The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1870-05-26
IOWA ITEMS.

people of Prairie CITY, Jasper county, at
fifty cents per wagon load.
Barrett's indispensable Hair Restora-
tive.
DR.. E. A. Guilbert, Of Dubuque, Sec
retary Of the Iowa State Homeopathic
Medical Society, has issued call for
meeting of that body, at Des Moines,
Tuesday, May 3lst. The large increase
in the number of Homeopathic physi-
clans in Iowa, the improved facilities for
inter communication, and the growing
necessities of the profession, are urged
as considerations which should induce
the attendance of every practitioner of
that school in the State No regular
meeting of this society HAS been had
since 1862.
All BARRIERS use Barrett's.
Mr.. Thompson, Treasurer Of Musca-
tine county, has asked to be relieved
from collecting the bond tax because he
has been repeatedly told that it could
not be collected without violent resis-
lance.
Barrett's took the Silver Medal.
At Marion, the other day, a jailbird es-
capped. The Sheriff put after him, and
soon, with the hair Of the prisoner in
one hand and his pocket companion in
the other, he marched triumphantly to
his place Of abode-the boarding house
of the prisoner says the Register
Unique, decidedly.
Barrett's keeps the scalp clean.
A Burlington lady has advanced so
far in woman's rights as to go to the
BARRIERS regularly to be shaved.
Col. Ambercrombie of Burlington
now blind-a hero of two wars-has
been placed on the roll of national
pensioners.
Barrett's don't stain the skin.
Iowa is classed among the seven leap
ing stock raising States in the report of
the Agricultural Department.
The amount of Parsons College fund
is 100000. Cedar Rapids adds 500, 900.
1t is expected that the institution will
start on a basis OF $50 900.
Judge Dillon decides, and Judge Love
concurs in the decision, that the law of
the last session of the General Assem-
bly, requiring county Treasurers to col
lect lower rate of interest on railroad
bond taxes delinquent than on other
taxes to be unconstitutional.
Last Thursday morning between the
hours Of one and five, six prisoners es-
capped from Polk county Jail They
were all confined in one large cell, in
the center Of the Jail. They got out by
digging a hole through brick partition
wall, crawling through the hole Oh top
of an iron cage, and there with piece
of that iron cages lock, which they had
previously broken off, digging the &C.
ment from between the ceiling and the
floor overhead which let them to the
wooden floor Of the Recorders office
This wooden floor they burned through
by holding burning corn shucks on a
board up against it. AS soon as hole
was burned through they stuck their
iron lever in and in that way raised the
boards and were soon in the free air
again.
Miss Callie Cline, a young lady en-
gagged for four years in the Centreville
.Loyal Ctize,, office, was married few
days since. That paper advertises for
another young lady of solid sense, and
not marriageable for three or four
years. to take Miss Cline's place in the
office.
The Iowa Board of Emigration met at
Des Moines on Wednesday of last week,
all present except one. Most of the ses-
feasibility of cooperating with the rail-
roads in carrying out the objects of the
Board.
The Washington Press says "ever-
green's are dying everywhere. One
Iowa nurseryman has burned 10000
trees which he expected to sell this
spring. His theory is that they were
froze past recovery in the late snow
storm, which clad the trees in ice just
when tie sap had gone up and charged
stems and twigs."
The case of Thos. Fluke, ex-Treas-
urer of Scott county, vs.. Richardson
Bros, of the Davenport Democrat, for
libel in charging him with embezzle-
ment, and claiming fifteen thousand
dollars damages, was decided in the
District Court at Davenport, last Satur.
day, by the jury returned a verdict fol
plaintiff with one dollar damages.
The Washington Press says: "a wo
man of this place showed her rights
one day last week, by rushing into 6
saloon and dashing down the glass OF
beer which her guzzling lord had just
raised to his lips, and, with lightning il
her eyes, she defied the boy to give him
another glass, and challenged hubby tt
drink another. He didn't accept, ant
soon left, q sadder and madder man."
A family named Pereau, in keokui
county, has been strangely afflicted
Three children died with scarlet fever