The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-11-09

I Inc ktepuOuCuIB OI MaEFiaNu aNtIcl
pate handsome gains in the State cleo.
ton next week.
Ono hundred aud twenty-five schoo!
tsachers were thrown out OF employ.
ment by the Chicago fire. 0
Gilmore's new Coliseum building, for
his Worlds Peace Jubilee, at Boston,
will be S22 feet long by 422 feet wide
aud 24o feet high.
Frederick Douglass, the colored orator,
was unanimously nominated at R"ches-
ter, n. Y, on Saturday evening, rs the
Republican candidate for the Assem-
bly,.
The New York Tribune has a report
from Washington, to which it gives All
editorial Endorsement, that Hon. Hamil
ton Fish, Secretary of State, las resign
ed his office.
The Evening Wisconsin says that in
the three weeks since the Chicago fire
the business of Milwaukee has been
nearly quadrupled.
A California bootblack stand chance
Of going into history beside the widow
with the mite. Advertising that he
should give the proceeds OF days work
to the Chicago sufferers, the young
'gamin" did not lay down his brush
from sunrise to sunset, ami forwarded
$25 the next day to the relief fund.
The Treasury Department is consider
ing the feasibility Of adopting the new
plan for tue redemption of mutilated
fractional currency. The plan under
consideration il that where more than
half u note is presented, to pay its full
value, but to pay nothing ut all for parts
OF notes less than half the whole size.
This will simplify the method OF
redemptions, and Is regarder 1avorably
by both the Secretary and the Treasurer.
The Republican papers of Chicago
severely condemn Gov. Palmer Tor Civ
ing instructions to have Mayor Mason,
General Sheridan aud General Frank T.
Sherman indicted for murder, because
as AL unfortunate incident Of the recent
extraordinary emergency Occasieued by
the Great Fire and it attendant terrors,
y man was shot dead by one of the
militia patrolmen. The Governor has
put his foot in it' III this thing. He is
too great a stickler for constitutional
quibblings~
The South Carolina papers report the
excitement at Spartansburg subsiding,
and no arrests the past week,
through the United States
forces are reinforced by com
pany of artillery. No arrests have been
made yet in Chester, and but twenty
one in York comfy, where two hundred
persons confessed their connection with
the Ku Klux organization, though
they vainly ailege they never participant
ed in the outrages. Some say they were
compelled to join, while others did it as
a means of protection from their negro
laborers. The confessions give the
names of those who performed the
initiation, and others who were present.
Some acknowledge the committing Of
outrage, and in ku kluxing murders.
OF the recent arrests, four negroes and
six whites are released; eighty eight
remain in Jail, including two negroes.
A week ago last Friday evening as
Secretary Boutwell, entered Steinway
Hall, New York city, to deliver a lecture,
a summons was served upon him in the
name of B. Clifford Calvin. Mr.. Gal
vim is an Englishman, and claims to be
great financier in fact has some rep
ptation as such in England and Canada.
He claims that he matured a financial
scheme for the benefit Of the United
States government, and in June, 1869,
wrote to Secretary Boutwell,, offering to
submit it to him for consideration-fo
consideration. Boutwell, did not an
swer his letter In July Mr.. G. went to
Washington and called upon Mr.. Bouts
well. But the two were unable to come
to terms. Afterwards Il Mr.. Trip. of
DbstOb, ~ ulShiy Iec'ii1theiihth MI.
Calvin to Mr.. Boutwell, that the latter
sent for Mr.. G. and-so the latter SAYS
promised him a liberal remuneration a.
we'll as position in the Treasury, if his
scheme should be adopted. On the 25th
of September the scheme was adopted
Mr.. Calvin claims. But that very day
the Secretary wrote to Mr.. G that his
plans were deemed not practicable. Mr..
&. wisely kept quiet till Boutweli's fl
nancial policy had been fairly tested,
aud its feasibility demonstrated, aud
then wrote to the Secretary. His letters
remained unanswered. And now,
claiming that the present financial poll
cy of the company is entirely the off
spring of the Calvin brain, Calvin has
sued Boutwell, for two million dollars.