The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-09-10
General Grant is residing for briei
period on farm in Missouri.

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General Garibaldi has resigned hi.
seat in the National Parliament.
Joe. Coburn, the bruiser, was serious
ly stabbed by Councillor Scanned, in {
bar-room fight, in New York, on Friday
evening. No arrests We're made. E.
The town OF Leg Harbor, Door coun.
| ty, Wisconsin, was visited by mosi
/, disastrous fire Oh Thursday night, Au.
gust p, destroying tho larger portion Of
. that place. s-a1.-z -s5.i"ssset-s 7.4ss. zz.
"A uew railroad project ia on foot
which has for its object the building OF
line from Knoxville to Leighton.
iowa, on the Des Moines Valley Rail-
road, point tifty-four miles south OF
Chicsgo now has forty public school
buildings, which. Will, the ground on
which they stand, are valued ut 81 ,52s, :
eol. Tho average number OF enrolled
pupils during the year ending July Sd
was e, is4; iluniber OF teachers, 49l. 3
The Tennessee House on Tuesday,
September 1st, concurred in the Senate's
resolution to appoint Committee COM
posed of two Senators and three Repre-
sentatives, to proceed to Washington to
lay before the President the condition
OF affairs in Tennessee, and request the
President to send sufficient United
States military force to that State for
the protection Of the people.
The New York Democratic State con-
vention on wednesday Sept. 3D., nomi-.
mated Mayor Hoffman, Of New York
city, for Governor. On the same day
the Massachusetts Democratic State con-
vention nominated degenerate de-
scendant ola noble line of ancestors,
John Quincy Adams, for Governor.
The Director of the bureau of Statist-
les furnishes the following information
relative to immigration to the. United
States during the fiscal year ending
june 30, 1868: Total number Of passen-
gers arrived, 1923, 40; Of which A 1865
were citizens Of the. United Strtcs, and
5,i26 foreigners not intending to remain
in the United States, The returns,
compared with 1866 and 1867, show a
heavy falling-of .tt4..3 ....
Anew Yorker ad yertises to give les
son in the '.Grecian bend.n Any one can
get it cheaply by eating green apples. rs
Russia must be a paradise for school
teachers. as one hundred and ten days Of
the year Are devoted to instruction, and
the other two hundred and fifty five to
holidays and vacations. 9 y ass. 49,
The New York Jenkinses, having
properly aired ''tThc Wickedest Man in
New York, - have now discovered and
put on exhibition the .'best woman in
New York. She is called "Auntie,"
aud keeps candy stand on the corner
of Nassau and Cedar streets.
The Escombia and Conecuh rivers, in
Florida, are damned with logs for two
hundred miles, waiting a chance to get
TO the Moline sawmills. ss .t.. i
A day or two since, one of the Bronx.
lyn companies Of negro Ministries gave a
free entertainment on Blackwell's Is
land to the inmates of the Lunatic Asy-'
tuni. s9st<"a4a7 ai8t 50 a5g lt3a 1866
Five thousand people are employed at
Murano and Venice in producing mill
ion and half dollars worth Of Nene-
tain mirrors.
There is an old man named Robert
Smith, living in CINCINNATI, who was
born ia l763, and is now los years Of age.
He was born slave near Richmond;
and was thirteen years old when the
Revolution was inaugurated. After the
war he was taken by his master to Lex
ington, KY, He was too old for the
draft in 1912. His wife died at Lexing7
ton, drs years ago, aged 80. !.
i A special dispatch 70 the ~. Louis,
Missouri, Dcmofrdt, o. Friday, 2sth
uIt.,. says: ..The rebels in Conway,
Perry AMI Columbia co6dnties. are III re-
bellIon, and the co1ttS have bSGh broken
up by armed men. The Rebels are sew
sral hundred strong, and tho unidn
men ii, arc 'fafiY1g back. though hehtidE:t
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