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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-15
The Turkish COmmissariat.

Shumla is the center of the commits
sariat arrangements of Mehemet Ali's
Army There is no supply depart
ment, and, consequently, the Turkish
system of provisioning an army has
seemed involved in mystery. There is,
however, very little mystery about it.
The Turkish passion for centralization
throws all the weight of administration
upon one point in the mechanism, and
the Commander-in-C Chief makes his own
arrangements for supply. The Com
mander-in-C Chief being now absent,
Raouf Pasha, his locum tenens in
Shumla, directs the business.
In the absence of any military train,
all the bullock wagons have been
requisitioned for miles round. Each
wagon, with driver and pair of bull
locks, is bound to serve for month;
during this time no wages or hire is
paid, but the driver and his beasts
are entitled to a ration of biscuit and
chopped straw respectively. The guam
tity Of biscuit now being carried up to
the front is about $50 tons per week.
Of this, 375 tons are sent from Constan-
tinople by the Seraskeriate in two
weekly shipments; the rest is furnished
by the bakers of this place, Silistria
and Varna. The wagons convey this
to the front, and take back sick and
wounded. Fodder for artillery and
cavalry horses is supplied by contracts,
and the contractor in most cases fur
nishes the transport.
The Turkish soldier receives ration
of biscuit, with dish of stew at night,
made of meat and vegetables. In bar
racks this stew is actually a culinary
triumph, especially in the spring and
early summer, when lamb is fat and
onions fresh. ] well remember one
spring seeing noble Lord, of delicate
health and dainty appetite, testing by
repeated spoonfuls and with evident
enjoyment the quality of the succulent
mess prepared for the evening meal of
provincial garrison. But / hear the
quantity of the stew is very slender at
the front, where the supply Of vegeta-
bles is uncertain, and four sheep the
daily allowance for battalion. Let it
be remarked that an average sheep Of
this part of the world does not yield
more than thirty pounds of material for
the kettle, including flesh, bone and
edible viscera.
The camp soup last night was chiefly
made Of green tomatoes, in sea Of
which bobbed rare bits of fatless mut-
ton. was not tempted to taste the
compound, but it looked green and
smelt sour, and did not seem to have
much comfort in it for drizzly night.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-15

THERE are twenty-five packing
houses in Baltimore, employing each
from soto $50 hands, and handling
5000, 600 bushels of raw and ~, O0o, ,000
Of canned oysters each season. Beside,
there are fifty steaming houses where
rs 5,OO0, 600 cans are prepared each ssa-
son by 7 LOCO men,. Nearly 1900 men
are engaged in making cans. Oyster
shuckers make On an Average ". - per
day, but some experts make - mucn
Us S5. & bushel d oysters In TIE sheA
will mxka tAn I,il = -
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-15

"REcKoN that air scales of yourn is
an Ambush scales, amt itp'' said q
countryman to his grocer as he took the
sugar and handed over the money.
" Ambush scales, what do you meanT'
replied the merchant; who's Am.
bush? ?" Ambush why. v know
reg'lar Ambush-y' understand what
Ambush means, don't yep Wall,
l should hope so, Mr.. Woodruff Am
bush means hid-means somethin' con
cealed- means wait. here's the die
tionary; I'll just read TO yer exactly
what It means so's't you needn't never
use It wrong after this-here tis "A
am ambush-t to lie in wait for .
" Yis that's it, Squire; don't 20 nc
further to lie in weight for two ccntsr'
N Y, Grapkic.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-15

