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

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| Two Iuen caught Win nOOk anu liu0
260 pounds Of pike and pickerol in
East Okoboji lake, one day last week.
In every county of this State the
Board Of Supervisors meet in regular
session ON the first Monday after cleo
ton.
John w. Drew commences tenn
perance revival at Vinton, next
Thursday, which will continue four
days.
A Chinaman in Gold Hill, New.
who has made 500, 600 in silver spec
ulation, works right along at dish
washing in restaurant.
Paris Caldwell, we regret to learn,
ia quite i'll, and has been confined to
his bed for some weeks with rheuma-
tism. He is in . bad condition, phys
ically.
Col. j. w. Forncy is to begin .
weekly journal in Philadelphia, ma
med the Progress, on the 18th Of next
month. Queer name for a Philadel-
phia paper.
We acknowledge the receipt from
Miss Kate Lyon, OF Kirkville, of .
beautiful boquet Of outdoor fiewers.
They are as bright and fragrant as in
midsummer.
The compositor was never born,
says the Cleveland Leader, who does
not insist on making "fiat money!
read "fiat money" Perhaps he is not
far out Of the way, after oil.
The Parsons defalcation to the
School fund at Burlington, has been
compromised by the payment of SO
cts. on the dollar, and Parsons releas-
ed from criminal prosecution.
The Burlington Hatckeye has mo-
ticed that from the time . boy is s
years old until he il Ii he devotes two
solid hours of every day Of his busy
life to learning how to make new
kind of noise.
A young man in Hokah, MIMI, in .
published card, calls the attention of
. candidate to the fact that "he is
owing my mother milk bill of 50 SO.
which he has been putting off for
three or four years."
George Francis Train has started .
new school of medicine with the
creed: "Stop alcohol, tobacco, bran
dy, quinine, drugs. But above all,
keep in the open air. Abolish hears
es, funerals and the graveyard"
On Wednesday evening at Sheldal,
near Des Moines, Oliver McCrary, .
Missourian, shot and instantly killed
John Davis, of Hardin county, with
whom he had quarreled. The MUIR
derer had not been arrested al last
accounts.
A member Of a church being par
ticular about the new minister Is said
to have prayed aloud at the late meet
ing o: the kirk elders: "Send us not
an old man in his dotage, nor young
man in his goslinhood, but nan
with all the modern improvements"
A Virginia woman wants to sell
her husband at auction and apply the
proceeds to the liquidation Of the
Sta.e debt. Such devotion to ones
country is very rare; but perhaps if
the lady would put up COW or
sheep she would get moro money for
1t.
State Leader: Gov. Cue earned
his money last month by paying out
to invalids, Sill $40; to widows, $685.
292. 26; to soldiers widows of the war
of 1872, $G,77O.lS; to surgeons, $133 :
80. The number Of pensioners paid
was 9,lG0. To distribute this vast
sum $3.50 was paid in postage.
1t is thought thieves are clearing the
way for depredations over at Port
Richmond by killing several valuable
watch dogs belonging to two good
citizens living there. Parties better
beware how they wander around
"them parts" after night, as the own
ers Of those dogs are not in the best
of humor.
FATAL AccIDENT.-Yesterday aft
ernoon two young brothers, George
and Mana Blackburn, were hunting
in Delaware township, about seven
miles from the city, when the gun in
the hands of Mana was accidentally
discharged, the contents passing
through the bowels of George, cans-
ing instant death.-State Register.
Dare-devils Of Passaic Falls, N. y,
have been making repeated jumps in
to the eighty feet deep chasm into
which Sam Patch made one of his
leaps 40 years ago, and the other day
one Of them, Thomas Bowling, leaped
in and failed to come out again, strik-
ing the water ON his stomach and GO
ing 10 the bottom like an anchor.
Judge Hoar made good hit at the
greenbackers in an address to the
farmers at a cattle show in Concord,
Mass, the other day. He announced
q new plan for making farm work
easy, and said: "Next spring 1 shall
go out in the morning, stick placard
bearing the words, This is q days
work, on the fence, and then fold
my hands,"
Isaac Heinrich, son Of NJ. Heinrich,
who has been attending school at q
university in Segnitz, Bavaria, for
about three years, arrived at home in
this city, to-day. His old acquaint-
ances would hardly recognize him
now,as he is about man grown. He
is not SO much surprised at the won
derful growth of Ottumwa in that
length Of time as might be supposed,
because all these years he has been a
regular reader of the COURIER, which
he received all the time Of his ab.
sepce with the exception of one week.
TAKE AYERS PILLS for all the
purposes Of q pureative, for Consti.
patton, Indigestion, Headache, and
Liver Complaint. By universal &C.
cord, they are the best of all purga.
tiyes for family use.
! LosT.-To-day, in Ottumwa, 4
leather pocket book containing $2l.li
in money. Any ONE returning thu
same to COURIER Office will DO liberal
ly rewarded. JAMES WILSON,
d&w Martinsburg, Iowa.
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