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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-01-09

BARTLETT HOUSE.
CHAS. HEt 1ICK, Proprietor.
THIS house has lately been newly fur
1 nished and otherwise improved, and il
now promises to give travellers ample and
satisfactory Accommodations. Centrally
loo ted and with good s3abls room counossS
ed with the house. Att
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24

To fatten horse that has fallen off
in flesh is sometimes tedious business
indeed the work of months. The fol
lowing suggestions To accomplish it,
however, though without paternity.
look to us as wise and to the purpose
Many good horses devour large guam
titles Of grain and hay and still continue
thin and poor: the food eaten is not
properly assimilatcd. II the usual food
has been unground hay, nothing but
change will effect any desirable altera
ton in the appearance Of the animal.
In case oatmeal cannot be obtained
readily, mingle busllel of tiax-sced
with bushel Of barley, one of oats, and
another bushcl of Indian corn, and let
it he ground to a fine meal. This will
be fair proportion for all his food. Or
the meal or the barley, oats and corn,
in equal quantities, may first be pro-
cured, and one-fourth part of oil-cake
mingled with it, when the meal is
sprinkled on cut food. Feed two or
three times daily, mingled with a peek
of cut hay and straw If the horse will
eat that grccdily, let the quantity be
gradually increased until he will eat four
or six quarts at every feeding, three
times a day. SO long as the animal will
eat this allowance, the quantity may be
increased little every day. Avoid the
practice Of allowing Il horse to stand by
a rack well filled with hay. In order to
fatten horse that has run down in
flesh, the groom should be very par
ticular to feed the animal no more than
he will eat up clean and lick the manger
for more. e.-G"rmdntowR Iricgrdph.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24
PERSONAL.

WADE HAMPTON is lecturing in the
South.
Joaquin MILLER is only moderately
honizcd in London.
The late Edwin Forrest lett diamonds
to the value Of $4,000.
GEN. DIX once occupied the chair cdi-
torial of an Albany paper.
GAIT SUFFER-, discovcrer of gold in
California, is i'll Washington.
SENATOR MORTON advocates the aboli-
ton of the Electoral College.
We read that Gov. Oglcsby, of Hi
nois, is shortly to be married.
GEN. DIX, of New York, is the Oldest
Governor in the United States
PRESIDENT JUAHEz, of Mexico, chews
plug tobacco and smokes clay pipes.
WILLIAM EDWARDS, of ESSEX county,
n. j., has been an invctcratc smoker for
so years.
BENNETT will remain in Europe until
June, Connery remaining in charge of
the Hcraid
In 1913 Sir Humphrey Davy consid-
cred it visionary to attempt to light Il
city with gas.
BRIGHAM YoUNG is the father of hun
dred and seventeen children, according
to last accounts.
CHILDs, of the Philadelphia Lcogcr,
attributes his success to the reliability
and respeetability of his paper.
SIR HENRY HOLLAND, the great En-
glish physician, although 81 years old,
is plucky enough to cross the Atlantic.
The Fifth Avenue Theater, in New
York, recently destroyed by fire, be-
lOnged to the widow of the late Jim
Fisk.
SENATOR SUMNER is the possessor of
the original manuscript of Burns noble
song, "Scots wha hae wi Wallace
bled."
The Arcadian New York; pro-
uounces Edmund Yates "one of the
sorriest shams which modern English
literature has produced.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER says: "Don't
whip the children if they snigger and
laugh during prayers. l don't think it
hurts prayer to laugh"
THE woful intimation is given that
Sergeant Bates has got British Union
Jack, and is coming over to carry it
across the American continent.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24

Prof. Law gives the following receipt
for this disease: When a hog is attacked,
dash buckets of cold water over the
body, and throw purgative injection
into the rectum, composed of six ounces
of sulphate of soda and one or two tea
spoonfuls of spirits Of turpentinc in ten
ounces of water. Setons saturated with
oil of turpentiue may be inserted under
the skin behind the ears or the back of
the neck may be blistered by actively
rubbing in the following mixture: spirits
of turpentine and liquid ammonia, one
ounce of each; powdered cantharides,
two drachms.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24
THE PRiNkS OF 4 MONKEY.

