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SENATOR DAVIS. Of West Virginia,
on Friday asked that has special con-
mittee toinvestigaie Treasury affairs,
often mentioned in this correspond
ence. have leave TO sit during the re-
cess. An objection was made, but
there is no doubt the desired author
ity will be given. The Senator has
followed up this subject with persis-
tency, and believes he has already
secured information of great impor-
lance.
OF all. the speeches 80 far made
on the subject of repeating the
RESUMPTION net that of Senator
McCreery of Kentucky, has attract
ed most attention. He has been
warmly congratulated by both sides.
He said exactly what others had of.
ten tried to say, and said in such way
that every one could understand it.
There could be no better campaign
document than this speech for those
who acree with the Senator. Anv
one can read it with pleasure anA
profit.
Maine people talk as if Eugene
Hale would have trouble in securing
a reelection to Congress. His prom
inence in connection with the Potter
resolution. however, will probably
insure him the full Republican vote
of his District. unless. indeed. the
" creenback" question. which is ex-
citing great interest in that section
lust now. shall cause detection. If
the Radicals intend to make
bloodv-shirt campaign this Fall-to
have no issue but hatred of the South
and all that is Southern-Hale de-
serves we'll of them.
Speaker Randall left for Pennsyl-
vania on Saturday, after selecting
the Special Committee to investigate
Florida and Louisiana affairs. The
Speakers capacity was tested in the
contest over the passage of the Pot
ter resolution, and it is gratifying
to be able to say that probably no
man who ever occupied the Chair
could have done better. There 10
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-06-08

* 1t is said that the leading
Eastern soloists, who took part in
the grand musical festival in San
Francisco. few days ago, propose to
make an extended tour of the north
ern coast before returning home.
This will afford many Of our people
the opportunity Of hearing some OF
the grand music of the festival sung
ey the hes, artists on the continent.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-06-08

Masonic. ELEcrIoN.-The Grand
Lodge of Masons has been in session
in this place since Tuesday. The
following officers have been elected
for the ensuing term: E. P. Ferry,
Grand Master; L. P. Berry, De-
putty Grand Master; George w.
Durgin, Senior Warden; H. H.
Wolfe, Junior Warden; T. NJ.
Reed, Secretary and B. Harmed,
Treasurer.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-06-08

@ A telegram from Mr.. Meigs,
dated at San Francisco, on the LIST,
says that the rolling mills had been
delayed in preparing the railroad
iron, and that the whole shipment
would not be ready before the 4th
inst. 1t is expected, therefore, that
the Tidal Ware did not sail until
Wednesday, the 5th. She may be
expected here about the Goth inst. !,
when track-laying will at once be-
gin. 1t is probable that few miles
will be completed by the 4th of
July, SO as to admit of the proposed
excursion to Bush Prairie, where
doubtless the match game of base
ball will be played.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-06-08

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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-06-08

81 A man named Kitridge Por-
ter, living near Oregon City, re-
Gently killed his little son with an
Ak, while laboring under fit of in
sanity. He had been q resident
of Jefferson, Iowa, until about four
months ago, when, with his family,
he removed to Oregon and settled
in Clackamas county. Porter has
been sent to the asylum at East
Portland.
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cOnvenience The coinage Of the
half-dlrne was discontinued IL ls13.
when IT was denonetIzed, but Con-
gress will confer a favor upon the
country if IT will authorize the mint
to resume its coinage-especially
the California Mint. The nickel
fve-cent is not we'll received on this
coast. The attempt to make it pop
ular has been tried; but the silver
half-dime is favorite, and will con-
tinue to be SO with those who find it
embarrassing to get along in their
business without it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-06-08

REPAIRING. - The New England
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past undergoing general repairs.
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-06-08

"UNcLE TOMS CABIN. The Grand
Opera House Combination, from San
Francisco, will appear here on Tues
day evening, the 18th inst, in the
new version of "Uncle Toms Cab
in" The company numbers twenty
persons, and has been playing this
piece for long season to packed
houses in San Francisco. The cast
is as follows: Uncle Tom, A. d.
Billings; Topsy, Ada Deaves; Eliza,
Nellie Holbrook; Mrs. St. Clair,
Jessie Lowe; Marks, che lawyer, Nj.
A. Kennedy; Phineas Fletcher, J. O.
Barrows; Eva, Zoe futile; together
with genuine colored people in the
plantation scenes and new jubilee
songs. Miss Jessie Lowe was for
merly resident of Olympia.
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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
Horses and the Horse Trade.

