The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-03-14

are directly interested = the y1obstfuct
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ted that i 60 -" voaId Go
s., 600, 90 16oD TN oens ~ 9eef6et
upon. E6o1D6noe III ~ NQGa
is to b h Isly MT 81 TIE United 6eaSel
Governmentand the Railroad Company
Congress Appropriated 1No0 In aid Of
the work last seasO0, ut o. Saturday
last, the House refused to vote for On
additional 500, 600 asked for by Hon. H.
Price. A muoA lqsges snm than tbAt will
be needed, and shonld b. granted with
out delay. A due regard for the COM
merce OF the whole river demands the
removal Of the present structure - soon
- possible. ~e@
MIR. H.G. Gibbs, or the Dubuque Pro-
duce Exchange, has n1adea tour through
several counties west Of that city, and
makes tho following report:
Near ffve fbld more seed wheat will be
needed this spring than was sown In 66.
In BlackhAWk county II IL estimated
that fr0m II, GOO 10 5000 acres will be
sowed with wheat this year, and in Bre-
mer about the same. At least $4,000
acres In Delaware will be devoted to the
same grain. Buchanan county WILSON
about L, 900 acres" 49,, y. ~, a.. g.. .assgo
: The Hardin Se,stiasl says: ''Some two
years agO Charles Usher Of this town,
then q resident of Fayette county, .
blacksmith by trade, made discovery
which we have no doubt will be q great
value to the world when its reliability
and uses become known. The process
is one by which by the application II
certain inRfodiOpta - the stIFfnCe ZION,
steel or other metals, forms 10 some exc
tent . chemical combination With, the
metal, resulting IN ! metal 70 hard - to
utterly defy ~ attemps upon 4 With hams
mer, file or cold chis0l. We have seen .
this process, and its point ct once became
90 hard ~ to cut glass like . diamend.
As an experiment, Mr.. Usher made .
several months ago, and hAr-
dened one Of the heel calks, lea~issK the
others a. usually made. Notwithstand-
ing the extraordinary hardness Of the
fl1est polish. !" atCTs. @ts7>t VII Z '.@
DIR. ]. N, ShafIer has resigned his
ONCE Of Commissioner nom Iowa 70 the
Paris Exposition. The Legislature
made no provision for the payment Of
the expenses Of . Commissioners, and
saTy means from the Contingent Fund
Shaffer has decided to surrender his
commission and remain ct home. "a
The heaviest chime Of bells ever
brought into Iowa, arrived in Dubuque
on the 10th ult. on their way to Father
Wieckman's Church In New Wine
Dubuque County. The lar
CAST weighs I, 600 ns., the next 2 600 and
thesmallest l 600 he. ass1 +.
A NEST daring and murderous oc-
currence took place In Muscatine, last
Monday night. AZ Mr.. Philip IIenhart,
q respectable citizen, was returning to
his home in the outskirts of the city, he
was accosted by man a. to the resi-
dence Of some person In the vicinity.
Mr.. Lenhart turned round to point out
the direction, when the man dealt him
q blow on the side of the head. A scuf-
fie ensued, and Mr.. Lenhayt, who il q
powerful man, was getting the better Of
his assailant, when another man came
At him and struck him on the head with
a slung shot, which rendered him pow
erless. The two then kicked him, and
and region of the heart, and robbed him
of $3.50 In money, which he had drawn
from the bank during the day, intend
ing to start early the next morning to
buy cattle. Mr.. Ienlaart, although he
has two ribs broken and the -sta6s are
severe, will probably recover. His ~
sailants were to him unknown, and
they have, thus FIR, escaped.
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The BANKRUPT BILL.-The Bank
rupt Bill which passed Congress during
the last hours Of the session squeezed
through the House by the close vote of
IS to Il, and had only majority of 4 in
the Senate. When II reached the Pres
ident for his signature, 1t passed muster
with the slightestpossible scrutiny. I'm
der the provisions of this Act all pro.
ceedings for Bankruptcy commenced
after one year from the time the bill
goes Into operation, the assent, in writing
Of the creditors representing = majority
Of the number and of the value Of the
claims will be required In order to give q
discharge TO the bankrupt, IN case his
assets shall not pay fifty per cent. Of the
claims against him.
In the steel rail nails, at the Cyclops
steel works, Sheffield, mass of iron
one ton Is dropped from a
height of 36l feet upon the middle of the
rail, placed upon supports, as test of its
strength. The rails rarely break, but
occasionly bend under this tremendous
trial.
A young man in New Britain, Conn.,,
while trying to steal kiss from young
lady Of that place, got her knitting nee-
die stuck in his eye, and broke short off
10 the socket. A physician removed
the piece, but the gentleman can now
only Ego one eye on it."
Mr.. Whittach, = lucky miner, who
gave his name to the best mine on Reese
river, Nevada, owns and has given his
name to the most famous and profitable
one In Montana. He IL going to carry q
500, 900 bar Of gold from the latter to the
Paris Exhibition.
Illinois furnishes New York with
more than one half Of the whole num-
Der Of live stock received In that city.
In 1865, the total number Of cattle re-
CaiYAd fharn Wos PA $40 nf srhi~i. Lac 90 >
were nom Illinois, the aggregate value
Of which was $ls, STA, 302, 80.
A gentleman called upon q farmer at
Newark, N. J., the other day, and In
sisted upon paying for . basket of apples
he had taken from q farmers orchard,
whom boy sixteen years previous. He
paid not only the original value Of the
apples but interest for tho entire period.
- Night Marc u one of the many
diseases of which indigestion IL the par
ent. and can be easily cured by avoiding