Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1872-12-19

state News.
Small pox at Dubuque.
There are 2,Sl5 pupils in the Davcn-
port schools.
The "oldest man in the State,H has
just died again.
A wood famine at Monticello. Corn
ID the substitute.
{ The penitentiary pay roll at Ana
ROSA foots up $500 weekly.
They are endeavoring to establish .
fire alarm telegraph at Des Moines.
The winter term of the College at
Mount Pleasant opened on Wednesday
last.
An Oskaloosa pony has just yielded
to the horse disease at the advanced
age Of 36 years.
The Iowa Business College ct Des
Moines has been sold to Prof J..
Shrock, Of Mt. Pleasant.
Mr.. James Holiday, near Keosau-
qua, was severely injuredla week, by
the caving in Of : coal bank.
In IN ARRAY At tho Ogilvie House,
Muscatine, j. B. Winn, clerk, stabbed
James Parker, colored porter.
Some ofthe Storm Lake pastors are
discussing religious topics and losing
their tempers over the same.
Water is supplied in Des Moines,
ITO tho needy" at two dollars load,
Horned horses propel the loads.
The married ladies' Of Mount Pleas
ant have organized . reading cirole.-
What do the unmarried ones do'
Ncighboring cities are making use
OF cows to haul their loads when the
horses give out and oxen are unavaila-
ble.
TT. Madison has eighteen doctors ac-
cording to the last Plain Dealer. It
doesn't give the number of grave dig.
gers.
"Chippewa Jack, ~ raftsman at Bur-
was assaulted by two ruffiains
yesterday and nearly killed BY slung
shot.
Cedar Rapids has nine days won-
der. An honest farmer appeared in
town with q real cord Of wood the 9th
er day.
A spiritualist at Dubuque is sum
moning up the ..ahssta OF departed
worthies-Sir John FrsnkliR's among
the rest. yis4. y
Coal digging pays in Monroe coun-
ty. A Danish miner earned STAT dur
ing the month Of November, aud net
ted SIG.
A fire started yesterday in the alley
Of the Catholic convent at Keokuk,
but was extinguished before any dam
age was done.
Council Bluffs papers advertise for
a person to sell q new medicine, war;
ranted to prove, "highly lucrative to
the undertaken"
Davenport teachers petition their
school board to exclude tho spelling
book from their schools, and use the
readers instead,
They have a wonderful mineral
spring in Warren county according to
the Abba Union, which cures nearly
all the ills that flesh is heir to.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court
of Iowa, affirmed the case of Baker,
appellant, vs.. Manning, from Van Bu-
ren county. Opinion by Day j.
The law department at the State
University has more students than il
can seat in its rooms. A large num-
Der are in attendance from the eastern
States.
Richland, Keokuk county, has been
indulging in grand circular vol
hunt. Two slaughtered victims of the
rabbit tribe now mourn its brilliant
failure.
The rafting" Of the bus is now nc
more heard in the streets of Sigour.
ney, and travellers about that region
instead Of using Fosters horses, uss
"shank's."
In view of 1t being leap year, tht
Sigourney NeWs offers to insert mar.
riage notices, at whatever price thu
victims offer, with the poetry, soft sa,
ings, &C., gratis.
The State Legislature meets on Jan
uary 18th. The session is specia
one, meeting for the purpose of con.
sidering the new Code. Other matter
may receive attention to a limited ex
tent.
1t is said that as many as four thou
sand" gentlemen at Iowa City, wer
willing to serve their country in tn
post Office there, during the recent ex
citement about the incumbent at tha
place.
/ The Esser Weekly an English pape
locates the following cpitaph at Bur
Ilington:
Beneath this stone our baby lies,
4 He neither cries nor hollers;
He lived just one and twenty days,
And cost us forty dollars.
The Des Moines people have me
with disappointment in regard to th
Siddons reading. They have bee
going crazy over her at the rate Of
, dollar ticket, but yesterday receive
telegram to the effect that she coult
MT come on account Of illness. Inal
much as she was advertised to appes
in Chicago on her Des Moines evening
the people of the latter place thougl
the excuse a little thin" and are j.
! dicialiy investigating the matter.
Tho natural history editor Of IL
t Lexington, (Ky) Press, tells this: :"
: lady residing in q city not . hundrt
miles from Lexington is the possess
: oftwo pets, q monkey and parrot, wi
d are by no means congenial friends;
Q fact, Mrs. G. was in the habit of lockii
:. up the monkey, whenever she left Il
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