The Tipton advertiser., 1877-05-03

6H0RT-HoRNs.-THE WEST LIBER.
TY SALEs.--Last week Wednesday
Thursday and Friday were the days
designated for the series of short-horn
sales by several leading breeders i'm our
neighboring vicinity of West Liberty.
The sales opened on the first day spec
fled on the catalogue from i. w. Ja-
cobs celebrated "Wapsie Herd" Col.
Judy officiating as auctioneer.
Mr.. J. had advertised well and en-
tertained all comers in good style.
The attendance, therefore, reached
near fifteen hundred persons, includ-
ing most of the prominent dealers in
country; and the sales were at figures
which ought to have been and no
doubt were, quite satisfactory. 1t is
not probable that the interest wou Id
warrant our republishing, even if we
had time and space, the full list of
purchasers and prices. Those who
would care to know this no doubt
have journals that make a speciality of
it. We observe that out of this herd
seventy cows and heifers sold for
$50, 435. an average of S43i; and four
teen bulls brought $3.50. an average
of sos total receipts being SSs,-
3i5, and the general average $780, per
head for the eighty-four animals. The
COW Lucy Napier brought the largest
money, going ats .5l5toA Shropshire.
Monroe, Iowa.
The next day. 2sth ult., after selling
some Clydesdale horses and Berks hire
hogs, the balance of the Jacobs cata-
alogue was gone throughthe later
sales somewhat reducing the average,
insomuch that the total approximate
results were as follows: l52 cows and
heifers brought Si4,6i5, aud ~ bulls
ST. ,26j. Averages-cows and heifers,
S275; bulls, S143; of all, S256. On FRI
day Messrs. Nichols, Barclay and
Miller sold at the FairG Grounds enough
short t-horns to count up $4,000, at an
average of S2J6 for cows and heifers,
and Sll5 for bulls. Chas. McCune, of
Solon, seems to have been the largest
single buyer at these sales. We do not
see 50 many Cedar county names
among the purchasers as usual; but
Mr.. VIM. PEPPER, Of Mechanicsville,
bid off several fine animals. and Messrs.
Bunker, Thos. Gray, Ellison, and
perhaps others, were also among the
buyers.
FIRE AMONG timber SMALL
PoX SENSATION Last Monday, as
the news that an undoubted case of
smallpox had been discovered among
the inmates of the County Poor-house
began rapidly to gain publicity, quite
tidal wave" of excitement ran
through our usually quiet community.
And as the cause and circumstances
connected with such an unexpected
development were fully known, the
talk and excitement ran higher and
higher, until, at this writing, it has
reached the dimensions of the most
lively and general sensation we have
known since the days Of the bold and
burglarious Crawford. And since this
is the case we will endeavor, rs con-
cisely rs possible to state the simple
facts connected with the unfortunate
affair. as we have gathered them from
the various parties most interested.
To go back tothe beginning, 1t seems
that a tourist-vulgar people used to
call 'em "tramps'-from Michigas,
came along a short time ago and OH
tanned a temporary home and some
employment at Emil Hak-teen's, in
Red Oak township. Mrs. II. being
sick, when the tourist was also taken
down last week, Emil naturally
sought some relief. Accordingly, on
last Thursday he visited two Of the
Township Trustees, Messrs. John
Safey, Sr., and John Ferguson. The
Trustees doubted the propriety Of has
tily burdening the Cedar county pub
lie with an outsider, and at first de-
clined TO do anything. But Mr.. Fur
guson, who was just starting for town,
finally agreed to send out a physician
to see the man, and secured the attend
ance of DIR. q. =. Focht, who visited
the patient that afternoon.
The next scene occurred at Mr..
Satley's, where Haksteen came for
the third time that day, just at supper
time, accompanied by DIR. Focht. Mr..
Safiey was called out and informed
that they wanted an order To commit
the sick tramp to the Poor-house. Mr..
:. said What is the matter with
"him, Doctor?" DIR. Focht answered
that the disease was not yet sufficient
ly developed to enable him to tell. !"
This, Mr.. Saficy says, was the first and
leading question and answer, almost
rtrbotim; and that the understanding
conveyed to him thereby was in no
wise changed by the subsequent rum
ming conversation in which the DR.
detailed the symptoms and explained
that they might foreshadoW danger
Gus disorder -at the same time eau
tioninS against publicity and conse-
quent needless alarm. Mr.. s. does not
think the word smallpox was used,
but will not be positive about it. DR..
Focht, on the other hand, maintains
that, although he could not be entirely
positive at that stage, yet he was well
satisfied the man had smallpox
(which he evidenced by quietly sending
for vaccine matter the moment he re-
turned to town, and that he SO in
formed Mr.. Safely. BE this as it may,
how the Doctor could have quietly
contemplated the prospect that the
fellow would 60 into public institu-
ton while even a possibility of such u
disease existed, is something difficult
to understand. Mr.. Safely refused to Or
der the man into the Poor-house as a
charge from that township, saying to
them, RED Oak never produced a
pauper;" but some way he did not
wake up to the actual situation, and