Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-28
JOTTIC4G9.

JOTT1NG9.
District Court commences at Abba
IN April 10th.
Mike Roos' brewery, at Charlton,
last week. Loss $4,000. No
Justice Clifford announces his in
tention of resigning his seat upon
the Supreme Bench.
The Des Moincs River Congrega-
tional Association is to hold its annual
meeting in this city, next month.
A bill restoring the death penalty
for capital crimes, has been passed by
the Minnesota legislature.
The pcdagogues of Iowa are teach
ing 553,920 "young ideas how to
shoot"
Tom Thumb is announced to make
his third 'last appearance" in Iowa
soon.
Cedar Rapids is troubled with high
waymen. Two daring robberics
were committed there within a few
days.
The Marshalltown Times thinks
that Colfax Springs is possessed Of
the "most wonderfully medicinal wa
ter on this continent"
Sunfish and bull pouts, caught in
the Mississippi sloughs, near Mus
catine, are being sold in this market
at 10 cents per pound.
The BEST OLD CHARADE.-"In my
first my second sat, my third and
fourth I ate." Ans.-In-sat-I-ate.-
No reference is had to seuen to ate.
Iowa has more newspapers than
any State in the Union or any coun-
try in the world in proportion ia
population.
John G. F. Vance, who was arrest.
ed here, for horse stealing, and taken
to Abba, last week, has had his exam.
nation and was acquitted.
Three prominent citizens of John.
son county have absconded within
the past six months, viz: Ward, Oat.
bout and Schetler,
Barnum is coming West with his
show, this summer, and is now spong.
ing q good deal of gratuitous adver.
listing out of patent innard papers
/ Eight wives undivorced, eighteen
mothers-in-laws and sixty-two chill
dren mourn the loss Of Bishop Lee
what was shot at Mountain Meadows
Utah to-day.
| According to the Commonwealth
this is how 1t is at Bloomfield:
Kansas or bust used to be the
cry now it is first bust and Their
ito Kansas"
The Attorney General of the State
of New York applied for the appoint
ment Of receivers for five life insur
ance companies in one day, recently
and it was poor day at that.
i According to the Keosauqua Re
publican, more good and great mel
have left Keosauqua than any othc
place of its size in the world. Well
Keosauqua is a good place to emf
CRATE from.
j The Osceola Sentinel says: 81. q
Grant left the city suddenly on Sun
| day night, and rumor has gained
currency that he may not return. Hi
brother from Alton closed his drus
store on Monday.
Il All the books used in Minnesota
public schools during the next fifteer
years are to be bought of a st. Pau
dealer, who contracts to sell them al
half the present retail prices, and sub.
NIT them to revision every five years
The st. Louis Republican gives cur.
rency to q rumor that the Chicago
Burlington and Quincy railroad com.
pany have about perfected arrange.
ments by which they will become the
absolute owners Of the Missouri Kan
sas & Texas railroad.
The red ribbon idiot Of Iowa is
the fellow who put silver quarter
on the track in front of the train
which carried Beecher through Ma.
rengo SO that he might have a smash.
ed up memento of the great Brook.
lyn preacher.
On the Goth the Supreme Court Of
Iowa assembled at Council Bluffs
In the case of the Independent School
District of Lowell vs. the Independent
School District of Duser, appellant,
from Wapello county, the finding OF
the lower court was affirmed.
All persons liable to U. s. Specia
Taxes, should heed the notice publish.
ed to-day from U. S. Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, Green B. Raum
and see Col. John Lofiand, before tn,
first day of May, and thus save so pei
cent of penalty.
Charlie Bachmap has received {
new and very handsome stock of jew.
elry and watches, suitable for sprins
and summer wear. People who pur
chase jewelry of Charlie can rely OF
its keeping them cool in the hotties
of weather.
With only one exception, the entire
Republican press of Philadelphia il
indignant at the election Of Dor
Cameron to the Senate, and speal
very bitterly about it.-Gate CITY.
That's the first time we ever heard
that there was. a Republican, or any
other sort of newspaper published
in Philadelphia.
The Gate CITY says
"The dead body of man wai
found in the Des Moines river at Yer.
non, on Sunday evensng. The body
was that ola man apparently about
80 years of age, somewhat bald and
with heavy sandy whiskers. The
clothes were badly torn, and one
pocket contained 40 cents in money.
There is no clue to the identity of the
body"
May 28th to Both inclusive will be a
lively time in Sunday School circles
in Iowa. A Sunday School Congress,
composed of delegates or represen-
tatives of all the Sunday Schools of
the State, will take place at the Opera
House in Des Moines. DIR. j. II. Vim
cent, Of New York, will have charge
Of the exercises.
Burlington is now wrestling with
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