The Nord is responsible for the follow
ing account of horrible accident which
has just happened at MontroSue, vii
lage near Paris. A. M. Dumas, residing
there, an agent of manufacturing chem
lists in Rouen, has kept for the last three
mon hs n black ape, which had been
brought to him from Africa. 1t was NJ.
Dumas custom every evening before
going to bed to take glass of can
sucrcc, into which he put little orange
water. The monkey, which was in the
bedroom and saw him do this, is believed
to have formed the purpose of repeating
the act. NJ. Dumas had Just received
from his employers specimen of nitric
acid which he was to sell to retail deal
er in Paris. After having opened and
examined the bottle, he prepared his
glass of sugar and water, went to bed
and fell asleep. The monkey then pour
ed the contents of the bottle into the
glass and retired. Feeling thirsty dur
ing the night, NJ. Dumas rose and swal-
lowed the poison. He died shortly after
ward, having suffered the most excru-
ciating agony. The Steele adds to what
is given above that when the neighbors
came in the monkey was seen with the
empty bottle in its hand.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24
AGRICULTURAL.
winter-FatteninS Sheep.


In commenting ON this subject, the
Rural Home remarks:
The feeder takes in hand flock of
sheep in medium condition, and the
problem for him to solve is, how to put
them in high condition in the market
during the latter part of the winter, or
in the fore part of the spring This we
believe he can accomplish with the best
economy by feeding them high during
the two latter autumn months, and then
carrying them along on medium feed
during the rest of the time he keeps
them.
Every farmer who has handled this
class of stock ought to know that there
is great difference in the cost of fatten-
ing sheep which are put in winter quar-
ters in low condition, in comparison with
those which so into the yards in good
order If sheep has been losing flesh
during the latter part of the fall, it re-
quires considerable effort to turn him
round when cold weather sets in, and
set him on the road to good market !;
good shelter must be had, and an abun-
dance of the most nutritious food. On
the other hand, if he has been steadily
gaining during the same period, it re-
quires much less food through the win
ter to put him in good marketable con-
dition in the spring.
This fact is so well understood by
skillful feeders that they refuse to buy
stock sheep which are in low condition
in the early part of winter. They deem
it cheaper to buy flesh and fat than to
put it on poor carcass in cold weather.
In view of these facts, it is economy to
begin feeding grain to wethers as soon
as the first of October. If the pastures
are good, SO much the better, but feed
grain nevertheless. The rate at which
the sheep will fatten will be quite salts
factory. The feed need not be heavy,
but it will be found, if the scales are
tried, that more weight Will be gained
from bushel of corn, fed in the fall on
grass, than if fed in winter i'll the yards,
and in conjunction with hay and straw.
A supply of salt should be kept in the
pasture in a covered trough, so that the
sheep can have access to it at all times
and, of course, there should be an abun-
dance Of good water. Corn can he fed
very conveniently in the ear, cracking it
in pieces, and scattering it over the
ground in n dry place, or it may be
shclled and fed in troughs. The feeding
places should be changed frequently, so
as to be sweet, and the poorer pastures
of the field should be selected for this
purpose.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24
VARIETIES.
WHALING grounds -SchOol-houses.

WHALING ds-School-houses.
A QUILTING party is now styled piece
jubilee.
An awful swell-The cheek after
toOthache.
Why are teeth like verbs? Because
they are regular, irregular, and defective.
NEVER laugh at a man with a pug
nose. You don't know what may turn
up.
"PAws for reply" as the cat said
when she scratched the dog for barking
at her.
WHAT is the difference between iailor
and jeweler? One watches cells, and
the other sells watches.
A LITTLE boy in school gave one of the
best definitions ever given of economy:
"Paring potatoes thin"
A YOUNG man who proposed to hand
some but heartless creature the other
evening suggested very popular poem
the Beautifuls No.
The man who set up all night, weigh
ing ton of coal with pair of steelyards,
and by the pailful, to see that he had re-
ceived full weight, thought he was ahead
q few pounds until he remembered that
he had not deducted the weight of the
pail.
THE Titusville Press says can in
toxicated printer in East st. Louis wan
dered into shoe shop in a fit of mental
alteration and set up several sticksful of
shoe pegs, and took proof of his matter
in the boot press before he realized his
awful condition"
THE Savannah Ncrs says: "There is
a little boy in Macon who can stand on
the sole of his head twenty minutes with
out his liver turning over. This is be-
cause he shot his grandmother in the
left spectacle with an Alabama sling.
His father salted him down so that he
can't take his ease in the usual direction,
and he gets mp on his head to rest HIM
self"
Il AM glad" said 4 missionary to an
Indian chief, "that you do not drink
whisky but it grieves me to find that
yonr people use 50 much of it." "Ah,
yes," said the red man, and fixed an i'm
pressive eye upon the preacher, which
communicated the reproof before he ut
tered it, "we Indians use great deal OF
whisky, but we do not make it.
Americana are said to be the most in
genious and original advertisers. But
what theater manager on this side of the
briny deep ever equaled the annexed,
which is from Liverpool paper:
"Wanted-Two hundred boys to pick up
the buttons that fall from the gentle
mans waistcoats by their screams OF
laughter at the great Rollin Howard as
4 rfU rgrrCS "
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24
CURRENT ITEMS.

