The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-04-11
Mrs. Julia Grindle has been arrested
Ia Nov- " orb a. on ahoyfsonist

Mrs. Julia Grindle has been arrested
in New York as an abOrtiOnist.
The Emma silver mine, of Schenck
nOtoriety. recently sold for Ellll0OO
sterling.
1t is reported that in Manchester.
last Sunday evening, one of the minis
ter was sick. and his place was supplied
by his wife.
Pittsburg employs over eighty thou
sand operatives i'm her manufacturing
establishments, and pays them Z 100
600 per day.
Thea have q woman acting as con-
ductor on the Hannibal and st. Joseph
Railroad, on one of the passenger
trains.
Fremont County is being agitated
ON the relocation Of the countyseat.
Hamburg wants to be the capital OF
OF that county instead of Sidney.
Aman out West was offered plate
ofmaccaroni soup, bit declined 1t, de-
claring that they "couldn't play or any
billed pipe-stcms on him."
Gen. Frank j. Heron. formerly OF
Dubuque, and prominent in the first
part of the REBELLION, is said to he de-
faultcr, in Louisiana.
Two hundred carloads OF freight
have accumulated in Council Bluffs,
Iowa, awaiting the order of the Union
Pacific railroad to go west.
Easterncapitalists are visiting Keo.
kuk with the view Of startipx = mann.
moth car manMfactory IN thai Fly i
sufficient inducements are offered.
II il. the opinion Of Judge Van
Trniniy of Ohio, that il Congress auth.
orixes anv more investigation Grant
will be elected without any opposition
from any quarter
Clinton had quite little jollii;caiion
over. the passage Of the bill by Con-
gress 10 permit the building of the
bridge over the Mississippi at that
place.
A story i current about fSmec,ine
in Washington between Thomas Mast
and Senator Schurz, and the senator is
credited with threat 10 chastise the
caricaturist. iftbc latter did not cease
To make fun of his legs.
Ome OF the young japanese girls has
a brother in New Haven, who has re-
qllested that his sister may bc kept
ont of his sight, as he no longer cared
TO look upon her after she had so fan
lowered herself MS 10 strk All cduca-
tion.
The Missouri State 1i,aes. published
at jefferson City the State capital. has
until lately. been the organ of Schur7
and Grhz Brown. but il now unequiv.
ocally for the Philadelphia Convention
and against the Cincinnati movement,
a modest young lady at the table
desiring the leg ofa chicken, said Il
take the part which ought to be dress
ed in drawers A Young gentleman
opposite replied: Ill take the part
which ought to wear the bustle.' The
younglady tainted and was carried oni
on a salver.
A fellow lately started q store in
Kansas. The following was the sign
he hung out; DRY goods by John
Smith. who wishes to get married.
This sign drew all kinds Of custom
The single ladies went, of course, and
the married men all told their wives ia
60, under the impression that they
could easily cheat so great q fool.
The local reporter Of the Lawrence
7ribuae is is a bad way. lie has been
recently converted, and in consequeneo
Is obliged tonotice amusements very
mildly, In announcing the aPpearance
of minstrel troup he says: For those
who do not consider il . sin to witness
minstrel shows this entertainment
will furnish pleasant relaxation from
the revival meetings..
The Dubuque Telegraph tells Of q
man who got mp early in the morning,
went down into the bar-room alone and
undertook to drink himself to death
from barrel Of whiskey, which was ai
hand, When discovered he was streach.
cd out at full lsngth by the barrel, hit
head against the hot stove, badly burn
ed. When taken away the poor fol
lows limbs WDre ~ cold. - ice' and
had riei6i1sof death. Uuder charge
! Of skllnSI physician - II rocoveEinR