The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-08-31

Why are books our best friends
Because when they bore US we can always
shut them up without offenss.
The Iowa City Republican is advisin,
lts readers to "hold on to WOOL
Whersupon Prentice remarks: "Tha.'s
what our anti amer dmeut men in Ken
tucky are trying to do" F.. i .
Sir BOYLE Roche, in one of the de-
bates on the question of Irish Union,
made a speech in favor Of it, which hs
concluded by saying, That it would
change tho barren hiUs into .Iruym ral-
lys"
For long time it has bafiied the
medical authorities to account for the
force with which the waves beat against
the shore, and it has recently come 10
light that it arises from the fact Of there
being "muscles' in the sea.
DIAMOND CEMENT Take one pound
white glue, one quart rain water, three
gills alcohol, four ounces white lead; dis
solve the glue in rain water; add the al
cohol and dissolve again; then add tho
lead; boil fifteen minutes; stir oil the
time; bottle while hot. The above 10
sold as "a receipt for meading wood,
leather, &c, to make them as strong as
! before broken.
PRESIDENT HOPKINS Of Williams Col.
lsge, in his recent Baccalaurca.e Sermon.
held it to be demonstrable that the second
table Of the law-thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyselt--is the only law of q
stable society. 1t is radical There is
in it the intcnsost radicalism. The vsry
essence of it is to give to every human
being his rights-to crcry human being.
What more can radica,sm ask?
THE ROMANCE OF WAR.-A French
soldier who accompanied Napoleon to,
Russia concealed a small treasure at the
entrance of a village near wilma, with
view Of taking it with him on his return.
After the do'eat of Moscow he was made
a prisoner, and sent to Siberia, and only
recovered his liberty few years before
his death. Ga reaching wilma no 70.
mem bercd his hidden treasure, and after
tracing out the spot where he had hid It,
he went to take it away. What was his
astonishmcnt to find in place of his
money, a small in box containing let.
ter addressed to him, in which com.
mercial house was mentioned at Nanza,
where he might receive the sum buried,
with interest, since the year 1872. The
soldier supposed this was all hoax
lie went however, to the house pointed
cut, where he received bis capital, with
twelve years interest. With this sum
he established a small business in Name,
which enabled him to live com ortably;
but he was never able, tho he has taken
some pains, to ascertain how his money
was taken away aud restored to him.
HoMIclpE AT DAvENroRr.-A re-
turned Soldier Of the 4,h Iowa Cavslry,
named Charles Mccarthy, shot and killed
an lrishman named Michael Re, noids,
at Davenport, on Saturday last, in self
defence The difficulty grew out Of an
insult offered by one of McCartby's COM
panious to Reynolds wife. Mccarthy
surrendered himself and went to Jail, but
will probably be acquitted if the account
given in the Ga.ctte is correct.
The Boston traveller of the 18th saws:
"Snow fell at the White Mountains.
Wednesday, notwithstanding the warm
weather in Boston. At Bradford, Yer
mont, there WIS a very severe hail storm
about noon, and some gardens we're about
destroyed. The hail stonos remained on
the ground till six o clock that evening.
Many summer visitors returned from tho
mountains yesterday
The Louisville Press says tbat--"For.
rest the terrible, Forrest, who ia the
days that are gone rode havoc all through
Tennessee and Western kentucky-the
mere mention Of whose name would make
feeble garrisons of isolated posts trom-
bic in their boots, aud black soldiers
grow pale in the face--now, like whip
ped aud ducked rooster, sinks away and
tries to hide himself He actually con-
fesscs that he is afraid to 90 home, and
avows that he cannot return to his plan
tation with safety unless he is protected
by Federal bayonets. lie is reported ~
endeavoring to lease his land to resign
cd Federal officer, who has not incurred
the hatred which this bullying chieftsin
ha. aroused
A letter in the Madison Journal from
Col. LaGrange, in Macon, Ga, has tho
following extract: can Educational
Bureau ought to be established, and a
national system of free common schools
inauguratcd which would protect our lib.
critics, by leaving no class from which
demagosues can recruit the rank aud flo
of insurrect'onary armies. Such uni
verstes ought to be founded as would
dwarf the schools of Europe, aud profes.
sorship ought to be endowed that would
bring to the instruction of our Young
men and women the best talent that tho
world produces. We ought to national.
ize what is good, as the surest means of
osracizing what's eyil,''
The Treasury Department has now
sufficient funds On hand to discharge
every dollar Of Indebtedness to the SOL
d'ers. With the receipts from internal