Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-15
News and other items.

| News and other items.
Speaker Blaine will shortly visi,
California.
Lavender-colored pigs are produced
in New Jersey.
A Mormon church has been estab.
lished in Florida.
| Ohio has a new jury'law emitting
| the word white
Mrs. General Candy is dangerously
III, and may not recover.
The Episcopal Church in Minnesota
has four Indian rectors.
A Western paper puts in the plea of
moral insanity for the Modocs.
Butler late American Consul Gcner.
al in Egypt, has Joined the Carlists.
A blood-red bat with feathers is the
latest natural curiosity in Atlanta, Ga.
Casteler says no Government can
live In Spain which is willing to resign
Cuba.
A Kansas man has q monomania for
plows, and has stolen fourteen this
spring.
The monument to James Fisk, Jr.,
at Brattleboro, will be the finest in
Vermont.
Sir John A. Mcdonald, the Canadian
Premier, is accused of jobbing Paci-
fic railread.
Hon. A. G. Curtin is about to locate
permanently at his old home, Belle
fonte, Penn.
A ragged old duAer is trying to
make the Philadelphians believe he is
the Wandering Jew.
A New Hampshire mau has the strap
which has thrashed the family through
three generations.
A German paper in Cincinnati re-
fers to lager beer as supplementary
means of n0urishinent.'
A GAINESVILLE, Wis, woman emashed
mans head with brick for treating
her husband to whisky.
King Lunalio is not we'll and has
cancer in his breast besides. They
think no won't live live long
Dr. earlier, Of Brussels, one of the
frat to introduce homeopathy into
Belgium, has just died at the age of
rs years.
The chivalry Of Russelvile, KY, late
ly amused themselves by burning
down the engine house of negro fire
engine company. .+.
A youth who wears the latest style
Of sleeve studs can not be expected to
bring up q scuttle of coal while his
mother Is around.
A precipitate Detroiter is miserable
at discovering that his wife inherited
half a million lust after he had procur.
ed divorce from her.
Talk about carpet baggers! Not less
than seven or eight hundred ex-rebel
officers are now said to be permanent
residents of Now York city.
Two hnys arc in cns4ody et EiInirs
N. Y, for tampering with the mails.
They say they learned the art of pill
fering by reading dime novels.
An Iowa paper half boastingly say
that 1t starts on its sixth year with
some subscribers who commenced with
the fret number and have never paid
cent.
The poor man feels rich when he
sees how much he has to move, and
the rich man feels poor when he sees
how the furniture looks in the new
house.
General Sherman says he has no
fears of general Indian war. lie
even thinks the Pacific slope Indians
will behave themselves, the Modocs
excepted.
A young married man in Arkansas
shot himself last week because he was
tired of whipping his wife, and she
wouldn't behave herself without tho
whipping.
A Philadelphia banker, named
Grambo, has eclipscd all rival embez-
zlers by making away him 500, 1000 be-
longing to his friends and patrons.
His assets amount to 100000.
Some idea of the remarkable growth
of st. Louis may be derived from
knowledge of the fact that every live
newspaper has been compelled to add
. "building-permit editor" to its force.
A Louisville membey of the Ken
lucky Legislature who occupied his
leisure in running faro bank was SO
literally patronized by his fellow
members that he will spend the sum-
lner in Europe.
Deferred by ridicule, Southern edi-
tors NO longer fight duels to any ex-
tent, and, in consequence, ono doesn't
know what to do when he happens to
get knocked down. They'll learn to
take joke, by and by, though.
The st. Paul Pioneer mourns over
''the spectacle of miserly rapacity and
selfish greed presented in the case of
Vanderbilt, who, at the age Of 80, and
said to be worth from 1000 900 to
500, OO0, 600, has gone to law to escape
paying share of his taxes"
A San Bernardino, CAL, assessor
asked woman how man chickens she
had, and, doubling her word, proceed
cd to count them. She took him to
the beehive, kicked it over, and in
vitcd him to count the bees. He'll
take q woman's word next time.