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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-03-14
He Wasn't Mean.

Mn. ELIJAH HITCHCOCK was Con-
necticut Constable, whose character
was under scrutiny. Deacon Solomon
Rising was inquired of about him.
"Deacon Solomon Rising, said the
auestioner, "do you think Mr.. Hitch
cock is dishonest mani"
Very promptly "oh. no. SIT; not
by any means.
"Well, do you think he is a mean
manr
"Well, with regard to that" said
the Deacon, little more deliberately
az may say that don't really think ne
is mean man; I've sometimes thought
he was what you might call keerfui
mana prudent man, so to speak.
"What do you mean by prudent
man?'
"Well, / mean this; that one time
he had an execution for four dollars
against the old Widow Witter back
here, and he went up to her house ana
levied on a flock of ducks, and he
chased them ducks, one at hme'
round the house pooty much all day,
and eyery time he catched duck he'd d
set right down and wiring its neck, and
charge mileage; an his mileage
mounted to more then the debt. Noth-
i'm mean about it, as l know OF, but
always thought, after that, Mr. Hitch
cock was very prudent man."
Or American drunkards 10000 die
annually.
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Our Young Readers.
MAGIC MUSIC.

" MAMA, mamma, we've had enough
OF Button, Button and Blind-mAn's Buff,
All! please will you put your work away,
And tell % Of something new to play?
e Well; ali 90 out of the room" abe cried,
- And when my handkerchief l shall hide,
You must by magical puAlc trace
Your way to its secret hidi1a-phce
. Thus, when the piano soft and low
touch, you're far from the spot. tCu know,
But when shall strike it loud and clear,
Then look you Well-you are somewhere near.
Silence reigiis; th-p melody sweet
Blends with the patter Of dancing feet,
And mamma laughed, ~ she s0ftly played,
To zee the havoc her children made.
Behind the ottoman, sofa, stand.
in every Granny there goes hand;
Under the papers, mats and boOks,
On AL the brackets, in all the hooks.
Till. hapf)eilinE in the corner, where
Papa sits in his easy .siairy
The music falls with stidden efash,
And at him the wild young vafldals dssh,
They sack his pockets, they roll him about,
They turn his dressing-gown inside out.
And yhen they have searched him through and
IT'S JSunH; III, found; in The toe of his shoe.
Julia m. Data; in youths Companion.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-03-14
Brother Gardner on Ofice. Seeking.

