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Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
Burglar Killed.

Fort ScoTT, Kan, March "A
man named Bernard McKinna, was
shot and fatally wounded about two
.. m. yesterday by night watchman
in the Ft. Scott e. Gulf r. r. yard
while attempting to break into the
passenger depot. The deceased is
entirely unknown here. He had
stated the previous evening that his
home was in Springfield, Ills. A let
ter found on his person, however, in
dicate that his friends, or at least his
sister, resided in Providence. Il. I.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06

The terrible tragedy reported
briefly in our columns, Saturday last
OF the burning mp Of whole family
in Monroe county. Illinois, turns ou,
to have been the crazed act of the
father of the family, who deliberate.
ly murdered his wife and six chill.
dren and then set fire to the house,
himself perishing .insthe flames. An
inspection of the bodies taken from
the ruins clearly proves this theory
to be correct.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
New York Market.

New York, March 5.
By Telegraph
Wheat-dull, 1s@l cent lower ST..
AZ for No 2spring March and April,
Rye-sllade firmer.
Corn-kc lower at 1885,.
Barley-quiet, unchanged.
Oats-steady, unchanged.
Pork-dull, heavy, $40 75@S5.
Lard-steady, 81 35@37lS
Whisky at $l.O71S.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06

Our latest dispatches indicate that
Russia has modified her demands so
that there seems little room to ex-
pect war. She has evidently made
satisfactory arrangements with the
Turks and henceforward the two ma
tions will form an offensive and de-
fensive alliance and the Turk will
virtually be a dependent of the Car.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06

WASHINGTON, March 4-The bill
reported from the Senate Judiciary
Committee to-day providing for the
creation Of q sinking fund, to liqui-
date principal and interest of the
Pacific r. r. bonds endorsed by the
United States, is q measure original
ly introduced by Senator Thurman,
and is 80 framed as to confine it's op.
erations to the Union Pacific and Cen
trail Pacific indebtedness, and to en-
body the following propositions:
The net earnings are to be ascer-
tanned by deducting from the gross
earnings the expenses Of operating
and keeping the roads in repair and
also payments for interest on first
mortgage bonds, but no deductions
shall be made on account of payments
Of interest ON other indebtedness
Treasury department is to retain the
total amounts earned, from time to
time, for Government transportation.
one-half of these amounts are to be
forthwith applied to the liquidation
Of the amounts paid or to he paid by
Government for interest on the COM
panies bonds and the other half is to
be placed to the credit of the propos-
ed sinking fund. Five per centum of
the net earnings as above defined, are
to be paid into the Treasury of the
United States, semi-annually, to be
placed to the credit Of the sinking
fund and in addition to the foregoing
sums the company are to pay into the
U. s. Treasury, in semi-annual pay
ments, not less than $3.50, 600 each year,
for the Union Pacific and $1,000, 600
for the Central Pacific Company.
The act ia to take effect the lst Of June
next.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
Those voting against the silver bill

Those voting against the silver bill
on its final passage over the Presi-
dents veto, were five western men,
viz: Christiancy, Ellsworth, Garfield,
Stewart of Minnesota, and Williams,
of Michigan; three from the Pacific
coast, viz: Sergeant, Mitchell and
Horace Davis; and ten southerners,
viz: Hamburg Butler, Lamar, Whyte,
OF Maryland, Bisbee, of Florida, Glib
ison, of Louisiana, Schleicher, of Tex.
as, Swan, of Maryland, Cain of South
Carolina and Leonard, of Louisiana.
All the others sustaining the veto
were from the middle and eastern
states.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
Myths are but Symbol Of Truth.

