The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-08-13
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"A monster Grant meeting held at
Sidney, Fremont county, week before
last, was the greatest gathering of peo-
pie ever seen in western Iowa.
A Tanners Club numbering 500 was
organized at Davenport last Monday
evening; it being the OCCASION of a visit
from the Tanners of Rock Island and
Moline.
Davenport is to vote, Sept. 18th, on
the question of settling its debts by COM
promise under the enabling act Of the
last Legislature.
"A burglar in Newton stole $40 the
other night belonging to the Congrega-
tional Sewing Society; also five dollars
collected by a young girl for the pur-
chase Of a school organ.
&C. G. Truesdell, G. w. C. T., gives
notice that the Grand Lodge of the l. O..
of G. T. will be held at Marshalltown,
commencing We'd. Aug. Goth, instead of
| Sept. I'd as first announced.
The Davenport Gazette chronicled
almost nightly burglaries last week.
Watches and pocket books were taken
from occupied rooms with perfect impu-
nifty by the light fingered aud lighter
footed gentry.
In Marshall county, the Marshall
town Times states, thousands of acres Of
wheat were this season cut and bound
by moonlight, the dews rendering the
dead ripe straw soft and more easily
handled.
Rev. w. +. Cowles addressed large
and enthusiastic Republican meeting in
Fremont Hall at Muscatine, last Satur-
day evening. The meeting was under
the auspices of the Grant and Colfax
Club of that place.
w. G. Raymond, near Cedar Rapids
lost his voice for two weeks, in conse.
quence of sun stroke. He suddenly re-
covered it by an almost compulsory
effort to halloo at team likely to run
away.
Schuyler Colfax was called out for q
speech as he passed through Clinton
last Monday, en- route to the Rocky
Mountains. He was introduced by Rev.
c. G. Truesdell. The reception was en-
thusiastic in the highest degree.
The Sioux City LEICESTER tells of an
attempted suicide: "On Monday, a
young woman, a er-jerker" in an in
stitution of that class in our city, under
took to 'Jerk off this mortal coil' by
swallowing dose of arsenic, but failed
to connect. Prompt medical assistance
defeated the effects of the ''cold pizen,"
and in a short time the would-be suicide
was all right and went on her way a
jerking"
The Ottumwa Courier in itemizing
the recent hot weather, perpetrates the
following: "Our special reporter says
that the tramp he took along the side
walk of one Of our streets the other
morning at daylight, where he found
the doors and windows all wide open,
and their occupants disported around on
floors, sofas, &C., in the vain attempt to
find a cool spot, all in full view to the
passer by, afforded him facilities for see-
ing more of our best society than he has
heretofore been favored with"
What is BondP
The first national bonds issued after
the war were the 5-2Os of 1862. The
government had previously issued treas
ury notes redeemable on demand. and
receivable as gold for duties. It next
issued treasury notes and made them
legal tenders for all purposes, except for
the payment of duties on imports. The
dates Of the great bulk of $40 bonds
now outstanding, which are all in the