Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-23
JOTTINGS.

Ihe railroad tax i'll Richland town.
hip, was defeated by only l5 votes.
lad the out look for crop been
.ood it would undoubtedly have car
led.
The Chicago and Southwestern
abroad suffered severely from the
ecent heavy rains. Several bridges
we're badly damaged, and yesterday
rains ran with extreme caution.
Base ball clubs arc some GOOD
The Marshalltown club killed sixty |
'snaix' i'll one day. The papers up
there don't tell how many of them
were found in the boys boots.
John Gray announces himself as q
for sheriff, in the Democrat,
We also understand that Brad Dur
fee, Thos. Bedwell, Lotion L, Gray
aud other democrats have aspirations
in that direction.
The Marshalltown Times says:
'The new superintendent of the
Central is well liked by the boys, and
is becoming popular with all the en-
ployes of the company"
Nettie Sanford is again before the
the public with newspaper. This
time it is the "1Joman's Kingdom."
II is a well printed eight column sheet,
terms $3.50 per annum.
From the Republican we learn that
Bloomfield was visited ON Tuesday by
a tremendous rain storm. Bridges
were washed out, culvelts destroyed,
cellars inundated and considerable
other property destroyed.
The X. & ID. M. railroad will here
after run q special stock train from
Des Moines to Ottumwa twice each
week, leaving Des Moines Tuesday
Saturday evenings at Z 10, and arriv-
ing here in time for the eastern trains
an the c., b. & @. and North Missouri
the next morning.
When Philadelphia female clerk
faints away at her work, her employ
err kindly and nobly summons a car
rage and sends her home, and then
deducts $3.50 from her weekly sti-
pend of 500, thus making clear
gain on hack hire Of $3.50, all Of
which isn't so kind and noble.
! zone by one he gathers them in
This time it is the Atlantic Mutual
Life Insurance Company, of Albany,
New York, which, in January last,
declared a dividend OF per cent in
gold, and now Superintendent Smyth
says its capital is impaired and must
be wound up. Let FER wind, she
don't owe us anything.
The new railroad project O;tumwa
has been working up has been buried
by the vote of the people. 1t was
proposed to build line from OF
tumwa to Muchachinock to connect
with the Iowa Central.-ConStitutlon.
i Not quite buried. 1t is not dead, on
ly sleeping, and will come to life
soon if the weather is good.
!, The Warren (Ohio) Constitution OF
J recent date notes the fact that Miss
Hattie Taylor, daughter of Judge
Taylor, left yesterday for Ottumwa,
Iowa, where she is to spend the sum-
mer. She will be joined at Chicago
by Miss Laura Amber, of Salem. who
will also visit IN Iowa for several
, months this summer.
The purchasing committee Of the
, Indian Bureau Christian Commission
have rejected bid for coffee because
in their opinion it was too high and
. not good enough for the bloody In
dams. In the meantime poor white
trash, who are loyal to their govern.
ment, are buying their own coffee, oil
else doing without.
!, Thos. Caster returned from Monte
+, yuma, yesterday. He says the corr
: Pin that region is all coming up nice
: ly, and some farmers arc harrowin.
q it. So Jacobs descendants have
I prospect of an Egypt from which t.
get their corn, even if Joseph ant
Potiphar's wife have slumbered il
their graves for many centuries.
We have received a programme
: for the July races at the Creston Ag
4 ricultural and Driving Park Associ
, alton, to be held July Sd, 4th and 9th
The premiums are small, but Their.
, are great many of them. The Ores
ton folks always have successful fairs
and this, perhaps, will be no excep
, ton to the general rule. A. Il. Ste
phens is President of the Association
r and A. +. lexis, Secretary, TO whom
t all letters of inquiry should be ad
dressed.
George Forsythe had GOO buslel:
of potatoes to sell, and ordered al
advertisement of the fact put in the
DAILY COURIER for three days. Be.
: fore the time was up he sold the en-
] tire lot to O. Il. Abels. And still
there are people who think that ad.
vertising don't pay. A five line Local
r in the DAILY and WEEKLY CoUEIEF
, that costs one dollar, is worth more
l than $1,000 worth of signs or adyer.
tisements given to some impecunious
tramp to put in some sort of bulle.
tin board.
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