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The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-04
WiLIoN. PHILlIp~ Go. KAN,
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Jan. 18th. 1873.
M. Editor II am in possession
ola copy of the ADVERTISER which
contains the attention that l. b.
Wright saw fit to pay to my letter.
Mr.. Wright's letter does not need
any attention | shall just make a few
remarks about it and lay it on the
shelf. He first puts upa lot of per-
sonal abuse against some one he
knows nothing about and thea like a
man he acknowledges that he is not
sharp enough to answer my letter
himself so he borrows a piece which
a.. T. Y" wrote. Mr.. Wright says
he never knew OF good crop being
raised on dog town. II he ever
saw a dog town he has probably seen
the little owl that sits on a mound of
dirt and hobs his head up and down
when the settler begins to stir the
sod in the vicinity of his premises. /
know | have seen them and have seen
the rattle snake at the entrance oi the
dog holes. that are just as willing to
bite the emigrant as Mr.. Wright is
to bite the patron who is not afraid
to take his pen and come TO the front
and tell what is the matter. If /. b.
Wright will appear at this Office and
! fail to prove to him by all of nv
neighbors that | have raised two
good crops on dog town. will re-
sign this office To him and give him
my salary which is $4,000 year for
running it and Keeping stage station.
y l.. T. Us letter has he
ring of tue metal about it. | ex-
pect he told about the truth down
around Topeka, but this is not Tope-
ka up here. we are not in debt and
we do not want all our little towns
turned into Topekas. | hope l.. T.
Y. will write them up down there and
] will write them up up here.
ALBERT DrRois.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-04

There are only six votes between
Senator Carpenter and another term
in the United States Senate.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-04

The contests for United States
Senators in the Wisconsin and Min
nesota Legislatures are apparently -
far from definite result % ever.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-04

Read the advertisement OF DR.. No
A ffee the celebrated specialist, In this
paper, who offers to pay one huudrsd
dollars forfeit for any case b. under
takes and does not cure. 3mSl
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-04

Governor Chamberlain, OF South
Carolina, has. disarmed the turbulent
colorod militia Of Edgefeld county,
and declares that he will remove any
county Official upon proof of miscoE-
duet 10 othae. That kind Of Repub-
iican Governor is worth having.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-04

A large nun,nsr ofyoung fish, from
five to ten inches long, are imbedded
in the ice of slough in the Missis-
sippi, at Burlington. and crowds OF
people 60 daily with buckets, matches
and axes, and dig them out. The
fish are young butialoes, in a fat con-
dition. They ran into the slough du-
ring the fall freshets and when the
water fell they were compelled to re
main. The ice is not very thick, and
man can chop out three months
supply of FISH for his family in few
minutes.
II is understood, says Washing
ton dispatch, that Sam. Cox and Fer
nando Wood, leading Democrats in
the House, bitterly denounce the
Democratic folly led of by Sam. Ran.
dali, who wanted to pu. himself in
front for the Speakersnip, o + stopping
legislation two days last week in fill
clustering against the Civil Rights
Bill. They see it is going TO hurt
their party only. This political Trick
cos the country just 100000, besides
stopping al Congressional work for
two daye.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-04

PiArr & CARR, Aft'ys.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10
LATE NEWS SUMMARY
EAST,


