Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
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fated Southern Hotel at st. Louis.
Ohio has a new Law authorizing
notaries public to perform marriage
1t is now the mode in England to
be buried in an open wicker-work
coffin, filled with flowers.
A female physician clairvoyant on
Third avenue, in New York adverti-
SEES to "mend ladies' hearts,"
The latest official enumeration gives
the total number of Federal office
holders of all kinds and degrees as
$3.50.
Now that capital punishment has
come in force again, Dyersville, To-
wa, man has taken out q patent on q
new kind Of scaflold.
Since West Virginia became a
state there has not been legal hang
ing within it's borders, but there have
been twenty lynchings.
Maine had over five hundred di-
vorces last year, an increase Of one
hundred since 1874, and about one to
every twelve marriages.
A lawyer, who wanted a postpone.
mcnt, appealed to the Judge to ''let
the broad axe Of justice be swung by
the hand of mercy" 1t was swung.
Heaps of corn, the Nebraska Far
mer says, are nearly as common in
bnv rNo nf hn koSa rrona ns1nc
at the east, and for the same purpose,
to wit, fuel.
The Detroit Erening Ne,cs says
"There are but two men in Bay City
who are not candidates for the posi-.
ton of city marshal. One is dead
and the other is wooden Indian.
In San Francisco there are $4,000
voters, 10000 of whom pay no taxes
Of this last 10000 there is large per.
centage of men who are sitting with
folded hands waiting for something
to turn up.
Mr.. Goodrich, late of Mt. Pleasant
Iowa, a travelling blue ribbon singer
by strict attention to business has &C.
hNC "lNCo ing
funeral or divorce in the family, and
is now the victim Of the statute in
such cases made and provided.
One citizen of Huntington county
Pennsylvania, sued another for set.
ting dog upon hog worth SO
which was injured. The jury render
ed a verdict against the plaintiff, bul
divided the costs, amounting to 245
between the litigants. Moral-Don',
go law about trifes.
Marcus Markham, farmer in easy
circumstances, and worth from $500
to $4,000, living in the township Of
Girard, Mich, has permitted his only
daughter to go the poorhouse. Shit
married worthless scamp, and hel
father refuses to assist her.
Capt. j. q. Hester, of Florida. ha.
the affidavit of Gen. Curalto, of Cuba
to the effect that there are now freeG
colored citizens of the United State
held as slaves in Cuba, having been
shipped there from the United States
since the close of the war under va
rious pretexts.
A woman in Washington obtained
q front seat in the Senate gallery on,
day last week, and dropped from he
coign of vantage a perfumed billet
doux upon the desk of a dignifiet
Senator beneath. lie read it and sen
for the Deputy Sergeant-at-A Arms
and that stern official led the fair an,
frail one out of the gallery by her ii
ny, shell-like ear.
The Wheeling (Va.) Standard says
eve earnestly recommend every maj
who is languishing for job to retir'
to the country; rent a farm; rails
every thing you need for the supper
of your family; sell what you canno
use; be frugal, enterprising and in
dustrioua, and all the panics the worlt
has ever seen may come and go, TO
they will not affect you in the least.
Mr.. John Wannamaker, Of Phila
delphia, whose fame rs a shrewd bus
mess man is almost national. says. il
letter to the Times, of that city, tina
"a business man that cannot be adver
tised in some way is hardly wortl
following" He prefers legitimat,
newspaper advertising to any othel
kind, and evidently. knows what he i
taking about.
The Grand Rapids (Western Mich
igan) Eagle, of the 25th, says that tn
the peach trees on that shore Of LAX
| Michigan are now in full blossom
and present beautiful appearance
They have blossomed at least thre,
weeks earlier than usual. Ever,
limb is covered with blossoms. Civ
ing promise of a large crop. Their
is good prospect for strawberries
grapes aud other fruit.