Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-03

INC Woiru iioW u inali cOull run
Cooley race for office.
The recent court decision throwing
open for settlement the famous Usage
ceded lands, comprising 100000 acres
Of the most productive soil in South
ern Kansas, is lending new impetus
to the rush Of eMigrants to that State.
1t seems queer that the Government
should annually furnish the Indian
women with 10000 pairs of elastic
garters. But then maybe the Govern
ment Is too modest to know that
squaws don't wear stockings.
A Columbus editor has iust agreed
TO eat q mackerel day for 365 con-
secutive days. suppose the saloon
keepers should meantime. refuse 10
credit the poor man, what's to keep
him from dying Of thirst?
At conference recently held at
Rome between the representatives of
the European Powers and the Cardl-
nails, the latter announced that peace
was impossible unless "the spiritual
Independence of the church" were ac-
knowled.
Private adyiccs reoolyed from Phil
qdelphia complain that the Canadian
Department of the Centennial is in
very backward state, owing to the
lack of harmony between exhibitors
and Mr.. Perrault, Secretary of the
Centennial Commission.
The Confederate Smut Mill is still
running in full blast at Washington.
About $4,000 has already been ex-
pended for the sole object of manu-
featuring Democratic party capital,
but thus far they have not obtained
enough to carry town meeting.
The HaaUk- Eyes ground fora strict
enforcement Of the new tramp-nuis-
ance law, is the fact that last summer
''there were sixty outrages committed
in the farming districts Of Iowa in
less than SO many days." by this class.
George Smith, of Pomcroy, Iowa,
was arrested Wednesday in Dakota,
charged by n. Kiefer, former part
ner, with obtaining $1,000 worth of
notes from bank in Fort Dodge by
forging Kiefer's name. He will be
taken to Fort Dodge for trial.
The San Francisco Bulletin has an
article on silver coin, in which it says
that since the merchants of San Fran
cisco throw out the new trade dollar
they have no alternative but the use
Of paper money,
He smiled beautifully, and said,
How're, Sarahl" Sarah replied,
"You can't tool dis gal I; i know you
Hows your wife. aud family." AS
he silently walked away, he remark
ed to himself, ''Dat ar gal does know
me-"
Senator Jones in his silver speech i'm
Congress referred to more than 400
volumes in the Congressional library
and elsewhere, and said ii would take
six tons avoirdupois of silver coin to
redeem the $4O,OO0,OOO of fractional
currency now standing out.
| Steinberger, the downfallen Prime
Minister OF the Samoan Islands, has
sent special envoy to Washington
for the purpose of securing the inter-
ference Of our government in his be-
half. He has thus far met with abso-
lutely no success.
eyer honor" exclaimed Mrs. Null
dooney to the squire, otis not the
black eye, nor yit the kickin', that
am complainin' NV, for my Patrick
always wus playful; but when he
convarts the last drop o. gin l have
in the tay-pot, thin, your honor, / OBJ
ject to the PROPENSITY Of the young
blackguard."
A man steps up to the counter and
asks for his wine at Is cents a glass,
while the woman steps up to the
counter and orders a bolt of lace at
$75 per yard. 1t is putting this and
that together that makes Professor
Swing affirm that lace has ruined
more people that wine, and it does
look that way, for a certainty.
A safe deposit vault just completed
i'm London Is deemed invulnerable.
1t is sunk forty-six feet in the ground,
with walls of brick and concrete six
feet thick. Inside this structure is
the safe, three feet thick, made Of
fire. brick and undrillable iron. The
metal doors weigh four tons each,
and are swung by hydraulic power.
Here is womans' rightsi Two
hundred women Of Guilford, Conn.,,
turned out with hoes, rakes, spades,
and wheelbarrows, and cleaned up
the village green in regular house
keeper style, while the men sat around
grinning and whiting dry-goods
boxes, and trying to look as though
they were not ashamed.
w. +. Schroeder, a young German,
offers to illuminate Philadelphia on
the Fourth from an altitude Of 500
feet, by means of an air ship, calcium
lights and reflcctors, for the modest
sum Of $3.50, but the Quakers are
afraid his old machine will "fluctuate''
too much, and perhaps come down
and set the whole Centennial show on
fire,
Spriggs wrote note to Miss Whit
ct, asking her to go to Wallack's, and
delivered it himself; waiting in the
hall for an answer. And Mrs. Whit
ct, ncar-sighted and hasty, called ever
the balustrade: "Bridget, do let that
man wait out side, and take Mr.. Whit
cts overcoat off the rack. There's
too much of this note business going
onw Wallack's had two empty seats
that night.
Says the Ellenvillc, IN. Y.,) Jour-
nal: "a farmer who lives on the
bank of the Delaware, and Hudson
Canal, near Homowack, having been
annoyed by the boatmen throwing
coal at his turkeys and chickens, he
fixed poles IN his field aNd hung on
them Did hats, tin kettles and bottles,
at which the boatmen are continually
throwing coal. About once a week
he gathers his harvest which is
enough for his own use and with tho
surplus he is running q coal yard
The following story Is told of a
Member of Parliament, who, wish
ing to conciliate an old neighbOr, a
voter, sent him pineapple from his
hot-housc. II hope you liked it," he
said to the old man, when he met him
a few days afterwards, "Well, yes,
thankee, pretty well; but l suppose
we sort of people are not used TO
them fine things and don't know how
TO eat 'em." "How did you eat IL,
then ~ asked the NJ. 7. "Well," said
the man, tive boiled EN- "Boiled IL n
sighed the M. r., thinking ofhis pine