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

CURTIS & BROWN,
No. Els Fulton street. New York.
For sale by all druggists. iy2s
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-29

as if to throw that in, when I accosted
him. What are you about there, Tay-
Ior's boy? P"
''Nigger in the we'll, mister nigger
in the we'll F.; I'm giving him something
to keep him up
Keep him up!" REMARKED. CHOW
long do you suppose a picka1e viii keep
the boy afoat ?"
TayIor's boy made no reply, but voci-
ferated vehemently, 90 Niger in the
we'll nigger in the well !"
Taylor's boys shoutings brought Mrs.
Johnsing to the door, Mrs. J6hnsing be-
ing engaged just then at our family wash
tub Mrs. Johnsing took in the situa-
tion at once and started for the cistern +;
just as she reached it her foot caught in
some of the gearing of the patent pump /;
she tripped, and went headlong into the
cistern.
"Two niggers in the well !'' cried
Taylor's boy.
"The well is full of niggers !" And
up the street he started, shouting at the
TOP OF Ills VOICE Inc well is IUll OF
niggers The well is full of niggers -
AS you may well suppose, thingswere
rather lively in that neighborhood for
few minutes. Taylor's boys statement
of the condition of the we'll alarmed all
the neighbors, who, rushing into the
streets and hearing Mrs. Johnsing's and
Pete's screams for help, and not being
able to locate these, ran madly to and
fro against each other, in quest of the
immersed colored folks. At length we
fshed themout Mrs. Johnsing, as soon
as she reached dry land, getting her son
and heir into the proper position, ad-
ministered to mis- person a heavy dose of
shoe and Pete, released from the ma
ternal embrace, observed to TayIor's
boy, who had assembled again "See
yere, Jim Taylor Did you frow my
mother into dat we'll ?"-Nea0 York
World.
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IN N-GENERAL.

The bonds specified in the new call have
already, many of them, been presented for re-
demption. They are presented by the Syndi-
cate, who, it appears, long since purchased
them at a discount, before it was known that
they were to be redeemed. 1t is stated that
the Syndicate control most Of bonds under the
new call, which they acquired in this way.
During the first year that the business of
the late Freedmen's bureau has been under
the charge of the adjutant generals Office, in
the war department, claims amounting to
S424, ,228 have been prSpared for payment, and
only await the call of the claimants and
appropriation Of one hundred thousand dol
lars to carry on the business.
The bureau of education has infrmaOtiOn
that Chicago and Cincinnati, each, received
from the Vienna exposition the grand medal
of progress for their system Of education,
teaching and instruction, and Cleveland, and
Jacksonville, Illinois, were awarded a diplO-
ma of merit in the same department In this
one department of education, teaching and
instruction twenty-five prizes we're awarded
United States exhibitors.
There is heavy pressure at Washington
for change in the postal law by the next
congress- allowing free exchange Of newspa-
pers, and the renewal of franBing in some
modified form.
The board of visitors to West Point have
submitted their report to the secretary of war.
They recommend that the course Of instruc-
ton should if possible be somewhat enlarged
by allowing some time to be given to literary
and historical studies, and to exercise in elO-
cution. Even a purely military education can
not be said at the present day to be complete
which omits wholly from its course of instruc-
ton history and letters. The fact that so
many Of the last appointees failed in literary
examination is attributed mainly to the want
of thoroughness in the schools of the eoun-
try with respect to the primary work. The
academy owes it to itself and its influence as
national institution on the whole system OF
popular education, to render and publish to
the world this honest verdict. If our school
boards and superintendents and teachers in
the north and in the south, in the east and in
the west will but heed the verdict and use due
diligence to correct this great defect, some
abiding good may come from the mortifying
experience of this years examination.
1t is officially denied that the peace COM
rnissioners or the interior department furnished
the Sioux with breech leaders or other arms.
Any weapons they have must have been fur
nished by traders. TIE officials regret that
the friendship of the Pawnees for the whites
should excite the hostility of the Sioux, but 1t
is not thought the government will interfere
further than to keep the peace among the
tribes. The fact that the army uses the Paw
nees as scouts, it is thought, may intensity the
enmity of the Sioux.
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THE OLD CANOE.

