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The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-06-26
The City by the Sea.
Somewhere an ancient city stands.

Somewhere an ancient city stands,
beautiful city by the sea,
And moss-grown gables seem to frown
From the pointed roofs of the houses brown
That line the streets of this quaint old town
OF that city by the sea.
Never sound OF clamorous strife
Disturbs this city by the sea:
But calm and sweet is the tranquil day
The hite sails ride on the moonlit bay
Or slip their moorings and float away
From this city by the sea.
Sometimes al eve when the tide goes out.
A troop of children, glad and free,
Gambol and shout "a merry band:
Or over the shining. sea wet sand,
Go two young lovers hand in hand,
From this city by the sea.
Often and often i sit and think
OF this beautiful city by the sea,
Till see the flush of the crimson sky,
And the youthful lovers, fond and shy,
And the now-white sails as the ships 90 by
Past the city by the sea.
Is II picture-or n dream
Whose haunting memories come to meg
Or did somewhere, long ago,
Pace the shining sands when the tide was
low,
Hear the murmnring sea waves ebb and
flow,
Did see the crimson sunsets glow
And watch the white sails come and go
Past this city by the sea.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-06-26
Railway Legislation.

The last Legislature entered upon
the matter Of regulating frelghts and
fares BY legislation in q serious earn
est, at least that portion of the MEM
bers who were In favor Of such regula-
ton so did. But the question what to
do, how to do it, what is equitable
and fair, was poser. No one knew,
and in that general uncertainty many
espoused the O'Donnell bill, as 1t
looked in that direction, hoping some
good would come out of it. The
O'Donnell bill was drawn by the
member from Dubuque and the object
in view was to regulate local freights
SO that the river towns would get the
advantage arising therefrom. That
was well enough so far as it went, but
when you come to extend the scale as
far west as Central Iowa, it actually
permits charge on the distance to
the State line, greatly In excess of the
rates then and now demanded by
railway companies.
Now no man desires freights made
SO low as not to yield companies . fair
return for for the actual capital invest
ed. Ifthis was done companies would
be compelled to either not operate
their road or allow them to 80 run
down that their capacity for carrying
would be much below the demand up
on them. We cannot afford to be
without railroads; we cannot team
grain to eastern markets. or drive
stock there.
The difficulty that has been in the
way of legislation and the people is
to know what was the cost Of the
building and stocking and is the cost
Of operating any particular railroad,
and thus know just what the compa.
ny ought to be allowed. Railway cor
porations have taken advantage of
this ignorance Of the public to demand
rates greatly exorbitant. This want
of informstion has prevented the
friends Of legislation from coming to-
gether and working together. So local
peculiarities, such as competition,
have held them apart.
It is probable, however, that the
public will not 60 much longer in such
complete ignorance Of these vital ques.
tions. The Senate of the United
States appointed special committee
to ascertain the cost of building roads,
in all its detail, OF equipping and op-
Grating. So, too, our late Legislature
directed Governor Carpenter, at an
expense of not greater than $1,000, to
ascertain just these facts 80 far as our
Iowa roads are concerned. The next
Legislature will have the Information
thus to be provided before them, and
can frame law which will, while
just to the railroad com mpanies, greatly
relieve both farmers, merchants and
mechanics from oppressive railroad
charges.
Railway managers in England are
not 30 reticent ~ they are In America,
and the English Parliament has been
able to learn the workings of their
roads much more fully than have we
of ours. In 1863 the London Board Of
Trade from returns made to Parlia-
Ment by all the railroads in the United
Kingdom, made q report showing the
cost OF operating English roads, the
details of which we copy below. 1t
shows the average expense o. running
o,~xn - IN 90 ovo
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-06-26

