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

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NEWS AND NOTES.
Boston has sent to the Louisisn,
sufferers $1,000.
The Alabama Claims Commission
is again in session.
The last Of the missing 40 bodie.
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 at work.
A youthful Pennsylvania granger,
about to be chastised 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 shipped from New York TO the
Grand Duke of Russia to CRAFTY =
taste acquired by the young man
when he was in this country.
The sea has yielded up a slight to-
ken Of the Inflated steam ship "Bos-
ton" A bottle has been found on
Florida beach, containing a 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
properly is estimated Al sj5. 900.
One bayou in Texas, could furnish
10000, 900 bushels of salt annually,
at 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 ut Long Branch, the other day,
had more 81 gnificance in it than ap-
pears on the snriace---most If the
men in line had, while in the South
ern army, carried mushets 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 'aiscd in Winston
county.
A man who drove through camp
Of grassh"ppers near Fort Dodge.
Iowa, recently, declares that they
covered square half mile Of ground,
and formed living, squirming, wig
CLING mass. over three inches thick
ON the average. Wherever they
camp vegetation is totally destroyed.
An English chemist, officially en-
plo, ed TO detect adultera,ion, report
ed forty faulty samples out OF a
hundred and seventy. Arrowroot
was mixed with starch, coffee with
chicnrv. milk with water. mustard
with -four aud 'umeric, vinegar with
sulphuric acid and oil o: vitriol.
It is strongly suspected that Thos.
6. Hyde, who was found dead and
horribly mutila,ed by the cars near
DE Witt, after having last been seen
in Mrs. Conncry's saloon at ; 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 bes, ten acres of artificial timber,
payable in 1881; also 5000 for the
best cultivated farm, payable in
1875; $3.50 payable in 1873, for the
best orchard of FIVE acres; and $500
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 loun2ing in the smoke
room or in the terrace until sum
moned 10 division.
The best advice that can be given
about small matter is given by
correspondent in the Country Gem
tlemaa, namely, that every person
should save his own garden seeds.
1t is narrowing thing to pay your
dime for paper of six melon seeds
and consider that you could have
saved 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 curl
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 q
friend in Fort Wayne, Ind. Those
who have seen the product say that
it looks like q clump of wheat heads
on which is a 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.
The new commissioners for the
government of the District of Col
umbia have gone to work in earnest.