Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-20
State News.

State News.
Fourteen suicides have taken place
in Iowa during the past month.
1t is stated that an Iowa Odd Eel
lows magazine is soon to be established
at Council Bluffs.
john l. Blair has decided valuable
lot on the public square at Storm Lake,
to the first child born to that young city.
B NJ Axtell, an old citizen of Iowa
City, committed suicide last week. He
had been deranged and an inmate of the
Asylum at Mt. Pleasant, last summer,
and was home, somewhat restored, when
his insanity returning, he went to the
barn and hung himself with bride.
Geo. W. Tiff, of Buffalo, n Y, who
owns 5000 acres of land near Avoca, Iowa,
proposes to make model Iowa farm, by
the aid of Chinese labor. He will import
fifty Cinnamon, in the spring, and las
already contracted for the building of
row of houses for their accomm olation
In reply to the questions: Who is
Chief Justice Of our Supreme Court
the State Register says: Judge Day &C
cupies the place, having been elected to
the vacancy occasioned by the resigna-
ton of fudge Wright, who would have
graduated to the head of the Court by
the rotary process provided for by law.
On Monday morning of last week,
near Mt. Pleasant, an old man Of sixty,
who was on his way to pay to the coun-
ty surveyor $4,000, due on tract of
lard, was knocked down by some villains
and robbed of all the money, the savings
of his life. The rascals are yet at large.
Considerable excitement was created
at Cedar Falls, last week, over the arrest
ola young man supposed to be Dunkin,
the Hopkinton murderer. The Gazette
says that it was soon discovered that he
was not the man, and did not correspond
with the photograph Of Dunkin, but that
it was clear from his actions that he was
guilty of something. Doubtless
The Parsons College, for the found
ing of which Gen. Parsons, of ST. Louis,
left a bequest of $4,000, and for the To-
cation of which several places have
been for several months pretty actively
figuring, has at last been located at Des
Moines, which city gives twenty acres of
land and $4,000 in money, to secure 1t.
The institution will be under the control
of the Presbyterian denomination.
AT the late meeting of the Board of
Directors Of the State Agricultural Socie
ty, at Des Moines, it was decided to offer
the following among other liberal pre-
miums: For the best acre of artificial
timber. $1,000, payable in 1881; for the
best cultivated farm, $500, payable in
1876; for the best mile of hedge $3.50.
payable IN five years; and for the best
five acres of orchard, $3.50, payable in
eight years.
The county officials of Mitchell coun
t., like those of Buchanan, have been in
vestng in an elephant; in other words,
purchasing huge safe which they can
not get into the Court House without
pulling down portion of the walls. 1t
weighs 10 tons, and cost between $500
and $4,000 The Neacs suggests that the
safe be set up in the Court House square,
and new Court House built around it
This will hardly be done, for the people
of Mitchell county having had large expe-
ricnce in Court House building, are not
partial to that particular form ofimprove-
ment. If it should be set up on some
portion Of the square as necessary adj
junct to the Court House, there II, ed be
no objection, on account of cost, for that
would not be disproportionate to that of
the Court House built in flush times, and
to fix a county seat