Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-10-17
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The question now is: Who is to BIZ
then CIV deputy sheriff?
Choice Onions sell in Davenport
for 30 cents per bushels.
This kind of weather makes The
cheap clothing man happy.
The Colorado Stone Man is now or
Exhibition at Council Bluffs.
Largo quantities OF apples are being
shipped to this city from Missouri.
Poweshcils county onions are com
ling to this city in wagons, in abund'
ance.
II Ii costs q Logansport, Ind, man
1916 to lick his wife with an axe
; handle.
BY AL majority, Des Moines coun.
ty has voted to build d 100000 Court
House.
1 Dan M. Southwick is the name OF
tho jolly ticket agent at the st. Louis,
] X. G. & N. railroad depot.
Dillon Payne, Of Bloomfield, will
be united in marriage to Miss Sudie
Weaver, Of Atchison, Kansas, on the
18th inst.
| The new X. s. d. M. depot at Des
Moincs will be second to none in the
State, except the Great Union Depot
in this city.
i lisa good time 10 begin to look
out for your scratching post, as there
is . big crop Of buckwheat pan. cakes
in prospect.
! The weather is just the least bit
discouraging for people engaged in
making improvements, especially in
building water works.
We understand that ex-Mayor O..
I'D. Tisdale has leased the Planters
House. Whether he will keep it as q
hotel or not, We are not informed.
i Monte men fleeced Granger out
Of 500 at Council Bluffs. II. Ru-
dolph, James, Jules and VIM. Mar
Tin have been arrested charged with
the crime.
Bell informed gentleman of this
city year ago that his wife was in
an assignation house in Chicago, as
wo are informed by excellent au-
thority.
The frogs croaking, the katydids
singing of evenings at this season Of
the year, is something new for this
Northern latitude. The weather is as
balmy as spring.
ssIT looks just as though there
would not be enough opposition TO
the election Of Senator Allison to
make amusement in the. Legislature
this fall,' says the Wright county
Monitor
Our fair readers (and we trust none
of the fair are falsc) will be glad to
hear that Mrs. Hayes appeared. last
Sunday, in her new Fall bonnet. We
are not informed what it looked like
or what il cost.
i Messrs. Chambers 4 McElroy have
removed their law Office to Bonni-
fields new building, next door to the
New York Store, opposite Bachman's
|jewelry store. They are iittedup there
in the incest style.
4 This is the season for merchants to
plant their advertisements where they
will do the most good, viz: in the
DAILY and WEEKLY COURIER. Adj
vertisements fer the WEEKLY must
be handed in before Tuesday noon.
1 The grain trade in this city is i'm
proving every day, and is now better
than it has been for three years. The
pricos paid by millcrs and dealers are
also better than usual, and higher
than in any of the towns around us.
i Brethren said the realistic parson,
"when you put your contribution in
the box You may drop it gently from
beneath your hand SO that the collec.
tor can't tell whether lisa dollar or a
nickel, but you cant cheat the Lord
4 Central railroad men inform us
that Bell, the husband of the woman
murdered by GLADDEN., never was an
engineer on that road but had been
employed as brakeman, and formerly
was fireman for Nose Arquettc.
People who see our policemen al
dressed up in blue broadcloth and
, two rows Of gilt buttons needn'
think that Ottumwa is full of Major
Generals. A touch of their billie!
will very readily dispcl any such il
fusion.
n Our readers who want any kind OF
goods sold at auction, either in city
or country, will do well to notice tn,
card of w. b. Wycof. Bin is a good
= one, and will promptly attend to al
calls made upon him, and guarantee
satisfaction in all cases.
The body Of Mrs. Bell, who's,
: throat was cut by GLADDEN., in Chica
Y 60, on Friday last, came up on the Z
f B. & @. railroad, last night, and wa
8 shipped to New Sharon via the Cen
trail Railroad on the LII sop. m. train
Her husband accompanied the re
a mains.
They are having a big row at Sfou.
City about the election of Sheriff.
recount elects Mcdonald, republican
by q majority, OYER Hopper, demo
= crat. Tho Tribune (dem.) printc'
some crooked tickets which cause,
. Hopper's defeat and the democrat
i propose to contest McDonald's cleo
:. ton. tits creating great muss an
: the democracy are going back on tn
Tribune as a party organ.
81 Country Residence for Rent.
As am about to remove to the city
will rent my place one mile North
9 west of Ottumwa, cheap. for one yea
. 81 acres of ground-good orchar
= and plenty of shrnbbery, excellcr
u we'll and cistern.