The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-07-25

raised 81 towards Greeley ratlf-
cation meeting, and then got drunk
on the money and had to be helped
home. There was no meeting.
A Polk county boy named Ing
ham, was fooling with pistol one
Sunday. The doctors cannot find the
ball, which lodged in the vicinity of
the spine, and fear he will not re-
cover.
A boy was found floating in the
river just above McGregor last
Thursday, with the head partly gone,
as if it had been blown off. A watch
and money were found with the de-
ceased.
Two teeth removed by loving
son from fond fathers mouth with
out the adventurous aid of dentistry
in Charlton made HIM the benefactor
of the school fund to the amount of
five dollars.
The Haaokeye says that during the
recent gre there Mr.. Math WIS fell
from the roof of building and was
badly injured; and Mr.. Scheur was
badly burned trying to get goods
out of burning store.
A twelve year old boy has been ar
rested in Keokuk for stealing horse
in Hancock county on the 4th. He
tried TO sell the animal in Keokuk.
That youth has made an early start
in the penitentiary business.
Last Saturday thirteeni year old
boy of Des Moines, named Proctor,
saved two boys from drowning, the
latter being both younger than the
rescuer. Young Proctor plunged
boldly into a deep and rapid current.
L. Paris, Burlington grocer, had
a pocket book stolen from him a
month ago, which contained notes
and papers valued at $500 and 50 in
change. The book has Just been
found in a lumber pile minus the 81.
A little boy named Peters was sit
ting on a horse in Manchester the
other day, when an Infatuated COW
charged upon them, and the boy was
hurled to the ground so suddenly as
to sustain some slight injuries. The
cow has been acquitted on the ground
of temporary insanity.
Samuel S. Miller, living near LIE
Mars, after spending the Fourth in
Sioux City, returned home to find,
except his house, all his property,
including stable, agricultural imple-
ments and corn, destroyed by fire.
The fire was caused by children play
ing with matches about the stable.
A couple at Grundy Center got
married one day last week f; in the
evening they went to dance, and
the next night the happy spouse pre-
scented her husband with bouncing
baby. The attending physician as
sured the man that such hasty cpl
sodes never occurred but once, yet
the groom did not like the appear
ance of things and cleared out.
A destructive fire occurred in
Burlington about 10 O'Clock, July 10,
at the corner of Division and Main
streets, consuming the Burlington
Custom and FIGURING Mill, Web
ber's meat market, Wedertz 81
Shultz grocery, Keeyer's brass toun-
dry, Atlantic House and other small
buildings are almost total loss.
The origin of the FIRE not ascertained.
The Register says: SHOW many
lovely children will be made angels
by the too free US of the unripe fruits
of the season? Parents who love
their children too well to deny them
anything, should not complain if
they are transplanted to chimes
where unripe fruits will not tempt,
nor chilling winds nip the lambs OF
the fold"
A barber in Garden Grove, De-
catur County, was assaulted by three
drunken ruffians whom he had or
dered to leave his shop. 1t is feared
that his wounds will prove fatal. The
men were arrested and put in Leon
Jail, to wait the action of the Grand
Jury. The public Indignation was
so great that it was at one time
thought their services might be dis
pensed with.
Judge Love, of the United States
District Court of Iowa, has decided
that sales of lands for delinquent
taxes, when made to parties between
whom there is an understanding not
to compete with one another, is
fraudulent and void. He holds that
such an arrangement is conspiracy
against the clear purpose of the law,
in that it prevents the competition
invited by sales at auction. 1t may
be well to remember this.
An old gentlemen named Ehr-
mentrout, his wife, and a married
daughter named Mrs. Hendrics, and
a child of the latter, left Sidney,
Fremont countp, on the Sd inst, for
home. The team was found drowned
in the Nishnabotna river next morn
ing, and it is supposed that the en-
tire party shared the same fate while
attempting to ford the stream, as