Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-14

The name of the editor of the Gin
AKRON Ne,c Merican is Don Espami-
nondis Muggins. Which ia inestima-
bly, better than riches.
''Grace. mercy and peace"-thc OF
tumwa Democrat has commenced the
| publication OF sermons as an offset to
its political wickedness. Council
Bluffs Nonparca.
Dr. G. q. Tyrrell. of Evansville. Ind,
was expelled from the Medical Soci-
ETY. of that city last Monday evening.
His helnous oilense was "advcrtising
his business in the newspapers" Good
ness gracious!
''Kirkwood goes before the people of
the State, without the faint OF fraud or
deception"
The above is from the Clinton Age.
one of the very foremost Democratic
papers in Iowa.
AS distinguished Aldcrmanic lead
er OF the Democracy said down in
kentucky, in objecting to PROPOSE
ton to hold Democratic barbecue on
Friday, "the hift of tho Democracy
don't ate mate on Friday."--1lbany
Journal.
They were seated at a late dinner
when the door bell rang and tho SER
want handed card to Lavender's wife.
why, good gracious, it's our minis
tor, and I've been eating onions!" she
exclaimed. "Never mind,n said Law
ender. "yOu needn't kiss him to-day"
"Whom the gods wish to destroy
they first make mad" Hence the
Democrats have resolved to send Lef-
fler out to meet Kirkwood on the
stump. This is just what the Repub-
Leans want. They want all the voters
to see and hear the two men and note
the difference.--Muscati journal.
Bishop Ames told a class of Meth.
odist dcacOns that the teaching of tho
extremists. who preach entire sanctifi-
cation year in and year out, was 80 dis
proportionate that its effect is to raise
huge wen on the spiritual body and
to dwarf all other parts of it. He ad-
vised them not to be eclectic. but to
preach all tho Gospel.
A three-legged baby was born in
Shelburn, Ind, the other day-or per-
haps, to be precise, the other night
The Indiana papers say the parents
are respectable people, but we don't
know about that. There has been a
4 great deal of this three-legged bust
ness lately, and we can't aflort to On
courage it.
They're getting tighter every day
Not that they are not pretty not at all
that, you know. But really, in about
two weeks, at this rate, they'll have to
get one skirt made for each-each-
; well, each limb, il they want to walk
at all. And-ha! who knows but that
, is the way they propose to attain pan.
falcons? Is there any strategy
, here.
E RIVAL Townsville Marshall Times
says: "Des Moines and Ottumwa arc
upbraiding each other for their reck-
less disregard for the sanctity of hu.
man life. 1t pains Des Moines to the
heart that no man of the mob who
hung Smith in Ottumwa can be identi-
fed, and Ohumwa weeps over the
laxity of Justice that fails TO pursue
!, the Des Moines men who BACKED up
and hung Charley Howard"
The talk about Bill Allen stumping
, Ohio ia all bosh. 1t would be work
t of superrOgation, besides shaking up
a the old mans bones unnecessarily. II
lis only necessary for the venerable
William to mount store box in TIL
J. public square of Columbus, and HI
4 can be heard all over the State. AND
the moro no is hoard, tho fewer vote
/. he will got.
Compliment from the Enemy.
: Iowa City Press.
In the nomination of Governor
Kirkwood the Republican party o
Iowa has madc voluntary confession
v Of its weakness, for it has, in him
j. nominated by far the ablest and strong
> est man left to it in the State, In hi
private life, Governor Kirkwood ia al
= honorable and amiable gentleman, an,
lie in his business relations, the most re
- liable of men.
The Guthrie Center Beacon Ligh
;, doesn't take any stock in the Demo
), cratic platform, Referring to the &C
i tionitaken by the Opposition at De
:, Moines on the oath ult., it says:
"For many long years we hav'
a fought under the Democratic flag, bu
e until better banner than this moth
IS eaten one is flung to the breeze, W,
=. shall adhere to this our declaration o
~ Independence"
1t The Democrats of Minnesota, in
n stead of following the example ofthci
:. brethren in adjacent States, who ART
sailing their pirate craft under tn,
q false colors of "Liberals," "Independ
ents," "Reformers," etc., are attempt
/ ing to steal another sort of livery
Their State Convention yesterday call
ed itself the Democratic Republican
a party" That is grim joke. 1t wouli
l. be equally appropriate Tor the follow
D, ers of the Devil to call themselves Sa
It tanic Christians.-Chicago Journal.
20 The Omaha Bee charges that "citi
% zens of Omaha" have organized wha
might be called hook and ladde
sneak-thief company. The industri
GUS citizen, it appears, goes up a lad
der to an open window, and fishes fo
k clothes on the inside of the room will
t a regular fish-hook and line. AS ,
4 provider for his family, your Omah'
man is Ginning example and he new
err allows the dnllness of business tt
t make him poor. But that fishing-lint
G dodge is flash of genius that never
v could have emanated from any hcal
!. east of the Big Muddy.
- Judge Claggett, editor of the Keo
- kuk Constitution, the most ultrA.dem
u ocratic paper in the State, was on tn,
l. excursion train travelling through
J. Kansas, when the news of the sausag
y convention reached him. He request
ed fellow passenger to read the nom
p nations. 1t was done, when the Judg
n expressing considerable surprise, ex
o claimed, what? Read that again !!