The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-12-07
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"A German woman living in the Big
Woods about ten miles north of Cedar
Falls, undertook to fill u kerosene lamp
while it was burning, and BY the sxplo-
sion which snsued received such injuries
as to cause her death the next morning.
The Cedar Falls Gazette illustrates
the calamities which sometimes befall
telegraph dispatches BY the following:
A gentleman at Dubuque sent dispatch
to friend in Cedar Falls, saying, "Have
Tarnsworth's papers sent to me by TO-.
morrow mornings train" The receiver
of the dispatch was puzzled by reading,
"Have Ainsworth's scrapers sent to me,
&C."
The Bloomfield Guard says the North
Missouri Railroad is located to a point
near the southwest corner Of Davis CO. !,
being on continuous divide intsrssct.
ing the State line road near West Grove
The construction Of railroad from
Fl. Madison to Burlington is engaging
the attention Of the people Of those two
A Salt Lake City correspondent of the
New York Times confirms the previous
reports that the Mormons are armiug,
and will fight for polygamy, which is the
only article of faith which they much
care for. The writer says that be be-
lieves South Carolina was more loyal in
the spring Of 1861 than Utah is at the
present time.
The Rev. Petroleum V. Vssby has,
since the election, ceased preaching to
his congregation in New Jersey, giving
them up as a bad job. He was last
heard from in Washington, being very
severely talked to BY "subjoogated"
and repentant Albanian. While the
unhappy Petroleum is hunting his bols,
it is proper to set him right in point of
identity. He is not ALE Burnett, the
comic EIocution;ss, blu. J. r Lock, of
the Findley CO., Jcf@rsoaion.
A terrible explosion took place in Lon.
doo on the 3lss Of October. The gas.
ometer of tho London Gas Compan
fully charged with gas, suddenly ex plod.
ed, tearing in atoms several large build
ings SO completely that not one brick
was left standing upon another. People
near y milo off were violently thrown
down, SO severe was the shock. Thirty
men were taken from the ruins, nine of
whom we're dead, and the remainder in
precarious condition
Tho famous elephant, Romeo, broke
from his fastening at Philadelphia, dur
ing the absence of his keeper, capsized
wagon, tore down q number of stalls,
reached the street, ripping trees from
the roots, upsetting the fences, and FIN
that is, the elephants trunk, not The
man sand throwing him against
house. His keeper arrived, and Romeo
was "subjugated' and led back to his
chains.
The Military Commission at St. Louis
for the trial Of the rebel boat burners,
drags its slow length along, and has not
yet finished the evidence against MUIR
ply, who has been two months on trial.
The st. Louis .News says: 1--WE under
stand that Of the members of the Military
Commission, but one would remain 10
service, were they not retained by the
Secretary of War for the purpose Of
completing the trial. We think punch.
lock civil court could have disposed of
the Murphy case, the same as the old
Romans would have done, between sun
and sun"
An exchange says the jobbing houses
OF the east are just now extremely fear
full Of some congressional legislation that
may cause commercial panic. They
are fearful that steps may be taken for
the speedy resumption of specie pay ment,
md III that case they are confident of an
immediate upheaval in the mercantile
world, while if it finds them with heavy
stocks Of goods will play absolute mis-.
chief. Hence they are crowding off their
goods through the n edium of runners"
and clearing their decks for action
Quantrel, the infamous wretch who
ordered the massacre at Lawrence, Kan
sas, is on bis way to Washington, to ask
pardon Of the President. Instead of
beng pardoned, the atrocious scoundrel
ought to be handed over to the people of
X ansas, to let them decide his fate.
The Fenian organization in Canada is
said to number So goo, Of whom one half
are already armed, all of which we must
be permitted to doubt.
The Secretary of Wars report will
show that on the 1st Of May last we
had over million men in the army
that this force has been reduced to one
hundred and seventy fve' thousand, and
that by the lst Of next July it will be
reduced to $4,000. He will ask for only
s33 100000 for tho military expenses Of
next year.
The difficulty between the Board of
Trade and the proprietors of the eleva.
tors of Chicago in regard to the advance
in the rates of storage, has been finally
and satisfactorily settled by the ware
hoasemen concluding not to make any
change in the rates except on Rejected