The Tipton advertiser., 1875-07-29

No news of the missing erona ut:
Wheat in Iowa is once more do
lar . bushel
The Brandt sentence is to be pre-
nounced this week Thursday.
Estimates the country over put tn
grain crops at about twenty four pc
cent. below the average.
Twenty-Five hundred Chiname'
arrive in California every month
The Golden State will soon be full.
Simpson Centenary College, a
| Des Moines, is 10 have Law depart
| ment. And are there then to be s.
many more lawyers?
Isaac NJ. Singer, inventor of thu
sewing machine, died in London
Friday night, aged sixty-four year
and worth twenty-five millions.
The Round Lake Camp Meeting
Association has invited Moody ant
Sankey to hold ten days camp
meeting on its ground in September
The yellow fever is reported to be
raging at Pensacola, Fla. The gov
ernment is taking all possible pre-
cautions to prevent the spread OF the
disease.
1t is reported that thirty cottor
mills at Oldham, a town in Lancashire
England, have been closed, owing to
differences between the owners and
employees.
A citizen of Vinton rode his horse
to the river on Friday, to drink
while at the river the horse made a
sudden plunge throwing the man in
to the river, and his lifeless body was
not recovered until the following
Monday.
The extraordinary feat Of walking
100 miles in l 100 hours has just
been accomplished at Mystic Park,
Boston, Hugh Donahuc, the pedes-
trian, having done it on wager.
This beats all the feats of modern
pedestrianism on record.
Great excitement is caused in
financial circles by the suspension on
Tuesday of Duncan, Sherman 4 Co,
one of the leading banking houses of
New York City. "Crippled by ad-
vancing too much money on cotton
account is the explanation.
The National Divisions of sons of
Temperance. in vote by States, has
rejected proposition to au'horiz" col
ored divisions, Is to Which is anoth-
er sample of the bigo,ry and demagog-
ism too often seen in society pre-
tending TO be founded on charity.
In the case of David A. Gage, the
deiaulting exCity Treasurer of Chi
cago, on last Monday, Judge Booth,
OF the Circuit Court decided. in effect,
that the seven signers Of the official
bond are liable for the amount of the
Notwithstanding over half a
million dollars.
The New York Herald July 18th,
in the commcrcia! article says a:
present there is an immense amount
of grain on the move. There are
probably 100000 or 100000 Of
bushels on the canal, 100000 on the
lakes and 100000 in transit to
Great Britain. There is prospect
that the trade in grain this year will
be fully as great as the fall Of 1873.
The Postofiice Department has
sent to The Department of Justice
the names of thirty-nine mail con.
tractors who are to be prosecuted for
failure to perform service after their
bids were accepted. The contracts
were relet by the government, and
the difference between the amount
paid and the bids, for the thirty-nine
routes, was s4l..0S,, which is the
amount Of damages claimed against
the delinquent bidders.
Reports from the Black Hills bring
he information that abou. 900 mi
1ers are at work in that region, gath
ring gold at about three cents per
oan mot very encouraging yield) and
hat the arrivals of new men amount
o about twenty per day. As the
military are preparing for general
against the aggressors, ii
$ likely that soon there will be some
,tctty lively times among these de
rs OF law and authority.
There will be grand harvest
east OF the Patrons of Husbandry at
Riverside, August 25th. The State
eeturer. Miss Julia A. Garrettson.
Ion. ID. {. Cloud, and other promi-
rent speakers, are expected TO be
present. All Changers who can and
will participate are requested to send
delegates to meet at the picnic
Riverside, August llth, at
O'Clock p. NJ, or correspond with
he Secretary, at the same place.
III are invited to attend.
The fifth annual meeting Of the
owa Women Suffrage Association
'ill be held at Oskaloosa, August |
tth and 18th. to continue during
our sessions. The first session will
e held on Tuesday, the 18th, COM
at p. NJ. Every society
) entitled to two delegates and to
he additional delegate for each ten
umbers over and above the first ten.
his meeting is likely to be an i'm
ortant one and a large concourse is
xpected to be present.
This from "A baneful sheet: The
lothes found upon the river bank at
Davenport were identified as belong
ng to DIR. Emillus Godfrey. Fifty
nen dragged the river for two days
success. The body was not
until Thursday evening,
when it was found in an advanced
stage of decomposition near Council
Bluffs, sitting in Pullman car along
side of Mrs. Aurora Beale, the blonde
who was supposed to have
gone east to buy goods.
The Cresco Pioiadealer wants
credit for the following:-"Not far
from Des Moines, the poor mans
COW browsing wherever she could
find defective garden gate, wedged
her legs in cattle guard on the