Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-07


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The law of compensation In Min
nesota every saloon and every liquor
trafficker is taxed ten dollars each to
support an asylum for inebriates now
being built in that state.
An experienced Michigan paper
says: "About a hundred new weekly
papers have been started during the
last two months. Look out for the
Sheriff when the bell rings"
Sidc-cut kid gloves are the latest
novelties. The slit is left in the out
side seam, SO that the buttons appear
on the outside Of the wrist, and thus
the slit in the palm is dispensed with.
A policeman met negro at night
carrying trung along the street, and
collared him. The negro explained !:
Ode family what was boarding me
has been akin for money, and as dey
was gone out tonight ! thought /
would get into some family whar dey
respected dc panic"
The Salt Lake papers have the sto-
ry of the burial by snow avalanche
of a party of miners in Utah canon.
The cabin was covered 300 feet deep,
and four men, a woman and child
lay wedged under the crushed roof
six days before the rescue came, and
then only two were taken out alive,
one of whom was delirious from
mingled suffering and excitement.
A dangerous burning fluid called
"potato OIL is as present engaging
the attention of Dubuquers, and the
Times of that city is going for the
agents selling it in vigorous man
ner, and relates several incidents in
that city that have occurred recently,
in which property has been destroyed
and life endangered by it.
Mr.. Clark, of Indianola, while at
tending the services at the NJ. T..
Church of that city last Monday eve
nine, was taken with violent attack
of insanity, becoming very boisterous
and declaring himself to be Jesus
Christ. He was arrested with difficult
ty, and he has been sent to the Insane
Asylum. His mind has been racked
with approaching insanity for years.
A colored pastor in Terrebonne,
Louisiana, has been developing bus
mess qualifications which have sur
prised his flock. He got up grand
excursion to New Orleans, sold $50
tickets at $3 each, went down to
town in advance ''to get everything
in readiness" and-stayed there, sim
ply writing back that "trouble was
anticipated" and it would hardly be
safe for his congregation 10 come to
that city.
An ingenious lawyer in New Lon
don, Ct, made good point in the
police court there last week. 1t was
in a case of robbery, and there was
ten dollar bill before the court for
Identification, and neither party in
the case would own it. The lawyer
took the bill, saying that if il belong
ed to neither it might as well belong
to him, and started for the door,
whercupon the owner of it cried out
that the bill was his, and thereby lost
his case.
There is horrible story going the
rounds In the vicinity Of Council
Bluffs which is that metallic case
containing the corpse Of man, re-
Gently expressed over the Union
Pacific railroad to the east for inter-
ment, ON being examined by the cx-
press messenger, who thought it was
loose in the outer case on account of a
slight noise he had heard, discovered
that the man had been cOffined alive
and had died. 1t was his moaning
that had been heard, but not rccog-
nized.
A Denver man who lost his over
coat discovered it OH the back of the
thief while strolling down the street
one day, and pitching into the sneak,
yankcd the coat off his back, kicked
him in the stomach, rolled him over
in the snow, punched him in the eyes,
tied him up in bow-knot, and stood
him on his head against brick wall
quite long time before he discover
ed that he had make a mistake, and
that the overcOat was not his, but the
mans, and that the man wasan inva-
lid Eastern clergyman, visiting Colo
rado for his health.
At a party on West Hill, the other
evening, number of young men
presented one Of the party, who was
very obnoxious to them, with large
tin jackass, with an appropriate pre-
sentation address. But the mean man
got the drop on them by accepting ii
gracefully, saying that he would al
ways keep it, and never part with it,
and as often as he looked at 1t, it
could not fail to remind him of the
donors. And then, somehow or 9TH
er, it seemed to the young men that
the presentation had gone off kind Of
tame, after all.-Buriiagto@ Hdrk-
Eye.
The Pontiac Gil. Sentinel gives the
following as an incident of the pre-.
vailing frigid weather. A very
pleasant affair took place at the west
ern depot on Saturday night. 1t
seems that about 10 o'clock thief
stepped into Bob Jophson's coal-shed
and began to I'LL up his sack with coal.
When nearly done some one
stepped into the shed, and the
first thief, supposing it was Johnson,
knocked him over with lump OF
coal. The newcomer, also a coal thief
believing that Bob had been hiding
in there to catch thieves, clinched his
assailant, and in the end they were
both badly battered. All this time
johnson sat in the depot warming
his toes and figuring up his days
profits.
There are now hI2 conyicts In the