Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-01-23
News and other items,

Florida is plugging wsterlneioDs.
The losses ON western rivers last
year amounted TO SS,225, 200.
| The Texas railroads are carrying i'm
| migrants at two and hall cents per
mile.
Twenty-four amendments to the
Constitution are NOW pending In Con-
gress.
! The people Of Jewel county, Kan
sas, want 10 know how the jAw.bone
ofa whale came to be buried IN hSt
vicinity.
Two hundred and ninety tour thou
sand immigrants landed in New York
+, during 1872. Of whom $4,000 were
| Germans.
| Men are sometimes like tea. the rea
| strength and goodness are not proper
! ~ drawn ont ofthem until they have
been for short time ia hot water.
| Chicago burglars say ths. they new
er saw money SO tight rs ut present.
aud they declare that every other
| watch has been sent 10 the pawn shop.
A contest between live pancake eat
els took place at Newton, Nj. recent
! ". The Successful competitor demoi-
| ished sixty-eight and his nearest rival
sixty.
A Wisconsin stsse-driyer committed
| suicide, u few DAYS since, because he
\ was so short. lie could not curry his
horses backs, nor kiss his girl. without
standing on chair.
The "old bell of IL, which anncunc
| ell the Declaration OF independence.
has been restored to it's former posi-
ton in the vestibule of independence
Hall. Philadelphia.
While dancing ri 4 ball in Akron.
4 Ohio, a Young lady broke out with she
small pox. Her Young man danced to
different time immediately, bus hes
since taken the disease.
The Scisatife .4mericass speaks OF
the '.hot- " ater gun rs late inSentiOB.
We used to hunt cats with that kind Of
a weapon years ago, though II was
called \ squirt gun then.
Geo. MeCounoughey. an old man
I tlNlttss III GItcln, 1HiO, was iOuHA u~~A
Wednesday with two bullet holes
/ through his breast. II is supposed he
was murdered tor his money.
A negro in Indianapolis. Ind. has
i been convicted, under the laws Of thai
State, OF the crime of marrying white
woman. aud sentenced to three years
in the Peni,cntiary and VI 900 fine.
1
In all The Eastern and Northern
states terrific snow storms have been
prevailin. for several days. The
storms have extended as far south as
Columbia. South Carolina, where they
have good slciShiny.
When Kansas cit. girl, who as
\ clerk IN candy store. learned thai
she had fallen heir to 100000 In En-
, | gland. she refused to attend customers
. and perched herself upon the coun,e,
!. and chewed gum drops all day.
: Twelve "Indian "cattle thieves were
: lately caught in one of the western
counties of Kansas, and hung to a liml
: of tree, because there was no "lims
). Of the law" to plead for them. Beicr
y y hanging them their faces were scrubh
" ed. aud eleven of the twelve did no
pan out as Indians--thev being un
. protected orphans mostly from Kansa'
II See how the following item, til,
originated in the Danbnry Nescs, h,
changed since it struck the shears of
~ Cincinnati editor:
Sc A rural lady. standing uneonsciou
id ly on register in Cincinnati stos
ne attracted general attention to hereelf
as observing TO her husband: sJames.
on guess I'm asoin' to have fever i q
such hot streaks runnin up my legs