The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-06-04
GLEANINGS.

"A baltimore Grand Jury has in
dicated the lottery system as a 'sfren.
zy."
The man who sang 80 breathe no
moro that simple air." went into u
smoking car where the air was more
mixed.
Pittsfeld has erated bread, manu-
factured in Albany, and sent to her
"a distance of fifty miles.
In Germany every town of fifteen
thousand inhabitants boasts an opera
company.
A native Of Ashburnham, Mass,
has lately given to that town $780,
600, for the purpose of cndowing an
academy.
American canned fruits are be-
coming very popular in England
peaches and tomatoes taking the
lead.
Napier found, in q church in the
wilds of Abyssinia, a golden chalic
engraved with the royal arms Of
England.
There are said to be but fifty-three
stockholders in the Union Pacific
Railroad.
The Ohio Legislature has already
been in session more than 100 days,
and the appropriation for the pay
and mileage of members is $ll5, 900.
A thousand feet of telegraph wire
were melted and destroyed by light
ming the other day near Cheona, Iii.
Two bushels of rats were found in
the vat Of a brewery recently seized
by revenue officers in Philadelphia.
The Colt armory, at Hartford,
now keeps 400 men in constant en-
ployment on the Russian order for
10000 Redan rifles, and this force il
soon to be largely augmented.
The Fairbanks scales mandatory
1t st. Johnsbury, Vt, turns out each
week 60 hay, coal and railroad scales,
300 portable and warehouse scales,
and 600 counter scales, the concern
employing 400 men, and consuming
daily fifteen tons ofiron.
The 4th ofJuly this years falls up.
on Saturday, thus giving the work
ingman holiday and day of rest
in succession.
A Court Of Equity, in Philadel-
phia, has decided that a woman, by
virtue of her sex, is not incapacita-
ted from taking a fifteen hundred
dollars salary for doing the same
work performed by man.
A few days ago three emigrant
families from Franklin cunty, Massa-
chusetts, arrived at Dubuque, Iowa,
having travelled the whole distance
of twelve hundred miles by wagon.
A company was organized in Bos-
ton, on Monday, with q capital of
$500, 900, to introduce the new sys-
tenn Of lighting street lamps by elec-
tricity, by which more than fifty
lamps can be instantaneously light
ed from central office, and as spec
dily turned off.
The Augusta Republican says that
much of the Republican success in
Georgia is due to the white men of
Northern Georgia, who, weariod with
the strife which the demagogucs of
Middle Georgia commenced and are
striving to keep up, desirous of re-
turning to the Union which they
mover willingly abandoned, have ta-
ken the only path open to peace and
reconstruction.-MempAi Post.
The city Of Aurora had o verdict
OF 500 damages rendered against
it on Saturday last, in favor of
Mrs. Longenburger, who fell through
. defective sidewalk last winter and
broke her arm.
Hearing a Democratic young lady
rejoicing over acquittal, saying that
"it filed her bosom with joy Cup
py disgracefhlly remarked that he
thought her form was better than
usual.
A laborer, while altering an old
house in Hoboken, found $4,000 in
gold. The house was once owned by
John Jacob Astor, but we would give
large odds that he nevor allowed that
amount OF money to lie where it
wouldn't draw interest,