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Year: 1877

The Mt. Pleasant Free Press gets
down to busines in the subjoined ex-
tract: Our business men frequently
send away for their printing and job
work, because it is offered at a trifle
cheaper rates. Whether 1t is good
policy to thus give money and patro.
mage to other places where they are
not interested is a question for bust.
ness men to answer. Because some
large Office can do a job little cheap.
er than it can be done at home, il
hardly a sufficient reason for thus
transferring patronage away from
your own town. 1t is certainly very
much for the business interests Of
every place, that the newspapers be
well patronized and by this means
enable to publish live reliable pa.
per which shall be q credit to the
town and county. The newspape,
advertises your business and works
for the interest Of your county. Con
slider then how little Is saved every
year by each one sending their worl
away, and how much is lost in th'
aggregate by the newspaper publish
er. Does it pay?
Year: 1877

Having been over a quarter of a
century in the retail Drug Trade and
for t,ceaty years in Wapello county
I flatter myself that l can give entire
satisfaction to my numerous friends
and patrons in this and adjoining
counties, and ask for q continuance
of the very liberal patronage that
have heretofore enjoyed, guarantee
ing to you as good goods for the
money as any firm west Of the Miss
issippi river. Give mo a call wher
in want Of any goods in my line.


JOHN L. MOORE,


wifi Cor. Main and Green SITS
Year: 1877

We want to say in justice to Mayor
j. S. Porter, that he signed only his
name to the Caster testimonial, and
did not affix his official title thereto
The addition occurred in putting it in
type in this. Office. Though we re-
gard all this matter as of little impor'
lance, yet it is due to Mr.. Porter tina
Just achat he did and that alone bt
known
Year: 1877

1 will sell Clothing and Furnishing
Goods that will astonish all those who
will favor me with call, defying
competition. Nusbaum is the man
that can and will do it. Try him be-
fore buying elsewhere. WITT
Year: 1877

The great majority OF our people
arc of one mind about the advantages
to be derived from securing the ter.
minus Of the Central road at our town
for all time. They know that in Iowa
as in Illinois, and all the older States,
there are to be a few leading towns
made SO by favorable positions and
the spirit and enterprise of their peo-
pie. Looking to Illinois, we see Peo-
ria, Bloomington and Decatur, places
with populations ranging from $4,000
to 10000 people, that have in the main
made themselves what they are by
the foresight and public spirit of their
people. To-day they are all growing
and are each the distributing centre
of large region of country. Not
one Of them has had greater natural
advantages than Ottumwa, but their
citizens never lost sight of the fact
that at whatever cost they must Sc
cure every railroad, the loss Of which
would in the least damage them. II
would have been we'll for Ottumwa
had we done the same. Large in
terror towns are in the main built up
by small property holders, men own
ing homes in value from $500 to
81 900. These are the most valued
class, because of their skilled labor,
which is continually producing
wealth. Unless they prosper the
town must languish and go down
There are hundreds of that class in
Ottumwa. They are the bone and
sinew of our town, and if we are to
become city, it is by fostering and
caring for their interests. They
build our homes, they toll in our
factories, they operate our railroads,
and in short are the bedrock ofall our
property as town. They can only
thrive by our continual growth. We
must give constant and profitable en-
ploymcnt by building more houses,
fostering greater manufacturing in
terests, and by encouraging the con-
struction of every railroad that points
in this direction. There is another
class whose interests must also be
looked after, the unskilled laborers,
who arc now standing idle about our
street corners, waiting for something
to do. 1t is the duty as well as the
interest of capital to furnish them
work, and no place in Iowa ought or
would be better spot for the labor
ing man, if capital will avail itself of
our natural advantages. 1t is hardly
to be conceived that any man of re-
Election would not make an exertion
to secure this new line of froad, which
will make Ottumwa the halfway
house between St. Paul and st. Louis,
the largest town between those great
cities, tho best location for jobbing
houses and manufacturing establish
ments. Itwould seem as if merchant,
manufacturer, mechanic and laborer
should alike favor the project, for all
will be benefited, but men will not
always see what is for their good,
the dime near the eye obscures the
more distant dollar. We ask all
classes to carefully consider this SUBJ
ject, study geography which has an
important bearing just now, and let
us not for second time be moving
about in sackcloth and ashes as we
did after losing the Southwestern
road.
Year: 1877