The funeral of forty-eight Of the
victims of the disaster at Holyoke took place
on tho Goth in the basement Of the new Catho-
lie church. An immense crowd w's in at
tendance The cofiins we're placed on q dias
in the center Of the room, and aftor some
thirty-hve collins had been thus arranged, the
platform gave way causing momentary
panic One woman shriekcd and tainted and
was carried out but the excitement soon sub.
sided. Funeral orations were pronounced by
the Rev. Fathers Primeaue OF Worcester,
and Gagnier, Of this city. The procession WAS
more than a mile long and followed the re-
mains to the French Catholic cemetary at
South Hadley Falls.
Forest fires have again broke cut in
the mountains Of Delaware and Sullivan coun-
ties, New York. doing much damage. Tho
village Of Bethel, in Sullivan county, was sur
rounded by fire two days. and was only saved
after hard fight. A farmer named VIM.
Corbin, Of Delaware county, was surrounded
by fire while fighting the flames in his woods
and burned to death. Two other men similarly
engaged we're badly burned and narrowly es-
capped with life. Near Manayunk Valley, Sui
livan county, fire WAS accidentally started
and in few hours thousand acres of valu-
able timber, a mill and three hundred thou
sand feet Of lumber were destroyed, In the
towns of Fallsburg and Mamakating the con-
Aagratons are 30 fierce that families have
been obliged to fly from their houses to save
their lives leaving all their household goods
stock, etc, to be destroyed.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

A dispatch from San Diego reports
great excitement over the Mexican raids in
Texas, and fears of war between the United
States and Mexico.
The secretary of the treasury has in
structed the assistant treasurer at New York
to sell $500, 900 in gold ON each Thursday dur
ing the month Of June. The total amount to
be sold is S2,OOO,OOO.
The commissioner of pensions has
written letter to the secretary Of the interior
saying that on account Of the limited appro-
priation at his disposal, he has selected the
names OF nearly fifty male and female clerks
whose services will be dispensed with on the
30th Of June.
Secretary Delano has concluded to
suspend the sale Of Indian lands in Kansas
till Jan. 1, 1876. This action is taken upon
the recommendations Of Gen. Ingalls,, Com
missioner Smith and other prominent persons
in consequence Of the suffering Of settlers by
the drouth and grasshoppers.
A general order issued from the war
department announces that the appropriation
made by the last congress for pay OF the army
for the Ascsl year ending June 30, 1875, is
nine hundred thousand dollars short OF the
sum estimated for the war department, and
the present indications are that the appropria-
ton will prove deficient.
The following SEQ coupon bonds,
known as the fourth series, act OF Feb. 25,
1862, dated May 1, 1862 have been called for
by the secretary Of the treasury, and made
payable on and after Sept. 1, interest on
which will cease after that date: $50, Nos
&c, ,2Ol to $4,000, inclusive; 800, Nos. 81, sol
to So, 100, inclusive; $500. Nos. 27,5Oi to 81
900, inclusive; $1,000, Nos. S0,651 to 81 800
inclusive; total siO,OO0.OOO. The call indi-
Gates an additional subscriptionto TO that amount
BY the syndicate.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10
SOUTH.

The president has signed the commits
sion Of Mrs Eliza s. Phillips as postmistress
of Union Springs, Ala
The Memphis Avalanche estimates the
wheat crop this year in the region tributary to
that city as being the largest since 1860.
j. Hale Sypher, ex'member of con-
gress and A. ]. Sypher, planters Of st. Mary's
parish, La, have gone into bankruptcy. Their
partnership liabilities are over :14O,0 and
the assets less than 1876, 900. Their individual
liabilities are alao heavy.
A shooting affray occurred at GRO
quet party near Bremen, KY, last week, in
which John Sparks, George Gsh and Lge
Divine were all wounded. Several others took
hand. 1t ID thought that Gish will not re-
cover. Sparks was only slightly wounded,
and is now in the Greenville jail. Divine had
his arm badly broken. None OF the others
were seriously wounded.
Reports of great destitution come
from the mountain counties in Kentucky. A
letter from the master of the grange in Britt
county says that the people ale suffering for
the very necessaries Of life, and t, il aid is
not given, many will die of starvation. The
crops have failed for three seasons in success
son and the cattle are dying for want Of
food. The writer asks for general subscrip-
ton among the patrons Of Kentucky,
One hundred car. loads of new iron are
now arriving from New Albany, to be re-laid
upon the Memphis and Charleston road, COM
mencing at this point and going west. Major
Meriwether informed us that the track be-
tween Decatur and Trinity would be immedi-
ately relaid with the new rail and ishbar con-
nections. The iron is being put down almost
az fast az it is received. Other shipments will
doubtless follow until the entire road is fur
nished wi, nav raila.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10
WEST

