Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-28

i Appanoose county tax ievy Tor Io1a
4 is$S2.03S.39
Il The Water works Company are nov
preparing to set the hydrants on Main
street.
Tho Sheriff of Hancock, Iowa, hal
been arrested for stealing four dol.
lar hat.
| Iowa State Grange meets at Del
Moines on the second Tuesday in De
cember, next.
The Milwaukee brick, for face trim
mings for the Water works pumping
house, have arrived.
The Ha,ck- Eye says q. +. Perkins
will be superintendent Of the G. B. 4
Ia. in place Of w. B. Strong.
Let 1t be q matter of record that
the first hydrant set in this city is the
one on the corner Of Main and Green.
Russell Hastings, Jr., is to succeed
Assistant Secretary Mccormick. It
is scarcely necessary to.add that he
is from Ohio.
Several prisoners confined in jail at
Oskaloosa attempted to escape by
throwing pepper in the jailor's eyes.
They failed.
Over 5000 men are now employed
in the mechanical department Of the
G, B. & @. railroad, and the pay roll
for October amounted to $153,3SO.
The Inter Ocean lhas adopted the
improvement Of FASTING and cutting,
so that the pages now can be turned
over the same as the leaf Of book.
Suicide seems to lie the prevailing
mania just now, but, generally
speaking the wrong man or woman
avails himself or herself Of this stylc
of taking oil.
William Endsley, formerly Marshal
Of Burlington, but latterly agent Of
the B. G. & N. railroad, died sudden
~, Monday morning, Of affection of
the heart. He was aged SO years.
They build railroads in Nebraska
by voting county bonds, and then get
the courts to declare them Illegal
Wayne county in that State, has just
got rid of $3.50 in bonds by that
process.
Tho Hasckeye says that the Pitts |
burg Commercials story about :
school mistress being taken to Pitts
burg by a commercial traveller, Sc
duced and abandoned, is q lie made |
out of whole cloth. Glad to hear it. |
Artz, o demon who murdered his
wife few months ago near Cedar
Rapids, last week set upon a fellow
prisoner in Linn county jail, and
plunged knife in his side, then en-
tered his own cell and cut his throat. |
Daggett & Edgerly are building an
addition to the room formerly occu-
pied by the U. s. Express Co., on
Market street, and as soon "a it Is
completed, the room will be occupied
again by the consolidated Express
company's offices.
1t seems that it is question of en-
durance between the weather clerk |
and the water works contractors, with
the chances at present little in favor
of the latter. 1t is rain, rain, all the
while, and mud almost unfathomable,
but at present Wiley seems to hold
the age.
AT citizens meeting, at Burling-
tonic discuss their water works, some
of the speakers declared that the
works were going to cost 100000
more than they would be worth
when finished. There seems to be
good deal of bad feeling about the
matter down there.
A new line of sleeping cars has
been put on the Keokuk 4 Des
Moincs railroad, affording better ac-
commodations than the sleepers on
any of the trunk lines, inasmuch as
that instead OF berth you get an en-
tire section to yourself. The fare for
a section is $3.50 for the whole route.
The cars Qlfanys0 fur
the accommodation of travel, and
equipped with all the improvements
for the comfort and convenience Of
the patrons of the road.