Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-12-11
JoTTIN0s.

Orson Hyde, noted Mormon
elder, is dead.
! Davenport marketed 450, 600 bushels
Of onions this season.
The farmers OF Iowa ploughed
every month Of this year.
! Keosauqna has q citizen whose
christian name il Des Moincs.
Drew has secured 1853 new names
to tho temperance pledge at Burling-
ton.
| Burlington this year pays $l05, $685.
As taxes, and Des Moines county
$3lO, ,343.6s.
The standard witticism "Xmas ap-
proaches," has generally appeared in
all our exchanges.
i The Bloomfield Democrat says,
Asa Wilson, of Davis county killed
four hogs th.t weighed $3.50 lbs.
/ Daniel Sartor was the first man in
this county to pay his 1878 tax, and
has his tax receipt to show for It.
i Porte Welch is administrator of the
Greenback party in Des Moines and
has resuscitated the weekly People.
Our farmers should go to raising
hairless calves. A Council Bluffs
man has sold one to Barnum for
$1,000.
The District Court OF Van Buren,
county, Judge Burton presiding, will
commence its session In Keosauqua
January 9th.
! The Davenport Gazette says the
farmers of Scott county have -sown
four times as much winter wheat this
season as they ever did before.
Twenty three newspapers have
passed in their checks In Iowa since
the late election. Nineteen Of tho
number were Greenback papers.
The chairmaker who takes convict
labor from the Ft. Madison peniten-
tiary has recently contracted for
twenty more convicts at 43H cents
per day.
Uncle Davy Norris, . Des Moines
man, says thcre won't be but three
inches Of ice on the Des Moines river
this winter, and that will happen in
December.
A nine and q half months old child
of Mrs. Mailer, Of Page county, fell
out of the cradle, last Wednesday, in.
to kettle Of boiling lard and was
cooked to death.
The Sioux City Journal says "a ma
licious story is sfoat to the effect that
an Eldora girl went back on her lover
because he was SO bow legged she
couldn't cit on his lap"
Mrs. Mary Rand, in her Goth year,
died at the residence Of her son. E. d.
Rand, in Burlington, on the 9Th inst.
The Burlington papers speak of her
as very estimable lady.
The Secretary of State complains
that County Clerks are negligent in
sending in their criminal returns. II
is now far past the statutory time, and
yet twenty-four clerks have not re-
ported.
The November pay rolls of the
machine department Of the Chicago,
Burlington u Quincy railroad COM
pany amount TO l58,S69.89, paid to
8, 342 men. OF this amount $77, ,470 rs
goes 10 men employed in Chicago.
The Hd,ykege says: "The snow
Sunday extended all along the line Of
the G., b. u @. road, from Chicago to
the Missouri river. The heaviest fall
Of snow was between Galesburg and
Fairfield, Burlington getting about
the most Of It, The snow was not
deep enough to stop any Of the trains,
as they have all been on time"
Sometime ago we related pretty
fair fish story about big fish caught
out of the Skunk at Colfax. That
story brought TO mind the fact that
Chinn, Of Potter & Chinn, in this city,
caught, some time ago, out of the
Skunk in Keokuk county,a fish Of the
Buffalo species, weighing los pounds.
The holidays are at hand, when "tin
sugar" clay, blood, and old bones,
will be dealt out lsrgely--in candies
Ito poison the children. Look well
to the painted death OF the misera BILE
cheap candies There are honest
manufacturers, and those who care
for the lives and health of the little
ones should look TO this.
i 1t has long been mooted question
among boards Of supervisors whether
the law limiting their pay for official
services to certain number of days
included the days when they were en-
gagged on committee work. Attorney
General McJunkin has written an
opinion taking the ground that they
are entitled to extra pay for commit
tee work.-State Register.
| w. II. Young bought and received
at Martinsburg for Lively, Mowrey &
!. Co., 306 head Of hogs that averaged
308 lbs, said to bo the best lot of hogs
for the number, in average weight and
number, that have been bought Or
driven from that place for many
years. They will be Slaughtered at
Morrell h Co.'s Pork House.
: In our notice of the new residence
! of Mr.. Lilburn, we unintentionally
omitted the name Of T. j. Hall, as
contractor for the woodwork. Jack
deserves particular mention for the
very excellent and tasty work he did
on the building, aud anyone seeing
this job will be Satisfied that he II
master Of his trade, and when he un.
dertakes . contract II will be com.
, pllou WIN W tu0 l6lt6I.
The Mitchelville Ners says: "a
| terrible calamity befel very prom.
ising young man Of Delaware tp. or
Sunday evening, Nov. oath. lie wal
son Of 8. d. johnson, Esq, whe
: lived two miles south Of Greenwood
! He was on his way to the UnioI
church to meeting; his horse threw
, him and dragged him on the ground
with his foot in the stirrup till he wal
. 80 badly bruised that he died soo1
I after he was found"
. "The science and geometry oI
I dress" is to be introduced ~ one o.
: the studies in the public schools OF In
dianapolis, and young ladies viii
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