Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-10-17

nc grand jury OF Clark county
Mo-, have presented an indictmon
against Willis James for the murder Q
the Spencer family. Elijah Spence
was discharged.
The Turkish soldier is content t,
tramp and fight for three cents a day
but when his regimental surgeon pull
the wrong tooth with pair of black
smiths pinchers he docs feel that i
costs something to be patriot.
A business man in Trenton, New
Jersey, says that the women in tina
city own all the real estate and tn,
husbands do all the running in deb
and beating their bills. He announces
that he will not trust any husband
without written order from thu
wife. fl4
There are at pressntin circulation .
large number Of two. dollar notes ,ha
have been raised from ones. The
work Of clipping and pasting has been
clumsily done. A close examination
reveals the vary ing process. All two.
dollar notes should be closely scrutin-
lied.
"Arc you counsel in this case ~
asked a New York Judge of gen.
tlcman in court. "No, sir" he an
swered, II am petitioner in this case.
My family has lost $3.50, 600 by coun-
sci already, and I want no more
counsel. don't think there is an
honest one atthe bar" The Judge
smiled bcnignly.
An Irishman who had been sick a
long time was one day met by the
parish priest, when the following
conversation took place: "Weli,
Patrick, lam glad you have recover
ed, were you not afraid to meet your
God Z" "Oh, no, your reverence 1t
was meeting the other party that
was afearn uv" replied Pat.
The Russian peasant has made the
art of splitting fine art. Hc spits as
a sign Of astonishment; he spits as a
sign of defiance I; he spits to avert an
evil omen; he spits for fine day,
and he spits against bad weather.
1t is not strange, then, that those ene-
mics Of everything that exists in Rus
sia-the Nihilists-should adopt as
the title of one of their newspapers :
~ Spit at Ererybody."
Its beneath the dignity of really
stylish church to make "call7 for q
minister unless for his life. Yet it
sometimes happens that they get tired
Of the incumbent. Then it is the
thing to buy him off. Within the
last six months o Fifth Avenue, New
York, preacher, who had become OBJ
jectionable, received $4,000 as q con-
sideration for retiring. He has re-
ceived $1,000 year for ten years.
1t has often been attempted to meas
ure the speed of the electric current.
The return of the current, in an ex-
pertinent, to the very place whence it
started, having been to Persia and
back, distance of 7400 miles, was in
Electricians have en-
deavored to give measure to the
speed of the electric current, and the
best thing that they have been able to
do is to say that, at least, it travels at
the rate Of 100000 miles second.
The war of the insurgent patriots Of
the Island of Cuba against the mother
power Of Spain, which has been waged,
off and on, for period of over ten
years, promises at last to be near its
end. Recent reports, which seem
based upon probability, announce both
The Willingness OF the insurgents to
come to settlement, aud the desire of
the Spanish Government to grant
and easy terms to the pa
triots. II would certainly be relief
10 the civilized world should an
amicable agreement be reached that
would stop the bloodshed, the waste
of life by disease and the desolating
horrors of war on that once prosper
Gus island.
A venerable deacon one Sunday
gave ros.In- in his pew to prim old
maid and two or three little girls
half asleep over the dull SER
mon. he carelessly threw his arm
across the back Of the pew, and gent
ly caressed Gas he supposedly the hand
of one of the children, when the o.
M. flared up aud hissed: "If you do
that again I'll slap your face =" That
is well enough as far as it goes, but it
is not all the story. The deacon in
stantly, and in the politest manner
said: 81 beg your pardon, the hand
was so small and soft that I was sure
it belonged to the little girl at your
side" He was forgiven in blush
that came over the u. Ms face like a
sunrise in October.