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Year: 1868

An ITEM.-A man called at our office
the other day, and in conversation about
the advantages of a County paper, he told
us the following personal experience Of Its
advantage in his case: lie said, cam
not read, and newspaper is Of no use to
me personally, but have little daughter
who can read, and often when | 90 from
home | try and get her newspaper.
Some time ago | was at the Western Ho.
tel in this village, and just as was start
ing home | asked Mr. Roberts for an old
newspaper; he gave me late number of
the Chronicle. When l got home l got
my little girl to read it, She read every
line, advertisements and ALL Among 9TH
er things there was piece of land adver.
tised for sale which joined my farm. l
had not known the fact before, so went
Immediately and bought it. The next day
other customers applied but we're too late.
The land cost me $50; would not now
take $500 for it. | concluded that that
one number of the Chronicle was worth
$3.50 to me. Please put me down as life
subscriber, for although | cannot read my
self, | will never be without the paper
here is $3.50 for the first year."
Year: 1868

In answer to Mr. Trowbridge's notice
which appeared in your valuable paper of
last week, | have to say that we hold a
contract from Mr.. Van Brunt for the ex-
elusive sale of his seeders in the counties
of Grant, Iowa, and Lafayette. and that
Mr.. Jones had no right to appoint Trow
bridge agent, as he is not agent himself,
and that Trowbridge sought his agency
to enable him TO palm off his own ma.
chimes through the reputation of Van
Brunt. In offering the Van Brunt for
sale, he will tell farmer to try one of his
machines first, and if that fails, he well
knows the Van Brunt will be all sold, and
cannot get ono. That he has wilfully lied
and tried to deceive the farmers in this
respect he dare not deny. We just re-
turned from Horizon, and Van Brunt &
Co. have notified Trowbridge & Clayton
that they cannot get a machine at any
price only through us, and We caution any
farmers who may be holding back their
orders through the influence of those nn-
principlcd and lying men, to heed them
not, and come and get machine that is
genuine, and give them no chance to hold
your orders for other inferior machines
until ours are all sold. We are now re-
ceiving large number of machines at Min
eral Point and Platteville.


j. SrRACHAN.
Year: 1868

STATE OF WISCONSIN, in Probate.


County of Iowa. Iowa County Court.
In the matter of the guardianship Of Jesse Thompson


minor heir of IIolyer Thompson deceased.


On reading and filing the petition of Henry Samp-
sor, Guardian of said minors representing among
other things that he the said ward seized of
real estate in this county, and that it is necessary
that the same should be sod and praying for license
to sell the same and it appearing TO the Court from
said petition that it is necessary for the purpose
maintaining and educating said ward to sell said real
estate,


1t is ordered and directed that the next ofkin to
said ward and all interested in said estate
appear be fore the Judge of this Court the Sd day
of March, 1868, at the Court House in the Village of
Dodgeville then and there TO show (if any
there shall be) why license should not be granted


the sale of said real estate according to the prayer
of said petition.


And it is further ordered that copy of this order
shall be published for three successive weeks prior
to said day of hearing in the DODGEvILLE CHRONICLE
weekly newspaper circulating in said county.


Dated Jan. 22d, 1868.


n19w3 ALEX. WILSON, County Judge.
Year: 1868

STOPPING NEwsPAPERs.-An exchange
has the following, on this subject, which is
applicable to more than one locality: "a
certain man hit his toe against pebble
and fell headloag to the ground. He was
vexed and under the influence of anger and
self sufticiency, he kicked mother earth
quite saucily. With imperturable gravity,
he looked to see the earth itself dissolve
and come to naught. But the earth re.
mained, and only his poor foot was injured
in the encounter. This is the way of man.
An article in newspaper touched him in
a weak spot, and straghtway he sends to
stop his paper With great complacency
he looks to see the crash when the object
of his spleen shall cease 20 be. Poor fool,
he has only hit his toe against world that
does not perceptibly feel the shock, and
injured to slight extent none but him.
SELF"
Year: 1868

BgTThe Columbus Transcript publishes
an order condemning a school house in
that place as unworthy of repairs for rea-
sons which would be fatal to many other
utterly unfit places where scholars are
taught.
Year: 1868

For some, to us, unknown reason,-it
may be to satisfy some poorly governed
county, or for want Of something else to
do,-a bin has been introduced into the
Legislature, to do away with the present
system of county government, and to
again try the old and worn out town sys-
tenn. This is to our minds very foolish
and uncallcd for step. The old town sys-
tenn has an untold number of objection and
disadvantages, without any advantages
5ver the present system.


