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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

Sanford, Myers 4 Co.'S.
brber's sulky Corn Pillow, ct
Sanford, Myers & Goa.
l,thcs Wringcts repsired, st
6aaford, Myers & Cos.
lyden and Grass Seeds, at
Sanford, dyers 4 Cos.
frmers, do You Ssnt TO ao}d your grain
or iqaer priest Store j. with Newman
: ambcrlain.
III often st Wsccoaer ( Co.. Indcpen>
lei, Book Store ani see those beautiful
u NOS y they STRIVE; they don't remain
op
E.aEsDEa fiat Waggoner q Co. keep all
HI ore. new books. They have the best
d. Of in:vrei'aueo0s books ever offered in
d city. We mean what We cay.
florence Sewing Machines at the Bazaar,
f.. Sampson ( Co., Agts.
few and choice Books si0sys to be found
he Bazaar.
The new Kniiia Mover. st
Sanford, Myers & Cos.
Hank Books and all forms Of Blanks at
lB@zsar.
/ he Johnston aalf Rake Reaper, at
Sanford, Myers & Co.'S.
b ine stock Of StereJscores and Views,
yaggonar & Co.'s Independence Book
{e.
Broadcast Seed Sewers, At
Sanford. Myers & Cos.
l. fine assortment OF Photo and Tintype
I,nms. ar low. At Wageoaor & Co.'s.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

Newman & Chamberlain will furnish
ash, wildwood, cherry, Black Walnut or
any other kind of lumber rs cheap as it
can be DO ught anywhere.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

POPULAR REApIEGs.--A number of las
dies and gentlemen were quite informally
invited to step into the Presbyterian Church
on Tuesday, for the purpose of listening to
readings from the poets by Miss Abby +.
Crosby, a talented young lady Of Lowell,
Mass, now visiting friends in this city and
who for some time past has been engaged
teaching classes in elocuton in Dubuque,
with much success. We went, with no ex-
travagant anticipations of enjoyment to be
derived from the performances of tho un>
heralded lady, but we were very agreeably
surprised by the perect rendering Of the
few selections read during the short hour
we were present. Miss Crosby is young
lady of prepossessing appearance and
msnner, with something of the Ristori cast
of head and features possessing not pow
erful bat flexible and pleasing voice, of
graceful carriage, and with undoubied taste
and clear conception of the subjects Of her
readings. Her reading of Longfelow'
Launching of the Ship Whttier's "Bar-
bara Frietche" and that chapter in the
New Testament which extols so eloquently
the virtue of Charity were exceedingly fine
and lent new charms to those beautiful cor.
ceptons. At the close the small audience
unanimously joined in request that Miss
Crosby would set an evening for a public
reading. To this the lady consented and
next Tuesday evening wac fixed az the time
and the Presbyterian Church as the place
The programme will be found in another
place on this page. We cordially recon-
mend our readers to attend, convinced that
they will be afforded an Intellectual trea
not often enjoyed.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

,giat's SuI1g Eay Ease, At
IS. ford, M7ers 3 Co.'S.
IL Excelsior PiGV, 81
Sruic-d, tEyers & Coz.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

-rae br5' snd cheapest Black A!pscas, at
tas aw York Store.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

les~4s.-tH VS. P.rer bought Of Wsg-
,. Il CO vi,i he t-iatued gratis with yeo-
-. Parer Trimmer.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

II You want anything in the lualber line
call on Newman & Chamberlain at tbs
depot, hide pendence.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

CT st tiddelIs store and see those beau
Stifui lsrrraa Prnsr. oaiy l23 eents per yard
Nd G1ycs, only 25 at RidieiFs store
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

biAR1Es for 1859, also Bi4nk Books and
.sl Blsnks, ., HasEoner i Coz.
he beat stock Of Csssim-re8 in the ely
.Ge2tesi E.tinE garments made TO order,
t.rcrs / Mas.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

--iiool rints. 10 cents per yard, at RiddslFs
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

3. TURNER, hEt.
For the vi eler & Wi SON Machine
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

ew stock Of general Ha7ag at
Sanford, Myers & Cos.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20

Fer order KcN, Co. Com.
WIN. TOMAN. Chm.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-08-20
n GY IT ny ~

OF the firm Of l3eiecrbeck Miller, wholesale
grocrs, Davenport, Iowa. saw
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14
Computing Interest.

