The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-08-07
NEWS AND NOTES.


Madison. the capital city Of Wiscol
: sin, has shut down on the Sunds
iiquor-trafic.
IL Pennsylvania's Constitutional Cor
vention consists Of 1873 members. an
loo Of them are lawyers
A Montana paper reports that tn
servant girls OF Helena have struck 10
S66 month, two silk dresses and tn
privilege Of the parIor every Sunday.
The Keokuk Gate Gty's report pu,
the loss By the Monday night fire i
the Iowa State Penitentiary at $50,
loW-os which the contractors los
= so. 900 and the State $4,000.
z Because . man worth $50, 900 took
fancy to and married bare-footed In
, diana girl, the rest of the Hoosier mai
!. dens prowl around the country will
:, mud slushing up between their toes
looking for well-dressed strangers.
10 The manner 10 which the laws ar,
If multiplied in this country may b,
OF judged by the fact, that Governor Dix,
20 who has not been seven months in
!. Office, has ssseused 10 no less than
Il eight hundred and seventy one bills.
) The conaaxra.ion in Portland. Ore
!, Son, on Saturday. consumed oil the
d baildinks on twenty blocks. The total
: los is estimated at over 81 90, oo.
e and the insurance is only about $50,
{ 600.
The most remarkable tokens OF he
: civilization of Europe which the Shah
of Persia will take back With bim will
be the journals Of the day describing
his reception in England. the iiiusra.
ted newspapers especially being OBJ
ljecs Of wondering delight to his suite
and attendants.
A Colombo spring has such extraor-
binary virtues that the thinnest wo-
man, after drinking its water for few
months has no further occasion for
padding Of any sort. 1t is known As the |
anti. cotton and hustle spring.
The descendants OF William futile,
who came from England in 1855, and |
settled in Boston, and some years la
ter removed to New Haven. CT. where
be was prominent citizen, are to !
have family gathering in the latter
city on the third day of September
next.
Still another lawyer has brought
suit against Mrs. Fair for the amount
of his little bill for defending her in
the Crittenden business, and. as San
Francisco paper remarks, if would
have been much cheaper for her to
have been hung Gu the frs. verdict.
The Comptroller vi the Currency |
has issued circular Informing nation
al banking associations that they will |
be supplied with new ten dollar notes
to take the place of those now success
fully counterfeited, provided the bank
ing associations reimburse the Treas
ury for the cost of preparing the notes
| furnished.
In July there were issued from the
stamp divisions of the Third Assistant
Postmaster Generals office, los, sos, il0
article, from which revenue lie deri-
we'd, the value Of which is s., 963, 747-a
large increase over the business Of
any previous month, and accepted as
the result Of abolition Of the ranking
privilege.
Once careless man went 10 the Gel
lar and struck the candle in what he
thought was bag OF black sand.
He sat near 1t, drinking wine until
the candle burned low; nearer and
nearer it got to the black sand near
er and nearer, until at last the blaze
reached the black sand, and
as 1t was nothing but black sand,
nothing happened.
The Ohio Democratic State Conven.
| ton meets at Columbus on the 9th OF
August next. This Convention is re.
garded with great interest, not only
in Ohio, but in the country at large,
as it will show the correct Democratic
opinion as TO whether the Democratic
party il alive or dead.
We have not heard the last of the
Bender atrocities. Intelligence has
been received from Cherryvale, Kan
sas'', stating that more buried bodies
have been found. 1t seems strange
that no clue can be discovered that |
might lead to the capture of the fugi-
tive miscreants. Death would seem q |
mild punishment for their wholesale
crimes.
The act of Congress, passed at the
last session, prohibiting cruelty to an
imals while being transported by rail
or other wise through the Upited
| States, goes into the effect on the lst
Of October. BY the provision of this
law, all cattle, horses or other stock
are to be properly fed and watered
while in transit, or the owner will be
made to expiate the cruelty shown to
the brutes in their keeping by fines
proportioned to their offences.
| An article recently appeared III the
NY. independent in regard to the Stat
US Of the Indians in the country, from
which it appears that both the Consti-
tuition OF the United States and the
decisions Of the Supreme Court recog-
nize the Indians existing as tribes un-
der government OF their own, as q dis
tinct people by themselves and not a
part Of the people of the United States
The writer considers the tribal and ma
tional character of the indians, as dis
tinct political communities, with res
ulting rights and duties, and he states
that this theory has been adopted by
the government in its dealings with
them, for nearly century.
A Fort Wayne lind dispatch, of
July 3lst, says: Last night, a man
who was half intoxicated performed
the dangerous feat Of climbing to the
top OF the timbers which have been
erected for the purpose of completing
the towers on the Catholic Cathedral.
These towers are already 40 feet high.
and the timbers made an addition of
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