The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-01-06

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| On Sunday last, an attempt was
made to FIRE the Pullman Block in
Cedar Rapids.
The Grinnell & Montezums Rail-
road, recently completed. is doing .
large business.
The people in the western part of
the State are complaining ,ha. there
is very noticeable lack Of wild game
in that portion Of Iowa, this winter.
Mr.. G. B. Dennison, Of Muscatine
county, reports that the buds on his
cherry trees are swelling. and he
fears serious damage to the cherry
crop.
About three thousand people went
out to witness the "big hunt in Mar
shall county, last week, and the re-
suit of the sport was less than half
dozen little rsbbits-no wolves.
Mrs. Levi Haines has been milking
eleven cows most OF the summer and
fall in Jasper county, and sold one
hundred pounds of butter at 25 cents
per pound which was the crop Of
three weeks work.
A conductor on the Northwestern
road vas arrested this week at Gala
mus, Clinton county, for forcibly
ejecting a passenger from freight
train while in motion, on account Of
non payment of fare.
1t is understood that Col Aber-
nethy, State Superintendent of
Schools, has accepted the Presidency
of Chicago University, aud entered
upon the duties of the position 1t the
beginning of the new year.
A Dubuque man, who sustained
| injuries from fall by reason of
piece of timber projecting over the
sidewalk, placed ,here TO stay q
building prop. has brought suit
against the city for $50, 900 damages.
At meeting of the County Coun-
ell OF Grangers in Muscatine county,
held on Tuesday last week, petit
tion to the Legislature was drawn
up, asking that there be limit to
the homestead exemption, placing
the amount at $4,000.
The vigilance committee of Her.
derson county, opp pslte Burlington,
where the B Il Lee tragedy occsrred
short time ago, published a notice
in the Gazette that they will DESTROY
the first house Of i'll report established
in that county.
The commissioners of The State
Capitol report the amount expended
up to date as $75, 900, and will ask an
appropriation of S350,OO0, in addi-
tion to the regular annual appropria-
ton, TO enable them to roof the build
ing during the next two years.
In the Jackson County District
Court. last week, Mrs. Rafferty, OBJ
tanned verdict for 5000 against
Buchanan g. Russell. saloon keepers,
who afterwards. while in . state Of
intoxica,ion, was frozen to death on
the prairie She had brought suit for
$4,000. The case will be appealed.
Aaron Montgomery. colored man,
residing on farm near Cantril. Van
Buren, county, Iowa, says he is liz
wears old. He vas born in South
Carolina in 1868, and was therefore
l3 years old when the Declaration of
Independence was signed. He raised
ten children from his first wife, who
has been dead over fifty years. His
youngest child by his second wife il
now over forty-6ve years old.
Theodore NJ. Vale. of Iowa City,
who is to succeed Col. Bangs as Su-
perintendent of the Railway Mail
service, was formerly clerk in the
railway postal service on the Daven-
port and Council Bluffs route, and
his efficient services in that capacity
attracted the attention Of the depart
ment at Washington, and he was
promoted till he became Assistant
Superintendent in the service of
which he is about to take charge.
The Winnebage Herald speaks Of
a Lake Mills chap whose frequent
rotations of twisted corn Juice had
rendered very thirsty, shuffling into
drug store the other day. and seeing
a cup, which was about half full Of
kerosene, sitting on box near a wa
ter bucket, seized it and swallowed
half its contents without stopping TO
taste. He threw the balance on the
floor with the remark "that water had
a bad taste.s
At the c'ose of the war. one of Il Q
Iowa soldiers presented fine sword
cane TO Gen. Baker. which had been
taken from the plantation Of Governor
Pettus. of Mississippi. Ascer,aining
that Mrs. r. Lapsley. of Selma,
Ala, was the surviving heir of the
old Governor, the Adiutant General
forwarded the cane 70 her. It is of
ebony, with an ivory head and silver
mountings, and WAS the gift of the
well-known Jacob Thompson to Gov.
ernor Pettus.
A young man named Seibert sat
down on the end of tie on the rail-
road track near Grinnell. and fell
asleep. The next thing he knew he
vas being lifted out of the ditch by
the train men. A freight had come
along and run over his arm, crushing
it horribly. He was taken to town,
and the arm amputated.
A middle aged man, of pleasant
address. while climbing up our office
stairs yesterday afternoon, slipped
near the top step and fell to the bot
tom, tearing his clothes, abrading
both shins, and breaking his neck.
The coroner found no clue to his
identity on his person, except poem
Of twenty three verses. entitled,
sIines to Nv Mother" addressed TO
the editor. Let this sad affair be
terrible warning TO all persons who
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