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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-09-13
ROBBIE TALKS.

II 81
So she gave Robbie paper of tacks, and
the small hammer, and stationed him
away off in the other corner of the room.
Driving nails was his favorite amusement,
and kept his tongue more quiet than any,
thing else So, as soon as he was busily at
work mailing .awax on, .nieGe 9G heaSaa l.
quiet hour But Robbie was especially
sociable that morning.
Mamma" he began, after he had
driven grove of tacks into the board, 81
know how to make Wheel" Mamma
i said nothing, and he went on !; I" Take a
hoop just the size you want your wheel !;
then have an axle turned, of course, AM
holes bored for the spokes; an theE take
sticks, an stick all round, an tack it on
to the hoop. Don't you think that's the
best way?" si
II guess so, said mamma, absently.
<" Mamma said he again, coming up
toward her, can turn summerset. Do
you want to see me turn one over? y
mo-" said mamma. :. Go and play. +"
"What shall playi " he asked. FIVE
driven all the tacks want to. It's niis'ple
driving tacks all the time" 5ss5 g4
well, then, take your blocks, !" said
mamma, 4 adie"is sssS cz4t
Robbie ran and pulled out the box
where they were, but then said. "What
shall build ~ rs
"Oh, whatever you like I" said nam.
ma. ag dlsW 5isss s& ~
would you build-a-streetca r'said
Robbie. ,2's9s 81
!" Yes" said mamma.
Well, how do you build astreet-car ?"
why, you know how. Robbier
Not 'thout any horse, an my Christ
mas horse has got his leg broke off,"
Dear me! Well, build an engine"
said mamma, and don't talkp'
"Well!" said Robbie, meekly.
For few minutes he was still, and
mamma became very much absorbed in
her work Pretty soon he began talking,
IL ..o6. lI dear. dear y hin fhiHssIf saE. -, :.
can't go.'' =
Mamma took no notice, and he went
on, singing softly to himself, mixing
scrars Of songs he had heard in q drolf
medley. to the tune Of /" Lord Lochinvar, "
which was great favorite of his.
MAMMA" !" said he. suddenly, forget
ting that he was not to talk, don't you
s'poee know how to build a house You
Just take some boards, an nail 'em up all
round, an then get on to the roof an nail
on the roof"
mamma. s
1--we got my engine all done,n was the
next piece of information that greeted
mammals ears, "'cept the smOke-stack
am the break. Oh! an haven't got any
HHave You got steam chests 2 asked
mamma. knowing that when that engine
waa done she would be called upon to plan
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-09-13
A BusInessllke ,Wooing.

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Miss Maria Roop was married in Bes-s
ton on Saturday last under the following
circumstances: Capt. Roop, q distant
relative, who sails an :English ship, visited
Mr. John sRoop's : few weeks ago, on his
way TO Parrsb0fo', n. g., and met his tate
in tie person 0f the young lady who is
now his wife. He returned torNew York
and began, TO load for Java. He wrote to
her, and proposed that she meet him In
| Boston, the next week, marry him and
|lsaiL for Java. His boat was on the shore
and his bark was On TIE sea, OF loading ct
|,the wharf, and she must decide ct once.
| Tho letter was received II the morning,
and had not been read more than . half
dozen times (such letters require great
deal of reading it seenns) whena dispatch
lives received to the following effect:
4" Pl6ase answer my letter hy telegraph--
Ives or no.' Any gil1 can prpmptly aay
Ives or not0 the offer Uf hand and heart,
but when such offer IL coupled with =
three dSy's notice Of marriA&p and sea
Voyage to the West Indies, the case re-
Iuuires a little more cpnS5tlefAti0ns 30 'sho
fbok tims. 10 eonsider. md 4dded strength
l.fos he fssyin& thst Nl6 woman who con-
Isiders 81 l0st, 3br, when the afternoon Of
| the .sstle daY' brought her smother dis
k161cks Vtlc1f ~ simply X Of no "a
/ ~ Ill u ~ telekflpk eGioe and Wroee
fAe tSr 81 6l6mk. HE oGeE[fof; knew.
Ting uothing ~ the Sast importance Of
that Iaounly llnbla nlegsago, placed + on
1 6IefoF f1iksmI eaion, "a Dc nlpst anxious
nai6 III New Eork ~ eogn ade haPp5
6v.iie isception. ~ ISd5 III here d
Tti1ny hkbFni1g last md mee 80 married
~ Eansnin r. he red i6ncn a. 3 relative
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-09-13
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psiegy n zesppnse, ana ~asss~armly r.

