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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-02-08

Struck THE LEpce.-Last November
yessrs. Walker & Kimmel, owners q,
he Eureka ledge. located near Gam.
b,inus gulch, between More and Elk
creeks, and FIVE or six miles above
town, commenced tunnel, and last
week the ledge was struck after fly
I've days work, at o depth Of l60 feet
and with the dip Of the ledge, abous
sventy-ive feet below the surface
It's width is not yet known, as they
bad not gone through it. but the pros
ects obtained were very rich. some Of
the rock going probably - high AZ
I've hundred dollars to the ton. This
edge has been traced over twelve
hundred feet, all Of which is taken up
but to Walker & kimmel belongs the
credit of proving that it is well de
ined and rich. Mr.. Walker created
quite an excitement when he brough,
the news down on Sunday, and every
hdy Of course is highly elatcd with
L. 1t is the intention Of the owners
dthe Eureka to erect quartz mill or
their edge, to be commenced with tho
onen:nr of tho season
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-02-08

II those very creditable lines pub
Iishcd last week, and written by
Pop at CcntcrviIle, a mistake oc
Cured. In the line, "Back to Obliv
ions dark domain" it should have
been "Oblivion's dark dominion" In
aprivate note Pop" says it's no use
altering maledictions about tie mat
ter-he couldn't begin to do the sub
jet justice; and that ell the printers
inh-h-Hades codldnt make it right
now. Pop put yoaE hand there. old
boy; You are . philosopher as we'll a.
poet, and we wish there were more
like you in this world. It's no use
trying to tell how the mistake &C.
cured, but we will do our level best
% prevent all such in the future.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-02-08

The power Of gunpowder is shown
by recent writer in the Revue Scien-
tifique. The velocity of shell leaving
the cannon is 1900 feet per second;
height from which the projectile would
have to fall to acquire this is 26,800
feet; consequently the power Of the
powder is equal to $4,000 foot
pounds. The heat evolved by the
combustion Of one and one quarter
pounds of powder is equal to 340.7
calories. The mechanical worth of
this amount Of heat is 1850, 900 foot
pounds.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-02-08

ls|'||l h Il ! i !
% 4 our syntem ~ hsse IL ~ ||I kd
SsaHte IA 1pt M Nh !.
ible il southern ATTITUDES. This staf
was 200, 900 times u III from the
earth g. tl as the sun is, and it, size .slas
much greater than that st our 81 sun. IS,
ing about l,l25, 900 miles ii diameter.
The next greatest star, Sirius, was
much larger than Aldebaran. Astron.
omers knew that this star was al
least certain number Of billions 81
miles away from our system, but how
much more distant they could not tell.
The lecturer supposed that the prog
ress Of life in this myriad of worlds
was about the same as it is in our sys.
tenn, and for every inhabited world
there were thousands Of worlds upon
which life was either extinct or had
not yet begun. The thought that
death and desolation were so predomi.
nant in the universe was not SO mel.
ancholy to the lecturer as it might be
to many others. The same change
was going on in the life and death Of
all those worlds as is seen on every
hand and among all things that are al
any time endowed with life and beinr
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-28
The Atrocities in Bulgaria.

LONDON, Sept 10.
THE report of Mr.. Barring, Secretary
of the British Legation at CONSTANT
nople, on the atrocities committed by
the Turks in Bulgaria, is at last pub
lished. Barring, in his report, esti-
mates that in the sandjak of Phillip
popolis $4,000 Bulgarians and 200
Mussulmans were killed and tifty-two
villages burned. The Bulgarians
burned five small Turkish villages.
The report gives circumstantial ac-
count of the destruction of each town.
1t states that the most fearful tragedy
of the whole insurrection occurred at
Batak. Hearing that preparations for
a revolt were going on here, Achmet
Agha was ordered to attack the town.
He summoned the inhabitants to give
up their arms, but, distressing his in
tentions, they refused to obey. A des-
ultory fight succeeded, lasting two
days. On the 9th of May the inhabi-
tants had parley with Achmet, who
solemnly swore that if they gave up
their arms not hair of their heads
would be touched. The villagers
thereupon surrendered their arms.
Then all the money in the place was
demanded, after securing which the
Bashi-Bazouks set upon the people and
laughtered them like sheep. About
1000 took refuge in the church.
Baffled at all attempts to fire it from
the outside, the Bashi-Bazouks finally
climbed to the roof, tore off the
tiles and threw burning pieces of
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-28

