The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-10-23

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up six stacks of hay ior fun.
Three women were lately hanged in
Parker Co., Tex, for horse-steslins.
| Deer are said to be numerous in
the northern part of Cambris Co, Pa.
Two Texan farmers recently played
game of marbles for 100 steers a
side.
There is not railroad at the West
that can carry all the freight offered
to it.
The Mexican robbers steal 1000
head of cattle out OF Texas each
month.
An eucalyptus tree, in Delrnar ave-
nue., San Jose, CAL, is $50 feet in
height.
Beef cattle are now selling at four
cents q pound, on foot, in Eastern
Oregon.
A Baltimore circular estimates the
crop of Ohio tobacco this year at 30,-
600 hogsheads.
A neifer butchered at Lancaster.
WIS.,, yielded $50 pounds Of hide,
beef and tallow.
The apple crop of Lagrange Co.,
Ind, is immense. There viii be from
$1,000 to $1,000 barrels to spare.
From an Oregon plum orchard,
eight years old, has been dried two
tons of plums per acre this season.
Stcambosting on the Misissippi 10
rapidly "playing out" Old salts
mourn the departed glories Of other
days.
At an Indiana agricultural Fair, the
other day, spelling match, open to
the world was allowed to go by de-
fault.
An Ohio man got mad because he
hadn't clean shirt, and he sold two
cows and purchased l32 shirts ready.
made.
The Egyptian cotton crop for the
past year is estimated at zoe, 900 lbs.
The government is encouraging the
industry.
Oregon farmers are growing rich.
Their hay crop is double what it was
last year; and their grain nearly one
half more.
Captain Walker, of Madras, has
published sBlue Book" on the for
est management in Germany, Austria
and England.
There is tanncry in Greeley, COL,
for curing buffalo robes. They are
worth by the bale 50 and 80 and
cost green about $1.75 each.
Mr.. Rising, of San Bernardino,
CAL, claims to have q pumpkin which
will weigh 700 pounds "when full
grown" 1t continues rising.
An old farmer said Of his clergy
man, whose sermons lacked point:
"Ah, yes, he's q good man, but he
will rake with the teeth up
Captain II. Is. Ward, of Detroit,
has just sold 10000 acres of land near
Fsrestville, Mich, to German colo
ny of $50 families, for so, 600.
The crop Of chestnuts, buttesnuts,
hickory-nnts and walnuts promises 10
he immense in Vermont this FAN.
The trees are fairly bending beneath
their loads.
From three castcr-beaas plasted by
DR.. Allen, Of Mo0tgomsry. Ca, Iowa,
in 1871, and their yield in 1871, there
are now growing in his ncighborhood
one hundred acres. .
A large number Of ladies in Spring
field, Mass, have been poisoned while
gathering forest leaves this fall. One
physician has twenty cases of poison
ing by alder leaves.
The artificial butter made in New
York is becoming very popular, and
the producers have been SO successful
that they announce q quarterly divi-
dend to stock holders.
Immense amounts of wild and ex-
hausted lands in Barlow, Polk, Dane,
Murray and Gilmer counties, Ga, arc
being sold to foreign capitalists at
extremely low figures.
A butcher at Warrrenten, Va, be-
came enraged at his horse and tied
the animal up and was saving him in
two when parties interfered, but too
late to save the horse.
Trenton, Tenn, has produced a Gu
riosity in the shape Of . bundle of
fodder growing on the top Of . stalk
Of corn, in the place where the tassels
sought for to vegitate.'
After running through . flock of
sheep and killing thirty Of them, an
English railroad train continued its
journey uninterruptedly' at the rate
Of ifty-Gve miles an hour.
Rysdyk's Hambletonian has earned
at the stud, without counting the
present season, the unprecedented
amount Of $267, 900, and the old horse
is still healthy and vigorous.
The Japanese students must al 60
back because they do not learn any
thing. The truth is they had no
chance; had they gone to our agri-
cultural colleges, says the New York
Tribune, then
If there is any country that can
take the place Of France in supplying
the world with wines and brandios, or
of Spain, Turkey and Italy, in supply
ing the world with raisins, that coun-
try is California.
Peaches were SO plenty in some
parts Of Delaware and MARYLAND, and
transportation 80 limited, that the
luscious fruit had, in many instances,
to be sold at dime bushel, to be
turned into brandy.
Farmers living on the south side Of
the Illinois river, in Peru, Granville,
Eden and other towns in that vicinity,
state that large numbers of their ap-
pie trees present the appearance of
having been scorched by FIRE.
The farmers in some parts of Ore
gon have built grain warehouses Of
their own, whereby they save from
two to four cents on each bushel, and
they will handle enough grain the
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