Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-10-09
News and other Items.

forming rlHe aSSOclatlOn.
Monograms on note-paper have gone
completely out of fashion.
1t is now fashionable in Paris for
young ladies to have freckles.
On Saturday last, at Centropolis,
Kan, a man fell into threshing ma
chine, and was cut to pieces.
The Carlists in the north of Spain
have met with a series of damaging
reverses.
The yellow fever has broken out at
Calvert, Texas, and perfect panic
prevails.
w. Braithwaite, Republican, was
elected Alderman of the First Ward
of Davenport, Iowa, on Saturday.
The Tennessee census indicates 400.
GOO children who ought to attend
school.
Sixteen hundred men applied to fill
vacancies as letter.carriers in Boston
last week. The pay is 5000 q year.
Don't tell an editor how to run a
newspaper. Let the poor fool find out
himself.
The piazza around the fall style of
shoes is a little broader than those
built in the summer.
An Orwigsburg (Pa.) wife inverted
her spouse in the milk-churn for pro-
family.
N l,afh han ,
proportions more pondcrons and awe
inspiring than ever.
According to statement Of the Bu-
reau of Statistics, $4,000 Americans
went to Europe this summer.
A Missouri widower lately espoused
a fourth helpmeet to look after his for
ty-eight half.orphaned children.
A rich old lady in New Haven keeps
her hens in the parlor, and feeds them
with jelly cakes and English walnuts.
The Methodist church, the world
over, claims an aggregate of $1,000
600 members.
The iron will pierce the heart of
China before long. Persia has Just
turned over the first sod for her first
railroad SO as not to be buried under
the sod as dead nation.
There is said to be enough iron ore
in the neighborhood of Black River
falls, Minn., to supply the whole de-
mand of the United States for the next
six centuries.
In recent letter on prison disci-
pline Miss Florence Nightingale says: !:
aFor crimes accompanied with yio-
lence, especially with violence toward
women and children, would whip
The Ashantee war, in Africa, is
wagging along. The natives are on
the point of starvation. An American
vessel has been captured in the act of
selling powder to them.
The amount of land devoted to
wheat culture in Great Britain is only
one half larger than that devoted to
the same object in the State of Illinois.
Illinois has 2,50O, 600 people to supply ;
Great Britain 33 1000, 200.
st. Louis is discussing the question
of teaching German in the common
schools. The best plan would be first
to get into the schools the 10000 or
more children in that city who don't
study anything.
One hundred and forty girls, all
under l3 years of age, picking over
rags in New York warehouse,
struck for higher wages, made speech
es, passed resolutions, and went
back to work at the same old figure.
A jury once returned into court in
order that one of their number might
be instructed in the following point
of law: II believe the evidence is one
way, and the other eleven believe diff
ferent; does that justify any other ju-
ryman knocking me down with q
chair"
music is cultivated, where the parents
and children are accustomed to min
gle their voices together in song, and
we will show you one, in almost ev-
cry instance, where peace, harmony,
and love prevail, and where the great
vices have no abiding place.--Ee.
In Switzerland, it is said, milk
maid who is good singer gets more
salary than others, because, under the
influence OF music, cows "give down.
better, and give more milk. A West.
era farmer is trying to hire Parepa
Rosa and Kellogg to sing around his
pump.
One of the most remarkable cases Of
forward and "back pay" occurred re.
Gently in New York. One of the
''old school, subscribers to the King
ston Journal was thirty y-one years ii
arrears for his paper. Last week h,
called upon the editors of the Journa
and paid up ''like a man." and re-
marking that he might not be around
for some time, he paid his subscription
ten years ahead, and another for his
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