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Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10
School EHsass. iia tic South.

There were formerly school funds
to a considerable amount in most OF
the southern States; but the war ap
pears to have destroy ed, or used these
funds, SO that but little is lett OF the
endowment of educational institutions
for children OF any color. As the rec
ords of this Bureau furnish but few
facts in regard to the white population
OF the south, We rely mainly tor inform
alton on this subject upon minutes
transmitted from the Uuited States
Department OF Education.
/. There is 10 information from any
source in regard TO the present eondi-
tlan Of the school lands Of Alabama,
nor OF any enumeration there Of white
children OF school age.
>. IN Arkansas the available Iesonrc-
es Tor the support OF public schools
from taxes and funds amount TO about
5000, 600 annually.
3. Florida has no fund available for
the support of common schools, al
though land appropriated for that pur-
pose has recently been sold. No emu
meratlon of white children has OF late
been made.
4. Kentucky, in 1865, had 374,2,5
children from six to ten years OF age,
The amount of school fund proper to
be distributed, was 500, 1927, or
about IS cents for each child.
5. Maryland has funds which, to-
gether with the fifteen cent State di-
rect tax, will support the schools for
the greater part Of the year. The to-
tai number OF pupils Tor 1867 was IL
eco.
g. In North Carolina the school fund
was nearly all lost during tie war,
The annual income now, from all sourc
es, is less than $4,000 No cnumer-
alton of the children of school age has
been taken recently.
Z. In regard to the other States the
statement can only be made that the
school funds were generally lost in
the war, and, so far rs we can learn,
no enumeration OF children in any OF
them has recently been made From
Report on Schools for Freedmen, July
/, 1869.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10
Old Time Marriages.

The Boston Advertiser. among 9th
er extracts from old papers, gives the
following:
The Boston Gazette of Dec. 8, 1850,
contains an announcement of very
curious marriage ceremony which had
occurred i'll England, in which the BRIDE,
who was widow, rcsorted to an ex-
traordinary SHIFT to relieve the BRIDE
groom of the liability for her former
husbands debts. 1t is as follows:
"Joln Ring and Francis Budd were
recently married in Bucks county,
England. The good woman drank a
good glass of brandy and then stripped
herself in the church of everything but
her shift, and stood in that condition
during the whole ceremony, in order
to exempt the person she was going
to marry from her former husband 5
debts" The Gazette accompanies the
announcement with a sober inquiry,
whether or not such ceremony could
be in accordance with law We were
inclined to regard it as bit of iacetir,
or as scene OF superstitious ignorance
which might have been enacted some.
where without the pale of the Chris
tian civilization; and were somewhat
surprised, therefore, to find in another
copy ot'thc same journal an account of
a similar transaction in New England,
as follows: "In February, 1860, at
West Havre, Connecticut, were mar
ried a youth Of about nineteen to a
widow with six children. When the
guests were met, before the marriage,
the bride stripped to her shift, and
marched in that dress into the street
and he declared to the company that
he took her without anything but her
shift, and that was borrowed. After
which I've lee her in, and they were
married" The nuptial of this fantasy
in the latter instance IS not stated;
but the narrative would seem to imply
different cause 4rom that alleged in
the first case, perhaps exemption from
the responsibility on account of the
six children. The borrowed garment
is significant of state of personal
destitution, of which the first bride
appears to have been innocent In
the first instance the shit. was avow
edly mere evasion OF the law. In
the other there was confession OF
shittlessness which might have been
rendered more apparent by simple
presentation OF the naked truth. The
strange custom here spoken OF is per-
haps relic OF Druidism, and may
naturally have been retained among
the tradit!onary supertitions of the an
cicnt country Of Bucks; but how it
should have obtained credence with
the bucks of Connecticut is a puzzle,
with which our historical researches
must close for the present.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10
False Esaiv Among the AncicntS.

