Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-10-30
JoTTIle0s.

The supreme Court OF Pennsyl
vania has decided that woman hal
q perfect right to wear stays lif she
wants to.
| The Centeryille Greenbacker hal
passed in its checks. Fiat couldn',
keep It going. Nothing but cash " III
run newspaper.
i Thos. P. Wallace, brewer of New
York, has recently purchased the eel
ebrated trotting horse "Hopeful," fol
the sum Of $25,OGO.
j The home Of Robert IHollister a'
Corning is haunted with the noise Of
an invisible sewing machine, which
csn be heard at all hours Of the night
j DR.. A. o. Nudge, . dentist Of viii.
ton, has been held to bail on the sum
Of $500, ON charge of attempting "a
blackmail . man named D. G. Ag-
new.
The Cleveland Herald asks awfully
awkward questions. 1t wants to
know: "Dld Tilden lose the whole
Of that $780, 600 sent to South Carolina
or only the usufruct of it2"
The chairman Of the Greenback
county committee, of Adams county,
who resides at Corning has been ar
rested and fined by . magistrate for
circulating obscene literature.
They have found. tree in the Yo-
semitic Valley that.measures over 100
feet around the butt, and It is pro-
posed to make chair bottom Of the
utt and present it to David Davis.
The State Leader says: "The cop
per work for the domes and lanterns
Of the four pavillions of the new cap
itol has been let to A. Knisely & Co.,
Of Chicago, at 34A cents per pound.
The saloons were all closed in
Bloomfield last Saturday, and this il
the way the Democv at sings It: "Dry
times, Dry times, Dry times, Dry
times tho tune OF "Auid Lang
Syne."
The 923 precious stones seized in
Chicago postofiice we're the property
of Cal Hornaday, Of ::Keokuk. They
were sent from Ceylon by his broth
er, and instead of being worth 81 500,
Hornaday says they ore worth only
$3.50 or 5000.
Henry Grcenbaum, Of Chicago
bank fame, is in court now fighting
the suit OF Mr.. Webber, who charges
him with abstractirg from the bank
and its depositors 1894, 600 and max
ing 1t over TO his wife before his
smash up.
They have now brought out a
rocking saddle, says the Free Press,
triumphantly, and the more mule
kicks, jumps and bucks, the easier will
be the position Of the rider. Thus
after struggle Of 800 years man
has got the better Of The mule.
/ A woman named Madam Duprcz
is walking 100 miles at Cedar Rapids
on a wager. She commenced at 6
o'clock Friday evening and up to 4
| p. M, Saturday, had walked 80 miles
She made the first mile in minutes
and the SS,h mile in 7.s minutes.
| The Iowa Farmer, published at Des
Moines, is the last paper to succumt
to the inevitable fate Of too many
newspapers started 10 supply "a long
felt want" After awhile it will bt
found out that but few one-idead
newspapers can exist in q single state
| The Register says: "Seven newspa'
pers have died in Des Doines during
the past fifteen months. A one-horst
newspaper can get up above the
water, gather in lot Of misguided
subscribers and lay down and die
quicker in this city than in any Other
place in Iowa."
i We call the attention of our read
ers to the attractive advertisement o.
J. L. Patten & Co., Al Barclay St.
New York. They offer to send theil
new illustrated Magazine, Leisur,
Hours, and handsome 6x17 Chrome
Motto, "Faith, Hope, and Charity,
for 25 cents.
i The Bloomfield Democrat says: &C
w. Stephenson, Of Troy, assignee ol
the estate Of Jacob Arney, bankrupt
yesterday sold 2Os0 acres, belonging
to said estate, to George P. Burroughs
of Cedar county, Iowa, for $26, 800
and recently sold to another party 15'
acres Of said land for $500.
During the six months from Marcl
to August inclusive, the total expen
diture for general support of the con
victs in the Fort Madison Penitentia
ry was $l4,964.65. The amount o
earnings during the same time wa
$l9, ,709.5O. Warden Mcmillan is thu
making the institution pay it's ow,
way.
A Palmer House, Chicago, negro j
the latest one to attempt to murde
the object of his affections. A fai
. young Irish lass in charge Of tn
| fruit pantry refused his advances, an,
: he shot her, afterward cutting hi
, own throat. The girl was severely
but not fatally injured. The negr,
will die.
: The Muscatine Journal says
"Judge Cole may be very bad mar
: but some Of the attorneys now throw
ing stones at him need little white
washing before making good fgur
heads in q movement to purify tn
q Iowa Bar Association. One of thes
, is Judge Grant, who aided in dc
frauding the tax-payers Of Iowa OF
of millions of dollars on frau iuler
iT3aIEO8u DOnu6.
: d. T. Miller and +. J. Mynard hav
i formed copartnership in the 10,
business, In this city. Mr.. Miller hs
been in the practice for several year
here, and Mr.. Mynard has been in th
y practice for something over . yeal
Miller IL quite well known in on
r community - IN industrious, hard
10 working attorney and collector
Mynard's brief residence among =
has made for him host Of friend
. We commend the firm to the publ
:: ''sELLIMo OUT At COST"
"QUITTING THE BUSINESS"
"RETIRING."
GOODS AT HALF PRICE,"