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Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
Some Sharp Queries for Mr.. Pen.
0letOIl.

To the Editor Of the Wheeling MteAgencer:
Mr.. George II. Pendlcton, the Dem
ocratic candidate tor Governor OF Ohio
made speech on the 10th inst, in
which he scmed greatly lyexercised about
the enormous taxation" imposed on
the citizens OF Ohio by tariff on foreign
goods. He is distressed that nails are
taxed about fifty per cent" bar iron
"about tltty-tive per cent?" coal oil
''about thirty per cent, &c. He says:
ut is true they do not use imported
goods, and do not pay these duties to the
Government. That is one of the
enormities OF the system. The price
of the domestic article is regulated by
the tariff. The home manufacturer
fixes his price that he may just under
sell the foreigner. The customer pays
the price, and has the exquisite salts
faction Of knowing that none OF i. goes
into the Treasury, but all OF il into the
pockets Of the manufacturers This
is the flee trade theory, and is sim
portant if true" Does Mr.. Pendleton
or any OF his free trade admirers real
ly believed that anybody is "taxed' on
coal oil 80 per cent, when thousand OF
barrels Of refined oil are sold here at
less than 80 centc a gallon, and shipped
via Baltimore to Europe? Common
sizes of bar iron, manufactured from
metal, made from the fine ores OF Mis-
souri, Mountain, Lake Superior and
Hanging Rick have been sold and arc
selling now for but little over three
cents a pound by the manufacturers
Does anybody believe the same quail
ty OF iron could be got to Ohio from
any quarter, at fitty-tive per cent. less,
or even at the same price, if our iron
making was all done in foreign coun-
tries? The tariff on nails is one cen,
and halt pound. Could any for
eigner deliver nails here at two anu a
halt cents a pound, currency, without
paying any duties? Does not Mr.. Pen
dleton know that home competition
keeps tie price down, and that this
country exports nails to Cuba, South
America, Mexico, &c. In 1850 and
1861, the cash price OF nails here was
less than two dollars and forty cent:
a hundred pounds Tor lOd. Does Mr.
Pendleton suppose people will be
lievc that but tor the tariff his oppres
sed fellow citizens could have bought
l0d nails ut less than ninety cents {
hundred pounds, Mr.. Editor, don't
you think these free traders and free
speech makers make rather free will
the intcllccts of the American people
A. Mailer.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
Clippings.

Illinois has enacted law protecting
the rights OF married women to their
property.
The early inhabitants of Greensboro,
VT, passed resolution not to allow
a lawyer to settle there.
A letter addressed "E-S, low
hel Neir Bastin, hunted States mer-
ricay medal sex TO-" has reached its
destination.
A young woman inquired at . Will
ton store tor "tellne lntestines tor
lyrical purposes" !. E. cat gut for quit
ar strings. The clerk tainted
Amos Lawrence said, when asked
for advice: Young men. base all
your actions upon principle of right;
preserve your integrity of character,
and in dong this, never reckon the
cost.
"There are tricks in all trades but
ours" as the lawyer said to his client.
An honest rustic went into the shop
OF a Quaker to buy hat, for which
six dollars was demanded. He offered
FIVE dollars. AS l live" said the
Quaker, Il cannot afored to give it
thee at the price" Gas you live," ex-
claimed the countryman; then live
more moderately, and be hanged to
you.' Friend" said the Quaker,
thou shalt have the hat for nothing
I have sold hats tor twenty years, and
my trick was not found out till now"
SOMETHING PlrHY.-Four gentlemen
"a Baptist, Presbyterian Methodist
and Roman Catholic-met by agree
ment to dine on fish. Soon as the
grace was said, the Catholic arose arm
ed with knife and fork and taking
about one third of the fish, COM
pretending the head removed 1t to his
plate, exclaiming as he sat down, with
great satisfaction 'papu est capm &C.
cleeia!r ('he Pope is the head OF the
Church) Immediately the Methodist
minister arose, and helping himself to
about one-third, embracing the tail
seating himself and said, ''Eias eorona1
opms" (the end crowns the work.) The
Presbyterian now thought it was his
time to move, and taking the remain
der Of the fish to his plate, exclaimed,
SIN medic est rertitas" truth lies be-
tween thctwo extremes.) Our Baptist
brother had nothing before him but an
empty plate. and the prospect OF a
slim dinner. and snatching up the bowl
of drawn (melted) butter, he dashed j,
over them all saying Ego bapt'so rosr'
q baptize you ally
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
I Remarkable school. istrcss.

