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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
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FREEDOMS HOME, Trimble Co.,
KY, Aug. 3.-Hsving read and heard
a great deal about Hog Cholera" So
called, allow me to offer a suggestion
founded on experience and close OBJ.
servation. live in q country yearly
infested by "Hog-Chole q" Of fatal
character. Many hundred-and l
would hardly exceed honest facts if
said many thou.and-hogs have died
in the past ten years. have neigh
bors on all sides of me who are annu-
al losers to greater or less extent,
often losing their whole stock of hogs,
varying in number from ten to sixty
and eighty head, and in some instan-
ces even more-entailing on many
farmers fearful loss. In the past
ten years have raised, bought and
handled, many head of hogs, every
one infected more or less with 60
called "Hog-Cholera." Ihave yet to
lose my first pig, shoat or hog with
the dread disease, although many die
annually SO near to my place as to
make the stencil from their fostering g
bodies very annoying. This exemp-
tion from "Hog- Cholera" attribute
to the perpetual aud uninterrupted
access to salt at all times. I keep q
barrel Of salt in my pastures. where
all stock, as well rs hogs, can have
free access to it at all times. Since l
have adopted this plan Of sailing my
stock, l have been entirely exempt
from all sickness among my stock
either among horses, cattle, sheep,
goats or hogs. do not claim salt as
q remedy for the cure Of sickness
among stock, but l do claim tha,
salt is preventive of nearly all dis.
eases that dumb animals are subiec
to if placed where they car
have free access to it at all times, and
not salted now and then. as nearly al
who have the care of stock usual,
salt stock. 1 have NO fear of failur,'
in having . rigid investigation as re
CARDS the above plan, provided salt b,
exposed to the weather in such ,
place a. hogs can get at the ground
where they can eat the earth saturat
ed with the drippings. Hogs do no
eat salt itself freely, but the earth sat
urated around . salt-barrel they ea
with relish. Let the above plan b,
tested. Respectfully,
! FRANK LEE.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
senator Blaine.

BURLINGTON, Aug. 15.-The Chair
man of the Iowa Republican State
Central Committee has received . dis
patch from Blaine. stating that he
will make three speeches in Iowa dur
ing the last week of the campaign.
He will speak at Burlington Oct. 1st,
Des Moines Oct. Sd, Dubuque Oct.
9TH. Iowa will give the great Re-
publican leader . warm welcome.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
Concerning the Telephone.

Old 81 heard something about the
telephone and endeavered to enlight.
en- his friends.
"Now de convenshuns of man ID
Wonderful 7"
"What ar de new impeachment
dat de foxes 10 laberin' Onder now y
queried Pete.
"Well, yer's heered OBJ de tellegraf
what runs on de wiar from pole
ter pole and talks by de tip-tap mo-
shun !"
"I'se seed dat!''
"Den agin yer's heerd of de fourno-
gryfy dat jess ambcrtypes what de
speaker says on de spot by de congre-
CATION OBJ de fust prinserpuls, which
ar de potkooks an raftars oh dc wri-
tin book"
"oh, yes, dat's preokerpicd my ten
tion, too!"
"Well, dis heah tellefone jess lays
ober dem all wus dan totin' water
to der elemphint fer er free pass
do ober crawlin' in onder the kan
vas!"
"An' whar kin der tellerfone do
dat hit ar 40 solid?"
"W'y, yer jess goes long and sees
or sOrter young woodin' dinnah bell
yer picks hit up, talks in de big
eend, de voice transcommits hitselt
long de wiah, an de foxes in de mex
State heahs what yer says jess same
ez of dey was in de edjinnin' room
wild de doah open!"
"Aw, go way! Yer's talking ez Ell
yer thought we niger done loos' all
our gumpshun?"
"Hit's er bon fack-hope ter die ei
taint! Oar amt no hoodoo bout dis
bizuess!"
"Look heah, ole man, yer wants ter
60 home an hang er boss shoe obel
yo' ears ter keep the witches fun
roostin' in 'em I"
"Dat's allus de way wild you mig.
gers-nuffin' amt neber done fel
yer dat yer don't try to go back or
hit y
"How ar dat?"
| "kase dis heah tellerfone ar de
prime spensashun oh Proverdcnce fcl
de inclusive benefit OBJ de cullud race
| Whar's de use OBJ han'-writin'
Whar's de needcessity OBJ skools an
unervarsities? Whar's de 'vantiges OF
high.tone eddicashun. when enn,
kinder niger kin jess holler in del
tellerfone, agertate de wiah, an tall
bizness wild emmy OBJ de folks QUITE,
town? Dots what l wants ter kno
fun de 'sembly !"
The telephone was unanimously en-
dorsed. Atlanta Constitution.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug 16.-As Gen.
Mezentzaw, chief of the Emperor's
private police, was leaving q shop at
the corner Of Place Michael, he was
fired upon by two persons with re-
volvers and fell wounded. The as
sassins jumped into a droschy and
dsove of. They have not yet beer
arrested.
The sale of the newspaper, 6aulos
on the streets is prohibited.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

