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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31
FOR ElGy.

The Russians have appointed the
Greek Archbishop Governor OF Adrianople.
The Greek Ministry has been reor-
ganized, under the leadership of NJ Coumoun-
doures, a distinguished member of the War
party
THE Italian Squadron has been or
dered to the Levant.
ALFONSO, King of Spain, and Prin-
cess Mercedes, third daughter of the Duke de
Montpensier, were married, in Madrid, on the
23d. The attendance Of foreign representa-
tives was large. Among the presents bestowed
was wedding-ring and diamond from
the Pope, and 25, 900 900 francs from the father
Of the bride.
A TELEGRAM from Crete, received on
the oath, says the entire country outside Of
the fortified towns was held by the insurgents,
and that the efforts Of the Turks at concilia-
ton had proved abortive.
The Londor Post of the 9th publishes
the following as an official version OF the pre-
liminary conditions Of peace:
l. Autonomy for Bulgaria boundaries not de-
ing to the stipulations of the Consfantinople
Conference; the Turkish military forces to be
withdrawn to certain localities to be determined
Q. The independence of Roumania, with conn
pensati0n for territory near the mouth Of the
Danube, which she will make over to Russia
=; Local autonomy for r. Bosnia Bosnia and Her.scc-
81 rectifcation. This rectifcation of the Servian
frontier may mean the transfer of Little Zwurink
% Servia, but in Difference to Austria and other
Powers, the question is left quite open. s1
4. Acknowledgement for Montenegro on the hania
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31

same molds as slSe old, and that there
fore there need be no expense incurred
in altering the machines and imple-
ments used in the manufacture Of type.
If the Patrie has been well informed,
the experiments have been completely
successful, and the adaptsbility Of
toughened glass to printing and to
numerous other purposes is likely ere
long to be fully established. English
Rn1ler
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31
TOLEDO, TAMA COUNTY. IOWA. THURSDAY JANUARY 81 1878

the entire course Of the Cabinet ON the East
ern question and secure an adverse vote. II
possible. The statement is made that, in the
event Of the defeat of the Government, Par
lament would be dissolved and an appeal
taken to the country !
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31

A ST. LOUIS girl shook out her stock
ing Christmas morning and was bitter
ly disappointed at finding no presents.
On closer examination, however, she
found a splendid upright piano, which
had secreted itself in the extreme end
(This is the latest Chicago Islander con-
corning the St. Louis ladies.)
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31

l cLAsPEp her tiny hand in mine;
vowed to shield her from the wind,
from the worlds cold storms. She set
her beauteous eye on me, and with her
little lips said she, An umbrella will
do as we'll"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31

DOM ESTIC.
JACOB AND JOHN HUNTzINGER, late
resident and Cashier of the Miners Trust
Company, at Pottsville, Pa, have been SEN
enced each to two years. solitary confinement
pd to pay fine of $500, and to refund to
[homas Kerns, prosecutor, the sum Of $24, 900,
ith costs. The charge against them was con-
piracy to defraud depositor (Kerns).
A REPORT was received at Bismarck,
! T., on the 23d, that Sitting Bell was then
Pcamped on Frenchman Creek, with over
Thousand lodges, including the escaped Nez
erces and the recent deserters from the
Sencies, numbering $50 lodges with 800 war
Drs. Sitting Bulls own camp numbered
200 warriors and 500 women and children.
ley were splendidly mounted and armed.
the principal hostile Chiefs were with
en-. A southern movement was indicated,
q probably an attempt upon Fort Keogh.
6n. Miles could put only 500 menin the field.
&4. NEW five-dollar counterfeit note on
= Farmers National Bank, Of Virginia, ILL.,,
discovered at the National Bank Redemp-
Agency, in Washington, on the oath. The
tie is evidently altered from the one from
1ch the five-dollar counterfeit on the
Aders' National Bank, of Chicago, was
nted. The charter number on the counter
discovered is 1,407, while that on the gen.
& is 1.47l.
AT Baltimore (Md. } theater, on the
y, just before the beginning OF the matinee,
cylinder containing the gas for the cal
IN light exploded, fatally injuring Charles
eet, Chatter Rutter and H. Thompson, at
hes Of the theater.
ACCORDING to late report Of the
mmissioner OF Pensions, the United States
Bernment paid to its soldiers and their
Dws and orphans, during the first century
ts existence, an aggregate of $425, 000, 900
tensions.
LATE New York dispatch says it
transpired that the "Colorado Stone
:, !" which had been claimed to be petri-
Non, was manufactured by the maker Of
/" Cardiff Giant,n planted in Colorado and
veniently " discovered" there by its own
and constructors. The stone man was
Ided and baked at Elkland, Tioga County,
DN the Goth, the United States Treas
held $348, on, $50 in United States bonds
Decure the National Bank circulation, and
Is, 600 In bonds to secure public deposits.
lional Bank circulation outstanding: Gold
es, 81, 4S2, 120; currency notes, &319, 540,-
"A CONVENTION Of State Agricultural
ieties is to be held in Washington, on the
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31
A Curious Phenomenon.

