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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-19

sin, but a great deal of the fun. We
stood at little distance, and watched
the wry faces and heard the surprised
CALCULATIONS that burst forth, as the
purchasers walked away and took their
| first bites.
Whenever VIII caught sight of our
grins, he would tip us wink and
slyly smooth down his face with his
hand.
1t was a good-natured crowd of
kindly country people. else Will would
hardly have been allowed to continue
the deception.
But before the day was over, many
malevolent look was cast at him by
the passers-by. He braved these and
still proSpered, as new comers We're
constantly pouring in from all parts of
the county.
About noon the next day, however,
a crowd of exasperated lads upset the
stand and pelted Will off the fair
grounds with the remainder of his
own stock in trade. But as he had
cleared about fifteen dollars he was
satisfied.
Now this was nothing but palpa-
BILE fraud, and a very mean sort of one.
But we thought VIII wonderfully
sharp boy. Who but Will could make
fifteen dollars out of a lot of apples
not fit for hogs.
Before another year had passed,
Young Dover began to feel the need
of a wider field for his sharp oper-
ations than that afforded by his native
county. He had come to be thought
dishonest, even by those who had
laughed at his sharpness.
He went to seek his fortune, first to
Portland, and after a time in New
York. We heard reports occasionally
of his sharp doings.
Once he had a shop, or rather a
room, on Nassau street, and was agent
for an s. electric mouse-trap," also for
a certain magic compound to pro-
mote the growth of the beard, and a
number of other disreputable articles.
He afterward visited his native town
once or twice, dressed smartly and
looking well.
We, his old school-mates, remarked
that his bright, sharp eye had taken a
certain hardness of glance that was not |
quite pleasing to encounter.
1t was whispered, too, that Will had
packages of counterfeit "scrip' which |
he would sell "cheap" for cash. 1t
was so well made that it could not be
told from legal money.
From that time we heard little or |
concerning him till the notice
of his trial and imprisonment appeared |
in the newspapers.
Thus, you see, that Will Dover's |
sharp practices as boy led him inev-
itably, step by step, to the crime for
which he is serving seven years in the
State prison.
Fools make mock at sin. Will |
Dover began a life of fraud amid the |
laughter and Communications of |
men and boys. But the
skin of that ''blaek fox" led to a
felon's cell.
May there not be other commune
ties, that by treating the smart opera
tionS of some young rogue as a mere |
joke, are educating him for prison.
Youths Companion.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-19
ABROAD.


A DEPUTATIoN of twenty Polish gen
tlemen called upon United States Minis
ter Washburne, at Paris, on the 18th, and
presented an address to President Grant,
accompanied by medal, intended to
commemorate the virtues of Washington
and the Polish heroes who fought in the
Revolutionary contest. Mr.. Washburne
made appropriate response.
IT was reported from BELGRADE on the
18th that Servia had finally concluded not
to accept the six months armstice offered
by Turkey, because she could not main
tain her present large army in idleness
throughout the winter, since she would
also be obliged to support a large number
of refugee families Montenegro is also
said to have rejected the proposed armis-
tice.
A CONsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the 18th
announces the arrest of Chefket Pasha,
the Bazi Bazouk chieftain who took the
leading part in the Bulgarian atrocities.
A BERLIN telegram of the 18th says
Turkish creditors had seized 292 Krupp
guns which were being shipped from Ant
werp for Turkey.
IT was reported from Vienna on tn
14th that none of the Great Powers had
yet given their consent to the conditions
of the six months armistice. Russia had
definitely rejected it and insisted upon the
six weeks armistice originally proposed
by England.
RUMoRs of the abdication of the Gar of
Russia and the prohibition of the exporta-
ton of grain from Odessa have been Off
cially denied.
A SEVERE snow storm occurred in por-
tions of Canada on the 14th. The snow
was six inches deep at Ottawa, and the fall
was so heavy at Quebec that the street
cars stopped running.
THE quarterly circular of Messrs. Dun,
Barlow & Co. shows that the failures in
the United States during the past three
months have been 2,450, with liabilities
aggregating SAT, ,S57,371.
A FALSE report that Commodore Van
derbilt had died was started in New York
on the 10th, and telegraphed throughout
the country and to Europe, the effect be-
ing to cause losses to stock operators.
The Stock Exchange has taken steps to
ascertain the author or authors of the
canard.
FRANK STURGEs & Co, of Chicago, ex-
tensive manufacturers of tin-ware and
dealers in metals, have failed, with liabil-
tiles estimated at $500 900.
THE new Indiana Legislature is COM
posed as follows: neutrality-suspicious.
%; Democrats. %; Independents, 2.
House-Republicans, SO; Democrats, As;
Independents, 2.
A sNowsToRM prevailed at Norfolk and |
in the neighborhood of Richmond, Va, on
the 10Th. The weather was extremely |
cold. The thermometer at the latter place
ind dicatnd thi rtyonp deurpes aboyn zero
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-19
A Tomb of Fire.