Col. VEST, in q speech at Easton,
Missouri, at democratic meeting a
few days ago, said: 81 do not believe
that negroes ought to be allowed to
vote any more than the orang-outang
should be allowed to vote. If ever
get any office, it will be on that prin-
ciple. The American flag was dis
graced when this suffrage was given
to them" And the democrats cheer
ed the sentiment Justify.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

VIENNA, Aug. l6.-The convention
between Austria and Turkey relative
to Austrian occupation of Turkish
provinces was signed yesterday by
Count Andrassy, Austrian Chancellor
and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
Caratheodori Pasha, Turkish under
Plenipotentiary.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

you become q public enemy, and you
are liable to be shot down by any one.
Now while we will not advise any
one to shoot you, we are free to say
that if you continue In your present
course, and it is done, we shall shed
no tears over your demise. We un-
derstand that you were supplied by
the Radical Executive Committee
with funds to return to this district
and whoop ,em up in the style we
have alluded to. If this is so, you
had better use your unexpended bal
ance in getting away from this coun-
ty and section. Your incendiary
speeches must be stopped somehow
or somehow else. Do you understand?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
Tho OsLo,oos. S,,n<,,n>, aor

The Oskaloosa Standard, ,dem mocrat.
ic, is fighting the temperance move
men, in that place. From an article
in the last number of that paper,
headed Glowing Derv;shes," in
which it names and berates several
temperance lecturers in that place, it
says:
zone of two things must be dona
| this sentimentalism must be dried up
in Oskaloosa or the business interests
Of our city will be SO imperiled that
our property will waste away or van
ish. There is such thing as getting
too goody good entirely. A commu-
nifty may be destroyed by the over
heated fanaticism of few irrespon-
sible ones who are not capable of ap-
preciating the business demands and
the wants Of people not etherializ-
ed by such an overlooking religion,
SO called.
We have serious doubts as to
whether the Rock Island road would
ever make Oskaloosa, as she ia being
run al the present time, center and
division headquarters. We do know
that the English company which has
just bought ninety acres of land at
Ottumwa, and which will probably
bring a half million dollars to that
city, and provide for 200 steady
hands, had Morrill,, the head of that
company, looked over this city care
fully, who just as carefully passed us
by. We 90 know that Pella and
Montezuma, EddyviIle and Ottum-
wa are profiting largely by our loss.
Farmers in all sections of Mahasks
county are learning to shun this city
they want to sell hogs, or produce,
corn, barley and other grains--very
rarely do they care to attend q "rib-
bon" entertainment They are practi-
cal not impractical. Yes, Mr.. Herald,
if we had even "distilleries" to buy
ryeand corn, and "breweries" to buy
hops and barley to the amount Of
even half a million year, we fail to
see that such an addition to the city
would initiate financially against us,
and we doubt that even your mighty
prescience can 90 discern it, either"
Now, we don't agree with the
Standard. The people of place may
be temperate and yet prosperous.
The temperance reform has certainly
worked well in Otttumwa. and has in
no way impeded the progress of our
place or business. 1t is true that we
are building several very important
factories, this season ;are taking from
rank among the towns in Iewa; but
it is simply because all our people
pull together when any great enter
prise is on foot, and do not indulge
in petty chickering's or neighborhood
quarrels, and are not jealous of the
prosperity of one another. In townt
where every body knows everybody
business, and are poking their noses
into it, peace and prosperity can nev.
er be expected. Every man attends
to his own business in Ottumwa, and
there are always citizens ready tc
lend q helping hand to any enterprise
that will build up our city CONNER.
cially or morally. Therefore Ottum.
wa prospers.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
Another South Ex.cov- wantaa.

