The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-25

Mussulman villages.
A PLOT has been discovered at Con
stantinople to dethrone the Sultan and restor,
GSuitan Murad.
IOWA STATE NEWS.
DUBUQUE manufactured 67,2O6 barrels o1
i beer last month. rs fas
THE late big wind prevailed nearly all oven
the State. -
Rev. M HoIsETH, an Evangelical Lutheran
clergyman, Of Emmet County, has been sued
for libel by a man named w. N. Oshner, who
demands s., 600 damages, because the minis
ter, In baptizing . babe, named It Oshner, in
accordance with the dying confession of its
| mother.
THE Ninth District Greenback Convention
met at Fort Dodge, on the 17th, and, on the
| second ballot, nominated Hon. Addison Oil
| yer for Congress. A letter was read in the
Convention from Mr.. Oliver, in which he said
he would not accept the Nomination. Mr. Oh
liver is now serving his second term in Con
gress as Republican member. m
THE wife Of Charles hasten, former pro
prietor of the Metropolitan Hotel, of Fort
Madison, attempted suicide, on the 18th, by
throwing herself into the river. She was dis
covered and rescued.
THERE are 127 lawyers in DesMoines. There
| is fair opening there for two or three hun
dred active attorneys
THERE were 10,075 pensioners on the roll of
the DesMoines Agency on the 1st of January.
IT is stated that Gov. Gear has donned the
Blue Ribbon.
IT is claimed for Dickinson County that it
has the smallest death roll Of any county in
the State in proportion to population.
Mr. GEO. BULL, q, man nearly eighty years
old, living near Tabor, in Fremont County, re-
Gently committed suicide by hanging.
The railroad fever is raging in various por-
| tions Of the State, and meetings are held al
most daily to speed their organization and To-
cation. s'atA t'A tc
KNOXVILLE had 4 prize fight recently.
Twelve rounds were fought, and both men
were badly damaged. The combatants were
coal miners, and disagreed about the sharpen
ing of a pick. sN
The Y. M. C. A. Of Davenport issued cir
culars last Sunday inviting strangers to at
tend service at several of the churches. The
Catholic, Hebrew, Lutheran and Unitarian
were omitted and now there's religious
wrangle.-lo,ca State Register.
The Commissioners of the Fort Madison
Penitentiary advertise to let the labor of lbs
convicts for q period of not exceeding five
years. They viii be let in squads OF ten or
may be found desirable. E
Tom FRAZER, an old Sioux City faro dealer,
who went from there to California seven years
ago, committed suicide there, short time
since. He used to be partner Of Dan Har-
nett, and the death of both men, occurring
near together, was also in a similar manner,
both dying from morphine.
DUBUQUE has been much excited recently
over the publication of dead-beat list. 1t is
very long one, and a great many of those
whose names are on 1t pronounce 1t utterly
unreliable. It was made up, however, by can
vassing the merchants and the dealers of the
city, and all those who had unsettled accounts
Of long standing were the recipients of free
puffs. Every rank in society has its repre-
sentatiOn.
THE management Of the Clear Lake Camp
meeting are already making preparations for
the coming season. The National Camp
meeting viii assemble on the 10th Of July;
the Musical Convention ON the 30th Of the
same month, and the Sunday School Assembly
begins its labors on the 18th of August. "A
grand Temperance Convention will meet at
the lake about the 4th Of July. #
THE price of saloon licenses in Northwood,
Worth County, has been fixed at $4,000, &C.
corling to the State Register. There's nothing
mean about that town. M
THE office Of Superintendent of the Poor
has been abolished by the Board Of Supervis-
ors Of Lee County.
THE Cresco artesian well has reached q
depth of 500 feet and remains as dry as pow
der-horn.
THE Town Council, at Indianola, have re-
Gently passed an ordinance prohibiting boys
under sixteen years Of age being on the streets
after nine o'clock at night, and providing .
fine of SO for its violation.
A KEoKUK husband beat his wife so badly
that the sight of one of the eyes was de-
stroyed.
PRoF. WrrrER read paper before the Mus
catine Academy Of Science, recently, in which
he advanced the idea that the site Of that city
was once lake, with the Cedar River running
into 1t.
/ CERRo GoRDo has not an inmate at its Poor
House, nor prisoner in its Jail.
The Hasee.E Eye says the temperance work IN
Burlington has saved the county $1,000 in the
past four months. $50
Ar Iowa City, on the 10th, Thomas Dooley,
nineteen years of age, route by wagon, in
| comnary with three other Young men from