The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-06-04
NEWS ITEMS.

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NEWS ITEMS.
The warlike excitement in Canada,
in anticipation of Fenian invasion,
continues. An invasion is certainly
expected before July.
General George Stoneman was on
! Monday assigned to the command of
the Military District of Virginia, in
place of General Schofield, appointed
Secretary of War.
General Schenck, of the Ways and
Means Committee. on Monday submit
ted the new Tax bill to the House, aud
explained its provisions. During his
remarks he stated that the commitee
/ would favor a reduction Of the tax on
{ whisky TO seventy-five cents per gal
! lon. .s.. ..E ~- ~@.a-. Cd.
| In the senate, Monday, the bill for
| the restoration of Arkansas was passed.
! The first vote was upon an amendment
| providing that fundamental condition
/ of reconstruction should be that Arkan-
/ sas should never deny the right of the
elective franchise to any person on ac-
/ count of race or color, and this was
/ passed by close vote. The bill thus
amended was passed by strictly party
I vote and now goes back to the House
for their concurrence in this amend
ment.
The Pacific Railroad is now complet-
ed forty miles beyond Laramie City, the
! present terminus. A new town is being
i built at the North Platte crossing, where
! the terminus will be fixed shortly.
James Buchanan. ex- President of the
/ United States. died at his home near
{ 7 NnnI,,.
He was in the nth year of his age.
! General John NJ. Schofield has been
appointed and confirmed Secretary of
! War, and entered upon the duties of the
Office las; Monday. He is an old army
officer, and is the only one left of the
original five commanders who were APP
pointed To the command of the Military
Districts i'll the South when the Recon-
struetion act was passed by Congress.
He is a gentleman of high integrity. and
much esteemed by his brother officers.
General Scioiield has never taken any
active part in politics.
Edward Payson Weston, the celebra-
ted American walker, has been matched
against George Topley, the English
lish champion pedestrian, to walk lo0
miles, for 5000, in Boston, between the
18th aud 18th of this month. On the Sd
inst Weston was TO walk 100 miles in
% consecutive hours.
, McCoole and Coburn, the pugilistic
"clampions" who were to have ''set-
/ fa'f in Indiana In, iaiJ at I
! burg. in that State, having been indict-
. ed and sentenced TO 10 days imprison-
ment. Which is Il good thing and will
have Il salutary influence on prize.
fighters.
1t is reported that the exiled traitor,
John c. Breckenridge, is coming back
II to America. He would be a good Dem
cratic candidate for Vice President with
Pe'ndleton.
President Johnson re-nominated to
the Senate Hon. Henry Stanberry rs
Attorney General. 1t will be remem-
bered that Stanberry resigned that place
; in order to become one of the Presidents
counsel in the impeachment trial. The
Senate will not confirm him.
The Methodist General Conference
which has now been IN session in Chi
cago for over four weeks, has drawn its
e business to close, aud adjourned
{, last Tuesday. The Conference has
, adopted basis for lay representation
: Two delegates from each Annual Con-
ference are to be admitted to the Gener-
al Conference, provided the various
churches, at all election to be held in
e June, 1869, shall, 10y majority, ratify
i this action of the conference.
9 The famine and pestilence in Algeria
o has destroyed one hundred thousand
a Arabs within the last six months. The
suilerinss of the people are as horrible
II is those of the Italian cities in the mid.
II die ages, accounts of which have been
j. handed down to US with strict attention
is to minutiae. The Arabs have been re-
II duced to such straits that they greedily
e eat ofial and the purifying bodies of an
e imals that have died of the plague
= which aillicts both man and beast
II Two French missionaries have arrive,
J. in New York for the purpose of obtain
{ ing aid and relief from the citizens O
+ the United States.
r The terrible volcanic phenomena
= which broke out in the Sandwich Is
@ lands OH the 18th of March still contin
e ued up TO the date Of our latest advice.
5 April a. The islands were still shaker
. with continuous vibrations, and violen
+ shocks were frequent. \ tissure la,
j. opened in the earth three miles il
i length, and from which lava poure,
g down into the sea, forming promonto
!. ~ an eighth of il mile long. "
a A lady of Antwerp, in Belgium, wa
r. recently delivered Of four female chill
z dren at birth. According to the loea
journals, the occurrence created quite
- sensation in that town When til
/, christening took place the church Wa
= crowded with spectators, and thousand
" of persons lined the streets along whicl
= the cortegc Of four nurses, with thei
charges, and a. many god fathers an,