The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-28
THIS AND THAT.
,! suicides in Iowa in 1870.

The system of trial by jury is soon to
be introduced into Spain.
Fifteen thousand emigrants left the
Mersey for the United States in August.
The life insurance companies i'm Ber-
lin, Prussia, are insuring lives against
cholera.
He must be thorough fool who can
learn nothing from his own folly
Rattlesnakes are so thick in some In
diana fields as to clog the moving MAJ
chimes.
1t Is now no longer the fashion to give
ones .fance presents prior to marriage.
A Delaware eating. house announces
2thpicks."
Texas expects to sell.a million head
of csttle this year.
~ Richmond hen is arrsyed in the
gorgeous plumage of "a cock.
Seventy millions OF people speak
English.
Illinois corn crop is per cent. larger
than last year.
1t begins to leak out that Queen Vic
taria's mind is seriously affected.
John Bright wants to have nothing
to do with public affairs for year.
One Washington farmer has harvested
20 tons Of grapes.
John B. Cough is going to lecture two
hundred times during the coming sea.
son.
a New York thief robbed poor box
n church of $3.50.
Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay, Of Kentucky,
! will speak in st. Louis during Fair
week, in favor of Horace Greedy for
President.
A gang Of sharpers are swindling the
farmers of Southern Iowa with a
wrought iron plow point.
They have thirteen year-o old girl in
Black hawk county who weighs only
23O pounds.
Wade Hampton has n nervous pros
tration, his wife paralytic attack and
both are seriously i'll.
The Marshall Times tells of young
lawyer who raised $4OO worth of onions
on a town lot.
A contemporary thinks that the best
way to improve the lot of woman is to
put good house on it and good man
in the house.
Mrs. Lincoln's health is reported to
seriously impaired by grief at the recent
death of her son.
Goldsn,.l. Maid beat Dexters time of
2:l7}, by quarter Of second, in Mil
waukes on the 9th inst.
A rolling pin with which loving
wife had knocked her husband down
seven times, came in as evidence in an
Indiana trial.
Phillips says he is a manufacturer of
public opinion, whereupon q vigilant
editor says: "Tax him, Boutwell!'
Gen. Sherman is planning for grand
buffalo hunt for the Grand Duke Alexis
and his suite.
Economical women clerks in the de-
parmsnts at Washington have almost
acquired an independence in four years.
A western paper, chronicling the death
of youn man. says he was estimably
pious, a true Christian and the best base
ball "short stop" in the section.
A. II. Stewards new Fifth Avenue
hotel is completed at last, and is de-
scribed as much tho finest in America.
fi1r mir k,
have cost $2,OoO,Ooo.
One of our Eastern exchanges saws:
" 1t may be mentioned as one of the
of trade, that 100 pounds oe
oats can now be purchased in Boston
for less than the price of 100 pounds Of
hay"
A Dubuque county woman is tho
champion harvester. She drove the
reaper all through the season. helped
her aged father house the golden grain,
and then ran off with one of the hands.
Grasshoppers in vast numbers are ap-
pearing in several Of the principal agri-
cultural counties Of Utah. The deposit
Of eggs threatens seriously crops of ev-
hihu hCAb SCaooll' lleIS Is lllucll
alarm among gardeners.
p. L. Barnum and General Schstield
and brother are reported to have pur-
chased 10000 acres of land on the Huer-
ano, Colorado including eleven miles
on each side of the river, for $4,000.
They will stock it with 1000 head Of
fine cattle and young stock, and if these
prove profitable, will follow with larger
investments.
Brick Pomeroy has faithfully read