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Year: 1876

quarterly meeting Of the Chamber ofLife Insurance
was held yesterday. report from the Law Commit
tee reviewed the legal questions Of 1875 In order
secure early publication Of yearly statistics blank
norts have b. en- sent the insurance departments Of
the several states with the request that they be filled
ont and returned at once
Year: 1876

Representatives Of the several coal mining, carrying
and selling interests met yesterday at the Office Of the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, and resolved
unon an entire suspension OF mining anthracite coal
during tho Eve weeks between February and March
Year: 1876

Encourage your county newspapers.
Assist by kind words, prompt settlement
of bills and encouragement to enterprise
the editors of all the papers which are
helping to herald improvements, great
or small. There never was newspaper,
says an exchange, no matter how small
or what it's price, that was not worth
more than the price asked for it. AS
light is to time, to growth and ripaning
of fruit, so is the press to thought and
to progress. Some men are too poor
to take a paper. No man is rich enough
to do without one, and more if he can
obtain them. Food for the stomach,
food for the brain, are alike necessary
to perfect growth. The editor who is
encouraged will be better editor next
year than this, unless he be a snarling,
selfish, growing, miserly, egotistical old
bundle of cross grained antagonisms,
begotten in spite and at natural enmity
with all the honest world. But such ab'
normal monstrosities are few. The or
dinary editor is man of brain, thought,
power, intelligence. A student OF Life.
A thinker. A sympathizer with his fell
low men if they will permit him to grow
RI them
Year: 1876

The governor of Ohio, in bis mes
sage to the Legislature, speaks as fol-
lows concerning the want of equality IN
the punishment of offenders My i'm
mediate predecessor called the attention
of the General Assembly to the matter
of inequality in sentences to the penl-
tertiary. I fully indorse his views on
that subject, and invite you to consider
the great injustice frequently done to
men and women who are more unfortu.
nato than criminal, by the unequal
sentences pronounced by the courts.
The peculiar temperament or condition
of the Judge, or the attendant influences
in community, as frequently mold the
character of the sentence as the circum-
stances of the case. Men are serving
under sentence of thirty years for pre-
cisely the same crimes for which other
men are serving terms of three years.
There should be some mode OF amend
ing the errors of courts in this matter.
Of course, the pardoning power can
rectify the irregularity; but it would be
better to remove, as far as possible, the
necessity OF the interposition OF execu.
tive clemency. It is matter worthy OF
of your earnest consideration.
Year: 1876

The chief engineer of the Wilmington
fire department came over to our town
the other day, says Max Adeler, upon a
visit to the chief of our department,
whose name is Jacobs; and it struck
Jacobs that it would be irst-rate idea
TO show the visitor how very efficient
our fire department is. So Jacobs got
an old tar barrel and set it upon the
roof of his stable, and touched it off
with match. When it began to burn
pretty freely he gave the signal for the
alarm, remarking at the same time to
the Wilmington man:


"You' Il see that fire put out in about
four seconds by the boys"


They waited four seconds for the boys,
but they didn't come. They waited
fifteen minutes, and still nobody came.
Jacobs was furious, and as the barrel
was burning very near to the roof, he
sent boy around to the nearest engine
house to ascertain what was the matter.
When the boy came back he said the
firemen were all out at q picnic except
ing the members of the Washy Hose,
who had gone over to Pancader to fight
couple of roosters.


By this time the roof of the barn was
on fire, and Jacobs was pretty near
crazy. The visitor wanted to telegraph
over to Wilmington for his department,
but Jacobs alleged that he'd let the
eternal earth burn to charcoal before
he'd consent to such thing. Then he
sent a man on fast horse to bring the
boys in from that picnic, and by the
time they reached the engine house the
stable was in ashes, and Peters stable,
next door, had begun to burn. So when
the engines arrived, Jacobs directed
them to play upon that, and then they
got to work; but after pumping for
awhile without getting any water, Jacobs
was Just about losing his senses, when
Mr.. McAllister came up and mentioned
that the supervisors had let all the water
out of the reservoir so as to clean it.
Then Jacobs sat down to fan himself,
and to try to decide whether to commit
suicide or to leave the country. And the
Wilmington man went home with the
idea that he hadn't much to learn from
Jacobs about e1tinguishing fires.
Year: 1876