The commercial editor Of the Chi
cago Evening Jcprnal gives a new
method of computing interest on
any number of dollars at six per
cent, which, SO f4r as il goes, is sim
pie and convenient. We give the
rule below, with additional rules for
computing interest At eight and also
ten per cent. These additions add
triple value to the rule, for the reas>
on that eight and ten per cent, are
used more at tht present time than
six per cent.
Six per cent-Mu';i9ly any given
number Of dollars by tho number of
days of interest desired separate the
right hand figure and divide by six
the result is the true interest on such
sum for such number of days at six
per cent.
Eight per cent-MuItiply any Civ
en- amount by the number of days
upon which it is desired to ascertain
the interest, divide by 40, and the
result will be the interest for the
time required at eight per cent.
Ten per cent-Maltiply the same
as before and divide by 80, and the
result will show the rate Of interest
at ten per cent.
The Journal adds: "This rule is
so simple and 81 true according 10
all business usuages, that every
banker, broker, merchant or clerk
should post it up for reference
There being no such ching as frac,
ton in it, there is scarcely any liza
bility to error or mistake.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14

MASONIC MYsTERIEs.-There is a
smart controversy going on just
now among the Freemasons in Eng
land. A worthy brother, having
spent several years in Australia, has
returned, announcing as the fruit of
his sojourn the discovery of various
ancient mysteries. The Babylonian
and Greek astronomy arc pronounced
to have been organized by Free
masons, and the Assyrian monuments
in the British Meseum to be nothing
but illustrations of the same great
fact. The discoverer, of course, has
not been without the countenance of
some Of the more ignorant, if met
by the contempt of the better in
formed. Some of the Masons are,
however, very indignant at the at
tempt to represent that the key Of
cuneiform and hierogIyphic literature
should be claimed to have been pick
ed up by chance and hidden away
as a Masonic secret; and they call
on the inventor to publish bis con-
tribution, if he have any, to the
stores Of general knowledge, as they
want no covert possession Of it
Athen9um.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14
Learn a Tsads.

1t is a lamentael. fact that GU
American boys are sadly dstoriora
ting in business capacity, on accoun
of the lack of interest hich is mani
tested in their properly qualifying
| themselves for business, before they
start out in the orll f,r themselves
Every boy shnnll qaaiiiy himsel
for some kind OF bn-iness A gooG
trade-that will well discipline him
as regards business habi 5, IS of meal
culable benefit to every boy.
The distractions, som, natural and
some artificial, that are in the way
of apprenticeship, are among the Sc
rious obstacles to material prosperity.
The old familiar rule by which boy
learned good traie, and, alter some
chatting under wholesome discipline,
came out good j,Grney man, has
been almost wholly abandoned, and
the boys that 90 inro mechanical
trades employ homsclges rather up
on that kind of work which suits
their present fancy, aud which will
yield the best immediate rsturn, than
upon that which will qualify them
for excellence in the trade by which
they expect to get their living, and
on which they rely for the means of
advancing themselves
Added to the dlsinclination on the
part of the boys TO regular and Sc
we're training, AMI the willingness of
master workmen to consult the pres.
ent advantage of both rather than
the ultimate good Of the apprentices,
is the combination in many trades
to keep down the number Of appren-
tees, in order to maintain monopoly
of the employment. Many bright
and intelligent boys, fresh from the
common schools, are anxious to learn
trades, which they can enter upon
because those who control them
have limited the number of appren-
tices, not by the demand for employ
ment, not by the inclination of the
young men, but for the single pur-
pose of keeping mp wages.
This artificial way of maintaining
prices, is sure to fall in The end. 1t
is a resistance to the laws of trade.
which grow out OF the laws of nature.
In some way or other, by immigra-
ton or by outside inatruC ton, the
necessary amount OF skilled labor to
meet the legitimate demand of the
community will b provided, and the
continued excluslgenos: of those who
attempt to keep down the supply,
and then to dwarf the growth OF the
country, will leave them in the minor
ity, in the very trades of which they
have attempted to crea . monopolies.
Every America boy has q right to
learn whatever honest trade his own
inclination, under his t:.;hers direc>
ton, may lead HIN n Aud when
he has learned it, any man has right
to offer him emplo mert, add he has
right to accept it. Al combinations
that infringe upon 'nese, are against
the plainest rights O Individuals and
the plalnest interests II the commu.
nifty.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14
A. Pickpocket Dodge.

