Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
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watch your hen roost!"
The Cedar Rapids Daily Repubh-
can runs its presses by water-power.
The BARRIERS say it is very "close
with them, nowadays.
Moody and Sankey will be at Clear
Lake camp-meeting in August. |
Clinton has been called Solitaire
on the bosom of Iowa" Goodness
gwashus State Leader.
Ten Marshalltown saloonists are
eating out their fines, ranging from
$40 to $3.50. in the county Jail.
Chinch bugs have commenced a
raid on the cabbage plants in city
gardens.
SorH1A FREDERIcKA MATILDA, the
Queen of Holland, died Sunday, aged
fifty-nine years.
Anna Runge, of Davenport, has
claimed her "rights" to become a
bankrupt.
Miss Annie Guysclman will please
accept our thanks for a very hand
some boquet of choice flowers.
The case of McWright We. Hoyt,
for assault and battery, was decided
this morning and Hoyt was discharg-
cd.
il. Hadfield has already shipped
a car load of wool, east. This is the
first shipment we have see noticed in
Iowa this spring.
Judge McAtee, of Bloomfield, died
on Monday last. He had been sick
| for some months. He was leading
and useful citizen.
A minstrel show raised s2.10 BY
, performing two nights in Bloomfield
The Republican says this amount wa
: the gross receipts.
The Iowa Conference of the Meth
/, odist Episcopal Church will meet a
j, Fairfield, on Wednesday, Sept. 9th
}. Bishop Ames will preside.
a The Veteran Guards, Of Keokul
e have disbanded. No organization
g can live in Keokuk wherein all tn
: Numbers can't be Colonies or at leas
Captains.
81 d. f. Brewer, of Albion, was SO ex
y pert with pen that he counterfeite
the names of various persons to prom
. isory notes and now trouble is Brew
ing with him.
- Peas, grown in this locality, 81
! becoming moderately plenty in ii
: market, but prices are still flavore
:. too much with greenbacks to be pol
ID ular,
Peter Hirschauer has leased She
10 herds lot, next one east Of Kramer
ye Brewery, on Second street, and
ar now removing and rebuilding h
A Boiler Works thereon.
o. The Ottumwa Wooden Mills, und
he the management of Messrs. Zula'
p. & Schwabkey, were started yesterds
tn and are turning out any quantity
in excellent rolls for the farmers. "
n, are glad the mill is going again, aft
~ all these years Of idleness.
lg An alarming report comes to
IN that the wood tick malady is sprea'
so ing. Conn Lewis has already 10
OF two horses from them and we he
of at least two candidates for Off
of who have been bushwhacking q got
as deal lately, who are also sorely afflit
it ed by these pests.
et j. q. Humphrey, of Louisa coun
undertook to save his horse Il
ny trouble of going through a mudhol
nd near Buena Vista, by riding on t
&C. X. s. d. NJ. railroad track. N
he Humphrey is dead now and his wi
y q ow thinks it dangerous for people
wo get on a railroad track with hol
yht or team.
his The champion buzzer was in toy
,ht to-day. He is the man who sticks
,er whisky carmine nose into your ia
nd and buzzes you from morning
,yt night about politics, religion, busin'
ult and the crops, and everything else
Ter don't know anything about. In t
to meantime his farm is going to wee'
ed and next season when he has to b
rs. his bread and meat he will be buzzi
,er around as usual about hard times.
far We clipped, some days ago, fre
he one of our exchanges, notice ref
ext ring to the commencement of bal
err rupt proceedings against an old fl
is now dissolved, in Abba, viz: Mi
raj sack & Tharp. We have now lea
len ed that the proceeding was m
i'm eauselessly commenced by the age
EN- of st. Louis house. The no,
caused the matter to be withdrawn
once.