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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26

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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26

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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26

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& w. a 4 Ho,stead arrived home from their
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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26

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We w" ""r last Fair, in our next week
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26

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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03
A Mighty EnternriSe.


The great feat accomplished by the
United States in connecting the Allan
tic and Pacific Oceans, by a railroad
across the United States, is stimulating
enterprise in Europe; and it is now pro-
posed indeed, the plan is matured Ito
connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
by a railroad through Central Asia. At
conference of the geographers, recent
ly held, Col. Bogdanowitz explained
some of the details of the road, which,
it is expected, will overcome one of the
greatest obstacles to the extension OF
civilization, namely, the separation of a
large part of Asia from Europe by vast
deserts, in which no means of transit
but railroad could be of any use. A
railroad alone can develop the resources
of the many lands through which it
would pass; and as the mineral wealth
of Siberia and the Ural Mountains Is
we'll known, the exploration and mining
of these regions would be encouraged,
and their resources developed.
It is proposed that the road shall
start from Mini Novgorod, in Russia,
where is now the extreme eastern sta
tion in the network of European rail-
raods; it will run along the Volga, the
Kama, to Ekaterinbourg, on the Asiatic
side Of the Ural Mountains, then enter
Asia, proceed in the direction Of Treu-
men and Omsk ut the Irish, cross the
river, proceed By the way of Kainsk TO
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03
. 8 . . 50 9 . .

To the Working Cla~s.-We can
furnish you employment at which yon can
make very large pay, in your own !ocali-
ties, without being away from home over
night. Agents wanted in every town and
county to take subscribers for the Cen,en-
nial Record, the largest publication in the
United States-l6 pages, "a columns; Ele-
gantly illustrated; Terms only 81 per year.
The Record is devoted to whatever is of in
terest connected with the Centennial year.
The great exhibition at Philadelphia is
fully Illustrated in detail. Everybody
wants it. The whole people feel great in
terest in their country's Centennial Birth
day. and want to know all about it. An
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1t is entitled, "In remembrance of the
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agent for but show the paper and picture
and hundreds of subscribers are easily OBJ
tanned everywhere. There is no business
that will pay like this at present. we nave
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time; don't delay. Remember 1t costs
nothing to give the business trial. Send
for our circulars, terms, and sample copy
of paper, which are sent free TO all who
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mechanics, and their sons and daughters
make the yery best of agents Address,
THE CENTENNIAL RECORD,
iuns 3o-ir,. Portland, Maine
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03
(I0Y. Tildan3S Household.

The members of Gov. Tilden's house
hold, at Albany. are his sisters. Mrs.
Pelton, a sedate. matronly widow lady;
her son, Col. Pelton, and his daughter,
the latter, little lady Of twelve sum
mers, who has lived with the Governor
since she was two years old. So it may
be seen that the bachelor Governor and
prospective bachelor President is as
pleasantly surrounded, socially, as most
married gentlemen. He has his pets,
and they all seem to encourage and re-
pay his kindness. In the event of his
election, should that be the result of
the coming canvass, Mrs. Pelton could
not fail to prove as graceful and accom-
plished hostess in Washington as she
is universally acknowledged to be in
Albany. She has resided with the Gov
ernor since his Inauguration, and being
as affable and entertaining as he is HIM
self, she has contributed in no small
measure, to the enjoyment of his
guests.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03
Raising and Picking Geese.

We clip the following on the above
subject from an agricultural exchange:
In late number of your valuable
paper young farmer wants the advice
and experience Of some person who has
had experience in raising and picking
geese. I am now nearly Sky years old.
and have raised and picked geese ever
since 1 was large enough to hold a
goose in my lap. 1 will give you the
results of my experience. In the first
place I try to keep the flock as near
equal as possible (as many ganders as
geese,) go they will mate equally in the
spring. Geese are not like other fowls;
every gander has his own mate, al
though some ganders will have two
geese, and one goose will have two
ganders. Geese are very easily raised,
requiring but little attention. After
the goslings are week old, feed them
on corn meal dough, with a little salt
in it, until they can eat young grass.
Care should be taken to give them shell
ter from hard rairs. as they are easily
drowned previous to the time they be-
gin to feather. They want nothing but
water in the summer. Feed grain in
winter, and they are all right. In the
picking process. I pick about every
seven weeks, if the feathers are ripe,
which can be told by catching one and
plucking few feathers from it; if the
quill of the feather is clear, they are
ripe; if the quill is full of blood, they
are not ripe. Pick nearly clear in
warm weather, but in winter not so
close. Care should be taken to give
them warm shelter in winter after pick
ing. Pick all the small feathers and
leave the large ones except four or FIVE
under each wing, which must be pluck
ed or the wings will droop. The yield
of feathers will be about one-quarter OF
pound to the goose each picking,
when full feathered.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03
Arriere PenSee.