The borough of Lesueur, Mimi, pays
a reward Of 20 cents per quart for dead grass
hoppers. Immense quantities are taken, boys,
girls, women, and men being engaged at it,
and in the first two days the number of the
pests we're apprecably reduced.
Great fires are still raging in parts of
Pennsylvania. In the northern part OF Mon
roe county, several lives we're lost. The in
habitants OF Locust Ridge, Evergreen, Stod-
dartsvile, Gouldersboro and many numbering
settlements were all driven from their homes,
scores of which were laid in ashes. Hundreds
of people saved only what clothing they wore.
Families were driven for miles before the adj
vancini contlagration through the forests,
aud several old and feeble persons were burn
ed to death,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10
absorbed and grave, as though her heart
was beating with m inarticulate pr aver
BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.

absorbed and grave, as though her heart
was beating with m inarticulate pr aver
BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.
Too often, it is thought, the motive
of suicide is little more than the weird
and solemn tempting of the fall itself.
A lady came one day to Clifton from a
town on Lake Ontario, accompanied by
her mother and her child. She stood
on the Table Rock. listened to the
boom, admired the buflaloes and fed
the bears like other idlers on the spot,
and eeemed as her child, to whom these
sights and sounds were new. As they
were looking at shop window, she
turned toward the water, gazed Mt the
falling sheet an instant, slipped away
from her companion, ran to the waters
edge at Cedar place and sprang into the
food A cry OF help was raised. Some
guides were near at hand with ropes
and other gear, and one Of them, Crap
pied safely by the waist, plunged after
her, and by daring effort caught her
AZ she rolled among the rocks, and car
ried her back to land unburt.
FROM MISERY TO ETERNAL REST.
Another case of suicide attempted by
a female under nervous irritation, was
less fortunate. A woman, living on the
spot, became afflicted with malady as
common and as fatal as consumption
fear of penury. That she had 10 good
reason for this fear her neighhors knew,
but it possessed her like n secret and
incurable disease.
81 can't bear it," she used TO say,
"and some day you will see me go over
the fall.
Her ueighbors laughed, saying people
who talk of suicides are in for length of
life. But one day she leaped over the
rock Mt Cedar place. A brave young
fellow named Davis saw her slip in, nut
WAS too far away to catch and draw her
back. The lad was used to suicides, as
every one becomes by living at the falls.
He saw that she would pitch against the
ravine wall, some ten or twelve feet
under the rock on which he stood.
PeerinR over the bank, he saw little
shelf of earth Just broad enough for
man to light on, and no moro. He
scrambled down moment ere the wO-
man came rolling on, put out his hand
toward her, caught her shawl and tore
it from her body as she floated down,
and started in horror as the wooden rag
hung dangling in his grasp. The sui
eide had kept her promise, and escaped
from her imaginary povesty into eternal
sleep.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

The shah OF Persia has pro6ted
nothing by his visit to Europe, so far as
economy and civilization are concerned.
He has lust been marrying his daughter,
and the affair has cost him EGO, 900. He
has also been reorganizing his army,
and has borrowed E48, 1000 to do it. He
is also going in largely for the purchase
of arms. Lately he has received a
ghastly present-2, 800 human heads cut
from Turkomans. 10 this matter some
economy was practised, for, in order tc
save the cost Of transport. the skulll
were cut out, and only the tanned skini
were sent.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10
THE CARTE DE vIsITE.

