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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
The Two Democratic Congress
mon from Iowa,

davenport UhLete
Just what the two so-called green
hackers are expected to do as soon as
they enter the congressional halls is
thus foreshadowed in a dispatch to
the Associated Press, only yesterday
impudently sent from Iowa City, not
as news, but as political bragadocia:
Iowa CITY, Oct. 10, 1873.
Weaver in the Sixth district elect
ed by two thousand majority; Gillette
in the Seventh by one thousand
cratic caucus: 6tef ,ha ffanpfatnq IN
Third, is close.
OF that dispatch Mr.. John p. Irish
was the author. 1t reveals the under
standing entered into between the
greenback congressional candidates
and the democratic leaders who en-
gineered the "fusion" movement. 1t
also throws ficod of light upon the
dishonesty which influenced those
leaders in that bargain and sale OF
old-tlme democratic principles to at
tain mere partisan success.
AS to the rest, the republicans have
reason for congratulation and rejoic-
ing. They have seven congressman
where their enemies before the cleo
ton conceded only five. They have
their State ticket victorious by good
majorities, and they have made gains
in every district and county in which
fealty to sound doctrines Of finance
and currency have been continuously
and consistently inscribed upon the
republican banner, and in which that
banner has ever been kept floating to
the breeze and at the front.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

In 1876 SIMPSONS majority over
Hendershott was 4,05S. In the same
year Cummings' majority over Gill
pin was 7,798. The result this year
shows what secret political work can
doled on by demagogues aided by hard
times. The demagogues, for the pur-
pose of feathering their own nests,
fabricating all manner Of lies, charg-
ing the hard times to legislation. These
demagogues had to be former repub-
licans in order to draw from the re-
publican party, and they had,
of course, to sell out to the dem
ocratic party in order to get its sup
port. This was it, as all the deluded
once republicans will learn in due
time.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

Gen. Weaver, the new greenback
congressman from the Sixth district,
was the prohibition candidate for
Governor in the republican conven-
ton of 1875, and when beaten tried
to force an amendment into the plat
form endorsing prohibition. Yet this
fanatical temperance man issued a
circular, during the recent canvass, in
which the most frantic appeals were
made 10 saloon men to vote against
his opponent, Mr.. Sampson, for hav-
ing been temperance Judge when
on the bench. If there is any stepped
down meanness that Weaver has not
descended to in this race for Congress,
there are curious people who would
like to know what it is Clinton Her.
MD
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

THE Republican State Central Com.
mittee are in session at Des Moines.
We suppose this meeting is called
In part to meet the question of new
election in November for representa-
tives in Congress. In the First dis
trict the nationals and democrats have
already called a convention to nomi.
nate fusion candidate for Congress
to be voted for in November, and it
may become an imperative necessity
for the republicans to meet this and
prepare for new battle. We could
wish that all parties would be satisfied
to not trouble the people with new
election, but if forced on us something
must be done. Should new election
be had we have not the least doubt
but that democratic clerk will rec
Ognize that election as valid which
shall result most disastrously to the
republican party, so thatinany event,
the republicans will not be gamers.
The democratic party hesitates not to
disregard all law and justice for gain.
Nor is this surprising at ALA party
of rebellion could not be expected to
do otherwise. @
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

night about 8 o'clock, an itinerant
peddler came for the police to 60 to
the camp and rescue his wife, who,
he said, was held there by them. A
party Of police were soon there, aud
found the woman lodged in an old
tent, in bed with two tramps, and two
others asleep in the same tent. All
were quite drunk and abusive, tho
woman the worst of all. A desperate
fight took place between the tramps
and husband and police, ending In
capturing all, and finally breaking
up the entire camp, to the great re.
lief of our citizens. The gang are q
desperate-appearing crowd Of vii.
Ia uo
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

