Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-26
JoTT1NGs.

oh my stars
Put up your bars
Before the flies get thick;
They buzz and buzz
And fuZz and fiiZZ,
And. gracious. how they stick!
ST Louis Journal.
Epitaph for James Z. Anderson
"Here Lies"
Kecsauqua Democrat says farmer
in that neighborhood killed 300 rats in
one day.
A three year old baby was drowned
in the creek at Iowa City Thursday,
by the overturning of a buggy.
at is no credit to be right where
it would be inexcusable to be
wrong" has been life motto with
Bismarck.
A party of young men were arrest
ed last week in Des Moines for fish
ing with trot line, and fined $25
and costs each.
Some of the newspapers talk about
stopping the Potter investigation.
oh, no! Let it go on. 1t is better
"nor circus"
B. Burtrsm, living half a mile
north of Point Isabel, has sent us
specimen of very fine rye. 1t is ~
feet high and we'll headed.
Indications founded on reliable da-
ia, received at Washington, place the
wheat crop OF the United States, this
year, at 4OO, 600, 600 bushels.
The Hon. s. T. Caldwell was
thu own from his carriage, day or
two since, and sustained some injuries
but fortunately nothing serious.
A judgment of $4,000 was rem
dered on the 18th in the Court of
Claims against the Union Pacific
Railroad in favor of the government.
The NATION (Ill.) Journal says to
the young men of the period: "Now
60. in-practice law. and you'll get
rich, and as tricky as circus mule"
Charley Hedrick has left in our Of
fee the boss potatoes of the season.
They are of the Early Rose variety
are very large and seem to be fully
ripe.
A Washington letter TO the st. LOU
is Republican says chat Of 6S72 bills
and resolutions introduced in Con-
gress, only about 26O were disposed
of.
Lutte l.. Harvey, editor of Harrey's
Courier, at Scion, johnson county,
was taken to the Independence In
sane Asylum last Monday. Whisky,
and severe pounding he received a
few weeks ago caused his insanity.
Eighty -four kentucky mules charg-
ed down the road upon An old lady,
and she ex plains: Nothing but open
ing my umbrella and saying the
Lords Prayer preserved me from
death. - Detroit Free Press.
Four hundred tramps, ranging in
age from l6 years upwards, passed
last Sunday in Moline and Rock Is-
land. The Davenport Gazette says
they passed the time in begging or
stealing as most suited their conven-
fence.
Bondsmen are taking matters in
their own hands. A Bethany mo
forger, named Fansler, was just about
to depart for parts unknown, this
week, when one of his securities, Will
liam Jessee, stopped him with fatal
bullet.
The cheapest method or visiting
the great exposition in Paris, if you
are going to stay any considerable
time, is said to be to buy a hotel as
soon as you arrive. You can give it
away when you leave, and make
money.
There is nothing like being in luck.
A Scott county, Ills, farmer named
Sawyer, while blowing near Bluff
City a few days since, plowed up an
old earthen jar containing several
thousand dollars in gold coin, the new
est bearing date 1905.
Mr.. M. F. Winters, Of Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa, on Wednesday, purchased of
A. J. Elder, Rochelle, ILL.,, the fast
horse Modoc paying for him the sum
of $4,000. Mr.. Elder bought Modoc
when five years of age as buggy
horse, paving for him 1925.
The Chicago Times contains spe-
cial from Washington giving the par
ticulars of an attempted outrage on
young lady by Acklin, a den ocratic
Congressman from Louisiana. The
lascivious wretch was kicked out of
the room and left for the South on
the first train.
A man was found floating in the
river at Cedar Rapids, Friday, with
his hands tied and showing evident
marks of a struggle and bruises. A
most foul murder has evidently been
committed. His name is Chas. Ba-
korney two men have been arrested
who are suspected of the crime
Council Bluffs Globe. I'D stay an
old maid till got black in the face
before I'd marry man who chews
tobacco" said an Omaha girl yester-
day, and she took wad of gum out
of her mouth and stuck it on the I'M
der side Of her chair for safe keeping
while she was eating her dinner.
Governor Hartranft, of Pennsyl-
vania, has appointed Christian X.
Ross, the father Of the lost Charley,
as Harbor Master, in Philadelphia.
He has lost his fortune seeking for his
boy, and the position is given him
out Of sympathy. lie has the qualifi-
cations of good officer. His salary
will be $500 year.
Norristown Herald: William Jo-
seph, of Ackley, Iowa, while drying
his head on towel rubbed off every
hair, besides bis eyebrows, M ustache,
and whiskers. 1t must have been q
printing Office towel. The p. o. tow
el, it may be as we'll to explain, is FREE
quent!y used by the foreman to rasp
of brass rule when he can't find the
file.
N. f. Carpenter, son Of Luther Car
penter, of this county, graduated at
the Iowa Wesleyan Univerity at Mt.
Pleasant last Wednesday. The class