Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04

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whether by nature or barber. is in
the tip Of fashion.
California is beginning to discover
that Chinese labor is more trustwor-
thy than any other.
A. Oakley Hall has been entirely
lost sight of in London. Another
mysterious disappearance.
General Sheridan is out on the
plains, and Sitting Bull is planning
to meet him in battle array.
BY a strange blunder Of her legis-
lators. Tennessee has no statute
against arson and burglary.
Adirondack Murray, the stylish
Boston preacher, was born in q lowly
hut, and his father was fisherman.
Some men are SO constituted that
they cannot take friendly joke in the
same light coin, and will requite it
with contumely and insult.
The old-time songster, Jenny Lind,
has lived ON this earth half a century
and one year over, and has pre-
cious three months old baby.
A great many American clergymen
are tramping around over in Europe.
There is no correspondent within
fifty miles of the fighting armies on
the Danube.
Lovers Of strawberries should en-
igrate to Santa Clara, CAL, which has
been entitled Strawberry valley, as
they have strawberries every month
iu the year.
The Philadelphia Telegraph says
Of the Princeton boobies: "The
chances are that if majority of
these young fellows had been prop
J erly trained at home they would have
known how to behave themselves
!; when away from home"
A Texas horse, Of unknown pedi-
gree, has trotted in 2:24 after only a
little training. He was bought for
$40 while drawing Galveston hand
cart, and his gait was changed from
pacing 10 trotting by driving him in
two feet of water. He is called
Crockett.
A little Greeley (Col.) girl who was
. picking peas had gathered eight gal
I ions during one forenoon. She says
of a girl IL years old: "She cried for
half an hour because l had picked a
: gallon more than she, and while she
t was crying l picked another gallon"
. Such is life.
Dubuque papers publish list OF
n 90 10 l. Xvii N
3 county relief outside of the Poor
House. Some of the applicants, pat.
J, terning after Mnkhtar Pasha, have
been drawing rations for families Of
!, dozen or so, when there were only
4 two in their circle.
A. T. Loring, who attempted sui
q eide at Eldora, last week, was at one
4 time, fifteen years ago, a Congrega'
o tional minister at Manchester, and &
}, man of more than ordinary ability
r He was concerned in some scrapt
! with woman, for which he was de-
n posed by an ecclesiastical tribunal.
t The Jackson Miss Times says thai
G Mr.. Stringer, an intelligent colored
:, man, so years of age, presiding elder
in the African Methodist Church, wal
> cowhided by two young men, thu
other day, in the streets of Grenada
Miss. The assault was made withou
any provocation or any resistance.
The author of "Helen's Babies" ded
icates his new book, "Other People,
Children" to Everybody who know.
how to manage other peoples chill
dren," laying to his soul the fiatterine
JUNCTION that if the compliment is rec
, ogniZed in the usual manner, every
man, woman and child in the United
States will buy copy.
is greatly to the credit of tn,
: French people that their rage fol
e equality has never caused them t.
S run into personal extravaganza. A
/ French peasant does not try to dress
e like lady, but is content with appa
e rel suitable to her purse and plight
In this country the maid must have
d silk dresses, because her mistress does
= The Savannah .Neics believes tina
h the lands of Northern Georgia az,
4 based upon collaborating stratum
y, quite fabulous in its richness. A
!! Dahlonega last week, directly afte
\ the falling of a heavy rain, a it'll
,s barefoot street urchin PANIED out fiji
70 teen of twenty large particles of gol'
a from about half gallon Of earth
II scraped up in front Of the Cour
- House door.
d Dolly Steyt, an attractive yOun
!. lady, boarding at the Lorimer House
r Dubuque, was hauled up for purloin
h ing gold thimble and divers othe
e articles belonging to another lad,
e boarder, and worse than that, tn
a missing goods were found in he
trunk. The property was restored
and then the victim of kleptomani
was allowed to get out of sight an
hearing of Dubuque as soon as pos
sible.
|O) A negro preacher had elaborated
,e new theory of the Exodus, to-wit
~ That the Red Sea got frozen over an,
Ie SO afforded the Israelites safe pas
!. sage; but when Pharaoh with hi
10 heavy iron chariots attempted it the
Is broke through and were drowned
y A brother rose and asked for an ex
o planation Of that point. Use bee
, studyin' geography, and the gograph
O say dat be very warm country
II where dey have de tropics. And d
~ tropics too hot for freezin'. De poin
n to be 'splained is bout breakin' tro
10 de ice." The preacher straightene,
20 up and said: "Bruddery glad yo
n axed that question. 1t gives me Ca
d sion to 'splain it. You see that was
Is great while ago--in de ole times, If
g de had no gography-'fo' dere wa
s any tropics.
+ At Lord Houghton's reception t
Gen. Grant, the other night, there wa
beautiful woman from Jersey, on
of the channel islands--Mrs. Langtree
st Thus does Louis j. Jennings describ
< her in a letter to the New ior
re World: II did not think such crea
II lures lived out of heaven, but Their
Z she was in the flesh, shining and spot
Q less as ivory, and white as the driver
Il snow Of the mountain side---dear me
|e my aged heart warns even now a
le the thought of it? Her face is lik
70 some dream Of a happier world; he
IS form like that Of q Hreciah goddess
ne her eyes-bnt the moment You Sc
le these it is all over with you; yo4 ar
IS knocked, like the famous work of
a famous preacher, higher than . kite
,e and there is nothing for 1t but t
NJ PROSTATE yourself meekly before tn
Is divinity, and go home and be miser
a able" Countesses and Duchesse
s. stood on chairs to get glimpse of tn
> beauty, and gentlemen generally for
= got their pride aud dignity, and edg
It ed wildly about after her, A4t he
y name is Mrs. Langtree, mind you.
H. LIST OF LETTERS
r Remaining IN the Post ONCE. at ottumwa, Wa
!. pello county. lava, E55celled for July Pm
1877:
:, A-Mies Matilda Atkinson. Aibeft L Altog.
II B-Daniel Bower, Miss Ellie Belly, Rober
= Bear, DR. A Barker, Miss Mary Bryant, Mis-
- Jennie Brofley.
y C-Thompson Cook, Mike Courier, Geo Correl
IS Thongs C9wsn, Mrs Elizabeth Collins, J \