A few words in regard to favor
ite method adopted by pickpockets,
known as "kuueks," to successfully
ply their nefarious vocation, may
serve to place the public on their
guard against the encroachments of
these light-fngered gentry. Pick
pockets, as general thing are toll
erably we'll dressed, and SO far as
outward appearance is concerned,
might readily pass for gentlem en-
Those of the fraternity who nave
made the profession a sort of science
dress with scrupulous neatness, are
at times exceedingly polite, pleas
ant in speech and affect such unos-
tentiousness that they seldom fail to
make favorable impression upon
society. There arc others who do
not come up to this standard ; they
are simply confederates or ''pals,"
their business being to hide the
plumber "forked" by their superiors.
The favorite resort of tho fraternity
of pickpockcts for tho purpose Of
pursuing their profession was, for
several years, the street cars, gener-
ally those which started from rail
road depots immeditely after the ar
rival of the trains, or at the places
OF amusement ut the time of closing
These thieves would select crowded
cars, and so well arranged we're their
plans that they never came in cons
tact with each other. At the present
time they deviate little from the
old practice. They do not always
select crowded cars. They get on
the rear platforms Of cars very near
ly full, and insist upon standing
there, always being ready with some
plausible excuse, such as ''going to |
get off directly'-''only going q
couple of squares" or 'it's too hot
there" At such q time their plan
of operation is as follows: The car
stops for one or more passengers, |
who have some difficulty in effecting
an entrance. The crowd opens the
way, and as the passenger passes
onward his hat is slightly pushed |
from behind so as to nearly cover
his forehead. This is 80 adroitly ac,
complished by the thief as to throw
the passenger aforesaid off his guard.
He puts his hand up to adjust his
tile, and at the same moment the
scientific ''knuck' relieves him of
his pocket book, or other vsIuables,
which he hands to "pal,' who gets
off and disappears.
The hat-tipping business is quite
favorite practice, although it is not
always attended with success. Per-
sons who meet with such an event.
either in getting on railroad cars, or
while waiting at ticket offices in de-
pots or at places of amusement,
should remember these words of |
caution: In case any one should |
feel his hat move from behind, in
the manner above stated whether
on q crowded platform or any other
place, as already indicated, let the
person Immediately turn around to
the one behind him, and say, "I'm
on that myself" After that he may
feel perfectly safe from further an
noyance on that PhiladeZ- |
phia Bulletin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14

You are the architects of your own

You are the architects of your own
fortunes. Rely upon your own
strength of body and soul. Take
for your motto, self reliance, honesty
and industry for your star, faith
perseverance and pluck, and inscribe
on your banner, "be just and fear
not" Don't take too much advice
Keep at the helm and steer your own
snip. Strike out. Think well of
yoursen. Fire above the mark Won
intend to hit. Assume your nos;tion
Don't practice excessive bp,n;i;tr.
you can't get above your leu.i'
water don't run up hiII-put note.
toes in cart over a rough road and
the small ones will go to the bottom
Energy, invincible determination.
with a right motive, are the levers
that rule the world. The great art
OF commanding 10 to take a fair
share OF the work. Civility costs
nothing and buys everything. Don't
drink don't smoke don't swear;
don't gamble; don't deceive; don't
tattle. Be polite; be generous; be
kind. Study hard I; play hard. Be
n earnest. Be self-reliant. Read
good books. Love your fellow man
Is your God; love your country and
ooey the laws; love truth love
virtue. Always do what your con.
science tells you to be duty. and
cave the consequence with Sod.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14
sEEhEIzss.--VOL. q, NO. Is.


