The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-11-03

House.
A large and destructive prairie fire oc-
Cured a few days since near Alden, Har-
din Co. The Sentinel says a good deal
of hay, wheat and fodder was DESTROYED.
Mr.. La Mountains balloon, the Allan
tic, which was abandoned by him in the
Canada woods. has been secured and re-
turned to Watertown, somewhat torn, but
serviceable.
P. T. BARNUM, Esq, is doing the peo-
pie of East Bridgeport. Ct, a great SER
vice in planting shade trees on their
streets. He has advertised for 1000
sugar naples for this purpose.
GOING TO EMIGRATE.-The self-sacri-
fcing patriot and benefactor of the Iowa
School fund. Doc Eads, has retired from
the editorship of the Fort Madison Plain
dealer, and it is reported he is about to
emigrate to Missouri.
A FREE MAsoN-The Hon. Charles,
lately on the Democratic State Ticket.
He will now have leisure to attend to his
private affairs, without the cares and bur-
thens of office.
THE FUEL MARKEr.-Cole has "gone
up Citizen.
Toads are an article Of trade in Eng
land and in France. They are bought
by the market gardeners at six shillings
a dozen to destroy the insects that prey
upon the vegetables. Fowls. rugged out
in boots, to prevent them from scratch
ing. are used for the same purpose.
John Wentworth, of Chicago, puts
forth the following as the latest tick
ct :"
Motto. Popular Sovereignty-fght
it out !" For President, Ossawattomie
Brown. For Vice President Stephen A.
Douglas.
1t is said that a small quantity of Sas-
safras bark mixed with dried fruit will
keep it free from worms for years. The
remedy is easily obtained in many local
tiles, and is well worthy an experiment,
as it will not injure the fruit in any man
ner, if it does not prevent the nuisance.
SnREwD.-Five years since a farmer in
Illinois, notwithstanding all his neighbors
insisted he was playing the fool, set out
on his farm one thousand peach trees,
and this season he was offered ten lhous-
and dollars for the crop, which he after
wards sold in the lot for fourteen thous-
and dollars.
The Portsmouth IN. H. Journal pub
fishes a passport given by James Monroe,
when Minister to England, in 1906, to
Essex White, a slave and body servant Of
John Randolph, Of Roanoke, and a ne
gro, in which the said Essex White is
called ga citizen Of the United States"
A Coop MEMoRY.-Mr. Everett spoke
the whole of his Grafton upon Webster
without referring to notes. The Provi-
dence Journal says The wonderful
exertion of memory is not without pre-
cedent but such power of memory COM
bined with such other great power, may
challenge comparison with anything in
the history of oratory."
The wine crop Of France this year
will be a good one, probably exceeding
the annual average of 800, coo, 900 gal
Ions. In Paris it is computed that each
inhabitant consumes 216 bottles Of wine
each year. In the wine districts of
France, each person takes 100 bottles in
the same period. The total value Of the
brandy produced in France is about
$I2. O0o, 900 at an average cost of for
ty-eight cents per gallon.
A MINE OF EMERY IN ILLlNo1s:-The
Belvidere Republican says that Mr.. Solo
mon Risley has discovered and opened
a mine of emery at Blood's Point. five
miles south of Belvidere. He has pur-
chased a farm Of 100 acres. through the
centre of which the vein runs. The en-
cry has been tested and is of the best
quality. The usual price of this article,
if good. is about SO cents per pound. 1t
is, therefore, a fortune to its owner.
A YANKEE out in Fredonia. N. Y,
made a bet of $500 that he would hit a.
target of two and a quarter inches. ten
rods distant. in fifty consecutive shots,
without missing a fire. He found no diff
ficulty in getting takers" and then by
means of a heavy boiler iron funnel tap
ering down to the target, he found no
difficulty in winning the money. 1t was
a sharp trick, if not sharp shooting.
THE OYSTER DIscovERY.-Up to Sat
urday night, 6th inst, the new oyster
placer off Norwalk had yielded $50. 600
bushels of oysters. the average earnings
of each man being twenty dollars per
day. This is better than Pixies Peak.
1t is estimated that the placer" cannot
be exhausted in FIVE years. The origin
of the bed is supposed to be the wreck
of a Connecticut schooner with a deck
load of thirty bushels Of seeding oys-
%ters," on the spot. eighteen years ago.
AGUR CURE.-This is something of a
science as well as medicine. The SUI
preme difficulty Of the science is to ac-
complish its end without injury to the
health-the supreme excellence Of the
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