The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-07-26

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that .pY movement to reopen the questio
. wouli be mischievous and contrary to pull
lie interests, etc. the minority report r,
citest ae withdrawal Of troops from sout
Caro- Ina and Louisiana, ard approves th
President's course, etc. The former va
adopted.
n 4 HEnRY n. HoTr, Chairman of th
Pennsylvapia Republican State COMMITTEES
has issued 40 order postponing the Rcpuh
J lican State Convention, called to meet 4
Harrisourg, Aug. q. until Sept s
IOWA STATE NEWS.
II JUDGE MAXWELL has issued the followin
call for Temperance State Convention:
TO the Temperance People Of iowa:
Ine eommittce appoiHted Dy our state Convsn
aon, held at DesMOfnes, May ~, 10H. pnrsuant b
3 reso1ution then adopted. has decided to call
4 Your COMMITTEES is not authorized to direct ths
action that will be had at said Convention. Ths
present and future interests Of the Temperancl
party will then be discussed and decided, and 1
any nominations are determined to be madc, tht
onvention will feel as much at liberty to maxi
the same as II the Convention had been called 70
It is hoped that all counties, Sunday schooll
and churches will send as many delegates to 50
sxs e. - ~ tasy nay see IT. but let them all b
l. We invite all to unite with and help us in thi
great work who believe that intemperance is tn
can never be Danish. d from civilization without
the united efforts Of the friends OF temperance
and that 1t is the duty Of men to make some Per
eOLaI sacrifices for the public good.
2. We invite all who believe that the slayery o
appetite to alcoholic drinks il the most appall
ing and abject servitudc that ever afflicted the hu
man race, snd that the only sure way Of break
ing such Calling yoke is to disarm the espresso
OF everything, as beverage, that can in oxicats
momentous, as well as the most unwieldy, issu,
| that has ever been presented to the people, il
i moral or physical science or for Legislative &C
tion; and who believe that the prohibition Of tn,
traffic in Intoxicating liquors is the only sound
| legislative policy. upon which this vexed ques
| ton can be solved; and who ar therefore, op
posed o all license laws OF whatsoever form O
| character.
a. We invite all who are in favor Of maintaining
| invioate tse personal liberty Of all men anf
women to ianor In this cause without fear o.
and who are in favor OF inaugurating and continu
| ing persistent, pungent and unyiedng warfar,
| against our common enemy until compete victory
s. We invite all who believe that education and
christianity are the cOrner-stones Of republican
government: that the common schools are the
uIcutu anu me Oi our Tree lnstiIutlOns; t0at well
regulated financial system is the backbone of The
Cove nment and, inasmuch as intemperance IL
the common enemy Of all these, that it is the duty
ish the entire overthrow Of this destructive traft
IN our country.
s. We invite all who believe in the vigorous and
rigid enforcement ofonr present Prohibitory Liquor
laws, and in the enactment Of such further pro
hibltory legislation as will place the brcwed and
fermented liquors under the same condemnation
of distilled liauOrs.
Wa invita- oil xvbo in foyor ~ ,,s;r, ovo-,,
lawful and honorable means to save the one han
dTed th0usdsd OF our people who are annually CO.
Ing down to drunkard's graves; to save the Nation
the one ottlson OF dollars wasted annually by in
temperance; to save the people from exorbifani
taxation; and to relieve our poor houses prisons
and insane hospitals Of their victims.
3. We invite all who believe that the unre-
strained liberty Of licensed and privileged class
Of men, to infiict the worst of all scourges upon
our CO ntry, is the liberty Of tigers and not of men
in a wellregulated Government,
2. Welnyite all who believe that il is the duty Of
temperance men to carry out and enforce their
principles by voting for none but practical and
Hoping to see a large delegation at our Conven-
tion, VIC submit to the people the interests Of our
cause II. w. MAXWELL Chairman Of Com.
WINNEBAao COUNTY pays s375 for medi
cal attendance on her paupcrs for 1877
THE Auditor of State has revoked the
license Of the Chicago Life Insurance Com
pduJ ~ uO uuSluCcb III 1OWds
THE dry-kiln of Weston & Co., at Fort
Madison, was struck by lightning, on the
night of the 18th, and totally destroyed. Loss,
$1,000.
Nc WINTERS, of Dubuque, drank copi.
ously of ice-water while heated, the other
evening, and died two days after from the
effects thereof
WILL CHAMBERLAIN, a young man twenty
years old, son Of Z. Chamberlain, a Burling-
ton wholesale grocer, shot himself in the
temple with a revolver, on the 18th, and
died instantly. He was dissolute.
THE Central Railroad Of Iowa was sold at
Marshalltown, on the 18th, under decree
of the United States District Court, to Judge
Grant, ON brhalf OF the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company, for $5,19s, 800, the amount
of the first mortgage bonds.
The Supreme Court has reversed the deci-
sion of Judge Leonard, and the State Uni.
versity can now draw the money SO much
needed.
ACCORDING to alate directory the popula-
ton of Des Moines is 1900.
THE State Bank, Of Des Moines, closed it's
doors on the morning of the 18th. This was
formerly the Nationa, State Bank, but some
time since its charter was surrendered and
1t reorganized as private bank, owned and
by Capt B. F. West Il Sons. The
Captain is the father-in-law Of B. F. Allen,
whose failure crippled the bank under its
old organization.
An unsuccessful attempt was made, on
the evening of the 18th, to wreck the
eastern bound express on the Chicago, Rock
Island Il Pacific Railroad, near Nicola. Some
rails and ties were thrown across the track,
but were discovered before any damage was
done, by the timely arrival of section men.
SrATE-AuDIToR SHERMAN has revoked the
of authority to do business In
Iowa Of the Universal Life Insurance Com
pany. Of New York, on theground of impair
nent Of capital.
UP to the 1st Of July, the total expenses OF
The Lew Capitol had been u, 16S. .621.31.
MR.. YoE, the manager Of the consolidated
Pension Agencies Of the State, took charge
IT the Dubuque office, on the 18th.
WILLIAM Cox committed suicide by drown
ng himself in the Missouri River, two miles
,elow Sioux City, on the 18th.
In consequence Of the wharfage difficulty
At Keoknk, the boats Of the Keokuk & |
Northern Packet Company decline to stop at |
hat point.
WA. EDWARDS committed suicide 1t Mt |
on the 18th. BY taking morphia.
The Howard County safe was opened by |
N expert ON the 21st. Instead Of contain
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