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The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23
How Dogs Kill Sheep.

The March report ofthc Commission
er of Agriculture dwclis upon the rava-
gcS committed 10y dogs among the sheep
in the United States. In 1866, five hun
drcd thousand sheep were killed by dogs
and their value was $2,oOn,0OO. The
number INJURED was three hundred
500, 600. The Commissioner says:
"rhe cost of keeping dogs, most of
them utterly worthless, when calculated
for the whole country, assumes startling
proportions. The estimate made in
1858, of ten dollars per annum. or less
than one cent per meal, cannot be con-
sidcrcd cXtravagant, in view of the
price paid for boarding dogs, the cost
of Keeping large numbers Of them in
cities, and exclusive consumtion of meat
AS to their number, it Is believed by
many that they will average one to each
family, or seven millions in the United
States. In cities and towns that average
would not be reached, while many a
pack of hounds and assemblage of curs
of low degree might be found in the
ownership of single families Possibly
seven millions may be too large Ohio,
with half IA million families, j. supposed
by many TO have half millions dogs, al
though little more than one-third OF
that number are found on the assessor :
books. 1t may be assumed in view OF
all the data obtained, as "A low estimate
that there are five millions of dogs in
the United States, and that there sub
sistcncc involves IN expenditure Of fifty
millions of dollars.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23
A Lively Ball in OREGON.

At recent ball in Roscburg, Oregon,
all went on ia peace and auictness un-
til Sol. Colvcr, john Fitzhugh, Bob
Forbes, John Hannah and Abe Crow
came there, it is said, to break up the
ball. When they entered the ballroom
they had a few words, when George
Bennett struck Sol. Colver in the face
with IA revolver. Bcranger then stepped
up to them for the purpose, it is said, of
stopping the fuss, when John FitZhugh
drew Il Derringer and shot him through
the head, after which he never spoke.
Ash Clayton who was tiddling at the
time, then drew a knife and stabbed
Sol. Colver in the small of the back UNI
der the right shoulder. Abe Crow then
rushed in and Shot Clayton through the
thigh and another bah struck him on
the torhead, the ball not entering the
skull, but glancing over it under the
skin, and passing out OF the back OF the
head. Crow then drew his knife and
struck Clayton across the head, intlict-
ing terrible wound. Fitzhugh, after
shooting Beranger, rushed on Tom
Thompson, when the latter shot him
twice. Hannah then struck Thompson
when the latter shot him through the
stomach, the ball passing through him.
Bob Forbes then rushed into the fight,
when Thompson shot him down also,
the ball entering his right side, ranging
back and striking his backbone and
breaking his back, then glanced to the
right, going down the hip. After the
shooting Was all over, Bob Woodruff
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23
The Power of Congress.

The Administration appears at last to
the power of the people. In his argu-
ment before the supreme Court on Mon
day, Mr.. Stanbury admitted the superior
authority of Congress, and said that it
might even destroy the Constitution,
and there would be no remedy if it was
sustained by the people. This way o.
putting his proposition was perhaps in-
tended as a declaration of the opinion
that that body is seeking to accomplish
the thing he said it might accomplish;
but nevertheless n great truth was de-
clared-the truth that the people have
the power of governing themselves, and
that in the event of an issue between the
Departments of the Government, the
power of the people is supreme. Mr..
Stanbury was even SO kind as to point
out certain means by which Congress
might set aside the Supreme Court al,
together, under the forms of the law, il
not in accordance with its spirit.
1t is expected that the Georgia and
Mississippi cases will be decided on
Monday next, and we shall see what i
the disposition of this tribunal-wheth-
er by prompt dismissal of the applica-
tions over which it clearly has no juris-
diction, it is inclined not to impede the
work Of reconstruction in the South; or
is resolved to measure its strength with
the people. 1t is very easy to foreoee tht
general result of such contest, if the
Court is disposed to enter upon it. L
will be the same as it was in the case O
Mr.. johnson. The Court will find thai
the people are still supreme, and thai
while it may disappoint them, and tenn
porarily retard the work of rcconstruc-
ton, the Constitution has placed tht
final decision of all political questions
in the hands of the people. If it wer,
otherwise, our Government would nt
longer be u republic. If it were in tn,
power Of the President or of the Su
prcme Court to settle the political issue:
of a great war in favor of the enemies O
the country, in spite of the people who
! fought it, our Government would be F.;
despotism by whatever name it Nigh
! be called.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23