A FRENcHMAS can't talk with his hands
tied.
The Mobile Tfibmic brought, at forced
sale. Sc, 800.
THERE were 131 days of last year on
which it rained.
MASSACHUSETTS drank SiS, 4O7. 9S worth
of liquors last year.
PHILADELPHIA consumes $500, 600 gal
Ions of milk year.
THE surviving soldiers of the Mexican
war are to be pensioned.
THE patients in the Alabama Insane
Asylum Issue weekly paper.
ELEVEN hundred and ten accidental
deaths in New York during 1872.
One hundred and forty New Workers
committed self-murder last year.
A COLD BATH Immediately after turn
ing out in the morning is injurious.
The largest library in the West is at
Ann Arbor. II contains y, 900 volumes.
EIGHT hundred and eighty-sevcn Bal
timoreans died from consumption i'll
1872.
THE city of Louisville will distribute
10000 tons of coal among its poor this
winter.
ISLANDERS are like flies, they leap over
all mans good parts to light only upon
his sores.
THE course of study in the Naval
Academy is to be heightened from four
to six hours.
THE castor oil plant is now cultivated
in California, and an average crop of 400
pounds of oil to the acre is obtained.
The value of the manufactured pro-
ducts of New Hampshire ten years ago
was $37, 900, 900. Now it is 81, 600, 900.
Ir has been observed at Charlestown,
this year, that all the convicts pardoned
from the Massachpsetts State Prison for
sickness, have died within ten days after
leaving.
NEARLY all the submarine cables hith-
crto laid having been made in England,
it is gratifying to learn that one, for the
first time, has been manufactured i'll San
Francisco.
NIAGARA FALLS WAS nearly dry for a
single day in the winter of 1913 cn ac-
count of an easterly wind, which drove q
large portion of the water from the river
nto Lake Erie.
In compliance with the new Internal
Revenue law 300 Assistant Assessors
were dismissed last month. Eleven hun
dred remain, but all will be out of the
service by July l.
The success hitherto achieved in nj
most circling the world with telegraph
wires, has resulted in establishing tcle
graphic communication from Australi:
to California, length of wire no los.
than 90, 900 miles, enabling messages t.
be sent between those places in foul
hours and half
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24
BISHOP POTTS, OF UTAH

Bishop Potts, of Salt Lake City, was
the husband of three wives and the hap
py father of fifteen interesting children.
Early in the winter the Bishop deter
mined that his little ones should have a
good time on Christmas, so he concluded
to take trip down to San Francisco to
see what he could find in the shape of
toys with which to crafty and amuse
them. The good Bishop packed his
carpet-bag, embraced Mrs. Potts one by
one kissed each of her affectionately,
and started upon his journey.
He was gone little more than a week,
when he came back with fifteen beautiful
mouth-organs in his valise for his dar-
lings. He got out of the train at Salt
Lake, thinking how joyous and exhilerat-
ing it would be at home on Christmas
morning when the whole fifteen of those
mouth-organs should be in operation
upon different tunes at the same moment.
But Just as he entered the depot he saw
group ofwom en- standing in the ladies'
room apparently waiting for him. As
soon as he approached the whole twenty
OF them rushed up, threw their arms
about his neck and kissed him, exclaim-
ing:
oh, Theodore, We are $3.50 glad
!ou have come back Welcome home
Welcome, dear, dear Theodore Wei
come once more to the bosom of your
family }? and then the entire score of
them fell upon his neck and cried over
MS shirt front and mussed him.
Ihe Bishop seemed surprised and en-
oafrassed Struggling to disengage him.
sell, he blushed and said
Really ladies', this kind of thing is
~eu enough-it is interesting and all
'iat but there must be some kind of a
-that is, an awkward sort of a-excuse
me, ladies', but there seems to be, as it
were, a slight misunderstanding about
me-I am Bishop Potts"
We know it, we know it, dearest"
'ney exclaimed in chorus, "and We are
70 glad to see you safe, safe at home.
We have all been right well while you
were away, love"
1t gratifies me, ;" remarked the Bish-
o2 "to learn that none of you have
eeen prey to disease. / am filed with
oiissful serenity when contemplate the
i+cs but, really, do not understand
shy you should rush into this railway
''a'ion and hug me because your lives
are active and your digestion good. The
precedent is bad it is dangerous r'
Oh, but we didn't ~ they exclaimed
III chorus. We came here to welcome
'ou because you are our husband"
Pardon me, but there must be some
n'tie,-that is to say, as it were, / should
"ihs not. Women, you have mistaken
your man ~
oh, no, dearest!" they shouted, eve
ere married to you while you were
#. "hat J! exclaimed the Bishop,
yon don't mean to say that"
p.' les love Onr husband, William
S' o~n' died On Monday, and on Thurs
-y Brigham had vision, in which he
directed to seal us to you and so
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24
which he was commanded to seal Simp-
sons widow to Potts.