re-establishing the Catholic hierarchy in Scot
land, on the 25th of December.
A LONDON telegram of the 7th an
nounces the receipt of intelligence that the
Russians had captured Ranova-
The Prince of Montenegro issued a
decree, on the 7th, requiring every Montene-
grin, capable of bearing arms, to join the
army.
ABOUT 400 of the principal inhabit-
ants of Bulgaria have been exiled, in chains, to
Asia Minor.
AMELIA, the Dowager Queen of Sax
ony, is dead.
The Bey of Tunis has offered to ship
5000 troops to Turkey, provided the Porte will
pay the expenses
A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the
commencement of hostilities to the 1st were
g. sol men.
PERA kilograms of the 9th report
great excitement at that point. Placarls had
been posted at Stamboul, calling upon all
Turkish patriots to rise, as the Government
was secretly negotiating with the Russians for
peace. Attempts had been made to fasten the
responsibility of these upon ex-Sultan Murad,
and his attendants had been arrested, and, ac-
cording to one account, killed. An attempt
had also been made to poison Mahmoud Damad
Pasha.
THE census of France, taken in 1876
and just verified, shows total population Of
sc, sos, ,7SS.
ACCORDING to London telegram of
the 9Th, Osman Pasha's soldiers were desert
ing from Plevna in great numbers, because Of
the hardshius they were compelled to undergo.
An attempt by the Turks, on the Sth, to land
troops at Oltenitza had been defeated with
great losses.
A CALCUTTA telegram of the 9th
says the Mussulmen in India were greatly ex-
cited over the reports of the late Russian vic
tories.
THE announcement of the capture of
Erzeroum, although made on the authority of
the Turkish Minister of War, is proved to have
been premature. A dispatch was received
from Mukhtar Pasha, on the 9th, which stated
that he still held the post, and hoped to retain
1t. He reported that he had, on that day, de-
feated a Russian attempt to capture the re-
doubts southeast of Erzeroum. Several of the
Pasha's officers had been sentenced to be shot
for cowardice displayed in the engagement of
the 5th.
A ROME Qtaly) dispatch of the 11th
reports the sudden and alarming illness Of
His Holiness, the Pope. A consultation Of
eminent physicians had been had and the con-
n. I~c
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-15
DOMESTIC.


The Commissioner of Customs, in his
inual report. states that the customs receipts
the last fiscal wear were s132. .8s5 al.
UoV. TAhfEN' oi 1ehhessee, mas
egislatnre IF that state IN extraordinary ses.
pn. on the 5th Of December, to adjust the
Ate debt by the issue of new bonds and pro-
de for their payment; also to provide Tor the
penses OF tne 1enerai Assembly.
THE Supreme Court of the State OF
ninois has recently decided that optional trad
np ON ,Chanpe il not unlawful. but that
puts" and calls" are.
4 A SEVERE storm on the lakes, on the
~ and nlobt of the 9Th. caused great destruc.
IN To sbinninc and the loss Of many lives.
IA Canadian schooner Magellan. was lost ON
AXE Michigan, with all on board, the crew
nsls.,ng ol elsn. men oeseIa. o'',er ,n. vesses
- ''''9'e' - '''' -''' '' = '' -0''''
The Treasurer OF Clermont County,
hio, was lately robbed of $24, 900.
rur onondme,ts IN tho Arror Az
.onr,a ,,on h;,, were adonted hv The House :,
representatives.. on the 18th. and the hin
ssed. The Army. according to the action
the House, is reduced TO 10000 men. and
ur regiments are to be stationed on the Rio
rande
THE North Point Dock BONDED Ware
nnse IN San Franc,sco wes b,rped ON tho
tenoon Of the 10Th Ioss saO0oM
r,r pooo;uor 90 III .,,..o.aoa c...o
r,.-- I.s.,..,.,e. !. 1r',.s- ~, . 's
.ns., s.s 49,, - on.o, ...' nay euD',l''eu
brs viii receive about 40 per cent. Of their
eposits.
Tur ponnsr,,or;. s,nror,. r.,u.
: dec,dcs that The Grand .1ury c.nnot oo,,
s. State officials to appear and diulpe Of.
eial information in respect to the causes of
Ae July riots
prusnNAL Ann POLurucaL.
- ~ ....n...,. -
IN NC" Aoin .ic ,,,"'."''o..s 49,
inc morning .. INC s.n' ,a. .na. s"s =, cne s.as
,.,o.ia.,e nao n Eau .'s ""s '..,s.. c,.,sa -
the Rcnublicans.
T,,r ,ot,,rns from tho pennsvlvan;a
-. - '....as, =. ~ ror,,,r !; ~. ON
J;,.ated : nemoeratic T T. n,aio,1tv in tho state
about 10000
SCATTERING returns from the State
lection in New Jersey indicated the election
Gen. Mcclellan Dcm.), for Governor, by
rom 10, 600 to Il, 900 majority, and a. Democratic
hajority in both branches of the Legislature.
ra,X1 n. <D.\ g.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-15

KENNEDEu, Me-, ice dealers sre ship
ping more ice now than a any. time last
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-15

A CONSCIOUS power rcsts ia The form
,of moneyed msn,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-15

