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DIRECTORS.
VIM. Bailey, 4. J. Panncll, A. II. Adams, Alon-
20 Loring. Jas. +. Barnes, Jos. H. Woodward,
DR.. VIM. j. Bates, Henry Stamm, Thos. Hughes.
TVHlS Company having been fully organized, is
now prepared to take risks ut fair rates on
Buildings of all kinds, Merchandise, Manuiactu-
ring Establishments, Furniture, Steamboats, and
Cargoes on the Western Rivers and Lakes; also to
issue perpetual policies on Dwellings and Stores.
This Company being composed mostly of our lead
ing business men, recommends itself to the favor
able consideration Of the insuring public, and so
lcits their patronage
W.. Applications for Insurance will be prompt
ly attended to at the office of GEO. T.. CORDELL,
CO., Agents at Charlestown. Jefferson Go. W. v.
n. G. ARTHUR, Secretary,
w. II. AGSEw, Asst Scc'y.
WV. BAILEY, President,
ALONzo LoRING. Vice President
November /, lSG9-tf.
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Valuable Lands in Market.
WlSiIING b concentrate ny mcaaz, haze
~ concluded 20 sell my
Clarke and Warren Lands.

Consisting a. follows:
Farm ofTIIKEE HUNDRED AID SIXTY
-FOUR ACRES, in the upper edge OF Clarke, on
the pike leading from Winchcster 10 Front Royal,
six miles from River Station. on the halass1s
Gap Railroad, and ten miles from WiIch..ler-
This farm has upon IL BoEfc. Barn and Out
Building, all new, excellent lcucing-" Cap and
Stone"
Also ONE HUNDRED ACRES or TINBER.-
will cell 3Gf acres for so per acre, or 100 acre.
more or less, with the building, a. $50 pc! acre.
Time to suit the purchaser.
Also a Farm in Warren County, called "EIac-
wood" 4 miles from Manassas Gap Railroad. and
one mile from Shenandoah River Tho projected
Shenandoah Valley Railroad D. run within nile
Of both Of said farms. Edgcwo0d contains rs a.
cres-3j in splendid Timber, Buildings good. Land
equal 10 any in the Valley. Thi. Farm, IL can be
proved by the Tenant, has been paying 7 lo per
cent. on the price asked, for the last years.-
Price 10000, on time to suit purchaser.
JAMES ". GLENN
March !, Is7l-5t
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al 600 Reward, fer any case Of Blind
= .OOO Bleeding, Itching, or liberated
Piles that De BING'S PILE REMEDY fails TO
cure. II IS prepared expressly % cure the piles
and nothing else, and has cured cases Of over 20
years standing. Sold by al Druggists.
VIA FUGA.
Do Bng's Via Fuga is the pure juices Of Barks,
Herbs, Roots, and Berries for
CONSUMPTION.
Inflammation ofthc Lungs; all Liver, Kidney and
Bladder diseases, organic Weakness, Female AZ
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the Urinary Organs ia Male and Female, produc-
ing Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Gravel, Dropyy and
Scrofula, which most generally terminate In in
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Blood, the Billiarv, Glandular and Sccretiyc Sys-
TEN; Corrects and Strengthens the Nervous and
Muscular forces; il acts like a charm on weak ncr-
vuus and debiitatcd females. both Young and old.
None should be without it. Sold everywhere
LAn0rkTOKY-li2 Franklin ST., Baltimore, I'D.
August 6. ls70-lV
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Look 40 Your Interests {.

7 AN The Insurance man, persons wanting infu
rance Fire or life had better call on me 10
do IL as ] am the only one representing comra-
mics, in this County, who have any pail HP coPi-
tat worth speaking OF. particularly ask the IA
yur of a call from al those transferred to the late
Valley Company, assuring them low rates and
safe risks.
Feb. II. Is7I-Gm. Z. NJ. AISQUITH, Sn.
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HeIAaJ0gd'S ErtrGct
BUCHU

invariably does. II no treatment il submitted to,
Consumption or insanity ensues.
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PEABODY INSURANCE Company,
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DIRECTORS.

