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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
Silver.

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. The
amount of standard silver dollars
coined up to the 10th of fAugust-$l1,- :
1925 Amount on hand-$lO,O79,-
4S7. 1t thus appears that 1888, ,0l3
has been placed in the channels of cir
culation. The demand is slowly but
steadily increasing.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
The Bloomfield Republican tells th'

THE Bloomfield Republican tells the
following true story about Gen. Wea-
ver's multitude of promises. We
have very full knowledge of the facts
stated, and that they are facts there is
not the shadow of doubt. They are
susceptible of easy proof and Gen.
Weaver dare not deny them. The
Republican says:
"The democratic convention in OF
tumwa last week was run in the in
terest of j. b. Weaver, supposed
candidate of the National party
Wednesday, when the delegates from
Jasper arrived in Ottumwa, they
seemed surprised that Weaver was
not on hand to welcome them. They
at once had dispatch sent to KeO-
sauqua, that he must come up and
give certain pledges. Mahaska coun-
ty delegates sent the same kind Of a
dispatch. The result was that Wea-
yer, accompanied by his trainer, Judge
Trimble, came to Ottumwa on the
midnight train, and was escorted to a
back room uf a quiet hutel, and there
interviewed by the democrats from
Jasper and other counties. The dele
gates from Jasper county asserted
publicly that they would not vote in
his interest if he did not pledge HIM
self squarely to them. After their in
terview they declared they had all the
pledges they could ask. That Wea-
yer would ACT WITH THE DEMOCRAT
&c PARTY IN ALL THINGS, except on
finance-on that question he reserved
the right to act as greenbacker.
When asked to make a speech to that
effect in open convention, he replied
that some of his democratic friends
and some of his greenback friends
thought he had better not address the
convention.
That is the democratic side. Now
we make this direct charge: That
Gen. Weaver has, since his nomina-
ton by the greenbackers, told repub-
licans of this and other counties that
he is just as good republican as ever
he was, except ON the financial ques-
tion-that it was an absurdity to think
of his acting with Ben. Hill and that
class Of fellows. We charge that he
has SO expressed himself to republic
ans in this county since the letter
from Judge Trimble was written. He
cannot keep both promises; who will
he sell out?
We know he cannot keep faith with
the democrats, with the republicans
and with the greenbackers. We un-
derstand Gen. Weaver denies making
any pledges to democrats. He refus-
ed to deny when charged with the
same thing before the Jasper delega-
ton. We challenge him to come out
over his own name in the Green6ack,
his organ, denying:
First, His pledge to Democrats
Second, His pledge to Republicans.
Talk ON the streets does not make an
issue; plain straightforward denial
NIT of proof, for and against.
Gen. Weaver has been dealing in
duplicity. He is like the little boy
whose sweet tooth for candy led him
to declare himself anybody's boy who
offered him the candy. A man who
becomes hardened and Indifferent as
regards the keeping of his promises
comes to making promises whenever
and wherever it is deemed a paying
enterprise. They are cheap and why
not have an enormous issue? They
are precisely like his thousand million
Of new greenback issue would be, viz
Never to be redeemed.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28

leaders before the people is as if a vi
cious scoundrel with a flaming torch
were going through the land applying
| it to the firing of property every
where.
The seeds of this are cropping out
In the numbers of brazen, impudent
tramps here in Iowa, where we assert
without fear of successful contradic-
tion, there is no reasonable cause for any
man in health being tramp. They
are the direct fruit of the brazen
daubs Of newspapers such as the New
York Advocate and the blatant, dis
graceful talk of deInagogues. The
end of these things, their tendency, is
the burning of farmers agricultural
implements, theirgranaries and barns
and the outraging of defenseless wo-
men.
To the Deans and Pomeroy's have
been added the sore-headed, ambitious
politicians who have not been graft
fed with office in their own party
and are base enough to fan the breezes
of communism in the hope of obtain
ing place for themselves. Both these
sets of leaders form quasi secret clubs
or lodges over the country to solidify
their strength, that they may the bet
ter and more surely manage it in the
dark. Its machinery is Of the char
acter of the old Know-nOthing organ
ization, and if this country is ever
swept into anarchy by its political
parties, it will be through some party
that shall have its nucleus, its secret
workings in these partially secret
clubs or lodges. No political princi-
ciples, however pure, can ever be JUS
titled in being secretly promulgated
and sustained. Secret politics are
bane to good government.
Do we hear of any protest, any con-
demnation of the secret rifle clubs of
the South which, to-day, are making
a solid South, from the Nationals, the
the Deans, the Pomeroys,
or even the Weavers and Gillettes
and their democratic groomsmen?
No. The howl is against hon
est money, against keeping SOL
mn promises, against what they
are pleased to term the tyranny
of capital. 1t is the poor, down.
trodden tramp they howl for
It is a favorite theme with them by
inference, to represent the hirer of the
laborer the tyrant and the laborer a
slave. The sum and substance Of all
this is the desire of the demagogue to
get Office at any cost; the real interest
of the people is a matter they ignore.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
A Big Democratic Steal.

