Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-10-16
News and other..Items.


Boxes in the Boston suburban most
offices cost $S year.
1t takes six bushels OF Goldfish balls
TO last Dubuque hotel over SUNDAY.
AT Little Rock, Ark. winter over
coats arc in demand.
Fort Scott, Kan, cows have the
Texas fever '.bad."
Five hundred Nez Perces Indians
nave been converted TO Christianity.
Col. Lay, of Georgia. claims to have
been in torty-two tlues
Among the new tints is one called
"dyspeptic frog
All the incoming steamers from
Europe are absolutely crowded.
Less than 600 feet of rock remain Ia
be excavated in Hoosac tunnel.
a Detroit newsstand has = SIGN
which reads: "Cnrrant magazines
or all the birds that please us with
their lays the most popular is the
hen.
An English Judge has decided that
a quarrel between man and wife il NOT
breach ofthe peace.
A firm i'm Augusta. Georgia, scpt
to New York 100000 to help stay ,hc
panic.
Ladies' hats this season consist
chiefly of two bows of ribbon and n
stiff ostrich feather.
To lover there are but two places
IN the world-one where his sweet.
heart is, and the other where she isn't.
A Cincinnati saloon-keepcr adycr-
tlses 'lustrons oysters cooked in warm
hearted milk
Cincinnati man has patented M
umbrella which shoots the man who
attempts 10 steal it.
Cincinnati claims to be the ,hira c;,,
in the Union in point of manur,c,nr
ing. '"'
The British press treat with unspar-
ing ridicuie the failure OF the trans
Atlantic balloon project.
A Nevada gambler won 1880 on a
capital of so cents, but was robbed and
murdered while on his way home.
Three women were lately hanged in
Parker county, Texas. for horse-stcai-
ing.
Vice. e-President Wilson AYERS that
General Butler is aiming for the White
House.
John c. Heenan is perfect wreck.
lie is dying of consumption at Helena,
Montana.
Raising and fattening hogs on but-
falo grass ia the latest discovery in
the farming line on the plains.
1t has been proved that bolts which
infest horses stomachs will live "A
hours in turpentine or alcohol.
An errand boy in San Francisco
store stole $4,000, and compromised
by returning $4,000.
A Nevada school teacher wrote 10
inquire about a "steam thrashing ma
chine. Bad boys in Nevada.
A California editor saws that the
nerve OF the red man is only cqualcd
BY his ability to pull wool over The
eyes of his white brethren.
From Halifax to San Francisco. L.
1876 miles in eight days, is possible
since the completion of the Provincial
lntcrcolonial Railway.
A st. Louis newspaper man has
lately become night-editor of a disiiI-
lery, and feels more at home than ever
before.
The United States is the only nation
that pays pensions to citizens who
have taken up their abode in other
countries
"A family consisting of widowed
mother, three sons and two daughters
were all married at once in Cincinnati
last Friday.
Mr.. Rising, of San Bernardino, Cal,
claims TO have pumpkin which will
weigh 700 pounds ''when full-growlr."
1t continues rising.
Only twenty-one steamboats, are
now engaged in the Upper Mississip-
pi trade. while in 1860 there were six
ty-One.
An Ohio man got mad because he
didn't have clean shirt, and he sod
two cows and bought l32 shirts reaGy
made.
Mitchell county, n. c., claims o
contain the largest mica mining al Il
manufacturing establishment i'm Il !
country.
In 1869, 200 black bass We're put IN
to the Susquehanna river at Harris
burg and man recently caught lG0
during few DAYS vacation.
a gentleman lately refused 10 cclr-
brate his silver wedding on the ground
that he was not vet reduced to beg
gary.
| A New York lady has invented 4
corset which will squeeze a woman to
death in five minutes, il she feels like
suicide.
Uncle Sam owns fifty mitraiIlenrs.
and is to have as many more. They
are to be used on the frontier to perio-
rate Indians.
A Partisan dentist, who has smal,
villa in the outskirts, has raised upon
q mound at the bottom of his It'll,
1 garden, a summer-house built entirely
| of human teeth.
The season is fast tapproaching when
the husband without any discipline in
his family must arise betimcs and
with chattering teeth and fingers all
benumbed proceed to light the kitchen
| fire.
A California paper tells about boy
climbing u tomato vine to get away
from mad dog, Tomato vines attain
an enormous size in California, and 81
do lies. Why didn't the dog go III
also.
The amount of live stock weighed
in the Union Stock yards at Chicago
during the seven years past, exceed
the avoirdupois of all the human he
ings i'm North and South America h,
75,0Oe. COO pounds.
Fred Girard planted five acres a
new breaking at Bismarck. Dakei.
OH the Upper Missouri, last Nav. II