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great cruelty, alleging. among other acts OF abuse,
that he threw her down stars He denies her charges
and accuses her With inhuman treatment OF his Two
children by a former wife. Mr.. Charles IL. Lexon. tho
counsel OF the German Legal Aid Society. appears for
the plaintiff, and Mr. NJ. NJ Vail for the defendant.
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THE COURTS.

Exploring Professor Silliman's
Emma Mine Report.
WANTED. CAUSE OF ACTION.
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:. CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGEl
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THE PISTOLLED BOATMAN.

awards were made, consideration Of the bids bein
over until future day.
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dence by which the plaintiff proposes 10 establish tho
facts IN his complaint, and which, " established en-
titles him to the injunction II seems 10 me- there
fore. that affirmation in affidavit, upon iniorms
tion and belief without giving the evidence upon
which that bclcf IL founded, IS entirely nugatory and
presents 10 the Court nothing upon which can act
| am aware that common form OF drawing an
affidavit: but think upon moments rejection u
VIII be that there Is tho distinction
which have suggested between anda-
and q complaint, and which must be
preserved. | think. therefore, that all the atrma-
lions in the afidavts upon which the order Tor the
examination Of the defendants founded beng
upon Information and belief and the aflidavits not
stating the evidence upon which such belief rs
founded there is evidence that oi az II N
whatever exists In favor OF the plann against tn,
defendants sought 10 be examined and the order fsr
motion.
Mr. W. j. Butler appeared tor plaintiff and Mr.. A. J.
Vanderpoel Tor the defendants.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
A Touching Romance.

More than year ago, the Bulletin
published, under the head of a
"Charming Romance" one of the
truest stories of worthy love and laud-
able ambition ever told. Briefly re-
lated, the facts were these: Lieut..
Philip Reade, a young army Of
ficer, heard in a Topeka church choir
a voice so sweet and musical, SO ten
derly sympathetic, that his soul was
touched to know more of the sweet
singer. He sought her acquaintance,
was introduced, and found young
lady struggling against the hardships
of pecuniary misfortune to make
headway. She was ambitious to go
abroad, and study under great masters
in the foreign lands of poetry and
song. Her genius, her aspiration, and
more than all, the nobility of her
character and her modest worth, found
ready admiration in the mind of the
Young officer. He made her cause his
own, and so readily responded to every
aspiration of her young life, that he
pledged his own fortune to enable he1
to go to Italy, and there finish heI
musical education in the best schools
of Florence and Milan. Pool
in purse but rich in womanly pride,
she declined to accept the gift of SC
much money. Alone and with the aid
of money earned in local concerts and
private tuition, she visited Boston and
further progressed toward the fame
which she longed to achieve. Her re-
fusal to accept money increased rather
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
The Squirrel and the Burglar.

A GERMAN story thus illustrates the
fact that no creature is too small to be
of use, sooner or later:
can apothecary had a tame squirrel,
which he was in the frequent habit of
regaling with nuts, and which he used
to keep in his own private room ad-
Joining his shop. The little fellow was
allowed plenty of liberty, for the door
of his cage was frequently left open,
and he used to climb up doors and
windows and spring thence upon his
masters hand.
"On one occasion he Jumped upon
the broad -brimmed hat of a Quaker
who came into the shop. He made
friends with all his masters acquaint-
ances, but if anybody teased him he
could show that he knew how to bite.
CAS- the winter came on, he was an
the habit of building himself a nest OF
any tow he might find about, and used
to choose for residence the pocket of
his masters coat.
"When, in the evening, the coat was
taken off and hung upon a nail. the
little squirrel would climb up the door
on which the nail stood, run down the
coat and take up his quarters in the
pocket, carrying always in his mouth
a good supply of the tow, which he
had prepared and rolled together be-
| forehand, and with which he contrived
to make in the pocket the cosiest
nights lodging i'll the world.
"a housebreaker, watching his op-
portunity, selected an especially dark
| night for getting in through the win
dow of the apothecary's little back
room behind the shop, with, as you
may imagine, no good end in view.
HE knew that the apothecary kept
| no dog; he could easily guess where
his coat was likely to be hanging up.
He soon found the pocket, and was
Just about to tighten it of purse. pock-
et-book and keys, when a misfortune
totally unexpected befel him.
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"You have kept me waiting he
said; "but l shall say nothing about
it this time. If it occurs again you
will be sorry for it,
As may be supposed, they did not
set off on the best of terms with each
other; and to show how much she was
offended with him the Queen took nc
notice of him all the way, but fondled
a little dog, which she held on her
knee, and talked to it all the time.
"Jump on my lap said the hus-
band, watching an opportunity when
she was silent.
lie will not obey you,' sad the
wife, contemptuously; "he is mine. "
q keep no one about me- said the
husband as quietly as ever, "who does
not obey me-" And he took out his
pistol and shot the dog dead, which
produced such an effect upon the
Queen that she did not venture to
complain. Very soon after they az
rived at their journeys end, and as the
Queen WAS proceeding to her apart
ment her husband called her to him
and bade her take off his boots She
was about to refuse, but thought bet.
ter of it and complied. "Now," he
said, "sit down in this armchair and
l will take off yours, for my theory of
the marriage state is that husband and
wife should bemutually helpful to each
other '-rHG}nbe1S' TOHj190I
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
How a Mormon Wife Feels.

