The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-22
IOWA STATE NEWS.

A KEoKUK Scotch terrier drinks his tea
with the same gusto an old maid does at
the sewing circle.
A BLOOMFIELD fat man is going to or
ganize military company and admit no
one weighing less than 200 pounds
DR.. BUzzEI, an Indian doctor, was re-
Gently drowned in a bayou of the Des
Moines, about two miles east of the cap
ital
THE Irishmen of Dubuque have re-
solved to celebrate the centennial of the
birthday of Daniel O'Connell, which oc-
ours Aug.6.
A STATE exchange says that if fish is
good for the brain it would advise a
neighboring editor to procure whale i'm
mediately.
THE Polk County Jail is described by a
Des Moines paper as damp, fetid hole,
Astounding with rats and reeking with
nastiness."
ABOUT 1000 persons have taken the
total abstinence pledge at the Dubuque
Cathedral within the ten days preceding
the 18th inst.
DUBUQUE burglars called on Mr.. Mar
Tin Byrne the other evening while he was
away from home and took away 81 800 to
remember him by.
GEORGE WILLIAMS, Of Keokuk, has
been awarded the contract for the improve
&c ~ OF ~ GpupyIpVp and
Cape Girardeau.
The Iowa City people Indignantly deny
the story of the Chicago Times about an
Iowa City man getting beat out OF $4,000
in a Chicago bunko den.
Two MORE pieces of the meteor which
fell last February have been found. The
fragments weighed seventy-one and forty
eight pounds respectively.
THE Fairfield Jail is so full that they
talk of driving in some nails and hanging
up the culprits so as to make room for the
constantly increasing number.
A DEs MONIES man named Morrison
has made bid for the Presidency by keep
ing large tank in front of his store filled
with ice water all the summer.
Two attendants arrived at Des Moines
the other day with 10000 shad from
Washington, which were placed in the
Des Moines River at that point.
IT is estimated that Scott County will
produce this year 1000, 900 bushels of bar
ley, a larger yield by at least 4o0, 900
bushels than that of any previous year.
B. F. ALIENS failure affects the prog
ress of Anita, Cass County, very material
", as the title to the lots near the railroad
track is uncertain, being owned by him.
SOME of the bootblacks of Des Moines
having cut down their prices to two and
half cents shine the five-centers went for
them and thrashed them up to the old prices,
Dies MONIES bricklayers complain that
the incessant rams this summer have
PLAYED particular smash with their bust
ness and have spoiled many thousands of
brick.
THERE are now over 300 men employed
on the Capitol at Des Moines, and the
next Legislature, when it meets next win
ter. will see the first story nearly COM
plcted.
A CASE of wholesale poisoning occurred
at ke0kuk the other evening. Ten per-
sons who had partaken of ice-cream frozen
in freezer lined with tin and zinc re-
lieved themselves of all bilious proClivi-
ties.
THE State papers are loudly declaiming,
in the interest OF regular tadesmen and
advertisers, against the peddlers who are
roaming up and down the country roads
seeking those from whom they might steal
something.
THE Dubuque Herald gives blood
curdling account of the murder of \. Bo-
vine, of that city. The journalistic fra.
ternitv of Iowa will be panied to learn
that by the fell stroke of the assassin the
local of the Herald has been made an
orphan.-Hauk-Ege.
Thomas BARNES was recently drowned
q few miles below Burlington while SWIM
ming horse in the river near the Cas-
cade. He was thrown into the water, and
during the struggle was struck on the
head by the horses hoof, rendering him
insensible, and dragging him under the
surface.
Two CoSvICTs. Matt Conncll and John
Williams, pried up the end OF the Du
buque Jail the other night and fled to the
gloOmiest reCesses of the forest to conceal
their emotion. The Dubuque authorities
have since fastened the Jail down with a
couple of pegs, and it is again considered
safe-Hapk-Eye
ACCORDING to the equalization Of the
valuation of the taxable property of the
city of Des Moines by the Board of Equal
ization of the City Council the total
valuation was s47O6, 59s. The County
Board of Supervisors reduced this valua-
ton 10 per cent, leaving it stand 81,
3G5, 664
Iowa publishes, according to Rowell's
Newspaper Directory for 1875. 319papers-
one-half more than Wisconsin: nearly
three times as many as Virginia; forty
three more than Massachusetts, and more
than the combined States of North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida
and Arkansas.
THE Davenport Democrat tells of cum
ming woman whose husband is away from
home a great deal of the time, and the
lady, still loving, though forSaken, keeps
her domestic turning the coffee mill all
night. The girl lays the coffee-milI on
the other pillow, and SO the lady sleeps
peacefully and contentedly, thinking her
husband is snoring there as usual
AIITT1E girl. seven years old, daughter
Of R. 7. Blair, of Harlan. Shelby County,
was bitten in the leg by rattlesnake while
she was walking through the garden late
Iy. The limb commenced swelling very
rapidly and the child was Immediately
heavily dosed with whisky, and common
soda was bound on the bite, the applica-
ton being changed every half hour. The
little girl recovered.
The State Leader says of the Des
Moines jail: - So strong and penetrating
is the stencil from the Jail that at times it
Is almost impossible for one to remain in
the county Offices above Yet numerous
beings are housed up together in this foul
hole, and made to breathe an atmosphere
fit only for swine The people of Polk
County call themselves enterprising, hu-
name and virtuous, yet will retain such a
disgrace as this in their midstn
The Governor has offered reward Of