Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-04-17
JoTTINos.

<AiUies anu the mayor 10 now out OF
work. .
Charlton proposes to build q $l2,-
600 school house, this season. The
contract is to be let on tile 10th of
May.
Farmers In the neighborhood Of
Martinsburg are arranging to start =
cheese factory, which is a sensible
thing to do.
A handsome, five-column, 8 page
temperance paper has been started at
Des Moines by Geo. B. Hammer, the
first number of which is on our table.
1t is called the Blue Ribbon Gazette.
Terms $l.5O per year.
Gen. Weaver comes out in card
in the Bloomfield Republican, and
says the story that he has been solic-
tied to be democratic candidate for
Congress "is q second handed lie that
originated with the State Register"
The Haokeye says: The z. B. l. Q.
car No. 100, the private car of Vice
President Perkins, is just out of the
shops, looking like bridegroom. It
is beauty. 1t has been fully repair
ed, and put in splendid condition.
In Keokuk, if we are to believe the
Gate CITY, "the average husband is
again threatened with bankruptcy.
No man of moderate means can afford
to buy the quantity Of linen required
to make = ladys collar Of the modern
width"
The State Register Gays: Yester-
day the clerk of the Supreme Court
received notification from Judge Dill
lon to receive Major Morrill's bond %
Receiver of the Central Railroad of
lows. He will take possession May
first.
Davenport Gazette: "Time has Its
revenges. Yesterday there might
have been seen, in certain public
school yard in this city, the white son
of an old-time pro-slavery democrat,
and the black con of = niger play.
ing horse-and the black boy was
driving
4 The School Teachers are to have q
District Convention at Fairfield, Tues.
day, Wednesday and Thursday
April %, "a and rs. Mrs. Peck, OF
the Normal School in this city, and
W. A. McTntire, Go. Supt., are an.
nounced to take part in special exer.
cises.
The Dubuque Times: They have 9
Protestant minister in Des Moines
who advises the young members Of
his flock not to marry person out
side the pale of their church. This il
carrying the injunction, "Be ye' mo-
unequally yoked together" to thu
: point Of fifteenth century bigotry.
The Des Moines Ne,cs says: at i,
said that there is growing senti
ment among the Methodist preacher
4 of the first lows Conference favorable
. to the consolidation of the Mt. Pleas
! aat and Indianola colleges, and tn
. establishing in their stead ofa stroL(
t central college at Des Moincs."
The Des Moines Register says :
"The noted abduction case of Re,
Oak, wherein three men enticed from
/, her home the daughter of one of tn
prominent citizens of that place
? keeping her concealed several days
comes on for trial in this city befor
q the U. S. Circuit Court next month.
We are Informal by the Center
4 vile Citizen that "Hon. NJ. M. Valdez
!, left for Washington on Monday, un
f der a commission from Presiden
= Hayes to serve on commission 70
7 the examination of Southern claims
We are not advised as to the full ma
turo or scope of tho Office"
81 The COURIER Office has just receiy
= ed large lot of Job and Advertiser
q Display Type, from Johnson's cell
: brated Type Foundry, and is no,
!. prepared to do Job Work nicer tina
N ever and to display Advertisement
h in the best style. Bring on you
work and advertisements.
II fyou are travelling don't chang
money for nybody. An old gentle
, man travelling from Pennsylvania t
!. Hahaska county was swindled out q
!, 500 greenbacks, all the money b
! had, 1t Muscatine, on Monday, by
! couple Of sharpers who traded hir
! spell marks for it, he supposing tbs
they were pure gold.
II A well meaning Sioux City ma
: came TO the Journal to say that tn
teachings Of the Bible are utterly i'm
Z practicable. He had been trying I
u love his neighbor as himself, and
! male relative Of that neighbor, onl
, the night before, had absolutely kich
Q ed him out Of the house. A circum
: stance like that, he said, made hir
Q feel sore.
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