Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-13
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e Limited Partnerships" is what
. country newspeper in Indiana pu
- over the marriages. Il
Promissory notes in Kansas are n,
. drawn so many 'days after date" b,
!. "when I sell my hogs"
n Each Senator from whom we hay
Q heard is emphatic in denying that h
n was one Of thoee who were drunk dl
r ring that all night session.
|. JEFF Davis writes to Washingto
that he could never accepta pensio
. from this government on account {
= services in the Mexican war.
1t is charged that the genuine Kan
sas grasshopper-millions of them-
Q have hatched out at Dundee, Mich
!. and other places thereabouts.
If Winnie Ream's statue of Senate
David Davis does not turn out to SUI
her she will call 1t q new Cardiff Gi
!. ant and open negotiations with Bal
mum.
The Sandwich (Tli.) Free Press re
fers to q citizen who only drinks o.
: two occasions: one is when he goe
a-fishing, and the other is when b
!, doesn't.
/ Mr.. Alexander c. Botkin,. late o
the Milwaukee Sentinel does not &c
q foreign Consulate, but somethins
Detter--the Marehalship of MOntani
Territory.
every one can do something t,
elevate society even the girls can re
fuse to kiss the young man who refus
es to clean his teeth, says the Weno
na (Ill.) Inder.
Rev. George W. Peterkin, d. D.,
Ii. D., of Baltimore, elected
Bishop Of West Virginia In place Of
DR.. Eccleston, was q rebel artillery
officer during the war.
Few people get sick in years wheE
economy in living is enforced, and il
can be marked down as an axiom that
the under man in the hard times
squabble is the doctor.
A score offull born Americans will
move three wagon loads of lumber tc
uncover q poor old rat, where q cast
offer of fifty cents each would have
no effect. ct.-Detroit Free Press.
General Grant was given q recep.
tion in Constantinople last night, by
the British Minister, Mr.. Layard.-
The American traveller will be due in
Rome the middle of this month.
A Scotch schoolmaster having re.
peatedly and at last angrily demand
ed of the pupils: "Who signed Mag
ma Charta 2" little girl tremblingly
replied: "Please, sir, it was ma me"
A prominent citizen of the Boston
Highlands was speaking to q friend
OF q relative Of his, and remarked in
sober earnestness "He's a very nice
man, and he's as religious as the dew
ilw
A vine-grower in the Gironde has
discovered that where straw berries
are raised among the vines the phyl.
loxera ceases to trouble. A parasite
on the strawberry kills the foe of the
grape.
The Saranac (Mich.) Local says that
"the new Free Methodist Building il
not very large one, but they can get
up more enthusiasm in it in five min
utes than all the churches in town can
in month"
A New Jersey paper sharply criti.
cizes the picture of the milkmaid in
Scribner's for January, because the
girl is sitting on the wrong side OF
the cow" All, well, that's all right.
May be it was loft. handed COW.
Once . year JEFF Davis comes out
with denial that he was captured in
petticoats, and just that often score
of ex-veteran soldiers of Michigan
jump up and vow by all that is truth
full that he is an old liar, and they
can prove it.
can act for the protection Of wild
ows" is now before the Massachusetts,
Senate, and all the "vidders" in the
Bay State, as q natural consequence,
are dire sting their attention more ea-
/
the second hub, so to speak.
A curious candle used in in Alas
ka is q fish eight inches long, almost
transparent, and very fat, the fat be-
ing pure white and very sweet, The
Indians dry this fish, then light it at
the tail, and it burns with clear,
sparkling flame, which the wind will
not extinguish.
The superintendent of schools in
Emmett county, Iowa, is out in q let.
ter of advice to his schoolma'a ANS in
which he says: "Remember that your
time belongs to the district, and leave
at home your novels, love-letters and
needle-work." The superintendent
is married man.
The most insolent prisoner in the
Joliet Penitentiary Is said to be
Rande. The fact is he should not be
there. Let his late jury be sent to
tax o his place, and he be turned over
to the people Of Knox and adjoining
counties. Then this insolence will
stop.-Chicago Journal.
eff good old Peter Cooper will take
his Congressional son-in-law (Mr
Hewitt out to the glue factory, and
hermetically and forever seal up hi
mouth, the world would lose NO wis
dom, and the proceedings of Con.
gress would be less obnoxious to tht
charge of damphoolery,- Cincinnati
Enquirer.
One citizen was yesterday talking
to another about the blue-ribboI
folks: "Dey yoost drink de same al
pefore-only dey drink pehind de
door now" "Yes," was the reply
"you can see them frequently carry.
ing doors around with them for thai
purpose. The conversation ended
l-Siour CITY Journal.
One Of the old and honored citizen,
of Indiana has passed away in thu
death Of General Joseph Orr, Of La,
lporte. He commanded the Indians
troops in the Black Hawk war, was
for many years President Of the Stat,
Board Of Agriculture, and was th,
first President of the Board of Com
missioners of the House of Refuge q,
Plainfield. The General died in tn,
saith year OF his age.-Indian0poli
Journal.
They were examining applicant
for admission to an Omaha foot-rac,
the other day, and every man had t,
chow his pedigree as . runner
l"What credentials can you bring !?
asked the Judge of . lank young fel
low who presented himself; "yo,
don't look as if you could run much.
"I'm q Philadelphia militiaman,
calmly replied the youth, "Ohl pas
right in, them" said the Judge
l"Next."-Nesc York Commercial Ad
certiser.
i One of Davis county's most enthu
siastic greenback farmers, in th
course of his spoutings over the silve
bill, remarked that "none of the sill
vet would ever reach the people-th
Shylocks would horde it all up" 1
prominent silver man overhearin,
the remark, replied, "Shylocks T! VIII
; the hi are the Shylocks? Oh, yes
, they are those men who stay at hom
and mind their own business, ant
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