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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08
Sayings by Josh Billings.

If man will do the best he can ON
any kind of job he undertakes, he will
not only surprise everybody else, but he
will surprise himself too.
Independence of character is what we
all brag the most about, and is what we
have got the least of.
think that mankind generally take
more real pleasure Dragging of their bad
luck than they do of their good fortune.
The most meek and unpretending Great
ure on the face of the earth is the man
who has tried his best to get thing and
failed to do it; if you will believe him,
he never wanted it, and wouldn't have
it at any price.
He who always does unto others as he
would lave them do unto him is the only
really honest man we have, and how
many, my friend, do you suppose there
are of this kind?
Every truth in this world has at least
ten counterfeits.
Physical education is of just as much
Importance to human happiness as men
tai is; it is just as necessary that we
know how to eat as how to think.
Laziness is terrible burden, and one
which man can't drop if he wants to.
There is great difference between re-
penting of sin and repenting Of the
punishment that is due it.
No man who has got through this life
reasonably well can be big fool enough
to want to try it over again.
A mans failings are quite often more
amiable than his virtues.
If we could neither laugh nor cry we
would be infinitely worse off than the
brutes.
Men are not generally obstinate be-
cause they are right, but because they
are wrong.
Laziness is as incurable as cancer,
and will eat man up about as fast.
We love those whom we can protect or
defend, and all love, however pure it
may appear, has large share Of self
love in it.
No one becomes suddenly vicious and
dishonest; like q cosl-pit, they may
break out suddenly, but they have been
smoldering and charring for long time.
Il is not good policy to tell even our
best friends all of our secrets; no one
goes to well after water that is pumped
dry.
never have seen woman yet (bless
the dear creaturesD who didn't have
irstrate excuse for everything she had
done or made up her mind to do.-N 7,
Wsaaay.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08
NUMBER Is.
flor non,1q Rtadtrs.
THE LITTLE HOUSEKEEPER.

Tn dreadful busy workin',
have such lots to do;
I've got to bake and iron
And haven't half got through.
I've just got through my washin',
And rinsin' out the tubs;
It almost skins my fingers
Giving such awful rubs.
My cake is bakin' nicely
In Katy's fryin'-pan!
tried to make some jumblcs,
But don't believe can.
I'm gratin' up some nutmeg
Cts really only bark,
l wish you'd fix the fire,
won't get through till dark!
Will you reach down my irons?
My little clo'es- horse, too?
You needn't ma kc 'em red-hot,
A little warmth do.
burnt my dollie's bed -quilt
Last time ironed that;
And scorched the velvet ribbon
For FlOtsie's Sunday hat!
Now must battle my children
And dress them neat and clean;
They mortify me awful,
I'm 'shamcd to have them seen.
I've got to wash my chineys
And put them way, | spose;
How hard it is to housekeep
None but us women knows.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08

Webster County.
Not q colOred person in Fort Dodge.

A Fort Dodge dentist reports curious
case. One Of his lady patients had her teeth
pulled for a temporary set and crop Of eight
new ones have started, the third growth,
which will beat him out of job. Dentists
may well growl at hard times when nature
starts an opposition shop.
Woodbury. County.
Sioux City is threatened with sensation,
and good one, too. A widow of no in
different charms has csptivated a boy of six
teen years Of age, and the youngster wants
to marry her, and she is willing. The widow
is thirty eight years Of age, and she threatens
to elope with the boy, and the boys father
threatens to knock the top of her head off
and send his love.sick son to the Reform
School
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08

! John 9. New, the successor OF United
States Treasurer Spinner, is said to be 4
hard-money man.
! Riots were reported in different min.
Ing localities in Pennsylvania on the 1st.
md the loss Of life resulted. Gov. Hart
Efsnft was taking active measures TO put
> stop to the outbreaks.
The cross-examination Of Mr.. Redpath
Wss concluded on tho lot. He stated
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08
How We Look to the Man in the Moon.
BURNS wiehed that we could

