The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-08-05
NEWS SUMMARY.

by disaster Ill the coai "i"eS no"
Dresden, i'm Europe, Monday, over thre
hundred lives were lost.
The state of affairs in Spain IL repre-
scented as disturbed, and bordering o
anarchy. The appointment OF Kin
is demanded.
The Government Of Prussia will, 1t
believed. soon commence the work c
constructing a ship canal to connect tn
- Baltic and North Seas.
Secretary Boutwell, has concluded t
have new issue of all denomination
of greenbacks, from one to the thousant
dollar notes. The plates are now being
engraved from entirely new designs
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
No likeness of any living man will bt
placed on any note,
Custom receipts week before last were
So, 46s.5os
The cholera is making sad havoc
among the Spanish troops in Cuba.
The total amount Of currency, frac-
tional and national, in circulation is
$500 7s2. $40.
The July official statement Of the
Treasury, shows that during that month
the national debt was reduced s., 435, TAI
The water IN the Upper Mississippi is
running low. The larger boats have
made their last ttips for the season.
The .dtesentS ~ Don Carlos. in Paris,
deem their cause lost. The Government
is fast scattering or capturing the Carlist
bands In Spain.
Judge Dent emphatically declares his
intention to accept the nomination for
Governor of Mississippi, rendered him
by the conservatives.
Three hundred aud thirtynine thou
sand three hundred and sixty-five let
tiers were received at the Dead Letter
Office in Washington during The month
of June.
A letter from Nassau says large
number of Cubans have gathered there,
aud blockade running is quite active.
The Cuban insurgents have an agency
in Nassau, and the inhabitants of the
island are entirely in sympathy with
them.
The town of Detroit, Kansas, was en-
tirely destroyed by fierce hail and
wind storm on Tuesday night of last
week. The wind blew down all the
buildings in the town, leaving the in
habitants, in the morning, on the bare
prairie. literally houseless.
Mr.. John Bigelow, for many years
connected with the New York Euening
Post, and lately Minister to France,
enters on his dulles as chief editor of
the New York Times this week.
1t is estimated that about $500, 600, 900
of the National debt are in the hands of
foreign capitalists. This is more than
one-third of our whole debt, and re-
quires the annual expectation of about
$50, 600 900 of gold, or its equivalent, to
pay the interest.
The case of Griffin, the engineer, who
is charged with the blame of having
caused the recent terrible disaster on the
Judge sharswood, of the Pennsylvania
Supreme Court, on writ of hubeas cor.
p"s and an application to be admitted
to bail. The prisoner was admitted to
bail in the sum of $1,000.
The terms of the lerger Court Mar
tal is at the War Department, and will
not reach the President formally for
some time, as it must first be briefsd at
the Judge Advocate Generals Office
When it has been acted upon Ly the
l., h., A
in n general order from the War Depart
ment. If the finding is death, SEM
tence cannot he carried INTO effect until
after the application for a writ of habeds
corpus has been settled by the Supreme
Court.
The London Times recently had an
article on the Chinese question i'm the
United States. 1t thinks the conflict of
races in California cannot be solved by
heavy duties on immigration or by
street outrages. 1t is impossible to sup
pose that the Chinese can be kept out
of America, inheriting as they do an an
cient civilization and perfect economic
methods, but. being destitute of the
strength and toughness of moral fibre
which support authority. The Chinese
may be welcome as assistants in cooni-
cation and not feared as a rarce likely to
dominate in the future.
Official Information from Texas has
been received by General O. o. Howard
regarding the condition of affair, i'm that
State, from which it appears that l. 900
freedmen have been rendered destitute
by the recent floods. Appeals for aid for
the whites who suffered by this deluge
have been made aud have been literally
responded t" by the people of the South
generally. AS yet, however, the efforts
to relieve the condition of the freedmen
have been comparatively slight. The
result is, that many of them have been
compelled to resort to robbing to sus-
tain life.
Gen. Sickles, the new American Min
lister, in presenting his credentials to
Marshal Serrano. said that the United
States now, more than ever, appreciate
the traditional amity of the two nations.
animated by new sympathies and a
common participation in constitutional
liberties. Marshal Serrano replied, as