spslet!y n EespOnse, and vase warmly r.
! eeived. aGs sslssvsy
L ESTIMATES. published on tho Til, show II
that the whexterop II this Iyeas swIll .assrs
gate s25. 600, ,OQo bushels, leaving .. sprpau,
Iof III ,0o0. 900 bushels for export II = j,
y The Mi1wap physic icianss Or. Ofton,
Aho, somAsm0nthpsaGo,v vas Indicted fol
esunterfeiting, whs arrested, on the 9thg Al
Fort Wayne, Ind. where he hid assumed
the name Of Chambers, and was practicila
medicine. n r. ssissu -. $50.
The guilttof the 1874 600 check forgery
Oh the Union Trust Company az New Yofk
has been traced toiAnd fastened upon I've
Clerks, one In the Union Trust and one fn
the New York NE INSURANCE Company & & + &
" In Iowa and Illinois the corn crop Il
said to be beyond any danger from frost
s 8, For the murder 81 Mary Am Whftbt,
in May, 1875. Thon1as'F. Curley.was hanged
at Norristown,. Pa. ON; the 10th.
HENRY BuRIAaE murdered his brother
1t Baltimore, on the 10th. and then killed
himself. The deed resulted from quarrel
over business matters. r.
The Hartford Common Council has
discovered deficiency of over 44S, 900 In the
accounts Of the late City. Collector, John
Franey. is-.sss.,S 4---...s as
On the morning Of the 10th, the vicinity
Of Mount Holly, n J., experienced shock
Of earthquake, and houses were shaken and
crockery broken.
8 ATlFernandina, Fla, on the 10Th. there
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-09-13

Pray, Mr.. Professor, what is peri
phrasis ~ Madam, It is simply cir
cumlocutory cycle of oratoricai sonorosity,
circumscribing an atom of ideality, lost in
verbal profundity." "Thank you, sir"
"DRAMHoLE" is the name Of village
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-09-13


should be kept at the minimum by competi-
ton; that savings banks should be super
seded; that the Resumption act should be
repealed. etc.
81 In the election in Wyoming Territory,
according to Cheyenne special Of the 5th,
the Democrats had secured majority in
both the Council and House Of that Terri.
tory.
The State Central COMMITTEES Of the In
dependent Greenback party Of Minnesota
met at st. Paul, on the 5th, and nominated
the following State ticket: WIN. I. Banning
for Governor, Wm. Meighan Tor Lieptenant-
Governor, Isaac Staples fer Treasurer, "A. B..
Rice for Secretaryof State. s. L. Pierce for
Attorney General. The Peoples State Con-
vention, representing the farmers and work
Iihgmen, also adopted this ticket. IS,
+ ACCORDING to 4 dispatch from San Fran
cisco of the 7th. the Democrats have elected
( ten Senators and flfty-seven Assemhlymen,
and the Republicans ten Senators and twenty
three Assemblymch. With those who hold
over, the Democrats have thirty y-eight major
vity on joint ballot. w ss
4 A THOROUGH change III the manage
incnt Of the New York Custom House Is -
garded for the good Of the service by the
President and Cabinet, and when Congress
meets thstchnage viii be made. ~ "a
4 AT Har1isbuf &. Pa on the s1cth, tie
Stale Labor Convention met. Tho nomina-
ticns were: For SupfatRe Judge VIM. =.
Ewell; AuditoF- General. John W. Davis;
State Treasurer James q Efarhf Tn thn
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-21
Wednesday. November 81. 1877.

THE president has signed the army and
navy deficiency bill.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-21

JUDGE G. B. SMITH, of the Urbana.
ILL.,, circuit court, now lin session there,
has just rendered very important de-
cisiOu in bOnd-fOrgery case. G. Vixen,
nard, u former treasurer of Champaign
county, was indicted for forging and utter.
ing four county bonds of 81, 900 each, of the
series known as the College bonds, given
to the State Industrial university to Sc
cure its location in that county. The de-
cision is to the effect that the entire issue
of bonds was without authority of law, and
therefore Remarks offence, if guilty, was
not an indictabls one. The decision is Of
great interest to the holders of $500, 900 Of
Champaign county bonds.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-21
Worth $1,000 in a Single Case.

