The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-01-26
IOWA NEWS.

vented rake winch gamers nay or grain
from the ground and loads it into the
wagon. Mr.. Lewis claims it will take
grain from the gavel and load it into the
wagon, without binding, in good shape
for stacking, and thus save all the labor of
binding, shocking and loading into the
wagon-that it will rake hay as readily
as any horse rake, and when raked it is
loaded on the wagon. So says the Re-
publican.
The Times Gays that over IL 900 sheep
have been brought into Marshall county
within year. Mr.. Grips of the same
county, realized last season over half a
ton Of honey form forty hives of bees.
Reuben Stiles of Dubuque, now 90
years of age, cast his first aud second
votes for George Washington, and his
last vote for Abraham Lincoln. His
father was killed at Bunker Hill.
A couple Of horses, hitched to a wag-
on, jumped from bluff two hundred feet
high near Dubuque, one day last week
The horses died Immediately after arriv-
ing at the foot of the bluff; but the paper
don't state what became of the wagon.
The Burlington Hauhcye is Informed
that DR.. j. G. Williams, druggist and
dry goods merchant of Richland, Iowa,
skedaddled on the night of the 18th,
Lowing his wife and four children, not
forgetting, however, to take another
mans wife, Mrs Phebe Bales, with him.
She left one child, boy three years old.
The Iowa City Republican says the
number of students now attending the
State University is 400.
A daughter of r. s. Strong, ofJef.
f fesen tewnshp has been troshsd for
eign substance in the flesh in the region
Of the throat. On Friday last, DR.. Hur-
tey, who had been called to her assis-
tauce, succeeded in extracting from the
left tonsil large pin, which had been
the cause Of the difficulty. How or when
the pin was lodged there, is unknown,
but was probably taken in the mouth aud
swallowed WapelVo Republican.
The Viuton Eagle says a child of
about Ave years of age, = son of Mrs.
Isam White of that place, one day last
week fell from chair on a pair of sharp
pointed shears, killing it instantly
Shears are not very nice plaything to
give little child.
Mr.. G. +. Currier and family, of
Cedar Falls, were dangerously poisoned
last Sunday by eating rhubarb preserved
in tin cans. For some hours himself,
wife and little daughter were very sick.
"A fellow in Davis county by the
name of Felix Dickson married a Miss
House The Guard congratulates Felix
for having "found house not made with
hands" Big thing, that.
Mrs. Mark Currant, who resides
near Maquoketa, cut off her husband S
thumb the other day, while he was
asleep, to prevent his being drafted.
The Lyons Mirror says Clark Nc
Allister was arrested for the seduction of
two females in that place, but managed
to escape from custody. The Mirror has
no very exalted opinion of him or the
women either.
PAGE TAKES TIE BANNER-We
learn from the Clarinda Observer that
Page county contributed for soldiers
families on the 3lst ult four Thousand
six hundred and eighty.eight dollars and
sixteen cents, being an average of seven
dollars for every voter in the county,
We are inclined to think that Polk coun
ty has lost the banner, and that Page has
bravcly won it. Well, be it so.-.State
Re0tster,