Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
JoTTINGS.

kegs of beer will last Bloomfield just
one hour and twenty minutes.
Read George Forsythe's advertise
ment Of potatoes to sell. This is
good chance to get choice seed pota-
toes.
Abba is now favored with two
democratic newspapers, the PLAIN
dealer, from Melrose, having re |
moved there.
The third annual convention of the
Iowa Stock Breeders Association
will be held at Oskaloosa, June 18th,
18th and 14th.
The probability is that the widow
Of Jos. Brooks, recently deceased,
will be appointed as his successor to
the postmastership at Little Rock,
Arkansas.
I4ieutenat General P. II. Sheridan,
and General ]. B. Hood late Of the
Confederate Army, have both been
afflicted with twins lately.
Fashion has struck a severe blow
at high bustles. They slope now like
a defaulting clerk-suddenly. yet
gracefully.
A Chicago drummer who had his
baggage smashed up in the recent &C.
cident on the Keokuk & Des Moines
road, put in a bill for 1871 for dam
ages, but finally settled for 500.
Cedar Rapids Republican: One
hundred tramps were offered $l.OO a
day to work on the railroad by S. l..
Dows, and not one of them accepted.
"Pride cometh after a fall"
If you want to see a house full of
groceries call at Morisrty e Nc
Laughlin's. They received two or
three car loads of flour and corn
meal, to-day.
The fashion editor of the Gate
City says that any one can manufac-
ture parasol Of the prevailing style.
Take ginger snap and stick it on the
end Of base ball club and there you
have it.
We understand that the X. & D. M.
Railroad Company have effected
settlement with all the persons in the
city injured in the late wreck, except
Martha King, on basis generous to
the people and creditable to the cor
poration.
1t is rumored at Washington that
James Russell Lowell, of Harvard
College (poet), will be appointed
Minister to Austria. The present
Minister is Edward F. Beale, who
was appointed about a year ago.
Messrs. Bauer s. Keister are manu.
featuring a large number of the Total
Eclipse Cultivator for the patentee, T.
w. McDill. This is claimed to be the
boss cultivator, and those manufactu-
red by Bauer & Keister will be found
to be the best.
UNDER the reorganization of the
Pension Bureau, Iowa will have only
one Pension Agent. The order for
consolidation was issued by the Pres
ident on Monday. The agencies at
Fairfield and Dubuque, Iowa, and
Omaha, Neb., are consolidated with
the district of Des Moines, Iowa.
/ Shorthand reporter w. S. Briggs
has invented penholder something
like q thimble, which is attached to
the Index finger of the right hand,
with the pen thereto attached under
meath, while the pen is fed from a
fountain in the lower part of the
thimble. There's millions in it.
i The Gazette is authority for saying
that two Burlington inebriates are
now travelling with temperance lee.
turers as "frightful examples" They
. get $40 week and found" Some
nights, however, they can't be found
} high nor low, though they would
probably be found "high" if found
at all.
4 There is great deal of stealing be-
ing done in this city at the present
time on the credit of tramps. TIA
tramp was caught in the house of the
average citizen at night, he would be
instantly shot. If some thief with
only local reputation is caught dom,
hesitate to administer the same dose
on account of acquaintanceship. Dis.
elimination is not right.
ii The City Council of Des Moines ha!
directed the Marshal to give tramps
} two square meals at a hotel, one
nights lodging and to make no more
, arrests of them for vagrancy. Now
we should not mind the city giving
J tramps one square meal, with one
hours time to get out of town, but VIC
don't want a regular tramp free
boarding house set up in this village
Des Moincs will now be the Mecca OF
all tramps.
This is how they do at Iowa City
The Republican says: "a few days
ago q woman, whose husband was
lying on his death-bed, went to one
: Of our stores and purchased Grape and
other mourning material, SO that sht
could don the habiliments of woe o.
soon as the spark of life had fled. Sh,
was determined to have things il
readiness for the sad event"
Il Bya private letter to his brothe
John, of this city, 10. Gray of Grea
, Bend, Kansas, writes that in tina
country the wheat and rye is headin,
out nicely; farmers are blowing thei
corn the second thine and grasshop
pers have not yet put in an appear
ance. 10. says money is plenty an
the people of that portion of Kama
are on the high road to fortune.
Stolen.
Il The copy of the Assessors book fo
the city, just completed, which hs
been in use at the City Hall, for tn
Equalization of taxes, for the last wee
or two has been missing since Wed
nesday morning. The books hav
been kept in desk in the hall 70
sometime, and the room CAREFUL
locked up, but some person effccte
an entrance by the way of the balco
ny in front from which they raised
window and the theft was easy. TIL
books for the assessment Of 1875 wa
also taken. The city will suffer n
loss, copy had already been file
with the Auditor, and the Assesso