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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
WoRKIMoMeM.

Before you begin your heavy spring
work after winter Of relaxation,
your system needs cleansing and
strengthening to prevent an attack Of
Ague, Bilious or Spring Fever, or
some other Spring sickness that will
unfit You for seasons work. You
will save time, much sickness and
grest expense If you will use one bot
tie Of Hop Bitters in your family
this month. Don't wait. See other
column.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

We see 1t noted that Cummings, OF
the Seventh district, led the State
ticket. So too, in the Sixth, Farms
worth's majority, though this is Sec
rotary Hubs own district, is LIS votes
greater than is Viewers over Samp-
aOn
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23


The N. Y. Tribune comments as
follows upon Tilden's card: "Til-
den ought to remind himself that the
American people are not perishing to
learn his opinion of the constitution
atty of the Electoral Commission, or
on the way in which that tribunal
discharged its trust, but they are in
terested in knowing what opinion he
entertains of certain other transac-
tions to which his attention has been
directed. Tilden roundly denies any
responsibility for the negotiations for
the purchase of electors and returning
boards. But he has now been made
aware that such trafficking was UNI
dertAken, and that his own house was
the harbor for some of the amateur
and professional brokers and dealers
in this sort of merchandise, and he
must now know, from internal and
external evidence furnished by tele.
grams, who these traders were. Aud
what does Tilden think of these men ?
He takes pains to criticise Congress
and the administration and tho re-
turning boards, and the Electoral
Commission, but he has no
word Of censure for men
who were telegraphing Northward
and Southwark about "fifty of the
best United States documents and
So, 900 in three packages" He finds
room to denounce McLin by name,
but against the cipherers along the
wire which ran into his bed-chamber !;
against Marble and Coyle. and WOOL
ley and Weed, he breathcs not a word
of displeasure. Tilden must write
one more letter and say explicitly
whether he disapproves of the works
Of his recognized and authorized
agents. His opinion of alleged frauds
committed against him is now under
stood. The country waits for his
opinion Of the frauds attempted in
his favor. There are -blooded
gentlemen whose indignation could
not be restrained from breaking out
against any superserviceable friend
who, through excess of zeal and alb
sence of moral principle, has COM
promised their good name. Mr.. Til
den is not hot-blooded, and he will
not be expected to act or talk with
undue precipitation. But if he con-
tinues to keep silence, there are mali
cious people who will say that he
doesn't dare to denounce these COR
ruptionists. for fear they may turn
upon him and exhibit their creden-
tials."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

FoUR republican members of Con-
gyeD were elected In Ohio on the 9Th
u this month whose aggregate ma
joFity was 20.667, and Ave democratic
member were elected at the same
time In that state whose aggregate
majority was s,S5e. This shows the
way . democratic legislature last win
ter gerrymandeGed the state so as to
cheat the people out Of fair repre-
sentA&a0n.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

The thrift Of the French people in
money matters is curious problem
In political economy. Who would
have believed that in eight years after
. devastating war that involved the
nation in an immense debt and left
her capital nearly destroyed, she
would have money to loan? But
now the strange story is cabled us
that the Bank Of France has loaned
the Bank of England &c, 00O, 900 ster-
ling-or go. 600, 900. The fact is, the
French not only know how to make
5 money, but how to keepit when they
get It.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

