Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-12-26
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Knoxville has . woman lawyer
named Mrs. r. n. Jolliilc. !,
Tennessee proposes to pay 50 cents
on the dollar of her State debt.
"Will you evade p is the way they
Invite a man TO drink in New York
now. =
Two hundred and forty thousand
dollars, in halves, were shipped East
from Carson mint, on Monday.
Rev. l., -Abce, a German Minister,
of TT. Madison, has been adiudged
insane, and taken to the Asylum at
Mt. Pleasant.
Miss Lucy ID. Evans, of Muscatine
county, daughter of Hon. w. @. Evans,
is in the field as candidate for en-
crossing clerk of the House.
The Snide cloth peddlers are work
ing up Marshall county, and tho
wife Of a prominent merchant in Lc-
grand was taken in to the tune of
500.
The Rev. James Houston Eccleston,
d. d., who was elected bishop of
Iowa and declined to accept, has re-
Gently been elected bishop of the new
diocese Of West Virginia.
Mr.. s. P. Childs, who for many
years was q popular conductor on the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road,
has been appointed agent for the
company at Knoxville, this State.
LEG BRoKEN.-During recess last
Friday morning, at High School
building, two boys,-William Burke
and Thomas Clifford were wrestling,
and in the fall, the former had his
leg Observation-Disclosures Herald
Iowa produces the lacgest spring
wheat crop Of any state, the produc-
ton of the United States being 49,
549, 1913 bushels, and that of Iowa 2S,-
707,3l2 bushels, while Wisconsin
ranks next. with q, 375,435 bushels.
A Greenback paper under our nose
talks of the property of the people
tumbling into ruin and losing two.
thirds of its value. About the time 9
man gets execution proof he is apt te
see things in about that light.-.Sioua
City Journal.
The Charlton Patriot, under tn,
management Of Geo. II. Ragsdale. ha
put on new dress, and is full o
spice and neat as pin. We understand
that Jim Belzer does the local, which
is guarantee that the Patriot will
contain all the neighborhood new
going.
Now that ex-senator Harlan ha
announced over his own signature
that he is nota candidate for the Sen
atorship or any other office, wouldn'
it be well enough for the chaps VIII,
annually get frightened at his appa
rition, to quiet their fears, and Civ,
him a rcstp
The religious calender of the re
manning days of December is as fol
lows: December 10, q, %, Embe
Days; 81, st. Thomas, the Apostle
70, Fourth Sunday in Advent; q
Christmas Day; 26, st. Stephen, tn
Martyr; n, st. John, the Evangelist
~, the Holy Innocents 80, First Sun
day after Christmas.
COUNTERFEIT half dollars are i,
circulation in town. They are easil,
detected by having ., CLASSY ring,
generally imperfect appearance and
greasy feeling the genuine does no
possess. They are dated 1877; til,
row of stars around the GODDESS Of
Liberty are also smaller than on The
genuine. Look out for them.
j. T. Green, just from Darlington,
Wisconsin, has come among us and
established a manufactory for making
Bottled Soda Water and Belfast
Ginger Ale. He has had ten years
experience in the business, and hopes
|rorc-up-v ru.suppIy tie CITY anu sur
rounding towns with first class
article. lie will be ready in few
days to supply all who may call on
him with his Soda Water and Ale.
Last week George T. Hammond. of
Washington county, Pennsylvania,
arrived at Fairfield and concluded to
stay few days and see the sights
On Saturday a sharper giving his
name as Robinson, made his acquaint-
ance, and getting Hammond intoxi-
Gated, swi9dled him out Of $4OO, and
then jumped the town, leaving Ham.
mond a poorer but a wiser man.
Jay Gould, of the New York Trt.
bmne, smells a rat. He thinks he is
about to be paid interest and princi
pie according to the contract which
makes him howl out thusly:
Gin any case there must be no
quarrelling among the Republicans
at Washington. The country is in
danger in greater danger than it has
been at any time since Gettysburg
and President Hayes, with the Re
publicans of the senate and the house
must save it,"