The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-03-06

this winter. og .vnnrs
| The total expenses Of the adiourned
session Of the General Assembly were
@46,O00.
The street lamplighters Of Des
Moinee are little girls, aged eleven
and thirteen, respectively.
Clark + Hazylst&, hardware mer-
chants Of Mt. Vernon, suspended
business on Friday, their l,abilitiee
amounting to twenty thousand dol
lars. 49,
| Tho contract for the grading Of
twenty lone miles Of the Muscatine
Western Railroad was recently let,
which takes it within few miles Of
South English.
A recruiting officer at keokuk has
been ordered to wear his uniform
while on duty, and to add two inches
to the minimum stature Of army re-
| cruits.
The vote in the General Assembly
on the question Of restoring the death
penalty in Iowa was Is yeas 10 "a
nays in the Senate, and SO yeas to IS
nays in the House.
Dubuque will build this wear I
$50, 900 opera house, and Iowa Citv
. $25,O 900 one. Des Moines is to
have, BY grace Of Billy Moore, a $780,
600 ornament of the same kind.
During Governor Carpenters I'D.
ministration he has pardoned twenty
one convicts in the penitentiary, and
released two others on the condition
that they should leave the State and
never come back.
The following Iowa newspapers
have lately suspended publication:
Amaseur, Mt. Vernon; Repub1icon,
Osceola; Times, Morning Sun; In
dependent, Baldwin; Land Dealer,
Spencer; Young Ameyica, Searsboro.
The Shell Rock Enterprise says:
Now is the time to expect clothes
line thieves. If any man attempts to
haul down the weeks washing, shoot
him on the spot-.if you catch him at
it. Amy spot that comes handy viii
answer.
L. Silverman, q merchant Of Wv.
oming, Jones county, Iowa, obtained
large quantity of goods from var
ious Dubuque clothing and dry goods
merchants, under false pretences,
which, in the aggregate, amounted to
$1,000. These he disposed Of the
quickest way possible, and with the
proceeds suddenly left for New York
city, where he was arrested, and now
awaits a requisition to be brought
back to. Dubuque.
Sarah Dugdale, of Mt. Pleasant,
mother of Joseph A. Dugdale, cele-
brated her eighty-seventh birthday
on the 18th inst. She has been for
fifty years a minister in the Quaker
church. There was large gathering
of kinsman and friends, from all parts
of the United States. The evening
services closed with the reading Of
LXXI Psalm-"Cast me not off in
the time of old age; forsake me not
when my thought faileth."
The Spring term Of the State Agri-
cultural College, for the year 1873,
commences on the 4th of March. The
indications are that the College will
be full to overAowing. The Ames
MteiAyencer says: Already all space
for occupants, in the building, is en-
gagged and applications are coming in
daily. But not all that apply are able
to pass examination, and consequently
rooma that are now engaged may be
vacated in favor of others.
Dubuque is excited over s.spirit
manifestations" in which . telegraph
ic battery and instrument are used.
Long and frequent communications,
purporting to come from .the other
world and containing some curious
yet truthful facts, have bser received.
and no one can account for the phe-
nomena. The instrument thus oper-
ated upon by the invisible s-intslli-
gence," is at . private residence, and
is not connected, by wires or other
wise, with any other instrument. We
CLEAN the above from the Times.
Ninety.fve shares, of $15 each,
nave been taken in the Nevada cheese
factory. The Representative says:
"The company are already receiving
letters from the Eastern States and
Canada, written by parties desiring
to take charge Of the manufactory.
All this was brought about by little
communication to the New York
Tribune stating that factory was
being established here, and super
intendent was needed to take charge
of it. It is calculated that the fac
tory, the first season, will be supplied
with milk from 800 to 500 cows, and
the next season, with the milk from
many MORE"
The Davenport Gazette says the
famous stallion Bashaw-Drury has
been sold by o. ]. Dimick to s. w.
Wheelock for 10000. The horse
has been removed to Mr.. Wheelock's
stock farm near Moline. Mr.. Dimick
bought the horse in 1867, then two
years old, out Of Drury's pasture in
Mercer county paying 81 900 for him.
The Argus says the income from the
horse has been fourteen hundred dol
lars, eight hundred dollars in the last
six years, including $3.50 in fair pre-
miums.
This is the way q woman st Rising
Sun cured dog Of sucking eggs:
''The wife of Thomas Murrel, living
on Detzel Sheppard's place, being
troubled with dogs eating her hens
eggs, thought she would give them >
lesson they would remember. So,
placing IN egg on the ground, she
took a glass bottle filed with gun
powder and poured q circle around
it, then hid till the dog was about to
take the egg, when she would touch
it of. This she did twice, but the
third time coal of FIRE which she did
not see caught the powder and the
bottle burst in her hand, burning her
face, neck and hands. Her dress was
burned entirely oG. Three children
having followed her, two of them
were burned, one, about FIVE years
old, severely, the other slightly. The
eldest. having escaned unhurt.