Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-01-26
ALL OVER IOWA.

A new coal Company has been or
ganized at Montana and new mines
are to be opened.
A fire occurred at Dubuque, on the
11th INST. entailing loss Of 800, 900,
less e25, 900 insurance.
Oskaloosa township has voted a
tax of q per cent. in aid of the To-
wa South Western railroad.
Hon. Josiah II. Bonncy, Secretary
of State in 1S49, is now steward Of
tie Van Buren, county poor farm.
The Marshall Times says that
fine vein OF coal has been Opened
near lllinoisGrove in that county. :
Miss Lillian Edgarton lectures at
Marengo, on the 25th, on "What I
think 1 know about getting Married.
George Westlake Of Marshalltown
soil butter and milk from two cows,
in 1870. to the amount OF Sl9l.-
Rather profitable cows.
The Ottumwa Copperhead has
changed its name to Democrat. It is
propably getting ashamed Of being
called by its true name. Is shame a
sign of virtue?
Mt Vernon has passed an ordi-
nance for the suppression Of Billiard
tables and imposes Il penalty of $500
for first offensee III violation of the or
dinance.
The Washington Press has a good
butter item: Mrs. J. r. Eastan,
one OF the best butter makers in this
county, made 500 pounds Of butter
and sold it at % cents per pound,
this year, besides supplying her own
family. And this hon FIVE half
blooded Devon cows. The ca!9es
of those cows sold for S50-a total
yield OF $3.50. Doesn't this pay bet.
ter than raising wheat or hogs? The
other products turned off their forty
acre farm, viz: hogs, turkeys, one
steer, &c, netted Sl24.l0
From the Courier we learn that
,ae total number of hogs thus far
packed in Ottumwa the present season
is about fifteen thousand, all but two
hundred OF them by J. d. Ladd.-I
The number packed at Eddyville the
came paper puts at five lhousand.-
It also says that many of the farmers
in that county, dissatisfied with the
low prices, have killed and packed
their own hogs.
Geo. +. Work, who was postmast-
er OF the last Iowa General Assem-
bly,, assistant postmaster the previous
session, aud clerk in the Des Moines
Postoffice in 1866, was elected en-
rolling clerk OF the Arkansas Legis.
laturc on the 2d INST, the time OF or
ganization.
The sales of local tickets on the
Valley Road at tho office in Des
Moincs tor the year 1870, foots up
$S5,000-an increase Of about $2o.-
900 over the sales of 1869. A good
showing for one Office on good road,
that is.
, Mrs. John Talley, at Mt. Pleasant,
a few days si2cc, took draught Of
hair dye that her husband had just
brought home, mistaking it for medi.
cine. She died from its effects in
five minutes. The liquid contained
Prussic acid A warning for those
who play with death in this way.
1t is said we are so.n to have
another State Educational Monthly,
to be called the Iowa Instructor, and
edited by w. IL. Wynn. Deputy
State Superintendent OF Schools -
The first number is to appear the lat
ter part OF the present month.
The Sheriff OF Buchanan county
went on whisky hunt at Independ-
cnce, the other day, and found eight
places where whisky was ratailed.-
The county school tund will receive
$40O BY the operation.
The Hawk Eye says that since
1S40, there have been five seasons
when the river at Burlington did
not close until January, and two
years when it did not close at ALL
During the past thirty years it closed
! in December nineteen wears,