Her little carte lies there:
The lines both dark and fair
BY sunlight craven.
The look that wrought the carte
Lies In my inmOst heart,
Ita httCst haven,
Her beanty's far renown
Made the great aun look down
From heaven above her:
And when he saw her best,
He gave this, a bcquest,
To all who love her,
lie stsmpt with armorOus light
The lines Of black and white,
In rounded cluster.
But could not paint the fair,
SilR-sofiness Of her bair -
Her eyes deep lustre.
His strength was all too weak
To tint her changeful cheek,
Soft AZ the peaches;
Or give her lips reposc
The loveliness which grows
With gentle speeches.
No, It IL poor at best;
But let It lie at rest:
The book shall win IL,
And be the page az white
As IL my soul tonight,
While she lies in It,.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

LARGE AND SMALp FAEMs.-By the
census of 1870 the farms OF the united
States are divided as to size as follows,
the whole number being 2,659,9S5 :
Under 5 acres. 6,875 . acres and
nnder 10, I72, OIL; 10 acres and under
% 394 .6o7 20 acres and under 50. SAT.
6Ii: so acres and under 100, 4,22l
100 acres and under 500, sos, ,054 SOC
acres snd under 1,C00. 1883 acres and
over. 3,72O. Average size of farm, 15S
acres,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

JUDICIAL investigation shows that the
offer of Messenger to assassinate Bis
marck, was merely part of an attempt
to extort money, and the man had no
accomnlicaI
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

The project for draining Reelfoot
Lake is said to be impracticable, as the
bottom of the lake is lower than the
bottom OF the Mississippi.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10
TIMELY TOPICS.

CHICAGO has overdone the rebuilding
business. Last year more than three
thousand new houses were erected, half
of which stand tenantless to-day.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10
THE MIRACLE.

TThe following Is the latct poem Of bhns chris
tian Anderson, aud IL now for the hrsl timo pun
shed In English
From a pyramid IN the deserts sand
mummy was brought to Denmark's land
The leroglyphic inscription told
That the body ombalmed was three thousand year.
old.
II was the corps, of mighty queen.
Examining 1t, they found between
Her cosed fingers n corn Of wheat;
So well preserved was this little seed,
That being sowp, It put forth It's blade,
Its delicate stem Of a light-grccn shade,
The ear got filled with ripcning corn,
Fu-grown through sun.hine and light of the morn
That wonderful power In a corn 30 small
II IL q lesson to each and all.
Three thousand years did not quench its germ
1t teaches our faith to be srong aud hrm,
when such life is laid in a corn,
When out of that husk new plant could be born
To ripen in sunshine and dew from the sky,
Then, human soul, thou spark from on high,
Thou art immortal az thy great sire
Whose praise il sung by the angcl-chOir!
The h SIX, the body, il buried deep,
And friends will 60 to the tomb and weep;
But thou shalt move on On wings 10 free
For thine is the Me Of eternity.
That wonderful power of 20 small a seed
The miracle seen in that corn Of wfeat,
It puzzles the mind but siill it ia done
By the Author Of Life the Eternal One.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

To have ones. sugar whitened with
the bones of compatriots, is a novel and
perhaps economical way of doing things,
but such seems to be the practice
in France. They have formed factory
for the manufacture of animal charcoal
at Metz, which is supplied with bones
from the adjacent battle fields. This
product is used in refining sugar.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

TIE experience of New York bust
ness men goes to indicate that iron
shutters increase the danger of loss
from FIRE rather than decrease it. This
is attributed partly to the fact that fire
in houses 80 furnished is seldom or
never discovered so soon as in others,
and partly to the great difficulty that
firemen experience in forcing iron shut
ters open.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

A GLASS bottle containing a small
rattlesnake, neatly done up in strong
paper wrapper, and addressed to "The
Grand Duke Alexis, st. Petersburg,
Russia" " was received at the dead-letter
office as unmailable material. The
package had come safely through the
mails from Ysllville, Ark.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10
FOREIGN.

