Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-13
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Oh! "Who vial care for Butler,
now I"
The brick work of Znlauf's wooden
mill is now going up.
The last paper started in the Black
Hills is a.The Up-Gulch Shorter
Waterloo, Iowa, is furnished with
gas at $3.50 per 1000 feet. We should
like to learn how they do it.
The total valuation of taxable prop
erty in Muscatine, according to the
assessors book is 81, O72, 1865.
A. b. Comstock to-day sold to
Lively & Co. So head of hogs which
averaged 29S lbs. Pretty good lot.
Hunters should all 60 to Van Bu-
rem county. The wild turkey giz-
yards down there are all full Of gold
nuggets.
The Governor has appointed B. w.
Lacy, of Dubuque, Judge of the Cir
cult Court for Dubuque Circuit vice
Bagg, resigned.
The democratic newspapers gener-
ally are mounting roosters over the
election returns. "Whistling, going
through q graveyard"
Leroy Roundy, Of Marshalltown,
aged nine years, ran rusty nail into
his foot, few days ago, and died OF
lock-jaw on Tuesday last.
Butter was in use 1900 years ago,
and it is thought that q specimen of
it is yet in fair state of preservation
at some boarding houses.
The county is building an addition
to our Poor Farm house to accommo-
date the incurable insane returned
from the Mt. Pleasant hospital.
DIR. Mackey, the grave robber, was
safely lodged in jail in Oskaloosa,
without any hostile demonstration on
the part of the miners or any one else.
The Detroit Free Press suggests re-
christening the Grcenbackers since
the late expression of public opin-
ion. II would call them the eco
hackers"
In the oratorical contest at Grin
nell, Friday, the first prize was award
ell to F. M. Reed, of Iowa College
and the second prize to J. G. Cory, of
Cornell College.
A Pennsylvania farmer made S.
600 raising sage this season. Now
let all the farmers pitch in and raise
sage, and it will soon come down to
a cent pound.
A fire at Council Bluffs, Saturday
evening, destroyed the Roger Omni-
bus stables with contents, including
seven head Of horses and a pair of
mules. Loss 81 1000 Insurance 81 500.
| J. O. Buchanan, Of Bremen Co.. was
the last man to pull gun through a
fence aud receive two ounces Of shot
in his abdomen. At last accounts he
was still alive but will probably die.
A new newspaper has been started
at Pennington, Van Buren, county,
called the Gazette. G w. Bacr is ed
itor and proprietor. 1t is non-politi-
al, which means that it viii be short
! lived.
We are indebted to JEFF Ogx. for a
copy of the Seward, Ncb. Adrocdte.
From it We learn that the Republicans
Of Seward county elacted all their
candidates by maiorities varying from
81 to 275.
The Michigan Grand Lodge ma
tionals thought tho postmaster was
concealing their campaign documents.
and in his absence they raided the
pos,office. Now they are in sad
plight for fear of the Vengeance OF
| Uncle Samuel.
The new pork house, we are inform-
ed, will probably be ready TO COM
mence operations the last of next
week. either Friday or Saturday.
Work is going ahead very rapidly
down there and they may have the
house ready even before that time.
The pork house house meat market
will remove TO building a few
doors east Of the post-oflice in few
days. A telegraph line will be oper.
ated from the pork honse to the mar
ket, where farmers may at all times
find the prices offered for hogs with
out going to the pork house.
Messrs Kiser Il Pierson our read
ers will be glad to learn, are already
in receipt of orders sufficient to keep
their oat meal mill running every day
for months to come. Their meal, we
understand. takes front rank already
and we are glad TO know that their
sales are to equal their manufacture
ing capacity.