BURNS W1eneQ mat we cOulQ
See oursel's as ithers see us;
and writer in the British Quarterly UNI
dertakes to realize that-by lawful IL
cense Of fancy. He transports himself
TO the moon and supposes it to be night
there. His description is beautiful
one:
might sets in. Gratefully it comes
after the sun mas gathered up his smiling
beams and gone to his rest. All at once
we are plunged into comparative obscu-
rity, for again there is no twilight to stay
the steps Of departing day. At one side
comes the dark. But, looking up to the
sky, we behold a vast orb which pours
down milder and more benefcent splen-
dor than the great lord OF the system.
II is such a moon as we terrestrials can
not boast, for it is not less than thirteen
times as large and luminous as our own.
"There it hangs in the armament, with
out apparent change of place, as if
fixed in it's everlasting seat But not
without change of surface. For this
great globe is a painted panorama, and
turning around majestically on its axis,
presents its oceans and continents in
grand succession. As Europe and Africa,
locking the Mediterranean in its EN-,
brace, roll away to the right, the stormy
Atlantic offers its waters to view, and
then the two Americas, with their huge
forests and vast prairies, pass under in.
spection.
"Then the grand basin of the Pacific,
lit up with island fires, meets the gazer's
eye, and, as this ice glides over the
scene, the eastern rim of Asia and the
upper portion of Australia sail into
sight. The Indian Ocean, and afterward
the Arabian Sea, spread themselves out
in their subdued splendor, and thus, in
four and twenty hours. the great rotun-
dity we tread turns its pictured counte-
nance to the moon, and grandly repays
the listening lunarians by repe ating, to
the best of its ability, the story of it's
birth"
The fact that the moon is not hab-
liable by human beings such as dwell on
this earth does not forbid one to give it
eyes for the sake of drawing compare
tive picture like the shove. An imagina-
ton stimulated by the study Of astrono-
my becomes familiar with the finest and
noblest poetic figures. - Youths Com
DQniOn.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08

THE scene occurred in railroad car
on the Union Pacific Road, in which two
men were gambling, while the rest of
the passengers looked on. One of the
gamesters was type of the profession
ais who "work" the road-a desperate
trickster, sleek and ugly; the other was
rough, grizzled miner, not sham, but
? bona tide miner, fresh from the mount
aims, and carrying abundance of money.
The game-draw poker-was for large
stakes, and played silently and watch
fully. Finally huge pot accumulated;
each man had evidently good hand and
was resolved to stand by it. The pile of
notes was huge. Each man raised the
other until finally the miner called"
The gambler showed his hand-three
aces and two queens-at the same time
covering the money with his hand. The
miner uttered not q word; he merely
took two of his five cards and laid them
down; they were aces. This meant five
aces in the pack. The gambler had
dealt. The miner reached back like
lightning, drawing huge navy revolver.
He cooked it and placed the muzzle be-
tween the eyes Of the gambler. Not q
word was spoken, but each of the two
men looked steadily into the eyes of the
other. Soon the gamblers hand upon
the money began to draw back, and the
gamblers form as well. The revolver
followed. The gambler stepped into the
aisle, and at this point passengers in the
car seemed to lose their interest in the
game, most of them trying to get under
the seats The gambler backed down
the aisle toward the door, and as he
passed out the muzzle of that huge re-
volver still stared him in the face. Then
the miner put up his pistol, pocketed the
money, lit his pipe and was as other men.
Not word had been spoken from the
time the "call" was made. It was
merely one of the rare occasions where
gambler on the Union Pacific mistakes
his man. 1t isn't always safe to fool
with an honest miner.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08
Hog Product.

The Cincinnati Price Current gives the
packing statistics of all the States.
1owa's packing was $1,000 more this year
than last. The following is a complete
table Of the packing of the State, by
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08

-Whiskers and Mustaches.-T pro-
mote their growth rub in the following
lotion two or three times a week ct
night: Eau de Cologne, two ounces;
tlncture Of cantharides, two ounces; oil
Of rosemary and oil Of lavender, each
ten drops.-E1ch0mes
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08

nerve Vasquez shrugged his shoulders
and cried shrilly, What would you
have? If am the other way it will do
me no good"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08

The partridges are doing great dam
age to the apple trees in Ashburnham,
Mass. In one orchard twenty have been
seen Ut : tune eating The buds,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08

Butter and other perishable articles
can be kept fresh and sweet without the
use Of ice by lining packages with sheets
made out of the pulp Of poplar wood.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08
Keeping Accounts.

How MANY of our readers will start out
this spring with determination to keep
an accurate account of their entire farm
operations? Twenty thousand we hope.
"When it rains / cannot single my
house, and when it does not rain it don't
need it," are words attributed TO some
shiftless wight. When the farmer gets
through the year with money ahead he is
apt to think that accounts are of no par
ticular value. If he falls behind he
cares little about seeing the figures IN
black and white. But such farming is
not business farming. There may be,
and in thousands of cases are, men emf
nently successful at farming who never
know what it costs to grow any particu-
lar crop or to feed any particular lot Of
animals. And likewise there are men
who keep accurate accounts of these ex-
penses who fail. But the intelligent
man, the man of tact and thought, by
his accounts is much more likely to be
able to tell why he failed to get q good
return and to reach successful change
than he who goes it blindly year after
year, losing where he least expects it.
The business method goes . long ways
in the education and discipline the
farmer needs, now that he is taking his
place in the law-making and lsw-enforc-
ing positions of the State and nation.
This hint is worth something to young
farmers who are to have q better field
and broader one for action than most
of their progenitors have had before
them.-PrGirie Farmer.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08

-" Careless grace" Il tie aim Of the
spring eostumse.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08

