Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-20
JOTTINGS.

show'd nay love my fond heart,
NJ asked would she be mine
SIN ctuel death do us part?
Sue answered me, Ach neia!
l showed my love my bank hook
All, then touched her soul!
She sighed with such a frank look
And sweetly lispcd, yah trohn
Knoxville is having rousing tenn
peraIce revival.
The melodious voice Of the frogs
are now heard in the ponds.
The Mason's Insurance Society of
Iowa has paid the widow of H. G.
Leighton $6Sl.75.
Mr.. VIII Love, son of U. S. Judge
Love, has located in Des Moines for
the practice ofthe law.
Mr.. Geo. w. Holland, recently adj
mitted to the bar here, has opened a
Q law and loan office at Osceola.
A citizen of Iowa Falls asked the
Sentinel man if he had the bill passed
by Congress to gheamGti=e silver.
I. o. Walker, of the Bloomfield
Democrat, is candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for Secretary of
State.
Some Of the defeated candidates
for city offices at Des. Moines want to
Ego behind the returns" Here's an
other chance for q commission.
The new city council of Bloomfield
have had a meeting, PASSED an or
dinance granting wine and beer IL
cense, and fixed the price at 5000.
The Burlington Haavkeye is again
wrestling with the project of mar
row gauge railroad to Keosauqua.
1t is very harmless sort Of amuse-
ment.
The Minnesota appropriations for
this year total $937,953.GO, of which
amount $4,000 is for seed grain for
the grasshoppered farmers of that
State.
/ The State Brewers Convention is to
be held in this city next year, some
time in April, we believe. Alois
Schaffer, of this city, is one of the
vice-prcsidents.
i 1t is said that Rande, the st. Elmo
murderer, refuses to fulfill that par
Fof his life sentence condeming him te
hard labor. He will not work. HI
wants to be "conciliated."
| Al Dippert, of Des Moines, ha
heen held to bail to answer for caus
ing the death of his child. The Reg
sster and the Leader are having reg
ular wrangle over the merits of tn,
! case.
A year ago Bloomfield shut dowr
on saloons--this year the license tick
ct has carried by large majority
which means that they are tired O.
carrying the critter in a jug from OF
J tumwa.
MIR. Ridenour informs us that thu
Democratic State Convention has beer
called TO meet in Cedar Rapids, May
goth. The boys are going ahead JUS
as though they expected to elect some
body.
Peter Anderson, assignee of Jobl
Hanson, will sell on Hanson's farm
miles north of Blakesburg, on Satur
day, 23d inst, a large lot of live stocl
and farm utensils, on credit till Jan
LIST, next.
| Downer, the man who was killed
by the cars on the G. r.. e. N. road
near Latty station, is said to have
traded his return ticket for two half
pints of whisky, which served him
as a ticket to "kingdom come"
i Judge Newman has ordered per-
emptory mandamus, directing the
Mayor of Burlington to certify the
water works bonds to the extent OF
$500, 900, according to the ordinance
and prayer of petition.
| We hope cur legislature will pass
the law permitting the closing of sa.
looms upon election days. The House
as we understand, passed such bill
but we have not yet noticed any &C.
ton upon it in the Senate.
John Y. Wingate, assignee of Peter
Utecht, has sold the drug stock to
Nick Baker. We presume Mr.. B.
has bought it for some friend who
designs embarking in the business, as
drugs are not exactly in Nick's line
The committee appointed at a mass
convention at keokuk to investigate
the expenses in the public schools,
have reported in favor Of cutting
expenses down $4,000, and claims that
it can be done with no detrimcn,
to the schools.
A man fell down in fainting fiji
in Macauley's theatre, Louisville, the
other night. When the curtain rose
he saw on the stage, his wife, from
whom he had been separated for a
number of years, and his feelings
were SO overcome that he tainted.
! Alfred L. Sewell, formerly publish.
er of the Little Corporal, is now pub.
fishing q monthly paper called HON.
Arts, which gives full instructions in
scroll saving, patterns for silhouettes
and much other information designed
to make home pleasant for children
Terms $l.OO per year. Address A. l.
Sewcll, publisher, Chicago, Ill.
Generals Sheridan and Terry have
strongly urged the establishment OF
a new military post on Milk river
Montana, near the British boundary
line, and the Secretary Of War has
written to General Sherman, urgeing
the necessity for the immediate cree
ton of such post as check to the
hostile Sioux and other hostile Indi
ans congregated in that vicinity.
\ HUNTS REMEDY is NOT a new
compound; it has been before thu
T public Is years, and extensively used
by all classes with and without the
advice of physicians. HUNTS REM
EDi has saved from lingering dis
, case and death hundreds Of our citi
! zens. HUNTS REMEDY never
: fails to cure Dropsy and all Diseases
S of the Kidneys, Bladder and Urinary
a Organs.
1 To Secretaries OF School Eonyds
. Your attention is respectfully call