"a. c,nd,dstes nv from anorm - ao60c
majority. The state oa,cerr vot46 }ov
verr I,ieutenant- 4 Goverror and Cbief-Iuatice.
ON the 7th in the case a. Cardoza
and tried for m,sfeasance and malfesssnca in
Office The i,rv brought IN verdict of slo1,iItv
I $500 s.ossss -. w o',, 1r..,..., a...s.
s,.I M,nss.a- a' - hi o,,,n ' = - '''''
..''''' y
lHE vote py States on tne SILVER Dill
which recently passed the lower House OF Con-
y.-v.., =. " y.u.. p.u
syivania. s: Vireinia' 4: North Carolina. 8:
South Carolina, 3; Georgia, g; Alabama, s;
Louisiana, 4; Mississippi, 9; Ohio 1s; Ken
lucky Q, tennessee, Q, lnuiaua, ~ tnlnois.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-15

FOREIGv.
On the evening of the 9th, the Amer
ican residents of Paris gave ex-President Grant
a brilliant banquet About $50 persons were
present, including the American Minister and
several Of the French dignitaries.
In accordance with the request of
President MacMahon, the DcBroglie Ministry
have withdrawn their designations The French
Chamber of Deputies met, on the 7th, snd
elected NJ. Grevy Provisional President, by a
vote of 800 to 40 for the Conservative can
didate.
ACCORDING to (Rome) Italy dis
path of the 7th, the Pope will issue his letter,
re-establishing the Catholic hierarchy in Scot
land, on the 25th of December.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-15

THE Commissioner of Customs, in his
lnual report, states that the customs receipts
y the last fiscal year were s132, ,6S5, AL.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-15
MEMPHIS. TENN. FRIDAY EVENING JUNE Is, 1871

gan to assail them in the senate.
This action of his was Immediately
followed by the recall of Mr.. Mot
ley. Mr.. Fish always asserted that
Mr.. Motley was recalled because of
a serious blunder he had commit
ted in improper interference with
the delicate negotiations the state
department was then conducting
with the English foreign office with
reference to the settlement of the
Alabama claims. Notwithstanding
this statement of Mr., Fish it was
the general belief that Mr.. Motley
was disgraced that the admiuistra-
ton might revenge itself on Mr..
Sumner. Mr.. Sumner tenaciously
held to this view himself, and he
was very mucR strengthened in it
when his party associates in the
senate deposed him from the chair
manship of the committee on for
eign relations in Difference to the
direct personal solicitation of Mr..
Fish. From that time up to the
hour of his death the extreme ami
mostly which he had entertained
for the South was made secondary
to his intense hatred of everything
and everybody connected with the
Grant administration, and in sea-
son and out of season he dealt his
assaults on the administration. Mr.
Motley was thoroughly a literary
man, and was not possessed Of that
thickness of skin which pertains to
the average American politician.
His removal from his office was a
source of excessive modification tc
him, so much so that he neyel
could bring himself up to the point
of helping Mr.. Sumner to pay back
the Grant administration.
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delightful; neither could we read
the name on the paddle-box, which
adds greatly to our enjoyment of
the voyage. 1t begins to feel as if
we are really in Turkey, a fact that
is not accepted without some COM
Functions of conscience up yonder
in that Frenchiefed, hotel-haunted
Pera. Our steamer, not a bad one
by any means, rapidly fills with the
mixed races Of the earth; the bridge
is crowded from dawn to dark a
thin stream of tourists pours down
the ladder at our boat; / can see on
either side of us other steamers,
with steam up, and they are like
wise being oyerrun with the
strange-looking people, who drop
out OF the dense tide that ebbs to
and fro. The wonder is that you
and they are not swept on and
swallowed up in the strong current
that seems never to decrease in vol
ume or slacken its speed. Our boat
is a double-decker. In the bows the
poorer classes, chiefly natives, travel
at reduced figure. Amidships
there are cushioned seats, a compar-
atively clean deck, and the com
panion-way dropped into cabin
below, which is apparently a kind
of refined black hole, carefully
avoided by everybody. In the
stern there is a pen, hedged in by a
low railing and canvas curtain,
and behind that vail the women of
the harem bury themselves from
the faces Of men. We can see some
of them, as much as we care to see
Of them, as they board us and elbow
their way through the throng of
tirst-class passengers to their sane
tuary, and we are just mean enough
TO look. The yashmach that falls
from the eyes to the waist is rather
formidable it were vain to search
among its Opaque folds for any
shadow of the lips that have fed on
halya and sherbet all their days
but the dark orbs are turned toward
you, and the heavy lids that have
been plastered with white paste that
lies upon them like fish scales, and
darkened with deep, broad lines Of
kohl-those soft but expressionless
eyes look at you with a stupid ami.
NAL curiosity, and the large yelvety
pupils roll, into the corners Of the
sockets aS the houri passes by. Ah
she might sit for q face-card with
those eyes of hers; the cow-likC
coquetry Of the queen of hearts
turks under her sooty lashes. The
harem is so crowded before We
swing off into the stream that the
canvas partition bulges in spots like
q huge dumping.
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BIondes ard Brunetts.
Providence (R. ~ Journal