New YORK, Aug. ia Columbia
S. C., dispatch says it is reported on
good authority that Gov. Hampton
has forwarded to the Governor of
Ohio q requisition asking for the ex-
tradition of ex-Gov. A. X. Scott, who
lives in Napoleon. He is charged
with having bought majority of the
votes of the members Of the legisla-
ture during the session of 1871 and
1872 in order to defeat his own i'm
peachment for high crimes and mis-
demeanors, and in order to raise mon
ey to buy the vote he issued fraudu-
lent warrants on the treasury in the
names of imaginary persons to the
amount of 100000.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

THE congress of the Great Powers
at Berlin turns out just as everybody
foresaw. 1t was merely an admins.
tratiOn of the estate of deceased Tur-
key. It was distribution of tha car
cass among the envious eagles that
sat perched upon the crags overlook
Ing the valley of death. The Aus
trians are finding lively corpse in
the Bosnians on coming to take pos
session Of Its part of the game.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
LEGAL-TENDER NOTES, according
to democratic doctrine, were uncon-
stitutional. BY the same authority,
it is now unconstitutional to make
them the equivalent of coin,

The Edgefield Is. C.) Advertiser
says: "Edgefeld was no fool in 1876.
Indeed she was wise and bold enough
to save the state" The truth, as well
as murder, will out some times; in
this instance both the truth and mur-
der are owned up.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

trolled by inexorable and rigid laws
they are called upon at any time to
make sworn statements which must
be published to the world; they are
subject at any time to be overhauled
by special government agents for that
purpose. But we cannot here dwell
upon the control the government has
over them. Besides this, the right OK.
tonds to every man and woman to en-
gage in banking. 1t is absolutely
free to all. How then can it be a
monopoly? The Judge, we suppose,
deems it a monopoly because man
can't bank without capital. "The
corporations controlling the destinies
Of tho country" says Trimble. Yes,
corporation lawyer melting the
populace against corporations. A
gentleman that always stands between
the farmer and the value of his cattle
killed on railroad, making partisan
cause against the banks Of the coun-
try. Does the Judge wish to follow
his talk to it's legitimate and inev.
table ending? Let US see. For
instance we have two banks. Take
their cashiers, their presidents,
their officers, their stockholders
and their farmer stockholders
at that. Is Judge Trimble or is he
not in a nice business to stand up
here in this community to arouse the
passions of men against such men
Will he stand along side of them and
compare his own good name with
theirs? Will he find, or the public
find, more honor, more genuine activ-
ity for the public good, more unbend-
ing integrity, more of everything
that makes man an honest man, a
fair man, in the Judge than in any of
these men?
But here is the tramp, SAY 9 the Judge,
and the republican party is RESPONSE
BILE. Judge Trimble, notwithstand-
ing you were on the committee on
resolutions in the National Demo-
cratic Convention held two years ago
and reported arraigning the repub-
lican party for having made no pro.
gress towards resumption but having
hindered it, still your changed posi-
tion now and the Deans, Pomeroys,
Pendletons, Tom Ewings, and Dan
Voorhees, and the like, are just the
men above all others responsible for
tramps. You are responsible to-day,
for the bonds of this nation UNDER
selling, for instance, those of France
in Europe; you and your kind of ma
tional repudiators are responsible for
money being invested at 4 per cent.
interest in bonds instead Of going. in
to business; you and they are respon-
sible for whatever uncertainty paral-
Yves our business. Money stands
aghast at the wild attacks of repudia-
tors, the enlistment of the whole COM
element against it. You,
sir. and yours are the very men who
are making tramps and apologizing
for them.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
the DEMOCRATIC FiAsco.