wy sssS SAsS WV W eb0kUts
AS the scholar sees in the vain but
beautiful mythologies of the ancients
the embodied expressions of the hu-
man soul, blindly cropping after the
Infinite, SO the physician sees in that
popular myth of the sixteenth centu-
ry the fountain Of perpetual health
and youth-an expression of the long
ings Of suffering humanity for rem
edy that should forever prevent the
incursi0ns of disease. The wilds of
Europe were ransacked for this won
derful fountain, and Ponce de Leon
sought for it in the cypress-swamps
and tangled everglades Of our sunny
Florida. Men have searched for it
everywhere and anywhere but where
it really is-in the human body itself.
The blood is the real fountain of per-
petual health and youth. When this
source is corrupted, the painful and
sorrow-prOducing effects are visible
in many shapes. The multifarious
forms in which it manifests itself
would form subjects upon which
might write volumes. But as all the
varied forms of disease which depend
upon bad blood are cured, or best
treated, by such medicines as take up
from this fluid and excrete from the
system the noXious elements, it is not
of practical Importance that I should
describe each. For instance, medical
authors describe about fifty varieties
of skin disease, but as they all re-
quire for their cure very similar treat
ment, it is of no practical utility to
know just what name to apply to a
certain form of skin disease, SO you
know how best to cure it. Then
again, might 60 ON and describe va
rious kinds of scrofulous sores, fever
sores, white swellings, enlarged
glands, and ulcers of varying appear
ance; might describe how virulent
poison may show itself in various
forms of eruptions, ulcers, sore
throat, bony tumors, etc. /; but as all
these various-appearing lnanifesta-
tions of bad blood are cured by uni
form means, l deem such course
unnecessary. Thoroughly cleanse the
blood, which is the great fountain Of
life, and good digestion, fair skin,
buoyant spirits, vital strength and
soundness of constitution will all re-
turn to us. For this purpose DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
and Purgative Pellets are pre-emi-
nently the articles needed. They are
warranted to cure letter, saltrheum,
saald head, ST. Anthony's fire, rose
rash or erysipelas, ring-worms, pim-
pies, blotches, spots, eruptions, pus-
tulesy boils, carbuncles, sore eyes,
rough, skin, scurf, scrofulous sores
and sHellings, fever sores, white
swellinsS, tumors, old sores or swell
lings, affections Of tho skin, throat,
and bone1, and ulcers of the liver,
stomach, idneys, and lungs.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
~. Louis Market.
ST. LOUIS, March 5.

Sr. Louis, March5.
BY Telegraph
Wheat-quiet; No. 3 red / lG14 bid
cash, l6S March, 1 l6h
@3s April; No. 4 held at OS
bid cash.
Corn-quiet at 4Os6 6@44 cash, Al
April, 46 bid May.
Oats-quiet, 26h cash bid, 26 bid
April.
Rye.lower at 541a cash or March.
Whisky-better at 81 OS.
March.
Lard-quiet; nominally 81 1O@3O,
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
Earlv Iowa Anecdotes,
Washington Corr. New York Times.


The Democrat says, Professor T. S.
Parvin's lecture in Davenport, Satur-
day evening, abounded in well told
anecdotes of carly Iowa settlers
some of which are too good to be
lost.
Among them was one concerning
Governor Grimes. One day the gov
ernor went to Burlington and when
on the way to the hotel, dressed very
plainly, and making no pretensions
as to appearance, he was accosted by
q spruce young man, who evidently
took the governor to be q porter, and
who asked him to carry his trunk to
the hotel. The governor did not hes
itate moment, but took the trunk on
his shoulder and carried it into the
hotel. The young stranger had prom
ised to give him quarter for the job,
and when the trunk was safely landed
in the hotel, rendered the porter a
Mexican quarter which, however,
was good for only 20 cents. One spe-
cial errand that the young man had
at Burlington was to meet the gov
ernor of the State, 80 that short
time after his arrival he made his
way to the executives room and in
quired for Governor Grimes. The
porter who had carried the trunk
met him smilingly, and astounded the
young man as he had never been as
founded before, by telling him that
he was Gov. Grimes. The stranger
managed to recover from his cOnfu-
sion, and made his application for an
Office. The governor cut him very
short, however, and curtly told him
that any person who would agree to
pay for an honest job in an honest
way, and then when the job was
done, to defraud the porter out Of q
part of his earnings, was not proper
man for any position of responsible
ity and would never gain his (the gov
ernor's) recommendation for anything
of the kind.
Thirty-fivc years ago, Mr.. Parvin
said, the Supreme Court of the State
of Iowa consisted of three very young
men, plainly and unostentatiously
dressed, the chief justice being man
of not 25 years. One of the judges
was very frugal man.. and came to
court in cart drawn by mule, and
not only that, but instead of patron
izing the hotel for his dinner, brought
some cold lunch in q basket, and ate
it in the court room after court had
adjourned. The Chief Justice at that
time lived in Dubuque. At one of the
terms of the court he was anxious to
60 home by certain boat which ar
rived before court had completed its
business. The Justice sent the U. S.
Marshal, therefore, to the boat to Sc
cure q stateroom The Marshal
found the captain, told him he want
ed the best room in the boat for the
Chief Justice of Iowa. The captain
felt highly honored by the prospect
Of having such distinguished COM
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06

