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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-05-08
A Queer Case Of Poverty.

Mr.. VIM. Mcdonnell tells ns by let
ter OF case of extreme destitution
which recently came under his obser.
vatlon in part Of the county locally
known as sand Ridge. Mr.. d. makes
an interesting story Of it, but it is SO
long we must condense it about 80
per cent:
In 1864 man came to this county
from OHIO, bringing his vile and
five grown sons with him. He was a
mill.wright, and will be remembered
as the builder of the old Foster mill,
in clay township. He had owned a
large mill in Ohio, aud was ia indepen.
dent circumstances there; but his mill
washed away, and other misfortunes
betel HIM and he came to Iowa poor
man. He was an industrious man.
but indulged his sons in idleness, and
supported them by his own labor.
by hard labor for several years he
accumulated some property, but after
his death his boys soon wasted it.
One Of these boys Mr.. Mcdonnell
met few weeks since. His long un.
combed hair was covered by a dilap.
idated hat. His pants and short coat
were made by himself Of corase linen
bagging. and were the only clothing
visible upon him. His breast and
knees were entirely uncovered. He
is strong, robust man; out prefers
living in miserable hut, with dirt,
rags and poverty as his portion, to
earning decent and comfortable liv-
ing by work. Hunting, fishing and
idleness; are his heaven.
One OF the sons of this shiftless
man appeared during McDonnel's
interview. His only article OF appar.
el was brief calico shirt. The to.
male portion Of the huthold deserted
her husband and two sons sometime
since, and married another man. The
remaining three do their cooking up.
on an old stove withou. any vessels,
and exist without dish Of any kind
to eat from. How they lived through
the past severe winter, nobody knows.
They have never been suspected Of
theft. The man seems happy and
hopeful, talks cheertully of his pros.
poets, and what hc proposes to do.
He is not llliterate; chronic laziness
seems to be his only failing.
Send missionary to Sand Ridge.
-Er.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-05-08
Church Statistics, az Shown
by the Last Census.

Probably no item in the census
appeals more strongly to the curiosi.
ty Of the people than does that ex.
hibiting the membership Of the vari.
GUS religious denominations. Tho
church statistics furnish some very
interesting facts. The church build.
ings in the United States number
62.552, affording accommodations to
ll,395,542 persons out Of the 27,-
100000 individuals over ten years
old IN this country. The total value
OF church property is s349,6l9,7SO.
The annexed table will show the
strength of various denominations in
the orde: of their numerical prepon-
derance:
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-05-08
FREDERICK DOUGLASS.

No name is more familiar to the
present generation Of Americans than
that placed at the head Of this arti.
Gle.
The man who gave himself this
name, and has made it honorable OH
the page of American history is now
far on in life. He stands six feet or
more, broad shouldcred, and we'll
formed; his face pale yellow, and his
features striking In every part his
hair, still thick and bushy, is blanched
by the frosts Of time and toll.
This man has come up from the
lowest depths. He was born a slave
on one OF the plantations Of Mary
land. His mother was a Mandiugo
"a proud race with European fea-
lures, wavy hair, erect and stately
forms, instinct, with intelligence and
senslbility, vigorous and brave. His
father was a white man whom he
never knew. In a nameless hove.
this child Of their intercourse first
saw the light, and there, herded with
hundreds OF others as abject as him
self, he passed the first years of his
life. Torn from his mother as soon
as he was born, she never saw hun
halt a dozen times. She was worked
on a field twelve miles away. She
could only visit him at nlght-walk-
ing this distance to hold him in her
arms for an hour, and then walking
back to begin her morning task at
four o'clock. And yet she did this
more than once, though she had
nothing to bring him but her love
She could furnish neither raiment
nor food nor bed she could not
even mend or wash the little tow
shirt which for long time was his
only garment.
| In brief space she had ceased tc
come at all-she was broken and dy
ing-she passed away to the invisible
realm.
The boy grew on. He saw the
pangs of slavery on every hand. In
tellgent and thoughtful, he began tc
revolve the bitter question, Why
am a slave ?' When ten years old
he was sent to Baltimore to be 8
house servant with Mrs. Sophia
Aud. This kind hearted woman be
gan to teach him his letters. lie made
rapid progress, and she was proud o
her charge. She was going to make
HIM proficient at least, in reading thu
Bible. The husband found 1t ou'
and immediately interposed. But thu
boy had tasted enough to create de.
sires that nothing could reprcss
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-05-08

