Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-03-15
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The deepest mine in Colorado is the
Burroughs, in Alpine county. 1t has
reached depth of 9l5 feet.
There is nothing more dcspccable
than the man who despises other
people upon general principles.
The prophets of evil in Ohio say
that all the peach and plumb trees are
damaged, and the peach trees irrevo-
cably.
Rhode Island justice has sent Chas.
Wright, of Providence, to Jail for
kissing neighbor's wife. Served
him right.
A Morris county (N.J.) poet pays
this touching tribute to Mr.. Beecher :
But this Dear man has stood the trial
While these nends Do on him pile.
1t seems to be question in New
York whether You put your money
in a bursting bank or keep it at home
in a drawer for the burglar.
Thanks to the strict enforcement
of rigid Maine law, Portland was
able last week to show among her
public drunkards three boys under
twelve.
The Brooklyn girl gathers her
skirts with tirmer grip than ever,
and looks more and more every day
like an honr-glass whose sands are
nearly run out.
A man has been sentenced to 4
months Imprisonment at hard labor
in Enniskillen. Ireland. for stealing
sticks valued at one penny from Lord
Belmore's estate.
A lady OF this city has invented a
chair in which q woman can sit down
in q new hustle. Ii is a cross be-
tween side-saddle and an nphol
Stored saw-horse.
The zeal of relic hunters has reach.
ed the climax. A gentleman of Jack.
son, Tenn, has preserved in alcohol
hed-bug which was caught in .
bed Gen. Jackson slept in.
A Spanish Proverb says: "An
ounce of mother is worth a pound OF
clergy and Troy boy reflectively
adds. "a pound of mother is worth
the kick of a mule--if she hits YOU
fair.-Hortfo7'd POST
disappearing conntrymen, who
read Democratic speeches from mem.
bers of Congress, and drink in every
word. should take warning. A boy
in West Troy died the other day
from drinking lye.-NeW York Com.
me,cidl Advertiser.
Advices from all over the West re-
port "hOrrible roads i'm the country
bringing work and transportation b,
farmers to q stand-still; the conse
qucnce is very dull times in all thu
country towns. Such muddy Win
ter as the present one has been, is I'M
precedented in the West, and the nm
favorable effects on trade arc fell
everywhere. Chicago Journal.
"Have you children ?" demanded {
house renter. "Yes," replied Tho
other, solemnly, "siX-all in the Gem
ctery.' "Better there than here
said the landlord, consolingly, anG
and proceeded to execute the desired
lease. In due time the children re
turned from the cemetery, whittier
they had been sent to have a nict
play; but it was too late to annul tho
contract Washington Chronicle.
Down in "the Jerseys they pro
pose to regulate Sunday travel OF
the railroads, a bill having been in
Produced in the House of that State
to prohibit the running of more thar
one train each Sabbath on any roa(
in the State under a penalty of five
hundred dollars. Another feature OF
the bill is peculiar. 1t prescribes {
penalty of $500 for the selling O.
tickets for excursions, or other tick
cts at n low or unusual rate.
The Grand Jury of Polk county
Ga, thus admonishes two rival ed
itOrs: 1--WE also feel il our duty tt
censure the course and conduct of oul
two newspapers towards each other
and urgently request the two editors
to cease wrangling about themselves
and branch off into agricultural ar.
ticles or others that will tend to de.
velOp the interests and welfare of our
county,"
A defalcation of six million francs
has occurred i'm Belgium, the Nation
al Bank at Brussels being the victim
The crime was committed by a clerl
of the bank. lie started for America
and got as far as Queenstown, wher
he was arrested. 1t reasonably Ger.
tain that the witnesses against him
will not, be Clymered out of the coun.
try, and that the 'boss" thief will moi
be encouraged to day down" and
"squeal." They don't do business in
that way on the other side Of the At.
lantic.
A wise, plain-speaking coIorcd ex.
FOUNDER of the Scriptures i'm Ken.
tncky recently created quite a furry
among some Of the female portion OF
his congregation by suddenly branch.
ing off In this way: "Now / want to
say word to dc sisters. When YOU
has Washin' to do somewhat, and
you gets done, just you clean up and
go right home, and don't STAN round
lookin' whar yon can find a little
coffee, or a little sugar, or little
something else to put in yo' pockets.
Go right home when yon's done wild
dat Washin'."
An cnterprising grocer in the town
OF Santa Clara, Cal, has adopted an
original method of business. Each
side ofthe store is fitted up for bust
ness Oh its own account. In the gen.
eral arrangement each side is du-
plicate Of the other, the difference be-
ing that one side is cash and the other
is credit. When customer comes
in the first question askedis, "Do you
wish to buy for cash or on account ~
lit is cash customer the goods and
prices on the cash side are shown, but
lift is one who wants credit, he is
shown the other side, and for the first
time in his life, perhaps, made to
realize the value of ready money.
The friends and followers of Prof.
Swing, in Chicago, have the past
week agreed upon n definite plan for