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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
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HeART STUDIES.
BY WILL n. uowxLLs.

BY WILL b. HOWKLLs.
They stood beside the garden gate,
he, leaning half way over,
Looked down upon her dropping lids,
Afar were heart the katy -dids,
The air was sweet with clover;
While twilight fingered dimly,
The evening moon was late.
There seemed to dwell upon her face
Some tremul0us emotiOn;
Her nervous fingers plucked in twain
A rose whose blOssoDing wns vain.
HerbOs0m, like the OCEAN,
Arose and fell, repeating
The biliow'Sway ward chase.
His love was calm, sedate, serene,
He wood in cool, grand fashion.
But when, In voice Of petniance
She answered mo, with eyes askance,
His love burst into passiORi
And flooded all his being,
A wild, tsmpestu0us stfeam.
Thus sileatly by the garden gate
They stOod-it seemed forever
Then. In moment, fierce and brief,
A storm upon lily leaf
In happy summer weather,
He caught her madly to his heart,
Now loves nOyltiate.
She smiled; the dusky garden light
Revealed II to her lover.
He stopped and kissed the drooping lids.
While near and far the katy -dids
Made haste to tell each other
The red moon peeped above the tresS
And blushed across the night,
The Advance.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
TRAITORS" farm . piece II they
would only move west, and 60 now.
Iowa Weather eervice.

March, 1873, was remarkably warm.
very equable, wet and rainy, with
easteriy winds and calms prevailing.
At this Central Station, the mean
temperature of the air was 46.6 de-
grees, which is 15.4 above normal.
The very high mean temperature of
the past four months in lows il truly
phenominal-aversging eighteen de-
grees above the normal temperature
Of these months. The general condi-
ton of vegetation is fully . month in
advance OF the season. Thus also.
tho snow.storm during March, this
year, corresponds to the sno w-storm
at the close Of April, last year.
The principal thunder -storms oc-
Cured on tho Goth almost through
out the State, on the 8th in Middle
and West Iowa, and on the 18th in
Middle and East Iowa. The last
storm was particularly severe In
Marshal county, lightning struck OBJ
jects frequently and hailstones GOV.
cred the ground, at Albion, complete
ly. From the northeast no thunder
storm has been reported.
Nearly oil stations report six or
more days with rainfall. From Al
gona and Grant City, over Des
Moines and Iowa City,to Clinton and
Burlington, the number Of rain days
reaches ten; the same high number
is reported from the extreme north
east. .
The total amount of rainfall 10 high.
especially in Central and Northern
Iowa, where over four inches Of rain
fell. Along the two great rivers, this
months rainfall averaged three
inches.
The greatest rain storm of March
began as thunderstorm on the 9Th,
and ended ON the 10th. Over two
inches of rain fell in Central and
Northern Iowa. The wind was
southerly, blowing . gale at many
places.
A very bright meteor was seen at
Des MOines and Adel on the 23rd. !
The Zodiacal Light was noticed on
seven evenings (the date, s, 6, %, %,
"a, %, 3l), and the Northern Light
on five evenings, (the dates, l, II, %,
", 2S), being rather bright on the
fret. One group of sunspois was OBJ
served on four days, dates, f. 8, IL,
l2), of the fourteen days ON which
observations could be made.
The mean daily oscillation of the
magnetic needle was So minutes.
GUsTAyus HINRICH.
Central Station, April 4, 1873
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
Burn Cd to Death.

PHILADELPHIA, April 18.-Efae Ds-
costra, aged twenty-one, was 20 tor
ribly burned this morning, through
her clothes taking flre BY treading
on . match, that she died this
evening. Hattie Green, aged 26, liv-
ing in the same house, attempted to
rescue Miss Decostra, and was burn
ed to death.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

Tho First Case.

