Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-27
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A 80 cent store is the latest devel-
opment In the city.
Spare ribs are nearly ripe. Hog
killing will commence on Thursday.
Elder Carsonl W hited, . prominent
citizen, living near Eddyville, died
ON the 18th inst, aged 65.
Thanksgiving day, one year ago,
was nearly theXcoldest day Of the
winter. What will II be Thursday
W. L. Drake, Of this city, was
adjudged insane, saturday, by the
Insane Commission, and sent to the
asylum at Mt. Pleasant.
The Register says Mrs. Summers,
alias Cady, the celebrated Des Moines
love powder woman, is at liberty,
having served out her time.
The Des Moines Register il vigor-
ously agitating the question Of secur-
ing the location of the State Fair At
that place. We second the motion.
The Des Moines Register says that
diphtheria is becoming quite preva-
lent in that city at present. The af-
lection 10 of . very malignant .ype
PoRE CREATuREs.-It is said that
human being has seven millions of
pores through which Precipitation
and exhausted particles Of the system
escape.
Alexander H. Stephens says 40 he
looks back over his political life he IL
forced to confess that the only great
leader the democracy has had was
Stephen A. Douglass.
The managers Of the Pork House in
formed us Inst night that they would
commence killing hogs on Thursday.
The prices paid to-day are $2.00@2.25
for hogs brought in from the country
while those shipped here by rail bring
~ high as $40.
Albert Brooks the husband Of Lucy
Brooks one of the parties to the Bal
ley Brooks adultery case has sued
Howard Bailey for $1,000 damages
for the seduction Of his wife, the
aforesaid Lucy Brooke. The papers
were served to-day.
Joe Fugate came very near going
to Congress from Kansas. 1t he had
only got I4,777 moro votes he would
have beat Ryan, republican, by one
majority. Ryan, republican, had
23,3l6 votes; Fugate. democrat, S,54O /;
Doster, greenback, lO,607.
A Davis county paper tells Of q
widower who has five grown up
daughters who won't let him take =
second wife. He has given up the
wife business and bought q savage
dog, and now no man 10 allowed to
cross his door sill. If he can't marry
the girls shan't he says.
The District Court under the ad-
ministration of Judge Knapp was
concluded at Abba, Saturday, and
the Judge retircs to private life at
Keosauqua. The next term of Dis
trict Court commence in Keosauqua,
Judge Burton presiding, sometime
soon after the beginning Of the new
year.
Green Bros, Of New York State,
have leased the business building
next to W. w. Ennis, and will occupy
it about December LIST with stock of
notions, &c. These gentlemen have
been all over the west, and finally
settled on Ottumwa as the boss town.
Their heads are level and time will
prove the wisdom of their choice.
The State Register says: "The In
coming Secretary of State, Capt. j.
A. 7. Hull, proposes to retain the
present Deputy, Fletcher Young, in
that place for few weeks after sssu-
ming the duties of the Office, and
VIII T. Hammond, of Jasper county,
will be the Secretary's clerk at first,
eventually deputy, when Mr.. Young
leaves
An engineer corps has just finished
running line for an extra line of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy from
Charlton to Creston. The new line
will be south of the old one, about
six miles south Of Osceola, and will
meet the old line again at Murray.
The new route will be longer than
the old one, but will escape some
heavy grades.
Superintendent Potter, Of the c., B.
& O., notifies everybody that there il
a law against tearing down fences
and gates of the railroad, and that
gates or bars at farm crossings shall
not be left open or down under pen.
atty of 800 fine and damages, and
that the company now propose to en-
force the penalty against any or al
persons violating such law.
| A Polk County Greenbacker yester'
day perused "Trop's" letter proposing
q Democratic Greenback love-feast
with wives and families, in this city
on the Sth of January. He mused 81
lently for few minutes, shook hi
head, and broke out: "Not much tn,
Democrats seduced us tho last cleo
ton, aud we We learned enough no
to give 'em chance at the rest of tn,
family.'-State Register.