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The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-12-23
Correction.

Mr.. EIitors:-From sense Of duty to
God and the good people OF this region,
l feel called upon to say word; and
would be thank ful to have the prlvisege
of saying it through your journal.
1t is in relation to a story that is 60
ing the rounds, that had preached and
talked, previous to our late totat eclipse
that that event would usher in the end
of the world. | simply say that l new
er conceived such an il, a, much less
hav uttered it. | would not say this,
but for the prejudice the story might
generate in some honest minds against
the Seventh day Advent faith aud
cause, Of which am representative in
this community.
And furthermore >ay that if there
are those in any district in this county
who desire TO lean ct our faith aud
practice a. a people, Sol,ltt They N ~ b,
able to think and speak OF us under
etandimg.y, and "i"."i,, ..int a time and
place TO meet, and viii notify me of The
''''' va! ''e'' N'h ''''h'r tIlt iotu
WILLING and 1n iny ,.... rjb ,Ian, il,
" " " " 80 80
relation 10 these th!HL> free Of CHARGE
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Upton, Iowa, Dec. %, a..
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So, &c..
fopot OK the HlGh School, ana also
statement Of tho other Depart
lOf IAe rain term commencing
Sept. 27tl. and on1IDw Dec Oath
1870
No. of different pnnit, enrolled So
r,,,.r,.. ONT ,u,,iI, -,
'I''' -,
Eci cent Oh aiIehuaHc', -"
Average number btiDn4iuc 81,
,,,iI,. aftnnaounn ca; /
w. ,,, I - ,
->" ,,,I no" IN a,.'n1a.lc' s, o.
~; ne pc, rs I;ri o. S,"'nn f TO-, , earn 3
p aa 6 III ave n'sl oe'o'i 'or 'he Term IS
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-12-23

LAVA, Alahaster, Parian, Bohemian
and CHINA wares a zftU clk1e of these
gosth consisting Of tsktssus sS{l,okfns Rts'
toilet sets, cologne bottles, card Baskets
and fancy articles &c, at Shmucker's.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-12-23

POSTAGE ON COUNTY PAPERS.-The
following from good authority, the
United States Mail for October, may be
OF interest to some Of our contempora-
RIGS; and possibly, afford information to
some post masters:
County papers must be printed and
published in the county to permit them
to pass free through the mails under
Sec. 2ol, laws of 1866. A paper one hal f
Of which is printed in another county.
does not come within the meaning Of
the section.N e-~
The effe ct of this ruling obliges post
masters to collect postage upon papers
having onc-hoJ printed away from
home; to say nothing Of when the whole
thing is a foreign production.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-12-23


THAC.~L.a&NS w. R.aR.-Thcse
initials represent he namAef- the rail
road that IL TO be- according. to the
project 81 the Clinton Age, to which we
gave space some weeks ago. Our read
Ell willsre nlembet tit4,tdhte risarkeir si.t
for it-from Clinton direct to Upton
and through Iowa City almost direct to
the river. TIE Age more lately informs
US that the G. & =. w. Co. are giving
attention to the sdhject, and that sur
vey is being made with the view of esti-
mating the cost. ", -
s.Soon the, con,pany Will be in coa.li-
ton to apportion the sum. which will he
required of ditiesente localities. The
feeling alqn. tbs pS9iected line is EN-
thusiastic flavor Ot.the early compile.
tionsof ilie.,.pat, ana c,,ul'doubtediy the
several ttowns Interested Will readily
furnish their quota"
We are sure that, Notwithstanding all
the grievious disappoin,ments and vex-
atious miscarriages experienced by this
community in railroad enterprises, it
knows its own interest too we'll to allow
one With anything like plain label Of
honesty and ability upon it to pass with
out any assistance within their ability
that iS.ye4uiyed to make it s''sce.sfals
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-12-23

> FROM the following unique letter,
which was received last week WITH sta.
ted Enclosure, we infer that the writer
desires to give not his aims before
men, to be seen of Them His attempt
shall not miscarry of what we under
stand "a its intention; aud we hope he
may have the pleasure OF hearing how
a Christmas was made happy by his
christian charity. Here is the letter.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-12-23

