The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-01-04
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officers Of the I'd United States cavalry
and 18th init, were ambuscaded about
five miles from the fort by 1900 Indians
and, after desperate fight, all were
killed. The loss to the Indians Is re-
ported to have greatly exceeded the
number of troops Reinforcements have
been sent west to protect the military
posts along the route.
A boil robbery was perpetrated at
Elkhart, near Springfield, Illinois, on
Saturday morning. While Charles FL
wood, grain dealer, was in his office, n
man came in and wanted to stand by
the stove until train almost due should
come. Mr.. +. said yes, and was turn
ing away, when another man came in,
and the two sprang upon Elwood, over
powered him, bonnd him in a chair,
gagged him by tightening rope round
his neck, and then robbed the safe Of
$4,000, and made their escape unseen by
any one. Three hours afterwards Mr..
Elwood was found nearly dead from
strangulation. He was released, and
measures at once adopted to secure the
arrest of the robbers.
The cable gives very full and interest
ing reports of the ocean yacht race,
which was decided by the arrival of the
Henrietta young Benefits yacht at
- --=.s>'' 't'r-t, at 5:45 on the af-
tcrnooD Of Christmas day. The Henri
eta made the trip in thirteen days and
twenty-five hours from New York-un-
doubtedly the fastest time ever made on
so long voyage by a sailing vessel -
anticipating the arrival of the umpire,
who went out by steamship. She led
the Fleetwig by eight hours and fifteen
minutes, and the Nesta Ivy nine hours
and fifteen minutes. The event has
caused considerable sensation in Eng
land, and the American yachtmcn were
to receive the compliment of banquet
from the Royal Yacht Squadron at
Southampton.
Dispatches by the Atlantic cable state
that tho Italian Government has de-
manded indemnity from Turkey for
firing into an Italian steamer by a
Turkish man-of-war. Advices from
China state that tho French troops had
captured the city and Notifications of
Hong Kong. Affairs in Ireland are
generally quiet. An official edict re-
storing Prussian Poland to her rights
under the Prussian crown is published
1t is reported that Austria intends TO
invade Turkey. The Turks are rcport-
ell to have been again defeated, with
heavy loss, by the Canadians. The
Queen OF Spain is unable to form
Ministry possessing .nc confidence of
either party. The King of Hanover has
abse!ved all Of his officers from their al
legiance. The Sublime Porte has issued
a circular to the Great Powers, complain
ing of the warlike acts OF Greece in the
affairs of Gambia, and asserting deter
minaiion to break oil diplomatic rcla-
ti'''% villa Iiiot aatton. II Is sslhi-oll-
cially announced that the Great Powers
Will not Interfere in the question for the
present, but Lord Lyons, on behalf of
of England, has been instructed to eau
ton Greece against further acts of hos
,ility against Turkey. Maximilian has
ordered his letters sent to Mexico, and
not to Gibraltar.
Senator Roberts, of Texas, paints a
horrible picture of affairs in that State.
He says that twenty-seven hundred
freedmen have been murdered within q
year, and the persecution of the unfor,
tunate blacks is so fearful that they are
praying for a restoration of slavery az 4
protection against the nurderous hate
of the reconstructed white rebels.
Twenty tons or,hy superficial measure
mcnt, forty-esht and a halfsQuarc mile:
of postage stamps have been used during
the year-enough to roof large town
ship, with all It's houses, churches
barns, gardens, forests, and FARMS; or, i
you choose to make ribbon Of them
enough to reach nearly from the equator
to either pole, or twice the length Of tho
Mississippi river. So that if everybody
would be obliged to use the Government,
stamp on the envelope itself, the mere
omission Of these little extra bits Of pa
per would tighten the mail bags by more
than forty thousand pounds, and save
in paper fifteen or twenty thousand dol.
lars. The Postmaster GenosNl does not
impart this information in 50 many
words, but he assures us that nearly
three hundred and fifty millions OF
stamps have been sold during the past
year, besides nearly forty millions OF
stamped envelopes; and simple calcu-
lating reduces the story to the more tan.
giblc form we have given it.
An English Judge, in charging tn,
jury in railway case, said he though
that the blowing of tobacco smoke il
the face of n fellow railway passcnse