The Greek, Egyptian, Carthaginian,
and Roman ladies, more than 20 cen
/ turies ago, made use of the most eX-
traragant quantities of borrowed hair,
and they wound it into large protu-
bcrances upon the back OF their heads,
and to keep it in place used 'hairpins" !"
ofprcclsely the form inuseat thepresent
time. The Roman women of the time
of Augustus were especially pleased
when they could outdo their rivals in
piling upon their heads the highest
tower OF borrowed locks. They also
arranged rows of curls formally around
the sides of the head, and often the
very fashionable damsels would have
! pendent curls IN addition.
An extensive commerce WAS carried
on IN hair; and after the conquest of
Gaul, blonde hair, such as was grown
upon the heads OF German girls, be.
came fashionable at Rome, and many
poor child of the forest upon the
banks OF the Rhine parted with her
locks to adorn the wives and daugh-
ters OF tue proud conquerors. The
Hrpdl AiesdT, luuCet, III Il illOSI ciucl
manner, cnt Off the hair OF the van
Guished Gauls aud sent 1t to the Ro
mali market for sale, and the cropped
head was regarded in the conquered
provinces as a badge OF slavery.
TO such pitch of absurd eNtrava.
oance did the Roman ladies at one
time carry the business OF adorning
The hair, that upon the introduction OF
Christianity, in the first and second
centuries, the apostles and fathers of
the church launched severe invectivcs
against the vanity and trivolity of
the practice. 1t must he confessed,
the ancient ladies did ontdo their
modern sisters. The artistic, proles-
sional hair-dressers of old Rome were
employed at exorbi,ant prices to form
the hair into tancitul devices, such as
harps, diadems, wreaths, emhlems OF
public temples aud conquered cities,
or to plait it into an Incredible number
of trcsses, which were often length
enci lv ribbons so as 20 reach to the
feet, and loaded with pearls and clasps
Of gold.-[Journal OF Chemistry.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10

Asking questions is quite proper,
but there are improper times for do
ing it. For example, while a teacher is
hearing recitation is no time to be
annoyed by pupils questions about
lessons. Last week we saw teacher
hearing a lesson in the fourth reader,
and during the time of the recitation
no less than twenty-five questions
were asked by pupils of other classes;
that is, the attentionsof the teacher
was taken from his class Just twenty
two times. This was only an aggra-
gate case Of a very common fault. 1t
is thought that it is necessary for
children to ask questions, and, indeed,
this may be true. But the general
rule is that when lessons are properly
assigned there is SO little need of it
that all needed questioning can, and
should be done between recitations.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10
The Norm Olls.

For more than two months past the
people of Long Island have been in an
excited state OF mind over the success
OF the Mormon bishops and elders in
making converts to their faith. The
society which was driven from Free
port, the other day, by a mob, located
themselves at Patchogue, where pro.
lection was promised them by Just
ice of the Peace. This action on the
part of the Justice has caused much cx-
element. Yesterday meeting was
held at Christian Hook, and it was
thought for time serious disturbance
would occur, but the malcontents were
dissuaded from making the assault.
Elder Brewer, of Salt Lake, harangued
the assembly. 1t is predicted that il
the Mormons continue to hold their
meetings aud propagate their doctrines
on Long Island, 4 serious disturbance
will occur, terminating in bloodshcd.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10
VOL. IV, NO. 10.

