Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
JoTTINGs.

Iowa has 1872 Methodists and
Methodist church for every 1000 peo.
pie In the State.
A Bonanza-The city marshal Of
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, gets $40 pen
month in city orders.
There are only two printing offices
in the whole Of Siberia. A good
place for fiat papers to start.
Polk county has larger delegation
Of criminals at TT. Madison than any
other county in Iowa. So the Regis
ter says.
Cedar Rapids has again voted down
proposition to bond the city debt,
and that, too, by an overw helming
majority.
If the old sign is true that the first
three days Of December governs the
winter, we shall have q clear and
warm winter.
The Oskaloosa Herald says Thatch-
er, McCulloch b Gibbs, have arrang-
ed to 60 into the pork packing busi-
ness in that place.
E. NJ. Ford, of Des Moines, prom
nent Wholesale notion dealer, went
mp the fume financially, few days
since. Liabilities $4,000. Assets
10000
Mrs. Van Colt says the ministers
who use wine at their communion ta-
bles are lower than the rumsellers,
"and God knows they are not fit to
live"
An Iowa farmer worth $4,000
started out four years ago to secure
legal revenge on neighbor. The
lawyers have this all now, while he
has his revenge.
A NEW IDEA.-Rev. Samuel W.
Heald, NJ. E. minister Of MARSHALL
town, surprised his congregation
Thanksgiving day, by the delivery of
q sermon in rhyme.
| The American Ship, weekly paper
which appeared in New York several
weeks ago, has not since been heard
from, and is supposed to have gone
down with all on board.
The receipts of hogs in Chicago
during the month Of January, 1878.
were 8Sl ,094 head, and for November,
9W. .3l7 head, being the two largest
monthly receipts on record.
The railroad commissioners report
to the Governor shows four thousand
one hundred and fifty-seven miles OF
railroad track in this State, of which
nine hundred aud three mile are steel
rails.
i The State Register says: "a COM
pany Of farmers comparing notes of
the seasons work, in a Des Moines
store yesterday, unanimously agreed
that fax had been the most profita-
BILE crop Of the year."
j The State Supreme Court of Iowa
has decided that when the maker of g
note secured by mortgage leaves the
State before the maturity Of the note.
such non-residence arrests the opera.
tion of tho statute of Limitation.
! One hundred and ten men are now
employed at the Morrell & Co. pork
house, and full sat of hands arc also
employed at Lsdd's packing house
About An average 300 hogs now give
up the ghost daily at the two houses
The Clinton Herald sententiously
remarks: "It isn't every married
man who is willing to take an oath
Of allegiance to his mother-in- W,
but that is what the Marquis of Lorne
did when he became governor gener.
al Of Canada.
Wilson w. Cacy, Of Council Bluffs
on Sunday, took three ounces of az.
senic, and Wilson now sleeps thu
sleep that knows no waking. The
Nonpariel says disappointment. il
love affair and dissipation was the
cause of the suicide.
> General Robert Patterson, of Phil
adelphia, now over 80 years of age
and without whom no social reunion
In the Quaker City lie thought com
} plete, is said to have entertained Al
} his table every President Of The
United States since Madison's time.
: The attention of our readers il
hereby called to the advertisement Of
John Morrell s. Co.'S. meat mar ket
r They are doing a rushing business
furnishing cheap meats for every
!, body. This morning before noon
: they sold at the market over thre,
wagon loads of spare ribs, tender
? loins etc.
Peter A. Tighe, of Memphis, dice
of yellow fever, and SO did the doctoI
!, who attended him, the undertake.
!. who laid him out, and the clorgyma,
j, who officiated at his funeral conse
!. quently an insurance company, which
: required their certificate, has refused
Q to pay over the sum for which hi
Y life was insured.
The wife of Ora A. Taylor, Law
J. student at Marshalltown, attempted
! to kill her husband, Monday, b,
shooting at him with large navy re
volver. She thought she had som
/ grounds for jealousy, and was goin,
!, to put stop to matters before the,
: had gone any further. The ball pass
ed through his coat, just grazing hi
shoulder.
!. An engine and two cars on tn
Denver road jumped the track a
Troy, Kansas, sixteen miles west o
. st. Joseph, on Dec. let. The engiu
!. Ger, Charles Clauser, was caught be
: meath the tender, where no was bel.
> two hours, suffering such agony tina
he pulled q knife out of his pocke
and cut bis throat from ear to ear Il
end his misery.
r The ColfAx Sentinel, J. w. Jarniga
proprietor, was destroyed by fire
Friday night. The foreman in tn
Office was asleep in the building whel
: the fire broke out and barely escape,
from sharing the fate of the ''othe
printing material The books wer
partly saved, but receipts, due bills
etc, were destroyed. The Office an
building were insured for S763 in th
American Central, Of St, Louis.
9 The State Register says: "Yester
|. dag Warden Mcmillan paid into th
: State Treasury, and received til
!. the Tressurer's receipt therefor, 81,