Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-18
CLIPPINGS.

I'll 'CoiSio iSpOTts CFtdU-cOlOre
crow.
Northern settlers are focking t
Alabama.
Grasshoppers and locusts have ap
peared in Michigan.
Houston Texas, is bankrupt, and j
talking OF surrendering its charter.
The Cincinnati white whale wa
, named "The Beluga,' and still sh
died.
Francis Murphy has recovered hi
voice, and is again agitating temper
ance.
The Legislature of New Hampshir,
asks Congress to repeal the Bankrupt
cy act.
| The average measurement of til,
stunted foot of Chinese female is 4
inches.
Mexico is having few days of alb
soiute peace, and is proportionate' }
miserable.
New York will not furnish a Prcsi
dental candidate in 1SS0.-Colum6u.
(Ga.) Inquirer.
| Six California clergymen preached
sermons on the subject Of ''Bob In.
gersoll" in one day.
/ A Chinese giant, Z feet inches tall
and weighing 4l2 pounds, has stepped
ashore on the Pacific coast.
|
| Hon. Schuyler Colfax refuses to Ic,
the people of his old district in Indi.
ana return him to Congress.
| A child being asked what were the
great feasts, promptly replied =
Breakfast, dinner and supper"
The San Francisco Bulletin thinks
that California and Oregon will have
about 425, 900 tons Of wheat to export.
The temperance movement in Mid
dletOwn, N. Y, has been most re-
markable one, 2,7OO persons having
signed the pledge.
The Baltimore woman who was
fined 500 for sending scurrilous post
al cards has been committed to Jail for
thirty days In default of pay ment
A London wedding was repeated
for the benefit of guests unable to
gain admission TO the crowded room
where the first ceremony took place.
In Tioga county, Pa, it is asserted
that 10000 out of the 10000 of the
population have signed the Murphy
pledge. In one town there are only
9 anti Murphyites left.
J. Pollard, pastry cook in hotel in
Washington. died very suddenly, last
Sunday. An autopsy being made, it
was discovered that he had eaten
over a quart Of orange peel.
A swarm of insects, making sound
like that of tornado and occupying
about twenty minutes in passing,
flew over the village of Franklin,
Nebraska, on the evening of the 25th
ult.
"Thats our family tree" said an
Arkansas youth, as he pointed to a
vigorous hemlock, and added, "a
good many of our folks have been
hung on that tree for borrerin' hosses
after dark"
A woman clapped her hands in ap-
proval of verdict brought in by a
jury at indianapolis the other day,
but when the Judge called her up
and told her she was deserving of i'm
prisonmcnt for contempt, her enthusi-
asm vanished.
Among the curiosities taken from
Nevada mine are a piece of sandstone
with grass roots still clinging to it,
and showing native silver all over its
surface, petritied wood impregnated
with ruby silver, and a mass Of pure
chloride Of silver.
The grand Jury that has Just ad-
jonrned at Kansas City, Mo-, return
over BOO indictments against mer-
chants for violating the Sunday law.
The lists OF indictments includes a
deacon Of church and number of
clothing dealers and druggists.
A country boy entered fish mar
ket the other day. and seeing for the
first time, pile of Holsters lying on
the counter, looked intently at them
for some time, when he exclaimed !:
"By gracious! thcm's the biggest
grasshoppers I've ever seen."- ."-Boston
Post.
The Queen of Holland, who died a
fortnight ago, thought she saw Wis
ions, and she left a prophecy that she
was the last Queen of the Neither
lands; that Bismarck will push the
German frontier to the North Sea. abb
sorb Holland, as he did Hanover, and
include the mouths of the Rhine in
the empire of Germany.
A Cairo Oll.) editor recently went
on moonlight excursion, and wrote
in his paper that "the silvery rays of
the harvest moon fell in glimmer-
ing sheen like the broken threads of
a fairy dream" 1t does look that
way to some men. In others, il takes
the form Of fiery untamed snakes,
saysa brother Western editor who
seems familiar with the subject.
At Lincoln, ILL.,, on July Sd, Capt.
A. II. Bogardus shot the best score
ever made in the world. He broke
1000 balls in 724 minutes, and only
missed ~ in the LOCO balls. He broke
the last 300 straight. The best record
ever made before was in New York,
last March, when he broke 900 in n
minutes and 40 seconds, missing %.
1t is said that "the moon has gained
about an inch in rapidity of motion"
within the last hundred years. This
is, no doubt, true, for young men will
tell you that when talkig at the gate
with their sweethearts the moon goes
down much quicker now than it did
when they were boys waiting to rob
a watermelon patch.-L Louisville Cou-
rier-JOurndl
The colored people held meeting
a few days ago in Caldwell county,
N. c., to pray for rain. One brother
was called upon, who prayed after
this manner: 20 Lord God us poo
niggas' is perishin' dis year, an eff
you don't glib US rain We will perish
next yerr, too. So good Lord, glib US
rain. Don't glib US one of des little
slippery-slapperies, but do, good
Lord, glib us one oh dem gulley-
washers and trash-movers.
An impudent-looking tramp ac-
cOsted the lady of the house as fol-
lows: SCOT pair of shoes?" "No
Sir" Got shirt, pair Of stockings,
boots, anything" Nothing; every
thing has gone to just such creatures
as you." 'Well," remarked the wit
ty vagabond, looking the lady sharp
ly in the face as he walked oil, 81
should think it was about time for
Moody and Sankey to preach in this