Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-27
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former partner, Ralph Robinson.
Hon. J. 7. Young was admitted to
the bar at Abba on Tuesday. We
wish his abundant success in him new
profession.
The State Leader says the station
agent at Guthrie has been arrested for
embezzlipg the funds of the c. r. l. & |
P. R. R. Co. He is short 81, 200.
J. L. McCreery, formerly city edit.
or Of the Dubuque Times, who went
into the blue ribbon temperance
movement has published Q hymn.
book.
The wicked local of the Burlington |
Gazette says: "The Ottumwa Re-
form Club is bad. It advertises a
refreshment room for ladies and pigs
feet"
Dakota Territory claims popula.
ton Of 125,OOO, and will ask admit.
lance into the Union az the thirty
ninth state during the approaching
session of Congress.
Burlington Hawkeye: One Of the
saddest and most vexatious trials that
comes to girl when she marries 10
that she has to discharge her mother
and depend upon . hired girl.
Holly asks ten thousand dollars
royalty for the privilege Of heating
Des Moines by steam. The Register
says . Des Moines company would
take hold of the enterprise but for
this outrageous price.
Mrs. 81. j. Garlich, Of Pella, has
been awarded 81 500 damages against
that city for injuries received by fall
ing from defective sidewalk. The
Blade says $500 would have at one
time compromised the case.
Margaret Hooper, q farmers wife
living four miles from Dixon, ILL.,. su-
icided Saturday morning, by cutting
her throat from ear to ear with a
carving knife. She was "a years of
age, and the mother of three children.
The Fairfield Presbyterian church
owed debt of $S,45O. On Sunday
last Rev. DR.. Craig, Of Ksokuk
preached there and on that day and
Monday raised s9,ll5 to extinguish
the debt. Craig has q silver tongue.
i The Charlton Patriot thinks that
"it is left for futurity to produce two
men who have sufficient Christian
grace to occupy different offices on
the second floor of a building, and
then not wait for each other to sweep
the stairs"
i Why Is it that men congregate iu
on stree crossings and corners, and
that lady has to walk around them,
| frequently into the muddy street
!, Couldn't they just IS we'll form line,
with their backs to the wall, in the
middle of = block9
The Des Moines Leader says the
East side is becoming source Of
: scandal to this moral city. Yester.
day there was q case of descrtion by
! son.in-law, and . pitched battle by
. the fathers-in-law, one of whom a
Q least, IL very prominent citizen, al
ex-State officer of more or less motto
riety.
I A man in Des Moines is ssid I,
q have Kerosene lamp that is automat
10 and self-extinguishing. 1t will g,
. out every night at the same hour
q about ten o'clock-and the young wo
a men in that family are holding in
dignation meetings to devise som
. means OF abolishing this ingeniou
Il lamp. 1t is disposed to interfer
with their evening callers, and ere
4 ates CONSERVATION among their gen
tlemen guests. So says the Registe,
I, John w. Drew arrived in this cit,
yesterday, and goes down to Ottum
wa this morning. He begins serie
of meetings At Burlington SAturda
night. He will make his headquar
y tiers for Iowa at Des Moines hereai
: ter, and parties not knowing wher
= he 10 at the time of writing, can ad
: dress him here, and the letters vii
q be forwarded. The papers Of tn
. State will oblige Mr.. Drew by mai
y ing An item to this effect.-State REQ
7. ister.