Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
PLAT.
Avoid debt and idleness.

Avoid debt and idleness.
The horses in New York are hav-
Ing the diphtheria.
The new dam on the Ohio river at
Pittsburg will cost 81 100000.
Gold-mining il being practically
developed in Georgia. The state
has twenty.six active mines.
Recent soundings show Lake Baikal
in Siberia, to be the deepest lake in
the world the greatest depth sound
ed was $4,000 feet.
The farmers Of the Missouri valley,
Montana oil agree that the grssshop-
pers are Matching out thicker than
was ever known before.
Another searching party to look
for traces Of Sir John Franklin's ex-
petition will be on its way to the
Arctic regions within week.
Eight hundred brewers, represents
ing q capital OF over $10O, OOO, 600, will
meet In Baltimore at the Brewers
Congress on June 4. Baltimore has
forty breweries.
A tornado struck the western part
of Brown county, Ills, Thursday af-
ternoon, . few miles south of Mounds.
A few houses were blown down and
It is reported that three persons were
killed.
The Buffalo Express editorially ad-
vises 1policy holders in life insurance
companies to live ~ long as possible
in order to pay premiums and to die
feeling sanguine that the company
will beat the widow if it can.
A small pebble forced into the air
by q passing street-car wheel, in Gin
cinnati, struck Mrs. Hemrig, of Ho-
boken, who was visiting relatives in
that city, in the temple, and with such
force that she was rendered insensi-
BILE for time
A small pond near New Madrid,
Mo-, named Halalier's Sink, has
been frequently sounded by leads at
tached to lines nearly 400 feet in
length without touching bottom
This pond was formed at the time of
the great earthquake in 1872.
A party Of twenty five tramps was
arrested Ct Peoria the other day
One of them remarked to q policeman
-"You think 1t something uncom-
mon when twenty five of US come to
the city. What will you think when
you see five thousand OF us?''
A careful canvass of Iowa crops
and crop prospects, develops the fact
that there is % per cent. of last years
crops yet on hand, and that there is
an acreage Of fully so per cent. over
that Of last spring. Prospects Of
large yield are very encouraging.
The Nevada Watchman, a green
back paper and supporter Of the
third party idea, admits that if Sec
rotary Sherman follows the line of
policy he pl omises to in reissuing the
legal tenders up to $500, 600, that
nothing further can be asked by
greenback men.
Los Angeles county, Cal, has some
farmers who conduct their operations
on . pretty extensive scale. Lanker-
shim and Van Nuvs have seeded TO-
600 acres to wheat. One farmer has
5000 acres Of barley, another 1900,
while scores have planted over 1000
acres with grain.
The Point Keys estate in Califor-
mia, 10 credited with being the largest
farm in the country. 1t keeps an ag-
gregate Of 4, 500 cows, whose milk is
worked up by thirty diaries. Among
the items accredited to this "ranch" is
$4,000 pounds of butter, valued at
$l75, 900. 1t 10 quite "cow pasture"
The San Francisco Post of the 4th
says: 1.-TWO shad caught in the bay
we're yesterday sold at SO for one
and 1850 for the other. The weight
of one fish was three pounds four
ounces, aud of the other three and a
half pounds. 1t is three years since
shad ovs were deposited in California
waters"
A "Native American Party" has
been organized in Vermont, which
will put State ticket in the field,
this year. The declaration Of princi-
pies, among other things, says shat
every law which tends to make the
rich richer and the poor poorer are
lsicl an outrage on American liber-
ties; and that public Offices should be
filled by native-born citizens" etc.
In an exchange an old business man
corrects the prevalent impression that
the present depression is the longest
ever experienced, and also that it is
caused by the contraction of the cur
rency. After the crash of 1887 real
estate in all cities not only fell to ru-
inous rates, but dullness was not full
ly recovered from or, indeed, was
there Substantial relief until about
1858.
A shoplifter was lately arrested in
Paris, who bore under his arm very
innocent looking box, seemingly done
up in paper and tied with q cord
but this box had . false bottom, open
ing and closing with q spring. Its
owner would set it down on two or
three small articles while pretending
to examine something else, and
when he took up the box again, the