Litchfield enquirer., 1875-11-04
LYONS. Ia.. Oct. 2Oth. 1875. 2


 The following is the kind of letters our newspaper men get, and say they can stand any amount of them: Enclosed hnd two dollars for our next years sub- acriPtion. This will buy sixteen buahels of potatoes; now don't let us hear any more about your starving for the next six months.-Fr0m q Farmer" ,9 The smoke of battle has cleared away and leaves Iowa as usual the ''boss" state of the West, if not of the Union, for roll ing up Republican maiorities. The next legislature elects U. s. Senator. It is thought John A. Kasson stands a good chance of getting it. He is good man, and did good service in the campaign. The question of ''woman's rights" was not voted on as anticipated, it having been announced prematurely by mistake, but comes up, believe, next year. am told privately that Kirkwood Governor elect, is strongly in favor of it, and will do all he can consistently to help it. We had a woman candidate on both tickets for coun- ty superintendent of schools, so everybody voted for woman to hold an important office-and of course. one was elected. Af- ter electing woman to important offices for while, the prejudice against allowing them vote will.become disreputable and will gradually fade away. Let those who snlnk women too soft and pliable and del. icate to vote, learn lesson from the cam Paign against whiskey in Ohio and other places, when they entered the worst sa- looms and dens of vice, and so -sanctified them by their presence. that few were SO hardened as to venture to offer word of insult Again. in the Beecher trial-one of the worst scandals of the age-see how the presence of woman sweetened andpu. rined the atmosphere of the court room where we have been accustomed to look m such cases for vileness and abominaS ton. Such examples of women's fortitude and heroisin in public affairs. taken in connection with holding offices of trust and responsibility. go a long way toward solving the "vexed woman question"
 In former article, I mentioned that the hog cholera was depicting the stock SO rapidly it was difficult to find enough Tor fattening. Since then I notice that A new and dangerous disease has broken out among them, proving almost as fatal and destructive as the cholera but the packers in Chicago say that corn is SO plenty the pork will be much better fat. tened. and as the Bureau estimates the crop of hogs this year at 1S,OOO, 900. the supply of doughnuts need not necessarily be entirely cut of. Speaking of corn. it is claimed that the crop in Iowa this year will reach l4o.OOO. 900 bushels. Some man has been making figures and esti- mates to put it in a more comprehensive form. and finds it would fill 47O. 900 cars. making train {. .750 miles long, reaching nearly across the continent. If loaded into wagons. thirty bushels to the load. if would make a string of them clear around the globe and lap over two thousand miles. It would bury New York city deeper than Herculaneum or Pompeii, If made into whisky it would float the navy of the Union. It means fat horses, fat beef. fat pork. fat poultry and fat pocket. books. If any one questions the correct. ness of the above figures they are at lib- esty to figure it out for themselves. B.