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

murders in New York.
Kansas, during the year, has expend-
ed 81 100000 on school-houses.
Barnum's hired men are ransacking
all Africa after nice fresh lions.
General Butler is said to be opposed
to raising the Presidents salary. :.
The gross earnings Of the Union Pa
cific Railroad.for November were $3.50
600.
The new Aristocratic President of
Mexico chews plug tobacco and smokes
clay pipes.
1t was clay pipe, overturned In
dish of sawdust, which caused the Bar
mum IRE.
A Dundee pie-eatist recently won
wager by devouring sixteen pies in
seventeen minutes.
At Newark, n. j., on the night of
the I'd, John Murphy killed his moth
er in law, Miss Mary Ann Name.
The jailer at Cincinnati takes the
prisoners out to saw wood, and yet
sternly warns them not to .cnt sticks."
The Des Moines Relief society met
on Monday night and made up a fund
Of one thousand dollars for the relief
of the poor.
The salary Of the Mayor of Pittsburg
| Pa, don't amount to much, but he re-
lies on contingencies, which amount to
10000 year.
Tho Robinson house, the principal
hotel of Emporia, Kan, was burned to
the ground on Thursday. An incen
diarism. Loss s25, 1000; insurance, ST.
600.
All persons under the age of fifteen
are required by law to attend school In
Texas, and married lady In Hons-
ton, under age, complies and takes her
baby with her.
The night before Chicago man
died, his wife sat up with him all night
and became 90 interested in reading
Claud Duval, that she did not know
when her darling died.
At Wilmington, DEL, yesterday, A
Gwin, Collector of county taxes, was
fined $1,000 and costs of prosecution,
for throwing the names of colored vot.
ers off the assessment list.
The late King of the Sandwich Is
lands weighed 300pounds, and his cof-
fin weighed 900. His rightfnl success
sor, William Lnnalilo, is an inveterate
drunkard and y worthless character
generally.
Rumor says that Secretary Bout
we'll has intimated that he would not
be surprised IL there should be furth-
err increase in the national debt. He
thinks there has been to great reduce
ton oftaxation.
| A justice of the peace in Appanoose
county ties the nuptial knot after the
following original fashion: "Them
that this court joins together, let no
man burst asunder, but suffer little
children to come unto them, go help
you God"
The State debt of Illinois is a little
less than $1,4OO,OOO. This will be paid
within three years by the income from
the Illinois Central railroad, and from
the Illinois and Michigan canal, with.
ont taxation. Practically the Sucker
State is free from debt.
| An investigation into the death Of
David and William Clarkson, two
miselly old bachelors, who lived to-
gether near Pittsfield, Pa, and were
worth $4,000 or $4,000, shows that
they froze to death because too stingy
to buy fuel and clothing enough Ia
keep them warm.
| The notorius Cora Pearl has been
cxiled from France, because she pro.
voked one of her admirers into shoot.
ing himself in her presence. 1t is ru.
,nored that she Is coming to Amcrica
to form an alliane with Mrs. Fair. and
give pistol mxtinecs, where those who
are tired of life can get popped of for
the moderate sum of 25c.