Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-12-12

MOnWe&itn.
Mr.. e. e. Lyon, President of tn,
Iowa County Bank, of Victor, is II
be President Of tho new Marshall
town bank.
A few years ago, in Boston, thous
ands went to hear spiritualistic lee
lures; now audiences do not number
much over 100
Indian custom makes the squaw
property, 40 much as pony or blan
ket, and the right of the husband tt
kill his wife is never disputed.
The Governor Of Dakota is touchy
old fellow. He has won seven libe
suits against newspapers which hav,
sought to have little fun with him
San Francisco, already infamou,
for the large number Of Sunday
amusements which 1t patronizes, hal
recently added bull lighting to thu
list.
Pittsburg rioters are being sent Il
the Penitentiary. The terms vary
from one year and ten months and
fine of 5000 to fine of $500 and 8
term of six months.
Mr.. Charles Weatherby, a promi
nent citizen of Dubuque, has eloped
from that place with Cora L. Spencer
clairvoyant physician, leaving q wife
and family. So says the Times.
A New York fashionable belle who
has been married three years has sued
for q divorce from her husband be-
cause she is engaged to another
Young man, whom she wishes to mar.
Try.
The Anita Times says the recen,
earthquake shock caused the death ol
q man at Avoca. He was engaged In
digging well and the shock caused
the earth to cave into the well, bury.
ing the unfortunate man alive.
The yicksburg Herald says: "Com
mon laborers are now earning in thi!
State and in Louisiana from $50 t.
$75 per month, vet we are constantly
hearing of starvation and strikes in
the Ncrth. Laborers, come South
Muscatine county has petrified
man of its own, buried on the family
homestead Of Mr.. #. NJ. Heaton
His name was Bomford, and wher
his body was taken up for removal
after lying in the grave four years
it was found to be petrified and to
weigh 100 pounds.
An influential Southern paper OBJ
serves that should manufactures in
crease a. rapidly in the South durinI
the next decade as they have during
that which is just past, while her az
ricultural interests continue also t
flourish, it will be q matter Of indif
ference to her whether we have pro
lection or free trade.
James English is still at work or
the redwood tree he felled at Russian
River Station some months ago. HI
has already made from it 25O, 600 shin
giles, 1000 fence posts, 5000 shakes
lumber for dwelling house and out
buildings, and has lumber left fol
SOC, 1000 more shingles. The tree wa
fourteen feet in diameter Petalumt
(Cal
A London theatrical manager, Fe
lix Rogers, has beaten Cleopatra will
her legendary swans. He has per.
formed the feat of sailing in Q tub
drawn by four geese harnessed to thu
pole, from Battersea to Westminster
bridge, the time occupied being on,
hour and twenty minutes. He wal
dressed in naval Captains uniform
and received . salute Of four guns
one for each goose.
The politicians in Los Angeles, il
Southern California, are insane OF
the subject of dividing the State int,
two parts, and making their city tn
capital of the proposed new State IL
the southern half. The question i
agitating all California just at pres
ent, the northern portion bein,
strongly opposed to the cutting-in
two process, while the southern por
ton is as warmly in favor of tn,
scheme.
| Farmers in the Sacramento vale,
have but one great pest to conteni
with, and that is the wild goose. Al
immense quantity Of powder and sho
is wasted every season in trying L
thin them out. L. +. Moulton's mel
killed last year some 6,OO0 of them
and others had them killed in lik
proportion, but the numbers seem L
increase. There are already larg
numbers Of them ON the plains busil
engaged in pulling up the wheat tha
has inst snrOufed
The sugar production of Cuba
said to be in danger Of ruin. Tn
New York SHn presents statistics I
show that the Spanish colonial rIl
has so burdened the industry as {
make it unremunerative. It assert
that this years yield will be deficien,
and that it does not now pay to max
sugar in Cuba. Sugar planters ar
financially embarrassed becaus
standing crops are no longer good ss
curity for loans, as the sugar mad
| win not suffice for taxes.
/ Captain Brown, United States q,
my, an inspecting officer at the Mis-
issippi jetties, has officially notifie
the Secretary Of War that on the Il
of December there was q practicabl
channel through the jettics twenty
one and three-tenths feet deep at o
erage flood tide; that the only intel
ruption to practicable channel {
TWENTY-FIVE feet was ninety feet !
length, and that a line Of sounding
with twenty-five and four-tenths fee
j the least depth, extends through II
: bar to deep water.
tl Mrs. Clemmer says that, judgin
( by Mr.. Blue Jeans Williams's attil
, and attitude, he imagines himself
, second Lincoln. He looks not unlil
/ the earlier pictures Of Lincoln, befol
he lost his rail-fence angles an
] Hoosier expression OF countenanc,
yet, all the same, the fine, sad, ia
: seeing eyes of the greater man al
) wholly wanting in the Indiana der
: agogue. lie is dressed in what seen
: to be suit of blue linsey.woolse
I his coat having q black velvet coll
J. and long skirts, and he waves like
/ baton very thick cane. He looks
/ il he had been stewed in ague all
81 life, and shaken all the flesh off h
4 bones with chills.
= The Roll OF HoNoR.--The pr
gress of many a bright and pr0mi
ing scholar is often arrested and d