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Year: 1877

AN ORDINANCE to prohibit horses


and cattle from trespassing upon the


streets about the Court House Square


in Upton.


BE 1t ordained by the Mayor and
council ct the totcn Of Upton IN Cedar
county:


SEC. I. Every owner of horses and
cattle shall restrain the same from
running upon the streets about the
Court House Square in said town and
in the event Of q failure so to do, shall
be liable for all damages done by said
animals; and animals so committing
damage shall be treated as estrays, and
dealt with as is provided by the statute
of the State in regard thereto.


SEC. 2. 1t is hereby made the duty
Of the city Marshal to distrain all ami
mails trespassing or running at large
upon the streets about the Court
House Square, and for each head SO
distrained he shall receive as fees the
sum of Sl.00 to be collected of the
owner of the animal


This ordinance to take effect and
be in force from and after publication
in the Tipton ADVERTISER and Con-
scrrdfi,e.


S. Y. YATES, s. V. LANDT,
Recorder. Mayor.
April 30 1877.
Year: 1877

We have just arrived from the East,
where we have been visiting the diff
ferent shoe manufacturers and buying
goods, and now think we have an AS
sortment Of Boots and Shoe, out OF
which no one can fail to suit them
selves both rs to style and price. We
bought all our goods lower than ever
before, and will give customers the
benefit.
Year: 1877

ALL who need any new implements
or farm machinery should observe the
advertisement Of $. ID. Casad, in an
other column of this paper. 'e will
make it an object to such sons to
trade with him, both in ! .tes and in
excellence Of articles sold.
Year: 1877

Again they have cut down prices on
Boots and Shoes ut City Hall Shoe
Store, and are selling them cheaper
than ever. Don't fail to give ii. l..
Dean a call while these goods are GO
ing off SO cheap.
Year: 1877

Both County and Township author
tiles acted, rs soon rs the case became
known, with commendable prudence
and promptness. Both the Poor
House and the Haksteen family in
Red Oak have been quarantined-no
one but those specially authorized and
prepared being permitted to go out or
in. The Doctor in charge changes
clothes entirely during his visits and
uses every precaution. There is,
therefore, no present cause for any
alarm on the part of the community;
such stitches in time" as vaccination,
however. being ALWAYS in order.
Year: 1877

ENTHUSIASTIC IN ITS FAyoR.-All
houskeepers who have ever used the
Charter Oak Stove are enthusiastic in
its favor, and say that for for all pur-
poses of cooking and baking this stove
cannot he equalled. The large fiues
and heavy castings, exposed to the fire
makes the Charter Oak especially
adapted to soft coal, which is distructa-
BILE on cast iron. The Reservoir Is pro-
nounced perfect in its arrangement
and operation, heating water just
right.
Year: 1877

REraRT those books which belong
TO the Old Upton Library TO VIM. Gill
more, Chairman of the Committee OH
collection. Now that organization of
a new Library Association has been
effected, il is important to have the
books belonging to the old library
gathered in aS quickly as possible.
Some new purchases are shortly to he
made. and it is necessary TO know
what are already in hand. Ii will be
remembered that the last organization
holding these books was the Philona-
THAN Society, and that all of them
have, o: had, the card of that society
pasted on theinside ofthecover. These
are the books which are wanted, and
ifany one does not wish to take the
trouble to bring them in, If they will
inform the Cammittee where they may
he found, they will send for them.
Year: 1877

The Opera House was crowded last
|evening, to witness the performance of
Pink Domiaos by the Walnut Street
Theatre Company Of Philadelphia.


Much has been said in regard to the
morality Of this play through the column
Of the press both pro. and con. If the
rendition of it given last evening is The
correct one (Which there is hardly any
doubt) its morality cannot with any de-
gree of fairness be questioned by the most
exacting Lmoralist. The performance
contained no language that would CRATE
upon the ears of the most sensitive per-
son. Perhaps there are large number
who would take exceptions to the situa-
tions in the second act, bu. they were no
more or less than can be seen at mas
querade or full dress ball, that of al gen.
tleman calling for private supper room
in order to treat his lady partner to a
supper. The plot is simple and in,
geDious one, and consists in two ladies
testing the fealty of their husbands.
In order to do this, they resolve to write
them a note, to be present at a masque-
rade ball, and in order that the writers
may be known they will appear in Pink
DOminoS In the meantime the servant
also resolves to go,andlshe too appears in
a costume same as the ladies. They meet
the respective gentleman, go to the ball
and during the supper hour get separated
and finally escape and reach their homes