A correspondent recently writing
from Hanover, Ohio, to the Cincinnati
Gazette saws:
about three miles south of McCon-
nelsville, county seat Of Morgan
County, Mr.. 7. w. Williamson, while
boring for oil, tapped the most extern
sive reservoir Of infammable gas l
have ever seen. Some things connected
with this are interesting.
"Mr. Williamson. in the interest of
himself and partner living in Venan-
60 County, Pa, began boring this well
in spot quite distant from any terri
tory that had been previously secured
and bored for oil. About the middle of
August last, at a depth of 500 feet, they
struck the gas vein, and such was the
upward pressure as to 0verturn some
of the framework and apparatus at the
top of the well, and effectually put an
end to the prosecution of the work.
Only traces Of oil, mingled with salt
water, have been developed.
SAT this date the force of the gas is
quite as great as at first. Subsequent
to the giving up of the work two other
wells were begun and bored to the
depth of $50 or 200 feet, when weak
vein of oil was struck in one of them.
A stationary engine, driven by por-
ton of the gas from the dry well, now
pumps the second and third wells. l
visited the premises the other day. Mr..
Williamson has fitted to the top of the
tubing in the well three gas pipes-two
smaller and one large pipe. The large
pipe permits the escape of about four
fifths of the gas vertically, which for
months past has been constantly burn
ing in broad column of flame, from
twenty to thirty feet in height. One of
the smaller pipes conveys gas to the
stationary engine, and the other, a
three-guarter inch pipe. conveys gas to
the dwelling of Mr.. w. Within the
house this pipe branches, one branch
extending to a fireplace in the sitting
room; the other to the cooking stove in
the kitchen. The extremities of these
branch pipes are bent and adjusted
lengthwise across the entire front of
the fireplace and the cook stove. Sor1e
five or six apertures in the side of the
pipe next the flue complete the appa-
ratus for heating; the jets of gas from
these apertures are fired, and, spread
ing, unite and produce solid, brilliant
sheet of flame almost as hot as that
produced by the oxyhydrogen blow
pipe.
"Mr. w. gave me the following
items: A stratum of sandstone forty
two feet thick was bored through, and
then q stratum of most excellent coal
from eleven to twelve feet thick, at a
depth of 300 feet, and the gas vein at
500 feet.
1.-THE gas is remarkably pure. The
flame at the well is almost pure white,
and in the house not trace of the
odor of gas is perceivable."
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31

The story comes from Oregon that :
mean fellow "sh0t country girls
pig, which she was bringing up on but
termilk, SO as to get money to buy
q new gown, because she would not 90
with him to the Christmas bal, =
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31

"Do you believe in the use of the
rod, my dear professorPh asked lady
whose children were making life
burden to all the guests in the hotel.
" In some cases, madam; but there are
Others" glancing at her gambolling
darlings, "where l prefer the revolv-
err
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31
An Indian Girl Seized and Killed by
q Cuttle.Fish.

