The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-05-24

limits. and have the price OF the ar
iicie reduced
| Scarlet fever and measles have co
up "a corner" On the little folks O
Boone coany.
Ansmosa has twenty lawyers ard
| eleven of them are members ef Christ
ian churches.
During the last year IN keosas
there were FL deaths, lsa ~ which
were caused by diphtherss.
An egg dealer in rellS shipped ~.
barrels of eSys TO eastern markets
| during the month Of April.
John MeMshon. who settled in Dl-
buque in l>s5, died in Coleshurg.
Delaware county. on Wednesday last
II is some what amusing To see
how the patent inside" papers brag
about their enterprise is publishing
war maps.
The saloon keepers of Webster City
have entered into contract with the
public not to violate the liquor law in
the future.
The Capitol Commissioners are
discussing the propriety of using
terra Gotta for the roof of the new
State House.
Great interest is felt both i'm Dubu-
que and elsewhere in the approaching
June races, which come off on the 9Th
9Th and eth.
Our exchanges from Northwestern
Iowa are mostly jubliant over their
crop prospects. The hoppers are on
their last legs.
Boone and Greene counties are squab-
bling as to who shall support thirty
or forty paupers whom each county
wants to disown.
Henry Mechail, of Davenport, was
arrested in Cedar county last week,
for the seduction of Wilke Thedens in
the former place.
George Palmer, the confederate of
the notorious Lennix, was arrested in
Cedar Rapids on the 18th, for numer-
Gus bank robberies.
A late issue of the Charles City
Mteiiigencer devotes two pages and
tw colum > to a description of Floyd
county and Charles City.
The Marengo Democrat advocates
the building Of narrow gauge rail-
way between Marengo and Belle
Plaine, on the c. 4 n. w. r. r.
Fridays Burlington Gazette con-
tains a poetical effusion from the pen
of a tramp named "Dublin," who is
temporarily at work on the city stone
pile.
jeff Waynick ofLucas county, furn-
ishes the Charlton Patriot with a pos
tai card on which II 900 words, many
Of which were oftwo syllables, were
written.
A Cripple just out of the Jackson
county Jail. hoped half mile in six
and half minutes one day last week
and won eleven dollars by performing
the feat.
The first annual camp meeting of
the Adventists of Iowa will commence
on the 18th of June next, in a grove
near Cedar Falls, and will continue
over two Sabbaths.
A clerk in Bloomfield bank paid
so for check for 20 cents the other
day. As a general thing banks won't
correct errors, but they made an
exception in this case.
The Young Mems Lecture Associ-
alton Of Maquoketa have already
appointed committees to secure sub
scriptions for season tickets for next
winters course of entertainments.
The meeti ngs conducted by Messrs.
Dean and Chaplin in Mechaniesville
have have greatly quickened the
religious interests in that place. The
special services closed last Sunday
evening.
DIR. y. q. Sales, one of the oldest
and at one time most influential citi-
zens of Jones county, has become
hopelessly insane, and was taken to
the asylum at Independence a few
days ago.
The contract for building the new
Congregational church at Grinnel ha.
just been let to Messrs Heartstock d
McMillen of Oskaloosa, for s24 go
1t is to be inclosed by November ans
finished June, ISIS.
Olof Ingebritzer, the young fien'
| who, in revenge for unrequited love
att empted TO bite Off the nose of
young lady school teacher in ALBANIA
kee county, has been arrested an
committed to Jail.
Hon. II. o. Pratt, Of Charles City
Iowa, has abandoned politics and take
to the pulpit as Methodist preache
He is one of the most talented men i
this State, and will no doubt make q
efficient and popular preacher.
, In Boone county, last week, miner
prospecting for coal, struck gas wei
from which issued a constant streal
of gas, coming with such force as
, be heard several hundred feet. 1t hs
9 a strong odor of petroleum, and ",
. still escaping at last accounts.
r Rev. ID. r. Lucas Of Des Moines,
= the author of a religious novel, ju
!, published under the title of PA
e Dar-t, or conflict between Love ar
e Infidelity." The book Is written fro
the Christian standpoint, and argu
against creeds and church laws.
I Chas. Dixon, saloon keeper
Monticello, attempted to shuttle Q
this mortal coil on Monday last, b'
was induced by means of dose
!, ipecac to continue his earthly pilgrim
. age for a while longer at any rate. +
, had suffered slightly from 'jim.jam
4 gentleman who has been trave