Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-24
Minor Editorial Notes

Minor Editorial Notes.
ST. Louis averages shout nine or ten
snnstrokcs per day.
Charles Trip, Of Nashville. Lee
county, was killed on Friday by run.
away team.
Fifteen deaths were reported in st. |
Louis last week from cholera, and 60
from cholera morbus.
1t costs 1890 per head to transport
Mormons from Sweden to Utah Terri
tory.
Ii is noticeable fact that more
horses than humans are being sun
struck, this summer.
A little girl, named Wall, near Full
ton Junction, Iowa, was. burned to
death with kerosene last Friday.
Barnum takes whole page in the
s.. Louis papers to advertise his big
show, which is to be there on the 4th
Of August.
The re-nnion of the soldiers of the
J Mexican war is to be held at Des
| Moines llth. 18th, and 18th of Septem-
Der next.
Salmeron is now President of the
Republic of Spain. vice ri y Margall.
The telegraph may announce Salmer-
on's successor tomorrow. Things
is mixed in Spain.
The trial of Capt. Jack and five 9TH
er Modoc murderers, has been conclu-
ded. The sentence Of the commission
that tried them has not vet been an
nounced.
+! On Sunday morning another attempt
was made to burn out Burlington. A
| fire was set at4 o'clock in the morning
In Geslinger Il Buhrmister's wagon
shop, but II was discovered in time to
put ii out.
I The Secretary. Of the Treasury de-
clines to endorseNthe appointment of
DIR. Mary Walker to clerkship in
that Department. So DIR. Mary will
have to fall back on pills and potions.
Poor DR.. Mary.
Some one entered the residence Of
the editor Of the Page Co. Herald and
stole his pocket-book. Like all editors
/ pOcket-books it was empty, and the
thief did not get rich on his ill-gotten
gain.
The Council Bluffs NonpareI says
that ''since the man who publishes q
| patent innards" paper in that city,
has got to be Granger, he is terribly
worried about how to get his grain 10
the seaboard"
Great excitement prevails among the
Roman Catholics of Pjttsbnrg, Pa,
| owing to a proposition of the city a,i-
thorities to remove a cathedral in Or
der to extend certain streets. Re-
sistance is threatened il the attempt is
made. ,i
Otto Brokaw, baggageman on The
B. Il M. r.. r. fell from car ten
miles east of Creston on Saturday eve
ming, and was run over by the train
and killed. Mr.. B. is said to have been
an excellent man, and was highly es-
teemed by all who knew him.
An Oregon preacher is said to have
wound up recent service with this
announcement: 81 hope all the con-
| gregation will be here Sunday at 10
o'clock. for precisely at that hour we
| will pass to the creek, where I shall
baptize fonr adults and six adulter-
| esses.
According to the Mt. Pleasant Jour-
nal there is one awful mad man in
that town. His wife had all his new
shirts made to button behind. When
she wants any thing she asks him for
! 1t just az he goes to put on q clean
shirt, and If he doesn't give 1t to her
| she refuses to button his shirt, and
won't let the hired girl do it.
Mrs. SwissheIm's opinion on the
Walworth case is, that "the woman
| u wrong to induce her to teach her
children to hate their father, or to
| throw any hindrauce in the way Of
their obeying the divine command to
! honor him--nay, the woman who
should neglect to teach her children to
! love their father on earth, because this
is required of them by their Father in
Heaven, is a bad wife, bad mother, a
very bad christian, and q woman one
would not care to know"
It. has been decided in st. Louis that
! that the laws of Missouri do not recog-
nize such q thing as soul, and when
one goes to wandering about in purga-
tory il must take care of itself. The
Judgment was rendered in case in
which the relatives of deceased man
sued for the sum of $1,000, devised for
the purpose of paying for masses for
the dead mans soul. The relatives got
the money, ami the poor soul has no
redress in the courts Of Missouri