The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-09-24

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Rapids during the same month was g.
l3l, $50. Charges on the same Sll 023-
10. a..- .E. ..9.
General Grant is silent, but Vermont
and Maine have spoken. ..R-...
Don riatt says that the democratic
party. like a "blind horse in bark mill
goes round and round, perfectly indffer-
ent whether hc grinds tanbark or brim-
stone, SO he gets his oats.' ..F
An American horse, General Will
Jams, won the $4,000 race in Halifax,
n. S., on the 10th inst. -. .....-. -.
The insurgents in Sierra Puebla, Mex
leo, have been defeated, losing their
artillery and many prisoners. ~
Secretary McCulloch gives official no.
tice that, on and after Monday next, all
seven-thirty notes must be forwarded
direct to the Treasury of the United
States at Washington for redemption.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office lately transmitted to the
State authorities of Iowa five certi fed
transcripts of lands, embracing 81, 1876
acres, granted by act of Congress to aid
the construction of the Cedar Rapids &
Missouri River Railroad.
The first base ball match Of the season
for the championship Of America was
played in Brooklyn, OH the 10th inst.
Atlantics, Of that city, beating the
Unions, of Morrisania, the champions,
by score Of thirty to seven. The
Unions were whitewashed six times and
the Atlantics twice.
The distress of the people in the Red
River settlements of British America,
north of Minnesota, is represented as ex-
treme. The crops have been a complete
failure, and the people are in danger OF
general starvation.
The steamer Hippocampus, belonging
to parties in st. Joseph, Mich, and run
ming between Chicago and Benton Har-
Dor, was lost with over fifty passengers
and crew, and a cargo of fruit, ETC., val
ued at ten thousand dollars, week ago
last Monday night. She left Benton
Harbor Monday evening, and should
have reached Chicago early the next
morning.
The great billiard match for the cham
pion cue of America aud a stake Of 81 600,
between John McDevitt, of Chicago, and
Joseph Dion. of Montreal, played in Chi.
on the 10th inst, was won by the form
er. In the third innings Dion run PSI
points. McDcvitt, who had only made
43 points, then took the cue and run the
game out, making the unparallel run Of
l ,462 points.
John q. Adams, in his letter accept
ing the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Massachusetts,, comes out
flatfooted against the Pendleton green
back plank in the party platform, and
! declares himself Jacksonian hard-mon
ey Democrat. The Democrats and their
party platform do nst seem to stick to.
gether very successfully.
! The Union Pacific Railway last Fri
day completed its eight hundred and
! fourth mile, and trains are now run.
/ ming that distance west of Omaha.
There was terrific gale on the south.
west coast of England Oh the I'D ultimo
! The beach at some points was literally
/ strewn with wrecks of every descrip
ton. Twenty-three lives were lost BY
the sinking of the ship Tara. Another
large vessel, lame unknown, went
down OFT Formby lightship, with all Oh
board. Many disasters toBritish ship
ping are reported from the Welch and
Irish ports.
/ A fire covering al are of 200 miles
ragged in Oregon for sever raj days. The
towns of st Helena and Astoria were en-
dangered.
There is but one Democratic voter in
Goshen, Addison county, Vermont, ant
he is shaky. This year he was advised
to vote as usual, that they might have
one democratic vote to record and he
replied: Very well, l guess will do SC
but all HI can't keep me from voting
for. Grant and Colfax in November. -
His vote was deposited for Edwards
while Page received eighty four ballots
in the township, all increase OF twenty.
one. ....
A negro after gazing at the Chinese
exclaimed. III de white folks liz dark as
dat out dare, wonder what's de color
oh de niggerso''
"Ah! Pat,'' said 4 Discontinued hod-
carrier, don't take up this mode of life.
II has too many ma and ,lc~,a -. 4. ;,