A correspondent writing from Chicago
tells us about the dangerous practice OF
gambling indulged in there. He says:


There are two or three recent .prac-
tices, however, which will scarcely re-
ceiye such general approval. The fas-
cinating and delusive game OF poker has
taken strong hold upon society people
here. and the ladies seem to be even
more devoted to it than the men. Gard
parties now mean poker parties, and the
checks are promptly brought out at an
evening call. Whist and euchre are
now to slow to satisfy anybody, and no
well regulated house is now without a
set of white and red poker chips.
Young and pretty Miss Twolips utters
the slang of the game with the ease and
freedom of turtle, and that which was
formerly abandoned to the back room OF
saloons. and was sufficient excuse for
police raid, now finds recognition in the
parlor. can trace this new mania no
further back than Mr.. Schenck's
pamphlet on the game of poker, printed!
for private circulation at the request OF
some English ladies and gentlemen who
preferred it to whist at sixpence q cor
ner. The publicity which this clrcum-
stance afterward obtained all over this
country advertised two things to Ameri-
can society-frst, that it was the custom
of English society for ladies and gentle,
men to play cards for small stakes, and
next that after learning poker they pre-
ferred it to the games they had been ac-
customed to playing. What was allowa-
ble and even fashionable in England re-
ceived quick Endorsement here, the
quicker and reader perhaps because the
game is SO fascinating. But the result
is that the playing Of cards for money
has got start in American social circles,
where it was formerly tabooed, and
there is danger that there will not be
the same cool and phlegmatic control OF
it as in English social circles.
Year: 1876

" down the cliff 700 feet into the river.
There seemed to be very little choice In
the matter, for there was score or more
of armed men below them. As soon,
however, as they turned fercely and be-
gan to rush down on the crowd, the lat
ter were 80 utterly amazed that they
wheeled and ran, and rolled, and tum-
bled helter skelter down the mountain.


A bullet from the little Cadets rifle
nailed one of them, however, a poor old
fellow whose name l forget, as he lay
wounded and forsaken in the path of the
Frenchmen. He was too badly shot to
move, and when he saw the big Cadet
come up and club his musket and raise
it to knock his brains out, he could only
shut his eyes and pray that the last
blow might be effective. The little
Cadet had fingered behind moment to
try and get shot at the retreating foe.
He arrived where the wounded man lay
lust as the butt of the musket, after
performing a very swift, hut deliberate,
circle round the big Cadets head, was
descending upon the old mans skull.
With a quick bound the little fellow
pushed his big brother aside and warded
off the blow. "Let him alone, he can
not hurt u.s." he said, and the next mo-
ment he was drawing bead on q deputy
sheriff far down the mountain, who
seemed to have forgo ten something in


he canyon, and was hurrying down to
get it. Well, after awhile, when no one
dared TO hunt them any longer, they
quietly slipped down to the bay, and the
last 1 ever heard of them they had
shipped as sailors to Australia.


Somewhere in California the old fel-
low who was wounded is living, and he
still entertains high opinion OF the lit
tie Cadet, but thinks the big one an in
fernal sco1narel.
Year: 1876

Scene: a New York street car-two
little girls, with very pretty dresses and
ladylike manners.


"Dolly, dear, do you know what am
going to give you for Christmas


"Oh, don't tell mo, let it be sur
prise"


"Oh, 1 must tell you, SO that we can
arrange it all. You know my mamma
has q beautiful sealskin sack that papa
gave her last winter. Well, I am going
to get that and take it over to your house
and give it to you. Then you must give
it to me, and III take it back to
mammals room. Then when those hor-
rid Ritchie girls begin to tell about all
their presents and things, we can say
that we each got perfectly lovely seal
skin sack, that cost ever so much. Oh,
won't they be jealous, though"
Year: 1876

japanese women are charming in
manner, and would be in appearance,
were it not for their ungainly forms,
which are ruined by clumsy mode OF
dress, and, am ong the poorer classes,
the practice of carrying burdens upon
the back. When a japanese girl reaches
the age of sixteen without having under
gone either of the processes of deformity
she is a wonder to the eye, and remains
so until twenty-five, or possibly little
later. Then she ceases to charm for a
certainQeriod, in any way excepting in
her manner, and that is generally pre-
served to the last. But as she grows
old she has chance of becoming quite
delightful again. There is nothing nicer
than a dignifed and white haired old
Japanese lady. She is always happy,
for she is always much respected and
cherished by her youngers, and at Ger.
tain age the natural high breeding OF
the race appears in her to attain its
crystalization.
Year: 1876

A writ of habeas corpus was granted
by Judge Bingham of the common pleas
court at Columbus, Ohio, commanding
that the body of Sarah NJ. Victor, an
inmate of the penitentiary, be produced
before the court. 1t was returnable at
once.


