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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11
A Virginia Recluse.

Nearly q century ago there lived in
the Town of Charlottesville young
man who played a prominent part in
society circles. He was an accomplished
dancer, dressed in fashionable style,
and was the central figure at balls and
parties. Upon one of these festive oc-
casions a wag, who was present, at
tached bundle of rags to the coat-tail
of the youth, and with this absurd APP
pendage to his otherwise faultless APP
parel he went through the mazes of the
dance with the beautiful bellies of the
day. When he discovered the trick
that had been played upon him the
young man was SO deeply mortified
that he ever afterward eschewed society,
and lived the life of hermit. Aban-
doning the gay world, he betook him
self to small building which stood on
the site of the present residence of Mr..
James Dolin, and commenced the sale.
of whisky. The door of his den was
fastened with a log chain, and was
never opened wider than was necessary
to admit the quart bottle of a thirsty
customer. At first he bought the liquor
by the jug and retailed it by the pint,
but as business grew brisk he purchased
barrel, and finally, when the price of
whisky got down to twenty cents per
gallon, he was enabled by his rapid ac-
cumulations to fill his cellar. He lived
thus for many years, never leaving the
premises in daylight except at the May
term Of the County Court, when he
would emerge from his den clothed in a
drab swallow-tailed coat, reaching
nearly to the ground, and pair of
leather breeches. walk to the Court
House, procure his license, and return
to his hole. After night he would visit
pump near the Courthouse. and
some people said that on dark nights he
would extend his walks into the
country.
About forty years ago, one rainy
morning, when a customer knocked at
the door of this singular individual,
then an old man, there was no response.
The door was forced open, and the sol
itary occupant was found to be dead.
A committee of citizens was appointed
to examine the premises. The cellar
was found well stored with liquor mel
lowed by age, and beneath the ground,
buried in earthen crooks, $4,000 in
specie were brought to the surface.
Probably, with a prophetic vision of
broken Charlottesville banks, he was a
hard-money man in the strictest sense
of the words. A log Of wood, upon
which the head of the miser rested, and
blanket, covering his stiffened limbs,
constituted the furniture of the miser's s
home. His only ledger was a slate.
upon which was found statement of
the amount of cash on hand, which tall
lied with the contents of the earthen
Jars. The name of this old man was
John Yeargen. There are many OF our
citizens who remember him well. :
Charlottesville (Hn.j Chronicle.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11
Superstition of ShOwmen.

Well, now, there's no Snowman on
the road who would think of letting a
lady be the first to pass through his
doors when opening for performance.
/ don't know why it is, but there's a
sort of feeling among them that it
brings bad luck. wouldn't allow one
to be the first to come into one of my
entertainments. I'd parley with her at
the door, or call her attention to some
thing else, until a man went in. If a
woman should chance to get in first Ia
expect to have bad show, and SO
would almost any other manager
know of. Then there are cross-eyed
people many veteran ticket-seller OF
my acquaintance loses all heart when
one presents himself at the ticket win
dow. A cross-eyed patron and a bad
house generally go together. 1t doesn't t
seem possible, hardly, but it's so, and a
cross-eyed performer would be regu-
lar Jonah. By the way, there are some
people in the profession who have the
reputation of being Jonahs, and they
are not cross-eyed, either. The compa-
MES they go into always seem to break
up, and after while they get the repu-
tation of bringing bad luck, and then
nobody wants to play with them. With
circuses there is superstition that a
man with yellow clarinet brings dead
bad luck. If the season goes wrong
you'll see them begin to look the or
chestra over, and if they find q yellow
clarinet there it's all up with the man
,,,L<x hlnx.r, ~ Avncrnr coma vxonr,1o in
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11
How to Give Aims.

