The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-03-26
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The young ladies og Sigourney have
formed a "mitten' society, the object
being to furnish one of these articles to
every young man who offers to escort a
lady from any place to which he did not
accompany her.
The Poweshiek County Herald is the
name Of a neat six column journal Just
started in Grinnell, Poweshiek county.
1t is published by J. III. Hillyer & Go.
and is to be Independent in politics.
A correspondent of the Sigourney
Ncws says that on the night of the I'd
inst, three dogs killed and mangled an
entire flock ofsheep, some so in number
belonging to Mr.. Z. Cooper of Prairie
township, Keekuk county. Only one
was killed outright, but between thirty
and forty so badly injured that they had
to he butchered.
The Vinton Eagle gives an account
Of little girl having her ear torn out
by fcrocious sow. The little girl was
only two years old, and had not the
mother heard her scream, and came to
her rescue, she would soon have been
food for the voracious brute. The
Eagie says she will never be able to
hear with that ear.
The Montezuma Republican states
that Hon. J. B. Grinnell has been elect
ed by the National Wool Growers AS
ISOLATION, and at the request of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, to visit the Gus
tom House at Boston aud New York,
and select and grade samples of wool
in order to prevent frauds on the Gus
tom House. He went east on his mis-
sion, Thursday.
The Davenport Gazette Company
has received reinforcement by the
accession of G. Stewart Ellis, ESQ. who
has perchasea a one third interest in the
firm aud has thus become an equal part
ner with the former Neutrality-suspicious.
Ed. Russell and J. S. Conner. Mr.. Ellis
is well known as gentleman ofsuperi-
or business ability, thorough education,
unquestioned integrity and eminent So
cial qualify.
-Grasshoppers have made their ap.
pearance. The Des Moines Iowa. Reg
lister says that they have already come
out of the ground i'm the meadows
around SaylorvilIe by brigade millions
the surface of the ground literally crawl
ing with the young insects The cold
| nights do not affect them any more than
| to make them sort Of limp and stu
! pid.
The Howard county Iowa safe was
broken open on the night of the 18th,
and from $4,000 to SIS, 600 taken. The
robbers took an iron bar from the tank
house, punched hole into the safe and
blew the door open with powder, and
then took the small safe short distance
from the Court House and secured the
money. 1t is not known at the present
time the exact amount taken, but sun
posed to be near SD, 900 in money, coun-
ty orders and drafts. No clue to the
robbers,
SOCIAL EQUALITY.-We noticed the
other day Richmond correspondents
startling illustration Of progress in Vir-
ginla IN the passage of plug Of chewing
tobacco from white to black member
OF the Convention. 1t seems that the
same sort Of socialism is spreading else.
where in the South. A correspondent
at the Georgia Convention, writing OF
the delegates, politicians and office
seekers in attendance, says: '"Those VIII,
short time ago would have resented
as deadly insult the charge that they
could associate with negroes on terms Of
equality, can now be seen any day OF
night holding sweet converse with full.
blooded Africans, sitting with them on
terms Of perfect social equality, drink.
ing the social glass and putting the social
cigar in private parlors and private bed.
rooms, aud treating the niger Of old
az distinguished guests whom they ap-
parently delight to honor" No one can
comprehend the extraordinary and rev.
dictionary character of incidents like
these but those who were acquainted
with the South and Southern life in
former times.
The International Telegraph Compa.
ny intends at once to connect Cuba
Jamaica and Aspinwall by ocean tele
graph.