There are some curious facts connect
ed with the case. Over seven years ago
Sarah NJ. Victor was convicted at Cleve-
land of murder in the first degree and
sentenced to be hanged. Before the
day of execution arrived, however, the
prisoner became insane, and upon being
satisfied of this fact the governor Or
dered her sentence commuted to solitary
confinement tor life in the penitentiary.
A simple certificate was therefore made
out from the court in which she was
tried consigning her to imprisonment for
life.


Now, after this long lapse of time,
comes petition claiming that the
warden OF the penitentiary has not the
proper papers or authority upon which
to hold this prisoner. 1t is claimed th' t
in committing this sentence to imprison-
ment for life, the governor should have
prepared, under his hand and the seal
of the State, papers to that effect, and
before being carried into execution the
same should have been submitted to the
prisoner to allow her to accept imprison-
meut for life in preference to hanging.


She now desires to be hanged, and
hence these proceedings have been in
stituted to declare null and void the
certificate under which she was entered
at the penitentiary. The condemned
woman is afflicted with paralysis, and
had to be carried from the penitentiary
to the court room.
Year: 1876

A curious case has occurred in the
town of Oxford, Me. In carrying out
the vote of that district, the town au-
thorities purchased lot OF land and
erected thereon schoolhouse, at an e1-
pense of some seven thousand dollars.
Afterward l. was ascertained that the
vote of the district authorizing the pur.
chase of the land and the building OF
the house was illegal, and the courts
have so decided the matter. SO the
gentleman who previously owned the lot
Comes forward and claims the land, TO-
gether With the schoolhouse that has
been erected thereon We understand
that the district will apply to the iegis-
lature for authority to hold the school
house under the Betterment act.
Year: 1876

We fatter ourselves-ws bearded boys


That We are deep, and can conceal


All that We know, snd do, and feel
Our business sorrows and club house joys
From the innocent creatures who make oul


tea,


But believe me, cir, they can zee
Right through and through both you and me
As il your Glove or cardamon seed
Could hide your guilt in wine and weed!
All! fcolish mortal, do you suppose
That only to sniff the scent Of rose,
And not the odor that's in your clothes,
She's got that sweet little, pert little nose?
Your screen is only pane Of glass,
Through which che sees that you are-alas /!
By no means the lion you think within,
But long cared thing in lions skin.
Year: 1876

"Oh do not take it all, pray~ cried
the cat; ait is all l shall have. do not
have milk more than once day"


What is that to me: l don't care"
said the dog. And he drank it all up, and
went on, well pleased.


Day after day, he was the same. He
would not help poor COW that had got
shut out of her field, though he knew of a
gap in the hedge by which she could have
got back. He would not take the pains
to point out the way to the old oak in the
wood. when young bird who had
strayed too far from her nest asked him.
To each and all he would say, What is
that TO me? l don't care"


At last he came to great wood. He
was tired, and soon went to sleep. In his
sleep he dreamed, that, all at once, great
wolf came out of the wood, and seized
hold of him. Save me! save men' he
cried.


"Why should I save yUu?" said the
wolf, with fierce gleam in his eve. "ls
there one who would say good word for
you?"


At this speech, the sheep who had once
asked the dog to help her came out of the
wood


Il have a word to say" she SAID; " but
it is not a good word. This dog would
not help me when | was in trouble. If
you tell me you must kill him, l say, as
he once said: What is that TO me""


ooh" groancd the poor dog. Is
there no one who will say kind wordS'


Then came the cat Il do not care if
you kill him." said she: "what is that to
me? He did not care for me in my want"


The COW came next. " Do as you like"
said she: "If he comes to grief what is
that to me? There was never any pity in
his heart for those he saw suffer"


And then came whole crowd of beasts
and birds; and they stood around and
cried, with one voice: "Do as you will
with him. Kill him, if you like. What
is that to u.s."


