Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-30
JoTTIN0a.
"Hua ME- TO DEATH DARLING" is
the title of new song.

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The Des Moines Daily People
(greenback and commune) has turned
up its toes.
J. A. T. Hull has 9,555 majority
and four counties to hear from that
wilLincrease his majority some.
Look out for trsmps. 1t is getting |
too cool to sleep In haystacks and
fence corners in the country, hence
their migration to the towns.
The Iowa State Agricultural So
ciety has made arrangements to pay
about fifty cents on the dollar Of the
premiums awarded at the State Fair.
Two men in Burlington were fined
IS each for beating horse to death.
We suppose they'd fine man at least
SO for killing another man down
there.
The latest style among the men now
10 to put their property into their
wives hands, to defraud creditors,
md then when the wife won't divide
suicide.
Charlton Patriot: In one of the
shops in Ottumwa may be
seen the following somewhat irrev-
srent notice: 'In God We trust, but
Ill others must pay the cash.
The weekly Keokuk Gate City
comes to US enlarged to double sheet
containing Sc columns. The Gate is
one Of the foremost papers in Iowa
and is deserving of an extensive pat
ronage.
The Glasgow Erening Times. in
speaking Of the failure Of the bank in
that city, says: at is doubtful if any
thing more will ever be heard from
this side about wildcat banking in
America
Travel wherever you will and you
can hear it said that Ottumwa is the
liveliest and best town in Iowa. But
lyou.dont want to come here unless you
have some capital. Droncs can't live
very we'll anywhere.
Capt. Potter, the popular Superin'
tendent of the q. B. & C., now has Il
keep an eye on 1,6O0 miles of linel
, operated by that corporation, ant
soon he will have more work, for the!
are building four more branches.
Business hae improved on Cour
!, and Second streets to such All extent
.. since tho Park was fenced and tn
water fountain erected, that some 0
the business houses mp there have ha,
to double up their clerks. The par
/. ties that opposed the improvement
, are now ready to acknowledge thei
mistake.
pI The Davenport Gazette of Sunds,
says that the injuries received b
Bishop Hennessy, of Dubuque, in be
+ ing thrown from . cal riage by . run
, away team several weeks ago, are Q
= 20 severe Q character that it vii
z probably be. necessary for him t
i loose enc of his legs by amputatior
10 and possibly both,
t Bob Burdette says: "Nine won
Y en- banded themselves together las
y week, by q solemn VOW, never :
% speak of other women at all If the
y could not speak well of them. An,
q their tongues have grown so rust
: from disuse that they have to lubri
8 cate them with machine oil befor
10 they can swallow"
u A Burlington girl between thirtee1
y and fourteen years of age, who ha
b been attending the High school, con
It cluded few days ago that her edu
: cation was finished and SO skippe,
q out to Missouri with q fellow an,
. married him. The Haukeye says tn
i bride and groom have returned I,
I Burlington to receive the paterna
n blessing.
: AL. Vannaman, Superintendent O
: the Agency City Division of the c.
u & @. read, informs us that wild tur
% keys are very plenty on the Agenc
10 Hill, and are seen crossing the trac
almost every day. He is negotiatin
d for a mountain howitzer which he wi
Q. load with grape and canister an
have it mounted on the engine, an
g stop such conduct on the part of ord
Q nary wild turkeys.
An EMBEzzLER.-The Register say
that on Monday night Casey had
At sensation. J. H. Hine, station ager
P, Of the q. R. I. & p. r. R., at th.
8, town was arrested for embezzling th
Company's funds. The amount q
the defalcation is fixed at 1925
.s Hine waived examination and gav
.. bail for his appearance before tn
"a grand jury of Guthrie county at th
:. next term Of the district court.
10 STANDING The Charito
Patriot says: Owing to some misun
derstanding about wages the work
Of the Whitebreast Coal Company q
. Cleveland have been standing idl
!, about three weeks. When the Com
= pany got ready for work after tn
!, fire, they offered the miners $l.75 pc
. day to clean up the mines ready 70
work, but they demanded 81, whicl
the Company said they could not af
Q ford 20 pay. How long this state o
q things will continue is problematical
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