Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-11-23
ALL OVER low A.
Abba has a flax mill.

There are &C, 162 Germans in Iowa,
Of whom about III, 900 are voters.
The prairie fires in Clay and En-
met counties did $4,000 damages.
a company has been organized, at
Council Bluffs, for manc.icturing pa
per.
Fifty thousand dollars were ex-
pended in buildings in Washington
the past season.
John J.. Hall, Of Muscatine. COM
mitted suicide on the 10Th. Gamb-
ling was the cause.
Horse thieves have been recour-
noitering Cedar Rapids stabies.--
| No horses stolen yet.
The Independent Is the name Of
| paper just started at Clarence, Cedar
county,-E. l.. Derby Publisher.
There are eight lady students IN
regular attendance at the Medical
Department OF the State University.
Coy. Merrill is to lay the corner
stone of the new Capitol, on the 23d
inst. He will also deliver the address.
The Nevada Representative says that
the County Teachers Institute was
attended by a magnifccntl corpse
OF teachers.
RoaoIphus Bennett, the first
Mayor OF Davenport having been
elected in 1889. died on the 10Th,
aged Z years.
Cedar Falls will have a Musical
Convention, commencing December
T.. 1t will be conducted by Prof.
Palmer, Of Chicago. r. e' 30 Ria
Iowa Falls wants the Northern
Iowa Normal School. 1t promises
s75, geo in grounds, building material,
&c, to aid the State in building the
institution.
The .irst mile and a half Of y 1r-
row-Gaayc railroad Fever graded in
Iowa. was the work Of Mr. Putnam,
of GirarI, upon the MuGregpr d
Waterloo railroad.
A fire in Dcs Moines Sunday NOM
my destroyed the gro;cry store Of
James Harlan. The building and
stock was worth $500, wh,cl was
nearly covered by insurance,
Col. w T.. Ncstal, of the Storm
Lake Plot, Is candidate ior the
FIRST Assistant Secretary OF TIE Iowa
Senate. Raymond, OF the Hampton
Free Press, will be 4 can liaatc for
Ser-cant-at Arms
The Sabula, Ackley s. Dakota
railroad has been completed, and the
ears are running to Big Rock, in the
edge OF Scott comfy. The Upton
-darrttssr says that the frs, shipment
from Big Rock, OF seven car load of
hogs, was made or the lIth.
The city Of Des MoInes is expect.
ed to bear the expense OF the ccre-
monies OF laying the corner stone OF
tie new capitol. on the 23d Inst.
The city is heavily in debt, and las
been called on so frequently Tor pub
lie expenditures that her finances are
getting in a bad way, and her tax
payers are becoming FESTIVE under
their burdens. However, it is an
old adagc that those "who dance
must pay the flllers." Des Mo;nas
is 70 have new capitol. and must,
pay something for 1t.
The Presbyterian Church in Iowa,
for the year ending May. 1871, re.
ports as follows: Two Synods, eight
preshy,er,es, a06 churches, SIG min
tiers, Q lleentia.es, So candidates tor
the ministry, 1913 members added
by profession, and 1886 by cer,iii-
cate. Total membership, 1891.
Children in Sabbath School, Is ,i23.
Contributed for benevolent objects
OF the church, sl3,4aas for congrega-
tional and other purposes. sl46,s3i
Total contributions, Sl60,26S. Aver
age per member, Sl0.72 The aver.
age ofall moneys raised b. the whole
Presbyterian body III the country is
much larger than this. amounting TO
1907 tor each communicate.
Last Wednesday afternoon while
Owen Fec, Of lincoln township, was
at work in his field he was approach
edaby two men by the name OF Leslie
and Morrison, who demanded some
money that they canned he owed
them Mr.. Fee told them he would
pay them rs soon as the receipts
could be made out. A few more
words We're passed when they struck
him and knocked him down. He
has no recollection OF what happened
for several minutes, being III Il sense
less condition, but when he came to
himself again he found the villains
had robbed him OF about one hun.
drcd dollars and He'd. Mr.. Fec cot
up and attempted 10 60 to the house
but had to lie down again. His fam
lily discovering something wrong.
went out an! got him home. j. J,
Royce, OF this city, is after the men.
DR.. Van Der Vaart, Of Cedar Falls,
was sent Tor immediately. who ex.
ahmed b,m and coull f;u.l ~, .r,,..