The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-08-14
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
August 18th, at 6 O'Clock p. NJ, is
the time set for ''the sailing" of the
Graphic balloon to Europe.
The wheat crop Of the United States
for 1878 II expected by the Agricultural
Department to reach 100000, 900
bushels.
Affairs in Louisiana are in q more
prosperous and peaceful condition
than they have been for several months
past.
About thousand delegates are in
attendance upon the session OF the
National Educational Association, at
Eimira, n. Y.
Emigration from Russia to America
is increasing. Four hundred Rus.
SLAMS sailed recently in one steamer.
The movement threatens to depopu-
late some districts in Russia.
The mania for betting at Saratoga is
90 great that the ladies make wagers
- to the color Of the next gentleman IS
hair who -; turn the corner.
Ofthe four millions Of persons, male
and female, In the United States, who
cannot read or write, North Carolina
furnishes larger share than any one
State.
Two magnificent boquets were sold
! on Change In Chicago. Monday, to
, the highest bidder, the proceeds to go
the Portland, Oregon, sufferers. One
boquet sold for $685., and the other for
sl3s.
A woman in Mt. Pleasant frescoed
her husbands nose with the nutmeg
Crater, just because she caught him
holding up the poor weakly hired girl
who had tainted at the sight OF a
mouse.
There are sl2 paper-mils in the
United States, and the total capital in
vested in the business is $40, 500, 900.
The number OF laborers employed is
22,Oi2. and the product last year
amounted to 3l7,0i2 tons, valued at
S67, 475, s25.
/ The New York World sarcasticaily
urges the Liberals to run q separate
ticket In Ohio. 1t says: "As they
pretended to transfer votes to us last
year, hut did not deliver them, we are
curious TO know how many they really
had at their disposal"
Seventeen thousand dollars worth
OF cattle have died OF the Texas cattle
disease In five townships in Northwest
Missouri during the past few weeks.
the Iowa Peace Society will have
an anniversary at new Sharon. ten
miles north Of Oskaloosa, on the Sd
and 4th Of September, and expect TO
have a good time. So Announces Jos.
eph A. Dugdale, Secretary.
The Wawasset, the i'll fated craft
that was burned at Chatterton, on Fri.
day, was side-wheel steamer Of 35C
tons, and was engaged in running be
tween Washington and Ahe landings
along the Potomac. She was insured
for S2S 900. The origin Of the fire il
unknown. There was great excite
ment at Washington as the particulars
Of the disaster were heard.
The Ohio Democratic State Conven.
ton ignored the proposed new party
and placed q ticket Of its own in tn.
field, headed by old William Allen, o
Ross county, for Governor The little
junta Of soreheads calling them ,elve.
the new Peoples party" who expec
ted Democratic cooperation are thu.
left in the lurch.
The Scott county "anti mono ps, .
IN their convention last Saturday 10
send delegates TO the Des Moines Con.
vention. passed resolution demand
ing as plank In the State platform a
declaration in favor of free whisky
and freedom from Sunday laws. A
platform made up Of such planks
would be rather loose affair.
| Austria has taken . decided stem
toward freedom. The richsrath, or
imperial parliament, has abolished
the old system under which its mem.
bers were elected by the seventeen
provincial legislatures, and in the flu
ture the members Will be chosen dir
ectly by the people. This is an i'm
portant change, and will serve to con-
solidate the discordant nationalitles of
which the empire is composed.
A dispatch from Elm Creek, Neb.
states that on Tuesday morning, while
party of 24O Paxnee Indians were
hunting near Republican river, on the
blackwood creek, they were surprised
and attacked by large body of Sioux
and bloody fight ensued resulting In
the defeat of the Pawnees whose loss
was about 100 persons. comprising
some Of the best men In the tribe, and
most OF their horses, arms and game.
They were pursued twenty-five or
thirty miles, and only escaped when
night came on.