Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28
State News.

line waterloo courier bdy LIat OcO.
Paul, the engineer Of the narrow gauge
road, is running line from Waterloo to
Grundy Centre.
-Clcghorn is the name of the county
seat of Osceola county. 1t is named
after the late Register of the Land Office
a: Sioux City.
Mrs. E. c. NJ. Flagg announces her
self through the Red Oak Express, as a
candidate for Superintendent of Schools
in Montgomery county. She is teacher
Of twenty-one years experience.
The Mt. Pleasant Journal says that
on a gravcstone at one of the shops in
that place is the subscription: "Wm
Dean brother of Henry Clay Dean" Re-
Elected fame indeed
The Iowa City Republican SAYS that
"cows with bells on are abolished" by
ordinance in that city. That is pretty
severe. 1t would have been sufficient to
abolish the bells and suffer the cows to
remain.
-Messrs. Hammond, Knight and
Sewers, the commission rs for codifying
the laws Of Iowa, are in session at Iowa
City. They will have their work finish
ed and in the Governors hands by the
first Of September
Hank" Wright, who was express
messenger on the route between Cedar
Falls and Fort Dodge before the railroad
was built, informs the editor of the North
West that during that time he Travelled
$4,000 miles by stage.
One of the hands belonging to John
RObinsOn's Circus named John Guyn,
was found dead on the tent grounds at
Des Moines after the circus had left He
had evidently been killed in a quarrel
with companion.
The Cedar Rapids Times says that
the State Fair Grounds will be formally
opened by a grand trotting race on the
27th and 2Sth. $1,000 in purses have
been raised, and some of the best and
fastest horses in the state will be present.
The Vinton Eagle says: eve learn
from J. W. Traer that iron is going up
the road for tracklay ing, north Of Cedar
Falls. 1t is expected that about mile
of iron per day will be laid from this on.
We learn also, that the B., c. r. & NJ.
road is likely to leave Mason City out in
the cold, crossing east at Nora Springs.
The editor Of the Birmingham En-
terprise, who was with Gel. Carpenter
when he was post cnmmi>>ary Al Coruth,
Miss. says that the story about the Col
onel's furnishing bad raiiors to the men,
started by the Springfield ill } Register,
is totally false, and that the Reyi>tor
man knew he was writing a lie when he
penncd the SANDER.
The people Of Delaware county arc
making preparations for grand Harvest
Home gathering, after the old English
manner, at the close of the harvest
Music, toasts, speeches and a picnic din
ner will be the features of the occasion.
The location will be somewhere near the
centre of the county, probably in the VI
entity of Bailcy's Ford. The Press ex-
poets to see 5000 people present.
The Boone Standard says that Byron
Huntoon, of Aurora, Ill.,, with compan-
ion named John Walsh, entered an empty
freight car on the c. & n W. Railroad
to steal passage eastward When near
Dcnison they attempted to leave the
empty car for a loaded one, to more
effcctually escape detection, when Hun
toon fell between the cars, the train pass
ing over him, cutting off his legs and his
body in two across the bowels.
Horace Greeley is coming West in
September, and refers all applications for
his services as lecturer to j. s. Bliss, Of
Jancsvillc, Wis. A number Of Iowa pa
pcrs are urging the officers of the State
Agricultural Society to embrace this op-
portunty to try and get him to deliver
the address at the State Fair at Cedar
Rapids. Nothing would contribute more
to make the Fair Il complete success than
the presence of Mr. Greeley as the orator
of the occasion.
The Iowa Falls Sentinel says that
the Hcssian fly is ravaging some pieces
of wheat in that vicinity-The same pa
per gives the following big bee item:
"Allen Greer Esq, living about 7
miles south east of Iowa Falls, common
ced three years ago last spring with four
stands Of bees on his farm. Since that
time he has purchased two additional
stands and by close attention to them,
has on the 18th day of July, 1871, one
hundred and four strong, healthy stands.
He informs us that he will certainly
realize so pounds per hive of extra honey,
or 5000 pounds in all this fall
The Cedar Rapids Observer is re-
sponsible for the following medical item:
A young doctor up at Marion was called
upon the other day to attend the case of
boy, who, while Smelling pop corn, got
a kernel in his windpipe. The doctor
examined the case carefully, looked at
the a'icnt's tongue, and then told the
father of the boy to build up hot fire.
When that was done, the doctor told him
to take the boy and hold him over the
fire until the kernel got hot enough to
''pop out" The old man went up stairs
and got his shot. gun, but while he was
loading it the doctor escaped