The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-05-18

Cedar falis is purchasing O,UOU steam
fire engine.
The crop prospects in Carroll county
are first rate.
Senator Dixon, of Mahaska county,
has an orchard Of II 900 apple trees.
Prof. Hinrichs decides that the Cedar
county silver ore contains no silver
whatever.
We learn from the Eagle that the wife
of Hon. James McQuin, Of Benton
county, died last week.
Nilsson sings at the Burtis Opera
House ia Davenport On Monday even
ing next.
Aquilla Lawrance, who k illed Antoin,
was on Tuesday last at Burlington,
sentenced by Judge Tracy, to ten years
imprisonment, for manslaughter, as we
learn from the Hu,rkeye.
Rev. f. X. Young, Of the Main Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, in Dn-
buque, has had call from the Wabash
Avenue Church in Chicago, at salary
of $500 and parsonage-Rev. Mr.. Hat
field having removed to Cincinnati
Mr.. Young has declined, on account Of
i'll health.
The Iowa State Capitol Commissioners
met at Des Moines, last Friday, aud
awarded the contract for the founda.
ton stone for the new State House to
futile & Robertson, of Des Moines.
The contract price, on the average, is
SO % per cubic yard. The quarry is in
Dallas county, fifty miles west of Des
Moines.
The Cedar Rapids Times illustrates
the route of the s., A. g. ID. railroad
though Cedar county with a map that
beats Mark Twain's map of Paris. Ac'
cording to it the road has seven terminl
in the county at as many different points
of tho compass. The thing 10 an
electioneering docment against Marion
and severe CIT it is too.
A queer case came up in Iowa City re
Gently. Don't blush and Well tell it
A man greatly in debt ran away leaving
his property in his wife's hands. A
creditor urged his claims and she prom
ised to lay him, but the creditor satisfi
ed that he could not recover pay for the
debt in money, made a proposition te
cancel it on condition the wife would
give him her unborn babe-to the birth
Of which she was looking in few
weeks-should it prove to be a 10y
The mother agreed. A contract wa.
entered into. The babe proved to be 4
boy, and the creditor demands him on
the contract. The mother declines &c
give up her child (of course). The
creditor proposes to bring suit fer his
recovery. So says the Tribune.
The Sabula, Ackley & Dakota Rail,
road appears to have an uncertain loca'
ton, if as yet, any at all. Some time
back, it was our impression that the line
was to run from Marion, in Linn county,
eastward to Rome, on the Wapsie,
thence down the valley of the river to
Oxford Mills, thence through the south
ern part of the townships Of Sharon and
Bloomfield in Clinton county, and
thence to Sabula, on the Mississippi
| This, of course, goes south of Maquok eta
Wyoming and Anamosa six or eight
miles, d route that is occupied by the
| Midland from Clinton. The line indi-
Gated above is quite direct from Marion
to Sabnla-more direct, indeed, than by
going through the densely populated
localities mentioned; and, it has always
seemed that 1t would have to be occupied
on account of its being intermediate to
the Midland and Northwestern, if the
s., A. & Dakota road expects any local
business as far west as Marion.