Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-12-04

| Burlington has Wlfe whippef.
You can get venison for seven cents
a pound at Dubuque.
One Dubuque distillery has quit
work, and another is On half time.
The grading parties on the Des
Moines Narrow Gauge Road can't get
their pay.
Davenport pork packers are killing
between three and four hundred hogs
per day.
An exchange says the streets Of Da-
venport are unsafe for ladies after sun
set.
A Dubuque jury, having nothing
else to do, found an indictment against
Cuba.
Dubuque, tho stronghold OF Dem.
ocracy' pays annually $50, COS as inter-
est on her public debt.
The deposed faculty OF the State
Agricultural College will make fuss
about 1t, and an investigation.
Competition runs high at Waterloo.
Some of the merchants are supplying
their customers with kerosene for
nothing.
The Changers of Fort Madison have
purchased the Union Warehouse at
that place for the consideration Of
5000.
A gentleman living near Oskaloosa
will clear between 81 and So per bnsh-
el on his corn this year. lie canned it
is how.
The "eligibles" Of Des Moines must
think we are going to have very I'M
usually cold winter. They are coup
ling off At = lively rate any way.
Gen. Baker, Is agent tor various
charitable institutions and private
parties, has sent one hundred tons Of
coal to the needy homesteaders.
The Allen Hogan prize fight has cost
the State $1,000. The bravo soldiers
Of Des Noines want to arrest some
more priss-fghters, as they do It 20
succesSfullyt7)
Among the victims of the virgiuius
massacre was . Narshalltown man,
Maj. ]. G. Harris, brothsr-in- Of
Ed. Chaplin OF the Marshalltown
Times. His wife and two children 70.
side in Aarshall county.
Iowa, with her noted generosity, is
sending aid rapidly to the suffering
homesteadsrs in the northwestern part
of the State. They ought not to suffer
long when the older portions Of the
State are 90 beautifully supplied.
Henry Provost was killed in Bur.
lington the other day, by the explosion
Of . boiler In single mill. The
Coroner's jury returned a verdict Of
insxcusable negligence on the part Of
the engineer.
Our Iowa courts have decided that
suits being brought by . wife against
. uquor-seller for liquor sold to hus-
band. must be brought within two
years after the violation or the action
will be barred.
The dispatch to the Chicago 1rs-
oune, announcing the shooting, near
Lansing. Of one P. H. Eassnt was but
small portion Of the story. Since
then several others Of the pheasant
family have been shot.
The Changers of Buchanan county,
to the number OF l,44O, have assessed
themselves Is cents apiece for the re-
l Htvr Ur rno suuers IN vne uuryuWesreru
part Of the Stats-amounting to $ls6.
Suits against railroads are becoming
quite popular just now. Mr.. Sherman,
Chicago runner, has sued the North.
western Road for 5000 damages. He
had 1000 mile ticket, which was not
out-traveled, but the time of which
had just expired. The conductor put
Mr.. Sherman off the train.
A mail agent on the Northw estern
10 In trouble. He has been tampsrina
with letters. United States Marshall
Stewart passed through Burlington
with him, on Saturday, for Fort Madi.
son for safe keeping antil the January
term of the q. s. Court.
On Thursday morning, on the prairie
In Adair county, was found mail.
sack, probably left by the train.rob.
bers. It contained . bill of Exchange
No. 5,777, drawn BY Lease & Walker
San Francisco, CAL, in favor Of R. H.
Rochester, New York also 80 heavy
gold rings. The sack and contents are
In the care Of the Postmaster at ron.
tanelle.
While Cook Worte and q party Of
men were returning homo from Bona.
port, In wagon, where they had i'm.
bibed rather too freely, tho horses bs.
came frightened and ran away. All
Of tho party jumped ont, except Worts
who was thrown against the spring o.
the wagon seat with such force a Il
break his skull, killing him instantly
Draw your moral.
| List Of patents granted to citizens o.
Iowa for the week ending Nov. llth
1878 reported for the fouRrER through
the patent agency Of !. n. Alexander
: 70, Warrington Dc: