Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-07
JoTT1Nas.

It's lots Of fun for all but
he fellows that get hit.
The Republican says Van Buren,
county farmers are threshing out 25
bushels of wheat per acre.
Tuesday night, seven Of the worst
kind of criminals escaped from the
Jail at Marion, Linn county.
Iowa seems to be the Paradise for
circuses. Old John Robinson and
Barnum are heading this way.
volk \ Cos planning mill at Daven-
port, was struck by lightning We'd
nesday night, aud totally destroyed.
Loss $4,000.
The latest news by cable: at will
soon be the correct and proper thing
for lady equestrians to ride all the
same like men,"
The Cedar Rapids Pilot calls the
Standard = liar, and tho Standard
calls the Pilot another. No doubt
they are both right.
The first car load Of wheat shipped
from Mt. Pleasant in three years, WAS
forwarded to Chicago on Monday
last. 1t was new wheat.
We see that the Z. B. & q. Railroad
wants q large number Of men to work
in their stone quarries. Can't 60, all
too busy saving the country.
REAL We. BOGUS L1GHTN1Na.--We
are informed that the telegraph in
struments at the Eddyville transfer
were ruined by lightning Wednesday
night.
The Mt. Pleasant Journal says
"Twenty-three incurable patients
were recently sent from the Hospital
at that place to the Lee county mfr
mary.
The "puttiest' girl in Mt. Pleas
ant, Miss Henrietta Brown, was pre-
sented with q cake and 40 doilah"
ring at the A. M. E. social. So the
Reporter tells.
Dubuque Times: A young lady in
the country in the lower part Of the
State, spending vacation, writes home
, that she observed the eclipse and il
was "just scrumptious."
We are in receipt of the Premium
!, List of Wayne County Fair, to b
!, held at Corydon, Sept Is, 10 and 20
1t was printed at the Times office
: Corydon, and is good job.
:, Thomas Miller has been appointed
: division freight and passenger agen
on the Iowa Division of the c. B. I
@. railroad vice T. w. Cooke, resign
: ed, to take effect August LIST.
e The next total eclipse will be tina
d of the "Greenbackers." Date o
n eclipse, January l, 1879; cause speci
e resumption. 1t will not only be to
e tai but lasting. Chicago Journal.
, The c. B. & @. Railroad have lai,
aside their primitive water workl
2 and now they are furnished, from tn
!. water works of the city, with an in
exhaustsble supply, at . greatly re
duced rate.
The Marshal of Fairfield is MAXIM
it hot for all kinds of pedlers tha
don't take out license. It cost
y peddler of sheet music 500 dow
7" there the other day to do about o.
hours trade.
4 A grand musical convention. unde
= direction of DIR. Geo. F. Root, Chics
! 60, will come off in this city Augu'
9th to 3Oth. This will be one Of til
greatest treats we have ever had !
= the vocal music line.
-. We are informed by gentlema
=. who has travelled somewhat extel
a. sively in central Missouri, that Il
late peaches are rotting on the tree
and that the crop will not be near
I'D large as was thought, on that sccour
'e, The storm thrashed down so bus
as els of apples for Uncle John Guyst
n man, on the south side of the rive
q As the storm overstocked the apr
te market, he proposes to make cider o
D. of them. So look out now for ne
We cider.
:, The wind Wednesday night play
havoc with DR.. Hinsey's orchal
breaking off and overturning tire
and destroying large amount
fruit. All his grain and hay q
d. that of his neighbors was turned to
40 sy -turvey'
" Ottumwa has new feather in
E. cap. A company Of bond -holdi
ge, capitalists have purchased grou
re and are about to erect thereon at tt
place an immense pork packing
n Enlistment, at cost of 100000
e., Knoxville Journal.
re- A family in Marshalltown having
Ike large amount of money in notes o
o. mortgages have been soliciting q
he from the citizens on the ground Il
ire they were in destitute circumstanc
en-, The Times exposes their game .
or warns the citizens against them.
20. Indiana Smith, of this place, /
wo been up in Grundy and Hardin cou
96 ties harvesting at $3.50 per day.
says that the farmers up there are I
cutting a great many fields of VIII
W because it is blasted and crinkled vi
- heat SO it will not pay for harvestil
~. The Haackeye says: "Thus far 81
70 ty-seven licenses for the sale of b.
or and native wine for one year, DAFT
~ from the first Of April, have been
- sued and there seven saloons Il
claim to sell ale, that have no licens
"a But it still claims that "Burlingtou
4, absolutely too moral for any pract
10 al reporter"
me- The boss faster is in the height
IN. his glory now. He has his pick
the best peaches, ripest apples, q
the largest Lawton blackberries.
RS be sure, the man that buys the box
Ter black berries or peaches gets Il
Dr. much shorter measure, but the b,
faster is growing fatter all the san
The Iowa and Oak ota Mining Co
pany have filed their articles of inc,
poration at the State Secretary's
~; -; fee. They advertise capital sic
- of $25O,OOO, the principal place
-. business being CrestOn. The inc
r. porators are T. j. Potter, of the c.,
"a & r. r. r., c. L. Manholz, B. E. RI
! mond and others.
nj. The Pella Blade says: Last Frid