The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-01
IOWA STATE NEWS.

IOWA STATE NEWS.
TIN Scott County Fair receipts were sunleisnt
to pay all expenses, settle up East years. debt,
and have balance left :
BuRL1NGroNs has tidings from her travelling
Mayor, who ID said to have been seen at Hom-
ton, Tex An old friend writes that he saw A.
W. Parsons there several weeks ago, and that
| he looked worn and troubled The reason for
his careworn look was not known to the
writer, who had heard nothing. It IL consid-
cred probable that before this time the missing
Mayor has found his way into Mexico.
| SCorr COUNTY has 11e school-houses, 100
male teachers and 15l female teachers, the av-
erage compensation for the former being
$51.5, and Of the latter, $46.O4, per month
Number Of pupils enrolled, 9, 40; sveragecost
| Of tuition each, $1.87 per month.
On the evening Of the 2Sd. r. Halloween, .
farmer living mile from Carroll, was found
dead on the prairie near his residence. He
had been fighting prairie fires and died from
| exhaustion.
TwoGooD & ELLroTr's banking house, at
Marion, one Of the oldest in the State, closed
its doors on the oath. The liabilities are stated
to be e150, 900. Assets not ascertained
On the night Of the 23d, Rowell Cochrans
broke from the jail at Cherokee and effected
his escape.
HOG CHOLERA is raging In Dubuque County
and many fine lots Of porkers are being
carried of.
The Grand Lodge of the Anti-Horse Thief
Association will hold their next meeting in
Keokuk. ak srsHtts
A MOVEMENT is being agitated In Buena
Vista County to relocate the County seat at
Storm Lake. -
MAJ. w. T. You've died in Sioux City, the
other day, Of congestion Of the brain and lungs,
induced by the excessive use of alcoholic
liquors.
A YOUNG man Of Bladinsville went to see
his girl the other night He sat up nearly all
night with her and fell asleep in the chair.
When he awoke he saw her standing before
him, with pistol in her hand pointed at her
breast. Before he could intercept her she
pulled the trigger, and inflicted injuries from
which she died next day.
PREscorr's elevator and the Granger ware
house, in Dubuque, were destroyed by fire on
the night Of the 22d
A LITTLE girl living just west Of Indianola
asked for permission to sell melons during the
melon season. This being granted, she at once
set up her store Of fine melons at her fathers
gate, and then asked her mamma what price
she should ask for her incest ones ETC. She
was permitted the privilege of asking her own
price for her luxuries. For while she was at
loss to know what to do bat calling her wits
together for few moments she said: 81 will
sell according to the looks of the people; if
they come along in a fine buggy, will ask
them forty cents for my best ones, and if they
are in wagon l will ask for the same sized
melon twenty-five cents; but, if they come
along on foot and look to be tired, will sell
to them for fifteen cents the same sized melons
l ask the rich people forty cents for" Her
word she kept, and sold several dollars worth
of melons during the fall
An indianapolis girl made an appointment
to meet her true love at Atlantic, and there
be married. Coming out, and going as far as
Omaha, she found him not, and found herself
penniless A kind-hearted railroad man got
her pass back home, whittier she went,
wiser and sadder maiden.
BIZ agreement of the parties concerned, the
B. F. Allen blanket mortgage ease will be tried
at the special term of the United States Courts
in st. Louis in January.
ASHLEY AMMoNsIN, young man living near
Northwood, was fooling with what he supposed
was an unloaded gun. He died.
DURING the recent races at Shell Rock, a
dog ran under one of the running horses feet.
The horse turned a complete somersault,
throwing the rider about thirty feet, but for
tunately injuring him but little. The horses
neck was broken by the fall and 1t was dead
when reached, but luckily the dog miraculous
ly escaped. The horse was valued at 81 900,
but the cur was priceless Jim.
Big stories about threshing are now in or
der, and the Clay County Ne,cs shies its castor
with the following: "Marcus Bird threshed
1,OoO bushels Of oats in one day, and set twice,
on Child Hunts place, one day last week
The same individual threshed l, 100 Of the same
cereal in ten hours time on Walter Suther-
lands farm" k g
THE corn crop in Scott County this year viii
be about $500, 900 bushels.
MRS. DIR. SUMMERS, the woman recently
convicted in the United States Court, at Des-
Moines, of sending obscene literature through
the mails, has been sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary at Fort Madison, for the period Of one
year.
THE nine-vear-old daughter of q. r. Childs
was drowned in 4 we'll at Osceola. ON the oath
Oh. ,ros nlov,nr aho,,t ar ona, well wh,les
workmen were uniting n a new numn fell N
ana wos drownad
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was pulneu On 'ne s,si. Loss, et'oW