EAR Mufis to keep your ears from
1reezing-a few more pairs lett at Ad-
'ef ssSs iliN M 4 z
buy him nice hat or cap at Adier's
sKnsaess9 II ,tspb eli eA ,AEyih iassIsse
A ~. nat nsrer co4fes atnlss. - TT
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-12-23

DENTER is Il fast horse; and the Dex-
tev Halter Hitch j. SO called because it
makes all horses fast. For sale ut Rel
ebert Bros.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-12-23

WeSsrs!-Perhaps you may not Know
whence it came or whittier 1t goeth; but
you will find inclosed five dol!ars-not
for my benefit alone, but for the benefit
of others. Who are they: Human be-
ings. Of course; such as Christ spoke of
when he said, "In as much as We have
done it unto the least of these, yc have
done it unto me.' Scripture is full of
instruction and but few are benefited by
it. Men build monuments in memory
of great men, but God remembers the
poor. The mail is at hand and must
close. | have rot told YOU who | am,
nor DO intend doing 50 At present.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-13

THE LOCAL PAPER.-Do the people
understand the importance Of sustaining
the local newspaper Upon it, though
humble in pretensions, the growth and
prosperity of villages and communities
largely depends. 1t is the means of the
better acquaintance of the people with
themselves, and remote sections with U.s.
1t is the medium through which business,
in all its branches may be understood ;
here the producer and consumer, the buy
er and seller, may understand each
other.
1t is the great power OF the people to
expose wrong doing and correct local evils.
1t may not be right always in the views
il aims to take, and though wrong someu
times this is better for the people than for
them to become forgetful of their own To-
cal interests for the want Of newspapers to
remind them. Every newspaper is more
or less selfish in reference to its location,
and in order to successfully combat Others
patronage must be given to the local one
in which the people are interested, II
this view of the matter be correct, a news
paper becomes local necessity st, AL
bans Transcript
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-13
hlistellanp.
Brigham YOung's Harez.
AND WHO ARE ITS OCCUPANTS.

This is the harem. A covered pas
sage leads from the ground floor to ano-
ther building east, in which is the gen>
eral business Office of Brigham Young,
and frcm which telegraph wires run to
every hamlet in the territory. Another
passage leads to the private Office of
Brigham, back of which is his private bed
room, where his concubines wait upon
him-Amelia to-day, Emeline to, morrow,
Lucy the day after.
Brigham's lawfully welded wife was
Mary Ann ANGELA native of New York,
the mother of five children, Joseph, or
Joe" as he is called at Salt Lake, Brig
ham A., John, Alice and Luna. She
married the prophet while he was a young
man, before he was prophet, and with
him accepted the revelations of Joseph
Smith. She lives in large stone build
ing in the rear of his harem. Brigham
does not often visit her now.
The number of concubines in the ha-
rem is not known to the Gentle world
One report makes the number seventy 4;
another gives only thirty. 1t is probable
that the larger number includes those who
are sealed to Brigham for eternity and not
for time.
His first concubine is Lucy Decker.
She is the lawful wife of Isaac Seely mo.
ther OF two children but Brigham could
make her queen in heaven, and 80, bid,
ding good by to Isaac, she became first
concubine, and has added eight children
to the prophets household, Her younger
sister, Clara Decker, also aspired to be a
heavenly queen and became his second
concubine, and is the mother of four
children.
The third is Harriet Cook, mother of
one turbulent boy who does pretty much
as he pleases, and so does the mother.
When in her tantrums she does not hesi-
tate to send Brigham to the realm of evil
spirits.
Lucy Bigelow is said to be one of the
most lady-like Of all the concubines. She
is Of middling stature. dark brown hair,
blue eyes, anquiiine nose, and a pretty
mouth pleasant and affable.
Miss Twiss has sandy hair, round fea-
lures, blue eyes, low forehead, freckled
face but as she has no children, is not
of much account in the eyes Of the proph.
ct. She looks after his clothes, sews but
tons on his shirts, anu acts the part of q
housewife.
Martha Bowker is another of the same
sort, quiet, neat in dress, childless, and
therefore of little account,
Harriet Barney, like Lucy Decker, left
her husband and three children to become
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-13
Odd Yankees.

