The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-02-13
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IOWA ITEMS.
Sioux City contemplates = vegetable

Sioux City contemplates a vegetable
canning factory. -.
The Graneers Of Iowa City want :
weigh masier appointed there with
scales built at the expenssof the city.
One Des Moines firm has fifty thous-
aud dollars invested In corn cribs
along the Valley aid Rock Isisnd
roads.
jackson aud Clinton counties talk Of
taking rib out of the side OF each,
aud making bran new county.
The oldest Grange in the State 10 10
Jasper county, A Failor Master. II
is No. / in Iowa, and No. 2 in the
U.iled States, aud was organized in
May, 1868.
In Shelby county one day last week
Mrs. Joseph McCAii upset pail Of hot
water on her little child, scai,iing II 10
| death. The accident 40 affected the
mother that she became inssUe the
next day. a
The Cedar Rapids Citizens AssociA-
tiou have secured the location IN that
city OF knitting factory. which will
employ over one hundred hands, aud
over $50, 900 stock has been subscribed.
Cedar Rapids has 500 inhaoitants,
a paper mill, WOODEN mill, two -four.
ing mills, a daily paper. several wagon
and carriage factories and three
foundries, besides full complement
| of lesser businesses.
The State Senate seems to be averse
to change in the present system OF
county government, IS . resolution,
offered by Senator McNutt, to return
to the old plan of one Supervisor to
each township, was voted down BY .
vote of "a to 4.
Among other thingA which J. q.
Irwin, OF Union, fed to his hogs the
other day was his $50 watch, which
an old porker gobbled down with
provoking gusto. They recovered
the gold, ou, the timekeseer and the
SOW alike were sacrificed.
From the Opinion We learn that the
local world of Gienwood was disturbed,
Friday morning, by the discovery Of .
human skeleton in hollow tree thir-
ty feet from the ground. 6urmies is
rife as to how it came there, when !;
and other particulars, but nothing il
definitely known.
Senator McNutt. of Muscatine Co.,
was one of those who voted for dis
continuing the publication OF the laws
in tie newspapers. This economist"
then wanted 2ea. 900 copies Of tho In as
printed al 81 cents per copy, which
would be SO 00O-S6, 900 more than has
been paid The newspapers for publish
ing the laws
Tie Cedar Rapids Times says it fails
to see anything more sinful in burning
cora which requires emily three or four
months to grow 10 perfection, and
which can be produced on the same
soil year after year, than to burn \
tree which il has taken scores OF Year.
to grow. IF there be a moral in the
question, ii thinks the odds are IN
ayor OF saving the Tree aud burning
the corn. q
Winnebago county is out of luck.
IN 1850 the people Of the county voted
to issue bonds to amount Of SO .OOO for
the building Ola Court House The
bonds came into possession of Chas. r.
Lyude. of New York. The interest
us- paid for two or three years and
then stopped. Mr.. l. brought suit in
the Y. ). Court Of Iowa to recover
Judgment, aud was bsaten. He Ap-
peaIed to the Supreme Court Of the
U. ., having for counsel H. ID. Resin,
of Washington, and the decision Of
the Court bsiow ha- just been reversed,
aud the case renamed to it with d.
rections to enter up judgment Of
$40, 600 interest and principal against
the county.
Thomas Griffith of Monroe to nship,
in johnson county, who has for the
last year or two been leading . wan
dering life in California, Nebraska and
Kansas, was shot by . comrade, in .
quarrel at Lawrence, Kansas, In Oct,
last. Four balls were fired into his
body. His wife hearing of his critical
condition, went at once, to his assistance
She succeeded in getting him home last
week. On Monday Of this week he
died of the injuries received in the sad
atfray The deceased was q soldier In
the 22d Iowa Infantry. and up 10 the
time he commenced his rambling life,
had q respectable standing in the COM
munity. His Fad and untimely end il
a solemn warning to young mon, no,
to depart from the ways Of virtue.
The Clay County Ne,cs has the fol-
lowing conundrum: "A section OF an
elm tree. two feet in diameter, was cut
down about mile and . half SOUTH
east of Sidney. About nine inches
from the circumference, or when the
tree was but six inches ia diameter, a
large notch was cut in il, cutting 10
fully one third off The tree still
lived All flUurished, and grew over
the notch-filling it up-and covering
to depth OF nine inches The notch
IS ia splendid state of preservation,
and gives every indication Of having
been cut by an experienced chopper,
with good steel axe BY counting
The different years growth, which are
plainly visible, it appears that the
lotch in question was cut ninety-one
sears before the Tree was killed, which |
= as six yeats since. The question il.
BY whom vas the notch cut?"
4 Loadon detective put his head
Mt" AL o'utibus orc day just a. il was
ltartjng off with the reniayk apasa