The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-11-14
state News.

Mahaska county wants fifty good
teachers immediately.
Union and Ringgold counties have q
new cattle disease.
A grain elevator is to be erected at
Clarinda, shortly.
Chicken cholera is aiar,ningiy preva-
lent at Des Moines.
The hog cholera is prevalent in
johnson county. w
Des Moines has invested 400, 600 in
bridges this season.
Moulton still cntertains hopes Of se.
curing the Iowa Central rosd.
Two hundred men are at work upon
the State Reform, School building.
John Merrihue, Of Story county. has
been arrested for fiendish cruelty to
animals.
The warehouse Of Oviatt, Of Mason
vile, were destroyed BY fire recently.
Loss $21, GOO.
The Clintonians buy their Kerosene
oil from peddler who goes about the
streets with onc-horse wagon.
S. w. Alexander raised this season,
near Indian0la, on less than two acres
of ground, five hundred bushels Of
sweet potatoes.
Iowa has raised one 9Th more W heat
this year, than it ever raised before,
and wheat 10 in good demand in for
eign markets.
Henry Wells and James I.aity, Of
Garden Grove, are rcgistcrcd for i've
years at the Pcnitentiary. Jugde Reed
pronounced the, sentence.
The Burlington & Cedar Rapids rail
road will be completed from Pottsyitle
to West Union, this week. Trains are
now running regularly to Elgin.
A Monroe, Jasper county, farmer
named Carny, husked II bushels of
corn off one-sixth Of an acre, showing <
the yield to be 1O2 bushels to the acre.
An enterprising Dallas county girl
wentto Kansas last spring, pre-empted
eighty acres of land, and is now sue
cessfully farming it on her own look.
A Madison county farmer named
William EAEly, will feed tl1lkeen hmm
tdxed head of sock h0gs, and two hum
drcd and hfty head Of cattle, this
winter.
Some farmers Of Grundy county,
rather than take 15 cents per bushel
for their potatoes, az offered them at
Eldora, dumped them into the Iowa
river.
The Patrons OF Husbandry in Grun-
dy county, disposed of their grain for
q sharpers's check. The grain went
but the check won't, and they are
greatly incensed thereat.
William Pangdon who murdered
james Aiken, at CrestOn, last June,
was tried and found guilty by the
District Court Of Union county last
week, and sentenced to five years inn
| prisonment in the penitentiary.
Col. Brown, Register of the State
Land Office, has received a United
States patent to lsl, ,4s4 acres Of land
for the Sioux City & st. Paul Railroad
Company. Nearly all the land Is in
| the counties of Sioux and Lyon.
The Des Moiucs Register tells the
following, as "a queer freak of nature"
| For some time past Mr. John Raffer-
ty, one of the most responsible and
skillful engineers on the Rock Island
road, has been seriously inconvenicn-
ced by what he considered tumor
over one OF his eyes. He was even
treated for tumor, and one operator
made local application and warranted
| azure. But for all that the difficulty
was not removed and the pain became
intense. Sunday afternoon Drs.
Grimes and Ulrich made an examin-
ariOn of the case and found another
eyebrow growing underneath the true
eyebrow. The hair on the duplicate
was nearly as long and thick as ON the
original. The physicians cut out the
extra member. concluding that two
eyebrows were enough for one man.
We are informed that the case is with
out a parallel in medicical history.