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Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17
A Tarn Of the Tide.

A shipnastcr from New York SUI
perintending the construction OF sew
cral new steamers on the CLYDE,
England, writing home to a friend,
speaks cncouragingly of the pros
poets Of American ship owners. He
says that the English ship builders
are beginning TO lose money through
our competition. The rivalry, stm-
ulated by an increased demand, is 50
great that many OF the owners OF
yards on the Clyde are going to the
wall, and none but the strongest will
BE- able to hold ont against the pres
ent prices. The price ofiron is slow
ly but steadily advancing an lnferi-
or article is now in common nse,
which is often so brittle that it is
absolutely dangerous to throw it off
truck for fear Of breaking it, the
price Of labor is moving upward, and
work is badly done there is con-
tinual conflict between workmen and
employers; and the underwriters dis
cover that bad workmanship and in
terior iron are making tie RISKS upon
sea going ships more and more per-
ilous. The American shipmaster,
who makes these important state
ments goes on to say that with Amer
ican mechanics and American materl-
al, 1--WE can take the English Lloyds'
rules and reduce them 20 per cent,
and build stronger, more durable.
and consequently more sea-worthy,
than can be built in any part of the
United Kingdom.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17

OF them was cut of close--or rather
the back bore was cat through above
the root OF the tail.
The Decorah Press relates the fol-
lowing horrible occurrence as trans
piring in Winneshiek county last
Monday: "One Lewis jacobson, re-
siding in Springfield township, came
to town, and during the day imbibed
very freely Of his choice beverage
On arriving at home in the after
noon, ne became possessed Of the
fiend incarnate, and was bent on de-
struction. He seized a butcher knife
and severed the head slick and smooth
from his dog, as likewise he served
the cat, the next object in his way.
Then with demoniacal yell and
wild flourish of his knife, he declared
that he was ready for any man
Spying his half-brother, Lewis Lar
son, IN the field short distance from
the house. he made for him and sue
ceeded IN inflicting some very severe
wounas-cutting the muscular part
CT the left arm loose from the bone,
and running the knife into the LETT
shoulder to such depth as to pro
duce internal hemorage, from which
the doctor says it is doubtful if he
recovers. His intent evidently was
10 cut his brothers head off, for
which purpose the knife was raised
when the interference Of two other
men prevented the fearful tragedy"
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17

Gen. Eaton, Commissioner OF Edu-
cation, has collected from all availa-
bic sources list OF the names Of col
leges and collegiate institutes institu
ted in the United States. The to
tai number of names embraced in
this list is A6o, of which 306 appear
to be names of colleges, 66 Roman
Catholic schools, 6S colleges for te-
males, and 90 institutes or high
schools for males. In 100, the mum.
Der of English speaking people in the
United States was 100000 in 1871,
the number had increased to $4,000
600. This officer has also prepared
chronological table of universities
of Europe, which shows that the first
university started i'll Europe at Boil
onga, Italy, IN 1119. Other Euro.
pean countries founded their univer-
sites at the following times: France,
1196; England, 1901; Spain, 1922
Portugal, 1901 !; Austria, 1913 /;
Switzerland, 1868 Germany, 1886
Scotland, 1410; Belgium, 1426
Sweden, 1477; Denmark 1879; Po,
land, 1870; Holland, 1875 Ireland,
1896 Hungary. 1885; Finland, 1640;
Russia, 1855 Norway, 1911 and
Greece, 1928. The number of uni
yersities founded in Europe in each
century were as follows: In the 18th
century, 9; 18th century, IL; l4th
century, Is; 18th century, %; 10th Gen.
tury, 10; 18th century, g.; 18th CEN
tury, 13; 10Th century 21.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17

by HARRIET PRESCOTT sporroRD.

