Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1868-01-03
BRIEF ITEMS.

| The London Times is at work decryiDt
! American securities. Paine
died ut St. Thomas on the 7th, Of yellow fe
vcr.-London papers are urging settle
ment Of the Alabama claims.--Commer
cial affairs at Havana are in . very depress
ed condititI.--A more rigorous censorship
Of the press has been proclaimed in Paris
| Ii is said that Gen. Dix intends 70 re-
sign his post as Minister to France.-Ihe
Postofiiee Department intend to reduce tbs
the size OF postage stamps. ----tlneen sic'
toria no longer signs death warrants nor ex
ercises the pardoning power.--fenlaf
arms and ammunition have been discovered
in various parts of England There is a
ramor that the Fenians have q plot to plum
der all the armories Of England.-A news
boys and boo,black's home has been open
ed at Chicago at rent Of $1,000 a year
- The Swedes in Chicago gave Fair last
week in aid of the sufferers by famine in
Sweden.--The London Times objects "a
McCullough's proposition to exchange Per
cent bonds for per cent -Napoieon de-
c!ares it to be the conclusion of France that
Italy shall not occupy Rome by force
Rents are SO high and money SO scarce IN
New Orleans that an unusual number oi
houses are to let.--The Pope has emphat-
icaiiy announced that he wi!fnot consent u
. surrender Of his temporal po~cr---Fse
propeller Dubuque Of Detroit was the last
vessel Of the season to pass through the
Mackinaw Straits-The World says Gov.
ernment ought to receive $305, 1919, 400 whis-
ky tax, but does receive only e2s,000, 900.
a paper is to be started in New York
called The Resolution. which will be the
mou,hpece of the friends Of female suffrage.
-Twenty y>fve additional clerks are TO be
added to the Pension Department at Wash
ington with a view Of expeditng business.
-Earthquakes and tornadoes have left
the Island Of TortoIa 10 a terrible condition.
The inhabitants are dying Of starvation.-
Another terrible explosion occurred at New
Castle on the Tyne on Tuesday, the 18th,
which is also attributed to Fenianisrn.-
Juarez has voluntarily surrendered TO the
Mexican Congress all the extraordinary
powers conferred upon him during the war.
-Barnum's last sensation at his New
York Museum IS an infant female Esau, two
years old, and covered with hair from head
to foot.-Prussian railway engineers have
been very successful in planting their rails
directly upon the ballast without the use Of
seepers.-The leading Russian paper as
serts that the eastern policy of France and
Austria if persisted in will imperil the trans
guilty Of Europe.-Mr Gladstone, in
recent public speech at Werneth, declared
that the misgovernment Of Ireland was the
cause of the existence of Fenianism.-Un-
manageable female prisoners in Paris are
placed in wire cages and exposed to public
view, which is said TO have a very tanning
infuence.-The Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue opposes reduction Of tax on whis-
Ky, and says that any tax, high or low, can
be collected by proper officers.-There is
provision in the proposed treaty with Den.
mark that Great Britain shall have part oc-
cupancy with the United States of the Island
Of San Juan.-The Congressional Conn.,
mittee of Ways and Means are determined
to probe the whisky fraunds to the bottom
and see why the taxes have not been collect
ed.-lt is now said that Minister Hale has
for some time been negotiating with the
Spanish Government for the purchase of
Cuba and with fair prospect Of success.-
The Mexican Congress has declared itself
Indifferent as to resumption of its Euro>
pean relations and has acknowledged in.
debtedness to the United States for moral
support during their war.-Congress is
about TO report bill granting honorable
discharges to soldiers who left the army ir>
regularly after the fall Of Lee. Such, how
ever, will fail to recover their bounties or
other ernoluments.-The Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad is pouring vast guam
titles Of lumber into Omaha, but can hardly
along the line OF the Union Pacific Railroad
beyond.---neporrs from St. Thomas are
more cheerful. The Island is recovering
from the effects Of its tornsdoes and earth-
quakes. The New York submarine compa-
ny are engaged in raising wrecks with great
success.-Lynn, Mass, has been noted
for its manufactory Of shoes for more than
$50 years. In 1920 James Franklin, broth>
er Of DR.. Benjamin Franklin, spoke Of it IN
his paper-the first newspaper ever publish>
ed in Amerca.-Severe shocks Of eaIth>
quake we're felt on the morning of the 18th
in different parts Of New York and Canada,
extending from Belleville, C.. w, to Sacks
vile, n. b., and as far south as Syracuse
and Auburn, New York.-A London pa>
per expresses the hope that Dickens as an
ancommercial trdreler in America may es>
cape the Hard Times, ard that his Great
Expectations may be fully realized by secur>
ing an abundance Of american Notes-
Joshua Hill, of Georgia, in speech before
the Constitutional Convention at Atlanta,
on the 18th inst, asserted that "the nag>
nanimity Of the United States Government
towards the South is unprecedented in the
history Of the world" ALI Christian pow
ers save the United States and Great Britain,
unite in placing their vessels at the disposal
Of those who wish to escape from Crete to
Greece. A company of 500 women and
children were fred upon BY the Turks while
attempting to escape, and number Of them
were lilled-What do we often drop, and
never stop to pick ups A hins.-Why
has clock bashful appearance Be
cause it keeps its hands before its face
What is that people wish to have, and then
wish to get rid Of? A good appeti,e.-
Lord Chesterfield remarked Of two persons
dancing a minuet, that ",heY looked as if
they were hired to do it, and were doubtful
Of being paid