Yesterday, the 18th inst, with a
grand flourish of trumpets, the de-
mocracy assembled in this city upon
the errand ostensibly of nominating
a candidate for Congress. Great prep
aration was made. Each delegate
bore about upon the lapel Of his coat
a silk badge bearing a spread-eagle
democratic inscription, and in the
CITY Hall were set up guide boards
bearing aloft the names of the eight
counties and placed to indicate the
position of each county. All the style
and airs of a national convention for
the nomination of a President were
indulged in, and yet all would not do;
the grooming process was Of no avail
and the whole thing flattened out
amid the clash of angry tongues and
fnexplicable and irreconcilable noise
and confusion. Literally nothing
was done save to provide for future
assemblage Of democracy next year
parturition proved an impossibility,
for II the majority undertook to nom-
mate outside the party the minority
would leave the convention, and so
they agreed to disagree, stuck their
tails between their legs and put for
home. The majority however, cram
med two things down the throats of
the minority, to-wit: the changing
of the call for the convention, SO as to
give Wapello county 9 votes instead
of 6. They did this though the rep
resentation of Wapello county this
year In the State convention was only
8, and confirmed by that convention.
She also had only in the district ju-
dicial convention few days ago.
The State democratic convention set
tied the matter, but here the democ-
racy claimed they should be repre-
sented for the Stubbs votes and got it.
The other dose forced on to the mi
nority was that Col. H. H. Trimble, a
proxy, was allowed to disobey the in
structions of the Davis county con-
yention. I. Kiester, Esq, resident
Of q quarter of century in Davis
county and lifelong democrat, told
Judge Timble to his face that he could
not have been elected a delegate to
the convention, because he favored
Weaver and because the democrats o1
Davis county did not favor him. This
occurred outside the convention. II
was abundantly apparent from the
representation Of Davis county as del.
ega4es and those notdelegates that Da-
Wis county democracy at the home o1
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
The One Central Idea Of the De

mocracy.
1.-THE one central idea of the demo
cratic party" North and South, says
the Okolona Miss States, is States
Rights and Secession! In other words
the destruction of the republic and
the bankruptcy and beggary of the
Northern people, after the wholesale
robbery of the treasury in the pay.
ment of fraudulent rebel claims.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
DESOLATION
At Grenada, Miss.-Peopie all Dy-
Ing OF Yellow Fever,

At Grenada, Miss.-Peopio all Dy-
Ing Of Yellow Fever.
WILMINGTON, N. c., Aug. 15.-The
following has been reached here from
Granada, Miss:
Granada, Miss, Aug. l4.-Mayor
of Wilmington Help us to pay nurs-
es and bury dead. Our town is a
graveyard. We need help. The
mayor is dying and is the only officer
left. Signed, E. d. A. MARTIN,
City Marshal and Acting Mayor.
Immediately on receipt of above
telegram the board of Aldermen of
this city convened in session and
made an appropriation for the Gra-
NADIA sufferers and appointed q COM
mittee of seven to solicit contribu-
tions from citizens. It is thought q
liberal sum will be raised,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
GLEANINGS.
The Deadwood banks will not take
gold coin for greenbacks.

| The Deadwood banks will not TAXI
gold coin for greenbacks.
| Half-bred Jerseys or Attorneys arc
among the best of the dairy cows.
| A weak solution Of ammonia is ono
Of the best invigorators of all kinds
of plants.
| South American newspapers look
well when printed on wall paper ship.
ped from New York.
Muscatine journal: "Tho Green.
back paper at Wheatland, the Ne,cs
'wunked its wink last week.
One plan for getting the "dollar OF
the daddies" into circulation is to
pay off the pensioners with it.
Vanderbilt is going to shut down
on the "dead-head" system on the
Lake Shore and Michigan Central
route.
Sow hundred pounds of plaster
or somo good fertilizer, over your
grass lands as soon as cut. II will pay
largely.
An old negro cook says: :sSass is
powerful good in everything but
children. Dcy need some oder kind
of dressin'."
An excited politician to his oppo-
nent: "Did you call me q foolP'-
mo, sir never twit on facts.-Bos.
ton Transcript.
Thousands of bushels of grain are
ruined every year by bad stacking.
Only one remedy-keep The middle
Of the stack full enough.
How conscience doth make towards
of US all. Bob Ingersoll left for the
seaside as soon as the hot wave be-
gan to shake his theories.
Secretary Thompson finds that his
naval inspecting duties will force
him to examine the condition of the
fleet in the White Mountains.
Farmers in Cayuga county are ad-
vertising for help, offering 81 a day
and board. Where is that distressed
labor party ?-Troy Times.
Young men all over the country
are hesitating which procession to
join-that Of the Murphy movement
or that Of the reecentsforaschoon.
er party.
Black Hills highwaymen are be-
coming more civil. If by any acci-
dent they blow passengers head off
they leave SO on his body to pur-
chase = tombstone.
The short-horn, ciose-corporation
spectators have mostly surrendered.
AT late sales the bidding was by $40
at a bid, as against the thousand dol
lar jumps few years back.
Gen. Buffers nephew, Col. George
II. Butler, got on spree in Wash
ington, last Friday, and taking
kleptomaniac turn, stole a suit of
clothes. He was sent to Jail.
The new arrival at the seashore is
now admonished by old bathers:
"The minute you quit padding and
knocking around and 90 to trusting
Providence you are goner.'
Barnum says he pays his bare back
riders 500 per week. and the rider
drawS75 each Saturday, and walk of
as If they had received all the pay due
them. Why this exaggeration over
trifie of $625 per week. Mr.. Barnum ?
A Vermont girl peeled, cooked and
mashed twenty -four potatoes in sew
enteen minutes, and is now ready to
receive offers of marriage. All sp-
plications must be endorsed: "No
fcoling around until next winter"
SAYS tho Lincoln, (Neb.) Journal
"Four graves in the sunny South con-
tain the remains of four suicides who
put an end to their existence on ac-
count of one woman, and that wo-
man is married and lives in Lincoln.
a fact "What fools we mortals
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