A Justice ofthe Peace in New York
has given warning to the citizens
who, having recovered stolen prop
erty, fail to appear and prosecute the
thief. A wealthy citizen was robbed
of . quantity Of. lead pipe, and the
police succeeded in arresting the thief
and recovering the stolen property.
Thereupon the man who was robbed
declined to prosecute, but the Justice
decided that, as there was no proof
of ownership of the property outside
of the fact that it was in the possess
sion of the thief, the latter must be
discharged and must be allowed to
take away the lead pipe. 1t had been
in his possession and he was legally
entitled to it until proof of owner
ship should be submitted. If this
rule should be more strictly followed
out by Aldermen and Magistrates
there would be fewer cases of stealing
"settled" outside of the courts, and
fewer TO 'settle" anywhere.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

Hereare the fragrant and command
ing sentences with which Mr.. Blaine
opened his speech at Dubuque:
"Fellow-citizens, whether we will
it or not, the currency is the leading
subject of the hour. / regard it as a
misfortune, and unless it is promptly
removed from the sphere Of politics
there will be an end to business pros
perity in this country, for no people
can endure to have a political curren-
cy."
This sentiment Of Mr.. Blaine, so
clear to all sensible people, will some-
time work its way into the craniums
of all honest men, and then the idea
of Congress, regulating the volume
of currency by what it thinks trade
demands, will pass in its checks as
the foolishest of all foolish things.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
FACTORY FACTS.

Close CONFINEMENT, CAREFUL ATTENTION
to all factory work, gives the opera.
tives paid faces, poor appetite. Ian.
guild, miserable feelings, poor blood,
inactive liver, kidney and urinary
troubles, and all the physicians and
medicines in the world cannot help
them unless they get out doors or use
HOP bitters, made Of the purest and
best remedies, and especially for such
cases, having abundance Of health,
1snnshine and rosy cheeks in them
None need suffer Il they will use them
.seeiy they cost Nut trifie. See
another 0olnmn.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

The Advocate, published at New
York and circulated by the hundred
thousand and taken quite extensively
here during the campaign and which
Is still taken, is pirate upon decen.
cy, truth, society and government.
Men take it and read it with avidity
in this community who lay claim to
respectability and honesty. 1t is a
greater blight upon the nation than
yellOw-fever now decimating por-
ton Of our land. 1t IL the greenback
organ of the land, if the number in
circulation is to be taken as the critic
ri0n in determining the organship.
It is Dennis Kearney, only a worse
than he, in print. It is pestilential
distributor of vice and dishonor,
which overtops even Brick Pome-
rOy's Democrat in its palmiest days,
in the dark hours of the rebellion.
In this regard it invites the draw
ing of parallel between it and
Bricks Democrat during the war.
Brick, it is true, still continues his
sheet in the same line of diabolism,
but Shupe, with his Adrocate, has
pushed to the front. When treason
cineohed ct the throat of the nation
"a the iasue was doubtful, Bricks
!. A' = wns pffiless hound on the
tnnCk n thu yor,,t,p1.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
A colored Georgia minister breaches
tho Eolloxx,spo nrooksoo1 <hoo1orp,,.

A colored Georgia minister breaches
the following practical theology
!"Breddren, my 'sperience is dat it
amt de perfession of 'ligion, but de
'casional practice Of it dat makes a
man 'ceptable up yonder. Wen yer
gets to de golden gate an Pete looks
Nm l r! y1l ring in de , eye and yer shows
GUS like, dat yer 'longed to a big
church, de 'postle III shake his head
an say, Dat amt huff ter get yer
through But if yer takes all yer
bills under yer arm, yer grocer bills
an yer rent bills, and he looks 'em
over an finds 'em all receipted, he'll
say, yer titles clear an unlock de
gate and let yer pitch yer voice for de
angels song. But faint no use to
trabel long dat narrer path less Eyer
can carry, folded up in yer creed, a
good Recommendation from yer credit
ors. Hebben amt no place for a man
who has to dodge round a corner fur
fear of meetin' some one who'll ask
for dat little bill dat nebber was paid
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

An anxious public awaits with
breathless suspense the declaration
Carolina against massachusetts itses sa fha
''gOd-like" Hampton has not been
kicked by the Yankee Rice; oh, no!
He sat down upon the toe of Rice's
boot; that was all. But the insult
must be wiped out. The Yankee had
no business to have his boot in the way.
Hampton's Palmetto coat-tails are too
narrow to cover it, and as he walks
the battery at Charleston, or mounts
the hustings at Pickens, the chivalry
of his Confederate Independency can
not fail to see the gaping wounds and
ragged rents he cannot hide Wash
ingtOn Republican.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