az dar lone man in dis hall who
wants an offisp'' asked Brother Gard
ner, as the members suddenly ceased to
blow their noses and shuttle their feet.
.Yes-l IL dat lone manr' called q
score of voices. lE
"Same rush O. blood to de he'd dat de
white man hezr' was the sorrowful re-
mark of the President, as he gave q
pull at his shirt-collar. "Dat's an
other faze o. human natur, an reckon
its one of de worst in de woodpile. De
more time ! put in on dis pastur' o
human life de more see dat de aver
age man had radder live on soup an
crackers an draw de pay Of a small
office dan to shove de jack-plane, an
live lik a prince. De young man am
brung up to feel dat work is degradin'
an dat holdin' offs is de top story. an
de day is cumin' when you'll hev to
hunt dis town wild fine-tooth comb to
git sight of a man who works by de
dsy an isn't 'shamed of de fack! All!
YOU niggers am like all the rest! De
mint you git outer bed in de mawnin'
you is finkin' dat if you only had an
offs to hole you'd be de biggest pill in
de box, an when you go to bed at night
it is to dream dat you is Lawd Mayor
ter draw yer aroun'. Look at dis Wodf.
See how de kinks am bleachin' out to
de color O. snow! Look at dis trem-
bin neck-dis aiged mouf-dese tot
term ears. Den ak me if l haven't put
in fifty-eight y'ars O. time on dis terre-
shul globe! Hez eber held offisP Hez
1 eber shook hands wild all de loafers,
drunk whisky wild all de bummers, lied
to all de decent men, an been dispised
by de hull communityp reckon not:
Do de boys hoot me as ! pass along!
Not hoot! Do de men sneer at me as
l enter a corner grocery Not sneer!
Do de burglars an thieves avoid me on
de avenueP Not an avoid! Gem'len,
let de offs bisness alone. De furder
you keep away from it de more face
You'll hev to ride on de platform OF a
Street kyar in de daytime. De workin'
man pegs right along var after var,
growinf better ez he grows older. De
offis-holder kicks up heap O. dust Tor
a few months an den is roasted in de
oven OF ingratitude an fed to de ours
of unthankfulness. Detroit Free Press.
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looking white powder, this potent and
fatal substance, of which your chemist
must not sell you dose without enter
ing your name and address in book;
of which three grains weight will kill a
man, was lying by one of the ordinary
roads of the mine in open sheds, In
heaps breast-high. was assured that
no kind of harm ever comes of all this
(save skin eruptions to the work peo-
pie, and these rarely, but it gave one
a shiver to see those white mounds
FrQser's Mu0azt7gs,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-03-14
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Speaker Randall believes in total
abstinence.
The name of Pecci, the new Pope,
is pronounced Petchee.
Gen. Braxton Bragg's son is City
Attorney of Mobile, Ala.
Mark Twain calls his dog Joseph
Cook, because he can't quite understand
him.
His breath was the last thing
Cruikshank drew, according to the Bos-
ton Post.
Mrs. Hayes receives on Mondays,
postponing the washing till Tuesday
Boston Post.
-Serg't Bates is carrying bricks in
Chicago. That's sort of hOd.-C0m-
nsercidi Advertiser.
Williams, the newly-elected Sena-
tor from Kentucky, was formerly an
Illinois farmer near Bement.
All the Justices of the Supreme
Court are married men, and their wives
arc with them in Washington.
Measurements of 1,50O,0 900 Ameri-
can white men give feet79 inches as the
average.-Dr. Foote'S Health Monthly.
"A writer in Scribner says Presi-
dent Lincoln wrote and rewrote sew
cral times his famous Gettysburg ad-
dress.
William Cullen Bryant says that
Bayard Taylor is man who has never
ceased to be an American, in being a
traveller abroad.
Among the various ways in which
Stanley has become a man of mark is
that of being styled the Bismarck of
African Exploration
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Denny, who died
in Pittsburgh, Pa, few days ago,
gave away during her lifetime at least
$1,000, 900 to charitable institutions.
Donald G. Mitchell sits down on
old chairs. He says an abominably-
made old chair is no more to be ven
Grated than an old scoundrel of man.
Mark Twain writes to friend in
Detroit denying the charge that he is
lazy. Instead Of being lazy, he says
he has no less than four books under
way, with the title of each nicely writ
ten out in plain hand, and the first
chapters headed off.
1t is related of the rebel Gen. Jubal
Early that he would never approve a
furiough when the applicant was to get
married. Being an old bachelor HIM
self, he thought all soldiers should adopt
that style of life while the war lasted.
He used to say that every officer who
married either proved himself utterly
worthless or straightway got himself
killed.
Mr.. Fred Seward frequents parties
at Washington in a black skull Leap.
and many people there wonder why he
wears it. They forget that he nearly
lost his life when the attempt was
made to assassinate his father, the very
night that President Lincoln was fatal
" shot The sknll-ean now worn, by
Mr.. Seward conceals a silver plate
which was inserted when his skull was
trepanned after that murderous at
tack
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-03-14

If some men would curry horses
with the persistency that they curry
favor, they would have : more eee!le
occupation, to say the least
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ponies, and the surrender would be gladly

A VIOLENT tornado visited Atlanta,
Ga. alb ut II a. m. on the 10th. The Episco-
pal Church, which was crowded with wor-
shippers. was le e'ed to the ground, and
eighteen persons were more or less injured.
The City Hall was unroofed, and several pri-
vate buildi gs de royei
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IOWA STATE NEWS.

