Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-01-16
News and other Items.

Francis,
Chicago is to have third railroad
to..Joliet. 81 s..t
Joe Jefferson is plnying Rip Van
Wrinkle again.
| Stokes tainted when his sentence
was pronounced.
The Baltimore Ame,5caa is hun
drcd years old.
! Cincinnati is not yet entirely over
the epizootic.
| Coal is forty cents bnsl,el in some
portions Of Tennessee.
The United States raised 1s9, ,4SD, 600
pounds of Tobacco last year.
California is worth more as a wheat
growing State than as a gold State.
Of new pill the patentee SAYS
"therc is not a lazy hair in its head
A California Chinaman committed
suicide by craming paper up his nose.
Robert Burns birthday will be cell
ebrated in New York ON the 24th inst /,
Governor Hartranft. Of Pennsylva-
mia, win be inaugnrated on the 2lst
inst.
I A Maine woman ate four quarts OF
oysters in fifteen minutes. and won
$1.OO.
A Cleveland husband refused 10 buy
his wife a new Garnet. and she commit.
ted suicide.
! The poorest education that teaches
self control is better than the best that
ncgiects 1t,
The spirit of Cluck~ who suicided in
indianapolis jail, vexes his late fellow
prisoners. gEa
Cortina, the bandit, is preparing for
/ another movameet against the Mexican
Government
Boston ministers refuse to wear
| white neck-tics because they are worn
by hotel walters.
Mayor Hall, OF New York. has re
tired after twenty -one wears OF official,
service in that city. ,,.FE..s.I.i
A New Orleans jeweler was chlor.
oformed and robbed of a2y.OOU worth.
of jewels. Friday night.
Rev. DR.. Salter, Of Burlington is
writing the biography OF the late sen.
stor James w. Grimes.
"A corpse in Chicago kicked the lid
offrOm the coffin and called for his'
customary 'natutinal cocktail.
John Hurley, Of Ulster county. New
York, is the latest dead fool who drank
three quarts OF rum ona wager
| One of the Italian lazzaroni recently
arrived in New York has purchased j
valuable farm IN Minnesota.
The editor of the Marshall County
Ne.cs, Kansas. has a x5Q,OUO libel suit
ON hand. His assets foot up about
800. ,4slr
| The increase In the amount OF
opium used in this country has been
million ounces per month Tor the past
year. q - sE'
Indiana will fix up her divorce laws.
One provision is that a divorced party
shall not merry again under five
years. $50 aast.@4
| An oysterman has offered Virginia
flO0.OO0a year for the exclusive priyil-
ege Of gathering bivalves in the waters
of the State. ASi3 isa fi@% q e5.ss
The police of Lawrenceburg, In-
diana, light the city lamps, as well as
put heads on the incoiTigible people
Of that town. tse7' 'E
John Shoule, a Wisconsin German,
perforated his hide in sixty places with
2 knife. and yet he lives and is not
happy. e2't ,S-'aE
Daniel Pratt, owing to. corns and
other impedinents to travel, wants q
reporters position on the Philadelphia
Inquirer. -
Susan Dickinson, Annas sister. says
the reason she does not lecture is that
she is not Is pretty as Anna. Poor
Snsan. NJ. 4sl5t
An inebriate Wisconsin maj, threw
his watch into the CRATE aud carefully
placed his half-burnt cigar under his
pillow. 'qe s.
At Peru, lnd.,, il costs ecbool-
master $40 to, thrash . pupil, but an
ablc-bodied man can lick his wife by
the hour for s3.
One towel answers for twelve Gus
toners In an Indianapolis barber shop,
and the barber sharpens his razor on
the stovepiye.
The ghost of II muscular Christian
infests Charlotte, N. c., and makes the
place pleasant by hurting red-hot
brickbats around.
Minnesota has just sent to the peni-
tcntiary for six months the first woman
ever convicted in that State of keep
ing house of ill-fame.
II isrcporicd that Italian Minister
at Washington will challenge Doom.
Piatt to fight duel, on account OF
squib which appeared in Piatt's pa,
per. ts,sss
Ohio has a law BY which any hus-
band who opens his wife's letters can
be made to pay right smart for it. IL
inst good State for u Jealous man TO
live in. r
A German, named Chas. Piper. was
discovered dead in his room Mt a
boarding house ia Pe0ria, Friday
morning. Whisky and cold weather
killed hi:n.
An amateur jour naliet Of Indianapo-
liz has made a fortune by his pen--his
father-in-lsw died Of grief after read
ing one Of his leaders. and left him
100000.
A California baby siy months old,
that weighs ninety six pounds, causes
the perspiration TO trickle down the
countenance of its papa. who only
weighs ninety-foHr.
During the ten months. ending No
vember first. there was $50 railroad ac-
cidents in this country-in which 245
persons We're killed aud 100 injured.
| This is a fearful chapter of accidents.
Americans abroad must not indulge
in sighting remarks at the expense Of
crowned heads. James S. Watson, a