The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-12-23


Tho tar levy of Mascatins eoanty,
for collection in 1876, amounts to
$l39,S29.
Nineteen thousand hogs have been
packed al Des Moines this season,
against $4,000 It the same period last
year.
Attorney General Cults severely
cri,icizes the recent opinion of the
Supreme Court in the Brandt case.
/ ]. j. Balm, Manchester merchant,
has skipped from that villas .,
leaving debts to the amount Of
| $4,000.
The winter term o. the Lent < Co..
legiate Institute, at Hopkint, n, has
opened with an enrolment ,f 100
students.
Bishop Haven, of the NJ. +. church,
lectured Monday at Iowa City, the
subject being "Books and Brains"
All the passenger conductors on
the X. & ID. NJ. railroad have been
dismissed aud new men put in their
places.
Nothing whatever has yet been
heard of Barney Mcllwain, who SO
mys,eriously disappeared from Des
Moines some few weeks ago.
The next regular meeting OF the
Board of the Iowa Ceatenni 81 Com.
mission will be held on the first
Wednesday Of January, 1876.
Des Moines and Cedar RAPIDS are
active competitors, and both are
working actively for the purpose OF
locating the State Fair.
The first passenger train over the
Grinnell & Moa,ezum, railroad ar
rived at Montezums on Tuesday last,
and citizens of that tity are rejoicing
over the event.
November "a, Mrs. 5. NJ. Dicaen,
near Waverly, Iowa, gave birth to a
perfectly formed female child which
weighed less than eighs ounces. 1t
is doing well. 1t, father weighs l.5
pounds; its mother is of med um
size. A previous child of 'he s.me
parents weighed eleven pounls.
The Iowa Agricultural College is
said to be in excellent cond tion
financially, the rentals from the col =
lege lands more than meeting the
current expenses. a new laboratory
building has been finished recently,
without exhousting the sum appro-
priated by the Legislature for the
purpose.
The following ara corn yields in
Beaver township, Polk county: VIM.
Rocker, an average of 80 bushels
per acre some fields, as high M so
bushels; John Humes, an average OF
80 bushcls-some fields as h . h as
90 bushels; the Pearson brs thers
about the same.
The Burlington Gazette says that
NJ. w. Boner, OF Danville, Des
Moines county, passed through that
city with three car loads OF three
year-old cattle, whose average weight
was 1900 pounds, and calls it proba-
bly, the best lot Of three ar-old
cattle that ever went out of Des
Moines county TO the Chicago mar.
ket.
Adjutant General Baker says he
cannot properly act as claim agent,
and il is therefore needless to apply
to him. If soldiers or heirs cannot
find an honest and reliable claim
agent in their vicinity, he will recon-.
mend one. The Adjutant General
will advise and aid all the claimants
in any proper way, but no fee will be
received therefor
Over ne-half Of the money re.
quired for the construction Of the
building for the Iowa Industrial Ex.
position, to be held at Des Moines
next year, has been subscribed, AMI
about one half tue space allotted t,
exhibitors has already been engaged.
The managers are sanguine of being
able to open the doors next Septem-
ber, and expect to make display
from every county in the State.