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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
THE PENSION SERVICE.
Annual Report of the Commissiones
of Pensions.

Annual Report of the Commissiones
of Pensions.
Hon. j. A. Bently, Commissioners
Of Pensions, has completed his an
nual report to the Secretary Of the
Interior, showing the operations If
the pension service during the fiscal
year ended June 30, and making sun
dry recommendations for the future.
The number of new claims of all
classes fled during the year was 81, :
500. OF these, 1882 were original
claims for invalid pensions, being
more than double the number of the
same class fled In either of the four
years from 1871 to 1874; 1920
were for the War of 1872 service, un-
der the act of March 8, 1878. About
one-eighth of these claims were in
behalf Of survivors, the remainder
were widows claims; 43,764 claims
were settled, at An average cost to the
Government Of .$lO.l5 Cper case. The
average cost in 1877 was $l2.8l, and
in 1876 Sill. The saving through
the increased efficiency Of the Office,
including the reduction in the salary
appropriation Of $50, $50 in 1877 over
1876, was $183,O5O. and in 1878 over
1876, including the reduction in the
salary fund Of $37, 800, was $40, LIZ.
The number of cases settled in 1877
wes 22K per cent. greater than In
1876. and in 1873, so per cent. greater
than In 1876. AT the beginning of
the year the number of agencies for
paying pensions wa, by order Of the
President reduced from fifty-eight
to eighteen, saving in salaries for the
year $4,000. The aggregate saving
in the bureau for the year In reduced
payments for salaries ct all descrip-
tions, and reduction in The number of
agencies, was &4S2, 172; adding $3.50,
O5O for 1877, tho aggregate ssving for
the two years In these itsnsAione has
been $685.
On the 3Oth of June. 1879, there
were 223, 1913 pensioners ON the rolls,
Q reduction OF 2,645 during the year.
1t 10 expected that the number Of
pensioners will considerably increase
during the current year, on account
Of the 1872 pensioners. Exclusive Of
the fees Of examinging surgeons, and
the fees and salaries Of pension
agents, the amount paid for pensions
during the year WAS ~, $50, 7o2. OF
this amount, $24O,OOl was retained
from the pensioners and paid to
claim agents for their fees.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
SEC. SHERMAN SPEAKS.
He Handles His subject In q Mas.
terIy Manner.

HARRISBURG, Nov. 2.-Sec. Sher-
man made o speech here tonight.
He said the rebellion had been crush
ed, but the spirit which animated il
had not been erAdicsted, and to-day
millions Of people in the South were
denied their rights, declaration
which would be verified by the cleo
lions ON Tuesday next. Ku-Klux
marauders had roved over commune
ties, driven negroes before them, COM
mitted murders and depredations for
party,s sake, and now 90 an effective
but ,milder sort Of intimidation had
prevailed in some States, the Demo.
Gratis had been torr0rizing the negroes
to prevent them from voting their
opinions. Reference was made to the
Anderson Sherman letter, which was
pronounced forgery known to prom
inent Democratic, who had suppressed
the facts TO his injury. Abiding to
the cipher dispatches the Secretary
said the Democrats had endeavored
to buy the electoral votes Of three
States and the people would never be
satisfied until they got at the bottom
Of the villainy. He hoped Congress
would push matters and ferret out all
guilty, aud the result would no doubt
show more Democratic fraud.
Sec. Sherman discussed the finan-
cial question. He WAS In favor of the
largest amount possible OF paper
money that can be maintained at par
with gold and silver coin. Republic
cans were true Greenbackers-in as
much as they believed the greenback
should be made as good as gold. He
rocked the greenhack in the cradle
and watched its growth until great
giant, and he had great respect for it.
It had increased in value from 40 cents
to 98a1 cents, and on the lst Of Jan.
it would be worthas much % any gold
dollar. Since the panic of 70 and
the passage of the resumption act,
business had gradually improved.
It was to the interest of the laborer,
mechanic, farmer and merchant to
have the purchasing power Of the
greenback made equal with that OF
gold. He said this country had more
paper money than any other in the
world, gagged by population. The
difference betw cen the republican par,
ty and its opponents was that the for
mer advocated convertible green
backs and the latter anticOnvertible.
The mass Of greenbackers were hon
est in their views. but they had disre-
garded the lessons Of nature and had
abused his connection with the re-
sumption act, but he believed it .
measure. Every promise
made when It passed had been fulfill
cd. Fractional currency had all been
retired and new and larger amount
Of silver coin has taken its place.
Although there has been gradual re-
tirement Of United States treasury
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
eveRl AariNo rRurHs.

