Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-07-09
This and That,

-. This and That.
Virginia enjoys colorad postmis-
tress.
| The Pope IL weakening, and will
soon be III again. 3sS}9s
Tell CoFFMAN's Abba Leader is
out in favor Of Porte WEIGH for Con-
gress. ''
Milwaukee shipped 10000 kegs Of
beer out OF that town last week. Only
$360,000 worth at wholesale.
The Princess D'Oubril, wife Of the
Russian Ambassador to Germany, was
drowned at Potsdam on last Sunday.
Lieutenant Fred Grant is to BE- mar
ried in October. when it will be seen
whether or no too many Cooks spoil
the "broth ola boy
The State ticket offered by the An
fi-Monsps to the farmers of Iowa, is
made up Of one farmer, one Insurance
agent, and the rest lawyers.
Secretary Bristow has refused to ac-
cept = span Of horses and carriage
which were rendered to him by per-
sonAl friend for the use of his wife. I
Dom Pistt says the proper thing I'd
do when your horse Is running away,
is ito hold fast TO yonr seat and say
Your prayers; ANYHOW, hold fast to tho
seat"
A Vermont man "a years old has
married . lady ofthe age Of IA. She
calls him father, and loves to sit upon
his knee and make "soaplocks" over
his temple. IS VA a a2 H i1 !, FL, lg Il, = 9.aa
Seventy .dve clerks have beendismis-
ssd from the department 1t Washing
ton, making the entire number dis
missed six hundred Many of those
retained were reduced to clerkshlps of
lower grade.
BY watching the harvest hands care
fully you win be able to tell which
one of them has just returned from
college, by his pensive look and the
hard work he makes in keeping up his
station.
Detroit Free Press: A Virginia
sheriff asked . murderer If he wanted
to make . speech on the :gallows, and
the man replied: +" Guess not ; II looks
like rain, and I don't want to get wet ;
60 on with the hanging"
A Southington (Conu.) man has q
flourishing alp from grapevine bro't
from the valley of Eschol, few miles
north of Hebron. in Judea, and 1t ID
claimed to be the same as those pro-
ducing the grapes that the spies bro't
in who were sent out by Moses.
Spanish news indicates the break
ing Of the last which the Carlist for
cee had SGT up in the North. The rest
Of the warfare is likely to be wholly
Of guerrilla nature, but even more
destructive to the country than legiti
! mate war would DO. II is to be re.
GREETED that the Government has not
force enough to weed out the whole
thing.
i A Democratic Tennessee paper says
that ex-Prcsident Johnson's chances
for the Senate are far superior to
those Of any other competitor in the
field /; that he "towers above" them all
but that the great unwashed of tho
State are so broken into factions that
they will "anite, fuse, and double
team" against him. and perhaps de-
feat the great irrepressible.
I Edward Wesson, of New York, son
of WessoD. Of the great pistol firm Of
Smith & Wesson, of Springfield, Mass
achusetts, died At The Mountain House,
notorious haunt of sin and shame
near Elmira, recently. Of high fam
lily connection, generously endowed
with mind, and with an income more
than he could spend-whiskcy finish.
cd him.
| A writer on Russian life says: "The
Russians delight in seeing conflsgra-
ton. However severe the weather
may be, the .jeuaesse doree Of st.
Petersburg rush to the scene Of action,
and the play of light ON the snow and
| ice is indiscribably beautiful. In VIM
ter fires are Of frequent occurrence,
and there il seldom any water to be
procured.
l The Winterset Ne,cs says David
Morgan is one of the old settlers of
lows. Jake is mistaken; David came
here in 1861, 8 csrpet.bagger from the
South, and was candidate for Con-
gress the next year. How is that for
"csrpet.bagging" His palm has Itch
ed for nomination ever since, and
not finding 1t in the Republican party
he has gone to that bourne where no
of8cer.seekers need apply.
/ A walking-stick with tar on the end
got . brace Of suspicious looking men
into difficulty in st. Louis, and caused
their being conveyed as prisoners to
the police station. The police seemed
to have an idea that the tar on the end
| OF the stick WAS there for financial pur-
poses, and was meant TO facilitate the
hauling in of portion Of the loose
change generally to be found ON the
shelf behind the counter in beer halls,
when the bar.keeper's back was
turned. @ .e4
"The doctors all returned from
Bloomfield last night, and report that
they had nice time. They had q
| nice banquet in the evening, but had
nothing stronger to drink than cistern
water and iced tea."-OttHn,sca Cou-
rtcr.
There In NO hone that thosa doctnrs