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

In lengthy notice of the short
and vet eventful life of Thomas
Todd Lincoln, who died, at Chicago,
last Friday, the New York Tiibune
gives the following interesting para
graphs concerning his boyish ca
reer and pranks at the White
House:
zone of the tricks into which the
idlencss and his enterprise together
drove him, was the occasion of much
laughter to the judicious, and much
horror to the respectable in Wash
ington. He invested, one morning.
all his pocket money in buying the
stock in trade of an old woman who
sold gingerbread near the Treasury.
He made the government carpenters
give him Il board and some trcstles.
which he set up in the imposing
p0rte-cochere of the White House,
and on this rude counter displayed
his wares. Every Office seeker who
entered the house that morning
bought toothsomc luncheon of this
keen little merchant, and when an
hour after the opening of the booth
member of the household discov-
cred the young pastryman the adj
mired centre of "A group Of grinning
servants and toadies, he had filled
his pockets and his hat with currcn-
cy, the spoil of the American public.
The juvenile operator made lively
work of his i'll gotten gains, how.
ever, and before night was penn less
again.
Although still a mere child at the
death of his father, this terrible
shock greatly sobered and stcadicd
him. His brother Robert at once
took charge of his education, and
he made rapid progress up to the
time of his sailing for Europe with
his mother. He has ever since re-
manned with her, displaying
thoughtful devotion and tenderness
beyond his years, and strangely at
variance with the mischeyious
thoughttulncSS of his childhood.
lie came back Il short while ago,
greatly improved by his residence
abroad, but always the same cordial,
frank, warm-hearted boy. In his
loss the already fearfully bereaved
family will suffer new and deep
affection, and the world, which
never did and never will know him,
will not withhold a tribute of regret
for the child whose gaycty and af
lection checrcd more than anything
else the worn and weary heart of
the great President through the toll
Snmn ynnrS of the war
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28

TIE Ninton JournM is a profess
cdly Republican paper. 1t sup
ported candidates before the late
State Convention who were not sue
ccssful, and thereupon it feels called
upon to play into the hands of the
Democracy by making disparaging
remarks concerning Col. Carpenter
and DR.. Bulls. OF the former it
says that a repetition of the "non-
sense" by which he was nominated
will prove ruinous to the country,
and it further predicts the triumph
of the Democrats with sucI, Il
weight upon the Republican party
as Or. Bulls.
We are not surprised to find the
same paper advocating the claims
Of Harlan solely Oh the strength Of
his st. Domingo oratory, and open
ny II IttcSb uii Il ulliihi lttdCh W.
on Mr.. Allison, with the drawbacks:
eff we are properly informed Of Mr..
Allison's past public career
We would suggest to our friend
Brown that if he will spend Il little
time seeking proper information,
instead Of making blind charges
upon confessedly uncertain grounds,
it will rebound more to his honesty
and fairness. In another column the
JOuuoi again confesses its igno-
rance Of AlIison's record, and in the
same column xe find the following
excellent Suggestions peculiarly APP
plicable to the ,/rnunuis own case:
How often we miSjudgc people. The
innocent persons often suffer because
others 90 not know them we'll 4 mans
heart may be crushed because Of the evil
and false reports that get afloat about
him. Let us be careful, and Judge 9th
crs as we would be judged by them"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28

The following report of the atti-
tudc of the clustering Bob Toombs
and his confrcres toward the 'ncw
departures affords a suggestive
forcshadowing of the scenes which
may occur in the next Democratic
National Convention. 1t is from
the Atala9ta (Ga.) SIN:
Gen. Toombs, we learn, made a Fourth
of July speech to the largest crowd ever
assembled in Wilkes county. The peo-
pie came from far and near to hear him,
and Washington was literally packed
The speech is reported to have been a
thunder storm of eloquent invcctive
against the new departure" and so pow
erful was it that the new political bant-
ing was stripped of its swaddling clothes
and then torn into frazzles and turned
loose upon the whirlwind of his oratory
And it is now said that in all Wilkes
county there is not a man who would
willingly pick up a fragile, or even admit
that he was ever Inclined to depart"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28
The State Canvass.