There were several valuable papers
read at the late meeting of the Socia
Science Association at Saratoga, but
none more timely than that of Prof.
Wayland, of New Haven, upon the out
door relief of the poor. AS the sum-
mer wanes and the winter approaches,
which must necessarily be hard win
ter for the poor, the old question of
charity recurs, and it is very pleasant
to know that it is engaging the careful
inquiry of most competent persons.
Everybody wishes to relieve the suffer-
ing OF poverty, yet everybody knows
his own ignorance, and doubts whether
his aims are not more injurious than
helpful. Ignorance, however, and good
feeling lead to lavish and indiscrimi-
nate giving, which fosters a threaten
ing danger to society; and the object
of Prof. Wayland's paper was to show
the proper principle and general meth
cd of outdoor charitable relief. The
paper does not consider the question of
tramps or paupers, for outdoor relief
contemplates persons who have home
in the community where the relief is to
be administered, and whose circum-
stances require only temporary assist
ance. Poor people are not paupers.
The last class includes those who must
be wholly and always supported by
others. Outdoor relief is not for them,
because their proper home is the Poor
House.
The three methods of such relief are,
first, with funds raised by taxation. and
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

the Missouri Greenback State Can
vention was held at st. Louis, on the 9Th.
Resolutions were adopted demanding the Inn
mediate repeal Of the Resumption act Of 1875;
the issue Of absolute money in greenbacks to
be full lcgal-tender for all purposes, and in
sufficient quantities to redeem all bonds now
or that may In the future become subject to
redemption; q graduation Of taxation SO as to
secure q tax on all incomes Of over $500 year;
claiming for every individual, male or female,
the same political rights and equity in the
State etc. etc
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


-Chief-Justice Gray of Pittsfield,
Mass, the head of the Supreme Court
Of Massachusetts, has revived an old
custom by riding on horseback to court
from Pittsfield to Boston, distance Of
one hundred miles--and back again.
just as the Judges used to do a hundred
years ago.
-Secretary-of-t Navy Thompson,
in speaking the many jokes at his
expense, said: :. That of the hatchway
was the best. In one of my visits of in
spection it was said that was asked to
define the proper dimensions Of hatch
way, and that replied, THAT depends
upon the size of the hen and the number
of eggs she is to sit on y
An American once said to Theirs,
when the latter was President: ''Well,
Mr.. Theirs, if you are passing anywhere
near my hotel the next time you are in
Paris hope you'll give me a look in;
shall be very much pleased to see you.
Thiers' expression of amused surprise
as he looked up into the face of his
guest was thing to be remembered.
:. Is it possible, y he seemed to say,
that you can forget who am; that l
an. an. .ne o:,el u she o's.e, anu .ll"' ~
noo up =, " AM "l'ei noon .e: a.aa,, Mis,
e'eiy ioi.el "iu pay in' " 'i'i'.
-halph WALDO Emerson addressed
some twenty years ago a literary socie-
ty, during the Commencement exercises
at Middlebury University, Middlebury,
VT, and when he ended the President
cailed upon clergyman 10 close the
service with prayer. lhen arose
Massachusetts mlnister' VINO stepped
INTO the pulpit whlch Mr. emerson nad
Just lett ana uttered femarkaDle
prayer OF whieh thls Is one sentence:
{" we oeseech thee, y Lord' 10 deiiVef
us from ever nearing any more sucn
transcendental nonsense as we nave
just ilstened TO from this sacred desk.
AFTER tne penedlchon mr.. emerson
asked ms next nelghpor the name OF
the oihciatlnS clergyman, anu Wneh
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

