Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-12-26

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Our poet says: 81 sot me down in
thought profound, this maxim wise I
drew-'tis easier far to love q girl.
than to make girl love YOU.
The State University attendance,
for the Fall term, was as follows:
Collegiate, 1888; Law, Jos; Medical,
80; Homeopathic, Ia. Total, 537.
1t has been common practice for
years with the frontier Mexican ruff
fans to butcher defenseless travellers
in that region, without regard to age
or sex. ~.
1t is now believed that the fixed
stars were placed 80 far away in or
der that the patent medicine man
couldn't get there to paint on the
rocks.
Mr.. James Dcrfinger, living near
Brush Creek, and one of the Oldest
settlers in Fayette county, was gored
by bull q few days ago and his life
is despaired Of.
The fern mania is spreading SO that
one woman In reach Of New York
has fern farm, and makes a good in
come, sending both fresh and pressed
ferns by mail. s..3. Y
Mr.. James Derfnger, living near
Brush creek, and one of the oldest
settlers in Fayette county, was gored
by bull few, days ago, and his
life is now despaired of. 4 a,saG
Where's the man who predicted a
severe Winter, and showed up thick
corn husks, double-battened muskrat
nests, and steers with punches of burs
on their tails as large as paint kegs?
E A woman SO years old, with her
son, arrived in La Grange, Oregon,
recently, having walked thither from
her home in Indiana. She carried a
pack weighing seventy-five pounds.
A Portsmouth undertaken being
dunned by man who had very
sick wife, said. ooh, let the account
stand. You'll be wanting something
in my line pretty soon, if you have
good luck"
In China they drown the superflu-
GUS female babies. This courses q
marked appreciation in the value of
the surviving feminine population,
and puts q check on. the growth of
tha 5 6Hay m8S, bssaty fades ssih i,
years go by. Don't fall in love with
q woman simply because she has q
pretty face. Remember that wealthy
father-iD-law is better than the rosi-
est damsel in seven states. saan s 4
The largest mass of gold yet dis
covered in Nevada was found nesr
Osceola. 1t weighed twenty-fonr
pounds and fifteen ounces, and, As it
contained very little quartz, its coin
value was not far from $4,000.
1t is stated that the farmers Of Gin
ton county during the past year, have
lost from $4,000 to 100000 hogs from
cholera, the loss in value reaching ct
least half a million doIlars--apd
many consider that a low estimate.
The cabbages on the Island Of Jer-
sey grow on stems to the height of
ten or twelve feet. They cut off the
lower leaves for the cattle, and hence
one can walk under the vegetable it
self, as under tropical grove of
palms. Ss9
The st. Adams Messenger makes q
boast of the fact that some brine own
ed by j. M. Morrill,, of Chelsea, VT,
has been in use for picking pork for
more than seventy-fiye years, having
been first prepared by Mr.. Morrill's
father, and in constant use ever since.
The toad, as an insect destroyer, is
becoming quite popular in Europe
Once week toad market is held
regularly in Paris, to which these lit
tie animals are brought, carefully as
sorted, according to their strength
and size, and packed by hundreds in
baskets Of damp moss. .f
How often. oh how often, man
with only one solitary button on his
shirt, and that one Q brass pin, looks
with deyouring envy upon his wife's
new seven button kid gloves, and
wishes all the shirts in his collection
were just one glove. There does
seem to be something wrong in
this division of buttons. s.
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Opium eating prevails to . terrible,
degree in Atlanta, Ga. In answer to,
the question, care there men in At
lanta who have become addicted to.
the use Of this drug z" a druggist said:
"Yes, and great many more ladies'
The habit is fearfully on the increase.
We sell enough every week to xiii q
thousand people,"
A Rochester man named Alderman
attempted suicide by drowning in
the canal few days since. He was
fished out, and being asked by the
police justice the reason for his Jumps
ing in the canal, said, 81 hat much
droubles; ] hat two vomans to live
nit; Won hat vive childers und Won
hat not any; dey stole my moneys,
und I want to kill mineself.1
ACCIDENTALLY SHoT.-A young
man named Frederick Machen was
accidentally shotby arevolver in the
hands of Geo .Nuitie at q chariyari
two miles south of Caloma last Fri
day night. The ball entered between
the 9th and 10th ribs, passed around
first under the ribs towards the spine
in close proximity to the liver, and
lodged against the peritoneum or
membrane lining the abdominal cav
ity. 1t is q serious wound, and likely
to prove fatal.-Knoaville1 Journal.
z Keokuk Constitution: A Keokuk
firm recently received about forty
dollars in coppers and took them to
the postoffice to trade for stamps.
The coin is only to be received iu
twenty cent lots, and the postmaster
declined to trade. Now the coin lies in
a drawer, and every hour or SO one
of the clerks takes twenty cents TO the
postofiice and buys stamps. He is fol-
lowed in the course.of an hour by an
other clerk who does the same thing.
As there are ten ortwelye men in the |
establishment, itwonf be long before
Col. Parrot has all these coppers.
The Supreme, Court ofthe Stat ehas
affirmed the constitutionality of the
act passed by the Sixteenth General
Assembly, providing that . city, coun- |
ty or township may vote special tax,
not to exceed s per cent. of the valua-
lion OF the property sought to be
taxed,in aid of railroads or other
public enterprises. This has long
been contested point before our
iowa courts, and has been decided
10Th afiirnativcly and negatively, |
int never before by suchsa majority |
f. judges as in the present instance
-all concurring, with the single ex-
option of Judge Beck. The matter
nay now be considered as definitely
ettled. and such > tax, il voted, can
q levied and collected without re-
curse, 90 long = the law i on the
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