Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
JoTTINGs.

uOn WeeGty 1tWeS.
District Court commences at Keo.
sauqua next Monday and Circuit
Court at Centerville the same day.
A disease somowh hat resembling the
epizootic prevails to a considerable
extent among the horses in Quincy,
III.
In some cities it is fashionable now
for young ladies to practice archery,
while the old ladies arch themselves
over a washtub in the summer kitch-
en-.
Thursday afternoon Swede named
William johnson suicided, four miles
from Burlington, by cutting his throat
with razor. He was the victim of
whisky.
The Postmaster General decides
that bees can no longer be sent by
mail, IS the average mail singer has
no longer any occasion to handle the
business end Of a Doe.
Cyru. Richman, of Jamesto wn, In
diana, is visiting his brother Eli, of
Highland township. He is gradu-
ate Of Asbury University, Greencas-
tie, Ind, class of 1877.
Last Saturday, at Red Oak, "a wo-
man named Snymaster, while black
ing stove knocked gun over and
shot herself in the knee. Another
warning against women backing
stoves.
The Mastin Bank, kansss City, was
busted by politicians. The Mastin,s
backed and nominated John T. Crisp
(democrat) for Congress, and his OPP
ponents made run on the bank and
it had to close.
The doctors report good deal of
ague, bilious fever and ague in the
country. There are not many cases
Of sickness among adults in the city,
the sickness being mostly confined 10
children teething.
COUNTY BoNps.-Of the $4,000
bonds issued not long since by Wap-
clio county, all have been sold except
81, 400, $1,000 of which is considered
as good as sold, leaving only four
800 bonds on the market.
The Des Moines s. Knoxville Rail
road Company have fled their arti-
cles of incorporation at the Recorders
office, Des Moines. Their capital
stock is $4,000, aud the principal
place of business at Des Moines.
John H. Fooy was to-day fined IS
for carrying concealed weapons. He
was dismissed on the charge of re-
sisting peace officer, and was bound
over to court on the charge Of assault
with intent to kill, in the sum of $500.
The contract for grading the St.
Louis and Alton railroad from Alton
TO the State line, has bscn let to
Shelter & Co 1t is to be completed
by November first. The contractors
have six hundred teams already at
work.
A party Of young ladies and gents
contemplate fishing and hunting
expedition soon. They will have
tents and camp. They expect to go
as soon as the yonng men find a place
where there is no garter snakes or
chegers.
John j. Hamilton, y graduate Of
the State University class of 1877, is
announced for lecture in Davis
county, on "Vacation in Dixie" Mr..
Hamilton last summer travelled over
1000 miles through the Southern
States, on foot.
The Clear Lake Observer thinks
that "if any set of men in Iowa are
happy now, 1t ought 10 be the ma
chinemen, for they have sold out
their large stock of machines, and
have nothing to do but rest and
watch their slow notes."
The Boone Republican says: "Of
all the cheeky, impudent, brass-moun-
ted, persistent and unregenerated ras-
calls who bore the country press with
advertising propositions, the chaps
who run Correspondence Bureaus,
in Washington and other eastern cit
les are the worst"
| James johnson, q temperance re.
former and lecturer, went to that
wicked place, Omaha, to lecture, and
they got him drunk. Hons J. b.
Grinnell went out there and took him
home to Grinnell, Iowa. II is sad to
think of the fall Of a naturally good
man who tries to reform.
Stepping into lager beer saloon
which was swarming with flies, or
Saturday, q customer asked the pro.
prietor why he did not get some fly
paper and catch the insects. His re-
ply was: "Vell. you see, ven
gets dot baper und puts it on da'
counter dey sphilo it in fife minutes.
| The Burlington Gazette notices thu
arrival in that city of "Hon. j. w
McDill, congressman for Abba dis
trict." This is correct except tha
McDill amt congressman for Abb,
district, and amt a congressman q
all, nor hasn't been for two years, hi
district being represented by Col
Sapp, and that McDill is one of the
State Railroad Commissioners.
Directors of the Agricultural Soci
ETY. will please remember the meeting
at o'clock next Saturday, at thu
Presidents office. All interested il
making . good fair next month arr
invited to be present.
Winter Wheat Flour $1.25 per sack