SINCE the political battle We Fac,
more at liberty speak out clearly and
aennitely our views, using proper
words therefor, which during the can.
Vass might have been ascribed tn the
heat OF the campaign and not to con.
victions.
We want now to record for reference
IN the course Of the next two years.
the following opinion, viz: There will
be thousands Of those who listened tc
J. b. Weaver and believed his false.
hoods, who will wonder how it was
possible for them to be 30 deluded
and In the minds of these people Mr.
Weaver will, in the end, stand weigh.
ed for what he is worth, for what he
Ny is, viz: most unprincipled
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
Ottumwa MaYkAta,

In general way there 10 but little
change to report in our local markets,
and while the prices remain practic-
ally unchanged, the market firm and
the demand for grain excellent. The
receipts have been large until to-day.
The demand for oats has been very
active and the market at tic lie with
in shade of Chicago prices, and for
a clean bright article q higher price
is frequently obtained.
In produce there is no change to-
report except, perhaps, so far as eggs
are concerned, which are in good re-
quest at Ice per dozen.
Hogs are lower and are dull at
$2.5O@2.75.
OttaMwa Grocery Market
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
Practical Creenbackism.
From the Boston Herald.

There is nothing like making your
self understood. The other evening
a Western gentleman was accosted by
two practicing communists, who init
mated that they would "trOuble him
for his watch" He at once explained
that he carried his watch in his hip
pocket; that it was a stem-winder,
flll-barreled, and that there would be
"trouble all round" if he was obliged
to pull it out. The communists re-
quested him to pass on his way and
to keep their share of the watch till
they asked for it again.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
OUR EXPORTS.
What the Largely Increased Ship
ments Of american Products Abroad
ffano.oS IF ~.

What the Largely Increased Ship.
ments Of american Products Abroad
Consist Of.
WASHINGTON, Oct. THE immense
increase of American exports within
the last three years, changing the bal
ance of trade from $li6,OOO,OOO
against us to $26l, OOO, 900 in our favor,
has been widely published and COM
mented upon, and people are asking.
Of what do these exports consist
1t would require q reproduction of
the entire report of the Bureau Of
Statistics to answer this question in
detail, but q general glance at the ar
ticles of commerce will satisfy the
curiosity of all butthe statisticisns.
In the first place, within the last
two or three years, since the troubles
in Europe commenced, the exports Of
firearms and ammunition have been
enormous. Turkey alone purchased
wi, 100000 worth Of guns and cart
ridges. Large amounts were sold to
Russia, and other European nations
purchased in smaller quantities.l
American petroleum is sent to ev-
cry civilized nation.
American car-wheels, cars and To-
are found on almost every
railroad in the world.
American hardware goes to Dem
mark, Germany, France, Great Brit
ain, Spain, Italy, Austria, the British
possessions in India, Africa and Aus.
tralia, the West Indies, Brazil, and
other South American nations, and
The Sandwich aud other Pacific is
ands. Our nails are used in every
country, and have the larg.
'st shipment Of any single article Of
iron.
Glassware is sent from the United |
States to all the countries named |
Ibove in large quantities, and the
are rapidly increasing.
American cutlery ia being sold In
with the famous English
nd French manufactures aud holds
10 own.
Pumps are sent from the United
tates to South America, the Pacific
lands and the West Indies.
Coal goes to the British possessions,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
Good Sense and Honesty Com
binad
Davenport Democrat,

Statistics from the Comptroller OF
the Currency reveal these facts: That
losses to depositors and creditors OF
national banks are smaller than those
sustained through any other system
of monetary agency the country has
ever had, and that the profits of these
much-abused monopolies are materi-
ally below the normal rate of profit
in business investments. These are
facts that cannot be denied with sue
cess. 1t is with facts in solid chunks
that greenback heresies must be met.
tits real genuine pleasure to find
one democratic paper in Iowa that
has the honesty to speak out its mind.
There are plenty of democratic jour-
nails that believe with the Democrat
but only ce,y few are honest enough
to declare such belief.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
ENGLISH MONEY MATTERS,