SENSITIVE BEGGAEs. 49, Gen Sickles
has informed the people of the north
who had contemplated sending corn
to the starving Rebels at the South that
it will be of no use to send any other than
Whitc corn down there; that if yellow
corn should he sent, it would be certain
ly fed To the hogs. The Chicago RcDub-
ttc,m furnishes the following anccdote
as a very fair parallel to this instance OF
iastidious beggary:
The only case we fully remember
which fully illustrates the preference oi
the starving Southerners for white meal
is that of til" man who being too lazy
to work, and on the verge of starvation
was made the subject of consultation
on the part of his neighbors. They fl
nally decided to bury him alive. AS
they were bearing him to the grave a
good Quaker, leaning over his gate, in
quircd:
"Friends, where do thee 30 with that
mani"
Ale is to lazy to work, and we are go.
ing to bury him." they replied.
| Thee need not do so hard thing as
that, y replied the Quaker, Let him be
| idle If he will not work."
But he Is starving"
"Then | will send him some corn from
my granary.'
| Upon this liberal offer there seemed tC
! be no resort but let the man live, when
he, turning to the Quaker, inquired:
"Is it shelled"n
"No,' replied the Quaker.
Will you shell it for me-"
"l'll see thee starve first responded
the irate disciple of William Penn.
Garry me on, then,n replied the vag
abond; II thought you had 40 real char
ity in your heart"
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23

went into the melee, when some man
struck him over the head with rcvolv-
or, and laid him out for dead. Sy Smith
also came in tlourishing II revolver,
when FitZhugh who was thought to he
dead, or at least dying, raised himself,
and with his bowie knife stabbed Smith,
inflicting II dangerous wound.
Out of the eleven men who engaged
in the fight, nine lay dead or mort.lly
wounded on the ballroom floor.
Private Miles O'Reily, in All eulogis-
tie notice of his friend Recorder Hack
cit, of New York, attributes to him
accomplishments in the manipulation
of arms the like whereof we do not re-
member having heard before, except in
the case of some of Charles Lewis mi
raculous duelling heroes. Miles says
the learned Judge can spill. bullets Oh
the edge of n knife twenty times out OF
twenty at twenty PAGES. He will take
the ashes off friends cigar. held in n
friends mouth. ut the same distance.
He will pick away quarter held be-
tween friends finger and thumb, with
uncrring certainty. He will shoot half
dollars proppcd upright from friends
head. He will kill a musquito on the
wall as far rs he can see the "animilc,' ~
and all these things he will do in any
attitude you please-the pistol held on j
level with his forehead and turned up
side down, fired ohbctwecn his legs, I'm
rccumbcnt position-in fact in any
way or every way that will only allow
one glance of the uncrring eye along the
barrel
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23

IMPROVEMENT IN WEAvING.-Thes sew
ing machine is likely to have rival in
an invention recently perfected by which
wearing apparel of all kinds, shirts, pam
falcons, vests, skirts, ladies mantles,
jackets coats, etc., etc., are both woven
and sewed at the same time. The sew.
ing of the seams is stronger even than
hand sewing and perfectly smooth aud
even, and the articles are woven and
sewed OF any pattern, of wool, silk, cot
ton, or any other material.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23

Jennie" said puritan to his
daughter, who was asksng consent to
accompany her urgent and favored suit
or to the altar. Jennie it's q very SOL
emn thing to get married. Il know it
father" replied the sensible danlsel, "but
IT. great deal solemner not to-"
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23

