Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-11-06
News and other items.


unless You are sure he can't get up.
There is Democratic paper up in
Maine called the Dera's Gazette.
Many Of the wells of Ohio are dry |
and farmers have TO draw water five |
miles.
A clergyman at Spencer, Mo-, has
attached the church organ until his |
salary is paid.
The panic has struck the piano trade,
and dealers are playing very "poor"
music by note.
A Schenectady, N. Y, woman owns
up to having stolen 700 loaves of bread
from single grocery.
Two telegraph operators at Omaha
have been discharged for divnlging the
contents of q dispatch.
An Eastern paper thinks that Stokes
ought to be canonized. So he ought,
at short range.
The laws of the United States have
b cen condensed under the supervision
of a committee of the Senate.
The ratio of increase in the popula-
ton of Washington Territory during
the last three years has been over 30
per cent.
A Presbyterian elder, weighing $50,
and an ''ir0nsidc Baptist," eighty-three
years old, rode horseback race lately
at Salem, Va.
An old woman's obstinacy in smok
ing while crossing Kansas prairie
started fire which swept over four
counties.
A sailor bound from New York TO
San Franc isco purchased Bible and
thirty pounds of plug tobacco as his
| outfit.
A lady wishes TO know why, since
the invention of needie-guns, women
can't fight as well as men.
| A man at Fort Wayne, Ind, has
been in twenty-eight battles. He is a
newspaper man, and he fought most
of them on the Office stairs.
The refund of the cotton tax is one
of the objects brought forw ard to in
ducc the formation of farmers gran
ges in the South.
In breach of promise case at Fort
Wayne, the lover was convicted of
writing uni hart beets oanley for thea,
mi darlin hunny."
It is for the benefit of Democratic
platform-makers that we remark that
the road to perdiiion is paved with
good resolutions
Lucy Crandall sent some poetry
to a Kansas paper, and because it was
not published the poor girl leaped in
to creek and drowned herself.
OF he lG4 country banks in Mass
achusetts, only nine suspended cur
rency payments during the late panic
and these only temporarily. All have
since resumed.
There is a good deal Of sound wis.,
dom in the suggestion OF the farmer +:
.lf you want your boy to stay at
home don't bear too hard on the
grndstone when he turns the crank"
In describing trial in New Or
leans court, the reporter says of the
defendants: "During the recital both
demons occasionally smiled in hellish
| suICasLlC way.
The TT. Scott, (Kan) Monitor says
"The two men hanging to the black.
jack across the bridge died of TOO
| much horse"
| 1t is considered notable fact that
nearly all the aldermen of Houston,
Texas, can read and write.
Fifty thousand cases Of the dengue,
or break. hone. sfeHer. have occurred
in New Orleans the present seasons.
At Ironton. o., the largest and most
complete iron works In the United
States are being erected, with cash
foundation of 100000.
Mexico is anxious to Join in the
American Centennial celebration. If
she would come up and lasso q few
| Pennsylvania politicians she would
get royal reception.
Mrs. Haggerty, a Lenox Mass. } wo.
man, had two horses killed on the eve
of her departure for Europe rather
than trust them to the care Of strang.
ers. She killed them literally to save
their lives.
An editor met well educated
farmer the other day, and informed
him that he would like to have some-
thing from his pen, whereupon the
farmer sent him 3 pig and charged him
1915 for it.
| A school-examiner lately gave a
bright-looking boy this sentence to
correct: 'Between yon and l this is
good butter" The boy shortly return
ed the slip thus marked: "Incorrect !;
the lamp-post is omitted"
! The town of Anamosa was named
for a young Indian maiden who used
to turn handsprings and the hearts of
young heroes thereabouts. 1t means
white fawn.
| A patent outsider" in Adair coun-
ty, complained because the proprietors
OF an illustrated journal of Chicago
sent canvasser through the county to
solicit subscriptions.
A Burlington teamster, named
Louis Vaudin, was found in an alley
recently, with one of the hind
wheels of his wagon resting upon his
breast. Whisky first got him down
and then the wagon got on top of him.
He was injured internally and may
not recover.
The work which Senator John Sher-
man proposes for the next Congress is
this:
Reduction of Congressman's salary
to 5000: measures to reduce the cost
of transportation the reduction VI tax
es; retrenchment in expenditures and
the adoption Of measures to raise our
paper money to tho specie standard.
A young grass-Widow, aged twenty
five, and ex-spousd of four living hus-
bands, is about to harvest her fifth hay
crop in Salt Lake City. Her first hus-
band was Ya1kee, her second an
Italian, her third ! Swiss, her fourth a
German, and her prospective fifth is a
Polander. The Widows tastes are
truly cosmopolitan, and she seems
ready to take the world to her glowing
and capricious bosom.
A Detroit business man found a
counterfeit fifty cent scrip among his
currency the other day, aud he put ii
| i'm hig vest ond that offarnnnn novn ~