The dogs fear IN his dream was so great
that he woke. How great was his JOY to
lind that no wolf was near!


but it might have been trucm he
thought 81 will not 90 through life as
have done; and will not say of those
who live in the same world with me, that
their joy or grief is nOught to me. find
it ought TO be good deal to me-
NuTS6rH.
Year: 1876

A DOG once set out to go through the
world, and see all that was to be seen. lie
had been spoiled in his young days; SO
that he did not care for the pains OF others,
so long as he was safe and well himself


One day, as he went through a field he
heard a sad cry, and, looking round, saw
a sheep in a stream. Help me, Oh, help!
or shall be drowned" she cried.


The dog could have pulled her out Tor
he was strong, and could swim well. But
to her cry he said, "What is that to me!'
and went on.


The sheep was not drowned; for the
stream took her down to a place where the
bank was low, and she could get out; pu'
she owed the dog no thanks for that.
He went on till he thought he must hno
some food, and just then he caught sigh
of cat in the yard of a house near by
The cat had a pan of milk, which sh'
seemed to like; for the purred as sh
Tapped it.


"Hi therer' cried the dog: 81 wan
that milk"


The cat arehed her back, and growleo
but said not word. She thought the DO!
would not come in; but he did, and VIII
| a snarl, showing his great teeth, drove ne
from the pan.
Year: 1876

MICE sometimes choose very odd places
in which to set up their small housekeep-
ing. A lady one day took down a large
loaf of bread, baked the day before, to cut
up for her children's dinner. She found
a little hole in one side which she follow
ed up, and there, snug in the heart OF the
bread was mother mouse and nine little
mice. She had torn into shreds leaf OF
a COPY. book, for the bottom OF the nest
and when they got hungry they could
lust fall to and eat their bedclothes!


Another person, in pulling large
turnip in his field found the inside neatly
followed out by a field mouse, and
stock of lima beans laid in for winter pro
visions.


A Cleveland mouse did worse mischie
than that. He chewed up two hundre'
dollars worth OF greenbacks, and made
bed Of them. But, alas, the arsenic IN IN
| green color did not agree with h'u!. II
was found dead In his bed,
Year: 1876

He entered car door, When the
brakeman came inside and took key OUT
of his pocket, unlocked the stove, put IN
some wood ana locked the door again, lie
asked him what he locked the stove door
for. The brakeman shut his left eye, ana
said he locked the door sothc fire couldn't
20 out.
Year: 1876

THE CHRONICLE is published at the County seat
Of Tama, one of the largest, richest most central
and populous counties in Iowa. Its the Oldest
paper in the County and one of the Oldest in the
State having been established in 1855. Its circu-
ation 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
OF every description executed with neatness and
dispatch. Special attention paid to


PRINTING IN COLORS.


Your fayors earnestly solicited.
Year: 1876

SOME wears ago | picked up several
children i'll Chicago, and thought would
clothe them and feed thcm and took
special interest in those boys to see what
| could make of them. don't think 1t
was thirty days before the clothes had all
gone to whisky, and the fathers had drank
i, all up. One day | met one OF the little
bows for whom l bought pair of boots
only the day before. There was snow
storm coming up, and he was baretooted.
" Nike saws | "hOw's this? Where
are YOUR shoes?" Father and mother
took them away" said he. There is
GOOD deal that we think is charity that IS
really doing a great deal OF mischief;
and the people must not think because we
don't give them money to aid them IN
their poverty that we don't love them,
for the money would go into their pockets
to get whisky with. 1t is no sign that we
are all hypocrites and insincere IN our
love that we don't give them money. L
believe if the prodigal son could have got
all the money he wanted in that torelgn
country he would never have come home,
and it was good thing for him that he
did get hard up and had to live on the
busks that the swine ate. And II Is
good thing that people should suffer. II
they get a good living without work. 'hey
will never work. We can never make
anything of them. God has decreed that
man shall earn his bread by the sweat OF
his brow, and not live on other people,