ATTlcrc A-e0Sces
He wraps me round with his riches,
He covers me up with his care,
And his love is the love Of manhood
Whose life is living prayer.
I have pligh.ed my woman's affections,
/ have given my all in all,
Aud the flowers Of daily coutentment
Renew their lives ere they fall.
And yet like an instrument precious,
That playeth an olden tune,
Ny heart in the midst of its blessings
Goes back to day in June
To day when beneath the branches
l stood by silent stream,
And saw in its bosom an image,
As one seeth face in a dream.
would not resign his devotion,
No, not for heart that lives,
Nor change one jot of my condition
For the change that condition gives;
should mourn not more for another,
Nor more for another rejoice,
Than now when weep at his absence,
Or welcome his step ami his voice.
And yet, like an instrument precious,
Tha, playeth an olden tune,
Ny heart in the midst ofits blessings
Goes back to day i'll June
To day when beneath the branches
stood in the shadowy light,
And heard the low words of a whisper
As one heareth voice in the night.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03


The terrible fate of Custer and his
gallant three hundred adds smother
tragic chapter to. the great book Of Bor-
der events, whose beginning dates from
the earliest settlements Of our country,
whose end will be only when the Indians
az race shall have become extinct.
The horrors of The Modoc campaign
are yet fresh in our memories. The
historic Lava Beds. Indian cunning
battling the skill of our soldiery for SO a
long time, savage malignity
and treachery eliminating in the
death of the brave Candy
and others whose mission was
honorably treaty and peace-all these
are still remembered with shudder.
Their parallels in device and atrocity
are only found in the deeds that COM
pose the history of the Ozark and
Bloody Ground" or among those which
mark the blooy tracks of the treacher-
GUS Mingoes, descending from their
Great Lake Businesses upon the unsus-
pecting tribes and settlements Of tie
Susquehanna snd Allegheny.
So with this heart rending story of
Custer and his men, which has been
sprung upon the country so suddenly,
and which Is being read amid tears of
sorrow and calls for vengeance, from
one end of the land to the other. Some
may find its parallel in the history Of
Leopidas and his three hundred; some
may seek for like sacrifices amid the
annals of the Scottish Chiefs or Polish
Patriots. But it is only when we turn
to the thrilling chapters of our old Bor-
der history that We read and re-read, in
intensesified from, the bloody story of
Rose Bud and Big Horn Rivers. Gus
ter and his three hundred, ambushed by
q willy foe and melt away in death be-
fore oddo rendered doubly and terribly
formidable by bewildering shrieks and
stealthy mode of fighting, recall with
vivid effect the tragedy of Braddock's
Field, whose details are graphically and
fully narrated in that wonderful book,
"Our Western Border One Hundred
Years Ago."*
Or if other parallels be sought, they
abound in the same brilliant, stirring
and faithfully volume: for Custer and
Lava Beds, Modoc and Sioux. are but
repetition, now fainter, now fercer, of
Dalzell and Bloody Run, Crawford and
Battle Island. Harmer and the Miami
Towns.
The new story. whether of victory or
defeat, massacre or escape, cunning or
adventure, treachery or dash. hardship
or retreat. is but an epitome of the old
fillea with its quaint and primative por>
traitures, haloed about by thrilling tra-
ditions, and sapctifed to us by the
facts that our fathers were a part Of it
and these our dwelling-places We're
scenes in the midst of it.
sOur Western Border One Hundred
Years Ago. A new and lare Historical
volume Of Border Life, Struggle aud
Adventure, by Charles Mcknight, Esq,
eight hundred pages, Price $500. Pub
lished by J. G. McCurdy & Co., Phil
ndelphia, Pa, Cincinnati, o., Chicago,
ILL.,, and st. Louis, No., and sold by
Agent. For terms and illustrated Cir
cuIar address the Publisher.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03
Social Intercourse.

What drives the farmers children to
cities? Simply the lack of social inter
course in tha country If You would
keep your boys and girls at home. make
agricultural society attractive. Fill the
farm house with books and periodicals.
Establish central reading rooms, or
neighborhood clabs. Encourage the
social meetings Of the young. Have
concerts, lectures. improvement assooi-
ations. Establish bright. active, so
cial life, that shall give some signifi-
cameo to labor. Above all, build as
much as possible in villages. 1t is bet
ter to go mile to ones daily labor
than To place ones self mile away
from a neighbor' The isolation Of
American farm life is the great curse Of
that life. and it falls upon the young
people the girls. especially-with Pc
culiar hardship, driving them. too often.
away from comfortable homes into the
the perilous life of crowded city.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03

