Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-01-02

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A New Jersey Judge has decided
that the grocer who tempts a person
to steal by leaving. fruit on the side
walk cannot recover damages.
The Georgia Supreme Court has de-
cided that a murderer, "to be too
drunk to form the intent to kill, must
be too drunk to form the intent to
shoot"
The Coming Struggle was the name
of a greenback paper started in New
York recently. The struggle arrived
with number six, and was brief, as
usual.
A Boston woman testified that man
had threatened to take her life, and
he was put under bonds to keep the
peace for six months. Since then she
has married him.
Edwin Booth once said that the best
way to get rid of good friend was
TO lend him S.. That was when times
were easy. You can ALLEVIATE him now
for so cents.--Delrott Free Press.
This will be a cheerful holiday
season for sinners. They will remem-
Der what Mr.. Beecher says about the
hell business, and go right in for big
time with the brakes all off.-ChicagO
journal.
"A school house and yard in New
Hampshire district stands in three
towns and counties, so that the pupils
sit in Ringe, the teacher in New lips.
witch snd the recess is taken in Ash
burnham, Mass.
| 1t is related of q young lady that,
on being asked by the teacher of her
Bible class what was her chief conso-
lation in life, she blushingly replied
II don't like to tell you his name, but
have objection to telling where he
lives.'
Counterfeit tens of the Muncle,
Ind, National bank are in circulation.
They have "the name of Allison as re-
gister and Spinner as treasurer, while
al! genuine issues have either the
names of Colby and Spinner or ALI
son and New"
A touching scene noticed before q
Baltimore toy shop a few days ago,
was two little girls who had between
them smaller sister who was blind,
and were describing in detail the
colors, forms and names of the arti.
cles displayed.
About 100 unemployed laboreri
waited on the Mayor of Montreal,
Canada, on Thursday, and stated that
they must have work or they and
their families would starvc. The ma
.jority of them will be set to work
breaking stones.
There are "a distilleries in Iowa,
only a few Of which are inoperation,
l34 breweries, 70 wholesale liquor
dealers, and 1891 saloons. These
figures are derived from Govern
ment's license records, and of course
do not include all the places where
Illicit making and selling is done.
In the vicinity of Rio Grandc City
Tex. there has been no rain since
April, with the exception of one
slight shower. In consequence there
is no pasturage, and the suffering
stock is only kept alive by feeding on
the prickly pear, from which the
thorns are first cut.
| Deacon Ezra r. Smith and Mrs
Champlin, who are in Jail in Middles.
burg, VT, on charge of poisoning Mrs
Smith, psssd loving epistles through
the stovc-pipe hole between their
cells until the sheriff was compelled
to close it. Their affection for each
other seems as ardent as before their
arrest.
The number of Royal Arch Masons
in the United States is 1926 OF
which number the State of New York
has 1896, Illinois 1928, Delaware
304, and Iowa ABA. The number ex.
allied last year was 1863. The mum.
Der died 1856. The receipts were
$79, 1921. The expenditures $780,.
OIL, 40.
Schoolboys usually doubt the text
books statement that tallow candle
shot from gun, would 60 through
board. Mr.. Blondell is convinced
on that point. He was acting in q
border drama in a Baltimore theatre.
A blank cartridge was fred at him,
and some tallow that adhered to the
charge passed through his nose.
The official army register for 1875
shows that the militia of the United
States available for military duty
(unorganized) number 8, 734 1893. The
general officers number 1877; general
staff officers, LOTT; regimental, field
and staff officers, l,24O; company off.
GERS, 4,46O. Total commissioned Off.
GERS, 6,844; total non-commissioned
officers, musicians, privates, etc., &c..
S53, or an aggregate of95, 696. Thirty
States are reported as having militia
organizations.
Governor Drew, of Florida, is in
Washington, trying to get himself
out of a scrape. A special agent of
the Government has been watching
for timber thieves in that State: and
has arrested Drew's son-in-law and
business partner for stealing nearly a
million feet of Government timber.
Drew, being Governor, is not sn &C.
tive member of the firm, but the spe-
cial agent think he has evidence suffi-
cient to indict him.
The dead-beats appear to be the
dominant class in Mexico, Oswego
/ county, d. Y. "The merchants form
! ed a protective society against per-
| sons who contracted debts and did
| not pay them. They published list
of Tho dead beats in the village news
paper. Therenpon the house Of the
Secretary of the association was
burned, the Presidents drug store
was set on fire, and the editor was
warned that he would have neither
house nor Office If he published the
list again"
A. writer in the San Francisco Mail
says: "The rich Mexican surrounds
himself with the comforts of life, ac-
coraing to his own peculiar ideas of
comfort. 70 dress well, and bedeck
himself with gold aud silver and orna-
mental trappings, gewgsws. GIN
cracks, anything pretentious; 10 make
9 cigarette every ten minutes to cat
plain food served with all manner of
seasoniHgs, to sleep halt of the day
and carOuse three-fourths of the
night: to bet all his loose change on
cock and bull fights and at three-card
monte, are few attributes of the
Megieaa idea of high or luxuriant
living"
singular Case of Hereaity.
DR.. Rizzoli knew a young girl who
had long, thick lock of perfectly
white hair on the forehead, the rest
of the hair being . very pronounced
black. This anomaly had been con-
genital and hereditary in the girls
family for two centuries. Whenever
ii exists in q parent, seyeral ofthe
children were certain 10 present It.
The genealogical tree Of the family
could be traced back for Elk genera
tions, including about forty-five per-
sons, more than half Of whom pre-