We endorse the following remarks from
the Mineral Point Tribune:


To say that from fifteen to forty men,
ground six miles square, some less, can
have much of interest, save personal, in
the affairs of the county, is to say some
thing that experience fails to warrant.


We have known County Boards, under
the old town system. to spend more time
in electing chairman, than is spent by
the county Board Of Iowa county in doing
all the business of the county for whole
year. We have known, under the old
system. the account of one member for
per. diem and mileage, for attending one ses-
sion of the board, to exceed the sum drawn
by the entire county board of Iowa county.
We have known members from towns, un-
der the old system, that could not read
the statutes or write their names. We
have known members, under the old sys-
TEN, to get the last cent Of appropriation
possible from the county, whether the town
needed it or not, simply because some 9TH
er member secured an appropriation for
his town and so on, ad inhaitum.


We truly pity the situation of those
counties whose people are so governed as
to drive them to the extreme of sighing
for the day of the town representative
system of government their case must be
deplorablc


Our county goes smoothly on with the
new system of three supervisors, spending
about three or four days in year, aside
from their duties as ex-officiO Commission
ers of the Poor; all the interests of the
county are we'll attended to, and if any
particular town wishes special attention,
the matter can be brought before the board
by petition, and the member representing
the district in which the town is situated
will investigate the matter and report to
the board, when final action is taken, and
the matter settled and satisfaction obtained
without three days debate by fourteen
men, each vieing with each other at a lu-
dicrous attempt at forsenic eloquence.
Year: 1868

From the Boston Post.


OFFICE OF STATE ZEN EXECUTIVE Conf


September y, 1898.
To THE HON. JSo. q. A DAMS, Boston, Mass"


Dear Sir-We have the honor to make
an appeal to you in behalf Of our COM
mon country. We earnestly beg that
you will consent to visit Us at Column bis,
and deliver an address to our people. We
assure you that within three days we
could have an assemblage of 10 600 peo-
pie present to hear the words of peace
addressed by Boston to Columbia. What
stronger reply could there be to the mis-
representations OF the Radicals, than TO
hesr John Orkney Adams" talk OF
Union aud fraternal relations on the soil
of South Carolina?


Would il not be as II the past we're
speaking TO the present. Would it net
seem as IL the grave had given up her
dead and they were holding counsel OF
the future


1t seems to Us that your visit here, re-
ceiVed, as 1t would be by cur people,
would send an electric thrill from one
end of the country to the other. We ask
no holiday performance for political or
party effsct. We invite you TO . consult
tstion upon living principles of our free
institutions. With US 1t Is no longer q
question OF party, but a question OF So
cisl life.


When the South was beaten IN the ald
Il became her high resolve to restore and
strengthen the Union. Must not every
sane man see that this was her only pOi-
ley? That the Union is now of the very
last Importance to ths South More i'm
portsRt than to any part of the country.


Must not every sane man also see that
Ia the very nature u things slavery is
dead forever? Has not every Southern
State put her name and seal to the deed
But beyond this, did not every Southern
statesman see that with the result Of the
war slavery could not stand? That 1t
must cease to be q domestic institution,
because it had become an International
80 TO speak, cause of war.


Are there no statesmen left among
those in power who can see this a? Or do
they see it and are they basely using the
hopes, the peace, the very life of the
country 70 advance personal or party Ia
terests?


Let US hope that God in His wisdom
may turn the hearts OF those who know
the right, yet puRue the wrong, and
strike the scales from the eyes Of others,
who are really in the darkness OF igno-
rance, and therefore easily the dupes OF
their better informed leaders.


Pray answer US Immediately and ap-
point an early day for your visit here.
We shall require but short notice to makt
the necessary arrangements TO welcome
you in becoming manner.