BURLINuToS, VT, Dec 18th, 1876.
Mis-. LYDIA L. FINhhAM: IL Is vita pleasure
that are abe to say that in every reported
TO Us Your VEGETABLE COMPOUND las given UNI
Versnl satisfaction One gentleman told us to-day
that il had done his wife II thousand dollars worth
of good, as he exuresse,- IL. our customers with.
out single exception. peak OF it in the highest
terms OF praise. You at liberty to make use OF
this il advertising ii yoa choose. Yours very re
specially. II. b. STEAhNS & CO., Druggists
SB The Pamphlet "Guide to Women" will be
sent free to any address by enclosing stamp to
LYDIA L. PINkHAM, Lynn, Mass.
Lydia f. Pinlihana's Vegetable Compound
Is sold by all Druggisis at 81 per bottle. Whole
sale Agents--George &. Goodwin & Co., No. 81
Hanover street, and Carter, Harris 3 HaWley. No
2hf Washington street Rnstnn
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-21
Enjoy Life.

What truly beautiful world we live in |
Nature gives us grandeur of mountains
giens and oceans. and thousands OF means
for enjoyment We can desire no better
when in perfect health: but how often do
the majority of people ieel like giving it
up disheartened, discouraged and worried
out with disease, when there is no occasion
for this feeling. as every sufferer can easily
obtain satisfactory proof that Green's Au-
gust Flower will make them as free from
disease as when born. Dyspepsia and
Liver Complaint is the direct cause OF sew
enty FIVE per cent Of such maladies as
l5iliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache,
Costiveness, Nervous Prostitution, Dizzi.
ness OF the Head, PalpitatOn of the Heart,
and other distressing symptoms. Three
doses of August Flower will prove its won.
derful effect Sample bottles, 10 cents.
Try il.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-21
A Perfect Toilet Soap

First among the requisites of the toilet Is a good
article of Soap, but TO procure it is not always
easy matter. Many of the most expensive Soaps in
the market are made from coarse and deleteruus
materials and their delicate eolorIng and fragrant
perfume too often conceal the most repulsiye I'M
pnrities. The disclosures recently made public
regarding this subject are positively startling, and
deserve serious consideration Scented Soaps are
now known to be extremely Objectionable, especial
ly ii applied to the head injuring the hair, irrita
ting the scalp, and inducing severe headaches The
character of the ingredients may be inferred from
the statement OF gentlemen who makes the scent
ing OF Soaps his business he recently declared that
pere ons engaged in this employment short
| lived; from to ten years being the longest
period during which the occupation could be fol-
| lowed.
The difficulty of procuring perfectly pure arti-
Gle of toilet soap is at last obyiated, however,
thanks to the enterprise and chemical skill of Mr..
| B. 7. Rabbit, OF New York, the world-renowned
Soap Manufacturer, whose immense establishment
is by lar the greatest of the kind in the United
states. The renown OF Mr.. BaDb1tts various pro-
| auctions has for many years been widely dissem-
mated, but this latest success is the appropriate
crown to the numerous victories already achieved.
After years of patient labor and scientific expert
ment, Dir. Bahbitt has succeeded in perfectnl the
composition of the rest toilet soap ever intro
| ouced. The principal ingredients are the purest
vegetable oils; the manufacturing processes are
entirely new and original, and the result is simply
Unparalleled in this department of industry.
| -"B. I. Babbtr's Toilet Soap is the trade mark
by which this elegant toilet luxury is designated
and for applications to the delicate skin of infants
children and ladies' it is altogether unequaled in it,
emolilenI properties. his soap Is not perfumcd
the ingredients being OF such absolute purity a. &c
require no aid from chemistry to disguise inferior
| materials. The most refined taste considers the
absence of artificial perfume the perfection Of
sweetness, and this peculiar characteristic of B. T
Rabbits Toilet Soap renders it the most healthfu
and agreeable article of the kind ever manufae
tured.
| Though specially desirable for the use of ladies
and children, this Soap equally appropriate fol
gentlemen's toilet, and as 1t makes heavy athel
1t is also of the finest soaps for BARRIERS use
II is just being placed upon the market, but the
demand for it will soon become general.-N. Y
| Tribune.
Ia T. RhR2ITT- Mom Nnrk nitu
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-21

