Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03
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JoTT1NG6.
On Saturday Government sold ST.
241 900 of 4 per cent. bonds.
The Sioux City Journal heads its
death notices GONE MORE VACANCY"
Keokuk claims to have ripe apples,
peaches, apricots and pears grown in
that vicinity.
Struck the right man. The Presi-
dent has appointed Maximillian F.
Bonanza coincr for the mint at New
Orleans.
Henry Ward Beecher gets $ll,OOO
for 10 lectures In California. When
we 60 lecturing we shall demand more
money than that.
j. r. Gallon, of Keokuk, didn't
hold but q pint, and the Mayor mean
ly made him pound So worth of rock
for owning false name.
The Keosauqua Republican says !:
"Lieut. w. +. Muir, made war on the
opossum family recently, the result
was thirteen fat and saucy, we're laid
low by the hand of the oppressor."
Charley Hedrick has brought us .
box of English Morello Cherries that
are the finest Of the kind we have ev-
er seen. They are very large, beauti-
full color and perfectly luscious to eat.
John Alexander has turned grang-
er again and has removed to his farm.
on which he will erect handsome
residence this summer. We wish
him perpetual good crops and good
price for them.
James Stroll, the desperate who
attacked Sidney s. Tomau, at Inde-
pendence, while riding out with .
young lady, and tried to kill him, has
been sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary at Anamosa.
w. A. Spicer, of Fl. Madison, has
been arrested on charge of stealing q
$40 set of harness at Delta, Keoknk
county. He claims that he traded for
them but can't tell the name Of the
man from whom he got them.
The attention of our readers is call
ed to the card of d. G. Davis, Build
er aud Contractor. Mr.. d. is an ex-
cellcnt workman, thoroughly reliable,
aud if yon have job, and contract
with him, we will warrant he will do
it well.
st. Louis is sgitating the question
Of rebuilding the Inflated Southern
hotel. The proposal is to raise $780,
600 and, as they say, "build the finest
hotel in the country" We suppose
they never heard of the Palmer House,
Chicago, which cost $2,OOOOOO.
Christ Pfeifer OF Keokuk, shot him
self in the mouth with Derringer
pistol, last night, and is not expected
to live, and Jesse Webb accidentally
shot himself in the shoulder by shak-
ing revolver out Of rubber oil
cloth while out riding. So the Gate
says.
Elizabeth Bowey. Of Birmingham,
England, has died, aged lib. 1t has
been ascertained that Elizabeth had
been in the habit of smoking excess
lively for 50 years, which caused her
death. Her son John. now s., will
not live more than twenty years, the
doctors say, unless he let's up on to-
bacco.
A Bangor woman's turkeys ate the
residuum of some cherry rum which
she threw into her yard the other day,
apparently died, and were plucked
by the hired man. The next morn
ing however, they appeard in the
barn-yard alive, but in an nndress
uniform. The grave Springfield
(Mass.) Republican, is voucher for
this story.
Governor Allen, of Ohio, it is said,
has evidently discovered the fountain
whose waters give perpetual youth.
A recent writer describes him as
looking younger, fresher aud more
vigorous than he has appeared for
many years, and the assertion lie ven-
tured that he will be as fresh and Wig
orous in the year 1900 as he was in
the year 100.
Hon. Sidney Breese, died at
AT Pinekneyville, Illinois, on
Thursday evening, of heart disease.
Judge Breese has occupied many
prominent positions in Illinois, among
which was that of Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court and United States
Senator, and was Major in the ia
nous Blackhawk war. He was man
of spotless integrity.
HORSE STEALING.-LemD otson and
Isaac Feeny, of Salt Creek Township,
Davis county, were arrested on Sat-
urday charged with stealing horse
from JIG. Brooks, of Wapcllo county,
on the 18th. of June. They were ia
ken before Esq. Roberts. of Washing
ton township, Saturday evening. who
committed them to Jail here to await
examination next Friday, ut o clock.
The e. B. h q. railroad is running
an immense quantity of stock into
Chicago, principally hogs, since the
late rise in prices. The trains in this
State are taxed to their utmost capac-
ity to carry in the hogs going for
ward to market, and the same will
help to scatter some money through
Southern and Southwestern Iowa.
An unusual quantity of lumber also
is going west on the same road.
Headquarters for Mems and Boys
Piow Shoes at Phillips. 4-l0wtf
DIR. Olney returned from Gales
burg, ILL.,, Thursday night, where he
has been attending the commence.
ment of Knox College. The Adelphi
Society held q reunion on Monday
evening, which the daily Republican
says was "the affair of the entire
year." A number Of addresses were
made, among which the Republican
says was one by "Dr.. Olney, of OF.
tumwa, Iowa, class Of '46, and one Of