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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-07-06
THE NEWS.
HoME.

|
n Vo",p :, Governor, and John 0. Page
/, lislsa'DT treasurer. Presidential Elect
I hsaS - uore also nominated. The
s5o fthe Cincinnati convention was
! S'" nv,N,y's decision in the case OF
'l~D rs =, Beechcr, has been reversed by
No.o- v,rk Supreme Court, thus giving
a'Er ,,,,D tbe right to bring action.
M y 'Y'r c.D be taken by Mr.. Beecher
ro,rt Of Appeals. y New York
pu.of ,.no the 9th says the Committee
ss!.'n ..aI br t,c late Advisory Council to
} v . commission for the investigation
# .t,,res or evidence in the case of
= pos,ber. had chosen as such commits
t,J,a Nathaniel Shipman, of Con
s.is .ast. Hon. Asahel Finch, of Wiseon-
"' r,Jco $, B. Gookins, of Indiana; ;
y, Jonathan E. Sargent, of New Hamp-
y. y, and Judge Joseph c. Knapp, of
:, President on the 9Sth nominated
n~ % N Wrman. formerly Of Nebras-
A n he United States Treasurer, rice
rs G New, resigned.
4, SwEG SLOAN was elected Prcsi-
ss Of the Michigan Central Railroad
Company on the SStlI,
,ragygyyE dispatch of the 9th an
.,,,,. the arrival AT Fort Fcttcrmmn of Il
r,,lrsin from Gen Crooks camp,
i1,ei7s the wounded in the late engage
ass Ms !, Gen. Crook, it was stated, would
'AI -ts .llort excursions with the cavalry
77de return of the train and infantry,
RI r1 he would strike the Sioux hard.
TE Michigan State Prohibition Con
y s,fr met at Lansing, on the 2Sth. and
4 animated the following ticket: Govern
Hon. Albert Williams; Lieutenant
Grsnor. Rev. F. Curtis; Secretary of
sp Merritt Moore; state Treasurer, a.
gabb: Acknowledgement, d. p. Sagcn-
ft. Superintendent of Public lnstruc-
fan J. ". McKivcr; Commissioner of
81 Office F. I. Brewer; Auditor Gen
q ml D. J. Smith; Member of State Board |
ln d Eiacation, L. R. Damon. The action |
hs dhe Cleveland National Convention was |
aiosd
~ L0CEE HAWTHORNE, wcll-known ac-
u rs accidentally fell out Of sixth story |
na ,nir Of the fremont House, Chicago, |
m. I1e morning of the 2Sth, striking on
NJ asSone pavement below Her body was
.a~! % ll'l-'D"' "D" ''' "e"'" was III
I !, lrvpreroy dispatch of the esth
= e lt announce, the dismissal of II. T.
Il Yr7m Cbirf Special Agent of the In
), al4 Revenue Department.
8 ALBERT H. WYM,N. late Assistant
:. lnJa, Treasurer of the United Is, States,
4 dsMnC New, resigned.
n TR Michigan State Democratic Con-
= Hfoa onominac candidates for State
!, kh and for Presidential electors has
Z { ea@..o al, to meet at Detroit on the 9th
SuEy States hold elections before the
! h,lon,iaI election in November. Maine,
Vernon. and Ean,a, will vote in Septrm.
" and Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia
aGorla in October.
Oyrbcnisht of the 2oth uIt. the Amcri-
n Linen lIill, at Fall River NTo,s
ue, damaged by fir, t" the extent ,,f Of
SPEAKER KERR, physician sneak.
hopefully Of Dbc recovery Of his nnticnf
EEarhim>crr is quite dr,pondcnt.
DURING June sg57 ssf in Icg,l.tondcrs
hngeigly per cent Of the new Nation.i
currency issued drriny t%c t' .'m Yomn Nn,,2nII "crjna
cn DESTROYED. The o,,.,,nIinn ir, '1a,~,' ,ao,oI
,otr ,;,.,i d. ..l"''"'"9 leSal-
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-07-06

There is Chinaman in San Fran
cisco who plays billiards right along
and never thinks of making a miss.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-07-06

A RECENT transatlantic advertise
ment contains the following startling
information: eff the gentleman who
keeps the shoe store with red head
will return the umbrella of young
lady with whalebone ribs and an ivory
handle to the slate-roofed grocer $
store, he will hear of something to his
advantage, as the same is q gift of a
deceased mother now no more with
the name engraved upon it,"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-07-06

"Mr. Ferguson, permit me to intro
duce Mr.. Lovelace, President of this
road"
Now / was in for it, sure enough.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
SNUFF BLIGHTED RELIES.