sons widow to Potts.
Then the Bishop stumbled around
among the cradles to his writing-Gcsk,
where he felt among the gum rings and
rattles for his letter-paper, and then ad-
dressed a note to Brigham Young, ask
ing him, as a personal favor, to keep
awake until after Christmas. "The
man must take me for founding hos
pital, he said. Then the Bishop saw
clearly enough that if he gave presents
to the other children and not to the late
Simpsons, the bride relict of Simpson)
would probably souse down on him, fun
bic among his hair, and make things
warm for him. So, packing his carpet
bag, he started again for San Francisco
for sixty-four more mouth-orGans, while
Mrs. Potts gradually took leave of him
in the entry-all but the red-haired wo-
man, who was up stairs, and who had to
be satisfied with screeching good-by at
the top of her voice.
On his way home, after his last visit
to San Francisco, the Bishop sat in the
car by the side of man who had left
Salt Lake the day before. The stranger
was communicative. In the course of
the conversation he remarked to the
Bishop:
That WAS pretty little affair up at
the city on Monday"
"What affair ?" asked Potts.
"Why, that wedding McGrath's wild
ow, you know-married by proxy"
You don't say" replied the Bishop.
AZ didn't know McGrath was dead"
Yes; ne died on Sunday, and that
night Brigham had a vision, in which
he was ordered to seal her to the Bsh-
op."
Bishop ~ exclaimed Potts. "What
Bishop?'
We'll, you see there were fifteen of
Mrs. McGrath and eighty-two children,
and they showed the whole lot off on
old Potts. Perhaps you don't know
him?'
The Bishop gave a wild, uncarthly
shrek and went into hysterical fit, and
writhed upon the floor as if he had hy-
drophobia When he recovered he
leaped from the train and walked back
to San Francisco. He afterward took
the first steamer for Peru, where he en-
tered monastry and became celibatc.
His carpet-bag was sent on to his fam
lily. 1t contained the balance of the
mouth-organs. On Christmas morning
they were distributed, and in less than
half an hour the entire pos children were
sick from sucking the paint off of them.
A doctor was called, and he seemed SO
much interested in the family that Brig
ham divorced the whole concern from old
Potts and annexed it to the doctor, who
Immediately lost his reason, and would
have butchered the entire family if the
rcd-haired woman and the oldest boy
had not marched him off to the lunatic
asylum, where he spent his time trying
to arrive at an estimate OF the number of
his children by his ciphering with an
impossible combination of the multiple
cation table and algebra .idclcr.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PoPE.-A
large deputation of Roman Catholics,
from Ireland, waited on the Pope re-
Gently, and presented an address re-
citing the benefits conferred on Ireland
by the Holy See, and rendering his
Holiness contribution of Peters pence.
The Pope, responding, deplored the in
gratitude of the people, who permitted
the spoliation of the Church. He
made an exception in favor of the Irish
people, whom he praised for their en-
during attachment to the Church, and
congratulated them on the preservation
of their faith. He concluded by giving
the apostolic blessing to Ireland.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24
Cooking Food for stock.

