Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-08
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDS.
! Among the democratic returns may
be noted VIM. M. Tweed.
i Apples fivc cents . bushel in some
parts of New Hampshire.
/ Democratic electionecring cards il
Missouri read on the back 'Gud ful
wun Drink at my Growcerrye."
! Murat Halstead call the democratic
party the "Claim Agency" of the Con.
federate States. A very appropriate
name.
! In the French insane statistics for
1876, l52 men are reported as having
become lunatics through love, and
only 81 women.
| From Judy: MIR. Blank-"I ALWAYS
found that at school the stupidcst boy
carried off all the prizes" Miss Spar.
kle-"Did you get nany:'
| Charles Van Lew. of Linden, N. Y,
is seventeen years old, weighs eleven
pounds, and is seventeen inches high
but he refuses all offers from show.
men.
1t is estimated that the total num-
Der of voters registering at st. Louis
will reach between 5000 and &c, O,OOO,
larger number than usual by several
thousands.
TRAVELLING OIL SwINDLERs.-A
swindler is going about this State as
the agent of an oil company at Mead
vile, Pa, taking orders, for which he
receives part pay in advance. Look
out for him. His oil will never come.
Some Jersey City school girls at
tackled some loafer who insulted them,
and beat him with their satchels until
he was obliged to call upon police
man for protection.
The Bishop of Manchester recently
remarked that Lord Bacon was right
when he said that o little science
might make man an atheist, but a
larger knowledge oft brought man
back to God.
The indianapolis Sentinel was sold
last Saturday at Sheriff's sale. The
paper worked for Blue Jeans, and
its present low condition comes
of an attack Of hitherto-latent con-
science struck in.
Because a rich man in Anaheim,
CAL, kicked q poor tenant out of
doors, the prosecuted party came
around the other day and died in the
cruel landlords halfway of small
pOx.
How SHE LOVED HIM.-Ida A.
Pickerel, q Marion county maiden of
Is years, fell in love with a young
man who had no knowledge Of her
love. One day rnmor fell on her
ear that he was soon to be married.
and she went out and drowned her
sorrow with dose Of strychninc.
A twenty-fve-cent pamphlet, full
of thinly disguised abuse of the royal
family of England, has attained in
London circulation of over 10000
copies. A correspondent writes "it
is as near treason as the author dare
come for shilling"
A very successful swindler is John
Collins, who has sold a half interest
in q mythical patent to about fifty
persons in various Western cities,
making thereby more than $4,000.
He will also get some maintenance in
prison.
A bill introduced in the Ohio ,cgis-
latnre to make one year Of drunken
habits on the part of the husband q
legal cause for divorce has excited
much comment throughout the coun-
try. A Mississippi editor wants the
time shortened to three weeks.
The Plattsmouth (Neb.) Watch
man, paper hitherto violently DEM
ocratic, hac come to realizing sense
of the true political situation, and
this week for the first time in its his
tory runs out the republican ticket
at its masthead. "And still there are
more to follow"
Matte Tood, a Louisville yellow
girl, wears heavy shoes on large feet,
and has o resentful disposition. John
Moore courted her, and ono dav she
learned that he already had wife.
That night when he called she kicked
him once in the stomach, and he at
once lay down and died.
The Atlanta Constitution tells of a
negro snoring so loudly behind
fence that two other negroes, hearing
the noise and seeing his massive feet
indistinctly outlined, imagined that
he was bear growing. They got
gun and filled his feet with buckshot
before the mistake was discovered.
"Chicago expects to pack 100000
hogs this winter. If she doesn't it
will be because the raw material is
not in the market, or the demand will
not warrant the supply. 1t is simply
question of hogs and want" Go on
in your magnificent packing career,
great Hog Center of the West! IN
hog sigao rinces!-Bufalo Express.
Sunday on the Constock is indeed
somewhat unique-worS going on in
all the mines, hOrse-racing and dog
fighting at the race-track, gambling
In the saloons, lOunging on the streets
all forming picture sui generis.-
Although Boston may be the hub of
the universe, it has one very lively
spoke Virginia (Ner.) Chronicle.
Mr.. Blaine gives an excellent reason
for not speaking in Iowa. He says it
would be peculiarly gratifying to
him, personally. to do SO, shut" he
adds, sit would be Furnishing fine
gold" Iowa is well worthy that high
compliment, politically and in every
other respect.-Chicago Journal.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works.
Philadelphia, which were established
in 1881, have finished their 4,OOOth
locomotive, an event which the pro-
prietors and employees celebrated on
the 28th ult.. (PenRsylvania's Day) by
q procession to the International Ex-
hibition of probably 1900 men, the
proprietors paying all expenses.
Parties engaged in digging a
grave in the graveyard at Bloom-
ingsburg, Fulton county, Ind, a few
days since, unearthed the remains of
a man that had been recently buried
in an upright position without coffin
or box. The body was put in box
and decently inferred. No person
could recognize the body, and by
whom it was put there is mystery.
A reliable political friend, an old
stager, writes us from New York
city: II never felt more confident of
carrying New York in my life.
shall be outrageously disappointed If
we do not Idon't count ON the anti
Tammany fight. We can allow Til
den 10000 majority in the city, and
then beat him in the State. ."-('hica-
go Journal.
A widOwers' club has been formed