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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-12-31
How Shall we Keep Our Fowls.

This is question which concerns
thousands at this season. A snpl IL
OF fresh eggs is a gre It addition to
onr kitchen economy, and IA most
agreeable one to onr table. Fresh
eggs for breakfast all the wear round
is decidedly Uptopian. In the first
place we must provide light and air.
Windows are absolutely necessary on
the south side of the hennery, SO that
the winters sun can be made avail
able for warmth All the scraps and
soap-erease of the kitchen can be re-
turned to us in the shape of fresh
evgs, and will greatly lessen the ex-
ueuse of feeding the hers. They
suust have animal food, When the
ground is open, and worms abundant,
they are as well supplied as though
they dined OH roast-bcef and mutton
bet in vii ter it must be given to them.
All the bones lett from the table, the
bits Of fat, the scrapin"s of the plates,
,tc., should be treasured for their use.
Keep an old kettle on the back of the
stove, turn all slops into it, even cot
fee grounds, and when well-heated,
feed it. At noon tine, it can be Civ
en- smoking hot, and quite watery-
the warm drink helps to supply the
carbon they need. Where beef's
liver can be cheaply obtained, it
makes excellent food; chop it fine,
and they will eat it grecdily. Keep
box filled with gravel, ashes, old
p,aster, Stacked lime or oyster shells
even hard-coal ashes will not come
amiss-for hens must have food need
i'll to form egg-shells, else they will
drop them shellless.
For grain, we think mixture is
* the most profitable. Sweepings
from the grist-mill do very well-oa,s
corn and rye ground together coarse
~, make good food. Hens desire va
ricty-will not lay eggs on one kind
Of nutriment.
Where oil cake and scrap cakes
can be purchased, they are the
most desirable food. They come in
= solid mass and are not wasted.
l,one-manurc is excellent to 60 with
craps. TO this diet add coarse corn
h1mirv, and you will never complain
hat hers are not worth their feed.
Cleanliness is all mportant-th the
nenhoase should be whi.cwa>hcd witt,
hot lime, spring and fall. and the
poles on which they roost should be
covered with Kerosene oil every
month or two. These precautions
are needful to destroy tie insects
which will breed in such places.
Pare warm water in iron basins, with
8 bit Of birthstone in the basin, should
b. Even every morning, but n al.
loved to freeze. If the chickens arc
LEX, give them soap-wlls made o
: Ysij,w bar-soap; this acts like CA
.stic. If chile |, give pepper-corn,
two OF them il the chickens arc
iree-or hot milk and pepper ca,
H. turned down the neck with Tea
spoon
\ hen increases in The amount 81
egas she lays until four years old
then she is only fit for chicken broth
We would not enter into a discus
sion upon the merits Of difftreo,
breeds, nor, would we pay twelve
dollars pair for novcliies. Tho
white Leghoins are our G,vori,cs
their eggs are large, their chickens
grow raplll,, and thcir flesh is ten
Ter and Of delicious flavor.
The Brah,na Pootras Tor Byuu7
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-12-31

The Pail Mall Gazette says: " On,
of the most picturesque elements o
country life is doomed. Hay-makinG
is about to go to the fail, the thatch
ed cottage root, and the hedgerow
elm. The long desired apparatus fol
artificially drying grass and corn ap
pears to be now at last within the
reach of the enlightened agriculturiSt.
According to Mr.. Nechi, who has ex-
pounded the process in letter to the
Times, and has himself witnessed the
operation for two seasons, the new
invention leaves not to be desired.
The grass is carried from the field as
it is mown, and subjected to a blast
of hot air, by the action of large
fan, worked either by steam or horse
power. The hot air is generated by
Il coke furnace, and is simply drawn
outwards by revolving tan, instead
Of being allowed to pass up the chin
ney. In about ten minutes, the moist
grass is converted into hay Of the
best quality, as Mr.. Mechi and sun
drv other farmers testify.
"The value of the invention-al-
ways supposing there are serious
bitches in the carrying it out-can
scarcely exaggerated. 1t is not mere
y that the cost Of hay making will
be materially lessered, even in fine
weather. The Invention makes the
farmer abs lu ely Independent of the
weather, and taking one year with
another, will save the country an
enormous loss in inferior, damage
and destroyed hay. Its use in secur
ing second crops will be even more
Important than from the ordinary frs
crop. Farmers natu ally take little
pains to produce this second crop, in
The extreme uncertainty of the late
Summer or Autumnal veat er, when
the nights are damp and long, and
the driving process in the fields is cs.
nprially hazardous. But here, once
morr,wc are brought face to face with
the great manure question. Pasture
lands may now be flooded with tor
rent of sewage again and again, to
force trcs! crop OF grass, for CONVEX.
sion into hay, two, or even three times
4 wear
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-12-31
Holiday Recipcs.