THE younger Mormon meanwhile
had been silent. She was about twen-
ty-eight years old, dressed neatly in
lawn, had pretty teeth, fair skin, and
big blue eyes.
Her two children, a boy and a girl,
We're drawing a doll-carriage around
the yard, but, firing of it, they came
and leaned upon her knee. They were
pretty little things, and when praised
them she put her arms tightly around
each little form and pressed them
closely to her, hiding her eyes in the
little girls curls, "What is youl
name, little one?" | asked the boy.
81 am papa's baby, and her is papa's
dirl," said the little fellow, digging
his fist in his sisters neck. Then they
started again on their romp around the
yard. "You must be happy will
those little darlings, and of course
your husband has no other wife?"
"No, he has no other wife,
lips quivered and her eyes filled with
tears, "but he will have one before
long. | have tried not to believe it,
but can see him slipping from me
every day. I wrote my mother in New
York about it, and she said for me not
to live here day when that happened,
to bring my children and come to her
But | love my husband just as Other
women do. My children are his. ]
could not take them away and be happy
without him. So | shall stay here
with hm." CoHier-Journal.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
SOUTH CAROLINA,
The Presidents Proclamation and the
Order of the Secretary of War.
THE PROCLAMATION


WHEREAS, 1t has been satisfactorily shown
to me that insurrection and domestic vo-
lcnce exist in several counties of the State
of South Carolina, and that certain combna-
tiohs of men against the law exist in many
counties of said State known as "ritie
clubs" who ride up and down by day and
night in arms numbering some pcaceable citi-
zcns and ntimidating others, which combina-
tons, though forbidden by the laws of the
State, cannot be controlled or suppressed by
the ordinary course of Justice; and
WHEREAS, 1t is provided in the Constitu-
ton of the United States that the United
States shall protect every State in this Union,
on application of the Legislature or of the
Executive when the Legislature cannot be
convened, against domestic violence; and
WHEREAS, In pursuance of the above it is
provided in the laws of the United States
that in all cases of insuwcctiOn in any State,
or OF the obstruction to the laws thereof, it
snail be lawful for the President of the
Uni ed States, on application of the Lcgisla-
turc of such State, or of the Executive when
the Lcgisl 'turC cannot be convened to call
for the miIit.n Of any other State or States, or
to employ such part of the land and naval
force as shall be Judged necessary for the
purpose OF supprCSsing such inSurrectiOn, or
causing the laws to be duly executed; and
WHEREAS, The Legislature of said State is
not now in session, and cannot be convened
III IllllC W meet inc present emergency, ana
the Executive of said State, under Sec. 4 of
Art. of the Constitution and laws passed
il pursuance thereof, has therefore made due
application to me in the premises for such
part of the military force of the United
States as may be necessary and adequate to
protect such State and the citizens thereof
against domestic violence, and enforce the
due execution of the laws; and,
WHEREAS, 1t is required that whenever it
may be necessary in the judgment of the
President to use military force for the pur-
pose aforesaid, he shall forthwith by procla-
nation command such insurgents to disperse
and return pcaceably to their respective
homes within a limited time;
NO'e, THEREFORE, |, Ulys -cs s. Grant, Presi-
dent Of the Unite States, do hereby make
proclamation and command all persons en-
gagged in such unlawful and insurrcctiOnary
proceedings to diSpcrsc and retire peaccably
to their respective abUdCs within three days
from this date, and hereafter abandon SAID
combinations and submit themselves to the
laws and constituted authorities of said
State, and | invoke the aid and cooperation
OF all good citizens thereof to uphold the
laws and preserve the public peace.
In witness whereof | have hUrcunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed
DOnr at the CITY of Washington. this nth day of
October, in the year of our Lord 1876 and of tn Q
independence of the United States one hundred
and one.
IL. 5 U. s. GRANT.
by the President: JOHN L. CADwAILADER,
Acting Secretary Of State.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26

