Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-12-19
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Buildin9 y going on just the Same
Ias II II were summer time.
There never was such supply II
Christmas goods in the city As there
ID at present,
Keokuk packers are paying $3.50
$3.50 for wagon hogs, and IS. 50@3.60
In car load lots.
The total receipts Of hogs In Chica-
60 for the week ending last Saturday,
10th inst, was $50, $40.
Men riding around In their shirt
sleeves on the 18th Of December, i
something new in this climate.
The earnings of the st. Louis, Kan
sas City 4 Northern for the first week
in December, 1877, were o follows
$66,311.06; 1876, $57,O47. 6-increase,
s9. 264.9O.
Tie Dummler Bros. have put up
eighteen barrels OF sauer kraut. BY
practicing economy they expect to
have enough to do them until Spring,
Especially il II should be healthy
winter.
When man steals chickens in
Marshalltown the Times calls him .
"hell-hound of iniqnity." Wonder
what the Times rooster would say IL
q fellow were to play split beans on
him for coffee.
A Marshalitown Justice Of the
Pence has rendered : decision that
dogs have no rights / white man 10
bonnd 10 respect and may be shot
down in the streets by anybody.
Tough on the dogs.
The Water Works Company, after
laying all the mains they agreed to
before The first Of January, are now
going on to lay mains east on Main
street. Wiley is doing all, and more
than he agreed TO do.
The anti-silver papers say . silver
dollar is worth only 80 cents, but we
will take them for full dollar for
all kinds of work, for subs cription to
daily or weekly or any debt due us.
Roll in the dollars of our daddiesl
Some years ago, during drouth,
the editor of the Democrat proposed
to lombard the clouds and produce
rain, and II has been raining almost
continually since. Couldn't Sam
evolve some plan from his Webste-
rian brain to stop 'er2
Don't forget to make presents to
your friends or little ones during the
Nothing grieves them so
rs to be sighted. But remember to
pay all your honest debts fret and
not make presents with money that
Justly belongs to long suffering aud
patient creditors.
N. A. Commonly called street Co.
day. is now SO years of age. His an
niversary was duly celebrated by the
advent ola gal baby, which is only
The twenty-6rst child for N. A.. tits
thought that il the sold man has |
chance" he will yet be blessed with
family Of respectable size.
THE State Unitarian Conference of |
Wisconsin, in session at GAINESVILLE |
his week, decided against the prin-
,iple of Church property being ex-
smpt from taxation and appointed a |
TO present memorial up |
IN this subject to the Wisconsin Leg
stature.
The silver wedding anniversary of |
Hon. John ii. Gear and wife, of Bur-
ington, occurred on Saturday, and |
in the evening their friends turned
but with band of music and gave
hem a genuine surprise. They were
presented with some handsome, pure
lilverware and they had q good time |
generally.
A DIsCovERY.--While workmen |
we're digging well for A. G.. Leigh
on, on his Fourth street property,
lear r. N. Harlan'e, they struck q
good sized log on Saturday, at a
aeptao Uorsct DcIow rizS -surrxyC-
The we'll is on the north side of the
all, and this tree has lain there per-
maps thousands of years. When |
'onnd it was as light as cork.