Jack O'Neal, brother of Thomas
ana Joe O'Ncal, who were just tried
at Mt. Carroll, ILL.,, and convicted for
the murder Of Rextord, was taken to
Council Bluffs last Sunday, where be
will be arraigned tor murder. It is
said that one OF the brothers has
"peached," and says he can point out
three graves on the island at Clinton
near their den of infamy, whore are
buried three Of Jacks victims.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-05-08
Percentage
of increase
in member.

The percentage given in the above
tables are, in each case, with the ex-
ceptlon Of the Mormons, much less
than those of the decade between the
years 1850 and 1860. The Unlver-
salists and Friends, or Quakers, each
lost nine per cent during the last de.
cade. OF all the creeds, the Metho.
dists stand first in respect to the az.
gregate value of church edifices, the
Catholics second, the Presbyterians
third the Baptists fourth, and Epls-
copalians fifth and the Congregations
alists sixth.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-05-08
Cash Rates Of Advertising.

Legal advertising, at legal rates.
For the use of large cuts and wood type
an additional charge. varying from 10 to 20
per cent, will be made
Prompt settlements will be expected with
oil time advertisers, at the close of each
calender quarter. Transient advertise.
ments must be paid for in advance.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-05-08

President Grant is now enjoying
western trip. He expects to visit
Idaho Springs, Colorado, and stop Ut
Galena on his return to Washington.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-05-08
qh. fo'sa' faro"iel..
Is published every Thursday morning by
WARREN HARMAN.

If paid strictly in advanes the subscription
price Of the CnRoNIcLE yWill be $l.75 q
year; otherwise 1t will be $500, and no
subscription will be allowed to run over
two years unpaid.
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Silent Muster Roll,

"ln spite Of the trouble Of every State in
the Union-in spite of the censure Of the
Legislature Of his own S1ate-in spite Of
every sentiment of patriotism, of honor of
Justiee--backed only by the "liberar' party
which embraces the elements of the rebel
lion, and which on test vote in the House
gave it 53 votes-Mr. Sumner persists in
his proposition to strike from the Army
Register the records ef the civil war, and
from the banners Of the Republic names of
battles fought by our soldires in defence Of
Liberty and the Union. ~ Boston Globe.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-05-08
Alsng the sbadowy lines,
See the pale leaders ride,
Beneath the torn ensigns
That tell us where they died.

fon tattered flag behold
That Lyons heroes bore
Stained in each faded fold
With their dead leaders gore
That nag the field records
Where, Sighting, prone he fell!
Wouldst blot the golden words
His golden deeds that tell?
And here IS Rllsworth's guard,
And here is NcPherson's braves,
Ard they with Cooke who wsrred,
And found with him their graves
And he of Lexington,
And Winchester who died,
And, dying, "Lay me down,
And save the Gag" he cried.
And they, great hearted men,
Crowned with . fadeless crown,
Who manned their cannon when
The Cumberland went down.
And they on Southern waves
Who fought the fight Of faith,
And found, in corral caves.
Tas hero sleep of death.
Some felt with bullets gored,
Some hurled by shells to dust,
And some by cut of sword,
And some by bayonet thrust,
And some their glory carved
With might Of god-like men,
And some (sad fate were starved
In Libby's rotten pen
But all their birthrights bought
BY deeds Of lofty name,
And gained the goal they sought
Amid grand acclaim.
Their Gags the legends bear
That hate can ne'er efface,
Their fame is freedoms care
Their eulogists, q Race
'Tis done Suspend the call
Dismiss the dread parade!
Theirs is the shroud and pail
Ours is the Scroll they made!
But on each mound unstained,
The changeless vow we gave!
Their banners, unprofaned,
FoREvERMoKE STALL wAvEl
But lift no warning tongue
To bid their spoilers pausol
No slur con do them wrong,
Who gained q worlds applause!
Along the path of Time,
High souls alone have trod,
They make their march sublime,
To join their leader, God
I'D. DLAKyLEY.
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A South American paper denies
that the monkeys are dying Of the
yellow faver.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-05-08

