Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-14
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A Nuscatine hotel man advertises
on single, "Melcs IS cts"
GILLETTE refuses to meet Cum
mugs in joint discussion in the Sew
enth district.
Seven inmates Of the Jail at Cedar
Rapids, L., made good their escape
last Tuesday night.
Sioux City journal: Come west,
young man, come west, and get melt
ed into hair grease in just thirteen
seconds by the watch.
Marshalltown has a man who gets
1925 a month salary and yet allows
his poor diseased and aged father to
remain in poor house.
The Pry farm, consisting of over
800 acres, was sold last week to H. c.
Harrow, of Wapello county, for SILL
5OO.-Bloomfeld Democrat
The Des Meines Register says: at
any body thinks Warden Craig is not
on the anxious seat let them inquire
of Galusha Parsons, the lawyer.
Theodore Eystone, of Martinsburg,
one of our most efficient agents, has
our thanks for numerous subscribers
obtained for the WEEKLY COURIER.
Davenport Gazette. "The Miscen-
genation Democracy" is the title be-
slowed upon the combination for
Iowa, recommended at Des Moines.
THE Hon. Hiram Price, republican
candidate for Congress in the Second
district, is down with the erysipelas
in the face and unable to do any
work.
| A big force Of hands are at work at
the new pork house excavating for
the basement. Some twenty teams
are blowing and scraping dirt. 1t
will 60 up with rush.
! The Republicans of the First lows
Judicial District have nominated A.
II. Stutsman, of Des Moines, for
Judge, and 7. A. Bereman. of Henry
county, for Prosecuting Attorney.
Major General Pope will be the OIL.
: ator of the occasion at the Soldiers
Reunion at Des Moines. He is tht
most finished orator in the army, and
indeed, has but few equals in thu
country.
We are indebted to Prof Hinricl
q for copy of his weather report 70
;. 1877, bound in paper. 1t lie a hand,
q thing to have about the house. DI
o. A. Williams is the volunteer oil
server in this city.
\ A clear case of streaked lightnin
is reported by the Dexter Herald
, During the storm on Wednesda
> evening of last week the lightnin
struck % telegraph poles in q ROY
!, about . mile east of Dexter.
h just suppose modern newspape
had got hold Of such an item as th
fellows in the fiery furnace, or Dar
n lei in the lions den, wouldn't the
r, have spread on it! Those old day
le were the times for reporters, afte
t. all.-Er.
l. The terrible railroad accideu
g chronicled in these columns, Wednei
q day, at Mingo junction, Jefferson Co
:. Ohio, was occasioned by the stoppag
- Of the conductors watch, and he wa
~ trying to run five miles in four mir
. utes with heavy train.
- We have received letter of abou
u q column, showing forth the merit
;. of the st. Louis Exposition. As tn
Exposition in no way contributes t.
the CouRIER's exchequer we think
pretty cheeky for the Secretary I
to ask us to publish it gratis.
> A VERY spicy correspondence hs
>, taken place between VIM. Henri
u Smith, Collector of Customs at Chi
: cago, and Geo. c. Gorham, Secretar
y of the Republican Congresssion,
&c Committee. Gorham stands upo
q tenable ground and Smith does no
. in our opinion.
=. Some newspaper man has chant
of becoming bloated bondholder.-
A reward of $40, is offered for II
best report of the State Fair. Wit
Is the prospect of acquiring such va
IF amount of capital it is expected th'
st newspaper reporters will sprea
in themselves.
~ Our old friend E. G. johnson, hs
81 left in our Office two clusters of Tram
= cendent crabs that are really magn
90 ficent. One branch in space of thre
inches has nine apples and tho othe
- in eight inches has nineteen, all larg
80 and perfect apples. He has alread
- engaged large part of his crop at
= per bushel.
10 The Iowa City Republican thinl
:. 'tno one can fancy the feelings of
!. newspaper man when he hears d.
~ linquent subscriber whom he has bl
70 twenty-four hours before vainly in
no plored to settle that little bill,' ye
.. on Sunday, Put me down $50 for II
. good Of the cause when they al
IN raising the church debt"
1t Newspaper publishers do not see
e. to be aware of the fact that to wra
their papers in old manuscript or 9
N, paper on which there is writing
as any kind subjects the entire packat
to double letter postage. The post
authorities will undertake to cole
~ this some of these days, and then 70
n will hear of a miscellaneous assor
on ment Of newspapers going into BAN
ruptcy.
as On last Wednesday Mrs. Kat
A. Heron, of Des Moines, disappeare
he, and on Saturday her body was four
lis in the river at Bennington Ferr
ty 1t Is said she had had trouble wi,
lr- her husband and has probably suici'
e. ed by drowning. She was former
On q Miss Vanden Berg, of Pella, WI
r. seduced by Frank s. Heron, of D.
ly MOines, and her father compelle
him to marry her last May.
Col l. ~. Aanmond,a Snaach