The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-07-22
IOWA ITEMS.


i u "BaFfettyr Hair Restorative. ..'z'T''77'
Dan Rice'sown Circus has been per
forming IN the lows cities along the
River. sR
The Cedar Rapids Times says that
one gentleman near that city picked
800 quarts of strawberries from one
eighth Of an acre this year.
-Onthe l2th Instant ! Mr.. Thomas
d. Moore was instantly killed at Mus.
catine by stroke Of lightning.
The creditors of the city Of Musca-
tine refuse to make any compromise
whatever upon her railroad bond in-
debtedness. "@@ .-5 R@G
"Barrett's" produces luxuriant hair.
--(asn. Frank j. Heron formerly of
Iowa, was married ut New Orleans on
the 10th to Addie Millroy Flash, one Of
the most iashing Of New Orleans beau-
tiful widows. '....3 ..
The following have been added to
the money order Offices in this State !:
-Adel. Algona, Belle Plaine, Center
vile. Clermont, Pennington, Fonta-
nellie, Guttenburg, Hampton, Monticello
and Quincy.
''Barrett's" supplies every wish.
The editors Of the Davenport DEM
Ocrdt have been sued for libel by Thorn
as K, Fluke, exTreasurer of Scott
county, who claims Sl5. 900 damages be-
cause the Democrat intimated that he
was a defaulter. .r-.
MFR. johnson got his thumb caught
in q groove pulley, ut u Muscatine mill,
on the 18th, and attempting to jerk it
away tore Oft about half of his thumb,
and pulled out about ten inches of one
of the leaders of his arm.
The Temperance Standard, the Or
gan Of the Good Tempiars, says it sees
no necessity Of Temperance party,
but thinks the right way is to purify
the present political organizations by
infusing the temperance element into
them. -
The Davenport Gazette Is requested
to say that the catalogue of the State
University will be issued by the nth of
| August. Any persons in Iowa, or out of
Iowa, who Wish copy, will please ad-
dress the President, DR.. Black, or any
ofthe Faculty. aud copy will be sent
by return mail.
John Flynn, an express messenger
in Dubuque, while receiving goods ut
the depot, on the 10th, was seriously
wounded by the accidental discharge Of
4 revolver In package he was handling.
The revolver had passed through the
hands of eight different messengers be-
fore reaching Dubuque.
Don't ruin your hair, use 'Barrett's. "
Alexander Clark Of NIuscatine, one
Of the most highly respectable aud in.
huential colored citizens of Iowa, was
elected Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge Of A. r. and a. NJ, (coIoret) for
the jurisdiction compOsed of the States
Of Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Arkan-
sas and Nebraska.
-Davenporters have been much exer.
cised of late upon the subject Of liccns.
ing saloons. The City Dads first fixed
the license at $3.50, but the hue and cry
Of injustice, unequal and discriminat "
taxation was SO great that they were
obliged to come down to $50. ~rs--
The Dubuque Times says Mr.. Reb-
man secured contract from tile City
Council to cut down the trees in jack
son Square, in that city, and reduce it tn
proper grade. Several hundred of the
early settlers Of Dubuque were buried
in the Square, aud Mr.. Rebman, in
prosecuting his work, has unearthed
the remains, aud the bones If the pio-
neeridead are kicked about aud scatter.
ed over the ground, or made the sport OF
thoughtless boys.
The favorite Of beauty, "Barrett's."
"A boy offifteen stole q mule ut New
ton, on the 10th, and was pursued and
captured by the Marshal, near Prairie
City. The youngster gave his name rs
George Bircher,- he had travelled
all the way from Utica, New York, on u
capital of AZ cents. When near Colfax
the boy suddenly jumped from the
train, landing in the mud, swan across
Skunk, and got away, but was after
wards captured by the Sheriff Of Story
county, and returned to Newton.
"A dispatch from Davenport to the
Chicago Journal, dared July 10th, runs
rs follows:
Never in the known history of this
section of country has it been, at this
season, visited with such incessant rains
As for the last two weeks. There has
not been, think 1 can safely say, an
interval Of six hours in which We have
not been visited by rainstorm within
the last twelve days. The roads are
The strong winds have Frustrated the
early wheat and barley, and am in
formed that many fields of barley in
this county are rotting in the head.
There has not been u train on time into
this place this week-all attributable to
the condition of the roads.
The State Register says that on "the
9th inst, Jas. McQuinn, Of Benton
county, member Of the Iowa Legisla-
ture from that county in 1862, and now
President of the Board of Trustees OF
the Blind Asylum, at V!nton, was ar.
rested on charge Of having murdered
\ young married man named Hodges
last winter, by poisoning him. Early
In the winter, Hodges house was
burned, and McQuinn invited him ia
go home with him, which he did. Soon
after, Hodges was taken sick was kind
~ cared for by McQuinn physician
was called, and some Dovers powders
left, which some one changed for ARISEN
ic, causing his death. Suspicious were
raised after burial that all was not right
the body was exhumed. post morton,
made, aud traces Of arsenic found in the
stomach. McQuinn was at once arrest.
ed and placed under bonds. His friend.
entertain hopes Of clearing him from all
suspicion Of the crime"
!
The question rs to the ownership of the
SO called JEFF. Davis mansion, In Rich.
m0Hd. is sl,Dm to be brought into court
It was bought by the city, IN 1861, 70,
$47. 600. with the intention Of giving i,