The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

claiming for every individual, male or female,
the same political rights and equity In the
State, ETC., etc.
IOWA STATE NEWS.
A FIRM of street contractors in Burlington,
bear the forbidding name of Swindlcr u Com
pany.
A ADRAyMAN In Davenport, who has been Q
hard worker for twenty years, and is still at It,
owns eight good dwelling houses, and has
IS, 900 IN the bank Another drayman there
who got trusted for bis dray twenty-three
years ago, retired, four years ago worth
$4,000.
WILLIAM HAUsER hung himself in his
brother-in-law's barn, at Dubuque, on the
Goth ult. He is supposed to have been tenn
porarfly insane.
THE Supreme Court met in Davenport, on
the ID.
THIEVES got away with Peter Goettch's
horses near Davenport the other morning. Mr..
Goettch drove load of corn into the barn and
left it unloadcd while he went into the house
to get drink. During his absence the team
and load, worth s4OO, were driven off.
CONGRESSMAN DEERING raised 1900 bushels
Of wheat on one of his farms this year.
q. N. WARREN, of Buchanan County, raised
fifty-five and aquarter bushels Of Early Rose
potatoes from one bushel and four quarts OF
seed, and he estimates that at least quarter
Of his crop will weigh pound and over apiece.
The prospective hog crop for Iowa this year
is !, 1,644, ia.
THE total valuation of the City of Burlington
for taxation purposes, to be entered upon the
tax lists Of DesMoines County for 1877, is "a, :
O93, 1888.
/ FEW days ago Etna Launspeck, boy
eight years old, subject to fits, strayed from
his home near Gandolofo's Mills, settlement
a few miles from Dubuque, and diligent search
failed to find him until the Sd, when his lfeless
bsdy was found in the creek ono and half
miles from home.
THE Polk County Jail contains twenty-five
prisoners.
The five coal miners of DesMoines, who
were arrested on the charge of riot and un-
lawful assens)lagc, have been dismissed.
THE DesMoines Register says that letters
are received daily at the Office of the Secretary
of State making inquiry as to good localities
in Iowa for emigrants.
A LEGAL SNAG.-Section 275 of the Iowa
Code presents legal snag, to which public
attention has never been called. 1t is high
time that buoy was thrown out here to warn
those afoat on the waves of Iowa law to
beware. The section mentioned provides that
Commissioners of other States acting in this
State shall have full power to administer oaths,
take Acknowledgements Of deeds, issue sub
pGnas in certain cases, and perform other
like deeds, provided that they shall first file
with the Secretary of State certificate of their
appointment from the Secretary of State. from
which they are appointed. They are thus
granted no authority whatever under the Iowa
law unless they file this certificate with the
Secretary of State. An their power is contin-
gent upon this act. Now the fact is that there
is not single such certificate on file in the
office of Secretary Young, and any Commits
in Iowa are doing it without any authority
from the Iowa statutes.-State Rsaister.
FROM May l, 1876, to May 1, 1877, the brew
ers of Iowa sold 1920 barrels Of beer, the
Government tax on which was 81 per barrel.
Estimating the population Of Iowa at million
and half, it makes about So per year spent
by every man, woman and child in the State.
THE consolidated pension agency at Des-
Moines is doing great business nowadays.
Since the beginning of the quarter on the 4th
Of August, Gov. Cue has disbursed $4,000.
THE best time made at the State Fair races
was 2:33
THE Presbyterian Synod of Iowa, South,
will convene in Keokuk on Thursday, Oct. IS.
FouR frame buildings were burned in Crcsco
a few days ago, involving the loss of about
$4,000.
GEN. G. M. DODGE, who has been in Europe
for some time, has returned home to Council
Bluffs.
In footing up the financial results of the
State Fair, it is stated by the officers that net
profit of from $1,000 to 5000 will remain in
the treasury after all the Indebtedness of the
present Fair has been paid. This will go far
toward liquidating the old Indebtedness
against the Society, amounting to about
1900.
D. BLAKE, a fireman on freight-train, was
run over and killed, the other night, at Farley,
while running over the cars to reach the loco
motive. The night was dark, and In making
the passage he fell between the cars. His
body was cut in two, and mangled almost be-
yond recognition.
THE stockholders Of the Merchants Ma
tional Bank of Burlington have voted to make
good the shortage caused by the absconding
and cmbezzlement Of ex-Mayor Parsons.
lew DARLING, OF Scott Grove, Jones Coun-
ty, attempted 20 throw a stone, when 1t slipped
from his hand and struck a Miss Helen Booth,
who was standing behind him, breaking her
nose short off and turning it over on her face
A doctor was called, but 1t is feared the young
lady's beauty is permanently ruined.
The following were elected officers of the
Grand Commandery of the State of Iowa,
which recently convened at Davenport: R.
E. Grand Commander, Sir Geo. B. Van Saum,
Cedar Falls; v E. Deputy Grand Commander,
Sir Frank w. Angel, Davenport; r. Grand
Generalissimo, Sir John C. Schrader, Iowa
City; E. Captain-General, Sir Jas. 8. Jenkins,
Clinton; E. Grand Prelate, Sir Downing Bough,
McGregor; f. Grand Senior Warden, Sir
james Collister, Belle Plaine; E. Grand Junior
Warden, Sir Norton F. Story, Council Bluffs;
E. Grand Treasured, Sir John C. Macy, Des-
Moines; E. Grand Recorder, Sir VIM. B.
Langridge, Muscatine.
Hon. o. h. p RossEILE, Mayor Of Inde-
pendence, died almost instantly of hemorrhage
of the lungs, at the Postoflice in that city, on
the 4th, while waiting to get his mail.
The lumber dealers of DUBUQUE have ad-
vaneed prices fifty cents on all the common
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