The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-11-19
News Summary.

News SUMMARY.
Grants majority in Ohio is Il ow rec&-
oned At il..si. -. .... .- ..r
Gen. G b. Mcclellan has been elect
ed President of thdsUniyersity of Califo!-
mia.
4 dispatch from San Francisco dated
Nov 10. gives Oregon to Seymour by 2a1
majority.
The full official vote of Pennsylvania
il announced as follows: For Grant,
81, POS: for Seymour, sl3, 3s.-Grant's
majority 2s,s9s.
The official vote in Connecticut 10 So
follows: Grant. 90, Cos: Seymour, Il $40
Grant. majority, 3.os9. Republican
gain over ApriI election, 4,8o5.
The amount of coin in the Treasury q.
this date is about So, 800 900, OF which
$500. 900 are represented by gold certif-
ieates.
Ex-Governor David Tod, of Ohio, died
very suddenly at : o'clock Friday morn
ing, 18th inst. while preparing to take
train for Cleveland. His disease is as vet
unknown.
The damage to the sugar crop in
Louisiana by the late rains has not been
so disastrous as at first reported. The
crop is now set down at 200, 900 hogs
heads, which is vast increase over
that Of last year.
The Fenians are making extraordina-
~ preparations for the National Com
vention which is to meet at Philatel-
rhia on the 25th inst. 1t is proposed to
inauguIate the proceedings with grand
procession.
The Chairman Of the Republican
State Committee teiegraphs the y. y.
Tribune that Alabama has certainly
gone for Grant and Peace. The Demo-
cratic papers will please pull that State
out OF the Seymour" Electoral col
umn.
The United States Senate. after the
4th of March next, will be divided, no
iiticaliy, Republicans, IS; Democrats, 10:
three states unrepresented, 8; whole
number of Senators, "a. or these, six
teen are from the reconstructed States,
including Tennessee.
The Adjutant General of the Army
has made his annual report to the Sec
rotary Of War. The actual strength of
the regiments in service on the Goth of
september was 43,7i3 men, and esides
these there were 4 $40 men more in the
engineer, ordinance and other snecial
''"''es Of the sn-..;~-.
The object OF the revolutionary move
ment in Cuba is to become independent
Of spain, and to become annexed to the
United States. The instruction ap-
pears to be quite formidable. The re-
port of fiIibustering movement in this
country 10 assist the Cuba revolution is
I.o. credited.
The state Department at Washington
received dispatches from Minister Rev
erdy Johnson, which indicate that the
recent reports by the cable about the set
tlement Of the Alabama claims are in
correct. The minister states, howev-
er, that the controversy is in q fair way
of settlement
A call has been published for conven-
ton i'm Boston, to be held on The 18th
and 10Th inst, to discuss the woman
question, with particular refernce to the
ballot, ana to form an association for
the wise, systematic, aud efficient advo-
cacy OF woman suffrage, and its kindred
civil and political rights"
The woliisil class Of beings known IS
office seekers have already commenced
their assaults upon General Grant. He
treats them just = they deserve-with
contempt. He very properly takes tho
ground that applications for appoint
ments at this time are premature and
displaying Indecent haste and greedi-