The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-05-14

A0Ao J"uuoiy ucpcHub upou 1uc
prompt payment of the subscrip-
tions along the line, which should
be done at once to enable our con.
tractors, Messrs Wolf, Carpenter 4
Co., to prosecute the grading and
bridging to early completion.
Congressman Nominated.
The Congressional Convention in
the I'd (Hiram Prices District) met
at Dewitt on Tuesday last, and after
along but good ,,natured contest, NOM
mated Col. VIM. Smythe, of Linn
county, on the 156th regular ballot,
the final vote standing Smythe As,
and Jacob Butler, of Muscatinc coun-
ty, 2l. Col. Smythe is a loyal intel
ligent Irishman, who settled in linn
county in 1888. He is regarded as
one Of the best citizens, and foremost
lawyers OF the Cedar Valley. He has
been, honored, by the people of his
section with the judgeship of the sth
Judicial District, the Senatorship of
his county, at least once. and was a
faithful and able member of the Com
mission, which gave us tho Revised
Code Of 1860. fj 'ifa7
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In 1862 Col. S. was made the Com
manding officer Of the just-then or.
ganized 31st. Iowa, with which he
served with distinguished credit in
Sherman's army, up to the capture of
Savannah. His nomination over
Butler, and other worthy men, is par
ticularly complimentary to him, and
affords us much satisfaction, since we
bet new hat on his winning, with a
prominent state official last week,
which viii account for our early ap-
pearance with a new tile of the latest
Stiles. F4 ,l .tgt.,
The FREsHET.-J. M. Hull, living
3 miles South West of Chilicothe, lost
10000 feet of lumber, by the recent
high water in lower Avery Creek, no
damage to his mill.
Lewis Stump, living 81 miles S.
w. of Chilicothe lost 40 shcep at the
IL .
same time, also Geo. Stump, living
near by lost two cows and calf.
Squire Berkey, in same neighbor-
hood lost 20 sheep, and Christ. Hal
terman, also, IS ditto, by the unpre-
cedented food. l
Our informant says it raised 20
feet in 3 hours, and that it was high
or than ever before in Is years.
Avery being the principal tributa-
ry Of Soap Greek, accounts for the
great rise and obstruction of proper>
ty along the latter stream.
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ELoPEMENT.-We are indebted to
Competine Township for an clope-
mant item. It seems that Bob.
Bland loved Mary Wright, not WISE
ly but vastly too well. Wright, pa
terjamilias, couldn't see it-Mary
and Bob. could. Wright, senior, in.
exorably banished Bob. from his
premises. asq
REsULT.-Bob. and Mary met as
often, or eftener than before, and the
sucking, and billing and cooling
went on just the same; proving
in this case as in all others since the
world began, that love is too much
for parental mandates, or locksmiths;
and that, like the famous plaster
"the more youtry to pull 'em apart;
the more they stick the faster"
GRAND fINALE.-Mary goes to
singing school last Sunday night;
Bob. is unexpectedly there; they
meet after singing is OUT embrace;
etc, etc; and "vamoose der ranehe,"
and long ere this Mary has ceased
to be Wright, but we hope not ceased
from doing right, while Bland, in
contemplation Of his brillient strate
gy over the belligerant sire, is sup
posed to be as bland as a summer
morning.
EXPECTED SEoUEL.-The return Of
Bob. and Mary; their acknowledge.
ments Of being very bad and willful
children. The forgivness of Wright
senior; and everything will be Glove.
" and the goose hang particularly
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