Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-19
Utah has one Gentle to five Nor

Suez canal purchase being made pub
lie.
Utah has one Gentle to five Nor
mons.
Copper ore has been discovered in
Montana in great abundance.
Parsons College, located in Fair
field, is ina flourishing condition.
There will be convention OF the
short horn breeders of the State at
West Liberty, on January 18th. 1875.
The Wisconsin State Grange has
elected a woman rs its lecturer for
the coming year-Mrs. III. T.. Cham
berlain.
The City Council of Avoea are try
ing to find out whether or not the
Mayor of that town is citizen of the
United States.
Up to the latest date, the deficit in
the accounts of the missing Marshal
Cox, of Burlington. amount to The
sum Of $ll7.l5, with more 10 hear
from.
Richmond ladies treated their New
Years visitors 10 ..peanut cake and
buttermilk. "and callers reached home
early in the evening, looking uminl,-
sour.
Jimmy Blanchard. the st. Albans
boy, has confessed that he is not
Charley Ross, and only fooled the
st. Albans people in order to get
good clothes. and because he liked to
ride about.
Even the Louisville CoMfey-.Jonr-
nal. Bourbon 10 the core, is forced To
admit that '.thcre is 10 use in denyin.
the fact, for fact il is, that the Re-
publicans enter the centennial year
with improved prospects"
San Francisco is now planning a
SUN btolc ihaiiHtoiIt hptei IIluH It's
new Palace - to occupy a whole
block. to accommodate 1,S0O people
in l6O suites oflI rooms each, and to
cost 81, ,25O,O0O.
Robert Pool, a travelling salesman
employed by the firm of Van Patten
and Marks of Davenport, and u man
in whom his employers had unbound
ed confidence, recently pockcted $4,000
and left the country.
Father Ryan, Catholic priest OF
Dubuque, gave notice from his pulpit
lasi Sunday, that he would withhold
from his parishioners the Sacrament
Of Pcnancc and the Holy Eucharist.
who persisted in sending their chill
dren to the public schools
In Delaware county, Ohio, three
barns have been destroyed by fire.
supposed to be the work of tramps.
excited to revenge by the fact that
they are compelled to work on the
streets with ball and chain attached
to their ankles.
Nick Thompson. standing on a
scatfold in Quiiman, Alabama, with
the moose around his neck. sang .sThe
Ninety and Nine" all through, and
PRAYED for ten minutes. Then he
said, "Lct 'cr go" 1t isa work of
snpererogation TO add that "she
went.
CONGRESSMAN WIEELEn, of New
York, thinks Congress will adjonra
early in June. He is also confident
that both the next House and the
next President will be Republican.
Speaking of the outlook he said 10 \
newspaper correspondent the other
day, that "unless our people fling
a way all their chances, we shall take
the country by ronsing majority
next year."
A pleasant circumstance occurred
in Washington New Years Day, BY
the presence Of Mrs. General Eaton,
the widow of President Jackson's
Secretary of War, at the house OF
Mrs. Secretary Belknap. Mrs. Eaton
is nearly 80 years old, and by invita-
tion received calls with the wife
OF one of the successors Of her hus-
band.
People may say that advertisements
don't pay, If they want to, but only a
little while ago Rome IN. Y.) man
advertised for y, lost cow, and tho
next day Ave cows broke into his
yard and ate up. the shrnbbery, Il
ycarling calf fell down cellar hatch
way into coal bin, and the butchers
horse ran away with q cart load Of
beef and dumped it all over the front
steps. si
A call has been made for an "lnde-
dependent convention, to meet in
Decatur, ILL.,, on the 10th Of February.
to nominate candidates for State otii-
GERS in Illinois, and to appoint dele
gates To a National Convention TO lie
held IN indianapolis, Ind, on the l7tll
of May, to nominate candidates for
President and Vice-P President.
"Benjamin," shouted Mrs. Toodlcs
TO her husband who was going out OF
the gate, "bring me up i've cents
worth Of snuff when you come >
"Snufl'? Mrs. Toodles, snuff?'s lie
ejacnlatcd, as lie paused with his
hand ON the latch; mo, no. Mrs,
T0odles, the times are too hard to
admit OF such extravaganza; yon
must tickle your nose with a straw
when you want to sneeze.'