Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-12-18
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No hanging.
The Sunday schools are again
crowded. Christmas trees are bud
ding.
J. M. Strong has retired from the
Clarinda Herald and Rev. ]. w. Chat
FIN is again sole editor.
Ottumwa has the largest pork-pack-
ing blishment in the West. Live
town-you bet.-Albia Democrat.
ut is not political economy that
ladies need to study 80 much % the
other kind" IL the opinion OF an anti
suffragist.
Capt. T. J. Reigart and Josiah T.
Young, Secretary Of State, were yes
terday admitted to the Bar Of the
Supreme Court.-State Register.
Chicago packers have slaughtered
l,174,639 hogs since November to
Dec. IA, against 833,s7l for the corres-
ponding period in 1877 and Sl9,986
1876.
"When your father and mother for
sake you," Mr.. Talmage asked New
York alley boy. "who then will take
you up3" "The police, sir" was the
ready reply.
The Leon Journal .says at took
the mayor OF Allerton, .four lawyers,
two doctors and two juries three days
to find out whether ASH Swiggett
was drunk or not. He was acquit-
ted"
The aggregate capital Of the saw.
ings and private banks OF Iowa, ac-
cording to the Auditors report, just
completed, is 50, 1926, 4l4.29..ss The total
assets OF the sans institutions amount
to s6,749,sl2.62.
A Cincinnati court has refused to
grant . divorce where young wo.
man married after sixteen days &C.
quaintsnceship with an adventurer
who pretended to be the son Of .
wealthy landowner.
The Clinton Herald says: IA ru-
NOR is current in Des Moines that the
Chicago & Rock Island railroad is me-
gotiating for lease of the Iowa Gen.
trail railroad. Tho c., r. I. y p.
seems to be vigorously preparing for
breakup of the pool"
A Subscriber" wrote to the Indian
apolis Journal asking: "How many
bushels Of navy beans can be raised to
the aero, the ground being good and
the crop we'll tended? ?" sAnd the
Journal replied: "rhe Journal does
not keep nsvy-bcan editor. Better
inquire of the Navy Department"
Tho English language is wonderful
for its aptnees of expression. When
q number Of men and women get to-
gether and look at each other from
the sides of sroon-that's called So
ciable. When hungry crowd call
upon a poor minister and eat him out
of house and homc-fhat's called a
donation party.
Evidences of the value of the daily
papers continue to multiply. The
New York Observer cites the case Of
an Intelligent Kentucky minister who
in his prayer on Monday morning
reminded the Lord that, "Thou hast
seen by the morning papers how the
Sabbath was desecratcd yesterday"
The starch mill, SO far as water
power and all outside work is con-
sidered, is now finished and we may
say here now that more substantial.
metrical, or better building can.
not be found in the state NO matter
where it Is located. We shope to be
able to show, a few more like II next
summer.
A new Philadelphia paper starts
out with communications from Oliver
Cromwell, Lord Byron, and Diogenes
It calls itself Mind and Matter, and
its editor asserts that in this depart
ment he will give nothing but that
which he personally knows, or has
every reason to believe IL from COM
municating spirits.
hxrRoAD TAxEs.-The G., d. Il G.,
is assessed at sll,5oO per mile, the
Rock leland at 1900 and the North
western at $4,000. These are the
highest. The average assessment per
mile is $5.,305W and the total is $751;
629.977.60. The total assessment of
the C., B. & @, 10 $3,253,G49.O0 of the
Rock Island 80, 49S, $50 90 and Of the
North W estsru, 1856 GO3QO