wood and rags, dipped in petrol
cum, among the thickly-packed
mass of human beings below. At
last the door was forced open and the
massacre completed. The inside of the
church was burned. The only survi-
vor of this slaughter to be found was
an old woman, she alone remaining
alive of a family of seven. Barring
continues: 81 visited this place on
the 31st Of July. Hardly corpse had
been buried. Where man fell there
he now lies. In the streets, at every
step lay human remains, rotting and
sweltering in the sun. The stencil
was overpowering. Five thousand in
all were killed here, and about eighty
girls were carried off. The surviving
inhabitants live in wooden huts out
side the village in great misery. To
Achmet Agha and his men belongs the
distinction of having committed per-
haps the most heinous crime that has
stained the history Of the present cen
tury. Nevertheless, he has been dec
GRATED by the Government, as have
also several other leaders in these
cruelties."
The report concludes: "There was
undoubtedly a revolution which had to
be crushed by armed force. But the
Government is to blame for calling
out the Bashi-Bazouks, for had it sent
regular troops earlier, the Bashi-Ba-
zouks would have been unnecessary.
The manner in which the rising was
suppressed was inhuman in the last de-
gree, fifty innocent persons suffering
for every guilty One.'
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-28

THE United States Circuit Court al
Providence, r. L., on the 25th, in the case
of the United States ps. Rowland G.
Hazard, for debt to recover the sum of
ST. Ash for tax on defendants income in
1868, rendered decision that the Govern.
ment might recover Notwithstanding the
defendants plea that he had paid the as.
sessment made by the United States Assist
ant Assessor with the added penalty of
fifty per cent.
THERE were eighteen yellow-fever in
terments at Savannah, Ga, on the 25th.
A ST. PAUL MINI. special of the 25th
says the Chief of Police of st. Louis had
examined the dead body of the Mortified
robber, killed at Madelia, and pronounced
it to be that of Charley Pitts, and from the
photographs was satisfied that those killed
at Mortified were Bill Caldwell and Clel
Miller. The prisoners he identifies as
Cole Younger, Bob Younger and AL Car
ter, the latter a notorious Texas desperate.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-28

side like this, nobody to care for me if
1 am in. nobody to feel very badly if /
die"
Jennie. "That'll fetch her."
Miss Kent (cotce d little quioeriag).
81 wish | lived in San Francisco.
You could always call upon me if you
needed anything"
(Jennic in convulsions.)
Cousin Mark (abTatptly). eff you
will go to California with me, Miss
Kent, I'll wait another week.
Miss Kent. "Why, Mr.. Lansing,
what do you mean? What would
folks say?" .... .....
Cousin Mark. 1--WE don't care for
folks, Miss Kent. If you'll go, we
will have house as pleasant as money
can make it. You shall have birds,
and flowers, and horses, and all the
scientific monthlies you want-deuced
! if you sha'n't-and you shall never
sew stitch for anybody but me. Will
you be my wife?"
Just then Jennie and I stepped up
another peg, and there was that little
old maid, who wouldn't marry the best
man that ever lived, Rugged close to
the mans breast who wouldn't marry
the best woman that every lived, not
even to save her life. We came
away then, but it's my opinion that
they remained in just that position till
we rang the bell half an hour after.
"How did you know" l asked of
Jennie.
My DEAR she answered, my
whole reliance was upon human ma
ture; and let me tell you, goosie,
whatever else may fail, that never
does
"Why, Miss Kent, what makes your
face so red?" inquired Jennie, upon
entering; "and, Cousin Mark, how
strangely you look your hair is all
mussed up
"And | hope to have it mussed
Often" said Cousin Mark, boldly.
Miss Kent and / are to be married
next week.
Jennie laughed till her face was pur-
pie, and when | went up stairs Miss
Kent was pounding her back.
Der's Baz0r.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-28
a Wonderful Recovery.