EVERLASTING TRUTHS.
Money is nothing but a medium Of
exchange -apublic convenience which
saves q man the trouble of bartering
the surplus of what he produces fol
what he requires.
A workingman exchanges his labor
for money, and with the money he
buys, where he can buy 10 the best
advantage, food, clothing, etc.
Two qualities the workingman
wants in money-that quality which
is favorable TO steady employment
and that which makes it as valuable
when it is spent as..when it is earned
Any depreciation Of the currency
whether by debasement OF the coin OF
by irredeemability, cheats labor.
The workingman's only safeguard
is honest money. The only way te
secure honest money is to make it in.
stantly convertible into that form Of
property which is the worlds stand
ard of value.-B Boston He5 aid.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
Missionary Work.

New YORK, Nov. 2.-The Metho
dist Episcopal Missionary Society re
sumed its deliberations, this morning
The question Of making appropria
tiins for foreign missions was taker
up and the following amounts appro
priated: Denmark, 5000; Norway
$ll 900; Sweden. $4,000; Northerr
India, 10000; South India, $1,000
Bulgaria, $1,000: Italy, $22, 600; Mex.
leo, $4,000. With the view of build.
ing school houses and paying anoth-
or missionary, motion was made to
appropriate $25,957 for missionary
work In Japan for the ensuing year
Carried. The convention then ad.
iournod.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
A startling Discovery.

Bismarck, D. T., Oct. 3l.-A singu.
lar development transpirel ct Fort
Lincoln to-day. Mrs. Sergeant Moo.
nan, who died last night turns out to
be man. Mrs. Noonan was a laun.
dress at the post and . most popular
midwife. She had been married
three times and was one Of the widows
Of the Custer massacre. Her husband
10 member Of the Seventh cavalry
now in the field. There 10 no expla.
nation Of the unnatural union ex.
cept that the supposed Mexican wo.
man was worth $4,000, and was able
to buy her husbands silence. She
had been with the Seventh cavalry
nine wears,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06

THE cash receipts for the sale of
government land sales for the past
year amount to s., O22, $50. The num-
Der of acres sold was s,6s6,l7s. There
were s,O41 oil surveyed, in addition
to the 72l ,6l3, 72s previously surveyed.
The total number Of acres of public
domain still unsurveyed is something
over ,OO0, 0OO, 600 acres. The dispos-
ais were mainly as follows: Home
stead entries, 4,41s,344; timber culture
entries, 310,552 acres; cash entries,
81, 555 acres; grants to railroads, 6O6,-
$40 acres; swamp lands patented, 2O2,-
926 acres; other grants to States, 2l4,-
800 acres,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
1. o. o. F.
The Grand Bodies Of the Order
out 81, 06i.Ao by the Failure
Of oto Grand Treasurer.
DUBUQUE Herald, Nov. 1.

! ~ - ~ 0uo0 uu00O0tOv
Dubuque Herald, Nov.1.
We have reports from Des Moinee
of the failure of w. w. Moore of that
city. Liabilities said to be $50, 600;
assets not named. Mr.. Moore is the
proprietor of the opera house, which
bears his name, and was one of the
oldest merchants of Des MOines.
Some two years ago j. B. Glenn, the
banker, of Bloomfield, In this State,
failed. He was the grand treasurer
of the grand lodge OF Odd Fellows,
also of the grand encampment. At
the time of his failure he held funds
belonging to the grand lodge to the
amount Of $5,l2l .B3, and to the grand
encampment to the amount of q, 3d.
SO. Gfenn's failure was q bad one,
but the two grand bodies deem
ed the security ample. w. w.
Moore, of Des Moines, was considered
good for five times seven thousand
dollars, and he was the principal
surety on the bonds. So great was
the confidence OF the lodge in Mr..
Moore's ability and willingness to
make good the loss to the fraternity,
that he was elected by nearly unan-
imOus vote to succeed Glenn as grand
treasurer. He served for one year
and was reelected by the frater-
nifty at large last June; but at the re
cent meeting of the grand lodge, fail
ed to qualify. rendering his resigna-
ton, B. b. Woodward, OF Davenport,
was elected and installed in his stead.
The grand lodge has been, up to the
present time, lenientwith the sureties,
efforts first being made to collect at
least a portion Of the amount from
Glenn's assets. Now comes the fail
ure of Moore, the only man on the
bond who is supposed to be at all re-
sponsible; and the probability is that
most of the 81 1851 40 of the Odd Eel
lows fund, raised for the purpose Of
relieving the distressed, the protec-
ton of widows, the education Of or
phans and the burial of the dead, has
gone where the woOdbine twineth.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06