The next day explanations follow, and
the families are again happily reunited


The large audience present, which was
composed of the best class of society, was
complete refutation of the labored ar


ticles that appeared in the columns o


the Morning Herald, Of Wednesday


charging that the performance was ar


obscene one and proves conclusively


what little reliance people can place il


what that paper says as operformancea a


the Opera House. The audience wa


one of the largest of the season and ap


plauded the play in the most cordia


manner. The manager of the Operi


House Jesse K. Baylis, has been in the


business SO long and is so well known b.


our theatre goers, that they have full


confidence in his abilities to present frs


class plays.
Year: 1877

S'o Guitor Vi tne 0AZETTH, |-L J..


Wanted, a home for the aged and In.
tlrm men Of the city of Wllmineton.---
fhe good and benevolent people of this
city have, in the goodness of their hearts.
prepared home for the aged women.
which Is great credit to those who have
done it and also homes for friendiess
children. These institutions speak for
themselves, and show a good, charitable
feeling for our city. But the way II
stands now IL 10 too lopsided. There was a
great number of old men of the place
VINO are worthy of charity, and a home
OF this kind would be a great blessing to
them. Let the good and kind-hearted Of
the city take this matter into considera>
tion. IL might seem little burdensorle
at first, but it would pay in the end. To
make our fathers and mothers comforta-
BILE in their old days ought to be looked
after more than we do. We have proyi-
ded for the women let us provide for
the men. The money spent in this way
would not be LOST. Paul said that Jesus
said 1t is "more blessed to give than to
receive" The writer Of this commune
cation believes the above text of scripture
to be good, for to relieve the needy al
ways leaves very pleasant feeling. 1t
is soft feather in your pillow to sleep
on at night.


We have a good many rich men in the
place, and some of them have reached
the evening of their life, and it would
make their setting sun shine brighter if
they would remember the aged men who
have no home and donate something in
their wills to get up an institution of this
kind. 1t would be monument to them
after they are dead and make their ac-
count stand better in the next world. In
conclusion make this appeal to the be-
nevolent and TO stir up your pure minds
to continue To do good aud TO remember
we still have some men left that have no
homes.
Year: 1877

In THE FIELD.-It will be seen by this
card under the proper head that Mr.. Asa
Taylor, our present efficient attentive and
gentlemanly County Clerk. will be n can
the Republican Convention. Ii Trinity
p 'ople want to carry out the principle OF
Civil Service Reform, they cannot give a
better earnest OF their intention than by
retaining the General Z" for another
term.
Year: 1877

SAME HERE.-The Yreka journal
says: zone would think from the way
several noisy chaps in the vicinity of the
post office sing out stage that the stage
would fail to come if it was not for their
Yelling"
Year: 1877

STILL LIvEs.-A paragraph in the
JOURNAL n couple Of years ago killed of
Professor Buck. the writing master, in
tie cars. Later we had to take it AL
teaching writing school at Tehama.
Year: 1877

SHowER.-Sunday night we were bless
ed with heavy shower of rain, which
has frightened up the vegetation and made
n great Improvement in the appearance
of things. The rain was II cold one snow
falling as low down in the mountains as
at any time last Winter.
Year: 1877

FoRE!GS DEMAND FOR WHEAT.-lt has
been repeatedly stated that the furry
which arose at Russia declaration OF war
enabled spectators to force wheat clear
above its legitimate price, and that It was
impossible 10 keep it there now that the
probability of the wars being localized
was apparent The following IRON tie
New York correspondence OF the Phiia-
delphia Ledgsr throws 4 new Light on this
subject, and seems TO indicate stu higher
prices


The most important news to-day relates
TO an extraordinary demand for our new
crop Of wheat on British and Continental
account. Yesterday and to-days cable
grams were received ordering purchases
for about all that could be had at current
figures. and when it is added that trans
actions for the week have run up to the
enormous aggregate of nearly two millions
Of bushels, the magnitude as well the
urgency of the movement Will be compre-
hended. These operations, it should be
observed, have been attended with little
or no excitement, the parties engaged IN
filling the orders apparently being deSir-
Gus of executing them, for obvious rea-
sons, as quietly as possible. In addition
to the fact stated IN yesterdays Ledger
that one of the steamship lines had let all
its available g-zlin Groom " for two months
ahead, it may be stated that like offers to
other lines have been declined unless at
an advance on present rates.