TIE senate finance committee agreed
upon two amendments to the monetization
bill on Tuesday. One of the amendments
by Allison-provldes that fund of five
million dollars, U. s. legal tender notes,
shall be set apart by the secretary of the
treasury for the purpose of purchasing
bullion and getting new coin into circula-
ton.
The department is by the terms of this
amendment required to purchase silver
bullion to the amount of not less than two
nor more than four million dollars each
month, and coin the same into silver dol
lars, which are to be exch anged for an
equal amount of legal tender notes; the
notes thus received by the treasury are to
go into a special fund, and the purchases
and coinage of bullion is to be continued
10 this way indie finitely. Another amend
ment was offered. providing that after the
enactment of the bill a commissioner
shall be appointed to confer with any sim
liar commissioners that may be appointed
by other nations using the double metallic
standard for the purpose Of recommending
the adoption by all such nations Of some
uniform relation OF value between metals.
It was intimated from Washington that
the Committee would ADOPT this amend,
ment to day wednesday, ard then report
the bill without any further amendments
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-21

could be found 70 descend into the human
shambles. The bull-fghts Of Spain are
the school houses in which are educated
those bravos who will stab any IAN in the
back for an ounce of goldi And already
this young democratic republic seems upon
the high road to similar sports and equal
infamy. Around the lives of brutal ruff
fans, who are more to be dreaded than
the prowling wolves whose habits they SO
instinctiyely initiate, there is thrown a
glamour by the penny-a-lIneF that attracts
the attention OF the youth of the country
and needs but the stimulus of accident or
i'll fortune to act as an incentive to crime.
And slckly sentimentalists are certain to
discover the germs of possible virtues in
the careers OF the worst of men-to pirate
OF the duty ofsociety" to reform rather
than exterminate these vermin, and in
the face OF the experience Of all the ages
which teach that the vicious men are only
to be restrained from INDUCING theiI
beastly passions through fears Of the pen
alties inflicted by the just law which reads
that whose sheddeth mans blood, by
man shall his blood be she'd" the Ger
tainty Of punishment for murder is be-
come 10 the United States but a doubtful
possibility.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-21

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING New
YoRK.-One Of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and
others to stop at when in New York is the
Grand Union Hotel, nearly opposite the
Grand Central Depot, kept on the Euro
pean plan--yOu therefore only pay fol
what you get. Everything is first class
and prices moderate adapted to the string
ency of the times, You save the expense
Of carriage hire, and by leaving your bag
gage check on the counter of the Hotel
your baggage will be delivered in your
rooms, fiteens minutes after the arriva
of the cars, free of expense. We advise
you to give the Grand Union a trial.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-21
The ST. Elmo Murderer.

Romances and dramas of the blood and
thunder kind, where bandits and high
waymen are the heroes, have done much
to encourage crime by indirectly cultlva
ting the idea that high degree of physi-
cal courage is at all times so overshadow-
ing a virtue as to condone theft, arson or
murder aud even worse crimes still If there
can be worse, Something is indeed out Of
gear in the so.called civilization" of the
nineteenth century when a man can excite
the admiration of an entire community, as
10 the case of this would be hero of St.
Elmo, by the cold-blooded assassination of
peaceable law abiding citizens. A cor
respondent thus discourses upon this
subject:
Here is a man who bears the same relu--
ton to his fellow man that rattlesnake
does to the animal creation. He is so full
OF venom and strikes to kill; he even APP
pears to exercise u portion Of the terrible
fascination by which the less dangerous
reptile lures innocent victims on TO their
destruction. Because he has taught him
self how to bit another man with u navy
revolver at hundred yards, in any part
of the body, he boasts OF being brave
man, as If any but an arrant coward would
axe such advantage. Because he knows
that death is to be his portion sooner or
later, and fears the halter mere than the
bullet, he is held up to the imitation OF
the modern Thugs as a man bound to die
camel 1t is the pernicious example Of
such men, aided by the meretricious Ian
guage of a sensational newspaper report,
that Is sowing the seeds Of anarchy, riot,
bloodshed and civil-War broadcast through
out this nationl
- When the gladiatorial games Of old
Rome had had sufficient time to demon
auze the mighty nation, even an emperor
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-21
What Our Physicians Must do t. Com
ply with the New Law.