The first volume Of the Reports OF
the Iowa Supreme Court was Issued
thirty-one years ago. It was much
less pretentious volume than the one
given to the public in our day. II
contained 554 pages of thin paper
good "news"-printed with old fash.
ioned BREWER type and far inferior iu
press work to modern books. We
don't intend to say that it was not a
good specimen ofthe book making OF
the time, for it was, but compared
with the artistic books of the present
day It looks dingy and small. Eastin
NJ orris was the editor, and Silas Fos.
ter, of Iowa City, the publisher,
But il was not OF the mechanical
execution of the work that we pur-
posed to speak, but Of the contents OF
one portion Of the volume. The COL
ored gentleman has been irrepressi-
BILE in American history, and Of course
the annals of Iowa would be incom-
plete without him, bnt very few
Hawkeyes know that he was the
cause and the subject of the first case
reported in Iowa Reports. Ralph
was q gentleman whose color was
brought from On exceedingly luxuri-
Gus portion Of Ashantee, where the
colors were darkest. He was the
property of Mr.. Montgomery, of Mis-
souri,, who permitted his chattle to
come to Iowa to work and obtain
money with which to purchase his
freedom. Ralph agreed to pay his
master $3.50 by the first of January
1885, but falling to do so Montgome-
~ obtained precept from q Justice
Of the Peace directing the Sheriff of
Dubuque county to deliver Ralph in.
to his hands for rendition to Mis-
souri,.
The case came before the Judge of
the Third District. Judge Rorer, of
Burlington, appeared for the claim.
ant, citing, among other authorities,
9th Moses, % ;l5.
Learned & Berry represented Mont
gomery, and Charles Mason, Chief
Justice, delivered the opinion, which
held that as Ralph had come to
Iowa with the consent Of his master
he could not again be relegated to sla-
very unless he should voluntarily 20
10 . slave State. And that's the way
the man and brother came to hand and
started law-book making in Iowa.
State Register.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
porv Talks Some Now.

CHICAGO, April 19.-Theodore Til
ton, who has been lecturing in small
towns in Iowa, since the revival Of
the scandal has refused to be inter-
viewed on the matter, but yesterday
he made . statement to . personal
friend which has been given to the
press. lie declares that Mrs. Tilton's
card surprised him ~ much as it did
the public; that he had no agency in
it's publication, preparation or origin
alton. No overtures had been made
by either party for . reunion. He
did not know her future plans and
had not been in Brooklyn for many
months and had vacated his New
York apartments. He should sail
for Europe at the close Of his lecture
season and spend all the time possible
with his daughters in Germany. The
story that Mrs. Tilton would accom-.
pany him was fabrication.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

THIS time we are solid in our agree.
ment with the Chicago Tribune In the
following:
Storey's memory is failing badly.
He seems to think that the Tribune
advocated a repeal Of the resumption
act three months ago." If he will
come over here and examine its files,
he will find that the Tribune held
steadily and inflexibly to the view
that, if silver We're remOnetized, re-
sumption would be practicable; other
wise the act would have to be repeal
ed, as an attempt to resume on the
single gold standard would break
down. The Tribune is of that opinion
still,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
Sees the Necessity and Rises I,
Exn10In.

The Chicago Journal was one of the
Igold journals, though as its positions
slipped out from under it in the con-
troversy, 1t finally rested solelyo on de-
manding the cartwheel dollar. Now
that gold goes down and resumption
is at hand the Journal can't resist
whistling through the graveyard OF
its false predictions. Listen to it:
One paper-only one that we have
seen-claims that the decline in gold
is due to the thew silver dollar of ALA
grains." lnasmuch as, all told, not
over a million of the ''neW silver dol
lars' are yet in circulation, and mas
much as, by the wise action of the
Secretary Of the Treasury, every one
of the new coins has been disposed of
only in exchange for gold, or its
equivalent in greenbacks, it would be
just about as reasonable to claim that
the light Of the moon causes the efful-
gence of the midday sun as to pre-
tend that the passage of the silver bill
has caused the decline in gold. The
fact is, so long as the balance of trade
between Europe and America shall
continue to be largely in our favor,
as it is now, there will be no unusual
demand for gold, and this fact is what
causes it to decline.
Yes, it is true that the Secretary of
the Treasury has placed in circulation
but very few silver dollars, but it is
also true that what he has not put in
circulation he has in the treasury
available for redemption and these
are being added to, each month by
from two to four millions more of sill
yer dollars which, by the time re-
sumption is provided for by law, may
give the Secretary thirty millions sill
yer dollars available for redemption.
Again, let it be remembered that in
this country our mines are producing
yearly about eighty millions of dol
lars, and it is nearly equally divided
between the two metals. 1t may APP
pear to be all moonshine to suppose
that it makes difference whether
One-half this sum that is dug out of
the earth in the shape of silver, is
money or merchandise, but to the or
dinary man of sense it does make
some difference. 1t may appear to
the Journal to be idiotic to suppose
that it makes difference whethert the
standard of values shall consist only |
of what gold dollars we can dig out
of our mines and not add thereto sill
Yer, but we must, nevertheless, be |
permitted to think that the Journal
is wearing idiotic goggles, and in so |
thinking we believe we are very char
table to the Journal folk. We con-
tracted our immense volume of in
debtedness when values were fixed |
with both metals in use as money. |
Had the single standard been retain
ed there would not have been resump-
tion this year, and the Lord only |
knows when it would have come.
Had it been forced, the country would
have been owned by the few and the
great mass Of mankind bankrupted.
Did not the Journal know that the
reconciliation of silver has been just
the thing that is lifting the country
out ofthe slough of despond, it would
not now be engaged in special plead
ing to clear its skirts of the error it |
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
NEW YORK.
More LITIGATION.

