Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-03
NUMBER IL.
News ard other Items.
Spotted fever RACES IL nlinois.
Horace F. Clark was Sorth 800

| Ulu.
Baton Rouge, La, is eating her
peaches.
Edgartown, Mass, had snow storm
on the Sd inst.
An Indiana reporter tells of
poisoning by corrosive supplement-
| Virginia boasts, this year, in the
prospect of an immense crop of pea
nuts.
Bridgeton county, N. j.. is one of
the finest champagne districts in
France,
Dio Lewis sees no reason why girls
should not be hired as clerks in grocery
stores.
Gambetta has forebodings that Nc
Mahon is attempting to snbvert the
Republic.
They have experienced an earth :.
quake in the northern counties of
Mississippi.
Iowa has more insane patients than
any other State in the Union, but has
also less idiots.
India crackers, il is said. have al
ready caused two fires in New York
city this season.
Virginia has discovered a mine of
asafGtida. and thinks that a rhubsrb
mine will come next.
Memphis has found brandy good for
the cholera, and the salo0n-keepers are
doing rushing business.
Reports from different parts of the
country indicate that the drouth is
doing considcrableldamage.
Among the curious old manuscripts
recently discovered, it is said, is the
gospel of st. John set to music.
Some men are like BARRIERS razor:
for no sooner are they out of one
scrape than they get into another.
Spicer thinks a lighthouse would
be the best place to store cheese in,
because it is warning to shippers.
Jones, on returning from ball in
the suburbs, informed his landlady
that it was very rehashe entertain
ment.
1t is strange that though it is now
past the middle Of June no girl has vet
skipped herself to death jumping rope
this year.
| Over thirteen hundred persons in
Geneva have Joined the Liberal CATH
olic order. under the lead of Pere
Hyacinthe.
| The people of New Albany, Ind.
have petitioned the Common Council
to make the playing of base ball a mis-.
demeanor.
Kate Pease won the Ladies' Stakes
yesterday at Jerome Park. Hereafter
the cry of the ladies will be, "Let us
| have Pcasc!'
Some OF the journals are congratu.
lating themselves that Captain Jacks
case cannot come before the New York
Court of Appeals.
Calves are dying of some new dis.
ease in Kansas. They commence bawl.
ing and turning round, and drop dead
| in few minutes.
Mellowville, Florida. had public
| meeting to other day to build church
ana secure pastor, and the generous
public subscribed ~.
An Alabama lawyer, defending
murderer, spoke nineteen consecutive
hours, but the jury convicted the
client in seven minutes.
Lucy Ounce, of Philadelphia, sold
her bonnet, so that her lover MIGHT
purchase ball ticket. She wished TO
be known by her fruits.
An obseryant man OF the world re-
marks that when young widow
resumes tight lacing it is to Show her
admirers that she is so-laced.
AT Bullionville, Nevada, a girl dis
missed her ox-driver lover because, as
she said, dad has got $1,000 to the
ton, and is going TO incorporate
A London correspondent writes that
oulda, the sensational novelist, has
eelestlal nose, q cross eye, a superflu-
onsly liberal mouth, and cynical and
bitter tongue.
A Kentucky man has had five trials
for the murder Of a man. He was 10
be hung at first; then twenty wears IN
prison; then fifteen; then five and
then the jury cleared him.
Texas item: A dead Mexican has
been found near the body of a COW.
which he had killed, evidently for its
hide. II appears that the animal kick.
ed him in the side, producing DEATH
Mr.. Sears, trustee of the Peabody
Educational Fund, declines to give
any assistance at present to the schools
OF Texas, for the reason of the unset
tied condition Of its educational mat.
| ters.
A New Orleans girl ate box of cas-.
tile soap to get rid of freckles. The
mourners remarked q very peaceful
expression about the mouth at the fn-
neral, but the freckles are as numerous
| as ever.
One of the editors of the Cincinnati
Enquirer recently saved the cook of n
canal boat from drowning. and has re.
ceived letter from the girls father
saying: "You have saved the girl and
she's your'n.'
| A Pittsburg man who had promised
his wife not TO touch another drop of
local option" as long as he had a hair
'on his head, shaved his head smooth
and then got blind drunk without
breaking his word.
A girl in Macoupin county, H., told
her lover she was his if he could milk
three cows while she MIXED two. He
failed, and at last accounts was practi-
cling on all the cows he could catch.
with the hope of getting another trial
A little Senatorial joke at Hartford
consisted in a resolution cxcusing
from duty for the day the absent Senss
tors who had gone ON an asylum.in-
specting tour to Lakeville, sin order
that they might gather inspiration
from the imbeciles at the Lakeyillc
Asylum
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