Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-01-09
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T-@o,ouO WAS spent Oh tue cdpltol III
1877.
Dubuque is boring an artesian well
and has got down 1876 feet to Potsdam
sandstone.
Porter, the Marshalltown and DAY.
export bigamist, gets four years in the
penitentiary.
The Nonparea figures up $465,0OO
worth Of improvements in Council
Bluffs for 1877, which is a good show
ing.
A Creston minister got beastly
drunk, the other day, owing to his
parishioners being backward in pay
ing his salary.
The annual meeting of the Iowa
Millers' Association will be held at
Des Moines, Wednesday, Jan. 16.
Bloomfield is having a terrible
well-auger war. The prospect of its
becoming a bore is pretty good.
The Des Moines & Minnesota mar
row gauge railroad was completed to
Story City, Monday, the last day of
1877.
Postmaster Page, of Kirkville, will
please accept our thanks for num-
Der of new subscribers sent us since
New Years.
One Of Creston's business men has
the following notice posted up: "To
trust is to bust-to bust is hell. No
trust, no bust, no hell"
| A considerable number of persons
have enrolled their names as subscri.
bers for the Daily or Weekly CouR1Er
since New Years Day.
Four thousand one hundred and
fifty Des Moiners now sport the blu,
ribbon, and in consequence there
must be less blue and red noses soon
j The history Of Marion county, com
: |prising $50 pages, has been published
g Who will immortalize himself by
Q writing history of Wapello county
The other day in London, Ont, I
t man was fined SIS in gold for swearing
r on the street on Sunday. This sug
e gests a way to pay off the Nationa
Il debt.
q Revenue agent, John B. Miller, ha
II been transferred from the District o
e Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska, tt
n Michigan, with headquarters at De
n troit.
ii The bank Of l. N. Thomas, De
Moines, has joined the innumerabl,
caravan gone before and has closed
its doors. Nominal assets $4S, COO
: liabilities $4,000.
n Prof. Wales, Supt. of schools, q
y Abba, got into a wrangle with tn
: School Board, and as a result, he ha
D been dismissed. Abba seems to b
: in bad way generally just now.
Q An eminent writer says that dia
3 monds are merely an evidence Q
. wealth, and that wearing them show
: the absence rather than the presenc
= of artistic taste. That is the reaso
: we don't wear our'n.
" On New Years, at ball in Unto
;. Hall, Burlington, there was geners
= hair-pulling among the women. On
- of the demi-monde commenced th
= row and one woman was Stable
= in the cheek. So the Gazette tells i,
Nv Mr.. Maybray has opened thre
foot vein of excellent coal on A.
Hamilton's twenty acres adjoining tt
residence of Joseph Hayne. TIL
coal bank is about half mile mort
lg of the Court House and is especial
as excellent for blacksmithing.
" A couple of rascals burglarized Il
IN railroad repair shops, in this city, OF
e. night this week, and dragged" SUI
&c of clothes belonging to one of IL
workmen. One was captured befol
sc he left town, and was sent to the U
tumwa Jail for safe keeping until IL
:. next term of court.-Albia Plainde6
At er.
IL. Corning has quite q sensation ;
r. discarded lover tries to poison
aa lady love by sending her candy il
r.. pregnated with strychnine. She gu
"A picioned something evil and refuse
of to bite but sent it to some physical
:. to analyze, the consequence Of viii,
-. was the finding of strychnine and Il
va arrest of Samuel Bryan for attemr
n ing to kill Attic Stevens.
Miss Mollie Hull, formerly Of O
kaloosa, and well known to many
10 our citizens, was married at Denve
y Colorado, on the I'd of JAN, to Mr..
90 d. McIntire. A reception was Civ
ne at the residence of Mrs. Campbell,
'a' Denver, who is an old school mate
,o' Miss Mollie's mother. We had an i
NC vitation to attend, but owing to pre-
w Of business could not. We wi
- the happy couple abundant pre-
~ perity, and happiness unalloyed
90 the carking cares of life.