Where the rocks are gray and the shore is steep,
And the waters below look dark and deep,
Where the rugged pine, in its lonely pride,
Leans glOOmily the murky tide;
Where the reeds and rushes are long and rank,
And the weeds grow thick on the winding bank;
Where the shadow is heavy the whole day through
There lies at its moOrlngs the old canoe.
The useless paddles are idly dropped,
Like sea-birds wings that the storms had Topped,
And crossed on the railing, one DER one,
Like the folded hands when the work is done;
While busily back and forth between
The spider stretches his silvery screen,
And the sOlumn owl, with his dull 90 tOO-hOo,"
Settles down or the side Of the old canoe.
The stern half sunk in the Shiny wave,
Rots slowly away in its living grave,
And the green moss Creeps DER its dull decay
Hiding its moldering dust away,
Like the hand that plants DER the tomb flower,
Or the ivy that mantles the falling tower;
While many blossom Of lOvelist hue
Springs up DER the stern of the old canoe.
The currentless waters are dead and still
But the light wind plays with the boat at Will,
And lazily in and out again
It floats the length of the rusty chain,
Like the weary march of the hands Of time,
That meet and part at the nOOntide chime,
And the shore is kissed at each turning anew
By the dripping bow Of the old canoe.
Oh, many a tine with careless hand,
have pushed it away from the pebbly strand,
And padded it down where the stream runs quick,
Where the whlrls are Wild and the eddles are thick,
And laughed leaned DER the rocking side,
And looked below in the broken tide,
To see that the faces and boats were two.
That were mirrOred back from the old canoe.
But now, as lean DER the crumbIing side,
And look below in the sluggish tide,
The face that see there is graver grown,
And the laugh that hear has a soberer tone,
And the hands that lent to the light skiff wings
Have grown familiar with sterner things,
But love to think Of the hours that sped
As rocked where the whirs their white spray shed,
Ere the blossoms waved, or the green grass grew,
Der the mouldering stern of the old canoe.
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Woman Degraded.
Beochor Points a Moral with Some Una
dOrned Modern Tales.

Beocher Points n Moral with Some Una
dOrned Modern Tales.
In popular theory, and to certain
extent in law, woman still remains a
weak, wavering shadow of man, his
helpless care and absolute property.
It was this most mOnstrous condition
which made of Walworth, the husband
a brutal, domestic tyrant; a course,
domestic bully. Should not man do
what he would with his own? 1t was
this sentimental nonsense that made of
WalwOrth the son a calculating parri-
eide. Should not a son protect his
mother? That the costly legal ma
chinery of a sovereign state stood ready
to "protect" her, as threatenings and
pistols could not, was fact too COM
monplaoe to weight with him. Her
honor being insuIted, chivalry demand
ed that he should avenge it. Smith,
who killed a man and tried to kill a
woman, because that man paid court to
that woman, justified himself a hundred
times over with the same plea, g She
belonged to me-" And he died, to his
own thinking, in the full odor of sancti-
ty, and in the sincere belief that he had
committed no crime. Gillem cOOlly
stabbed his wife because she refused to
live with him on account of his de-
baucheTy, faithlessness and violence.
! He thought that he exercised the plain
est right of a husband, and said to the
policeman, " You'd have done the same
if your wife had left you" And that
policeman admitted that he saw the
murderer lying in wait, knew his mad
RACES, and feared some violence, but
"did not like to interfere between man
and wife" Goodrich happened to be
! the victim instead of the victor, under
his system, which was evidently the
same-namely, that the woman is the
absolute property of the man and the
creature Of his will. To his thinking,
she had no rights IN the case.
These are not pleasant pictures but
it is only in their concrete form that the
bad tendencies of society arrest the
general mind. The one hope of idimi
nishing crime is to reform those falls,
modes of thought which generate
crime. No one of these is more dan
gerous than the notion of a mans own
ership of a woman, and of woman'
accountability to man. 1t Drutalizes
the lower classes from end to end. tt
consequences touch unborn children
and keep the ranks of rogues anC
paus perfull It makes the men the o
upper classes tyrannous and selfish
the women silly, exacting, frivelou
and weak. 1t leads to crimes Of sensu
ality and violence, and sets the code o
honor above the law of the land.
Half the social questions that vex on
souls will be answered when the worl,
comedies that woman is a normal, re
sponsible individual that she must b
the protector of her own honor, til
Judge of her own duty, the keeper o
her own conscience, answerable only t
the law and to heaven. There win be
lofty observance of marriage, a nobl
race of children, only when the ma
and woman are Intelligent equals an
friends. And in that day the worl
will be ashamed to remember throug
how many centuries it ranged men int
mock order of devotees and wome
into a sentimental priesthood.
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An Arab Tradition.
CLJ

