The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-11-23

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HOTELS gq,os : ig, :. (,
| Considerable interest is manifesto,
regarding hotel accommodation
bore during the coming wiutsf
Willard's is still closed and unles
the prices Of living there are reduce,
the travelling public may be thankiu
if it remains closed for all time !,
come. The Seaton House is nov
occupied By the Clerks Of the Unitct
States Pension Office. The Kirk
| wood is bleak and deserted. Th,
National Is doing fair business
The Continental Hotel, on the Av
cnue, between third and four and |
half streets, is one of the best hotel
in the city, and has good "run" Q
Iowa custom. The proprietor being
an lows man--Mr. T, l. Mesick o
Cedar Falls lit is general headquar
ters for STRAY Iowans who want ,
good bed and q good meal at fail
prices. As a landlord Mr.. Mesick il
a success.
FrTxoRRALD.
Col. Fitsgerald fthe Philadelphia
Daily City Item. was in the city ths
other day, and was the guest of Hon
N. L. Higgins. Judge Higgins rep
resents the paper in this city as it,
Washington correspondent, and i,
one Of the ablest writers we have
He wrote all the editorials for the
Daily Republican of this city fol
more than . year. They were
characterised for their force Of argu
ment and general solidity.
IMPORTANT TO PosTMAsTEks.
am placed under obligations to
Colonel A. G. Cameron formerly Of
Charlton, but now an employee OF
the Post Office Department here.
He rs also the editor and proprietor
OF the Post Office Gazette. He has
lately issued "Hand Book for Post.
masters" It is work specially
adopted to the use of special agents,
postmssters, postal railway clerks,
route agents, mail messengers and all
others who desire to know how to
transact business with any branch Of
the Post Office Department. It is
an invaluable little work, and should
be in the hands of everybody. 1t
will be sent for thirty Eve cents by
mail, on application to "Col. A. e.
Cameron, Post Office Department,
Washington, d. c."
PERSONAL.
DR.. J. g. A. skinner, OF Indianapo
lis, has resigned his clerkship IN the
General Land Office, and returns to
Indiana to engage in the practice Of
medicine. Mr.. Skinner formerly
lived in Mt. Pleasant, and is . nephew
of Senator Harlan.
Colonel L. D. Ingersoll has gone
to Iowa, and will make Rome howl
in that vicinity about three weeks.
Gen. Josiah Given, of Des Moines,
will resign his position in the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau, about the fret
of December. The General is very
popular here and his absence will be
deeply felt.
Col. F. Il. 1mpey, of Davenport,
now an employee of the Agricultural
Department, bas been i'll for several
weeks. His family has also been
sick, which makes times anything
but lively for the Colonel.
Gen. Allan Rutherford, the young
ard popular Third Auditor Of the
Treasury Department. has gone to
North Carolina on the urgent request
L
Of prominent Republicans in thai
State. He will be absent q couple o.
weeks. Leading Republicans in hi,
district desire him to become can
didate tor Congress and it is probabl,
he will enter the field in that capacity
No man in the Old North State has
better war record, clearer head, o.
better judgment in politics, than ha
Gen. Rutherford.
| he would make . mAgni6ccn
member in Con yress, - he il q wild
awake, enterprising, honest man.
| Col. Geo. Cowie, of 9th Auditor
Office, returned to duty the other da,
after month leave in Iowa.
! A. NJ. Scott, Esq, of Fail field, nov
clerk ia the Pension Office here
has been appointed q member OF th
School Board Of this city.
l
Il. Nj. Stowe, Of Mt. Pleasan,
formerly clerk In the Treasur
Department, has resigned and gon
to Montana.
Hon. Charles Pomeroy aud Wn
, Loughridge, Of Iowa, are in the CIT,
! They wrostle their potatoes at ii
! National Hotel.
Capt. John Carson, of Wapell
r Louisa county, has been appointed
! clerksh,p in tho General Lar
J, Office, under Col. Willis Dfummon
J. l.. S, Thomas, Esq, Of the Secoi
n Comptroller's Office, is seriously
4 He halls from Chickesaw Co., low
Y and is too good fellow to be sick.
!. PoToMAc.
r A utilitarian cuss, with no poet
l. in his soul, sends to the Omaha III
!, aid the following parody on II wou
. nge die in autumn:
70 would not die In autumn,
IL With oysters At for eatin',