In quarrel between two farmers In
Payne township, Blackhawk couny,
one, named Writh, stabbed the other
named Rieber, in the face with Z four.
tined fork, one tine entering the right
eye, another knocking out two teeth,
and third infiicting bad wound in
the head. Writh and his hired man
then set their dogs on Reiber. and be-
fore they could be called OF Reiber's
clothes were almost stripped of from
his body and legs and BODY were
scratched and bruised and bitten In 9
terrible manner.
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The latest scandal is about the new
Senator, Mitchell, from Oregon, whose
real name, it is said, is Nipple. He
was an emigrant from Pennsylvania,
and there is now living in Franklin,
in that State, as a servant In q hotel,
a woman who claims to be his wife.
He did not marry her till her own
reputation made 1t necessary, and
after living with her about q year he
deserted her.
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From the above it will be seen, that
exclusive of interest on capital, the
average cost of running an English
train one mile is sixty-three cents. 1t
is admitted that the cost Of operating
railroads in the United States is great
er than in England, and the cost of
construction much heavier. The
Rdilsody Gazette estimates from the
data before it that the cost of running
train Of, say fifteen loaded cars one
mile in Illinois is $1.03. In Massachu.
sets, from more accurate returns, it is
put at $l.3l. The Maine Central Rail
road operates 354 miles, it is said at an
average cost of $1.12. A prominent
official OF the Iron Mountain Railroad,
the President OF the Virginia Central,
and Superintendent of the Schenecta-
dy Locomotive works, estimated that
the entire expense, including interest
on capital invested, of hauling one ton
one thousand miles is 50 63s. That
would make the Approximate cost of
conveying one train of fifteen cars
from Winterset to New York, say
J 400 miles, S557. AS we have shown
in former articles, the charges for
transporting corn now exscted are 14c
per ton per mile. On that basis, the
charges for transporting the fifteen
cars from Winterset to New York are
$1,625. If the estimate of the three
gentlemen named is accurate, then
the railroad companies have made
their tariffs fully three times higher
than fair return requires and il this
be 50, no one can deny but that Con-
gress or the Legislatures of the States
OF Iowa and New York and the States
intervening. should by law prevent
this over charging.
But, as already said, our next Leg
islature will have before it the infor-
nation necessary to determine what
tariff of rates will be fair and equita-
BILE to companies and people, so let us
be sure we send men to represent US
who not only can, but will, see that
justice is done. All should demand
this and none deny it. = Winterset
Mudisonidn.
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An Elm street boy, while under
the painful hallucination that he was
Modoc, buried . pin-headed arrow
into his fathers leg, Saturday, very
much to the surprise Of that individual.
The old gentleman recovered sufli-
cisntly, however, to impress his scion
with the belief that he had actually
sat on lava bed.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-06-26

The cost of maintaining the public
schools Of New York for the coming
year will be So, ,356, 900. OF this sum
teachers will receive q little over So,
600, 900. ....
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The Register Of the Treasury at
Washington received ten dollars on
Saturday, accompanied BY the follow
Ing statement: 1.-THE world weuld
not say that Jesus does" It didn't
come from Congressman. a
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Auctioneers.
WIN. NJ. KNOTT,

A UCT1ONEER VIII attend promptly
"A 20 selling all kinds Of property at Auc-
lion, In any part Of Cedar county. A list of
"a sales will always be found at the TIPToN
AovesfsskR once, where those desiring his
~. s..vacse can ltx the dav for their sale with.
out seeing him. a
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Musical.
MUSIC TEACHER.

EMAfA II. ENSIGN, Tencher of Mnsic nfter
IL several years experience In New York
has located permanently in Upton, and de-
sifes to We instruction In voca an 4 Instru.
mental Music. Special attention given to
Thorough Base and Harmony.
Residence at her fathers, DIR. 8. Ensign
east of Court House square. 10
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Des Hoines and Iowa City base bawl-
lers contest for the championship on
the Fourth.
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TIME COURSE OF INSTRUCTION will en-
i brace all the Higher Branches of Eng.
lish education. with Latin, French, German
Fancy and Plain Needle-work, and other
accomplishments.
Especial attention will be given to Social
Culture, combined with careful Religious
instruction and the comforts of a home.
A Preparatory Department in connection
with the Seminary, for Children under ten
years of age, will be conducted by Miss f.
Maynard, and continued during the summer
months.
Expense of full course for Tuition. per term 5000
preparatory Department, per month, 200
Vocal and Instrumental Music, ch per term, 1000
Drawing and Painting, do do 1890
Use Of Piano for one hour daily, do 100
The amount for Tuition for each Term
must be paid in advance. IA
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Hotels.
POST HOUSE,

z: POST, CLARENCE, IOWA. A
a. aee~. new Hotel throughout, eonvenient to
- ths pe' sna Kept with the utmost regard
yl7ni2
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c. l.. CHAMBERS. M. D..

