The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-09-02

| tigation is that the Board of Trustees have
unanimously reinstated Prof. McCarty in
| the management of the institution.
The Washington Press says: The
corn crop of this county promises to be
| third more than ever before Many
fields will yield 100 bushels per acre"
THE B., G. r. & NJ. R. r. has intro
duced the good old custom of having the
brakeman, when leaving a station, inform
the passengers of the name of the next
| station.
IN Washington County is said to be .
| trotting-mare that has trotted a halfmile
| in l :0S, is eight years old, and the owner
has been offered $4,000 for her, which he
| refused.
DANIEL sTANCHEFIELD, Davenport
lumber merchant, recently failed with
| liabilities reaching S25, 900. F. Deutsch-
mann also made an assignment He owed
about $4,000.
NEAR Rattlesnake Bend, on the Des
Moines River, few miles below Des
Moines, two brothers, jeremiah and Mar
Ion Winterowd, were recently drowned
while swimming.
kEoKUK bellies now get up in the fresh
morning and find health and an appetite
by a horse back ride before breakfast
Their mothers used to find the same thing
getting breakfast.
The wife of Prof J Stevens, of Hum
boldt, was killed the other night by being
thrown from buggy while the team was
running away The professor and his
son were seriously injured.
THE School Board of Dubuque has re-
solved upon having German taught in
all departments of the public schools of
that city-or rather of allowing all the
pupils who wish to take it in the course.
\ YOUNG man named Eldridge, living
at Des Moines, took dose of morphine
the other night, and died His mother
was in bad repute, and this and other
troubles are supposed to have caused his
suicide.
\ CoNFIDESCE-woMAN, giving her name
as Mrs. Stanley, of Denver, has been play
ing the fine lady in Kcokuk, and after Dor
rowing several large sums of money and
obtaining goods on credit departed from
the city.
4 WILD steer made it particularly lively
and quite dangerous for Cedar Rapids pc
dpStrianS tLp other 1av The IrI1tn ran
''''t ''''iI ''i' o'i'ci "Hs- me olu'e ran
i''''ily an over 'o"h WIN paF'ieS III Pur'
sun anu caiilc near Killing one man De-
i'i' i'' vas '"l''uie"'
MAI. IL. ID. GIBSON, member OF the State
Constitutional Convention in 1851, mem
Der OF the Legislature in 1861, and subse-
quen'iy Mayor OF the lhirty-third Iowa
~ &iment, recently died at Olympia, Wash
lhS,'h ieIil'"ry' Oh apopIeHy.
NE 'u""Nlhg postal changes occurred
IN Iowa curing the week ending Aug. q,
100; EN'aollshed-AYa' Guthrie County,
Nefl conner, postmaster Dlscontlnued-
Neg 'reeN' fo''aWaUaLl!e county. Iost-
master appointed -oloah' woodbury.
N"uh'E' isaac beall'
A ROMANTIC miss, near Charles City, re-
otH,,y went OUT mo 'he helds 10 MAUD
1i"i'Gi u.s. anu rake inc meadows sweet
"l,h nay one passed. over yello"'
I"cNe.S nest as sie swung her HUE rake.
"S' jump eighteeh leet' seven ana three
eisn'hS lnches' Distance 10 the house,
NAH " mIle'
THE other morning a six-weeks-old boy
baby was found wrapped in a shawl living
alongside the Rock Island Railroad track
hat a mile east OF Iowa City. The child
hau oeeh slupeheu with laudanum and
pr"o"Oiy thrown from the ten O'Clock
passenger ualn thc nlGht before. 1t Tell
IN c!uhIp OF plants and was not in
Jured.
LUMBER in the water in the Dubuque
market has been advanced by agents fifty
cents ana one dollar per l,0OO feet. This
Is Que 10 the increased difficulty in rafting.
Inc upper streams are 50 low that it is i'm
possible 10 supply the mills with logs.
Inc 'hlppeWa, Wisconsin and Black XIV
ers are now lower than has been known
lor iilonths'
NATE DLFoY, girl hiteen years old,
living with her parents at Davenport,
walked out OF the house the other night
ABOUT eleven O'CLOCK, and twenty minutes
amer was discovered dead IN the clSlern
near the door. 1t seemed utterly impossi-
Die that she should have fallen in, as the
opening was too small, and the conclusion
was reached that she had committed sui
eide or was thrown in.
THE Des Moines River counties are
good field for scientists. They must at
some time have been the feeding-placc of
mastodons. a few weeks ago a skeleton
was exhumed of prodigious size. A few
days later mammoth lower Jaw with
teeth intact, which measured ten feet from
JOINT TO JOINT, was found. few days
since was found tooth nineteen and a
quarter inches in circumference, three and
half by seven and quarter inches
across the face, with ten prongs II
weighed three and threetourths pounds
A rib was found near by six and half
feet long.
MR.. JOHN MONTGOMERY, an old settler
and farmer living about six miles north of
Winterset, came to that city on A recent
Thursday and engaged a clergyman 10 go
out on the next Sunday TO preach the
funeral sermon of his son, E. X. Mont.
gomerv. who had died a short time before
from the effects of a slight scratch. erysip-
elias setting in. On Saturday morning