LONDON, Oct. l5.-The Times saws
owing to the course pursued by most
OF the banks in partially refusing &C.
Communications usually afforded to
borrowers the bank of England was
obliged TO meet tho demand concen.
trated upon it by raising the nominal
rate of discount to 6 per cent. The
charge for advances has also been
raised to Z per cent The rates of
discount were somewhat irregular
after the bank rates were raised. but
for three months past fully six per
cent was obtained in most quarters,
One hundred Thousand pounds in
eagles, from Paris, were bought yes
terday..for New York. ~.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
Very Proper Words.
Council Bluffs NonnareiI.

At present writing there is little OF
no room for doubt that the democrat
ic-greenback combinations in the
sixth and Seventh districts in this
ste have elected their congressional
sandl6lates by very small majOrities.
MS means the success Of Weaver
s st ua.istte and the consequent de-
M as 49, o. samISon and Cummings
; rmerg h = occasion here for genuine re-
two republican votes ibs,the Hons ".
q the men who succeed to ffA.sests
niled 50 Worthily and well by the -.
PuDncan candidates. But the iattc.
nave the consolation Of knowing that
:neir oeieat under the circumstances
y more honorable than the success ~
, ,,1ea q opponents, and that the princi.
pies OF honesty and honest monev
which they advocated are sure tn ~.
nmPh IN the end. 1t was tritely said
during the recent canvass that there
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

An Eastern paper, which pretends
to accuracy in its statement of facts,
says: "The importation of wine in
TO the United States, this year. is es-
timated at only $4,000 gallons, aud
was less than 100000 in 1877" The
value of wine imported lin cask 8, . 10
1877, was s7,245,3 07, (see Tribune AL
manac, 1879 and in 1876, was IS, l67,-
982. This would make the cost Of
wine imported in 1877 $l4.45 per
gallon. The actual cost did not great
ly, if anything, exceed thirty cents
per gallon. These Eastern Journal
lists would do we'll to correct their
Estimates" before sending them out
for Western use.--St. Louis Times.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

THE loss of three republican con-
gressmen in Ohio is not because the
republican party did not have votes
enough, but because the democratic
legislature, last winter, had SO OUT
rageously gerrymandered the State
that a republican majority Of ten
thousand ON the State ticket was
thrown away by being crowded into
three or four districts. Last year the
democracy elected Bishop Governor
by some twenty thousand majority,
This year ten thousand republican
majority shows q change Of thirt,
thousand votes.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
The Wall Of Death.

New YORK, Oct. 14.-Mrs. Jennie
Il. Smith, indicted for the murder of
her husband (police officer Smith,
was arraigned to-day in the Hudson
county, N. j. court, to plead. She
uttered Q loud cry Is she answer
ed, "Not guilty, SIR" She half
sw0Oned as she rose to leave the court
room and leaned heavily on the arm
of the officer who led her out. Her
wailing could be heard for . long
time.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
Shaking Them up.

RICHMOND, Oct. lathe grand ju.
ry in the United States district court
has reported indictments against be.
tween 80 and 100 assignees in bank.
ruptcy, who have failed for the years
lS74-5-6-7 and IS, and for the same
year or more Of these years,
to make an annual report re.
quired by Sec. 10 of the amendatory
act relative to proceedings in bank.
ruptcy, approved June 90, 1874.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
A NEW DODGE.
The Democrats and Greenbackers
Want New Election i'm the
First District.
A Big Storm on the Atlantic and
in California.
Another election In Iowa.

BURLINGTON, Ia, Oct. 1.-THE
democrats and green hackers in this
district will hold a joint convention
In Mt. Pleasant, next Tuesday, to
nominate q candidate for Congress
to be voted for at the November cleo
ton. They claim that other districts
Will do the same and that by uniting
they can carry 1t least five out the
nine districts. They justify their &C.
ton by the declaration that according
TO an act of the last Congress the
time for holding Congressional cleo
tons in this State is on Tuesday after
the fret Monday in November.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
Storm IN California and Utah.

