Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-05-18

beautiful, silver lite pass to w. B
Shattuck, who has been the Treas
urer and Financial Agent Of the Com
pany since its organization. The to
ker: is Of sterling c"in, y by 4 mchel
in slxe, and bears the following in
scription:
1.-THE Central Railroad of Iowa
Good for the lifetime OF w. B. Shat
tuck, Esq. Presented to HIM by III,
Directors Of this Road, in apprecia
ton OF his late services IS Treasurer
in selling their securities. Conduc
tors will pass w. 3. Shattuck and
family whenever this pass is present
ed by him IN person
G. z. GILMAN,
"Pres. and Gen. Supt.
"April I, 1871"
Last week = couple Of boys, age1
ten and twelve years, came near max
ing Cedar Falls . hot place. The,
went to the two stores and bough,
matches and q gallon Of kerosene on
the credit OF the father Of one OF them
and then went to . pile Of boxes and
lumber in the rear of store, and
scattering the kerosene. set them on
fire. They then took the precaution
to knock the bottom out Of y well
bucket on the premises. The noise
Of the pounding attracted the store
proprietor, who stepped out and dis.
covered the FIRE just In time to save
his own properly and . good deal OF
other peoples. Failing here, the
boys ran of and fired . straw pile in
> livery yard, but few feet from q
frame barn, and were detected in the
act.
Tho Advocate reports the elope-
ment in Floyd county OF . married
woman, the wife Of William Edwards,
with . young man. The clipping pair
took with them the two younge.t
one PAIR Of horses and way.
on. the larger portion OF the house
snd table linen, three feather beds
with quilts and coverllds. the fitting
up OF the pantry, oil OF the carpets,
and part OF the household furniture;
besides part Of load Of wheat from
the Creamery. The deserted husband
was asleep in the back room at the
time they were leaving the house. It
has since transpired that she and her
had contemplated III case
Mr.. Edwards awoke and came out,
to gag and bind him and leave him in
that condition in the house.
The Cedar Rapids Observer tells .
good story: "A gentleman Of Mar.
on lately went into the surrounding
to get signatures to the IRE.
Finding argument vain
he struck for sympathy thusly =
"Why," said he, "if you remove the
county seat, You take the bread Of
our ehildren-yes, you take the very
chemisS from our woman's back. -
That turned the scale. What man
with . soul could resist such an up.
peal? II that will really be tae re-
suit Of removal" we perhaps would
sign Remembrance" But by the
way, hadn't that remembrance better
be called "the anti. chemiss removal"
remonstrance Eth? ?"
The Maquoketa Excelsior tells how
it didn't pay q store. keeper in that
town to accuse lady Of stealing:
ION Monday last merchant Of our
city accused one OF the most respec.
table ladies' Of the community Of
stealing pair OF shoes, and this with
no sort of evidence except that she
had been in bis store some time pre-.
vious to his missing them. The hus.
band of the lady, justly indignant at
the outrage, commenced proceedings
for Islander, and on Wednesday morn
ing had the stock Of the merchant
seized under an attachment, and now
the dealer in clothing, boots and
shoes, &C., is virtually out of bust.
ness"
The State Temperance Convention
in session at Webster City the past
week, did bat little that is OF public
Importance. The most notable trans
action was the appointment Of com.
mittee TO confer and call State TEN
persnce meeting to organize State
Temperance society. This commit
tee is composed of w. +. McCarron
on the part of the Sons OF Temper
ance: Isaac Brandt, on the part OF the
Good Templars; +. r. Erwin, on the
part of the press; and Hon. Hiram
Price and Rev. Mr.. Plat, on the par
Of the rest Of the people. This is I
good step in tho cold.water direction
The burglars who robbed III,
Clarke county safe at Osceola, . few
nights since, escaped from q room il
the Osceola House. in which the,
were confined, one night last week
having fooled their guard nicely
They unloosed their shackles witt
wire which they took from . broom
Just out of town they stole . coupl
u uOTpSU, anu luTtOeT on U8OOle0 u
ride them with, and went on their We,
rejoicing.
Thomas Thompson, an inhuentis
merchant Of Berlin, Wis. recentl
visited Hancock and Winnebag
counties, IS the agent OF Norwegian
who wish to settle in Iowa. The re
result is, colony OF from sixty t
one hundred OF those people ar
about to remove from Wisconsin an,
locate in the counties named, TO b
joined ere long by large number .
relatives and friends from Norway
| A brakeman on the B. q NJ. Rail
road was promoted last week to tn
position OF freight conductor. Satur
day evening he remarked to hi
friends that he was "doing his las
switshing.' Sure enough. In . f.,
minutes the train came backing ur