every state and territorial constitution,
statute, and ordinance which Is now or
hereafter may be enacted, and every
custom and principle of law heretofore
recognized in any state or territory, con
trary to the foregoing provisions, are
hereby declared null and void.
Now, whether the above be a constitu-
tional amendment or an act of Congress
Or one, or both-it is just, expedient,
and Indispensable; it is equal in its
operation, North as we'll as South; it
provides one and the same benificcnt
law for the whole land. Shall it be
adopted? If we could speak with a
hundred tongues, they should all cry
amen. The negro now has less on his
side in Connecticut than in Mississippi
Congress, reassembling in July, ought
There was an outcry against giving the
negro his civil rights but, when the
deed was done, the whole land acuuicsc-
ed. There is similar outcry against
giving him his political rights; but,
once given, there will be general appro-
baton of the gift. lfnegrocs who have
been brought up in slavery arc allowed to
vote in the South, why shall not negroes
who have been brought up in freedom
be allowed to vote in the North:
Not onlyis Mr.. Sumner right rs to the
power of Congress in the present case,
but long age he was right as to the pow
cr of Congress to govern the unrecon-
structed states as conquered provinces.
He then stood almost alone in the Sen
ate III an opinion which he has since seen
adopted 10y his brother Senators. We
trust his compecrs will agree to his pres
ent bill. We happen to know that
Thaddcus Stevens-who, even when
sick, is more we'll than most men-is
! preparing, on his sick bed, an argument
in support of Mr.. Summers plan. We
happen TO know, also, that Chief Justice
agrees with Mr.. summers view. Let the
midsummer Congress adopt the bill as a
Fourth of July measure. It's passage
Will thrill the country. 1t will hoist
flags, pull bell ropes, light tar barrels
and fire guns. 1t Will rekind,e the glo-
rious enthusiasm which followed Abra-
ham Lincoln's Decree of Emancipation.
blow, bugle, blow! Set the Wild echoes hyingc'
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23

WASHING Wool IN GERaASY.-Ger-
man wool is equally quoted as the STAN
dard for cleanliness, as well as tineness
1T VIII not be anliss to give some idea
OF the pains taken in some Of the best
districts,to wash the wool before shear
ing. 1t is taken from very valuable
paper on German Agriculture, in the
last Patent Office Reports:
washing McCp IT IicFuth, i0 Uungd-
Y.-The process of washing is done un-
der the roof, and, accordingly, no sud-
den or rainy weather can interfere with
it. Before the shower bath is administer
ed to the sheep, their dirt and pitch has
been dissolved or loosened For this
purpose vat is put up, which is covered
and tightly put together of strong plank
equal to eighty four degrees Fahernhcit;
the sheep are then placed in two lines
and constantly handled until the yo!k
and dirt are dissolved, which ordinarily
takes from fifteen TO twenty minutes.
The solvent effects Of hot water is increa-
sed by adding Il few pounds of potash
and also by the lyo arising from the nat
ural oily matter of the wool. The sheep
after being We'll soaked, are placed under
shelter, where they have to wait their
turn of the shower bath, in order that
the animal, now so much heated, may
not pass immediately from the hot SOAK
ing vat into the shower bath. This be-
ing from sixty-one to siNty-three degrees
Fahernheit. The water is let upon the
sheep through a hole, with strainer
upon the end. 1t falls with considera-
BILE velocity, and is brought to bear upon
all parts of the sheep until the wool
is OF = snowy whiteness. The sheep are
then driven to warm dry shelter and
sholn rs soon as the wool is dry gener-
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23

a "bull' somewhere: A country pm.
per says "A cow was struck by light
ming and instantly killed, belonging to
the village physician who had beauti-
full calf four days old".
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23

fe8~Jane q. Swisshelm says: When
women vote the death penalty will bc
abolished, except for rape; the inmates
of those houses which are now the hot
beds ofall evil, will be sent to houses Of
correction, and there kept for life or
years, doing light fancy work and light
domestic labor. All the hannts Of crime
which stands ~ rivals to virtaous homes
will at least have struggle for life
Women will not work for half pay, and
vice w i'll not furnish her the most prof
liable employment, and all parties will
grow better and wiser; or the principle
of self-governmeut is founded in error.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23
The Evils Of Poverty.

