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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
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TO.day's Political Situation.

Congress has adjourned. Louisiana
has been paeified. Arkansas has been
everybody else have their civil rights.
The Force Bill' failed of passage, but
the White League banditti are docile.
Whisky is taxed ninety cents on the gal
Ion, tobacco in proportion, and few
other things slightly. All the appropria-
ton bills are passed and approved. This is
still white mans government" with
the darkcy to help him. Ben Butler and
a few others who ought never to have
been on the surface have been chucked
under. Grant still has hold of the rcins,
and is doing the best he can. The count
~ is safe. "Let US have peace"
The Republican party is stu in power
in the land. It has done its duty in time
past, saving the Union, roofing out its
own bad men, and seeking the best good
Of the nation. In one year from now the
Presidential campaign will open. Repub-
licans will have the most sacred political
trust of their lives to discharge then.
They must be true to themselves, their
party and their country. Union and
harmony for the sake Of the national
peace and glory" should be the watch
word of every one Of them. The result
will be the perpetuation Of Republican
rule in this Republican county, which is
the only guarantee Of the nations contin-
ued peace and welfare. Let every Re-
publican, then, be true to his past record
and true to his present convictions. Let
internal wranglings be stopped, and frac-
tious nonsense squelched.
We cannot, as patriotic people, afford
to give over the Government and its des-
TIMES to the rebels and their copperhead
allies who but so recently attempted its
destruction. And yet this is what the de-
feat of the Republican party next year
would mean. Stand firm and true, there
fore, and let no jack-o,lantcrn political
folly wean you from your political integ-
rity. You cannot afford it. and the coun-
try cannot afford it.-Chicn0o journal.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

Are we drifting into another civil war !?
is the question we find discussed in a tone
of inquiry by several very temperate and
moderate Republican journals Of impor-
lance, character and position, some of
which view the political situation with
manifest alarm. The tone Of the Demo-
cratic and southern papers has become
very violent and menacing, especially
since the Democratic party is assured Of a
majority in the next Congress. The Bos-
ton 7rareler maintains that we drifted
into the last war without expecting it, and
that nations generally do drift into wars
in this way We find many moderate
papers discussing matte RS in this style, and
though there is at present no apprehen-
sion Of an outbreak entertained by the
north, the uneasiness is manifest in many
-caaaarte We cannot ourselves distrnst
who, we believe, submitted in good faith,
and mean to keep their parole, but the
power of few hot-heads to initiate, rebel
) lion has been fully proven in Louisiana.
We should not attach any in portancc to
these discussions, but the quarters in
which they appear give them consequence.
--PAiladelphia North 4Americaa
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

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territory.
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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
MRS. f. E. EBERSOLE,


TEACHER OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL
i Music. Toledo Iowa. Is now prepared to DC
vote herself to her profession. Pupils are respec
fully solicited, to begin at once.
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ApPELGATE q KINNE,

A TrORNEYS AT LAW, Toledo, Tama County
n Iowa. once in Stones building, over W. Z
Walters Grocery Store.
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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11
SENATOR wRIaHT.
ue Wlth1rDWs his name o Candidate
Ter Reelection.
Brs MONIES. iowa. Mar

DEs MONIES, IOWA. March Q.
The State Re0istsr Of Tomorrow morn
Ing will publish letter from the Hon.
George g. Wright, withdr: wing his name
for reelection as Cntted States Senator
He states that he has been for some time
contemplating this step, and that he had
determined it fully several weeks alter
shaking certain business arrangements Tor
The future, which were then pending.
These have now been concluded, and 50
he makes this definite and positive a
nouncement of his retirement 70 private
life. He says he does not fail to apPrecl-
ate the high honors attaching to a Sena-
torial seat, nor is he unmindful OF the
public favor which placed him there; but
he finds the place one of many rerplexl-
ties and annoyances as well as honors,
from which he will be glad to escape;
fessiOn he will be able to do more Justice
70 himself and his family in making for
himself and them much more than the
salary Of q Senator affords. He rcnews
in the letter his earnest allegiance to the
Republican party, saying he considers the
continued ascendancy of the Republican
rparty necessary to the well-bcing Of the
Republic, and that he will in private
life as he has in public, labor for
the maintenance of its principles, to
the advancement Of its every good pur-
pose. 1t is not stated in his letter. but It
is understood here, that the Senator will
rc-enter the practice of the law, associat-
ing himself with the firm of Catch &
Wright, of this city. This letter Of with
drawal excites very general surprise, as il
was not anticipated, the Senator'S re-
candidacy being anniversary expected, and
his reelection quite generally conceded.
Inter Ocean.
This rove on the part of Senator
Wright will no doubt surprise majority
.of the people of the State. He has serv-
eed his term with signal success and we
venture the assertion that no man eve,
ile1t That high position with a better OF
more untarnished recor' than this same
Hon. Geo. G. Wright The result of this
withdrawal will be necessity to find 2
man who is competent to take his place
and at the same time one in whom the
people of the state have confidence. We
know of no one who would fill the place
more ably than Hon. Jos. Dysart Of Tama
County. He is a man Of experience in
legislative affairs, having served three
terms in the State Senate with honor to
himself and to his constituents, and two
years ago WAS elected by great majority
Lientenant Governor. He exhibited great
ability while presiding over the Senate
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
u Tama County, Iowa. Will be at Toledo ev
ery Saturday Public examination the last Saiu!
dIy Of each month. Residence South OF Pubic
school House; Office in Court House Toledo
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-11

