The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-03-30
IOWA ITEMS.

On tombstone ut Burlington is the
following Inscription:
Here lie four blessed babies more's the
pity,
Two ia this yard and two in Iowa City.
A horse got SO stuck in the mud Oh
the road be" cen Winterset and DeSoto,
the other mig ht, that his rider could not
get him out. The animal was left there
and was dead by morning.
The Sentinel says that Willey's mills,
at Maquoketa, has been stopped in con
sequence of large quantities of fish
cIogging up the wheels. Fish ale being
taken from the streams in the vicinity
in great numl ers.
One hundred and thirty four youths
of both sexes We're taken into tao Cath
Ollie church at lowaCiIy, last Sunday
every one of whom took II pledge not
touch, taste or handle" Intoxicating
liquors till he or she is % years of age.
~ deposit of shells of about the size OF
a pin head, extending over six acres, of
depth of forty feet, has been discover
ed in Humboldt county. The stuff is
being burnt into lime, and is said to
make the best kind Of plaster.
The Maquoketa Excelsior has tenn
perauce sermon in short and thrilling
chapters, rs follows: Mr.. Piser, of that
place, spends all the money he can earn
or beg, for whisky, leaving his family in
squalid wretchedness. Last Tuesday
his four year old child died of want aud
hunger Piser borrowed fifty cents of
a neighbor to purchase a shroud, went
to the saloon, spent his half dollar for
whisky, went home drunk, knocked
his wife senseless, laid down in a drunk
Ell stupor and slept till morning. This
is tn second child he has starved to
death.
Lieut.. w. +. McCarron, the State
Lecturer Of the Grand Division Sons Of
Temperance, was brutality assaulted at
Maquoketa, by three r.fiians armed
with clubs, four confederates being Ut
Land, and seriously If not fatally beaten
The assault was made by the saloon.
keepers of Maquoketa on account Of
McCarron's efforts against liquor selling
All the assailants were arrested, and
the citizens Of the place pledge them
selves to stand by Lieut. NJ. They also
passed, among others, q resolution to
the effect that, ''if Maquoketa il not
big enough for us all to live in and set
tie our difficulties by law, the liquor
sellers must move out"
That freight cars are not good for
hitching posts will be apparent from the
McGregor Ne,cs: A countryman wants
something to drink, bitches his horse
to a freight car standing Oh a side track,
and proceeds leisurely toward a neigh
boring saloon in quest Of 'taugle- foot"
meantime, an engine drops down and
and bitches to the car and moves rapid.
~ up the track. Countryman takes his
tangle foot aud returns to his wagon,
finds it gone-foIlows up the track, and
finds q spoke here, y wheel there. and
further on the wagon body broken into
more than its original number Of pieces.
and soon after stumbles onto q dead
horse.
Private H. f. B. Passig, member of
Co. F, 9Th Iowa infanrry, and the first
man who volunteered in Sigourncy for
the war for the Union, died on the 10th
inst. He was buried with military
honors, great concoursc Of people be-
ing present at the obsequies. Since
his death the people Of Sigourncy have
purchased comfortable home for the
widow and her children.
Several Republican papers in Iowa.
who have "patent insides," printed In
Chicago, were compelled to place before
their readers, last week, a full page all
vertisement Of New York Democratic
newspaper. with accompanying lauda.
tons Of Brick Pomeroy. Nuscatine
Journal.
THE Newton Republican says 1t does
not believe In Dragging about fast com
positors, but i've have boy in this Of.
"fice, not more than twenty-five years
"of age, no can take stool aud sci