Early last August party of Cape
Flattery or Makaw Indians, returning
from visit to their friends (the Song
ish, of Victoria), encamped the first
afternoon out on the beautiful Bay OF
Metchosen, V. /. The weather being
very fine, most of the party went bath
ing. and among the number maiden
of perhaps eighteen summers, who had
accompanied her grandfather on the
trip. Desiring seclusion, she went
round a point away from the other
bathers, and, being known as bold
swimmer, is supposed to have taken a
header into deep water. However
taken, it proved to have been a plunge
nto the arms of death, for when the
swimmers reassembled around the
campfire the girl was missed, and, not
withstanding . diligent search that
evening, could not be found. The fol-
lowing morning with sad hearts the
party left; but very soon those in the
foremost canoe on rounding the first
point saw (the water being calm and
clear) a human body as if seated on
the sandy sea-bottom, with what
seemed like flour bag Immediately
behind it. The natives knew what this
meant. As soon as the canoes got to-
gether. two of the most active young
men managed with daggers SO to dis
able the monster (for it was a gigantic
devil-fsh) that the octopus with its
victim was brought to the surface.
The foregoing facts have been COM
municated to our informant by an in
telligent and respectable half.breed
woman from Nicholson, who saw the
body of the drowned girl with some of
the prehensiles of the mollusk still adj
herring to it. She compared the head
of the octopus in size to that of fifty
pound flour sack, full; said the tentacles
were twelve in number, of different
sizes, and the largest about the circum-
ference of a mans ARM Victoria Col
07,iSt
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31

"HE blushed like schoolboy" used
to convey the idea of extreme modesty.
The schoolboy of the period never
bushes.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-01-31
!ghe goledo Chronicle.

TEE CHRONICLE 10 Published at the County sea!
81 Tama one Of the largest, richest. most central
and populous counties In Iowa tits the oldest
paper in tho County and one of the oldest in the
State having been established in 1853. Its circu-
lation being large and constantly Increasing makes
It very desirable advertising medium for business
men and manufacturers wishing to bring their
goods and wares TO the notice Of the people Of
Central Iowa.
Advertising rates made known on application.
JOB PRINTING
or every description executed with nea;ness anc
dispatch Special attention paid to
PRINTING IN COLORS.
Your fayors earnestly solicited
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-04-26
rnE yAIrE OF EsEs.IEs.

The following paragraph is taken
from the Memorial Sermon, delivered
by Bishop MeTyeirs, of the III. E.
Church, South, On the death of the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt:
He had enemies. Such will-power
and success, such Independence of ae-
tiOn and decision of character, make
enemies, so sure as the sun breeds Haias.
matte exhalations.
What use could a man Be 10 the
world to live fourscsrs years, and dur.
ing all that time make no enemiesI Ne
friction, no disturbance, ne opinion, nc
trouble, no collision; but non-eomnittal
and no accountl 1t has been said TIA;
enenies are better than friends, if you
only know how to use them. and don'i
have too many The men who think
have enemies The men who act have
enemies. No man IS prominent among
his neighbors but he finds plenty o.
enemies. The man who leads, no matter
whoin or what, has enemies. Enemie.
are more necessary to develop mas
capabilities than friends. No man car
tell what he can do until he meets re
sistaRce.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-04-26


The Bible is being discussed as it
never was before. The Bible In public
schools, the Bible in Sunday schools,
the Bible at home, and the Bible in the
pulpit The more the Bible is eireu-
lated and read the better for he human
race. England acknowledges that the
Bible has made her what she is-the
most civilized, and probably the most
yirtuous nation on the globe.
The worst crime is murder but sta
tistics prove that life is secure Just In
proportion as the Bible is circulated aud
read
In England, Bible land, there is
enc murder for every lis, 900 inhabit-
ants. In Holland, also a Bible land,
there is one for every $4,000 inhabit-
ants In Prussia, where the Bible is
less read, there is one for every 100, 900
inhabitants. In Austria, half-and- half
Bible land, there is one for every ST.
600 inhabitants. In Spain, where there
is no Bible, there is one for every 4, ,1I3
inhabitants. In Naples, where there Is
no Bible, there is one for every 1850
inhabitants. In Rome there Is one for
every $50 inhabitants.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-04-26
DRUNKESSEss

