Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1872-11-28
News and Other items.


News and Other items.
The Pope will shortly hold a COM
when several new bishops will
be named.
Five hundred and forty-six names
have go far been invented for the horse
distemper.
Three crops of vegetables from one
piece Of ground in Oregon, this year
is not bad.
In Idaho. one town ~ has only Eve
inhabitants, but they have 6,00O head
Of cattle.
In the Miami valley, Ohio, this fall,
there has been but ave days unfit for
outdoor labor.
A boy seven years old, died a few
days ago, in Boston, from the effects Of
drunkenness.
That fast trottsr Dreadnaught has
succombed to the prevalent disease
Whats in q name7
rFhIss .=H-E -ra. .EaHar" rLaf ~
Delaware officially gives Grant eos
majority, and LaAand, the Republican
nominee for Congress $50 majority.
Perpetual motion has been going on
for two weeks now, In q machine in
BY q yonth at Lowville, New
York.
A prosperous merchant in San Fran
cisco, has for his motto: early to
bed and early to rise; never get
tight and advertise"
1t costs the country $4,000 year to
fold Its public documents, but 4 great
many Of them stay folded forever af.
ter it has once been done.
The teachers Shelby county have
formed as'Teachers' Association, for
the purpose Of preserving their rights
and privileges from infringement.
Colonel Anterior, OF Massachusetts,,
who was tho frst Union officer to en-
tor Richmond after It's fall, and re-
ceived its surrender from the mayor,
10 dead.
HHA reHataf Ff t@Rr NrA1t
Some young women are endeavoring
to start q new community on Lone
Prairie, Ill. It 10 to be Mormonism
with the grand principle Of that sect
reversed.
Some silly people in indianapolis re-
Gently cut out heart Of supposed
mad dog. boiled It and gave the broth
to . child asa preventative against by.
They have . handsome female bank
or in Munich, Fraulein Adcl Spitzider.
She loans money to the poor, at low
interest, and has the entire confidence
of the rural population.
Mr.. Legge was recently bailed out
Of the Danviile, Ky, JAIL. and has re-
sumed his old occupation of stealing
horses. The authorities say when they
give Legge bail again he'll know it.
Father Thomas Burke says that when
he ices an Irishman recling drunk in
the streets he feels as 4 priest he could
die for him, but as an Irishman he
feels as IL he could ring the fellows
neck.
The louisville Cougier-TouY7,Gl says:
"If Grant is coming to Kentucky W.
want TO leave" Whereupon the Chi
cago Postsays: "That's Just what Mis-
sissippi Reba said when he came to
yicksburg.s
One day last week. o. LSmith. o.
Rushville, Mo-, put hi. head out ofthe
ar<wind0Whjns Us the train was pass
Ing q cattle chute. 1t was Mr.. Smiths
first offsnse and he will never do sucl,
q headless thing again.
That wa. a very tender-haarted man
who OIL being told that his wife, who
had left the house only an hour before,
was drowned, and that her body was
found . mile or SO below, said: "She
must have hoated down quito livelyi'
The T~itusville Press says Stanley
will make o sensation when he lectures
in this country, dressed in his suit Of
clothes made by a Ujiji tailor consist
ing of Irvine string wound around
his big toe and q straw hat cut low in
the corsage.
Beecher says: / think myaelfa great
deal of praying is like q person drum.
ming OF q telegraph instrument with
out the least idea Of what they are do.
ing but even at that there is some
body at the other end who knows that
somebody is trying to do something.
A Darien man discovered that the
fumes of burning birthstone was apre-
tentative of epizootic, and fred some
in his barn then went to dinner. He
subsequently admitted to a neighbos
that he never did like the locality Of
that barn and that Cicero never owned
a horse, and yet was happy.
The Norwich Bulletin says: A SYM
pathetic Norwich man stopping in
Boston, on learning that to check the
fire . great many buildings must be
blown up, at once offered to contribute
his mother-in-law for the purpose
The fire was stayed however, before
this terrible agency was required.
A practical Joker about the
Aston House, New York, thought to
Stetson, one Of the~proprietors.
his back was turned, by grab
bling q $4,000 roll Of bills. He did
him, and Stetson turned and
iioored him by a blow beneath the ear.
without thinking OF stopping to see
whether it was a friend in fun.
A Frenchman writes to the New
York Herald that American mansard
roofs are not French mansard roots.-
The mansard roof go called in Ameri-
ca, could not be built in any portion oil
France as it ia a fraud and a scandal
The mansard roof Of France ;s always
Ore proof, being built in accordance
with French Law, Of iron, brick, and
mortar.
1t is hardly necessary to say that
this is from the Cosyier-,you,pal:
Mrs. Stanton is featuring on the Com
ing Girl The st. Louis 7imes wants
TO know, You know, how does she
know what il viii be. Another papnr
suggests that If she expects such an adj.
1ition she had better be at home max
mp a supply Of small clothes
than be travelling over The coun-
Try Dragging about her expectations"
Oshkosh, Wis, has an Enoch Arden.
'ut he didn't come back aud gaze In n,
window upon the felicity of the
reconstructed household. and then ra
nm the tyrpan an xrallnt, ,..l.I.