Every parent knows how to sympa-
thize with the parents of Edith Bentley,
of Paterson, New Jersey, in the sorrow
which that misguided schoolgirl has
brought upon them, and we do heartily
respect their grief At the same time
it is impossible to overlook the fact
that these sorrowing parents seem to be
in some measure responsible for their
own i'll fortune, and their case points a
moral which it is the duty of the news
papers to enforce.
Edith Bentley, we are told in the dis
patches, is well-grown girl, fourteen
years of age, who appears to be sew
eral years older. She was pupil in
the Paterson High School, and, we are
informed, was given to the reading of
literature of the kind commonly called
sensational felton, Last Friday she
disappeared from home, and the anx-
ious inquiries made for her reveal the
fact that she has found, in a travelling
minstrel band, man who fills her ideal
of a hero of romance, and has left
home to meet him in New York.
The terrible nature of her act needs
no setting forth, but back of it lies a
cause which is at work in thousands of
other households. This girl has been
permitted to fill her young Imagination
with false, delusive and unwholesome
notions of human nature and human
life, by reading the feverish stories that
come from the Minerva press, and her
flight from home and its consequences
are the direct and legitimate results of
the training she has been permitted to
receive from books of that pernicious
sort. Who is responsiblep Plainly
her parents, who should have taken
both negative and positive measures of
prevention; who should have taken
pains to keep unwholesome books out
of their young daughters hands, and
equal pains to place wholesome ones
within her reach, that her taste for
reading might be so profitably culti-
waited as to be a source of moral strength
rather than of moral weakness.
That which is true in this case is true
also in the case of all families in which
there are children. Ours is reading
age, and our children will read some
thing; it is for parents to take care that
the things read shall be wholesome
things. 1t is not enough that bad books
shall be kept out of their hands; unless
good books, entertaining books, which
are at the same time free from all man
ner of taint, are bought and kept with
in the reach of the youth of our time,
access to bad books cannot be prevent
ed by merely repressive measures. Our
large liberty of the .press amounts
books by the score are published, cir
culated and read which are as posi-
lively pernicious to young readers as
are the books which the law prohibits.
Books of this unwholesome sort are
sold on railway trains, kept in circulat-
ting libraries. sometimes even in SIM
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

by clustering the extravaganza o. the
rich, is incalculable. In the great null
titude of smaller communities this is a
method, when fully in operation, that
may wisely supersede all official relief.
1t requires sacrifice of time, of money
and Of personal ease upon the part Of
those who undertake it. But its re-
suits are so beneficient that they are a
rich compensation. Harper's Weekly.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11
G7te goltdo G1nonitlt.

to catch an idea, knew in minute what
the willy "hare" had done-so, fleet OF foot
as he was quick of thought, he few to the
nearest sweetie shop !" las Scotch lsddies
call candy stores), and made him spend
every "bawbien "a copper half f-penny,
worth one cent of our money! he had, for
"toffy y and other " swecties."
Now, boys, you who know all about
!" hare and hounds" as well as you who
do not, try it-soiM the rules.-and see If
you do not find it Jolly good game, that
will give you that lightness and fleetness
of foot so much 10 be desired by every boy,
ana will help you to spend many a happy
holiday with fun-loving comrades, when
old games are played out " and you long
for something new.-Kate Brcpn'ee Hor.
ton, in st. Nicholas for October.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

..Ir is curious. doctor, that every
time / smoke after dinner have some
thing dazzling In my eyes. What can
you do for thatr'' 9 Ehln said the
doctor, with smile, Don't smoke =
The patient was n0nplnssed. He hadn't
thought Of that fhris C'k0riUari.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

WOMEN are not born politicians, and
they can pack trunk better than they
could vention.--Ptitadelphia Bstt-
Iefi,2 f-,fr
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

II is difficult to insure the forbear-
ance Of orr equals; that 81 our betters
we are certain to obtain, As they are
dependent on Us for their superiority.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

AN orator DECLARING that Fortune
Knocked at every manss 3 door once, sn
old Irishman said, & Wh6nshe knocked
Vt mine must have been Qs)t. :
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

The diving Of bathers in Upper
Kings River, CAL, revealed the 4fact
that the bed was rich with gold.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

The Rochester Democrat thinks Char
ley Ross was deposited in q Chicago
sayings-bank
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

A LITTLE child picked up q feather in
1.-The yard, and said that = 4 dove dropped
IL out Of his pocket
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

I WAS showing my watch to my
nephew, who was about six years old.
He pointed to the face of the dial and
said, "Why, there is another little
watchr' / said, That is called the
secondhand" He tossed his head
contemptuously, and walked off. say
ing, II wouldn't own secondhand
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11

TO xINp out what is in boy, he
needs - b. roughly shaken BY the world
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11
PERSONAL.

