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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-25
TaXes---AEOw are dile People
Bear Them

The Kinds County Gazette publishes
two thirds of closely printed page of
advertisements of sales of property due
for taxes in Kinds county. The sales
are to be made on the LIST of September
The list contains the names of many of
the most worthy, and hitherto solvent
citizens of the county, who have been UNI
able to pay their taxes, and will, we fear,
be compelled to witness the sacrifice of
their property under the Sheriff's ham,
ner. Special taxes have been piled up
on the State tax until the aggregate sum is
enormous. But it is trifing compared to
the new law, which requires that another
collection should be made on the 1st of
November next.
If the people have found it hardship
to pay their taxes once a year what is to be
their condition when a collection is re-
newed under a more stringent and bur-
densome law, in the fall ? They will not
/ be able to meet the demand. Cotton has
fallen to an Unexpectedly low price, with
no prospect of ralIying to the figures up
on which the yearly expenses Of produ-
GERS have been incurred, and in many in
stances crops are mortgaged for supplies.
1t is impossible to suggest a measure OF
relief under the circumstances. The
taxes were imposed, and their speedy col.
lection ordered, by the cormorants who
are preying on the vitals of the State;
and there is no probability that they will
abate one jot or title Of their demand
They passed the law for enriching them
selves, without reference to the bank
rupt and suffering condition of the PEG
/ pie, and do not intend to be batfled IL
:heir game. All the facts on which an
application for relief could be based were
as patent to the plunderers when they
passed the law, as they now are Besides
/ the Legislature does not meet until Jan
uary-two months after its provisions are
required to be enforced. For a people
/ who have been impoverished, harrassed
and bedeviled as ours have been for the
past four years, the picture is anything
else but pleasant one to look upon
1t has a terrible foreboding of a worse
day coming.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-25

The best thing Of tho dag
don Republicans caricatma q.
cellency dishing out champagne
his friends without distinction
picture is drawn 10 the life.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-25

SIMPSON CoUNTY.-A leading citizen
in letter ordering THE CLARION to his
address, says: All squiet in Simpson.
"Wnl send Conservative to the Legis-
tlature in place of Gowan. Crop pros
''pects not fiattering." g. L. T.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-25

Tho tide 0f immiFrHlH
cJb iu ou.cqgouee otiHn E
Wur During lH.f weeds U#|
grants arrived Ht Sow lure
0i the l5 vessels tHlt HI.H
one from Franco. and r..I
burg aud one from Ir.m.s
of july, 1860, che number ".
was 2j.J59; Dot July. 1r.I.
From Jan. j, 1860. tO Aug. j
Der was los BOZ; from JAN, r
J. ls70, it was llIJIh showing
10000.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-25

This was the shibboleth of the Radicals
in the last campaign in this State. Beat
en- in their policy of permanently dis
franchising nine-tenths of the white tax
payers, they subsequently made COMES
sion of the sin of that measure, and
declared that the party whose agents they
professed to be, had openly espoused the
policy of Universal Amnesty"
The falsehood of this pretension was
abundantly exposed by that party at the
last session of Congress. Under the lead
of Beast Butler, they voted almost unan-
imously against every proposition to
relieve the people of the South of the dis
abilities which they had imposed by
means of the 18th Amendment and OF
iron-clad tests. They even rejected bill
containing numerous exceptions, by a
vote of 1O1 to 71-all the Democrats
voting in the affirmative.
The Republican leaders are opposed to
Universal Amnesty" 1t is their inten-
ton to retain the odious restrictions which
they have established upon the rights OF
large classes of citizens, from whom they
are particular to exact every dollar o.
taxes, as capital for the base purposes O
speculation and political prostitution
They have repudiated their own professeC
doctrine Of equal rights to all men anC
regret the "pardons" which they have
hitherto extended that were not granted
on condition of enlisting in the Republi
can party The Washington Chronicle
in accounting for the defeat of the AID
ministration in North Carolina, an,
pointing out (what it styles the error
of the past, says that the doctrine o
universal amnesty is a folly, bite
'folly;" and gives the country to under
stand that more stringent rule in tn
removal of disabilities is hereafter to b
enforced.
The victims of this policy of malic
and revenge will manage 20 survive ii
The mills OF the gods grind surely.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29

Tallow and lard may be detected
by the microscope, and by chemical
tests, but they may ordinarily be
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29

detected by the smell when the
butter is burned.
Starch may also be detected by
the microscope, and excess Of salt by
the taste. The amount Of salt and
water that ought to be present may
be estimated by performing the above
essays with butter OF standard good
quality.
The most common authorizations of
butter in American markets are lard
and tallow. Out of several speci-
mems oflow-priced butter purchased
at random, we have found lard in
four and tallow in one; the others
seemed to have been butter of ordin-
airy purity deteriorated by long keep
ing.-Scientifc american.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29
The Wheat Market.