Talk about the Opium-eater or the whis-
ky-drinker, how much more are they to
be pitied than the lady who is addicted
to dipping snuff? We believe there is
more snuff used in Hopkinsville than in
any other place of its size in Kentucky,
and its use is steadily on the increase.
Hopkinsville has reputation for beau
tiful women, but how long will that
reputation last tits hard to tell. Some
of the prettiest women we knew ten or
twelve years ago are now nothing but
faded flowers. Lips that once looked
like ripe cherries, and for one kiss from
which man would almost give his right
arm, now look more like dried apples
than anything else we can think Of The
cheek once full ard rosy is now sunken
and colorless. The chin which looks
longer now, glories in bronzc-col
ored stripe, which reaches down to the
throat.
We were going down the street the
other day, and noticed lady coming
up. 1t was windy March day, and the
lady's skirts were lifted little above
her boot tops. We knew the aristo-
cratically arched foot, but hangit what
had become of the nicely rounded ankle
1t wasn't there. When we got near
enough to look into the lady's face we
knew that snuff had done its work.
Snuff is robbing women of their beauty
and depriving them of husbands. (Who-
ever saw lady that wanted to marry y
II is more harmful than smoking, and
more repulsive than chewing, AID rs use
by ladies is almost as much to be con-
demned as the drinking of whisky by
men, and if the ladies have grounds to
talk about men drinking and smoking,
they are assured that snuff-dipping in
the eyes of men is about rs repulsive as
the smell of a two-cent- and "a half cigar,
or a sniff of L" rifle" whisky to the olfac
tories of the fair sex.
We indulge the hope that soon there
will be an anti-snuf society formed,
which will be twin sister OF our tenn
perance society. We have no idea how
many ladies in our city will take excep-
ton to this article; if all that use snuff
were to get after us, we would call their
name legion, but we are upheld in our
action by some of thu most sensible
mothers in town in entering protest
against habit the adoption of which
by girl is almost as much to be
dreaded by a parent as is the first taste
of liquol by his boy.-Hopkinsrille (Ky.)
Democrat.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

MACAULAY's WONDERFUL MEMORY.
Mr.. Trevelyan's new biography of
Lord Macaulay gives two wonderful ex-
amples of his almost incredible powers of
memory. AS a mere boy, he once went
with his father to make an afternoon
call; he found on the table Scott's Lay
of the Last Minstrel" which he had
never seen before while his elders were
talking he devoured the volume and on
his return home he was able to repeat
to his mother as many cantos as she had
the patience or the strength to listen to.
Again, when thirteen years of age he
picked up, while waiting in Cambridge
coffee-house for post-chaise, county
newspaper which contained two poetical
pieces, one headed Reflections of an
Exile" and the other a "Parody on
Welsh Ballad" He looked them once
through" says his biographer, "and
never gave them thought for forty
years, at the end of which time he re-
peated them both without missing, or,
as far as he knew, changing a single
word
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
XS5,OOO.OOO.
DEATH Of Il. T. Sterarf, the Millionaire
Merchant.

Death of Il. T. Ste,rarf, the Mii;ionairn
Merchant.
| Alexander Turney Stewart died in the
city of New York last Monday, 10th
aged seventy-three. He was born neal
Belfast, Ireland, in 1903, received good
education, and came to the United States
| when quite young man. After short
time devoted to teaching school young
Stewart embarked in the mercantile bus
mess in New York city, though in very
small way. His capital was few hun
dred dollars, saved ont of his slender
salary as teacher. But it was enough.
In the hands of the man who afterward
stamped his name in history as that of
one of the master mercantile minds of
the age, the few hundreds grew to thou
sands, the thousands to millions, and the
millions to ten of millions, until A. T.
Stewart became recognized as the lead
ing merchant, not only of America, but
perhaps, also, of the civilized world.
From the outset of his mercantile career,
until seized with his last illness, Mr..
Stewart gave supervision to his vast bus
mess interests of every kind. He di-
rectedevery Observation-Disclosures in dry
goods or real estate-and was as complete
master of his business at the time of his
death as when obscure and struggling to
live off the profits of the little shop in
which he laid the foundation of his great
e
Mr.. Stewart never identified himself
with public affairs in the general under
standing Of the term. At times, when
reused by some great public emergency
the beginning of the war-he
would throw himself into the breach, to
aid the cause he espoused. He was an
uncompromising union man, and during
the struggle was among the heaviest in
contributors in money, and also
exerted his influence to its fullest extent
in inducing others TO furnish the "sinews
Of war;" We believe he never held a
public Office, though when forming his |
cabinet in 1869 General Grant appointed
him secretary of the treasury. Being an
importer, he was legally ineligible,
though before learning this fact he had
concluded to please the president by
making pecuniary sacrifice in order to
lccept the position. Even afterward
lie offered to retire from the active man.
cement of his private business, and thus
emove the disqualification, but it was
lecided that this would not suffice. So
lie continued in the old groove, and Mr..
Boutwell, was chosen. Mr.. Stewards
wife survives him. He died childless,
nd worth perhaps 100000.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
FASHION NOTES.

