Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-14
NUGGETS.

Grape vines should always be
prnncd in the fall. Now is the time
A young Providence lawyer sol.
emnly asked q witness: "What has
been the character of your son from
his birth.
When . Virginia gentleman asks
another to drink he blandly says
"Shall we give the public debt lift p
And they lift.
Ex Senator Chandlcr's farm In
Michigan numbers 3160 acres. 1t
cost him 100000 and is just begin
ming to pay expenses. ~
The money editor of a New York
paper predicts that William II. Van
derbilt "won't have q cent of the
great fortune his father left him in
five years."
The members Of Christ Church,
Boston, the oldest church building in
the city, still use the Bible, prayer
book and silverware which were pre-
sented BY King George II, in 1888.
General Sherman says that from
his own personal observations he
thinks that the victory of General
Miles over Chief Joseph will do more
to conciliate the Indians than hum
drcd treaties.
Michael O'Hara, o supporter of
John Morrissey for the Senate, aud
Alexander McLain, partisan of
Richard Schell, his opponent, quar-
relied, Saturday night, in New York,
and McLain Knocked O'Hara down,
fracturing his skull, and he died
Sunday.
High ritual is on tho increase in
London. Thirty-nine churches now
celebrate daily communion, against
eleven last year 800 have surDliced
choirs, against la: 35 have cuchs-
ristic vestments, against 13; 80 dis
play candles on the affairs, and since
1867 the use of incense has been ex-
tended from 3 churches to 13.
A fancy preacher in Louisville was
discoursing on the fall of man, and
thus pictured the scene which took
place in the Garden Of Eden: "And
they recognized the fact of their ma
kedness, and went and made them.
selves aprons Of fig leaves-miserabl BILE
shift" Being guiltless Of any inten-
ton to make pun, he was astonished
to sec how the congregation smiled.
Governor Zeb Vance tells of a New
Orleans man who died and left the
seventh article in his will as follows:
Whereas, 1t seems that my son John
seems inclined to play poker. which
Is q dangerous game to tinker with,
unless you know what you are doing
therefore / leave my son John $4,000
that he may go to Halifax, N. c., and
learn how to play the game"
Green Russell, one Of the oldest pi-
oneers of Colorado, Wyoming and
Montana, died recently in the Indian
Territory. He was the leader of the
Georgia colony of "prospectors, who
were about the first TO announce the
existence Of gold at Pixies Peak. In
1859 he discovered the gulch near
Central City which now bears his
name. He was well-known through
out the West, and enjoyed the conf
dcnce of all acquainted with him.
An old document read by Professor
William Everett in Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts, last week, and written by
one Of the famous Boston harbor tea
party, spoils another cherished tra-
dition. The writer says that at first
the boxes of tea were broken with
axes, though this was very difficult,
owing to their being covered with
canvas. Afterward tho others were
tossed overheard in the original pack
ages. The paper also declares that
there was no white citizen disguised
as an Indian on that accasion.