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The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-07-18

il would have been impossible 10 have de-
fcated the Democracy this fall What ress-
ous orr committee have for selecting such
IN inaccessible place, and fixing such an
unreasonable time, we DO not know, but
trust the arrangements made will he for
the best.
iEnpuria News l0.l
!. i said that tie CITY council will issue
retail whisky license al ,hcir next meeting,
We trast that such may b. the action q
that body, iUr as lar as we are able 10 Judge
the same amount of whiskey is now sold
tha; there would ii license were granted
Nhi'e ii has 10 be- sold let those who sell
IT. pay 4 goO.i price for ihat privilege.
: Newspaper in Sis Nsnii,s tgUT ia.
SCtsicIacnI oS n News County.
lpLwnee County Herald,
CiarTtR itOatr Is the name of a bran
new paper IRON the Kansas frontier IL is
small but well edited and printed Mr. J
L. Morcombe Is The editor. CimIrror j.
in Foole county. GA the 18th day If iaSt
January The fret quarter section Of land
was pre- -empted in the county, and now, in
less than six months from that date, the
county is settling up and on the town site
is 4 town with hotel, store, real estate Of
| fee, ncwspaper, &c.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07
The Petrified Man'' Humbug.

Any doubt as to the real character of
the so-called petrifed man of Colorado
is removed by the confession of Mr..
Fitch, one of its makers. Mr.. Fitch is
the proprietor of manufactory of arti-
fetal stone, of a city in the northern
part of this State. He says that George
Hull, the maker of the Cardiff Giant,
called upon him in February, 1876,
and suggested the scheme. The statue
was made near Elkland, Pa, the ma
terial used being Portland cement, col
ored with metallic brown. Human bones
were introduced where examination was
likely to be made, and to prevent in
jury TO the nppor part of the Dody
the shin-bone of the COW was inserted
through the neck from the middle OF
the head down to the point of the chest,
where the statue subsequently broke.
When it was completed it was baked.
P. T. Barnum was then taken into the
arrangement, and he supplied money,
and under his directions the statue was
carefully boxed and shipped as fine ma
chinery, with a false bottom on steel
springs beneath it, to Bridgeport, Conn.,,
in March, 1877, and thence to Colorado
Springs The statue is now in Broad
way cellar, where one of the owners
has been introducing into its abdomen
quantity of crystals which were in-
tended to make it stand the final test of
scientific men.-N. Y. Eveming Post,
Jan. 2S.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07

collar. A sailor knot of the cashmere
faced with silk is at the throat. The
skirt has lengthwise plaitings covering
the front gore; these are made of cash
mere, but the inside of each plat is
also silk. On the side cores are scarf
draperies, which have the effect of an
over-skirt in the back. Black camel's-
hair polonaises are made with velvet
/ sleeves, velvet belt and plastron, and
are worn over a silk skirt that has a
velvet fiounce covering all that part
which is visible. Other midwinter
suits4have polonaises of bourette, with
velvet skirts and velvet bonnets; the
polonaise and the bonnets are then
k.widely trimmed with band of fur.
BLACK marten fur bands, with white
| silyery points sewed in, are used on
such garments.
Though we are still in mid-winter,
correspondents who prepare their ward
robes themselves are already asking for
hints of the styles that will be worn in
the spring. The indications are that
the short costume with cut-away coat
and vest will be very popularity worn in
wOolen materials for early spring. An
over-skirt will be worn with this basque,
and the lower skirt will he without
flounces, or else laid in kilt plaits.
Various shapes will be used for the
front of the coats, some of which will
dispense with vests, but there will be
MANY vests worn. The basoues will be
in habit shapes, square-cornered or
slopine. but with few curves. and very
I
very simple in design, and almost who'll
ly without TRIMMING excent ornamental
stitching and buttons.
For spring wraps, light grav. brown
or dark blue twilled and basket cloths
will be made up in Jackets yery similar
to those lust described, though without
vests. They will have rolling collars,
and will button thence to the waist;
there will be seam at the wrist line on
the sides and back, and the pocket-faps
will be sewed in this seam, which ex-
tends horizontally. A silk braid bind
ing, or else stitched edges, will give the
simple finish
The polonaise with broad belts in
front will become more generally worn.
At present they are most used in very
rich materials, but will soon be adopted
for plain woolens. The back will re-
main in princesse shape, but for these
materials the front will be SLIGHTLY
gathered. giving the full blouse effect
that is SO becoming to the figure. The
fancy for using fringes headed with
galloons for trimming these polonaises
will continue; the fringe, however.
will ho oon6,oJ 10 +ho f.o,+ ,nd ,;1o
while the back will have only the gal
loon.
For wash dresses the pretty woke
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07
IOWA STATE NEWS.