by HARRIET PRESCOTT gPoFFORD.
Sooner or later the storms shall beat
Over my slumbers from head to feet;
Sooner or later the winds shall rave
In the long grass above my grave.
| shall not heed them where lie,
Nothing their sound shall signify;
Nothing the headstone's fret Of rain;
Nothing to me the dark days pain.
Sooner or later the sun shall shine
With tender warmth on that mound Of mine
Sooner or later in summer air,
Glover and violet blossom there.
shall not feel it in that deep laid rest
The sheetiBg light fall over my breast.
Nor even note in those hidden hours
The wind blown breath of the tossing fow
Sooner or later the stainless SHOWS
Shall add their hush to my mute repose
Sooner or later shall slant and shift
And heap my bed with dazzling drift.
Chill though that frozen pail shall seem,
Its touch no colder can mako the dream
That wrecks not the sweet and sacred
dread,
Shrouding the city Of the dead.
Sooner or later the bee shall come
And fill the noon with its golden hum
Sooner or later on half poised wing
The blue birds warble about me ring.
Ring chirrup and whistle with glee,
Nothing his music means to me;
None Of these beautiful things shall knew
How seundly their lover sleeps below.
Sooner or later far out in the night
The stars shall over me wing their flight;
Sooner or later my darkling dews
Catch the white sparks in their silent soze.
Never ray shall part the gloom
That wraps me round in the kindly tomb !;
Peace shall be perfect for lip and brow
Sooner or later-oh, why not now?
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17
NEWS ITEMS.

Marshall Giddings, Of Michigan,
has been appointed Governor of
New Mexico.
The University Of Vermont has
opened its doors to women students.
Charles Francis Adams, of Mass,
formerly Minister to England, has
been rendered the position Of arbi-
traitor on the part Of the United
States for the settlement of the Ala
bama claims.
During July, the public debt was
diminished ss,7O1,976, making a to.
tai of s37,3T9,9ss, during the year
1871.
France, Austria and Great Britain
are to soon hold conference on the
Eastern question.
The Albanian lnsurrection has been
suppressed. 1t was an Insignificant
affair.
The reports of the great famine IN
Persia were greatly exaggerated. 1t
has now reached it's end.
Aleiers is again giving France a
little insurrectionary trouble.
John w. Jones, Clerk Of the U. S.
Senate, was seized with appoplexy
on the I'd.
The exact voting population oi
New York City is 1s4.6O7.
Count Ramasat takes Faver's post
as Minister Of Foreign Affairs.
John Slidell, of rebel fame, died in
Paris on the 29th alt.
Phoebe Cary, the poetess, died at
Newport, r. l., on the 31st of July.
The governing majority of the
French National Assembly have vot.
ed in caucus to prolong Thiers' term
Of office for 8 years and to allow him
to name Vice President as Presi
dent of the Council. The caucus al.
SO instructed the government to alb
stain from all interference in the
Roman question.
The Cincinnati Board of Council.
men have passed an ordinance re
pealirg the Sunday ordinance. There
is great excitment in Cincinnati il
consequence.
Charles Francis Adams has accept
ed the tender of Commissioner under
the Washington Treaty.
The London firm Of Jay Cooke 4
Co. has taken the balance OF the new
S per cent. loan.
Gen. Pleasanton has been formally
suspended from his Office as Commis
sioner Of Internal Revenue, ani
Deputy Commissioner Douglass take'
his place until tae Senate disposes 0
the case.
The British House of Common
has passed the bill providing for vot
ing by ballot.
Senator Summers San Doming'
speech was SO satisfactory to th'
Haytians that the leading officials o
Hayti, President Saget at their head
presented him, through the Ministe
to Washington, from that Republic,
testimonial medal. After takin!
time to consider the matter, MI
Sumner concluded to return the gift
on the ground that ''its acceptanc
would be contrary to tho spirit,
not the letter, Of the Constitution
which sorbids any person in my stu
alton from accepting any present {
any kind whatever from foreig
State"
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17

