Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-06-15
ALL OVER IOWA.

Washington county is assessed at
s5,52O,O45.
Sioux City has property valued at
s1,1sO,OOO.
Miss Edna Smell is candidate for
County Superintendent of Mahaska
county.
It is expected that work will soon
be recommended on the railroad from
Ottumwa to Sigourney.
Mrs. Francis Mall, and Mrs. Ma
than Whitney, Of Belle Plaine, have
been pronounced insane and taken to
Mt. Pleasant.
The chintz bugs have commenced
depredations in Montgomery county.
John Banks, Of Madison county, is
- years old, and has this year grub
bed and cleared off three acres OF
wild land.
The Camp meeting at Kosta, Iowa
couaty, will be held, on the usual
grounds, commencing Thursday, Au-
gust "a, and continuing eight days.
Three females in Sioux City whose
stopping places had been pulled,
were picked up the other night near
ly famished from hunger and destitu-
tion. And so a citizens asks the
Journal, rs there no mercy for ial.
len women?' The wide world an
swers s'no-not since Jesus lived
The christian world has forsaken His
example"
The Journal says that man NAM
ed Young stabbed the bar keeper Of
the Chicago House at Sioux City, on
the 2Sth. "Young was drunk, and
being noisy was requested to keep
quiet, when he became abusive, and
the 5arkeeper put him out. They had
a tussel, when Young was thrown,
and while the other was engaged in
holding him down, Young drew a
large jackkn:fe from his pocket and
made three desperate lunges at his
adversary. The two first cuts pene-
trated the clothing Of the bartender.
but not his person, but the third blow
struck him on the eighth rib, and the
knife glancing upwards, made a
ghastly wound, and only missed the
heart by one-eighth of an inch. The
case did not get before the courts,
having been settled by mutual agree
mcnt, upon The folle wing basis =
Young pays the wounded mans doc.
tor bill, pays lis board and makes
good to him his lost time, and takes
care OF him until he gets well or dies. y
The army worm has made its ap-
pearance in Louisa county. The
Morning Scn Free Press says:
Mr.. jonathan McAfferty informs
us that the army worm has destroyed
about 80 acres Of his meadow. The
worm moves in line, the same rs a
column Of infantry, and Mr.. McAffer-
Ity spead a line OF straw over the
worms and set fire to it, which stop
ped the destruction of that column oil
worms completely. Parties who have
visited the scene of their operations,
say the worms worked only on the
timothy, leaving clover unmolested
Later we learn that Mr.. John Peck
has lost 60 acres of timothy meadow
in the same way"
The Charlton Democrat reports
another freak Of nature case as fol
lows: "Mr. Volney I. Riley, Of
Wayne county, is the owner Of a
mare that is twenty-four years old
Well, that old mare, few days ago
foaled a regular horse colt and in ad
ditlon thereto mule colt-regulal
twins. This Is the first instance oi
the kind we have ever heard of. Mr.
Riley accounts for this circumstance
in regular manner, and we get the
facts from his brother The mule
colt is still alive, and promises to live
as long AS any other mule, but the
other died in twenty four hours. The
facts as We have stated them can be
substantiated by affidavits if neces
sary.;