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, has prac-
j ticed twenty 1--WE years In this Vicinity,
and need only ask a continuance Of the pub
lie confidence hitherto shown.
Office in City Drug Store Residence on
Cedar st., oppoxte Reformed church. Upton,
Iowa. y20ni
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+. III. INGSsAHAM, N. d.,

HoMtEOPATfIfc PHYSICIAN & STR
IL GEON. Office with pr. Bnrson, Den
tist, over Piatt Il Carr's Office. Residence in
Brick Parsonage formerly occupied bv Rev
Phinney, two squares south of Palmer
House, Upton. Iowa. is II
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WISE WORDS.

Our Northwestern Granary-An
Eastern view Of the Resources
and Necessities of the West.
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l.. l.. SWEET.

NOTARY PUBLIC. NICER.
~ Attorney At Law Collecting and Lite
Insurance Agent.
Once et hts residence. corner of ith and
Locust sts., Upton.
having no high rent to pay. his charges
are consequently low |"%3 .If
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Contractors 4 Builders.
RIfsIlEY Il CIApvs

rONTRACTORs 4 BUILDERS. and Deal
~ ers In Lumber. Doors, Blinds Sc
A1-sshop and Once on corner of Fourth
and Linn Streets south Of the steam Mill.
Triton. Iowa. iyI6
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Jastnes.
JOHN s. TIvrHILL,

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, NorARY Pcp.
y Lie Insurance Agent. and Conveyancer
ONCE With the County Recorder In the court
house. Tipton, Iowa. Jan. lat. Is6s. nivl5.
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&C. P. SHELDON.
&. Y. FIRST

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Collections.
~ and other business, promptly attended
fo.-office with Comfy Superini endent in
bhsement m Court House. TINS
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Educational.
GRACE CHURCH
s. E M MARY
FOR
YOUNG LADIES.
TIPTON, IOWA.

REV. JAMES ALLEN, RECTOR.
MISS. E. 8. sCRIBNER, PRINCIPAL
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NAMES 4 BRO.

A TTORNEYs & COUNSEL LoRs AT LAW.
n Will practice in the various Courts of
the state. ONCE on Main street, onpasite
the Court House. 5tf
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Physicians.
5. ENSIGN, N. ID.

PHYSICIAN X SURGEON. TIpIoS Law A.
Having had thirty years experience
Dr. II. hopes ~ give atisfnction IN ali cases
entrusted to his care. Office M residence,
two blocks east OF Court Square. lstf
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SECRETARY OF WHITE PIGEON FIRE IN
store.
Notary ruhlIc, WILTON, IOWA. Fy ar
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Dentist.
conveyancer.

rONvEYANCERA AND DtAUG HrSMAN,
~ Deeds made out. Titles examined.
Plats drawn. ONCE in the Court House with
the Recorder. 2tf
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MuLFoRD&LONCLEY,

once over III. L. nesn'4 B4M6 bhQ4'
Store. North Of the Cd6n huuse. s.
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"a PALMER HOUSE.
NENS., NARY PALMER, Proprietress.
lN Boarders and the Travelling Public
Will find every ything tor their comfort at this
House. Good meals. comfortable rooms and
beds. Cedar Street, Tipton Iowa.
Good Stabling attached. 2htf
MILLER HOUSE.
sSsfanyood. Iopa.
VyHE. PROPRIETOR of this House Will
/ spa re- no pains TO make his guests conn
Portable; and in doing SO hopes tn merit The
custom Of the public generally. Hacks
leave this, house daily { sundays excepted),
for Tipton, and return. Also, in connection
will be found agood Livery. Home custom
due farmers win be furnished meals al re-
anded rates.
sNf y. u. MILLER. Propr'eto'.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-02-19
What Buried HerculaneHm 7

