Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-09

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The Congregational State Conven.
ton has been in session several days OF
this and last week, at Marion, Linn
county. The proceedings as tar as re-
ported are very interesting.
1t is said potato bugs are nearly as
poisonous as rattle snakes, and that many
deaths have been occasioned from con-
tact with their virus; they should never
be handled with the bare hand
Parties have leased peat beds west of
Belle Plaine, and are getting ready to
commence preparing it for fuel. We
CLEAN from the Union.
Some one in Waterloo has an inven-
ton by which cisterns control the spouts
which convey water to them, SO that
when a sufficient depth of water is OBJ
tanned, they convey in another direc-
ton.
The Sixth Annual Convention of the
State Sabbath School Association will
meet at Waterloo, June Goth, and con-
tinue in session three days.
We notice by the Dubuque Herald,
that new engines are arriving for the use
Of the Chicago, Dubuque & Minnesota
railroad. This looks encouraging.
"A prostitute in Sioux City destroyed
herself last Saturday, by taking an over
dose Of morphine. 1t is scarcely pre-
sumablc that she intended suicide, as the
inmates of the bagnio to which she be-
longcd were accustomed to frequent
doses of it,
The condition Of the crops in the diff
ferent portions of the State is reported to
be very favorable. The cereals are es-
pecially promising. One blight, however,
upon all these fair prospects, is the havoc
the bugs are making among the potato
vines; they threaten the destruction of
the entire crop.
-Brainard, of the Boone Standard, is
| rejoicing in pair of twins recently pre-
scented him by his wife We presume
brother Brainards household gods have a
decided preference between skim milk
and cream Congratulations are I'M
necessary.
Our State gamcsters are getting the
base ball mania again this season Under
discomfort will shortly begin with sprain-
ed and broken fingers, arms, legs, and
other little ctceteras, while the stars will
attain unwonted brilliancy under the
persuasive influence of mourning eyes,
impaired nasal appendages and battered
"cheese nibs."
The prospect for the commencement
of work on the st. Louis & Cedar Rapids
railroad is Frightening. The necessary
aid has been voted by the towns al ng
the route. 1t will run from Ottumwa,
where it will connect with the North
Missouri railroad, and will connect at
Cedar Rapids with the Dubuque South
western road, thereby making the latter
a great north and south road
We learn from an exchange that
nearly two hundred persons were poison
ed at marriage feast given at Fort
Dodge, last Thursday. None of the cases
have proved fatal, although some Of them
are doubtful of recovery. The poison is
thought to have been in the ice cream,
where it is supposed verdigris had gath
cred from the sides of a copper refrigcra-
tor used in making the cream.
An Exchange says: "Our table is
becoming a model hens nest. We have
just discovered an egg laid there by Bar
ney P. Scott" The Darwinian theory Of
the monkey origin, &C., of man, has some
plausibility, we must admit, but we enter
protest against any straddler Of the edi-
torial tripod trying to make out that a
lineal descendant of these monkeys is try
ing to turn fowl by laying eggs, and
especially by depositing said fruit on an
editors table.
We occasionally hear of the fine fish
taken from Storm Lake Considering
that this lake has no apparent outlet, in
let, or any other kind of a let, has
smooth pebbly bottom, and is situated
many miles inland from any large stream.
or other body Of water, among the undu-
lations of vast tract of prairie, it might
be nice question for some of our scien
tific gents to answer how these fish came
in there.
We learn from the Iowa City Press
that boy named Dcbrie, living in Liber-
ty tow nship. johnson county, met his
death in the following fearful manner
"Hc was blowing, with the lines over his
shoulder in the usual way, when the team
suddenly jumped and pulled him over the
pillow handles, and he fell right in front
of the pillow. The team continuing to
run, the edge of the plow passed across
his face and actually cut his throat, sever
ing the windpipe."