The policy Of the South is peaoe-it is
her only hope. You will see this with
your eyes and hear 1t with your ears
should you accept our invitation. Ii you
would telegraph to US your acceptance,
we could be ready to meet you by the
5th of October. Wednesday, the TIN,
would probably be better day.


Very respectfully,


V fnI IIr,rur ~ hfc.ns,n
Year: 1868

the hands of the general Govern
ment They have commenced taking
the insurance business away from you.
They have organized an immense ma
tional insurance company, and the next
piece of legislation will be like the bank
ing legislation, for the purpose of taxing
the State insurance companies out of
existence. GCheers They have seized
the patronage Of the Government, which
belongs to the Executive. The Senate Of
the United States have seized the control
Of all the patronage of the Government
Of the United States, and they are agi-
tating now a project for taking posses
sion Of the international improvements
Of this country. 1t will be only single
and easy step then to assn me and usurp
the judicial power. See what New York
loses and what the other gains. As to
the original powers conferred upon the
general Government, we stand by the
contract we agree that the general Gov
ernment should have certain specified
and limited powers, and should exercise
those powers. We say each State should
have two Senators. Bot as to the powers
which we never conferred on the general
Governmeut-as to those we never gave
up-we object, we protest against having
our power diluted when they take away
these reserved rights of the States. For
every power which they take away from
the State of New York they dilute your
power fourfold. You have only one
fourth the power you once had. They have
taken away this banking, they have taken
away this insurance, they have taken
away the executive patronage, they con-
template taking away the internal i'm
improvements and the judiciary. What,
then, is left of the State, when all these
powers are taken away2 Not only this,
but they have taken away the power
over the suffrage question. They have
actually exercised that power as to ten
Southern States, and they intend and
threaten to exercise it as to all the
Southern States. !" That's true Now,
when they take new powers-powers not
conferred upon the Federal Government,
you lose fourfold of the power which you
possessed, while the power OF the State
Of Rhode Island is increased two hun
dred and twenty-five fold, and the power
of the State of Massachusetts fourfold the
amount which they originally had.
Therefore, / say that it is for the inter-
est of the people of the State of New
York, and Of all the other great States of
Union, to stand by the Democratic party
in this election, and thereby to protect
their own power and their own inter-
ests. [Cheers.]
Year: 1868

declared for General Grant and the Re-
publican party.


From the New York Tribune. Radical
TIE Five FORKS" OF 1868.


It was universally felt and virtually
confessed that the partisans Of Seymour
and Blair must triumph in the State cleo
tions held Tuesday, or abandon all hopes
of success. Every table they have yet
made Of the probable vote for next Presi
dent by States claimed Pennsylvania,
Indiana, and Nebraska, as certainly, and
Ohio as probably, for Seymour. The
most ingenious among them could not
make up q list of States expected to
vote for Seymour sufficient to elect him
without including all or the most OF
those above named. They had thus ad-
yertised their followers that they must
carry those States in October or confess
themselves already beaten in the No
vember struggle.


The World, stupid as usual, pretends
not to have had decisive information
from the elections, and thus excuses IT.
self for not commenting upon the re-
suits.


| Prom the Petersburg Index.I
Between this and the first Thursday in
November is the quarter stretch in the
| Presidential race. Despotism enters 1t
ahead of Constitution, and on the face OF
it's Radical jockey is o grin of fendish
triumph.


We trust after all that is is premature.
Now or never, rider of Constitution, ply
whip and spur The stake yeu ride for
| is worth the last effort your noble steed
will ever make on the American turf.
| Tie stake is the nations soul.
The nation has not yet been made
sick enough by the Radical poison to
throw it up, and it is question whether
it will die, or whether an additional four
years dose will result in the nausea and
disgust which will provoke the national
stomach to relieve itself of perilous stuff
which is preying like corrosive irritant
upon its vitality.