Lace is always in vogue.
Bracelets are reduced in size.
Silk galloon is very fashionable.
Wraps for spring are both sacque an
mantle shape.
Cords for looping up the dresses ar
more worn than during the winter.
Mantillas of lace and cream tulle ar
much worn at evening amusements.
Overskirts are longer than ever, almos
entirely concealing the underskirts.
Fans are somewhat smaller, and ar
worn at balls suspended by ribbon o
chain from the wrist.
BOnnets of a network of flowers, yer,
fine and very like natural ones, are mad,
in Paris for the theatre.
Dog collars of silver and other metals
also shells, are worn with low-neckec
corsages as we'll as with high ones.
Black grenadines checked with either
gold or silver threads are the newest
thing out in this fabric for evening wear
The newest basques are simple shaped
cuirasses, very long. This plainness is
remedied by an abundance of trimming
Black dresses are made for Lent OF
cashmere, trimmed with very wide braid,
and the jackets generally button on the
cross.
Coat sleeves that are very close fitting
and have small neat setting cuffs are a
favorite model for house and street
dresses.
Atwood cancels hair cloths show plain
and stripped goods; the latter are grad
uated from hair lines to stripes half an
inch wide.
The "Ulster" is recommended as an
excellent pattern for waterproofs for
spring, and linen for summer, both for
boys and girls.
Fringes are now SO exquisitely made,
and are so costly, that instead of their
being manufactured to match dress the
dress is made to match the fringe.
Coarse straw and fine chip bonnets are
dyed ivory and cream tints for spring
wear. In the silks, flowers and laces for
them the same yellow-white
lues prevail.
A piece of soft feather trimming, the
,olor of the trimming of the dress, is
worn with softening effect about the
neck this is peculiarly becoming when
worm with white.
An attempt will be made to introduce
lark green, blue and brown grenadine
lresses this summer. They will come in
tripes and blocks, as will many of the
lack grenadines.
Satin dresses are popular for dinner
nd reception occasions. These are often
nade with gathered tabliers and are
lain at the back; the bodies fashioned
fter the cHirasse.
A new style of gimp ornament lately
Introduced is made in the form of the
boulder belts worn by soldiers. They
ross the bodice and fall below the waist,
with a little pocket.
Satin ribbon slightly gathered, with a
ow in front and ornament attached, is
luch worn about the neck. A piece of
,al lace tied at the back of the neck
nd falling in long ends is also fashion
Die.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
CENTENNI4LITIES.

A creditable exhibition of American
works of art is now assured.
China promises the largest and finest
exhibit that nation ever sent to any
country.
Generous contributions are pouring
into the Centennial treasury of Massa-
chusetts.
An extension with 10000 square feet
of space will be added to the agricultural
building.
The files of the bureau of installation
register the number of American ex-
hibitors at 10000.
The sum of 81, 500 has been paid for
the right to manufacture chocolate in
machinery hall.
The women of Massachusetts are work
ing with great energy to make their coz
tributions numerous and creditable.
A building especially devoted to the
genealogical display is to be erected near
the northeast corner of the agricultural
building.
The National Lancers and Cadets, of
Boston, are to act as the escort of Gov
nor Rice at Philadelphia at the opening
of the exhibition.
The centennial committee of Worcester,
Mass, RENTED $1,000 to Philadelphia
during the past week to be devoted to
the interior decoration of the woman's
building.
The most valuable consignment for
the exhibition yet forwarded from Great
Britain arrived on the steamship Penn
sylvania. 1t included many superb
works of art
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

WISE Economy IN TRIFLEs.-ln Eng
land the art of utilizing waste material
is carried to a high degree of perfection.
Soap-suds from wooden factories and full
ing establishments is collected, treated
with acids, and grease and oils and other
valuable products, obtained from it.
From solution which runs from boiled
fibrous grass used in making paper, soda
is recovered. In making sulphuric acid,
hundreds of tons of iron pyrites are i'm
ported from Spain and Portugal. After
the sulphur is extracted, copper is OBJ
tanned in paying quantities. Even saw
dust is collected by women and children,
carried to a shop where it is compressed
into cakes with refuse oil, and then sold
in lots of eight for penny, for kindling
fires.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
VOLUME XII.
THE SEIMSTRESS' STORY.