DR.. Plummer furnished as with the fol-
lowing instructions to physicians" which
has been issued by the state board of
health for the purpose Of facilitating the
obtaining of certificates of practice, and the
registration of births and deaths, in ac-
cordance with the new law concerning
physicians:
All persons, whether male or female,)
practicing medicine, in any of its depart
ments, in this state, are divided into two
classes. First, practitioners who have
been practicing medicine ten or more years,
within this state. Second, those who have
been practicing medicine in this state for
period of time less than ten years, from
Julyl, 1877.
This second class is Invisible into two
sections: First, those who can furnish
satisfactory proof of having received
| diplomas as graduates in medicine; or
licenses. from some legally chartered med
zeal institution in good standing.
| Second, those who are practicing medl-
cine in any of it's departments, who have
neither diploma or license. land who are
required by law to undergo examination
by the state board, for its certificate en,
titling them to practice medicine and
surgery in the state OF Illinois,.
Section four of the state board of health
act, requires that all physicians and mid
wives, without any exceptions, practicing
in this state. shall register their names
and post Office address with the county
clerk of the county where they reside.
| This is now being enforced.
| Physicians are likewise required to have
recorded 10 the Office OF the county clerk.
the certificate which may be received from
the state board of health; and, in case of
removal to another county in the state, to
have the certificate recorded in that county
| also.
10 case physician practices in another
county, or counties, in this state. adjoining
the one in which he lives-he having re
corded biz certificate in the county 10
which he lves-it will not be required OF
| him 10 place his certificate upon record in
the other county or counties; but he must
register his name, also. in the county or
counties 10 which his practice extends, aud
make mis- returns of births and deaths oc-
curing in those counties to the respective
county clerks No such registration will
be required 10 cases of professional con-
sultatiou with resident physicians.
i Physicians residents of adjoining states,
who practice 10 this state in counties ad
joining the one in which they reside, are
required to take out certificates of practice.
as required of residents of this state and
record the same 10 the Office of county
clerk of county or counties 10 which their
practice extends, aud to make returns Of
births and deaths in those counties to the
county clerk, and in every respect conform
to all the requirements Of the law upor
residents of this state,
Certificates will, when desired, be ISSUED
to non graduates of ten or more year
Concluded on next page.)
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-21

THERE seems to be as many theories
about the Louisiana contested senatorial
seats as there are correspondents in that
ungodly city during the session of con :.
gIess) Of Washington. Now We have the
words Of the Times man that Kellogg will
get a seat 10 the senate, and that Eustis
aud Butler will be left out in the cold
during this winter. 10 the first place
Stanley Matthews will vote for seating
Kellogg. This comes from one Of Mr..
Matthews friends, who is also friend of
the president. Those who know Mr..
Matthews say he will have no trouble in
performing the political somersault re-
quired to vote for Kellogg. He has but q
short career before him, aud he desires to
make it as varied as possible. Mr..
Matthews occupies the position of an ex-
treme administration senator. 1t he votes
for Mr.. Kellogg, then it is reasonably GER
tain that none of his administration assO-
ciates eau afford to hamper their con.
sciences by doing differently. The high
statesman grounds given for the support
of Mr.. Kellogg is that his presence in the
senate is necessary to maintain the repub
lican majority. Stanley Matthews vote
for Kellogg will do much to close up exist
ing differences between the Conkling Ed
muuds senators and the president. 1t is
suspected that Notwithstanding the oyster
like silence upon the part of the republican
senators, and personal deuials from the
president himself, the weight of the ad.
minis.ration, whatever that may amour
to, is to go with Kellogg. Kellogg, who ;
few weeks ago was doggedly respondent
has recovered his good humor. With thi,
good humor and certainty of success hi
has stopped cultivating senators with ,
view of urging them to stand by the grea
republican party, and vote for him, bu
has rather given himself up to social pleas
ures like a man who is free from care.