The impression seem to be general
that ''hard-pan" has been reached in
the wheat market, and a few opera
tors profess to be contemplating an
advance in prices. The grounds on
which this conclusion is arrived at
are that English farmers arc largely
discontinning the culture Of wheat
this year, in view of the increasing
supply from other countries, and the
uncertainty Of the wheat crop in that
climate. This being the case, the
demand on foreign countries for the
supply Of Great Britain and Ireland
will be largely increased. 1t is be-
lieved, too, that in the United States,
except on the Pacific coast, the plant
ing of wheat will be much less this
year than last, owing to the losses
suffered by the farmers on the crops
Of the two last years. American
farmers are turing their attention to
corn, and pork, and faxseed. in some
quarters almost exclusively, and the
prospects is that we shall have much
less wheat to offer for export in 1871
than now.
There is, however, no fear that
the British market will not be liber-
ally supplied. In California the
promise is good for a larger wheat
crop than ever, and we believe the
same is true on the European contin-
ent. Prices can scarcely be expected
to exhibit very large advance in
England, and if the United States
has any wheat to offer for export,
the Liverpool quotations will detcrm-
inc the price in our home markets.
There rem ins but one way in
which the farming community can
hope to make wheat growing on q
large scale profitable in the near
future. That is, in a reduction of
the cost of sending their property to
a mark, t. The prediction Of Sir
Samuel Morton Peto, that wheat
would be moved from Chicago to
Liverpool for Is cents per bushel, is
not yet realized, but the Indications
are that it will be at no very distant
day. The interests Of both pro-
Queer and consumer = the great
masses of civilized society in both
hemiSpheres-demand that the cost
Of transfer and intermediate handling
shall be reduced to a minimum, and
the demand must be complied with
CIic00O Tribune. 14DrH 18th.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29
Never PlOvv Wet Soil,

We have often urged the attention
of the farmers to this subject as one
Of great importance. Any traveller
among cur farming districts can see
large tracts of land that nave been
plowed when wet and unfit to be
worked, by observing large, heavy
clods of earth, which, in the hot sea-
son, becoms like heated brick,
burning all the roots Of grain or other
product near to it. Besides this evil,
no seed can vegctate and grow well
upon soil thus cultivated, nor can
that soil give back as much nutri-
ton as if plowed when in right con-
dition and upon warm and sunny
day when light and warmth can
penetrate into the soil, and thus
greatly benefit it.
We are confident that farmers lose
from ten to forty per cent. Of their
crop by inattention to this matter.
BY little care at the proper time to
pillow, by examining the soil and se-
Letting good sunny days, the soil will
send up its voice in a halo of dew.
drop clouds that will wreathe the
plowman with its approval Of bis good
sense.
AS with farms, so with orchards.
vineyards, and gardens. No soil
should be worked when wet and
soggy. If the soil continues wet
long, drain it well, and soon it will
be in working order, but never at
tempt to pillow, spade, or work it un-
less in good condition. CAL Farm
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29

year after year by hundreds of living
contrasts.
When the truth is known among
farmers, they will find that success
depends not upon luck alone. In
this we have but touched upon some
Of the points which interest the
would-be successful farmer, but will
leave the rest for future article.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29

with fair prospects for good years business.
We 90 in largely, strike out for deep wa
ter, set our sail full before the wind,
and scud away before the ftful
breeze of trade. Car load
upon car load is bought;
the Wlg-Wam is
packed and
ammed,
and the surrounding grounds literally strewn
with implements of various kinds.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29

r hereby offer for sale my farm, situated q
i miles east of Independence, comprising
1873 acres Of the best Of prairie land. ell fenced
and under good cultivation, we'll watersd, with
good house and barn, sheep barn, corn and hog
house. and other buildings, fne young
orchard in bearing, together with small fruit
in good quantity. The farm with 90 acres Of
excellent timber will be sold al together, or al
vided to suit purchasers. It will BE- sold cheap
and on easy terms. Inquire Of the subscriber
on the premises.
35tf j. G.. OZIAS
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29
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Butter and Its Adulte r0 tiOns.