Hon. E ii. Stiles, Of Ottumwa, will
be candidate for Congress from this
district. Mr.. S. is q gentleman of
culture and talent, and would, with
out doubt, render acceptable service
in the position to which he aspires.
1t only remains to be seen whether
the people will choose him to serve
them in this capacity, or will prefer
Cults, Stone, Sampson, or somebody
else. Its free pitch in, gentlemen,
and happy may be the mar that wins.
-,Eddypi!le Advertiser.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

WAsHINGToN, March 4.
Vice President Wheeler occupied
the chair to-day.
Cockerill introduced q bill to au-
thorize the deposits of silver bullion
or bars, and the issue Of certificates
therefor, and it was referred to Com
mittee on Finance. It authorizes
persons to deposit such bullion or
bars and the issue of certificates
therefor by the Secretary Of the
Treasury in Gums not less than twen-
ty-five dollars in same form as certifi-
Gates are now issued for gold bullion,
such certificates to be receivable at
par for duties on imports and all pub
lie dues.
After the morning hour Bayard
stated that the Senator in charge of
the long bond bill in unfinished busi-
ness, Wallace, was sunavoidably absent,
he therefore moved that it be laid
over for the present, with the under
standing that it should not lose its
place as unfinished business. So or
dered.
HOUSE.
Bills were introduced by FRYE for
the exchange of the silver coins of
the United States for United States
notes.
By Vance, authorizing circuit and
district judges to fine and imprison
at discretion in cases Of conviction of
illicit distillation in lieu of punish
ment now required.
By Saylor, providing for the class
ification of mail matter and postage
rates; by Pollard, appropriating
$469, 600 for deficiencies in Interior
Department for fiscal year ending
June 30, 1876; by Stone, to locate
water transportation between Lake
Erie and Michigan; by Gibson, pro-
viding for q commissioner to super
wise the construction of works to i'm
prove the navigation of the Missis-
sippi; by Potter, to regulate immi-
grafton, also to authorize bondhold-
ers and other creditors of railroad
corporations to elect receivers in
equity pending in United States
Courts.
Bright offered a resolution calling
upon the Secretary of the Treausry
to inform the House whether he has
authorized the sale of any bonds
for outstanding legal tender notes
at par in addition to the concur
rent New York premium on gold
as commission for selling and who
authorized the sale Of such bonds
for legal tender notes on any
other terms than above stated, and if
so the number and amount Of pro-
ceeds of such bonds and who were
employed as agents to dispose of
them, adopted.
Schleicher offered preamble and
resolution directing the Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds to
ascertain the amount of money neces-
sary to complete the public buildings
now being erected and to build 9TH
ers, and to inquire into the expediency
Of issuing bonds of tho United States
to any amount necessary to erect all
such buildings. Referred.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
City Elections,

The Working Mems ticket in o.
kalOosa beats the anti-license ticke.
by $50 majority.
In Beacon license ticket was elec,
ted.
AtPclla, McCully was elected May.
or, and democratic council was also
elected.
At Burlington, Adams, Republican,
is elected and also a majority of the
Council are Republican. The Coun-
Gil stands Z Republican to 2 Demo-
erats.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
Obicaxo Market
OHEoAeo, March 5.

CHICAGO, March 5.
by Telegraph
Wheat-unsettled; fairly active,
lower, at y! OK cash. l 06s4 Apr.
Corn-fair demand, firmer, 42h
March, 42H May.
Osts-dull at 24H@A cash, "a Mar,
26X May.
Pork-dull, weak, SO 95 cash, 10 OO-
@O2K April, 10 15@l71a May.
Lard-steady at 81 10 cash, Z l5@
Tx April.
Whisky-$l O4,
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
NEW YORK.