Further details Of earthquakes in
Asia Minor. show that several villages were
destroyed and 1900 persons lost their lives.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

Mrs. RoHM, the fat woman of Bar
NUNS show, died at her residence in
East Baltimore last week, aged 80. Her
weight was 583 pounds +; height feet
A inches, and spanned around the waist
u inches. She was born in Licking
county, o. Her maiden name was
Hannah Jane Duck.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

TOBACCO raising has proved the fnan-
cial ruin of North Hadley, Mass. Re-
cent failure, foot up $225,00 real
estate has fallen one-third in the town,
and business is almost hopelessly stag
nant.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

deficits, Treasury officers say that
such discoveries have been rare and the
evidence is conclusive that the banks
had made miscount
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

The thief who stole the package Of
bills from the treasury department a
few days ago remains undiscovered.
Gen. Spinner seems worn out with an1i-
ETY.. Charges have been made that sew
eral banks which sent packages Of money
to the treasury have been reported
short in their femittanoes, and the banks
have been required 10 make up the
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

POSTMASTER GENERAL JEWELL, ac-
companied by one of his trusted special
agents and his private secretary, will
leave Washington in day or two on
tour of inspection. He will visit all the
prominent postoffices in the south and
west.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

MEN are often blamed on account ol
their politics, but scientists have dis
covered that politics is often matter
OF temperament. Octave Fuellet, in
Camors." says: "In politics we take
our principles from temperament the
bilious are demagogues the sanguine,
democrats; the nervous, aristocrats.
One both nervous and sanguine may
take choice he may be an aristocrat in
regard to himself and democrat in re-
lations to Others"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

REPORTS received from the south
eastern portion of Nebraska, which
have been severely affected by grass
hoppers this spring, show that they are
fast taking fight, going northwest. I'm
mense clouds of them are seen daily
very high in the air.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

The treasury department is in receipt
of advices from Europe that silver has
declined in Europe over dollar on the
pound, in consequence of which there
is talk again of issuing the fractional
specie provided for by the last Congress.
THE New York World thinks that " if
an average yield is obtained from the
crops planted throughout the south this
spring, it should place the people of
that section in sounder financial con-
dition than they have enjoyed since
RECOMMENDATION beoan
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

CAPT. CHAs. N. BRoCKETr, special
agent Of the treasury department,
captured in New York awhile lace dress
valued at $4,000, a white lace shawl
worth $1,000, and other laces valued at
5000, at pawn shop, where they had
been pawnsd for 1856. The dress and
laces formerly belonged to the Empress
Eugene, and were among the richest in
the world. They were sold at the
time Of the sale of her diamonds and
jewelry in England. and we're smuggled
into this country, by Joseph Horachs,
in October, 1873.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10

THB total number of Sunday.schools
in the United States is given at 6S, 200 !;
teachers and officers, 74O,979; Sunday
school scholars, 1897, 1857; total Sunday
school membership, embracing teachers,
officers and scholars, 6,573,346. In
Canada the number of schools is 4, ,4O1 !;
teachers and officers 4,4O1 j; teachers
and officers, S5,745, Sunday-school
scholars, 271, 1881; total Sunday school
membership, 397, 7,126.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-26
A Happy Thought from England.

A dispatch from London relates that
Messrs. Odger and Wicks, two radical
politicians, who had for some years
interested themselves in the condition
OF English farm hands, and have led
them in q series of strikes intended to
better their condition, have been ap-
pointed by the federal union of agri-
cultural laborers to come to this coun-
try and ascertain whether the Mississippi
valley is suitable for the settlement Of
such people as they represent. This is
important news, for it looks to a move
ment which may be of the greatest use,
not only to the Mississippi valley, but
to the English laborers whom Messrs,
Odger and Wicks represent.
If these two Euglishmen have really
q constituency behind them ready to
come over and willing to labor they
cannot do better than go at once to the
cotton region of Louisiana, Alabama,
Mississippi and Arkansas. They will
ind planters very ready to. show them
that their people can have, not only
abundant labor, but on such conditions
as will enable them to reap, in q proper
and encouraging msasure, the fruits of
their toll. They will find communities
where Life and property are secure,
where the state provides schools for
children, where the climate is so mild
as to make living a small expense, where
food is abundant and easily procured.
and where q man need only labor stead
lily and live with common and bv no
means pinching economy to quickly
gain what to an English agricultural
laborer would seem a splendid indie
pendence.