Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-05-25

where it said that those old laws
were done away with. The husband
couldn't see it IN that light-hence
bis suit for divorce. The villain Ken
nison is about forty. FIVE years Of age,
strongly built, broad featured, heavy
jawed, with . dark complexion, dark
hair, and dark hazel eyes, and when
he left had chin and side whisker."-
The statement that the above-named
Kgnnison was a class leader is not
correct. He is brawIing declalmer
in the doctrine that man has NJ more
soul than dog
William Price is an Englishman.-
When in London he read that in Iowa
land could be bought tor from three
to fifteen dollars per acre. He came
to Iowa. landing at Burlington. He
stepped into the nearest saloon and
inquired theprice per acre OF land in
that vicinity. lie was told 900 to
$3.50. Pnce concluded he had been
sold" He determined not to stay
in lapd which had been 20 misrep
sented to him, and started East on
the same train, having been in Iowa
two hours I till 9 o'clock in
the evening. The price Of passage
from London to Burlington and back
is just what 1t costs an English cock
ney to learn common sense.
They have q remarkable surgeon
up at Tete des Mortes. A knife had
been. run into a child's breast when it
was four years old, leaving sore At
which the bad flesh was growing for
the past six months, and must have
soon destroyed the lungs. This sur
geon "cst through tie breast, extracted q
piece Of hard fungus fssh a. large az a
mans finger from the ls.gs OF the child
and in a days time the child was
about the house!" There, now. come
on With your crest Valentine Motifs
For further information, apply to the
jackson county Journal.
At Cedar Falls, according to the
Dubuque Herald, man bargained
for his wite's dishonor, and actually
arose from his bed IN the dead oi
night, and let in his fellow scoundrel,
who took his place at the side OF the
| sleeping woman. She was aroused
to q knowledge Of the strange vii
lian's presence. Then came q strug-
gle with him. The wite's screams
aroused the neighbors, who entered
the house, and saved her. Then the
plot was exposed.
The Standard tells story about a
double-yolked egg Matching out two
chickens on the Siamese twins pat.
tern. The !igament is attached to
the flesh Of their backs, q little below
the vertebrn, and the manner in
which i: has left the chicks throws
some light on the natural history OF
fowls in embryo, as they stand revers-
ed, head and tail. like cattle in a car
On the way to market. Their gait
when they travel is like that Of a re.
volving harrow.
The NonparelI relates q story oi
brutal violation OF person in Council
Bluffs. A villain decoying q woman
q stranger in the city in search u
work, into his house, violated her
person after a long and desperate
struggle in which she became over
powered by exhaustion. The wretch
was afterward arrested, tried, and
fined s25.
Mr.. Loomis, a victim of spinal
complaint, arrived in Upton, few
days since, from Nauvoo. Ill.,, having
been hauled the entire distance by
two Newfoundland dogs, which pull
ed him, in his small wagon, at the
rate Of eighteen miles per day.
The jury disagreed in the case of
Res. Hiram Knapp, on trial IN the
Floyd county court tor placing OBJ.
structions on the track OF the Mil
waukee d st. Paul road last Septem-
Der. Satan will find some mischief
still tor idle preachers to do.
The Sheriff of Cedar county had q
chase after couple Of burglars, the
other day, and brought one Of them
down with his revolver. The other
escaped. They had stolen about four
hundred dollars worth Of stuff from
stores at Mechanicsvllle.
The workshops of the Iowa Gen.
trail Railroad have been located at
Marshalltown, whose people give
S45. 900 and forty acres OF land ad.
joining the city near the depot, for
them. The whole is equivalent to
about 100000.
The Indianola Journal says: "H.
D. Vanpelt has in this county over
700 cattle. On last Tuesday he ship
ped to Chicago $50 head, the average
price Of the number making them
worth $50 apiece-total value Of the
$50, s2S, 800.
Daniel Davis, who came to Rock
ingham, Scott county, thirty-one years
ago, and two years afterwards remov-
ed to Upton, Cedar county, died 1T
the latter place recently, aged sixty.
one years. He Was = native OF Ver-
mont.
There has been great fall Of
wheat at fairfield. The side Of an
elevator fell out and let four thous.
aud bushels down-No. l, No. 2, No.
5, and rejected" all in pile.
A farmer in Lucas county ascer-
tanned last week, that eating May zap
pie plants as greens, is a retch-ed op.
Grafton. 1t nearly took the life ou:
OF him.
The Keokuk Constitution has dis
covered a new bed Of gypsum in
Iowa. 1t is "in the center OF Nan-