Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-08-18
State News.


fashionable resort in the State for excur-
sionists
The Des Moines Register claims
that Polk is the second county in the
State in point Of wealth-Dubuque being
first.
An Eastern man lately brought
5000 acres of land in Sac county, and
proposes to establishish a cheese factory
A negro once gave the following
toast: ode gubenor Oh our State He
come in wild very little opposition; he
goes out wild none at all"
The Waterloo Courier announces
that Horace Greeley has been engaged to
lecture in that city sometime in Sep
TENDER.
The Cedar Rapids Observer proposes
to print daily supplement during the
fair, showing up the advantages of the
city as manufacturing and business
center.
john A. Kasson in letter written
from Switzerland, accepts his nomination
to the Legislature, and says he will be
home in time to do his share Of the work
in the present campaign.
Mr. Borch and his dog were hunting
up Perry Greek, in Woodbury. county
Suddenly the dog sprang backward, and
fell dead almost instantly. A rattlesnake
had fanged him.
Three persons in one family, the
father, son and Il daughter died recently
from eating pork containing "trichina,"
near Casey, Adair county
Fairfield, Iowa, was visited by fire
on Sunday morning last, which destroyed
an elevator and other property to the
amount of $22 900.
Henry O'Connor has been engaged
to deliver the annual address before the
Hardin County Agricultural Society, on
Sept. 18th.
Russell, the Page county Clerk, re-
ceived the following note tie other day
from a willing father: "Kounty Klcrk-
Will please let the bearer, my sun, hav l
pare marriage licensus, & oblige."
&c
ing about 1870 men, women and children,
passed through Cedar Rapids, on Friday
last, bound for the western dominions of
the Brghamites We CLEAN from the
Observer.
Iowa has 100000 acres of unoc-
cupied land, waiting for the brains and
muscle to convert them into valuable and
fruitful farms.
Mrs Goodrow was driving reaper
team in her husbands field, in Linn Co.,
last Saturday, when by some accident
she was thrown from her seat in front of
the sickle and she was 50 terribly man
gled by it that she died in few
hours.
The best judges say that the apple
crop this year, should no evil befall it, will
am unit to at least million and a half
bushels, or nearly three times as large an
amount rs in 1868 This is, no doubt,
true as there are thousands of young or
chards which have commenced bearing
since 1868, and are now yielding
largely.
The sportsmen in Fayette county are
considerably down in the mouth The
boys are fond of chicken hunting, but af-
ter the LIST Of August they are practically
prohibited from that sport, as it is unsafe
to fire gun in any field in Fayette
county, for fear of killing one or more
candidates for Sheriff
A German living near Bryant, some
two weeks ago, had both Of his lower
liluDS HcdllN SSN0lSu llobl HIS oous ps
his team starting, While he was standing
in front of sickle to mower. He lin
gered in great pain until last Tuesday,
when he died. We CLEAN from the
Lyons Mirror
A certain citizen Of Dubuque, it is
said, has IA house built at the foot of a
bluff, with an aperture in the rear lead
ing into an old disuscd lead cave. He
has connected this aperture 10y Il tube
with his registers, and thus cools his
house to any degree he plcascs by simply
letting on or pulling off the draft-He
calls the res ult his cold fires.
The Dcs Moines and Western Rail
road Company WAS organized at Abel
last Saturday with capital stock of
$3,000,000 The object of the company
is the construction of narrow gauge
road from Des Moines through Waukee,
Abel, Redtieid, Panora etc, to the Mis-
souri, river.
The Oskaloosa Herald reports this
unusual yielded of wheat on the farm of
VIM Stafford, two miles north of that
town. He had besides his spring wheat
four acres of fall wheat, which averaged,
as whole, thirty bushels and thirty
nine pounds to the acre--one acre turn
ing out thirty eight bushels and twenty
four pounds.
A tornado passed through Marshall
county last week The storm commenc
ed near State Center, and made desolate
path twenty miles long Houses were
blown down, stacks of grain carried up
in the air and the grain fairly threshed
out and dropped all along. the path of the
tornado while the straw, corn leaves and
other trash was carried for miles and
suddenly dropped out in a mass. This
same storm touched at Iowa Falls, but
without doing much damage. We CLEAN
from the Sentinel.
\ Syracuse man chopped down a
giant hickory tree over seventy-iive