Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-05-10
IOWA Items.

drea are usually in attendance.
The business mems morning prayer meet
ings at Iowa City still continue, and have O
daily attendance Of oy.r one hundred.
The patrons and friends Of Cornell College
nre raising funds for the erection Of monu.
mcnt to the memory Of Rev. S. NJ. Fellows
late President Of the Institution.
The Host Of Temperance" new teeto.al
organization on a sor, Of military PLAN, has
been organized at Qskaloosa, where what is
called HE Grand Camp is located.
Major Willis Drunmond has become sole
proprietor Of the McGrcgor Neys. He has FOL
some time been the editor. 1t is one of the
best weekly journals west of the Mississi ppi.
The citizens of Waterloo have discovered
that 50 acres Of the most valuable par, Of the
city, including the Gourt House grounds, are
about 10 be put in litigation rs to Inc title.
The Cellar Falls Gu.ette notices, that work
on the |. c. r. r., has been commenced near
that place and is being vigorously put forward
An important meeting Of the officers Of thi-
road will he held at Oskaloosa GU the It'll O,
this month.
The Library Association ct Dubuque is in
hcurishing condition, The library committee
purpose placing upon the shelves every book
Of worth published in the United States dur
ing The year.
The pcs Moines Register gives an accoun, Of
. fearful accident On Coon River. scow
with nineteen persons and fear Horses on
went down last week and Two Of the persons
were diowncd
We learn from the Marshall Tines that the
body of Nj. Hudson, who was drowned two or
three weeks ago in Linn Creek, was found on
Wednesday afternoon. very near where he
FUNK.
The Jasper Reru5litGn thinks the cars will
not &c running to Newton before the 18th of
May. Recent rains have SO injured the road
that delay in getting the track ready is in
evitable. But for these damages, the road
would have been completed 10 Newton by this
time.
vein Of coal, cigh, feet five inches thick.
and Of superior quality, has been discovered
OF Farkersbarg, Butler county, and is sup
posed 20 be the same stratum which extends
southwark into Hardin county
The Davenport Gu<etie says that at the con,
rcn,ion Of the Grand Army of the republic
recently held in tina, city, a statement was
made that the pronriesots Of building, worth
Sl',oD0 At Graudview, Louisa county, were
willing to donate i, to the Department for the
purpose O: being used as an asylum for dsa
bled soldiers, OF orphans.
A, saloon row last week in Sidney, F,e-
mont county, William Fiannery and Grin
Ramsford got into personal alteration over
Il game OF cards The former attempted to
choke the latter when Ramstord drew "A Der
ringer an sEo; him through the groin, from
the effects Of which the unfortunate man died
the next day. The Inioa says the deceased
was young man of good family and honor
able life and yet, the pencil pauses in its
eu!ogy 10 say tia, he died at The gamblers
table!
The Muscatinc Journal gays, a demoralised
amazon mailing flem New Boston, ILL.,, calling
herself Maggie Hyatt. was detected in the act
OF stealing piece of dry goods from the ST. re
ot +. A. Drake, OH Second Street, yesterday
afternoon. she was arrested by Marshal
Wells, bu. was released upou promising to
leave the city Immediately.
In Des Moines the bulk Of the banking bus
mess is donesby private banker, B F. Allen,
Es1. For the quarter ending April LIST, his
deposits were, Sj7l.s3J.O0. Discounts for the
same time, S62s, 500 10. The deposits in the
National hanks Of Des Moines for the same
time amounted TO only SiuS SOB, and the dis
counts to 1892 95S.
The verde, Of the Coroncr's Jury sitting
upon the holy o. one Of the victims of the Key
City Mills explosion, ut Dubuque, was, caused
BY . want Of water in the boilers, and that
the boiler. we're over.heatei; and that 1t is
the special province Of the engineer in charge
70 gard against such coming .nsies; and THAT
the evidence g ven before them as jurors would
indicate want Of skill or care Of the en- ineer
in conducting the machinery at The time Of the
explosion.
The McGrcgor Neus says, our city officers
succeeded Oh Monday night in ferretiing out
and breaking up a gambling establishments
a faro bank was in full blast. The officers
seized all the implements Of the craft. The
bank was fresh arrival from Dubuque. Its
career was inglorously brief. Let its fate be
= warning 10 others of its class 10 keep away
from McGregor. Our police officers have
sharp eyes and such institutions can have no
abd ng place SO obscure as to escape their pen
s s
The Cedar Falls CARTE makes the follow
ing assertion that the local editor of the
Mount Pleasant Journal is young 6achelor,
bat IS determined TO not be an old one. One
must De inspired by moonlight walks to write
with SO much enthusiasm. lie would have us |
believe that al: OF Iowas fair daughters are |
concentrated in that lovely city. We don't
believe it. just see what he says:
sour ladies are richer prettier, dress finer. |
spend more money, break more hearts, wear |
bigger hoops, shorter dresses, aud kick W the |
- generally to . greater extent than all
the ladies on this terrestrial globe. II S a fact