Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-11-24

the Holy Water Works system
Mrs. Ncttic Sanford is about to
write a history of Cerro Gordo county
for the columns Of the Republican.
Passenger trains commenced run
ming between Dubuque and McGregor
on Tuesday
TIL re will be but one Smith In the
next Legislature. and he is not John
Neither does the name of a single repre-
sentative Of the multitudinous families
of Brown or Jones appear on the official
list
As an instance Of longevity ofan
entire family. the Story County Repre-
sentqtare mentions a family up there Of
six brothers and sisters whose ages
range from 70 to 49, Their united ages
being 472 years and 3 months All hav-
ing :,nssed the allotted three score and
ten years.
Mrs Simmons, near Bellevue, raised
from one half bushrl Of Early Rose po-
tatops. sixteen and 4 h1lf hnshciS-.f-
v"ar-he,i,'e~ using frnm them for Il
m nth, for a family If twelve persons
lows womep ar" hound t. 60 ahead in
VIII 'ever they undertake.
The Manchester Press records the
return Of L. A. Loomis who left Man
chester Sept 9Th, with flock 500 sheep
bound for Colorado. He drove them TO
Omaha, shipped them by cars to Chey
enne. thence they we're driven to Bonllel
county, Col. 50 miles south He lost
but three sheep during the entire jour
ney
tn, Western wa Baptist 4 c;.5-
to hav Il tcrmiGtlto loc,t H. H,st-
rr lows Academy Il Deni-on, On cnndi
t "a ta' the cjtz ms f that place d.
it ard >ns,>crih, 40 oGn toward erect
ing bull bags And there I, littl. dnub.
the ctizen, Will raisg tle amount, AS til
Hon j W Denisnn has heal a I'll
subs 'riptinn with :he sun, # 80 O.
The Boone Standard spyakiHg #
Judge Coles pr >pective resignation,
says: at i further nnd rstned in inrer
palitica! circle that Governor Carp"n
ter is di<rn-cd t. app"int Judge Chase
If oar Judicial District 70 fl! the W.
cancy. For this we cannot vonch bat
II such an intention ia carried into effect,
il will be \ compliment not only t
learned grntlcman bat to one of tn" best
majority bearing districts in the state
The DEBORAH Republican records
two accidents last week Mrs, A. A.
Atkins stepped over an unrailed stair
way in. Rndolph's Block, and ,ol ed to
the bottom Of the fight Of stairs. She
was taken up insensible and very severe
~ bruised. but had no bones broken.
DR. Curtis while riding to Cresco. got
out Of the buggy TO water his team
Stepping to the side Of the team to loosen
the checks one Of the horses kicked him
in the face. He was knocked insensi-
BILE and thought to be killed, but recov
cred so as to be about in a few hours
Mr. Henry Arson one Of the promi-
nent men Of Marshalltown publishes in
the Times the following card. The
thoughts are those which occur TO = jol-
" fellow aftera might Of it, and furnish
a good temperance sermon:
ED. TIMEs:-I desire, through your
columns, to state, in reference to my late
"unpleasantness," that my domestic If
fairs are all right. and no fault attached
to any one but myself mbbed u few
doses of doubly distilled "ighthing."
"benzine' strychnine," etc, with few
friends and the bell ringers. Of course
/ made things jingle generally ! might
read little temperance lecture to a
hundred or so good fellows that are con-
suming, and II dozen or more that are
selling the damnd6le stuf To the for
mer, would say, it is naughty to drink
il; to the latter-it is bad enough to sell
. good article--;l crime to sell such as
you do.