1t has rained now almost constantly
since the first day of March, making
some sixty-eight days of steady, cold
drizzling rain, The prospect is ex-
ceedingly gloomy, although we may
hope to raise good corn crop if the
weather will permit its planting any
time during May. Our farmer friends
inform us that oats and wheat gener-
ally promise well, while grass is
booming.
Year: 1877

In our local markets owing mainly
to the terrible weather, feed is very
scarce. There is no change particu.
larry in the price of corn or oats except
in retail way. Corn is retailing
from feed stores at GO cents and is
very scarce. 1t will readily bring
from so to IS cents by the wagon OF
car load.


Hay also is higher and sold to-day
at $12 per ton, owing to scarcity.
AS the roads improve it will be low
er. We quote:
Year: 1877

Some how or other we have not no.
ticed Of late so much abuse of Percy
Byssche Shelley Pinchback now since
he has gone over to the Democratic
Reformers of Louisiana, and received
for his treachery the lucrative Office
of Superintendent of Schools under
the Nichols government.
Year: 1877

We are requested to announce that
there will be a public meeting at the
City Hall Thursday evening the 10th
instant, at Z 80, to consider the i'm
portance of our proposed Iowa North
ern Railroad to aid which the people
of Centre and Richland Townships
will be called upon to vote on the
l4th instant. On that occasion some
Of our best local, and perhaps able
speakers from elsewhere, will address
the people. This matter resolves it.
self down to simple business propo-
sition, and that is can we afford indi-
vidually to pay two per cent. on our
taxation, one per cent, the first year
after the road is completed, and one
per cent. the next year after that, to
make Ottumwa the terminus of anoth-
er great railroad to make it the juno
ton between the North and South
railroad, to inevitably make this the
place for its principal depot and ma
chine shops, and. in fact to make OF
tumwa the best point on the route be-
tween st. Paul and st. Louis.


We have published the law and all
the readers of the COURIER know that
not one cent of the tax will be due or
collectible until the road is finished.


Private liberality and public spirit
has been taxed to the utmost of hu-
man endurance, to secure our other
public improvements, and it is about
time that the wealthy nonresident
property owners of the city, should
pay something towards building up
the city, which SO enhances the value
of their property.


At anyrate we hope every man,
whether tax payer or not, who takes
pride in our growing city, and who is
anxious to see it continue in its pros
perity will come out to the meeting
Thursday evening.
Year: 1877

Bachman & Oestreicher are making
a success of their Upholstery business


They are making splendid line oi
Parlor goods which they are selling
at low prices. Their handsome line
of single and double Carpet Lounges
are meeting with especial favor, and
are selling like hot cakes. Ladies yor
should not fail to visit the above firm
and examine their work, and we car
assure you there is no better place II
the west to buy from. ms d5t wi
Year: 1877

In the case of the State VS.. Harry
Wolf, on the charge of an assault
with an attempt to commit murder
Wolf was held to answer to the Dis
trict Court, this morning, by Mayor
Porter in the sum of $1,000. 1t will be
remembered that this is q case grow.
ing out of the recent Manog case.
Year: 1877

Wm. H. Ashurst, Esq, former

 ly of Tehama C .unty, California, and now residing with his family at the hase of Bill Williams moun- tain, came to town this morning and informs Us that his sheep range is all and more than he eX- pected in the way of winter past

 urage. He asserts positively that his two thousand head of sheep are at this moment the fattest flock of sheep for the mum Der that he ever saw at any season of the year, and he has spent the majori- ty of his lifetime in the sheep business in California. His sum- mer range is up in the high foot hills, or part way up the mountain where he has built his residence, and where he has sufficient tillabie land for all the purposes of a sheep raiser. Here he could have easily kept his sheep all winter, had he known ii would be so mild, but having a winter range and ranch twelve miles down the he removed his flock down there for the winter and the result has been as stated the fat test two thousand sheep an old sheep raiser ever saW.-Miner.
Year: 1877

had an opportunity the other day of examining Gen. Berdan's new distance calculator, or, in military language, "range finder" which is making such a sensation here in military circles. When closed up, ready for moving, it looks like sort of primitive chariot, mounted on two light wheels and drawn by one horse. Two men ride upon the comfort able seat, the driver and the operator, and for the latter, so simple is the instru- ment, no special training is necessary, however desirable it may be that he should understand the principles of trie- onometrical science.

