Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-23
GENERAL NOTES.
Mining shares are dcprcciating very
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Mining shares are dcprcciating very
fast in California. 2
A California lady has purchased a
French Count for a husband. Cost,
100000.
Pictures are now hung very low on
the wall, and invisible wire is used
instead of thick cords.
The New York Assembly have
passed bill making the weight of a
dozen eggs twcnty-four ounces. fE
A Winterport (Me.) woman, who
couldn't get any whisky the 9th
er day, concocted mixture of chlo-
reform, and died before night w
Matilda Docring recovered $1,000
from one Klass, in the District Court
of Davenport, because Klass said she
swore to a lie on case.
Dubuque brewers have been using
kegs larger than prescribed by the
Revenue Department, and the reve-
nue. agents is making trouble.
Don't get discouraged yet. The
Centerville Citizen tells of fine well
matured corn crop, that was not
planted last year until the oath of
June. ..
The rays of the sun, shining thro'
an ordinary stereoscope, set fire to a
newspaper lying upon a table in a
house in Maine, few days ago. An
early discovery prevented the destruc-
ton of the building,
Hepworth Dixon tells of a sect in
Moscow who regard Napolean as the
Messiah. They believe that the
French Emperor is still alive, some-
where in Asia, and in due time he
will return and conquer the forces Of
the Gar.
A seduction case in Lee county re-
suited in a marriage in court and
such was the "noblc bearing" of the
groom, and the "gentle beauty" of
the bride that the dispassionate Judge
and the stony-hearted lawyers were
moved to tears, .u
Ex-Lieutenant Governor of Texas,
Mr.. Stockdale, about 66 years old,
will be married early in June to Miss
Schleichcr, aged about II, daughter
of the portly Hesse-D armstadt Rep
resentative to Congress from the
Sixth District of Texas.
Fred j. Jewell, who all the girls OF
Boone thought was ga perfect Jewell
and who has been employed there in
the glove factory of j. O.. Barnes, has
made sudden departure with some
money. Later-he has come back
with Sheriff. n.
Az q meeting Of the Ohio Dairy.
mems Association, a member said
that he had made experiments with
both sweet and sour cream. both
churned at 63 degrees: and he found
that the sweet cream produced little
more butter than the sour cream did.
A stock company has been formed
IN Dubuque to construct an Opera
House to cost 100000. The proposed
building is to be three stories high
to be built of brick and stone, with a
stage 6s feet by So feet, the entire
building to extend Ill feet from
North to South. ..f ...r l0
The Winterset Mddisoniaa men.
tons the accidental and maybe fatal
shooting in that town of a 9-ycar-old
boy, who was playing with revolver
A law against the manufacture of re.
volvers for home consumption, and the
consumption of home youth, is want.
ed.
This fresh batch of casualties comes
in from Dubuque by telegraph: Mrs
Peter Hetzleman fell dead in hel
kitchen of heart disease while al
work; son of Nicholas Hansen, who
had his foot crushed in the cars some
days since, has died of lockjaw Miss
Hemmelman was thrown from hel
buggy, breaking her leg in two
places; Mrs. Moflet, quite an aged
woman, fell down stairs, breaking hel
shoulder bone; Mrs. Mary Kelly re.
turned from church IN good health tt
die before morning of oongestivt
chill.