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Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
RE sUMP PrIoh.
SECRETARY sHERMAN's PREPARA.
TfONS.

SECRETARY sHERMAN's PREPARA.
TIONS.
Special Telegram to the Times.
WASHINGTON, Dec: l4.-Secretary
Sherman is making busy prepara.
tions for resumption on New Years
day. Resumption will not practical.
ly begin until the I'd January, as it is
customary to have eGovernmento offices
closed up on New Years Day. Sec
retary Sherman this afternoon sent
out a circular to banks and sub-treas-
uries relating to resumption. He
quotes section 8 of the resumption act,
as follows:
"Section 8. =. And on after
the lst day of January, Ammo Domini
1879, the Secretary of the Treasury
shall redeem in coin United States
legal-tender notes then outstanding,
on their presentation for redemption
at the Office of the Assistant Treasur-
er of the United States in the city of
New York, in sums of not less than.
\ Approved January IA, 1875" "
And says: GAS the effect of the
above section will be to remove any
practical difference in values of coin
and notes as q circulating medium af-
ter January next, no distinction be-
tween them will be made In keeping,
rendering or settling accounts Of pub
lie officers involving transactions
which occur subsequently to that
date. Matured coupons OF the Unit
ed States and checks issued by the
Treasurer of the United States for in
terest or principal of the public debt,
by law payable in coin, will be paid
by the Assistant Treasurer of the
United States at New York, upon
presentation, in coin; or, if the claim
ant prefers, such coupons and checks
will be paid by said Assistant Treas
urer, or by any other Independent
treasury officer in United States notes.
Such registered interest payable by
law in coin as is paid on schedules at
any other cities than New York will
also be paid the claimant in coin, by
check on the Assistant Treasurer OF
the United States at New York, which
check may be cashed in United States
notes If the holderprefers; or, If claim
ant prefers, such interest may be paid
to him direct in United States notes
by the officer or checked with pay
ment ofschedule. Any check or draft
hereafter drawn in payment of pub
lie obligation by law payable in coin
will have that fact plainly noted
thereon
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18

priation was forthcoming. The DEM
Ocrats did not dare to interrupt the
busir ess of the country by refusing
The appropriation, and this morning
decided to favorably report the appro-
priation. This will have to be passed
next week to be available for the new
year. This is one of the many con-
spicuous instances where democratic
economy before election means Grip
pling the administration of the Gov
ernmet,
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18

III. d. Gray Of Vinton, has for sew
eral years returned his property to
the assessor for taxation, at a value
ranging from $1,000 to $1,000. He
died few months since, and his ad-
ministrator filed in the probate court
schedule of his estate, upon which
the valuation is fixed at $4,000.
And now parties representing the
county have brought suit against Mr..
Gray's estate, claiming over 4,0OO
back taxes. The fate of this claim in
the courts will be watched with in
terest. If it is sustained, it will stir
up the dry bones in other localities,
and indicate the way to even up the
burden of taxation, after the avari-
cious souls who shirk their share OF
them are under the sod, If not before.
Buchanan County, Bulletin.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
INTERSTATE coMMERcE siLL

INTERSTATE COMMERCE BILL.
An important bill passed the House
Dec. 1lth. 1t had not attracted much,
if any, attention, and the prompt ac-
tion on 1t was q surprise to many. 1t
is designed to apply on a national
scale the policy of Legislative rail-
way regulation which obtains in Ill
inois and some other States. The bill
is summarized as follows:
Common carriers on continuous
lines through States must charge the
same rates of freight to all persons ;
must furnish the same facilities to all,
and perform all services with equal
expedition. The carriage OF goods
must be continuous, whether on one
road or more. Allrebates and draw
backs are prohibited. There must be
no combinations, contracts or agree
ments, no changes of schedules by
breaking bulk to prevent continuous
carriage. Combinations for the pool
ing OF freights of competing roads
are forbidden. The same proportion
ate rates must be charged for shot
roads that are charged for long dis.
tances. Schedules must be posted up
plainly stating, first, the differen,
kinds and classes Of property to be
carried; second, the different places
between which such property shall be
carried and third, the rates of freigh,
and prices of carriage between euch
places and for all service connected
with the receiving, delivery, loading
unloading, storing or handling of the
same. The penalty is three times the
amount of the damages sustained
and any contractor or officer of cor
poration guilty of infractions of the
law shall be guilty ofa misdemeanor
punishable with $1,000 fine.
(. OF course the act does not apply te
transportation lines which are wholly
within one State. The national con,
stitution sharply defines the power'
of Congress and Of the several States
over commerce, the national jurIsdic
ton being restricted to inter-Stat,
commerce.-Chicago Journal.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18

