Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-10

The Impeachment trial has been
postponed by the Senate until next
Monday.
Three new cottage houses have
been commenced on Union street,
west side, below Samantha to-day.
Gen. N. j.. Baker, will formally
present the Sheridan Guards with
their new banner on the 18th inst.
The c., b. g. @. railroad has tickets
to sell on 1872 routes going to and
coming from the Centennial.
More new and late style job type
received at the COURIER office. Now
bring on your work.
One third of all the live stock that
reaches Chicago. arrives in that city
via the c., Ii. ~ g.
If Prof. Ticc's theory is correct,
you had better be building an ark.
He says we shall have rains all this
and next month.
We learn that our farmers have
pretty much all mudded i'm their
Spring wheat. We hope they will
have an abundant crop.
Grants message and Morton,s de-
Tense are terrible bomb shells cast into
the Confederate camp, and seem TO
have silenced thirc batteries.
Henry {. Cox, formerly of this city,
formerly Superintendent of Schools at
Pennington. Ills, has been employed
to teach clocution i'm Knox College, at
tGalesburg, Ills.
An employee of the United States
Express office in Muscatine, has quit
and turned bible agent He bears
the appropriate name of st. John.
There is more demand for dwell
ing hoescs in this city at present than
ever known before at correspond
ing time Of year.
SocIAL.--TLs young ladies of the
Presbyterian Charch will give a So
.cial on Friday evening. May 18TH
All are invited.
A load of forty bushels Of peach
blows was sold on Muscatine streets
Saturday, for one qsiiar. Two and a
half cents per bushel is getting down
Ito bottom rock.
We are Informed by Judge Knapp
that the special term of the District
Court, appointed for June. has been
abandoned. The next regular tern
of court will c1MWencc in Kcosan
qua in August.
L. L. Piper, once famous in low;
as forger and oily confidence man
has Just served out his ten years II
the Vermont Penitentiary and vii
probably be again i'm this State. 81
thinks the Cedar Rapids Republican
Some of the newspapers in Iowa
must be hard up for advertising whel
they insert quack advertisements AM
wait till the end Of The gear for thei
pay. We don't want any Of that kim
in our'n.
DIR. Warden has just sold 200 acre
of land in Taylor county for $50 pc
acre. He bought the land l5 year
ago, and it has cost him, with com
pound interest, about SIS per acre
Not a bad spec.
The two military companies Of thi
city have been assigned to the 81
Regiment Of State Militia, and wi
form the first battalion. Attention
battalion! Your are expected I
do your duty, and keep up the reput
tion of the boss town.
The Osceola Sentinel tells about
boy in Clarke county who eats In
like an OK, and has singular app
lite for raw vegetables. lie dislike
bread or cooked food, desiring rath'
to live on the raw productions Of N
tire.
The G. b. y Q.Railroad have issu,
their Centennial tickets,and the tick
agent of that company in this city
prepared TO show the advantages
apassagc east via. that popular rout
the G. b. &c q. to Chicago, and fro
thence east by leading lines. Ca
and see him and get particulars.