The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-03-28


The House of Representatives,
: ado dnt4ss46 c,d4ion cal, By g;1n
= !. the seat to Mr.. Chillicstt, Reput
3 llcan, upon 4he ~ prima facie Sev
. ence n the easet Mr.. Hasn't, Demo
4 Tfnt, now coneests, Ind the House Wi
: probably settle the contest finally b.
= the committee reporting. in favor 9
= Mr.. Chillicott, who will be given tn
, | seat. -
: The reception of the Presidents vet
; Message i'm Congress, on saturday, wa
very tame. But few members paid an.
! attention TO its reading, and none ha'
any motlons to make, save the sofitar
, one Of Mr.. WILSON,, Of lows, who caile
, for the previous question Oh Its passag
to perpetrate stale or stupid jokes, am
. lin lees thnn forty minutes from the tim
, the Presidents Secretary had announces
it. it had been passed in the House by
, vote Of ayes, ia; noes, 25-being a strfc
party vote. No applause greeted It, 70
all expected it, and took it ~ matte
of course. In the Senate it passed byr'
vote Of 40 ayes; Z nays. 1t Is now be
iieved that Congress will be able to adj
iourn the middle Of this week until mex
fall. - aass} ii Geaaal fEa 80 -zaI ol
Secretary Seward has received inG,r
ma ton from the Consul at QueenstoWa
Ireland, that cholera has prevailed in
that section to soinc extent an winter
Az Whitegate, small village in Queens.
town harbor, eight cases had occurred
during the previous week. The dis
patch is dated February IA. ,.{r-,
1t Ia reported from Washington tina,
prominent Republicans and others are
nrging the President to release JEFF.
Davis on his own recognizance, there
being no prospect of his trial so long as
the State of Virginia Is under the control
OF military authority.
I At meeting at Augusta, Ga, on Sat-
/ urday night to nominate candidate for
the MayoraIty, q resolution was adopted
that colored citizens be allowed to regis
| ter their names and vote at the election
in April. -.- -&' 1920 Ever gang
Important dispatches are reported to
have been recently received in Cadada,
in reference to the movements of troops
and gunboats, but they are withheld
form publication for the present.
The President has signed the bill or
dering the Richmond gold, so-called, to
be paid into the Treasury; also the bill
giving one suit of clothing to each in
mate of any Soldiers Home. n-.-r,r 81,
Statistics show that during the past
year nearly two hundred persons have
been burned to death by the explosion
of kerosene lamps, and that the destrue-
ton Of property amounts to more than
S6,000,0 900. .'-.. ... ..5,..s
General Frank Blair, of ST.. Louis,
who was nominated by the President as
Minister to Austria was rejected by the
Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs. les
1t is reported from Washington that
the reason why Congress failed to come
to vote on the question ofadjournmsnt
is that General Grant and SECRETARY
Stanton connected against an carly adj
jOurnment or long recess, Owing to an
ticipated troubles Of a serious character
in the South under tie operation of the
new Military Reconstruction act.
George Rolfe, aged thirty was
murdered on Sunday morning in the
Williams House, Falmouth, Me-, by
Eben Williams, aged twenty-one, who
shot him through the heart with a rifle
and then cut off his head with an Az
Williams is an imbecile under guardian
ship. ~
At Pamela, I'll. on Friday night, as a
Mrs. Piper was pouring kerosene oil
from can into lamp, the oil took fire
can exploded. Her Cloths took fire and md
burned her almost to crisp. She suf-
fered until six o'clock the next morning,
and died.
A colored man was admitted to regis
try as freeman by tic Republican
Board of Registers Of Meridian, Conn,
and declared entitled to vote. There is
much excitement in consequence.
The steamers New York and City of
Washington, from Europe, arrived at
New York Monday. The Fenian agita-
ton continued, but no further collision
had occurred. 1t is represented that the
military force in ireland is now so placed
that in no part of West Ireland could
any body of armed men hold together
for twenty-tour hours, without the GER
tainty of receiving exemplary punish
ment. The flying columns were pro-
ducing decidedly good moral effect
Rumors Of Ministerial discussions were
rife.
An agreement has been entered into
by committee Of the New York I.egis-
lature to regulate and legalize houses of
prostitution in New York city. The
bill rs agreed upon provides for the APP
| pointment OF three commissioners, with
power to grant licenses for houses of
prostitution and designation. The bill
also provides for the appointment of
medical inspectors for the inmates of
those houses.
Some two months ago a woman at
Last Lalworth lost her wedding ring
whilst engaged in her domestic duties.
A few days ago she was pceling potatoes,
and on dividing sort Of doubie potato,
she found in the inside of the potato the
lost wedding ring, which she was able
to identify. The potato was grown in
field some half mile from the cottage,
where 1t issupposed the ring had been
carried with the manure, and the potato
had grown through it..
At a recent meeting Of the Farmers
Club ofthe American Institute, a dis.
cussiou took place on the best method OF
destroying ciiculio on fruit trees, when
q gentleman stated that If hole was
bored in the body of the tree and the
hole filled with sulphur, 1t would so in
feet the tree that no insect or worm
would live upon it. Upon some doubt
being expressed as to the efficacy of the
preventative, he said he had tried the
remedy, and spoke from experience.
TheGhairman remarked that If this be
a sure preventitiveit was worth millions