The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-04-30
NEWS ITEMS.

Bills have been introduced in Con-
.gress FOR the admission OF North and
: South Carolina. and Louisiana, which
recently ratified their reconstructed con-
.stitutions.
The impeachment trial continues to
occupy portion Of the time Of our Ma
Ational Legislators. Arguments for the
prosecution and defense are now being
made, and 1t Is generally believed that
the case will be submitted to the Court
on Saturday. The Chicago Journal says:
-''Our private advices from members of
Congress and 9th ers who are in posi-
ton to judge, are still to the effect that
the conviction Of the President is DEEM
ed certain, Democratic and Johnsonian
reports and pretenses to the contrary
notwith standing. 1t is said that the
President, after being ousted, will take
:anOther swing around the circle"
Election returns from all the counties
in Wisconsin, except two, show a Re-
publican gain over last fall of 2,lO6.
Charles Dickens sailed from New York
for England, on the 22d inst, after a
successful reading" tour through the
Eastern States. He came with the dis
!, tinct purpose of making money, and, if
reports may be credited. he has not fail
ed In the attempt.
The election in Chicago On Tuesday of
last week for Judge and Clerk of the
Recorders Court aud for seventeen AL
dernen, passed off quietly. The Demo-
Gratis elected their candidates for Judge
and Clerk, and the Republicans elected
ten out Of the seventeen Aldermen, by
Us majority Of the entire vote polled.
The Chicago Journal says mo part of
the city government is politically chang
ed by this result. The Recorders Court
has been in Democratic hands, and will
remain SO, and the Common Council,
which has been Republican for a num-
Der Of years, will still have majority of
eight Republican Aldermen, and will
be presided over by Republican Mayor.
We desire our friends elsewhere to I'M
derstand the fact that every department
Of the Chicago city government and
every local court, except the Recorders,
is still in good Republican hands,
A National Convention of Soldiers
and Sailors will meet in Chicago OH the
10th of May-the day preceding the
meeting of the Republican National
Convention.
Reports from the elections in North
Carolina, Louisiana and Georgia, repre-
sent the success of the new Constitution
as doubtful, while in South Carolina the
new Constitution is certainly carried by
q large majority.
Wheat will be harvested in Georgia
In few days, and a good crop is prom
Used.
New York is INDUCING itself in green
meas from Florida at So a bushel, and
Chicago is .ndulging in strawberries,
blackberries, and garden vegetables from
the Gulf0f Mexico region
In the burning sleeping car which lay
sander the bluff on the Erie Railroad,
At the recent disaster, was an unknown
kentleman imprisoned by a bar Of iron,
but help reached him just as the fire
began itss fearful work upon him. His
SCREAMS were frightful. When he was
released he was covered with blisters,
his clothes In smoking rags. He ran off
yalline iSeeffully, and nothing has been
Deen Of him since.
General schofsld ~ ::as indefinitely
tho election In Virginia on
~ new Constitution, owing to the fact
~ ~ appropriation has yet been pro-
j1ad 1or 70 dsffay the expenses Of such
leeDlaa.
1rsei6sat johnson on Friday sent .
lnnuntcstion to the 6enatc, with |