Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1872-11-28
NUMBER 80
News and Other Items. !.


/ this season.
Peru will use her guano to pay her
national debt.
The Boston fire was seen at New
London, Conn.
Oats in Centralia. Kansas, are worth
Il cents por bushel.
jeff Davis got one vote for Presi-
dent in Daupbin county, Pa.
A 81. Louis girl, after baking all her
wedding cake, committed suicide.
Twenty banished communists are on
their way from Versailles to New
ork. tial ~ ses NJ
There are almost two hundred and
my cadets at West Point at the pres
:cni time. . - .scs{se I'll. /
White satin is no longer worn for
bridal-dresses, white corded silk hay.
ing taken its place. '''' f'sA
Singularly enough, a young mal Of
father sad mother recently, has been,
adjuaged not insane. ssys ii, 7.
A poor fellow In New York. was
lately sentenced to two years ilnpri-
sonment just for Hiking and beating
his mother SO that she died.
The New York Times thinks the
election has removed many obstacles
to, and created many Inducements for,
the thorough tranquilityAaua steady
progress of the S0nlh. ssss
The Chicago post Office employs i755
clerks and 11l:letter-carricrs and ranks
next to New York, in amount of gen.
eral business transaction, and first as q
distributing Office.
We once heard woman of the
world say, "'The state of widowhood
is for Ope must assume all
the modesty Of q youmg girl, with.
out being able to feign her Ignorance !
The Toledo Rlade puts it this way I:
!" Manton Marble, editor Of the World,
who has been sick during Grcelcy's
candidacy, now that the cause of his
sickness is removed, Is in the chair
editorial again.. s@ l,saEl lfialls
The Boston Globe, says 'crhe clerks
thrown out Of employment take
cheerful view of the situation. Ono
was heard yesterday saying, oh, there
will be plenty of work this winter,
scraping bricks" Ss saasf ass Ges 8
Capt. Henry w. Wilson. engineer
OF Gen. Bnrrilis staff, has prepared =
plan and made an estimate Of the BOs-
ton burned district. The area covers
25SO,OO0 square feet, equal 10 a little
more than 50 acres.
A young man who went West from
Danbury, q few months ago, has sent
only one letter home. II came Friday.
Il said Send me wig. And his
fond parents don't know whether he il.
scalpcd or .,narried.
A voter at Mount Washington, Ham,.
ilton County, Ohio, voted the Demo-
cratic ticket but carefully scratched
off the names of the electors, as well AZ
the names Of Greeley and Brown, and
left only the words, Democratic
Ticket
Anovelty in gentlcmen's dress-shirts
is about to be INTRODUCED. The bosom
of the shirt is to have few bars Of
music printed upon it, in some cases
with words. Gentlemen wearing these
will stand behind pianos to be sung
and played from.
A young gentleman who had been
amusing himself by making small wa
gers of gloves, flowers and the like on
the result of the election, found that a
check for tive hundred was necessary
to balance his book. He isn't going to
bet anything but money hereafter
He says, then he knows where he
stands. tFa
Mr.. J. w. Dickson, the principal of
the Westfield, Mass, normal school,
became, during his travels in Germany,
so thoroughly convinced of the utility
Of the kindergarten system, that he has
just introduced it into the school under
his charge, and it is also proposed 10
establish il q as mode of education in
some of the Westfield schools.
The Oxford Press describes q Kan
sas wedding: "Whcn the ceremony
that made them one was performed,
the happy couple retired to their camp,
partook OF Q supper of slap-iacks and
coffee, after which the wagon bed was
improvised into q bridal chamber,
and--all went merry as a marriage
bell.
A gentleman In Hartford has de-
signed giving the Women's Christian
Association $500 for their Church st.
in "a tstuf;nx, ffhn Uou,n,,,, u~.. -.
the action of the managers In refusing
TO admit a white-colored girl has led
him TO look elsewhere for some object
worthy of the money, as he laid II aside
to donate, and he has now given ii to
the Windsor Avenue Congregational
Church.
A Wisconsin man has pasted up the
following notice: Having by a long
course of dissipation and debanchery
so weakened my will as TO be utterly,
powerless to resist the appetite for al
coholic liquors, and not being particu-
larly anxious TO die and be d----d' as
yet, hereby solumnly swear that will
prosecute to the Ulfinaa Thule of the
law, any saloon-keeper, druggist, or
other person who shall give or sell me
any spirituous or malt liquors OF any
kind whatever"
At the hast Sabbath service which
we had the privilege of attending as
listeners, says the Coagreyatioadlist,
the fine quartette chsir sang an i'm
pressive opening piece. II was this
SolO-.Hyah thar, fayer fra M siah !;
aw blaw CIV aw miah iniquiyah." Cho-
rus-Caw me nav waya," etc. We
mention the fact, as some other church
quartette may wish to purchase the
music and perform the same. The eff
feet ON the worshiper is peculiar.
The Titusvillc Press says: !. By pri-
vatc advices from st. Louis, VIC learn
that prodigal SON thought he would
quit eating husk and corn-stalk free
lunches and go home to his fathers
mansion.in that city +: but instead Of
having veal for dinner. and making
the young mans brother take a back
seat, the old man waited until he could
get a tight grip on the young man, and
then gave him such bouncing he
won't prodigai again for some time.
This energetic parent says, he rejoices
more over one boy that runs away aud
stays than the whole family who
sponge their living oil him at home"
The New York T7E,es says: /" Chica.
go and Boston have taught us that
every mansard roof we put up costs on
an average about $i0000,O00. IL is,