The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-05-28
GLEANINGS.

The young merchants OF st. Lou.
is are about organizing Republican
club.
| Buildings to the amouat of $780,
900 worth will be erected ut Winona,
Wis, this season.
Tho San Francisco servant girls
invest in real estate, many of them
owning valuable town lots.
A can of benzine recently explo-
ded in the Missouri Penitentiary, en-
dangering the lives of number of
prisoners.
There is lady in New York who
speculates through Wall street firm
to the amount of $3.50, 900 per day.
By the laws of the Dominion, fish
ing for pike, bass, pickerel and mus
kelonge, from May to June /, is pro-
hibitcd under penalty of $50.
Italy is now issuing paper money,
the engraving of which was done in
this country.
Fifty cars leave Omaha daily load
ed with iron for the end Of the line.
Light kid gloves with monogram
on the back is the latest agony Of the
young New Workers..
Pittsburgh has thirty-three iron,
eight steel, and two copper rolling
mills. The iron mills haye a daily
capacity for 1900 tons.
Counterfeit fives on the First Ma
tional Bank of Indianapolis are in
circulation.
The first cheese factory ever start
ed in Kansas has been put in opera
ton at Olathe.
Home, the Spiritualist, in the
course of his recent examination, OK
pressed his belief that there were H.
100000 5piritualists in the United
States alone.
The route Of the Union Pacific
Railroad strikes the Salt. Lake Val.
ley eight miles north of Salt Lake
City-leaving Brigham and his saints
out in the cold
A mortgage Of $50, 100000 is said
to have been lately given by the
Hartford and Erie Railroad Compa-
ny, and recor ded in the Clerks Office
Of Putnam county, N. Y.
A Connecticut man, who had his
arm neatly cut off in o saw-mill,
picked up the member, shut off the
water from the mill, and walked
home with his arm, in his hand.
During the month of April, 2.346
barrels Of eggs were shipped at
Mount Verdon, Ohio, and sec bar
rels of -four received at the same
point. The eggs paid for the -four,
and left a balance of $4,000.
| Wheat, in Platte and Ray counties,
Mo-, is eighteen inches high and il
beginning to head. The crop gen.
orally throughout the State is very
promising.
| Several members of o family resi-
ding in Traverse, Nicollet county,
Mimi, were poisoned recently by
eating the seed of the wild parsnep
| By timely remedies, the lives Of oil
were saved.
Five thousand negroes have re,
Gently had q picnic at Nashville
Tenn.
| The Western Union Telegraph
Company will furnish reports of com
ing storms to all cities and towns
which will agree to fire signal guns,
! A tour of the world will soon be
a very easy undertaking. When the
Pacific Railroad is finished, from New
York to San Francisco will take sew
en- days: from San Francisco to Hong
Kong, by way Of Yokoma, twenty
days; from Hong Kong, by steamer
to Suez, thirty two days; from Suez
to Paris, six days; from Paris to New
York, ten days; in all, seventy-fve
days.
i Another telegraphic cable will
soon be laid between HAVANA and
Key West. This has been rendered
necessary by the increased number
of messages which may be expected
when the cable is laid between Ha
vana and Aspinwall. The United
States steiner Gettysburg is now en-
gagged in taking soundings on the
rout through the Gulfof Mexico, and
the communication with Panama
and the west coast of South Ameri
lea will speedily be opened.
/ A LIST of April story was circulated
that but three silver dollars were
coined in 1864, and that fabulous
prices are paid for these coins. The
result has been hundreds of persons
searching for, obtaining, and trying
to sell specimens of that particular
coinage. Petty brokers have been
fairly run down by anxious inquiries
on the subject.
Two men in Cadiz, O., have bought
q whole township, 23,040 acres, il
Steuben county, Nebraska, and will
cultivate 1t as farm. Their resi-
dence will be put in the center, with
streets laid out, and an avenue
around the whole estate, lined with
the Usage hedge. "This," says {
correspondent, ''is only a sample O
our Nebraska farming"
1t is stated that the United States
five-twenty bonds of all denomina
tions are now used largely in place
of letters of credit. This is espe
cially true of German and Continen.
tai travellers visiting Europe. They
carry small United States bonds will
them, and find them much cheaper
and easier of negotiation than tn,
old fashioned bankers letters.
A curious method of killing ratl
is recommended in a German journa
as very efficient. A piece OF new o.
unused sponge is cut into small pie
ces, which are smeared with butter
and placed within reach of the rats
next to q dish of water. The rats ca
the sponge, and, becoming thirsty
drink the water, which swells tn,
sponge, and, in o short time kills tn,
| animals. which are found dead nj