Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-04-09

boots and shoes.
The Oskaloosa Herdld aays: u new
brick store rooms win be built in that
city this summer. Asia
The order of the ssSovercixns OF
Industry" will soon have 4 State or.
ganization in Iowa.
Thomas Rogers has put up and en-
closed q nice two-story house In Zol-
lars Addition, this spring.
I'D. Whitman has resigned Is agcn.
ofthe Stats Grange, and Hon. Spen-
Ger Day, Of Marshalltown, has be an
appointed in his stead.
Nearly ono thousand head of cattle
dinod It tho Bovine Hotel, kept by the
C., B. b @. Railroad, At Ottamwa, yes
terdsy. =
A largo number Of Des Moiners were
April fooled by . proposed excursion
% The Marrow Gauge Railroad. I,
is perhaps needless to say they didn't
excurt very much.
TIE Sac S,ss asks: 9 II woman wa,
Intended as mans equal, why the dick.
ems can't she whistler" She can whis.
tel according to tie best Of our knowl.
| edge, therefore, etc.
| Our old friend, J. F. Parkhurst, Of
| Agency, has removed y Eldon, where
he has engaged in the grocery trade.
The Eldon people will find him . per.
psndicular man to trade with.
The PlAnter's House, In this city,
under the excellent management 81
Sam Gossage, has become very popn.
lar, and 10 constantly crowded with
guests.
The Mt. Pleasant Journal says that
sssome good pious people are 20 busily
engaged reforming their nashbors
that they don't know their bDys Ire
loading about tho stseets uatil len
O'Clock At night 5s
St. Joseph Gazette. .sIt may have a
tendency to mako some designing peo-
pie stay IN the HOUSE To learn that 4
local editor recently killed . man who
came around to know who put that
piecs in ths paper 49,. Il
~ Ge Il
Four inches Of 4 freeze, The ther.
nouaster 2 degrees below freesiBg ii
8 o'clock :. M, Ind stnA dosss around
the sun, ON the morning Of April 4th,
Is rare sight in this locality. We
wouldnt wonder % the DIS Moines
freezing over again. now.
L The lumber trade seams to be get.
ting lively IN our city. We never
saw 20 much lumber belng hauled To
the country q this season Of tho year
= there, Is this spring. Our farmers
I generally are foFChanded, and will
iimpfoye largely THU season. m
! Emery & Hall, have commenced
work on the Christian Church, In the
upper part of the city ON I'd street
Under their skilful hands Ne shall ere
long have . ilne house 81 worship In a
much needed part Of the city.
IT appears from thelast returns that
the aggregate income OF the English
life insurance Offices ID moro than 6l6.
500 900, that their total aocet lqhted
funds are ovsr El1a0 9O00, ana that
tbs insurance in force represents nearly
! f352 100000.
TIE Mexico (Mo) eIatslligeA6ar n.
forms us that many family infelici-
ter hays grown out Of he womens'
temperance movement It. 10 prob:
able thst ! NV infeiicities have grown
ont o. mans ir.temperance move.
ments. -
The proprietor of tho Grand Nation
q Hotel, JaeksonvillA Florida, noti,
iies US that d. Hcenan, OF Ottumwa,
has arrived there. We arc glad to
learn that he has been heard from, De
nobody here ever heard of him before,
% far % We can learn. s
Mack Davis has thrown down the
printers stick and has gone into the
Livery business with Alilt Cocksrell.
Mack and Nilt will make 1 strong
pulling team, and win furnish you
with tho best turnouts at . very reas.
enable price. When wanting to ride,
give them q call.
J. BRyAN, late defanlting democrat
ic treasurer of jackson county, wal
sent to jail on Saturday last, having
failed to secure bail, although the
amount had been reduced from $780,.
600 to $4,000. A further deficiency
Of $ll, 900 has been discovered, max.
ing : total Of 81, 900. Bryan 10 com,
plstsly broken down. u
THE Agency Iadspeadsst says: 9Th,
resoasd showman Forspaugh, send
word that he will b in this part Of th,
country In short time with the larg
eat animal show and circus that ha'
ever visited the west. Boys, save you,
dimes, II the show don't como yop cal
buy . new hat or get . tooth pulled.
| An exchange correctly remarks tina
when man gets mad and stops hi
paper he always borrows the mex
| number ofhis nsighbor 10 see II tn
| withdAwral Of his Subscription has.. mo
killed the editor. and II he ,has. no
dressed the columns Of his paper Il
mourning. Such men imagine that tn
world rcsts On their shoulders.
Il The annual season for boys, who ar
sprouting into manhood, TO drose III
circus clowns, and engage in the NJ
tional game-of mashingI jaws Al
breaking shins with clubs called bas
bah. IL ct hand. We prespue cur en-
ergetic young men viii NOT b foun'
70 b bshind those Of any other cit!