In China man and wife never walk
together arm in arm in public, nor
even side by side, but the vito al.
ways follows her lord at respec>
table distance, as the women do
among the American Indians. At
social parties the sexes sit at differ
ent tables, occupy separate rooms,
and visit only among themselves.
Strangers of opposite sexes are
never introduced, nor do the women
ever speak to tho men, unless rea-
tives or very intimate associates Of
the family. There is no such thing
as social life, in our Sc. 20 Of the word,
among the Chinese. And all other
social aud domestic theories and
practices are based on the ideas of
woman's inferiority and insignifi-
canoe. She is regarded only as a
servant and underling, and in no
sense fit to be companion and equal
OF man. She feels her inferiority,
and in the main submits cheerfulIy
to her fate.
The idea OF "woman's rights" has
never entered her mind. So thor
oughly in this feeling of inferiority
ingrained in her nature that, in the
only book ever produced in China |
by female author, the proposition
is gravely stated and deliberately
argued and Illustrated, that "woman
was made for the same purpose that
tiles are-tor men to tread upon"
They are astonished to see the free |
dom and equality allowed between
the sexes among Europeans, and |
argue strenuously against it, and, |
when vanquishcd in the argument,
they reply with their usual stubbor,
ness and pertinacity "May be good |
for Merican man for Shina man no |
good" Since the coming Of Euro>
pean ladies into China, some of their |
own women have begun to entertain
some little idea of their rights, and |
it has now become a proverb among |
the men that the most dangerous |
things that can be imported into |
China are foreign women and foreign |
Yet, on the whole, the |
weaker sex are rather kindly treated |
and, in general, are not much abused. |
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14
The Greed for Money.

The editor of the New York Star
has recently INDUCED in the hazard
Gus and exciting speculations OF
Wall and Broad streets, with hand
some return for his audacity in thus
venturing outside of professional
haunts. He, therefore, cannot be
accused of envy or disappointment
when he gives the following rap at
the men of the above named streets.
He says:
'Intemperance in drink is not the
only excess of which the young men
Of New York need be afraid. There
is an i1temperate love of money!
restless desire for suddenly obtained
wealth-which is almost as pernic-
Gus, and frequently as fatal, as the
drunkard's cup. The reckless habits
engendered, encouraged and matured
by the rush and excitement OF the
war time are fastened upon the pres
ent generation of business men TO an
astonishing, deplorable degree
The old fashioned slow and sure modes
of business are laughed at by the
twenty five-year-old merchant, who
could teach his grandfather many
things, and reveal TO his old employer
tricks of trade which would make
him faint with amazement. Every
afternoon scores OF coupes stand on
Wall and Broad streets waiting for
custom, and along toward five or six
o'clock they roll rapidly up town
1t is amusing TO look at and in them.
Young men, with wild eyes and flush
ed cheeks, lie back upon the cushion
ed seats, tired out witt excitement
half used up at twenty-five, blase at
thirty. The life they lead is tull of
anxiety full of turmoil They are
seeking for money, not for business.
They do not care to build up great
bouses, whose names shall be honor
ed in the community, bat rather to
make their pile and cut away from
the street. Nowadays there are
no boys, no young men they are all
brokers, merchants, dealers. Look
at the Wall street youth Of twenty.
Good heavens how he putfs and
fumes about his securities, his stocks
and bonds, his customers, and specula
tors. Boys who ought to be in school,
are sharpening their wits upon each
other before they are fifteen, and it's
no uncommon matter to find mature
brokers of twenty four or five VIII
have seen it all, made their cool
hundred thousand and lost it, with
several more that didn't belong to
them. Every man is in the race for
money, and so far as outsiders can
see, its a grab game, in which lout,
who knows nothing, is quite as likely
to get the prize as the man who care
fully studies and ponders the situa>
ton, and goes in on a plan"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14

