Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-05-12

Commissioner Drummond of the
General Land Office, is at his home in
McGregor.
The Northern Iowa Dental Associa
ton will meet at Anamosa en- the second
Tuesday in June.
Henry O'Connor, has consented &c
deliver the address ut Waverly on Deco
ration Day.
Gov. Merrill is at his home in Nc
Gregor and will start on trip to Cali
lorna next week
DIR. McClclland who has long and
ably occupied the post Of editor Of the
Cedar Rapids Times has purchased an
interest in the paper.
The De Witt Observer says that the
seventeen year locusts are making their
appearance in that region. They were
there in force in 1854.
The most disastrous fire ever ex
perienced in Sioux City occurred on the
Sd inst, destroying the Boogc block and
inflicting loss of $4,000.
The United States District and Cir
cut Court is now in session at Dcs Moines,
Justice Miller presiding, with Justices
Dillon and Love as Associates. There
n a:x I,,,uIva fhC Hncl- nt
A colony Of Norwegians, now living
at Berlin, Wisconsin, are about to remove
to Hancock and Winnebago counties,
where they will he joined by u large emf
,ition of relatives and friends from
Norway.
Another narrow guage railroad is
projected from Waterloo to Grundy
Center. Meetings have been held at
Waterloo and along the line, and Il con-
siderable amount of enthusiasm mani
tested on the project.
The Charles City MtelHgemcer bring
out the name of Mr. II. Viii ,ur Superin
tendent of Schools in Floyd County, as a
candidate for State Superintendent. The
office is evidently not destined to go
begging.
Cedar Rapids is making formida-
BILE effort to get the county seat of Linn
county, and Marion is making just as
strenuous efforts to keep it. That COM
munity is sincerely to be commsserated
which has county seat contest on its
hands.
The Oskaloosa Herald says that
young girl in that county recently gave
birth to child of which her own parent
is the father What maks the case more
aggravated is the fact that the young
mother is of unsound mind. The wretch
has fled.
The Wapello Republican says:
There are fourteen widows living almost
within stones throw of each other in one
section of Wapello, and to show how
obdurate human nature may become we
state for the enlightenment of all the
world that an old bachelor lives directly
in the center of the group"
Mrs. Frances Jones Vinton, of Prov
idence, r. l., who some time since built
a house of worship for the Episcopal par
ish at Clermont, Fayettc county, and
furnished it with a bell, has recently sup
plemented her liberality by the gift of
grounds for rectory, at cost Of $175.
So says the Peoples Paper.
The Iowa City Press says that the
contract was signed in Iowa City on the
4th for the construction of the Iowa
Southwestern Road Engineering is to
begin in ten days; dirt to fly in thirty.
The cars are to run into Iowa City on or
before July list, 1872, and to the track of
the d. V. road in Mahaska county, by
3lst, 1872
A sad accident recently happened IN
Poweshiek county. Mr. Geo. W. Smith,
of Pleasant township, while cleaning
gun, accidentally discharged it. The ball
passed through partition into an adj
joining room, where Mrs. Smith was en-
gagged at her household duties, and en-
tered her temple, killing her instantly.
Mrs. Smith was near forty five years Of
age, and was the mother of Il large fami
ly of children.
The safe of the County Treasurer Of
Clarke county, at Osceola, and the safe
of the express office at the same place
were blown open last week. The robbers
got but 5000 from the former and 5000
from the express safe. The telegraph
was Immediately brought into requisition,
and the same day dispatches were receiv-
ed from Nebraska City that the robbers
were caught and the money found on
them, also kit of burglars tools.