Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-09-11
News and other Items.

/ Coffee is higher than before the du-
ty was taken off.
Jewelry of cut steel is coming into
fashion.
| It costs Albany $50, 1000 year to run
eight fire steamers.
A funny freak of fashion is the ST a.
den disfavor into which damon Is
have fallen.
An elderly lady has never saw a
canal-boat, a steamboat, locomotive
or a newspaper.
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany will erect a car shop and a rail-
shop at Cheyenne.
Every town in Colorado is excited
! over the "narr0w-guage," and voting
bonds with reckless extravaganza.
Every paper published in Milwau-
kee has "the largest circulation Of any
paper in Wisconsin"
Frank Walworth complains thai he
is not allowed to take horseback exer-
else in the Penitentiary.
A young homeopathic doctor in De-
trOit puts ont his special "shingle." !"
"Too Thacke Cughred."
The political pot is boiling even in
Iceland. High revolt has broken out
there against Danish dominion.
The war of the sewing machine will
soon reopen, to show, of course, that
they all got the first prize at Vienna.
Charleston, IS. c., claims to be the
"healthiest city on the continent
Fifteen deaths week in $4,000 popu-
lation.
Oyer at Elko, Cal, the other day, a
dealer got up corner in frying pans,
and made $500 before new supply
could be obtained.
An Ohio boy who tried to walk over
creek on clothes-line, in imitation
of the Niagara man, is in bed with q
dislocated shoulder and a broken nose.
A Navarro Ohio, youth severely
horse-whipped his unindulgent father
He wanted to know "who bossed that
ranch"
The next Legislature of Ohio will
be petitioned to change the name of
Geauga county to something easy to
pronounce.
On the first Monday in October
Connecticut votes on the Constitution
al amendment establishing one capital
instead Of two.
There is q Mexican family at Pieche
in New Mexico, that never die. When
/ they get right old, they dry up and
blow of to Southern California.
Said a woman to . man who was
weighing two grains of calomel for o
child: Dinna be so mean witt !; its for
poor fatherless BARN."
Coleman, at Gallapin, Texas, engag-
| ed coffin for man named Smead,
hired a grave digger and four carriag-
es, and then hunted up Smead and shot
him.
A Cincinnati servant girl was look
ing through the key-hole, when some
acid struck and destroyed her asa.
She sued for damages, but all she got
was the damaged eve.
Scene in Court-Judge: Shave you
anything to offer to the Court before
| sentence is passed? Prisoner No,
Judge / had ten dollars, but my law
yer got that"
The real name of George Mason, the
| New Haven forger, is George FL. Mix,
/ He has already served five years
term in the Pennsylvania peniteEti-
ary.
A railroad conductor, after twenty
years of experience, concludes that he
would rather carry 10000 men passen-
gers than to have one lone lorn female
on his train.
| Cincinnati fine art, as represented
in hog-killing pictures, was duly rec
ognized at Vienna. They were mista.
ken, however, for representations of a
riot among citizens
A widow woman at Omaha has ten
boys, and she says that she would
| rather do a washing any day than te
have to go up stairs and pound them
out of bed in the morning with po.
liceman's club.
"Jury," said Western Judge, you
kin 20 out and find verdict. If you
| can't find one of your own you can
take the one the last jury used.' The
jury returned a verdict of suicide in
the ninth degree.
A smart man at Sandusky put arsen'
ic in bottle of wine, hoping that a
burglar would drink it, and his wife
placed it among 100 other bottles
The smart man is now wondering
which is the bottle.
Brigham Young preached a sermon
lately, in which he said that the sister
thought they had good deal to bear
but If they could stand in the shoes o
their husbands, they would then know
what trials and perplexities are.
An Illinois paper remarks that"O Ou
readers needn't try to get any point
out of our political articles; we pu
'em in this week because our patent
medicine stereotypes have been mis-
laid"
| A fiowery advertisement ofa certain
| KIND OF "bitters, which appeared IN
| New England journal, was rathe
weakened by mistake of the type
setter, who read 'strychnine" 70
"saccharine.s
The latest cure for consumption ]
the heart of q rattlcsnake just killed
This strange dose was said to hav
been administered to young con
sumptive who had previously bee
given up. He recovered instantly.
| 1t is related that an IrishmAn ono
visited New Hampshire, and afte
having inspected the numerous hill
and mountain ranges, exclaimed
'sBedad / niver was in country b
fore where they had so much land th'
they had to stack IL"
I'll A minister in a neighborfng tow
was greatly exasperated lately by
COW which had made havoc i'm his ga
. den, and which defied the efforts oftl
d boy sent to turn her out. "Just wa
]. till get this coat of divinity of, an