honor 'Meroe, may have substratum
OF fact. lie was evidently a man of
transcendent genius, and we learn from
the speech of st. Stephen that sshe was
learned IN all the wisdom of the Egyp-
tains, and was mighty in words and In
deeds" His deeds must have been well
Known in Egypt, for he supposed that
his brethren would have understood how
that God by his hand would deliver
them, but they understood not" His
suppOsitiOn could not be founded on
his success in shifting single Egyptian:
he was too great q man to be elated bv a
single act of proves; but his success on
large scale in Ethiopia afforded reasonable
grounds for believing that his brethren
would be proud Of their countryman, and
disposed to follow his leadership. but
they were slaves. The notice taken of
the matter by Pharaoh showed that he
was eyed by the great as q dangerous, if
not powerful, man. He 'dwelt"in INDIAN
for some time before his gallant bearing
toward the shepherds by the well com
mended him to the priest or prince Of the
country. An uninteresting wife, ard the
want OF intercourse with kindred spirits
during the long forty years solitude Of .
herdsman's life, seem to have acted in
t0iiOunly VI HAS SpiTltSs anu IL was not TILL
ne had with Aaron struck terror into the
Egyptian mind that the man Moses"
again became very great in the eyes Of
Pharaoh and his servants The Ethio-
plan woman whom he married could
scarcely be the daughter Of Reucl 81
yethro, for INDIAN was descended from
keturah, Abraham's concubine. and thew
were never considered Cushite or Ethio.
plan. II he left his wife in Egypt. she
would now be some fifty or sixty wears
old, and al the moro likely to be despised
6y the proud prophecies Miriam as
daughter of Ham.
dream Of discovering some monu-
mental relics Of Meroe; and II anything
comfirmatory Of sacred history does rs.
main. / pray to Be guided thereunto. II
he sacred chronology would thereby be
confirmed, I would not grudge tho ton and
aardships, hunger and pain, have en-
iured-the irritable ulcer would only 8
discipline.
How his heart muat havs beat Win 10y
= be saw appEQoc hing him : white M.
ately from civilization; and how stlanne
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-01
Marbledale.

We rejoice over the bounteous rain. Far mers continue resetting their tobacco, for the cut worms are as actively industrious as ever. Every tobacconist thinks that cut worms were made in vain.
 Now is the time wise and far-seeing fathers should ''bind out" their boys.
 MT. Frank Gregory struck his adz into his leg, recently, which adds an item to this list and causes him to lay by his architectonics for few days.
 Mir. Levi Warehouse. not content with remodeling and beautifying his residence, is now building large addition to his cabinet warehouse. Increase of business makes this necessary improvement.
 Recently MT. Ralph Morehouse lost several hens.- He fixed steel trap and caught monstrous ''hoot" by one foot. The animal is now in the possession of s. s. Miles, confined cage, and is de- jected and sad and ho0teth no more. Like little Johnny. If we had made owls, we should have made more owl and less eye. Concerning the legend, ''Touch not. the law forbids," which your correspon- dent of last week does not understand, we may say that he is in no worse a state than many others. Capt. Kidd's treasure may be buried there for aught we know and it means "Hands of. otherwise we do not see what there is to lay hands to, un- less-but we answer like Sanch Panza
 
 when questioned by the Don as to the quickness of his journey. ''I believe in- deed, there is witchcraft in the case" " And so we give in on the conundrum.
 EDnwARS
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-01
East IttchneId.

