Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-02-23
ALL OVER IOWA.
Atlantic had = %, 900 fire lately.

Atlantic had . 5000 fire lately.
II cost s29,s7o.34 to run the
County Of Folk, during 1870.
The uuakcrs have sstsb lished .
College near Indhnoh.
In 1869 Iowa ba,lt $50 piles OF
railroad, and in 1870, OH.
Grand Junction wants the machine
shops OF the Des Moines Valley road
49,, 900 worth.
The students Of the State Univsr.
sty have organize Christian Asso.
| citation.
The Upper Iowa Methodist Uui.
versity, at Fayette, had 1876 students
during the Fall term.
A fire At Worthington, Dubuque
county, few weeks ago destroyed
property to the amount Of $4,000.
Gov. Stone lately made q trip
through the South looking for loca.
ton, but he has returned unsatisfied.
Wolves are very plenty in Della
ware county and sheep ars about as
unsafe there As though dogs were
plenty.
Published reports Of revlvals in
the State this winter gives an addi
tion OF over 10000 converts TO the.
churches.
Col. Shangle, Of Oskaloosa, has
been arrested and bound over to
Court, under 5000 bonds, on the
charge ot bigamy.
A. w. Stout, chap Of Grundy
county, who has been passing coun-
terleit money, was arrested on the
10th and taken. to Waterloo. On ex.
animation he was bound over to the
District Court.
A Normal School, continuing one
month, will be held at Cedar Falls,
com mencing April 8. Tuition Is
Board, Rooms and Lights can be hsa
At $3.50 per week. Prot. Jerome
Allen, assisted by Mrs. Randall, ct
N. Y, will have charge OF the school.
{. The Chicago & Iowa Railroad Co.
haze offered TO build a railroad from
Bellevue to Cascade il the citizens
vii! donate 100000. Cascade offers
10000 if Bellevue will give $4O, 900.
Mr.. John King, who started the
first paper ever printed in Iowa, the
Dubuque Visitor liz 1886, we be-
lieve). died At Dubuque Feb. Is. lie
has filed various county and city o.
fees, and was U. S. Circuit Judge
for Dubuque county (tten compcs-
ing half this Sta:e) when Iowa was
part OF the Territory OF Michigan.
The sum of all meanncss consist |
10 keeping "dccoy" for dogs and Il
supply Of hot water for scalding
them. Such has been the innocen,(?)
and interesting amusement OF Aay
in this town. The public vii! put
a rightful estimate upon such deeds
and snub A. lercr the perpetrator
Of them.-( New Hampton Courier
In Dubuque, recently, several
masked men took a'man to the out.
skirts of the city. and threatened to
hang him tor frequently beating his
n.iic. He promised 10 do better. and
they let him 90, but declared they
would yct hang him, it he ever did
tho like sgaiE. ..
A Mr.. Buckingham, residing near
Glenwood. Mile couIty, had whole
drove Of cattle stolen from his stock
field, and driven near Lincoln, Ne
braska and sold to = man n.med
Covcy.-The cattle were recove, cd
but the thieves had not been caught ,
at last accounts.
A Fort Dodge merchant. seeing
in the Dubuque Times the criticism
Of correspondent upon farmers who
run IN debt tor more farm machinery
than they can afford, asserts as the
result Of accurate calculation that
more money il paid out in Fort
Dodge yearly for Intoxicating liquors
and tobacco than the entire sum paid
out annually FOR agricultural impls-
mente.
The Fireman thinks that "Hamil.
ton county Is rich in resources. and
full Of generous hope and ambition.
OIr trees are not yet Quite IS big As
mammoth pines of Caliiornia-but
they are growing. D. b. Newton
informs IN that he saw cottonwood
stump some where on the river bot
tom, south OF town, that measured
over twenty-five feet in circumtsr.
encc, or about seven feet through
This, we claim, il > pretty good show
Tor a prairie country.
Some fsnd, in human form, has
| made two diabolical attempts to
throw the night express train in the
ditch, by placing rails on track at tho
wagon.road crossing east Of the
Round uouee. This infamous out
rage might have been successful, had
not il bsen detected by our over
watchfal railroad boys. No one IL
yet suspected ~ author Of the crime.
Hanging 10 too good for such .
wretch.-( Brooklyn Journal.
Gen. ]. II. Hedrick, Of Ottumwa,
has boon appointed Supervisor Of
Internal Revenue for the District
comprising Iowa, Minnesota and Ne
braska, vice Willis Drumm0nd, 3D.