Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-12-06

Rome is still being strongly fortified
| The Sultan of Turkey is seriously ILL
The eruption in vesuyius still continues.-
The time from Chicago to San Francisco
has been reduced TO eleven days.-The
President is said to be indignant at General
Thomas course in New Or!eans.-Gener-
al Sherman is Of opinion that peace with the
Indians is firmly stablished.-The hcto-
| ries of Great Britain make enough cotton
thread every minute to encircle the globe
four times.-Horace Greeley has been
lecturing in Boston on Self made men"
l-Stell rails are supplanting iron on the
Boston and Providence Railroad. Twelve
hundred tons Of steel have been laid already.
I-General Mower is removing from ofice
| all impeders Of reconstruction in Louisiana,
and giving their places to loyal men.-A
man by the name of Spencer, and his vile
of Paulsboro, n. j., were arrested in New
York on Friday last as chief authors Of the
counterfeit s-30 bonds. Spencer is rich.
A Georgia Sabbath School offers circus
tickets as reward of merit-The money
market is stringent in New York and other
Eastern cities.-Severe shocks Of earth>
quake have been felt on the Island OF Porto
Rico.-There are five hundred American
students in the German Universities.-A
bed of coal feet thick and 240 feet beneath
the surface has been discovered near Linz
coin, Ill.-1he political club Of England
are discussing the prcpriety Of admitting
workmen to Parliamsns.-A schoolboy in
Maine walked 6ve miles in forty,nine min.
utes last week.-Many laborers are leaving
Canada for the L. S. in search Of employ
ment.-Mr. Lincolns debts at the time of
his death amounted to Just $3s.3l.-The
first ticket sold in Boston for Dickens read
ings was bought by negro.-The New
York Independent has been increased in size
until now It is the largest newspaper in the
United States. speech plea.
ses many of the Italians, who think il favoss
the ultimate attainment of their wishes.-l
A lucky miner in Montana has found .
pocket which yields him $4,000 in coin.
Vermont has rejected . bill allowing
contracts tor higher interest than per cent.
Three Fenians were executed at Man
chester, England, on Saturday last. .All
quiet."-The military expedition to Italy
has been severely censured in the British
Parliament.-They are using Confederate
specie bonds for newspaper wrappers in
South Carolina.-Ex-P President Buchanan
is in very feeble health and viii not proba-
bly, live much longer.-There has been
immense destruction of property, BY prairie
fires, in all parts Of the West.--Seyeral
failures have occurred in New York among
the stock and Exchange brokers.-Boston
is now enjoying five courses of lectures be>
sides those before the Lowell Institute
The Queen opened the British Parliament
on the 18th by proclamation but was not
personally present. In her speech, which
was read for her by royal commission, she
promised reform bills for both Scotland and
lreland.-There is said to be no friend
ship between the members of the Canadian
Cabinet. Interest alone holds them togeth.
er.-Dr. Livingston has been seen since
the time he was reported dead. Hopes arc
now entertained that be is still alive.-
During the past year $4,000 Springfield
muskeis, in the United States arsenals, have
been altered to breach loaders.-The
length of railroad from San Francisco to
New York will be $500 miles. The cars
are now running over 1900 miles.-Eiye
different routes for q ship canal, between
Lake Erie and Ontario, have been surveyed
pursuant to an act Of Congress. The route
via Lockport, n. l., seems most favorable.
Napoleon opened the French Legisla>
ture on the 18th by his usual speech, which
the London 7imes pronoanees liberal,
peaceful and sensible. ladies and
one gentleman were burned to death at
Lockland, o., upon the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton / Dayton Railroad on Thursday last
They were locked into car and could net
escape, when . collision occurred and their
car took k6rc.-Stewartth the merchant prince
is about to expend $5,000,00O or $6,000,>
900 in the erection of good tenement houses
for the poor of New York, where they may
find food and shelter ut moderate prices.
The income of these houses is to be expead-
I'd in erecting others perpetnally Miss
Dickinson is in Boston troubled with =
throat complaint. She denies that she is
going to be married, or going upon the stage,
Is has been reported. She will continue her
lectures IS soon as she is able-Reyenue
from whisky in the nine revenue districts Of
New York from May to Nov. 1867, is $944,.
l29. For the same time last year it was
$2,51l ,S45. The whisky trade OF 1861 is
well>known to be large increase upon 1866.
Stealings under the very eyes Of the Revenue
Commissioners more than four to one
Ice has closed the Kennebcc and Penobscot
rivers earlier this year than in any for the
L. half century.-Eleven million francs
were received for admission to the French
Exhibition. over five millions Of which were
pro6ts.-Two German literary weeklies,
the GarteataGbe aud the Ddheim. have
circulation of about 250,00O copies each.
The Greenland whale fishery has been
more unsuccessful this year than ever before.
New Haven is losing its elms, the pride
nf tho city