Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-15
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
From Wednesdays Daily.


this county, living about three miies
east of town, had an arm broken last
Saturday. 1t seems that Mr.. l.. was
on his way to the city, driving span
of Young mules, when some person
came riding up behind him alta rapid
rate. frightening the mules so that
they ran away, throwing Mr.. Ian
ming out Of the wagon. breaking his
arm between the wrist and elbow,
This is hard on the old gentlemen,
because he had his other arm broken
this spring by falling from scailold'
and was making his first trip to the
city. He is doing we'll under the cir
cumstanccs, aud W e hope he may soon
recover.
A respectable audience composed
of the teachers in attendance at the
Normal School, and number of citi-
zens who are interested in education
al matters, listened, last evening, to
a good practical lecture on the school
and the best means by which scholars
can be prepared for the duties of life.
Prof. Won Coelln, pronounced Won
Kol'n, we bclicvc), is not handsome
man, but more practical or usethi
man for the position he occupies,
State Supt. of Schools, it would be
difficult to find. Common sense is a
prominent factor in his make.up.-I
His ideas in regard to the teachers
duties in training children not for
the school but for the affairs of life,
were SO clearly expressed and so apt
" illustrated, that we are sure much
good seed was sown in the minds Of
the teachers present. 1t is little
strange that more of our citizens do
not attend these lectures. We don't
remember seeing single member of
our School Board there.
Walter Guyle, of this city, was in
jured by one of the trains of the Iowa
Central r. r. Stiles & Burton com.
menced suit for damages against the
company, which is in the hands of J
B. Grinnell, Receiver. Wherenpor
Grinnell filed complaint charging
Guyle and his attorneys, Stiles 4 Bur
ton, with contempt of the Z. S. Cour
in commencing suit without obtain
ing leave for that purpose and the.
were summoned to Keokuk on yes
terday. before Judge Love, to show
cause why they should not be attach
cd and fined as for contempt. Thu
application was resisted by Stiles &
Burton on the ground that their &C
ton being against the company, in
stead of the Receiver, its effect woult
not be TO disturb his possession
Hearing was had yesterday and tn
application Of the Receiver denied.
Yesterday we had an account Of tn
warm reception met by tramps a
Ackley, and Mason City from whicl
place they were expelled by force
The tramps true to their nature, afte
leaving Ackely started North, AM
when they reached a little town i
Minnesota by the name of Lisle, o
the Minnesota and st. Paul Railroad
they took possession Of train whic
they proposed to run as they had tt
Central. The authorities Of the roa
merely side-tracked the train and M
tilted the county authorities that
was impossible to run the road a
cording to schedule time.
The Sheriff or somebody else, o
dered outa company of Norwegii
militia some 40 strong. The milit
marched to the scene of action al
found the enemy. The parties we
nearly equally divided in numbe
but the military were armed, viii
tramps were not, but to make thin
equal after general survey of t
scene the Captain ordered his men
stack arms, over which he placed
guard, ordered the Sheriffto get G
of the way, and then waded in wi
such arms as nature gave. them, Al
gave the -marauders such trownci1
as they never had before. There a
no tramps in that country now.
A partial eclipse of the sun to-
place to-day. It was invisible in Il
latitude. Almost the only peoI
who can get a fair view of it will
the inhabitants of Alaska, the midt
of the eclipse occurring near sunset
Sitka. The shadow starts on
earth high up on the eastern coast
Greenland, and, crossing that pen
sula, goes westward thence, sol
what in the track of what polar ma
gators have designated as the "Nor
west Passage" After Alaska
reached, the sweep is more southel
and the shadow ends in the Pac
Ocean. OF course, the dark sidt
the moon being presented toward
earth during a solar eclipse, the mi
is then practically invisible; her
parent position to spectator in
latitude to-day would be just alb
the sums edge. If the spectator "
then transported sufficiently far nj
he would find the dark moon lapp
the upper part of the sun about
third. An interesting feature alb
this eclipse is its relation to
other eclipses that shortly foil
When the moon gets subsequel
half way round in her orbit, she n
come squarely in to the earth's 81
ow, and consequently there will
total eclipse Of the moon Visible h
August %. When she compl
her revolutions round the ca
she will again eclipse
sun, but her apparent posi-
to q spectator in this lati'
would then be just below the
though, as before, the dark side 0
moon being turned to us, she woul
invisible. But the moon being thel
low instead Of above the sun, the
tial solar eclipse of September g
be visible only off the lower
of the South American coast, an
South Polar regions. Three eel
within one months time are Ger
" quite as much as anybody
right to expect; there will be
afterw ward till next February.
From fridays Daily.
Ten car loads Of Kansas and
souri, flour was received in this
: to-day. Who is going hungry?
Peter Golf, Of Washington t.