DR.. N. T. True, School Supcrintend-
ent of Oxford county, Maine has made
a special report concerning school
mistress in that State OF her work
Her name is Vesta Howard, and she
teaches in the town of Bethel. She is
fifty-tiye years old, and has taugh:
seventy terms OF private and public
schools. Yet, says DR.. True, she is
tar IN advance OF most young teachers,
instead of being antiquated. The toll
lowing arc extracts from the account
OF the school:
"She commenced her afternoon scs-
sion by saying that she did not think
it best to set the children Immediately
to work upon their studies, because
they had been AZ their play and were
not in the best condition tor close ap.
plication. She therefore took a second
Progressive Reader, and read story
as badly as she could and let them cor
rect her faults. She then read 1t cor
rectly and as one would talk, and all
eyes were fixed on her. She then call
ei register of scholars by their names
and ages. Among them was Win-
field Scott, General Fremont and 9TH
er prominent names; and as they were
announced she had word to say
about their history, without scarcely
stopping her register. She then made
them all take their books out OF their
seats to gethcr, without noise: no
states were to hit the desks, or books
to be shufned. She selects captain
tor each of the smaller classes, who
steps out and calls the class by num-
bcrs. Books are all held alike. lhls
makes them executive scholars.
I'm reading, small children repeat
the same word until they can COM
mand it in the sentence, and then read
it in concert. In spelling they all told
their arms, with the book under the
LETT arm. Sometimes she spells the
words and they pronounce them. lhis
was fine exercise. She made them
pronounce correctly, COW, how, now,
bow, row. They made graceful bow
in leaving for their seats. Each class
had definite time for studying their
lesson, and the teacher calls their at
tention to it at the moment.
They come out to read with folded
arms, read with strong emphasis, and
naturally. She makes them look at
her lips, and she pronounces words
round and full, and makes them do the
same after her While hearing the
class reading, if class is studying ge-
ography, she will suddenly call their
attention to some point in tho lesson,
and then 60 right on with the reading.
She will call upon scholar by sur
prise to rise and tell something abou,
the lesson she is studying. This was
done with great promptness. This kept
them on the alert.
"She has boquets all around the room
and maps and pictures on the walls, to
make the room look pleasant. Her
order is petect. Not book or pen
Gil is heard prominently.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14

The ingenious Yankees have learn
ed how to make the cheapest clocks
and watches in the world; but even
they may gain new motion" from the
following paragraph:
A wonderful story is told of man
named J. ID. Chevallcy, a native Of
Switzerland, who had in, lS45, at the
age of sixty six, arrived at an astonish-
ing degree of perfection in reckoning
time by an internal movement. He
was, in fact, human timepiecc or liv-
ing clock. In his youth he was accus-
toned to pay great attention to the
ringing of bells and vibrations of pen
dulums, aud by degrees he acquired
the power of coun. ing succession OF
intervals exactly equal to those which
the vibrations OF the sound produced,
Being on board steamer OIL Lake Ge-
neva, on July Nth, 1882, he engaged
to indicate to the crowd around the
lapse of a quarter of an hour, or as
many minutes and seconds AS any one
chose to name, and this during most
diversified convers ition with those
standing by; and, further, TO Indicate
by his voice the moment when the hand
passed over the quarter, minutes. or
any other sub division previously stipu-
lated, during the whole course of the
experiment. This he did without mis-
take, notwithstanding the exertions Of
those about him to distract his atten-
tion, and clapped his hands at the con-
clusion OF the fixed time. His own
account of his gift was rs follows:
81 have acquired, by imitation, labor,
and patience, = movement, which nci-
:her thought, ncr labor. nor anything
can stop. II is similar TO that OF \
pendulum, which, at each moment OF
going and returning, gives me the space
OF three seconds, SO that twenty OF
them minute; and these l add to
otl,urs continually.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
A SCHOOLGIRL Of the Period.
Geography? Yes, there's a lesson each day,
But it's awfully hard to remember.