OLD VIRGINIA is rampant with
rage. U. 8. District Judge Rives has
decided that colored men have a right
to be tried by jury of their peers
and to this end to have at least half
the jury consist Of colored men. AT
least so we find 1t reported In public
journals. Under i. this ruling he
has issued a writ of habeas corpus
to take q colored man out of the hands
Of the State court. The Virginia
Legislature, now in session, 'is fear
fully agitated about this matter and
proposes an investigating committee.
One Of the honorable Senators got
very hot in debating the question and
alluded to the Federal Government
in the following language: "This
force-coustricted, bayonet.pinned &C.
cursed Union.' We wonder If the
old John Brown scaffold still stands
for the accommodation of that gen
tleman.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
GOLD PAR.

To-day gold is quoted at par on the
New York Stock Exchange. Inthose
words, 'gold par" the heavy, weari-
some, crushing burden of sixteen
years is cheerily cast off the necks OF
the American people end they an
nounce that the financial Appomattox
Of the rebellion Is reachedon this Sew
euteenth day of December, 1873.
Some people may have fears as to
the permanency Of resumption. We
say, just calm your fears, We who have
any. A farmer who makes and saves
thousand dollars year more than
he spends is sound on resumption,
and nation that sells two hundred
and sixty millions more than it buys
Is sound on resumption, too. Don't
be alarmed; we are on solid ground,
and II our people will hereafter stand
always by the old Gag and freely &C.
cord to all citizens equal rights we can
rest forever secure. -1hesday's Daily
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
the FIAT ADVOCATE"


1t is well to keep before deluded
people the great folly they committed
in blindly falling into a deliberate
swindle set up by one Shupe, aided
by Cooper, in duping the people into
subscribing for a paper at the annual
subscription price of twenty-five cents.
Next the duped individuals will find
other sWindles in many of their cam
didates for Office. The Ha,ckeye gives
the following obituary notice of the
Aduocate:
The advocate, the famous greenback
paper that flooded the land at twenty
five cents ''per annum" during the
last campaign, is very dead indeed.
Shupe, the publisher, succeeded some-
how in using Peter Cooper's name to
give it character and got some of his
money. Healso received money from
all over the country for more than five
hundred pianos, organs and sewing
machines, which he never delivered.
The subscription list ran up to half q
million. Shupe now claims to be
U1uhIupts Nix xxSIukudu, 1OElu0Ely
editor of the great fat sheet, says
"The AdUocate has suspended, inn
mensely in debt for paper and every
thing it could get on credit. How
much money has been secreted no
one knows, but it Is certain that a
journal which was most promising in
its inception has been destroyed, and
the most gigantic confidence game
ever practiced on the people exposed"
He concludes by assuring the thou
sands of subscribers who forwarded
money to make purchases through
the Adrocate, that they will never see
either money or goods. Shupe ought,
at least, to have sent each subscriber
u sort Of fat receipt stating, "This Is
a volume of the Aduocate;;" and to
each person who remitted money for
goods he ought to have promptly
mailed a green card hearing the In.
spring words, ''This is a piano." or,
"This is new sewing machine," etc.
That would have been quite in ac-
cordance with the principles of the
late greenback party, which proposed
to treat the treasury notes and bonds
of the United States In that style.
After all, Shupe is a great public ben
efactor. He illustrates the final out
come Of the fiat idea.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18

WASHINGTON reports state that
Senator Conkling will again oppose
the confirmation Of the Presidents
New York custom house nominations,
Gen. Merritt, Gen. Graham and Bur.
ritt. He bases his opposition upon
the same grounds as formerly, viz:
that the removal of the old Officers
cannot be justified and that confirm.
elton of the nominations would virtu.
ally be an approval of their removal
If possible this matter ought to be
adjusted without q contest.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18

NEW YoRK, Dec. II.
BY Telegraph
Whest-slightly in buyers favor
No. 2 rcd 81 0Sh Jan.
Rye-quiet; No. 2 western 5S@1k
Corn-quiet, unchanged; 43@47K
for western mixed.
Barley-quiet; 05.
Osts-steady; 30@3l for mixed
western.
Pork-less firm; 81 35.
Lard-dull; S. 95.
Whisky 81 O9Js.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18

English farmers are complaining Of
hard times. The land owner of Eng.
land is not generally directly connect
ed with the tilling of the soil; he
merely collects his rents. The farm
er, who pays high rent, very natural
ly finds fault with the cheap foreign
product, which take away his profits.
If the American farmer loses his
crop, he loses not much more than his
labor; when the English farmer loses
q crop he has q large money losa
besides, for he must pay his rent,
which averages So or $40 an acre.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
A Roaton Tragedy.