TnE money lately stolen from the express
agent. near Sabuls, has been recovered. The
amount was $1,000. II will be remembered
that the agent was knocked down with q pis.
tol about four o'clock In the morning, as he
was at the station waiting for train, and the
pouch containing the valuables carried of.
place the robber was closely tracked.
JAMES LOVE, substantial farmer, living
near Lowell, Henry County, murdered his wife,
on the morning of the 5th, by shooting her in
the head with shotgun, killing her instantly
It appears that Love and his wife had lived
unhappily together, and had mutually agreed
to separation On that morning Mrs. Love,
In company with her little son and another
boy, went to her husbands house to get her
portion Of the household goods. Love re-
ceived them in anapparently pleasant manner,
after which, ON some pretcnse, he got the
children out Of the house. when he picked up
shotgun and shot his wife in the back of the
head. Mrs Loves little son, hearing the shot,
ran into the house, and, seeing his mother
shot, gave the alarm, and large number of
men started in pursuit Of the murderer, who
had fed to the woods The body Of Love was
subsequently found lying in fence corner,
half . mile from his house, with two bullet
holes through the heart, he having committed
suicide.
TIE lumber-yard Of Remvick, Shaw & Cros-
sett, in East Davenport, was damaged BY fire,
on the 9th, to the extent of q, 500.
THE old st. Charles Hotel, the first hotel
erected at Council Bluffs, was destroyed by
ire, on the morning of the 9th. Cause, de-
fective lue.
MRS. GREGoIRo KAISER, wife of one Of Bur-
ungton's prominent business men, committed
suicide, on the evening of the Sth, by taking
morphine. She was jealous and thought she
had been wronged by her husband.
THE latest reports from st. Louis give the
following as the current prices for leading
staples: Flour-XXX, Fall, S.. 40@560.
Wheat-No 8 Red, Fall, $1.1Ss4t9l. 10; No. 2
Spring, $l.07@1.0S; Corn-No. 2 Mixed,
H1@41SSc, Rye-No. Q, 55@5511c; Oats
$11@26%c; Pork - $i0.6O@1O.65; Lard
711@7Ac; Hogs--$3.1 15@4.2O; Cattle-$a20
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ghe Toledo Gluouirls.

Tm cnnoNlmH Il published at the County ssat
4 TtmA. one a Tie largest, richest, most central
and populous counties IN Iowa tits ths oldest
paper fn the coanty and one q The oldsst IN The
6nts--having been established in 1853. Its circu.
asion being large and constantly Increasing, makss
h vsEy desirable advertising medium for business
men and manufacturers wishing 70 tEing thelb
goods and wares b The notice a ths people -
Central Iowa
Advertising rates made knswn on applicasioa.
JOB PRINTING
Of svsy description executed with nsatness an4
aisputcA. Special astsntion paid to
PRINTING IN COLORS.
Your fhvnr, euvu.r1Yv nnalefs~A
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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-04-25
The May-POle in England.

Great were the doings in old time
around the May-pole, for which the
tallest tree was selected. 1t was drawn
to its place by as many as thirty or forty
yoke of oxen, their horns decorated
with flowers, followed by all the lads
and lassies of the village. The pole was
wound or painted with gay colors, and
trimmed with garlandS, bright hand
kerchiefs, and ribbon streamers, from
top to bottom.
With great ceremonies, and shouts Of
Joy, it was lifted TO its place by ropes
and pulleys, and set up firmly in the
ground; and then the people joined
hands and danced around it. The
whole day was given up to merriment,
every one dressed in holiday clothes,
doors and windows were adorned with
green boughs and flowers, the bells rang,
professions of people in grotesque
dresses were arranged, and the famous
Morris dancers performed.
In this dance the people assumed GER
tain characters. There was always
Robin Hood, the great hero of the rus
tics: Friar Tuck; a fool, with his foo s
cap and bells; and, above all, the
hobby-horse. This animal was made of
pasteboard, painted a sort of pink color,
and propelled by a man inside, who
made him perform various tricks not
common to horses, such as threading a
needle and holding ladle in his mouth
for pennies.
The various characters labored to sup
port their parts. The friar gave solemn
advice, the queen initiated lady-like
manners, the fool joked and made fun,
and the horse pranced in true horsey
style.
This Morris dance is supposed to have
been brought in early times from Spain,
where the Moors danced it, and where
it still survives as the fandango."
In other places, wreaths were made
on hoops, with a gayly dressed doll in
the middle of each, and carried about by
girls, the little owners singing a ballad
which had been sung since the time OF
Queen Bess-and expecting shower Of
pennies, of course.
All this May-day merriment came to
an end when our grim Puritan fathers
had power in England. Dancing around
the May-pole looked to them like heath
Ell alteration of an idol. Parliament
made a law against it, and all the May
poles in the island were laid in the dust
The common people had their turn
when, few years later, under new
king, the prohibitory law was repealed
and a new May-pole, the highest ever il
England Zone hundred and thirty-foul
feet), was set up in the Strand, London
with great pomp. But the English PEG
pie were fast outgrowing the sport, ant
the customs have been dying out eve
since. Now, very few May-poleS il
obscure villages are all that can be found
-O6Ue Tborne, IN 81. Nicholas for May
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yeweI. OF The GROWN Of sco,lana.

