Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-10-24

the police department.
"Please don't steal the soap and
towel" is the kind of sign an Indi-
ana hotel-keeper puts up.
The Cincinnati Enquirer must pay |
John L. ellison, of West Virginia,
"a, 200 for libel, saith the court.
Bishop John Taylor, the new head |
of Mormonism, was once a Methodist |
preacher, but has rather "backslid."
The highest railroad bridge in the |
United States is on the Cincinnati |
Southern line, across the kentucky
river.
III have fixed myself for you, and
will put a hole through you!" is the
way criminal talked to a st. Louis
Judge.
An English woman, when tract
was handed to her, replied, eThank
you, am already saved.'-Neao York
Herald.
Two Tennessee men snapped
wives, the other day, and were we'll
pleased, but officers of the law broke
up the arrangement.
The Northern Nebraska volcano,
in the bluffs near Ionia, is again
spouting forth vapors which are visi-
BILE for eight or ten miles around.
A Milwaukee paper says George
Sand may have died from strong COT
fee, but there has been no mortality
from that cause at his boarding house.
According to the Free Press, an
exasperated one-legged Detroiter fl
nally told a persistently inquisitive
man that he lost his. leg on the cleo
ton.
The New York police reports re-
veal the case of young girl who
stole her mothers clothing and je VOL
~ to fit herself for marrying lover
who is serving term in the Peniten-
tiary.
Richmond Enquirer: Fashionable
ministers rarely preach to their con-
gregations now. Their remarks are
specially addressed to the two or
three gentlemen in front to whom the
church is heavily mortgaged.
Vile exchange: "Thcre is just one
thing certain about it-a lady who
insists on carrying good share of
her dress in her hand has got to keep
her shoes tied up or let everybody
know she loft home in hurry"
After the recent cyclone in the Gulf
of Mexico the beach near Galveston,
Tex, was strewn with human bones,
washed up by the waves and sup
posed to have been the remains of
the persons lost with the City Of
Waco.
| Colonel Ruckle, q printer of Indian
apoils, was elected Sheriff as q Work
ingman, and by saving and speculat-
ing he made quarter of million
dollars. Reverses came, and now he
is foreman of the Indianapolis Journal
job rooms.
| A "personap advertisement in the
New York Herald has brought the
papers exchequer to grief in the pc.
nal sum Of 1900, woman who was
unpleasantly mentioned in the ad-
vertisement having sued for damages
to reputation.
A Baltimore drug clerk put up
wine of opium for vinum oporti CALI
for by physician's prescription, and
a child was nearly dosed to death in
consequence. Why shouldn't the
doctor have written in PLAIN English
extract of logwood ?"
Mayor Moore, of Cincinnati, has
conceived the idea of having a grand
jubilee in that city in 1873. lie pro-
poses to ask the Government for 90
600 tents, and have 100000 Union and
Confederate soldiers camp out near
the city for an entire week.
BY French law architects and con-
tractors ale held responsible for pc.
Rod of ten years after the completion
of structures for the total or partial
if such loss is caused by fault either
in the building or foundations.
The Galveston (Texas) Neacs calls
for large appropriation for the con-
struction of defensive works on the
coast of that State. It asserts that
the whole coast of the gulf west of
the Mississippi is at the mercy of any
enemy prepared to assail it from the
! sea.
The fact that Theodore Tilton is
known TO visit his wife again, gives
rise to the belief that reconciliation
between them is probable. Mean
timo, gossip has it that the mutual
friend, Moulton, has cut Tilton's ac-
quaintance, and regrets that he ever
sacrificed his friendly relations with
Beecher for Tilton's sake.
The center of population of the
United States is said to have travelled
westward, keeping curiously near the
thirty-ninth parallel of latitude, new
er getting more than twenty miles
north or two miles south of it. In
eighty years it has travelled only 40O
miles, and is still found nearly fifty
miles eastward of Cincinnati.
A woman who was granted di.
vorce from her husband on Friday,
September Is, by the Supreme Court
of Rhode Island, married a Newport
widower on Thur sday, became a
mother ON Sunday, 7th inst. and died
on Tuesday night, 9th inst. Hers was
an eventful life, especially toward its
close.
1 While collection was being taken
up at a colored meeting in Detroit the
other day, Brother Gardner said to
the congregation "Please remem-
Der, bredren, dat none OBJ US kin take
our riches beyond de grave" just
then the hat came back empty, and
Brother Gardner continued: "But il
pears to me dat dis crowd is gwine
to try mighty hard to do it."
| According to q letter in the New
York Observer, the true reason for the
blight of pear trees has at last been
discovered. BY taking of the branch,
beyond the dead part the cause will
lappear. By carefully opening the
stem, it will be found hollow, a mere
shell of bark, in which will be en-
sconced long fesh-colored worm.
| The remedy is at hand-break off the
branch and kill the worm.
| One of the Norwich steamers had
struck, and, while the passenge
were hnrriedly making preparations
for their safety, fat old Dutchman
seized life.preserver, and trying it
on, began to fill 1t, blowing till he
was red in the face with his efforts.
"Hallo," said by-stander, "y0u can't
dill that thing; there's big hole it,"
A blank look came over the Dutch
mans face. "Mein Gott, ish dot SO
den ! better keeps my Wind in me. /"
Down east the smart young ladies
have invented new kind Of charm
string. They ask their gentleman
friends to give them ten-cent pieces
which have been ground smooth on
one side, and adorned with the gen.
tleman's monogram, at the giver's ex-
pense. These coins the fair beggars
wear about their necks in strings as
the Egyptian and Turkish women do
THE one with the longest string be-
ing an object of cnvious congratula-
ton.
| William Stevens, of Clay county,
Ala, has squatted ON mountain tract
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