Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-01-02

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Last Friday ths stsss Of fo~a was
thirty-one years old.
The st. Louis Real Estate Savings
Institute has suspended. It Il
thought 1t will be able to pay in full.
The new ice house Of Morrell b
60. will be completed in . few days.
It viii cover nearly an aero Of
ground. tt,.,. uqa so
The ice men are gathering At the riv-
er, and warbling "What will the har-
vest be p From present Appearances
the cocktail CROP. win Be shsrt.
Rsbaughs pump WerkA Wicker
sham s. McCue Proprietors, have
leased the room, l00x25 fest, under
tho post Office, of J. n. Hedrick, and
will shortly remove II. su
Wood hsulers are sxcussble for thsir
attempts to make two loads ont Of
one such weather - this, - people
are lucky 10 get load Of wood no
matter what kind or how little. b
The Hapk-Eys In it, dispatch
about the Ottumwa water-powsr,
makes . mistake and gives It 800 horse
| power, when ito present capacity 10
5000, which 10 quite . difference.
Muscatine hssa population Of 5000
and the Tribune says tAers are In that
city anywhere from twenty-five to af-
ty women keeping houses Of pros
titution, and 1t calls for tho enforce
ment 81 the ordindhce ssainst ths
vile dens. ,.5,i ,15H I'm
We are informed that fArmsrs al
over the country are blowing and pre-
pairing for spring planting. This may
seem strange, but W have NO doubt
Of 1t - our Information coHnss from
|an end man Of . church choir out IN
1Eahsska county, and Abe slways was
reliable. 2
Mrs. Dudley 8. Gregory, Of New
York City, employed smodsl ssrvaat
. few days ago. On Sunday the mod
81 servant left the house with $1,000
worth Of property ID her possession,
and then II was Discovered that Tie
woman was Mary Marks, : notorious
English thief, whoss portrait adorned
the Rogues Gallery.
They had . lively cutting and shoot
ing spree ct Thaysr, Saturday night.
Knives, pistols and rasors were four
ished quite lively and one man had
his head about half cut Oh, while IN.
other received . severe gun shot
wound. We have no particulars q
to how the muss originated. or what
it was about, nor how It ended ~ the
fight was still going ON when our
informant left. sf
Henry Handy, Of this county, who
was out in the west part of the state,
visiting, on Christmas day received .
wound from . revolver, through the
fleshy part Of the arm, between the
shoulder and elbow, from which, at
one time, serious results, II was fear
ed would follow. Amputation, for .
day or two, was contemplated, but he
is at homo now all right. He receive
ed the wound while target shooting,
the same ball passing through anoth-
er young mans hand.
Mr.. A. Park, Of Deerheld, Mass,
who has had an experience Of twenty
years in building dams upon streams
Of al sizes, has nearly completed his
work here, for the present. The little
mishap to the bulkhead il now thor
oughly repaired and made much bet
ter than it ever was before. Mr..
Park Is now ready to Let the water in
and the bulkhead will be nearly, II
not entirely, completed to-day. This
gentleman, since he has been here,
has secured thoroughly the west main
dam in the river and done his work
we'll. He seems to be perfect mas
ter of such kind Of work, and has
pushed his job here with thorough
ness and dispatch in the highest de-
gree commendable.