svu~se &sSs 8okuVuvs
New YORK, April l6.-That furth
er litigation will follow Mrs. Tilton'
confession is generally conceded, bu
1t is not definitely known in wha
shape it will be brought up. The ster
believed to be taken by Plymouth
church is that some members will
make charge against Mrs. Tilton
accusing her of slandering her pastor.
The charge will have to be inyesti rat.
ed by the examining committee. who
will report to the congregation, IL Il
not believed by the members that
Mrs. Tilton will make any defense,
The trial Of Mr.. Beecher upon the &C.
ton brought against him by Theo-
dore Tilton to recover $4,000 is held
still In abeyance, % the jury failed to
agree. and new jury can be impan-
elcd and the whole evidence brought
out again with the addition of Mrs.
Tilton's confession.
A gentleman who declined to per-
init the use Of his name, said to-day
his wife received letter from Mrs.
Tilton three weeks ago. It was on
personal matters, said he, but toward
the close, most unexpectedly, drop.
ped into . discussion of her guilt.
Mrs. Tilton then set forth the printed
falsehood that she had never denied
her guilt before she left her home in
Tilton's house. That was false, and
when we called her attention to va
rious occasions upon which she had
done so, she hung her head and did
not know what to say. The letter ran
ON in . sort of q confession of her
guilt, about which she had written to
her daughters, so she wrote, but
which she did not think she should
disclose to Carol until he was . man.
The times, 1t said, when you have
seen me burst into those paroxysms
Of tears, they were times when the
burden on my conscience was uu-
bearable, or something to that effect.
Now, my wife never in her life saw
her burst into any paroxysms. The
most she ever saw was . trembling
Of her lips when she spoke Of her
children. The first impulse of my
wife was to throw the letter in the
fire; the second was to improve tho
caution we had learned during the
days of the great trial, 90 it was sent
10 Mr.. Beecher's lawyers, who have
it now.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

THE organ of the Illinois democra-
cy at the capitol of that state, The
State Register, repudiates the platform
adopted by its state convention last
week, but supports the ticketnomina-
ted. Any reasonable man wouldsup-
pose that there are some democratic
stomachs that could not keep the plat
form pill down.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
Looks Good.
State Raplatar

The ten thousand dollars in gold
piled up on the counters of the Iowa
National Bank Of Des Moines yester-
day looked 0ld-fashioned and good.
This bank Is now redeeming all its
notes In gold. The Citizens Nation
al Bank, Of this city, has gold on the
way In large amounts, and will COM
mence paying Il out in q few days
tor checks ON dep0ist ~ we'll 90 for
the redemption Of its notss.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

The subcommittee to investigate
into the condition of the U. s. Treas
ury are, it is reported, about to 60 for
Secretary Sherman and have him ex-
plain how he sold the s5O,OOO,OQO AZ
per cent. bonds. The committee also
are to summon the bankers of New
York he contracted with, to ap-
pear before it for examination. Gen.
Ewing is alarmed about his commun-
istic ideas falling still-born under the
effect of this sale and resumption be-
effected at once thereby.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
Oregon NomInatlons.

