The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-08-06
NEWS ITEMS.
A sorghum refinery has been erect
d a, Davenport.


Gen. . A Gilmore is native Of
Ohio. aud graduated 2' West Point IN
1874, with the 6rsi to1ors OF his class.
DIR, j VI Coariss, Of Newport, Vt,
has Java e1.E-e sEeslaS la has -aTaea
be saws it eudurc> the frost better tAaa
beaDs, tomatoes or ludiau coru.
The Viek>burg troops lived several
weeks upon mule meat. Prentice says
that's wna, made the rasc4lS 50 stubborn
Senators Grimes and Harlan aud
Gov. kirkwood have announced their
willingness to make a thorough canvass
ofthe State. Their lists of appointments
will soon be published.
The Dukotiaa says that fifty soldiers
Of the 6sh Iowa cavalry have made claims
iD Cole county. Dakota, Intending TO set
tie there as soon as their term Of service
expires.
They are betting in Ohio tina, Val
laudl Z ham will no, carry three counties
in the State. The blessed martyr" is
still a. Niagara Falls on the British
shore.
/ One of the incidents of the battle Of
Gettysburg, Pa, was the shcliug OF Il
farm, house by rebel battery command.
cd by sou Of :be owner. During a charge
OF the Union troops the son was killed,
but the father reiu>, to look upon the
rem,lns of bis ungratciul child.
The Archdukc Ferdinand Mazimil
an Joseph, who is named Emperor Of
Mexico, was born July 9th, 1882. He
/ is brother of the present Emperor of
Austria. He has been ruler over tho,
department Of Austria which includes
( Venice.
AT Boston, on the 25th ult., one
thousand bales Of Gotten, the cargo of
the prize steamer Victory, was sold for
the benefit Of the Government Over
three hundred and City thousand dollars
were realized.
ALI the soldiers Of Gen. Grants De
partmeut in hospital, who are able to bear
! the Journey, are to be sent home on a
thirty days Through, or if permanently
disabled, are to be discharged or recon-
'neDded for membership in the invalid
corps.
There is no ''let up to foreign i'm
mi grafton. The arrivals at New York
during the week ending the Goth ult =,
according to the official statement of the
Castle Garden Commissioners. foot UP
+, 16S, making total from Is. of JaDua-
~ to date Of Sc 500 against 43 500 dur
ing the spondins season last year.
Johnston is said to be ntrcnchinr
himself near Meridian, Mississippi, 20
miles from the Alabama border, making
the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, between
Okolona and Mobile his line Of defense.
The rebels have virtually abandoned Mis-,
sissippi The planters have been send
ing their negroes in such large number,
to Georgia and Alabama, that the Gov
ernors Of those States have forbidden
any more 10 come. Every thing is quic
at Port Hudson and Vicksburc.
The first military execution in tht
Department. Of the Tennessee took p'ac,
at Corinth. July %. The victim wa.
private A, J Johnson, of the 1st Ala
hama (Feleral) cavalry, who, on the 1911
, Of June, deserted to the enemy while o.
picket duty, and was captured with
band Of guerrilaS on the 18th Of Jul,
r lie was condemned by court martial an
the sentence Of death was approved b
, Gen. Dodge He was shot by twelve
his former comrades in the 1st Aabam
Col. Hatch has succeeded in rurnin
Richardson and his band Of gucrril,
e down into Mississippi. and has turne
his attention to Gen. Pillow and his Tor
u cs, who are in the neigh borhoodof Pari
l. Tennessee.
The people oe Savann'h arc bccomi,
=. greatly alarmed ard sending their Walt,
. bleS into the interior of the States fef
- ing the city may be car'ur' bv t
" F'dora's, as they have but 900 cavall
J. 500 infantry and battery Of artillery
. to defend it.
IS 1T is fixed fact that we arc to ha
he an immense camp on r. ok Island for t
n. accommodation of rebel prisoners 7
at ground is now being surveyed by
by accnt of the Government. Col. Reynol
la, We understand that eighty four Ia,
h. barracks are to be erected, together "
'lv numerous smaller ones for tfficcrs. an
on number of out houses The whole
or he enclosed by tight board fence, s
he rounded by walk three feet from
on top, similar to that now around the az
10 tiers Of the Indians at Camp McC'cll
,us whereon the sentir els will walk and o,
RS. look the prisoners. Some two mill
nv feet of lumber will be used in the err
,ilt ton Of all nece> sary buildings and fen,
and the work is to be done in =
red substantial manner.-Dnr. Go=.
IN rn-A fatal ARRAY occurred on the
inst. in South English. Kecknk cour
between the Copperheads and Union NJ
md resulting in the death of three Copl
hv heads, and the wounding Of several {
ted ers. The Copperhesds held meet