The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-02-22

| one arm with gentle pressure
/ Lngers round her waist,
] You squeeze her dimpled hand,
1 Her pouiing lips you taste;
she freely slaps your face,
Bot more In love than spite;
| Oh, thunderi ain't Il pleasant,
Sparkling sunday night.
GENERAL NEWS.
II is said that the only negro in an In.
sane asylum In the country is in Virginia.
Maine woman has swallowed two
hundred aud seventy bottles sfcherry pee.
toral ard still lives.
Sixty thousand hogs have been packed
in Keaknk this season, and the business
has been suspended for the winter.
Dan w. Voorhees, il said to be tho
probable Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor OF Indiana.
The sentence Of Watson, the English
clergyman who murdered his wife. has
been commuted to penal seryitude for
life.
The weekly papers tiet issue Thurs.
day can appear i've times this month, a
feat not admissible again before the year
l9eO
1t is proposed, instead OF killing the
Communists. to set them at work rebuild
ing the public buildings OF Pars which
they destroyed.
The San Francisco Chronicle saws the
final verso Of joaquin Miller's "Dead in
the Sierras'' has more merit than any OF
its predecessors, because it is the last.
The following notice, printed on color
ed cardboard with q nice border hangs
up In placeof business In Rome; N. Y.
"Aebbe you don't peter had loaf rount
hsre. ven you don't got some peesniss.
ain't its''
kind words are the bright flowers OF
earth's existence; use them, and es
peclally around the ireside circle. They
are jewels beyond price, and powerful 10
heal ths wounded heart and make the
wsoghed-doWn spirit glad.
An old gentleman, Of the genus Demo.
crat, having been sued for subscription
Of fifty cents due the Clipper, made such
fuss that Squire Wentworth let him off
for es.25.-He says he'll never tske anoth.
er paper as long as he lives. -Ceaterpile
Citizen.
Fanny Fern says that the doll of her
bib-days was :" crooked-neckeds squash,
with towel for q dress. and a numerous
progeny Of little cucumbers for babies,''
s1 sRd e sse .x, MAS Just ss happy and content
hundred dollar Paris coll,
Sioux City don't claim to be any more
progressive than other towns. That IL
why two poor girls there have been seat
to jail in default Of SIS fine and costs, for
being prostitutes, when their masculine
patrons. though not whit better, were
allowed to 90 scot frse.
One Alexander Ross, OF High Holburn
London, advertises " Nose Machine"
by which the soft cartilage of the nos.
may be pressed into any desired shape.
simply by wearing the inst rument an
hour daily for short period. The .'puc
nosed' will 60 for those machines, won't
they.
Inc Democrats OF Connecticut are fond
OF nominating wealthy candidates, and
there may be an excellent good reason for
their doing so. At present, their oandi-
date for Governor Is rich SO is their can
didats for Lieutenant Governor; whils
Mr.. Richardson, their candidate for Treas
ursr, Is specially set down as "pe,y rich
Ten gallons of kerosene, three pounds
OF potash, one ouncaof strychnine, mixed
with soft water" That Ia the recipe for
the compounding OF cheerful article
sold as whisksy in Newton, Mass. When
'.'gin" was wanted 'oil of Juniper did
the business. If people WiH drink such
stun, need We wonder at the result.
IL is said Hon. Lyman Trumbnil court
ed young lady. in his younger DAYS.
near Portland, Ne, but when the old
gensieman's consent to their marriage
was asked. It was refused. en- the ground
that the Romeo was nothing but a poor
A like story is told of
Potter Palmer. These examples furnish
notable warnings to the old Capnlets.
Mr.. j. Il. Grinneil is now in Washing
ton City, doing his prettiest to induce
some one to believe that ths Hon. James
+. Wilson is the most available canGi idate
for the Presidency. The papers do not |
speak enceuragely Of his success. Indeed |
one ironical fellow intima,es that Mr..
Grinnell is the best man to be found any
where to engineer defeat, That is rather
hard on brother Grinnell. lie was elected
to Congress once. --Hswkeye.
Here is y case Of ''sharpness" by a big.
amist. Philip Boethner was committed 10
Jail in Paterson. New Jersey, by his two
wives. who had lived happily in the same
house for three years. One speaks only
German. the other only English. Philip
had told the second that the first was his
mother, and the first that the second was
a servant. Recently woman who spoke
both English and German visited the
house, and when Philip reached home the
hair dew, and he was arrested and locked
up on the charge of bigsmy.
The Davenport Gozetts OF the stii says.
About seven O'Clock last evening q man
named Patrick Bulger drove iato Durant
in a lumber wagon, with his wife at his
side. and stopped in front OFFS store He
but his wife made no move 10
follow him. He spoke to her but she did
not answer He took hold of her and dis
covered that she was dead! He was
drunk. and she had been drinking. A
coroner's inquest is TO be held to-day
when the cause of her death will be ascer-
tanned.
A hard hit at the Virginia Legislature
Of last winter is circulating in Richmond
II appears tbss party, who had his own
reasons for making the inquiry. approach
cd pennsylvania railroad man, aud ask
cd him fiatly whether his company intend
cd to spend any money in Richmond.
"No. sir. no; emphatically no." was the
excited reply. "Why not?n "Pn tell
you why, sir. The members of the Penn
sylvania Legislature are gentlemen, sir
perfect gentlemen. You don't have to
bribe but once; but (bringing his fist in
virtuous indignation down upon the table,
these id scoundrels In Virginia have no
more console nee than . hog, and you
never know when you are done buying
them.o