Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-21

Mr.. Garfield, Of Ohio, was once
dirty neMsboY. l

William Cullen Bryant entered
upon his 85th year last Saturday.
/ Fred Douglass is getting into th'
habit of delivering lectures fon'
hours long.
| Children make pets Of lizards IL
Cnba. They are easily tanned ant
feed on flies. s
| A Saginaw schoolma'a am speaks ol
Spotted Tail rs "Frcckled Finale, the
aboriginal chieftain."
A Boston. boy, IA years old, il &C.
cused of stealing 5000 pounds Of su.
gar from his employers.
In one Brooklyn district it costs 8s
cents to distribute IL cents In charity
Brooklyn is Democratic.
They are paying s22. so for Benedict
ArnOlds autograph now, and Jen
Davis feels encouraged.
The Catholic Review says that the
people read too many newspapers.
This is very sad-for the Reriesc style
Of folks.
The "head center" of the Massachu-
setts free love gang has been arrested
for sending obscene literature through
the mails.
"Unaccountable bullheadednessn Is
the way the Democratic Sioux City
fIowa) Tribune charsctcrizcs ths be-
tions Of its party.
Parson Lucy has sued the Waco
(Tex.) Examiner for $2O.O 600 damages,
for accusing him and his son of kill
ing and robbing q horse thief.
An old Indian who had witnessed
the effect Of whisky for many years,
said a barrel labled whisky contained
thousand songs and fifty fights.
The Bridgeport (Conn.) Standard
wants 100, 600 eucalyptus trees plant
ed In that city forthwith, as a protec-
tion against malaria,
Seven years ago Methodism was
first introduced into the dominions of
Brigham Young. Now there are six
Methodist churches and fifteen Sum
day schools In Utah.
The subject Of Mr.. Beecher's SER
mon Sunday was, make not haste to
be rich" No; . man Is . mean cuss
who wants to skip along faster than
$500 a night.
Although st. Louis can't have the
Capitol, che means to have the biggest
dog-show in the history of the canine
race. 1t will come off next February
or March, with premiums of$3,OOO.
A Nevada mans Chinese lnborer
recently refused to chop wood on
Sunday morning, and when the rea-
son was asked lie answered :"Heap no
work Sunday; alice samee white
man. Heap play poker
The small man Of the West is Com
modore Dwiggins. of Southern Iowa,
who is % years Of age, and measures
only 35 inches in height. lie was
born in Iowa. Another little fellow
In this State is Mr.. Edward Orwig,
of Wapello. who is 40 inches high.
The Oshkosh editor who acknowl.
edged the receipt from one of his
best customers of a package Of "choice
dairy butter" had the pleasure TO see
the next day that the cOmpositor had
changed the "d' in ssdairy" to "h"
in putting it into type.
An English witness, on entering
the box, had testament presented
to him, but he declined 10 be sworn.
Being asked his reasons for refusing,
he naiyely replied: T'll tell lie wi
ony man in England, hut I'll not
swear to it,
One of the saddest shocks the
American people have ever had to
undergo is the recent discovery that
the base bali business is honeycomb-
ed with fraud, bribery and corrup-
tion. Who shall we trust now ?-Netc
York Commercial ddrertiser.
Leroy Plopper, who sednced a far
mer's daughter in Franklin county,
and afterwards stole the old mans
team to get out of the country, has
been recaptured. He married the
girl, but gets year and half at FL
Madison for stealing the team. So
says tho Hampton Recorder.
A singular case Of petrifaction is
told by an engineer on the Union Pa
cific. The principal cross ties, which
have been laid for several years, are
nearly all petrified, the number of
miles being estimated at 100. So SOL
i'd are the cross ties that it is impos-
sible to draw the spikes from them.
The old saying that 90 mare is q
horse but horse is not mare" has
bcen>put in legal shape by decision
in the Baltimore criminal court.
Two young men were tried on an in
dictment for the larceny of mare
valued at 800, but the evidence
showed that the animal was a horse
and not . mare, and the defendants
were acquitted. They were, however,
convicted of stealing a wagon,
The birth of new potato is thus
related by the Rochester Union: "Da-
vid s. Almstead, superintendent OF
Mount Hope Reservoir, last summer,
planted . row Of peachblows, and each
side of it q row of early rose, but
when he dug the middle row he
found neither pcachblow nor early
rose, but an apparent cross between
them. The product was o potato re-
sembling the early rose in shape, but
of peachblow color, with pink eyes
The yield was far better than either
rose or peachblow, and the quality
was excellent. They were planted in
sandy soil"
Uriel 8. Hart, q graduate Of the
law department of the University OF
Iowa, who was injured by falling
walls at . fire in Iowa City In the
spring of 1873, in consequence Of
1 which he has ever since been paralyz
ed from the neck down, has since
prosecuted his studies, and, to . Ger
tain extent, has practiced his profes.
sion. He writes beautiful hand b!
holding the pen in his teeth. He il
. notary public, and at the late elec
ltion was chosen city collector o.
Comanche, by the largest majority
ever given any candidate ON the sue
ccssfnl ticket.
i BALLS CAsE.-Mr. Ball, the young
man who has been c0nfned in jai
here for several mouths ON the charge
Of tapping the telegraph wires be-
tween here and Lucas for the purpose
of aiding other parties In beating one
Ol In0 OsC6Ol6 DhukS OUT Oh PJ,oVV
was brought into court last Friday
and fined so. There seemed to be
no disposition ON tho part Of the Rail
road Company or any one else e
prosecute the young man. He has al
. ways borne an excellent reputation
heretofore and was no doubt persnad
ed into doing what he did, besidei
being tempted with the offer of $GU
for performing the job. The dtspo
aition Of his case gives unusual salts
4 faction.--Lucas Republican.
Waltxiug 0Arls Of Nevada.
>, From the Elko tScy.) Post,
i While pernsing . little volume OF
.. waltzing, lately published in Sar
, Francisco, the different styles o.
Waiting indulgcd in by our Western
) girls were vividly called to mind
There are walters and walters
With some it is about as awkward
: performance as can well be imagined
with others II is . natural and grace
: fll movement--in fact, the very poe
! try of motion. An Austin girl
: wAltzing is easy, graceful and "melo