Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-24
JoTTINas.

principal of the public schools At
Prairie City.
The roasting ears in market are
nearly hard enough to shell. Give
us some juicy corn.
AZ soon as q young lady gets dia-
mond ring there is something gets
the matter with her nose.
just think of il! Garner is selling
Z lbs good coffee for $l,0O. See his
advertisement in this paper.
The Boston Post man observes, on
the subject of dress, that every cat has
for coat and every dog pants.
The latest new invention in market
is double barreled clothes PIN
Washerwomen now ought to be hap
Ply.
q. G. Smeltzer, a prominent citizen
of Fort Dodge, was found dead in
his bed Sunday morning, Of delirium
tremens.
w. e. Hobbs, of Fl. Madison, has
been nominated by the democracy
of the First district as their candidate
for Congress.
The prophecy in the bible 1.-THE day
cometh when NO man can work"
must have had reference to the pres
emit heated term.
The Rev. Jasper says that the
moon is "a disputed mass of opaque
conflagruity," and it seems rs il he
had really struck the right thing
now.
| The Atlanta Constitution is fairly
spelling for libel suit. 1t calls the
local editor Of the Keokuk Constitu-
ti6n "Colonel Thomas Keokukleber-
ger"
Hay harvest is fairly under way in
this county, nearly half of it being
already in the stack without rain,
and in uncommonly fine order, and
very heavy.
| The Iowa, Des Moines, mare
"Trampoline," is making a sensation
in New England now. Her time
now is 2:24, and this she is rapidly
reducing.
Joe Gossage's Rapids City Black
Hills Journal, comes to us enlarged
to seven columns. 1t is neatly print
ed and rything about it indicates
!, prosperity.
jeremiah Kennedy is the name of
the last man that murdered his wife in
$ Chicago. No man is patriot who
. murders his wife, if he don't kill
, himself at the same time and save the
state the unnecessary expense of try.
I ing and hanging him.
! INDIAN PLEAsANTRY.-AB Bismarck
0 dispatch says: "Last Friday, party
! Of Standing Rock Indians caught the
Indian Agent. Maj. Hughes, dragged
8 him down to the Missouri, and tried
to drewn him. The commanding
! officer, Gen. Carlin, rescued him."
Mr.. Bcntly, farmer near Lansing
: stood in his doorway last Thursday
evening during q storm. He wal
struck by lightning and hurled thirty
l. feetiinto the yard with his skull
crushed and his body horribly multi
ated, yet his shoes were left in the
door where he stood.
Il A farmer living in Extra went oul
!. to pillow in one of his fields on Tues
day afternoon, and in few hours he
was found dead. The sudden death
was supposed to have been the result
of sunstroke. The body was in a
state of decomposition when found
but an hour or two after death.
Q The Sigourney Neus reports the
following cases Of sunstroke in keo.
ikuk county j. E. Darling, Van Blu
rem township; W. w. Randall, Sig.
= Quincy Mike Weltner, Lafayette
: township, and Mrs. Godfrey Klett
Clear Creek. They are all recover.
ing except Weltner, who died on
Saturday.
ri Council Bluffs Nonparea: 1t costs
something to be a Democratic can.
didate in Indiana. The Office of State
Treasurer pays about $4,000 year
4 and the committee tax the candidate
Q for expenses 5000. If this we're done
u by Republicans what howl about
corruption the "Reform" party would
raise.
ri The Fairfield Ledger in speaking oil
the accident occurring q few days
ago between Doud's Station and
Fairfield, says that James Richardson
@ the person killed, belonged in this
J city. This il seems to us must be q
Q mistake. We have James Richard
9 son here, but no is at home sick, and
y has been confined to the house for
!. two weeks. We know of no other
!. person OF that name.
g Frank Ogden, of Ottumws, has pur-
chased the interests Of M. w. Isher-
wood, of the firm of sherwood Il
aICo., at Searsboro. Mr.. Ogden ap.
! pears to be a young man Of good
business habits. We presume we
i. have lost nothing by the change as
we have learned that Mr.. sherwood
i, the retiring member of the firm, pro-
a poses to 60 into grain buying here
Montezuma Republican.
h Iowa will produce 100000 bush.
Il els of wheat this year. Forty-five
r million bushels of wheat at seventy.
n five cents bushel means $33, $50, 900,
this is for one product alone,
and by no means the most important
one. Corn, hogs, cattle, oats, barley,
rye, potatoes. hay, flax, sorghum,
! fruit, honey, etc, etc, are all to be
i, added, and these will sll swell the
:. aggregate income of our people into
!, hundreds of millions.
At Grand junction few days ago
q q tramp attempted to commit an out
, rage on two little girls 6 and years
old, whom he had enticed off 10 the
weeds, but was frightened off by par
q ties who discovered his designs, ar
q rested and narrowly escaped lynch
ing. This narrowly escaped being
, lynched" is becoming altogether to
, common q thing. Hang such hell
hounds wheL caught, and make an
exsmple of them, that's our senti-
: ments.- Times.
BURS1E0.
b. j. McIAughlin has burste1 uric-