Speaking of the telegraph, the Chill
ians in their war with tho French
Burber King and the Araucanians,
have greatly profited by the inven-
ton. A Chilian explains why the In
dians have not cut the wires. When
the wires were set up, the General in
command called together the forty
or fifty Indian prisoners, ard showed
them the wires, and also coil con-
nectel with a powerful electric bat
tery. He told them, as secret, the
wire was to fasten the Indians TO.
This they laughed a.; when the Gen
eral called upon one OF the Indians to
hold the wire, and then asked him to
leave go,-whlch he said he conld
not, as his hands were burning. Al
ter two or three trials the Indians
would have nothing to do with the
wire, the secret Of which, when llber-
ated, they duly communicated to
their friends.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17
WANTED, for this paper, subscribers
W and advertisme ats. Apply IT wans
WALLACE,

UPHOLSTER \ UNDERTAKEN,
General Manufacturer and Dealer in Furni-
tnre Of all kinds, of Warranted Quality.
He has removed his entire stock 10 his sale
room and Mandatory, at the south end of
Toledo, on the Tama City road. He makes
and sells only first class goods, and sells
ONLY FOR cAsu. I3n37tf
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17

A down east editor received the
following touching appeal from ono
of his subscribers Mr. Edetur
Why doent you put in moar keedlng
mater we want lokels we want Muse
we want cdetoreal if you want I"
keep subscribers, you must Leve OUT
SO menny advertisements wish !
was edetur ide sho YOU"
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17

a baby who kisses his mother and
fights his father, may be said to bc
partial to his ma, and martial to his
pa.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17

One exceeding warm day in juno,
a neichbor met ar old man, and re-
marked that it was very hot. Yes
said Joe; iii it wasn't for one thing,
| should say we were gong to have
thaw.n sWhat is that 2 inquired the
friend. There's nothing froze,' said
Joe.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17

A PPELGATE & KINNE, Attorneys and
a Counse' 'lors at Law, Toledo, Iowa. OF
fice in Stones building, over W. c Walters
Grocery Store, y3n3tf
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17
ATTORNEYS, A

p G. MCINTYRE, Attorney and Counsel-
lls lor at Law, Toledo, Tama County,
Iowa. Office over Free & Morse's store.
24s4S
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17

GOODRICH, G. H,-Attorney and Cour-
u sellor at Law, Toledo, Tama County,
Iowa. Office, opposite Foster House. [Stf
G EO. L. BAILEY, Attorney at Law, Toledo,
u Iowa. Office over ". F, Johnston &
Co.'S. Store. 5tf
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17

THOMAS s. FREE, Attorney at law,
I Toledo, Iowa. Office in Court House.
Also U. s. COMMISSIONER. [v3n9tf
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17

G D. BRADSHAW, lSuccessor to Stru-
-. BILE & Bradshaw, Attorn'y s Counsel>
or at Law, Toledo. Tama County, Iowa..
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17

A II. LAWRENCE, Attorney and Coun-
IA ssllor At Law and Notary Public.
TOLEDO, TAMA COUNTY, IOWA.
Particular attention will be given to the
foreclosure Of Mortgages, Probate matters,
Collecting Claims and furnishing abstracts
Of Titles. Office over Wicting Bros store s
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17
PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE!
Samuel DeFrance.
PROPRIETOR.

TOLEDO. IOWA.
This House has been remodeled, reftted
and newly furnished, and it is now open for
the entertainment of the travelling public
1t gives better fare and for less money than
any other House west of the Mississippi. l
employ only accommodating servants for
waiting upon my guests. The Stabiing &C,
commodations are complete. [y3n2Otf
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17
British Revenue.

The revenue Of the British Gov.
ernment tor the year 1870 was e15,-
434,252, obtained from the following
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-12
The Last King of Ireland.