A New YORK dispatch gives the
following account of the recent con-
ilagration on board the bark Europa,
in the dry-docks in that city:
The Europa was placed on the large
balance dry-dock, at the foot of Rut-
ger street, Friday, for the purpose of
receiving general overhauling. The
ship being chartered and it being nee
essary, she was made ready as expedi-
tiously as possible. A large force of
calkers, ship carpenters and black
smiths were put to wort this morning.
These men were scatt I'd all over the
vessel and We're bus At about half
past eleven o'cloc' lis forenoon the
ship carpente' d calkers were in
the lower ho4, ring the sides to see
whether the planks were sound. while
the calkers had brought their oakum,
oil and pitch into the lower hold to
have it at hand when required. A
ship carpenter named Jno. Casey, of
% Sheriff street, was with the rest in
the fore-hold testing the planks. He
struck a match for the purpose of
lighting pipe, and having done so
threw the burning match upon the
floor. A large pile of oakum was close
by and the match set it on fire. Casey,
in endeavoring to smother the flames,
was fatally burned. The flooring of
the vessel was saturated with kero-
sene, benzine and other highly
combustible liquids, and in a
moment caught fire, which spread
with lightning rapidity, and the
entire hold, from stem to stern,
was mass of fire, converting it into a
frightful death-trap. The workmen
in the hold were cut off from the air.
They were in a tomb filled with fire.
Some at work amidships were COM
pletely surrounded by the flames.
Those not in the midst of the flames
were exposed to the deathly fumes
which arose from the fire, and fell suf-
located. The flames extinguished, the
police and fremen went into the hold,
and soon found in various parts of the
bark the bodies of five men, all ship
carpenters. The bodies were removed
to the seventh precinct station house,
on Madison street, and placed side by
side upon the floor in the back room.
The mems faces are blackened and be-
grimmed with smoke and badly dis
torted,. indicating the terrible agony
they endured before death came to
their relief The clothes in some
places were almost burned through.
Deputy Coroner Marsh ordered all the
bodies to be taken to the mOrgue,
where a post mortem examination is to
be made and an inquest held. AS far
as could be ascertained the victims
were all married men with large fami-
lies, who are wholly unprovided for.
|
Before the 9th of March, 1543, it
was not lawful in England for the
common people to read the Bible in
the English language. On that day
the British Parliament passed an act
declaring "that it shall be lawful to
all men to read the Bible and Testa-
ment in the mother tongue" Although
it is lawful in this country for every
body to read the Bible, great many
people seem to keep their Bibles only
to look at, or else for the sake of re-
spect ability.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-19
A Dangerous Balloon Voyage.

d. S. THOMAS, the aeronaut, reached
this city yesterday on his way back
from the town in Plymouth County,
Mass, where he landed with his bal
loon on Tuesday afternoon. The trip
through the air which Mr.. Thomas
made was characterized by some thrill
ing incidents, and is said to have been
the longest ever made in New En-
gland. He left Bridgeport on Tues
day forenoon, having been obliged to
go somewhat suddenly on account of
the weather-so suddenly, in fact, that
he left his undercoat behind him and
lost his hat at the beginning of the as
censlon. After leaving the city he at
once rose to an altitude of 5000 feet
and moved in the direction of Milford.
Just before reaching this city he was
carried out over the Sound. Looking
at a steamer of the New York and
New Haven line, which was directly
under him, he saw by the direction
taken by it's smoke that he could re-
gain the land by getting at lower cur
rent of air.
Down he came and at once moved
landward, passing over the mouth OF
New Haven harbor and crossing the
Connecticut River not far from Good
speeds landing. Then he kept on
over Norwich to Providence, reaching
at times an altitude of over two miles
and travelling at the rate of fifty miles
in sixty minutes. While passing
Providence he was so high that the
people though the balloon was toy.
Thence he moved rapidly toward the
place where lie stopped. When only a
little distance from the ocean he de-
cided to alight, but the wind was very
strong and he had great difficulty in
doing so. Finally, after tearing OIL
the roof of barn and knocking down
two or three stone walls, he lost his
anchor. Then for ten miles, at very
rapid rate, he tore along through a
pine forest in considerable danger,
taking off the tops of trees. Most OF
the time the basket was upside down,
SO that he lost his ballast, and he could
not collapse the balloon because he
had no rip-line. At last he was thrown
out into the top of tree, and he fell
| 10 +ba oround the brittle branches sc
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-19
an AUTUMN DAY.