ssThis tradition which I tell you,
said Reis Hassain, 90 is many centuries
old. Tt states that there was para
disc. temple built of precious stones.
Man dared not utter its splendors.
Deep in the midst of the palms OF Eden
it stood, angel built, a dazzling sanctu-
ary. Our first parents sang their YES
per songs in the twilight shadows of It's
courts for there were pillared halls,
and the cloisters of emerald and pearl,
where fountains sprang alOft IN the FL
lent noon, and long, luminous vlstas,
where, hand in hand, those first two low
ers walked in sinless beauty. Then
there were pinnacIes and dOmes Of sap
pbire blazing in the sunlight by day
| and plittering in the starlight by night.
! From court and terrace waters weiIed
! ont and iris-crested cascades fell down
to cool shady deIls of asphodel below
for the temple was placed far within the
privacies of that valley of Eden.
! Whence the four rivers flowed eastward
However, sad to relate, upon the
day that Adam fell, this glorious tenn
/ pie was shattered into million frag-
ments, and sown broadcast all over the
earth. These fragments we now light
upon and gather up with cost and care
and call them rubies, emeralds sap
phires and diamonds but they are, al
ter all, only the splinters of that prime
val place. The sunset splendors and
the diadem of princes, the milky way
that sparkIes in the heavens, and the
spray that sparkIes ID the entanglement
Of a maiden's hair, are like but the cost
" dust of that lost sanctuary-the sad
remembrances of a departed Eden.
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LOOK

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph Cthus) mean that your sub
scriptior is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
Fs We enter no new names on OUT
books without the money in ady11 ce-
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News of the Week.
EAST.

