The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-07-15
Gleanings.

The Ocean Bank offers twenty five
per cent. of the whole amount to the
robbers who cleaned out the vaults, if
they will return the4spoils. IS "a
\ Rocky Mountain editor thinks we
have enough female pWachers, female
DOCTORS etc, but thinks that there is II
great demand for female women.
There are $500 newspapers published
in this country, Of which five seventies
are issued in the Northern States. New
York has the largest, and Florida the
smallest number.
The Chinese in California are very
>kiiiful in counterieiting gold dust, aud
succeed in selling good deal Of the Boz
gus article. This was once tried in
Australia, but lynching stopped it,
Hon. Henry O'Gonnor, of Iowa, and
Arthur Dixon, of Chicago, We're elected,
respectively, Vice President and Treas
urcr of the Irish National Republican
Convention. The President is Hon.
Michael ~canlon.
Heavy orders for Nos. and > wheat
are being received ut New Orleans from
France, more than can be filled there
Orders for 100 900 bushels OF No. have
been received within u few days.
1t is expected that the expenditures
for the army will fall off during the next
fiscal year fully twrnty.siX millions.
The wheat harvest in the vicinity OF
Springfield, H., is much impedcd by
the scarcity of laborers. Three dollars
per day and board is paid, and some
farmer. are offering $50. The winter
wheat Will all be cut IN Il day or two.
Rev. ii. NJ. Turner. colored, telc-
graphs to the Postoilice department,
! that he had taken possession Of the post
Office at Macon. Georgia, and that all
the white clerks had Immediately left
| the Office. lie asks for instructions.
The gem Of set of burglars tools,
! found in the vault of the robbed Ocean
! National Bank, at New York, compris-
es over four hundreI tools some of
| them as finely constructed rs dentists
! instruments, the whole estimated to
! cost at least 81 500.
! Capt General de Rodas, Of Cuba, has
issued "A proclamation stating that the
instruction has been reduced to mere
guerrilla war; and declares that parties
arrested for robbery, arson. or murder,
will be tried 10y courtmartial. An or
der has been issued permitting the
newspapers to publish official news. -~
! An ambitious SAN Franciscan Is
! making 900 cigars OF the finest Ha-
/ wanna tobacco, each one tipped with gold
/ and ali il present to our smoking Presi-
dent. They are to be packed in ten
| glass boxes, with golden edges, and the
/ top bearing the monogram L. >. g., in
red white and blue, and the front car
! rying the photograph of the donor. His
| name is Horn.
/ About twenty miles from New York
I'll
| of : 800 acres of unimprovcd land, for
which A. T. Stewart has made an offer
/ Of SAL, 800, and say, in explanation that
! he is willing to eXpend several millions
/ dollars in laying out the lands for sale to
actual settlers, and erect ut various
points attractive buildings and resi-
/ dences.
| A Mayor Williamson, in Il report to
/ the conmisSury Of Benar, in India, sol
emily AYERS that it is the custom of fe-
/ males in those parts, whenever a hus-
! band or father has been eaten by tiger
/ (Which is rather the rule than the eX-
/ ception), to change their family name.
! The object Of this is to prevent the tiger
from cxterminating tie household,
either through appetite, if the father
agreed with him, or through rage if
the father gave him the dyspepsia.
1t is related by writer in the Indian
apols Evening Mirror, that among the
parishoners of DIR. Bellows, ut one time
was family with the name of Spear
They brought Il son to the front to be
chri-tened and when, a. Is customary,
Dr. Bellows leaned over and asked
"What nance the answer was,
"Shake.n "Whatever y he asked the
parents afterwards, possessed you to
give your child such IA nance
">hakcSpear. Don't you see, with
Spear and Shake it makes the christian
name of shakespear. So ~