Ottumwa weekly courier., 1877-08-08
Iowa News.

Monticello has contracted for three
wells.
lansing is to have new Congre-
gational church.
The walls of Iowa City's new opera
house are nearly up.
Grinnell has new savings bank.
with a capital Of $4,000. A
Iowa Falls has voted 8 per cent,
tax to the Grundy County Railroad.
A short-horn heifer in Hardin coun-
ty, one year old, weighs $40 pounds.
The Burlington water works will
be finished January l. The cost will
be 100000.
Miss Foster, who was nominated
for County Superintendent of Dallas
county, has declined.
Jones county makes the largest
show of cattle of any county in Iowa,
and O'Brien the smallest.
An average of so tramps are lodged
in the Market House every night,
says the Davenport Democrat.
A correspondent of the Dubuque
Times estimates that there are $4,000
tramps floating around in Iowa.
The Council Bluffs Nonpariel says
that the new Deaf aud Dumb Insti-
tute will be finished by the goth of
September.
The Tama City Press and the Tama
Independent have joined hands, Mr..
Joseph B. Chapman. Of the former
journal, retiring.
Mr.. A. IL. Blake, of Manchester,
who took the prize at the Centennial
for the best butter, lately received an
order for $4,000 pounds. Fl
The Dubuque Times wants rail.
road steam ferry across the river, tc
give better connection with the Wis.
consin and Illinois side.
A child was born in the Penitentia.
ry at Ft. Madison the other day. 1T
mother is serving out sentence of
months and its father l year.
The Muscatine and Oskaloosa Dis
trict Association Camp Meeting will
be held on the Kosta camp grounds
in Iowa county, commencing Angus
9Th.
An acre of oats, threshed up il
Buchanan county last Saturday, hop
pered out ninety bushels. This il
enough to make horse laugh.-Chn
ton Herald.
West & Sons suspended bank a
Des Moincs will pay about 10 PEE
cent. on its indebtedness. That il t.
say its assets, if judiciously handled
will bring about $4,000.
The Iowa Barbed Steel Wire Com
pany at Marshalltown will have thei
building completed and ready TO
business by the 18th. They will EN-
ploy SO men.
p. s. Cory who, only a few shor
weeks ago started the Millersburg
Iowa county, Weekly Neacs, has ha,
enough of journalism, and has left hi
! paper to take care of itself.
Prof. Wclch, of the Iowa Agricul
tural College, has returned HON
from an extended trip East, with hi
health much improved by rest am
change of air.
Burlington is trying to rid hersel
J of the tramps by flung the steam
boats that land them. 1t is said tina
: a boat was fined $500 for putting ther
t ashore at that point, charged wit
, illegally landing paupers.
In Scott county, Widow Saxon, ae
ed GO years was married to youn
man named Johnny Day, only
years old. Whereupon the bride
24-year-old boy and several grow
up daughters left home in disgust.
Frank Kyte, the absconding Treas
q urer of Howard county, is no.
q charged with setting fire to the Coul
. House last Winter, and his oflici'
3 bond is said to have been the only O
. ficial paper destoyed which belonge
, in the Auditors office.
The amount Of the defalcation {
Kyle, the absconding Treasurer {
Howard county, is found to be SIS
!. 740.lO. The notes, tax receipts. etc
will probably foot up 5000 to GOO
1t is estimated that about $1,000 wi
be realized from Kyte's farm proper
ty, all of which will partially help OF
!. his bondsmen.
A farmer in Jackson county havin
grumbled because the chinch bu.
! had ruined his wheat, a neighbor asl
! ed him what he'd take for the Gro
as it stood in the field. The grun
3 bier replied that he would take tn
straw if anybody would thresh it fl
the grain. The neighbor accepte
the offer, cut and threshed the graf
and got 400 bushels Of wheat. II
grumbler wished he had minded h
own husiuase