The copper industry promises to be
prosperous this year. The price Is re-
munerative, and the stock on hand no
greater than last year, when Il was TO-
600, 600 pounds. All that i not needed
at home can be exported to Europe,
which received most Of the o,000.O0
pounds exported last yss..
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08

Horses and cattle are liable to
sprains in cold weather from slipping
on ice, and horses often get "calked." I
have found the following an excellent
embrocation for such injuries. 1t shoCld
be we'll rubbed in when applied to
sprains. 1t is good fol- rheumatism if
well rubbed in while exposed to hot
fire: Oil origanum, anise and spike, each
one ounce: spirits of turpentine, one
ounce; aqua Ammonia, one ounce, and
alcohol, three ounces. Shake well be-
fore using. The bottle should be kept
securely corked.-Country Gentleman.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-16
RUMORED CONTEST OVER THE
CAPITAL BILL.

We learn, from private sources, that a
move Is on foot in Charleston to contest
the legality of the act of the Legislature.
in removing the Capital from that city
to Wheeling. 1t is contendcd that the
Capital was located in "the land of per-
ennial summer psrmanentiH and that
no power on earth, not even the State
Legislature has any right t" interfere
with it.
We hear also, that counsel has been
employed to present to the Governor the
legal objections to the passage Of the act
and that the argument, if any can posi-
blv be found on that side, IS to be made
before the Governor, evidently with the
purpose Of influencing him to exercise
his veto power.
Further, We have heard that DANIEL
LAME, Esq, Of this city, has been writ
ten to for advice, and he has replied to
the effect, that ne can find no legal OBJ
lection whatever TO the bill as passed.
As we have said, no statement Of the
facts above cited, have reached Us directly
As vet; we understand, however, that
they have been telegraphed substantially
as given, to certain gentlemen Of this
CITY.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-16

stores of pig iron are being gradually but
surely wiped out.
The paper then continues to illustrate
its position BY citing Instances of large
purchases by the mills in this city; recent
heavy sales Of metal at Cincinnati for the
Great Western Railway, and the pur-
chase Of five thousand tons of metal at
Cleveland for certain pipe works there,
and concludes that ali these things go to
show that the bottom has been about
reached
These views, expressed AS they are by
parties whose whole business i to eA-
anime into. and report such Things
are certainly entitled to consideration +,
anditis gratifying to Toe able to anticipate
with show Of reason. that though
the reaction may not yet be sensible, the
worst IN. been arrived at, and better must
come: and when it does come, it will not
be II, before founded only upon fever.
isb excitement and airy nothingness; but
with something substantial to support 1t,
will lead on more slowly perhaps, but
more surely and -atisiuctorily,to real pros
pcrity.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-16
MARSHALL COUNTY.
An Extraordinary Family-interest-
Ing Account.
SuEREARD, Marshall county, !
February J.. 1875.


February T. 1875.
Editors OF the Register.
Enclosed please find -, one years sub
scription for your excellent weekly,
which regard q, one Of the best week
lie, Of the dav. You will also find en-
closed an interesting account oil an eN-
traordinary family, rs To- numbers, SIZE
and wrighth, of which Marshall county
can boast. and / believe is the last New
York TscE,U published and boosted OF
the descendants Of Il couple, We take up
the sponge, and give the following and
challenge the United States to beat little
Mar, hall county.
jaime, MrCumbs was married sept.
- lSOS, to Hannah Smith, in what was
then Ohio county. Virginia, but now
Marshall. and mas lived within ten miles
of her birth place ever since with hcr
husband. who died February -, 1886,
leaving family consisting Of twelve
children. named respectively Mary,
John, Sally, Hannah, james, Lee
vi, Rachael, Nancy, Eliza.
George, Alexander, Isabel, All
of whom are living at this time, and, with
the exception OF one, within ten miles
of each other in Marshall county, West
Va. The Youngest l. torty-two years Ola.
The average weight OF the whole family
is 200 lbs. and they average SIX teet, or
in straight line sevcnty-two feet.
She has the following grand children:
Mary, /; John y; Sally, 10; Hannah.
IL: Rachel II, zone par OF twins ana
once triplcts;) Nancy, 9; Eliza, O. George,
II: Alexander l.; Isabel, Is. In all luz
gHud children.
She had great grand children as fol-
low: Mary, children had chi!drcni
Johns 30; Sallys 81; lannah's -;
RacheTs %: Nuucvs II; ElIZa'S q;
Isabers l. In all llO great grand
children.
She has six great, great grand children
and has picccd within the last year eleven
quilts and set them together, sewS with
out spectaclv>. is very lively, helps wash
the dishes. and is now living with her
son. George McCombs, within nine miles
of Wheeling. She says she was eleven
wear, old when her mother took her into
the fort at Crugcrs, to protect her from
the Indians. Now let some one come
down with the figures and facts and beat
this extraordinary couple, who had us
descendants. 225 Of which are now living.
Congress should grant her bounty OF
land and give her Il pension. She rich-
" deserves it
Yours, &c, w. =. u.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-16
OUR MAYOR.

