The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-11-21
Iowa Condensed.

Cedar Rapids is overrun with In
dians.
The postofiicc at Casey has been dis
continued.
Keokuk has a public library of To-
000 volumes.
Seventy students attend the Keokuk
Medical school.
Keokukl has reduced the price of
Gas To- $3.50 per 1000 feet.
Elizabeth has been established as a
postofice in Grundy County.
A burlington bookseller advertises
d superior quality Of Bibles
The Tama County Liberal, has gone
up. the spout along with Greeley.
sO'Conor carries two counties in
Iowa over ,Greeley-Sac and Greene.
John Bloom dropped dead in a
field near Cedar Falls a few days since.
| The State Grange Of Patrons of Hus-
sbaniry meets in Des Moincs next jan
uary. III .issyfs 10 a. 3e.
Buena Vista County voted not to !
remove her county scat to Sioux Rap
ids.
John A. King, of Hamburg, has in
vented and patented q washing ma
chine. ~s 5s'sSiSa@
|, A railroad contractor lost his pocket |
book in q Dubuque saloon last Mon |
day. He paid $500 for that drunk.
After trial lasting four days Des |
Moines jury has convicted Joseph |
HERB for selling liquor contrary to
law.
A State convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association will be |
held at Davenport on the 10Th and 10th
insts. ss
Two young men near Belle Plaine
lost each an arm In threshing ma
chine, lately. One died in a few
hours.
w. Pclan, of Dubuque, is to wheel
500 shingles ON n barrow distance of |
half q mile. He bet on Greeley You
know. fE
4
One Melsher, of Burlington. has
been Sbound over" for assaulting his |
wife-hi0 favorite amusement when
drunk.
Three townships i'm Franklin county,
did not give single Greeley vote, and
Reeve. township gave Grant l24 and
Greeley 2.
Threc young Burlington boys stop
fped anOthexs lad the other night and
sswent through" his pockets in true
highwayman style.
Bangor Township, in Marshall coun-
ty, gave $50 votes for Grant, and none
for Greeley or O'Conor. The Town
ship is mostly settled by Quakers.
Miss Harriet Webster, of lndianoIa,
| is announced for lecture at Leon,
and Miss Effie Webster is posted for a |
lecture at Oskaloosa against woman
suffrage.
e. s. Sleight, grain buyer at Nam
chester, has failed and gone into bank
ruptcy. He owes $4S,OO0, with $l7 600
assets. His creditors are farmers. and
humber I50.
At Clinton, Saturday evening, lad
named Pillsbury was being drawn up
by the rope on a flag pole when the
rope broke and he fell distance of
thirty feet breaking both his arms.
Mrs. Egan, Of Dubuque, seventy
years of age, has been fined IS and
costs for "shying stone at a neigh
Dor, thereby inflicting an ngly wound
ron the lattcr's head. A family feud
was the cause.
Kossuth county has large number
of homesteaders who live in sod houses,
and burn the rank river bottom grass
for fuel. They twist it, when dry, into
ropes, and thus prepared it gives out
an intense heat and has lasting quail
ties.
John Berger, baggageman at the
Davenport Depot, while assisting in
making up train, caught his foot in
. frog just as locomotive was APP
preaching. A conductor saw his per-
/ il, but was unable to extricate his foot.
4 The leg was mashed so severely that
death soon ensued.
The Humboldt County Independent,
sports rooster because Greeley has
majority in one Of the townships in
that county. And it was only major
ity, at that. But the editor thinks it
was the only township in the United
States which gave Greeley majority,
and so he rejoices.
| Next week, in payment of an cleo
ton bet, Rev. l.. ID. Tracy, of Cedar
Falls, is to trnndle q wheelbarrow sew
en- miles to Waterloo, and In the vehi-
Gle is to ride Judge Converse, Senator
from Butler county. The reverend
gentleman will take two days to do the
job, camping out over night in tent,
and will be accompanied by crowd
of fsympathizers and brass band.
/ Some Des Moines girls sought to
play joke on a bashful young man by
putting in his bed the representation
of a lady. and scattering around the
room profusion of skirts, false hair
etc. He came home, saw how matters
stood, hid all the things under the
barn, and when the girls had to stay at
home from church next day for want
of sundry toilet articles he "smole Il
ghastly smile" and wondered who
came out ahead.
At the recent term of the u. S. Cir
cult Court in Dcs Moines. the Grand
Jury found bill of indictment against
C. Augustus Haviland, editor of the
Soldiers Friend, published at Chicago,
for charging pensioners for whom he
was acting as claim agent. extortion-
ate fees, and for retaining their monies
in his hands. He was arrested by the
u. S. Marshall of Illinois on Monday,
and last night Deputy U. 5. Marshal
Bowers left Dcs Moines for Davenport
where the prisoner will be delivered
to him this morning, when he will
bring him to this city. Those who are
posted on the subject say there are two
sides to it, and that Mr.. Hayiland has
been falsely accused and wrongly in.
dicted. The public should be fai,
enough to suspend judgment till the
real facts are developed.-Regtster.
There lives at Pclla, in this State> d
minister who does not seem to think
that the members OF the lega! pro fcs.
sion stand in danger Of being tran ala.
ted in body, In immersing several
: converts to his way Of thinking. the
other day, as We see by the Repa 1biica,
OF Newton, he baptized, an, onr the
rest, . talented young memb .r of the
Marion cOr,ntv her-Tbop ~ p,r