The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-12-06
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Gov. Hendricks is practicing

Gov. Hendricks is practicing law.
-Blondin, who is tight-rope walking
again, has premonition that he will
fall and kill himself.
Mrs Gen. Sherman is a very rigid
Catholic, and makes no intimate ac-
quaintances outside of her sect.
Mime. Bonaparte, of Baltimore,
now more than ninety years of age, has
become very feeble, and does not ven
ture out of doors.
"A Scotch paper gives an incident
of Gen. Grants war career by remark
ing that he lost thumb and finger at
the Battle of Michigan!
"A back pension was recently OBJ
tanned for lady in Louisville, through
p. H. Fitzgerald's Claim Agency at In
dianapolis, Ind. amounting to $2533.
Mr.. J. d. Alvord, of Bridgeport,
Conn, who died few days ago, leav-
ing an estate worth $500 had Civ
en- away more than that sum during his
life.
The pressure on Mr.. Keely, of
motor hotoriety, by his creditors, is be-
coming about us much to the square
inch as it was on his machine.-Detyoit
Free Press. pft
1t is now claimed that VIM. NJ
Evarts is the only man that can drive
the entire English language in tan
dem team, and pick comma off tho
leaders, ear as if it were fy.-Gramd
Rapids (Mich.) Times. f-. 4fs
Henry w. Paine, of Boston, recent
ly, in the Supreme Court, was inter-
rupted from the Bench with the some
what abrupt comment: '.Mr. Paine,
that isn't the law Mr.. Paine instant
ly replied: "I think, your Honor, it
was the law until this moment. y
The report that Senator ,Morton's
last words were 81 am dying; ! am
worn out" is denied by person who
was present when the Senator died.
About five minutes before he stopped
breathing he looked up suddenly and
said to one of his sons: John, air"
Mrs. Fremont says that when she
went to San Francisco, in '48, visits in
the day time were held as marked at
tention. She was told that ''time was
worth fifty dollars minute" and that
she must hold as a great compliment
the brief visits made to her during the
day.
Eight ex-Speakers Of the House of
Representatives are now living
Messrs. X. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia;
K. C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts,; y.
M. Pomeroy, of New York; n. Z.
Banks, of Massachusetts,; G. A. Grow,
of Pennsylvania; Schuyler Colfax, of
Indiana; James G. Blaine, Of Maine,
and S. J. Randall, Of Pennsylvania.
Gen. John M. Harlan, of Louis
vile, who has been nominated for the
Supreme Court in place of Senator
David Davis, is about forty-two years
old, six feet high, has good-humored,
expressive blue eyes, fair complexion
and hair, large head, massive, lofty
forehead, deep chest and broad shoul-
ders.s During the war he was Colcnei
in the Army.
During the past summer, school
in district in the Town of Ira, Cayu-
ga County, N. Y, was attended by the
teacher without q single scholar being
present. The teacher, young lady
who lives near the school-house, was
hired by the Trustees against the wish
es Of the people generally in the dis
trict, and they refused to send their
children. The father of the teacher
compelled his daughter to go to the
school-house five days in a week, and
STAY there the required number of hours
each day. The young lady complied
with her fathers demand, and during
the entire thirteen weeks was the sole
occupant of the desolate school edifice.
At the end of the term her wages were
collected.