Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-05

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waileth. The crop OF crystal ic,
promises 10 be short and the pric,
very high.
The c. d. Il @. Railroad was con
siderably damaged by slide of lane
somewhere near Frederick, Monro,
county. Trains were only delayed ,
short time Saturday evening.
Il We are informed that the snow il
something over six inches deep a
Mason City, and about three inches a
Marshaltown.
| The Board of Supervisors arc now
in session, and W. II. Caldwell and
Joe. Hartman stepped down and out
this evening, surrendering the Audit.
or's office to M. B. Myers, and Jno. #.
Fuller, Deputy.
The glass for the windows Of the
new Congregational Church arrived
this afternoon, and will soon be put
in its place. That will be one Of the
handsomest churches in the Des
Moines Valley when completed.
John Gray, Yesterday morning,
when near the corner of Marion and
Second streets, slipped and fell, break
ing the small bone in his left leg be-
low the knee. tits serious accident
to John, but we hope to see him
around again before long.
The carclessncss of going TO bed
and leaving piece Of candle burning
on a table covered with papers was
forcibly brought to the mind of a
young man in the lower part Of the
city Saturday morning. by hard
work on the part of the family and by
the assistance of the ncighbors, the
house was saved, but wardrobe full
of clothing was destroyed. The dam
age was only small.
Col. y. +. Plumb, Of Emporia. Kan
sas, is in the city visiting his friend
and military comrade Col. s. ID. Car
pentcr. They served together on
Gen. Tom Ewing's staff in Missouri,
Kansas and Arkansas, during what
Mr.. Greeley called s.the late conyul-
sion" Col. Plumb is an old newspa-
per man of Ohio and Kansas, but he
has been promoted from the drudgcry
Of the press TO President ola National
Bank at Emporia.
Trains Saturday night were all
very late, from ono to three hours
owing TO unsafe condition of the
roads. The engine attached to the
passenger train on the X. Il ID. NJ,
from the west came in with cross
head broken, and otherwise injured.
Another engine took the train into
Keokuk from here, and the sbrokcn
engine was sent in for repairs.
Capt. G. +. Brown, of this city, In
ternal Revenue agent Oh duty under
Supervisor Hedrick, seized last Fri
day at Chicago the largest distillery
in the United States. II was owned
and operated by the Illinois Distill-
ing Company, and was using at the
time of its seizure some fifteen hum
dred bushels of grain per day. The
evidence against the establishment
which justified the seizure was large
ly made up of the sworn statement of
the persons who were in the Ring
with the distillers. fortified by strong
documentary evidence sustaining the
States evidence.
The Centennial year was ushered
in by no regular programme in this
city. The business houses notwith-
standing the drcnching rain hoisted
their stars and stripes. The fire bell
and church bells were rung. The
Sheridan Guards under the command
of Capt Daugherty paradcd the
streets headed by a band of martial
music, and in honor of the event fired
one hundred guns at the foot Of Court
street. The young folks, as many of
them as could get into the Opera
House kept step to the music OF
Swabkey's orchestra until long after
the New Year had began. Taking
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prevailing at the time the celebration
was all that could be expected, but
nothing like that we will have one
hundred years from now.