(Ffom tie atlantic Monthly for Janud,y,)
A curious thing about New England is
the variety of eccentric characters to be
found there. In almost every town there is
a farmer or mechanic who has addicted
himself to some kind of knowledge very
remote from bis occupation. Here you
will find a shoemaker, in little shop
(Which he locks when he goes to dinner
or 10 the post-oflice, much TO the inconve,
nience Of customers), who has attained
celebrity as a botanist. In another viii
lage there may be a wheelwright who
would sell his best coat for rare shell;
and, not farof, farmer, who is a pretty
good geologist, and is forever pecking as
way at his innocent rocks. Again you
will find a machinist who is enamored of
"large paper'copies Of standard works,
and rejoices in the possession of rarities in
literature which he cannot read. know
an excellent steel-plate engraver, who be-
sides being universal critic,is particularly
convinced that the entire railroad system
Of the world is wrong,-ties, rails, driving
wheels, axles, oilsboxes, everything,-and
employs his leisure in inventing better de-
vices. Then there are people who have
odd schemes of benevolence, such as that
of the Massachusetts farmer who went to
Palestine to teach the Orientals the true
system OF agriculture, and was two years
in finding out that they would mt learn it.
There are morose men and families who
neither visit nor are visited; and there is
occasionally, downright miser, oft the an
cient type, such as we read ofin old Mag
azines and anecoote books. There are
men, too, of an extreme eccentricity of o.
pinion. think there are in Boston about
dozen as complete, immovable, if not
malignant, Tories, as can be found this
side Of Constantinople,- who plume
themselves upon hating everything that
makes the glory of their age and country.
And, speaking of Boston, solid, sensible
Boston,-what other city ever accom-.
plished a feat so eccentric as the produc>
tion Of those twin incongruities, George
Francis Train and the Count Johannes?
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1poetrp.

-~O~~~~~-T~-~~~1>J-~0-S0~ l~S-~O~~->~N-.
How beautiful are the feet of them that
preach the gospel OF peace, and bring glad It'd
lngs of good things" Romans X. 18th.
Respectfully inscribed to c. A. Thomas d. d.
In the 94th year of his ministry
BY OLIVE f. p. THOMAS.
Arouse thee, my harp for the silence Of
slumber.
Hath dwelt mid the chords OF thy music too
Let loves holy melody breath o'er thy num-
bers
Awakening TO beauty thy loftiest soug
Thy theme be of blessing for him who deny
ing
This life OF earths honor and pleasure and rest,
Goes forth as the herald of One who in dying
mansion prepared where the faithful are
blest
No theme more sublime In the annals Of
story,
No mission so pure, as the chosen Of God,
No crown Of earth's monarch or hero hath
glory
Like that which ilumlnes the path he has trod.
How fair are his footsteps, how sweet are the
tidings,
Whose soft echoes steal DER the ruins OF time
A joy for the lowly a rest for the weary,
A hope for the valiant of victory sublime
Our Pastor With reverent and sacred emo
ton,
We breath forth the name that our hearts hold
so dear
And pray that the stars which shall crown
his devotion,
Beam brighter far brighter in each fading year
Thy smiles for his hesrt,ohl our Father stsr
Thy strength for his arm in the conflict today
Thy presence, thy power, thy fullness super
| Abide in his soul and illumine his way
Long years hath he stood on the watch-tow-
or of Zion
While sims angry waves have been tossing
| so high
In falthfulness warning, in tenderness
pointing
| To a harbor Of safety, the morning on high
| Long years in the labor oflove never wearied
Mid life's changing scenes has his presence
been dear,
At the ireside, the death bed, the grave, aud
the bridal
To hallow ourJoy, and drop sympathy's tear.
| While many brave hearts as tho days have
been speeding
| Have lent their last aid TO his labor of love-
| While many fair lambs of his flock have been
heading
The call of the Shepherd of Israel above.
He lingers where accents of daily petition
With fervor, affection and hopefulness blend u
That many more years he he spared to oui
circle
A preacher. a brother guide and a friend.
A blessing oh J. God tin his brief mission EN-
| ded
Thy glory shall crown him with the rich
est reward,
TIN the host of high Heaven shall shout th'
| glad welcome
OF" Enter then into the joys OF thy Lord r
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-13