For some time past it has been one of
the duties of .he police officers to go to
the various houses on their respective
beats and ascertain the size, ETC., of the
hose used in spnnkling the yards and
streets. Out on Grand Avenue one of
our sturdy peelers had watched a long
time at the back yard of an aristocratic
mansion to try and obtain the necessary
information from the servant girl. But
she didut appear, and finally, in q fit
of desperation, the officer walked round
to the front door aud rang. A moment
later the lady of the house herself open
ed the door. This rather staggered the
officer, and without word of prelimi>
nary explanation he touched his hat and
led off with "Good morning, madam;
1 called to inquire what kiud of hose
you use?"
"Sir?" said the astonished lady, grow
ing about gaiter heel taller.
"Yes'm. Very disagreeable to trouble
you, bat we have to make these inqui-
ries, mum. Duty. you know"
"Duty, indeed, sir. You miscreant
"Beg pardon, madam. Perhaps you
don't use any hose. I'm very sorry, but
I don't know"
"Not use any hose. Oh, you william!
+, "Well, pe.haps it's rubber hose, mad
amp"
Rubber hosei" she screamed. "You
abominable wretch! What do you
mean?"
81 mean what kind Of hose
"Well, of all the impudence!"
II ask Thousand pardons, madam.
see you don't know
"I don't know"
''But here comes the kitchen maid.
She can tell me what I want to know. ="
'Susan, if you say one word to that
miserable brute I'll discharge you. She
can tell you, can she? should like to
see her." T. ar
And SO the officer had to retreat 6nal-
ly without accomplishing his purpose.
The lady told her husband, the husband
flew in rage to the sergeant. the SER
geant explained the matter. and they
both agreed that it was great outrage
that ought to be kept very quiet.
Louis Times.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03
ALL Southerners will read the follow

ALL Southerners will read the follow
ing extract from the New York World
with feelings of pride and pleasure:
"Antoinette Polk, daughter Of the
soldier-b bishop, is the belle par ercet-
leace of Roman society. She unites
in herself as many attractions as if all
the fairies had been al her christening.
The ssblue blood" of one of the first
Southern families, wealth enough for
worldly needs, and the beauty of per-
feet features. and . grand classic style,
she has the world at her feet, and it is
rumored that tho Prince Doria is among
her suitors.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03
Sheen HuSbandrs.

In England. where the owner OF the
land apportions il ont to his renter.
Who in turn subiet to tillers Of the boil
who cultivate crops with hired labor,
everything is of necessity 30 reduced 10
systom that the exact cost Of product
is known before it is thrown upon the
market. Aud constant indtirS is made,
after the most minute Investigation
based upon experiments as to the profit
or loss resulting from growing any ami
NAL Or cultivating any crops.
The Royal Agricultural Society Of
England, in its recently issued half
yearly Journal, published paper upon
the relative profits to the farmer from
breeding horses, cattle and sheep. This
paper is compilation from seventy
five reports received from rs many SEC
tions of the United Kingdom, and Civ
ing in detail the experience Of tho best
and most successful farmers in England
The conclusion of the Society is, that
with rare exceptions breeding thorough
bred saddle aud carriage horses is
more expensive and less profitable than
breeding roadsters. Breeding any kind
of horse less profitable than breeding
cattle. can OK with q bruised knee or
swollen joint is none the less valua bic
to the butcher; but colt with broken
knee OF swollen hook is considerably re-
duced in value" But the bulk Of
the collected evidence was in favo. Of
breeding sheep as profitable stock.
If this be true in country where
lands rent annuity, for from twenty TO
fifty dollars per acre, how can it be 9th
erwise than remunerative in the South
where the choicest sheep walks can be
bought and paid for at less than half Of
the above annuities? Surely some day
we will see sheep husbandry Iracticed
successfully where nature has done -ar
more than her share of the work.
The paper to the Royal Society OF
England says:
1.-THE return from sheep is quicker
than from cattle. They are more easi
ly managed and require less labor and
attention than cattle or horses. They
also produce two sources of income in
the year, one from sale of portion Of
the stock, and the other from the dis
posal of tho wool. On dry farms, al
most wholly arabic, growing heavy
root crops. they are the best stock to
keep. The best sheep to maintain de-
pends on the nature OF the soil, and the
climate of any district-just as the case
of cattle"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03
The Latest Mnnder Of TalegraphY.