BosroN, Dec. 16.-Lste Sunday
morning Patrick Coin, while in bee
Ut home was shot four times by hi
brother-in- law Charles Callahan. Coir
chased Callahan, and as the lattel
reached the kitchen, he seized q carv
ing knife and cut his throat, dyini
almost instantly. Coin cannot live
He was q hacker Of Hosmer in tn,
boat race with Davis, and it wa
claimed Coin sold the race to tho Da
Wis party.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
How Oysters are Fattened

Very few persons who feast or the
large and tooihsome oysters which
are served up at the raw boxes of
many oyster houses In this city have
the remotest idea from what source
the luscious bivalves are Obtained, or
in what manner they are fattened.
The oysters obtained from T1ngiez
Sound, Lynnhaven, and what are
known az the Seaside oysters, are q
rather email oyster, in nclosed ia an i'm
mense shell-~their native element be-
ing salt water. These oysters, when
dredged and brought to the Balti-
more market, are sold to the packers
and others at about 60 cents a bashel.
Recently plan has been discover
ed by which these oysters can not on
ly be fattened in a very short time,
but their value enhanced at least $50
per cent. Two of the larger oyster
packing firms are now engaged in
this business, and the manner Of pro-
cedure is described as follows, by one
who bae watched the operation
When the oysters are unloaded
from the pungies they are transferred
to scowe, over which deck is built,
and on which deck the oysters are
placed, Each of these scows will
carry deck load Of 600 bushels OF
oysters. The scows are then towed
to a point in the Patapsco river near
the Ferry Bar bridge, where the wa
ter is quite shallow.
The vacant space in the scow, be.
tween the deck and the bottom, is fill-
ed with water by means Of valve
and the scow is sunk. There she is
left during two fiood-tides, when the
water is pumped from her hy means
Of small machine provided for the
purpose, and the scows are then tow
ed up to the city again.
The change from the salt to the
fresh water and the immersion of the
Oyster during these 1ood-tides, 1t is
said fattens them, until what was at
first but comparatively insignificant
oystor becomes plump and luscious
bivalve, filling it's entire immense
shell.
After this operation the oysters.
which, as stated, cost originally about
go cents bushel, are placed on the
market, and readily command from
81. so to SLIGO . bushel.
Yesterday there were seven scow.
loads Of these oysters immersed, and
the firms engaged In the business
have twelve scows constantly employ
ed. The whole operation 10 under
the supervision of one man who un.
dertskes the fattening for consider
alton of 10 cents q bushel, the firms
furnishing all the appliances.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
FATAL POOLING.
A Sister Shoots hor Brother Dead
While He Is Playing Tramp.


