Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15
IOWA BOILED DOWN.

The harvest is light in Black Hawk
county.
Excavating is going on for Burlington's
new opera house.
Davenport sent a carload of onions direct
to New Orleans the other day.
OF late about $50, 600 a month have been
paid out in Perry for hogs alone.
The first wheat of the years crop sold in
LeMars brought % cents per bushel.
The CHAMBERS is alarmirgly prevalent
among the horses of Mamison county.
The Fort Dodge butter tub factory is
now supplying tubs for sixteen creameries.
The dome of the new court house at
Burlington is being covered with red tile.
The Oskaloosa pork packing house will
soon be ready to cut up 1,500 hogs per
day.
An excursion of land seekers, number
ing about 400, is expected in LeMars about
the 10Th.
Sanborn's building improvements during
the next few months will foot up not less
than. $4,000.
Over 5000 melons were marketed in
Muscatine on the ith, most of which were
for shipment.
There were ffty.one hotel keepers pres
ent at the Davenport gathering of the
| association.
In digging a well at Battle Creek pieces
of wood perfectly preserved were found at
a depth of forty feet.
The amount OF water used from the
Burlington waterworks has increased 500
per cent. this summer.
The German-American national ~associa-
ton of teachers closed q four days session
at Davenport on the 9th.
Bloomfield has just finished putting
| steam heating apparatus into its public
school building at q cost OF S2,4l5.
There is more building going on among
farmers in the neighborhoods adjoining Des
Moines this season han for many years.
Material is being distributed along the
the Illinois Central between Fort Dodge
and Sioux City for a second telegraph
wire.
The Bishop of Davenport visited iowa
| City ON Monday last, and was the guest of
Rev. Father Smyth, Of st. Patrick's
church.
1t is the intention of the Vinton can
ming works to this season put 1,000,0OO of
two and three pound cans of corn and to-
matoes.
Sinclair & Co., of Cedar Rapids, report
127, 437 hogs packed during the present
| season to the 18th inst. as against 173, 431
during the corresponding period last year.
The reunion of the { rocker Brigade at
Washington, will talks place on Septem-
her 2Sth and 29th, instead of 9th and 18th
as heretofore mentioned in these columns.
One of the fastest horses in the state is
Wagner's Bashaw, owned at Burlington.
There is a standing offer of S. 600 for the
horse, with $1,000 for every second he
lowers his record, which is now 2:23.
The Illinois Central company keeps a
| refrigerator car constantly IN the track at
| Manchester for the convenience of butter
shippers. The total shipments of butter
during last month amounted to 263, 100
pounds.
Corn In southern central lowa is suffer
ing greatly for rain, and it is now too far
advanced to be restored. The prospects
are that half a crop will be gathered,
Wheat is also turning out poorly. In
| Warren county the threshers will not
take out theft machines, as the yield will
not pay for the labor. Potatoes will be
nearly a total failure in that section unless
rains come soon.
Close Bros. & Co. have let a contract to
S. b. Sawyer, of LeNars, for the erection
| OF between lIlTUN anu lbibl ibibi ~
and the same number of barns OF Osceola
county this year The houses are to be III
by %, II feet high, and the barns 10 by "a,
Sfeet high This contract increases the
number of houses which the firm is build
ing in that county this season to about l25,
and the barns the same.
Upton Advertiser: Why people in
| Western Iowa should live without shade,
is the question Uncle Billy Virgins wishes
to nave answered. lie arrived in Ply
mouth county on the Goth of May. and on
the next day he planted 1000 maple seeds
that he carried out with him. They all
grew, and July 30, just two months after
planting, he pulled one and brought it
| home with him. The tree produced is
| fully two feet high, and certainly demon
| strates the extreme ease with which arti-
| fetal groves may he started-especially
| when one reflects that in three or four
| years the grove may be fifteen feet high.
The Wabash system of railroads is send
| ing out a feeaer in a northwest direction
| from Newton, on its main Iowa line, UNI
| der the name of the Newton, Des Moines
& Northwestern This line is already
| nearly finished to Des Moines. 1t is said
| that right of way has been secured most of
| the way from Des Moines to TT. Dodge,
| and hat one of Jay Gould's henchmen is
in Northwestern Iowa drumming up local
| aid for the road. Most of the townships
| through which the route is to pass are
voting five per cent taxes, under the inn
preston that the road is to connect with
something called a barge line ON the Mis-
sissippi river. The company, at some
| places, issues certificates in exchange for
| the tax voted. These certificates can lie
| applied to the extent of % per cent on
| freight or passenger tolls. The Newton,
! Des Moines & Northwestern has secured
| control of the narrow guage Des Moines,
| Adel & Western, and is extending II up
the Coon river from Panoria. The Wa
bash is surely gaining a great foothold in
Iowa.