Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11
JoTTrNGs.

lett & Co., publishers, Portland, Me-,
headed SIT.
Now is good time 10 organize an
Arctic expedition. Everybody would
clamor to SO.
Dillon IL. Payne and Ambrose II.
Hill have been appointed assignees of
the Bloomfield bank.
Judging from our exchanges, no.
where in the State was the Fourth so
generally observed as in this city.
A man was run over by Central
train, near Searsboro, Wednesday
evening, and instantly killed. We
did not learn his name.
The reduction of the interest charge
on the public debt since July LIST,
1876, is $l,04S,G25, which is the result
Of the funding operation.
All pensioners of the United States,
whether army or navy, residing in
Iowa or Nebraska, will hereafter be
paid their pensions at the agency at
Des Moines.
Q. d. Whitman, who was sentenced
to seven years at hard labor at the
Fl. Madison prison for manslaughter,
was pardoned out on the 4th. He
had been there two years.
At Centerville, Iowa, on the Fourth
George Stillwell was shot by Tom
Fraud, in the latter's saloon, and there
is no hope of his recovery. An OLE
lquarrel in which Fraud nearly killed
Stillwell was the cause of the quarrel
The Marshalltown Times says, Gan
other first-class Beecher-Tilton scan
dial is in the breeze, up there, AM
= lpromises to mature at an early day
/ in which one of our business me-
I may have TO swhack up lively, or b
Exposed"
The Bloomfield Democrat says
! "Rev. Booker Fox delivered religio
! astronomo-patriotic address in tn
: park, on the 4th, in which he intro
duced his favorite theory that tn
y world stands still, is fiat, has fou
r corners and jumping off place."
: A gentleman from Bloomfield VIII
y spent the Fourth in this city, wa
l. robbed, so he says, of valuable gol
" watch and quite sum of none!
u He claims that the robbery was con
y mitted on the other side of the rive
10 in the night, but the story is lit
gauzy.
:, S. Park has presented us with be
Of what he calls the Turner Rasl
"a berry. They are of the red varie'
and are very large and luscious. I
only has a few Of them, but anoth
:, season hopes to extend their guilty
" ton SO that the public generally mt
taste Of them.
ms They had good celebration
us Creston. The Daily says: The pre-
q ence of the Ottumwa Fire Comp
3. No. l added much to the interest
n, the firemen's tournament.
a. In the 9 :35 race, Big Soap took t
of second heat in 2 :36, the 4th in 2:
and the 9Th and the race in 2:4l.
ee Mrs. Squires has returned fro
at Rockford, after very pleasant Wis
ne Her school will open Sept. lst, Al
IT. persons desiring to make arrane
ments for scholars for the Fall ter
"a will do well to consult her as soon
g possible, as only limited numb
= can be taken as boarding pupils.
Nv We are pleased to learn that Aar
Il. Mccoy, who thought he had lost ]
in pocket book with $2l5 in it, b
il found it, since he went to Lucas cou
ne ty, in the pocket of a loose co
Of which he carried with him. Mr.. NJ
re Coy says he had Examined the saI
coat pockets time and again, a.
how it got there is more than he C
% tell"
We are indebted to Prof. Kinri
he for copy of the Iowa WEATHER r
Is PORT for 1876. Prof. Hinrich h
70 given much time and largely of h
" own means to make this report COZ
o. plete and of value to the general pu
id lie, and we think in the future
he should have some material aid no
ne the State, even if economy has to
practiced in some other direction.
Henry Ward Beecher preached
sermon on "Jew and GENTLE"
Brooklyn church, June Oath.
- counseled the Jews 10 pay no ate
= ton to the slight put upon them al
" race, by Judge Hilton, in the Sell
~ man case, for "a hero may be ammo
=. ed by mosquito; but to put on h
AZ whole armor and call on his folloy
- ers to join him in making war on {
~ insect, would be beneath his dignity
:" That settles Hilton's case and we ms
class him now as tumble bug.