The Missouri Republican ought to
be good authority for the democracy
and we call the attention of democrat
ic reformers to what it says about the
defalcation of the democratic state
treasurer of Missouri. Reader, watch
and see if you perceive any mention
of this steal in the democratic papers
of Iowa:
State Treasurer Gates virtual con-
fession of pretty nearly all the charges
of mismanagement of the state mon
eys that the republican papers have
been making for several weeks past
presents case to which plain words
and resolute treatment alone are ap-
plicable. 1t is not necessary here TO
recall the loud and deceptive assevera-
tions of certain border newspapers
and aspirants that ''the state wouldn't
lose a dollar" that ''the Mastin bank
would pay every dollar it owed;"
that the Mastins and other sureties
on the banks bonds were the "best
and wealthiest men in the state;"
that the state treasurer "held collat-
STdlo " tWlCc tIlc VI u6-
posits in the broken bank-and other
such rubbish; nor is it necessary to
allude to thesuspicious connection that
apparently existed between the mis-
management of the state moneys and
politics i'm the Eighth congressional
district. The matter Of pressing con-
cern is that, according to Treasurer
Gates statement, he had, not $296, 600,
but $5l6, 1888 in the Mastin bank when
it collapsed; that he kept on deposit
ing the states moneys in that institu-
tion after it was insOlvent; that the
only security for the money he holds
is $3.50, 900 water bonds (said to be
worth about 40 cents on the dollar
and the names of six citizens of Kan
sas City, two of whom are the Mas
tins themselves, and third a director
in the broken bank; that the treasur-
er's July statement, reporting $296, 900
in the Mastin bank, when there was
really $5l6, 1888, was deliberate mis-
statement; and that the state would
have defaulted in its July interest il
the Bank of Commerce Of New York
had not advanced 1920, 600 of the mon.
ey required to pay it. These facts
present grave matter for the people
of Missouri to consider.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
Change Of Time and place,

BENNINGTON, VT, Aug. Cow
ing to the prevalence of yellow fever
John w. Stokes, M. W., Grand Sire.
has issued an order that the approach
ing session Of the Grand Lodge Of the
U. S. /. o. o. +. will be held in Bal
timore, Md, on the Sd Monday prox-
imo, instead of at Austin, Texas, as
was expected.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
The Anderson Is. c. Hatelligencer,

