Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-09

his death by falling head foremost
into q pan of boiling sorghum.
A Chinaman taken up as leper in
San Francisco was, on examination,
found not to have leprosy, but only
elephantiases gracorum tuberculosa.
Parties in Carroll county, Iowa,
have spent $1,000 over 4 dispute as to
the boundary line of some land
worth about $40, and tho eud is not
yet
The New Hampshire Legislature
has just provided relief for the sore-
ly afflicted population BY imposing
. special tax on lightning rod ped
dlers.
The Baltimore Every Saturday
says the world must stop praising
pretty women, and begin to praise
women who are ugly as to>looks, but
good. '--
The potato crop is so large in
OBrieD, Lyon and Osceola counties
this season that thousands of bushels
will be allowed to remain in the
ground undug.
Vino could ask to Livermore happy
life than Mary A., who gets q hun
dred and fifty dollars every time she
tells other women he " to bring up
their daughters?
"Look at the haste, wild his two
too'h-picks sticking out of his
mouth p was how the first sight of an
elephant affected Bridget Muldoon.-
Boston Transcript.
The last Harpdy Bazaar feelingly
depicts the "Spirit Of '78" as q bare.
footed girl dropping pennies into q
box labeled "For the benefit of the
yellow-fever sufferers"
The packing boxes made in the q.
s. in 1874 cost $12,OO0,OOO, and the
lumber manufactured into wagons,
agricultural implements, ETC., was
worth over $l00,00O,OOO.
If England would take half of this
world and Russia the other half
there would be no longer any pre-.
text for fighting, but each one seems
to want the whole thing.
An old man in Virginia City, New,
having regained the power of speech
after five years of paralysis, does lit.
tic else but swear. 1t is said that he
is making up for lost time.
A Justice of the Peace in Arizons
ruled cut the evidence of all witness.
es, chased both lawyers out doors
knocked the plaintiff over q bench
and decided 'no cause Of action"
A man is on trial in California fol
embracery, which by some misnomel
means that while sitting on jury III
tried to get bribe from the prisoner
as the price Of voting mot guilty"
The ghost in Central Park, New
York, has been caught and found t.
be q woman about so years old who
lives near the park and chooses to TAKE
her nightly walks about midnight.
John Bouton, while at work with .
thrashing machine, near Indepen
dence, on the oath, met with an acci
dent which resulted in the loss of al
arm, it being literally torn from hi
body.
A clergyman at Newport KY, i
running for Congress, and loca
newspaper, by way Of friendly ad
vice, warns him that at Washington
he can save no souls and will probabl,
| lose his own.
By next spring, il the signs tha
now appear in the east, hold good
the British Government will bc up Il
its ears in q jaunty little war with tn
Ameer of Cabul, aud will have it
hands full Of an Afghan war.
1t has come out that Strife, tn
Grand Junction banker who suicide,
last week, 10 defaulter for severa
thousand dollars to the school dis
trict OF which no was treasurer,
fact which he could not longer con
ceal.
~ move the previous question,
said . delegate to Montana conven
tion. The Chairman-"If the chat
recollects right the question was o
adjourning for drinks. Those in fl
vor say yes; contrary minded, no.
isa VOTE"
The Attorney General of the Unite
States has given an opinion that sui
sidiary silver coins are only le9
tender when the amount to be paid
loss than IS, and that the same ru
applies to their receivability for Gu
tom duties.
i The Dubuque & Sioux CITY "a
road, leased to the Illinois Cent?
railrOad, has declared . semi-annu
dlyidend of ~ per cent. This ro
geoe y par can't of the gross earninl
whtch shows that the line must be
done > prosperops business duri'
, the past six months.
II A rosy checked, fair fsseS9o &c for th.
! dressed in girls cloth, ing q loom
last six months bee n sctory, and iv
IN the Oswego Dos riding houss. HI
Ing In the HimseIf such 8 thy0rite thu
4 had me- N. 1sirIs in tho factory when b
: hs.nl nlsd away to jail.
Fl Elder Stephen Dodge, an old rea
dent OF Gratiot county, Mich, an
keeper of the County Poor Hous
also local Methodist preacher
many years. standing, has eloped wi
. young woman named Sarah Adam
! IN inmate Of the Poor House, q
) great 10 the amazcment or the regi,
roundabout.