Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-06-11
THE OTTuMWA COURIER

rHE OTTUMWA COURIER
THURSDAY MoRNINe. JUNE 18th. 1874.
Careless pistols kill five boys per day
IN the United States
Grasshoppers are Devastating gar
dens and orchards at Council Bluffs.
A Mississippi Judge sent man to
prison for five years for stealing q
hoop-skirt
Chiffon & Kendall and DR.. Stewart
are running up their second street
stores at . lively rate.
The Supreme Court Of Iowa has ad
mitted to practice in that Court W. +
Chambers and John r. Ennis of thi
city.
Said Brigham Young at confer
ence last Sunday: 81 pray for oul
enemies, brethren, but always pra,
that they may 60 to hell"
A traveller who was viewing on
city this morning, says Ottumwa look
more like solid Eastern town thai
any place he has seen in the West.
A little boy heard his mother tell Q
eighteen head Of cattle being burn
the other night. "Werent their tail
burnt, alsos' inquired the verdar
youth.
Iowa WESLEYAN UxIvERsITY.-Tt
Eightseath Commencement Of 4
Iowa Wssleyan Univsrsity, at Noul
Pleasant, opens ON the 9Th and clos
on the 17th Of June.
The Agency Indspsadsst says
"Soms ten days ago Maj. Crsamer b
sixty sheep killed in one night BY Z
dogs. To say that tho Major 10 dea
on the canine race. does not near e
press it."
The whitewash brush 10 just no
travelling over the scenes of mar
midnight conflicts in bed-buggt
chambers, and ensanguined wallis .
losing their terrible hue under Il
snowy covering.
Il IL the Arst duty Of every IN
whose neighbor keeps : dog, to ms
mica garden for that dog TO scrat
in ofhights. Il b his second duty to
for that dog with lc.barrcl Il
gun.
The COURIER Office has purchas
one Of Rukenbrods Mailing Machfu
and to-day ono hand mailed ~
papers in one hour and FIVE minut
No well regulated Office should
without one Of the machines.
Oliver Cofman, of Highland Tow
ship, has brought In to nc champi
hen egg. 1t weighs an even guar
pound, measures s inches the long Y
and Z inches the short way round.
We learn from our old friend |
mond Carman, of Pleasant Townsh
that the eastern portion of the coun
has been favored with bountiful raj
and that ell kinds OF crops are looki
exceedingly fine in that region.
The Abba Union suggests that
county Of Monroe and the town
Abba club together and buy . secol
hand skillet or an old oyster-csn to
kept ct one Of the public wells 20 Il
. thirsty citizen may be able 10 &c
drink, this hot weather.
The railroad war IL not all 1t
been painted, AZ . beneficent thing,
we are to believe this from the
Paul Pioneer: Probably there ,
to-day more unemployed and povel
stricken men a. the direct result
agitation of the railroad question, th
at any previous time in the history
the country"
An Iowa engineer married you
lady while waiting for q late train i
week. An exhange commenting up
this fact remarks: "ThAts NO gr
shakes. A couple might marry I
raise large family of children WI
Waiting for train in some ofthe
diana depots.
It's NO nee to tell Us that advertisl
don't do any good, when we hl
daily proofs to contrary. Here 4
case In point On the ID inst. Ed. d
gett advertised in our Daily fol
milker, and last night no put in an I
peaz.nce. He weighs, - usual, abc
10 b., and Ed. IL very much pleas
with the style Of his work in
milking line,
A. r. Wilcox writing to 10 fre
Lineville, Iowa, and enclosing his ~
scription says: II have been q On
scriber to the CoURlER since Mar
oh, 1856, Except . very short til
during the war; and expect to be
long - l can raise money to pay
it." We are glad to know that o
paper il appreciated, and hope ,
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