Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-10-17
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ANU CudtG ssSsNs~-s
ticket of Wapello. county was elected
except Doctor Ls,hrop.
Burlington is casting about now for
a good man for Mayor. The Hack
eye thinks c. p. Squires will 10.
DIR. olney will remove to ottumwa
the Let Of January and DR.. La.hrop, 1t
is thought, will remove TO Chilicoibc.
George William Curtis had a mcct-
ing at New York last night. 1t must
have been delighted at the news from
Ohio.
Gears majority in his own county
I-Des Moinee-is sol. The people
who know him, thus cmphatically en-
dorsc HIM.
New Years day ia cot as the date
on which Or. Olney will hold an in
quest on the late lamented L. l.. Lsth-
rop.
The Temperance Reform party
scratched and defeated DR.. Lsthrop
because he had occasionally voted for
a Republican.
Keokuk is having heap of trouble
with its water privileges-between
the "raging canawl' and water works
they have no peace.
five have a war with Mexico some
of tho impecunious fellows who want
Greenbacks SO bad, by volunteering
might get some greybacks.
Sam Burton has in his possession q
turtle shell about feet by ~ meas.
urIng over tho back. The turtle which
wore this shell is said to have weigh
cd over two hundred pounds.
The question that is agitating the
public mind just now is, what became
of the anti-Masonic state ticket. Il
hasn't been heard of since the day il
was nominated at Marshalitown.
| Young Virden, who was reported
missing and on whose account hi
, parents were borrowing an unneces
, sary amount Of trouble, has turned VI
) in Oskaloosa all right, whcro no ha
, gone to work.
There will be two Grecnbackers il
the egislaturc-Doty Of Union, ant
: Tyson of Webster. 1t will be tus
: sic to see which will get the mos
E of their votes, Stubs or Weaver, 70
u. S. Senator.--iStatc Register.
Weaver was to have been u. S
Senator if the Grcenbackcrs had car
ried the Legislature. The politica
trouble with the General now is tina
he has always been one of the Wa
! to Have Beens.-State Register.
The C. B. & @. now has steel rail
: as far west as Ottumwa, and nearl
. all their culverts arc Of solid masonr,
a too. Ifother roads were half "a care
! full as the G. d. & O.. there would b
t fewer railroad catastrophcs. So say
h the Fairfield Ledger.
Keokuk county seems to have gon
entirely democratic. Brooks, (rep
for Representative is beaten 100; Ho
lingsvorth for Treasurer, IA; JAG
Morrison for Auditor, %: Strann'
han for; Sheriff, 800. So we learn b
a letter from Sam McGee.
The Central Railroad of Iowa, ,
shown by the report of Receive
Grinncll to the court for Septembe
. is doing large business, the earning
d for last month having been $3.50
! which is several thousand dollar
more than any month since operate,
U October promises still larger sun
q and net earnings for the bondholdel
g of $4,000.
BY an extra from the Poweshie
Democrat, we sec that Thos. Caste
carried his own Township by 81 ma
/, ljority. Last year the township CAV
las Republican majority. This show
Toms personal popularity where b
is known best. He is gaining in a
IS the townships but has no expectatio
Ia of election where 120O Republica
; majority is against him.
4
Q The clothing store of Allmayer
: Bros, of Fairfield, was entered, tn
other night, by cutting through tn
panel of the door, and from $4OO t
$500 worth Of clothing and jewelr,
taken. About 500 worth OF clothin
= was found hidden in corn fiel,
A about half mile from the Chicago
0 Burlington & Quincy depot, togcthe
a with an old suit Of clothes left by tn
a thieves.