AN almost miraculous cure is re-
ported from Sheldon street, the patient
being the wife of Well-tO-dO citizen.
She has four years been ailing,
or thinking she was ailing, and re-
Gently took her death-bed, and kept
her husband unhappy by lamcnting
that she was going to die. Yesterday
her husband went out and got a buNom
young widow, who is her particular
adherence, to come i'll and look over
the house. The dying woman heard
him opening doors and explaining
things. and lay racked with <f1ldigna-
ton and curiosity. Presently the
buxom young widow departed and the
husband returned to the sick-room.
No sooner had he entered than she ac-
cOsted him:
Peter Whitehead IIollingwOrth,
what have YOU been doing?"
Nothing, my love, nothing. Don't
excite yourself Be calm. Only as
you were complaining that you
couldn't get up and see after things,
and that the house was going to wreck
and ruin, | thought I'd ask Mrs.
Dasher in and let me know what could
be done to save you trouble and re-
lieve your mind of anxiety
"Oh, you did?' she mrrmured
with a deep inspiration.
Eyes, and / showed her all over the
house."
"And the beds not made, and every
thing like a pig-styN'
Never mind, my love. | told her
that she must excuse it, as you were
sick, because you were very good
housekeeper. And she said you must
| be-
"Oh, she did,
"Yes, and she said that if she had
her way she'd have new set of parlor
urnitme in and less vulgar wall-pa-
per, but that some people had no taste
anyway, and - BY the way, Maria,
you and Mrs. DasheT are pretty much
of a size, amt yOu?' Then he fellinto
a trance that lasted for some minutes,
then muttering: Well, perhaps they'll
fit; if not, they can be made over
departed.
When that husband went home last
night he was surprised to see his dying
wife up and dressed, and bossing
things with metallic ring in her
voice and glitter in her eye such as
he hadn't seen for years, and when he
innocently remarked: why, Maria,
had hardly expected to see you up
again?' she said, 81 know it, you
bald-headed old reprobate; but Illlive
to bury you yet, and if that painted
Jezebel comes into the house again, I'll
tear her into cotton-waste and jute-
strings. '-Chicago Tribune.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-28
THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN.

Across the dull and brooding night
A giant flies, with demon light
And breath of wreathing smoke:
Around him whirls the Keeling plain,
And with dash of grim disdain
He cleayes the sundered rock.
In lonely swamps the low wind stirs
The belt of black funersal frs
That murmur to the sky;
Till startled by his mad career,
They seem to keep hush of fear,
AS if god swept by.
Through many a dark wild heart Of heath,
Ger blooming bridges, where beneath
A midnight river brawls;
BY ruins, remnants of the past,
Their ivies trembling In the blast;
By singing waterfalls.
The slumberer on his silent bed
Turns to the light his lonely head,
Divested of its dream.
Long leagues of gloom are hurried DER,
Through tunnel sheaths, with iron roar,
And shrill, night-rending scream.
Past budding huts, past flying farms,
High furnace flames, whose crimson arms
Are graphing with the night;
He tears along receding lands,
To where the kingly city stands,
Wrapt in a robe of light
Here, round each wide and gushing gate,
A crowd of eager faces wait,
And every smile is known;
We thank thee O thou Titan train
That in the city once again
We clasp our loved, our own!
all the Year Round
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-28
ABROAD