Parties most conyersant with the gram
trade are persuaded that there is some
thing about this movement which is not
apparent on the surface. These heavy
purchases on European account can not
be on the calculation that our harveSts are
to turn out badly, as ali the reports from
the West within the past few days have
been of character 10 show that the crops
are to be fully up to the average. Even
the corn, which was in some danger OF
rust from excessive wet weather, Is turn
INC out much better than was expected.
These facts are as well known abroad as
at home. 1t Is assumed, therefore, that
the purchasers on the other side must
have some information concerning the
war, of a kind to convince them that it is
going to be protrscted, and that England
viii not be able TO keep out of it a grea:
while longer 1t is hardly necessary tC
add that these operations have been atten-
dod By a marked advance in prices.
Year: 1877

VAGUE AND FEEBLE. The Troy, n. Y. ,
Times, a radical journal, says that vague
and feeble ait mpt is made to explain the
president recent circular to federal Office
holders in such way as to make it appear
less obnoxious to practical men But the
effort is failure. 1t still appears that
persons holding places under the govern
ment are debarred from participating in
preliminary work Of organization, which
is the most important of all and the most
neglected by citizens generally. Mean
while, secretary OF war McCrary is re-
ported to have been sent out to Iowa in
hot haste to rally lis friends and prevent
the Iowa republican state convention from
criticising the policy of the administra-
ton Really, it does seem to us that the
president ought TO stick firmly 10 what he
says, and carry out his ideas steadily.
Such course would carry the prestige of
manliness, even though the rule adopted
might be regarded as blunder.
Year: 1877

WHAT MUSr IT HAVE BEEN. - The
radical papers TEEN with accounts of the
great reforms that are going on. Wonder
ful improvements have been made in the
New York custom-house. The secretary
of the treasury boasts of what has been
accomplished by the adoption of many
Recommendations of reform in the bureau
of engraving and printing and the
New York Sun supposes corresponding
progress in remedying abuses has been
made throughout his department. The
post-offce department has been overhaul
ed and, if all promises have been full
filed, the interior must furnish model
Of administrative reform. Thus, through
out the entire administration, the public
are assured that many changes, all for
the better, have been introduced Now,
If such complete renovation was every
where necessary, in what condition was
the old house left by Gen Grant after his
eight years residence All that has been
said of the late administration seems to
be fully confirmed now by Its successor
and by the radical Journals.
Year: 1877

CHARLES FRANCIS ADANs has done the
country substantial service in repeating
the warning against the repetition of the
gigantic fraud by which the popular will
was dethroned on the 4th Of March last.
Whatever courtesy the people may b stow
upon the representative of the executive
department, whoever he may be, it must
not detract from 4 constant antasonism
against 4 breach of public virtue. or i'm
par vigilance in protecting the republic
against the petition Of deadly assault
upon its organic Efe q Silence and ac-
qmescenee in the iniquity which placed
hayes in the executive chair" cannot be
permitted, as SIr Cox well said before
Tammany. 1t is neither Just to him,
polite to the country nor safe for the
foundations upon which free institutions
are based.
Year: 1877

The DELUSIoS THAT MADE HAYES Pres
gDENF.-But for an extraordinary and
anomalous condition of public sentiment
existing at the time, the electoral commis-
sion would not have been Great d, and
Mr. Hayes would not have been declared
elected President of the United States
The anomalous condition OF the public
sentiment 10 which we refer consisted in
an almost universal belief that as soon as
the Presidential election should b. settled,
no matter how, the hard times would i'm
prove and business would revive. Added
TO this were the fears of the timid of the
possibility of hloodshed and hence arose
a demand, as If the nation spoke with one
voice, that the question who was elected
should be settled, one way or the other.
without unnecessary delay. There was
general impression that II was more in-
poFtapt that Il should be determined
quickly than that the decision should be
right The expectation tina: good times
would necessarily follow the Inauguration.
has been found now by bitter experiences
70 have been delusna. If Mr.. HAYES
should feel himself obliged, by a judicial
decision that his election was fraudulent.
to retire from Office, the event would not
seriously or considerably affect the busi-
ness of the country while the final tri
umph OF the constitution over the tempo
rary device adopted when men took ooun-
sci only of their uafounded hopes and
groundless fears would show the sufiicien-
ey o; our established institutions for all
the purposes of free government.
Year: 1877

