The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-07-10

men OF sucn energy ana go-anead q tive ness
will build up a town anywhere.
News.
The cabinet shop of the New York
State prison at Sing Sing, was recently
burned. Loss to the contractor $780,
i 900.
Judge Haun, formerly of this State,
and recently United States Senator from
California, died recently at Marysvile, in
that State.
The citizens Of Waukon, in this State,
recently purchased bell weighing over
600 pounds, and when it arrived they
gave it quite an ovation.
Fourteen thousand dollars were taken
in by the city controller Of Chicago, one
day last week, for licenses. So says the
Press.
Rev. Jacob S. Harden, convicted Of
numbering his wife, was hung at Belvi-
dere, N. J :, on the 9th. He made con-
fession
The japanese Embassy sailed for home
on the I'd inst, on board the steamer Mia
CARA. The ship was fairly loaded with
the presents which the ambassadors had
received
The receipts of -four and grain at Chi
cago for the six months ending June 80,
were l2, 389,S90 bushels, being an in
crease of more than seven millions of
bushels over the same period of last
year.
Chicago will soon boast of the largest
and best Post Office and Custom House
in the Union. The work on the United
States building is being pushed forward
rapidly.
The Harper's Ferry Committee, which
found out nothing, and has been of no
sort Of use 10 the country, as the majority
report virtually confesses, cost the snug
sum of $4,000.
News from Denver City to the 25th
ult., represent the existence of consider
able trouble from the Indians. News
from the mines unimportant and trade
dull.
Col. Curtis. the able Repre- sentative in
| Congress from the first district in this
State, was renominated at the recent Con-
vention on the first ballot. This will be
good news not only to the Republicans
of the State, but Of the Union.
We learn from the Cedar Falls Gazette
that while party at Waverly were swing
ing in large swing that had been erect
ed on the 4th, the swing broke, precipi-
tating the occupants to the ground, kill
ing child, breaking a mans leg, and
severely wounding several other persons.
A few days since, an armed party of
twelve persons obtained entrance by
stratagem to the dwelling of John Brown.
jr., Ashtabula county, Ohio, and made
an attempt to carry him off. Brown and
his friends succeeded in beating off the
rufians.
Forty-three sharks were caught at one
haul in the net of the Field Brothers, of
Neck Beach, at Madison Conn, on Mon
day the 25,h inst. The largest measur-
ed nine feet in length, four and half
feet in circumference, and weighed over
800 pounds.
The Newport (R. l. } News has the fol-
lowing chilly item to comfort those who
have engaged houses at Newport for the
watering season: "There was on this
Island, in Middletown, Thursday morn
ing. at four O'Clock, a snow storm. That
is doing pretty we'll for the tventy first
day Of June,
The Fl. Madison Plaindeoler learns
that Isaac Owen, who escaped from the
Lee county Jail last winter, where he was
incarcerated to await trial for murder.
met with horrible death in Ohio. His
feet were badly frozen on his flight, and
the flesh afterwards sloughed off his legs
and feet, and caused his death by grad
ual torture.
The following programme of Fourth
Of July celebration was gotten up at Oak
Hill, Jersey county, Iii. 1t is good
one: 1.-The men will assemble on the
Hill in the morning, armed with axes,
hoes, spades, &c. The exercises will be
opened with prayer, the Declaration of
independence read, and a short Grafton
delivered. The remainder of the day
will be spent in aoorking on tie road"
The bodies of woman and two child
rem were found in stream near Fair.
field, Jefferson county in this State, a few
days ago, where it was evident they had
been thrown, after being murdered. 1t
was subsequently ascertained that a man
named Kephart had committed the muir
der in Mahaska county, thirty miles dis
tant and had brouoht tina hndias tbaro