SAN Francisco, April IA Sa-
lem, Oregon, dispatch, says the Re-
publican State Convention completed
the ticket as follows: Secretary OF
State, r. P. Earhart; Treasurer of
State, Edward Hirsch State Printer,
VIM. B. Carter; Supt. Public Instruc-
tion, L. J. Powell.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
Chicago 0aukrupt,

CHICAGO, April l9.-The folio wing
petitions in bankruptcy were fled,
to-day:
WIN. Marlborough, formerly
Wholesale grocer. Secured debts
1850; unsecured $4,000; due on ac-
count Of accommodation paper $l6l,
OOO. His assets consist Of 200 acres
Of Iowa land.
Emanuel Brunswick, at the firm of
f. Brunswick Il Co., billiard table
manufacturers, asks that the firm be
adjudicated bankrupt. Liabilities
$l45, 600.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
WASHINGTON,
Too Good a Union Soldier.

EVV 0OVV q OuuIVU 0OJOV0Is
WAsHINGToN, April lS.-The exec
utive session of the Senate to-day was
mainly occupied with the discussion
of the nomination of John Mcneil, of
Missouri, for Indian inspector. The
principal ground of the opposition
was his having caused the execution
2f ten guerillas while an officer in the
Dem ocratic Senators generafy2 2ev988faeRd ev88faeRd
agains his confirmation, but it was
fina lily effected by vote of 81 to 26.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

FONDA, N. Y, April, 19.-Sam
Steinberg, colored, was hanged at
/ p. IN. to-day, for the murder OF Par
ker, at Amsterdam, in November last.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
Two or three weeks ago the Herald

Two or three weeks ago the Herald
predicted that the fiowo United States
bonds from Europe to this country
was temporary phenomenon and
would soon cease because the stock in
Europe not held for permanent in
vestment was nearly exhausted. The
tide has turned already, and large
invoice of the $5O,OO0,OOO of 4! per
cents just sold by Secretary Sherman
to the Syndicate will be sent abroad
for sale. Thus vanishes another bug
aboo which alarmists had conjured up
in the road to resumption Gereland
Herald.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
The End on klIe FRO oubio

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE fnner-
al of VIM. M. Tweed took place to-.
day, from the residence of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Douglass. Only the per-
sonal friends Of the family were ad.
nitted to the house. The Episcopal
service was used aud the body was
taken to Greenwood.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

SIR WILFRID LAWSON, the Radical
member of parliament, has sharp
wit which shows itself to excellent ad-
vantage in the following paragraph:
If the duke of Edinburgh were to
shoot his father-in-laW now he would
be handed down to posterity in iniqui-
ty; but if war were declared and the
duke shot the czar, he would receive
a vote of thanks, proposed by Lord
Beaconsfield-seconded by Lord Gran
yille-and supported by the archbish-
op of Canterbury.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

President Harris, of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad, is SO
Ill that his physician has advised him
to take trip to Texas or Colorado,
and he intends starting this week.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
The chivalvy Hans m lnnooent
Woman.

New YosK, April l7.-A dispatch
from Richmond says the inuocsace
Of Charlotte Harris, . colored wo-
man hanged by . masked mob, on
charge Of instigsting the burning Of .
barn, 10 fully established and thAt the
boy accused Of burning the barn has
been acquitted.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

LONDON, April l8-The Echo's news
10 supplemented by q statement that
the powers have agreed to Bismarck's
suggestion that Ambassadors at Berlin
should hold q conference to arrange a
course of proceeding 1T the proposed
Congress, time Of meeting, etc.
The respective governments have
been formally requested to instruct
their Ambassadors accordingly.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

The public library of Council Bluffs
is to be handed over to the ladies, the
male directors concluding that the la
dies can do the work better than they
themselve have been doing it.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
Circulation :of New York Papers.
From Tie Cleveland Herald,

An exchange gives the circulation
of the leading New York daily pa
pers % follow: 1xn, 10000; Rer-
aid, 5000; Nsscs, $1,000; Times, So
600; Tribune, $4,000; World, 5000 !;
Star, 5000; Posf 400; Comsssrciss
5000; Express, 5000; AaI 5000. Il
II 10 . noteworthy fact that the Even
ing Post, with the smallest circulA-
ton on the list, 10 constantly filled
with the best class Of advertisements.
The reason for this 10 that Il reaches
the best class Of readers. It 10 the
character Of . newspapers circula-
ton even more than it, ertent that
determines its value % an advertising
medium.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

The Northwestern Bank of Chica-
cago, on the first day it offered to re-
deem its notes in gold paid out but
one hundred dollars. The same APP
pears to be the experience of other
banks that have resumed. There
seems to be no demand for the specie.
All people now have confidence that
the nation can resume when gold and
silver are money.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
TALK WITH pEEcHER.