What was the fate of Herculaneum
during the eruption of A. D. 70? What
special phenomena were displayed on
that side of Vesuvius ? What cause s
buried a fourishing city ir an instant
out of sight OF the inhabited world?
1t has been proved that Pompei suffer
ed an 1nterment so incomplete that
after a few days its inhabitants could
recognize their dwellings,, could encamp
about and clear them out. Hercula-
neum, on the contrary, was bu-
ried so deep that the next day
it was impossible to trace a YES
tige of it. The ready answer to
all these questions usually is:
Lava worked all the ruin. Hercu-
laneum was swallowed up under 80 feet
Of lava. If works of art, bronzes and
pictures have been miraculously pre-
served, it was due to the impenetrable
shield of lava, yielding only to cut
ting tool, that protected them from the
ravages Of time" The explanation is
tempting. Fancy pictures of waves of
fire rolling upon the city, rising like
the tidal swell, surging in through
doors and windows, sweeping around
and moulding everything, then slowly
cooling and preserving for poster
ity treasures that labor must
unveil, repaid by their recov-
cry in unframed beauty. This
is really the opinion that all Europe
holds at Naples almost all visitors of
Herculanemm declare that they have
touched the lava with their own hands;
and in books written on the Vesuvian
cities, more than one traveller affirms as
positively that the difficulty of cutting
the lava presents the chief obstacle to
the disintermento of Herculaneum. How
can one venture to meet such convic-
lions by asserting that water, not fire,
overwhelmed Herculaneum that it
was not a torrent of glowing lava, but
a flood of mud and wet ashes that
filed the city z How uproot a pre-
possession Sc deep that works of
biologists and S0U0aats have failed to
Shake it? Defrenoy proved that water
alone swept over Herculaneum heaps
of scoria and pumice crumbled from
La Somma; Dyer, Overlook, Ernst,
Breton, and others, have affirmed in
various languages, to no purpose, that
nothing but ashes wet to paste and
hardened by pressure, covered over
Herculaneum no one needed them,
and the blame continues to be thrown
on the lava, Which makes excavation
so costly and laborious--M. BateLe IN
PO1uI0r Science Monthly for Decen1-
her
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-02-19
great measure.- the weight of the dried

weight Ol Guo uEleu
product, and Us all seeds require phos-
phorie7 acid, the need of phosphates,
eitA erin bone dust or superphosphate,
Raulres no argument for its demon
-stfatisn. Moreover, the pollen of
hops, the substance that gives their
I,gteatest value for brewing, contains
sulphur. The use of gypsum, sulphate
of lime, may be predicated, both as a
source of sulphur in the nutrition Of
the plant and as means of fixing am
monia from the air.
But in the use of these extra and ex
penslve fertilizers more care and com.
mon sense than is ordinary IN their
use must be shown, if profit, and not
loss, is desired. Ammoniated manures
and alkaline materials can only be min
gled without detriment to the latter
when both are mixed with and covered
with moist earth as in the primal
preparation of the hill In their sub
sequent application the guano or its
equivalent may be mingled with the
ashes, and the two be applied at differ
ent times in the early stages of growth.
preferable just before a rain. Bone
dust may be applied later, at the earli-
est signs of Towering,
So much for manuring; but the most
excellent practice of this will not atone
for the lack of thorough filth, the fire.
quent stirring and aeration of the soil
| Taken in connection with it should
double the annual yield per acre of
eastern hops. But this will not come
all at once, neither this. year nor next,
although more scientific methods, as
well as more thorough practice, must
sometime become universal in the pro
duction Of crop which, for the area
devoted to it, is capable at current
prices of paying better than any other
cultivated in the northern states.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-02-19
A New OUtIet to the Baltic.

