Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-11-13
News and other Items.

Beccher begins t. wear '.tl,c look OF
Il tired worker
Colonel Boulinoi is going TO press
his scheme of territorial governmen,
for the Indian Territory in Congress
NJ IFS next session.
The first colorcd High school in
kentHckv---a neat and handsome
building g-hts recently been dedicated
al Louisville.
4 malicious soldier on the plains
writes ttst niBc-tenths of The time OF
army officers is occupied in courting
Indian squsws.
Minnesota doctor. calculate that bnt
for the threshing- season one
ballot their profession in that State
would starvc to death
A Boston baby nearly six weeks
old. weighs bni pound and half,
aud the Boston papers are bossting
about il.
a Western woman complains that
eince her husband Joined fhe Patrons
OF Husbandry he has sown nothing
but wild oats
a new secret society of mechanics,
modelled after the Patrons Of Hus-
bandry, called The Patrons of Indus
try, has been started in New York.
A new kind of stairs are shown at
the Chicago Exhibition. which are
warranted not to squeak when the
gentleman Of the. house returns home
late.
On Tuesday afternoon nine fisher
men, names not ascertained. were
drowned from a sail boat off Simcoe
Island, in the st. Lawrence river.
Three of the party were Seth Greens
men, engaged in collecting fish spawn
The St. Louis .joaraai has very
feeble sense OF what is due 10 digni.
ties when II remarks Of Bishop Haven.
whom il calls ''the bishop OF Atlanta
that 'itc j. one of the incest. smooth
Test, squar"si OLD fellows il the busi-
ness.
The Clearing House manager at New
Or,ean. has done his duty so faithfully
during the crisis, that tho Times OF
that city calls him "phenominai idi
VI. tutt IUstSls fiiftl ltt tlt-tItfS
media. made Of ihe sapertluonS leather
of his own ears.
The iron furnace. building ia Belks
county, Pa, will increase the capacity
for production in The county from l.
700 10 200 tons per week. Iehigl
county has ,wen,y-ciglii furnaces.
producing two hundred aud sixis
thousand tons PEI annuHt.
The Vile Narie Bank, OF Montreal
Canada, was vctimized TO the eStept
Of $4,000 ON Thursday morning. Two
wcil-dressed men emtcring the bank
shortly after its opening. aud while
one OF the thieves drew the clerks al
tentioD. the other seized a package con
tanning the above amount. aud both
escaped.
The Tweed CASE makes slow pro-
sress in Ncw York. Twelve men
were examined Thursday ar Jurors,
but none Of them were accepted. Tho
temper of the Judge and his apprecia-
tion Of the jury law may be inferred
from his very pertinent remark. in dis
missing juror who had shown him
SELF 10 he an intelligent man, that ";hi-
mans mind is not the perfect blank
the law requires. and he i therefore
excused.
A Sheffield, Eng newspaper men-
tions the '.rnmored removal of Shef
field steel business to tie United
States," owing 10 1.-The fact that Bilboa
ore is being imported iuto the States
and made into steel at lower rate
than Sheffield firms cali sell it. A
correspondent of the Iron Age adds
that more than one of our leadin.
Sheffield steel houses are engaged or
interested in Pittsburgh or phiIadel-
phia.'
Poor Graiz Brown is to be woful-
ly disappointed again. The newspa
pers. alwsys friendly to him, had ar
ranged a nice lille programme where
by the member Of the Legislature from
Iron county was 10 resign in his favor
that he might make the stepping stone
from which TO rise into the United
States Senate a. successor of Mr
Schurz. And now this hard hearted
representative from Iron county re-
puliaies the whole arrangement. aud
sayagely declares that there is only
one condition upon which he will
resign his position, and that is upon
the request of the people who elected
him.
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