might be an objection to some portions
OF the Saskatchewan territory, yet it
has mineral coal in abundance, which
may be easily mined to supply fuel.
"The foregoing extracts are from an
address of Governor Ramsey before
the Minnesota Agricultural Society
Tho date Of his trip to Sclkirk was
1851. The italics occur in the original
publication
"The Selkirk people during the sub
sequent period of eighteen years have
extended their settlements west OF
Fort Garry, more than fifty miles along
the Valley Of the Asslniboine, and have
sent numerous colonists to the vicinity
Of Fort Edmonton, on the North Sas-
katchcwan, / 900 miles distant. In this
new settlement, four degrees north of
TT. Garry, the writer has authentic IN
formation from Mr.. Christie, in com
mand of Hudson's Bay Company's post
OF Edmonton, that large quantities OF
wheat and other grains, besides herds
of cattle, are produced for the supply
Of the trading posts still further north.
All these facts have become very fa-
miIiar to the Canadian public and have
induced strong desire to obtain pos
session of country SO desirable as a
field OF English and Canadian coloniza-
tion-the Great West of the Dominion.
The purpose of this communication is
not to cr:ticise the wisdom OF the
measures of that end, or to comment
upon the events at Pcmbina; which
have interested the progress OF the
Canadian representatives, but to eau,
tion the American public not to accept
obsolete or pre.udicial conclusions in
regard TO the value of Central British
America. The country whose destiny
is now at issue has resources ample to
constitute four States equal TO Mime
sofa
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10

REslcNEp.-It is certainly gratifying
to know that in, Illinois, the
Young Mems Christian Association is
doing a good work. One of its most
active members is Mr., young
gentleman OF position and means, who
has done much in aiding the poor and
unfortunate. At one time he became
quite Interested III German family IN
INDECENT circumstances. The wife wae
quite sick, and he visited her very Of
ten, doing all he could to prepare hen
mind tor the worst, if it should come
to that. He had not seen her for 4
few days when he met the husband
and the following conversation took
place:
GLOW do you do, Mr.: How
is your wiie:?'
"Mein trau9-mein frau is dead
"Dead! is it possible? Was she re-
signed?'
"Rcsigned? resigaea2 Mein Gott
she had 70 be."-[Harpers Magazine,
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10
OLIVER Wendell, Holmes Pocr,s
IL MEMORY OF rITz GREENE HALLEcK.

Say Tot the poet dies,
Though in the dust he lies.
ile cannot forfeit his melodious breath
Unsphered by envious Death.
Life drops the yoiceless myriads from its rcll
Their fate he cannot share
Who, ia the enchanted air,
Sweet with the lingering strains that echo stole
Has left his dearer self, the music of his soul
We Ger his turf may raise
Our notes Of feeble praise,
And carve with pious care, for after eyes,
The stone, With "Iiere he lies'
He for himself has bull. nobler shrine,
Whose walls Of stately rhyme
Roll back the tides Of time,
While ser their gates the cleaning tablet:
shine
That wear his name, inwrought with many I
golden line.
Call not eur poet dead,
Though on his turf We tread.
Green is the wreath their brows so long
have worn;
The minstrels Of the morn,
Who, while the Orient burned with new born
fame,
Caught that celestial fire,
And struck a nations Tyre;
These taught the western winds the poets
name,
Theirs the first opening buds, the maiden
flowers of fame.
Count not our poet dead;
The stars shall watch his bed
The rose Of June its fragrant life renew,
His blushing mound to strew;
And all the tunerul throats of summer swell
With trills as crystal clear
AS when he wooed the ear
Of the young muse who haunts each wooded
dell,
With songs of that trough land he loved SC
long and we'll.
He sleeps, he cannot die.
As evenings long drawn sigh,
Lifting the rose leaves on his peaceful
mound
Spreads all their sweets around.
So, laden with his song, the breezes blow,
From where the rustline sedge
Frets our rude oceans edge,
TO the smooth sea beyond The peaks of snow
His soul the air ems hrines and leaves but dust
below.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10
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SHADOWS.

