Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-04-30
This and That.

| Oskaloosa estimates 100000 worth
OF building in that city during the
coming simmer.
| The women crusaders at Portland,
Oregon, sentenced to pay asflnoso of IS
each, are serving ont their time In
| Jail.
! A Connections horsc.thio swapped
a fine animal for couple Of copper
watches. No inflated currency for
him.
"DID yon attend Mark Twain's Ice
Tturci" is the question the good PEG.
pic Of Dubuque are now asking each
other. IS
Vim. II. Barnum. who Is likely to
succeed Gov. Buckingham in tho Sem
ate from Connecttcut has an income
Of $1,000 per day.
1t is rumorcd that Willis Drum-
monde successor ~ Commissioners Of
the General Land Office win DO S. S.
Burdette, Of Missouri.
An uncle left eleven silver spoons to
his nephew in bis will, adding 'sHe
knows the reason have not left him
the whole dozen.' The nephew had
stolen one.
SENATOR Rrownlow has been forced
to leave Washington and he Ii now
confined to sick-bed At Knoxville,
the scene Of his vigorous and nnyield-
ing battles during 90 many years.
EvANaELrst Hammond, Id his recent
trip into Texas, Is. said to have
'sstrcwn the way with the fire Of con-
viction, which was traceable by 4
swath Of Christians through. . hay
field Of Sinners
"There, says an old topper, ssee what
all this temperance crusade prayin has
done; FIRST, busted the Lindell Hotel
tank and liked to drowned ST. Louis !;
and now overlooked the whole south
with water II the women keep on
we'll have another flood sure"
Clemmens, who perpetrated the
Mark Twain sell' ON the innocent,
people Of Dubuque, last Tuesday, was
captured at small town over IN Illi-
nois, Wednesday afternoon, and taken
back to Dubuque, where he is in
great demand. He has woman with
him.
GovERNoR T. A. Hendricks, 81 Indi-
ana, recently made speech at aol-
tliers' reunion, in which he thanked
the soldiers of Indiana "for their Of
forts in behalf of tho liberty and union
Of this great and glorious country.n
This Il the same patriotic gentleman,
who, In 1868, thanked God he had
never advised man to volunteer to
tight for the same liberty and union!
He seems to be gradually improving.
While youthful couple were being
Joined In wedlock ina justices court
in New York recently, the %Amsel
rather astonished . number Of specta-
tors by suddenly breaking out with II
want to know whether We are going
to keep house or board before going
into this thingw The Judge ruled the
question out Of order, and the cerc-l
nony proceeded.
The NortAern Chri.tidn Advocate
makes the statement that tho Metho-
dist Episcopal Church loses rs per
cent. Of its probaiioners. In fourteen
years zoos, 1888 probationers were re-
ported, Of whom only 5u9,2l6 went
into tull communion, or twenty two in
every one hundred. Or, in fourteen
years, more were lost than would have
made another church as large a. itself.
The Aaoocats thinks the prevailing
methods Of the church ara u fault,
and that such spiritual prodigality in
labor and souls should be abated.
Joseph Brooks, one Of the Govern
ors Of Arkansas, is native Of Butler
county, Ohio, near Hamilton, and
served a. Methodist preacher in the
Ohio Conference nine years. Thence
he went to the Iowa Conference, and
was afterwards elected as editor Of the
Central Christian Advocate. He was
then decided anti-siayery man. He
was Presiding Elder Of tho Arkansas
Conference short time previous to
the coup d'etat now convnlsing the
State of Arkansas.
j. FL. Westenhaver, of johnson Co.,
has invented and patented very in
genious and useful machine for Tight
ening and fastening fence wires. 1t
is locked to the end of one wire, while
the other 10 attached to small wind
lass, worked with crank, with which
the wires are drawn together as taut
as wanted, when the second wire 10
locked in the machine, and the ends
twisted together by very simple pro-
cess. The locks are then sprung and
the machine removed.
The political division of Congress-
men on the Senate finance bill, which
the President vetoed, 10 as follows:
i SENATE.
R.puo,esaa s. =. .... n.puo,.e e ssy.. n
Democrats. lDemOcrata-.-..s...... lC
Liberals. Ltberats
ro,., "a ro,.,. n
HOUSE.
Republcans a.. ... ..ioaI Republican 81
Democrat Democrats. :. ........ .Ss
Liberals
........l1p Toeai Z. Id
NOT VOTING.
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D0mocrAfa. u
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Refers n WsalnA,s nwess.
| A meeting was held In Boston, on
last Monday evening, q which Mrs
Abba G. Woolson TsAA her essay on
the subject OF dress reform. The e.