Geography? Yes, there's a lesson each day,
But it's awfully hard to remember.
We've been in South Africa near.y a month;
Perhaps we'll go north by November.
What History have we: It's quite big book,
Without any pictures-thc bother,
To-day was told I'd sustained defeat
In the battle of-something or other.
Arithmetic! Oh it's the bane my life!
No matter how hard may study,
My knowledge Of dividends, fractions, and
Continues unchangeably muddy.
Proficient in spelling? hope that am,
Thongh shine less as writer than talker:
And | don't mind confessing how often use
A pocket>edition Of Walker.
! write compositions? Of course, once wesk,
We've such dull subject tomorrow!
manage to spin out q page and half,
Though lots Of girls copy and borrow.
You ask me which lesson of all prefer?
You'll think my reply quite alarming;
In French we gentleman teacher, you know,
And somehow it's perfectly charming
L EDGAR FAwcErT, in Harpers Magazine
for October,
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
The Use Of Saxon Words.

1t is we'll known that the English
language has received many words OF
Latin origin, as the result of the Nor
man conquest in 1865, and through the
cultivation of Latin classics. What
our language would have been without
the use OF words thus introduced, is a
curious problem. Dean Trench sug-
gests that, contining ourselves to the
use OF pure Saxon words, we might
have said sand d-waste for desert; blood
bath, for massacre; sin-flood, for del
uge; sea robber, for pirate water
fright, tor hydrophobia; show-holi
ness, for hypocrisy; gold-hoard, for
treasurer; well willingness, for beney
olence; undeadliness, tor immortality;
unreliable, tor ineftabIe; great-doingly,
for magni6cently; sour-dough, for
leaven; uncunningness, tor ignorance;
eye-bite, tor tascinate; engripe, tor en-
brace; ear-shrift, tor auricular confes-
sions; dipper, for Baptist, etc.
Those familiar with the German
language will notice that the Saxon
element having but little outside intlu-
cnce to prevent their natural expansion
in that language, have taken nearly the
form suggested above. Thus we have
tinger-hat, tor thimble; rcom-man. for
carpenter; cutter, tor tailor tour word
tailor means a cutter, from the French,
taller, to cut) cloth dealer, tor draper;
toot.folk, tor infantry; riders for cav
airy.
And it is another fact noticeable in
this connection, that there are large
class OF words in which We do now use
Saxon compounds, instead Of borrow
ed words, that are, to common ears,
purely conventional and meaningless.
We give few among the many: Mn-
sic.teacher, book binder, writing desk,
book case, watch-pocket, ink stand, PIN
cushion, goldsmith, watch maker, pa.
per dealer, etc. Why could we not
say cloth-dealer as well as paper-dea-
er? The mcrcst tyro in our language
would know readily the meaning OF
cloth dealer; while we presume there
are millions who speak the English
language, who could not tell whether
a dra per dealt in cloth, or iron, or lum.
Der; not ever having seen the French
word drap. SO silk dealer is express
sive and sufficiently elegant; but mer-
cer-mercy scholar could scarcely
remember it, unlessricherthan scholars
are apt to be.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14

The rights of woman-If she can
not be captain Ola ship, She may al
ways command smack.
A pianist who played the piano with
a clothes brush is about to give con-
certs in Paris.
No wonder the squirrel is accused
OF chattering-he is certainly great
tail bearer.
A father to tho thought-A parent
thesis.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
Volume of Currency.

The editor of the New York Econo-
mist gives the following statement OF
the volume of currency of the United
Ttatcs, including paper and coin, since
the year 1880. The ditor states that
it has been compiled with great care,
with large amount OF labor, and is
valuable at this period.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
not sPeclhed.. d............... 4b,532
The occupation of the immigrants as
oiyen shows that there were OF

These last were doubtless mainly
women and children. We presume it
would be near the mark to estimate
that one-third Of the total arrivals
were OF persons travelling on business
or transiently visiting us, and that the
actual increase to our numbers by i'm
migration during these thirteen years
was just about 1900, ,000.-[New York
Trihune.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
Ism migration.