About seventy dollars were raised at the festival, last week. and after paying ex- penses. forty pr thereabouts were laid by to be applied toward the purchase of an organ for the chapel. This was doing very we'll considering the weather.
 There is no regular preaching at pres ent, and the prospect for anything more settled is not very favorable.
 The depot is going to be extended on the north, and remodeled and fixed up generally inside. The office, especially, is a small cramped place and has long needed enlarging. While repairs are going on, a car will be run off Tn front of the depot to accommodate ladies while waiting for trains.
 Mrs. D. o. Kilbourn has started a grocery store in the building formerly occupied by ':Kil6ourn. the Pote," pre- vious to his assignment.
 Farmers are rather Respondent about the prospect for hay, although the late rains have frightened them considerably.
 Mir. R. A. Ford is the only farmer that brings any milk to this station for the N. R. R. A few years ago many of the leading farmers of this place, also of Harwinton, sold their milk at this station, but one after another they have dropped away until now few cans only are left here. W.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-01
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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 Local items from reliable in any part of the county will be received with pleasure, but we are par ticuary desirous of increasing our list of regular weekly and fortnightly correspondents, especially in places like New Milford Kent, Cornwall Falls Village, WOcottviIe, Harwinton and other localities not ade- auately represented in columns and we nope also hear from persons now furnishing only occaslonai
 REQUIREMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS.
 Anouymous communications cannot expect publi- cation
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 Communications of a personal nature will not be published unless the proprety of such publication IS manifest. = .
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 egfiiar correspondents avoid all danger of hay ing the contributions of others attributed to them by assnming signature, single letter being sufh- cient. ,.-
 In case of two communications relating to the same event, the fullest will usually be published. Hence communications never come amiss. even from places have regular correspondents since they often give valuable additional information.
 simple statement of facts is all that is necessary, and hastily written communications will be corrected before publication.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-01

&
 be so arranged as to open outward estab- fishing state vorkhouse Bills passed protecting trustees making payments un- der order of court; protecting fish Tn Bantam and Mt. Tom Lakes in Litchfeld, and in the Salisbury lakes; requiring jus tices sending up papers on appeal or binding over to include abstract of the evidence and closing polls in 2d. voting districts of Litchfield and New Hartford at p. m-The question of final adjourn ment was debated. An amendment was proposed making the day 1aly-17th ta- bled.-A bill was reported fayorably re- stricting trout fishing to between April 18th and July 1st.-There was a sharp discussion about adjournment and the time was finally fixed at II 80 of Tuesday. The question of taxing express compa- nies was debated md the bill recommit- ted.-A large number of bills were reject ed oa adverse report.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-01
Goshen.-No. iso.

Twenty-one delegates from our Sabbath Schools attended the Convention at Falls Village, last Wednesday, and we had very interesting meetings in the morning, after noon, and evening. Mir. 2. T. Adams, of North Canaan, presided, and there were delegations from nearly all the towns be- longing to the Union; the largest, 61, being from North Canaan. MT. Gopher Beach has painted his house, and all agree that it is great im- provement to our part of the street.
 MT. Samuel s. Miles had leg broken last Thursday, while drawing timber. Dr. North attended to him. Both bones below the knee were broken, and he never kept still so long as he will have to now.
 HIN. The bridge over the Marshpaug Riv- CT, on the road east of Mir. Wallace ". Wadhams, is reported unsafe. The atten- tion of the authorities is called to the matter.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-01


 THomAsToN Clock shops close from June 26 to August 2.-The lookup is finally fn- isheds It Is gorgeous place for the gay tramp, thinks the American.-One of these gentry stayed month with Mir. Morris, recently, and then tramped off again with some of his hosts best clothing. The grass crop will be little better than was aS first feared.-The band serenades every Saturday y-night-Jas. Gilbert is quite sick with consumption Esquire Pierce is no better.-The A. O. H's are to have a picnic on the 9th, and will have Grilley's band III attendance.-Mr F. T. Bidwei1 is making elaborate preparations for the dedication of the new organ of the Con- gregational church. Among the more noted pieces to be performed are the Tri- umphal March from Damascus; Festival Hymn; Prayer. from 'Moses in Egypt" Eichberg's National Hymn, etc.
 The new SHARON hotel, to be known as the Branch House, is nearly finished. It is built by MT. I. N. Bartram, leased to Charles Futile, of Amenia, and will be opened early this month. It will accom- modate 40 guests.-The town has voted at a special meeting to rebuild Swift's bridge providing Cornwall will build its half.- The Sharon Valley Iron Go. propose to start their works about the 1st of August.
 The WoLcoTTvMLE Register states that the thermometer stood at 95 degrees in that place on Thursday of last week. The NolcoItVEIUOUrTIrI nish the music for the Fifth of July trip to Savin Rock.-C. Hotchkiss & Sons have recently purchased the real estate of Mir. Joseph Sykes.-Gen. Brady has re- covered in his suit brought against the Val ley Park Co., for his salary as secretary. Mir. L. Wetmore has sold the house lately occupied by h1m to Mrs. Baldwin, of Goshen.-Mr. Seymour Weeks, now with MT. W. s. Lewis, Is to enter into partnership with Workman 2d, in the mercantile business. residence of Walter s. Lewis was entered by burglars on Monday evening of last week who took from his pantaloons' pocket his pocket book containing S75.-Mr. Chas. R. Well ton, formerly of this place, had his leg broken while setting die stamp in Wa terbury, last week.-The S200 has been raised for the band stand, mainly through the exertions of two young ladies who took the matter in hand.
 BETHLEHEM has had large sensation for so small town. Three years ago, last March, son of Senator Bloss ran away from Mr. Gunn's school in Wash ington Search was made for h1m with no success. On the Sd ut. young Bloss returned to his fathers, who, as might well be expected, gave him hearty vel come It appears that, on leaving Wash ington, he went to Albany. and finally hired out to farmer living near that place. There he remained during the three years of his absence. He is moral, steady young man and after a few days stay at home returned to his employer. =
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-01
The Senate Amendment.

