Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-05-19

State News.

last week, attending the courts.
State News.
Broken Kettle is the name of new
postofilce in Plymouth county. ee.
"A construction train has been placed
on the Chicago, Dubuque & Minnesota
r. r. at Dubuque.
"A writer in the New Hampton
Courier is endeavoring to account for
the big boulders on our praries.
Gen. G. M. Dodge, has contract
for furnishing 100000 pounds of -four
to the Indian Department.
The Cypress says that Monticello is
just now, troubled with an Eruption ofras-
cality which develops itself in a rsor,
robbery and kindred offcns 8.
AN iron barge to run. in the upper
river lumber trade, manufactured by
Rouse & Dean. for Ingram Kennedy &
Day was launched the Their day in
Dubuque,
"A fine of $25 is considered at Coun-
Gil Bluffs about the appropriate punish
ment for most revolving and brutal
assault upon, and violation Of the person
of a poor and friendless woman, judging
| from an item in the Nonpariel
The Central Railroad of Iowa, of
which that big hearted gentleman c. G.
| Gilman is the protector and Superinten-
dent, last Monday put on through train
from st Louis to St Paul with sleeping
cars attached and without change of
cars.
Iowa has "a Vinnin Ream Her name
is Miss Ella Noe who as we are informed
by the State Register is carver of
marble, and good one, in her fathers
establishment in Oskaloosa. Most of the
young ladies in Iowa are fashioners of
marble, the same marble however being
in the Obdurate hearts of tn ir suitors.
The following is list of the Cover
ners ofIowa, Territorial and State since
1888: Robert Lucas, John Chambers,
James Clark, Ansel Briggs, S. Hampstead,
j. w. Grimes, Ralph P. Lowe, S. J.
Kirkwood, VIM. NJ Stone, and Samuel
Merrill But two of these were Demo
Gratis, Mes rs. Briggs and Hampstead
Some of our Iowa quill drivers will
do well to profit by the following admoni-
ton addressed to a Peekskill N Y. pa
per: "Mr Editurs-What did you print
my family matters in yur paper for, it is
none of yur biziness if my wife did have
twins pays for them and you'll get yur
head punched you had best tend to yer
own dizziness.
An item going the rounds of the
press to the effect that Marshalltown has
secured the workshops of the Central
Railroad of Iowa by the payment of 500
000t to the company, is pronoun ed pre-
mature by the Edora Ledger. The
Ledger says President Gilman has made
Marshaltown proposition which if &C
cepted secures them the repair shops If
not bids are in order, and Eldora is ambi-
tious.
The Clarke County Safe robbers
nd 1ato OH ip1a
last week, escaped from the officers who
were guarding them at a hotel in Osceola
They unlocked their shacklcs by manu-
featuring key out ofthe wire ola broom
in their room, and jumped out of the
window. In the morning it was asccr-
tanned that they had stolen two horses
at one place, and two saddles at another
and so made their escape in style.
A distressing calamity occurred one
day last week near Dubuque, Mr.. Thomas
Kinds of that city went out to ride with
his wife and little son aged about three
years. In passing along the bank of the
Maqu"keta about four miles from the
city, it is supposed that they drove too
near the brink, which was undermined
by high water, when the horse, buggy and
it's inmates were precipitated into deep
water, and all drowned. Nothing was
known ofthc accident until the horse and
buggy were discovered floating in the
water.
The Mitchell Neps furnishes the
following nut for the biologists:
Squire Vanderpocl informs us that,
while quarrying stone near his lime kin,
last week, he came upon strata of rock,
sixteen feet below the surface, on which
were tracks almost exactly resembling
those of horse. There were several of
them, as if the animal had stood on the
rock, when in soft state, and stamped.
The tracks were well defined-the ''fr g."
as well as the outer rim of the hoof, being
clearly impressed on the rock. There was
stratum of clay over the rock in which
the tracks were found. This clay had
settled into the tracks, and when taken
up, ITCSCutGu u JCllCNb Sdob Va uhN'h
The Squire has one of the casts in his
possession.
The following pretty picture is
painted by the local of the State
Register: yesterday three little girls
who go to the second ward school, got
together to bury pet bird that had
belonged to one of them. After digging
a little graveyard carefully putting the
body If the little bird into it, it occurred
to them that they ought to have some
appropriate funeral services, and one of
them was sent into her mothers house to
inquire IF people didn't sing at funerals?"
On being told that they often did, the
messenger ran back, and in few moments
the three were seen standing hand in
hand around the birds grave, gravcly
singing "Shoo fly, don't bodder me"