THE COMMANDING QUESTION The
words which fell from Mr. Tlden's lips III
New York could moi have be n spoken so
fifty by any other citizen of the country.
They expressed, as they should, that deep
and silent pop!uar sentiment which has
patiently waited for just this voice, and
intends at the last to find voice of its
own. Partisan animosity, stagger.d by
this blow of master, viii shoot its en-
venomed arrows at tie one who has so
effectively delivered it; and conscious
guilt will cover in its rage and demand
that the man shall be placed in perpetual
pillory who has dared to fix the real truth
in a form OF statement which history can
not change but 40 poisoned shafts or
frenzied hate viii avail to reach the posi-
ton where the choice of the defrauded
people stands, nor will a fortunate course
of administration itself paIliate even in
part wrong that shakes the whole fabric
of our publican system. The people
must themselves undo so great wrong.
They must make it SO odiouS that it will
never find imitatOrs- This little Sp ech of
Mr. Tlden is inde!ibly stamped on the
memory of every American citizen. 1t
comes from one who is both statesman
and philosopher 1t makes the mere poll
tician dwindle TO the view, in considering
the great and fateful issue it raises before
all mems sight The minority of last year
are as deeply wounded By this unpreced-
ented fraud as the majority, for republi-
can institutions are greater than parties,
and intended to be more enduring. To
read these clear and impressive words Of
Coy. Tilden again and AGAIN, until they
sink into the heart, is the duty of every
American citizen of whatever party. Tie
fraud first triumphant in American his
tor" VII always remain stigma, and for
that reason it is to be remedied By the
people on whom it was successfully prac-
ticed under legal forms He declares that
for ourselves We do not care so much to
see its perpetrators punished as 10 see
free government vindicated
Year: 1877

GEN. jean MCCoHB, the foremost man
of San Francisco, and the l-ader in the
movement to put down the late railroad
riots in that city, commenced life on this
coast as journeyman printer, and in
early days was employed as a compositor
on the San Francisco Herald In those
early days he was quiet and Industrious,
took care of his earnings, invested as he
had means in real estate, and now he is
the head man Of the commercial metrop-
oils. We are proud of our friends sue
cess. and commend his career as an exam
pie to the young men who are now com
ing upon the stage OF life.
Year: 1877

BEAN AIEAL.-A successful dairyman be-
heves In bean meal SIS q candimeHt for cows.
After an experience Of seven or eight years,
he says nothing is better to keep a COW in
good health than quart OF bean meal mixed
with provender and given once a month.
Year: 1877

A tale of the bad effects OF dissipation
reaches us this morning, which occurred
between Dover and Minerva, in Mason
County, KY. A man named Frank Boyd
was returning home from the formeR
place, where he had been all day, and
had been drinking hard when his friends
put him in the buggy. g


He reached point in the road near
Minerva, where he commenced to beat his
horse SO that the animal became infuri-
ated and ran of, and he being too drunk
to control him, lost his balance and
was thrown from his seat in the Yehicas
and was caught on the axletree.


His head was run through the front
spring OF the buggy anu his neck aud
back broken. The uurortunate man
leaves a wife and five children.
Year: 1877

men OF the trade were called upon this
morning, including the Secretary Of the
Lehlgh Coal Exchange, who declare
that there is no thought of resumins the
combination, and that it IL Impossible
to reopen negotiations at present.
Year: 1877