y The number of horses in the United
States is estimated at 100000, Illi-
nois ranking first in number; New
York next with over half q million !;
then Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania,
Texas, Iowa, Indiana and Kentucky.
The number of horses in the New
England States is estimated at 500, COO
Maine having the largest number,
and Massachusetts, next. The farm
or work horses of Maine or Vermont
are noted throughout the land. The
farmer who breeds horses knows his
own interest well enough to study the
tastes of the community, and to breed
up to them. Speed is, to be sure, only
one of the many qualities which are
essential to good roadster, and size,
style, action, temper, fOrm, constitu-
tion, and enduring qualities are equal
ly important in making q general es-
innate of the character of horses
The horses raised in Maine are, gen.
orally speaking, fine specimens of the
equine race. So are those imported
from Vermont and Canada, the latter
having qualities Of their own quite
distinct from the thorough New Eng
land animal. The weight Of good
roadster may vary from $50 to 1000
pounds. For ordinary purposes on
the road and for general work an old
horse dealer tells US that l 600 pounds
is heavy enough. A larger sized
horse would not be found serviceahle
in horse cars, omnibuses or hacks. and
certainly not in the buggy or light
carriage. A heavy horse will not
last SO long over the hard pavements
of the city as q medium sized one
The practice now conforms to this
rule, We believe, as strangers especi-
ally will notice In all large cities lin
the East, at least) quick, tough horses,
for most kinds of work. A medium
sized horse will range from l4I to
15H hands in height.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
Changes in School Laws.

The acts passed at the session of the
General Assembly just closed, affect
ing the School Laws, are chapters Al,
81, lO2, lib, l32 l33, l42, l44 and I66.
These laws.will not take effect un-
til July 4, 1878, except chapter l66,
which takes effect after publication.
Chapter Al amends section 1893, as
found in the School Laws Of 1876, by
requiring the consent of the county
superintendent before children can be
admitted to an adjoining district and
pay be collected for the taition of such
children, in case Of disagreement OF
the boards.
Chapter "a amends section l769, as
found in the School Laws of 1876, re-
quiring each applicant for q certiti.
cate to pay dollar.
Chapter 102 repeats section 1880 of
the Code. This leaves the auperin-
tendent of public instruction without
a travelling fund, and will necessitate
his charging the counties which de-
sire his services, with travelling ex-
penses.
Chapter ll3 amends section 1902 of
the Code. aud, in independent dis
tricts, deprives the president of q
board Of six of his vote, except in case
of a tie; but requires at least three
votes to carry any measure or mo-
ton.
Chapter l32 enables school districts
to fund their Indebtedness, if such in
debtedness is, at the time of the pas
age of this act, in the nature Of q judg-
ment.
Chapter l33 provides for the divi-
sion of independent districts formed
under chapter 70, Of the acts of the
Fourteenth General Assembly Gnde-
pendent districts formed from sub
districts), providing, however, that
no district so formed can contain lese
than four full sections,
Chapter l43 changes section l766 OF
the Code, by providing for the ex-
animation of teachers of certain spe-
cisl branches, in those branches only,
With the exception of the changes
above indicated, the laws remain as
published in the edition of the School
Laws of 1876.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
Cultivating Asparagus.
From the Germantown Telegraph.


For an asparagus bed made good
enough for either the farmer or ans
teur cul:ivator, which will last him
many years, select an average good
soil in sunny location, and spade or
pillow ii ten or twelve inches deep,
working into the soil heavy coat OF
rich manure and composite Of wood
ashes aud salt, two If ashes and forty
of manure; mix it well through the
soil. Strong 1-year-old roots are as
good as any, but where strong l-year
ones cannot be had, get 2-year-old,
see that they are of even size, good
roots, etc. If space is limited, set the
roots one foot apart, spreading them
well, covering the crowns two Or
three inches below the surface, set
them in Spring as soon as can well be
done; when set and the surface of
the bed evened of, give it dressing
of an inch or more OF manure or rich
compost. Keep clear of weeds by
hand-pulling; in the Fall, annually
after frosts, cut the foliage clear Of
the old stalks and cover the bed three
or four inches deep with long coarse
manure. Early in Spring rake off the
strawy portion and work the fine ma
nure lightly into the soil--ashes or
superphosphate may be sown over
the bed after finishing cutting in June
or early in july. A sandy loan,
deep, rich, and we'll drained, is the
best for asparagus, but almost any
well drained soil, with y sunny ex-
nOaurn will Do r;.rktfx, nr.nurnl So,
above. 1t is quite important that the
bed should be well drained, have n
sunny exposure and located where
surface water will not stand for any
length Of time; quick growth gives
us the best asparagus, tender and
juicy. A bed may be started from
seed by sowing IL rows, covering the
seed about one inch deep and thin
ming out the plants to one foot apart
when fairly established,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01

