Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-20
JoTTINGs.

%, earned by 1909 men.
1t don't pay to raise large hogs
they will not bring as much per lb. as
those that weigh from 20O to $50
pounds.
II is wonderful what an interest
England, Russia and Austria have just
now in taking care Of the Christians
in Turkey.
Montgomery Queen, the famous
Snowman, has gone into bankruptcy.
Liabilities $4,000; assets, $3l, 1923 in
animals, etc.
N. B. Sloan, for while resident
Of Richland township, in this county,
died recently in Davis county, aged
about 45 years.
Col. A. Abernethy, late superin-
tendent Of Public instruction of this
State, has resigned his presidency of
the University of Chicago.
The G. B. 4 @. railroad company
is building new locomotive at Bur-
lington, and two improved postal
cars in the shops at Aurora.
Jacob Shuey, arrested and convict
ed on the charge of picking pockets,
or larceny, was sentenced to twelve
months hsod labor in the Penitentiary
The Legislature of Ohio is wrest-
ling with the question of taxing
church property equally with all 9TH
or property. 1t proposes to tax all
churches for property worth over
5000.
Forty-one families from the south.
ern part of Van Buren,, and on the
line of Davis county and adjoining
townships in Missouri propose to
emigrate in body to Kansas, this
lspring.
oil From q circular received we SCI
that r. N. Harlan has located in St
Louis and has opened an Office al
ll36 Washington avenue, for the sale
of Silsby's Revolving Pleating and
: Basting machine.
Mr.. Geo. w. Holland, graduate o
the /. w. u, was admitted to the Ba
a at Ottumwa, last Monday. George i
). an industrious young gentleman, ant
: his many friends wish him well.-Ml
Pleasant Journal.
IS Messrs. John Morrell & 20. ar
; shipping regularly every day, from
: six to eight car loads of pork produc'
This product is shipped direct to Ne,
q York, and from there to Liverpool
!. to the home house.
nj W. A. Coombs has just commence
l. the erection of very handsome RES
dence short distance east of the rel
g idence Of w. H. H. Asbury. 1t wi
If be one story high with mansard roc
n and stone basement thirty fet
n square and finished in the best {
l. style.
While ten men watch for chance
one man makes them. While ten me
/, wait for something to turn up, on
b. man turns something up. While te
:. men fail, one succeeds and is called
man Of luck and favorite of FORUM
when it is simply pluck and energ
N that made him so.
:. The season for eggs is close at hani
!. Have the hen house thoroughly reno
;. waited and whitewashed inside, in
Guiding all nests and roosts. Lice ar
the great enemy of hens, and it
70 probable that they are the cause o
n cholera in chickens. Renovate wit
le lime, carbolic acid, etc.
n The Gate CITY says the machiner
J. for their city water works has bee
he purchased and is to be of the impro,
j. ed Holly system. The engines wi
% have an aggregate capacity of abou
le $50 horse power. The machinery
is to be delivered in Keokuk by the l5t
IS of April, and to be in running orde
g. by June LIST.
ln LUXURIOUS LIVING. - The DE-
,e Moines Register says: "Three tramp
~ who spent night before last in tn
sumptuous apartments Of our ia
passed onward to new scenes yestel
q day. For their nights lodging an
y, breakfast the county paid $50 eacl
It Gen. Grant could be entertaine
cheaper than that"
During the year 1877 there wer
ID LOG burials in Ottumwa Cemetery
n When we take into considerable
l. that we have population of lO,OO|
and that scope of country for S o
:. 6 miles north and east, on the eat
:, side of the river, bury their dea
there, it shows q very small mortal
: ty list.
al We are very sorry to learn tbs
" Major Henry, formerly editor an
publisher of the Keosauqua Republ
can, has met with q severe loss i
Minnesota where he removed an
8 engaged in the newspaper business
=, His Office and contents were burne
y uplast week upon which he had onl
i $3.50 insurance.
a A company has been organized &
- Marshalltown for the purpose of cal
!. rying on the business of canning corr
>. tomatoes and fruits. They have pul
:. chased six lots and will erect thereo
- a large mandatory, and have mad
- arrangements to make 10000 car
. preparatory for the canning season
!. business.
a A Mt. Pleasant man being the pc
AZ SCISSOR of sick porker, solicited Ii
"a services of q colored gentleman VIII
no made a specially of the treatment {
% swine, desiring him to make diai
nosis and prescribe. The "doctol
"a examined the animal carefully, an
told the gentleman that he didn't "st
nothin' 'ticularly interestin' the ma
ter with dat hog."-Journal.
ut REMOVAL.
w. A. Garner has removed to IL
Hawley building two doors east I
T. p. O. He has opened out a bran ne