Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13

IN the North, are Oftentimes locate
one hundred miles from any house.
Luzerne county, Pa, is realizin
the cost of seven years. Democrat
rule in the discovery of the enormou
thefts that have been committed by il
officials.
Be careful how you speak I
strange women. That Connection
Borgia, Lydia Sherman, has escape
from prison, and is wandering aroun
somewhere.
| Gov. Newbold has offered $500 re
ward for the arrest of the murdere
of L. w. Tolbert. The event occur
red at Salt Creek, Davis county, i
March.
The Houston Age offered year
subscription to any member of tn
the Texas Legislature who could tel
how many counties there are in tina
state, but had no takers.
The Joliet Ph9aic starts an articl
with the caption, "Do Hogs Pay" I
you allude to those that 60 to a neigh
bor's every evening to read the paper
we must answer in the negative
aurora Neps.
They have sixty-o -one national banks
in Boston, and yet landladies ther,
insist just as strongly upon boarder!
without baggage paying in advance
Just as they do anywhere elsc.-- Tole.
do Blade.
A prominent Methodist divine once
rode from Washington to San Fran
cisco on q free pass granted to his
brother and made out in his brothers
name. He afterwards chopped the
Lord would forgive him for telling a
lie three thousand miles long,"
Omaha is in the short rows of hard
times. Travellers have hard work
keeping the pick-pockets at arms
length in that western metropolis, and
the street railway system is being
clogged by suit to foreclose a mort
gage. But, then, these are tough
times for all cities.
A most revolving case of rape is re-
ported south from Shenandoah, in
which tiend in human shape by the
name Of Bedford, outraged the per-
son of little girl 5 years old. The
next district court will attend to his
case ifhis neighbors do rot mob him
before that time.
Miss Rose Carlyle, q maiden lady
of Middleport, Ohio, brought suit for
breach of promise for SIC, 600 against
Henry Molar, wealthy farmer OF
Marshall county. and obtaiued a ver-
dict Of 81 600. The acquaintance and
courtship was by correspondence,
and Molar broke of the engagement
on seeing the lady.
The nest of humming- bird is thus
described by q Californian: cit is
about as large at the top as half dol
lar, and is made of spider webs,
downy feathers, with fibers of bark
and shreds Of cotton, all interviewer.
The eggs, two in number, were about
the size Of small white beans, and the
young birds, before they were fledg-
ed, resembled bumble-bees,"
Storm Lake Pilot, so: 'The farmers
Of this county..are waging Almost sue
cessful warfare against the grasshop-
pers. Coil oil is death and destruc-
tion to the little pests, and other de-
vices are successful. Every farmer
is confident of his ability to destroy
all the 'hoppers hatched on his crops.
And as all the citizens of township
are naturally interested, the destruc-
ton will be we'll nigh complete.
"Who's that man ?" asked the Gar
of his aid, the other day, pointing to
a chap with chunk of hard tack in
one hand and note book in the other,
who was hanging around headquar-
ters. cycling him rather closely
"That,' said the aid-"that's an
American newspaper correspondent
from Chicago" "Shoot him at sun
set" replied his Imperial Majesty,
retiring within his tent.-New York
Commercial 1dvertiser.
A few days ago tramp, who gave
his name as Barnard Schmidt, stop
ped at the house of Rev. T. w. Thurs
ton, in st. Ansgar. He said he had
walked all the way from Chicago,
and was tootsore and hungry, The
good preacher kindly took him in,
and gave him food and lodging. Two
days after, he was missing, and two
suits of clothes, Zone the preachers
best broadcloth), revolver, and two
dollars of Mrs. Thurston's pin money,
leaving behind his ragged duds. The
Sheriff was put on his track, and he
was captured in the preachers best
suit, brought before the Grand Jury,
indicted, and to the court he plead
guilty. His next tramp win be to-
ward the peNifenfiarv