The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31

Vuo "i1'oio III to-days paper
from the Richmond Wig, and see
what the Southern Democracy pro.
pose as their programme.
The Brooklyn (Powcsbiek Co.
Journal has changed hands, u. M
Day becoming editor and proprietor
in place of I'll. S. Ehrman.
The Lee county Democracy are
dissatisfied with their county ticket,
and some of them arc openly on.
posing the nominees, 500
No matter how excellent their
hash, boarding houses in Des Moines
winch have no croquet grounds are
regarded as tone horse concerns"
Ia Newburyport, Mass, they have
o 10 year old boy, whose name is In
gals, but which should be John Nor.
gan. He has stolen five horses al.
ready.
The Cedar Rapids Observer wants
to know where ginseng grows and
how it is raised. 1t grows wild in
Ohio and Indiana and they raise il
with a hoe.
A woman in Tama county, living
sick with fever, thought cucumbers
would cure her. She was highly
esteemed and her funeral was largely
attended.
The application for an INDUCTION to
restrain the sale the North Missouri
Railroad, which was made by the
county of st. Louis, was not granted
by the court.
Geo. Woodward, of Clinton, blew
out his brains on Thursday evening.
ne was supposed to be partially de-
ranged, and leaves q wife to mourn
his untimely end.
The Sheriff of Jasper county re-
Gently arrested, in Missouri, tho no.
torlous horse-thief Early. He nc.
knowledges to the stealing of eleven
horses and 1925 in money, since last
August. Nine of the horses were
stolen 10 Iowa.
A Virginia editor has come to the
conclusion that man might as well
undertake to hold himself at arms
length and then turn a double somer-
sauit over meeting house steeple.
us to attempt to publish paper that
will suit everybody.
Judge Evans, who died a drunk
ara at tho Stark county, OHIO, aims
mouse recently, was once of distin-
gu'shed ability and reputation, but
FOR several years before his death
wandered around begging ten cents |
with which TO get drink. !
The 9TH District-composed of De-
catur, Ringgold and Taylor counties
has had second Senatorial Con-
'entlon, and on the 4th ballot nomi-
mated e. I. Smith of Taylor Co..
Mr.. s. is lawyer OF ability, and will
make good Senator.
A dispatch to the Dubuque Times
says that the Linn County RepubIi-
can Convention, held at Marion on
the 9th, nominated for Senator Prof
hephart, of Western, and Represen.
,atlves j. 5. Mcclure and w. d. Let.
'enberg. The dispatch says call of
hem are said to be Harlan men,"
The Council Bluffs Tines saws
hat woman who started in lite AZ
Hen Sharpe and who, five wears
go, resided in that city as Mrs. Will !
ans, has turned up in Lawrence, =
,ansas, with five children and thir-
zen husbands, all alive and doing as 8
ell as could be expected. +
Henry Hansen was instantly Kill e
q by lightning, near FontanelIe, on y
Tuesday last, and his fatber.in. !,
W, Peter Schultz, who was riding
lth him, was knocked senseless. as
ere the horses they we're driving.
be deceased leaves wife and fami-
at Winterset. st
stripe, the indetatigable Revenue :"
SCISSOR a: Keokuk, has more worm -
edicine on hand (contiscated) than
can consume, and proposes to :
'ctor his friends on the most reason
lie terms. Perhaps, if Claggett =
ould take a few bottles, he could -
en- swallow tho whole of the ~ ~
larleston nominees. 10
They have rattlcsnakes for bod "
lows at Sioux City. Ono crawIod OF
% bed with IL farmer and his wife. ri
ar there and stirred them up with nv
rattles, and there was some lively fo
mblng out of bed about that time
the evening Luckily an axe was
ndy, and the snake was killed. ~,
Burglars made IL foray IN West "a.
int Lee county, tho other night. dn
ey robbed Herman BrinIl's safe of an
'rly 81 900, aud II gold watch, and or,
how cnse in tho store Of various Ice
icics OF value. Several other APP
Uses were broken into. Farmer en'
Cabe, near West Point, was rob- oIl
of $40 in money. sto