Providence (R. l.l Journal.l
One of the oldest freaks of fash
ion is that which dictates making
the hair white by discharging its
color. Partisan ladies of style have
for some time been accustomed to
turn their dark tresses to blonde by
a costly and expensive process,
which ruins the hair, making it dry
and harsh, and which has to be fre-
quently repeated as the hair grows !;
but at present the rage is for silver
white hair, even on ladies who are
hardly middle-aged. l seems pity
that people always wish to exchange
their physical peculiarities for those
of some one else, the short wishing
to be tall, and the tall short; the
stout people envying the thin ones,
and the thin the stout ones; the
brunettes longing to be blondes,
and the blondes lamenting that
they are not brunettes. But it real.
ly seems a crazy whim to anticipate
the certain work Of time in this way.
Most Of us do not rejoice oyermuch
at the sight of our first white hair.
There seems reason to hope that as
women become truly educated, and
fill their thoughts and time with
nobler interests than mere personal
adornments, these ridiculous fash
ions will fall into disuse but they
have so long been taught that the
great aim of their lives should be to
attract men by their personal
charms, that a radical change of
purpose and growth of nobler char
acter must be the work of many
decades. The Partisan beaux do
not disdain the extreme arts of the
toilet in all cases. One instance is
reported in which gentleman past
middle age spends three and a half
hours daily at his toilet. His hair
and mustache are dyed, his face is
softened with cold cream, then
painted and powdered and rejuyen-
ated, he walks abroad prepared to
make havoc with hearts. And the
days Of mans life are but three
score years and ten.
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aoO,OOO for Only Ten.
REAp THE LlsT oF GIFTs.
Drawing Positively June 80, 1877
And Every Three Months Thereafter.

The present management emphoticallg notify
he public that there tciU be no posiponeneat Of
this drdwiHg, as IS usual IN such enterprises Jut
that Il ioiU positiUeiy and uneQUiC0cdtiy take
place on he date named
THIS, he Second Drdicing, l9W be conducted
Ike The first, to the fairness Of ,rhich the folloWiRg
named gentlemn hare testified:
Hon. Alvin Duvsll. late Chief Justice Sup.
Court of KY: James G.. Dudley, Chm Board
of School Trustees; Grant Green, Cashier
Farmers Bank of Kentucky; Hon. 6. 1. NJ.
Major, Public PriAter State OF Kentucky;
Hon. Thomas N. Lindsay, Pres't Farmers
Bank of kv.; Hon. Thomas G.. Jones. Clerk
of supreme Court Of Ky; Judge X. A. Thomp-
son, Pres 'dg Judge Franklin Co. Court, James
g. Crockett, Clerk Frank n County Court.
Remittances can be made by mail, express,
draft, postefiee order or registered letter,
made payable to g. W. Barrow x Co.
Tickets paid promptly and without discount.
Reliable agents wanted.
Address all communications and orders for
tickets to g. ". BARROW 4 CO.,
Courier-Journal Building, Louisville, Ky,
Send for Circular. 47-eod. ll0-dkw
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Motley. summon ana Gtanl.

w asnlngtoh ppecldl W ouAeiulViV sum-
The cable telegram announcing
the death of the historian, Motley,
recalls wildly the quarrel of the
late Senator Sumner with the Grant
administration. When Gen. Grant
first came into office Mr.. Summers
influence was all-powerful, and it
was at his personal request that Mr..
Motley, his bosom friend, was given
the English mission, the best po-
sition abroad in the gift Of the adj
ministration. Twelve months later
General Grant sought the assistance
of Mr.. Sumner in behalf of his San
Domingo and other schemes, even
going to his house in person to inn
Fortune him. Mr.. Sumner posi-
lively declined to coumtenance any
such projects, aud Immediately be-
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ENGLISH GOSSIP.


