The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-02-19
IOWA ITEMS.

Jones county is taxed ISL, ST.
10.
i Lead has been found on the Paint
Creek bottom in Alamakce Co.
+ On Saturday evening, the 3Oth
ult., an attempt was made to muir
! der Mr.. J. Blackwell, postmaster
of Rock Grove City, Iowa. He
was sitting by the stove in his office,
or rather had just risen to stir the
fire, when the shot was fired at his
accustomed place Of rest. The
momentary movement saved his life.
The freight business Of the Du,
buque Il South Western railroad
for 1868, amountedto S144, $50. sc.
! Our masonic brethren of Wyom-
ing, county, propose to celebrate
Washington's birth day with a
festival and grafton.
Osceola, Clarke county, is in
trouble; it owes just $500 and
can't pay it.
Thos. Wardall. of Mitchell county
! writes to the Iowa Home stead that
many of the oat fields in that vicini-
ty yielded as high as ninety FIVE
bushels.
There were few In this county
that yielded as high as two thou
sand bushels.
In Des Moines, the Capital Of the
Radical State of Iowa, that taxes
it's people. directly and indirectly,
millions annually to feed, educate,
clothc, and furnish fuel for niggers,
bright little boy three years old,
the son of a poor invalid widow,
froze both its feet one night last
week owing to insufficicncy of bed
ding and the inability of its invalid
mother to furnish coal. Shame on
radical Iowa, and hypocritical DAs
Moines, weeping over niggerS11f-
fcring in the South and it's own IN
FAINT children freezing.
One hundred and eighty-onc
bushels of wheat from nine bushels
Of sowing, in Marshal county
| Hoosic seed and deep blowing did
it.
Thirty-three bushels from half a
bushels sowing in this county
Russian seed and good tillage did
the work. Our friend Joseph Scha-
fer is the farmer entitled to the
credit.
Cattle are still dying off in Mar
shall county in unusual numbers
supposed from corn stalk smut.
The people of Brighton are wide
awake for the extension Of the
Washington branch of the Chicago,
Rock Island Il Pacific read via that
place.
Miss Spencer, a Maquoketa school
teacher, has been fined S. 90 for
thrashing boy that deserved it.
An Illinois COW. weighing 1870
pounds, sold in Kcokuk for 1925.
Plat Smith has resigned his d.
rector ship in the Dunleith and
Dubuque bridge company.
S330,OOO worth Of agricultural!
indictments sold in Cedar Falls last
year.
The Workingmcns Building SO.
ciety Of Burlington, effected loans
last year to amount Of S2S, 900,
furnishing 40 of its members with
homestcads. The Argus says that
the profits on $24, 900 stock paid
wore $249, after paying all expen-
ses for outfits.
Right Of way has already been
secured through Kcokuk county for
the G. II. |. & ?. Branch extern
sion.
1864 cars were shipped from
Clinton on the Northwestern Road
last year-2l, l3S of which were
empty.
The Journal says that Muscatinc
J has scarcely grocery store that is
} not infested by habitual loafers.
A young man in Jefferson county
who got engaged to two ladies. and
couldn't marry but one of them, got
, licked like fury by a "big brother. -
An Illinois farmer has moved to
, Grundy county, in this state, and
bought 1000 acres Of land, which he
will break up the coming season.
The immigration to Iowa just nov
is immense
The Glenwood Opinion, from tht
vast amount of work Gone on that enc
!, IF the line regards it as certain tn
b. g. NJ. road will run through
Q traias from Burlington to Glenwoot
0 before the leaves of the forest shall
fall, nippcd by the frosts OF anothe
autumn.
The Chicago Times, says: TIL
: people of Muscatine. Iowa, hav'
0 been indulging in the farce Of o.
d election to decide who shall b
8 postmaster. They will learn wit
9 is elected wh:n President Grant
sends bis name to the senate The