The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-06-11
GLEANINGS.


& Gen. Schofeld has assumed charge
of the War Office.
New figs are a drug in the New
York market at ten cents o pound
The New York correspondent of
the Charleston Courier proposes
Hancock and Fessenden as the Demo-
cratib ticket.
The Democratic Convention for
the First Congressional District of
Iowa has been called to meet at Mt.
Pleasant June 18th.
1t is understood that Hon. J. w.
Voorhees, will be the Democratic can
didate for Congress in the Terra
Haute District Of Indiana.
Gen Grant said, in accepting the
Chicago nomination: You may be
sure gentlemen, / shall have no poll
cy of my own to enforce against the
will of the people"
The Conservatives in Charleston
South Carolina have nominated for
mayor. Col VIM. P. Patton, former
~ an officer in the United States Ar
mo.
The Washington dispatch to the
New York Sun says that Senator
Ross trembled from head to foot"
while voting on impeachment:
At the Republican ratification
meeting at Bangor, Maine, Hon. Han
ibal Hamlin made a speech warmly
indorsing Grant and Colfax.
Mobile has so far this year receiv.
ed 100000 more bales of cotton than
Memphis.
Arson, Me-, produces more wool
than any other town in the State
There are $4,000 sheep in town chief.
ly Spanish merino.
The paper-hangers and paper-ma-
kers are mnch excited just now with
news Of the invention of gutta.percha
paper, which, for durability and I'M
nervousness, surpasses all previous
attempts at fabrication of a damp
resisting medium, it is to be pre-.
pared for paper-hanging.
It is said among two million of
people by whom Yeddo, in Japan, is
inhabited, there is not beggar in
the streets, not drunkard, not a ruff
fan.
Arrangements are nearly compile
ted for the International Convention
of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation commencing in Detroit June
Gath.
The owner of an estate in Boston
wished to build stable on a lot adj
joining church. The neighbors to
prevent this, caused an order to be
introduced into the Legislature re-
quiring the Judiciary Committee to
consider the expediency Of prohibi-
ting the erection Of stables within
fifty feet of churches. Last Friday
morning they were very much cha
grined to see stable built, and in
working order, on the lot referred to,
which stable was entirely erected
during single night and stocked
with hay and animals.
1t is estimated that there are over
sixty thousand Germans in Texas.
and that at least three fourths Of
them are engaged in agricultural
pursuits. Careful and Intelligent
observers believe that at least one
third of the whole cotton crop of
Texas is now planted and secured by
their labor.
Mark Twain, after his recent lee
ture, was presented by some Of his
California friends with very beau>
tifal and highly-polished silver brick
worth $40. The brick bears the fol-
lowing inscription "Mark Twain
Mathew, ", 41-Pilgrim." The
verse referred to reads az follows 81
I" And whatsoever shall compel thee
to go q mile, go with him twain"
At Iron Hills, Iowa, the Soul-sleep.
ers, or Second Advents, as they call
themselves, will hold great camp
meeting, commencing on the 10th
inst. Their great light, Rev. Mr..
Grant, of Boston, is expected to be
present.
A school girl, aged IA, in Oregon,
Warren county, Ohio, was repriman.
ded by her mother one day last week, |
and took the reproof very much to
her heart. Soon afterward her moth |
er had occasion to 60 into the celler
and was horror-stricken at discov-
ering hor daughter hanging by a
rope which she had fastened to a
joist. She was not rescued a moment |
too soon.
Gen. Geo. II. Thomas and Gen.
Irwin Mcdowell participated In the
ceremony Of decorating our soldiers
graves in the Cave Hill Cemetery |
Louisville on the Both ult.