The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-08-21
NEWS AND NOTES.

Anna Dickinson is not to go ON the
stage, but will deliver 100 lectures
next winter.
The Louisville Courier-yo1rnal
says ex-President Taylor's grave near
that city is neglected and forgotten.
A little GAINESVILLE girl lived till she
was nine years old, and then kimlled
u FIRE with kerosene.
A large field OF wheat in Contra
Costa county, California, recently har-
vested and threshed, averaged So
bushels to an acre.
A Louisiana paper states that the
inscription '.for sale" or "for rent" is
posted on more than 5000 houses aud
stores in New Orleans.
Mr.. Motley, the American historian.
and late United States Minister 10
England, who has recently had par
alytic stroke in London, is not consid-
cred dangerously i'll.
An official statement shows that
the number of oranges in Iowa is
1850. The number in the United
states on the 18th of July was 5000.
with total membership of $500
Another rope-walker, Signor Bali
nj, is going to cross the Niagara be-
low the falls on cable, and will
eclipse Blondin by finally jumping
into the river beneath. a distance OF
one hundred and fifiy-three feet.
A woman threw disagreeable cat
out Of the window at Avoca, the 9th
er night, and the feline lit on the face
Of a young man who was couriing the
hired girl on the back steps. The
beau's face is now done up in rag.
The State Of Mississippi has a
rather peculiar law, passed by the
asst Legislature, by which it is pro-
vided that every person holding Office
IN the State who shall be found drunk
shall, upon conviction, be deemed
guilty Of high misdemeanor, and
shah, by the judgment of the cour,
md sentence, be removed from Office.
An army OF the Pawnee Indians in
Nebraska is raliying fog an attack
upon the Sioux, in retaliation for the
recent massacre of inanv OF their num-
her by the Sioux. We can hardly
>ympathlze with any of these Indian
tribes; but as between the Pawnecs
and the Sioux, the former are much
the better tribe, and we hope they
will give the cowardlv and bloody
Sioux terrible punishment" They
richly deserve it.
The condition in Spain "beggars
description" 1t is confusion worse
confounded." But there are indica-
tions that the Government will sup
press the insurrection, and maintain
ITS authority against the insurgents.
Should the rebels Join the royalis,s,
however, and largely reinforce the
army Of Don Carlos, the Cortes NAV
hind itself overmatched. There is no
question that the Carlists have the
sympathy Of tife European courts.
aud one or two important victories
might lead to an armed inter, ention
in their behalf.
The Prnssian army is the most ia
nous army in Europe. The men are
all under thirty, most of them under
twenty-five, and include many stu
dents, clerks and other inteligen,
men in their ranks. Fully hall Of
them were in the late war, and all
are well acquainted with the topo.
graphy Of the Rhine. But not salts
he'd with the reputation and the real
ity Of being The chief military power
Of Central Europe, Germany seeks to
create nary, to acquire colonies,
and to possess marine military sta
tions. She is untiring in her search
for means to add to her already colos-
sal strength.
The Inter Ocean says of the plat
form adopted by the Iowa "Anti-
Monopolists" that "the larger part of
the declaration of principles is stolen
from the Republican platform, and is,
therefore, very good" The same
paper observes that the resolution
declaring that public officers who be.