Romance OF the Peerage.
Out of the latest British social
tragedy at Penge, Of which CORE
spondent recently gave an account,
the following curious history has
come to light; "There lived at
Brighton many years ago fisher
man named Suter or Souter. His
cottage was a picture of neatness,
and his garden was admired by the
aristocratic visitors at that watering
place. The chief attraction Of his
cottage was the presence of two
handsome young girls--one a step
daughter, called iamiliarly Nelly
Holmes, and his own daughter,
bearing of course his own name,
Suter. Nelly, the elder of the two,
possessed a wonderful power in
attracting the attentions Of the
other sex. She is said to have been
witty, vivacious, refined and cdu-
Gated above her natural sphere of
life. When her beauty was at its
prime the Hon. Horace Pitt, con-
sidered to be the handsomest and
fastest man in London, came
down on a visit to Brighton.
He, like the rest, admired the
fisherman's daughter, and wearied
perhaps of the artificial airs of the
Court ladies, he wooed and married
Nelly Holmes. 1t is said that when
she married him she had no idea
that he was the heir to a famous
peerage. Lord Rivers, the father
Of her husband, fell into a delicate
state of health, and Horace had by
that time become wearied of his
wife's free manners, and thought
that she would be no ornament to
the British peerage. He sought
and obtained a divorce from her in
the Scottish law courts, but he
should have known that a Scottish
decree had no validity in England.
When Lord Rivers entered the
house of lords he found there an
appeal to his peers on the part of
Nelly Holmes, demanding to be
put in possession of all her rights
and privileges as Lady Rivers. She
won her suit, aud frequently occu-
pied her seat as the legitimate wife
Of Lord Rivers. At her death she
willed away between 100000 and
among her bequests was one of
$4,000 to 'her niece Harriet
Richardson. This is the $4,000
so SO recently referred to before
the coroner, in the case at Penge." "
Harriet Richardson, afterward the
late Mrs, Staunton, was one of three
daughters of Nelly Holmes sis
ter, Miss Suter, by her marriage
with private coachman named
Richardson. One married Mr..
Howard. and, in conjunction with
Mr.. Boden, has endeavored to
prove that she had a child who was
heir to the earldom of Wicklow; (;
another is Mrs. Casabianca. The
three girls used to live near Wind
sor with their aunt, Lady Rivers,
nee "Nelly Holiness" who was SO
we'll known as a daring rider to
hounds. The late Mrs. Staunton
was always regarded as somewhat
wanting in shrewdnoss, The money
which she possessed was derived
from a legacy from her aunt, Lady
Rivers, who divided her property
between her sister and the daugh-
ters,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-15

How can | have clear and brilliant
complexion2 Sinply by using DR.. Bull s
Blood Mixt1re and observing the rules
OF health
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-15

without the starting post, and, con
sequently, some races that are call
ed a mile are a much longer dis
tance. Again, only one man is
employed at the business, and every
one who has been on a race course
must know that after two or three
false starts it is often impossible 10
tell to a few seconds when the real
start takes place, and horses have
been some time on their way before
the fact is realized at the grand
stand. This is more particularly so
at Newmarket. The way that Mr..
Littlefeld did his business was to
have man at the starting post and
another at the winning post. The
instant that the horses passed the
Rowley Mile starting post his watch
was stopped, and the same as the
winning post was reached. By
these means the time can be taken
accurately, and a fair trial ensured.
At Melbourne, where we are told
that the grand stand and its ap-
pointments are far more complete
than on any race course in England,
France or America, the starter, as
he sends the horses on their way,
touches spring, which communi-
Gates instantaneously with a huge
dial in the front Of the grand stand,
and the Judge doing the same when
the leading horse passes him, the
time" is made apparent to all.
And, from what we can hear, fewer
mistakes are made in trials in Amer
lea and Australia than in England.
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MISSISSIPPI q TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule
MnnpHIs, Tam, May IL. 1877.

(lN AND AFTER SUNDAY. MAY 18TH
I 1877. trains will run as follows;
Leave. Arrive.
vew Orleans mail, daily 300 pm. l;SOp.m
Freight and Ac'm dation,
daily except Sunday $3.50 Am oO I'm
E9.i M . BO hhHi pun v