DAY by day the practical uses to
which the telephone can he applied are
becoming more and more apparent. The
Chicago telegraph operators, at their
ball, danced to music transmitted over
a space Of eighty miles. In New York
many merchants have connected their
homes and place Of business, so that
they can converse with their wives or
servants at any moment in the day.
And 1t has been brought into requisi-
ton on the ride range. It has hitherto
been the custom to signal his score to o
rihemen by means Of flags hoisted at
the target. At Creedmoor, in the great
International Match, the flags were dis
pensed with. A wire was stretched
from the targets to the shooting point,
and telephone attached. The watch
ers were thus enabled to transmit the
score Of each marksmen by word Of
mouth, so that there was no possibility
Of any mistake being made. This is
certainly new departure, and must
nave struck our guests from over the
water as an astonishing novelty. Its
superiority to the flag system Of signals
70 unouestionabls.
Year: 1877

fight with on the morning we
left for the agency to take up the
trail. They were notified by runner
from the reservation that troops were
in pursuit, with the view Of bringing
them back. Every one killed or cap
tured was trying to- escape. 1t was
impossible to bring the Indians to bay.
I think they must have suffered much
and abandoned q great deal An
infant, yet alive, was found thrown
away, in its basket, upon the plain.
They are scattered in the mountains
over a large~area of country.
Year: 1877

CLERK ADAMS, Of the House Of
Representatives, has arrived In WASH
ington to prepare for the extra session.
The roll Of members Is not quite COM
plsted, but Is near enough to indicate
very clearly that the Democratic major
ity will be eleven. 1t may be one more
or less, as all the certificates are not
yet at hand, though the few that are
out cannot change the result either
way more than Is above indicated.
Year: 1877

Regarding Mediation.


Constantinople, Sept. 21.-It is stated
in well informed circles that the Porte
will not accept mediation while a single
Russian soldier remains on Turkish
soil, nor will it consent to an armistice
unless the bases Of subsequent peace
proposals are at the same time defined.
Year: 1877

of Republican purity in sections where
ever their presence has been tolerated. The
Republican party must cut loose the In
cubuses. There are more Of them. They
must 20. The intelligent masses OF the
North have ALWAYS sympashized with the
South in this matter .of carpet.bagism,
when the carpet.baggers have been com.
posed Of such material as Is found in PyR.
MAN. There are good men who have gone
from the North and now hold prominent
places among the Southern people. These
men should be sustained by the law abiding
people everywhere. But for the sake of
the political purity, dignity and strength
Of the Republican party, men like PuRMAN
must be remanded to political obscurity,
and kept there by the will Of sovereign
people. He is out Of the Republican party
now. Happily for the country, he will
soon be out of politics.
Year: 1877

Many poor mother in humble cot,
with no money or position, has struggled
hard to feed and clothe her little ones, to
train them to be an honor to their country
and a blessing to the world. Most of our
useful prominent men came from such
homes. Our church-yards are full of such
pleasing mothers whose hands are meekly
folded on their breasts. No worldly eye
ever saw the record of their lives, only
God and the angels. No tall monuments
and high sounding epitaphs mark their
resting places. What responsibility rests
upon the mothers of this country. Life
Is too short to be spent in accumulating
things of this world that must perish. The
children do not stay with US long enough
to permit us to waste our hours in the
pursuit of fashion end gayety. What
we SOW now we shall reap hereafter.
How many who SOW In tears shall reap
in Joy. God give to all mothers grace,
and strength to fulhll their duties Alright,
that their inhunoe for good may be felt
from generation to generation.
Year: 1877

In tho very nature of!things II b impos


sibie that there can be q reform In spelling.


No one who regards with. dread the sudden
and violent disturbance aof tho visible sur
face Of our language and ~ literature,
need regard Che spelling reform movement
with any apprehension Of evil II will
effect no change of Importance. Changes
in spelling there will bs; but not In virtue
of the movement" nor those for which
the reformeH are clano1ing. Our alpha-
bet and our spelling will surely remain,
for some generations at least, very much
what they. have been for centuries. The
rulers Of the land, powerfulthough they be,
cannot give laws to the language Of the
people. Reform in other matters is pos
sible bylaw, or by individual or concerted
action. Abuses may be thus done away
with, old things set aside for better new
ones, the right, Of one day be made by
statute law the crime of the next Notso with
language in an y Of its departments. Some
of the spelling; reformers speak Of change
in this matter as II IL were like change IL
any other - most vainly and ignorantly.
You may pull down the house that covers
your own her ID II you like, and live roof
less and hea, tless until you can build you
another and better, but you cannot by
law or any ther force make the language
spoken by q people with past, different
tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or
next year, from what it is to-day.