One Of the most distressing occur.
rences on record took place near
Hillside Station, on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, about fifty miles east OF
Pittsburg,a young man named Joseph
Hodthau, having been almost in.
stantly killed by his sister. The par.
ticulars are as follows: Mr.. Richard
Hodtham, q well-to.do farmer, resides
about one mile west Of Hillside, his
family consisting OF himself and wife
and Joseph, aged about twenty. one
years, Mary, aged about eighteen
and two younger daughters. Las,
evening the father and mother were
absent from home, and Joseph started
to spelling-school, leaving his three
sisters at home. He promised to bt
home early, and before starting
warned his sisters to be on their
guard against tramps, number ol
whom had been infesting the neigh.
borhood for some time. Mary, who
is q very courageous girl, said sh,
was not afraid, and the brother de.
parted. About 9 o'clock the dogs
commenced barking furiously, aud
Mary, who had not yet retired, de-
cided to go to the front door to as
certain the cause. just as she open
ed the door, che observad q inaI
walking towards her with his hs
drawn down and coat collar turned
up, so as to efectually conceal his
face.
She called, "Joc, ia that You?" No
rQcaivjnr apu rnSnpncn cho rnnoo,ar r
the inquiry, and not receiving reply
SIZE said, "lf that's not you, Joe, look
out" The repeated warning elici'ec
no response. and the girl seeing the
supposed tramp still advancing, lev
elled heavily loaded shot gun W whici
she held in her hand and fired. Th,
shot struck the man in the breast, a1C
her horror may be imagined wbel
she saw him throw up his hands enc
almost shrek, "My dear sister |" ane
then fail to the ground. She recog
nized the voice as that of her brother
and rushed out and pulled him int,
the house. The unfortunate man wa
unable to speak, and before the fam
lily physician had reached the hons
death had ensued. An examination
showed that the entire charge ha,
entered the breast and penetrated III
lungs. 1t is supposed that the broth
er had intended to test the courage o
his sister, butt proved fatal tes,
The sister is spoken of as a most o.
timable young lady, and the terribl
shock which folio wed the discover
that she had killed her brother, will
it is feared, render her hopelessly in
sance. The news spread rapid
from house to house, and in shor
time the house was crowded wit
neighbors, anxious to render any as
sistance in their power. The terribl
results which have followed this al
tempt will probably prevent other
from indulging in any inclination {
test the courage of females who ms
be left alone in the house.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18

Not 9urpPIRed.

When we consider the little atten.
ton paid to the laws of health, we arc
not surprised at the indifference man.
ifested in relation to the purity ol
our daily food. If all articles were
like DR.. Prices Cream Baking Pow
der. this indifference might answer
their perfect whoiesomeness would
insure us against all evil consequence
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
An Appalling Acc,dent.

PITTsBURG, Dec. I3.-A horrible &C.
cident occurred at the American
works this morning, by which Pat
rick Shannon, assistant millwri light
was instantly killed and his body
torn to shreds. Shannon had gone
upon tho platform to examine q line
of shafting, when his clothing wat
caught by pulley and his body
drawn on to the shaft, which was ma
king 24O revolutions minute. Be.
fore the machinery could be stopped
his body was torn 10 pieces and scat.
tered over the mill, portions Of the
remains being thrown 800 feet.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
TcIegraphjc arevltIa..

At midnight Friday night the pos.
session of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railway passed into the hands of the
Atchison, Topeka Il Santa Fe Rail.
way.
An explosion of nitro-glycerirt
and gun-powder occurred at the 81
Bernard coal mines at Darlington
Ky, on Friday. A train Of minins
cars and their negro drivers wer,
blown to atoms.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
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FOREIGN.

DARMsrADT, Dec. A.-Grand Ouch.
ess Of Hesse Darinstadt, Princess
Alice Of England, died at 1880, this
morning, Of diphtheria. The Grand
Duchess was the third child and sec.
ond daughter Of Queen Victoria.
She was born April 25th, lSa3 Her
father, late Prince Albert, died Sat.
urday, Dec. 14,h, 1861. The Princess
was In q state Of nnconsciousn esa
from 2 80 Q. m. until the time of her
death
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18

No ACTION by the Senate will brob-
ably be had on the Presidents New
York nominations until after the Ser
atorial election In New York. Re-
ports have II that Senators are willing
to postpone action at the request Of
Senator COnklinr. ~
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18

Mrs. HAYES has acknowledged the
receipt of the letter from the GENTLE
women of Salt Lake city, who seem
to be much more earnest in their fight
against polygamy than they have ev-
er been before.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
e,hseaso Llve stseh na RI e.

CaIoAeo. Dec. II.
BY Telegraph
Hoes-rcceipts, 5000; quiet, nom.
inal, 5@l0c lower; light 81 50@2 60
for common to choice heavy mixed
packing 260@2 IS, for common te
choice heavy shipping 2 65M2 80.
Cattle-dull; receipts 6,700: me-
dium TO choice shipping 50 75@4 70.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18

SAYS the Glabe- Democrat, which
never did like Postmaster Filley:
News from Washington shows that
Filley is making big fight against
the confirmation of Hays. There
need be no doubt, however, of the f.
nal result. An adverse report may
be made by the Post Office Commit
tee, but there will be majority for
Hays when the vote is taken in the
Senate.
The parties to this controversy may
make a big fight.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
xS. l.o9ts Harket

er Louls, Dec. II.
BY Telegraph
Wheat-frm; No. 2 redt 9O1z No
3 red 81; No. 2 spring 76.
Corn-essier 303s.
Oats-easy; 20k.
Rye-43.
Whisky-flrm; 81 O5.
Pork--lower; 81 6O@7 70.
Lsrd-nominally IS 40.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
Milwaukee Market.
MILwAuKEE, Dec. II.