From the Petersburg Express.l


We will not despair of the grand re-
suit in November because the October
elections seem against US. We have
known a defeat in October to be followed
by success in November ere this. In
the chronicles of ancient Wing and
| Democratic strife there is many o pre-
cedent of this kind laid up for our com.
| fort


From the Norfolk Day-B
May be considered as settling the
Presidential election in favor of the Re.
publican candidates. We may not all
| like it, but the Radicals have given us
1.-THE best they had in their shop"


From the Baltimore Gazette.l


We are bound to deal frankly with this
/ matter, and to say that, in our judgment,
he States which have just indorsed the
policy of the Radical party will in Nc
vember give heavy msjorities for General
Grant. 1t is with deep regret and sadness
that we record these convictions. To the
people of Maryland, outside of the office
seekers and the pot-house politicians, the
decision of the Northern States amounts
to nothing. We enjoy at present the rights
and the liberties bequeathed us by our
fathers. But for our oppressed brethren
of the South, we feel the keenest SYM
pathy, and as the late elections in the
North seem to evidence determination
to consign them for years to come to the
despotism under which they now Ian
puish, we must look this possible fact in
the face.
Year: 1868

A DEPLoRABLE PICTURE OF THE
SoUTH-A gentlemen travelling in the
South writes in the following strain to a
friend of his here North: / arrived safely
yesterday at twelve o'clock, after pleas
ant passage. The contrast between the
scene presented here and in New York is
enough to shock the feelings Of any well
wisher Of the south. All seems to be lead
here in the way of commercial activity
wharves empty of shipping and the streets
as quiet as a burial place. | am told that
Charleston has been for some time very
active in its military preparations, al
though dead, apparently, to every other
sign of life The negroes are all armed
and every night are being drilled in the
tactics ready for the grand event which
they are doing all they can to bring about
under the instigatiOn of white men-a
collision between the races. The citizens
of Charleston are now perfectly satisfied
that the result of radical teachings to the
negroes of this place will be to bring about
negro insurrection with the view of ex-
terminating the whites and influencing the
country against the democratic cause.
The Indications of a settled design to ex-
terminate the white race upon the first oc-
casion is so apparent that the most respec-
table white citizens, among whom are Mr..
Daniel Ravenel and Mr. Huger, have met
together In consultation and have sent
Senator Campbell to Washington TO lay the
whole matter before the president, asking
not for assistance but for advice, how to
act when the necessity is upon them, TO
defend their lives and property. The
radical programme to be carried cut by the
negroes and their control is to make a
clean sweep of the rebels by the men with
arms in their hands, and they to be fol-
lowed up by the women with tcrches, so
that there will be none left to tell the tale.
These are facts not to be disputed. L
wish the democratic party of the North
could realize these things before it is too
late. counsel al who value life and
property to keep out of this country until
We pass the coming ordeal. Those who
survive will Breathe freely again, but
there is much trouble before us still.
Year: 1868

armiug the ignorant blacks against the
whites in order that radical supremacy
might be maintained in the ten southern
states. 1t was to prepare the negro for
the work of death if the whites of the
south refused to be ruled by them. 1t
was by this means radicalism designed to
control tho elections, and when asked by
the conservative element Of congress to
desist, they turn upon them and ask what
they are going to do about it.


Another attempt to defraud the whites
Of the south of their political privileges,
was that of depriving them Of a vote upon
the choice ola president by giving the
right into the hands of carpet-bag, seal
awags, and negro Legislators Of casting the
electoral votes of the states, when it is
well known fact that that the members of
these legislatures were not elected with
reference to the presidential question
This is an outrage upon the political rights
of the people, but in cntire. excepting with
the radical policy.


The speaker then contrasted the candi-
dates before the people. The democrats
present the name Of Horatio Seymour, the
pure statesman, patriot, and citizen, one
in whose hands the people can safely trust
their interests, with full belief that the
government will be administered in the
interest of the masses of the people, On
the other hand the Radical party have
given US the name of Gen. Grant, a man
wanting in all the qualifications of states
man, one who has agreed in advance to
submit himself to the control of party
leaders; one who is without experience,
and who will not be able to free himself
from the trammels of such men as Sum-
ner, and the other leaders Of the extrem.
lists in Congress, and one who. in all pro
liability, will not only bring disgrace upon
himself, but upon the country. The
whole theory of our government would be
changed under his administration of its
affairs, and congress itself would become
the government, as they now attempt to
make it.