LET us suggest that if Mr.. Cate has
Q serious case as he claims against
Judge Dillon, the only proper way to
proceed lie q legal one for his impeach.
ment and not pamphlet or newspa-
per war.
Next, if the bar of this State have
q case against Judge Cole they ought
to know the legal method of proce-
dure to determine his case, and know
ing it, follow it or drop the matter.
Banging away through the newspa-
pers by correspondents or editors, it
seems to us is not q profitable or the
proper way to try either case. 1t
will never really determine anything.
Neither Cate nor the Iowa lawyers
have any business trying these cases
at the editorial bar, but at their own
bar, or through legal methods.
We understand the lawyers are TAX
ing legal steps in their case and let US
await results. II Cate don't propose
to take the legal method let him 60
ON with his pamphlet war until there
shall not be one man to doubt that he
10 crazy or worse than crazy.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
DlaboItcal Oeed.-A Desperate >,
CoWardly and UnWarranted
Crime.

HOUSTON, TEXAS, Nov. lone of
the most horrible and devilish MUIR
ders ever known in Texas occurred in
this city tonight. Adolph Schacht-
rupp' an old and well-known citizen,
residing In the western suburbs, was
about p. m, called from his house by
man on horseback. Schachtrupp's
nephew, named Beckmeyer, first
went to the door, and asked what the
man wanted. He replied, "That's
none of your business" When
Schachtrupp appeared on the steps of
the veranda the man fired with q shot
gun. The first load missed it, victim,
and, passing through the open front
door, missed the head of Mrs. Schacht-
rupp by only q few inches, the shot
lodging in rear door. The assassin
fired second time, putting IL buck
shot in Schachtrupp's abdomen. He
died instantly and without . word.
Beckmeyer testified positively that
the murderer was William Coward, a
resident of Houston, but for some
time in Jail In Grimes county charged
with the theft Of Schachtrupp's mule.
1t is thought the murder was done to
get clear of q witness. The citizens
are greatly excited. Eight men with
shot-guns searched Coward's house,
but he had escaped. The citizens say
life is not safe, owing to the utter i'm.
becility of Courts, juries and judges
A few days before they let of a cold.
blooded murderer with thirty years
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
THE TERRIBLE PAINS OF
SCIATICA
Are driven out and all soreness removed
by the use Of the Curative.
Sold by all Druggists.
DIR. G. w. GLEAsON,e
Restorative Remedies,

DE-; GLEASON'a LUNG kRDTORA.
TIVE Is Positive Cure for Coughs, CoIds and
saIy stsgee OF Consumption. Take Il In time.
sample bottle. 25 cents.
Nm. GLEAsON.s LlysR nRarO.A.
live Is Sure Cure for Liver Compliant. M
bottles. Is cents.
DIR: GLEAsOn's STOMACH m.
sTORATIvE Cures Dyspspsis.
DIR. GLEASON,S COS .npv csuwr,
o. UNlvE10AL TONIC. an invaiuafia md
,n,v,90rating Tonic for the cure OF I'll caeee o.
DfEBiLlTf and BROKEN DOWN CONDTITU-
OR. GLBASOu,a SALINE Apens-
ENT acts on the Liver, SIin, Kidnsy,s nd
Blood, Cleenses the entire Byetem Of All moFNid
matter, etc. Invaluable Household Remedy,
Or GLEASONS LAXATIVE wAFRRA hiehly
Aromatic cures Habitul Constit NM PsEe:S
go. Sample box, % cents. For sale by
AESsRs SCOTT 0OODALL.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Drusgists.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
A Double.Leaded Appeal to the
South.