THE Earl of Beacons1eld delivered al
address at Aylesbury, England, on thu
Goth, IN which he explained the policy Of
the Government in respect to Turkish
affairs.
A BELGRADE dispatch to the Londor
Times, published on the Goth, says the
proclamation of Prince Milan as King
was regarded as Russian movement
purely, and avowcdly intended as def
ance to Turkey.
A REPORT prevailed in London on the
goth that the Abyssinians had captured
the Egyptian city Massowah and two
Egyptian steamers.
A SPECIAL telegram from Madrid was
received in New York on the 21st to the
effect that the Commander of the United
States steamship Franklin, homeward-
bound, would deliver William NJ Tweed
to the American authorities, instead of
sending him back to Gen. Jovellar. The
order for Tweed's departure from Corun-
ma had been countermanded.
BERLIN kilograms of the 21st say there
were over Is 900 Russians in the Servian
army, and that the Porte had refused to
continue negotiations for peace until the
influx ceased.
A TELEGRAM from Belgrade on the god
says the plague had broken out among the
Turks in front of AlexinatZ. They were
forced to change their position and move
their tents and huts every three days.
IT was reported on the 23d that the
Turks had Withdrawn the greater part Of
their forces from AlcXinatz, and were con-
centrating on the Drina. The Servian
Prime Minister had informed the foreign
Powers that no effect would be given to
the army's proclamation of Prince Milan
as King, and that this was intended only
as protest against the Turkish peace con-
ditions A London telegram of the 9th
says the ten days truce had ended and
that hostilities would be Immediately re-
sumed.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the 25th
says the Porte had agreed to further sus
pend hostilities for eight days, in the
hope that the Powers would be able to
formulate their proposed conditions of
peace.
LONDON kilograms of the 25th report the
laundering of the British ship Hammer
mover, from Calcutta to Damarara, with
all on board. The crew and 800 coolies
are supposed to have persisted.
THE Governor General OF the Province
of Algeria has notified the French Govern
ment that general instruction is lmml-
nent in that Province.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-28
A Novel Swimming Match.

SUCH a match as that contended at
the Welsh Harp, Hendon, on Saturday
last, is, we believe, without precedent.
Certainly, in recent years, nothing Of
the kind has been chronicled, and,
therefore, the issue afforded the greater
surprise, resulting, as it did, i'll the de-
feat of the man. That Il dog could
compete with any chance of success
against a moderately good swimmer
many were loath to believe, and, al
though conceded a start on this Occa-
sion, the almost unanimous feeling was
with the biped. In fact, it was gener-
ally considered good thing for
Parker, who, as a professional swim
mer, has taken very high hOnors, and
is at the present time teaching the art
of natation at both the Peckham and
| Kensington baths. The articles stipu-
the dog a start of thirty seconds in half
a mile, the time to count from the mo-
ment the dog entered the water and
not from any signal rendered by the
starter Mr.. Fade has named his dog
"NOW Them" and he tells very in
| tereSting story of the manner in which
he first discovered the powerful merits
of his animal in water. 1t appears
from his account that being some dis
I tannn off Narrata in n hnnt q :
MED by the dog, he unfortunately lost
| his two Sculls, and how to reach the
| shore he was at a loss to know for
some time, until the bright idea struck
him of utilizing the animal. This he
did by means of a pOcket-handkerchief,
which he attached to the collar of
"NOw Then who was known to re-
| trieve well in water, and, as means
of keeping him in the right direction,
his owner cut the stretcher up into
numerous pieces and so threw them
just ahead of the dog, who, being thus
encouraged on his way, successfully
lowed the boat ashore. "NeW Then,
a half-breed retriever, is black, and
shows remarkable strength in the fore
arm, while his paws, when spread,
are unusually large, and, in swimming,
the whole of his back is visible. a
straight half mile had been marked out
with flags denoting the course, and at
few minutes past six the dog leaped
off the punt, his owner leaning over
the stern of skitf which preceded the
animal, enticed him with cooked liver,
and in the half minute allowed he
travelled nearly forty yards, the speed
with which he propelled himself being
particularly noticeable. Parker slight
ly reduced the gap in 300 yards, but
keeping beautifully straight course,
the dog began now to positively draw
away, and, to the chagrin of the swim
mer's hackers, at the end of about $50
yards the dog was seventy ahead. Aft
er this Parker eased, and never again
went at top speed to the end of the
journey, the dog thus winning very
easily in fourteen minutes and three
seconds. London Sportsman.
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the creek, dead sheep and cattle, with
furniture, and even houses. 1t was
supposed that waterspout had burst
somewhere up in the Camira noun
tains, and that the torrent had rushed
down the old river-bed until it came to
the flat place where Dramore stood,
when it broke over it's banks, sweep
ing away all barriers, and rushed over
the town and country till the volume
of water had spent itself.
But to return to our friends, the
Grays, on the cross-beams. There
they sat until three o'clock in the
morning, the father observing, with
speeches. horror, that every moment
the water rose higher and higher, I'M
til at last it splashed over his feet
the cruel, hungry water, that had
brought sorrow and death to so many
homes that night. Their mother tried
to cheer the children by telling them
their favorite stories, and singing their
pet nursery rhymes, but she, too, well
knew that the danger was increasing.
Papa, it makes me giddy to look at
the water. l am sure | shall fall,
poor little Arthur cried.
"Look at mamma, darling" said
his father. Never mind the water;
it will soor'be daylight, and then per-
haps We can get away"
DR.. Gray had his eyes steadily fixed
on one spot in the wainScoting; for
several minutes he did not speak, and
| then, lust us clock, fixed high in the
wall, struck three, he exclaimed,
"Thank God, Kate, the water is going
down. | have hoped so for some time,
and now am quite sure; so we have
only to hold on little longer and we
shall be safe"
And thus they held on for an hour
or 50 longer; then they got to the COM
paratively comfortable resting-place of
the large dining-room table, and later
on they saw, in the early morning
light, boat coming up to the veran-
da, one which was usually moored to
tree by the lagoon. Into this they
were put, and taken to a place of
safety at friends house some miles
off.
T. 1t will be many years before Arthur
Gray forgets his night on the cross
beam, and l hope that sometimes,
when you are comfortably tucked i'll
your coy little beds, you will think of
the flood at Dramore, and will remeM-
Der to be thankful for your own pleas
ant quarters.-Litie Folks.
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NUMBER 40.
flor Duut,g Readtrs.
IN THE CLOSET.