The speaker closed HE remarks with
several good humored hits at the leaders
of the radical party, and an earnest appeal
to his democratic friends to labor for the
success of their ticket. believing, as he
said, that all our hopes for the future, and
of free government depended upon the
election of the Democratic nominees.


This Is but very imperfect outline oi
the eloquent an convincing speech or Mr.
Packard, and does not do the effort that
justice that it demands. lie was listened
to attcntively, and the frequent outbursts
of applause indicated that the people ap.
preciated the effort. The speech cannot
fail of good results, as it will attract che
attention of the people to the enormites Of
radicalism as being carried out under con-
gressiona! domination. At the close oil
MIR. Packard's speech, Hon. NJ C. Kerr
was called out, but owing to the lateness
of the hour excused himself to the audi
ence, when the meeting adjourned.
Year: 1868

The SUNDAY CREsCENT.-The Sunday CREs-
JENT, in all respects, is paper which We offer
as creditable to the literature and journalistic
enterprise OF New Orleans. Filled with the
latest news by telegraph and mail, with in
teresting local events, with a miscellany OF
literary contributions original and selected,
and with the latest financial and commercial
intelligence, it is paper which we
offer to the public with entire con-
adence in its being acceptable. The
Sunday CRESCENT being carefully and leisurely
read, is a paper the advantages of advertising
in which are so apparent that nothing further
On the subject need be said.
Year: 1868

Nor pleasant consult physician for the relief Of
these various delicate affections and only upOn the most
urgent necessity win true far sacrifice her great,


charm do this The will then thank rs for


placing m their hands simple specifies which will be found
scseOus relieving and curing almost every one Of those
troublesome complaints psculiA. to the sex
Year: 1868

ABs1SrHE.-As many of our readers in this city are
somewhat given to drinking absinthe, especially just
before dinner, publish, for their benefit the fol-
lowing comments of the New York Times upon that
subtle aud fascinating drink


Of all strong drinks absnthe is the least palatable
at first, the most subtle in its immediate effect the
most fascinating in its continued influence, the most
absolute in the bondage it euforces and the fear
full in its results. Yet, with the common knowledge
of all this before them the people of France find


ing in absnthe their deadest foe because most conrted
friend The ravages of the cordial increasing
cry year. and are in the growing lists of idocy
lunacy, furious madness and suicide In Paris they
have men so infatuated with this poison that they form
clubs whose members pledged to intoxicate them
selves with nothing else-some, even, to drink no
other liquid. The Government is said to have the
matter in serious consideration We advise them not
to increase the tax on its manufacture for that will
surely make it very much greater in quantity and very
much worse in quality.
Year: 1868

An opinion of considerable Importance to the city
of New Orleans read Monday last in the Supreme
Court of the State. The proceedings were for the
opening of Charres street through the Levee Steam
Cotton Press, between ST. Ferdinand and Montegut
streets and aso Royal street. from Louisa to Con-
gress streets There were several questions involved
1t was urged that the city having sold for bonus of
500 900 the right of way to a city railroad and having
guaranteed to have the street opened its own ex
pense could net have the adjacent propreors assessed
for the proportion of benefit which they might derive
from the opening of the street, and that such
ment was unconstitutional.


Both of these points decided in favor of the
city. The latter is of considerable importance to the
corporation not only account of the large amount
involved in the present litigation but of its future ap-
plication The law of ls47, permitting property which
may be benefited by the opening of street, to be
assessed for the proportion of benefit derived from
such improvement declared to be unconstitutional
in the case of Municipality No. 2 vs. White. This de-
csion is now oVerruled. The advantage to the city
can be estimated when consider that its effect in
this suit alone to relieve the city of an assessment
of at least $4,000.


The other points of private nature. The
cotton press was allowed by the judgment appealed
from, $4,000, and Mrs. Lawrence $50, 900, as the
value of the land be taken. These claims were re-
jected The court declared the assessments excessive
and not warranted by the evidence and remanded the
case for new assessment The city was represented
in the case by Judge Henry D. Ogden.


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