NED GRAHAM was a good boy, chill
dren. TO be sure. he had his bad days
and fretful days; but, on the whole,
he was Il good boy, and everybody
loved him. | want to tell You about
one of his naughty habits, and how it
was cured.
He was about five yeMs Old, when
he first got into the way of kicking and
screaming if everything wasn't just to
his mind. When anything went
wrong, he would fall fiat on his back,
and scream as loud as he could bawl.
Some days he would have two or three
screaming-spells, with scarcely any
reason for it.
One day he was playing with his
blocks, and had a large barn built,
ready for the animals of Noah's ark to
enter, when his little brother Will
came along, gave it kick, and barn,
animals an all were in Il heap ut his
feet.
Ned looked a moment at the ruins :;
then down he went on the floor. and
such a scream as he set up. Boys, if
you could have been there, and heard
that scream, you would had thought
that Ned had been bitten by a rattle
snake, or chased by tiger.
His mother was busy sewing: but,
hearing the noise, she left her work,
and came to the rescue, fearing that
he was hurt. When she found that
Ned was only giving way to his bad
habit she took him upon her lap, and
very kindly told him the habit must
be cured at once, and that, the very
next time he screamed, she should try
a new punishment.
For day or two Ned did very well :;
but his old habit soon got the better
of him, and for some tritling cause,
he lay down on his back and screamed
as loud as ever.
In came his mother with bottle in
her hand. ''COme to me, Ned, she
said. "Don't speak a word, but put
out your tongue" Ned begged and
begged; but his mother was firm, and
he knew lie must obey her.
Very unwillingly the little tongue
showed itself, and on went Il few drops
of pepper-sauce. Oh, how his tongue
did smart. He wanted to rinse it off
with some water but his mother stood
near him. and he was forced to sWal-
low the biting liquid, Then she told
him that, whenever he screamed, she
should come with the pepper-sauce,
and put more and more on his tongue
every time,
If you will believe it, he did not need
it again Every time he felt inclined
to scream, it seemed us if his tongue
began to smart; and he knew the pep
per-sauce bottle was close at hand in
the dining-rOom.
Ned is Il young man now, and has
entered college. Won't he laugh fhe
reads this? Perhaps it will make him
ashamed that he ever had such fool
ish habit. Margaret A1nold, IN NaTs-
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
\ Remarkable Curiosity.