he had right to interfere /; but he had
none when they interfered with me.
He told me plainly that neither he
nor Governor Hampton could control
these men. That evening left for
Charleston, having been summoned
to that city ON business. On my re-
turn, in passing through Kingstree, .
crowd of red-sbirts were gathered
at the depot, who yelled out, Good
by, Swails, You Cd id e. of
b-!'
"a number Of my friends were at
the depot, and advised me not to get
of. Rev. Mr.. Pinckney was among
them, and left him letter regard
ing some matters of party organiza-
tion, and also directing him to get q
copy of the resolutions brought to
my house. Mr.. Kelley, the secretary
Of the committee at that time, said
that could get copy by going or
sending to his Office. Yesterday
Sunday l received the following:
KINGsTREE, 8. c., Oct. 10, 1873.
Hon. Suails: Dear Sir-Resolu-
tions refused. All we'll. Will do
the best I can. Yours truly.
| r. NJ. PINcKNEY.
| "From Charleston / came directly
to Washington, my object being ia
make known the methods taken by
the Democrats of my state to get rid
of Republican majorities. I have re-
ceived another letter from Mr.. Pinck.
ncy, under date Of Oct. 10. in which
he says: sMr. Kelly told mo to day
that Governor Hampton sanctioned
W hat they were doing, and the killing
of Swails would take place If he re
NAMED here after ten days"
| The above is the gist Of Mr.. Swails
story. In addition to these outragel
he has been subjected to many petty
snnoyances and indignities. Troops
of red-shirts have ridden Gp to lii
house, uttering fierce rebel yells and
} applying most approbrious epithet'
; to him, the presence Of his wife an(
family not being needed.
: At the interview with Presiden
. Hayes, as stated before, the particu
. lars of which have been narrated
above, were made known to him, 81
he is not uniformed of the atrociou
and lawless conduct of these unterri
, fed Democrats, sanctioned by Cover
/ nor Hampton and his conciliated ad
visors. Mr.. Hayes declared that he in
. tended to do everything that tho Law
, will allow.
i He said that all this matter woul,
t have to 60 to the Attorney Genera
8 for action. "He seems to feel" sal
l Mr.. Swaile. shat something must b
4 DONE"
al Mr.. Swails called the attention Q
D the President to the editorial in III
9 Columbia Register, bidding defianc
n to the authorize to the Federal al
: thorities, and to one Of the Charlesto
NesCs and Courier, and the Presiden
r appeared to be deeply impressed wit
!. the facts set forth. Mr.. Swails aske
f what he should tell his people {
: home, and the Presidents repl
was: "Tcll them that they shal
J, have all the protection the law wi
|. rive"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
President jackson on paper Cur.
pAnNv

| rency.
The following from an old demo.
cratic statesman of the country so fire.
quently quoted by many democrats
of to-day, is worthy of attention. He
spoke particularly of bank currency
which was then the order of the day,
and had particular reference to the
old U. s. bank. In these days, plac-
ing the control of the currency with
Congress and the Secretary of the
Treasury, is but another form of the
old U. s. bank, and far more objec-
tionable system. Hear what Presi-
jackson had to say of the imitation of
paper money and an issue of ire
deemable currency:
"The progress of an expansion, or
rather a depreciation of the currency
by excessive bank issues, is always at
tended by a loss to the laboring class
es. This portion of the community
have neither time nor opportunity to
watch the Gibbs and flows of the mon
ey market. Engaged from day to day
in the usual tolls, they do not per-
ceive that, although their wages are
the same or even somewhat higher,
they are greatly reduced, in fact, by
the rapid increase of q spurious cur
rency, which, a. 1t appears to make
money abound, they are first inclined
to consider q blessing. It is not sC
with the speculator, by whom this op
Grafton Is better Understood and mad,
to contribute to his advantage. It il
not until the prices of the necessarie
of life become go dear that the labor
ing class cannot supply their want
out of their wages that the wage
rise and gradually reach a justly pro
pOrtiOned rate to that of the product
Of their labor. When thus, by tn
depreciation in consequence of tn
Quantity of paper in circulation, wag
es, as well as prices, become exorbi
tant, it is soon found that the Who'll
effect of expansion is a tariff on on
home industries for the benefit of tn
country whose gold and silver circu
late and maintain uniformity an
| moderation in prices. 1t il thus PEE
, ceived that the enhancement of til
, price of land and labor produces
corresponding increase in the price ,
products, until these products do M
l sustain competition with simils
f ones in other countries, and thus bot
I manufactured and agricultural pr
auctions cease to bear exportatiC
from the country of the spurious Gu
= rency, because they cannot be sol
t for cost. This is the process by whit
: specie is banished by the paper of tt
t banks. Their vaults are soon exhaus
' ed to pay for foreign commoditie
5 the next step is stoppage of spec
}. payments total degradation
It paper as a currency-unusal depre
It sion of prices, the ruin of debtor
a and the accumulation of property
the hands of creditors and cautio
capitalists"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
Ttidon's 1ax-8everal CIphevs for
Sammy to Explain.