An Oyster Eie.-Make light puff
paste dough; cover it, and set in a
cold place an hour; line drum
shaped mould with the paste; brush
the edge next to the bottom on the
inside, with the white of en- egg lay
upon the bottom piece of the dough
rolled round to fit, and let it turn up
half an inch upon the inside; press
it against the sides upon which tho
white OF the egg ia, SO as to cemen,
them together Lay across the top
of the mould, crossed different di
rections, large broom straws. washed
clean. This will support the lid, an|
prevent its falling in. While the
pastry is baking, get the oysters
ready; put enough to fill the mould il
a stew-pan; they must be well covered
with their own liquor. Crate in tht
yolks Of two hard boiled eggs; rul
into large tablespoonful of fresl
butter a desert spoonful OF -four; pu
this to the oysters. Stew five or 81,
minutes. or until the oysters bceil
to shrink add a wineglass of rich
sweet cream. AS soon rs the monlt
is ready, take off the top crust re
move the pastry from the mould, ant
put it in a handsome circular, dee
dish. Pour in the oysters; replac
the top crust, and serve hot. 1t lef
standing too long, the bottom crus
will imbibe so much of the gravy a
to make it heavy and sodden. Som
persons like this pie seasoned will
lnace-use it if relished. Instead 0
the straws to support the lid of tn
mould, slices of light bread are some
times used to fill il. When the crus
is, done, remove the bread and poun
it fine for soups, pudding, etc, etc
Send part of the gravy to table in
gravy-boa,, using only enough in tn
pie to moisten the meat well.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-12-31

We propose to show better assortme mt OF
Hoop Skirts, Hosiery and Corssts and at cheap
er prices than were ever before offered in hide
nendencs. allowing the ladies to be the judges.
First door wost Of Montour House.
TURNER 4 MELLLNI
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-12-31

For Medicinal, Mechanical, Culiuaty, and
Sacramento purposes only, cen be purchased
there.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-12-31
Administrators Notice.

NJ Office is hereby given to all persons in
IN terestcd, that on the 18th day of Septem
Der, A. D. 1869, the undersigned was appoints
ed by the Circuit Court of Buchanan County,
Iowa, Administrator of the Estate OF Lewis
Morgan, deceased, late of said county. All
persons indebted to said Estate will make pay
ment to the undersigned, and those having
claims against the same will present them le-
galiy authenticated to said Court for allowance.
J. c, NEEDY, Admir-.
Dated Sept. Is, 1869. 12>4w
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-12-31
Look to Your Titles =!
w. G.. & J. B. DOMAIN.
OWNERS OF
Complete Abstract
OF ALL
Titles Of Lands and Village Lots,

"A
Arc prepared to give prompt and reliable infor-
nation relating to the title Of any real proper
ty in the County.
The Abstract consists of set of books which
show the Original Entry of each scprate tract
of land, and every subsequent conveyance of
the same, the kind of Decd, whether full War
ranty, Special Warranty or Quit Claim, with
any and all imperfeetions in description, form
or acknowledgment carefully noted; also all in
eumbranccs, including Mortgages, Bonds, Trust
Deeds Life Leases, Tax Titles and Tax Sales,
and Judgment Liens. 1t is surely wisdom
the part of the purchaser.to know what the title
Of his land is before he purchases and thus avoid
any trouble in the future.
Several th ousand acres of wild land several
Valuable Improved Farms For Sale,
in different parts of the County. Also number
of Lots and Dwellings in the Town of hides
pendcncc.
". G.. 4 J. B. DOMAIN.
Pensions, md all kinds of War Claims, col
ected promptly. nln
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24