NEW lonK, March 4.-Seven of the
crew OF thederman bark Otto q Georgia
burned at sea. The escaped rep ort BE-
ing unable to cxtinguish the flames
they were obliged to abandon the vos-
sci the6th oflast month. While getting
into the boat the boatsman Frede ricS
Richard fell overheard and was lost
and the painter parting, the boat
drifted away, leaving Capt. Tempke.
tho mate, and four men on the burn
ing vessel.
The steamship Chilian sighted the
bark next day, and failing in an at
tempt to rescue two men seen on
board, owing to the severe storm pre-
vailing, bore away, leaving them to
their fate.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06

Thurlow Weed is rejoiced at the
demonstration of silver and he has
had most level head all through the
fight. We wish he were little
younger. lie is to day one of the
most honest and one of the ablest
statesmen of the nation.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
Orful.

The Presidents friends and others
at Washington are annoyed at tho
manner in which the
Presidents veto message, yesterday,
was disposed of in both houses of
Congress. 1t has been usual, hereto
fore, not to take action upon the
Presidents messages until they had
been printed, but both the Senate and
House ignored the custom, yesterday,
and went to work, and in the spur of
the moment passed the Silver Bill in
stanter, and with anything but de-
cent respect for the Executive Or for
so sound a State paper as the veto
message.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
PEACE DECLARED.
The Terms Signed by Both
Parties.
The Grecian Insurgents Gain
ing Ground.
The New Dollar Soon to be
Ready for Circulation.
FOREIGN.
A Rebuke to England. /.

ST. PETERSBURG, March LIN re-
plying to recent article in the Lon
don Standard, which declared that
the sword would yet have to decide
the question, unless Russia made
some concessions, the Ageace Russe
says: The British government has
declared that it would only make
war in behalf of British interests.
Russia has respected and satisfied
those interests. Therefor, either the
Standard is misinformed or England
will act in opposition to her formal
declarations. AS regards concessions
European Cabinets know that Russia
is resolved to maintain the essential
results of the war. She will always
show herself disposed to accept every
means of reconciling the inviolabili.
ty Of this result with the interests OF
third parties, but threats of military
preparations arc bad way of attain.
ing peaceful understanding.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
Family Burned to naath

ST. LOUIS, March q A special
from Illinoistown says that neighbors
discovered the house of Moritz Kaiser,
at Fish Landing, on the Mississippi,
LOO miles south of Waterloo, on fire
yesterday morning. The structure
was almost consumed before the
flames were observed. The charred
bodies of Kaiser, his wife and six
children, were taken from the ruins.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
ThE.CITY ELECTION

The total vote of the city Monday
was 1893. This is a moderate vote,
A full vote should give us 500 more.
1t is evident to our minds that the
democracy fell much farther short
of their full vote than the republic.
ans did. We have good reason to
believe that some democrats at least
were ashamed of their ticket or a
part of it and felt so little interest in
the election that they did not vote at
all. Then the ladies who kept their
coffee stands about the polls secured
quiet, sobriety and decency, and &C.
cording to democratic alderman OF
this city, quoting his own remark
"Iou cannot run the democratic par.
ty on hot coffee; it takes straight
whisky"
1t was source Of the very highest
qualification to note the perfect order
good feeling and tho absence of lille.
gal voting, that SO prevail, engendcr-
ed by the fumes of whisky.
We call attention, just to instance
the character of republican officials,
to our republican aldermen elect and
the hold-overs. We have &. T.. Blake
and o. M. Ladd in the I'd ward, w.
A. McGrew and l. N. Mast in the Sd
ward, and Charles b. Rounds in the
4th ward, five in number, a clear ma
jority. We point to them with pride,
as good men, as able men, men fit and
proper to place in charge of the in
terests of the city in conncil. And
one thing we will say right here, that
not one of these men will ever be
found advising or doing the very sill
ly and wholly unjustifiable thing of
moving away and still retaining his
office whilc wholly neglccting to per-
form its duties.
The republicans worked manfully
and the result shows what earnest,
faithful work will do. We tender
the republicans our thanks for the
energy they displayed.
The democracy saved only "Peter
of the First" and We hear some of
the ardent say now they wish he had
bccn defeated. They did not tell us
why they wished this. Well, "Peter
of the First" looked awful blue a,
IL a. m. yesterday, and at that hour
he was badly beaten and the order
went out to man the life-boat, scuttle
the old democratic ship for the sake
Of Peter the First, single plank OF
the democratic craft. The balance OF
the crew so far, as we can learn, were
incontinently Jonahed to save the
democratic stronghold.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
Quadrangular Hanging,

