The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1858-08-26

QUAsouEroN August l6, 1853.

QuASQU ETON august IL, 1000.
Mr.. EDITOR Thinking that line
from this part Of the county might please
some of your readers, l have dared to
write. The absence of the Guardian and
its managers, leaves void which the
people here are complaining of, bu; which
they have no way of filing. Not COM
planning of you, Mr.. Editor, by no means,
for it would i'll become any man of COM
mon sense, to wish or expect you to re-
main here, where it was impossible for
you to be properly supported. There
was some grumbling at first, as there natu
rally would be, on removing such an in
stitution from our midst; but this has
died away, and given place to a better
feeling; and now. that people here have
found out your position, they cannot find
fault with YOU for removing.
News is rather stale here we have
had two horses drowned in the river.
One belonging to Mr.. EDWARDS, of Bran
don, and the other to Messrs. A. III. Il r.
HYDE. The horse of Mr.. EDWARDS be-
came skitish, as he was about to drive
upon the ferry boat, and tumbled off
into the river, dragging his mate and the
wagon to which they were attached,
along with him. The wagon was load
ed with a box Of Dry Goods and some
packages of Groceries most of the lat
ter were lost, but fortunately the dry
goods were recovered with no other dam
age than a ducking. | am well acquain-
ted with all the circumstances, and
must say, that there was no person bla-
meable except Mr.. EDWARDS himself
There is slight and very steep declivi-
ty at the ferry landing on the East side
of the River, and Mr.. EDWARDS careless
ness in not blocking the wheel, cost him
the loss of his horse, and groceries. The
whole damage was from $500 to $3.50
l understand thare is to be a vote of
the county taken to ascertain whether it
is the wish of the people, that the county
shall hereafter pay one third towards
building all bridges that cost over $500.
think that any reasonable man will GER
tainly vote for the affirmative of the prop
/
osition. 1t is something of a tax on the
people of a village to build bridge
costing from $4,000 to $4,000, and in
the present state of monetary affairs
throughout the country, men find it the
next thing I" impossible to pay their
proportion oft. 1t may be SO for a num-
Der of years, and can the people go with
out bridges, or run any risk of doing so,
because they cannot raise money to
build them ? Certainly not. The whole
matter can be got along with easily, if
we have third of the amount in
cash, or county orders-(which, by the
way are about as good as cash, in this
manner:-we have limb er and stone.
which we are willing to give, and others
are willing to work enough to amount to
$40, or $50, as the case may be. If
we have the orders of the county to pur-
chase iron and nails, and a few other
necessaries in bridge building, it is ey-
ident that all difficulties are at once OBJ
Waited, and we can have bridges, and
good ones too, without any trouble.
Every thing goes on here as usual
The Billiard table and the Chess board
are in constant requisition, and Chicken
Dogs and Shot Guns can't be had for a
premium. On the whole, we manage to
murder time, and are all anxiously wait
ing until we shall have banks established,
or until some lucky man shall pillow out
gold mine. Hoping that one of these
causes will turn us up some 'spondoo-
licks before long. am yours truly.
CONRAD.