The State Medical Association met at Des
Moines, on the Sist ult A committee val
appointed to aid the bill now pendingm the
Assembly for the regulation of the practice Of
medicine and the establishment of a State
Board OF Health. A resolution against State
aid to Medical Colleges as departments was
adopted. The following officers were elected
for the year; President, A. NJ. Carpenter, Of
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Fannie Kemble is sixty-five years
of age, and weighs nearly 200 pounds.
Gen. Grant refused to authorize the
illustrated papers of Paris to print his
portrait.
Mr.. Elihu Burritts health has so
much improved that he hopes to be out
again next spring.
Judge Hilton, who seems to know
everything about the Stewart family,
says that Mrs. A. T. Stewart will never
marry again.
Gen. D. H. Hill, the ex-Confeder-
ate, brother-il-law of Sonewall Jack
son. has Bible class of 200 members
in Charlotte, N. G.
1t is said that Winslow, the Boston
forger, recently visited three Of his
friends in that city, and that his hiding
place is not 500 miles away.
President Taylor's grave, in Jeffer-
son County, KY, is unmarked by any
monument; and Gov. McCreary, Of
Kentucky, wishes the State Legislature
to cali upon Congress to put up one.
The Oldest member of the House Of
Representatives is Mr.. Patterson, oi
New York, who is almost seventy mine
years old. The youngest member il
Mr.. Kenna, of West Virginia, who is
twenty-nine years old.
Miss Susan B. Anthony has sent
5000 to assist in defraying the expenses
OF the Woman Suffrage organization
that recently met in Washington, and
it is said that she contributes every year
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07
The Tramp Nuisance.

The Chief of the State Detective Force
devotes an interesting portion OF his
report to the Tramp" In order to
ascertain something definite of the hab-
its and characteristics of this peripa-
tetic nuisance, he sent two men last
summer on tramp in the western part
of the State, where they fell in with
one gang and another and travelled with
them from town to town. They were
found to be of various ages and nation
alities, and in most cases had in past
years been employed in some regular
occupation. They had been on the
tramp for periods ranging from two or
three to fourteen years. During the
warm weather they generally slept in
barns or in the woods, preferring to
keep away from lock-ups and station
houses. They obtained food by beg
ging and stealing, the latter method
apparently being preferred. They
were uniformly averse to earning any
thing by labor, and though, when beg
ging, they always profess desire to
obtain work, only two were found dur
ing tramp of several weeks who did
not scout the idea of working for liv-
ing, and show decided preference for
their vagabond life 1t was clear that
lack of employment had little or moth
ing to do with the wanderings of these
vagrants. They did not seek employ
ment and did not want it, but preferred
to subsist upon charity and plunder.
One said that it was his habit in winter
to go to some large city and commit a
petty crime that would send him to
some public institution to be taken care
of till warmer weather.
There was complete lack of moral
scruple among them, which showed
what a dangerous element they might
become in the community. Not only
did they steal without the least COM
junction, but there was no doubt that
they were ready for any crime that
could crafty revengeful or other pas
sions, provided there was fair chance
to escape detection and punishment. In
many localities they were terror to
ths inha' ants, and obtained what they
asked for because unprotected women
in the houses which they visited did not
dare refuse. Several parties in July
set out for Pennsylvania to join in the
railroad riots, and others waited about
the stations along the Boston & Albany
Road in anticipation of a strike. 1t
was plain that their purpose was plum
der, and they were ready TO take ad-
vantage of any opportunity to join in a
lawless outbreak. The Chief of the De-
tective Force is of the opinion that the
:. tramp system had its origin in the
return of "bummers and camp-fol-
lowers from the armies after the war.
These men had become accustomed to
life of vagrancy and had no DISPOSE
ton to settle down at any regular oc-
cupation; but their ranks were soon re-
cruited by the idle and thriftless vaga-
bonds who now for the most part fill
the ranks of the tramps. - Boston Globe.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07
Gravity in the Moons Of Mars.

