback teachers,
the country would not be one far
thing better off than it is now, for the
measure would not add one farthing
to the aggregate wealth of the nation,
or to the personal wealth of any citi-
zen. 1t is proposed that along with
the issue of this vast amount of fiat
money there shall be an Inauguration
OF vast system of public works, and
the new money paid to the workmen
employed on them. But the two
measures are not necessarily depend
ent upon one another. 1t cannot be
denied that a judicious system of pub
lie works, calling for the expenditure
of twenty or thirty million dollars,
would relieve the existing idleness
by giving employment to many
thousands of persons now out of
work, But it is not necessary to is
sue cheap money to carry OH such
work. If general system of rail-
road building, levec building and riv-
er Improvement shall be thought ad-
visable as means of giving employ
ment to idle persons, it would be far
better to levy additional taxes to pay
for these works than to issue addition
al paper money. 1t might be said
that to issue 500, 100000 fiat paper
money to pay for public improve
ments OF that value would not cost
anything; but this is absurd on its
face. 1t must cost something if it is
to be worth anything. If the new
money is ever to be redeemed, it will
cost the value of the coin it is to be
redeemed in. II it is never to be re-
deemed, it will depreciate into worth
lessness, and the cost of it be inflicted
on the DeoDle who own it.v
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
THE OUTLOOK POLITICALLY.

For two years or more, and eSpe-
cially for the last six months, the fiat
money advocates have been organiz-
ing and pushing their. theories among
the people. In this work they have
sought chiefly the rural districts.
They have organized clubs in school
districts partially secret in their char
acter. These clubs have met night
after night for many months and been
addressed by men who, in large part,
have made inflammatory speeches,
exaggerating the hardness of the
times, decrying the government of
the country and charging fraud, cor
ruption and class legislation upon the
policy which since the war has stead
lily sought, by gradual steps, to reach
sound financial basis. If these
clubs have not been addressed by this
kind of speakers they have made up
clubs for such miserable and incendi-
ary papers as the New York Adcocate
and Brick Pomeroy's Democrat, and
then have them read and implicitly
relied upon as truthful. Members of
these partially secret clubs have taken
it upon themselveslto proselyte by
personal labor among their neighbors
and so the work has been carried on
until a fierce heat of excitement pre-
walls in some quarters.
A portion of the leaders of the DEM
ocratic party have sought to make
use Of this situation of things hoping
to finally draw from it to swell the
democratic party. Other democrats
are unwilling to prostitute the party
to such purposes; they believe that
such craze gathering within its
fold the communistic elements of So
ciety-the Kearneys, the Brick Pome-
roys, the idle and vicious-it is dam
gerous to trifie with, dangerous to
countenance. They are quite right.
The people of this country should be-
ware how they countenance and as
sist such an element in obtaining
power.
To meet this, the republican party
has been for few weeks past, and is
nov, engaged in hard, laborious work,
trying to educate the masses up to a
true knowledge of the finances, and
that the only safe road to prosperity
is the arriving at a stable, honest and
permanent financial standing; in 9th
er words, that honesty is the best pol
icy for the government as well as for
the individual. The republicans are
unquestionably meeting with much
success, and perfect and complete sue
cess in such effort is only the work OF
time. The brevity Of the time in
Maine led to a partial defeat, but il
is believed, and with reason, that our
cause is rapidly gaining ground-we
know that it is gaining and that q
complete victory will nearly every
where be the result In the October
elections for the republican party, land
it is not unlikely that tens of thous.
ands of democrats will contribute in
some instances to that victory.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02

SpsSs0 Dsli t sns aL-If L
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sep. i;o State
reported that the De%Sseesse PEI State officers
J: Z; &: ; f <: &:
ns :ssfaf fsf pabd naS feeling ns..;S;a fe1,d1s Int
l.t.nd the the 'tss'p, he pp,srmit.ed y take its
law ,.s mn n tho cases ofthe recent muir
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02

From the following paragraph clip.
ped from the State Leader, official
democratic State organ, we should
judge that Ed. Campbell's plan for
fusing the Greenback and Democrat
&c State tickets, has miscarried. II
says:
"The Chicago Inter Ocean ia very
much afraid Of the possible consoli.
dation between greenbackers and
democrats in this State. The Inter.
Ocean may have been compensated
out of the corruption fund to do duty
for its party. Its advice will not bt
needed this year.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02

the correctness of our report bys as
good men as Newton has. The report
is a very accurate one of Weaver's
speech. It is just such as he had de-
livered all over the district and is full
of the grossest Misrepresentation
falsehoods, that he knew were false
hoods. Hence his persistent attempt
to deny the speech. We are not sur
prised. We expected just such a
course upon his part. He has stood
for years on the platform of the re-
publican party-now he is the fault
finding traitor to their sentiments,
purely and wholly for selfish pur-
pose.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-02
..nroad-cIaime 1ssme.

] ~ YORK, sept. 1-A cI ,vH
nEMso mso sgainst the Indianapolis,
RHioo dining ton h Western railroad COM
pany was sold at auction yesterday
for (l3.
Prest. Mitchell has appointed Ma
thaniel Milbank, mcmber Of the exec
utive committee. of tho Chicago, Mil
waukee aud st. Paul railroad, In
place Of Walter s. Gurnee, who soou
leaves for Europe.