The advantage of cooking food for
stock, especially mich cows and young
stock, is fast becoming one of the set
tied questions in agriculture. We hardly
know dairyman who does not pour
boiling water over his cut hay and meal
or bran, even # he does not cook it by
steaming. 1t is found to economise
feed, to increase the flow of milk, and
promote appetite. Cows will eat much
more of cut hay and feed steamed or
mois.ened with boiling water than they
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24
4 MYSTERIOUS CHAIR.

A lady friend of our assistant informs
him of strange freak played by one OF
her chairs last week. She had been sit
ting in her chair operating her sewing
machine, when her attention was divert
ed to the crib by the cry of baby occu-
pant some five or six months old. Lay
ing aside her work the lady arose, went
to the crib and took the child out, and
was soothing it, when, happening to
look around, she observed slight
tremor in the chair she had Just vacated,
and then slow fitting commenced, the
chair gradually coming over until it lay
fiat upon the floor, as if gently placed
there by unseen hands, not the least
noise accompanying the movement OF
the chair. No one was in the room at
the time except the lady and the child,
and they were some ten feet from the
chair. She sat and watched the move
ment from beginning to end, which oc-
cupied, she thinks, about six or seven
seconds. She is much exercised over
the affair, being utterly at loss to ac-
count for such strange occurrence. She
is an intelligent lady, not in the least
given to superstition, but is inclined to
look upon it as n token of some impend-
ing calamity, and is nervously awaiting
the issue, and asking herself, "What
does it foreshadow?" The event has
created quite sensation in that part Of
our city where it transpired, and is the
subject of various conjectures.-Paris
EcDiUcEi0U
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24
Lice.

Lice on cattle may be removed by
pouring small quantity of kerosene on
the card with which they are carded.
The application should be frequent,
though in but small quantity, till the
lice all disappear. The lousiest herd 1
ever saw was completely relieved of them
in ten days by this application alone.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24
THE VERDICT.
BY ONE OF THE JUEY.

uDsp the winter nights are growing long,
,,a roughs and rakes the bar-rooms throng,
,nd drink their toddy hot and strong,
Look ont for wrath and riot.
,ss Parker kept whisky stall,
-y,,,b wonder elm SO straight and tall,
xo,, which Missouri's waters brawl,
In mouth mad disquiet.
,,o ,rfnter night was drear and wild,
ysS,s fire with hickry wood was piled,
.rd men came in, and warmed and Smiled"
And warmed and '' smiled" again.
,Dd city councilmen were there,
And pious, godly men of prayer;
Tn. rrined nabob's centless heir,
And men of wealth and brain.
An mingled in one social crowd,
and all grew mellow. rich and proud,
And noisy discord grew more loud
Az drinkers drunker grew.
With toss,s and tale, and mirthful lay,
IS eagles fly upon their prey,
Or comets on their fiery way,
The joyous moments flew.
At length in came young Charley Cline,
Stage driver on the Fulton line,
And several others of that kind,
All on jolly spree.
They called for drinks, and all, save Cline,
Tpped off their goblets full of wine.
Then turned the prattling crowd to join,
Bu. ne'er taste took he.
He feigned look If deep amaze,
And on the goblet fixed his gaze,
"Tis blood, he cried, and threw the glass,
Full into Parker's face.
aYou lie - yelled Parker, drawing steel,
Cline for his pistol then did feel,
And Bowie's clash and navy's peal
Disturbed that peaceful place.
From three round holes in Parker's side
Gushed forth the warm and crimson tide,
Clines vital current flowed.
And still they slashed and banged away
Til all took sides and Joined the fray,
Then wreck and ruin held the sway
And fiery passions glowed.
In that hot fight so fierce and dread
Some stood by Charley, some by Ned,
And with them fought, and with them bled,
And bade the world "Good Night
December's sun rose cold and clear,
And, shining in that bar-room drear,
Disclosed a stack Of corpses there
At least four feet in height.
And long ere noon it came to pass
That twelve grave men sat on that mass
Which once was flesh, but now was grass,
And this their verdict was:
d" Naugh: can the naked truth conceal,
For all the symptoms here reveal
That blood aud wine, and lead and steel,
Caused this to happen thus"
ST. LouiS Republican
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-24

A GEORGIA man stationed his son,
armed with a shotgun, to watch favor
ite corn-patch. Stealing around short
time after to see if the lad was at his
post he Glanced to make little rustling
in the leaves there was flash and re-
port, and that perforated parent is now
fully convinced of his sons reliability.