The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-08-13

Doston mas sent TO the Louislana
sufferers 5000.
: The Alabama Claims Commission
is again in session.
: The last of the missing I40 bodies
carried out by the Mill River flood.
has been found.
The Beecher and Tilton scandal
fills the exchanges to the exclusion
of purer and more useful matter.
There is no news vet from the alb
Quoted Ross child in Philadelphia.
The detectives are still a, work.
A youthful Pennsylvania granger,
about TO be chsstised by his father
the other day, called for his grand
father to protect him from the middle
man.
/ A barrel of beans was the other
day shiF4ssa from New York to TIA
y 6nnl- -Nsanp ~ RA1is "a snaif
taste acquired by the young man
when he was in this country.
The sea has yielded up slight to
ken Of the ill-fated steam ship "Bos-
ton" A bottle has been found ON
Florida beach, containing paper
saying that on Feb. lst. 1870, She
Was going down.
A tank of crude petroleum caught
FIRE in Cleveland, July 23d, while be
ing unloaded from the cars. The gas
exploded the metallic reservoir.
Three men were killed. The loss of
property is estimated NJ $4,000.
One bayou in Texas, could furnish
10,OOO,00O bushels Of salt annually,
Mt cost Of ten cents per bushel. 1t
is not more than eighteen inches
deep. The water is rapidly evapor-
ated, and the salt settles in great
quantities in the bottom.
President Grants remark, "These
men have carried muskets BEFORE
referring to the Fifth Maryland SOL
diers Mt Long Branch, tho other day,
had more significance in it than ap-
pears on the suriace--most of the
men in line had. while in the South.
ern army, carried muskets against
Gen. Grant.
A Mississippi grange is offering
twenty-five dollars for the best corn
and the largest number OF bushels
from one acre Of land; fifteen dollars
for the best and largest number Of
gallons from one acre of cane; and
ten dollars for the largest and best
hog Of any age ,ais'd in Winston
county.
A man who drove through camp
Of grasshoppers near Fort Dodge,
iowa, recently, declares that they
covered square halt nile of ground,
and formed a living, squirming, wig
CLING mass. over three inches thick
on the average. Wherever they
camp vegetation is totally destroyed.
An English chemist, officially en-
ployed TO de.ect adultera'i ion, report
ed fur,y faulty samples out OF =
hundred and seventy. Arrowroot
WAS mixed with starch, coffee with
chicorv, milk with water, mustard
with -four and ,umeric, vinegar with
sulphuric acid and oil o. vitriol
1t is strongly suspected that Thos.
G. Hyde, who was found dead and
horribly mntilated by the cars near
DE Witt, after having last heen seen
in Mrs. Connery's saloon at 2 o'clock
the preceding night, was robbed,
killed and placed on the track to
hide the murder. The circumstantial
evidence all turns that way.
The Iowa State Agricultural Soci.
ETY. offers premium Of $1,000 for
the best ten acres Of artificial timber,
payable il 1881; also $500 for the
best cultivated farm, payable in
1875; $3.50 payable in 1873, for the
best orchard of FIVE acres; and 5000
for the best mile Of hedge, payable
in 1877.
There is not room enough in the
English Commons Chamber for all
the members of the body, 654. The
largest number known to have assem-
bled is GAO, but of these, many did
not enter the House, but remained
lying on sofas in division lobbies fast
asleep, and lounging in the smoke
room or in the terrace until sum
moned to division.
The best advice that can be given
about small matter is given by
correspondent in the Country Cen
Hemdn, namely, that every person
should save his own garden seeds.
1t is a narrowing thing to pay your
dime for a paper of six melon seeds
and consider that you could have
saved a pint of them the fall before
for nothing. Peas seem to be the
only exception to the rule that home
saved seeds are superior to sale pack
ages. Our home grown peas are apt
to be wormy in the spring, therefore
Canadian or English grown seed is
better.
An account Of an agricultural oari-
osity is going the rounds of the pa
pers. 1t seems that five years ago
traveller in Egypt found in a stone
coffin that had been broken open
few grains of wheat that had lain for
centuries. He sent it to friend in
Germany, who planted it. Some Of
the product this friend sent to
friend in Fort Wayne, Ind. Those
who have seen the product say that
it looks like 4 clump of wheat heads
on which is long beard. Sixteen
heads have been raised from single
grain-each head containing from
100 to $50 grains. They call it the
"Seven Headed Egyptian Wheat"
Ten chances to one If it don't prove
to be another "Surprise Oats fraud.
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