The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-12-16
NEWS AND NOTES.

Clarkson at Des Moines.
. As true as you live Aunt Susan |
Anthony organized a Woman's Saf
rage Society ., Whea,lan' la
week.
Sixteen beautiful zinc eagles. eac
weighing 8, 600 pounds have been or
dered to perch upon the main Cen
tennial building in 1876.
Avery and hi. friends claim tina
fresh evidence has been found b
which his innocence will be establish
ed. He will demand nes trial.
Minnesota is to have State Inc
briate Asylum, and the liauur-seller
will have to foot the bil', the Su
preme Court having recently sustain
ed the constitutionsl,ty Of the law
imposing tax for this purpose.
/ Mcpherson, who has been clerk OF
the House of Representatives for the
last twelve years, retires to literary
labor, and will finish biograpy oil
Thaddeus Stevens, and write person
al "reminiscences of public men.
Another bloody little row of races
in Mississippi. The negroes to blame
again, of course. And vet, as always
before, no white men hur,, and six
colored men killed. 1t is the old s,o-
~ of the sheep fighting the wolves.
and the sheep only getting killed.
Martin McCarty filed himself with
ta,antula juice ., Iowa CRY one day
last week and then drove his team in
to . quarry forty feet deep. Both
hores we're killed. the wagon smash
ed into kindling wood, aud the lin
Der occupant not much hurt through
it all.
c. r. Wilkinson. one Of the editors
of the Vinton Journal, has been an
nounced as q candidate for Clerk of
the Iowa House; and If be succeeds
in securing the position. which We
sincerely hope he may do, he will
make frst-class officer in every res
pecs.
Senator Geo. G. Wright, of this
State, when interviewed by Chic
ago reporter the other day, said that
he had frequent conversations with
Presiden, Grant when at Des MONIES
q few weeks ago, and feels perfect
" satisfied not only tina; he does not
desire to be, but also that he will not
be. a candidate for a third term"
No trace has IS yet been discover
ed Of Boss Tweed's whereabouts, but
there is a general belief that he is
concealed somewhere in the city OF
New York, awaiting the result Of Ger
tain negotiations by which he hopes,
IS paving back into the City Treas
lry a portion of his p!under, to Sc
,ure his freedom from further arrests
IT pro ecution.
Well Done. Old Z4ch.-The Sec
etary OF the Interior has refused the
lain of $780, 900 of Van and Adair
IN account OF services as attorneys
or the Usage Indians, on the ground
hat they have already received full
and that The practice
If attempting to protect the Indians
Trough attorneys at the expense OF
he Indian Department is vicious
,ne.
The Supreme Court ut Dts MONIES,
asst Friday, overruled the motion for
rebesring in the Brandt embezzle-
nen, case. The opinion, prepared
" Judge Cole is very long. There
s nothing new in it. The old argu-
nent is restafed. Judge Beck again
iissents. and gives IN unsnswerable
opinion. So Brandt goes scot free.
L is we'll enough there is to be re-
OF our Supreme Court.
The message OF President Grant
$ published IN full on the out side Of
his paper Everybody who has no,
llready done so will read it and will
iraw conclusions to salt themselves
It is, at all events, plain, practical
md positive three very great rec
in a time when so
alany public men are m re careful tn
cave chance TO be misunderstood
han any thing else.
While making repairs In AT ancient
Catholic hospital Al Lima, Peru, re-
,en,ly. n mys'er,ou. hollow wall was
in which were found the
remains OF several thousand human
beings who had evidently been
thrown thither uncermoniously and
without the rites Of burial. 1t is a
profound mystery, but the snpposi.
lion is that the remains are those Of
victims of the lrquisition, who were
made way with two centuries or more
ago.
Der Demokra,, the German Demo
cratic daily at Davenport, and the
State organ of the license party,
comes out in favor OF Hiram Price
for Senator. II don't like Mr.. Prices
temperance views, although it does
respect him for his courage and con
sis,eney in main' aiming his position
on the question, while i, greatly ad-
mired his ability, his unuuestioned
honesty, and his great capacity and
suitability for this particular office.
This expression on the part Of this
German paper shows that on his per
sonal merits Mr.. Price stands very
high at his own home.
A resolution was offered ir the
House OF Representatives a, Wash
ington, Tuesday, by Mr.. Fort, of Hi,
nois. to the effect that in making ap-
pointments of subordinate officers
and employees of the House, prefer,
ence should be given to men who had
served in the Union army during the
rebellion, and had received wounds
in the service. No one Will be sur
prised to learn that the Democratic
ma ority promptly rejected the prop
osition. There were only 8. votes
for it, and all those were Republic
ans. "Comments are unnecessary"
The Democrats of the House, having
appointed ex-rebels to the chief Off,
ces in their gut, it is s matter Of
course that the subordinate offices
will be given to the same class Of
"patrio:s.' Things have changed.