 When range of any point is taken, before battery begins to play, for in- stance, or regiment to fire, the horse is slipped out of the shafts and the body of the "charIot" then turned completely over on it's axle. The frame, on which is built the seat, then serves as a firm and steady support for the instrument. The body of the vehicle is box or case one metre wide, nearly two long, and about foot deep; and when it's two opposite ends are thrown open, the in. strument is ready for use.

 This consists, loosely described, of two parallel telescopes about one and half metres long, and very powerful, affixed to frame which swings on common pivot. The sight ends are just one metre apart, and this is, of course, the base line of the calculation. One of these telescopes is movable only with the frame, of which both form a part. This is first sighted on the object, and then the frame is made fast, the first step be- ing thus completed. The other telescope is adjustable further, on pivot of it's own, and, by means of small wheel, is turned to the right angle of conveyance with it's companion-that is to say, until it too, covers the objecs.

 Now, having the base line and the angle of convergence, any surveyor could,
Year: 1877

A bloodless revolution is now going on in the basement of our great houses and fashionable boarding-houses, whose sullen murmurs float up the back stairs. It is the Irish girls resisting being put into caps.

 The cap question is agitating all parts of ths habitable town. The caps them- selves are really the defense of mistresses against the prevailing style of coif'ure which is making untold ravages among the waitresses.

 Fastidious people object that it dis seminates itself too freely through the food and over our shoulders at the table. The only alternative would be to give the girls more time in the morning to arrange and make firm the structure, which requires time and plenty of hair pins. Hair-pins being among the per quisites of the place that objection is of no force; to the time mistresses natu- rally refuse to consent.

 French servants expect to wear caps, Germans accept them, but the Irish make sturdy resistance. The custom, how ever, is growing. In many houses girls will not be considered who refuse to wear caps, and in others, when extra pay has been given to induce old servants to put them on, they are turned away now if refusing to wear them, the pay being withdrawn. The custom is not con- sidered to conflict with republican ideas; ladies whose patriotism abhors anything that looks like sumptuary legislation re- gard caps as tribute to neatness, and livery as question of order, and both as a graceful recognition of the demands of Heaven and godliness. As for the girls, the best servants acquiesce in the new regulation and put on their neat caps. As to superior people the world over, the mere question of dress is of no paramount importance; besides, it is hard times. The slatterns sturdily rebel.

 There is rumor of still greater in- novation several degrees higher in the social scale. Several gentlemen have in contemplation new store modelled after Au Bon Mafche, and are now seeking proper location for the enterprise. In this store the female employees are to wear a uniform consisting Of cap and apron, uniform which presumably will be made as pleasant and becoming AS possible to the young ladies who wear it.--N '. World.
Year: 1877

suggested for inducing sleep is for the patient to close his eyes and try to think he is attentively watching stream of air entering and leaving the nostrils. When the stream seems to be visible, sleep infallibly comes. Another plan proposed is simply to breathe slowly and quietly for few moments. It is worth trial. The sleepless person should take deep, slow inspirations, initiating the breathing of quiet sleeper.
Year: 1877

When the Prince of Wales visited Coventry two or three years ago, the secretary to his royal highness, thinking the procession to the station was moving somewhat slowly, sent rather an impera- tive message commanding the mayor to trot" The answer returned WAS, "Tell MT. Knollys the mayor of Coventry does not trot." The present occupier of the magisterial chair was present at dinner party given the other evening by the member for North Warwickshire, Mir. Bromley Davenport. He had the honor
Year: 1877