At Edinburg, Scotland, some years since,
the Jewels of the Crown were locked in box,
that box in another, and so on, until they
were supposed TO be burglar-proof. They were
then locked up in the vault Of the CASTLE there
to remain for one hundred years, the keys
being placed in n mortar and fired into the sea.
Scarce fifty years passed by, and the modern
lock picker opens the vault and boxes without
trouble. So the science of medicine, when
studied with the aid of chemistry and the mi
croseope, becomes plain and simple, and dis
eases that were regarded incurahle a genera
ton ago, now readily yield to remedies en-
ployed by the modern and progressive physi
clan A decade Of years since, and women
were taught TO believe that their peculiar dis
eases and weaknesses were incur hl,: hut nos
hundreds and tAOTsanlS % once bei-r.dJcn
women in the Un.ed Stitcs VIII testify to the
fact that DIR. Piercs's Favorite Prescription
has effected their perfect and permanent cure.
TOLEDO. OHIO Dec. 9Th 1876
Dr. r. V. PIEBCE. buffalo. y. Y:
Dear SiY-About five years since nv wife was
taken 81 k and though we employed the be st
physicians in our city, vet she gradually grew
worse, So that she was confined tn tine bed.
Every remedy had tried. or could find failed
to cure or even give relief. At last procured
a bottle of your Fav0r.tc Prescription and 70
my surprise it gave almost Instant relief. aud
with little perseverance, an entire cure was
effected. Ever gratefully yours,
GEO. BODENMILER.
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A Clergyman Indicted for Poisoning
His Wife.

Among the indictments handed up to
the Hudson County Court of Oyer and
Terminer by the Grand Jury last week
was one against Rev. George b. Vos-
burgh, pastor of the Madison Avenue
(Jersey City, Baptist Church, who Is
charged with having poisoned his wife.
The Indictment was sent to the Court OF
General Quarter Sessions, and yester-
day Judge A. Q. GarretsOn, on applica-
ton of Hon. A. I. McGill, the County
Prosecutor, issued bench-warrant for
Mr.. Vosburgh's arrest. 1t was placed
in the hands of Constable Shields, who
went at once to the parsonage and in
formed the reverend gentleman that his
presence in the Court was required. MIR.
Vosburgh sent request to Mayor Seid-
Ter and William Robertson, that they
become surety for his appearance. They
consented, and accompanied the Con-
stable and the clergyman to the Court.
The reverend gentleman was pale and
nervous as he walked to the bar. He con-
suited for few moments with ex-Gov.
Bedle and Hon. Chas H. Winfield, his
counsel. District Attorney McGill had
been requested by them not to read the
Indictment in full, but merely to state
its substance to the accused. Vos-
burgh pleaded g not guilty"
The Indictment contains sew
eral counts; one charges him with
having put tartar emetic into his wife s
tea; another with having put it into wa
ter designed for her use; third charges
him with having put it into her medi-
cines, and there are several common
law counts, reiterating in other phrase
ology the same charges. Judge Gar
retson announced that the defendant
would be required to give bail in $4,000
Mayor Seidler and Mr.. Robertson be-
came sureties for that amount. Ex-Gov
Bedle asked that the Court fix as early
day as possible for the trial. The
counsel suggested Monday, May 6, as Z;
suitable day. District Attorney McGil
said that while he was willing to pro
coed as speedily as possible, there were
other indictments that should be hrs
disposed of-the cases of Director Hal
stead and others, in which Indictment
have been long pending, and the case
of persons confined in the Jail awaiting
trial at the county's expense, shoult
first be put out of the way, and coul'
not be disposed Of in less than three o
four weeks, and he suggested that Ma,
20 be the day designated by the Court
After some further discussion counse
reached a compromise, and the Cour
appointed Monday, May Is, as the da.
for the commencement of the trial.
NtW York TIMES.
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THE SING-AWAY BIRD.

o say, have you heard % the sing-away bird
That sings where the Runaway River
Runs down with ITS rills from the Dald-head
ed hills
That stand I'm the sunshine and shtver?
"Oh singl sing away! sing away"
How the pines and the birches are stirred
by the trim Of the sing away Bird
And the bald headed hills, with their rocks
and their rills,
To the tune of his rapture are ringing.
And their faces grow young, all their gray
mists among,
While the forests break forth into singing
90 sing sing-awRyi sing away"
And the river runs singing along;
And the flying winds catch up the song.
1t was nothing but-hushl a wild white
throated thrush,
That emptied his musical CULVER
With charm and q spell over valley and dell
On the banks of the Runaway River.
80 singi sing awayi sing away"
Yet the song of the wild singer had
The sound of a soul that is glad.
And, beneath the glad sun, may glad-heart
ed one
Set the world 10 the tune of his gladness.
The river shall sing il, the breeZes shall wing
it,
Till life shall forget its long sadness.
90 sing sing away sing awayP'
Sing spirit, who llnOwest Joys Giver-
sing on, by times Runaway River!
Lucy LGFcOBa, an St. Nicholas for May.
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A Hairbreadth Escape.