The Evils Of Poverty.
On the above fruitful theme, Rev. DR..
Bellows, recognized ~ among the most
profound thinkers of the age, delivered
in New York the other evening Iectua
of which the Herald gives the following
summary:
After commenting upon the evils Of
poverty, and the difficulty of relieving it
in such n manner as to avoid iniuring
either the sclt-rcspect of the individual
assisted or the general interests of society
by encouraging Incidence and sloth, no
said that community of property was
possible only upon system which
compelled and obliged its members to
toll for the common veal, and such a
system must of course always he on an
extremely small scale. The grand solic-
itude of civilization should I've not so
much to strive for an absolutely equita-
bic distribution of wealth as to stimulate
and increase its production. 1t was im-
possible that distribution should not in
the future take ample care of itself, but
the necessity for the constant production
of wealth, as well rs the benefits aris-
ing from its increase, were of far higher
and more immediate Importance.
DIR. Bellows then reviews the various
instincts implanted ia our nature which
prompt lis to accumulate wealth, such
as the love Of prosperity, the fear of
hunger, dependence and inferiority, do
mcstic affection and the sense of self-re-
spect, and said that until incentives to
industry more potent than these were
discovered, he believed no very great
improvement could bc made upon the
present practically successful system Of
society which held every man response
bic for his own support, and guaranteed
him the enjoyment of his own earnings
DIR. Bellows closed by presenting the
following brief summary OF the princi-
pies embodied in his discourse. First,
society is a divine institution resting
upon principles inherent in our nature,
the tendency Of which is, by the play of
human passions, affections and intelli-
gcnce, to develop the just production and
best distribution Of property; second, all
direct interference with its operations is
perlous, and justified only by necessity
and is then to be managed with the ut
most circumspection, and as much a.
| possible in the direction of natural laws
and motives; third, universal labor
physical, mental and morals the
highest law and permanent condition of
social well being and individual growth;
fourth, all public or private charity
which has for its end the helping out of
! Gods providential law ''in the sweat Of
| thy brow shalt thou earn thy bread !" and
| il justitiable only rs a temporary policy:
fifth, the relief of poverty, though indis-
pensable to the instincts of humanity.
and the claims OF religion, is the chief
obstacle TO the cure and extinction of
poverty; it is therefore to be pursued
publicly and privately only as a nccesa-
ry evil; sixth, all public institutions and
private charities are to have their useful
ness graduated and determined by the
extent to which they promote, and the
skill with which they avoid interference
with, the great law of labor.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-05-23
TIPTON MEAT MARKET.

vTVHE subscribers announce to
i the citizens of Upton, and 8X2
surrounding country, that they A1B
have taken charge of the ''City LII
Meat Market and will supply customers with
good fresh Beef Pork, Mutton, and Veal, at
the lowest rates. Shop one door west of Friend
Culbertsons store. PORTER g. TOWER.
Upton, Iowa, Feb. q 1866.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

Treaaurer-JOHN TUTHILL.
Clerk Of Dist. Courts YATES.
RecOrder-JESSE JAMES.
County judge & BELTS.
sheriff. ID SHEARER.
CorOner-THO'SJ JAMES,.
Surveyor-F A GATES. -
Drainage Commissioner-ROB'T COVER.
Members of Board of Supervtsors-Iresident
JOHN LEITH, Sugar Creek; GEO w SMITH, Gem
ter; II COVER Cass; p FERGusoN, Dayton; =
PADEN, Pennington; NJ / RIGBi, Fremoni;
l. TATUM, Iowa; ] DANCE, Linn; ii forTERs
MassillOn; RICE, Pioneer; > KousER hea
Oak; C. uARDMAN, Rochester; SHEARER,
Springfield; US CHASE, springdale.
NEANIToU LODGE, No. 8. 1. o. Of o. F.,
lH TIPToN, Iowa. Meeting night every
Friday evening, In the ID story Of NC Mamara s
building LUKE ID. 1NGMAN, N. q.
p. D. HUMPHREY, sec'y.
IEDAK LODGE No. II, A. F. 4 A. NJ, Upton,
~ Iowa, holds regular communications on
Wednesday evenings on or before.
Visiting brethren welcomed.
w. H. ALDEN, Sec. Ii. G. PIATT, w. N.
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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-08-29
S3lcYiG''S sale.