Just after Christmas, We made suS-
gestion to the effect that our Mayor
should be clothed with all the necessary
powers t. make him the actual executive
head Of the city, and that he should be
paid a salary sufficient to enable him
devote his whole time and attention to
the management of ITS affairs,
On 9th OF January last, II resolution
was offered by DR.. BAIRD, in the Sccon.
branch Of the City Council, as follows:
Rssolred. That the committee on OrdI-
nance be instructed to report an ordi-
nance at the next regular meeting OF
Council defining the duties of the Mayor
as the chief executive officer of the city,
and atliXug IA salary to the office, in such
amount as To secure his entire time for
the use of the city
This resolution was adopted, but ~ Ear
as we know. the old Council dissolved
without any definite action on it being
taken.
Now we desire again TO call the at
tention of the present Council to this
matter. 1t is an acknowledged fact that
the city is in need of improvements in
many respects, and it Is generally under
stood that the present Council favor per-
fecting these improvements. They can
not be successfully and satisfactorily car
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-16

Bv virtue ola decree Of TN" Circuit Court
of Ohio county, West virginia rlilrIcu , Oh
now pending in said Court, wherein
Francis Morris is complainant and oscar ,ttrr
y, thompson, Susan +. Thompson, his
wife. James :. Wheat, Frankiin {. Jones
"I insnnh X. Whitaker, Edward II. FiiZ-
hugh. Samuel II. Il. Carter, Jacob snyder,
Moses Il. Cox, Charles j. Thomas, trustee
OF l.. c. Carr, wife OF " M. Hart carr are
defendants, we viii, on
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-16
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social observation. - L0HdOH Nutcgduy H-.
tIplr.
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-16
BUSINESS REVIVAL.

fanv reliance can be placed upon
nopular speculation and opinion, the in
dications of business revival are most
cheering. The panic ofeighteen months
ago wa, produced more than anything
else, probably by the numerous wild
schemes. and rash enterprises in Rail
roads These had become SO rcmunera-
tive in many instances, and were appar
entity So readily organized and construct
cd that a railroad fever seemed to per-
wade the entire country, and, of course
while this could keep up even sem
blancc of prosperity, trade in all
rs branche, nourishcd. And 81 when
finally the bubble bursted, causing heavy
failures Of prominent houses, there fol-
lowed, naturally, a general lack
Of confidence; business became
n.r,lvzcd. and the universal
complaint of hard times set i'll
But while this was disastrously felt by
oll species of business, none experienced
CO severe shock as the Iron trade. Man
uf,c,urcrs had received so many large
orders. and were 80 encouraged by past
activity that they had made preparations
c,r work ON tremendous scale and
therefore were not only losers by their
h,sincss falling oil, but were made to
suffer badly on account Of the heavy
cxrcn,c into which they had thus been
tempted.
Hence We may take the Iron trade As
the thermometer 10y which is indicated
the correct rise or depression Of the bust
ness temperature Taking this as guide
then. there is good ground to hope for
better times. The Engineering and NJ
alma Journal of recent issue, takes Il
very hopeful view of the subject, and
quotes from leading paper in Ma
honing Valley, as follows:
There is much better feeling among
the manufacturers OF pig-iron in this
Valley. and from the tone of our eN-
changes. We think the better feeling rN-
tends throughout the country generally.
Various causes are given: In the East
the contemplated lockout of the anthra-
cite coal mines, and consequent scarcity
of fuel. is having favorable effect; the
anticipated aid to the Texas and Pacific
road has impaired much frmnes> in all
quarters. The large demand for
Bessemcr steel and consequent ab$orp-
lion of Bessemer pig iron Is y propitious
svmptom The gradual wearing ont of
the railroads Is evidence that the day Is
NOT distant when the demand for railroad
iron will set in. The curtailment Of pro-
duc,ion has been very large, and 1t Is APP
parent on all hands that the accumulated
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-16
MEMORANDUM.

d.. q d.crcr If the circuit Court OF Ohl"
mi 10y !, entered on the 18th OF February
Iy, ~, hoy. mentioned tracts Of ~ '.-.'n
I ISS acres and thu coal und"yiyns ne ITmgI
of Igl acres, were divided ana parttt."mIJi
I,nt tvt said Thompson and VIE ana
9 DEW, I,nSford. who held undivided in
t hgMtS therein said decree partition, IS
rccordrd in the Office Of the clerk OF IN"
! ! , L,W court of ohio county, in deco n"oh
M. -, nagc 81, &c. .-......,.,-----.., -.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-16
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