The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-06-24

Gold has been down to l36.
NJ" Over 5000 men, women and children
.lsft Liverpool for New York week be-
., The fare from Chicago to California
has been reduced to $l53 in currency.
+" The smallest real estate transaction
~ on record, ard one of the most extrava-
o'kxnt, occurred lately in New York. A
- NeAH. paid 500 FOR lot on g Portland
street, three inches wide and thirty
o. leng. -. ..., ... n,.,t .....f
oac Thegreat National Peace Jubilee, at
Boston, on Saturday closed its fifth and
last day. 1t has been u brilliant and
magnificent affair throughout. The
-tOtat receipts for tickets Of admission
will amount to about half million dol
n lars.39g ~ anfE -.~s.~.. ....' .'..
-" y 4 letter from Delaware says: ''I'he
fruit. prospect II magnificent. The
whole State Is full Of Strawberries now
1t xix cents per quart. Blackberries
will he more plenty Than mosquitoes
everywhere. Peaches will be Il full
Drop aud unusual y large aud lucious,
at the weather he dry.'
s Hon Henry J. Raymond, for SO many
years Editor and Proprietor Of the New
y York Times, died from arpoplexy at his
residence In New York, at five o'clock
on the morning Of the 18th inst.
The suit Of S,nithson against Stanton
came up in the Circuit Court, Friday,
caud WAS argue,l by counsel The case
hogan three years ago, and the present
hearing was OH plaintiffs motion for an
order allowing him to, examine papers
IN the War Department. He claims
81, 600 because Stanton shut him up in
the old Capitol during the war rs a
'spy. > 's.4 '.s
@a-ThO Postmaster Generals order d.
ovsiding The country up into districts for
Inspection AMI supervision purposes
uEars into effect on The lst Of July, at
the beginning Of the fisca, year, aud the
necessary instructions To newspapers
sAnai others are in preparation. Some of
,lhe officers are already Informally going
over the field OF duty to which they are
assigned. mfa1
y Tie law Of last February providing
that heads Of departments here must
Keep their expenditures for clerks
<wlthin the appropriations, goes into
effect ut the beginning of next month
Tie necessary reductions OF force have
been made in only Il few bureaus, but
m Others are preparing to give effect to
lflS act, and there must he u large num-
BET OF dismis sals.
Congress, at til" last session, author
lied the President 10 spend 5000 in
6uying \ ull-length oil portal. of
Lincoln, to hang in the White House.
Heaiy aud C0gsweil IRE, rs yet, the only
eOmpetitbrs. The latter has submitted
the standing figure which was exhibit
cd IN the Senate lobby last winter,
while HeaIy has just sent on a sitting
figure, which will he shown to the
President and the public this week.
They have 'struck lie" on the line of
the PYcitic Railway, several flowing
springs having been found in the Bear
river region, just on this side of Utah
Territory, about $50 miles west of Oma-
ha. Several parties are out there pros
pecting, but their operations are limited |
10 a narrow belt along the line Of rail |
road, owing to the peculiarly pacific |
tendencies of the red men in that re-
gion. The yield is reported to be good, /
aud some Of the more enthusiastic are |
claiming that a petroleum basin will
yet he opened up Oh this side of the
Great Salt Lake Valley, equal in i'm
psr;aRce 10 That which has made Penn
&ytNania famous.