Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1868-12-25

Egypt has in operation FIVE Hundred ard
Fifty -6ye miles Of railway.
General Grant and Schuyler Colfsx are
both Of Connecticut descent
General Rosecrans, our Minister 70 Nexi-
CO, was received With grea; honors 8; Vera
Cruz.
Rochester female college Il hasisg larys
green >hoase built, ard is to hare profess
orxbip Of gardening endowed.
Loafers in Elmira, New York, are called
By the local paper what theJ are anywhere
frank weeds Of humanity"
Earthquakes we're Of frequep. occurrence
in Ne. Eneiahd during the frs, century ar
ter iIs settlement by the Purissns-
The artesian veil IT the new Ccuntv In
sane Asylum. four miles from s.. Louis, is
now the deepest IN the world, being nearly
$500 feet deep.
Alexander Dumas made rs, 900 francs IN
one rear, and 100000 francs during The
last 45 years Of his literary life in Para
kellogg, ~bo painted the If siss po4rsi.
Of Chief justice fancy. has been commis-
stoned to perform . similar service for chsei
Justice Chase.
The " Tennessee Xounds- are being ex.
plored. and hnmAn remains Of pottery. shell
ornaments, yases and stone iloIs discover.
ed.
The manv varieties Of Alaskan birds are
most beautiful in p,Gmage. Two thousand
specimens are on their way hither for -1a-
seums.
A shopkeeper in Illinois recently fxei a
postoi ib bis money drawer, SO as 10 shoot Z
suspected siil-.apPer and the srss man i
shot VAS himself
A couple Of parents in England recenils
hanged their daughter because she persisted
in receiving the addresses o. young nan
they di.iiked.
\ number Of valuable harbors hare been
found in Alaska. that were not laid down in
the old charts. That icy country viii turn
out an Eden, ere icng.
Official reports of Chicago shos that the
CITY has now 5G3 miles Of sidewalk; 20s
miles Of water pipes. and l07 miles of sew.
crs.
Mother. Biekerdyeke the famous hos.
pital nurse of the Wes,.rn armies during the
war. is keeping a hotel at Salira. one Of til.
western stations on the Kansas Paciac rail,
read.
There are nearly FIVE hundred vessels O
all kinds. wintering a; Chicago. Classified
they are: steamers, Is propeilers. Al
tugs. 40 canal boats, 362 sail vessels,
lighters and bsrges. More Of nearly al
these cases arc expected before nasigatior
is closed.
Psm. Boilnshrok, Chatham. and Bright
are said by Goldwin Smith to be tie foui
great orators of English history
The armies Of Europe are composed O
2.557,4:o soldiers in active service and GIL
393 drilled reserves.
General Grant is about TO place one O
his sons at Harvard University.
Mr.. Sims Reeves indorses tie demand.ha
the English orchss,ras shall lower their pitC h
and says he will not sing where it is ro
done.
Dr. Arthur E. Pst,icolas, superintendent Of
a lunaiic asylum near Richmond, caushl
the disease and jumped from window, Kill.
ing himself.
The Freeman's ynrnal, a leading Ro.
man Cathode organ in New York, come,
on, strongly in favor of woman suffrage.
]. NJ. May, proprietor of the Frtanesfrn
Adrance, temperance paper, at GAINESVILLE
is about to move il to Milwaukee. MAJ
seems determined to beard the lion in biz
| den.
IT is stated tha. there are now over three
hundred graduates Of female medical col,
leges in active practice in the United States
some Of whom are in the receit of 81 Ia, ,00C
per annuu from their profession.
James Buchanau's monument is to be a
solid block of Italian marble, Eve feet high
seven feet one inch long, and three feet sev,
en- inches wide, with heavy moldings at the
top and bottom, and . rich carved wreath oi
oak leaves.
Colfax is popular with Mrs. C.
J. G. Holland will winter in Dresden.
Wise 10 writing an autobiography for the
foolish.
Fletcher is back from Brazil with more
lectures.
The Island City (wis.) Times says 40
immense collection-,hree wagon loads OF
books and papers of the late Governor Do,y
was carted from his residence to the Neenah
paper mill.
George A. Stnars, formcly President OF
the Christian Commission, says: "Afier
Gc.tysburgh telegrsphed to Boston " Can
l draw on you for $4,000 on sight. l,
was stuck up in Exchange. The merchants
al once formed in line 10 put down their
subscriptions. In half an hour the answer
came. Draw for 100000"
How i'll white hairs become fool and
jestsr,n said Henry Nv. How i'll, indeed, they
become any one when RArretl's Vegeta.
ble hair Restorative" occasionally applied
viii keep the hair as fresh and glossy in old
age as in youth. TO this valuable article
was awarded the only prize medal over al
comPetiors.-n ni> States Union.
The minutest fossil horse vet dis
covered, was lately found by Prof o
C. Marsh. Of Yale College, in the ter
tary deposits Of Nebraska. Although
full grown rs the ossi6cation OF til,
various bones prove, it is ouly abou
two feet hiyh. This makes the seven