The methods recommended for the cure of slee plessness are numberless. Those suffering from habitual wakeful- ness had better store their minds with remedies, and try one after another, until something e.iectual is discovered. For what will help one person may be useless to another. One curious method
Year: 1877

and found that Martin Ryan's name
is borne as corporal, and that he
was present for duty when his COM
mand went into that fatal action of
June 25, 1875. 1t was stated by
the friendly Indians that there are
several others of Clusters men
prisoners in Sitting Bulls camp,
but Ryan's case was the only one
which was verified. Sitting Bull
was asked the question direct by
General Corbin, if he took any
prisoners of the Seventh Cavalry,
and answered fatty, "That is none
of your business" Sitting Bull
talked considerably about the battle
with Custer, and all he said fully
confirmed the conclusion arrived at
by General Terry last year when he
examined the ground just after the
battle. He said that at first he
thought General Terry's whole
army was upon him, and he had
moved his women and children and
property about four miles in retreat,
when he received information from
his scouts that it was only the Sew
enth Cavalry and Long Hair (Cus-
ter), and that they were divided and
Reno had already retreated. He
says he then took 1000 warriors
and went back and moved down on


Custer in a solid mass and ended


the fight right there. He says that
Long Hair was one Of the very last
down, and that the Indians shouted
and made signs to him to surren-


der, but he would not, and about


the last of the fight he was killed.


He said that if he had captured


Custer he would not have hurt him,
but have kept him in his camp.
Year: 1877

Trigg County Ky.) Democrat


A laborer engaged last Friday in
digging holes in a lot near the fa-
nous mound in Canton, for the
purpose of building a post and rail-
ing fence for DR.. Lackey, unearthed
a number of skeletons. The skull
and jawbone Of one of them evi-
IDENTIFY belonged to a race of giants.
The lower jaw found fitted easily
over the skin and lower extremity
of the face of Mr.. Bailey Tompkins,
a well-known citizen Of the place,
whose facial developments at these
points are large and covered with a
heavy beard. On the breast of the
skeleton was found a stone spear
head, about eighteen inches in
length, showing that the remains
belonged at least to some great
chief of the aborigines, a "head
and shoulders taller" than any of
the tribes known to exist on the
continent.
Year: 1877

7 had ridden hard and fast, and was aston
ished to find myself coming into struggling
settlement. On the course which | should
have taken there was nothing Of the sort.
Somewhere had crossed the right trail and
taken the wrong one. Almost any traveller
in the border sections would have been glad
to thus stumble upon place for food and re-
freshment. Not so with myself. In the
breast pocket of my coat carried five thous-
and, four hundred and ninety odd dollars, in
United States money I had received this
amount from Maior-Gen. T. NJ. Lacy, and it
was to be carried through to Fort Laramie,
and placed in the hands of COL Asa E. South
ard, to defray necessary army expenses.


Get throug Oh at your best gait, Carnes, y
said the Major, "tbe money is long since over
due. and Southard's rather irascible temper
must have been tried to the utmost. You
know how the soldiers get to growing if un-
Gle is at all delinquent in paying up. Ride
in careless manner, but be careful. | don't
think that any one dreams of the arrival of
this money-save, of course, the mail agent
and the clerk who delivered me the pack
ages"


I was directed over an unfamiliar section,
hence my losing of the right route. con:
sidered it my safest plan, as long as had
bluudered upon the verge Of the settlement,
to boldly enter and rest as an ordinary travel.
er would do. Should push hurriedly on, |
might, by that very act, excite suspicion.


There we're only two men in the bar-room
when entered !; the landlord and the hostler.
Under his familiar cordiality the landlord
furtively eyed me in manner that made me
Year: 1877

him round the other way. For brief time,
the desperado wrestled with the animal, lash
ed, goaded and roared at him, but my inces:
SAINT, jerky, whistle.call, kept his head and
mind toward me. He only gave up the fruit
less struggle, and leaped from his back, when
a SQUAD of infantry dashed over a billowy
swell of the prairie, and rushed down toward
US at that steady, measured run, which is so
effective in contrast with disorderly gait.


