Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-04-21
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Brigandage is again on the increase ;u
Naples and Sicily.
The latest novelty in funerals is to law
Brussels carpet around the grave
Over seventy war novels arc now in
preparation in Germany.
Three new editions of "Uncle TOMS
Cabin" are advertised in Germany.
Over twelve hundred churches were
built in the United States last year.
Tennyson refuses to recognize Walt
Whitman as a poet, and is said to call
Emerson 'gruel electrified"
There is colored youth, sevcnty-five
years old, attending school in Amcricus,
Ga.
The Florida papers report that not less
than 100 deer are killed every day on the
upper st. Johns and its tributaries.
A French author has satrcally adj.
dressed a book to "Wiiliam l., King Of
Prussia by the grace of God, and Empc.
ror of Germany by the cffusiOn Of blood.r
An Indian chief near Cheyenne boasts
that though he is only forty years old he,
has taken two hundred scalps, and has
had the delirium tremcns fifteen times:
1t is said that thirty per cent. Of the,
fires III American cities arc caused by the
deposit Of ashes in wooden boxes or bar
rcls.
That woman was a philosopher who,
when she lost her husband said she had
one great consolation-she knew where
he was o nights.
The proposal to annex West Florida to.
Alabama is again revived, and it is said.
that large majority fthe people of both
States favor the proposition.
A sensible woman in Memphis gives
annually to the poor the amount that size
supposes would have been wasted" ON
her funeral in the. event of her death.
An Indianapolis man bought NICE cof-
fin for his sick wife, when she up and got
well. Now the coffin is on his hands,
and it is to short for his own use.
Detroit is ovcrrun with organ grinders,
and is trying to enticc them away by
hints that in Memphis they can make $40
day. But they don't go worth a cent
What are scattering votes?" asks IA
| Democratic paper in Connecticut. At
last accounts Cows English and Jewell
were hard at work on this conu"drun,
The ex Rebel General n. B. Forrest has
subsidized into a cotton planter in Miss
issippi, and intends to pass the remain
der of his days in ''patriarchal peace"
Two young Atlantans ran a foot race
the other Sunday for the honor of escort
ing belle to church. The winner found
she had just gone with another fellow.
A deacon in Illinois objected to the or
gan purchased by his church, and when
called upon to pray said: Call upon
the machine! IF it sing the glory of God
it can pray too. Call on the machine"
A democrat in Quincy, III. who heard
the tumultuous rejoicings of his brethren
over their unexpected victory, at last
turned appealingly to one and asked,
Where is New Hampshire anyhow"
In brief temperance article the other
day, western paper attempted to say
something about 'the chief point in TIE
battle" but the perverse types got it ''thc
chief pint in the bottle"
A Boston paper mentions an individu-
al there who clasps his hands so fervent-
ly in prayer that he can't get them open
when the contribution box is passed
round.
Miss Georgia Benedict was a. work
setting type on the Fond du Lac Com
moneealM six weeks ago, when she be-
came religiously inclined, and is now IL
censed as IA Methodist preacher
A lad in Hartford, whose fifth birthday
occurred last week, asked his parents if
| the school would keep on that day, ad-
ding, "Thcy didn't on Waslington's birth
day
A Montreal paper notes 4 sad onlcf---
that on st. Patrick Day in the morning
an English ensign was flying for con
| siderable time on one of the towers Of
| the Church Of Notre Damc-upside down!
A young girl at Danvers, Mass, at
! tempted to end her life with dose of
! laudanum. because the Baptist church 1T
that place refused to admit her to lis
membership.
A traveller, We are told being in a wild
country where lie could find 10 provis
IONS for himself or dog. cut off the dogs
tail and boiled it for his own supper, and
gave the dog the bone
Somebody atvertises for agents to sell
a work entitled "Hymeneal Instructor"
| A contemporary adds: THE best hymcn.
cal instructor we know of is a young
| widow What she don't know there is
no use in learning" t.-
This is the free and easy way opposing
! lnwyers encourage each other in the in.
| peachment trial of Gov Butler at Lin
coin, Nebraska: Keep your shirt on,
brother Estabrook," Don't tear your
hair" WHO'S running this Court:" Sc.
Just before 4 town election in Oswcru
county ii candidate applied for i lease of
seven pews in the colored church of that
town; but the colored men saw through.
his hypocrisy, and told him that tiicir
Church was full
| a few days since q creditor in Memphis
asked debtor for his coat in payment Of
debt. The honest but impecunious
debtor took the coat of, handed it to the
Shylock, and walked home in his shirt
sleeves.
There is landlord at Windsor. Vt.
who has taken hint from Artcmus
Wards inquiry of the Washington hotel
clerk: "How much per breathe" If IL
guest retires to bed after II p. NJ, he is
charged twenty five cents extra, and the
same if he is called as any particular
| hour.
The Womans j uraal sensiblv Saws:
! "The world docs not want women Who
are good lawyers and bad mo hers, clever
physicians and tinfaithful wives, clear
headed and empty hearted, for not from
these shall come completed woman
hood"
A citizen of Connecticut, being uncx-
pcctcdly called upon to address Sunday
school, rose to his feet in some confusion.
and after several desperate but vain
efforts to say something appropriate
hoarsely murmurcd, Dear children, ncv-
er fool with powFcr"
Deacon Andl.cw Leach, who recently
died at Scarsport, Maine, is claimed To
have been the champion church gocr.
having been i'll his pew a,59S out of :, 500
consecutive Sundays. Absence from town
was his excuse for missing the only two
Sundays his seat WAS vacant in 80 years
A party Of workmcn are performing
miracle plays in the villages of Yorkshire