Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-24
NUMBER Is.
News and otiae.

Nickel exists in Ulai h .s .fr
quantities.
Tie public pa.L OF san Fgancisce IS
a barren waste d sand.
They are 10 hsve genuine Chinese
newspaper in san francisco.
Solomon Somers committed suicide
at st. Louis, through fear OF the chol-
era.
The three guages Of railways mar.
row gauge, broad gauge, and mort.
gage.
A prodigious amount of whisky is
being drank in Kansas to cure rattle
snake bites.
A fourteen year old boy eloped from
Albany, N. y. with girl of still ten
derer years.
Chicago doctors stand around the
markets and take the number OF pur-
chasersof green apples.
Babies are cheap in Scotland. A
woman lately sold one to drunken
roysterer for a half-penny.
Buildings are in course Of construc.
ton or contracted for in San Francisco
to the value of over $9,25O.OO0.
A weather factory viii be opened in
Dubuque a signal service officer hav-
ing been detailed as superintendent.
In Khiva, when a man owes debt,
and won't pay il, he is hung, and his
worldly goods goes to the govern
ment.
UP to this time eighty-six victims of
the Modoc war have died. About
eighty are wounded, many of them
MANNED tor life.
Garabaldi writes that he is Of the
same opinion as President Grant-Eu,
rope will finally adopt the republican
form of government"
The Warm Spring scouts were paid
ON arriving at the Dalles, about 81, COO
and the merchants of that place had
nearly all of it before evening.
A husband and wife recently set sail
fran Derby to Glasgow, Scotland, on
the way to Edinburgh, the wife having
on her knee her thirty-third baby.
Henry Terry, Of Fond du Lac, didn't
resent it when man pulled his nose,
and his wife was so indignant that she
left his house and applied for divorce.
A band of wolves have taken pos.
session of the poor house at Oskaloosa,
Kansas. The trouble with most poor
houses is keeping the wolf from the
door.
A foot-race between gentlemen
troubled with corns and an equal mum.
Der wearing new boots will form one
Of the attractions of the st. LOnis Fair
this fall.
Sylvester Brown, of Ashtabula, when
adjudged not guilty of the murder OF
his wife, rose up and said Gentle.
men, l think l can stand the soda wa
ter on this"
A young lady at Portland, Oregon,
recently broke her engagement because
her lover, while taking her to ride,
quarreled with a gatekeeper over the
~...nrnt af toll.
Most of the arrests made in Duluth
on the Fourth of July were for not
complying with the ordinance that
requires ashes to be sprinkled on icy
sidewalks before 10 O'clock, a. NJ.
A young man from the counNry slap.
ped big copper cent nnder the nose
of the stamp clerk at the Troy posi-
Office the other day, saying, II guess
I'll lake one of them 'eer PASTORAL
cards, mister"
A Sioux chief, after following SUR
yeying party on the Northern Pacific
some days, mildly remarked that they
might 60 ON, for he'd be d--d II he'd
freeze TO death for all the hair there
was in that crowd.
The Cheyenne Indians are out on a
pleasure excursion Off their reserva-
tion. Their route is not known, but
there is a vague suspicion that their
operations will shortly cause Huctua.
tions in the hair market. 1o
Purchasers OF accident policies
should be a little particular about
dates. A gentleman purchased one
a few days since, good for two days,
but discovered subsequently that the
date on the card made ii expire two
days before the purchase.
Elbow on earth do you manage ~
asked gentleman of two inseperable
loungers. "You are always together,
you never do anything, and ret you al.
ways have plenty of money!
"Simplest thing in the world, my
dear fellow was the candid reply
1--WE borrow of one another.'
While pious couple of Momence
Illinois, were at church one recent
Sunday, their house was entered by Q
party of desperadoes, who hanged tho
sole remaining occupant, an old lady
relation. Moral: Either the old lady
ought to have gone to church regular.
ly, or the rest OF the family oughtn't.
The most appalling case of deafness
that we ever came across outside of al
asylum was that ofan old lady who
lives just across the street from the
Navy Y ard. The other day they fired
salute of twenty-one guns. fThe ole
lady was observed to start and lister
as the last gun was fired, and then sh,
exclaimed, "Come in"
We read in our exchanges now-a
days many paragraphs headed "a
rough killed by policeman" 1t af
fords us intense satisfaction to chroni
Gle that the police throughout tht
country are not only waking up to the
situation, but are evidently beginning
to understand what is their duty.
A Lynn, Mass, lady sold rags to ,
Salem buyer. A week afterward sh,
called'at his establishment and desirct
to examine what she had sold. Ate
searching the loft diligently she fount
her $1,000 in currency, and saving