BY T.. T. coRBErT.
Idly she sat in her rocking-chair
woman of forty, pale and plain,
There streaks of gray in her scant, light hail
On her brow deep burrows OF care and pain
Needle and thread from her hands had dropped,
The hands that nervously clasped and chung,
As with voice that faltered and often stopped
She spoke of the days when she was young.
" Yes, it's twenty years since saw him last
Twenty years since we said goodbye
I've heard folks say time goes so fast
They couldn't have known such years as l.
" Twenty years, I remember yet.
just how he spoke and looked and stood
when he said, Now, Mary, you mustn't forget
All you have promised AS if I could.
az TherelI he many to tempt you away from me,
Never heed them, whatever they say;
Wait for me, Mary, walt patiently,
And think of me always by night aud by day.
az Never mind If the years are long,
shall write when I've time to spend;
shall be true and you must he strong,
And look to the end, Mary, look to the endl
as One thing more, Mary, give it due heed.
Fear your joys and your sorrows alone;
Then W hen ! come shall feel indeed
You have been always and truly my own.'
:. So he left me-'was hard to bear
My lonely life with never a friend,
But he wrote, rs he said, when he'd time to spare,
And treasured his words and looked to the end.
." thought OF him always by night, or by day,
Ju-t as he hade me-his will wss my law;
And asked no help on my weary way,
Though often my heart was sad and sore.
"a Waiting thus for the years to pass
1 never counted the n they rolled
Perhaps II I'd cared to look in the glass
might have seen ] was growing old.
a nd so. when fifteen years had gone,
He sent my picture from over the sea;
All when l sent it, might have known,
III had been WISE what the end would be.
BY the next mail a letter came
Not his-he couldn't be so unkind,
But his sister wrote and he signed his NAME
To tell me that John had changed his mind y
- You see' she said, you old and plain,
Too old for Johns wife, to tell the truth -
laid down the letter and cried with pain,
For hadn't given him all my youth
Well, there was nothing to do or to say;
John had a right to change his mind
Just went on in the same old way,
Only-I left my hopes behind.
There was some that tried to comfort me then
Saying Best be rid of a tickle heart
md John was no better than other men,
But that never seemed to ease the smart"
she ended her simple tale,
Twas old stsry told oft before,
or one heart will trust and one wiliail
Until time and change shall be no more.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

JAY COOKIES COTTON-TIE STEAL
The inventor of iron hoops for cotton
bales was named David McCombs. He
was also the inventor of cotton COM
press now in common use everywhere in
the gulf states. He invented the iron
hoop twenty-six years ago, and, very
poor at the time, sold interests in the
patent to others. They finally succeeded
in squeezing him out, and his widow and
half dozen children now live by the la
Dor of their own hands, while Cookies
ring, or Cookies successors, owning the
patent, have had it extended once or
twice, buying venal congressman, and
the patent, swindlc in the hands of its
owners, is used to levy blackmail by the
million dollars per annum upon the in
dustry of the southern people. This
money goes north, "where it can do most
good" and therefore these extensions of
patents are not for the benefit of toiling
genius and poverty, but for the Use of
thieves who persistently plumber society
and government. But this iron-tie ring
robs only cotton growers, and this is very
right in the eyes of the blessed govern
ment at Washington.-4ustin (Ter.)
Statesman
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

have been located this year, and many
shafts have been sunk, which yield from
SIS a ton upward, and grow richer as
they descend. The Galveston and Aus
tin railroad has been surveyed through
the region to strike the projected South
ern or Texas road, and confirmation of
the present promise will lead to the ex-
ploration of all the great territory be-
tween the Colorado, Pecos, and Rio
Grande rivers.-NashuiHe american.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

