The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-29
IOWA STATE NEWS.

IOWA recently DdilOteu 10 times without
making nomination.
Dies MONIES is said to have the "boss"
store-room of the State. 1t stretches, from
door to door, exactly $50 feet.
FULL arrangements are being made at
Des Moines for the meeting of the Army
OF the Tennessee there on Sept 80 and 80.
MIR. CHRISTIAN WUILwEBBER, of Du.
buque, has been appointed Minister Resi-
dent to Ecuador. Mr.. W. is German,
but has resided in Iowa many years.
The Executive Council, acting as a
State Board of Equalization, have been
compelled to suspend operations awaiting
the tardy arrival Of delinquent precincts.
IT is said some one spreparing sketch
OF the history of the upper Mississippi
lead region, with incidents, anecdotes and
names for the last hundred years, especial
ly from 1888 to 1875.
ADJT.-G GEN. BAKER is overrun with ap-
plications for the formation of new COM
panies since the Burlington military tour
nament which has awakened the military
spirit all over the State.
THE Conferences of Iowa will meet this
year as follows: Iowa, Sept. 10, at Keo-
kuk; Upper Iowa, Sept %, at Dubuque;
Northwest Iowa, Sept 90, at Fort Dodge;
Des Moines, Oct 6, at Indianola.
JOHN ADDICKEN, large property
owner and brewer of Decorah has died
from the effects of broken leg. Mr. Ad-
dicken is estimated to be worth SIS, 900,
and was a prominent citizen of Winnie
shiek County.
PROF. c. S. CHAPMAN, Of Dubuque, has
performed the feat of writing 1913 verses
of the Gospel Of ST. John on one side of
an ordinary postal card, with a steel pen
and the naked eye 1t contains exactly
2,4SS words, which can be easily read.
ONE of the most accurate farmers of
Winneshiek County has prepared table
showing the cost of raising wheat by the
bushel. If the land yields fifteen bushels
to the acre the cost is sixty-ive cents; if
twenty, fifty cents.
A YOUNG man living at Ottumwa, named
Bowell became tired of life and con-
cluded to "step down and out" So he
took cup Of cold "pizen," but not liking
the dose he sent for physician and nego-
tated with him TO save his life.
IT is said that when the atmosphere is
damp and heavy the stencil from the de
caying bodies rises above the surface and
makes the air noXious, pestilential and
horrible in the vicinity of Ottumwa ceme-
etery. This is attributed to the shallow
depth at which the dead are buried
FISH COMMISSIONER SHAW says fish in
the following varieties and quantities have
been planted in Iowa streams since the
commission was organized: Shad, 1OO,-
900; Iowa varieties, 10000; California
salmon, 270, 900; Penobscot salmon, 90
900; land-Iockcd salmon, 5000; other
varieties, 100000
A DIsGRACEFUL affair occurred at Nal
vern not long ago, when several half
grown boys and men attacked the CathO-
lie church and threw brickbats, stones
and other missiles through the windows,
demolishing quite a number. Divine
N'loLI' " us DtlHH lltlu Willie lllc MOD
was asSaulting the church.
A SINGULAR example of the desire of
the brute creation for relief was seen in
Des Moines during the recent heated term
in the case of a young colt that left its
dam on Court avenue and followed the
strcetsprinklcr to Walnut street and back
again, holding its head in the Jets of water
and evidently heartily enjoying the sprink-
ling.
AN ice cave has been discovered near
DEBORAH and is now being visited by large
parties of sight-sccrs. The paSsage-way
into the cave is three-quartcrs filed up with
ice and there is flooring of the same for
twenty feet. AT one spot is a cone of ice
fastened to the wall which is three feet in
diameter at the base, eight to ten feet high
and twenty inches across at the top.
A DEs MONIES dispatch to the Chicago
Times of the 2lst says the farmers in that
section are much discouraged in regard to
the crop prospects, and many of them give
gloomy reports. There is no doubt the
heavy rains have greatly injured the
wheat, causing scab in many fields, and
much CT ii is beaten down. The best
farmers say there will be falling off
from one-third to onc-half in the yield ex-
pected a few weeks since. The prospect
for oats was never better, but the heavy
rains of last week have beaten down the
growing grain, and, it is estimated, will
cause falling off Of at least one-third from
the yield confidently expected.
ABOUT twenty years ago the wife of
prominent citizen of Davenport died and
was inferred in the city cemetery. The
casket that held the body was of the heavy
iron pattern that had just been introduced
A few days since the grave was opened
and the casket raised for removal to Oak
dale A view of the remains was taken.
and what was the establishment of the
friends to find that the face and upper por-
ton of the body had been turned to stone!
The features were well preserved-fore-
head, closed eyes and all-the likeness of
the departed being as clear to the observ-
ers as though marble bust of the body
had been executed when she was living,
Even the pleats of the shroud had been
preserved in stone The strange artist in
the depths of the grave and beneath the
casket-lid had executed his commission
faithfully and well
STATE SUPERINTENDENT ABERNETHY
has appointed the following Normal In
stitutes in the counties named They will
usually be held for four weeks: Fayette
County-West Union, Aug. %; Greene
jefferson, Aug. IS; Hardin-Eldora, Aug.
2; Benton-Ninton, Aug. IS; jasper
Newton, Aug. 2; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
Sept. 6; Johnson-Iowa City, Aug. 2; Ke-
okuk-Sigourney, Aug. 2; Linn-Marion,
Aug. s; Louisa-Grandview Aug. 80; Lu-
cas-Charlton, Aug. 8; Madison-Winter-
set, Aug. 2; Mahaska-Oskaloosa, Aug 2;
Marion-Knoxville Aug. 16; Mills-Glen-
wood, Aug. 10; Monroe-Albia, Aug. 2;
Montgomery-Red Oak, Aug. 2; Page
Clarinda, Aug. .; Polk-Des Moines, Aug
8; Pottawattamie-Coun Bluffs, Aug. 8;
Sioux-Orange City, Aug %; Tama-
Toledo, Aug. 16; Taylor-Bedford, Aug.
IS; Van Buren-Keosauqua Aug. %;
Warren-Indianola Aug. 8; Winneshiek
DEBORAH, Aug. 10; Neutrality-suspicious.
City, Aug 30.
THE following postal changes occurred
in Iowa during the two weeks ending July
II, 1875: Postoflices established-Latty,
Des Mninps County William Gardner