The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-01-18
IOWA ITEMS.

InE vinton creamery made 10000
pounds of butter Inst year
TnEnE were o57 births III Davenport
during lss2 md 35i deaths.
The highest SALARY pail woman
teacher in this State II vi 200.
crnAn FALLS building improvements
during 1852 aggregated S51Ap1O.
TnE lee harvcsters ~ Dos Mnincs OK.
poet IL put up $4,000 tons this year.
IT rnsts the kcokuk business houses
SIS to s,'o per annum for the telephone.
TnE Mctircgor News thinks TINT there
IL mn opening for II college ut TINT city.
Tnr building statistics Of Atlantic for
the year just closed show n total Of
sl62. iO5.
CorNcli. Bluffs claims to have TX.
pended II. 5On. Oa,o for building improve
mcnts III 1872.
Tnr work Of relief Tor the poor has
hccn organized IN permanent form in
Council bluffs.
An Iowa City cherry tree IL covered
with blossoms. Its roots are next to II
will inside Of which il n furnace
cuAr beds nre Thought IL exist near
Timer. Iama county, and prospectors
will soon cn,leasor to locate the carbon.
ONE Independence sportsman claims
tn have killed nineteen quail out OF n
flock of twenty ut u single shot re-
Gently.
UEs MONIES hns citizen who Mas
horn on Jim. |, married Oh another Jan.
/ l. md whose first child was born Oh
still another Jan |.
I \ fEW days ngo sheriff Hunter. of
Jasper county arrested Phil Cross. Who.
Will, six others, escaped from Nrwton's
jul about six wears ago. through hole
In the floor Of thu cell.
rnr roal from the new Red Rock
mines i, pronounced hy Des Moincs ex-
rerts to he the freest from sulphur of
any eaal VT found in Iowa. II is the
only eannel coal found in the State.
In il reported that dlph,heri,. in n
malignant form. j. prevailing in Wool
stock township. We understand tina,
four deaths occurred there in one family
during last week. bright county
Monitor
A FEW days ago. while Is. 4. BE.
bout. IT Washington township. War;
ron county. was running a fearful race
With his little son on the way to school.
he fell and expired instantly. He was
over Go years of age. and has lived III
Warren county for twenty wears.
u. Il. SMITH. eN-Dcpntv Treasurer of
! Leo county. WAS convicted If embez-
aling county funds at 1t. Madison ON the
10th of December. He was sentenced
I t. the penitentiary for three wears and
half and IL pay Il fine nf S3l5.l Ii. He
appealed and is ont under bond Of
1 Sa.MN.
| TnE real estate transfers II 4. Il.
Close 4 Brothers to the Western Land
Company. ~ given hy the Sioux City
Journal, foot up 1855 acres: con.
>ileration. ssa5. u.3,a1. The land sold
is partly in Woodbury. county. the hal.
ance heing in the Iowa counties north
and northeast,
STIR has been entered in the Dubuque
County Court by the widow of a MAJ,
named Erpendorf. who killed himself
in drinking contest with Steger hs
an overdose OF whisky. for Sla.Mk
damages against the firm ot nolsche,
Bros. nNerssillc, On whose premises
tho liquor was drank, Steger has ais,
since died from the effects II the hamnl
drunk on that occasion.
Two HUNDRED ANn SlNrEEN marriay,
licenses were issued in Woolhur,
county during lssa, The Journal ma,
drops into u reveric rs follows: "Fol
one thing il shows a good.sized popula
ton in this county Of Woodbury. thai
can turn ont al6 weddings in wear
AL Young married folks. The amom,
of plated spoons and wedding cak,
needed IL start this company in husi
ness is something fearful t. contem
plate,
Thomas BERRY, an Irish cooper. a,
coancil Rlnils. went t. his hnar,lin,
hnnse very drunk. AMI could not gct in
lie sat On the step until morning. whe,
he WAS found With his hands. feet and
ankles 81 frozen that ampntation was
necessary. He was man past mildl,
life. served in the late civil war. was i,
the Thirteenth New York and drew i
pension for wound in the arm, Ill,
had no family nor friends. and was i
sort af ca>taMay. lie suffered mex
rresslhle agony when attempts wer,
made IL resu>clsatc INN,
Miss Harm WILSON. daughter Of 1.
L, Wilson, returned Monday mornin,
frum TAX Hollow. Oak, where she on
tered homestead III loo acres Sh,
has resided upon her land six months
and then paid out On the land and ~
eeivel her Government patent, Sh,
has been offered Stun more for the lant
than il eos, her Perhaps some yauns
man would like to Improve Hattic's lot
hv building house on it--and marry
ing Hattie, Our opinion is, that th,
young man Who gets Hattie's hand an,
heart, and the Ito acres, will have I,
prove himself worthy,-rrdirie CIT,
NeTs,
! TnsRs Was CHASTITY lind in Plat
township, Union county, recently. John
. Nolan ami his little son were ont gun
ning, when the latter called 10 his faith
er to shoot an owl which he saw arpar
. entity On limb near the ground u,
! examining the object Mr. Nolan "a,
what the hoy had mistaken for an ow
was the CHASTITY skull Of human helm:
in all the horror Of sightless socket
and grinnlng teeth, suspended from
! low limb. ami honv skeleton, weather
beaten AMI iecayed, lay beneath il o,
the ground. Investigation led To tn
belief tina, il vas that Of an old Germa
named John Bierstandt. - years old
who had wandered away last June frol
! relatives in Creston and disappeared
/ The most notable official change mad
in the State Government nj the hegil
ming Of the year was the liscontinuanc
| Of the State Land Office. which va
done hs virtue of chapter a05. acts /,
/ the Eighteenth General Assemhl,
+. Hereafter parties having business wit
the State l.andO fiice will transact ii wit