HENRY RUICK, a farmer residing in
North Canton, brought to Hartford
to-day two flat pieces of stone, of If
regular shape, and about twenty-five
inches square, on one of which is the
impression of mans left foot and
two bird tracks, and on the other the
same marks in relief, as though a
casting had been purposely made. The
stones are of the soft muddy fOrma-
ton found in many places on the
banks Of the Connecticut River, of
fine texture, apparently mud mingled
with small grains of sand, and have a
similar thickness of about two inches.
They fit together perfectly, yet were
separated without any eXertiOn or pry
ing when lifted from the place where
they We're found. The depression of
the foot of the man is about an inch in
depth. with all the toes and shape of
the bottom of the foot distinctly
shown, and Immediately at the sides
the surface is raised above the general
surface us it naturally would be where
Il person stepped on soft mud. The
length of the foot is eleven and one
half inches, and the width at the ball
of the foot four and One-half inches.
The bird-tracks are two in number,
in direct line with the mans foot,
six OF eight inches to the right, and
the impressions are about One-third Of
an inch in depth and very distinct.
They are of both the right and left
feet of the bird, and show Il stride of
six inches, with three toes, each four
inches in length, and short rear toe.
The stones were taken out by work
men engaged in deepening a spring on
the farm of Mr.. Ruick, which had
run nearly dry during the long-cOn-
tinued dry weather. This spring has
always existed there 50 long as the
memory of the oldest inhabitant eX
tends back, and has been known to
Mr.. Ruick for forty years past. 1t is
at the base of the west side of a range
of hills i'll the eastern part Of North
Canton, and several miles distant from
the Connecticut River, within two or
three miles of which, OH both sides of
the river valley, fossil bird-tracks have
been found in great numbers. While
fossil bird-tlacks are plentiful i'll the
Connecticut Valley. there have been
but few instances of the finding Of the
tracks of human beings, and even the
best found at the Portland brown
stone quarries, opposite Middletown,
are said to be less perfect than the one
above described. Mr.. Ruick has re-
ceived an offer of 800 for the two
stones, but, up to this afternoon, had
not accepted the Offer Hartford
(TOuH Post
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
Wallace on the Origin of Man.

II we are to believe Sir John LuD-
book and other writers of his class, no
fact is better established than that of
the very long existence of man on
earth. while most of them are equally
sure of his evolution from the brutes,
yet at the recent session of the British
Association for the Advancement of
Science, Mr.. A. r. Wallace, whose
claims to the Independent discovery OF
the principle of natural selection are
conceded by no one more freely than
Mr.. Darwin, expressed very different
views. After saying how scientific
men, during the last sixteen years,
had abandoned their professions of ig-
norance respecting mans origin, and
claimed to have become assured in re-
gard to it, he continued:
sit is curious circumstance, that,
notwithstanding the attention that
has been directed to the subject in
every part of the world, and the num-
erous excavations connected with rail-
ways and mines which have offered
such facilities for geological discovery,
no advance whatever has been made
for considerable number of years in
detecting the time or the mode of
mans origin. PalpOlithic flint Weap-
ons first discovered in the north of
France, more than thirty years ago,
are still the oldest undisputed proofs
of mans existence; and amid the
countless relics of former world that
have been brought to light, no evil
dence of any one of the links that must
have connected man with the lower
animals has yet appeared. The con-
clusion which | think we must arrive
at is, that if man has been developed
from common ancestor with all eX-
isting apes, and by no other agencies
than such as have affected their devel-
opmel.t then he must have existed in
something approaching his present
form during the tertiary period, and
not merely existed, but predominated
in numbers wherever suitable condi-
tions prevailed. In that case it will
be fair argument that, just as he is
in his mental and moral nature, his
capacities and aspirations, so infinitely
raised above the brutes, so his origin
is due to distinct and higher agencies
than such as have affected their devel-
opment.'
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
WIEN SCHOOL LETS OUT.

WHEN school lets ont at sundown time,
And shadows long up hill-sides climb,
With leap and romp and laugh and shout,
In kilt and smock and roundabout,
By grain-field fence, through pasture-grass
A fOot-worn way, the scholars pass;
And bright-faced elf and brown-fs ced lout
Go heart glad home, when school lets out.
/ sit and watch, where, white and slow,
The mistress moves in grace below;
A 1.-THE young girl, with folded hands,
With low down locks in wide, brown bands
Who floats in light where deep shade lies;
With sweet, sad looks in lake blue eyes;
/ sit and watch, and hope and doubt
! know not what. when school lets out.
Were so young as they who know
The mild m id-rule. just there below,
Would l be glad as they who pass
By grain-fel fence and pasture grass?
Would | be glad the home bound way.
And laugh and shout and romp as they?
1t might be so in roundabout,
But not as now, when school lets out.
Some day--how soon l cannot tell,
But some day soon, l know full we'll
Ny feet shall fall with beat as slow
The greenland way that hers do go,
And shall feel my great heart rise
10 tender looks from lake blue eyes.
And there shall be no fear, no doubt,
Her hand in mine, when school lets out.
Henry r. stanton, in "H0He ant School,"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26