During the thirteen years from 1856
to 1868 incluslvcd, there have arrived
in the United States 1887 1896 persons,
of whom 372 1852 were natives of the
country, and 1855, ,644 were aliens, or
persons of foreign birth. CHASING
them by Nationalities, we find there
have arrived during that period of
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
VOL. III.
.Si:tt NYoetrp,

81 = 4 Nothing Lost.
BY WILLIAM A. sIGoURNEY.
Where is the snow?
'Tis not long ago
It covered the earth with veil Of white,
We heard not his footsteps soft and light
Yet there it was in the morning bright;
Now it hath vanished away from our sight
Not trace remains
In fields or lanes.
Where is the frost?
It's gone and lost
The forms Of beauty last night it made
With pictures rare were windows arrsyed;
1t said, BE silent" the brook obeyed;
Yet silence and pictures all did fade:
At smile of the sun
All were undone.
Where Is the rain?
Pattering it came,
Dancing along with merry sound,
A grassy bed in the fields it found
Each drop came on the roof with bound.
Where is the rain? It has left the ground:
.tE What good hath it done,
Gone away soon?
Ever, thus ever,
Our best endeavor
Seemetl to fall like the melted snow:
We work our thoughts wisely and slow;
The seed we SOW, but it will not grow
Our hopes and resolves-where do they 60?
What doth remain?
Memory and pain.
But nothing is lost
Nor snow nor frost,
That came TO enrich the earth again;
We thank them when the ripening grain
Is waving golden o'cr hill and plain,
And the pleasant rain springs from earth
again:
All ende,h in good
Water and food.
Then never despair,
Disappointment bear,
Though hope sccmeth vain, be patient still;
All thy good inten,s God doth fulfil;
Thy hand Is weak: His powerful will
Is finishing thy great life>work still.
The good endeavOr
Is lost--ah, NEVER!
-[Packard's Monthly.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
+ D u e A 10 N A / 3.
CONDUCTED BY
J. r. STEWART

There are now in Tama county be-
twcen5 900 and 5000 children between
the ages OF five and twcnty-on years.
The teachers. work annually grows
greater. Do they annually grow more
thorough in their profession
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
PHOTOGR APHlC.
II S. MOORE,

Says to his Old and New Customers,
THAT HE X44S REMOT.ED
TO his New Suite Of Rooms, in the first builds
ing South of Armstrong; Drug Store, where
he possesses the best facilities in central Iowa
for performing first class work. Give him q
call, for he guarantees satisfaction with mod
crate prices. [v3n25tf
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
the bank, too busy to see Dick or any

CTIc OlHh, VUO UUsy V oCt LfON y any
one.
"Look at Tom Porter, Dick. In
stead Of hanging around gift-storc
window in the middle of the morning,
sponging cigars, and dreaming about
good hex, he is hard at work learning
business, and gaining the esteem OF his
employers.
"Never say luck to me again, Dick,
as long as you "-[American Mes
sengcr.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
w. e.. WALTERS,

w. .. W q L EIIN,
Grocer and dealer in willow and wooden
ware crockery and glass ware, tea, syrnps,
cofecs, sugars, dried, green and canned fruits
candies, cigars, tobacco's, flour, meal. bran
and shorts cheese and crackers, oils, sc.
Cash paid for Hides.
Very Respectfully W. c. WALTERS.
Store in Stones Brick Block, South Side Of
Court Square. y3n2OH.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
INSURANCE.
u AfhlsoS 8 IDkS'
General E,asMr:lMce Agents,
26 TOLEDO, 10 VA
lNSUR RANCE.

26 TOLEDO, 10 VA
NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
Davenport, Iowa.
lNSURES AGAINST FIRE & LIGHTNING
Edwin Smith. President,
Thomas Scott, Vice President.
Ira II. Clifford, Treasurer,
Chas. H. Eldridgc, Secretary.
". II. ALDEN. Local Agent,
vlR4 Toledo, Iowa.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-14
8 BANKING.

BANKING.
Tama County Bank.
q. H. WARREN, ,....... ...... Banker,
AND DEALER IN
NEW FORK s. CHICAGO EXCHANGE.
Special and Prompt attention given
to Collection.
DRAFTS on the principal Cities OF
Europe for Sale.
PASSAGE TICKETS to and from the
Old Countries.
Office in Stollcr's building, Tama City, Iowa
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DENTISTS
:
S. BRUNER.
DENTIST,

TOLEDO. ................... .... Iowa.
Office over W. II. Johnston & Go. s. Store, in
ihc rooms formerly occupied as Recorders
Office. y2n:IIy
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j d HEYWOOD'S
p III 0 T. 0 G. R AP I'll
STUDIO,
OVER THE POSTOFFICE
eUAN0A @DRro HAe