The iron merchants Of New York, attri-
butte the lookout at Manchester, England, to
the fact that the high price of English iron
and increased production in this country have
rendered the American market wholly inde-
pendent of Great Britain The importation
of British iron this country is very light and
confined to special products such as Scotch
pig. American iron is now sent to Canada
and consumers in California who formerly OBJ
tanned all their iron from England are now
buying it in Pittsburg. An extensive dealer
is said, in making an estimate this week in re-
gard to eleven hundred tons of sheet iron to
have found that it could be bought Of Ameri-
can manufacturers at half cent per pound
less than tho price of an inferior grade i'm
ported.
The secretary of war has appointed
board of engineers to ascertain if the bridge
over the Mississippi at st. Louis is an OBJ
struction to navigation.
The secretary of treasury has instructed
the assistant treasurers and designated deposi-
tories to refuse the payment of all checks Of
disbursing officers except pension agents,
issued since January l. 1872, on which the OBJ
jects for which they were issued enot stated.
Secretary Belknap, after a rigid examina-
tion, failed to find that any records in the war
department are missing, with the exception of
those in the Buell. court martial case. He in
vites any one who can name any particular
paper which they believe to be missing to re-
port the fact to him, it is a matter of I'M
possibility to examine every paper in the de
Partment. He hopes parties will specify miss
ing documents to him and further search
will be made.
The secretary of war has issued circular
that IN all cases where an officer recommends
the advertising of any official matter, he sug-
sests only the names of newspapers that from
location OF circulation are apt to do the great
est service to the department
The sub-treasury in New York contains
something more than thirty millions of dollars
in gold coin, besides ten millions in gold bars
four hundred thousand in silver, and twenty
sight millions iii currency.
The Alabama indemnity money, S15. 500
900 which is deposited in gold in number
of our city banks. The payments thus far to
the treasury have been in called bonds, over
due coupons and gold; the balance due will
be gradually paid in during the next three
weeks and within this time the managers of
this fund expect to purchase an additional
amount of called bonds.
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ADAvBURY man became convinced the
other day that woman's temper Is very
irregular. He had been moldlng bull
lets. aud had neglected to cool of the
IadIe in which me lead had been melted
While he was counting the bullets his
wife came into the room humming a
tender love song Suddenly the song
ceased. and the man was made aware
that something had happened by catch
inc an adjacent coffee mill on the bridge
Of his nose. The unhappy wife and
mother had taken this picturesque mode
81 Informing him that she had picked
mn the ladle by the hot end
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he would grant in return extensive CONNER
cial privileges, allow the erection of naval
store-houses and the use of the best timber
for ship building. The Sultan was informed
that better way to present his proposition
was to send special envoy to the United
crnvernrnartt
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Announcing the name of person for a county Of
hce So state Office, SO; federal Office, SIS. Invari
ably ia advance.
The above terms and rates will be strictly ad-
hered TO.
Religious marriage, birth and death notices solic-
tied, and viii be willingly inserted free of charge
Obituaries will be charged advertising rates.
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PROFESSOR AGAssIz desires to throw
open to women. all the educational IN
sfitutions and facilities under his con-
troll.
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FOREIGN .ZNTELLLGENrE


A dispatch from London, saws the pIot 70
effect the escape of the bank Of FpcIand
forgers was arranged in New York. and dis
covered by interoepting letters The wardsps
Of Newgate were bribed with a hundred
pounds each.
"A letter from japan says all deacons, min
listers etc, now in the employ of the govern
ment, will be dismissed at the expiration Of
their present contracts. at the repeated ans,
urgent requests of the department Of religion.
The Smithsonian institute has received a
telegram from NJ. Leverier, director of the
Paris Observatory, stating that a comet has
been dicovered by NJ. BarelIi at Marseilles in
Shours IL minutes north right ascension and
SS degs. 45 minutes south declination with a
rapid motion.
"A letter from Rome says: "The 'Syndic'
has posted up a notice prohibiting all persons.
under a pretence of making pilgrimages.
whether singly or in groups from passing
through the city. 1t is regarded as fanati-
cism not to be encouraged"
Bombay dispatches report that destruc
tive floods have recently afflicted the province
Of Agra, and that thirty-ive hundred native
houses had been swept away. There had
been some loss of life.
1t has been ascertained from naval ofieesr
just returned from the east, that all the tribes
of the northern portion Of Sumatra, hereto
fore tributary to the Dutch, have joined the
Sultan of Achien. From one tribe alone IA,
600 men have left their pepper plantations and
gone to the assistance of the Sultan. The
pepper trade is temporarily suspended by the
war. Great fears are entertained by the
Dutch as to the success of their contemplated
second attack. The Dutch had at Petang
their base of operations, and on the way
Is, 900 men, reinforcements from Holland. Il
was designed to attack the Achinese about the
middle OF September. The Sultan, in re
suonse to an overture by the British to make
treaty. said that before he would do so, every
man in arms under him should perish.
general Malay insurrection among the Dut Il
Subjects of the Netherland strait settlements
h spprehended. The Sultan Of Achien ex
pressed his desire to an American consul fo
close relations with the United States, saylnl
that if this-eountry would give him protector
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QUEEN VICTORIA is said to have been
much annoyed at the shah's kiss. She
had only,to have held up her hands and
John Brown would have bounced him.
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THERE is a movement along the whole
line of the woman's rights phalan1'
Everywhere they are getting up petl-
tions to be sent to the Legislatures when
in session, asking that the property OF
women may be exempted from taxation.
No vote, no tax, Is their motto.
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WEST