0SUE" III CHUr0FnI8 and Utah.
CHICAGO, Oct. IA very severe
storm 10 prevailing west Of the Rocky
Monntains, which interferes with bus
mess communication. 1t has been
raining hard everywhere in Califor-
mia since midnight. Salt Lake re-
ports heavy snow and wind storm
At Virginia City and west on the
mountains with no signs of the storm
subsiding.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
Live stock Market.

ST.. Louis, Oct. Is.
BY Telegraph.
Hogs-receipts $500; shipping
Workers. 50 1908 Is, packing 320@
8 IS, butchers and Philadelphias 3 IS
@35O.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
Tho lnlluns.

REArRrcE. Neb., Oct. Ex-senator
Paddock has received telegram
from Secretary Schurz, saying he has
direct and satisfactory information
that Red Cloud and Spotted Tail In
dams are settled on the reservations
chosen by them, and there 10 no occa-
sion of alarm from their movements.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

THE Kellogg Post remarks: ''Now,
Gen. ]. b. Weaver, Congressman
from the Sixth Iowa, we are getting
our pockets enlarged and practicing
on mathematics and want those good
times and those beautiful greenbacks
YOU have promised
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
AMERICA LARGELY AHEAD.

PARIS, Oct. l5.-li is now officially
known that awards to American ex-
hibitors at the Faench Exposition
number $50, namely +: 10 grand prizes,
30 diplomas Of honor, l34 gold med
ais, 200 silver medals. 800 bronze med
ais and l56 honorable mentions. The
aggregate is larger than the whole
number Of American exhibitors at the
Paris Exposition of 1873, and lie larg-
or in proportion to award to exhibi-
tors than to any other nation repre-
sented at the exhibition.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

are seeming victories that are actual
defeats, and seeming defeats that are
actual victories. This is well Illus
trated in the cases under considera-
ton. 1t is far better to encounter de-
feat on a bold and manly honest mon
CIV platform than to win success on
cowardly, trimming, dishonest mon
NV rlatfnrm
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16
THE Ottumwa Times of this wee

THE Ottumwa Times of this week
says:
The causes which have conspired to
bring about this deplorable result we
do not propose to discuss further than
to say that one great reason that the
democracy have failed to merit the
confidence Of the people of the West
was on account of the disgraceful Til
den escapade of 1876, and the John p.
Irish debauch of 1877.
We are curious to know how long
it will be before the Times will turn
tail upon that doctrine and eat its
words.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-16

IT seems to do the Burlington Ga
.ette power Of good 10 make a show
Of how much q bondholder may have
made by buying U. s. bond when it
was doubtful whether the nation
would survive to pay it, because such
papers as the Gazette were doing all
they could to assist rebels. That pa
per figures up large profit to the
bondholder and therefore the nation
ought not, the Gazette argues, to full
all its contract, but should cheat the
holder of the bond.
Let US see how this thing would
work if we put the boot on the other
leg. What did the Gazette do to pre-
serve the nation against rebellion?
What did the great majority of the
democratic party do to whip traitors?
What did a solid democratic South
do, but inaugurate rebellion and in
volve the nation in her great debt?
Now suppose we pay offthe Gazette,
the democratic party, the solid demo-
cratic South, according to the amount
they invested in the nations saliva
ton; according to their responsibility
for q million lives lost and five bill.
lions of indie btedness, caused by the
great rebellion.
| Would a dealing out of overland.
ed justice honor the Gazette and the
democratic party with power for theil
good, gallant and patriotic deeds tt
save the nation?
| The Gazette's theory is, because the
man who loaned money to the nation
when in its great peril and took great
risks whether the loan would ever bt
|paid-made a good thing, let him bt
paid in worthless trash-Fiat money
but on the other hand let the ole
democratic party that made the bond.
necessary-that trampled upon tn.
old flag, and deluged the land il
blood for over four years-let tina
"grand old party" in the Language
of the Gazette, be given all power il
the republic preserved in spite O
democratic treason. The devil neve
made a more characteristic plea TO
i, possession of Heavens domains,