The Muscatine Journal, the editor
Of which is 4 member of the State
Central Committee, says that Col.
Carpenter will open the speaking
campaign at Council Bluffs on the
18th of August:
ale will proceed thence alone the south
ern tier of counties to Lee, and then up
the eastern border to the north line
Most of his speeches will be in the LIST, Cd,
Sd and 4th Congressional Districts, as he
has never been on the stump in this sec
ton of the State. 1t will require all his
time from August 18th till election day
to go over these four districts and ad-
dress the people in the principal cities
and towns. Among the other speakers
who are expected to make a general can
vass of the State are Hon. II. c. Bulls,
Senators Harlan and Wright Hon. VIM
B., Allison, Representatives, McCrary
Cotton, d man, Walden, Palmer and
Or, Atty Gen. O'Connor, Ey-Gov. Kirk
wood, Hen. Rush Clark, Hon. f. H.
Stiles, Hon. NJ Z. Cults, Hon G. G. Ben
nett, Hon. S. McNutt, and Hon Lyman
A. Ellis" The Journal further says;
while on this subject we cannot refrain
from congratulating the Republican party
of the State on securing the services Of
so able, active and reliable an executive
officer as Col. Geo c. Tichenor, of Des
Moines, Chairman of the Republican Cen
trail Committee He has taken hold Of
the work in the right manner, and we
trust will receive the hearty cooperation
Of his co-laborers and the party in all
sections of the State"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28
A Groat Curiosity.

Last evening some workmen, Dig
ging foundation for a stone wall
on Jefferson street, in this city.
along the line of the lots upon which
E. w. Belts, Esq, resides, found
at depth of some three feet below
the grade of the street, a stone,
something over three feet long, i'm
bedded in a hard kind Of clay. I'M
mcdiately around it, however, was
thin coating of loan soil, very
traceable after the removal of the
stone. The character of the stone
resembles kind Of flinty sandstone.
No other stone are to be found in
that region, and this one was,
therefore, entirely isolated.
In appearance as to shape, ETC.,
this stone resembles the headless
trunk of fullgrown human body,
without legs or arms. Where the
neck rises from between the Shout
ders, and the arms put out, the APP
pearances are as though they had
been neatly severed from the body,
especially is this 50 with the neck.
Tho chest and abdomen are covered
all over with zigzag ridges, raised
above the surface, in some instan-
ces strikingly resembling, in the di-
rection in which they run and in
their general delineation, the large
arteries Of the body. The back
shows quite plainly the prominence
of the shoulder blades and the cur
Nature of the back. The waist of
the body is quite well defined, as
are also the hips. This stone GER
tainly does impress the beholder
strongly, with its resemblance to
! the human form.
The news of its resurrection
spread rapidly through the city, and
many humid, ed persons, during last
evening and to-day, have flocked to
see it, and all agree that it is at
least very wonderful curiosity.
Mr.. Belts residence is on the
bluff, and near to a point where, as
many Of our older settlers know, was
a favorite camping place of the In
dams. The street in front of Mr..
Bets lots has been graded down
until the cut is perhaps ten feet
deep, and to prevent the washing
away of his grounds, by reason of
this cut, Mr. Belts is building a
stone wall. In digging for the
foundation Of this wall, the stone
was found, at depth of probably
twelve feet from the present surface
of the ground in that region.
The stone was found through the
persistence of Mr.. Belts in having
clean faced wall. The workmen
were about to enclose it in the wall,
rather than remove it, but Mr.. Belts
insisted that it should come out, and
when pried out, though great deal
Of dirt chung to it, its striking re-
semblance to the human form at
once attracted Belts attention., and
he had it washed off.
We learn this afternoon, that
some of our medical men have ex-
amined it, and pronounced 1t a pet
rilied human body. They say they
can trace the arterial system quite
perfectly in it Ottum,cu Courier.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28

The Waterloo Reporter, in dis
cussing the Newman letter and the
suspicion which it warrants that a
combination is on foot to drag the
Methodist church into the political
contest, relates the following:
A few weeks since minister of the
Methodist charch-formerly Presiding
he had just received a note from a mem
Der Of the church-formcrly a preacher,
now traficking federal office holder
saying, substantially, Il hear you are OPP
posed to the re. election of brother Harlan.
I want you to tell me how this can be!'
This laconic note is probably sample
of scores sent to various parties in the
northern part Of the State.
1t needs no very great effort at
guessing, to locate the clerical Of
flee holder above alluded to, who
could not see how it could be that
any Methodist brother should oppose
Mr.. Harlan's reelection. If we are
not quite wide of the mark he will
be found in the neighborhood of the
Fort Dodge Land Office, and his
name is Byum. He is indebted to
"Bro." Harlan for past favors, and
undoubtedly anticipates rich re-
ward in the future for present labor
in manipulating the clergy in be-
half of the Senator.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28