THEY'VE taken away the ball
oh dear!
And I'll never get it back,
| fear.
And now they've gone away,
And left me here to stay
All alone the lyelong day,
In here.
1t was my ball, anyway
Not his;
For he never had a ball
Like this.
Such coward you'll not see,
Fen if you should live to be
Old as Deuteronomy,
As he is.
I'm sure meant no harm
None at all
l just held ont my hand
For the ball,
And somehow it hit his head:
Then his nose 1t went and bled;
And as If I'd killed him dead,
He did bawl.
Nursey said was a horrid
Little wretch,
And Aunt Jane said the police
She would fetch;
And cook. who's always glad
Ola chance to make me mad,
Said, Indeed, she niycr hat
Seen setch."
No. never, never UHt
Be good!
I'll go and be a babe
In the wood!
I'll run away to sea.
And pirate will be!
Then they'll never call me
Rough and rude.
How hungry am getting
Let me see!
wonder what they're going to have
For tea!
Oi course there will be jam,
And that lovely potted ham.
How unfortunate | ami
Dear me,
Oh! it's growing very dark
In here,
And the shadow in that corner
Looks so queer!
Won't they bring me any light?
Must | stay in here all night?
| shall surely die of fright,
Oh dear!
Mother, darlngl will You never
Come back?
/ am sorry that hit him
Such a crack.
Hank! Yes. it's her voice | hear!
Now good-by to every fear,
For she's calling me her dear
Little Jack.
laura f. Richards, 81. Nicholas for october.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-28

The work of reducing the observa-
lions of the transit of the planet Venus
in 1878, so as to arrive at a final re-
suit, is one of immense labor. In En-
gland the work is under the superin-
tendence of Capt. Lipman. About
5000 transits of stars were taken for
the correction of clock and instru-
mental errors. The longitudes of the
stations at Mauritius and Rodriguez
were measured from the SueZ by Lord
Lindsay with fifty chronometers; and
Mr.. Burton has made more than 5000
microscopic measures to determine the
optical distortion of the photohelio-
graphs. 1t is self-evident that con-
siderable time must elapse before the
final result, even of the British obser.
walton, can be made known; and it is
not as yet decided whether a separate
value shall be deduced from these, OF
whether they are to be combined with
the results of all other natiOns.-De
troit Free Press.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-28

Mr.. SAMUEL c. LEWIS, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, who helped to make the
first bar of iron manufactured in the
United States, has been invited by his
friends to visit the Centennial Exhi-
bition and be received formally by the
representatives of the iron interest.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-28

The days are coming again when
shivering, crushed looking man will
hang around in protected doorway
half a day at a time, with vengeance in
his eye and club in his hand, waiting
for the villain who is shoveling off that
roof to come down.
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