The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-06-04
IOWA ITEMS.

,, Of the National Executive Committee
for Iowa as Joshua Fletcher. 1t should
have been Joshua Tracy, OF Burlington.
The city of Keokuk has granted the
Keokuk and Hamilton City and Han
cock County Bridge Companies the right
of way over the levee for the approaches
of a railroad highway and passenger
bridge over the Mississippi.
About three weeks ago, u man
named Horn and Miss Green arrived
in Des Moines from Montrose, and
were the same day married by Rev. Mr..
Ingals. The next morning the bride
wrote letter to her parents, which the
husband deposited in the post office.
Since that time he has not been seen or
heard of by his wife. He had with him
about four hundred dollars, and the two
were on their way to Nebraska. 1t is
feared that he has been foulIy dealt
| with. "s#s ..a
More than $1,000 acres of land have
passed into the hands of actual settlers
in Boone county this spring. About 70,
900 acres will be put under cultivation
this year in excess Of any other season.
There is a child living in Carroll
county whose hands and feet are COM
pletely webbed together, and a continue
Gus nail around the fingers instead of
| the usual number; each foot has seven
| toes, and are dubbed besides. They ex-
pect to perform a surgical operation up
on the latter case As soon as practicable.
The Muscatine Journal desires the
press of Iowa to ask Information rela-
tive to the whereabouts of one James
Quinby of Orono township, Muscatine
! county, who left home with wagon
and team, for market as he said, and.
has not since been heard Of His team
consisted of light gray mare and dark
iron gray horse. He also took with
him bay team of mules. Quipby was
a man about tifty-eight years old, five
feet eight inches high, with dark eyes
and hair. He leaves wife and seven
children. Any information on this
subject, either by letter or newspaper,
will be thankfully received by Mrs
Quinby. - .'s.~.
The Newton Republican says that
during the past winter and spring there
has been q circus fitting out in Newton,
and is now starting out in the world for
; regular business.
The Des Moines Register jubilates
over the fact that ripe strawberries were
picked in the garden of one of its citi-
Zens, last week.
The Des Moines Statesman reports
that the c. r. l. 4 p. Railroad is now
completed west of that city fifteen miles.
The bridge across Coon river is framed
and will be at once put up.
General Grant was leather dealer
when the war broke out. He contin-
ued in the business by leathcring the
rebels, anu hes now undertaken the job
Of giving the Democrats good leather
ing. There is nothing like leather,
Semmes gave his series of lectures Oh
the Alabama in New Orleans last week
He is reported to have said that he
often felt mournful and sad to de-
stroy vessels as he did" He also as
serted that in his career he met no one
but Democrats, with one exception, and
that man stuck to it that he was " a
Lincoln man all over.'
The terms of the seven Republican
J Senators voting not guilty" on the
eleventh article of Impeachment, expire
! f1II
Grimes, Of Iowa, 1871 Henderson, of
Missouri, 1869; Ross, of Kansas, 1871:
Trumbull, of Illinois, 1878; Van Win
kle, of West Virginia, 1869.
TIE CANVASS IN IowA.-Peter Mel
endy, the live man at the head of the
Republican State Executive Committee
is making complete preparations for the
thorough canvass of the State. Besides
the brilliant array ofhome speakers, he
has secured the services of General J. A.
Logan, General Carl Schurz, General
Palmer, the Republican candidate for
Governor Of Illinois, Senator Pomerov,
Of Kansas, and Fred Hassaurek, of Ohio
and Is making arrangements with other
orators of equally great renown.
The Sac Press, one of the leading
Democratic papers o. the State, in speak
ing of the State officers being nominated
on the Republican ticket, says that, zen
f joying personal acquaintance with
those gentlemen, we know them to be
gentlemen ALL" but thinks on account
of the party to which they belong, they
will be defeated. There is no danger of
the Republican party, which is known
, to be larger in the majority, throwing
aside men of whom even the Democrats
/ are compelled to speak in such flattering
terms.
! The Ames ItcRector states that a
= little boy six years ofage, by the name
John Engler, living at short dis
tanee from Ames came to his death on
"Wednesday last, by being hung in the
window Of school hause. He was try.
i ing to get through the window when il
= fell, fastening him down SO that he could
not eHtRicate himself, and no one being