The Tipton advertiser., 1875-12-02
IOWA ITEMS.

There were 335 arrests in Cedar
Rapids during the last eight months.
An artesan well in Oskaloosa has
reached the depth Of l,4OO feet, but
no water.
1t is claimed that it will pay to
bore for coal anywhere near Grand
Junction.
The City of Des Moines paid 49,
600 semi annual interest on bonds
Nov. 24th.
Mrs. Matilda Fletcher, of Council
Bluffs, has adopted Chicago as her
future residence.
A large pork-packing establish.
ment is nearly completed at Water
loo. Cost, t25,00O.
Fish Comm ss,oaer Shaw returned
from Milwaukee last Saturday mig h,
with 435, 200 lake trout spawn.
From six to eight car loads Of emf.
grants daily pass through Council
Bluffs on their way to California.
4 Madison county farmer r"cen' "
lost one hanlred and fifty hogs with
in three weeks. through th- pnrrine
cholera.
/, the manufacture Of bob sled
Fair.ir, /! ci,i ms 10 be ahead of all
other towns ia the State i 800 this
season.
10. Shields creditors have accepted
3nc. on The dolla.. and he will soon
start his Daveup II. wooden mills
with 100 hands.
J. &. McDill Il Co, grain dealers
at Batavia, Jefferson county, have
failed. Liabilities $2O, 900 aud assets
inconsiderable.
Half cup Of kerosene turned
down the throat Of his hogs is the
way a Marshalltown man saved them
from the hog diptheria.
Six and half miles of the Grinnell
& Montezuma Railroad have been
laid, to Ewart Station, and track lay
ing is progressing at the rate of three
fourihs Of m le per day.
John Y. Worthington, a young
man, twenty-three years old, living
at Red Rock, Marion county, commit.
ted suicide lew days since by hang
ing himself to tree.
There are ninety Catholics, thirty.
seven Methodis's, twenty Presbyter-
ians, thirteen Lutherans, ten Bap-
fists and Episcopalians in the Ft.
Madison Penitentiary.
A few struggling Indians, the rem
nant Of the Johnny Green tribe, are
camping in the woods near Webster
City, preparatory to q raid on the
muskra,s and corn-cribs along the
Boone.
"Old Probabilities" of the Dubuque
Times thinks we are to have a severe
winter. He says: 1.-THE frogs are
going down into nine feet of water
this fall, and are lining their nests
with cotton batting and laying in
twice the usual amount Of coal. You
can look out for . winter which will
bend shade trees double and freeze
the life out of hitching posts.'
Eugene Ridley, Of Emmett county,
took his gun into his wagon and
leaned the muzzle against his left
shoulder, resting the stock on the
wagon bottom. BY lurch Of the
wagon the piece was accidentally
discharged, the full charge taking
effect in Mr.. RS left shoulder, in
front He fingered in great suffering
about eight days, when death came
to his relief.
The number of pupils in the Insti.
tuition for the Deaf and Dumb a,
Council Bluffs, is one hundred and
fifty seven. There are one hundred
and twenty-five more reported in the
Safe who ought to be there, and fifty
more will soon be old enough TO en-.
ter. An additional building is re-
quired. which, in the opinion of the
Trustees, need not cost over sixty OF
sixty-fve thousand dollars.
The State Treasurers' statement
shows s5s,525,77 in the treasury
Nov. l. The total receipts for the
two years ending on that date were
s2,l75,S7O.47. The expenses wer.
| $2,117,344.7O-a decrease in tn.
State expenses Of t329, ,334.3S Owe
the two years. The school fund o,
the State is $3,362, ,s84.70, or $233,
371.l5 greater than that o. the Sta',
Of New Yoek.