- 49,
South.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-The Post
to-day sends a double-leaded appeal
to the democrats of the South to use
force at the coming election. The fol-
lowing is the concluding portion:
Fsllo,c-D Democrats Of Maryland, OF
South Carolina, Of Alabama, Of Vlr-
ginia, and of Florida:
Once more you are called to meet
the enemies of your party, your Sec
ton and your country. 1t is the last
desperate rally of gang of scoun-
drels, who have no respect for law or
the rights of any man not banded
with them in oppression and crime.
They hope with the aid of a swarm
of mercenaries, to save, if possible, a
few congressman from the wreck.
They have finally bullied q fraudulent
administration into aiding them by
pointing to Cincinnati as the result OF
their prOwess. Money having failed
to buy you, they hope to terrorize you
by semblance of fOrce-Of real au-
thority they have not an ounce. A
Supervisor of Election, or a United
States Marshal, appointed to serve at
any election precinct outside of city
of 10000 inhabitants, has no more
right to arrest, and no more lawful
power to restrain an American citizen
on the day of election from the COM
mission of any act he deems lawful,
than the town fool or inmate of your
lunatic asylum. Whatever prudent
force is employed by you to repel
them will be sustained by democrat.
ic Congress; whatever lawful expense
is incurred in opposing the assump.
lions of these pretenders will be REIN.
bursed by the same body as soon as II
meets. Mr.. Deans and Mr.. Hayes
tools of Mr.. Gorham and Mr.. Hale
will be taught a lesson that neither
they nor their imitators will ever for.
get. All you have to do is to stand
firm. Do not be d!smayed. Do moi
for one moment flag in your efforts
Note every act of these pretended of
ficials, and see that it is we'll corrobo
rated. Every mothers son of then
may become acquainted with the in
terror of their county jails, if they q
too far. Repel force by force. "Pru
dence" is the first Watchword, an(
determination" the second and last
With these borne steadily in mind
you can wipe out the last vestige o
radicalism where it was a thronet
ldeSpOt.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06

The Rev. NJ. J. Savage, a Unitarian
minister of Boston, Mass, is one Of
the very ablest, most cogent and in.
teresting sermouizers in the United
States. We have read after this gen.
tleman great deal. All he has to
say is especially remarkable for the
simplicity of the language used, but
no less marvelously remarkable for its
automatic logic. The following il
good religious as we'll as good politi.
cal doctrine injected into one of his
practical sermons:
The demagogue breaches that a law
of Congress can make money out Of
paper, and that the people can gel
hold of it somehow without hard
work when it is made; he tells tina,
the rich, the banker, the ''bloated
bondholder," the respectable aristo.
crat, opposes it because he is
AN ENEMY TO THE PEOPLE
and wants to make monopoly O
life's good things to himself. AL
this nonsense, however, collapses like
a bag, as it is, when you get a manin
diligently to ask and answer tine
question, what is money? Money /!
commodity, that must be of intrin
sic value, and the only way to get i,
is to bring it into the market and nay
for it. There is not a piece of panel
money in the world. All the green
backs, bank notes, notes of hand, anC
everything of the kind, in this or any
other country, are only certificates O
Indebtedness; they are only promise.
to pay money or its equivalent ii
some kind of real value. When mel
say that greenbacks carried us thro
the war and saved the life of the ma
ton, and then ask why greenback!
are not good for us in time of peace
We only need to answer, it was tn,
worlds faith in us that carried u
through the war, and greenbacks ant
bonds were only certificates of credit
We promised the world at large tina
if they would trust us and help u
through we would pay when the wa
was over. Greenbacks and bond
then are only unredeemed pledges t.
pay debt, the price of our deliver
ance, and now to refuse to pay woul'
be as wicked and mean as to promis
a man when drowning, and then Ii
to and cheat him after he has helpe,
us out. In dealing, then, with tn
disease of the times, and trying to &c
rid of the demagogue, let us recoe
nize the legitimate nature of this dc
sire for money and to get it as easil
as possible, and let US try and educat
the people into the simple knowledg
that value cannot be created by popu
lar vote, and that we are not free
from sacred pledges and moral obi
cations because it costs us serious an
prolonged effort to meet them.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
MARE ETS.

The readers of the COURIER will
discover no change Of particular mo-
ment in the grain and produce line.
Oats is a trifle lower and so too is
corn, owing largely to the supply.
Potatoes were selling on the streets
to-day in wagon load lots at 500 35c
per bushel and at that price are in
fair demand. Good cabbages sell
readily at SC per head.
OttunW0 Grocery UaRke ct.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06

ELECTIONS.
our Now IovNn GiectIon.