THE Chicago Journal and some 9th.
er republican papers complain of the
republicans of South Carolina for not
putting ticket in the field, and charge
that it evinces lack of pluck. We
are of the opinion that the .Jo,amo,
folk would have turned tail and fled
from South Carolina long ago had
they been through the scenes of the
last three years there, and had they
remained there they would not have
had the pluck to even enter the man.
ly protest that the republicans OF
South Carolina have done recently in
convention. Ifany man has had ex-
perience South with the democratic
party, and when we say the democrat
ic party we mean more particularly
the E4Qe clubs sand kuklux who control
that party, and in the light of that
experience talks like the Journal, the
heart is wrong-but when such talk
is indulged in by those who have had
none of the experience we speak Of
land this we suppose to be the Jour-
.s'aps standpoint) the head is wrong
and the critic on Southern republicans
don't know the first principles ofwhat
he is talking about.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
nTNNER Tn CrN GpANr

LONDON, Aug. l6.-Apubllc dinner
at Frankfort has been given to Gen.
Gran. by the authorities of that city.
1t was held in Palmengarten.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
singular Quarrel ana Naurder

WHEELING, w. Va, Aug. 10TH
Last evening Henry Schemelback and
Hamilton h. Forsyth, of this city,
were in buggy riding and becoming
engaged in . quarrel Schemelback
beat Forsyth causing the latters death
in an hour. An inquest will be held
this afternoon.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
VISITING THE POPE

ROME, Aug. 16.-The party of
American excursionists, numbering
26 ladies and A gentlemen, from Bos-
ton, in charge of Prof. Tourgee, has
been received at audience by the
Pope.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

SENoToR THURMAN, of Ohio, was
delivered of his piece in opening the
Ohio campaign on the 18th inst. He
has yielded to the soft-money clamor
to a considerable extent. We think
he has gone SO far as to settle his hash
for the Presidential candidacy in 1880.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
TO BE RELEASED.

LONDON, Aug. 16.-It is reported
that the Fenian, Ahearn, who is un-
der sentence of imprisonment for
life, at Dartmoor prison. is to be re-
leased this year.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21

"Let the time begin now when eve
ry mother dare to take her daughter
from the company OF reckless immor-
q young men whose influence 10 NOR
al death" writes Z mother to the Wi.
mona (1inn.l Republican.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
AN osKALoosA HORROR.
M WOoNNeOOSAW WOWWOW'
THE STORY GIVEN UP BY THE DEAD AT
OUR NEIGHBoRING CITY.

TIE STVK1 UIVEN UP BY THE DEAD AT
OUR NEIGHBoRING CITY.
Special to The State Register.
OsKALoosA, Iowa, August 13.-This
afternoon the body of an unknown
man was found near this city. appar-
emily suicide. A knife was found
in his hand, and he was horribly cut.
A letter was found on his person ad-
dressed to friends in Oskaloosa, and
signed w. Allison, of Illinois. In the
envelope was dollar bill, which he
had left to pay the minister for
preaching his funeral sermon. Some
money was found on his person, be-
sides valise filled with good clothes.
1t is singular case, and created great
excitement.