The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-12-30
news AND NOTES.
Congress- is ho1idaying.

A tiity per cent reduction on freight
hetwcen Philadelphia and Chicago
vent into effect last week.
The increase Of population in the
United States has been 3+.f5 PER
cent. each decade since 1900
The audience at the Moody and
:Ssnkey netting, in Philadelphia. on
Tuesday. was the largest that has yet
attended.
Brigham Young's private secretary
has recently been convicted II biga-
NV and sentenced 10 two wears. i'm
prisanmAnf.
The proposed new Constitution of
Texas permits nine jurors in panel
oftwelve to return a verdict.-A sen.
sible innovation.
This year there are 1891 unclaimed
packages OF value in the dead letter
Office, to be sold At auc'ion on Mon
day, January l.th.
The Eastern papers are telling that
Miss Susan B. Anthony is now wsd-
ing through the SHOWS Of Iowa.
hoarsely whispering "woobnd suf-
frush.
w. S. Minor, Of Muscatine, has
been arrested and held to appear be
fore the Grand Jury for the alleged
abduction Of his two children from his
divorced wife.
Immediately after the holiday re-
cess measures will be taken in Con-
gress for the division of Dakota Ter
ritorv, and the formation Of The new
Territory of Pembina.
1t is no secret at the Treasury De-
partment that the authorities are to
move forward in force on the Chica-
go ring next week, when some of the
scenes of the St. Louis cleaning Of
the Augean stables may be re.enact-
ed.
The ungallant Huff, who brought
suit against Miss Cook, in Warren
county, because she beat him for
School Superintendent, has been
beaten also in the courts. The right
Of woman to hold Office IN this State
has been maintained.
The Pope, we are told, approves
Of the American Centennial Exhibit
ion, and will contribute something
from his vast store houses Of art to
help the thing along. His Holiness
gives US 10 understand that he still
lakes stock in the United States.
The Philadelphia Press says:
Shoot them down. The new House,
last week, by a vote l26 to SO, de-
elAred for the removal of eleven
manned soldiers now acting as door
keepers and messengers, each one OF
whom has lost leg or nm arm, or
both, in battle in defence of his coun-
try.
Eastern papers are saying that the
Banking and Currency Committee of
the House are in favor Of resumption
even earlier than in 1879, and the
New York Sam says "there is not a
man on the Committee who is not for
the hardest of hard money. and for it
right away"
The salaries OF the officers of the
State Grange are fixed as follows for
next year: Master, $500, with sta
tionery and postage; Lecturer, 5000
and actual necessary expenses; Sec
rotary, 81 800 for himself and clerks;
members of Executive Committee,
per day and expenses.
Ms. Mary Heffiefinger, of Grundy
Center. has So note of the CONT
mental currency, printed in l..G,
which has been handed through gen.
erations of the family for hundred
years. The 1tias says it resembles
money just about as mach as the
hieroglyphics on lea box resembles
green backs.
Several very severe earthquake
shocks were felt in Richmond, Vir-
GINA, on the 23d inst, which caused
great dismay and CONSERVATION. The
shocks were felt distinctly also at
Washington, as stated in our dis
patches Of that date. Ia the decks Of
the James River boats ed their
cables, houses rocked and bridges
creakea and groaned in Richmond
Boss Tweed is reported as having
arrived in Cuba. A Havana dispatch.
dated last Thursday, says: "A re-
'port is current that William NJ.
Tweed arrived here last Tuesday on
"a schooner. Several New Workers
who know him by light say they
saw him Yesterday and to-day in
different parts Of the city" The
New York police authorities appear
to credit the report.
Everybody is in favor Of tree
schools" says Judge Thayer in his
Clinton Ige. NO State should
make any Jaw establishing a system
Of education by taxation,' says d. A.
Nahony in his Dubuque Ttisgraph
These are the latest expressed opin.
iois al two leading Iowa Democrats
If you are Democrat dear reader
"goa pays your money and you take'
your choice"
The Citation -IQs thinks We hav,
had more hanging in Iowa since tn,
abolition of capital punishment, thar
when hanging was legal, and We be
lioye The Age is about right. If THU
is fact, it strengthens the claim tina
the people favor capital punishment
So far rs our knowledge of the opin
ions of the people upon this suffice,
go, we are convinced that a larg,
majority favor the restoration of tn,
delth penalty. If the penalty Of !
statute is intended to prevent its VIC
,ation. then make it as near an atone
ment tor the crime as possible. II,
who takes the life of another, forfeit,
his own right to life. the people mea1
that it shall! be paid, statute or NJ
statute.
The New York Herald says, tina