Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14
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burlington is to have ferry and q
wharf boat, and is now happy.
sixty-fve locomotives have been
or.lered for Russia from firm in Pat
tcrson, N. j.
business men in Peoria, IN, have
subscribed $4,000 to establish glass
works there.
Printing paper has been made sue
cessfully in Scotland from reeds grown
on the banks of the Tay.
The Senate Foreign Affairs Com.
mittee has decided to report adversely
on the proposition to recognize the in
dependence OF Cuba.
A steel yacht, which will be pro-
PEELED by steam, and is Intended to
run eighteen miles an hour, is being
constructed at Buffalo.
The demand for railroad iron is 40
slight that the principal mills in Ohio,
Indiana, and Kentucky are idle, and
have not q single order to execute.
The Legislature of the State of I'LL.
nois have authorized the expenditure
of $4,000, to place ten steam canal
boats on the Erie canal. These are of
pattern recently invented.
NOTWITHSTANDING the panic, the
anti-whisky crusade, and other draw
backs, the internal revenue receipts
for the month closing April 3Oth ex-
coed those of April, 1873, by about
half million dollars.
On his return home Alexander II.
Stephens a. he was lifted from the cars
to his carriage at Atlanta remarked:
II am going home to die" And so an
active, strong man in American poll
tics nears the other shore.
THE Rev. FATHER WILLARD, Presi.
dent of the Wisconsin Total Absti.
hence Union, has issued . stirring ad.
dress to the Catholics of Wisconsin,
urging them to renewed exertions in
the cause Of temperance.
The Knoxville Voter, in its issue OF
May 7th. says: "Ex.Gov. Stone is one
Of the latest accessions to the member.
ship Of Knoxville Grange. Next"
The fact is worth, perhaps, the an.
nouncement a. an item Of news, moth.
ing more.
The portrait which adorns the west
end Of that admirable work Of art, the
new ten-cent piece, is intended to rep
resent the late Hon. VIM. n. Mere
dith, Of Pennsylvania, who was Score
tary of the Treasury under President
Taylor, in lS49.
The Fort Dodge Times tells Of an
eminent divine who is trying his In
genuity to invent . hell Of sufficient
intensity for druggists. He considers
the ordinary hell hot enough for So
loon-keepers; but no despairs Of doing
justice to the druggists.
ROACH, the distinguished and sue
cessful ship builder, states that iron
vessels can now be built in this coun-
try, ct tho yards in Delaware, cheaper
than ON the Clyde in England. He
argues thence that great revival Of
our ship building is 1t hand.
All the saloons In Ann Arbor, Mich,
are closed, and tho owners are adver.
Using their places for sale. No cru
SADIE has ever been fully inaugurated,
but systematic course Of fines has
been instituted against the dealers, and
they acknowledge they cannot bear up
against 1t.
Old Bender, reports have It, IL the
same man who years ago occupied .
cave near Niagara Falls and psddled
notions thereaboslts. Many persona
mysteriously disappeared during his
residencs there, and finally his cave
was invaded by the Canadian authori-
ties and he fed.
Hon. ]. H. Plat Of Virgins, offers
. bill in Congress to apply the consci-
ence money which has from time to
time been paid in by parties to the U.
s. Treasury to DO applied in erecting
girls reform school in the District OF
Columbia. This fund has already
reached quite vast proportions.
A careful canvass Of Burlington,
Iowa, shows that there arc now in
course of erection about 800 new bull
dings. Many OF them are fine business
blocks, but the greater number are
residences. The amount Of money
expended reaches several hundred
thousand dollars.
Ben. Butler 10 reported % saying
that the people Of New England are
not contractionists % reported BY =
majority Of their members In Congress.
Ben. is very poor authority. The west
and south don't want sneh helps ashe
is to say much. He may vote but the
cause 10 not aided by his advocacy
either in or out Of Congress.
1T is said that $685., 800 OF the "a
100000 unissued national bank cur-
rency has been issued 70 institutons
in Iowa which has applied for II. II
this had been done long ego, there
would mot have been such cause for
complaint, and doubtless many more
applications would have bean put in
before new had those who did apply