CONGRESS, with view to the eternal
fitness of things, has made on appropria-
ton of sl400 for soap and combs used in
the past two years by the members. This
amount, fairly apportioned, will give to
each member about four dollars and a
half, with which to keep him in clean
and presentable condition. A very lib
eral allowance, certainly, but then it
must be remembered that it is an unclean
body--that, if reports are true, 1t will re-
quire a good deal of soap and washing
to have all the members do legislative
duty with clean hands In this connec-
ton, we suggest that the Tennessee dele
CATION have double allowance; and, if
possible, that the roseate Mullins, the
immaculate Arnell, and the efervescing
Stokes be appropriated liberal quantity
of perfume. The quintessence OF "Leb-
anon cedars" would be most fitting for
Mullins the efluvia Of Duncan letters"
would answer for Stokes, and as for Ar
pell-well, we give itup.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24

hanging over US unpaid. The aristo'
cratic and privileged bondholders would
be as RI 9acious as now for their per cent
and like Shylock, would arrogantly de-
mand their "pound of flesh" because
twas nomination. the bond"
We must stop the interest. 1t can be
done by disposing of and liquidating the
principal. Necessity demands that we
should collect no more taxes than will
Just defray an economical administration
of the Government. A powerful nation
like ours sheuld not be tributary to few
thousand security-holders for the means
to pay its expenditures--they being PEN
sioners upon its bounty at the same time.
These bondholders must hasten to make
the best terms they can with the people,
who cannot satisfy their avaricious de-
mands without being ground into the
deepest slough of poverty and oppres-
sion. The welfare Of the nation is GER
tainly more important than the Interest
of few individuals.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24
CONGRESSIONAL.

WASHINGTON, February %. = Senate.
The President presented a communica.
ton from the Attorney General in re-
sponso TO a resolution asking for infor-
nation 10 rels.i9n to persons convicted
Of violating the internal revenue laws.
Ga motion Of Mr.. Stewart, the oonsli-
iutional amendment was taken up. Mr..
Stewart moFed to disagree with TIE
House amendment, aud ask for q COM
mitee of conference.
Mr.. Davis moved TO postpone this aud
~ prior orders for the purpose Of taking
up the bill to repeal ibe Tenure-of-0iice
act. Lost-yess IA, nays 26. Mr. Sew
ards motion then carried yeas 80,
nays -.
The bill to supply Deficiencies FOR fall
fll'nga certain iudian treaty passed.
Bile we're passed authorizing certain
National banks to change their names.
aud auiborizing the Western Union Tel
egraph Company 10 import free Of duty
their eablsF.
Tomorrow at 1870 wss assigned for
consideration Of the lOiEt resolution TO
provide for reporting and printing the
proceedings Of Congress
A bill to amend the judicial system Of
the Uuited States, was, on motion Of Mr..
Trumbull, taken up and passed 10 ihe
exact form reported from the Judiciary
Committee on the third instant
NJ Wilson, from Committee on Mill
tary Affairs, reported. without amend
ments, the bill continuing the Educs-
iiosbl and Collection Departments Of the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24
County Commission

EDITeR LEDGER: 10 answer to G
call upon me in your issue of the
23d instant 10 become candidate
for County Commissioner at the Ell
ensuing election, and signed Many
Taxpayers" allow me 10 reply through
your columns to MANY Taxpayers.
Ny name is at your command, and il
elected Twill serve you TO the best of my
ability. / will promise You nothing but
what / will endeavor to perform. To
Retrench will be my motto from the first
day of my election. And not being Bit
terly opposed to The county of Shelby,
having lived in said county for the last
twenty years, and her interests being my
interests, she being in form as itwere the
golden goose, and which it,appears, by
the way, that the scrip that she has is
sued has Auciuated up and down, ranging
from thirty-6ve to seventy-fve cents, and
some times ninety-fve cents, and at par
but not since the poor magistrates we're
turned away from il by an act of the Leg
islature at Nashville; and it now must
appear to any taxpayer that there is or
has been terrible pluckiDg of that goose
the County Treasury-and that it is
we'll nigh plucked out, and nothing left
but the body with all the golden feathers
gone. Gone where? Into the hands of
the money mongers, bankers and stock
iobbers; and they almost think that
Shelby county and. the city of Memphis
are inexhaustible like the United
States Treasury at Washington, on
the issning of bonds and scrips, etc.,
and working upon the suggestion of q
good and q wise alderman from the
Eighth Ward, when he stated in the
Council Chamber, Beware, gentlemen;
| never knew q man that was too fond of
sending his notes to market that did not
90 TO grass himself If elected ! pro-
pose to put a stop to all this issuing Of
bonds and scripf, aud making ell the
taxpayers pay in Treasury notes of the
United States or gold and silver, and
paying OF the indebtedness of the
county in the sane kind of money.
Not Jurors, with county warrant, dollar
for dollar, worth only from thirty-hve TO
seventy FIVE cents, after pairing it, should
be driven close and said warrant paid
back to the county By some sharper, dol
lar for dollar; and, when all this is done,
there will be no bringing men from New
York upon charges Of forging county
warrants or coupons | promise you
this, aud any one that knows Esquire
Hall, for the last tgenty years, knows
that what be promises be will en6eayor to
have accomplished.
Hnmblv. JAMES HALL, ESQ.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24
Excitement i'm Cuba.