E. G, David, Esq, special agent of the
Post Office Department, was in town
carly this week. 1t is understood that he
is looking after the interests of the Hon
James Harlan Waterloo Courier.
A mistake Mr.. Courier we have
it from the gentleman's own lips
that he never looks after anybody's
interests but those Of T.. G. David.
If he is putting in work for Harlan
it is entirely safe to say it is on no
uncertain contract as to payment.
The Dubuque Times thinks it rather
out of character that David should
receive pay and expenses from the
government for such work, but a
compensation is found in the posi-
bility that David may on this po-
Iitical mission, give incidental at
tcntion to official duties, which 9TH
erwise would be neglected altogeth-
or. Mr.. Uarlan's case is indeed q
desperate one, if it requires the use
Of such advocates as K. G. David.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28
Political Items.

The Republicans Of the Sixth Senatori
al District, comprised of the counties o
| Clark, Lucas and Union, have nominated
II. A. Dlgue, editor of the Osceola SENT
| net
The Cedar Falls Gazette has the follow
ing item: I'VE understand that Judge
Couch is soon to return to Waterloo,
which just breaks forty seven Senatorial
noses"
The Convention to nominate a State
Senator in the 9TH District, comprising
the counties Of Decatur, Ringgold and
Taylor. met at Mt. Ayr, July 10Th, ballot
ted 1872 times without choice, and then
adjourned to Aug. 18th.
Judge Claggett of the Keokuk Consti-
tuition, speaking of the Byington Demo-
cratic State Convention, characterizcs its
protector in this style: "Byington is well
known to be an impracticable, dishonest
knave." But he is good Democrat.
Hon John E. Burke is mentioned as
candidate for Senator in the district COM
posed of Bremen, Chickasaw and Howard
counties. Judge Converse, of New
Hartford is named in the same cOnnec-
ton in Floyd, Butler and Mitchell
district.
DR.. r. II. Taylor, Of Marshall, was
nominated on the 10Th inst, as State
Senator from the district comprising
Marshall and Hardin counties. The con-
vention was comprised of Marshall coun-
ty delegates alone, Hardin refusing to
send delegates because Of the foregonc
conclusion that Marshall, having the
power, would not listen to the just claims
of Hardin, but nominate one Of her own
man
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28

The member of the Iowa Press
gang on the late excursion selected
by the Minneapolis editors as the
especial target for their abuse, cal
jimmy and low villification, was Ret
Clarkson, of the Des Moines Regis
ter. How unfortunate for them was
this choice, is just now exemplified
by scorching letter from Mr..
Clarkson, recently published in the
st. Paul Press, the Minneapolis pa
pers refusing to insert it. Patiently
waiting until the storm of scurrility,
falsehood and vulgarity raised by
the Tribune and Ners of the latter
city had spent itself, Ret with one
vicious swoop of his steel pen, i'm
pales both assailants, and presently
hangs the editorial cuticle upon the
fence. His sketch of the Iowa
career of Geo. X. Shaw, of the Meas,
is especially racy. This Shaw is
the dead beat who for short season
had charge of the Cedar Falls
Gazettc, and aftcrward the Grundy
county atlas. Clarkson details in
graphic style Shaw's arrest at
Grnndy Centre for petty thieving;
his challenge to l.. ID. Tracy to
fight Il duel, and his poltroonery
when it was accepted; his gross
libels on the same gentlcman, and
his abject acknowledgement that he
was liar and slandercr when
threatened with prosecution, togeth-
or with other matters calculated to
show him in his true light of a
cowardly puppy, a professional liar
at so much line. These disrcputable
sheets, which, for the consideration
of a few dollars paid by a disrcputa-
bic hotel, consented to SANDER the
editorial fraternity of Iowa, are
doubtless by this time satisfied that
the mo..ey was dearly earned, and
it is quite likely, that since the
Tartar they have encountered in
the editor Of the Register, they will
be more wary in Judging Of capacity
for attack and defense by outside
appearances.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28
First Methodist Serrno.; in Iowa.