We are able to consider the relations
of inert matter in worlds where gravity
is so small as it must be in the Martian
moons. 1t has been said, by myself
among others, that building and all en-
gineering processes would be much
easier in world where gravity is very
small than in our own world. But if
less arduous, so far as mere labor is
concerned, they would in some respects
be far more difficult. Much more skill
would be required to give adequate
stability to buildings, made even of the
most solid materials, in world where
all weights are so much reduced. Sup
pose even platinum were available in
sufficient quantities for architectural
purposes, yet block of platinum of
given size would press downward with
less force there than a block of deal
wood of about one-twentieth its size on
our earth. Whewell has well described
in his Bridgewater treatise the effects
of a great reductfon in the force of
gravity, though he is not there consider
ing life in other worlds, but the import
ance (Which many are apt to overlook)
of those portions of our earth's frame
which lie far below the deepest mines
ever yet dug by man. If the interior of
our earth could be scooped out and re-
moved, we should in fact suffer from
precisely the same inconvenience as
would affect creatures like ourselves
living in the moons of Mars.
We should, indeed, find ourselves
living like them in dread and
terror. Things" Whewell truly says,
"would not lie where we placed them,
but would slide away with the slightest
push. We should have a difficulty in
standing or walking, something like
that we have on shipboard when the
deck is inclined; and we should stagger
helplessly through an atmosphere thin
ner than that which oppresses the
respiration of the traveller on the tops
of the highest mountains 1T is
hard" says the ingenious writer in the
Spectator, to conceive even one
storied house holding together in the
Martian moon world, 9 against any
serious lateral blows Projectiles
would be no less deadly than in our
own world. But the range which pro-
jectiles such as ours would obtain in
such world would render close fight
ing impossible on the one hand, and
efficient aiming impossible on the
other A Krupp cannon, for instance,
whose greatest range on our earth is,
let us say, five miles, would on the
Martian moon fire projectile which
would leave that moon forever, and the
recoil of the cannon would probably
carry it half dozen miles away from
the firing point. Much weaker pro-
jectile force would have to be en-
ployed, and less mischief would be done
on this account, and also because any
living body struck by one OF these pro-
jectiles would give way before it much
more readily than similar body SINH
larly struck onour own earth. Richard
A. Proctor, in Bel0raUid.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07
NUMBER s.
Youths Department.
30 DEAR ME p

~ J.. ID.
My little boy sings a very poor scng-
% dear mem
Nothing goes right and everything wrong!
What will he do the whole day long?
20 dear merO
1t pours and it pours, and will not stop;
GO dear me.o
He has lost his whip, and broken his top;
He wishes it would not rain one dropi
co dear me!o
Come, play at toll gate with plums for toll;
20 dear mee)
0r take up your drum and beat me roll:
Or go a-fishing. your cane for a pole.
CO dear mer)
You will not have them. your toys or ball?
c. o dear mero
Wen, mere are your tools, the hammer and all
Then play you're a soldier straight and tall!
co dear mer'j
Soldiers are horrid2 Well here ale your blocks
co dear mer')
Build mamma a house high up on the rocks;
You only like ships that are on the stocks?
CO dear mer
20 dear mer'
But give poor mamma a chance to complain;
TIE a troublesome boy along with the rain:
"O!-dear-me
l thought that mamma could make him smile
See! seei seem
Well, come and sit on her knee awhile;
"One-two-threet'
There! now well sing in as,rolicking style:
Harriet AcEwen KimbaU, In Youths Con,
DdHiOn.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07

AN amusing incident recently oc-
CURED in a church near Sellersville,
Bucks County, Pa. The minister was
preaching in German, and delivering a
very interesting discourse, when he
was disturbed by two young men
whispering in the gallery. Finally he
stopped and suggested to them that il
they wanted to talk he would cease and
allow them to say what they wished, but
that their whispering annoyed him.
One Of them had presence Of mind, and
arose and informed the preacher that
his friend could not understand word
of German, and thatf he did not rrans-
late it to him he would lose all the val
uable discourse. This completely took
the wind out of the sails Of the minis
ter. Though it was pretty certain that
the two men were talking about some
thing else, the assurance Of the whis-
perer brought him out first best.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07
The Work Of a Leper.

