Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-05-08
ALL KINDS OF ITEMS.

ALL KINDS OF ITEMS.
| st. Louis authorities have been hrrssting
the vendors Of lottery tickets.
Steel rails are being laid on the New York
! and New Haven railway.
81. George Church, on Beckman street, in
| New York City is now used as stable.
Our public debt statement will show dc
crease Of about Sc 100000
The daily discharge of the artesan we'll in
Chicago, is about GOO 600 gallons.
The peanut culture in North Carolina pro
duces profit Of 500 pcr acre.
Dubuque is compromising with her credi-
tors at IS cents on the dollar.
General Baker is calling in oil State arms
| Of Iowa.
Legrand Byington Of Iowa City, is hatch
ing up an emigration scheme. He wants
about one hundred and fifty families to settle
| with him in the valley of the Kansas River
&The patent lock confdcnccrs arc Wet imize,
| ing the Keokukers. Look out for Them.
George F. Carpenter, Of Davenport, was
shot, killed and robbed in Chicago, on the
| Sd inst.
The Belle PLANE paper says that an enter
terprisiug citizen ofthat place has post holes
for sale. That same c. D. F., would skin :
| flea for its hide and tallow.
A row occurred, Thursday, night, Odd ult.,
at o negro ball at Jackson, Mississippi, in
which two soldiers werc wounded and one
killed, and one negro killed.
Geld bearing quartz is said to have been
discovered in the knobs about two miles and
half from New Albany, Indiana.
The project of building wigwam, to hold
| the Natiena Republican Convention, at Chic
ago, has beep abandoned. The Convention,
will hold it session in the Opera House.
Adv;ces from Arkansas state that the buff
fa'o gnats arc very destructive to stock. The
Dcs Arc paper says that over fifty horses were
killed in that vicinity last week.
n CoHSCleItCc StINhSu tAiSi ieiI AV.l VI
cloth worth $50, which was stolen at late
fire, in Warren, Maine, left it at the owners
door, labeled thus:
"Rum took this off, and Sober brought it
back"
AKu klux was killed in Hurricane Bot
tom, Mississippi, few nights ago, by me-
gro party.he with others was trying to fright
en-. His body was carried off next morning,
Among the ashes Of the Erie Railroad dis
as.er was found body, and on it was on &C
cident insurance ticket for $4,000, around
thing away, but leaving this, and thus idsn-
tifying the charred remains.
The aggregate poll for tho Presidency in
1856, was Abs. 1O7, in 1860, 1850, l95, in
1864; eleven States not voting, 4,34,739 and
it supposed that the next November election
it will be near 100000, in spite of the dis
reimbursement Of about 100000 whites.
An old bachelor in New York, offered 4
young lady pony for kiss; she gave it to
him the kiss the old cuss refused her the po-
ny, she sued him; he plead "no consideration
! the court decided that a kiss was legal con-
| sidcration, and made him 'pony," over,
| A young man name l Cunning was assass
mated near Vincennes on Sunday night, las
He was sitting in room conversing with q
young lady, when some one fired twice thro
the window, MORALLY wounding him. Ar
unsuccessful lover, named Byrne, has beer
arrested,
Miss Hester c. Payne, Dorchester, has JUS
recovered $4,000 from John Wrightson, fol
q breach Of promise of marriage, The par
ties are intensely respectable, and the deyel
opements at the trial, the local journals say.
was good as play.
AT Blairstown, on Monday, while Mrs.
Newton, tho wife Of one of the mill ers, in
company with another lady was lookin:
through the millof Hanford & Co., Mrs N
! gottoo close to one Of the shafts and her dress
caught in the cog wheels, and her leg was
drawn through and torn completely of up K
the knce and one Of her thumbs was alst
smashed. She lies in o vory critical condi
ton
| The New York World says, President John
son .'may be disposed, but not be di,graccd.'
So VIC may say rotten egg may be broken
but cannot be spoiled.
1t is stated that Mr.. Loaghridge Of thi'
State is preparing speech against the RICH
Of the Executiveto bind Congress by treaty
to pay money for purchas Of land.
/ Among the delegations from the Southern
States at the Chicago Convention will be sew
eral colored men.
The theory Of the deprsvity of human ma
ture is supported by the fact that passengers
who narrowly escaped frightful death in
the Port Jarvis disaster, Immediately SCI
about robbing their less unfortunate passen
gers. To the darkness of the night and hor,
ror Of the affair was added the hearf1ess vii.
lainy Of men, who, themselves barely escaped
with their lives, made that darkness and Lor.
ror convenience to pillagc.
Brick Pomeroys pc. name for the members
of the Young Mems Christian Association is
"long haired imps Of niggerism.
The Radicals have carried South Carolina.
by large majority, and North Carolina and
Georgia by small majorities. It is said that