At the late Methodist State Con
vention at Iowa City, was present
ed the report of a committee previ-
ously appointed to prepare histo-
~ OF the church in this State, and
complete statistics concerning it.
The report is quite lengthy, and
will be published in pamphlet form.
From a summary in the Burlington
Xumhrye we extract the following:
"Thc first Methodist sermon preached
within the limits of the present State of
Iowa was preached at Dubuque, Nov 9th,
1888, by Rev. Barton Randall, in the tav-
ern of james Harrison, on the site of the
present Julien House In the spring of
1884 subscription was raised to build a
log meeting house, at q cost of $3.50. This
was the first house of worship in Iowa
1t has always been claimed that the first
Methodist sermon in Iowa was preached
IN Burlington, but this seems not to be
true. However, in 1884, Rev Barton II
Cartright entered Iowa as preacher
Determined to so to his work at his own
cost, he took with him from Illinois four
yoke of oxen and the necessary nipple
ments to carry on u farm. During the
week he labored, and on the Sabbath
gathered together such us would listen to
him, and addressed them. He preached
his first sermon in Iowa in Burlington,
in June. 1884, at the house of DR.. Will.
lam II. Ross, on North Hill, from the text,
"Whom we preach" etc. After the SER
mon class Of seven members was form
ed, Of which DR.. Ross was the leader
The same summer the celebrated Peter
Cartriglt visited Burlington and he held
a two days meeting May Both, 1885,
the first quarterly meeting in Iowa was
held in Burlington. at which time eighteen
Joined the church"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28
Regimental Reunion.

The following circular which we
copy from the DEBORAH Republican
of last week, will be Of interest to
some of the soldiers of our county.
We had hoped that our own citizens
would have had the pleasure of en-
tertaining the brave boys of the
9th, but wherever they go the
heartiest wishes for pleasant re-
union with their old comrades in
arms will attend them:
DEBORAH, July 18th. 1871.
Soldiers Of the 9th io,ca Regiment:
SIRs:-Your Committee have made ar
engagements for your first Regimcntal Re
union, to take place at Charles City on
the 9Th and 9th days of September, 1871.
There will be arrangements made with
the different Railroad Companies for a
reduction of fare, which will be made
public as soon as we can hear from them
all; also with the citizens of that patriot.
ic city for board and lodging for you
during your short stay among them.
1t is now six years since glorious peace
folded our battle flag and returned it to
our State, though torn and soilcd with
the dust Of many battles, but not single
stripe or star less than when we received
it, three years before. Since that time
you have been your own Captains and
Generals, but your Committee will now
sound the long roll for review, and will
expect you all to fall into line,-not to
meet your enemies but your friends.
That you and yours may be so blessed
with health and prosperity as to be able
to meet your old companions of the
camp, the march, and the battle field, on
those, as we trust, happy days, is the sin
ccre wish of your Committee
Yours truly, J. z. MCKINNEY,
Chm Committee.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28

The Iowa AND MINNEsorA.-The
independence correspondent of the
Dubuque Times says that it is pro-
posed at independence to vote a
five per cent. tax, one-half for the
above road and the other half for
the Cedar Rapids and McGregor.
independence could not do better
than TO secure both roads at once.
1t is killing two birds with one
stone. .lo.in.oa0 Eureka,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28
TIE Eldora Ledger has the fol-

TIE Eldora Ledger has the fol-
lowing bit of philosophy regarding
the starting of new papers:
Owing to our disturbances in
Hardin county, where there is no
end to the making of new papers,
we always shudder for the little
community which has it's opposition
papers. Each journal is the nucleus
for a clique. A paper without par
tisans is about ready for chewing
into spit balls. With warm friends,
it is bound to fight. Trouble must
come. Hard words; estrangement;
strites. Time will heal over the
wounds made in self defense, but
the cicatrice will show with revolt
ing plainncss the result of a literary
massacre. These are words lost on
the morning breezes of discord.
We know and sorrowtully admit it.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28

The startling news comes from
the village Of Minneapolis, Mime
sofa, that St. Anthony Falls are
crumbling down, with a prospect
of taking he saw mills along. And
then. What would Minneapolis look
like? Like an apple which had
been eaten once, like shooting
cracker which had been shot, like
a candle burned up and nothing but
a grease spot left. Since they have
spoilt such fine meadow in trying
to start 4 town, we sincerely hope
that those mills, which alone save
the effort from being an utterly vio
lent rape upon the virgin soil of an
unoffcnding little prairie, will not
be taken away from them. They
could great deal better spare that
Nicollet tavern.-Regis'er.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-07-28

JEFF. DAVIS sends a note to the
Memphis 4saIunche, in which he
pronounces the story of his scan
dalous conduct with lady in the
cars of the Memphis & Charleston
Railroad, published in Louisville
paper, as Gin whole and all it's
parts, Enthusiastically the instigation
of malice, and utterly false"