The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-06-01
IOWA ITEMS.

and pasture fields i'll Washington
county.
Three hundred convicts attend the
Sabbath School in the Penitentiary nj
Fort Madison.
A Bee Keepers Convention is to be
held at Bloomfield on the 18th and 10Th
days of June.
The Republican County Convention
in k"okuk county, instructed its dele
gates to vote for Harry O. Conner for
Governor.
1t is idle to hunt for the mineral oils
or precious metal, in Iowa. They will
not be found in quantity sufficient to
repay the search.-Ibof. White, State
Geotogist.
Davenport, Rock Island aud Moline
united in the ceremonials Of Decoration
Day. Hon. J. W. Green, of Davenport
was the orator of the day.
The railroads are getting mixed up
with the county seat contest in Linn
county. The fight is about as furious a
one of the kind, as was ever known in
the state.
A shoe merchant in Maquoketa &C
cused u lady of stealing a pair of shoes
from his store-and the accusation has
cost him 500, that amount being the
damages awarded 10y jury.
a fire broke out in one of the large
Government Warehouses at Sioux City,
OH Tuesday, and came very near des
trcying vast quantities of army stores
and Indian supplies for Uncle Samuel.
In Marshalltown, the ladies go around
with their fellows, shopping, and buy
No. . shoes, aud then slip back next
morning aud trade them off for SIS,
which shows that they have u good
understanding.
Davenport has been constituted a sta
ton for governmental meteorological
observation-Geo. III. Richmond to be
the observer. If he observes to as good
advantage as the census taker did, the
government will receive reports of more
weather at Davenport tina" at any other
station in The United States. Dubuque
Paper.
We made mention the other day, that
there was girl in Oskaloosa, a worker
ill marble in her fathers shop. Now
the item comes back to US in the follow
ing shape from New York paper
Miss. Ella Moe, Of Oskaloosa, Iowa,
curls her hair like Winnie Ream, and
wants TO "sculp" u Congressman
State Register.
Sheriff E., of Delaware Co., some
years since was kicked by horse, aud
SO seriously injured that his life was
endangered. y neighboring minister
call upon the Sheriff, when he was
supposed to be near his end and asked
"Mr. T., are you prepared to so out OF
the world"'
The reply was not ambiguous.
II suppose so, but l don't want to be
kicked cut by id old mare.
The Mitchell County N'eus, in its
issue, publishes the letter of a CORES
pendent in st. An.gar, giving the
particulars of suit instituted under the
stallte referred to, by Mrs. John A.
Todd, of that place, against Charles
German, claiming damages to the
amount of $4,000 of him for selling
liquor TO her husband. The case was
tried before the Justice and q jury, and
resulted ia verdict Of damages for the
plaintiff Of 5000; not SO much az she
claimed, but enough to establish a
precedent for similar suits, under the
law, aud, let US hope, verdicts of more
exemplary damages.
A funny suit is on the civil docket of
Lee county. It was brought by George
Crow, of Van Buren, township, against
Frank Semple, a we'll known attorney
Of Lee county. Grow sues Semple for
"Barratiy," which, in common Ian.
guage, means melting and encouraging
quarreis and law suits. The statute of
his State renders attorneys liable in
civil action for triple damages to the
party aggrieved for the offense of Bar
ratry. Crow alleges that he has been
damaged by Sempie's stirring up quar-
r. Is and law suits against him. The
keokuk Constitution predicts that the
rial Of the case will not only be funny,
but one of the hardest fought battles
aver know II In the history of Lee county