The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-12-30

North Liberty.
E. H. Gregg, Of Cedar Falls, is the
possessor Of . navy revolver that once
belonged to old John Brown.
The Board Of Capitol Commission
ers have submitted their third hien-
nial report to the Governor.
Dubuque's apontoon bridge"-of
ice-is completed. Several loaded
teams crossed on it Monday.
| Rev. c. p. Williams, Chaplain of
the peni,entiary At TT. Madison, de-
sires contributions of reading matter
for the convicts.
Last evening passenger train on
the uptrip from keokuk ran off the
track three miles below Fit. Madison.
No one hurt.
The skating rink owners Of Cedar
Rapids, are finding fault with "Old
Probs, manipul stious OF the weather
Three car loads Of heavy dray
horses were shipped from West Lib
erty, direct to Boston, on Yesterday.
They were gathered up IN the section
Of Cedar Falls.
| The Webster Marble Works ship.
ped, on Monday, 70 Morning Sun, the
base for the Soldiers Monument. Its
weight is | 500 pounds.
Maysvills rejoices over the birth of
q mule cot with Eve legs. And men
stand around, at a great distance, and
with feelings Of awe contemplate the
power of that mule for square, har-
moaious, "all togethe-, now," tri-
partite kick.
f. II. Gregg, Of Cedar Falls, is the
possessor of big navy revolver that
once belonged to old John Brown,
who carried il in the Kansas troubles.
It is big enough to hare carried old
John Brown, but as it was, it only
carried about hundred yards.
A sensational item has BEEN going
the rounds of the State press that
Boss Tweed recently passed through
this State in disguise. As the State
of Iowa hasn't missed anything with
in the past eight or ten days, il is
safe to pronounce the sensation utter
ly absurd and false.
Henry Andres, OF Iowa City, eigh-
ty-nine years old, has never been sick
a day in his life, and is strong hale
old man. But he has smoked and
chcwed ever cince he could wag bis
jaws, and if he does not break him
sell Of tins debilitating and ruinous
habit, he will die before he has lived
out half his days. H0,ckeye.
Suppose said beating
Ciarinda lawyer, to a witness he was
trying to badger one day last week,
suppose should tell you ! could
bring dozen men of your town to
this court room who would say that
they would not believe you on oath,
what would you say?' And camly
the witness made him reply, 81 would
say you lied" A gentle smile diff.
fused itself all over the court room,
like lump of butter on a hot cake,
and the unruflled witness stepped
down.-Ibid
Mr.. Ii. G. Parker, OF Mason City,
ought to buy a wooden leg, and keep
il by him, to break whenever he feels
as though his time to break leg had
come. He has the two legs he was
born with, but one of them was bro
ken some time ago, and has been
kept in chronic state of brokenness
ever since. As often as it gets strong
enough TO stand on, Mr.. Palmer first
stands on it, and then falls down on
it, and away it goes. What he needs
is an extra leg, strapped to his back
like the ffh wheel to csisson.--
Ibid
An Iowa artist has just comp eted
a small panorama OF the Holy Land
suitable for Sunday school exhibit,
ions. We have only seen specimen
engraving of one of the scenes, bat
from that uno We disco omnes the
rest of it u no. It is the finding of
Moses. Pharaoh's daughter is seen
on the banks Of the Nile, dressed in
modern fashionable tie back, with
high rutfie around the throat, bare
arms and two button kid gloves, and
she is pointing toward the infant in a
tone of astonishment with her closed
parasol. Send along that panorama;
we think it will take.-Ib,d.
Mrs. Maria Hunter, Of Mitchell
county. is hunting for Mr.. George
Briggs. She has made beautiful
point on his pocket book, and George
will have TO come into court and tell
all about it, for Maria declares that
by honeyed words and fond persua-
sion he won her young ARTS hun,ried
haffections, and then refused to keep
them, and they are worth fifty thou
sand dollars il they are worth cent;
sphinx, span, new; pure as the snow
flake that glistens on the bosom of
,he-frozen lake, precious as the dia-
monds Of Golconda, warranted not to
rip, ravel or run down at the heel,
cut in the eye, balk, shy, kick or run
away, warranted fast colors, burn
with white ash or no sale; and all for
the simple sum of $4,000. Going at
fifty thousand; "a fft thousn,' a-a
fift ,housn', fft thousn', fif thoun', fift,
what do we hear ift fit ffft.
Mr.. r. Cannon, a terrible name for
dealer in eggs, has shipped from
Milton, two thousand three hundred
barrels of hen fruit since April. A
local statistician has gone to work
and figured the quantity of individual
eggs included in these shipments and
finds it to be one million, nine
hundred and thirty two thousand
eggs. And yet the anxious world,
hungry for information, cries out for
his ready pencil. II he will only sit
patiently behind the chicken coop one
of those days, and wait till q hen