RI REV. J. R. BAYLEY, Archbish-
op of the Diocese Of Baltimore, the
highest Catholic dignitary the United States,
died at Newark, N. j., on the morning Of the
3D.. He was sixty-three years old.
In the Interstate Rifle Match, near
Chicago, on the 4th, the total score was: nli-
nois, 476; Wisconsin, 455; Michigan, 440-the
Illinois Team winning by twenty-onc points
over Wisconsin, the latter taking the second
prize.
GEN. SHERMAN and staff arrived at
San Francisco, on the 9th, overland from Port
land, Ore.
A RICHMOND Qnd.) telegram of the
sth states that Senator Morton's condition had
again become alarming, and that his friends
were feeling very uneasy and feared the worst.
A special to the Chicago LsterO Oced,., from In
dianapolis, says there was no foundation for
the statement that the Senator was worse, no
change being reported in his condition.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-03
THE CROION SUPPLY.

correspondent OF tho HEnALp's Complaint Book
said yesterday that Chief Engineer Campbell, OF TIE
Croton Department. resides IN district "whcrc, dur
ing last summer and TALL tho water did not above
or even us high the kitchen floors, and now not
higher than tho second story ut night In rc.
ply to TINS assertion Mr.. Campbell said yesterday to
HERALD reporter that IL the people themselves this
district and districts further up town would guard
against waste In their houses this OF
would not exist. An inspection for the week ending
March ~ Of l31th and lzoih Streets from seventh
nuo cast, showed the following wastcul exhibit
Houses examined, 25j; found with lcaky pipes aud
wasting water, 1873; number OF leaky Iauccts, 2l9;
wasting aud caky water closets, % hydrants leaking
4; wasting, ], and number OF pipes burst, =.
Tho city reservoirs, no added, have capacity Of
about $50 900 900 gallons. In tho dry the water
ran down MS low In them as $50 100000 gallons The
aqueduct has carrying capacity OF about 90, 600 900
gallons daily, while the daiiy consumption, at low
average rs between So 600 200 aud 90 OJU coo gallons
There IL certainly dcarh Of water IN the reservoirs
now, so there need he no scarcity waste prevented
and guarded against IN the private houses up town
Water now, he says goes above the second story in
the district In which q rcstdcg.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-03
HUMANITY Or oFFICIoUsNEss.
New yoRK, April 2, 1877.

New YoRK, April 2, 1877.
To THE EDITOR or THE HERALD
In n short editorial to-day you arc pleased to pro.
Dict at distant day. the repeal Of the laws enacted
for the protection OF tho brute creation, because
person. unknown 10 aud acting without tho authority
OF this society, arrested Tor compelling dog "a
drag heavy load While II evident that race oil AMI.
mails designed beasts OF burden, their en-.
lloyment ms such, unaccompancd by conspicuous
act Of cruelty, has never been ntcrercd with by ths
society. The to which | presume you alludo
carefully investigated by three magistrates who
pronounced IL an act OF cruelty, and sucn they
were bound TO enforce tho law, which done
with commendabic lorbcarance This, am sorry 10
see serves as text for you TO uniusly arraign tho
motives and actions OF those no unsclnshiy and hu-
namely serve cause which 10 based upon the best
stincts of our nature; aud you further characterize
their proceedings as mcre covers Tor n sorts ~.
rannical and olicous intcrmcdding." Than this
midst Of terrible civil war the representatives ~ tho
people Of this State paused to declare that cruelty
the inferior animals crime. enacted laws IT,
prevention and gave being aud authority to this
To see that those laws wcrc enforced | indulge tho
belief that This duty has been performed with hrmness
always mingled with lorDcarancc, and that u has
thereby commended itself to tho popular hoart aud
judgment, that from Isolated and -apprcciatcd
ASPIRATION II has become great moral power. whose
bcncdccn example has been acknowledged and adopted
by th,ry.thrco states Of tins Union All this cor
anly to disprove your prophecy 10 the prob
ability which, permit me To believe, was hastiIJ con.
ccved OF tho withdrawal Of the powers necessary 10
tho iulnmcnt OF Its civzing mission. Yours, very
truly, HENRY BERGH. President.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-03
BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The Finance Committee OF the Board OF Educatio on
held meeting yesterday to routine current business
The Committee Teachers held session to consider
absences OF teachers Tor the month OF March, and also
TO consider applications Tor additional teachers in tho
various wards neccssatcd by increased atlcn
In the number Of pupils The Committee on Bylaws
held a meeting to consider the resolution offered by
Commissioner Walker NJ the last regular meeting of
tho Board relative TO modification OF article 10 tho
Bylaws IN relation 10 corporal punishment Owing to
other important subjects tho matter laid over.
Scaled proposals werc received by the Trustees Of
tho Twenty-third ward tor charging Grammar
School Building No az, located ON hrd avenue
near 15Sth street. Tho bids Tor work, car
pcntcr work, painting, steam heating and furnturc
The contracts wero awarded as lollows:-Masun work
to Thomas Lennon Tor $500, carpenter work to
Michael McDonough for Sll, 13l. painting John q.
Grant for $3.50, heating appliances to John Neal Co.
for 81 AGO. new furniture TO the National school Furn-
ture Company for S3,46S 81 and tho repairing OF old
fSrniture to Walgrain Buscal for $647. These
awards must be approved by tho Board OF Education
before any contracts signed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-03
CAPTAIN MURPHY'S TRIAL.

