The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-03-11
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Minnesota has reduced the bounty
seventy per cent.

seth ttreen has at last succeeded |
IN Matching white-tish spawn.
The Memphis Sun calls very
black negro the "vivified butt end Of
midnight"
Parepa mus have fallen away rap
idly. Carl Rosa speaks of her as his
poor wife,"
s'Henry Clay has been arrested in
New Yof!< for keeping bogus intel
iigence Office.
f Selocipedes, we are told by the
Shanghai News Letter, have ceased
to be . novelty in the streets of that
city.
4 \ married Pittsburger of Mormon
pcoehvities lately performed the ex
,>traordinary feat of eloping with two
willows.
An English chemist has had the
insolencc to tell San Francisco that it
will always have epidcmics while it
is 50 dirty.
The highest permanent human
Glabo is the Buddhist monastery of
Ilanlc. in Thibet, which is 1917 feet
above the sea.
William Bingham, Of the firm of
Bingham, Wrisley 4 Co., proprietors
OF the Revere and fremont Houses
in Boston, retires from the firm on
the first of March, having transferred
his interest to Gardner Wetherbee. of
New York.
At Frankfort Ky, the jury in the
seduction case of Hancock against
Niiheit returned verdict this even
ing in favor of the plaintiff for So, 900
damages, being the full amount of
the claim. This is the second trial.
with the same result.
Members Of the House Committee
on Foreign Relations express the be.
iief that the present condition of af.
fairs in Cuba and San Domingo will
surely lead to annexation within the
irst four months of General Grants
administration.
In the Louisville Chancery Court,
The members of the bar have elected
Col. II. w. Wooley, Chancellor pro
ten. His competitors for the posi-.
ton were James A. Beatty, Governr
Bramlette, Judge James P, Hardin.
son and Gen. Humphrey Marshall.
c. d. Robinson, of the firm Of
Wood II Robinson, brokers, No. &c
Broad street, New York, is reported
by his partner to have absconded
with $4,000 in $50 bonds of 1857
three certified checks of S1O, 900 each
and 600 shares of various kinds q
stock, valued at $4,000.
The Prussian Diet proposes ts
grant two million forins to the mu
nicipality of Frankfort, to which the
King will add million from his pri
waite purse, in the hope that such &C
ton will draw closer to the monarch,
and crown the hearts of the inhabi
tants of that city.
Jack Frazer, halfbreed Sioux
whose remarkable career was nara
ted a year " two ago by Gen. Sib
ley, died last week at Faribault also
Taopi, a Sioux of considerable note
who was instrumental in procuring
thc surrender of some 300 Indiana
implicated in the massacre of 1862
Nearly all the velocipede maker.
have agreed to pay ten dollars or
each machine to Calvin Witty, owne,
OF the Lallemant patents. Two new
patents for the Hanlon Brothers, in
r'udlng nearly all the devices used il
Feiocipedcs, have appeared, and Their.
Is much excitement among the ma
keTS in consequence.
The leaders in the difficulty at Tho
catholic Church of the Holy Family
IN Auburn, N. Y, Were arraigned be-
s% fore Justices Court on charge o.
disturbing divine service, and tn,
trial resulted in the acquittal of tho
accused. The complaint was made
by Bishop McQuadc and the appoin
tee, Rev. Kavanaugh, who were eiec
ted from the church, the congrega
ton refusing to listen to them.
Gov. Fairchlld, of Wisconsin, has
appointed w. D. Brown, Of Wauke.
sha, and J. B. Whitney, of GAINESVILLE
trustees of the Deaf and Dumb In.
- itute. Senator Lynde and Assem-.
oiymen Graves and Kellam are an.
pointed committee to investigate
the management of this institute
and will begin their duty at the close,
OF the session. The talk of depomi.
national and extravagant administra-
ton has caused The investigation.
The quantity of fish mot including
,IHed tish) inspected in the State Of
Maine, during the year 1868, was
$3.50 barrels of mackerel. and 1910
barrels Of other fish.
4 sells peppermints on Sunday.
remarked a good old lady, who kept
z candyshop, because they carries
gem to church and eats 'em, and SO
keeps awake to hear the sermon: Init
Ii you wants comfts you must come
week days. They are secular COM
.modities.n
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