We noticed some days since the death
of William P. Ragsdale, the distin-
guished leper of the Sandwich Islands,
and referred to the reforms instituted
by him in the leper settlement on the
Island of Molokai. Mr.. Ragsdale,
previous to his removal to Molokai,
was one of the most prominent lawyers
and the most noted orator in the
Hawaiian Kingdom. He spoke English
as fiuently as the native language, and
promised to be one of the most in
fluential men in the Kingdom when he
discovered that he had the leprosy.
The Jews, regarding leprosy as a
disease for which no natural remedy
could be prescribed, separated lepers,
even though they were Kings, from the
rest of the people, and founded leper
villages, where the outcasts dragged
out their wretched lives. After the
crusades, leprosy invaded Western
Europe, and statesmen and sovereigns
struggled with the problem of how to
stop the ravages Of the disease, and of
how best to care for those afflicted.
During the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries there was scarcely town in
Europe which had not its leper hospital
or village. Even in these hospitals the
condition of the inmates was pitiable.
Under the most favorable circumstances
the leper was considered both legally
and practically a dead person. His
marriage ties were dissolved, he was
prohibited from entering any church or
place where food was prepared, was
compelled to wear peculiar dress, and
to give notice of his approach by ring
ing bell. There are now compare
lively few cases in Europe, but the dis
ease is still prevalent in the old l0cali-
ties in the East, on the coasts of Africa,
and among other localities in the
Hawaiian Islands.
In the Hawaiian Kingdom the isola-
ton of lepers was comparatively easy,
as the Island of Molokai was given up
to them, and from a very early date
there had been on that island large
settlement of lepers. As soon as man
was known to have leprosy he was ar
rested; was compelled to give up family
ties, unless members of his family chose
to Danish themselves from society fol
life, and was conveyed to Molokai,
where he remained until his death.
There was no exception, and as there
was no hope of cure, there was no pos.
sibility of recall. For man to admit
that he had the leprosy was to court
banishment for life and to give up al
ambitious hopes.
Realizing all this, Mr.. Ragsdale, a.
cx,<xv, nc ho diconvarnd indications of this
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07
Black WOolen Dresses-Hints ON
Spring Styles.

The black cashmere or camers-hair
dresses worn in the daytime by young
ladies are frightened by vests Of cardi-
nal red silk. The waist is q habit
basque, with square plated position
behind, while the black fronts are
sloped away gradually from the throat
to the sides, disclosing the red silk vest
below. This vest may be sewed in with
the basque. or it may be separate
waist-coat with cambria back and
armholes, or else it is shaped like .
chemisette, covering the shoulders and
extending in point behind to the belt.
The neck is finished with very high
collar Of the cashmeres lined with red
silk, and it may be there are one or
two knife-plaited frills of red silk
doubled and placed erect inside the
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07

"PzE RIGHT, shouted military
oaicer to his company. = Vel, = grunt-
ed green private, nobody said you
EVsss4 right. =
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07

1.-THE wicked stand in slippery
places,'' but for perfect picture OF
reckless insecurity, you want to look at
frightened woman trying to stand on
a camp-stool to keep out of the way OF
mouse. Dambury NesOs.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07

DURING the year 1876, the total pro-
duction of amber in Prussia amounted
to 1856 tons. The mine of Palmmcken
yielded eighty-five tons. The amber
was exported principally to Austria,
France, America, Russia, China and
Japan. The number of men employed
in Prussia by this industry is nearly
400.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07
FROM trustworthy figures just com