LIKE a jewel golden-rimmed;
Like chalice nectar brimmed;
Like strain of music low
Lost in some sweet long-ago;
Like fairy story old
By the lips OF children told;
Like a rune of ancient bard;
Like missal glory-starred-
Comes upon her winsome way
This enchanting autumn day.
Ger the hills the sunlight sleeps;
Through the wales the shadow creeps;
On the rivers stately tides
Rich the silent splendor glides;
Where the bowery orchards be.
Perfumed breeZes wander free;
Where the purple clusters shine
Through the network OF the vine,
Fragrant odors fill the air;
Beauty shineth everywhere,
While upon her joyous way
Comes the lovely autumn day.
BY the roads neglected banks
Rise the sumac's serried ranks;
Ragged hedge of thorn and brier
Sudden flames with living fire;
From the hard unloyely sod
Springs the glancing goldeu-rod;
Light the level sunbeams sift
Through the violet ms er-drift:
All her spears in proud array,
Comes the hammered autumn day.
Lifts the forests lofty line,
Sceptered oak and solemn pine;
Shifting rainbow tints Hume
All the depths of fronded gloom;
Through the vista'd aisles unroll
Sweeping robe and trailing stole
Where superbly on her way
Comes the royal autumn day.
Heart of mine, be glad and gay;
Wear thy festival array;
Sing thy song for gathered fruit:
Why shouldst thou alone be mute,
When the winds from sea to sea
Ring in chords Of jubilee?
After waiting, after prayer,
After pain and toll and care,
After expectation long
Lo! the bright fulfilments throng:
Clean the apples through the leaves;
ThiCk'y stand the golden sheaves;
Earth is all in splendor drest;
Queenly fair, she sits at rest.
While the deep delicious day
Dreams its happy life away.
E. SdagSter, in Harper'S Bdzar.
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NUMBER 43.
flor pnn,,a Readers.
PINK{E- WINHIE'S MAMMA.

PINKIE- WLNKTE'S MAMMA.
HEARS that doll up, overhead
Inever can get any nap!
guess l shall get ont of bed,
And 'haps I'll give that doll u slap!
Bad doll! and here you is all dressedl
know you hasn't said your prayers!
You got up and put on your best,
And hurried, fas' you could, down stairs.
| knows, you mink, just where you thought
You'd go. Posy! don't shake your curlsl
What did l say I'd do T | caught
You with those naughty alley girls?
How dare you take my parasol
Bad doll, to 30 a walking in:
You thinks, because you is doll,
Nobody'd hurt your little skin.
o Pinkie-winkie- -posy helll
You is so pretty in your little crib,
How can l whip-bnt sho Id | tell
My darling daugh er-doll fb?
My Pinkie didn' as she should
Slap! slap! one, two, threc!-
l whips you for your little good;
That's what my mamma says to M,
80 Wids AIcakS.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-19
Boy Nature.

I have thought that the boy is the
only true lover of Nature, and that we
who make such dead set at studying
and admiring her come very wide of
the mark. "The nonchalance of boy
who is sure Of his dinner" says our
Emerson, " is the healthy attitude of
humanity" The boy is part of Ma
ture; he is as Indifferent, as careless,
as vagrant as she. He browses, he
digs, he hunts, he climbs, he halloes,
he feeds on roots, and greens. and
mast. He uses things roughly and
without sentiment. The coolness with
which boys will drown dogs or cats,
or hang them to trees, or murder
young birds, or torture frogs or squir-
rels, is like Natures own mercilessness.
Certain it is that we often get some
of the best touches of nature from
children. Childhood is world by it.
self, and We listen to children when
they frankly speak out of it with a
strange interest. There is such a free
dom from responsibility and from
worldly wisdom-it is heavenly wis
dom. There is no sentiment in chill
dren, because there is no ruin; moth
ing has gone to decay about them yet
not leaf or twig. Until he is well
into teens and sometimes later, boy
is like bean pod before the fruit has
developed-indefinite, succulent, rich
in possibilities which are only vaguely
outlined. He is a pericarp, merely.
How rudimental are all his ideas. l
know boy who began his school COM
position on swallows by saying there
were two kinds of swallows-chimney
swallows and swallows.
Girls come to themselves sooner; are
indeed from the first more definite and
"translatable. ."-GalaGy.
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IT is said that there are in the United
States over 10000; idiots, estimating
the population at 4o.ooo, ooo-one for
every thousand. For the care Of these
Z" daft" ones there are ten asylums,
none of which have been in existence
over thirty years,
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quickly over the country, selling every-
where for napoleon or pound the
SICK cavalry horses returned from
Abyssinia, instead of isolating them"
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-"That's all right" remarked the
grocer, reassuringly, as he chased the
piece of cheese back into the custom
er's basket, whence it was endeayoring
to escape. Yes replied the Gus
toner, obviously, 81 know it must be,
for mite is right.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-19

THE Geological Garden at Cincinnati
has been running behind badly. The
expenses of the past year were $4,000
more than the receipts.
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@e goltdo Ghuonielt.

