Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-10


We are indebted 10 Major John
Wilcox, of Eddyvillc, for several new
subscribers to the COURIER.
The Mrs. Charles Plunkett, who
died the other day, was a New York
actress, and not the Mrs. Charles
Pklnkctt SO well known to Ottumwa
theatre gocrs.
The Fourth Entertainment in the
"Ottumwa Star Course" will be q
lecture by Rev. DR.. Magonn, Presi-
dent of Iowa College, upon Lectures
and Books"
Wesley Jones, Of Burlington, who
has been adjudgcd bankrupt, has
filed a petition for composition Of his
Indebtedness. lie proposes to pay 30
cents on the dollar in cash.
The Commissions for the Abba
Company, Of State Militia, were re-
ceived to-day. This makes the 9th
company of the LIST Battalion of the
9TH regiment. 1t is supposed thatth
regiment will be full by the carly
part Of summer.
r. i. Tilton, w. A. McGrew, Ben.
Henry and Jno. L. Moore, visited Ed
dyvillc Saturday night, where they
participated in the installation Of the
officers of Day Lodge No. 26, /. O.. Q.
F. They report this old lodge in a
very fourishing condition.
We print in to-day's COURIER an
article from Richard A. Proctor,
of London, ono of the foremost
astr onomers of the age, which con-
tains many novel and interesting
suggestions. The article is entitled
"Solar Combustion," and will well
repay the reading.
The District Court of WaLello
county commences in this city next
Monday. The docket is not nearly SC
large, SO far as criminal cases arc
are concerned, as it was last term
There are but two criminal cases to
be tried that amount to anything OF
note.
Another man has made a mistake,
and that one is our friend A. c.
Leighton, who with his wife went to
Baltimore, some time ago, to visit
friends and escape the rigors of an
Iowa winter. We notice that the ice
in the harbor of that city is twelve
inches thick and all navigation stop
ped.
A Des Moines dispatch says
''There has been $1,000 hogs packed
here up to date. One house has been
closed for want of hogs-the other il
running light. Central Iowa has been
CLEANED of fat hogs. The young hogs
are dying with disease by thousands
which will make a short crop mex
year"
VIZ I informed that a general adj
vance in passenger rates has takcr
place between western and scaboard
cities, amounting to about 20 per cen,
on the through passenger rate-or 4
difference between Ottnmwa ant
New York or Boston of about SIS OF
each fare. The new arrangement
went into effect Saturday.
The fellow who stole the Grape
from the door-knob of Commodore
N~andcrbilt's house is a memento hun
Ter, the dispatches say. He is a prom
Using thief, and in due time may de
vclop into q body-snatcher, and lik'
DIR. Schleimann, may accumulate al
interesting museum Of sculls, coffin
handles, etc, all in the name of sci
encc.
Henry Watterson, editor Louisville
Comricr-.Jouaal, and member o
Congress from Louisville, who cam
sneaking into our lines at the close o
the war, with his shirt-tail l~lutterin:
to the breeze through his ragged
breeches, and who carries about hin
Grants parole, made q speech Monda.
in Washington, vigorously denounc
ing Grant, the Usurper and Tyrant.
The telegraphic Office in New Or
leans being in the hands of n rcbe
sympathizing operator, we are o
course favored with a long maudlir
harangue, delivered by Nichols, tn
pretended Confederate Governor