When see the long wild briers
Waving in the winds like fires,
See the green skirts Of the naples
Barred with scarlet and with gold,
See the sunhower, heavy -heartea
Shadows then from days departed
Come and with their tender trcmbles
Wrap my bosom, fold on fold.
can hear sweet invitations
Through the sobbing, and vibrations
OF the winds that follow, follow,
As from self seek to fly
Come up hither. come up hi,her
yeave the rough and rainy weather!
Come UP where the royal roses
Never fade and never die!
Twas when Mary was blushing, blooming
Brown bees, bluebirds, singing, humming,
That VIC built and walled our chamber
With the emerald Of the leaves;
Made our bed Of yellow MOSES,
Soft as pie Of silken hosses,
Dreamed our dreams in dewy brightness
Radiant like the morns and ewes.
And it was when woods were cleaning,
And when clouds were wildly streaming
Gray and umber white and AMBER
Streaming in the north wind breath,
That my little, rose mouthed blossom
Fell and faded on my bosom,
Cankered by the coming coldncss,
Blightcd by the frosts of death.
Therefore, when | Sc, the shadows,
Drifting in across the meadows.
See the troops of summer wild birds
Flying from us, cloud on cloud,
Memory with that May.tme fingers,
And seem to feel the fingers
Of my lost and lovely darling
Wrap my heart up in her shroul.
[ALrce Cary, in IIarpers Magazine for
March.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10
ELEEapsNs.S.


IT'S only noble TO be good.
| Contents the greatest bliss we can
procure.
+! Few have all they need, and none
have ali they wish.
The Iuka (Mississippi) name for
whlskey is rip gizzard.
Coon skins are still legal tender in
Nermillion county, Indiana.
The first coin made in the Philadel-
phia mint was the copper cent made
i'll 1893. The first silver dollar was
made in 1874, and the first gold eagle
in 1875.
An English enthusiast is soliciting
funds for an exploration of Mount
Ararat, with view OF recovering
relics OF the ark. Ills petition IS flied
in the Astrological department of the
British Museum.
A young lady asked gentleman
the meaning OF the word Surrogate, :
and he explained it to her as "a gate
through which parties have to 90 to
get married. ",rhen l imagine said
the lady, that it is a corruption of
sorrowgate:a You arc right SAID
he, las woman is an abbreyiation of
woe TO man.
"lIow many eenders are they?a
asked schoolmaster. "Three, sir
promptly replied little blue eyes,
''masculine, feminine, and neuter.
'Pray give me an example of each,
said the master. "Why, you are mas
culine, because you are man; and |
feminine. because | am girl " cry
well, proceed Il do MT know said
the little girl, "but | reckon Mr.. Jenk-
ems is neuter, because he is an old
batchclor."
There is a great deal of intemper-
ance besides that Of tobacco, opium or
brandy. Men are dissipated, to over
tax their system ali day and under.
sleep every night. Some men are dis.
slpated by physical stmulan;s, and
some by social, and some by profes-
SlCl!ti stllu COlliIIletcltl. DuU man
who dies of deliiiam trenieas is no more
druhkard and II suicide than the law.
yer, the minister or the merchant that
works excessively all day and sleeps
but little all night.-[Beecher.
This is the way the Chinese ques
tion strikes paper in Texas, where
an invoice OF Celestials has recently
arrived:
I'VE are coming, Father Koopmanschap,
One hundred million strong;
| We will bear each man rice bag,
And each will beat a gong;
/ We will drive the Sambos flying,
Before our moon>eyed hosts,
And whip the poor white trash sir,
From out these golden coasts;
Then We'll take this mighty nation
And sell it for song,
i For we're coming, Father Koopmanschap,
One hundred million strong"
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10

Customer Ito clerk in hardware
store)-"Show me small, low priced
shears
Clerk (tacetiously)- erhaps you
mean a pair OF shears
Customer Severely Il mean precise
ly what | said
Clerk (defantly, opening specimen
article)-"Are there not two blades
here? and do MT two make pair:"
Customer Qriumphantly) = You
have two legs; does that make you a
pair OF man?n
The shears were done up in pro-
found silence.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10

''Teach things with double force;
through the animal eye and through
the mind. Tie eye catcheth in an in
slant what the ear shall not learn with
in an hour Locke.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10

The Northern Indiana College build
ING, with eight acres of ground, has
been sold at Shcriit~s sale tor 5S,625.
The cost was over $4,000.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10

He is sufficiently we'll learned who
knows how to do WELL and has power
enough to refrain from evil.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10
EIAaEEI2Rg' GDl7JiHE17.
d. Il. STE WART, Editor.