From one of Mr.. Mo0dy's Sermons.
Year: 1876

Sufficient Developments have already been
made to warrant the belief that the silver
deposits of Nevada are not only incompara-
bly, vast in number and in fertility, but are
also practically inexhaustible. With the
slight superficial scratching which our miners
have made during the past fifteen years,
liberal mountains of silver have already been
exposed and yet scarcely day passes with
out the announcement that new ''strike"
has been made in some portion Of the State.
Even now the enormous bullion yield of the
Comstock mines is affecting the specie value
and business affairs of this coast to all alarm
ing degree. The beautiful trade dollar which
but a little while ago was SO eagerly sought
for at a premium, is now drug IN the mar
ket at a ruinous discount Indeed, the silver
supply has become so enormous that the
Chamber of Commerce at San Francisco is
seriously casting about for some relief against
the threatened silver inundation. In the
face of all this we are now assured by the
most reliable authority that MIR. Prayers
process for reducing ores is complete sue
cess, and that in short time every mining
camp on the coast can be cheaply supplied
with Fryer's wonderful contrivances. If one
half which is claimed for the new process be
true, it is safe to predict that in the next five
years our bullion yield will be ten times as
much as it is at present. There are in this
State hundreds of silver mines the ores of
which are refractory, but which by assay,
yield vastly greater percentage of silver
than any ofthe average ores of the Comstock.
Even the possibility of this prospective bull
lion yield is matter for serious considera-
ton and ought to attract the attention Of the
National Congress. We are not specially
gifted as experts in financial problems, but
we modestly suggest that if Congress will
pass law for the issuance of silver notes
to be redeemed at par by the United States
Treasury, on the same plan of the gold-note
system, it might be the means Of saving our
bullion from most serious depreciation in
value Virginia Enterprise.
Year: 1876

There is right way and a wrong way,


hard way and an easy way, an awkward way
and a skillful way to catch and handle sheep.
A great many men will seize the sheep by the
wool on the back with both hands, and lift
the animal clear from the ground by the wool
only. Barbarous! Let some giant grasp you
by the hair of your head and lift you from
the ground by the hair only. Would you not
suuiggle and squirm worse than the mute
sheep does when lifted by the wool? And
would not there be a complaint OF sore
head for a week or two: If you do not be-
lieve it try the experiment. We have slaugh-
tered a great many sheep in years past and
when removing the pelts OF such sheep as
had been handled by their WOOL we never
failed to observe that, beneath the skin,
wherever the animal had been caught by
the wool, blood had settled. In many IN
stances the skin had been separated from the
body, so that Inflammation was apparent.
We have known proprietors of sheep to be
So strict in regard to handling them that they
would order helper from the premises II
he were to catch sheep by the wool on any
part of the body. Some owners of sheep
direct their helpers thus: ''When about to
catch sheep, move carefully toward the one
to be taken, until you are sufficiently near to
spring quickly and seize the beast by the
neck with both hands. Then pass one hand
around the body, grasp the brisket, and lift
the sheep clear from the ground. The wool
must not be pulled. If the sheep is heavy
one, let one hand and wrist be put around
the neck and the other pressed against the
rump." We have always handled sheep in
the way alluded to. We never grasp the
WOOL Others seize the sheep by the hind
leg, then throw one arm about the body and
ewes with lamb should never be caught by
the hind-leg, unless they are handled with
extreme care. When sheep are handled
roughly, especially if their wool is pulled,
the small bruises and injuries will render
them more wild and more difficult to handle.
Year: 1876

THE Inter- Ocean thinks ''it cannot be
doubted that a vote to-day on the simple
question whether or not we shall have o
Republican or Democratic National Admin
istration during the next four years would
result in more overwhelming defeat to the
Democracy than ever before"
Year: 1876

bidder. for cash, the following described
stock, (here describe the stock to be sold.)
Sale to commence at IL o'clock NJ of said
day.


1t shall also be the duty of the President of
the stock-board to send by mail or otherwise,
ten days prior to date of sale, at least three
copies Of the foregoing notice to each of the
Year: 1876

Notwithstanding ALT talk of the
Democracy about retreuchment, the
first member TO introduce 0 bill look
ing to the reduction of salaries of
Congressman is Republican-Mr.
White, of Kentucky.