CHICAGO, Oct. l8.-At the Tilden
income investigation to-day, Mr.. Lar
rabee, treasurer of the Chicago and
Alton railroad, identified 40 correct
a bill of $40, 900 rendered by 8. j. Til
den for legal services. The ledger &C.
count in which this bill appeared al
80 seemed to show that Tilden and
Meyer had in their custody, 80 trus-
tees Of the company. bonds and
stocks of the face value Of $4,000, 600
also that bonds and stocks to the
amo unit of $l68, 900 were missing and
it is presumed were appropriated by
Tilden and Meyer to remunerate
themselves for their services as trus-
tees
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
Does Virtue always Win?
Detroit Free Press.


A brisk fight between two boys al
the foot of Griswold street yesterday
was interrupted by q citizen who, at.
ter releasing one ct them, made the
other sit down on a salt barrel and
be talked to.
"Now them" he began, ait is . ter.
rible thing for boy like you to b.
conducting in this manner"
"I'd q licked him if you hadn't
come upW walled the boy as he care.
fully wiped his scratched nose.
Suppose you had. Do you wan,
to be considered dog? Why don't
you try and be good boy, and gel
along peacefully with everybody
Suppose you had rolled off the wharf
and been drowned ?"
"Spose'n hadn't, too! Its the
good boys that get drowned y
what"
"It's so, an I kin prove it! I'll bet a
dollar agin cent that more Sunday.
school boys have been drowned this
year than bad 'unsW
The man reflected and did not dis.
pute the assertion.
"An0 more rum over by the care,
continued the boy.
No answer again.
"And more Of 'em got sick an died,
and I'll bet I've got more money and
have more fun and peanuts than any
good boy In Detroit !"
"But the good are rewarded" qui-
city observed the man.
$50 are the bad" replied the boy,
an bet I'll make so cents before
dark I"
"But the good are respected"
$50 am 1. I kin 60 up to the Post
Office and borry 50 Thought any secu-
rity, and I'll bet 10 to you can't !
Come now, put up the lucre !"
"My boy" sadly observed the man,
"you must think of the future. Don't
you want to be looked up to and re-
spected when you are man 2"
"That's too far ahead" was the
lonesome reply. If anybody thinks
I'm going to be called . clothes pin,
and Q wheelbarrow and hair brush
by oil the boys and not go for 'em,
jist for the sake of lookin' like On an
gel when I git to be . man, they is
in the house, and you dasn't
bet they amt !"
And he "dasn't."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

OuIoAeo, Oct. %.
by Telegraph
Wheat-firm, higher; red &c cash,
ssh Nov; No. 2 spring 81 cash, s211S
Nov, 83N Dec.
Corn-easier; 1871 cash, 34ss Nov,
AH Dec.
Oats-firm, higher; 1879 cash, 1871
Nov.
Rye-43.
Barley-98@99.
Pork-steady; 81 6O@7 IS cash,
z IS Nov, Z IS Dec.
Lsrd-firm; IS 121s @8 Is cash and
Nov, = Tx Dec.
Whisky-$l OS.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

A man put in just two hours hard
talking trying to convince . crowd
that money was curse to mankind,
after which he went to free lunch
cry and got kicked out with both
hspds full Of bread and bologna.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

Now that the election is over demo-
Gratis begin to speak their sentiments,
and as specimen of what they think.
read this from the Keokuk Cbsastitsa-
ton. "There is only one step from .
to . repudiator, and the
distance from : repudiAtor to a com
muniat y not very great"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

TILDEN and Reform was the DEM
oeratic battle-cry two years ago and it
was just - near reform az that party
has got for at least a quarter of CEN
fury past.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Oct. 22.-Fears
are expressed in diplomatic circles
that the Eastern Ronmelian commis-
sion will encounter great obstacles
from Russia, the Porte and Bulgarian
inha bitants Russia 10 resolved to
maintain the present administration
until her troops have evacuated the
province. The Porte insists ON as
suming the financial sdministrat ton,
subject only to the supervision of the
commission and the Bulgarians con-
tinue the agitation in favor of annex
alton to Bulgaria.
The intended withdrawal Of the
British feet from the vicinity Of Gal
lipoli has been ahandaned In conse-
quence of recent movements OF the
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
sLoop 70 THIoKER THAN WATER
The plague ~ peacemaker-The
North and South In Broth
erly Affection.

