The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-08-06

Iowa Condensed.

earnest minister of the Gospel.
The only sick man in Burlington is l..
J. Tell-the Sanitary Policeman.
Cedar Rapids wants to have genuine
horse fair-no bulls to be admitted.
The crusade still flourishes in Fort
Dodge. Only last week the ladies were
out in force visiting saloons.
The Cedar Falls Gazette called John
Lawrence Jail bird and now has a
s., 900 libel suit on its hands
The list of regular blanks in use by the
Chicago, Burlington s. Quincy Railroad in
all departments, is six hundred and forty
nine.
A few days ago, Henry Clark, a boy IL
years of age, while herding cattle in
Woodbury. county, was killed by his
horse falling down gully with him.
j. L. Emo, proprietor of Browns Hotel,
Cedar Rapids, who fell 30 feet from the
third story of a Waterloo Hotel, to the
plank sidewalk, is recovering from the
injury.
Near Sioux City, last Thursday, a
bridge broke while drove of cattle were
crossing Four of the cattle were killed,
and the boy driving them had narrow
escape.
Mrs. VIM A. Mead has commenced suit
against r. W. Moore of the Louisa county
Safeguard for $40, 900 damages. She will
need her money Il long time, and be dam
aged before she gets it.
DR.. Ross, a Temperance speaker, was
at Davenport, last week holding temper
ance meetings. The church in which he
spoke was crowded and many could not
obtain seats and had to go away.
A twelve year old Dubuque girl went
from one ice cream parlor to another tell
ing each proprietor after she had finish
cd, that she had lost her money. She
fooled three ice cream men before being
detected
The Iowa State Board Of Equalization
completed the assessment Of property
for the taxes Of 1874 The increase in
the valuation over that of last year is
81 ,4s3, 1856, and the tax levy is the same as
that of last year-twO mills on the dollar.
Last week fire broke out in Davcn-
port but was speadily put out with loss
of only about $40. The Ga.ette bestows
great praise on the water works and
thinks if it hadent been for them the loss
would have been over six times as much
The First Biennial Report of the Hospi-
tai for the Insane, at Independence, is out
The whole number of patients received
since the opening of the Institution is y
men and Ga women; total. 1856. The num-
Der remaining on the LIST of November
last was 113.
The Illinois Centeral Railroad Company
have done generous and cOmmendablc
act. They are now giving the merchants
of the stricken city, Iowa Falls, twenty
per cent, reduction on regular rates on all
and building material ship
ped to that city.
A. c. Stevens, of Muscatine, has sued
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany for $40, 600 damages in being put off
a train near Pittsburgh last March, after
a ticket and stopping off with
it at an intermediate station till the next
train came along.
The Linn county Pilot says: "The
Hauk- Eye and Mechanicsville Press hint
at a first-class scandal soon to be develop
ed at Lisbon. On inquiry we were in
formed it was nothing more than the
promise of an addition to the next census
a little too early after the couple had
taken each other for better or for worse"
A young girl, living some eight or ten
miles from Vinton, recently rode to that
place late in the evening for repairs on
some of the harvest machinery. The
crops were suffering and the harvest hands
were tired out. She rode home alone
after night, which is what few girls would
have the courage to do. Some ambitious
young man ought to give attention.
Eight of the principal clothing dealers
Of the U. S. are going to join together
and open sample room of their goods
ut Davenport. Instead of sending out
drummers, they propose to invite the
business men Of the West to come there
and select their goods, from the samples
shown, and they will pay the expenses of
those who buy of them. The business
men Of Iowa, and the northwest will thus
have chance to 60 to Davenport, and
return, occasionally, without costing them
any thing.