The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-07-13
CENTENNIAL JOTTINGS.

sion, $57S, 5l6.50.
AN Indian dug-out, sixty feet long,
and made from one tree, is one of the
wonders of the show.
GREENLAND, among other curious
things, has contributed meteorfc
stone weighing several tons.
THE Japanese understand the art of
making money, and are practicing it
successfully at the Centennial.
THE Saturday half-holiday of me-
chanics, clerks, and statesmen large
ly increases the attendance at the Cen
tennial.
OREGON shows rye nine feet high,
eighty-seven and a half bushels to the
acre; oats ten feet high, eighty-seven
bushels per acre.
A MEMBER of the Board of Finance
says that the daily expenses of that
body in conducting the Exhibition are
about $12, 200, which is soon to be re-
duced.
a PILLAR of coal is being erected in
the centre of the Government build
ing. 1t is already about forty feet in
height, and will be continued to the
apex of the building.
OVER 10000 visitors from New Jer-
sey have visited the Centennial, and it
is estimated that the roll of visitors at
the close of the exhibition will show
300,0 from that State.
In the Worcester Mass.) exhibit in
Machinery Hall can be seen the press
on which was printed the first copy of
the Declaration of Independence in
this country, and from which Isaiah
Thomas issued the Worcester Spy a CEN
tury ago.
THE Pacific Centennial Hall, the
headquarters of the Pacific Coast
States, in its interior is one of the most
beautiful and pleasing of all the State
buildings. Its decorations consist
mainly of native woods, which are very
attractive and suggestive.
AMONG the old landmarks in Ma
chinery Hall is knitting machine $50
years old. In the same hall is a por-
ton of the cylinder of the first steam
engine boiler ever used on this CONT
nent. 1t was imported from England
in 1853, and was used for pumping
water for copper shop near Newark,
N. J.
One of the coolest pieces of cheek
known to modern or ancient times, is
found in the case of the Canadian
stoves on exhibition at the Centennial.
They are all made after American
models, entirely stolen from American
stove manufacturers, against whom
these Canadians compete for the pre-
mium.-Chicago Times.
WONG YUTEN, of Canton, China,
came over with the Celestial Commits
sioners and obtained from Uncle Sam
the appointment of Centennial mail
carrier. He looks well in his suit of
gray, and although he cannot wade
through an English sentence, he has a
trick worth two of that in delivering
letters to their owners. He puts them
all on a table, superscriptiOn side up,
and says: "You pickee up lettels, ebly
one fol YOU
CLOSE by the Women's Pavilion on
the Centennial Grounds is a Kinder
garten school on the Froebel style.
Three times a week twenty little chill
dren are sent from the Northern Home
for Soldiers Orphans and Destitute
Children, in Philadelphia, and at ten
O'Clock exercises commence in the neat
little SchOol-houSe. The teacher has
two assistants, and as the children
have been in training for some months,
they are sufficiently advanced to illus
trate the advantage of the system.
The Late Indian Battle.
THE details of the battle which was
fought on the nth inst. at the head
waters of Rosebud Creek, between the
Sioux, numbering 1900, under Sitting
Bull-of-the-Nort and Gen. Crook 5
column of cavalry, numbering l.
800, show that what at first APP
peared TO be victory was in
reality tantamount to a defeat, and
that the ignorant Indian warriors We're
led with more skill than our own sea-
soned and disciplined troops. Weprint
elsewhere the details Of this disastrous
attack upon the Sioux. From the 40
count it appears that Gen. Crook left
his camp on the 10th with what APP
peared to be a formidable expedition
five companies of infantry mounted,
and $50 Snake and Crow scouts. Aft
er an advance of forty-fve miles, the
Sioux were discovered by the Snakes
holding magnificent position COM
handing the ravines through which
the troops would have had to pass had
they not been discovered. The Snakes
and Crows made the first attack, but
were soon driven back by overwhelm-
ing numbers. The troops then charged
upon them, but the Indians, after fir
ing a destructive volley, retired and
took up new and still stronger posi-
ton on higher points beyond, with
skirmishers thrown out. For some
time the Sioux alternately lost and
held their positions, but every time they
retired they found a position stronger
than the one they had left. Our troops
acted under conflicting orders, causing
unnecessary sacrifice of life. As one
incident of the bungling manner in
which the battle was fought, it is stated
that the Crows were charged by our
troops, and before the mistake was dis
covered volley was discharged at
them, and then our troops retired.
Just at the time when the troops had
the Indians at an advantage the left of
the line was ordered by Gen. Crook to
fall back and connect with the right,
SO as to make a general advance. 1t
proved the disaster of the battle and
ended in a virtual defeat. The Sioux
held all the highest ground, and sub
jected our troops to terrible entilading
fire. They attacked in front, on the
rear, and sometimes opened fire on both
sides at once. They fought their bat
tie in a mastery way. AT last, after a