/ memphis appear. ~
| While all that is said is true of the
pluck and endurance of the Southern
people under the provocations OF war,
pestilence and famine, there is some
thing to be said of our brethren Of the
North, whose cOnstancy, steadiness,
and devotion to their cause, bravery
and persistence in battle, and endur-
ance in prolonged contest that taxed
all their energies, and skill and re-
sources unequaled, have few parallels
in history. To no other people could
we of the South have surrendered.
Magnanimous. Magnanimous on the
field so fiercely contested, despite the
have many tines since April, 1886,
ship, full up and flowing over with
spirit that robbed the generous tender
of the humiliations Of charity. The
same men who led the armies of the
North, the same Journalists who In
spired those armies, and the same re-
ligious teachers, and the same noble,
heroic women who originated and
sustained, amid the heat of battle and
the excitement of sometimes perilous
popular connections, the grandest be.
Incidence ever conceived of for the re.
lief of soldiers in the field, have been
foremost in the heaven-sent work OF
our relief in weeks that are the drear.
lest in our calendar. Unwearied in
their tasks, as did Joseph with his
, brethren, they have filed our sacks tt
, overlooking many, many times, and
. yet they are not done. From far Or
, egon and Montana to Vermont; from
! villages, towns and cities of all thu
> busy Northern states; from the min
ers' camp, the news-boys' home; from
the banker and the farmer, the pro
. fessor and the mechanic; from al
: classes of that section of our countr,
3 where American ingenuity has fount
its largest field of conquest and who's
i industries challenge the world in vail
: for comparisOn-from this seat of
e great industrial population, unmatch
a ed by any other on the earth, tn
f. gifts of an intelligent help and
t touching sympathy have come, saw
4 ing many thousands of our strickel
i ones from death and lighting gu
) dreary pathway with the light of a
n enduring brotherly love. "Blood
:. thicker than water" OF the sam
Il race, speaking the same tongue, tn
h heirs of the same liberties and cit
e zens of the same glorious country, n
+ memories of sectional division, of pt
8. litical animosities, or Of civil wa
IL have been allowed to stay the stead
,f flow of the bOunteous stream that hi
= brought US, with all else, the assn
. ance that we are one people in fact {
n well as in name, and that beyond til
"a froth and fuss Of politics, and the d.
ceits and dangers of demagogues, til
popular heart is safe, yielding only I
d. its fullness, when challenged in tt
q cause Of humanity, and brothers liv'
are at stake.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
Continued Rapid Increase in Ex
ports.
The following official figures are sig
nif3canf.

'S enae se.f Imports. Exports Exnos, =
June So s4s7 ,5ss sGs4 ss4 400 sa57 1882 6s1
July Sl..... 4s8 200 423 708,0,64 s6 270.8 ,06a
August. -. $50 s55,0i7 7sO,4si,l71 2ss.6l9.o5l
Here we have steady decrease in
imports, but by no means so large as
the significantly great and growing
increase in our exports, which, for the
year ended August 81, 1873, amount
ed to oger seUea hundred and taCenty
million dollars, and to nearly three
hundred million dollars more than our.
exports for the same period. This
n1eaRs resumption January l, 1879.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

81. Louls. Oct. %.
BY Telegraph
Wheat-irregular, lower; No. 2
red 82>S@H cash; 83@ Nov, 84N or
Dec; No. 3 do 7736@775i.
Corn-firm; 32@32A cash, 32X
Nov, 3lT Jan.
Oats-easier; 1917 cash, 2O1S Nov,
2ON Dec.
Rye-frmer 40.
Whisky-$1 08.
Pork-dull; &8 Is.
Lard-easier IS 80 bid.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
CATAR.RH

catarrh Of The Nssal Cavitles, Acuts,
Chronic, and uloerstive, hay Fevsr.
or Rose Catarrh. Catarrh Of the Ego
end Ear, and Catarrh Of tho Throat,
SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITn
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

