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

News and other Items.

pound in San Francisco.
"A Vicksburg paper gravely an
nounces that there are thieves in town.
The wheat crop in Kansas is the lar
gest ever known.
1t is said that President Grant favors
repeal of the back-pay grab.
The chinch bug ia "chawing" up
county.
A st. Louis man puts cotton in the
ears OF balky horse to make him
60.
A Vermont man wanted TIC be buried
standing up, but the sexton wouldn't
crafty his within.
Memphis has a population of $4,000
inhabitants, and one thousand liquor
saloons.
1t takes 10000 brick to lay one course
on the new United States Ho.el, at
Saratoga.
One of the Kickapoos shot in GEN.
eral McKenzie's raid, was seven feet
high. /"
An Idaho lawyer paid twenty five
dollars the other day, for calling the
judge ia bloated old rhinoceros.'
Illinois has the largest railway mail
service Of any State in the Union. the
aggregate being 8,526 miles.
A Lockport girl whose father is
worth $4,000 is cooking Oh a canal.
boat to be romantic.
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis
and other cities are working to abolish
steam whistle blowing.
The Isle of Shoals murderer has
been presented with nearly fifty fans
BY sympathizing ladies.
John Haines, of Delaware, was tilt
ed by his girl, and he held his head in
pail of water till the spirit fed.
Father Hyacinthe says France is
bound to two deadly Influences, "su-
perstition and irreligion."
A Milwaukee boat club has adopted
light uniform, described "a hank.
kerchief around the head and one sus-
pender.
Cincinnati wants to change her big
policemen for men who can chase a
thief four blocks without sitting down
to rest four times.
A lady writer says that the present
Is the age of sensible dress for women.
What sciU they wear when the foolish
age comes round again?
Chico. California, has produced
some onions weighing four pounds
each, yielding from eight to ten tons
per acre.
A New York paper would like to
see clergymen take off their coats ON q
hot Sunday and push back their sleeves
as they go for Satan.
DR.. Amos Westcott, of Syracuse,
New York, who planned the Cardiff
Giant hoax, suicided last Wednes-
day.
In China the hearts Of executed
m urderers are presented to the rela.
tives of the victim to appease theil
sorrow.
A. e. Johnson ought to be- happy
man. He sued the Albert Lea Mimi,
Entesprsse for 5000 damages for libel
and was awarded five cents.
A New Hampshire toll-gate keeper
wishes that there was q law to prevent
women from driving teams; they al.
ways quarrel about the toll.
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A Massachusetts, woman went be.
fore Justice the other day and sw ore
that neighbOr woman hnd Dowitehod
her into having cramps aud spasms.
"a ri.e.L..s es.i, 40 s-...a ola, .a.aa
her father drunk, stole $3.50 from him
and ran away with sailor, and tried
to commit suicide when overtaken and
brought back.
The st. Louis Democrat says that
city invested over sec, 900 in the Louis.
vile library lottery, and not one-tentll
of that sum was drawn by ticket-hold.
ers.
A Colorado Justice of the Peace
sentenced . man to be hung for horse
stealing, and the gallows was ready be.
fore the official found out that he had
no jurisdiction.
A single sale of 1900 head of cattle
was recently made on the North Platte
in Wyoming. The average price per
head was little over 5000, the total
being 100000.
Many farmers in Wisconsin COM
plain that wheat has been greatly in
jured by the chinch-bug the last few
days. Corn never looked In better
condition.
A gentle parent at Greeneastle, Ind,
lately broke the arm of his seven.year
old boy with club, because he took q
piece of candy without leave, and d.
vided 1t with his baby brother.
Swarms of bugs, with slim bodies,
and long gray wings, are reported in
Wisconsin, where they completely
clean off the leaves Of trees. clover
field, and potato patch.
The latest Ku-Klux outrage is loca-
ted in McCracken county, KY, where
q band of disguised men visited the
house of Q farmer, fired the building
and fired upon the fleeing inmates.
hclis tou6 cAcrclecS III the OIympl8n
Springs Church, in Bath county, KY,
are pleasantly varied by drunken
young men drawing pistols and pom
ping off here and there one of the con-.
The women OF Remington, Indiana,
made raid on the saloons the other
night, and spilled, split, broke and
1stove in" and destroyed everything
they could find, not excepting the
head OF one proprietor.
A girl, presenting herself for situ-
alton ct Q house where mo Irish need
apply" in answer to the question
where she came from said, "Sure
We persave by my accint that
it's Frinch am ~
Several passengers on the Lower
Mississippi were attracted by the slli-
gators baskipg in the sunshine. "Are
they amphibious, captain ?" asked
locker on. "Amphibious HIP an
swered the enthusiastic officer; "they'll
eat hog In minntep
The recent drowning of E. s. Mills,
President OF the Brooklyn Trust Com
pany, leads to the belief that it was
not altogether accidental, as was at