The statement that Germany has de.
cided to appropriate a part OF the
French indemnity to the construction
of a ship canal across the peninsula OF
Jutland is of considerable Importance.
This canal has long been contemplated,
but it is only lately that it has taken
the form of definite project, and N il
is found an explanation of the sudden
anxiety of Germany to acquire from
England the island of HeIlgOland, which
commands the mouth of the Eyser.
The commercial importance of this
canal will be very great During
the long winter season the narrow
strait between Denmark and the Scan
dinayian peninsula is so closed with
ice as to render navigation impossible,
and the trade of the Baltic has no out
let by water until the channel reopens
IN the spring This is very serious
matter, considering the magnitude of
the trade in grain, ores, tim der, hides,
tallDW and hemp thus held locked In
during four or five months of each
year, Or forced to seek an outlet over
land, with heavy attendent expenses OF
increased freights and costly ship
meBts. With the opening Of the pro-
posed canal, the trade of the Baltic
vii not only find shorter,
safer, and cheaper outlet to the
ocean than is now afforded, but as it is
intended to keep the channel open by
artificial means the year round, con.
5iaH6us trade with England, France,
Holland ah3 Spain can be maintained,
g1vine co slant and profitable employ
14enh TO ippiHg, which must now be
idle dzIriae great part Of the year
The canal also possesses considerable
il1bortauce to Germany, in aHording a
means 3f moyhfg IT'S navy 70 and from
Che Baltio in winter, and aGording its
n1ercnan6 marine 3 chance 10 escape to
sa2e an6ooraes IN sass II war with any
aaisa s5fsns pawss,
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SWALLOWED HIP
a Dwelling House Sinking into a Coal
HIine--A Mother and -Four Children
TrnnnTred.
From the Cincinnati Commercial


nIine--A Mother and Four Cbi,J'e,,
Immured. r-
From the Cincinnati Commercial
At Bakers coal mine, near Cleva-
land. Illinois, the house of a miner
named Robert Spargo stood directly
over an old chamber of the mine. On
Friday afternoon the earth under the
house suddenly sunk, causing the
dwelling to drop into the cavity four or
five feet. Mrs. Spargo and four chill
dren were gathered about a stove il
one of the rooms. The floor gave way
ard the stove went into the cavity be-
low, and the mother and her children
were precipitated upon it and the fire
which had fallen out of it. Several
men working not far distant saw the
house sink and ran toward the place.
but before they reached the house the
screams of Mrs. Spargo and the chill
dren and the smoke which was pouring
out of the house told them of the hor-
rible situation. The men rushed into
the yard, took water from some barrels.
entered the house, and succeeded in
extinguishing the fire about the vo-
man and her little ones. But one
child, a girl in her fourth year, was
burned to death. Another, younger
than the deceased, was burned so that
she died the next day. Mrs. Srargo
and the other two children were burn
ed in frightful manner, though at last
accounts all three were living. The
clothes of all were burned, their heads
were singed, and the flesh on their
faces and bodies blistered. All were
taken to the house Of neighbor, and
everything possible was done to allevi-
ate their s1ltferings, but the saving of
any of them was doubtful. cF
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a BITTER CONTROVERSY The tenn.
perance organs are waging bitter war
on the manufacturers of alcoholic bit
tiers, and their attacks are resented
with equal bitterness by the latter, who
seem determined to prosecute the quar-
rel to the bitter end. In the meantime
a novelty in tonic medicines is making
immense progress IN the confidence of
all. classes and conditions of society
throughout the United States and
British America. We refer to DR..
WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINEGAR Bit.
TIERS, and We call it novelty in tonics
because 1t contains no alcoholism ar
tlcle heretofore considered essential in
medicinal inyigorants The abstemious
portion of the community approve the
omission, and as the new remedy is
curing dyspepsia, biliousness, nervous
affections, and, in fact, a majority of
the diseases, external and internal.
which prevail, it is difficult to see how
the more self indulgent portion of our
fellow citizens can conscientiously oh.
ject to it. One thing is certain if ever
there was what the French call a
" grand success" the sudden and con-
tlnually increasing popularity of the
VINEGAR BITTERs, deserves that name.
The advocates Of temperance point to
the salutary effects produced by this
1nalcoholIc restorative as proof that
sp1rltuOus stimulants are not needed
for medicinal purposes-a position
which has been recently taken by many
eminent medical prac titoners-