News clipped from the Eddyville
Advertiser:
A. Manifold will remove his stock
of jewelry to Beloit, Kansas, the
first Of July.
A couple of tramps entered the
house Of VIM. Fox, near Cedar r. O.,
Mahaska county, Sunday, and took q
couple of suits of clothing, all the
victuaIs they wanted, and ransacked
the house generally.
Ed. Gander, Of Eddyville, acct
dentally shot himself, the latter part
Of last week, near Peoria, Mahaska
county. The ball penetrated the
skin over the abdomen and passed
around the body, lodging in the back,
where it remained until taken out by
DR.. Sloan, Friday. What the result
may be cannot be determined yet.
Hargesheimer's old brewery build
ing, at Eddyville, is the scene Of dis
graceful drunkenness and riot ON
Sundays. Last Sunday fight occur
red. One man got knocked senseless
with something welded by the arm
Of another. The assailant after COM
hitting the act ran, pursued by
friends of the assaulted man. A
friend was ut hand with q buggy, in
which the pursued jumped, and made
his escape from the pursuers.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
PRoCRAMME

For Pleasant Township Sabbath
School Association, to be held at
Bladensburg on Sunday, May 18th,
1878.
ga. M.-Devotionsl exercises.
7:3O-Election Of officers.
l0-Reports from schools.
10 :3O-Does the Sunday School
better the morals of the community
in which it is located?
IL :l5-What is the primary object
Of the Sunday SCHOOL,
l2M.-Receas.
2P. M.-Dcvotional exercises.
2:l5-Are lesson leaves beneficial
IN Sabbath Schools?
2:45-Temperance and the Sab
bath School.
3:l5-How can the Sabbath School
be made more efficient?
3:45-The Church and the Sabbath
School.
7p. M.-Question box.
The exercises will be interpreted
with appropriate vocal and instru
mental music. All persons interest
ed in tho Sunday School cause ar,
cordially invited to atted and partic
ipate in the exercises OF the meeting
w. II. PARKER,
CHAs. COLEMAN.
Committee.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
The other Side.

MIR. EDITOR The Daily COURIER
of the 18th, contained half column
lecture to mothers by "Scalpelp which
is all very well in its way, but think
q little lecturing to fathers OCCASION
ally might not be out Of place. But
it 10 not my purpose to write one Of
that description just now.
Scalpel's ideas are very good as far
as they 90, but / do not think they
cover the whole ground of "what is
needed" Nor 40 like the express
sion that "a bad woman is worse than
q bad man." for do not think it can
be proven. do not believe that any
woman enters upon career of shame
simply because she loves such q life,
aud l never look. upon an outcast
from society, but think there scas q
time, but few years since in the sun.
ny years of her girlhood, when every
thought was pure; when she was the
light of her home. her fathers pride,
and the darling ON which mothers
fondest hopes were conferred. Then
one of these men that are better than
soOmen came that way. He smiled
like an ''Angel of light" his words
were Smoother than oil but they
were drawn swords" Soon her rep
utation is ruined. He mingles In so
ciety the same as ever. She is COM
pletely ostracized, sent from home,
disgraced, abandoned by all. May
God pity her for humanity will net.
There is no forgiveness this side of
the grave. Her temporal wants are
the same a. those of her more FORUM
ate sisters; yet there is none to give
her employment, her room is always
considered better than her presence,
and don't know that l would fall
very far short of the truth, If should
say that she was hardly welcome in
the house of God. Thus with feel
ing that NO one cares whether she
stands or falls. she is compelled to en-.
ter life which in her heart she must
despise to sink deeper and still deep.
er, till finally she 10 considered "worse
than bad man." Our officers may
imprison her, our cities may drive
her from their limits, but it is like re.
moving the effect without touching
the cause.
Scalpel says "What America needs
most is good mothers" / say thai
America has her share Of good moth.
ers, and that they are training thei1
children to the best of their ability
but still as the years roll on, does ii
lessen the cases Of crime? / thinl
not. When what is treated as an I'M
pardonable sin in woman, shall b.
punished 80 severely in man; wher
he is excluded from all society as sh,
is, there may be some prospect Of re
form. When both are punished
equally, then tell me Scalpel, and al
ye moral reformers, just how mucl
worse is bad woman than q bat
man. JUSTICE.
OTTUMwA, Iowa, April och, 1873.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
cood:Enough.