This column is placed entirely at the dis,
posal of the Teachers Of Tama County, to be
conducted in such manner and by such pers
sons as they may designate.-[Eo. REPuBLI-
CAN.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10

Precerts and rules are repilsive to
child, but happy illustration winneth
him.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10

A Syracuse druggist has paid 800
Tor putting up dose of laudanum in
stead of rhubarb. .aa7 m
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10

Mr.. Charles True, of Lee, Me-, while
on voyage to Montevideo, in South
America, the past year, was on board
of his ship, at anchor in the mouth OF
the river, about four miles below the
city. On weighing anchor, large
quantity of mud came upon the tluke
of the anchor, full of shells. Climb
ing over the side of the vessel, to col
lect the shells, he noticed curious
looking stone, which he saved with the
shells and brought home. 1t is a
specimen Of Egyptian porphyry, pol
ished on two sides and bevelled Tor a
mosaic pavement, as used by the Ro-
mans. The Roman cement still ad-
heres on one side. There is no mis-
taking the specimen.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-03-10

A bright little boy in Illinois hal
never been accustomed to hear "grace"
pronounced before meals. One day a
clergyman dincd at his mothers table,
and was called upon for this hitherto
neglected service. He bowed his head
over his plate and invoked the bless
ing in customary form, but, as is often
the case, in an almost inaud,ble tone.
The boy had always been curious to
know the meaning OF the trademark
inscriptions on the bottoms of the
plates, and, supposing that this was
what had been read, and that his own
plate contained an inscription tull as
interesting as that to which he had
listened, he passed along his plate,
bottom up, and said, simply, ''please
read mine, too, Mr. Bartlett.'
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-10-01
GRAND AWARD

nF PRENiUI~ IN AID OF THE NEVADA
~ SCHOOL Dis r.ICr. Nevada City, Gail. Jruia:
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-10-01
Dissolution Of Copartnership

he backsml'hing firm of Porter 4 Loot, her.
] tofure doing business IN Carson CITY, 10 thi.
Jay dissolved by mutual consent, Le.t r.titint
from thee 'nc.rn and Porter cntinuing the sam,
Il vi ch he assumes all liabilities and tor wb,cI
be viii make all csliec,i, ms.
J. POI TER.
J, A. IBEr
Carson City, Sept - $50. sc~fn
New-York tribune., 1870-09-08
THE PRESS ON THE SITUATION.

THE KING OF PRUSSIA SUMMONED TO BERLIN
THE GARRISON OF METZ sTARvNG-A SHEER
AT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
LONDON, Wednesday, Sept 7, Is7n
The Prorinodl Correspondence of Berlin says great
events may be expected, whose consequences will be
Of the highest moment The revolution at Paris
renders mediation nugatory. Delbriick, President
of the Federal Chancery, has summoned the King
of Prussia to Berlin.
A correspondent of The Guardian at Luxembourg
writes that the garrison of Metz is starving, and
beef there is S2 pound
The Times to-day, has several bitter articles on the
absence and apathy of the Queen and Princes, who
are deer stalking while Europe is shaken to its
foundation. 1t says the Ministry with their hercul-
can efforts have succeeded in restraining Greece from
bprlino her vast energies into the contest This sum-
arizes the conduct of England at the supreme crisis
of Europe.
The Times to-day, in its city article, commenting
o the nrostration of business and the unsteadiness
j.; the market for securities, says the price of Fede
raj bonds depends the success OF the Prussians,
which IL seems is now assured. The writer hopes
the French Republic will not persist in vain Strug-
Gle but seek peace and the leisure to constitute itself
The 81. Petersburg Journal says: The Car shares
every effort 10 locslize and abridge the war; but in
eaectualy as Prussia repels any intervention at all
restraining it's freedom of action"