The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-07-10
NEWS AND NOTES.

!. Governor Dix has signed the ne
: Brooklyn charter.
Z. The public debt was reduced durin
the month of June So, la, 900.
Six cholera deaths In Nashville OF
the I'd inst. No new cases reported.
Secretary Richardson proposes Il
sell five millions Of gold this month.
New York proposes to consum
s., 900 in fireworks on the Fourth G
July.
The graduating class OF Yale con
tains sixty-eight Free-traders to twely
Protectionists.
The prosecution of the Tichborn.
claimant will cost the English Gov
ernment $50, 900.
A dispatch from Berlin announce.
the recovery Of Emperor William from
his recent sickness.
A sister Of Col. T. Mosby. of confed
crate fame, has been appointed clerh
In the Dead Letter office.
The Chicago Journal declares al
there is an honest man in the world
it is the present aud next Governor oil
Iowa, Hon. c. c. Carpenter"
Best authorities estimate that the
wheat crop Of the country this year
will be larger by 100000 bushels
than was ever known before.
At Cedar Falls, on the lst, baker
named William Wilson, while under
the influence of liquor, committed
suicide by poisoning with strychnine
"What's the date of your hustle ?'
was what an anxious papa OF Coble-
skill, N. Y, ask ed his well-dressed
daughter, after searching for the latest
copy Of his paper.
One hundred squaws, who were
captured by Colonel Mackenzie from
the Comanches while off their reserva-
ton, and who were imprisoned at Fort
Concho, Texas, were returned to their
tribe three weeks ago.
Matilda Fletcher has been invited to
deliver the Annual Address at the
Nebraska State Fair, at Lincoln, the
| first week in September. She has ac-
cepted the invitation, and has selected
for her subject, Farmers Wives and
Daughters"
A gentleman who has just arrived
at st. Louis from Fort Sill, in the
Indian Territory, says that the Kiowa
and Cheyenne Indians, who recently
left their reservation, are returning.
They had been out to have their an
nual "medicine dance"
The retiring editor Of a Kansas pa
per "valedicts'' himself as follows /:
"If I have said anything through
these columns that | am sorry for,
am glad of it. To my friends, thank
you for your liberality, and to my
enemies, you can go to the devil"
An examination of the Iowa State
record discloses the fact that every
male person may hold any elective
office except membership OF the
Legislature. This is confined to white
males by an oversight In amending
the new Constitution two years ago.
There was an earthquake in Italy
on the morning Of the 10Th. About
thirty-five miles north of Venice q
church was destroyed by the earth
quake and thirty-eight persons killed,
and in four villages near Vittora four
teen persons were killed and many in
jured.
Il. B. Rhett, of the New Orleans
Pcdyuae, killed ex-Judge VIM. H.
Cooley of that city, in duel fought
with shot guns loaded with balls.
Cooley fell at the second fire. Rhett,
the challenging party, was not injured.
The quarrel grew out of newspaper
article.
The jury in the case of young Wal
worth, who shot his father in New
York, brought In a verdict of guilty
Of murder in the second degree"
This will send the young man to the
States Prison. Sentence will be pro-
nounced on Saturday, and no doubt
Q new trial will be asked for.
The Des Moines Register says the
experiment of burning brick with coal
instead of wood has been thoroughly
tested there this season, and found to
succeed admirably. Mr.. James is just
completing his third kiln, using coal
for fuel. 1t does full as good work as
wood and is one-half cheaper.
The New York Excise Commission
ers have declared lager or malt beers
intoxicating, and their sale, on Sun
day, being contrary to law, will be
prohibited. They have also resolved
to refuse license to any place where
music is introduced, which is q death
blow to the demoralizing concert
saloon business of that city.
The Indian commissioners write
from the Red Cloud Agency that the
Indians demanded eleven hundred
stand of arms Of the best pattern.
Red Cloud wanted hundred white
squaws sent for his young men.
Many white men had married Indian
squaws, aud afterwards left them and
their children on the hands OF the
tribe to be provided for, which did not
strike him as the proper thing.
About two o'clock week ago Sun
day morning, twenty masked men
broke into the Jail at Salem, Ind,
where Delos Heffron was confined for
the murder Of D. Halstead few days
ago. The prisoner retreated to the
inner cell and showed fight. Burn
ing fire balls were thrown at him, and
he was also shot several times. He
was then taken to the railroad bridge
near by and hung until he was dead.
The mob then dispersed.
The New York Times, speaking of
the Iowa Republican Convention,
says: ct had the good sense to re-
nominate Gov. Carpenter and most of
the State officers, who have performed
their duties to general satisfaction.
The resolutions took ground squarely
for the regulation of the railways by
the State, to the extent of preventing