Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-25
JOTTINGS.

spring LOT raising DUCKS.
The Depot Hotel was robbed Tues.
day night of small amount Of silver
ware. No clue to the robbers.
The quantity Of eggs now being re-
ccived in this city, for packing to ship
east is perfectly astonishing.
Council Bluffs is looking up. The
Supervisors have contracted for a
$500 addition TO the poor house.
The average 10 year old boy, nova
days, that hasn't his name and adj
dress printed on variegated card,
is an old fogy.
We learn from ii. s. Webb, that
an excellent four foot vein of coal has
been opened at Frederick, Monroe
county.
Elias kitterman renewed his Goth
annual subscription, to-day. We
hope Uncle Elias may live to read the
COURIER for % years more.
The William Kramer Brewing
Company is furnishing the houses
which sell their beer nice signs with
King Gambrinus sitting astridc a
beer key.
Esq. Schlagatcr, of Cass township,
was in, to-day, and subscribed for
the weekly COURIER. He says he
wants paper that will give him all
the county news.
In setting trees, avoid one almost
universal mistake, that of setting toe
close. Trees upon a lawn are beauti.
full alone when they have abundant
room to grow in natural proportions
]. J. Hadfeld, the pioneer hide
dealer, is having very large trade
and now has cellar full of hides Of
the first quality. 10 understands his
business and he is always reliable.
The Park investigation going on in
Chicago, by committee of the Hin.
ois Legislature, is making it uncom.
monty hot for those two truly great
| Democratic reform journals, the 7ri'
bune and Times.
| Now ADk up bug. There's money
in it. The Marshalltown Times says
The Travellers Accident Insurance
Co. paid Col. Sanford $l94.26 for dis.
ability caused by the bite of an in
sect.
| Eli Allen, of the Riverside House
returned from an extended visit tt
Southern Indiana and Ohio, yester.
day. lie reports that the wheat il
looking remarkably we'll, farmers arc
planting corn and the prospects for
abundant crops arc excellent.
| One of the busiest men in the city
is Al. Jordan, the manager of the i'm
mense business of w. A. Jordan
Sons, in this city. However, he vii
soon divide his labor with Arthur
Bayston, who assumes the position
: recently resigned by Jud o. Rogers
: and who no doubt will soon max
t himself familiar with his new dutie
) and work as easy in the harness a
t though he had been there all his life
Pound parties, all the rage in tn
country towns now, are managed a
follows: No money is taken for ad
0 mission, but each person is require,
to contribute at the door, a packag
b Of some kind weighing at least on
, pound, and done up securely SO tina
no one can see what it contains. A
Q the close of the party, the package
lare sold to the highest bidder an
: 'o~-af fun is the result, as the packs
# ses .onin all sorts of articles. N
Is onc - a.ioW~.a-t 10 examine his pacl
d age until ne has bo-~ht and paid fe
: it. p
a TIE Council Bluffs Nonpariel say,
It Tn the street language of tn
d tramps the letter "H" on The gate pc
n means that the residents will give IL
y caller handful of grub; as" that
will get seat at the table KS NJ" tn
he will get square meal; &c B" tn
:. he will get the grand bounce. No
, the secret is out, let every hous,
!, owner, HE himsa,f to his gate DO
= and dig in letters deep and that cal
: not be misunderstood the mystic sic
= &c B." Here, at last, is the compile,
= solution of the tramp problem-giy
them all the grand bounce"
A gentleman of this city mcwh,
well known in business circles, of
!, kind disposition, with about the usu,
! amount of firmness met quite a mi
hap day or two ago. In his tradin
around he became the possessor of
! small house inhabited by citizen ,
i the Emerald Isle in the upper part ,
the city. He wanted possession an
the occupants claimed that he was n,
e entitled thereto because tho hous
It stood in the street. He thought
i was, and after the usual modification
r undertook to enforce his authority b
4 ejecting them. They resisted an
! during the turmoil the old lady sill
|ped up behind the business man an
struck him on tho head with dippe
. full of hot water. His ears wei
badly scalded, and now hccarries bot
\ of them in sling, but the way h
y moved that family the next day Wa
not at all child-like. He tore dow
the house with the family in it, an
carted away the lumber leaving tn
) belligerent people sitting in the stree
And perhaps he served them right.
The Fairfield Ledger notices III
CoUR1ER's article commenting on on
failure to secure the C. & S. w. rail
way and says:
"And Ottumwa's blundcr was
, godsend to Fairfield. Where woult
. we have been to-day without on
Southwestern railroad? And We
there are men who cry down sncl
. improvements"
Sure enough! Cttumwa must new
er make such another mistake.
We have frequently had occasion
to mention the excellent management
and superb equipment of the st. Lou
is, Kansas City & Northern railway
The fact that this line is the most di
rect to the south and southwest il
enough in ITSELF to say to those who
anticipate taking q trip to either O
those sections. 1t is also a YER,
pleasant and desirable route ani
makes close connections for al
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