A SHIFTLEss MAN.-In the spring of
1871 l was searching for a studio in which
to set up my easel. Ny ''house-bunting"
ended at the New York University, where
| found what 1 wanted in one of the tur-
rets Of that stately edifce. When had
fixed my choice the janitor, who accom-.
panied me in my examination of the
rooms, threw open door on the opposite
side of the hall and invited me to enter.
l found myself in what was evidently an
artists studio, but every object in it bore
indubitable signs Of unthrift and neglect
The statuettes, busts, and models of vari-
GUS kinds were covered with dust and cobs
webs; dusty cany ases were faced to the
wall, and stumps of brushes and scraps of
paper Uttered the floor. The only signs
of industry consisted of few mastery
crayon drawings and little luscious studies
Of color pinned to the wall
"You will have an artist for your neigh
Dor, said the janitor. "though he is not
here much of late; he seems to be getting
rather ahftlesS; he is wasting his time over
some silly invention, machine by which
he expects to send messages from one place
to another. He is very good painter,
and might do well if he would only stick
to his business; but, Lcrd !"he added.
with sneer of supreme contempt ''the
idea of telling by little streak Of light.
ming what a body is saying at the other
end of it His friends think he is crazy
on the subject, and are trying to dissuade
him from it, but he persists in it until he
is almost ruined.
Judge of my astonishment when he
informed me that the ''shiftless' individu.
al, whose foolish waste OF time so excited
his commiseration, was none other thar
the President of the National Aca denny ol
Design-the most exalted position, in my
youthful artistic fancy, ii was possible foI
mortal to attain. f. B. Morse. since
much better known as the inventor of the
electric telegraph. But little while af-
ter this his fame was flashing through the
world, and the unbeIievers who voted him
insane were forced to confess that there
was at least "method in his madness. -
EDToR's DRAWER, Haper's Mdqdsiae.
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Why,AmerIcans hate Farming.
(FRoM THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR
JANUARY.)

JANUARY.)
think no one can read that splendid
prose-poem, Guyot's Earth and Man,
wherein he charaoterizes the position and
products of the American continents. wilh>
out feeling that they ought to be the food
producers of the world. They are the
seat, he says, of excessive vegetable, as
the continents of the Eastern hemisphere
are of the noblest animal, development.
Let us, then, rather set ourselves to car
ry out the grand design of Nature than to
60 against it. am tired of the stories
about Western farmers burning their corn.
Let the dry-goods clerks be set to work on
the railroads and canals to bring it to the
sea-board, then. With butter at sixty
cents pound, and -four at eighteen dol.
lars barrel, as they are in Boston at this
present writing (May, 1863, it is absurd
to say that we are producing enough for
home consumption and for expectation
too. Many poor family have given up
butter and sugar and juicy meets within
these last eight years. The fact that a
paper dollar is but two-thirds of gold
dollar cannot account for provisions being
two or three times their former price. No,
the real trouble is that The American
hates farming and loves trading, partly
because he Is physically undevel1ped, and
therefore physically lazy; partly because
farming is lonely and stupid, and without
any Of the stimulus of human companion
ship to which his childhood at the dis
trict school accustomed him; partly be,
cause at that school he got no knowledge
or love OF nature, but only the trading
ideas instilled by six years Of drill in the
dollar'a and cent examples of the arilhme,
tic and last, but not least, because farm
ing kills his wife, takes all the bloom. flesh.
and vitality away from her a, forty.
Very often, even if she can afford one, she
cannot get servant so that she il in
truth, next to an Indian squaw. the
greatest drudge on the American CONT.
nent.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-13
GREAT ONE DOLLAR SALE,

Revolver, Shot Gun, or Springfield Rifle tor
Club of Sixty,
Double Barrel Shot Gun, Rife Cane, or harp's
Rife for Club OF One Hundred.
Sporting Rife for Club OF Two Hundred.
for Club Of Three Hundred, or your choice Of a
large number Of other attices for the above Clubs
too numerous 10 mention. Send for Circulars.
y. C. THOMPSON & CO.,
2w4 l36 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-13

The colonies of Victoria and New South
Wales are both suffering terribly from the
want of rain. The drouth is universal.
From Melbourne in the south 70 Queens
land in the north sheep are perishing by
thousands from want Of water. On one
srun' 800, 900 have been lost,in this way
Horses are offered at eight and ten shill.
ing each, and sheep can find no purchas.
ers at seven pencs a head.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-13
UNIRE FIRE / FIRE |

