Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-03-29

EDITORS CoURIER.--Timc goes at
such snails gait here that he brings
but few sensations to the surface.
And yet, the uneventful, common
place life is full of contrasts,surprises,
combinations and novel situations,
did old CATER really see fit to blazen
them forth on his bulletin board
where all might read them. Life is
brimming each day with the dramat-
ic. A fair girl of seventeen, four
years ago tender and trusting
A young man, just q trifie Wild
Both moving in the best society
Four years married. A faded, bro
hearted wife, feebly fighting the
wolf of want from the door with the
wash-board-a drunken sot in fell
on's cell. Another, and more pleas
ant picture. Six years ago he was
called "Wild Bill"-not a bad boy,
but quite rapid. Who spent nickcls
and nights Gin ungodly glce and was
sail most merrily." Kind, impulsive,
generous, fine of form and feature
just the man to make good time on
the road to ruin. A sweet village
girl--a wedding. No more "Wild
BILL but a good, honest, industrious
citizen and husbands man.
Old Mastery Inactivity is in COM
mand of this camp. The drummers
come and the drummers go, but the
merchants come not to the sample
room. Now and then courageous
farmer runs the muddy blockade and
brings into the besieged city a supply
of rations.
You see that we are to have fair. |
And while am about the matter |
might as well say that we are to have
a celebration here on the "Fourth."
Agency will get the old bird as near
the zenith as any of them. Come |
over. There is nothing mean about
us. We will do the fair thing with
you. We intend to have one of the
best orators in the land, and as for
music, our boys of the Agency Cor
net Company can create more strong,
loud, large and sweet sounds i'm a |
minute than any other eleven tooters
in the country, and ere long we will
have bank in which to deposit our
Our people are standing this mud
siege like Saints. Wheaton & Smith
wear their old smiles of hope and ur-
banity, and seem to feel that tits only
\ matter of passing moment ere the
embargo of dizziness is lifted. The
Baileys seem equally stoical, and all
Of our dealers are living ON the past
md in the future.
Agency will take new life this
Spring. Many new buildings are in
contemplation. You people are be-
coming so Belknapish down there in
hat little town that we expect quite
IN emigration of your less bad to our
.ity. This is q better place to raise your
.hildren,and it would DO some of your
,lder ones no harm to live a while in
his virtuous atmosphere. Send Sam.
Evans down to our Sabbath school /
md you boys of the COURIER might
ome down with him. Our next ,
essen will be on brace of
that Ottumwa is {
lot regarded as having made any
upon. There is a ru-
nor that our popular landlord,
Ohm Harden, of the Harden House,
vas moved by sympathy to go down a
o your village and feed the hungry {
hereof, but we hope this is not so.
We cannot spare him, and you fell
ows have no artistic teeth for first
lass hash; you'd kill yourselves if
Ohm went down there. q
Agency has more pretty girls, (
lonely boys. small footed women, ,
nd big-hoofed men than any town
n Iowa. The COURIER has larger
REGULATION here than our home paper, {
mt you just wait until this mud
and our Independent
nan goes forth among the grangers.
VIM. Reeve, an old and esteemed J
itizen, died suddenly last Wednes- (,
lay night. Our M. DIS, LaForce,
Vier, Best and Johnson. seem busy.
The churches are all well attended.
Tow and then an attorney gets le-
al nibble. FANNIE.
Agency, March %, 1876,