The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-08-26

Tom Allen has accepted the PROPOSE
ton to add 81 600 to the stakes OF tn
late match with Gallagher, and figii
the battle over. He names the place
within fifty miles of Cincinnatti, ant
the time seven to ten days hence.
Reports from all sections Of Maryland
represent drOuth as prevailing 70 81
alarming extent. No rain had faliei
for weeks in some counties. Farmers
DESPAIR Of making even half crop
of corn, and the potato vines have be
come pnrched and dried up before ma
! turity. The tobacco crop 10 also: suffer
ing severely. ....., .-:...... 81; ..sf. sq...tg
/ The report that the Spanish govern
men has made protocol with the Gu
bans for the REIMBURSEMENT OF the
| island to the natives gains considerable
credence at Washington. The terms OF
/ the transaction are not noted. s..,.t
Accounts from the tobacco growing
regions of Kentucky state that but nail
the crop produced last year will be rais'
ed this year, on account Of the intense
heat and the parching drouth. Corn Is
almost shriveled. If IF s.s ,.... ..a
w. u. Sanders, q negro, has been ap-.
pointed special agent, or detective, OF
the Post Office Department, at = salary
of 81 200 per annurn, and 50 per day as
subsistence. This is the first negro
man ever appointed to such position.
A special meeting Of the City Council
was held at Philadelphia, % inst. to
consider the water famine. twenty
five thousand dollars was appropriated
for families of destitute canal bOatinen
laid up on the Schuylkill River. and
power has been given to the Chief En-
gineer to take any measures he may
deem proper, to raise the waterinto the
basins of Paramount. An experiment
was tried this afternoon of raising water
by means of steam fire engines. The
hill at Paramount is ninety feet high
aud tits doubtful whether the hose will
stand the pressure. The result has not
yet been announced.
The droughth in the neighborhood of
Philadelphia continues, and the wafer
supply of that city from the Schuylklil
river is daily growing scarcer. The
matter is becoming very serious one
in that city.
Prince Arthur, Queen Victora's third
son, reached Halifax last Saturday, and
the people of that place are growing
wild over him. He will take tour
through Canada. and is expected to
visit this country before his return to
England.
Drinkers of champagne, who would
like to know all about the ''sparkle'
and the "Iiquor light" and so on,
should note that,in a resent seizure of
campaisne making establishment, the
articles found on hand We're four barrels
of common white wine, one barrel of
vitoriol.
During the month of July $50 acres
of public domain were disposed of at
the following local offices: Dakota
G ity, Nebraska, 29,093 acres; Taylor's
Falls, Mimi, 9,sll; Bonneville Mo-, 81
GIG acres. The greater part was taken
under the homestead law, and the re-
mainder with military warrants and
cash. .~ -:
In Alabama the Republicans were
united in the recent election, and the
result is gratifying victory-the elec.
increasing the Republican majority III
the State from 1, 200 for Grant to II 900.
The Republicans in all the Southern
States would do we'll to initiate the
course of Alabama. -.... g.
The Spanish Reform newspaper eulo-
glzes the late \ american Minister, Mr..
Hale, for the steady favor he showed
and protection he gave to Spanish la
to those who have
been at various times sentenced to
death. 1t praises him As the first for
eign representative who recognized the
present revolution, and calls him the
Wilberforce of his country. s.+.
The Corinne tUtah) Reporter says
During the month of July there were
o97, 100 pounds of freight received at this
point, and DOT ,625 pounds shipped.-
During the same time the passenger re-
ceipts were 81 ,544.3l. While this is an
excellent showing, probably equaled by
few towns on the Union Pacific rail 70 ad
we are assured that the business of the
road in August will amount to at least
one half more. Already, this early In
the month. the receipts and shipments
amount to almost the entire business of
July.
After two days eanvassing, discussion
and voting, Miss Susan b. Anthony
! has been turned out Of tie National La
Dor Congress. u appears that, ate
working regularly in the organization
of a Woman 5 Typographical Union il
New York city, she failed to pay Il
good prices on her own paper. the Re,
o'utjon, as We're paid female composition
working on several other newspaper
there, and the President Of the w,
mans Union was even discharged frol
the t.erO'Attion Office without cause
New York printers took up the cans
of the Woman's Union, and hence Mi.
Authony's expulsion.
\ special dispatch to Mondays Ch
cago Tribune says: There is much e,
element among the Treasury otficia
over the discovery that no further col
tidence can be in the lock adopted L
the government for its own Use, an