The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-05-06
IOWA ITEMS.

The Des Moines fire loss Of last FRI
day night is estimated ut SlOO, 600.
The iron on the Iowa River Railroad
will be laid to Marshalltown by the
first of September next.
"Barrett's" Hair Restorative.
Iowa elects this year, a Governor, a
Lieutenant Governor, Judge of the
Supreme Court and a Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
"Barrett's' cheapest, purest, best.
Young ladies at Des Moines keep
lists of their beaux, and call the diaries
containing them their him books.
The refined Use "Barrett's."
A little girl at keokuk, Iowa, was
discovered recently giving trapeze per-
f0rmances in barn, before an admiring
audience of schoolfellows. They had
fitted up Il trapeze with an old clothes
line and a broom stick. The elevation
was twenty feet. The party was broken
up before anything else was bro
ken.
Competitors don't like "Barrctts"
The rats in Dubuque, Iowa, have
raised an important internal revenue
! question. Some two hundred dollars
worth OF stamps were pasted one day
upon whisky barrels, in Rhomberg's
distilery warehouse. The rats having
/ a taste for paste wherewith the stamps
were stuck on, ate them off, slick and
clean. Rhomberg won't pay for any
more stamps. the rats won't confess
Judgement and the whisky can't I've
sold without the insignia. An opinion
on rats is wanted from revenue head
quarters.
! On last Friday night, two misera-
BILE, cowardly wretchcs, placed obstruc-
tions on the track between Ames and
Ontario, on the c. 4 y. w. II. r., with
the intention of throwing the eastern
bound passenger train off the track.
a., The night Waterman OF the track was
! knocked down by these miscrcants. his
AK taken away from him, and his lamp
distinguished, and allowed to depart
, upon the promise that he would leave
, the track Instead of so doing, he cir
cled around and signalled the train and
saved it from wreck.
! "Barrctt's' too much for them.
The Land Grant Business.
! During the three weeks the Forty
! first Congress was in session there were
Introduced in the Senate and the House
of Representatives bills granting land
] and money to railroads, canals and
wagon roads to an unprecedented ex-
4 tent. The following estimate OF the
grants made 10y these bills has been pub
lished. by Senate bills:
To railroads l5l,52i,4M acres
! TO canals z, Al 30 acres
To wagon roads 1000 acres
The House bills propose to give:
To railroads 9iG6,ooo acres
T., canals Z, 2D0.OOO acres
Add senate bills Isl, 529.6W acres
Grand total isl,9i1,6l0 acres
In addition to these donations, the
Senate bills proposed to give in national
bonds 500, BOO, 900, and the House bills,
5000 900, or an aggregate of bonds OF
Sll4,3OO, 900 These do not include the
money and other subsidies to steamship
lines. Previous to this date the Gov.
eminent has donated for railways ls4,
sI3, 900 acres of land, or an extent OF
land equal to the surface of all New
England and the States of New York
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mary
land, Delaware, and Virginia. Fortu-
nately for the country, the President
may be relied upon to arrest, as far as
lie can conScenciously do SO, this whole
business of substituting private corpora
tons and personal interests. Chicago
Journal.
"Nhite Feather" The Shawnee
who will soon delivers course of lectures
in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, Oh tho
origin, customs, aud peculiarities Of the
American Indians. is quite II character.
He dresses in ancient Aztec style,
and sings in five different Indian dia-
lects.