Roderic O'Connor, of the ancient line
of Connaught, was the last king who sat
on the throne of Celtic Ireland. His
character and exploits are painted with
no hattering hand by the monkish wri-
ters, who longed for his destruction, or
later historians, who have written in the
interest of the Roman church. All the
crimes and woes of fated Odipus are
attributed to the unhappy king who
ventured to strike last blow for the
freedom of ireland; who resisted with
obdurate patriotism the steel-clad le-
gions of the Pope and Henry H., and
who more than once seems to have been
on the eve of a final triumph. 1t is said
that Roderic was thrown in chains by
his father, who feared his savage tenn
per; that he put out the eyes of his two
brothers, and that he wasted in civil
feuds the forces that should have been
turned against the foe. He seems, in
deed, to have wanted prudence, and too
often to have been deceived by the
treacherous arts of Dermot and the
priests. Yet one cannot avoid review
ing with sympathy the story of the un-
happy monarch whose disastrous reign
was at least marked by sincere patri-
otism, and whose misfortunes were never
merited by his treachery or his servile
fear. Amidst his savage and ancestral
wilds the O'Connor, terrified by novel
dangers, assailed by the most powerful
monarch of the age, exposed to the an
athemas of the italian church, surroun-
ded by traitors, and scarcely safe from
the intrigues of his own sons or his am
bilious rivals, still maintained spirit
not unworthy of that long line of patriot
chiefs of whom he was destined to be
the last and it is grateful trait in the
character of Roderic that he strove once
more to revive, by liberal endowments
the famous College of Armagh, as if con.
scious that Ireland could only hope tc
secure its freedom by a general educa,
tion of its people. .....-... I........... ..
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-12
Railways Mt $4,000 a Mile. ,

A wooden railway on the 4 feet 81
inches gauge is being constructed from
the town of Sorel, at the confluence OF
the Richelieu river with the st. Law
renee, through Drummondville, to
Arthabaska, p. O., by Mr.. l.. A. SENEGAL,
contractor. The Montreal Herald gives
long account of recent trip on the
line. Upwards of 1000 men were at
work, and the rails are laid on a large
portion of the road. An experimental
trip was made, the train going at the
rate of 25 miles per hour, and running
with remarkable smoothness. The jour-
nal quoted furnishes the following in
teresting particulars: $500"
I The ties, which are of hemlook and
tamarac, are now brought down on
trucks from the woods through which
the railway runs they are put on q
rollway, run up to most ingenious circu-
lar saws, so gagged that at one operation
they are mortised the proper depth and
distance, not the difference of hairs
breadth being found between one and
another. AS fast as they are cut, and
the operation is very fast indeed, the
prepared ties are rolled over to differ
OuU lEOl Jndb Oll WhlCu UucJ WclO
received, an ordinary circular saw sides
them, and they are loaded up to be run
out to the place where they are wanted.
The wedges for keying up the rails are
also prepared here. The rails are of
maple, four by seven inches, and fourteen
feet long, the gauge of the line being four
feet eight and half inches. The cost
of the line, in which cost are included
stations, (nine in number), car and loco
motive depot, engine and repairing
shops, engine and tender, two passenger
cars, eight grain cars, and twenty-five
wood cars, is 5000 mile, in full for all
but the Yamaska Bridge which cost $780,
600. 1t should be mentioned that land
damages, fences, ETC., are included also
in this amount. In payment it was
agreed municipal and Government de-
bentures should be taken at par, and
nothing was to be paid except as work
to the extent of $4,000 was finished.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-12
A Keen Reply.

Legal bullies who ask women imper-
tinent questions in the witness-box ought
to get their deserts, as did the solicitor
general the other day in the celebrated
Tichborne case in England. The wit
ness was governess who had formely
been employed in the Tichborne family.
Governesses in England are generally
regarded as beings who are made to be
snubbed and insulted. So the solicitor
general snubbed and insulted this one,
while she was testifying to the identity
of the claimant to the Tichborne estate
with the young heir as she knew him
twenty years before. At last she had q
chance at him which she did not hesi-
tate to improve. "Was the young man
always polite to ladies ?" asked the selic-
itor-general. "He was, indeed, polite
toward ladies'" replied the governess !;
and with a well-understood emphasis
she added, gentlemen, / believe, always
are so." The courtroom burst into a
loud laugh, and the solicitor-general
turned red in the face.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-12
Interesting Electrical Experiment.