In the course of his lecture in
the Methodist Protestant Church on
Wednesday night last, Jonah Boughton,
Esq, the great temperance advocate,
who for the past four or Eve evenings
has been holding, with marked success,
meetings in this city in behalf Of the
total abstinence cause, made an affect
ing illustration of the evil effects of in
temperance and the misery and wee
consequent upon too free indulgence
in intoxicating beverages, by referring
IN plain but forcible and graphic Ian
gaage to an instance of drunken hus.
bands harsh treatment of his helpless
and dependent wife and children. He
spoke with feeling of the happy days
when the object of his remarks hsd
taken To himself a blushing bride, when
Elan and woman had joined hands and
lives IN mutual confidence and lore, and
Of halcyOn years of placid matrimonial
life, during which three levely little
ones had blessed the union Of two hearts
that beat as one. Then with = brief
reference As to how the nan lad, by
some trivial incident, been induced to
partake Of the fiery liquid, to adnit
through the passage of his threat the
thief that was to steal away the brain,
he tsld Of hsw after months of turbu-
lent strife, which Perpetually banished
peace from the little Household, the wife
and mother was at length compelled to
seek refuge beneath the reef Of the city
jail, and unfold her Troubles to the
officers of the law and ask protection
from the cruel treatment Of an inebria-
ted husband. The earnest speaker then
assured his hearers that the incident to
which he referred was not the work Of
an imaginative mind, but an actual fact,
and closed By asserting that it had oc-
CURED in our own Christian community,
and that the despairing woman's appeal
for protection had been made within the
previous two or three hours. The effect
may be imagined, and at the conclusion
Of the lecture upwards of one hundred
persons signed the pledge of total ab.
stinence
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-04-26
saArH sn0wsn.s MA1Ias.

The following rules are given By th.
Rural american.
|. Prepare the ground IN the fall
plant in the spring.
2. Give the vine plenty Of manure
old and well decomposed; for fresll
manure exeites growth, but does not
mature it.
8. Luxuriant growth does not al.
ways insure fruit.
f. Dig deep but plant shallow.
0. Young vines produce beautiful
fruit, but old vines produce the richest.
6. Prune in autumn to Insure
growth, but in the spring to pramete
fruitfulness.
Z Plant your vines before you put
up trelliaes.
8. Vines, like old soldiers, should
have good arms.
9. Prune spurs to one developed
bud for the nearer the old wood. the
higher favored the fruit.
10. Those who prime long must
soon climb.
Il; Vines lore tie sun; the frnit
the shade.
II. Every leaf has bud at the
base, and either a bunch Of fruit or =
tendril opposite to It.
l3. A tendril i an abortive fruit
buneh-a bunch Of fruit a productive
tsndril.
4. A bunch If grapes without a
healthy leaf opposite Is like a sIip
At sea without a rudder-it can't come
to port.
10. Laterals are like politicians; If
not checked, they are the worst of
thieves.
ls. Good grapes are like gOld-no
one has enough.
II. Grape eaters are long Hvers
ls. Hybrids are not always high
bred.
l9. He who buys the new and IN
tried varieties, should remember tliat
the sellers maxium is, Let the buyer
look out for himself.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-04-26
HAYES TITLE.

The decision in the case of Ander-
son establishes the fact that Hayes had
no legal right to the vote of Louisiana.
under the laws of that State. The
Electoral Commission would have been
compelled to decide to the same effect.
if it had investigated the legality of
that vote. But it held that there was
no power to inquire into the manner in
which the vote of State had been de-
elared, and hence found Hayes elected
on the face of the returns as they were
received by Congress. Now the Supreme
Court of Louisiana decides that the
Consolidated statement" for altering
which Anderson was convicted of for
gerry, could not be lawfully used in the
canvass of the vote of the State. As
the Returning Board canvassed those
statements, and not the original returns,
it follows that the vote of the State
was not lawfully canvassed. The Su-
preme Courts of Florida aud Louisiana
having now efectually inyalidated tho
certificates of election given to the
Hayes electors of those States, it re-
quircs considerable assurance for man
who is only technically" President, to
cling to the Office.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-04-26
rns Cosr OF wAR.