MARION, Ala, March 2.-Albert
Young, Robert Jones, Silas Wright,
and Lucius Porter, all colored, were
hanged in the Jail here yesterday for
the murder of Isaac ID. Moore, white,
Nov. 9th, 1876. The necks of Young,
Wright, and Jones, were broken.
Porter died from strangulation.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06

The silver dollar is a legal tender
silver is returned to its rightful
constitutional position and yet gold
goes down and American bonds re-
main firm with an upward tendency
even, both at home and abroad.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
Ran Maeia na.a

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March "A
Jefferson, Ohio, special to the Herald
announcesthe death of Ex U. S. Sem
ator Ben. f. Wade at his residence in
that place at 6 80 this morning.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06

LONDON, March "A Pera corres-
pondent writes: BY giving up the
hostile European provinces, at the
same time receiving tribute from
them, or saddl1ng them with a por-
ton of the national debt, and eoncen-
trating tho Musselman in territory
contiguous to Constantinople and
making the concentration required
by territorial concessions in Asia Mi
nor, the Turks will create new OF
toman power, ten times stronger than
when it was spread over a vast badly
organized and hostile territory.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06

Hanging seems to he popular at
Des Moines. The Senate yesterday
passed the bill, by decided vote, re-
enacting the death penalty and it is
given out that the House is likely TO
endorse the bill.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
The Four Per Cents. In San Fran
cisco.

SAN Francisco, March 1.-The SUBJ
treasury in this city commenced TAX
ing the popular subscriptions to the
four per cent. loan about February
Let, and received during the month
subscriptions aggregating $105,l5O.
Mint coinage for February: Double
eagles, $5,56O,OOO; trades dollars, ST.
49,, 600; subsidiary silver, $4,000.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06

Imost cheerfully recommend LAwsoN's CUR
ATIvE for Neuralgia. My wife used it, and re-
Ceiyed instant relief A. l.. FOSTER,
36S Prospect Street, Cleveland, o.
Juup = 1874
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
Hot Springs, Arkansas Burned Out

Hot Springs, Arkansas Burned Out.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, March ga
private dispatch from Hot Springs
announces terrible conflagration in
progress at that place. Nearly the
whole business part has already burn
ed, including the Hot Springs Hotel,
American House, number of bust
ness houses, banks, printing offices
etc. Details not yet received.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06

MEMPHIS, March ga private dis
patch from Hot Springs, Ark, says
the fire last night destroyed all build
ings, from the express office to NAL
vern Crossing, including the tcle-
graph office, Hot Springs Hotel and
the principal business houses Of the
place.
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
COMPLEMENTARY MESSAGES.

COMPLIMENTARY MESSAGES.
ST.. PETERsBuRG, Mar. 5.-The Sultan
has sent the following telegram to the
Emperor Nicholas:
CoNsTANTINoPLE, March 3.-"On
occasion of the anniversary of your
Majesty's accession to the Throne
offer my congratulations with desire
of renewing our friendly relations
The Emperor in reply telegraphed
as follows:
II thank your Majesty for your
congratulations which I received sim
ultaneously with tho news Of the sig.
nature of peace. I perceive in thit
coincidence the presage of good and
lasting relations between u.s."
Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-03-06
By Cable to the Chicago Tribune,

CORONATION OF LEO XIII -FRANCHI
SUCCEEDS sIMEoNl-MoB DoINGs.
ROME, March 3.-Pope Leo was
crowned in the Sistine Chapel to-day.
The ceremony commenced at 8 80 in
the morning and terminated at l 80
in the afternoon. Cardinals, prelates
and diplomatists accredited to the
Vatican, and few other persons
were present. The Pope was after
wards carried to his apartments,
blessing spectators en- the way.
When Cardinal Simeoni was about
to resume his Office as Pontifical Sec
retsry of State, the Catholic powers
and some Cardinals protested