Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-08-07
TRlPoTAcE.

INTO market.
j Spring chickens now bring from
$l.6O to $500 per dozen from wagons.
The annual raid Of washing machine
peddlers is now in full blast.
VI One dollar per bushel is considered
a fancy price for new wheat at Musca-
tine,
| The grasshoppers are making g raid
near Bucna Vista on the Des Moines
river.
/ Deposits of beautiful variegated
marbles have been found in Augusta
county, Va.
Dan Eaton has received the plate
glass, direct from France, for his new
business house.
Burlingtonians thought they would |
have rain on Saturday and were dis.
appointed. The same over here.
The new B. & M, freight house is
going to be great improvement on
the old one.
Grace Greenwood says she was
charged 81 at Niagara Falls for place
In which to wash her face and hands. |
The wheat crop in Southern Ohio,
says the Toledo Blade, 10 the finest cut |
tor many years. 1t is free from eli
the Ills that wheat Is heir to.
The blackberry harvest on Soap
having proven failure the wood mar
ket Is unusually we'll supplied, and.
wood, IN consequence, is cheap.
Taylor, the saddler, has removed to
Union block, and has as nice an estab-
lishment - there Ii in this western
country. Look IN and see how It is
yourself.
We heard Of man whose brother
wrote him from the east that things
were 20 dry there they had to soak the
pigs over night to make them hold
swill during the day!
The Jasper Republican has purchased
. new power press. It's increase OF
subscription has brought this about
We are glad to chronicle this good for
tune for the Republican.
Burlington is afflicted with icenda-
ries, burglars, organ-grinders, prize
package vendors aud cholera medicine
peddless. Truly its aflictions are too
grievous to be endured.
Saturday morning 10 cars were
burned at Iowa Station on the T.. p. &
w. Railway. An attempt was also
made 10 burn the bridge east Of the
Station. Incendiarisfn seems to be
rampant.
The train on the Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad which carried the Washing
ton steam engine to the Baltimore fire
actually made the distance, forty miles
between the two station, in thirty-five
minutes.
Q. F. Blake, Esq, and family leave
this evening for visit in New York
and . tour in the New England States.
Miss Juliet Blake, the daughter,
goes to enter the Academy at Brad
ford, Mass. =. s 3 L
Somebody's circus is coming. The
bill boards are erected, and people who
could not be persuaded to work, on
any other account, will now be look
ing for job to raise money to get in
to the circus.
The city ordinances say that there
shall be no shooting done in the city
limits. But every day, and night too,
you can hear shots being fred al.
most anywhere in town. "a fine in
Aicted on some OF these shootists
would, perhaps, put stop to It.
Prairie City has case of scan mag
and the gossips are happy. A re-
spectacle married woman named
Hardness, charges cne Ray Smith,
with an attempt to outrage her per-
son. OF course Emith says 1t 10 for
black-mail.
The attention Of land buyers 10 In
vited to the advertisement of Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
lands to be found IN to-day's paper.
For particulars call on La Force &c
Morse, or address A. Z. Touzalin,
Topeka, Kansas.
The Dubuque Times says that the
contract for doing the grading from
Cedar Falls to 6igonrney, one hundred
miles, on the narrow guage road, has
been let to Cook + Selsby, of Cedar
Rapids and the work will be COM
menced soon.
Intelligence has been received from
Cherryvale, Kansas, stating that more
buried bodies have been found, who
were victims of the Bender gang. 1t
10 also stated that clue has been OBJ.
4 i
tanned % to the whereabouts of the
Benders.
PERsoSAL.-Fletcher Armstrong, of
the Ross County Register, Chillicothe,
Ohio, called upon us to-day. He is an
old Iowa citizen, and is taking run
through this potion of the State visit
Ing his friends. He publishes one of
the spiciest and best weekly papers in
the old Buckeye State.
The Mt. Pleasant Journal "knows .
drummer who exhibits on his rounds,
what he calls his "hotel watch chain"
It's made Of hairs fished out Of Bur-
lington hotel soup. He says he didn't
like to eat them, and, as he had paid
for than ha thnuoht hn unuld hava |