The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-02-25

my part, do not intend 10 laave so lone
as there is rebel south or copperhead
north. How many will 60 with me Z"
That little speech settled the matter
by 10 o'clock next morning 536 men OF
the regiment had become veterans. We
think Col. Patrick dos know how tc
make speech, and his boys" think SO
too, We guess.
-Foote expressed the belief that a
certain miser would take the beam out I
his own eye if be knew where he could
sell the timber.
III some Of our very conservative
men had been present at the creation
they would have said, Good God wha,
IS to become of chaos 20
Laughter and tears are meant to
turn the wheels of the same machinery
of sensibility; one is wind power and
the other water power.
Eat, digest read, remember =; earn,
save ; love, and be loved If these four
rules be strict followed, health, wealth,
Intelligence and true happiness will be
the result.
When married man pays more at.
tention to his wife's cousin than to bis
wife, it is certain 81 % that the cousin s
visit has been long enough.
AT christening, while minister
was making the certificate, he forgot the
date, and happened to say, "Let me see,
the both" "Thc thirtieth y exclsim ed
the indignant mother, "indeed, it is on
ly the eleventh."
The freshman borrows half a crown
and trots away bare footed with Bridget
to the priest. The SEQ Gilman has half
crown left when he has paid the minister
and furnished the cottage. The Irish
man cries out for the oppression Of the
Saxon. | will not try to defend the
Saxon there is no defense; can only
say that the Saxon tried the same thing
IN Scotland, with no sort of success and
| believed the reason lies somewhere back
of those two half crowns
-1u speech the other day Fernan.
do Wood had the assurance to saw, "We
Of New York sent fourteen regiments
into Pennsylvania when she was invad-
ed!' TO which Pennsylvania member
reJolncd, soto poce, "les, you did, Fer
nando-the muskets that you sent to
Georgia when the war broke out came
back to Pennsylvania at Gettysburg
Fourteen regiments of your friends, and
more, brought them"
The City Council of Des Moines
has entered into contract with j. NJ.
Starr, of Richmond, Ind to furnish the
city with gas works, to be competed by
the LIST of Sept, 1865. Mr.. Star, expects,
however, to be able to farnish gas by the
LIST of December of the present year
According to the Richmond Wh;g,
the hire of slave in that city costs
sl,77O year, while the highest cost of
a negro at auction ranges from 81 200 to
$500, showing that the owners of slaves
have no great confidence in the article as
permanent investment, the rent Of a
year and half equaling the whole cost.
On gold basis, the hiring of a slave is
about $50 ayear, and the slave represents
ABOUT Sl-V OF capieai.
The Memphis Bulletin publishe, a
card signed by 800 of the best citizens
of the city, addressed to the people of
Tennessee, upon the subject of re. organ.
ization Of the State and re establishing
its relations with the National Govern.
ment. 1t recommends immediate, un-
conditional emancipation as the best and
truest policy aud the only alternative,
and calls upon all to support the same
by meeting at Memphis on the ed inst.
We are Informed, on reliable autho.
rity, that Mrs Ray nond, of Moline, wife
OF Sumner Raymond, woman aged about
sixty five years, gave birth to a child on
Wednesday morning the Sd inst. She
has been married to Mr.. Raymond some
twenty years, and this is her first off.
spring Rock Island Union.
We have great news for the topers.
Whisky and brandy can be made out of
coal gas, which consists Of carbon and
hydrogen, as does alcohol, with the addi
ton OF oxygen. For several years past
the progress of converting oletiant gas
into spirit has been talked of, but now
French patent has been obtained for tho
purpose and sold to company in London.
You take away one half the hydrogen,
add little oxygen, and Presto! you have
a bottle Of brandy. e..
VERMIFUGE WANTED "A young man,
residing in Penn township, Madison Co.,
lately applied to Provost Marshal Brow
nell for exemption from the draft. When
asked what disease he had, he said: Il