Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-04-02
rHE oTTUMWA COURIER
raussDAY Monsrxe. SArRih 4. 1874.

TIE 0TTUMWA COURIER
TUESDAY MoRSrxG. Arm 2. 1874.
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The Citizens Of Muntersvilles have
set up JointStock Store. &
We publish to-day . correct show-
ing of the city finances. /,
Judge Green, OF Cedar Rapids, is
suffering from an attack Of paralysis.
WILL T. SHARP lie putting up alarge
addition 10 HE Residences ION ssssend
street. @s %~Sas =
IAFoRcF & SUMNER have got their
nix tenement houses completed and
hayo rented all OF them at good rates.
THEIRS ought to be one hundred nice
cottages built in Ottumwa this summer
to rent They would all be taken mn
a. fast - built.
IL John Shea never docs any mort
goodAs Street Commissioner, We shAll
commend him for putting In good
crossings at the Post Office csfnsA -
ItTtpok two persons tos marry AZ
couple in Clarke county 4 short time
since--a Justice Of the Peace and his
estimable wife. He pesformed ,the
ceremony while she held the baby.
An smigrnnt wagon passed ,-our
office today vim the oover labeled
'Bou1a for Salt Lake lcser-d,a siri.
That fellow VIM make Saint after
Bris6anfs own heart -
T6Sl Charlton Patriot sayss q MS
Iors TIE sinspiration speakcr -
toni9hed s conAmed old bachelor or
OscSoA, alsst sweek, by describing his
dear departed wife,
KHholsssae liqsov bouss in Rock
Island received barrel Of whiskcy
which had been sont to customer vAt
Atlantic in this Ssats.. Tho shipping
tsg bore the legend, Turned ont b.
the women"
Tkirtyseight prisoners were pardoa-i
cd out Of the penitentiary at Fl Mad
isonI. on Thesday. Z They lhAd beSk5
deserters from the regular army, cap
tured and sentenced t. various terms
of imprisonment, but their time he'd
been shortened for good behavior.
IlsrzAstx MA II ID rHE |
Cnskua-whito Ottsifa had
ulation, according to said census, of |
6,@ We aresure Il has neStSf oMetj
ard Cedar Rapids y reported 80 ,o22,
while We feel assured that fonifshing
clty<ould hlI thcbil sasae sp&nO0l
tsJ. BowIes. avery prszsiA fcsAssj
erAo the public IN the restaurant bue.I
ineas for some years past III oMnAlwks
has removed his place OF busf aessr e1d
is now found on the first floor III the
old Ottumwa House, sandwiched 81
between Calhopns 7hotel and Il. NJ
Miller's restaurant. BowJes 6Bver
fsils to get his share OF the custom. be-
catsc he suits the people.
Shave the people OF Ottumva heard
Of the tcmpetaJlcG crusade FJad&he
from the papers we think Il advisable
to Send delegation 10 notify them
AosWt Reoasdsst 1OeeyN6I ssSsss.s. ssssa
The people ofs0 ttumsva are espabae
Of attenajngtO their own 1ffkirs, ana
are mot disposed to rnx4beir moses
into other ptoples bueinsss Especially
VIVA tne9 - npt invited
Or cfSuk exphsAss. ays that n
looking 'sover an old ledger we zee Z
long array Of former subscribers Who
afs indebted tout. Some 81 item hs i1isI
morsd awaH md ars lcssfc sight, Ii.
thsseh to memory doar. Others are
carrying the contribution bo1esaoou
moat Esspectable churches, and Others
again haye died snd arg angels in
heaven, but they owe Us inst the
sGhas.~
PERsoNAL.-We ara informed by
Col Richard Root, who 10 in Ottun--
~ to-day ON olacial bpsineas, that
Jndge J. NJ. Love, Of this city, has
psychassd TIE 1 elegant residences gpl
Cot George II. Williams 1t Keoktk,
foe-e7, Leo and that he will remove to
that city n . few days. Kcoaenk iale-
tunats IN having cheaper, better and
mSte homes " sen than any ether
city In the West, and thus Ottumwa
has lost and Keokuk Aas gained an
exceedingly valuable citizen,
RAILROAD ACC1DxNT.-The express
train on. the ST. Louis, X C. & n,
railroad, bound fof Ksnszs City Wa
difchsd near Psndlefon, eighty miles
feom st. Louis, Wednesday evening,
ahont eight o'clock. The engine tip-
Pa OVER and was made Q total wreck,
turning clear around !; the baggage on,
thrown across the track, and one pas-
sssger car of The fireman was badly]
Injured, and the engineer consideuibly
hurt Il detained the Ottnmwa traia
sighours. None Of ths pssssnseusv sre
hnrt. No causo could ha ascertsined
far tho sccident. ssssI .s..e n
The Keokuk Gate CITY suggests that
whan the scrnsaders" get through with
thk kaloou k0eperu. they Ahould turn