The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-01-13

Ohio.
f..Erevy Sss-day Morning., the SPICY
Sunday paper published It Burli G.
ton BY c. F. Wheeler, has collapsed.
Hon. D. G. Bloomer, OF Co,n,l
Bluffs, was seriously injured, ast
Monday, BY being thrown from h.s
carriage.
Nearly one hundred new baildings
we're erected in Decorah lat wear.
The value of oil improvements was
tl65,OoO.
The National Butter and Egg A..
.ociation mee.s in Davenport the frst
Wednesday in March. Four hundred
delegates sre expected.
The ,en.h annual meeting Of the
State Horticultural Society, will 10
held in DIS NJ lines, o. the lSth,
10Th and Goth Of the present m nth.
| The M.rengo Republican arlen ly
favrrs Judg. Rothrock for the Gle
Judgeship, and considers J 'dge See-
sers his principal competit,r.
The first Methodist society form d
n Iowa, was in 1884 The 6',t
school house was erected in 1888.
he first postmaster va. Niles IA.
Prentice, appointed in 1888.
New Years blizzard which visited
the easter p,rt Of The Stat. turned
the railroad depo, at Calamus can.
ole,ely around aud carried the 70 {
of the bu Ling several squares.
II is reported smo,g the enolovrs
If the Northwestern railroad tnat Jaw
Goull has succe 'drd in getting aoa
rul Of tha, corporation sad hist il
viii soon pass under h. c5nlrot.
The good people Of Marengn pre-
sented their pas or with $3.50 last
Monday evening. Hon. John N. w.
| Rumple, Senator elect from Iowa
county, made the presentation
speech.
A woman by the name of Rape at
tempted suicide in Catholic church
in keokuk last Tuesday. She broke
a large glass vase, and with the irag-
ments had mSde desperate efforts to
cut her throat, when discovered.
Sac will live.
The attorneys Of Sioux City held
large meeting in that CITY last Tues.
day evening and appointed commit
tee to draft resolutions in favor of he
appointment OF VIM. l.. Joy to the
vacancy on the Supreme bench.
james Scott, . young man in JAS
per county, WAS thrown from his
horse last Saturday, and his skull was
fractured and crushed in for length
of Eve inches. At last accounts The
injured man was alive.
The track Of the Sioux City and
P-mbina Railroad IS now laid to tho
bridge crossing At the Big Sioux
River. The bridge 10 not yet CON-
ple,ed, but work is being pushed
ahead IS rapidly as possible.
DR.. E. P. Wilder, OF Fairfield, re-
C, n,Iy srrestei ! and taken to Chicago,
charged with being connected With
the cxhuma,ion Of corpse in Chica-
20, has been in Washington, this
State, passing under several aliases,
and pretending to be in the land
bu ,iness.
| Col. Willard Griswold, Of Wash.
ington county, aged 81 years Sept.
7th, 1875. proposes soon to marry
Nancy Masor, sged 81. The Colonel.
served in the war Of 1912, and sur
vived not only its perils and chances,
but also slrv,vsj four wives.
The shore bent on the bridge Of
the Burlington, G .dar RAPIDS h Min
n.so,a Road over The Cedar RIVER be-
tween Cedar Rapids and Vin'on has
heen taken ou by the ice. Travellers
fom Vinton to Des Moines have now
to 60 by way Of Cedar Falls and In.
dependence.
OF Iowa's entire population over
sixteen wears, only one in ono huu-
dred and sixty eight cannot read.
r ason: There are 9,225 pubic
scho j houses, employing 6,2S0 mae
,e ,chers and 1912 female teacher.
The number of scholars is 505,3Sl.
A Dubuque young man who sx-
tend 81 his call until after une o'cla k,
was invited by the young lad .
IN ,ther TO stav all night aud have
breakfast in the m ,raing with the
am,ly. The invitation vas accepted.
Delaware county has had an elope-
ment which is producing quite an ex-
element. 1t is the same old story
The parents of the girl objected to
the man, and now the cry of the girls
parents is: "Where, Oh, where has
our daughter gone"
Col Abernethy has accepted the
Presidency Of the Chicago University,
aud will enter upon the duties Of his
new position as soon AS be can close
up his business as State Sup't of
Public Instruction in Iowa.
Iowa has raised last year, = bushel
Of apples, FIVE bushels of potatoes, to
each man, woman and child in tic
State. And the number of horses,
COWS and sheep is about equal 10
hrse to each family. This is but an
outline of material facts which minis.
ter 10 Our State pride.
Davenport Gazette contained the
GLOWING: That iss pretty loud
all that has gone across the sea to
our former townsman, Rev. Robert
Laird Collier, from the Second Uni.
tartan Church of Boston-e7, 900
year. He has accepted it, and will
leave England, where he is at present
,ojourning, on the Sth inst, and as
sumo his duties in Boston abou, Il Q
first of February. 1t 10 now about
seventeen years since Mr.. Collier va,
pastor of the old Fifth Street Methc.
list Church in this city"