The Anderson Is. c. hatelligencer,
speaking of their rifle clubs, says:
"They are the most efficient means
that can possibly be devised to keep
down the opposition and insure an
overwhelming democratic triumph.
Mounted clubs secured the redemp-
tion of South Carolina in 1876, and we
must look to them to retain it in 1873
and $780,"
These rifle clubs killed in cold blood
scores of black men and here and
there white man In 1876, in over
riding at least twenty thousand re.
publican majority in South Carolina.
The Mtellige'acer declares this means
to have been effectual then andjthat it
must be continued. This is not one
Southern journal alone which thus
speaks, but there are scores upon
scores of them and hundreds of thou
sands Of Southern democrats enter
tain such sentiments and read such
journals and patronize them. Tens
of thousands of other Southern DEM
ocrats, with arms In their hands, prac-
tice upon the sentiments announced
by the Lntelligencer, and the whole
democratic party South so far counte-
nance it as to lead many Of them to
connive at it and none to denounce il
yea, more than this, the tohole demo
cratic party North wink at, are glad
to profit by its success and never de-
nounce 1t. True, from the lips out,
by resolution the democracy, both
North and South, here and there an
nounce that they are for the equality
of the races, but they turn a deaf, O
Theoretically sealed ear, to the dread.
full record of political murders, politi.
cal ostracism and intimidation Of the
the past few years in the South.
With this democratic party, the
leaders and wire-pullers Of the Ma.
tional- -Greenback party are conspir'
ing to unite that party in Iowa, by
agreeing to effect an interchange o.
support given to candidates-al always
the democratic party demands that
the greenback party shall act with
the democratic party, for instance, in
Congress, In party caucus, and thi'
promise Is given. Brick Pomeroy
II. Clay Dean and the like, villifier
and blackgaards Of everything helt
sacred in the era of the great struggle
for national preservation, and eve
since then enemies of the public cred
It and national honor, are to-day
among the chief propagators of tn,
National-Gr -Greenback party, and they
threaten orally and in print, like tn
Mteligencer of South Carolina, Il
push their doctrines to success witt
the musket. Says Brick Pomeroy:
"You can give us back the full sill
yer dollar-the greenback dollar lab
sOlute money! as munitiOn Of peac
and o part OF the government, or 1888
never rises sun on the republic as
now stands"
The incendiarism Of these violen
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28

Improper articles Of food often
cause the blood to become loaded
with foul humors. Cleanse the
blood with DR.. Bulls Blood Mix,
ture and be healthy.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
The Labor Commission.

New YORK, Aug. 2l.-The congress
sional labor committee resumed it's
session to-day. w. Goodwin Mody,
of Boston, said he could not discover
that there was any conflict in theory
between capital and labor, but he
found there was an artificial conflict
between them growing out of mis-
conception of the relations between
them by both parties. The direct
causes, he thought, were that the Ia
boring class could not understand
why capitalists could be in afliuence
with the hostility against capital on
the part of labor; one was to q great
extent dependent on the other. He
believed that in Massachusetts, they
were living in as much harmony as
they could in the present condition
of things.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
National sar Associatiou

SARATOGA, Aug. 2l.-A large num-
ber Of lawyers from al parts Of the
Union met in the Town Hall, in re-
sponse to q call signed by b. H. Bris'
tow, OF KY; VIM. ,Evarts, J. X. Por.
ter, Of N. r.; Lyl\ap Trambull, Of
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
ORDERED TO DISBAND.
illegal military Organizations Not
Desired In the State eofArk0naaa

Desired In the state ofArkansas
LITTLE Rock, Aug. 22.-ln conse-
quence Of reports from Phillips coun-
ty that organizations are being form
ed with the view Of depriving color
ed men of the privilege of voting at
the coming election, Governor Miller
has issued the following order:
special information has been re-
ceived or the formation in Phillips
county ofpolitical campaign clubs af.
ter the manner of military companies
although unarmed and though intend.
ed merely as a temporary association
for the ordinary and legitimate pur
poses Of political campaign. Sncl
organizations offer occasion for mis-
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28

A COMPLIMENT To THE UNITED STATES
LONDON, Aug. 90. = The Times
prints two columns of description OF
the mechanical display of the Unite d
States at the Paris exhibition In an
editorial article commenting thereon
the Times says: "The pre-eminence
of mechanical genius of the citizens
OF the United States may be admitted
aud is illustrated, not for the first
time in the exhibition in Paris" The
Times, without pretending to exhaust
the whole secret of the phenomenon
of inventive genius across the Allan.
tic, finds the ''reason therefor in the
greater efficiency of labor here, and
the increased cost and difficulty OF
hiring it. The condition of the Union
as one economic society drives its in
habitants towards inventions and
there, as elsewhere, necessity may be
said to be the mother of it,"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28

According to Bohemian popular
superstition, il is unlucky for lover
to visit his sweetheart except on
Thursdays and Sundays. The saving
in candies ia simply incalcu!abic, and
the young woman of the country be-
ing thus enabled to get five nights
sleep every week, preserve their sim
J gular beauty for many years.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
Governor Carpenters Resigna.
ton.