Those who believe in Constitutional Reform by piecemeal naturally enough re- gret the defeat of the amendment pro- posed, last year, doubling the present number of Senators. We have little faith in the measure The idea of making an upper House of less than fifty the ''popu- lar" branch of the legislature, with lower House of two hundred and fort five, rep. resenting towns, is an absurdity. To be sure, the present Senate is not at all fairly apportioned, nevertheless it needs reform vastly less than the House, and the amend ment proposed is simply straining at . gnat and swallowing camel.
 When the people of Connecticut have made up their minds to real reform they will no doubt begin where reform is most needed. Still, we are willing to wait till public sentiment has reached the point of skipping the usual district system of ma jority representation. and substituting some fair system of minority representa- tion. Indeed, the Republican party would be great losers by mere popular majority representation. That would give the De- mocracy majority of city representatives vastly exceeding the true proportion of parties in our cities, and it would give them entire control of the western section of the State. In fact the Litchfeld County Re publican has as gloomy political pros- pect as citizen well could have under uuy sysS0H. .-A--.--.---.s.--- seRtation. At the last April election we cast about 4oOO votes, yet we have no rep resentation in the Senate, and but nine out of the forty representatives Litch6eld County sends to the House. As regards town governments, we are still worse of. Of the twenty-five towns in the county but four, we think, have Republican off cers.
 Yet Tn the face of the fact that most of us are practically disfranchised; that we cast effective votes for neither Senator. Representative, nor town officers; the Re- publicans of this county seem indifferent to reform that would allow their votes due weight in both town and State elections. All that consoles us for the defeat of just but partial reform measures like the one under consideration is the hope that when reform does come it will not only be just but thorough.
 Scribner's Magazine for July contains : Kearney at Seven Pines, by E. c. Sted- man The City of the Golden Gate: The Girl at Rudder Grange Recollections of Charles Sumner A Farmers Vacation i; Maharaiah Dhuleep-Singh The Story of Seven Oaks, continued. by J. G. Holland; The Welcome The Middle-aged Woman !; Darwinism A Go d-for-N Nothing, by Hial- mar Hjorth Boyesen; Natures Child i; An .Appendix to "A New Solution of an Old Problem ;' Danger; Topics of the Time Home and Society; The Worlds Work The Old Cabinet; Culture and Progress Bric-a-Brac Editorial Articles.
 Scribner & Co.,, N. r.. S4 year. See Enq. clubbing rates.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-01
Ellsworth.

MT. E. W. Chaffeeleft home on Monday en route for Minnesota.
 Rev. Mir. Montgomery and family are visiting their old home and friends in this vicinity. as There are field strawberries in abun- dance.
 Corn is growing finely, which makes the farmers feel much encouraged. There was quite large gathering of people at the raising of MT. Eyerett's barn. When completed it will be the largest in the place.
 Ut is very hot, the ground is dry. and good rain would be very acceptable.
 Y.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-01

To adorn ourselves with goodly apparel has the sanction of the best instincts of our nature. The tendency of society at present IS such that most men of sense prefer the lady whose cultivated tastes are displayed in personal adornment. From motives of economy ladies naturally en- quire-Where shall we go to do our shop ping? We would advise our friends to visit HALL & READ of Bridgeport, as they keep full assortment of black and fancy silks, elegant suitings. made up suits, lace jacques and shawls, laces and a full line of fine goods. It is said that earpetings. paper hangings, house furnishing and up- hoistery goods are actually sold by this firm at less than New York prices. They manufacture splendid quality of carpets and import many of their own goods.
 They also sustain a we'll earned reputation for fair dealing and for presenting the nest styles and qualities of goods at all times. 1O4w
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-01

The New Milford Ray complains edito- rially because man was charged $1 at the Mansion House, recently, for the feed of pair of horses, two quarts of oats. each, having been ordered. Fifty cents a head is the usual charge at hotel stables, we believe, for feeding and caring for horses. The New Milford gentleman would have had to pay no more had he ordered the more usual feed of six quarts instead of two. It was piece of mista- ken economy he naturally enough regrets, but which hardly needs to be bewailed in the papers.