Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-02-16
We learn from the DesMoincs Reg.

III Fott DOuge. as We'll Us lic CDull-
ties northwest, about the removal Of
the Land Office from that place to
Des Moines. 1t is asserted that the
proceeding will ruin two thousand
families, on account Of their being
obliged to go,to Des Moines to prove
up. Remonstrances are in circula-
'tion all over the land district and mp
to Saturday evening last over ten
thousand names had been procured.
The Department considered they
were authorized in taking this course
because the public lands in the Dis
trict, it was alleged, have been re
duced below 100000 acres. This
point is denied, as it Is thought $780,
900 acres still belong to the United
States. The effort will be strong
one, however, to get a revocation Of
the order. 1t is reported that the
affairs Of the Office arc in q muddled
condition, being more than a month
behind, and that the Land Register
is now in Washington. Davenport
Gazette.
The Benton Eagle says that the
Marshal of Blairstown found q lot Of
cattle in the streets of his city, in
violation to the city ordinance. He
securely locked them upin the pound.
This occurred after night fall. Some
time after he discovered, as he sup
posed, another lot, and secured them
with the first. Before retiring for
the night he found lot number three,
and wondered that there were 50
many cattle abroad, but, faithful Of
ficer as he was, he locked these up
with the others. In the morning he
went to take look at his extensive
herd. when his disgust may be i'm.
agined on finding his pound empty.
A "breech in the ramparts" hal al
lowed the cattle to pass through and
reappear on his beat, and he lad
carefully locked up the same animals
three times, but found none OF them
''in" at morning call. He threw up
his commission in disgust, and retir.
cd to private life.
The Waterloo Courier also has
joined the hue and cry raised by the
Cedar Falls Gazette. 1t, also, is dis
posed 10 quarrel with the Nashus
Post for daring to intimate that pos.
sibly Gov. Merrill may be wanted
to occupy tie Gnbernatorisl Chair
for two years more and falls to abus-
ing his Eycellency in a highly i'm
proper snl most undignifed way
This sheet, too, we hand over to the
Post, and trust both it aud its loving
neighbor, the Gazette, may be re-
buked in fitting terms for their dis
graceful journalism. The spirit of
"Black- Hawk seems aroused, and
Indian qualities are being rather free.
ly initiated. As for the Governor,
we would advise him to travel round
Cedar Falls and Waterloo, until 'thc
Gazette and Courier get calm. Their
war-whoop sounds dangerous!-
Davenport Gazette.
It is reported that the Second As
sistant Postmaster General, Gen.
Giles A. Smith, has received bid
from A. E. Haskell, Esq, of Fort
Dodge, for carrying the mails between
S.ouz City and Yankton, a distance
of sixty FIVE miles. daily each way,
for one cent year for the next. four
years. Mr. Haskell moreover agrees
to '.set aside and appropriate all that
remains. after deducting fines. &c.
fo.. failures to connect, toward the
payment Of the natlohal debt in
Cured during the late unjust and un-
holy rebellion 1t is also stated that
General Smith has awarded him the
contract. He also wrote him sa, ing,
Your efforts toward liquidating the
national debt are truly commenda-
ble!'
The Fort Dodge North est hears
it stated Of Jas. f. Wilson, that
"whlle he was in Washington, sever.
al weeks ago, he was rendered by the
President an appointment commen-
snrate with his high merit and un-
bounded popularity, but that he re-
Piled that, III the best office in the
gift OF the Administration were box.
ed up and sent Ont to Fairfield By cx-
press, he wouldn't pay charges on it!'
So Jim is now simply President of
the Fairfield Coal Company, and
every friend who reads this para
graph will join us in the hope that
he Is prospcring.n
And old gent, named Jenison, in
Wapello county, was Informed last
week that he was wanted across the
water to take possession of 100000
600 in England. The Courier says:
he scratched his head and finally
said i can't see how can 60 now
I've got this barn to finish" Theirs
consc:entiousness for you! He had
contracted to build the barn aud the
ten millions must wa 1t till the job is
completed" There is no humbug
about the estate.
The Washington Press says that
on Monday Mr.. Benjamin Ingman,
of Clay township. Washington Co.,
committed suicide on Sunday by
Jumping head-foremost into a we'll on
his premises. last fall, while stow.
ing away corn in loft he tell several
feet, struck on head and shoulders,
and was unconscious some time II
is believed that that injury is the
primary and exciting cause of the
suicide.
Horrible brutality in the treatment
OF a child has been discovered Ia
Franklin townships, Bremen coeuty.
A man named John Link, assisted by
his second wife, treated boy (chill
Of Links first wite) with so much
cruelty, that when toaad by the
townseip trustees his body was black
and blue, his feet were frozen. he was
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