Office on High Street, last Of Tama Coun-
ty Bank.
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Eface the fretting tauntsl
No more shall freedom fout
On Histoly's page her vaunts!
Take down The war worn flags,
What though Columbia bleeds!
Spit IN the worthless ragsl
They tell Of brothers " deeds
See where, from mortal scars,
The blood-red tide did pour.
See, on these faded bars,
Where dipped "fraternal' gore
Here heroes wrote in blood,
Their martyrdom for race!
Beslime the drops aoith mud!
'Tis record of disgrace!
Besmear each SHINING name
That Liberty wrote down
Blot out tie deeds of fame
That made the worlds reaown
Level each lowly grave
That bears a soldiers cross!
For every ransomsd slave
We mourn q hero's loss
What sooth Forgotten now
The lofty deeds they wrought
Snatch from each silent brow
The wrea tbs fer which they fought |
There's but screed Of shame
Who thus to death went down!
Consign the page to fame,
Though God himself should frown |!
II.
Nay Back, ye craven Klanl
Art heritage Of hate
Damned be the tongue Of man
Their fame would desecrate
The base, unmindful knave
That doth their graves profane,
Himself is but slave
For whom they died IN vain!
Shall desecrating hands
Be laid upon the scroll
Whose shining page extends
From pole to answering pole
Shall black oblivion's pail
Great Lincoln's anne veil o'sr,
And his redeemed roll call
"Eix hundred thousand more 7"
Shall he whose tattered lines
The Wilderness passed through,
Be pillaged Of the shrines
Whence our salvation grew!
Shall each sky-reaching arch
Oerwhelmed and crumbled be.
That marks the wondrous march
OF Sherman 10 the sea?
Great God! They freed Race
Whose brows ys would uncrown!
Climb to the skies, and trace
Their pinnacled renownl
The heaven uplifting shaft
That unborn worlds shall view,
Their glory shall engraft
Upon the pictured Buel
III.
Come forth ye serried host,
From out your cofined gloom;
The weaths your blood that cost,
They riflsd from your tomb!
Stand where in silent rank,
Your Captains bade you stand!
Stand where in death you sank,
Dy fratricidal handi
Rest pct the muffisd drum!
No sound the 81 DOM shall break /
Their silent lips are dumb,
Whose wounds alone do speak
But call, with bated breath,
From Gods unwritten scroll,
The muffled names Of death
The Silent Muster Roll.
O, mournfnl reveille!
0, pitiful parade j!
What demons soul hath he,
Th.t .u;ya. thosA heroos dneds
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-05-08

QLANXS.-BLANK DEEDS, MORTGA
~ 01o, Quit Claims and Justices BiAak
ct the CuaoNietE once
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-12-27

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from Thursdays Daily Herald.