REDUCED PRICES
In Photographs, Ambro.ypes, Ferrotypes,
frames &c. photographs, per doz., $3.50, per
] doz., $3.50 Ambrotypes from SO cents to
IS; Fcrrctypes two for so cents; all for cash
only.
HEYWOOD & MARTINS
Celebrated Negative and Ambrotype Collodian.
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Suspension. Highest imitation during
suspension. tSpring panic.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-08

islands, to the heigth, possible, of a
hundred feet. Up onto these rocks a
vast number of seals climb out of the
water to sun themselves. The whole
surface of the ragged rocks is a con-
stantly shifting scene of life. On the
roc ks and In the water there appears
to be an lnnumerable army of these
great lubberly creatures, splashing and
swinging around in the water with
great ease and sWiftness, but crawling
or tumbling up and down the rocks
with awkward, fabby, slI ny mo-
ton, and creating perfect paoeI
of noise with their h0WlIng,
coughing sounds. sometimes resem-
bling the baying of hounds, but much
hoarser. and others somewhat like
the lowing of the COW. Some of these
curious sea lions are perfect mon
sters in size, weighing, it is said, over
two thousand pounds. It was to me
a novel sight. and | sat out on the
piazza of the Cliff House, and watch
ed them with field glass by the hour.
About them few the sea gulls, or
lighted in their midst at will, with no
apparent fear; and on the highest
points of the rocks were perched the
tall white pelicans. OFF to the right
was the Golden Gate and the high
hills, whose extended ranges locked
in the peaceful Bay. Standing out to
sea were number Of trading and coast
vessels hecking the sky with their
sails. To the left, high up on the sand,
was the hulk of a wrecked ship,
driven ashore a year or more ago; and
beyond it the carcass of a great whale
foated in from the ocean. Scores Of
fancy teams" were to be seen on the
beach-drive for miles away to the
South. I did not wonder that the
Cliff House and the sea shore here
was an attractive place to the San
Francisoans. And its great value Is
that in this climate it is constantly in
season, being a pleasant place OF re-
sort throughout almostth entire year
only occasionally suspended during
prevailing high winds or the worst Of
the rainy season. J.W. +.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-08
XXI.
A DAWN SAN FRANCISCO.

The City Markets-The Custom House
and the EaPthquake-Wells, Fargo
d. Co.'s 01iice-The Bank Of UalifOF-
nia-The United States Mint-ThG
Chinese JOsh-HOuse and IdOl-Ohi-
neSe Restaurant and StOFes-A
Magnificent steamer and Pleasant
] Company. --.
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Gus To THE OCEAN.

A Ride to the Cliff HOuse-HOW San
Francisco is LOca edits Rocky
sIuTs and Sand HillS--LOne
MOunta n temeteFieS-The Golden
cate he Pacific can he seals
Scene from the Cliff House.
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F<1R SALE.

4 TWQ.STORY FRAME HOUSE
"A and three lots 70 by $50 feet situated
on Gum Street, between Sixth and Seventh
Streets. Terms easy. apply to Hayhurst
d Whitaker, No. South Water Street.
Evansville, Oct. /, 1869. rocI.tf
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-10
AnAll1nsj j1slnrss1ss1pr1.


JAoKsoN, Mss.. June s.-Brevet Colonel
Joseph g. Crane. commanding the Fourth
Military District. and acting Mayor Of jack
son, was killed to-day by E. N. Yereer, in
difficulty occssioned by an official order Of the
Mayor levying on the property Of Yerger in de-
fault Of the corporation taxes. The affair had
no reference whatever to politics. Colonel
Crane entered the volunteer service from Day
ton, Ohio, and was held in high esteem BY the
community. Yerger is arrested and confined
in the barracks.
The Conservative Republicans Of Mississippi
haze issued q callfor convention on June 2sd.
They claim to be the true e1ponents Of Grants
pol 10y, rel1diate the organization Of extreme
Radicals, and declare for reoonstrr ctioD simply
in accordance with the Congressional plan.
They advise such course as will promote har-
mony and fraternal feeling between meu of all
sections and colors. They say We can and
must all live together as friends. The move
ment seems to be favorably received.