Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-11-20
Here and There.

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and heated it red hot.
A woman with spectacles on is
raiding Sioux City. and picking up all
the loose change she can find
Judge Sewers. of Oskaloosa, is in
attendance on tho Circuit court in this
city.
There are eight hundred thousand
Jews in Poland. The number having
nearly quadruplcd since 1916.
Daniel Mendenhall, prominent cit
izen Of Fairfield, and at one time
resident of Ottumwa, died at Fair
field on the 9th inst
There are now thirty-six Oranges
of the Patrons OF IIusbandry in Penn.
sylvanis. There are nearly nineteen
hundred Oranges in Iowa.
Forty.three head of bloodcd stock
on the Babbage farm have been sold
at prices ranging from 800 to $500.
About four hundred head are yet re-
naming.
The last kind OF robbery We have
heard OF is stealing revenue licences.
Some one has stolen Stormy Jordan's
tobacco license, but it won't interfere
with his aNosc Paint" trade.
"THF MOUNTAIN LARoRED AND
BROUGHT FORTH A MousE."- The jury
in the Forsyth vs.. Johnson SANDER
case, Thursday, 18th, returned a verdict
of one dollar damages in favor OF plain
tiff.
Walter Jordan has gone east to take
advantage of the panic prices for
some new purchases. Their house OF
Jordan Bros, win commence moving
into their new aud elegant store about
Saturday.
Since the announcement that tw'
new banks are TO be started in Dc
Moines, n safe agent has worn ont tw
pairs Of shoes running up and dow
the Register stairs 10 find out who til
cashiers will be.
Since the advent of hard times. live
and soup bones are in such demand a
Mt. Pleasant that the butchers of tina
place are looking for animals that will
work up to good advantage into thos
two articles of diet.
Mr.. r. Roberts has bought Mr.. II
L. Graves part of the nursery AM
vegetable farm owned and operate,
by A. L. Graves & Son, near this city
The business will hereafter be carrie,
on by Mr.. Roberts and Mr.. Graves
sr. d&wl,
A French provcrb says the reputa
ton of man is like shadow; i
sometimes follows and sometime
prccedes him it is sometimes longer
aud sometimes is shorter than the nat
ural size. About this time the repu
tation Of most men is generally of tb,
ssshort" order.
The blessings of good fortune ar
thus related by the Grand junction
paper "Our town has been compar
atively blessed during the past sum
ne.- lawn 8 hadery little sickness
rod man, and but one or two boo
peddlers or directory men. Let II
offer up thanks"
+. X. Phpnix's Bloomington, Iii
nois, Nursery, is one of the best in tn
West. To- day we received from Their
choice lot of Tulip and IIyacinth
bulbs, which we paid for, and henc
this puff ia not for any favor, but as
matter of Justice.
The colored Baptist Church give a
oyster supper on Thanksgiving ever
ing. The place is not yet designated
There will be speakers present bot
white and colored, who will make az
propriate remarks upon the occasion
Further notice will be given in du
time.
Upon the announcement that Brf
Harte ia finishing Christmas story
entitled, How old man Plunke,
went home" the Leavenwsrth Time
makes this comment: "Without an
disposition to prejudice the bool
from the fact that it was Christina
we think il will turn ont that the oil
man went home drunk"
Thirty-two thousand men are II
ported as out of employment at Phils
delphia. The railroads in Pennsylvs
MIA are stopping all improvement
Pittsburg reports thousand HAND
idle. Ii is anticipated that great di
tress will prevail among the unen
ployed during the coming winter.
Our readers have doubtless notice
the new style of the make up of Il
Daily COURIER, and we hope the
duly appreciate it. All the night di
patches of any Importance, as well
the day dispatches, are now given c,
cry day in the daily, so that our rea,
ers get all the Geographic news the
is going. We spend more labor an
money on our daily than any 9th,
paper of the price in the State, an
we hope our citizens appreciate tn
and will give us q support CONNER
surate with our efforts 10 give the,
good readable paper
LARGE SHIPMENT.--Messrs. S. King
baker & Bro, wholesale dealers
leaf tobacco, next door to Tremol
House, shipped yesterday, to a Gig
house in Ottumwa, Iowa, over 800
lbs. of leaf tobacco, said to be one
the largest shipments of leaf ev
made from this city.-Quincy Neus.
The cigar house mentioned abov