o, 1 SAY! what did you get in your
stocking.
Where is the afcln who'll bet us
this amt Christmas.
HEARTS ftal of joy this morning,
and stomachs full of cramps tonight.
WE suppose everybody is for stocking
things this morning. $50
A MERRY Christmas to- every
mothers son of you, even If it costs
twenty-five cents drink.
WE HUNG up our stocking by
the chimney with care, and if some
body didn't steal 1t, liar we are.
THE bruiser's Christmas gift to
another bruiser-pattinga new head
Oh him. ~ 80
TIE inequalities in the surface of
e m street, between Llmar and Syca-
moro, were surfaced up yesterday by
the street graders. .-4-
THE editorial fraternity of the State
of Texas will cept the local Editors
compliments of the season, andifn ex-
change send US quarter piece.
SCENE two Dallas darkies: "Pomp,
sposin you wa gum to die dis day,
what would you ask de Lord?" Pomp :
"pd jist ask de Lord to wait till Christ
mas wa ebert"
AND while we ring the silver bells OF
joy to-day, let us remember that thtre
are some hands who do not touch the
cord, some lips who cannot join in the
sweet jubilition, but from whose heart,
like the cry of the lost when no one Is
near, comes the saddened plant, nc
CiAistmas for mel
PROF. GEO. A. CALHoUNE, late OF
Jefferson, and a graduate of Hampden-
Sidney College, Va, has arrived in our
city, and viii be connected with Prof
Aidehoff in the management of Dali
as College, and he win. no doubt, add
greatly in. the CONTINUED success
of shis institution. Prof C. is gener-
ally acknowledged to be an able in
stuactor and : scholar Of brilliant
o1toInmen(1
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-12-27

tfaoltMo and Manageable W. % mary
soldlms ol parade
WINS gamiNunn was walking
along Commerce street yesterday al'
tcfnoon, Carrying on ms ohmddor n
gun, II suddenly discharged. Foitu
nnteiy no onc was near enough 10 TO-
colyc any injury from H.
OFFICER CRABBE "strn,k llc' In
the shape Of ono thousand d0llnir'
which ho received for the arrest OF tie
regro murderer Bill Norris, which AZ
rest was made in this city oil Tie l]iH
inst.
BY A very Democratic little sign dc-
pending from an iron rod running OUT
from an embrasure Of the second story
entrance, Oh Lamar street, to ochhei-
Ter g. Davis building the public are
directed, without the least superfuity,
10 orr new sherill's Office.
AFTER operating for two hours on a
door to freight car, Oh the Pacific
Road, night before last, the "cracks-
man" found his perseverance, rewarded
by the door yielding to his energies;
but the car being empty, the returns
for his avarice, to say the very least,
were rather annoying.
In FRYING up large stone that he
might run the line OF his fence straight,
a farmer near this city, suddenly found
his crow bar slipping out of his hand
and entering hole under the stone
On removing the stone he found gold
watch in n hole in which his crow-bar
ha d penetrated. The issue of this en-.
ter prize must have been most crafty
ing.
A sickening rumor prevailed on the
streets yesterday afternoon, that TWO
men who had become intoxicated laid
down on a short curve on the Central
track below Sherman, and that the
night passenger train, bound south, on
Friday night, had run over them and
severed their bodies in twain. Late in
in the afternoon a contradiction of the
rumor was current, many denouncing
it as a stupid hoax.
IT WILL be seen, by reference to the
proceedings of the City Council, that
they have allowed the petition of the
Texas and Pacific Railroad Company,
asking for the issuance of the bonds Of
the city for 100000. AS there see ms
to be some doubt in the min Is Of some
of the Council as well as citizens, us to
the legality of the action, it seems to
us that, in justice to the people, as well
as innocent parties who may become
purchasers of these bonds, full inves-
tigation should be had into the subject
before any further action is taken.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-12-27

70 agreeable to previous notice the
Calico Ball took place at Fields Hall,
OH Thursday evening. The attendance
was unusually large, and all the partic-
ipants enjoyed themselves to the ut
most The receipts, which are to lie
applied to the construction Of aiiigh
School in this city, amounted to over
two hundred dollars. OF the young
gentlemen present the handsomest one
was -, but he is too modest to per-
nit his name to Lc thus employed.
The handsomest of the "Old boys was
Colonel Dent, the Superintendent of
the Street Railroad, and we give his
name because he is old enough and
clever enough to stand it. The ladies
being all so charming in personal APP
pearance and manners, leaves us no
room to individuali2e.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-12-27
[FrOm SUNDAY. DaIls neraId.l