The CHRONICLE is published ct the County ssat
Of Tama, one Of the largest, richest most central
and populous counties in Iowa. Itis the Oldest
paper in tho County and one Of the Oldest in the
State having been established in 1855. Its elrcu-
lation being large and constantly increasing, makes
II very desirable advertising medium for businsss
men and manufacturers wishing to bring thsis
goods and wares to the notice Of the people Of
Central Iowa. -
Advertising rates made known on application.
JOB PRINTING a
or every description executed with neatness md
dispatch. Special attention paid to
PRINTING IN COLORS.
Your favors earnestly solicited
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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-10-21
PERSONAL.

Major Wheeler of the city of Austin,
and h. A. Biniord, Esq, secretary OF
State Grange, paid Tm HERALD poss'
ing call upon yesterday.
The Hon John W. Lame was wei
como visitor TO TuE HERALD Office upon
yesterday We are pleased to note his
unusually fine health.
Several prominent visitors from ln'
diana, Illinois and Missouri, dropped
into the sanctum upon yesterday TO
discuss Texas, especially the wondrous
ly fertile soils of this section Of the
State The name of TIM HERALD Is
quito familiar to them at their own
houses. We are glad TO note that om
visitors without exception were charmed
with our beautiful land.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-10-21

Mountain and Poplar Hlulr through
Arkansas Just inside the edge Of Texos
ut Texnrkana At this point the 81.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
Railway connects with the Texas and
Pacific, aud through this road with the
entire system of Texas railroads, But
the Texas railroads are standard
gauge, and consequently the trucks Of
the 81. louis. Iron Mountain and
Southern lnilwny cannot ran over them
So the boxes are lifted on the trucks by
jackscrews and the standard gauge
trucks are run under them, the broad
gauge boxes fastened on TO the standard
trucks, and away they 20 on their our
ncy When they return they nrc loaded
with cotton or some other commodity,
aud must be transferred 10 the broad.
gauge trucks to come on to 81. Louis
This swapping trucks was very nice
while II was n novelty, but it required
the services of u great many men and
involved the ownership Of u vast nam.
Der Of trucks when business wng brisk
and II has consequently become very
tiresome business now, and cau9cs no
end Of delay to lreights great dead OF
grumbling aud n measurable loss Of
business TO the st. Louis, Iron Mountain
and Southern road.
A representative Of the Rcpu6lcoa was
shown yesterday q large order for pro.
visions and general merchandise from n
sherman house, and with the order
were directions ship via the st. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern road but
the house filing the order declined TO-
do so, rs u traveller Of the house had
just returned from ToYarknnn, and re-.
ported the accumulation Of about two
hundred car loads of freight there Tor
Texas points.
Tho fault does not scom to be with
tho ST. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern, but with the Texas Pacific,
which corporation either seems 10 be
deficient in trucks on else their rolling
stock is fully employed in other quar-
tiers
1t is however, " misfortune that the
road to rcXurkanN is not of the samc
gauge M those which traverse Texas.
The gauge of tho st. Louis and from
Mountain should be changed. and II
any boX.shitng is to bo done, let it be
done at Belmont instead Of NJ Tear
kama, A change Of gauge would enable
the 81, Louis Iron Mountain and South
crn TO bring wheat to st, Louis from
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-10-21

and anarchy, was sustWned by the
Federal Government with our money
aud our arms. Oh the cruelty of iti
OH the shame ofit Once ~ was out
boaet that u handful OF Americans
chance thrown upon q desert copst, or
meeting by accident IN u wilderness
would imp oyisc fabric Of stable anl
orderly government but here $50 bayo
Il powerful party with every meaus 1ud
appliance nj ts control utterly impo-
tent TO maintana decent order in gucie-
ties long Injured TO freedom and self
management and proclamihg at The
end OF ten years Of trial, through the
mouth Of ils Boutwell, that II scos no
remedy but in military force, or in re-
maudng those States 10 the condition
Of Territories while u President on
the hundrcdth anniversary Of om popu.
lar Institutions, tells the assembled
world that free elections arc possible, in
half Of the Union, only under II menace
Of bayoncts
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Now il seems that Bully Blaines
chances for the Senatorsbip in Maine
arc anything but good Morrill, is be-
ginning to get dubious over Hayes cleo
-tion and future cabinet positions, and
is pulling very effectively the political
wires in Maine to defeat Blaine and
elect himself The st, Louis RcwLGca
intimates that he is circulating very in
dustriously some interesting documents
ventillating Blaino's bond transactions,
If Blaine were to lose Speakcrship, Sen
atorship, Presidency, all, this would be
contamination most devoully to be
wished.