The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-05-07
NEWS ITEMS.

before the Impeachment Court on sat
urday afternoon. Mr. Bingham. of the
Managers, opened the final argument
against the President on Monday, and
it is probable he finished Yesterday. A
verdict will no doubt be reached some
time this week, and it Is now believed
that the President will be acquitted.
General Schofield, it is announced,
has declined the Presidents profiered
appointment of Secretary of War.
There are ll9 convicts i'm the Illinois
penitentiary, being % more than have
ever before been in that institution at
one time.
are making an effort to induce the Ma
tional Committee or TIA. party to change
the day of the meeting OF their National
Convention from July 4 to some time in
the early part of June.
The full official returns from the re-
cent State election in Wisconsin for
Chief Justice, give Dixon, Republican,
c,7T7 majority.
Owing to the excessive revenue frauds
practiced by the distillers of New York,
all the whisky manufactures have been
seized or closed by the Government
agent
Governor Evans. President of the
Denver Pacific Railway, reports that
the contracts for completing the entire
road from Cheyenne to Denver, were
let last week.
The official count shows that the Con-
necticut State Senate will consist of L.
Republicans and $ Democrats. The
House will have 129 Republicans and
100 Democrats.
The Fenian prisoners Burke and
shaw, on trial in London, were last Fri
day convicted and sentenced, the former
To fifteen, and the latter tn seven years
imprisonment.
/ The reduction of the public debt for
/ the month of April will amount to over
I 100000
J BY the explosion of the boiler of the
propeller Governor Cushman, at Buffalo,
last Friday, eleven persons were killed
and several injured.
The latest returns from the late Geor-
election indicate that the Republicans
have not only carried the new Consti-
tuition and the Governor, but also ma
jority in the Legislature.
Left in the road by hlmsclf' is the
phrase used by San Francisco papers in
| announcing the execution of horse
thieves under lynch law.
TERRIFIC Hail. STORM NEAR MusCA-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., MAY 3.-About
three y. III. u terrible hail storm passed
about six miles north of this city, doing
great damage. 1t is reported that sew
eral houses and barns were torn down.
The house Of Mr.. Williams was torn
down aud some five members Of his
family badly injured. Another farm
house near 10y was also destroyed and
the occupants either killed or wounded.
The barn Of Hon. J. \. f'arvin, about
three miles from town. was unroofed !;
trees Were torn out by the roots, and
great damage vas done 10 fences, &c.
The tornado was accompanied by q
terrible hail. Largo masses Of i.e falling
T. large "a mans hand A German
minister Of this city, who wa. holding .
meeting in the neighborhooG, reports
seeing AL "a struck dead ipst&uly by
one Of these pieces. a ihau taGilg Oh
horseback barely saved himself by TAX
ing the saddle fro III the horse and pJ&c-
ing il upon his head.
Every Republican paper iii 4 l.sar a
with one eXception-thato of The Nation
ttiist at Mobile have the names of Gen.
L. :. Grant, of Illinois, for President,
and the Hon. Richard Busted of Ala
bama for Vice President, Tying at their
mastheads.
The Cincinnati Gazette answers the
question "Who are bond holders?n by
, publishing a list of all the private indi.
viduais holding United States securities
in that city with the amounts owned by
them respectively. The whole number
is rs of whom only ninety-four hold
, SINUS of over 81 ,000 each. The highest
, single amount is Il, 42o, be!on giag TO the
, estate of a. Hardness. Six hundrc,
, and thirty persons hold Sums ofless than
: 900. The names of a large proportion
of these ''bloated aristocrats' indcat,
that they are of German and Irish ex-
traction.
The Memphis Post says that between
four and five thousand persons have
left Memphis within the past ninety
days. Whole rows of storchouses in the
most eligible business portion Of the cit,
are now untenanted. Dwellings in
streets are vacant. The poor have sean,
ty employment, and some are on the
verge of restitution. Provisions and
rents are held at exorbitant prices,
Peter Baker Informs the Dayton
Lcclger that the seventeen year To-
Gusts' will surely be here this year. He
has alreadydp them out of the earth in
his arehard, and, moreover, distinctly
fenembers their appearance in 1851, a,
vel! ~ in 1894 and 1877 Peter is I'M
doubiodIv rirLt Thr in.nrns,ius. lint