Very little corn is brought into this
market.
a BAD rule of thrce-threc card
NOME
FaoM one thousand to fifteen hun
dred dollars are paid out in this city,
daily, for hides.
SEVERAL loads of cotton were re-
cpived in the city yesterday from the
Immediate neighborhood of Eunis, a
station on the Central Road, eighteen
miles south Of this city.
FREIGHT Agent Easton received a
package Friday night by the heavenly
express For further particulars ia
quire at the Central Railroad Freight
Office.
A GREEN grocer In this city has
about two hundred turkeys which he
herds In The street, and which are a.
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lFrom Tuesdays Daily IIerald.l

MOST of the calico balists wore mus
! lin.
To snow complexion have the
clouds come at last.
If there is anything towards which
the Secretary of the navy leans more
than anything else it is saline.
THE Pacific road like stylish young
lady, continues to add't to her switches.
She was arranging to take OH another
yesterday.
THE few Radical carpet-baggers of
this city, who have enjoyed the loaves
and fishes under the Davis administra.
ton, are now feasting on that to which
Nebuchadn ezzar came to at last-grass
THE tolling of the Methodist church
bell yesterday, was part of the funeral
service over the body Of Miss Cook,
member of a family of that name re-
siding near this city. Her intermc1t
took place at the city cemetery.
TIE ill-con iition of the roads had
very manifest effect upon the receipts
of cotton yesterday. There was quite
falling off in the receipts from the
day before. Business, however, suf-
fured none and the pavements were
as full of people as usual.
CAPTAIN CREE, owner of a line of
schooners plying between Galveston
and Tampico in the fruit trade, and to
whom Texas is principally indebted
for much of the superior tropical es-
culents found in her market, was in the
city yesterday.
Two cotton bales fell from wagon
in front of our Office yesterday after
noon, OIL pair Of very small mules
who behaved with judicious quietness
until the driver could relieve them
from what, if they could have thought
at all, they must have considered us
piling it on little too heavy.
On fence up Main street there still
adheres one of the petitions of the
Wichita Railroad Company, to the
sufiragans of our city, viz: "Vote for
the Dallas and Wichita proposition"
In front of it stood a colored damsel,
who, after much study and mental
strain, managed to understand that ii
directed the reader to do something,
But she took it TO be an advertisement
of q new dress. Putting her arms
akimbo, and throwing her head on one
side, she remarked aloud: "Wcll I'll
get one of dem da tings, suah!
wonda' if da has trailsp'
OUR friend Grill Miller, OH the west
side of the river, near the railroad
crossing, in this county, has recently
put in operation his new mill, from
which he is now tuning out as fine
flour as is to be found in any city in the
United States. Wehave tried his -four
and know that we speak truly in the
premises. The mill and all the ma
chinery Is new and perfect in every
particular, andwecordially recommend
it to our readers.
We were pleased to meet in our city
yesterday Colonel w. IL. Sparkle, our
authorized agent at Shreveport. The
Colonel is in excellent health and
shares the same opin.on relative TO
the prospects of our city that every
sensible man must entertain--that it
is grand thing now, but who can tell
where it will end. TIE HERALD Office
is under many obligations TO Colonel
Sparkle for his valuable services, and
always has welcome for him when
he visits Dallas.
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$1,000 Donation.
DALLAs, December 23

To the Editor OF TIE DALLAS HERALD:
Permit me through the columns Of
your paper to tender the thanks of all
fIiendsof education, and especially the
committee, to his Honor Ben Long,
Mayor Of Dallas, for the mnnificeni
donation of one hundred acres of land
in the county Of Dallas. upon the con-
dition that the State Male University
shall be located within the Limits offhe
city OF Dallas. have valued the land
at 81 900.
IN. T1fUENoSD.
nf com n fIfcc.