Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-21

THE OTTUMWA COURIER
! THuRsDAY MORNING. MAY 2lst, 1879.
AppRopRIATE.-Anto Lager keeps
1 beer garden at Sioux City.
The poor farmers are only getting
slips per bushel for potatoes.
The devil has got the measles-he
works on the Des Moines Journal.
"Shalaowbrain" is declined on &C.
count ofits personal character.
J. T. Hackworth is making some
handsome improvements on his dwell
ing.
The colored Baptist Church has
moved into the Gerlach building on
Second street.
The Board of Equalization increas-
ed the assessment of Dos Moincs
$3O8. 428,OO.
Warden & Son have rejuvenated
their store room until 1t looks as nice
~ new pin.
Its expected that the Christian
church will be 30 far completed as to
hold service in It by the 1st of July.
Father Parks 10 building an area
wall that will resist all the floods that
can run down Market or Second
streets.
Setting around . stove with . fre
in it. On the 18th Of Mag, is rather o
new experience in this usually warm
country.
The Des Moines Valley Medical
Association meets at Bloomfield on
the oath Of June.
New stock Of Envelopes and Job
Papers received 1T the COURIER Office,
and viii be printed cheap for parties
desiring first-class work.
From q letter received from South
srn Ohio we learn that the prospects
for abundant crops Of all kinds, in
that region, is very fiattering.
Messrs. Smedley y Garretson's new
paper IL to be called for short, The
Patrons Helper and Grange InstrSctor.
The first number will be issued about
June I.
Charley Lawrence has made very
handsome Improvement by putting up
. neat paling fence and laying down a
good sidewalk around his beautiful
lots whore he resides.
The train going west ON the B. & M.
railroad, Saturday night, carried over
800 passengers, and consisted of one
engine, two baggage cars, four coaches
and three sleepers.
Business must be dull east. A great
many young men are coming west to
seek employment, many fthenl desti-
tuts of money and willing to do any
kind of work to secure them bread.
The City Council Of Eddyville have
passed an ordinance providing for the
digging Of . public we'll.
Another attempt to rob the Post Of
Ace ct Eddyville, was made on Wednes-
day evening last.
A Nashville paper published Andy
Johnson's speech. 1t apologized for
the uss Of the figure l throughout the
other columns, having exhausted every
in the cases on the speech.
\. n. Hungerford, OF this city. and
late correspondent Of the COURIER at
the Capital, the Hasckeye says goes
to Orleans, Harlan Co. Nebraska. to
take charge of . Weekly Journal. We
. wish Edgar success in his new field of
labor.
When you call on q business man
and ind him busy, and when you ask
him six hundred and forty three ques.
-tions and receive only yes or no for an
aaswer, It ia reasonable to suppose
that he. would rather have you call
again some other time.
BEER AND WINE LICENSE The
City Council, among other good things
accomplished at its meeting Monday
evening, passed an ordinance increas-
ing the city license for the sale of wine
and bssr to $500 per annum.-Eddy-
vile Advertiser.
The X. b D. n. Road sdvertises for
one hundred laborers and track layers,
70 assist in re-laying and surfacing the
track between Keokuk and Des
Noises. This work has been going
ON for some time past, but 1t is the
purpose Of the Company to prosecute
It with increased vigor. The Gate
CITY says: They expect to lay fifty
miles OF new iron this season and to
complete the new track to Des Moines
next year.
Last Saturday evening was the 18th