Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-01-30


r. S.-Does the Hon. John want
moro anon. e,
State News.
Clinton q afaicted with seventy sa-
looms.
Oskaloosa paid out $1,000 for hogs
in one day.
Tho population Of Fort Dodge 10 put
at about $500.
The wood measuring question agi-
tates Cedar Rapids.
The spotted fever is raging with foN'.
full fatality at Andrew. e
A noble.henrted burglar stole s35
Of apoor wash woman, at Washing
ton.
A Monticello mother has had two
druggists arrested for selling liquor te
her son.
The Prairie City Uaion has actually
found out that the epizootic is on the
decline.
Up to this time s469, 1866 has been
expended on the Insane Asylum at NJ,
Pleasant.
Mycr Jarvis. Of Morning Sun, has
cultivated hog untilit turns the scales
at 96O pounds.
The Southern Iowa Synod Of Pres
byterians has 1O,490 children in its
Bible schools.
The lightning made wreck Of the
Nah. aska county Baptist church one
day lat week.
The to tai rainfall in Davenport from
January to September, last year, was
34.36 inches.
The merchants of Carroll county
arc trying to bring the farmers down
to cash basis.
A Wilton man had pet elk, but he
had to shoot him to stop his headstrong
familiarity.
The Cresco Times persistently spells
college with 3D." and bachelor with
q. It" and two ls,"
. A company has been organized to
build narrow gauge railroad from
Davenport to Eldora.
"A typographical error in the DeAne
Democrat cuts of mans head by o
falling derrick, instead Of his hand.
/ Tho mortgage on the Scott County
Fair Grounds amounts to over $500.
John Weber is trying to forcclose it.
A project is being discussed for the
creation Of a new county, by taking a
slice Off of Clinton and jackson coun-
Ties.
The German residents Of Davenport
have raised $500 for tho relief of suf-
ferers in Germany in the late inunda-
ticns.
Washington county will send rep
resentatives from forty three Oranges
to the State Grange on the 2sth in.
slant.
4 The locomotives on the G. r. I. s. p.
Road consumed over IS, 600 tons of coal
last year. All but 1900 tons came from
Iowa.
A quarterly conference OF the church
OF the Latter Day Saints will be held
at the Court House in Glenwood, Feb
ruary 9Th. NV
The very first woman who settled
in Davenport, was ut the old settlers
meeting. Her name 80 Mrs. Antoine
LeClare. @ R'19
j. w. Merriman Of Eldora, was bad
" bitten by cas The wound ap-
pears to be poisoned as If from q rat
tlesnake bite.
After the great storm, . man found
over two hundred quails on prairie
in Delaware county, which had froz-
zen to death. m
Prof. +. s. Parvin has resigned the
cditorship of the Evergreen, the Mason
&c Monthly, because his salary was two
years in arrears.
A young lady at Fort Dodge is carry
ing on a discussion in the papers Of
that place, with q Minister, as to the
propricty Of dancing. @ aaa
/ Des Moincs grows enthusiastic be-
cause . patent waterproof blacking
man from New Jersey, talks of 'set-
ting up" in that city. Z
At Independence, last Thursday
evening. the friends OF Rev. VIM. L..
Hunter, gave him a donation aggrc-
eating 1905, whereof $l65 was cash. Z.
A Dubuque we'll known sporting
man has undergone change of heart
since the Rev. Hammonds advent, and
is now regular attendant at church.
Iowa is the fifth State in the Union
in the number of newspapers. New
York has 95l publications; Pennsyl-
vania, GA; Illinois, Sis; Ohio, A39;
and Iowa SOB.
Wright, the school.naster who was
shot at Cedar City, is reported to be
getting better. The girl who did the
principal shooting is trying to staryc
herself to death.
An Iowa girl named Mary Ralston
is fascinating aristocratic Washington
with her extraordinary wealth of
hair, which measures Eve feet two
inches in length"
A man dicdat Council Bluffs, and a
writer in the NonpareH states that