Astonishing as is the fact of the con-
centration of the power of lightning
flash into minute interval, yet as Won
derful is the extent of the earth's surface
affected by it, as will be seen from the
following experiments of the writer,
never before published A galvanometer
consists of delicately suspended mag
netic needle, surrounded by coil Of
copper wire, through which coil a
current of electricity can pass; when
ever this passage takes place, the needle
rapidly turns around its point of sus-
pension. This being understood, con-
nected the wire of galvanometer with
the water pipes of Baltimore, and the
other end of the coil was joined to gas
pipe of house in the southwest part of
the city. Thus vast metallic system
of electric nerves stretched away three
miles to the northwest, to the reservoir,
and about as many to the east and south
east over the city. A thunder storm
was raging at the time, at SO great dis
tance in the north that only the illumi-
nation of the clouds told when flash
occurred. Yet, whenever that flash took
place, the needle was instantly DETECTED
through ten or twenty degrees. The
two occurrences were simultaneous, ap-
psrently, for could detect no difference
in the instant of their manifestation.
Indeed, SO sure an indicator of the flash
was the galvanometer, that when I.shut
myself up in dark room, signalling to
an observer of the storm whenever the
needle moved, and receiving signal
from him when flash occurred, our
signals were always Simultaneous. The
next day it was ascertained that the
storm was over twelve miles distant
therefore, at least five hundred square
miles of the earth's surface were affected
induotively) at each flash of the light
ning.-Cor. Eusniag Post. Z .3n ~ Vali
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-12
THE LAST LAY OF THE MINSTREL.

1t was an ancient veteran Oslo
OF many a bloody fight, .....
And he ground his organ hideOusly
Before my door all night;
Nor prayer, nor pence, nor blaSphemy
Disturbed the aged wight. ..-.- r.
His threadbare coat was patched and stained
In spots of many hue, .r..
The primal stratum cropping out ...
OF regulation blue;"
The cape, incapable Of STAIN"
Was stained already through
The tropic sun had bronzed his cheeS
And battle left its trace '''
In many cut and seam anu scar =.
That ploughed his furrowed face,
Whose native beauty nothing owed
To soaps effemnate grace 81
And 1 cursed that ancient warrior
Peccarft / was wrong
To study out anathemas
Unmusical and strong,
And disentomb from buried tongues
Oaths polyglot and long,
which Needless fell on that fell wretch,
Remorseless but Lerene; -.
He wore my scanty patience out
with " Wearing Of the Green"
And slumber.qgelling infamy
Ycelpt ye HORSE Marine"
Then spake that fell destroyer fair,
And said, oh, monster bore,
OF discord supernatural,
Why dOst thou haunt my dOorl
If gold can buy thy absence, take
1t, go, and sin no more"
put up thy purse; the vain pursuit
OF gold allures not me-
But fain would detail a tale
rrSn ~ .data st,uuesu 1., misery;
A reckless youth like thee.
~ noy noVu thougntless 1oonshhess
>, Jolneu the U. :. Reg.
Lar army wnere an me! lost
~ DattIe TINS right leg,
place upon your manttlpiece-
Nay! thank me not, beg.
me leit was le1t put one snort week;
~, 4 lost IL win my hair
IN apacnes uluilt leave n patch
Y pom my Uranium pare;
Or heirloom, as ii We're.
.,,, ...... -
nt ny aIii ~ was anputatet on
.., beiow tiie snOu9er bone; a
Ta'ion lcolWaru ud that JOD
~ iovely arizona,
Tbs indian tbrt 10 o"r,,or o'0""'0
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-12

n CINCINNATI is said to,be more .depsely
populated than any city in this country.
The population is 10000 to the square
mile New York, the next most densely
populated city, has 1000 to the square
mile: Cincinnati has about 6S persons
to the square acre, London has 40, Ed
inburgh 40, and Dublin 80,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-12

suit of armor. When I recovered from
all this nonsense 1 resolved never again
to read another, and 1 have kept my
resolution"
We need not repeat all that passed on
this occasion. 1t is sufficient to say that
the result will show what they determ-
ined on.
The union Democrat., 1871-06-10

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