New YORK, February PA Havana
dispatch says great excitement prevails,
relative to the announcement Of two IRON
clads at Key West.
Dulce's address says military courts
are established, and that their decisions
will be carried out
Three thousand Spanish troops have
left for the interior of Cuba.
Thirty-sx sugar-cane fields in one dis
trict, and several whole plantations, have
been destroyed by the insurgents
Two thousand and FIVE hundred men
have sailed from Neuvetas to operate
against the rebels at Guinja and Puerto
Principe.
A new port duty is hereafter to be
levied on products ofthe Island, in order
to increase the revenues aud to meet the
extraordinary expenses Of the war.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24

prove but temporary in a region where
agricultural labor is so much in demant
and lowell compensated
A careful examination of the subjec
appears to show that the present low
price of copper, which alone has induced
any depression the mining interests o.
Lake Superior have experienced, is due
to causes which it is wholly impolitic, il
not impracticable, to contravene by legis
lation. The causes are in the main the
increase in the general supply of copper,
owing to the discovery and working oil
remarkably productive mines, and to q
coincident reduction in the consumption
and use of copper by the substitution Of
other and cheaper metals for industrial
purposes.
It is now thought to resist, by artificial
means, the action of natural causes; to
place the people of the United States, in
respect TO the enjoyment and use. of an
essential commodity, on different basis
from other nations, and especially to
compensate certain private and sectional
interests for changes which are always
coincident to industrial progress. Al
though providing for an increase of
duties, the proposed law does not even
come within the range of protection in
the fair acceptation of the term.
1t does not look to fostering young
and feeble interest with view to its
ultimately obtaining the strength and
capacity of self-support. II appears to
assume that the inability for successful
production is inherent and permanent
and more likely to increase than to be
gradually overcome. Yet in spite of
this it proposes, by the exercise of the
law-making power, to sustain that inter-
est and impose it in hopeless perpetnity
as tax upon the competent and beneti-
cent industries Of the country.
The true method for the mining inte-
rests of Lake Superior to obtain relief,
if needed, is to endesvor to make their
great natural resources fully available by
reducing the cost of production. Special
or class legislation cannot remedy
the evil which this bill is designed
to meet. They can only be overcome by
laws which will effect wise, honest,
and economical administration of the
Government, among which are the
establishment of the specie standard
of value aud the early adjustment
of our State, municipal, and national
taxation, especially the latter, on the
principle that all taxes, whether collected
under internal revenue or under tariff,
shall interfere as little as possible with
the productive energies of the people.
This bill is therefore retuhed, in the
belief that the true interests of the Gov
eminent and the people require that it
become law.
1Signed1 ANDREW JOHNSON.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24
THE NErrIE JONES SEIZED.
a..en sa., at M. Dirty work

Claytan Gsilt AT His Dirty Work.
Last night the steamr.ug Aettie Jones,
belonging to Brown & Jones, of this city,
was seized at DuvalPs Bluff, Arkansas,
by the United States Marshal. Itsppears
from dispatches received By the owners
Of the boat the Marshal vas acting IN
der orders from Governor Clayton. II will
be remembered that the tug was seized
last fall by a party Of men from Arksu-
sas, Eho captured the steamer Hesper,
and destroyed The arms aud ammunition
belonging to Gov. Clayton. The seizure
of the Nettie was probably made in con-
sequence Of that affair. Clayton is still
at his dirty work,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24
View York Cotton Market.