MEMPHIS, Oct. 22.-It commenced
raining last night at 10 o'clock and
continued without cessation until 5 q.
m. This morning /: 10 clear and cold
with the thermometer at Sc degrees.
From six o'clock last evening until
noon to-day eleven orders for inter-
ments are reported by undertakers.
Five new cases and one death are
reported as having occurred yester-
day at Tuscumbia, Ala.
Charleston, s. c., authorities have
telegraphed that their nurses can re-
turn home without being subject to
quarantine.
A delegation of physicians who
came from Cincinnati and Dayton
will leave tomorrow. The Towards
are rapidly dismissing nurses.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
FOREIGN.

LONDON, October 22.-Clyde ship
wrights have accepted q reduction Of
Z per cent. on their wages.
The limited liability CT the Cotton
Spinning company Of Oldham & Ash
ton, under Tyne districts, make re-
ports of the last quarters business.
Of the companies, one pays divi-
dend of ~ per cent. per annum |;
nine report very email margins Of
profit, and twenty report losses, some
serious. Further reductions Of wages
are threatened.
1t 10 seated that Getty Waye, . pow.
erful chief Of the Zulu Kaffirs, will
shortly begin open hostilities against
the British.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
lnnortant necleion

BALTIMORE, Oct. 19.-In the U. &.
Circuit Court this morning, Judge
Bond fled his decision in the so-called
cigar-par tition case. The decision
requires separate rooms for the man.
ufacture and ssle of cigars.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

THE Monroe Miro speaks the fol-
lowing good and well deserved words
Judge Sampson:
In the loss of Judge Sampson as
to Congress in this dis
trict the people have indeed lost
friend. He Is not only q pure man,
an honorable man, but never erred in
vote or speech during the time he has
been serving the district. He was a
republican from conviction, and no
bly, battled for the principles of his
party. In the late contest he was the
candidate of the honest money party,
and as such candidate he made an
able canvass. But it was just such a
campaign in which sound, logical rea-
soning did not weigh against blind
appeals to passion and low demagOg-
uery, and he was defeated. We say
he conducted a manly canvass, never
STOPPING to the low abuse of grog-
shop politicians, but took firm and
manly and bold stand for the right,
and held his position to the end, and
although defeated he stands deserv-
eddy higher in his party than he ever
did, and has the profound respect of
every honest man in all parties. The
MIRROR feels proud of the stand it
took for him, both before and after
his nomination.
Barring the disgraceful part played
by Gen. Weaver in the late campaign,
he may make a fair congressman. He
has the ability, and we believe, pride
enough to not make such fool of
himself in Congress as to advocate the
wild and senseless theories advanced
by him and his party during the late
campaign, such as burning the bonds,
issuing three billions of greenbacks,
the taxes couple of years,
issuing an irredeemable paper money,
etc., etc.
In regard to what the Mirror says
of Weaver, we have this to say: That
Weaver has the ability to make a fair
congressman, but he is most distress
ingly lacking in the integrity neces-
sary to make a reputable congress-
man; however, he may average up
with democratic congressman, whose
party he pledged to support in caucus.
Gen. Viewers congressional career
will, in all probability be fashioned
after Viewers interests, present and
future, with principle as secondary
thereto. We SO judge because his
candidacy and canvass have been no.
toriously and disgracefully conducted
upon just such basis. ]. B. Weav-
er's ambition smothered his fealty to
principle and he sold out the latter to
the gnawing, consuming demands of
the former. Virtue once so willfully
shipwrecked, can never afterwards be
depended upon. If it appears on the
surface even, it is almost universally
blighted at the root, and its cause is
a selfish One-not an honest one.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

The supreme Court of Virgins
has decided that white and colored
persons cannot intermarry in that
state,