CHICAGO, Nov. 5.-the Journals
Des Moines special says, so far % pos
itively known, Congressional cleo
tons will be held to-day in the I'd and
9th districts and possibly q few
friends of Weaver and Gillette in the
9Th and 7th will vote.
A Davenport special says . queer
election is being held there. The peo-
pie met this morning, elected their
own judges and clerks, opened the
polls and proceeded to vote for Hiram
Price republican, for Congress, al.
most unanimously. The same is be.
ing done in Mnscatine Co.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
pENNsYLyANIA.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 5.--The cleo
ton is progressing quietly. The ear.
ly vote being larger than tho average
A large Republican vote polled il
the LIST, I'd and Sd Congressional Dis
tricts. In the 4th district Kelly
name lie being scratched considers
bly,.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06

two plasterers, M. Murphy, married,
and Patrick Conley, single, working
in New Providence exchange build
ing, stepped upon the edge of q
swinging scaff1old and fell so feet to
the cellar. Conley was instantly kill
ed and Murphy will die.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
Murder in Kansas.
c.

ST. Louis, Nov. "A dispatch from
Chetops, Kansas, says Theodore
Munsterman, q farmer, was arrested
there, yesterday, charged with MUIR
dering q man named Hunt, living
some 20 miles from Chetopa and NOR
tally wounding his wife, last Wednes-
day night. Hunt was shot thro' the
right eye and Mrs. Hunt through the
left eye. The latter revived suffi-
GENTLY after the condition of af-
fairs was discovered to state that
Munsterman committed the deed.
An old feud is said to have existed
between the men, which is supposed
to have been the cause of the murder.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06

Two colored students Of Mr.. Spur.
geon's Pastors College, Rev. Messrs
Richardson and johnson, with theil
wives, have left England as missiona
ries to Central Africa. They were al
freed slaves from this country.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
Killed Himself

CHICAGO, Nov. A Peoria special
says Esston & Co.'S. elevator with S.
600 bushels Of corn and oats, burned
yesterday evening. Loss ON building
$4,000. Insured. The grain also
was fully insured. Fire incendiary.
Jeremiah Kennedy whom Jury on
Saturday found guilty Of wife murder
but found also that he became insane
after the deed, proved the correctness
Of this peculiar verdict. this morn
ing by cutting his throat from ear to
ear with razor borrowed from an
inmate Of the Jail. He left note
which in incOherent language ex-
pressed hope of pardon and saliva
ton and forgave all his enemies.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
ILLINOIS.

CHICAGO, Nov. The public ex-
changes and Offices are generally clos
ed and business largely suspended.
The day opened fair but is now cloud
ing up. The probability is that the
vote will DC large for the contest is
close for all officers. No forecast
ppasihla vet II
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
Suicide or Murder Of q Former OF
tumWa Man.

CHICAGO, Nov. 5.-News has been
receiv ed here that the City of Mon
treal, supposed to be lost because OF
her pilot house having drifted ashore
on the east coaet of Lake Michigan,
has been seen minus the same, rig
ging and equipments. safe at the
Monitous.
The dead body of ID. B. Abrshams,
proprietor Of livery stable on w est
Lake street, was found, last night, ly,
ing in the middle of the road, near
the corner of Jackson and Green
streets. From letter on his person
1t IL believed to be case of suicide
although possibly murder.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06

Last year the Primitive Methodists
Of England, the poorest Christian
community in that country, raised
$l5O,O00 for missionary purposes,
which was 81 for every member of
the denomination.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06

GEN. SHERMAN, it seems, is much
annoyed by the newspaper reports
touching his sons becoming a Catho.
lie priest and the alleged estrange.
ment of the General and his wife
The following extract from a letter o.
his we clip from the State Register:
Mrs. Sherman and 1 profess to bt
able to manage our own affairs, and
beg the public to take no concern OF
our account. We have host of goOG
friends all over this continent, anG
hope they will not be distressed by
the idle and silly gossip which aoil
find its way into the best CT newspa
nnra
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-06
IN Ea+al n;ec,,ee,on,

CINCINNATI, Nov. 4.-Jason Met
calfe, prominent citizen of Cynthi-
ana, Kentucky, was shot and killed
yesterday by II. L. Magee, . vel
known politician, during heated
discussion on political matters.