The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-08-20

seymour said VI should be dishOnOeo0
II accepted your nomination." And
this before he knew Frank Blair WAS
TO 60 on the ticket with him.
Over six hundred thousand acres of
land along the Hannibal and st. Joseph
Railroad have been sold to immigrants
during the past six months.
The Cincinnati Chronicle says the
harp Oh which certain Democratic pa-
pers are playing, concerning General
Grants tabled intolerance and psrsecu.
ton of the Israelites, il a very small
Jews harp.
It is said that Frank Blair was simply
nominated by the strategy Of his BROTH
er Montgomery Blair. He fixed al the
Confederate generals for Frank, aud the
Northern Democracy, as ever, went
down before the rebel charge.
Vance, the ex-rebel who cast the firsf
vote for Seymour in the New York
Convention, is the same Vance who I'd
dressed the rebel soldiers In the TRENCH
es, and exhorted them "to pile hell 90
full of Yankees that their feet would
stick out of the windows"
In class of little girls in one OF thos
schools of Boston the question was ask,
"What is u fort?" IA place to put mesf
in," was tire ready answer. "What h =
fortress them" asked the teacher. This
seemed u puzzle, until one little girl Of
eight summers answered, IA place to
put women ill.,"
When Blair. in 1860, during the caxf-c
paign in Indiana branded the Democrat,
ic as \ miserable party" and abussA
Douglas so fiercely, Dan Voorhees, called
Blair the "prince ofblackguards." B1AAs'
in return branded Voorhees, as . heNL
hound. Now the "hellhound" supports,
the "prince Of biackguar.ls." A ntOs,
couple, truly.
There is q little town In Vermont
where the people have considerable. rum
with their fence vieWers.n Oheof the:
officers weighs three hundreds pOun.is,.
another is six feet three inches tall, and
the third is extremely small. II WAS
recently voted tlEtt all fences on which
the fat man conld sit, which the tall
man couldn't stSadtile, nor tho little
man crawl through should be deemed L.
gal fences.
The Philadelphia Pfess says: "From
our Democratic exchanges we have clip
ped 1873 articles headed 1.-The real IA
sue" every one Of them presenting .
different subject. II issues continue to
increase at this rate up till election time,
each IllclilDcT III lIic DtIlOCTAtIC I8ukS
will stand on his own platform, the oplx
plank oy nith will be, pass the Aearse
up s..& ht}4t."
Two Ioo8!er bellies We're recently driv.
ing on plank road, near indianapolis.
and on being asked for toll, inquired:
'How much Is it''
"Eor 4 man and horse" replied the
gate-keeper, "it is fifty eents.1
"Well then get out Of the way. to1 Ne
are gals and 4 mare. Get up Jenny!"
And away they went, leaving the n1aQ
in mute astoHishmeft.
The st. Joseph MOI Union says.
Last fall, Frank p. Blair passed down
the Missouri river on y steamer which
lay for some time at our levee. A num-
Der Of our citizens went aboard u pAy
their respects to him. At length CON-
versation turned upon the relative nler.
its of Grant and Sherman, when one OF
the gentlemen present expressed Is ~
his opinion that Sherman was much
the ahler man of the two. To this ~
mark Mr.. Blair promptly replied: .By
-! Grant knows more than Sherman
and all the balance of them banged insa
one."
The Rituallists separate the sexun In
church. Paterfamilias writes to = pAbsg
complaining Of this. He has - iQ
the habit Of sitting by his vies1 s1leseaes
ty Ave years, land wh0,0 n 10eanR
asks, sis, under the now p. = piDoh
me when sn0re out at ~ tfaptd eees
mOn."