"It's Wolf, boys" l exclaimed, as they
came up with me-for knew his voice.
had no need to tell them that there was a
price set upon bis head, as it had been clear
ip proved that be had stirred up the savages
to commit more than one massacre OF the
settlers and dozen Of them, uttering yell
of fury, started in pursuit; while the others.
noticing my swaying about on the animal
which | rode, began to think that had found
something serious in the race for life. In
fact, the plain was rising and falling and
shuffling about so that it took great amount
of nerve and equipoiset sit as 1 ought. They
got me into Fort Laramie, however, with
uncle's promissory notes all safe in my breast
pocket; while my boot full of blood, and the
CALLING flesh wounds ii my shoulder, account
ed for the odd maneuverings on the plain
while was on horseback.


After brief, but desperate conflict, Bill
Wolf was brought in, and passed over to pro-
per officers ito have and to hold" until there
should be meted out to him the measure which
he had given others.
Year: 1877

THE unfortunate people of Louisi-
ana have as much to do with the main
tenance of the Returning Board in that
State as they have with the Spanish
ascendency in Cuba That board is
the spawn of corrupt Federal admin
istration. Without the protection Of
the Federal Government, it would
have been swept out OF existence years
ago.-RrooklyR Eagle.
Year: 1877


And is he really stricken dead
In the full flush OF manhoOd's prime,
Like oak tree shattered ere It's time
By sudden flash Of lightning dreadP
The truest friend, the noblest foe,
The tenderest heart, the firmest hand,
The bravest Que Of all tile land
The stricken Pride of Ludlow.
And must we now return to earth
The stately form. the gentle heart?
Our burning tears unbidden start,
Alas Alas the noble worth.
We mourn the Pride Of Ludlow,
Who stood so firmly at his post,
Aud with the friends who loved him most
We wall the stroke that laid him low.
Beloved BY all since first he came,
Respected, honored too by all
Passed from US now beyond recall
He LEFT us none to bear his name.
We mourn the Pride OF Ludlow,
Who slumbers now among the lust
His soul Is with the saints we trust
We wall the strSke that laid him low.


t"rI'ten Tor the ARGUS sCIO.
Year: 1877

A FRIEND who makes very flaky pie crust with but little lard, kindly gave me what she thinks is the secret of it.. She mixes little lard with flour and cold water until quite stiff, then rolls it out, spreads on a little lard, sprinkles flour over it and folds it over so it is double; then rolls out and spreads on again, repeating the process two or three times after the last time, instead of rolling up, as some do, she folds it up once or twice and cuts the pieces for use from the edge. @F

 Her idea is to keep the layers of shortening as near horizontal as possi ble, avoiding mixing them up, as one does in holding or rolling, and there seems to be deal of reason in it.
Year: 1877

IT MAY be of some value 10 telegraph operators who have marble based in struments, and housekeepers who have marble-top furniture, to know that the common solution of gum arabic is an excellent absorbent, and will remove dirt, &c.,, from marble. First. Brush the dust off the place to be cleaned, then apply with brush a good coat of gum arabic, about the consistency of thick office mucilage, expose it to the sun or dry wind, or both. In a short time it will crack and peel off. If all the gum should not peel off, wash it with clean

 water and clean cloth. Of course if the first application does not have the desired effect it should be applied again. Second, make a paste with soft soap and whiting, wash the marble with it, and then leave a coat of paste upon it for two or three days. Afterwards wash off with warm (not hot) water and soap. -Scienti6c American. 70 ri
Year: 1877

CURE FOR CHAPPED HANDs.-One part of glycerine, four of Ponds Extract or Witch Hazel, four of water; put in a bottle and shake we'll; it is ready for use immediately; it is we'll to shake thoroughly each time of using.
Year: 1877

OYSTER PIE.-Make rich puff paste :; line baking dish with it, and fill with bread crumbs; butter the edges of the dish, put on the top cover, and edge with leaves cut out of the paste, and bake in. a moderate oven; wash the oysters in water, strain the liquor, put it in a saucepan over the fire, and let it come to boil; put in your oysters, which should be large and fresh, season with salt, cayenne pepper, mace and nutmeg; thicken with yolk hard boiled egg, grated and fine bread crumbs, add butter; when the oysters are plump, ana tle paste baked, take of the top as possible, put on the cover and send to table.