The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-05-07
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MAY VIII Dc the DlrLnQay OIL Inc
Empress Eugene.
Santa Bal bara, Cal, last week sent
$50 horses TO Salt Lake City.
\ drove OF Cinnamon have struck
gold mines near Baker City, Orc.
Three millions of cocoanuts are ex-
pectel Il: single year from the Is.
land of Csylon,
Amateur entomologlsts have found
seventyonc different species OF but
textiles in the Sicrras.
n bill has been introduced in tho
Canadian House OF Commons TO
abolish capital punishment.
a car load vi live buffalo aud elk
from the plains recently passed on
their way to Eastern parks.
Holmes, Postmaster at Wichita.
han., has recently been convicted of
stealing registered letters.
German coIonists ia Southern
Russia are emlgrating in large mum
bers TO the State Of Nebraska.
On some Of the East India Islands,
where 80 many queer things grow.
Is found flower that measures a
!uil yard across.
The Petaluma (Cal.) cheese facto.
ry, which started tour weeks since,
has already shipped five tons OF
cheese TO San Francisco.
In Australia, as ia California, gold
,aines arci s,eine alscoy eE~assa..losI
as rich as those which tempted tho
pioneers quarter OF century ago.
The marriage license OF Jefferson,
the sill OF Washington and the will
OF kosciusko, have just been placed
in the Virginia State Library.
Thomas Hubbard, an old Orcgo.
nian, aud ioi many years a resident
oil Champoeg, was shot and mortaliy
wouded, last week, by Thomas Ger
rand, a half breed.
La pursuance of instructions re.
Gently received from General SEQ.
iisld, military prisoners from Arizona
will not, hereafter, be confined at
Yuma, bat sent 10 Alcatraz island.
According TO tho Alaska Herald,
seven vessels were engaged through
out the Summer Of 1873 in the cap.
ture OF Goldfish on the coast OF Alaska,
with total yield OF 5S3, 900 fish, Or
an aveyage O. 81, 2,28a per vessel.
A relic of the i'll lated ship Atlantic,
IN the shape OF passengers ticket,
printed in German and English, has
just been taken from tho stomach OF
a salmon at ST. Johns, New Blnns.
wick That's it; food for the fishes.
The blind man who came all the
way from Sweden to Utah, on the
promise that the "laylng on" Of
Brigham Young's hands would re.
store his sight, has found out his folly,
and has addressed letter to Gov
erner Wood tor relief
Statistics Of marriages in Ohio
sincs 1866 show remarkable de.
cline in matrimonv. According to
the published figures each year since
1866 it is shown that in that year
there was one marriage to every
eighty-two of population. In 1873
the rate was one marriage to 118 of
the population.
A young woman employed at the
hotel at Huntington, Mass. attem pit.
ed suicide by jumping into the river,
short distance above the iron bridge
recently, but was rescued by Mr..
Lafour, who plunged in alter her.
As insanity is hereditary in tho fami.
ly she is thought to have been tenn.
pora;ly insane.
General Sheridan has issued orders
tor the organization OF second ex.
peditionary force to be dispatched
70 the Sioux country without delay,
The troops OF the new command Will
assemble at cheyenne, and will prob.
ably be drawn from Kansas, Colo.
rado and the several military sta.
tons is Wyoming and Utah.