Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-11-12

&c OTTUMWA COURIER
'HuRsDAY MoRxrxo. Nov. 18th, 1874. a
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The keosauqua Republican says :, :,
hey have the toughest boys In the
State in Keosauqua. =
The lateat thing out, Ia the city, 10 !.
N infant Quadrille Club. Does their !.
msmmas 1know that they are out?"
Go to L. n. Wilson for ane Shoes. I
Cheapest cash store in the State, Cur q
lSw Block.
The Monroe Mirror comes to US to-
day enlarged and very much im- .
proved. :
!. O. Driscoe is building b fence s
Mat looks AZ if no intended 1t to last G.
for ages. a
Farmers tell Tie that there are good
many potatoes not yet dug. BETTER be 9
hustling them out. G
Now is the time to plant your let
tuce and onions if you want to have
them early in the spring.
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This ia the season when county pa.
pers are calling nsabscribcrs 10 bring
in ".hose wood and potatoes |.
Six car loads Of provisions arc ship
red from Omaha each week for the
sufferers by the grssshopper plague.
The Cincinnati Gazette says $4,000
Ohio voters failed Of performing the
dnty Of 3 freeman In the late election.
"Died In vain attempt 10 twist the
. saii Of = mule" is a western obituary
ON the subordinate subject Of . prac-
deal Joke. /.
The proprietor OF q Burlington hotel |
discharges the white chambermaids
when he discovers them promenadipg /
with the colored walters. \.
The City Marshsl Of Red Oak, has X
his Office Ia The principal saloon of
that place. he evidently wants 10 be |
close 70 The scene Of action.
The Bloomfleld Republican says:
"A son OF Rev. l. r. Tectcr has been
arrested for stealing cattle. We are
dncersly sorry for his parents" !,
Ars. Scott Slddons 10, going on .
.farswell tour through India, Chlna,
Jspan, and the United States, and It
will take two years to bid everybody
sAieu.
Adrertiser.-. An Eddyyil,e. chap
has discarded his girl bscanse abe stood
IN the door and sang aShoo Fly. - and
6irtsA with the brakemen as they
went By"
According 10 Gerrit Smith, the
Democratic party Is "devil-inapired."
He naturally concludes, therefore, that
the SDemocrstic party h intent up0
playing the devil.
By the Stoneham (Mass lnde.
pendeat, we learn that Billy Richard.
son,formerly Of this place, Is running an
express from Stoneham to Boston,
three times day. sas tn
". c. Moss Jr. has returned from
the East where he purchased very
large and fine stock of gooda, of the
particulars Of which he will soon
advise our readers. o.
Every laboring man should buy
himself town lot, get 1t paid for and
then work to make the necessary ian !
provements. A little here and little |
there will soon produce you home
Of your own,
It 10 the opinion Of Assistant Post
master General Barber that the Gov
eminent IL annually dcfrauded out Of
100000 by tbs use of washed post
age stamps--or about S per cent. of tho
tptal amount OF stamps sold.
Leave your orders with Wilson for
your Fine Boots-none better made,
Cuyiew Block. d&wlt |
The Fairfield Ledger advises "the in
3ividnal who Il always promising TO
publish d red-hos Democratic paper |
70 Ale IN injunction speedily, or some
VASE will steal the name Of which he |
y Supposed to have the trade mark.
~ the mornings grow cool and
winter drAweth near, mstin gong
sesAls of ana sweetly from your
naghbor's window after this fashion
"D1il. II you dent get up and como
down 70 breakfast, I'll wallop the skin
Of Of you"
Like Ill other branches of Industry
the croqueters change their song to
suit the umes. To the winding up Of
ths present season the following stanza
n dedicated:
Ihan pm mp the wicket and the stake;
fut swsy he mailet and Dc haii,
No noss efoqustlI b played this year,
It's sstting too Late n The fAll
The Daily STATE Journal has been
ssvtved, and the first copy, under the
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