The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-09-09
IOWA ITEMS.


show population Of l,Oll ,922, against
9O2, O43, in 1867.
The Linn county Fair began last
Tuesday, the 9th inst.
-. Norwood Clarke, Of Iowa City, is
the delegate from the Odd Fellows Of
Iowa to the Grand Lodge IN Califor-
MIA.
There is prospect Of railroad
bridge across the Mississippi at McGreg-
or.
The ErprcAs says potatoes are sell
ing in Montgomery county at twelve
and half cents bushel.
Fifty dollars reward is offered for
information leading to the conviction of
the incendiary who set fire to the Ger
man Catholic Church building in Iowa
City, a few weeks since.
First Hair Restorative by Barrett"
Several Muscatine damsels ("young
ladies' y says the journal have been
son-struck lately.
The State of Iowa, according to a
census recently taken 10y the Town
Assessors, contains a population of L.
oil ,952, being All increase of lO9,909 in
two years.
The Dubuque post of the Grand
Army Of the Republic has expended
over s., 600 for benevolent purposes, the
past year, distributed among disabled
soldiers, soldiers widows and orphans.
We are welded to "Barrett's."
"A "dead-weight Democrat" is the
term applied by the Washington Press
to Hon Geo. Gil,a>py. One seeing the
extended proportions of the burly Dem
Ocratic candidate, he would fee! inclined
to call him a ''iive weight animal"
They have q new name for the
Democratic drink ut Council Bluffs. A
person who is just about opening new
store, informs the Baglc that ''he will
open key of nails OH that day, and
hopes his friends will come and help
drink them"
In the Linn county Republican
nominating Convention, which met at
Marion last Saturday, SO far as factions
were opposed lead by Cedar Rapids VS..
Marion, the Rapidsites were uniformly
victorious.
The Muscatine Journal Of the Sd
inst. says: DAY before yesterday J..
Is. Hale, of the Muscatine FIGURING
Mills, shipped twenty barrels of flour
for Birmingham, England, via New
Orleans. 'How's that for high?'"
The Chicago Post says: 1.-THE
Iowa papers come to us with appoint
ments for political meetings, Attorney
General O'Connor, Ex-Governor Stone,
and congressman Loughridge and Pal
mer being the speakers announced in
pretty much of all portions of the Fourth
and Fifth Congressional Districts, with
promises Of appointments for speakers
in the other districts. Radical Iowa
never let's campaign so by default
and that IL one reason why it Is Radical
Iowa"
The sale of little red balloons was
brisk in our city last week. One young
gentleman Of our acquaintance. of two
years experience in this world, which
he supposes is made up of collie and can.
dy, was rendered momentariIy happy
with one of these balloons. Alas, it was
but for moment. The balloon go
loose and sailed aloft. After waiting
vainly for it to come back, as he though,
it certainly would do, III the manner q
kittens, after a little airy frolic, he was
terribly indignant because his mother
wouldn't go up after it.-Davenpor
Journal.
Six new Catholic Church edifcet
have been erected in Iowa during the
past year, through the instrumentaiity
Of the Rev. J, p. r. Murphy. These are
st. Mary's Church at Waverly; st
Bridget's at Leroy. Bremen county; St
Joseph's Waterloo, aud st. Patrick's a.
Eagle, in Blackhawk county; st