The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-10-15
NEWS ITEMS.

Eighty cases Of shells, filled with Ureel
fire, have been sent to Gen. Gilmore .
Charleston Prentice apprehends tbs
t before they are exhausted, Charleston
, herself will be shell.
, The rebel papers try to be funny Owe
the coalition of Alexander III, Of Russia
and Abraham l, of the United States
bu, it is grim business beirg funny Owe
= anything down South.
The truth as to the rebel losses at Get
tysburg is gradually coming out A
Richmond correspondent. Of the Mobile
Register says their losses in killed sne
wounded was at least $4,000 men, soc
gives statistics confirming this estimate
The banquet to be given BY the New
York Common Council to the oflcers OF
the Russian feet will take place next
Monday at the Aston House.
Certificates of authority to commesce
banking have been issued to lO3 Nation
oil banks.
A firm 10 Essex, Mass, are building
a heunery which will occupy six acres OF
ground They intend TO furnish fowls
for the New York market.
), ~ l---I ,vFy &c Worces-
ter's Dictionary is to be sent to The En.
peror of Brazil by cur Government. If
there is any sharp diplomatic practice
between the two countries. bis highness
will thus be enabled to get at the mean
ing Of tie words.
The plaster model for one of the doors
for the capitol at Washington is now on
its way to New York 1t will be cast 10
this country, as the Secretary of the In
terror has decided, that as far as possible
all future work for the capitol snail be
done upon our own soil.
4 race between a steam. carriage and
some horses, at the Vermont State Fair,
on Friday, resulted in favor Of the horses.
The machine is a curiosity / cost two
thousand dollars, is two horse power. and
weighs five hundred pounds. A hodful
of coal will make steam enoug to propel
the carriage twenty five miles, lDakiDg
the expense of running it less than cent
a mile. 1t can 90 up or down any hill
that horse can, but it cann,t make
time anywhere but on straight course.
Peter p. Murphy, examining surgeon
of the Board of Enrolment at Lockport,
n. Y, has been held to bail 10 FIVE thou
sand dollars for accepting money; and
I +. Hoyor was held to bail in the same
amount for off ring money to Murphy to
exempt drafted men.
On the Goth Of September last the
number Of sick and wounded soldiers in
the different hospitals throughout the
country was 57,7I3-a reduction of ar
! ly one.third from the number in hospital
at the same time last year Although
the cartel Of exchange is virtually sus.
pended, deliveries of sick and wounded
arc of frequent occurrence at City Point
the prisoners being placed on parole
There has been trial of speed between
English and Arabian horses at Cairo,
Egypt. In running race of four miles
the English horses came out a Lalf a mile
ahead
Southern papers declare that all re-
ports of Alex. IL Stephens going to Eu.
rope are unfounded
Nebraska must be a lovely place to
emf gratc to 10 the vicinity of the
South Platte river they have had no rain
for almost year, and clouds Of dust and
sand arise from what was once the bed of
the river. The ranches and plains swarm
with flcas, aHd there are the best facili-
ties in the world for being miserable an
uncomfortable.
The cotton crop in Kansas this gear
has been a complete success Tie green
seed cotton, the kind raised in MARYLAND
and Kentucky, has been uniformly sue
crss'ul in Kansas, Will, the varietie:
sent from Washington and the Missis
sIppi have invariably failed
! The Rev. John Gilbert, of Clay coun
ty, Ky, propounds theory about the
duration of the war Corn blades hat
seven points to them during the Revo-
lutionary war, which lasted seven years
this year many of them have but thre
points, and the war, therefore, is to las
three years It's consummation mos
devou,ly to be wished for.
. Mahony, the Iowa copperhead, has re
cei-cd another crown of martyrdam-
this time at the hands of his own Fart,
! Ga Thursday last, the democrats of D,
= ersville, Dubuque county, attacked hi,
with rotten eggs and drove him out {
:, the place. Mahony might have said wit
Hamlet, after such reception, IN
o offense l. rank, and smells" badly.
10 the case Of Daniel Decrbriyht. Is
o New Jersey volunteers, sentenced to b
IS shot as a deserter his extreme vout
# and sincere penitencc were earnestly re,
n resented to the President by the Char
h lain of the regiment The President n
n tma'ely consented to stay the execution
leaving the final issue with Gen. Mead,
Il who, it is said, is favorably disposed o
f the subject. The prompt action of NJ,
Lincoln deserves MISUNDERSTANDING tn
telegraph to headquarters out of orde,
o he at once sent special engine with I'll