THE Wool CLIP OF 1869.-The re-
turns of the wool clip for this season
have just been made, from which we
ascertain that the entire number of
sheep in the United States is SO, 000,>
900. One>half of these are kept in
seven States, Ohio taking the lead,
producing nearly one sixth of all the
wool in he country. Michigan
shows third in the list and this is all
the more'gratifying, as it is only within
a few years that our farmers have
turned their attention to sheep~rais-
ing. The total amounts produced in
the principal wool growing States
are as follows:
Ohio, 6,73O,126, New York 1876
824. Mich gan 3,948, 1911, Pennsylva.
MIA 3.442, 002, Indiana 1882, f76, IL
linois 2,736, 431, Iowa 2,201.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14

Mrs. STANTON ON LADY BYRON
Mrs. Stanton said, there is Just one
drop OF poison in Mr.. Tilton's speech
that remark Of his that he wished
Mrs. Stowe could keep a secret
Whether what she did was in good
taste | shall not discuss, but this |
will say that what Mrs. Stowe did
was IN defense Of one of the noblest
women that ever trod the earth. |
knew Lady Byron intimately when
| was in England, and | can declare
that she bore her sorrows with q
heroism that is worthy the admira-
ton and honor Of her sex. 1t is a
good example to us. The moment
Byron is attacked every literary man
rushes to arms to defend him, and
to-day the press of this country is
united together in bounding a woman
OF whom America may well be proud.
1t is one fault of all degraded classes,
that they are not true to each other,
and that is one great difficulty in the
way of elevating women; but [ want
every woman to make it her duty
to stand true to her own sex. Let
US love the sinner, even If we hate
the sin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14
GEA. CORRESPONDENT writing fror

GEA correspondent writing from
DEBORAH to the Davenport iowa
Journal, tells the following horrible
story of death: ga little lad, Robert
Clark, aged ten years, ran out in the
field near his fathers home, in Frank,
lin, in this county, when he was Bit
ten by one of the thrusts of rattle.
snake. He started to run, but the
snake hung to him. In the struggle
the little fellow was bitten efeVen
times on the leg below the ankle
the snake hung to the last bite; and
the frightened child climbed fence
and kicked the snake off with his
other foot. He then started for
home and before he reached home he
had fit. His parents did every
thing that could be done to save him.
Medical aid was summoned ard ex-
hausted. The child died. In the
last hours of his suffering he would
run his tongue out at his mother,
spit at the attendants, and hiss like
snake, besides having awful cons
vulsions and heart>rending delirium.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14
MORTALITY AMONG MopNoNs 4

MORTALITY AMONG MoRMoNs.-As
might be expected, the mortality
among Mormon children is frightful.
The Polygamists are like the old
women who lived in shoe, and did
not know what to do with their
many children at any rate they do
notproperly care for them. Of sixty
deaths in Salt Lake City in month,
forty~four were children. Heber
Kimball is reported to have buried
forty-eight children out of sixty
three in his collections one bishop
had lost twenty children; another,
twenty-eight another seventeen.-
Joseph Smith had six wivcs, but left
only two sons. The death rate
among Mormons of all ages is said to
he greater than that of this City or
New Orleans, and even twice as that
of Oregon.-N Y. Post.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14

John Smelling of Jasper Co.,
Ind, who had been "deaf as an adj
der" for nearly twenty years, was
suddenly cured the other day by an
accidental fall of twenty feet from q
hay-mow. He broke an arm, but
found his hearing as good as the best,
and is satisfied with the result.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14

EE-The boat race between the
Oxford and Harvard crews, was
wen by the former. Distance, four
miles and half; time % 40. The
Harvards were ahead for the first
half of the distance, but the Oxfords
passed them and won by four
lengths.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14

There has been unusual activity
in all the navy yards eff the country
during the past Two montcs, and it
is reported that all seaworthy vessels
are now ready for sea. All officers
of the Navy have received ordero to
hold themselves in readiness for inn
mediate service,