FROM trustworthy figures just COM
piled regarding the liquor traffic, it
appears that there are nearly twice
as many drinking saloons in New York
as in any other State. The exact
number is 23,854. Illinois follows with
16,548, Pennsylvania with 16, 1O5, Ohio
with Ia, 248 and California with LAOS.
In Massachusetts there are only 6,386
saloons, while in the comparatively in
significant District of Columbia, the
seat Of National Government, there are
no less than 1.105. North Carolina
heads the list with 1,2O5 distilleries.
while New York has only III distiller-
les. In addition to these, however,
there are 379 beer breweries in the
State. On an average there is in the
Union one drinking saloon for every
28O inhabitants. Considering the pro
portion of the population, most OF the
whisky is consumed by our brethren
in the South, while nearly al the beer
is drank by the people Of the West and
North.-N Y Times.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07

NoBoDY knows where you 60 or how
long you stay, if you are broke, but
everybody wants to, know which way
you went and if they think they'll catch
you II you happen to be broker: These
are times of perilous financial uncer-
tainty.-Bwrlington HdsOk-E Eye.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07

THE future greatness and destiny OF
this country depends upon the virtue
and intelligence of the farmers.-Er-
change.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07

TN cHHoMczn = published ct ths County ssat
= Tama, one of the largest, richest most central
and populous counties In Iowa tits the Oldest
paper In the County and one Of the Oldest In the
6sats-haviug been established in 1853. Its circu-
ation being large and constantly increasing makes
Il very desirable advertising medium for business
men and manufacturers wishing TO bring theiR
goods and wares 10 the notice of the people u
Central Iowa.
Advertising ratss made lmswnon application.
JOB PRINTING
lf every description executed with neatness anA
iispatch- Special attention paid to
PRINTING IN COLORS.
Your favors earnestly collected.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-02-07
DOMESTIC.

arrangements had been made by the Secretary
of the Treasury to receive, in payment of sub
scriptions to the 4per-cent. loan, coin or cur
rency checks drawn on banks or bankers In
New York. The currency checks will be con-
verted into coin at current rates, without ex-
pense to the owner, and any excess over the
amount due on the subscription will be re-
turned to the subscriber. Similar arrange
ments would be made If found necessary, in
other cities having Sub Treasury offices.
The steamship Metropolis, bound
from Philadelphia to Brazil, having on board
between 200 ard 800 engineers and railroad Ia
borers, went ashore, in a terrible storm, and
was wrecked, on the North Carolina coast,
three miles south of Currituck Lighthouse,
on the evening of the 31st ult., and it was
thought, on the morning of the I'd, that at
least 2O0 persons had perished.
The public-debt statement, as pub
| lished on the 1st, indicates the following:
Total debt (ncluding interest of $22, 427, ,S34),
$2,2I5, ,455,S ,S45; cash in Treasury, Sill, 16S,-
479; debt less cash in Treasury, S2,044, ,2S7,-
1866. Decrease during January, sl,66s,076. De-
crease since June 30, 1877, s15,s70, ,s57.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 1st
states that the Secretary of the. Treasury de-
sires all drafts sent him in payment of the f.
per cent. loan to be drawn payable to his order,
or they cannot be received.
The Third Assistant Postmaster
General has notified the Postmaster at New
York City that the trade dollars not being a
legal tender the latter is not obliged to receive
them in payment of postage, etc.
AT Malone, N. Y, on the 1st, Joseph
Woods was executed, by hanging, for the
murder of Stephen Woods.
4 A DISPATCH from Gen. Miles, dated
Fort Keogh, Jan. 25, was received at st. Paul,
Mimi, on the 3D.. The main body of his field
force was en- route to Fort Peck. He confirms
the previous report that Sitting Bull was on
khis side of the boundary line, and was roam
ing where he pleased on American soil. Gen.
Miles inquiries of Gen. Terry as to the status
bf Sitting Bull and how he shall be treated in
he possible event of his being met and over
eome in trial of arms. A courier left on the
d, with reply from Gen. Terry.
THERE were fifty-two failures in Chi
eago during the month Of January. The to-
al liabilities were: Secured, $50, 1856; unse-
cured, 81 IA, ,S75.
ARRANGEMENTS were perfected, on
he ID, to reopen the Topeka (Kan.) Bank and
Savings Institution, the depositors agreeing
% give six months time, all deposits under
100 to bepaid 50 per cent. on the reopening.
In examination of the affairs Of the bank
bowed the total liabilities to be $40, 600, and
he assets that are good $25S000.
WILLIAM VIEWERS was hanged at