Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-19
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Grasshoppers are troublesome i'm
Cherokee county.
There are 1900 townships in Iowa,
and l,500 farmers oranges.
Twenty-three soda fountains irri-
gate the arid tonsils Of Des Moines.
The first attempt to transport newly
Matched shad to the West has failed.
General Baker will superintend the
screaming of The eagle at Knoxville.
The Democrat feels bad because
Bloomfield has not arrested one of the
Bender family.
A Methodist camp meeting will
commence at Clear Lake on July 2.
and continue eight days.
A cheese factory, costing $1,000 to
$1,000, has been erected AT Golden
Prairie, and is in operation.
The population of Clay county has
increased l34 per cent. since 1870. II
has 664 more women than men.
A young man from Boston. named
A. III. Graham, shot himself dead on
the street at Dubuque. the other day.
During the first nineteen days in
May the people of Clinton County
put themselves outside of S26 barrels
beer.
A Guthrie girl dreamed the wolves
were chasing her and got up in her
sleep and jumped out OF q second
story window.
The June Fair at Des Moines has
been postponed on account Of the Fair
grounds being submerged. The new
date is July 2, 4.
Two Of the prisoners who escaped
from the Anamosa penitentiary last
week, were captured at Dennisop.
Iowa, on Monday.
Three Russians representing 500 Of
their countrymen' have been prospect.
ing in Cerro Gordo county for suita-
BILE location for 4 home.
Some inventive genius has construct
ed side-wheel boat, worked by man.
power, with which he vexes the waters
of the Des Moines and the Coon.
| D. d. Mexican accidently shot him
self near .vinton, on Tuesday, while
pigeon hunting, and died in about a
half hour afterward.
| Des Moines has sweet potato
grower that helps out his newspaper
advertising by wearing for a hat band
the legend "Sweet potato plants fot
sale.s
| What sensible set of men the
Dankards, Of Marshall county, are
They have resolved to excommunicats
any of their members who run fol
Office.
/ Page county claims to be the banner
cattle county in this State. 1t is est
mated that from Sept. |, 1872, to Sept
| l, 1873, $4,000 cattle will he shipped
from that county.
| The College of Physicians and Sur
geons at Keokuk has just sent out 2.
newly-fedged doctors. The com
mencement exercises of the Colleg'
took place on Thursday evening.
A squatter in Hardin county ha
taken up his residence in q schoo
house, and defies the authorities to re
move him. IS the house stands upol
his Iand
a lady visitor got locked in SUI
picture shop at Des Moines. On tn
return Of the artist she did not wal
for her photo or leave him In condi
ton to have ONE taken.
A woman at Gilbertown waded int,
the river to drown herself, but see
ing her husband Watching her from
window, with an air of calm gratiflca
ton, she concluded to live awhil
longer.
Il At Colesburg, on Wednesday, a 50
loon-keeper named George Turne
, was shot through the head and ia
tally wounded by q customer witt
whom he had quarreled in regard I,
some drinks.
The old settlers of Page county me
at Ciarinda on the 9Th inst, and re
solved to have an old settlers reunion
and an old fashioned picnic at the fai
grounds, near that place, on the secon,
of August.
The great celebration OF the firemel
at Des Moincs, on the Fourth Of July
appears to have fallen through. Prob
ably on account of the unsettled
state of the fire department of tina
city.
4 In looking over our exchanges /,
find the biggest liar in the country, 1
is found that he il on the Des Nome
Register. He says: "The rats il
Webster city grow larger than cats
! and 1t is said one blow from q rat
tail will split cellar door."-N. Y
Cypress.
L. N. Rice, prominent citizen Q
Iowa City, has become insane, and sen
: to the fanatic asylum. On Sunday las
he went into the Baptist church at tn
usual hour for services, and taking .
text out of volume of patent Office
reports, attempted to preach.
The Dubuque Times says among tn,
absolutely needed things in that city il
q morgue, or dead house, SO construc
ted that the bodies Of unknown mel
and women found dead may be place &C
there for Identification and preserva
ton during inquests. Dubuque mus
ha an ,,nhnal&hx, vaoco Co. .trooror.