buttef ana It's AOultCr0tlOn0s
There is perhaps no other country
in the world where butter is make 80
staple an article of food as in the
United States. Bread is rarely eaten
by Yankees without the accompani
ment Of butter, or what purports to
be butter. There is reason to believe,
however, that a very large proper
ton of what is sold in our markets
under this name, is, to say the least,
open to suspicion.
The pound of butter to the quart
of milk swindIe, in which a vile mix
ture OF caseine, selni-saponified
butter, and water was represented
AS butter, seems to have subsidized !;
but there are more ways of sophisti-
eating buttes than one, and as rogues
always learn the tricks of trade be-
fore honest men, it may be well to let
consumers into their secrets.
Pure butter is fatty substance Of
rather a complex nature, extracted
from the milk globuIes. In this
country, very little butter is sold
without berg previously sailed the
sailing being performed in the dairy
at the time the butter is made. Salt,
therefore, can hardly be considered
as an adultera,ion unless it as present
in excess. Most butter also conta aims
more or less buttermi!k retained me.
chemically. This can generally be
seen without the microscope; but the
use of a magnifying glass will show
that no specimen OF butter in market
is wholly free from it. When presen,
in an undue degree it greatly impairs
the keeping quality of the butter.
Butter is adulterated by water.
silicate Of soda, or "water glass;"
tallow, lard. and starch, and various
coloring matters, as annatto, pulp OF
carrots, etc.
Water is held in it, suspended by
the addition of mucilaginous substan.
ces, as starch, etc. 1t may be detec-
ted by placing a given weight of
butter i'll flask, suspending the flask
in boiling water. The wa'er sur
rounding the flask should be kept
boiling for eight or ten hours, at the
end of which time the water con-
tanned in the butter will have eva
poratcd, aud the loss in weight will
be that due to it's admixture.
TO determine the presence OF
silicate Of soda, an ounce of butter
must be burned in a crucible, a little
at time. When the ash has assum.
ed white color. it must be removed
from the fire. As soon as the cruel.
bic is cool a drachm ofhydro chloric
(muriatic) acid must be poured upon
the ash. Evaporated to dryness,
scrape out the mass into glass
beaker, and add a gill of boiling
water. Ifsilice is nresent an undis-
solved residue will remain in the bot.
tom of,he glass. To prove that this
is silica will require further tests, but
the probabilities that the substance
undissolved is silica are so great
that further tests will be in general
unnecessary.
Tallow and lard may be detected
by the microscope. and by chemical
Er,t
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29

Now come the Farmers one ana all,
To buy machines both great and small,
The Marsh Harves takes the lead,
Fifty.fve are sold, none left for seed.
Our heavy stock of "Etnas" gone,
And still the crowd comes rushing on,
Demanding 1Etnas by the score.
We ordered on two car loads more.
The Rake trade too, was very good,
Some sold for HAY, some sold for WOOD,
OF Thrash Machines we sold Just eight,
As good as any in the State.
To clean the crops for market well,
The A. P. Dickey mill did sell.
Now that the season s trade is past,
Are you oil right, a friend doth ask
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29