DEs MONIES, Aug. 22.-Goyernor
Carpenter to-day rendered his resig-
nation TO Governor Gear as Railroad
Commissioner to take effect Septem-
Der lst. 1t is said the appointment
of his successor has been determined
on and will be made pulic in day or
two
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28

The Hon. Thos. Updegraf, of Nc
Gregor, Iowa, was finally on the 326th
ballot, nominated by the republicans
for Congress in the Third district.
The convention balloted all day and
night. The republicans of that dis
trict have had, for weeks, a bitter per-
sonal contest for and against Judge
Cooley, who was prominent candi-
date. Updegraff is one Of the ablest
lawyers of the state, was member
of the last legislature where he dis
tinguished himself. He will make a
very able and efficient member Of
Congress. 1t remains now to be seen
whether the republicans of this dis
trict will completely smother all ami
mosities and do their duty in the elec-
tion. The district is a rather uncom-
fortably close one, and quarrel car
ried forward into the election will not
be healthy.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
A National Temperance Camp.

A National Temperance Camp
meeting, to commence August 80, and
to continue ten days, is to be held at
Lawrence, Kansas, under the auspices
of the Kansas State Temperance I'm
ion. Thousands of excursionists are
expected from Iowa, Indiana, Illinois,
Ohio, and even Pennsylvania and
New York. Distinguished speakers
of both sexes are expected from all
parts of the United States. Ten thou
sand tents have been ordered and
preparations are made for subsisting
5000 people,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28

VIENNA, Aug. 22.-Count Andras
sy does not credit the reports that the
Porte connived al the resistance OF
Bosnians to Austria, and contem-
plates no apprOachment with Servis
or Montenegro.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-BefOre the
Hewitt Congressional Committee
Prof. Sumner testified that he was
Professor of Political and Social Sci
ence In Yale College. He directed
attention to the fact that within the
last few years the means of transfer
and communication became greater
and by these means cver-production
was the consequence and had made a
revolution over the whole world.
There was another factor in causing
this depression in labor circles. This
effect would reach everybody, for the
effect of machinery would be to
cheaper luxuries and bring things
down to the poor classes, which a
century ago they never thought of.
Machinery had been q great good to
the masses, though in cases of indi-
viduals and classes, il had worked
them evil.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.- Horace
White testified that he had studied
finance carefully and considered the
present financial crisis as one Of se-
ries that has occurred the past two
hundred years among nations. They
followed rampant speculation like
that of 1873. The condition of the
currency had not made the state of
things worse. Witness thought the
accumulation of property acting on
the sanguine temperament of GER.
tain race of people, would produce q
speculative era. Over production by
machinery had decreased business BY
producing too great amounts and
lowering prices.
A protective tariff would not raise
wages, but might raise the prices o
some commodities. They woult
stimulate some branches of business
The wages of laboring classes hat
greatly increased for the past two
hundred years. He recommended
that tariff duties be removed from
some raw materials. Surplus capi.
tai had been driven to bank vaults by
the low rate of interest. A prOtec.
tive tariff injured business greatly
Government had no right to regulate
or limit the hours of labor. To dc
so was to infringe on personal lib.
erty and transfer part OF the wages
of the employed to the unemployed
Every legislative attempt to transfer
capital from the rich to the poor haf
made the rich richer and the poo
poorer. 1t would be q hazardou
and probably an unsuccessful under
taking to use the proceeds of publi
land sales for colonization purposes
He did not think the surplus popu
lation in cities would b
content to live on western lands an,
iftaken there would not stay.
| Charles F. Adams, Jr., Of Quincy
Mass, was called as the next witnes,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28

]. T. BEST, an old Californian and q
gold expert, now declares it to be his
belief that almost all the dirt of Cali
sornia is gold-bearing and gold-pay.
fRG. He is very positive that this is
the aase the whole length of the coast.
Having been for ten years connected
with theiight-house department of the
coast be knows more about this than
any other section of the state. 1t
would seem that the miners have
lately turned their attention more par
;ticularly to the coast than they did
formerly. Wherever there is a good
chance to examine and make the test
it has been found that the sand wash
ed up by the waves is all richly gold
bearing. The miners gather the sands
at low tide, and washing up of riches
from the deep seems to be continual.
Some of the sand has yielded as much
as $56.A to the ton by actual assay.
In one case LAS pounds of sand
yielded $36.70 gold. It Is of various
richness, but all the sea sand that has
been tested on the coast has been
found gold-bearing. Different appli-
ances and machinery from any now
now In use will be required for this
kind of mining, as there is great
deal of tlOur gold to be saved.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
H.; Geo. Hoadley and Stanley Ma