MILwAUKEE, Dec. II.
| By Telegraph
Wheat-quitt hard 90 No. ] SIX
No 2 S2A cash, 82< Jan.833S Feb.
No. 3 COZ No. A 59A.
Corn--steAdy; 81.
Oats-2O.
Rye-42X.
Barley-S4.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
NOMINATIONS.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l6-The Presi.
don't has nominated Joseph Z. Ullery
U s Marshal for southern district o!
Ohio, and John Lowell, of Msssachu.
setts, q. 8. Circuit Judge for the Isl
judicial circuit. -.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18

IT is said that the Wabash road and
the Illinois Central have come TO an
agreement that the former wiil-nct
construct line into Chicago, the lat
ter agreeing not to'build line into
s. Lonia.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
Notes From the Rural New
Yorker.

Farmers are liable to forget the
necessity Of pure water for their stock
during the winter.
Ask yourself: "What can do
now that would otherwise have to be
done in the spring when time is twice
% valuable :" and doit. x~~
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
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Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18

ACCORDING to the returns received
by the National Bureau of Agricul-
ture, at Washington, the aggregate
yield of this years wheat crop in the
United States amor g to 425, ,0O0, 900
bushels,
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
occupying the field they treated Col.
Cameron's body with indignity.

THE New Orleans Democrat, speak.
ing Of jeff Davis and his attendance
at the recent commercial convention
in that city, says:
The people of Louisiana welcome
him into their midst. With their
fellow-citizens of the South, and the
lovers of constitutional government
all over the world, they honor and
love him. The presence of Jefferson
Davis here Is an honor to New Or
leans, and wa feel sure that we echo
the heartfelt feelings of the people of
Louisiana, and of the South and West,
whose delegates are here, when we
bid him cordial, loving and reveren-
tial welcome.
Il IL not true that the West has love
and reverence for jeff Davis. The
Democrat ought not to have made
any such allusion to the West. We
are complained of and charged with
keeping alive sectional feeling, "wav-
ing the bloody shirt" The fact is,
there Is not in the republican party
the least disposition in the world to
arouse sectional animosity, but on the
contrary 1t has done and still contin.
ues to do all that any reasonable per-
son could ask to allay bad feeling.
The republican party has done this
at its own expense-has suffered loss
by 1t. The party and republicans
generally would do almost anything
that is right to attain the free exercise
of every citizens fullest, amplesl
rights and the most complete preser
vation of the highest interests of the
whole country.
We would do anything in reason tt
bring about the most cordial feeling
between the people of the sections
But for moment consider how otter
the olive branch has been extended
and how contemptuous!y 1t. has beer
treated.
JEFF Davis has never given up the
lost cause, but from year to year hi
has made public announcement of hi
love for it and faith in it. He to-da,
stoutly maintains the justice of tina
cause and hopes yet to see 1t prevail
He holds in contempt the Fedora
Government; he utterly refuses to asl
any favor of it, or announce submis
sion to the results of the war. He i
to-day the embodiment of unrepent
ant treason. It Is impossible for tn
republican party to give cordially tn
hand CT trusting friendship upon an.
other basis than that treason was an,
Is wrong; It Is impossible to mingl
in amity and stop protesting, whicl
is termed by democrats, "waving tn
bloody Shirt" until the lawful an,
and rightful supremacy of the Fede,
al Government is acknowledged-no
by word of mouth only, but in dee
as well; until the Lost Cause Is n
longer worshipped; until the "blood.
shirt" of murders for political opin
ions is no longer common in Louis
ana and other States; until complet
freedom for all men in the South
maintained and the Red Shirts d
not make men vote or prevent thei
voting by the use Of shotguns. Pleas
stop making bloody shirts, if it is OK
pected the waving Of them shall stoE
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-18
Live stock Market

ST.. LOUIS, Dec. II.
BY Telegraph.
Hogs-active. lower receipts 1000
light shipping 81 1902 GO, packing
260@2 IS, butchers to fancy 2 500
290.