BATH, N. Y, April 16.-Mr. Beech
er lectured here, this evening, to =
large audience, and was warmly re-
ceived. He appears cheerful, refuses
to read the papers, will make no fur
ther staten ent,will 60 right ON about
his business and I'LL lecture engage
ments as though nothing had happen
ed. He said to-day that If Mrs. Til
ton had felt 80 conscience. stricken
she would have made her statement
to the church and not to the newspa-
pers. Mr.. Reecher has received
large number Of kilograms, to-day,
him that the confession had
fallen fiat upon the country and had
produced no impression upon his
friends.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
A Bishop in Disgrace.

The Journal has he0a for some time
aware of the ugly scandal, which is
made public by the Chicago Times
this morning, in which Bishop Nc
Coskrey, Of Detroit, and of the Epis-
copal Diocese Of Michigan, figures as
the chief actor in grossly immoral
conduct. But The journal 10 very re-
luctant to give place to this sort of
thing in it's columns, especially when,
as in the present case, the interests of
general morality dictate that silence
10 wisdom. But it is now evident that
this case can no longer be hushed up,
and that II is destined to become q
matter Of general comment, II not of
public investigation.
The story is this: The Bishop of
Michigan, who Is dignified gentle
man of "a years, was some time ago
discovered to have been ON terms of
criminal intimacy with young wo.
man named Richards, of Detroit;
this young woman, when girl in her
teens, had been employed by him as
writer in his private study, where the
intimacy commenced; . young prin-
ter named George Mcconnell, . par
ticular friend of Miss Richards, be-
came jealous of the old Bishop, and
through him certain private letters in
the Bishop's handwriting, addressed
to theyoung woman, full Of ardent
expressions and containing illusions
which were unmistaksble admissions
Of guilty connection, reached mem
bers of the vestry of the Bishops
church; the latter confronted the
Bishop with the evidences of his
guilt, and demanded his resignation
helpless and without defense, the
Bishop finally complied with this de-
mand, and resigned his high churchly
Office about . month ago, with the
understanding on all sides that the
scandal should be suppressed. He 10
now In Buffalo, where he will soon
be Joined by his wife, preparatory to
departure for Europe. In the mean
time, the young. woman was some
months ago married of by the Bish-
op to q young man in Detroit, who
was deceived into the belief that she
was the Bishops relative and ward.
These are the facts % now devel-
Oped. II is strongly hinted that there
will be other developments, implicat-
ing the Bishop in other scandalous
connections Of q similar character.
We can only express the hope that the
details Of his Richards intimacy have
been exaggerated, and that the expec-
tation OF further revelations will not
be fulfilled. The venerable wife of
the disgrsced prelAte has been kept
in total ignorance Of the scandal by
which the purity and peace Of her
domestic circle have been invaded.
It has been hoped by her friends ct
Detroit that, accompanying her hus-
band to Europe, she could be kept In
ignorance concerning the affair
They had arranged to sail from New
their son-in-law, Major s. K. Stan
ton. McC0skrey became Bishop of
the diocese Of Michigan as long ago 10
1885.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

TWENTY FIVE CENTS TO THE DOLLAR.
NEW YORK, April 19.-Paul Zury
Il Co.. importers and dealers in plate
glass, Barclay street and Park place,
have failed. Liabilities 1921 600; &C.
tual value of assets reported about
$4,000 and the firm has offered to
compromise at 25 cents on the dollar
which number of creditors have ac-
cented.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24

The principal national banks In
lows are now redeeming their bills
in specie. Financially, % well as po-
litically, Iowa has always been good
State.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
lynch Law.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April ia
special to the american, from Hunts-
VILE, says . mob has just lynched
Mike White and two negroes, who
assassinated Sheuberger on Saturday.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-24
Norsee for EnQland

Troy, April l9.-Two hundred
horses per week are being purchased
in this neighborhood and In the
western portion of Vermont by the
agents of the English Government.