The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-10-22
NEWS ITEMS.


NEWS ITEMS.
| The officers of both houses of Congress
| on the 18th announced further post
ponement Of the session to November 10.
There was six inches Of snow in the
Lake Superior region last week.
The effec. % the late elections, indi
eating the certain downfall of the cop
| perhead party, on our national securi-
Ties, is aUraren. in 81 advance o! one
per cent. in three days thereafter OH all
| our Government stocks.
/ An election for members Of the Par
Lament OF Spain under the new Gov
| eminent will soon be ordered. Free
| schools have been re-opened in Spain.
| 1t is less than six years since the first
six miles of railway were opened in
Minnesota. Ii has now four hundred
and seventy -four miles in actual use.
Detective and other officers engaged
in Investigating the importation Of
roughs into Philaasiphia from Balti-
more, assert that in addition to the
main idea Of voting the Democratic
| ticket, they had determined TO make a
, night attack upon the Massachusetts
| delegates to the Soldiers aud Sailors
Convention. n@..
| The largest political flag ever made in
This country Wa raised ia New York Oh
Saturday. 1t is thirty by forty feet in
size, has portraits Of Grant and Colfax
fifteen feet high, and the names of the
candidates in gold letters two feet high
III. d. Max well, one of the leaders OF
Pennsylvania Democracy, has declared
for Grant and Colfax.
An old architect in Paris Las invented
universal alphabetical piano, on which
children can be taught instantaneol.iy
to read, - calculate and to play music.
This interesting and ingeniou. i,Istru-
ment costs but six francs.
r. NJ. Leslie, from Missouri, was gag
ged on "Wednesday night near the
Northern New Jersey Railroad station,
Jersey City, where he had gone to take
the cars for home. and robbed Of = 900
TO s. 90 in notes and funds, b. several
ruifians, who escaped.
Seymour and Blair will probably con
tiuue to run Is the Democratic standard
bearers, much as they Or their friends
might wish their withdrawal. :. J.
Iilden, August Belmont, and Augustus
Sehcli, OF the Democratic National Com
nittee, telegraph from New York, that
there IL no authority Or possibility to
change front. A our friends consider /.
1T totally mpracticabie, and equivalent
Ito disbanding our forcesn I'm the |.
meantime il is understood that both Sey-
n1our and Blair, like Barkis. are will !
lin" If the party deem it best TO retire /
them.
The civil leaders Of the Spanish rev. !
oiu,loni>ts have Issued All address say
ing it will be the duty OF the Cortez /
only IA Il.ila
government 10 be adapted, BIZ, that the !
people will be allowed IL express opiu- /
ions.
Another Catholic College is being !
erected in Chicago. 1t is to be known !
as the st. Ignatius College; it vii, cost !
o2oJ,tD and will be finished next I
year.
The Penfeld paper mills a. Rochester /
=. I. were totally destroyed by fire,
Saturday evening. The exact loss is
unascertainea; Insurance $4,000. The (
origin ofthe fire is unk nova
A Congressional excursion party
starts from Pittsburg on the 10th Of next
month. for the purpose of examining the /
Western rivers with view to the aevel- !
opment of some general system OF river
navigation.
beautiful silk banner has been
awarded by the Republican State Gem
trai Committee Of Ohio To the Repuh,i-
cans Of Lawrence county for their
magnificent gain of Ass Oh the vote of
1867.
West Virginia is now the only State
that Will hold an election previous to
November 3D. she will elect Co.
ernor ana congressman next Monday.
Hon. w. +. Stevenson IS the Republican
candidate for Governor.
The Dominion Government OF Cana
ia has resc.nded the rule prohibiting
the importation OF cattle from the Uni
led states. and the Michigan Central
railroad Railroad il again taking all
the stock offered for Eastern points.
Reports from Tennessee indicate that
the Republicans viii probably carry the
State by large majority Nowhere has
the action OF Hampton, Blair and For
rest excited more iidignatian Recent
~ prominent ex-rebai Off expressed
the opinion that the South would have
been benefited by thetemrorary absence
of the majority OF the Southern leaders
during the present canvass.
The Sheriff and Parish Judge of st.
Mary's Parish were assas-inated by Ku
klux at Franklin. La. on Friday night.
The Sheriff was killed mt his hotel, and
the body Of the Parish Judge was found
on the street by a patrol, which was or
ganized Immediately on the discovery
of the Shcriff's assassination The Cor
oner's inquest elected nothing toward
the discovery Of the perpetrators. Sew
eral persons were engaged in the trans |
action. but they mounted horses and /
in the darkness before they
could be recognized.
4 Wisconsin paper records the death |
Of compositor by consumption, who