The readers OF the Telegraph have
been made acquainted with the wonder
dArful inventions of Prof. Bell, by
which musical and vocal sounds can be
and have been sent over the electric
wires, but few. if any, are aware of the
wonderful results which are sure to fol-
low these Improvements in telegraphy.
A few nights ago Prof. Bell was in CON-
munication with telegraph operator
iu New York, aud commenced experi>
ments with one of his inventions per
tanning to the transmission of musical
sounds. He made use Of his phonetic
organs and played the tune of "Ameri-
ca, and asked the operator in New
York what he heard.
II hear the tune of America, re-
piled New York. "Give us another. -
Prof. Bell Ihen played "Auld Lang
Syne."
"What do you hear now?"
81 hear the tune of 'Auld Lang
Syne,' with the full chorus, distinctly, 3"
replied New York.
Thus the astounding discovery has
been made that man can play upon
musical instruments in New York, New
Orleans, or London, or Paris, and be
heard distinctly in Bostonl Ii this can
be done, why cannot distinguished per-
formers execute the most artistic and
beautiful music in Paris and an audi
ence assemble in Music Hall, Boston,
to listen? Prof. Bells other improve
ment. namely, the transmission of the
human voice, has become so far perfect
ed that persons have conversed over
thousand miles of wire with perfect
ease, although as yet the vocal sounds
are not loud enough to be heard by
more than one or two persons. But if
the human voice can now be sent over
the wire, and so distinctly that when
two or three known parties are tele>
graphing the voic.ss of each can be rec
ognized, We may soon have distinguish
ed men delivering speeches in Washing
ton, New York or London, and audi
ences assembled in Music Hall or Fan
euii Hall to listcn!-Boston Trarclcr.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03
TIE sub;ect of the discourse of ou,

THE subject of the discourse of our
young friend, E. 81. Dial, upon the oc-
casion,of the exhibition of the Gradu-
ating class of Oxford, of which he WAS
a worthy member. was: "The Relation
existing between the Thalassicola Of the
Radiolaria, and the Rhamphorhynchus
of the Pterosauris." We have always
thought that the relation which has ex-
listed between these parties ought to be
better explained than it is has been, and
it is gratifying to us to know that there
will be no difficulty in understanding II
hereafter'--Fr.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03

DEAR children, ye ought not to cease
from hearing or declaring the word OF
God, because you do not always live ac>
cording to it, or keep it in mind. For
inssmuch as yoa love it and crave after
it, it will assuredly be given unto you j;
and you shall enjoy it forever with God,
according to the measure Of your desire
after it,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03

Tomsl on the Tenn. a branch of the
Obi, ind cross that river. Tomsk is
the pincipai center Of comsasrce Of
Wesssn Siberias- as-thsnee@ths road VIII
run directly TO Irkutsll. at Lake Baikal;
thenes the road is to pass to the frontier
of Chpa, and thence it is no longer an
excluasely Russian, but an information
al. unS nSrtaking.
Aud here, also, the only serious engi-
neerint difficulties commence, at the
mounttn range of Kioghan, which, in
its nor bern part, is crossed by the
AmoorRiver. This range is the great
est ob4acle, and it will be necessary to
pass b5 the Mantchooria, and to lay the
road fbm Baikal to Verhneoudinsk,
throngi the valley & the Selenga.
Then tie best route by which to reach
Pekin, The capital of China, near the
Yellow Sea "a bay of the Northern Pa
cific Oaapl has been found to be that
Of Tehta and Dolournor. At the
southern end the famous great wall will
be crossM: it already lies in ruin in
many pl,ces. The whole distance from
Mini Noygorod to Pekin will be four
Thousand five hundred miles, of which
two thousand eight hundred run through
Russian territory.
When This plan is closely examined,
accorlineto known Typographical data,
the apparent difficulties dwindle down
to nothing, when compared to those ell
counterec in the western section of our
Pacific Rsilroad. The first section from
Mini Noggorod to Tomsk, runs on per
fectly le7el land (the so-called steppes),
similar to our prairies. In the second
section from Tomsk to Lake Baikal, the
country is rolling, and interpersed with
river and streams; but the greatest
h.igit is only three thousand five hum
dredfeet, and the largest rivers are but
of vGy moderate width and depth. The
onlyserious difficulties, as We have said,
lie al the Chinese frontier, and they are
inferior to those overcome in the Rocky
Mountains and the Sierra Nevada by the
A Hericrn engineers.
Russia has raised in fifteen years
more than one billion dollars with
which to construct fifteen thousand
miles of railroad, and can easily find
three or four hundred millions to con-
stnlct a line of such value to all the
ci,ilized world. .-Sctentifc american.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-03

DIR. d. NJ. WApINaroN, the popular
host of the West House, Durant, in re-
sponse to our article Of last week, call
ing on some one to give recipe to take
the bitter from milk, when cows had
eaten Of bitter weed, writes us that he
uses soda with success. He gives each
COW one tablespoonful, night and morn
ing in bran or meal, and the milk soon
becomes nice and sweet Roscinsko
Star.