DIR. Taylor, the present proprietor
of the grounds used for several years
by the Agricultural Society Of Wa
pello county, has gone to work in
earnest and will, as soon as possible,
put the park in better shape! than it
ever has been. He already has sew
eral workmen engaged in rebuilding
the fence, overhauling the sheds and
planting evergreens and other shade
trees. The race course as located at
present will be retained for the time
being, although it is contemplated to
extend the track and perhaps make 1t
even longer than the first one if the
distance can be properly arranged
However that may be determined,
the amphitheatre will be rebuilt in
time for the Fair this Fall, larger
more convenient, more substantial
and far more eighty. We are glad
he grounds have fallen into sucf
hands and believe that in q shor,
time Wapello county will have al
creditable grounds for her Agricul
tural Society as any county in tht
State.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
AGRICULTURAL.

The Hessian fly il said to be dam
aging the wheat in st. Clair County
Ills.
A Peoria (Ill.) man has fish farm
stocked with $4,000 California salmon
and 10000 brook trout.
Pigs need clean, dry pens, and sup
ply breeding sows with cut straw
chaf or saw-dust for litter.
Oxen, when at work under ho
spring sun, will suffer from the heat
Give them frequent resting spells
and water with some bran stirred in.
to it.
Farmers who have been dairyins
for five years say their farms arc
worth $lO per acre more for croI
bearing than they were before they
commenced their present policy.
Be gentle with the cows. Every
excitement that causes the blood to
flow faster in the veins-every inflic
ton of pain-and every cause of fear
fans in that COW the fire which is fed
with butter.
1t is reported that the apple cror
of 1873 in Southern Illinois will bt
light. Last year the crop was very
large, and it is to be hoped that tht
fruit will be of a better quality this
seasOn.-Fruit Grocer and Farmer.
More grass and grain, more con.
densing of food on the farm should
be the motto now. The plan of put
ting more of our idle acres into grass
and of raising more live stock of q
better quality, will be step in the
right direction.
Danimsn, New York horseman,
has shipped picked American horses
to England at good profit. At first
there was . great prejudice against
them in the English market, but their
merits spoke for themselves, and they
are especially liked because they are
go we'll broken and can be driven by
women.
By raising the heifers of our best
cows the stock will be improved. Ev-
cry farmer should aim to keep only
the best. A COW yielding only eight
quarts of milk day does not pay for
the feed, and should be replaced with
q better one. We must look upon
our live stock as machines, kept for a
and discard Improbable
animals.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
Best Gents Fine Boots al Phillips.

The Keokuk Gate City tells the fol-
lowing: IA prominent Fort Madi-
son lawyer was examininga witness
in hog case tried before Justice OF
the Peace, not far from that city, and
he insisted very strongly that the
witness should tell the court what
breed tho hog In question belonged
to. The witness answered that il
was cross between the Board OF
Supervisors and . Fort Madison law
yer, and after that saying was inter-
rogatcd no more. If
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
The K. 4 D. N. r. r.

From what we can learn It may be
safely said that no change will take
place in the X. & D. NJ. Hoad at pres
emit. No lease or sale will be consum-
mated until the annual meeting Of
the company, In June, and it would
then take some time TO make trans
fer, 90 that it will be several months
at least before any change can occur,
Az already stated negotiations are
pending with the g. II. I. 4 p, and
parties interested in the Ksokuk
route, and if the road ia leased OF
sold, 1t will be the one that will
make the best offer, but there are 40
many things TO be agreed upon when
it Gomez to making terms, that II II
not improbable that no change will
be made.-G0te City.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01

M. A. Nusbaum, opposite the Plan
ter's House, has very large stock of
clothing, from the most costly aud
finest fabrics to good honest article
for working men, at as low figures as
can be had anywhere in the country.
Remember that at this establishment
the rule is to give the customer the
best bargains possible, and no man
can sell you goods cheaper than NJ.
A. Nusbaum. dsw
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01

Western Michigan rejoices in the
recent heavy rains, because they have
raised tho water In the streams and
lakes to q degree that will enable the
lnmbermen to float their logs to mill.
The fears of the lumbermen at Lud-
ington are relieved, the saw-mflis are
ell in active operation, and business Il
again lively. At MuskegOn. within
= radius Of six miles, are twenty
eight saw-mills, which cut, last year
about 3F5, 600 600 feet of lumber. Tit
product this year is estimated Ut ahou
l05, GOO, 900 less.