Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17
ALL OVER IOWA.


in MuscatiDe.
There are $4,000 worth Of Polsnd
China pigs IN Iowa Falls.
Council Bluffs has voted to issue
bonds for bonding it's city debt.
John Mahin, one of the proprietors
of the Muscatine Journal, has sailed
for Europe.
| An iron bridge is to be thrown
across the Maquoketa at Monticello,
Jones county.
Joseph G. Tremlln, a veteran of
the war OF 1912, died at Algona, on
the II, aged 80.
The passenger depot and eating
house at Cedar Rapids was burned
on the morning of the 9th ult.
Dubuque has church spire 23S
feet high. Iowa City must withdraw
her claim to the highest splre in
Iowa.
Col. D. B. Henderson has resigned
his U. S. District Attorneyship and s.
p Adams has been appointed in his
place.
Johnney Mullikin, 8 years old, Of
Lynnville, Powcshiek county, was
drowned in creek at that place, the
other day.
Edward Russell has sold bis one
third interest in the Davenport Ca
zette to w. NJ. Potter, formerly of
Saratoga, N. Y.
The freightage of stone from the
Anamosa quarries is sal to pay all
the running expenses of the Du-
buque South w estern railroad.
The listillery at Camanche is the
only one now running in The State,
and pays the Government q tax OF
about $4,000 per annum.
Two years ago Lyon county had
not a white settler within its borders,
but now has thriving Industrious
population numbering hundreds.
It is proposed to add interest to
the Muscatlne County Fair by baby
show, with disinterested commit
tee of bachelors to award premiums.
The proposition to vote a tax in
aid OF the Waterloo, Belle Plaine &
Missouri railroad was voted down in
Belle Plane, on the ID by vote Of
l79 to 1919.
Solomon Stoddard, in Linn county,
20 years old, this year cultivathd
about three acres Of corn, in addition
to three or four acres Of potatoes and
garden truck"
George Saum, of Rome township,
Jones county, expects to harvest a
thousand bushels of apples from his
orchard this season. Is mt it strange
that "you can't raise fruit in Iowa.
Joseph Marquis, living near Col
fax, was sun-struck, and while con-
fined to his bed his grain ripened and
he was threatened with its loss. On
Sunday he was still unable to move,
and twenty of his neighbors gather
ed, cut and stacked his grain, and
did other necessary work.
1t is said of a Dubuquer that he
has house built at the base of bluff,
with an aperature in the rear leading
into an old disused lead caye. He has
connected this aperture by tube
with his registers, and thus cools his
house to any degree he pleases by
SIMPLY letting on or pulling off the
draft. He calls tbs result his cold
fires.
John Emerson worked as teams
er in Waterloo for a decade or long
er, and saved $4,000. He then lett
for visit to his old home in Eng
land, and neglected the advice OF
friends to procure draft on London
for safety Of his money. Arriving
at New York he found a bosom
friend--and the friend sold him a
draft for $4,000 which was Mt worth
a rye straw, as John ascertained
when he arrived in the old country.
The Vinton Eagle has an item that
will interest horticulturists ~. p.
johnson showed us an apple tree, the
other day, on which he had been
trying an experiment. Last Summer
a piece Of common fence wire was
twisted around single limb of the
tree, sufficiently tight for the bark to
nearly grow over it the present Sam-
mer. Whether as q result or not,
the limb so treated il loaded with
fruit, while other portions of the tree
bear scarcely any"
! The Anamosa Eureka says: Hi.
ram Steward, Of Rome township, has
field of corn of immense growth
upon ground which has been put il
crops every year for thirty years
The corn as it stands is "wilder
ness," and will show yield Of sew
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