The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A BAD hub-bub-Jesse Pomeroy.
If John Bull finds the North Pole no
one will quarrel with him about the right
of possession.
THE Chicago Times Washington cor
respondent says that Senator Jones
laughs at his recent loss of 100000 in
Panama stock speculations, as it is "a
mere f1ea-bite" to him.
OREGON papers are Dragging because
vessel built in that State has made the
quickest run of the season from San
Francisco to Liverpool with cargo of
wheat, outstripping the crack ships of
several nations.
TIE town of Wilkesbarre, Pa, is
gradually settling into the quicksands
that underlie it. The Record Of the Times
estimates that in the brief period of
5000, 900 years it will sink below the sur
face of the earth.
UNIvERsALIsM, says the Christian Lead
en-, has advanced more in New York and
Brooklyn during the past seven years
than in the forty years previous. The
number of churches has been about
doubled, and churches that were then
feeble missi ons are now strong.
AUSTRALIA has big tree, too, and 1t is
gratified to think that there is not time
for an American vandal to go over, chop
it down, and take it to the Centennial.
1t is 4S0 feet long-an announcement
which will shake the midriH of hun
dreds with envy, hatred, malice, and all
uncharitableness.
A PUBLIC-sPIRITED citizen of Pitts
burgh, Pa, with an eye to the main
chance, has offered to furnish an excel
lent band Of music to perform every
afternoon and evening in some of the
prominent parks of that city if he will
be granted the exclusive monopoly OF
the ice-cream business on the premises.
JESSE PoMERoY's sentence is to be
committed to Imprisonment for life. The
Council, after much solemn dcliberation,
concluded that there is a punishment
worse than death for Jesse. 1t is to shut
him up where the sight of passing chill
dren will tempt him to feel around for a
bottle of vitriol without finding it.
Brooklyn Argus.
PEOPLE have different ways of ex-
pressing JOY One man went into one of
our Main street jewelry stores early
Monday morning and bought a nice gold
chain, remarking as he drew his pocket.
book, 81 shouldn't have bought this ex'
cept for the fire, but am so happy at
not being burned out that l must do
something ."-Sprtngteld (Nass.) Onion.
THE grasstopper is nuisance even
when he is dead. The Atchison (Kan.)
Cltampton calls upon the citizens to
clear the corpses out of town or be pre-
pared for pestilence. The Champion
says that "from the areas of only two
cellar windows of a building on CONNER
cial street about three bushels of deac
hoppers were taken out on Monday last
And the stencil of this mass of putrefac
ton was overpowering."
TWELVE or fifteen Vermont lawyers re
Gently got into serious discussion in the
courtroom in regard to the Lords
PRAYER. Each gave different version o.
it. Finally they referred it to the Judge
he shifted the responsibility upon tht
Clerk, who got Bible, looked al
through the Old Testament, and ther
gave it up. A Sunday school scholar
was then called in, who repeated it cor
rectly.
THIS announcement is from the Spirit
ual Scientist: ct is rumored that one o,
more Oriental Spiritualists of high ranl
have Just arrived in this country, They
are said to possess profound knowl
edge of the mysteries of illumination
and it is not impossible that they will
establish relations with those whom WI
are accustomed to regard as the leader
in Spiritualistic affairs. Welcome to thu
Wise Men of the East"
Col. N. E. PAINE, while plowing OF
his farm in Westchester County, N
Y, recently, in the locality of York
town, came upon large stone unde
which were found two bushels of cannon
balls and number of knives and bay
onets. They were near well dug ant
used by the American soldiers. Th
ground wa4 being plowed for the frs
time, and the appearance of the ball
and knives indicated that they had lail
there undisturbed for 100 years.
| A SAD AFFAIR."
SHE sat alone with folded hands,
And neither turned to right nor left,
So mute and sad she looked like one
| Ofhope and home and friends bcreft.
Poor thing, thought, and dropped tear
Thy loved ones all have gone before,
Have sailed away DER Deaths dark stream
And left thee pining on the shore.
gladly would have cheered her, but
A stern, cold voice held me in check
"There's nuthin' ails her much," it said,
"She's got a boil upon her neck"
A THoUGHTLEss young man from Ma
sachusetts went out into Pottawattami
, County not long ago TO start paper, an
in order to tickle the fancy Of the inhat
itants, of whose temper he was ignoran
, he published the following in his firs
issue: "The fighting editor is at HON
at all hours of the day and night, ready
willing and anxious to receive all visi
ors who have grievances. He carrie
two revolvers, slung-shot, a pair I
brass knuckles, a bowie-knife as long q
crosscut saw, razor in each boot, a
eel-skin, a bludgeon and bottle
poisonw Every man in Pottawattam
thought it was challenge, and all da
+ long they dropped in, singly and in pair
by threes. and in squads and platoon
: Every soul Of them whipped the edito
: and the last man, who came in abo,
, seven p. m, had to sweep him up in tt
: middle of the floor and paste him togetl
+ er with putty in order to get kick
him. The paper only issued the init
z number.-Burlsngton (Iosoa) HaDk- Eye.