New York Store.
In Just about the smartcst town
That ever you did enter,
Along the banks of tho Wapsipinison,
Exactly in the centre,
You'll find spacious edifee
Known as the "New York Store"
Who're choicest goods arc sold at cost
And Just trife more.
We've Cotton, Silk and Linen Goods,
And notions by the score,
With many other fancy things
Which ladies do adore;
We've Cloths, Clothing, Caps and Hats,
And Furs too by the score,
Suspenders that will strotsh rod
And just tribe more.
We've many good and civil clerks,
As ever measured tape,
To wait upon our customers
And keep the shop in shape,
They are just about the finest class
That ever 'tended store"
We're sure you'll find them 50
And just a trife more.
We've good mechanics hero in town
As ever trod the soil,
And we'll content to earn their bread
BY industry and toll,
They'll make or mend you anything,
Plow, counter, hew or score,
And charge exactly what is right
And Just a trife more.
We've lawyers, doctors, poets, priests,
Odd Fellows, Masons, sons,
Hucksters, Hawkers, Ho0sier- men,
And everything that runs,
A Mayor, too, and Aldermen
Of most portentous lore,
Who make us all the laws we want
And just trifle more.
And here we've got the best Of schools,
For great as well as small,
Where learning can be driven in,
In Just no time at all
Here girls and boys numerous throng,
At least some forty score,
Learn English, Latin, Greek and French,
And just trife more.
Then come out to the "New York Store, 5"
Good friends, from far and near,
You've everything to hope for there
And nothing sure to fear;
Well show you goods and sell them cheap,
A most abundant store
Of everything the people want,
And just a trlae more.
A word now to on. enemies
Who deal in tcordy ,car,
The steam is on, don't waste your wind
In hopes to stop the car;
All enmity and pickering
We honestly deplore,
As sluch as any other man -
And just trifc more.
But if they think by clustering
To drive US from the field,
They'll find that we are cup to snuff"
And don't know how to yield;
But trough and ready" dare to meet
Opposers by the score,
A match for each and all of them,
And just trifie more.
LAWTON & CURTISS.
33-tf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29
EXECUTED IN THE BEST
MANNER,


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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29

DR.. bodclPS Medicines.
FARMERS AND OWNERS OF HOR.
SEES LOOK TO YOUR INTERESTS.
TllIS is to certify, that we have used DR.. R.
i W. Bodell's Horse Medicines for several
years, and can SAT Iy add our testimony to their
merits. We cheertully recommend them to the
pubic as containing more medicinal virtues
than any other we have over used, and can war
rant his Condition Powders to be the best the
market affords.
J c McGowen, Henry Swartzel,
5 Pearsal G Newell,
Il Markham, NJ D W Talley,
David Guthrie, Samuel Caskey,
Thomas Diggins, J W Eddie,
l. Singer, l. Dunlap,
Curtis Morgan, John Merrill,
J Neidy. James Bedingcr,
d Hastings, NJ d 4 w Hastings, Druggist
Mart Kuhn, A Crooks.
Chas L Kent.
This is to certify. that I, George Rice, of
Quasqucton, Iowa, have been troubled with a
pain in the Breast and Lungs for some time.
and could not get nything to help me until
was induced TO try DR.. Bode's Challenge Lin
iment. which entirely cured me with three APP
plications I can recommend it to the public
as being one of the best medicines for man or
beast in use. l have known DR.. Bodell for
several years, and can recommend him as a
skillful Veterinary Surgeon.
GEORGE RICE.
This is to certify that I, VIM. Manson. of
Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa, have had
a sore my leg for some time, and have tried
all the physicians get cured. but failed until
l tried DR.. Bodells All Healing Ointment,
which cured it up sound and well. | think it
is the best ointment for man or beast l ever
saw. WIN. MANSON.
This is to certify that I, John Canedy. of
Winthrop, Buchapan County. Iowa, had my
feet frozen the winter of lS6S-69 until they
were perfectly black, and by using DR.. Bodell' S
All Healing Ointment have cured them. l have
known it used in number of cases with sue
cess. JOHN CANEDI.
l, Edward Mosier, have used DR.. Bodel S
All Healing Ointment, and would not be with
out it at twice its cost. 4. MOSIER.
We, the undersigned, are personally ac-
quainted with the above named citizens of
Buchanan Co., Iowa, and they are among the
best men in the County.
JED LAKE.
J. ii. CAMPBELL, Asst. Assessor.
Z. B. OLDER, x-Co. Treasurer.
J. A. DAVIS, Sheriff.
ID. l.. SMITH. Clerk d. c.
EDWARD BREWER, ex-CPk D. c.
25-t0 JOHN HOLLETT, Recorder
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-29
THE SITUATION.