Special 10 PUBLIC LEDGER, bySouthern Pacific
and Atlantic Telegraph.l
EEw YORK, February "a, 1890 am
Uplands-Ordinary, I'll good ordinary,
%; low middIinV, %; middling. 294i
good midding, 300. FIorida-Ordinary
2Ti good ordinary, %; low middling
20; middling, 29i good middling, 300
Mobile-0rdinary, 27f; good ordinary
2st; low middling, 2sf middliDg, So
good middliug, 81. New Orleans and
Texas-Ordinary, 21i; good ordinary
2si; low middliDg. 29s; middling, S0t
good midding, 3lt. Market dull and
nominal IN price. The decline in gold
has depressing effect on the market.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24

TIE public debt Of the natiau presents
a monstrous face when we attempt to
realize it in all its proportions If we
take the New York Tribune as authority
on the subject, we may well be appalled,
at it's oppressive enormiiy. That jour-
nal says that 1--WE paid last year more
than $40, 900, COO for the interest on the
public debt" and adds that next year
we ought not to pay less tbaa $l75, O0O,-
OOO."
Considered properly, this immense
sum, if paid within the present year,
would be thrown away; it would not re-
duee the DEBT single cent Year after
year we would be subjected 10 the same
sum. And in less than two decades we
should have paid an amount. 10 interest,
more than equal to the principal Of the
debt as it exists at the present time. The
interest upon the debt ia dead loss; il
does not reduce the principal; itconfers
no behft upon the people; it brings rs
nothing in The wsy improvements; and
If we continue to pay that amount Of 10
teIess each year, for tho next century, We
still will have he black cloud Of debt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24
The sherman.Dempsey squabbIc.

New YORK. February "a 1t is stated
that Rev. Mr.. Sherman, who was Kissed
in Washington for denouncing the Presi-
dent for pardonirg Dempsey, sent note
to Dempsey yesterday inviting him to
bring his threatened eowwha;;aass &c S Shhc.E
mans room and try it upon him, guar
anteeiug that there should never be any
legal difficulty. Dempsey ascer.ainiDR
that Sherman vas formerly an English
army officer and nov a fighting parson,
declined the invitation.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24
Special Notices.

A Man Of Thousand--A Consumptivs
Cured. -DR. II. JAMES, a retired Physician
Of great emincnce, discovered while in the East
indies. cure fer Consumption and Bronchitis.
The remedy was discovered by him when his
cured, and Is now alive and we'll He will send
therecipc. containing full directions for making
and successfully using this remedy. free. on re-
ceipt OF two stamps to paw expenses. There Is
not single symptom of Consumption that II
Night swents. peevishness. irritation of the
nerves, failure of memory, difficult expectora-
ton. sharp pains in the lungs, sore throat.
chilly sensations, nausea Mt the stomach, inac-
- The writer will please state the name Of
the paper they see this advertisement in. Adj
dress CRADD0CK u CO..
81 1882 Race st.. PhiladelphiA. Penn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24
Suit Against Ex.secretary of War,
DaBa-seward 10 Seek Retirement
on the 4th of March.

New YoRK, February "a. = In the
United States Circuit Court a suit has
been commenced against Charles A.
Dana, ex-Assisiait Secretary of War, on
The complaint OF I. B. Lamar, for false
arrest aad Imprisonment.
Secretary Seward, In letter TO The
Albany military corps, in which he de-
clines receiving them on the 4th Of
March, says 1t is my purpose to seek
and enjoy hereafter so much Of rest and
freedom from perpetual studies and la
bors as is compatible with the RESPONSE
bilities in which share in common with
nay fellow-citizsns.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24

LIVERPOOL, February "a, ll:l5 AM
The marke, opened quiet, but prices M
changed middling uplands, I'D to l2sdi
Orleans, 124j to l1oi; estimated sales foI
the dsy, Is 600 bales.
/ Market fat; middling mp.
lands, ia; Orleans, l2tj; sales will
reach 1000 bales.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24
me NashviIIe Republican hammer

A LIVE. NEwsY. ENTERTAINING AND
n reliable Commercial and Family NeWspa-
per. published at the Capital Of Tenncssee. is
the largest. completcst and fullest newspaper
published IN the state. Itoroughly Demo-
cratic and independent In tone. and earnestly
devoted 70 the development Of the resources 81
the Southwest and 10 the interests and welfare
81 Southern people. Daily, $40 per annum +;
Ifi-We KY. - per annum Weekly. 81 per an
gettcr up Of a club Of ten, With the cash. Ad-
dress "kEPUBLICAN BANNER" Nashville.
Tenn 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-24
BY T E L E G R AP q
LATEST TO NOON TO-DAY.

Supreme COurt Decisions I'm North
Carolina.
RALEIGH, February 24.-The decision
OF the Supreme Court, adverse to the
Chatham road appropriation, is pub
lished to-day. This has the effect TO re-
duce the State debt many Millions. The
Court also declares the stay law uncon-
stitutional.