Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-12-23
DUBUQUE, Dec, II, 1870.

DUBUQUE, Dee, II, 1870.
EDITOR BULLETIN What a
CHEEKY interval We are having be
tween Thanksgiving and the Holt
days. Autumn has long since de-
parted, but in leaving, she seems to
have left a shred of her glory upon
the bleak mantle of December. Sun
day last, the clouds were shorn Of
their fleece by the wind, anil this
fleeing has been continued by fits
and starts to this date, but as yet
the yield has not been generous
enough to warrant sleighing, al
though there has been a crust of ice
on the still water Of the ponds and
sloughs on which the skaters have
exercised themselves for week or
two past. Navigation did not
actually close until last week, but
at present writing all the river boats
have gone into winter quarters.
Speaking of navigation, the head
quarters of the Northwestern Pack
ct Co, has been changed from St.
Paul to St. Louis.
Business in Dubuque keeps pace
with the season of the year, all is
hurry and hustle, preparing for the
holidays. Merchants are getting
on unusually large stocks, and
the show-windows of toy-shops are
being re-arranged so rs to make as
tempting a display as possible,
every one of which we think have
supply sufficient to carry the joys
Of a merry Christmas to untold num-
bcrs of pampered youngsters.
One of those strange incidents of
fatality to which mankind are sub
iect, occurred in this city on Monday
last. DIR. Telling, of Richmond, ar
rived in Dubuque last week, and put
up at the Julien House. Soon after
his arrival he complained of being
unwell, and kept his bed until Mon
day, on which day he went out
around town, and visited the store
af Mr.. r. Dunn, an acquaintance of
his. After staying in the store
some time, conversing with Mr..
Dunn, he suddenly fell from his
chair and expired. An inquest was
subsequently held on the body and
a verdict Of death by apoplcxy
rendered. DR.. feeling was a large,
fine looking man, and from all that
can be ascertained, Of good repute
in the Catholic church, with which
his labors were connected. Pre-
vious to his arrival in this city he,
had been engaged at the South as
teacher of theology, and visited the
North for his health.
The water works project has been
revived, and new company formed
in the ruins Of the old one. The
new company is composed of J. w.
Parker, II. w. Clark, n. w. Kim
ball, r. S. Gibbs. The city council
at their recent session passed an or
dinancc, giving the company the
right to construct and operate water
works in this city for a term of fifty
years, providing that not less than
seventy-five hydrants shall be at
tached and kept in repair by the
company. There were various 9th
err provisions ofthc ordinance, which
are too lengthy to include in this
paragraph.
Fires have become of such fire.
quent occurrence in this city of late,
that the authorities have had their
suspicious aroused that they were
the work of some more mcthodical
agent than "mere accident" Ac-
cordingly, after a recent fire on
Main street, which was discovered
in time to prevent serious damage,
an investigation was instituted to
trace it's origin, and it was found
that the proprietor of the building,
a certain Schmidt, who used it fol
the sale of ardent spirits-and VIC
presume he oftentimes "sold' kind
red spirits, not particularly noted
for their ardency-was at the
bottom of the whole affair, having
arranged his insurance to suit him
self. he also arranged his kindling
slivers to yield net profit, but the
lob was "done" too brown. The
case is now up for examination, and
the gentleman will probably have to