THE SITUATION.
Continued wet weather during and after
harvest, made it impossible to secure the crops
in good order. The light yield, inferior quail
ity, and remarkable low price at which it was
forced upon the market, paid very little more
than the actual expense of harvesting. The
consequences are, farmers generally cannot
meet their promises to pay. Disappointment
is chiseled upon every conntenance. The
manufacturer who having built their ma
chimes on credit, sold them to the dealer on
credit and the dealer in turn sold 10 the far
mers on credit. The farmer relying solely
upon Il bountiful harvest, and good prices for
his crops, and thought he ran No risk in buy.
ing literally, agreeing to pay after harvest.
The time for payment is at hand. The man.
ufacturers camor for their pay, their very ex-
istence as manufacturers depending upon the
prompt receipts of their dues from the dealers.
The dealers in turn dun, tease, beg of, and f.
nally are compelled to force by law the pay
ments due from farmers, their only DEEPEN
dence. 1t is hard thing for dealer, who
expects to continue in business, to be compell-
ed to force his friends to pay at any sacrifice
the law may compel them to make.
Self preservation financially is our only
excuse for the rigid course taken in pushing
our collections.
We presume some Of our friends feel injured
and have promised US no more patronage.
This we foresaw, but like A. Ward, We are
willing to sacrifice our friends and relatives
first.
By this course alone have We survived the
storm, and new We hope to run the race Of
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-10

me IN the Passage des Panoramas. Need
less to add, that will rejoin you directly"
"Ah, we had better have taken the ON
nibus," sighed Lucille.
Colifieur entered M. Brandus' shop. 4e
The musical publisher was engaged in
important conversation in his cabinet, ana
begged Coliaeur to wait. Colifleur's COM
plexion was heightened by the excellent re-
past for which he had just been forced to
pay. So he did not notice an excessively
pale young man, who was about TO quit
tn shop, and who came up to him.
Adolphep exclaimed Colifleur. "How
are you, my dear Adolphe?"
"Adieu!" cried The young man, with a
convulsive squeeze of the hand.
where are you going?" asked Coli.
deur, alarmed by his looks.
ITO drown myself" replied the young
man, making for the door.
Drown yourself mailman" cried Col
ifleur, stopping him. :
Eyes, have no other alternative. NV
wife and child are without bread. Every
thing in my miserable lodging is gone.
These are sufficient motives, I fancy, for
the desperate act | am about to commit"
cried Adolphe, with increasing frenzy.
" Rest easy. | sha' MT kill myself for tri.
fles. Adieur
Colitleur united his bag.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-10

Simultaneously they uttered a cry. and
looked round in alarm. But the mobility oS
their sentiments was such that their Stu
por was succeeded by very reprehensi.
Bile hilarity.
Coliheur felt excessively thirsty-be
could not comprehend why,-and thew
entered the first cafe in the Place, "a cafe
which was just about to close.
Colifeur ordered Bishotf. Lucila
asked for an ice la vanille and lemon
Meantime, storm had come on, rain
fell in torrents.
The master of the cafe was a very ami.
able man, and would not think of turning
them out in such weather To pass the
time, Colifeur proposed game at besioue
which the other accepted
In less than half an hour ColHeur
had lost five.and-twenty francs, con
Summation included. Pulling the bag
from his pocket, he emptied it on the
marble table. 1t contained just twenty.
| five francs.
Now" he cried, laughing, eve have
not single sou left Put on your shawl
Lucille. Good night, monsieur"
twas still raining heavily.
"These poor people must not go out
thus" said the master of the cafe. aGeof.
ges, go and fetch voiture de place"
"But, monsieur" interposed Colheur,
"you are aware -"
"You must permit me to pay"
"Ah, monsieur, you are too good. I
accept for my wife, At all events, allow
me to know your NAME"
The master of the cafe replied,
"My name is ToURNEMINE.-Almanach
| des Danes ct des Den0aSaleS
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-10

her soul. Pious foundations have at all
times redeemed great faults" .y
"But is it necessary ?" hazarded Lucille.
"Howg Necessary to honor the ashes
of Aunt Mangavel?" cried Colifeur.
"Can you ask the question"
"No," she replied, "the motive is too re-
respectable to admit Of objection. only
desire to observe that it is rather dear"
az don't know that. Come with me" "
"At least be content with low mass, "
said Lucille.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-10
"Why? you distrust me--thats too

"Why? you distrust me-that's too
bad"
81 shall feel more easy, my love-"
"Wel', be it so. Well go together"
replied Colifeur, embracing her.
Delightful dreams visited them that
night. Wings of various colors attached
themselves to their TRANSPORTED bodies,
and transported them to an unknown
land, where all the inhabitants had silver
voices and golden smiles. 1t was the para
disc of honest debtors, and on their proudly
raised brows could be read this flaming
inscription -
PAID IN FULL.