The trial Of Captain Murphy, OF the Twenty. FIRST
Precinct, yesterday begun before tho Police Com
missioncrs Two charges made against him.
Ono preferred By Messrs Colgate and Comstock Of tho
Society for the suppression OF Vice, the other by
Sur ernendcnt Walling. The latter first came % for
consideration. IL specified that two had been
issued by police justice Tor the suppression OF two
houses of prostitution located In the Tweniy-frst pre-
cinct and that Captain Murphy had delayed taking any
action against them IN for week and
In tho other for ten days. Counsel for tho
defendant admitted these allegations. but stated that
he had acted under the instructions OF magistrate
who issued the warrants, and cxoncrated from
all blame. To subsantiate this, Police justice Btxby
was called TO tho stand and testified that he issued
warrants 10 Captain Murphy but directed him TO act
upon them only when no OF securing
enough evidence to convict the proprictors Captain
Murphy stated that this could be done only when
the houses were filled with people no waifod until
such moment and then made descent upon them.
IL was found too, that this mode OF procedure resulted
In the breaking mp oil at tho houses and the other
Is to DO closed at once This charge against the Captain
dismissed.
rho evidence OF Mcssrs Colgate and Com stock was
then taken They charge Captain Murphy with tolc-
rating 10 his precinct immodcst performances IN a
place OF amusement known as Egyptian Hail. and they
have summoned witnesses TO show that these exhpi-
tons vulgar and indecent and that the Excise Mw
is violated nightly in tho place. Tho then adj.
journcd till Monday next
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-03
BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT.

Rapid transit between the city OF Brooklyn and East
Now YORK and Long Island is now Yesterday
morning about forty laborcrs began poughlng up the
roadway beside tho northcrly track OF tho Atlantic
Avenue Railroad Company, whore the new line OF rail-
way Is to DO laid leading to Fatbush avenue, Brook
lyn Tho number OF iaborcrs will be increased
In lew days, as the company 10 determined
upon utilizing every OF In order 10 ha vc
their steam cars running early in May. Fifteen hun
drcd tons Of rails readiness for tho use OF
the road An iron cncc Is 10 enclose the In the
city limits III order 10 insure safety 10 pedestrians.
Gates VIII be erected at each intcrsectng street, which
Will be closed when tho cars passing The total
cost OF the road will be over $500, 0OO
A petition from the stockholders OF the New York,
Brooklyn and Scashore Railroad read the Board
OF Aldermen yesterday asking Tor permission 10 uso
steam on Their l,no which Is now run horse car
road and operates over North Second street and Met
ropoiitan avenue, Eastern District, from the East
River 10 the city linc Alter debate the petition
was referred 10 the COMMITTEES on Railroads.
Alderman Donovan presented report from tho
special committee relation 10 the application OF
New York ana Manhattan Beach Railroad Company,
refusing 10 grant their petition 10 operate their road
through certain streets In Brooklyn. Grcenpont and
other places. The petition referred to the Rail.
road Conn IN connection with tho Alder oil
the wards Interested.