Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16

Y is, 1877.
! GENERAL NOTES.
I Grasshoppers are reported three
inches deep on the level In some parts
Of Texas.
| Requests not to send flowers are
becomining frequent in death notices
in Eastern newspapers.
| Now look out for breeze: Iowa,
under Secretary Sherman's new rules
is entitled to one hundred more clerk
ships in the treasury department.
| Having failed in getting the office
he wanted, General Mcclellan has
thrown up fortifications around New
York and is waiting for the enemy to
move.
Young men out Of employment
should 60 to Missouri. A bill offer.
ing five cents for every rat killed in
the state has passed the legislature
"Go fer 'em."
During the eight years and one
month that elapsed between March l,
1863, and April so, 1877, the public
debt of the United States was de-
creased e455, ,104,642.
A Jewish journal learns that after
five years labor and the expenditure
of $45, 900, the American missionaries
In the rich city of Wuchu, China,
have converted three persons from
Buddhism.
Rev. Henry Clearwater, q Metho-
dist preacher in Champaign county,
ILL.,, tor some years, has been indicted
for having obtained $500 worth of
goods on false pretenses, He ran
away to Iowa, but was caught, con-
fesses, and has gone 10 Jail.
Massachusetts, chucks men into pris-
on yet for debt. A Boston physician
of high standing and wol tn $1OO, 900,
is at present testing his powers Of in
durance, in the Charles Street Jail,
because he can't meet q debt Of one
hundred dollars.
The young New York woman who
romant!cally ran of with and mar
ried her fathers coachman not many
days since, has just romantically
learned that he has two other wives
living. A pretty fool ran off with an
ignorant knave.
Ann Eliza, having been declared to
be only polygamous wife of Brig
ham Young, she may properly be
held up as warning to women not
to invest in husbands until their abb
stracts of title have been thoroughly
Investigated. .t. ...
The Nashville (Tenn.l american
says that among the infnates of the
Insane Asylum In that city, is q me-
gro who lives almost entirely upon
grass, which she obtains from the
lawn in front of the building. She
has great antipathy to weeds and
suffers none to grow within the in
closure.
| A New York Clergyman makes the
announcement that there are in thatcity
525 converts from Judaism to Chris
tianity. These conversions have come
through the labors of several Jews
converted at the time of the Moody
and Sankey meetings in that city.
The Atlanta ConstitMtion says that
! there are men still in hiding in the
mountains of the upper Georgia coun-
ties who have never heard of the con-
clusi0n Of the war, and are afraid to
venture out lest they should be con-
scripted for service in the rebel army.
DIR. N. G. Sales, Of Anamosa, who
settled in Jones county in 1847, and
was for years one Of the most infiuen-
tial men Of that section, having serv-
ed in the State Legislature both as
Representative and Senator, has be-
come hopelessly insane, and has been
taken to the asylum ct Independence.
A piece Of skull and thigh bone of
ta body have been found In the ruins
of the Southern Hotel at 81. Louis,
which, It is asserted, are all that re-
mains of Charles Helfnicht, the head
waiter, as he 10 the only person known
to have been In or connected with the
hotel on the night of the fire who has
fnot been accounted for.
I "Tne resJ or the rauiumetre,~ sayu
the Scientific american, "does not
sustain General Pleasonton's blue
glass theory. That instrument is very
sensitive to electricity, and if, as the
General supposes, blue rays have su-
perior electrical power, its vanes
would rotate faster under blue glass
than under common glass. Expert
ments show contrary result"
The wealthiest widower in Vinton
County, Ohio, has been in trouble.
Mrs. Fannie Trancewell, widow, sued
him for breach of promise, estimating
damages at $4,000. Six LAWYERS
were employed, forty witnesses ex-
amined, and the jury, after an all
night session, returned q verdict for
the plaintiff for $3.50.
Thank heaven the pacific policy has
succeeded, and entire and perfect ac-
cord and reconciliation now reigns
Throughout the south. When a color
ed member of the South Carolina or
Louisiana legislature rises to address
the speaker, or asks for his pay, he is
only expelled by a rising vote, for
contempt. Formerly it was the Gus
tom to shoot him. What no, without
here, guards! Fire another hundred
guns over the restored Union.-
iAuWAcyCs
The Austin (Nev.) Revesue tells 10.
cal story with a moral, rs follows:
Adam johnson worked for eighteen
months on ranch in the vicinity OF
Austin, receiving horse in payment
for his services. On Saturday night
he came into town, sold the proceeds
of his eighteen months labor, for $40,
got drunk, disturbed the peace, and
on Sunday landed in Jail. Thus he
soliloquizes: "Such is lifel Here
ranch for a SO horse. Now 1 owe
Lander county $50, and earn g a day
and grub, working it out" The op.
portnnities in new country for a
young and energetic man are many
and varied.
l SUDDEN DEATH night