How TO EAT AN APPLE.-There is no
fruit more serviceable to the people than
apples. They contain sugar gum, much
malic acid and some valuable mineral
matter. 1t is true that apples often pro-
duce Indigestion and fatulence, but gem
orally the cause is the manner in which
they are eaten. Apples contain great
quantity of fixed air, and if eaten hastily
the air passes into the stomach, becomes
heated, expands, and causes fiatulence in
persons with weak digestion. Such per-
sons should choose a fresh, mildly tart
apple, then scrape it to fine pulp, and
thoroughly mix it with saliva before
swallowing. If it is too troublesome to
scrape the apple then it should be chewed
till every cell is broken down and the air
is liberated. Physiologically, the apple
acts as stomachic by prompting diges-
ton, and when taken in the merning it
becomes a laxative. Its action on the
liver is favorable to the health of this
organ. 1t also corrects the evils of too
much and too highly concentrated
food-Heyad of Health.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

in Belgium, and 3S9 in England and
Wales. During the last fifty years she
has borrowed over one hundred and
thirty millions sterling, and for many
years now her income has not covered
he expenditure. From 1868 to 1872 her
annual deficits reached an aggregate of
over eight millions.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

-" Now, George" said the father of
boy so named, "you may take your
choice-go with me to visit grandpa, or
have a pair of skates" The urchin
scratched his head and answered "Pn
go and see grandpa, and make him buy
the skates"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
GR4VE AND GAY.

Profanity and plug tobacco are the
crutches on which many boy walks to
a loafer's grave.
| .Civility doesn't cost as much as half
a pint of peanuts, and yet some people
prefer investing in peanuts.
..Colored BARRIERS are an institution of
great antiquity. Hamlet refers to
party who was " niger, and a-nipping
hair"
| Hard work makes fewer hump
backed young men than it used to. This
perpendicularity of spinal column is
killing the industry of the country.
1t is commonly said that the justest
dividend nature has given us of her
favors is that of sense; for there is no
one that is not contented with his shares.
Augustus Now. Emily, do you
love me, or do you not ?" Emily
"Well, if L say l don't, shall 1 have to
return your presents?"
- 1t is said there are four hundred
thousand feathers upon the wing of
ing the truth of the statement can easily
satisfy himself by counting them.
The man who totes Won Bulow
around the country lost six hundred dol
lars on him in Indianapolis. Indian
apolis people have ears, but not ears for
music.
What Kentucky wants is not a
shower of chicken salad, but a patent
flask that won't gurgle in the middle of
the night.
"A Persian proverb says: " There are
only two days for which to feel anxious.
One is the day that is past, the other is
the day to come"
In your intercourse with men, If
you mean a "no," be manly enough to
speak it, yet generous enough to speakit
with kindly courtesy.
The day has gone by when you can
chain grasshopper to an astronomers
telescope, and make the star-gazer be.
lieve that he has discovered new breed
of horses in the moon.
NON
Violet delicate, sweet,
Down in the deep of the wood,
Hid in thy still retreat,
Far from the sound of the street,
Man and his merciless mood =
Safe from the storm and heat,
Breathing of beauty and good
Fragrantly, under thy hood
Violet.
Beautiful maid, discreet,
Where is the mate that is meet,
Meet for thee-strive as he could
Yet will kneel at thy feet,
Fearing another one should,
Violeti
"A young girl in Nevada, who had
been sIandered by man, waited until
The confronted him in BARRIERS chair,
with his face well lathered and enc side
shaved. The cowhiding that ensaed
almost bankrupted the descriptive re-
,orters.
Recently an Indiana schoolmistress
attempted to whip big boy after school,
when he threw his arms about her and
,issed her and got off without licking.
Another boy in another town read this
tenn and thought he'd try the same
hing. He threw his arms about the
chooIma' am and kissed her and then he
ecame aware of an earthquake. She
oored him and thrashed him awfully.
his schoolma'am had grown up beau
f her own; that was the difference.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

The spring style of pantaloons are
as wide as the road that leads to de-
struction, and the w-legged man no
longer fears that he will be asked to
stand out in the sunlight in order that
his shadow may be chalked out as a
model for pair of ice-tongs.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22

The LAKE DwELLERs.-A Zurich
paper reports discovery which throws
light on the hitherto obscure question as
to how the lake-dwellers disposed of
their dead. Between Anvernier and
Colombier, III the vicinity of two lake
dwellings-one of stone, the other of the
bronze ge-house-building excavations
have brought to light chamber sup
ported by upright stones, and containing
ten or fifteen skeletons, the skulls col
lected in one corner, the other remains
i'm the CENTRE Near them were found
bears tooth, VOLTS tooth, half a
boar's tooth, a small smooth bone disk,
two hatchets of serpentine stone, a
bronze needle Gail these bored through),
a small copper ring and four small
bronze child's bracelets. 1t is supposed
to be family grave of a date transi-
tional between the stone and the bronze