Tho Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company
of Montpelier Vt, having now been in successful
operation seventeen years without ANY ASSESS
MENrs, is prepared TO insure dwelling houses,
barns, sheds, and outbuildings and personal prop
erty in like buildings from 10 to 20 per cent
cheaper than any other company in the State.
No. of Policies in force, II, ,422.
amount of property insured, 81, 1888, 922 90
premium notes in force. 779,022 OF
Net cash surplus, 3S,51s 66
Having taken the agency for this Company in
the towns Of Brandon and Sudbury, in Rutland
County, and all of the towns in Addison County,
but Ferrsburgh, Monkton and Lincoln. propose
to devote my whole time and attention to the
business Of insuring for said company, and hope
to be able to meet the wants Of the public in this
department much better than II made il a secon-
Diary business. Any person residing in the above
county desiring to be insured anew, or change
their old Policies, by giving me day or two's
notice. by letter. will be attended to without de-
lay, and at as cheap rate as II lived in their
own town.
GEORGE n. Dixie, Agent.
Bristol, VT. October rs, 1866. 5;ly
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-13
r. SAYRE
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
DOYSl BOYSl BOYSl

Something you all want--A Pistol Revolver,
Shot Gun. or Rife. A little time will secure you
one free OF cost.
A Musket, Shot Gun, or Austrian Rife for a
Club OF "Thirty, in osr
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-13
THE CHRISTIAN-6O CENTS !

A large, live, page monthly religious and fam
lily paper, full OF facts providences, Incidents,
sic poetry, TRUE stories, pictures. reading for old,
young, saints, sinners one and all. No sectarisn-
lam, controversy, politics, pus, pills, or patent
Sunday Schools, 10 copies "a. Send 10 cents
tor specimens before you forget 1t. Vol. be-
gins Jan. 1863. 1000 pages new live tracts for
sl- Address III. l.. III HASTINGS, Scriptural
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-26
COrruption of English.

The. Pau Mai Gazette says:-"Last weeks
Athe1Gom notices as puzzle the northern
expression, Il wish they were all aback or
beyond as applied to persons occasioning
annoyance. This is, however, merely a corrupt
rendering of the phrase, at the back o. beyont,
in common use from the Humber to the Tay,
and slgnifying the farthest removal in a form
so humorousiy metaphorical as to be inolfensiye
to the persons whose presence is deprecated.
We may add another northern derivation which
is perhaps unknown. MIR. Gladstones patro-
nymic was originally Gledstanes. 1t is so IN
the old ballads, and is derived from a holding
on the Scottish border, so called from a cairn
was common in The North to designate places
from being in the vicinity of haunts of certain
kinds of birds, and from these personal
names have been in turn derived-Hawk- shaw,
RaYens-heugh, etC.n
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M I o X o.
The sacred CItx of Innan.

"The ciy of Keoto Tor M6ko, as it is more
frequently called on maps) is coming promi-
nentlv into notice as the abode of the sacred
person of the Mikado, who has just arrived at
his majority, ana, according to the latest news,
is now recognized by nearly all the princes as
the legitimate supreme sovereign. 1t SO nap
pened that while l was in Osaka (Which Is by
sea 345 miles south from YOkohama), 'skiltul
European physician returned from up the river
TO the capital, whittier he had been called to
attend the sick bed Of the Prince OF Hezen,
of Nagasaki, one of three prime ministers
who had been desperately i'll and long
failing. He was escorted by highly inteli-
gent Japanese gentleman, educated in Europe.
From these persons l received an account
of personal adventures, together with de-
scriptions of a country which foreign eyes have
rarely gaZed upon. They expressed themselves
delighted with all that had occurred. Success
speedily attended their efforts in behalf OF the
sick man, and in return were burdened with
manifestations of a grateful hospitality They
received every possible attention, and for food
were served with European and japanese chow
chow in full variety. They spoke OF the scenery
of Keoto and its neishbOrhood as superb, the
city being surrounded by magnificent range
of mountains, from whence large quantities OF
timber, deer skins, and other products are sent
to Osaka, the commercial centre and leading
city is about half the size of Osaka population
say about 150 00O), and has no moat or other
strong artificial delenses. The best building in
the city Is the Mikado's residence which has a
massive copper roof, and is of wood, on stone
foundations. The Tycoon's palace, another fine
building, was repairing. g.-HoiocE on "EdsterH
(jODntJips.D