From recently published official re-
turns it appears that between the day
On which the war was declared and the
signing of armistice, the Russian army
Of the Danube captured fifteen pashas,
l13,000 officers and men, 606 guns Of
different calibres, $500 tents, 40, 200
muskets, and $4,000 horses. In
addition, 100000 small arms, yata-
ghans, and pistols were taken from
Turkish irregular troops, and also 49,
600 lances and daggers. The Russian
army in Asia captured during the war
fourteen pashas and so, 200 officers and
men, 662 guns, 10000 tents, $4,000
muskets, $4,000 horses, and immense
stores of ammunition and provisions Of
all kinds. The number Of firearms
and miscellaneous weapons taken from
the Asiatic irregular troops of the Porte
was also, it is stated, exceedingly large,
but no details are given. In Europe,
as in Asia, a vast quantity of rice,
bread and salt was seized, as well as an
immense number of cartridges and a
great quantity of loose powder. The
Servian troops also acquired large
booty during the short time they were
engaged, their trophies being returned
as 23s guns, 10000 muskets and thirty
seven standards, besides ammunition,
provisions and horses.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-04-26
VINO Ioszs TIM Eucmr crxrss >

Seventy or eighty papers have come
TO hand this week, inquiring in a pathet-
ie voice who is it that loses the eight
cents when a laboring man takes a
ninsty-two cent silver piece for dollar.
Now this is tile very thing that has
puzzled us. If a carpenter receives
from the Government ninety two cent
silver piece for dollar and passes il
upon his butcher for dollar, and the
butcher passes it upon the shoemaker
for dollar, and the shoemaker passes
it upon his landlord for a dollar, and
the landlord passes it for dollar upon
the State for taxes, and the State passes
1t for dollar upon a mason for work
upon the new State House, and the
mason passes it for dollar 10 merchant
for silk dress, and the merchant passes
it for dollar to the Custom house officer
for import duties, and the United States
Treasury passes it as dollar to q sol
dier, and the soldier passes it as q dollar
to the same carpenter hereinbefore pre-
viously mentioned, we are unable to see
who has lost The 5 cents. Happy
thought-perhaps the loss fell or some
man who did not get i'll Seriously, the
same man who lost the cents loses is
cents every time be takes four silver
quarters, that have only 84 cents worth
OF silver in them. But even then, the
5-eent nickels puzzle u.s. In dollars
worth Of these Is only ten cents worth
of metal. Now will some Of the edit
ors who lie awake nights to figure such
things cut please inform us who it Is
that loses the 81 cents every time a
dollars worth of nickel Is passed. Who
loses four cents every time 5-eent piece
IS paid for glass of lager or car ridef
The little copper cents are even great
er robbery. We have not the heart to
so into a calculation as to how many
million dollars are wrung from the
horny handed bondhoIder every day in
ths passage Of this debased cant, but it
is incUnceivable how an opponent Of
silver can pass one of these fraudulent
tokens-even at distance-witheu
blushing for the perfdy of his race
". T. Graphic.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-04-26
THE RUSSIAN LOSSES.

Official reports state that the Russian
losses in killed and wounded during the
late war amounted to S9,304 officers
and men. Among those were ten gen
erals killed and eleven wounded. One
prince of the imperial family and thirty
four members of the highest nobility
Of Russia fell on the field of battle.
OF the wounded, 36,S24 are already
perfectly recovered, and 10000 more
will be able to leave the hospitals dur
ing the next few weeks. The proper
ton of killed and wounded to the to-
tai number engaged was very large, one
out of every six men who went into
action being either injured or left dead
on the field of battle. In the great
actions of the late Franco-German war
the proportion of the killed and wound
ed to men engaged was nearly the same,
being one sixth in the battles of Worth
and Spicheren, and one-eihgth in the bat
tie of Mars-la-Tour. The returns show
that one out of every eleven wounded
men received into the Russian hosPi-
tails died from the effects of the injuries
received. During the whole campaign
only two men were punished with death;
one for the crime of desertion, and the
other for robbery, accompanied with
violence. On the other hand 10000
rewards were given in the form of dec
orations, promotion, or awards of money,
the Eighth Corps, which so long held
and defended the Shipka Pass, receiving
the greatest proportion.