"A number of gentlemen from England
and Scotland will start for Kansas in company
with George Grant, of London who has pur-
chased a countyin that state for the purpose of
founding a colony. The main purpose of the
project will be agricultural, and the principal
feature stock raising.
The United States Indian agent for the
Creek Indians states that since the 1st of May
when he took charge of that agency twenty
murders had been committed in a scope of
country containing less than $4,000 persons
and that not one has been arrested or pun
lshed. Three of these murders were COM
mitted by the Lighthouse who were conspira-
tors Of the place and that the parties were
killed while in the custody Of officers under
the solemn pledge of fair trial bv the law.
Advices from all parts will demand that the
Indian country shall be put under protection
of the United State government
The directors of ths Northern Pacific
aailroad company have accepted the new line
recommended by Gen Rosser, from Bismarcl,
she present end of the track, to the Yellowstone
crossing, and have called for proposals to
grade and bridge this section of 2O5 miI.s
The expedition is now prosecuting the survey
westward up the left bank of the Yellowstone
to Pompeys Pillar, whore it will join the sur
vey made last year from the west, and thus
complete the surveyed line across the eonti-
nent. The entire command is expected to re-
turn to Fort Rice abeut Oct l.
Reports from the Indian territory, saws
tho Kiowa Chiefs santanta and Big Tree had
arrived at Fort Gibson, where they will re.
main until the meeting of the grand council
Of kiowas and Camanches in October. when
they will be taken to Fort Gill. and be form.
ally released from captivity
1t is officially announced that the Nfodo,
caPtives, Capt. Jack, ScAonchin, Black Jim
Boston Charley, One-eyed Jim, and Cox will
be hanged October Sd, for the murder Of Gen
Candy and Peace Commissioner Thomas
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THE hustle and panier have gone out
together.
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TIE ladies of Philadelphia, Buffalo
and other cities are organizing socie-
ties to second Mr.. Bergh's humane
work in behalf of animals.
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There are q squares in each column.
ANNnTNCFNIENTs

One column year 5000
Half - - cJ.OO
Quarter .................. $500
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l inch, or 10 lines Of type, constitutes square.
One square. first insertion. OI
Each subsp0punt iuser4iOT 81
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.

All subscriptions must be paid in advance, al
If not renewed promptly at the expiration, will
discontinued to tho address
The Portland daily press., 1873-03-17
B E I'll O l. D!
WILSON'S
ANNOTATED
.I- .1IflLf 81 sI
Superphosphate Of Lime,
AT AUCTION.

About year ago concluded to sell my Super.
phosphate of Lime to the farmers OF New England
t, riaces where It was not known, by auc y, to the
highest bidder in quantities agreed on beforehand,
proposing at the same time to this course
after wear until the farmers could become satisfied
Of Its value to them.
shall make this proposition good
The superphoephate made this year will be more
valuable than 1t was last year. 49,
will publish as heretofore the materials of which
r. composed, and the proportions of each, and
VIII guaran' &c II to have been so made.
have many letters from farmers who bought at
auction last year, thanking me Tor adopting the auc-
pan an speakng in the highest terms OF tie
Ie1uIts Drained nom the use of the fertilizer.
IN nv ", mat the article is good one, and that 1t
VIII ~ .me as al my other productions have done.
VI" n,s way So ~ me confidence Of the consumer
oena Of c;rcnl,i .ne place and time for sale. by
reans VI SmSJIs and sters will be given 40 that
NJ far as Poso NM no farmer shall have occasion to
say that he haa no opprtunIv tn INV hi; e., "
in fair comistitop with hit neghbors n's iertizef
tended to purchasers, which will be- ad viii De ex-
the sale. Ano"h at
OFFICE OF THE RuMFoRp CuEMrc,,
Providence, II. l., Jan. l. 1873. "oRRs.
GEO. WILSON, Treo,