By virtue of a commission and order of sale
issued by the Clerk Of the Marshal. Common
Pleas Court will offer for sale to the highest bid
der mt public auction. at the Court House door, IN
Plymouth, Marshall County. Indiana, on
Saturday, September 7h, 1867,
between the hours of 10 o'clock A. NJ. AMI o.
clock p NJ of said day, the rents AMI profits for
a term not exceeding seven years of the follow
inr described real estate, situated in Mrshall
County, Indiana:
Commencing at n point ten feet north and ten
feet east of the north east corner of lot No. elev-
en- 40 in Pearson's addition to the village of
Pearsonville. (now called lnwood) running
thence west nine (9) rods, thence north seventeen
and seven ninths IA 80 rods, thence east nine
(g) rods, thence south seventeen and seven iinths
m 79) rods to the place of beginning, contain
ing ono hundred and sixty square rods or one
acre situated in Marshall county, Indiana.
And IN case the rents and profits fail to sell Tor
sum sufficient to pay the amount demanded by
said commission and order of sale, will At the
same time aud place. and in like manner, oiicr or
sale to the highest bidder. at public auctcn' the
fee simple or the entire right ut'e, interest anu
estate of Mieaiah Freeland and Nancy NJ Free
land in and to the above described real estate to
satisfy said writ IN favor of Benjamin Clemens
and agaisnt Micajah trceland and Nancy M.
Freeland
DAVID HOW, Sheriff Marshall Co.
5Ow3pf$l0
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-08-29
Augusta, AUGUST IS, Correspondence of the


Not long ago we Informed you of sootv-
milk marriage in these parts. How that
negro. fuliginous as charcoal, took for his
better half one Of Augustus daughters, as
white as alabaster We took leave of them
in Jail, wherein they had been thrust,
charged with fornication. Here is the Sc
quel. Having been indicted by the grand
jury, the parties were brought before His
Honor Judge Walton, who is now holdn"
court. "Are you married to this woman 2"
asked the judge Of Sambo. "Yes, sar."
The ghtforward, honest answers Of
Sambo furnished heap of fun for those
in attendance. Out of his own mouth he
stood convicted. But defendants counsel
undertook to show that under the civil
rights bill the marital right was enjoyed
by Pompey. The Judge could not see it.
What had the civil rights bill to do with
the statutes of Maine? Did they not ex-
pressly forbid the mtermarrying of a negro
with a white person, and did not the mag
istrate who performed such lob lay him
self liable to fine of Sl00? The mar
riage was therefore null and void, ard the
twain must suffer the consequences. But
his honor was consderate. In view of
the parties ignorance of the law they had
violated, he simply imposed a fine of $40
each, with thirty days Imprisonment. We
need scarcely add that our radical misce-
gcnators are exasperated at the result
Here is a radical judge renouncing and
setting at naught a law bearing the broad
seal Of the United States, which gives to
the black man the same rights as those en-
joyed by the white man. The internal tran
guilty Of the radical party is jeopardized
by one of wnom better things were to be
expected The decision threatens the
connubial felicity of the white and black
couple united in the holy bonds of holy
wedlock few years ago by Senator Nor
rill
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-08-29
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.


1t is pretty certain that every Southern
State, with perhaps the single exception of
Georgia, will be re-organized with negro
governments governments formed by
votes of negroes that have no more intelli-
cence than so many oxen. White men
are DISTINGUISHED and negroes enfranchised;
white men disqualified from holding Office,
and negroes qualified to engineer the ma
chinery of government. Such are some
of the beauties of radical rule Is there
white voter in Marshall county who is in
favor of this policy? If SO, We venture
the assertion that he is ashamed to make
it known-ashamed to meet his Democrat
ic neIghbor in argument Of the question,
and is Disguised with the party that claims
the support of all Union men. The white
men of the North believe as did the i'm
mortal Douglas, that "this government
was made on the ,chite basis, by white
men and their posteity forever" and that
the negro is not capable Of self-govern-
ment.'' BELIEVING thls, when they once
fully understand the objects Of the radical
party, the honest Republicans will leave it
by thou. ands, aud unite with the Democ-
racy in restoring the government to white
basis
This must be the inevitable result OF
such danining policy as the one of plac-
Ing the government Of white men in the
hands of negroes. White men of all par
ties are bound in reason to unite for the
overthrow Of the mongrel idea of govern
ment, and the sooner our honest Republi-
can friends cease to affiliate with the negro
party, the sooner will this country be re-
stored to its former prosperity. Many Re
publcans will not believe that their party
arc forcing negro governments upon the
South. They do not read Democratic pa
pers, and see nothing Of that sort in their
party organs, therefore they are 10th to be-
lieye that their party could be so corrupt
and faithless to its promises. Democrats
should give them the free use of Democrat
ic papers occasionally, where they will be
enabled to see the truth of these charges
No time should be lost on the part of Dem
ocrats in making Republicans fully acquain-
ted with the alarming condition of our
country. Democratic documents should
begin to circulate freely.