H.; Geo. Hoadley and Stanley Mat
thews, of Ohio; Harry Hitchcock, of
Mo-; Carleton Hunt, of La. Richard
d. Hubbard, of Conn. Alex II. Law
ton, of Ga. Richard e. McMurtie, Of
Pa: Il. j. Phelps, of VT; Chas. R.
Train. of Mass; j. Randolph Tuck
er, of Va, to consult as to organizing
a National Bar Association.
Roger Averill, Of Conn.,, called the
meeting to order and John ii. b. La
trobe, of Baltimore, was called to
preside, with Francis Rawle, of Phil
adelphia, and J. Grant Thompson, of
Albany, as secretaries.
Simon L. Baldwin, of Conn, stated
the origin of tho call, which was at
Saratoga during the meeting of the
Social Science Association, last Sep
tember. Circulars had been seut TO
leading lawyers In several States and
| the Intention was to confine the Or
ganization to such as held circulars,
with a view of keeping out disreput-
rble parties. A resolution to call on
the persons invited to register, and
those only, was adopted. The States
were called and lawyers registered.
SARATOGA. Aug 22.-The American
Bar Association, Ex-Secretary Bris-
tow in the chair, resumed its session
to-day. 1t was resolved that the as
seciation be known as the American
Bar Association. The object shall be
to advance the science of jurispru-
dence, promote the ADMINISTRATION of
Justice and uniformity of lepislation
throughout the Union; uphold the
honors Of the profession of the law,
and encourage cordial intercourse
among members of the American
Bar. The officers elected are as fol-
lows: President, Jas. o. Broadhead,
of st. Louis. Among the Vice-Presi-
idents are David Davis, of Ills.
Thos. F. Davidson, of Ind. VIM. &.
Hammond, of Iowa; BENZ. II. Bris-
tow, of KY; Geo. X. Armory, of
Neb.; Clarkson N. Potter, of N. Y;
Rufus King, of Ohio.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28

CoNsTANTINorLE, Aug. 22.-Five
steamers have left San Stefano for
Odessa with Russian troops return.
ing home.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28

BLUNT Bur TRUE.-There is said to
be young man in the Missouri PEN
itentiary whose parents at death left
him $4,000. There is where his pa
rents made fatal mistake. Ii they
had taken the precaution to invest in
a small dog, and shot him, and then
simply left the young man a jack
plane or wood-saw, with printed di-
rections how to use them, the chances
are that instead of being in the peni-
tentiary, he would to-day have been
gradually working up to handsome
competency, an honorable and an old
age. But ever since the day of Adam
and Eve, parents have made it point
to toll and struggle all their lives in
order to realize q sufficient sum oil
money to purchase, when they are
dead and gone, their sons each a first
class through ticket to the devil; and
it is not much to be wondered at that
so many of their sons, reared in vice
and idlencss, as too many of them Of
ten are, have no higher ambition than
to invest their inheritance in just that
sort of transportation.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28

Heavy Loss in Killed and Wounded
VIENNA, Aug. 23.-The loss of the
Bosnisns at Sera Jevo is three hun.
dred killed and seven hundred woun.
ded. 1t is thought many in addition
were carried away by their friends
The Austrian wounded numbers
three hundred.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
ANOTHER DEFEAT.

PoDGoRITzA. Aug. 2l.-Five thous-
and insurgents have beeu defeated
near Stolaz, with heavy loss.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28

Trimble-Cook letter, and now this
polly-foxing, namby-pamby Trimble
letter of excuse and explanation ex-
poses the card up the sleeve SO plainly
that it would seem they have lost
their wits, for once. The Democrat
don't seem to take much stock in the
explanation.
We notice the Democrat don't run
up at the head of its columns the
name of Weaver for Congress, but the
Ottumwa Times does. We notice too
that the Times calls it the democratic
ticket. There appears to be differ
ence of opinion among the brethren.