Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1872-12-05

what the New York World now call
its late Liberal allies.
Ex-Governor Curtin, in the Pcnnsyl
vania Constitutional Convention, vote
and acts with the Democrats.
The Charlton Union says: "Bcfor
we boast Ofour courtesy to women. le
us try to be little just to them.'
| Within eighteen months work will
be commenced on telegraph line 1,
connect the United States and Europ
with South America.
Miss Temperance Anderson, q resi-
dent of Baden, Beaver Co., Pa. ha
hair six and half feet long. II h
quite thick and fine, blonde in color.
| An Illinois man. while drunk, fel
from wagon and died. The man VIII,
sold him the whisky, compromised b.
paying to the dead mans heirs 81, GOD
| The appetite for divorce grows, I,
London in 1861, there were 261 appli
cations for divorce ; in 1870 there were
5lS, and in 1871 this number had in
creased to ass.
Andrew Jackson was nnblicI,
whipped at Padncah, KY, and thos,
who have been voting for him during
the last thirty years say they vii
Withdraw their support.
The Nashville Union and America n
reads the st. Louis Republican ont al
the Democratic party, and the Mem.
phis Avalanche, asks: "Bnt-where
the blue-blazes is that party?'
A boy who blows the organ in .
country church, in western Massachu.
setts, lately got intoxicated on the an.
Ornamental wine, stored In closet near
his loft, and c0nld not come to timc on
the closing hymn.
The friends of famous skater. WIN
died in New York, recently. wonld
ike to know exactly what the minister
VINO preached the efuneral sermon
meant by his pathetic statement, that
he had "gone where there is no Ice.
The Forty-third Congress will
contain one colored Senator and six
colored Representatives, all of whom
are said TO be intelligent and educated
and capable of filing their several posi-
tions with credit to Themselves and
honor TO their constituency.
kcntucky's official majority for Gree
ley Is about 1900 Her majority for
Seymour in 1868 was 1902. The TO-
tai vote in 1865 was $3.50; in 1872
Isl lab. The total Republican vote rs
1868 was 1886 in 1879 1t was S9.6S9--
having more than doubled in four
years.
The official majority for Grant in
Ohio is 1851. The total vote of the
State was 52O.O52-the largest ever
cast. Grant runs 1892 ahead of the
Republican State ticket, while Gree
ley runs Z, ,459 behind the Democratic
State ticket. O'Conor received l.l63
votes.
They've got Froude down to a pret.
ty fine point in New York. A static
tical student says that in the first TWEEN.
ty-five minutes of his lecture Thurs
day night, he put his hands in his
pockets twenty-Onc imes, and lifted
his coat-tail thirty-Ave times by actual
count.
The New York Tribune says: .If
we are to have government worth
paying for, a city i'm which life will he
safer than ii is among the rudcst min
ing settlements and half barbarons
communities Ofthe Latin race, we must
contrive some means Of Furnishing
homicides.'
Edward MalOney, a little one-armed
boy. who last summer saved another
boy from drowning In the Missouri
river at Omaha, has been receiving
presents from all directions as testimo,
mas OF his bravery, aud subscription
is being raised at Omaha, to give him
thorough college education.
The st. Louis Globe SAYS: ssRe-
member the poor, and when you have
your coal thrown into the cellar
leave few nubbins Oh the sidewalk
for the gatherers. Conscience will re-
ward you for the act, and the gatherer
Will drink TO your health when he
trades on his load for glass Of beer
The London Times, in view of the
great increase of drinking in England.
exclaims: Among all the writer's ali
the takers, all the preachers, all the
workers, all the names we see daily
biazoned on the roll of English fame.
are there none that will set about to
abate this nuisance and seandal-orr
national drunkenness p
A German interviewer saws that R;s-
marck smokes nine twenty cent cigars
and swallows four dollars worth of
wine and beer every day. And Ger.
man intervlewers like G.. w. can NOT
tell lie. Over $1,000 wear for beer.
and cigars and yet the Liberal Demo
cratic papers in Germany don't pitch
into him and call him an old Nepot
and thing Incredible.
The Canadians are invited to declare
their independence, in palmer words
than II has used hitherto, By the Lon
don Times, which says to them in a
recenf.article; From this time forth
look after your own business your-
selves you are big enough YOU are
strong enough you are intelligent
enough, and ifthere were any deficien.
cy in any of these points, il would be
supplied by the education of self reli.
ance. We are both now In a false DO.
sition, and the time has arrived when
we should be relieved from it. Take
up Your freedom, Your days of sppren-
ticeship are over"
When the epizOotie first broke ont
in Chicago an expressman bought 4
horse badly afflicted with the distem-
per. He got him for eighty-nine dol
lars, and began to dose him with pint
of gin and ginger twice q day. The
stimulant kept up the spirits OF the an.
imal SO that he worked all the time.
and in less than week earned ono
hundred and ninety-two dollars. Un-
fortunately, however, the horse has
acquired taste for Intoxicating Ii 1uor
and cannot do without it now. lie
smells 1t as he passes saloons, and in-
sists upon stopping; neither will he
eat his food unless it is thus seasoned
An entry thief in Ceicago hss eute
| way in which to gain time and thu,
secure his plumber. The other even.
ing physician Of that city went home
tired and chilled, and had been settled
in his arm chair but few minutes
when the door-bell rang and seryani
entered saying as she laid 1t down be.
fore the doctor: "A message reuuirino
| an answer, sir" Very wells Jane. Tt1
look at II in Q moment. Have the mar
wait" And the doctor Deliberately
Dit the gas and proceeded to examine
the missivc-"Dr. Smith, address," 4
said. He tore ofr tho nnvolcv,a 4