Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-08-27

The cause OF woman sufirage--scAr-
city Of husbands.
Dan Eaton 10 building tower on HE
new dwelling. s. L. Burnham ditto.
Tama City cotnpels all travelling
physicians to pay a license Of $25 for
each day they practice in the city.
Mr.. E. T. Coggishall has been ap-
pointed ticket and freight agent in this
city for the Central II. r. of Iowa.
The most welcome thing in this lat
itude would be a good, soaking rain.
The corn ia now beginning to need 1t
badly.
All the new tenement houses built
in the city this season have been ronted1
before they were completed, atgood
rates.
Another change has bcen, made BY
the Council in Fifth etrcet grade. II
is hoped this vexed question is now
forever settled. 44-e&fa
The street cars now run across the
great iron bridge At st. Louis, to East
st. Louis. Fare 10 cents or four tick
cts for 25ccnts. n ~ &
Mccullough & Lilburn shipped
$4,000 worth of butter TO the east this
week. They are the champion butter
and egg firm in Iowa.
The city should either have q
'scavengcr cart or else turn the hogs
loose to eat Up the enormous piles Of
melon rinds along tho street.
King, of the Bloomfield Adrocdte,
boasts Of numerous young ladies Wis
iting his office. After King is married
the young ladies will trouble him less.
The new Pork House walls are GO
ing up rapidly, The Hoosier brick
layer, Sam Hendrix, always makes
things lively where he does the boss
ing.
Judge Williams District Court con.
venes Monday, 3lst Inst We are now
printing the Docket, and 1t will con.
tain some three hundred or more ca.
ses.
Moulton's statement fills the mora
ing dailics. II is too long for no TO ct.
tempt its publication. When.ws gel
il all we may probably give synopsis
Of It. = So ~ s.
The approach made for the IRE en-
CINE to the river at Green street 10 now
all right, but If the river keeps falling,
~ it now is, there win soon be no Wa
ter there.
Tho low water In the Dies Moines il
being taken advantage of, and large
number of men are busy every day
getting large quantities of building
rock ont Of the river bed. 8
The Gate CITY says that the fish in
the Dcs Moines river arc dying, and
wants to know what it means. They
are making room for our shad, go that
they can get their growth. VA
The finest watermelon brought to the
CouRiER once TINS season came rom
our oid FRIEND Jonatnan ". carpenter
u .n,s Guy - was faised On ms DOG
70" ialm' ana was a. sood - !" was
great IN si1e' 4
J.L. Grisrs and Arthur n. Warden
have onaned ont . Tiverv Feed and
60 i,
stable formerly occupied by Platts,
They viii furnish von horses and rio.
chesn mr. hoard vour, .tock A. a vary
moas-... n,,c. c.;.. ,h.n . ..u
Geo. W. Harlan has brought us 1
mess Of the largest and best sweet po-
tatoes We have seen for years past.
Wilson il ono OF our best and most
49,. go 49,. ~
asS...s:-s - 80, ~
h,.S... .s.s 49, ca. :.
- r-. .w.
The following is the oiii of fare pro
posed by the old settlers of Louisa Co
for the dinner at their celebration or
the 18th Of this month: Irregular Ole
ven;.or nro;r;o ch;cran .,,rasho, M
tatoes with riud on Sc ali n revu,e,
souatter stylo Of 81 wears ago in Louis.
countv.n gs
--,
an a''emp' was maoe oy o lawn
moore on inc an ins':' . commit
rape upon tne person 81 0aaEy Harnel
Bluff Creek township, Monroe county.
II. ..a.a .,:,~>,~..,