The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-07-08


for each nhabitant. We pay more in
tcrest per head than any nation but
Great Britain which pays Sl.63 to our
~i6"! In annual expenditure, howev-
er, seven countries of Europe exceed us:
namely, Holland, Great Britain, France
Denmark, Bavaria, Spain and Austria.
/ Our expenditure il S7.ls per head in
gold, while that Of France il So 43, and
that of Great Britain sll.3ll.
According to the record just taken at
: the Statistict Bureau In Washington it Is
said that at all the ports Of the country
beginning with january, ls5s, We have
received 5 500, 900 Oimmigrants-people of
our own Caucasian race-besides 65, 600
Chinese. OF the former st5,00O are
from Germany, $1,000 from Ireland
100, 600 from Great Britain, le5 $50 from
British America, 700 from Sweden
and Norway, and 1900 from France.
I Only a very small fraction Of the capa-
city OF the telegraph wire Is yet availed
of by any instrument now in use. The
currents Of electricity pass much more
rapidly and frequently than any present
human means can npIoy in the trans
mission Of signals. But-according to
the springfield, Mass Repubticnn-a
new system has been we'll nigh perfect
ed, which multipIies to All immense ex-
tent the present rate of transmission,
and which is likely to work q great rev.
olutIon in the business of telegraphing.
Already u rate of from 90 to 1000 letters
| minute have been attained. and il is
believed that this can be increased, by
improvements in the machinery, to 300
letters IF lliI shall tx,r l.
ized the telegraph companies will be
able to transmit dispatches for about the
same price that the post Office now
charges for postage OH letters. real ex-
pense and delay will be simply in re-
duclng the messages to writing.
blind horse wandered into White
River at Indianapolis, and getting be-
You'd his depth, swan around in a cir
Gle, trying to find his way out. His
distress attracted another horse not far
away on the bank, who first went to the
waters edge and tried to direct the blind
horse by neighing. Failing ia this he
took to the water, aud swan out to his
relief, and after swimming around him
for nearly q quarter Of an hour, he
finally got the blind horse to understand
in what direction the land lay, and the
two horses came to shore side by side,
amid the cheers of upward Of one hun.
dred persons, who had become specta-
tors.
1t Is related that two citizens Of Jack
son, Mississippi, having gone on fish
ing expedition on the Pearl river, found
themselves, At the end of the second day,
ut Madisonville, without money. In
quring for the sheriff OF the county,
they told him that they had escaped
from the penitentiary mt Jackson; that
they had nothing to eat, and had come
to him to give themselves up. The
sheriff, thinking that he would be re-
warded, tock them back to Jackson, and
went to the keeper Of the prison aud
told how he came by his prisoners His
scorn and indignation may be imagined
at finding himself the victim of a prac-
teal joke.
FIX President Davis, of the Confeder-
ate States Of America, is in extremity
precafious health in Paris. According
To an Alahama paper, "Mr. Davi, in
tends, should he Recover sufficiently to
do so, to revisit Canada this summer.
and to spend next winter in Mississippi
lie We'll wishes of every true Southern
er follow Mr.. Davis wherever he NAV
go, and the prayers OF thousands daily
ascend for his welfare and happiness.
The list Of Presidential appointments
torcadets at large to the West Point
Academy is another gratifying illustra-
ton OF the genuine regard which the
Administration displays toward the
soldiers in the war Every one of these
cadets is either the son of IA gallant of,i-
Ger, or the orphan child Of "A father fall
eh in the service. Defense of the flag
comes to these lads as an inherited
duty, and their education comes to the
Government AS at once privilege and
prize.-N. y 7ribune.
The amount of fractional currency de-
stroyed at the Treasury Department for
the week ending June 10, was S2yI, ,0s9.
%. Mutilated bank notes burned, sl37,-
$50. The grand total of mutiIated notes
destroyed up to the 10Th, is Sli,29o,s77.
The New York Zrib,tnc contains the
following advertisement: "Feeling IA
sense of outlines l request all we'll
disposed persons to pray to god for me
Frank. Newspapers please copy.
The Kentucky Conference of Colored
Methodists have adopted Il resolution
declining to join either the Church
North or the Church South but express
ing kindly feelings towards both. They
express their desire to occupy the mid
die ground until the two bodies are
finally united.
A young woman in West Granville,
Mass, arose in her sleep IA few nights
since, and after dressing her hair with
the utmost care and precision, walked
five miles to her home in Tolland, in her
night clothes, never awakening until
just before her arrival, when she natu-
rally caused quite sensation.
A Vermont girl wants to know
whether the woman's rights movement
includes the right of girls to do the
courting. fit does, she is in for it, as
the young men in her locality are very
bashful. There is something practical
about that.
An old farmer in Ohio, having read
that the State peni.entiary cleared seven
thauSapI lollars ,Iu ripy tho laSt VAR hy