The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-05-05
NEWS ITEMS.

hail stones, fell here on Tuesday afternoon.
A history of this county is in course OF
preparation by Uriah Biggs and G. ID. r.
Boyd.
The exciting Sickles trial was terminated
on the 35th The verdict of the Jury was
not gritty.
The individual who copied the confession
of Mrs. Sickles for the press, was Mr. Thos
: Francis Meagher.
An American blacksmith at Chillington,
England, has erected machine which strikes
off sixty horse shoes per hour.
Three ovcrseers on the plantation Of j. d.
Fondren, Raymond, Miss, have been sue
cessively murdered by the negroes under
their charge.
There are now three hundred patients in
the Inliana hospital for the insane-the
largest number that has ever been within its
walls.
Broadway, New York, is sprinkled every
day with brine, to secure foothold for hors-
es. The Russ pavement is as smooth as
glass.
The Gate City say: the Father of Waters
is rapidly rising, and being already at high
stage there are some fears of considerable OF
food.
A law recently passed in Maine, establish
ed the annual salary of the members of the
Legislature at $3.50. They can twelve
months, if they please, for this princely sum.
, Fresh White fish and Trout from Lake
Michigan, can be ha 1 in our market OCCASION
ally at 12s cts, per pound. They go off
like hot cakes.
A woman and her little boy fell from the
Railroad bridge over Cedar Creek between
Fairfield and Batavia, few days ago, and
both were drowned
The fires in the woods, on Cape Cod, have
already burnt over about 1000 acres, entail
ing loss of some $4,000. Several per-
sons narrowly escaped with their lives.
The decision of Chief Justic Shaw, of
Mass, that any citizen has right to destroy
any shop in which spirituous liquors We're
sold, has been reversed by the full bench of
Judges.
The Des Moines Citizen, of the 9th, states
that Lieut.. Gov. Faville declines being again
a candidate for the position he now holds
His health is so feeble as to render him I'M
able to canvass the State in the event of his
nomination.
The complexion of European affairs, ac-
cording to steamer of 26th, was warlike. At
Paris there was no hope Of peace. France
doesn' like the Austrian proposals for the
Congress; but not being ready, Napoleon
seeks to delay.
The Chinese waters are soon to be filled
with American steamers. A beautiful
steamship of 1900 tons has Just been COM
pleted in New York, at cost of 5000 900, to
run between Shanghai and Hong Kong,
China, for which station she leaves on the
Odd instant.
/ The steamer st. Nicholas Capt. McMullen,
exploded below Memphis, on the oath, by
which 40 passengers are known to have been
killed, 9 of the number were ladies' All the
boilers exploded. The boat, with the cargo,
burnt to the waters edge. Loss, exclusive
of insurance, $4,000.
Two Germans were lost between Spirit
Lake and Siox City, in the early part of ,st
month, and wand red over the prairies six
days, without food, and nearly perished-
They lost their carpet sacks containing valu-
able articles
PosT OFFICE DRAFTs.-A 'form ofindebted-
ness" has been prepared by the Postmaster
General, that those who contract to carry the
United States males for this specie-paying
government may have their demands dis
counted.
The Davenport Gazette says gentleman
who made a trip through that county, re-
Gently, reports that the wheat sown two or
three weeks since. and supposed to have been
generally killed by the unreasonable weather,
has nearly all sprouted and is growing finely.
The challenge Of 7. NJ. Brown, of st. Louis
to certain members of the CINCINNATI Chess
Club, offering pawn and two moves, in a
match offive games, has been accepted by Mr..
French-stakes, travelling expenses and set
of $l5 chess men. We have not heard OF
the completion Of the arrangements yet.
i WHEAT.-The wheat prospects in this
State are good. We exchange with nearly
every paper printed in Iowa. We hear of
no complaints through them in regard to
wheat except delay in planting. The win
ter wheat is generally very promising, but
there is comparatively little of it sown. A
contemporary abroad says that If Iowa far
mers will go to the expense of getting wheat
drills, and putting in their winter wheat by
that means, they will find it almost certain
crop Davenport Gazette.
Assessment Of WapellO Co., 1859.
We are indebted to Joseph Hayne, Esq,
Cnupty (rleri, for the fnlowinc Abstract nj