"In rummaging for keys and purse,
he had struck the sleeping squirrel. Of
whose strange habits with regard to
his bedroom he had not been aware.
mot liking to be thus suddenly dis
turbed, the little animal gave the thief
so sharp bite on his thumb that he
could not forbear yelling with pain,
and the master of the house, alarmed
at the unusual sound, came into the
room armed with the poker, just as the
thief was escaping through the VIM
dow
"The Waterman happening to be
passing, the unwelcOme guest was
given into custody; and as the geese at
Rome had saved the capital by their
cackling, so the little squirrel had
saved his masters property by lodging
in his coat-pocket. '-Youth's Com
31U3ljOll
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26

than diminished the young officers re-
gard for her, and he renewed the offer
OF aid to Minnie Beals, for such was
her name, with a proposal of mar
riage. They were married in New
York one morning more than four
years ago. At noon on the wedding
day the bride sailed for Italy and the
husband started for Arizona, where
he had been ordered on military duty.
Frequent letters brought him tidings of
success. Her voice was like a " string
of pearls said one renowned impress
sario. Time wore on, and she made
her debut in the finest theater of Flor
ence to dense assemblage of music
lovers. Fortune seemed to smile, and
she secured an engagement to sing in
the leading theaters of Europe. Her
singing in Constantinople elected the
highest praise from the press and the
populace.
During the past year every letter eX-
changed between the two referred to
the happiness reserved for the re-
union. The aim of their lives seemed
to have been realized, and they had by
common consent centered every hope
and thought in expected enjoyment of
what had been obtained at the cost of
so many sacrifices and the peril of so
many adverse chances. She had fixed
the date of her departure from Italy
next November. Fate fixed it other
wise. A single sentence from strong
man utterly crushed and broken down,
concludes the story:
SAN DIEGO. Cal. Sept. >, 1876.
Minnie Reade died Aug "a. PHuIp READE.
Mrs. Reade died in Paris. Lieut..
Reade has been stationed on the south
ern border for over a year, in charge
of the military telegraph construction
party, and is at present in San Diego.
-SGl1 Francisco Bulletin.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
\ Little Box Trick.

A. J. HOUCK is well-to-do farmer
of Hamstead, Carroll County, Md. lie
frequently visits the Monumental City,
but up to yesterday appears not to
have gained much experience from his
visits. Yesterday while on a train of
the Western Maryland Railroad, which
he entered at Reisterstown, he formed
the acquaintance of Patrick Noonan,
who told him he was engaged In sell
ing a patent box for placing butter in,
and showed him sample he had with
him. 1t was curious little box about
three inches long by half that width,
and had two lids, which worked on
screw in one end. The upper lid
opened readily, but the lower one had
an oblong slit cut in it, and it was
necessary to push it longitudinally be-
fore it would open. To try to open 1t
as the upper lid had been opened was
impossible, and Mr.. Noonan sociably
let Mr.. Houck into the secret, but
failed to explain what advantages the
box had as a receptacle for butter. On
arrival in the city Mr.. Houck and his
newly-made friend adjourned to a sa-
loon on Hillen street, when they were
approached by stranger (?), +. FrantZ
by name, who requested Mr.. Noonan
to favor him with chew of tobacco.
| Mr.. Noonan consented on cOnsldera-
ton of his taking it from the little box
| referred to. Mr.. Houck laughed as
the stranger ineffectively endeavored
to open the lower lid as he had the up
per, when the latter, apparently losing
his temper, said: "Pll bet you twenty
dollars you can't open it while | count
ten.'' The bet was quickly taken by
Mr.. Houck, and the money put up in
| Mr.. Noonan's hands. To Mr.. Houck S
surpri e he was unable to slide the
second lid along as he had done before,
and his finger nails were well worn
when the last number fell from the
strangers lips. In fact, had the stran-
ger counted up to one hundred he
would have been in the same predica-
ment, as unseen by him his friend
Noonan had frightened the screw in the
end of the little box, and until that
was loosened the second lid could not
be opened. Justice Graft held Noonan
and Frantz for hearing Monday af-
ternoon. and Mr.. Houck returned
home sadder, but wiser man, ,--B0ttt-
mare Gazette.