While the Erie lightning express train
was sweeping down the valley of the
Delaware a mile below Cochecton, on
Wednesday afternoon, the engineer saw
a little girl walking the track. He was
just rounding curve. The locomotive
shrieked, but within two seconds the
child was overtaken, and the train pass
cd the spot where she had stood. The
engineer looked behind the rear car, ex-
pecting to see her mangled body; but
the track was clear. He stepped upon
the guards of the locomotive, and saw
the child plastered against the cow
catcher. She was senseless. He ap-
preached her with great care, and sue
ceeded in rescuing her as she was about
to roll to the ground.
The train was stopped and backed up
to the residence of the girls parents.
They were poor people living in a shan
ty on the line of the road. The girl was
about eleven years old. She was slight
ly cut about the face, but escaped with
out further injury. The passengers
were delayed ten minutes. When they
left the child was smiling in the lap Of
/ her mother. York Sun.
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A Quaker Puzzled.

No normally endowed man could
have mistaken him for any thing else.
His rimmy hat and sad-cOlored garb,
together with the staid mien of ingram
ed piety proclaimed him Quaker. The
two gamins who had just completed a
little fistcuff diversion as our Quaker
friend came along were evidently news
paperial in their business persuasions.
Confronting the larger boy, the Quaker
said:
"Why did thee kick that little boy?"
"'Cause he exercised his phonograph
little too much"
What does thee mean?"
ale gimme too much of his lip"
Son, can not understand thee"
Now what are yer givin' us? Can't
yer understand United States? WY
wat an old gilly you are! That hairpin
was a shootin' off his mouth too much,
and kicked him in the basement. |
allus do it,
"Thee is certainly given over wholly
to the DEVIL" said our pious friend, as
he passed on in a condition of philo-
logical t.-If1diGndpolis Her
aid
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cent in the right envelope, and was
the ladies re-entered.
1t was hard minute for Kate, but
she was a good actress. Not dash of
color Redeemed her cheek as she turned
to Kasson, and said
"Can you perform your multifarious
duties for St. James's church,"
She saw that he had his own note in
his hands, and she understood and low
ed him for what he had done. This
square-faced, clumsy man had some
thing ola woman's delicacy and quick
witted tact.
{" rarely have received orders so
pleasant to PERFORM" he said, with a
double meaning to his words, which he
had no idea Miss Reid understood.
The rest of the evening passed quiet
ly, and not until the two days later did
Kasson perform his pheasant duty"
In spite of the knowledge he had that
Kate Reid loved him, he hardly knew
how to ask her to be his wife. He was
not going to tell her that she had hand
ed him the wrong note, and that he had
thus discovered she loved him. No, in
deem. He would never lisp a syllable
of her fortunate mistake. These
thoughts ran through his brain as he sat
near Kate, and talked with her absently.
The first lull that came in the converse
ton, he took advantage of saying
"Miss Reid, is it rude to ask when
you last heard from WinslOw?"
al have not heard from him for over
a week." she answered, the color COM
ing in her cheeks now.
A short silence followed. Then Kas-
son said bravely-
"You are going TO marry him next
spring, are you not?"
81 shall never marry him." answered
Kate
They were not a sentimental boy and
girl, but the rest of the tete-G-tete L do
not propose to chronicle, on account of
its incoherency. However, it resulted
in satisfaction for them, and bewilder-
ment for Mrs. Reid, and subsequently
for the gossips of Shatemuc City. AS
for Winslow, he took it philosophically
and married another young lady last
fall. 1t is something of a problem in
my mind whether or no Kate Kasson
will ever confess her stratagem to her
husband, or whether he will confess to
her that by a mistake (?) he saw the
letter she wrote to her friend, Miss
Sheppard. So far, neither has limited
word of their respective secrets. 1t is
my belief they never will.-Gotden Rule.