Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-03

Burlington baby:
beneath this stone our baby lays,
He neither cries or boilers:
He lived just one and twenty days.
And cost US forty dollars"
The Cedar Rapids Times says that
the Iowa Railroad Land Company having
charge of the lands granted to build the
Chicago Northwestern and Illinois Cen
trail Railways, report sales Of 1926 acres
for $40, 923, from the 1st to the 18th Of
April. These lands are in Western and
Central Iowa, and are bought by actual
settlers. Sac and Ida counties in that re-
gion have more than doubled their pop.
ulation in six months.
Two men named Patrick Cassidy
and Peter Burns, were killed by light
ming about four miles from Ackley. ON
Sunday evening. The lightning struck
the chimney and passed down the stove
pipe near which the men were sleeping.
DIR. P. H. Morley Of Davenport,
President of the Society Of Homeopathic
Physicians of Iowa, announces that pur-
suant to the request Of majority of the
members Of the association, the annual
meeting for the present year will be held
at Iowa City, June Goth, instead of Gin
ton, May 9Th, as heretofore announced.
The Dubuque Times says that dur
ing the wind storm ON Monday evening,
q portion of the wall of building being
torn down on the corner Of Iowa and
eth streets, was blown over, and abeam
in its fall struck workman named Alex.
Woodward, and felled him senseless.
He was carried into barber shop near
by, and died in few moments
The people of Springville, y small
town on the Dubuque South Western
road, held an indignation meeting few
nights since, to give vent to their exas-
pcration against the officers Of the Sabu-
Ia. Ackley & Dakota railroad and the citi-
zens Of Marion for running the line Of
their road two or three miles west Of the
town, after having promised to make it
a station on the line. After passing sew
eral highly indignant resolutions, among
others, to henceforth withdraw their
trade from Marion, they hanged and
burnt in cfligy, D. T. McAfec, Capt. S.
W. Rathburn, of the Marion Register, r.
D. Stevens, banker, Col. Preston and
Geo. w. Wilson.
Tho Dcs MOines Reriew tells Of .
Justice of the Peace in Polk County,
whose resources of language are some.
thing wonderful. An instance is given
in which he describes in deed line rs
"diagling" across, &c.
The Eldora Ledger says that Henry
Whipplc and John Brown Of Pleasant
township in that county, disputed about
an old debt last week, and in the failure
to strike satisfactory balance, struck
each other. Brown, finding the arma-
ment of nature inadequate for his de-
tense, seized an AK and slaslied around
like Richard the Lion hearted ON the
field of Acre, the consequence Of which
was that Whipple came out Of the Ell.
gagc,nens minus two finers, an ear, and
good portion of his cheek.
The Eldora Ledger says that y man
in the northern part Of Hardin county is
whiting fife out Of thirty foot log,
to be used at the Boston Jubilee. :"
The Waterloo papers contain the
particulars Of the suicide Of Mich@l Ul-
rich, of Washington township, Blackhawk
county, on Sunday, the 21st ul. The
rash man had exchanged farms with
neighbor short time before, and was
worried with the notion that he had not
done as well Ms he expected in the trade.
On the day mentioned he took his gun,
went into the field, and tying one end Of
string to the trigger and the other to .
bush, lie pulled the gun toward him, and
received the charge In his right breast
The shot was not instantly fatal, but he
died shortly after being found by his
wife and conveyed to the house.
-Marshalltown some time since, to
secure the location Of the machine shops
Of the Central Of Iowa railroad, voted =
Tux Of $4,000 and 40 acres Of land
to the Company Some of her cit.
liens however are adopting the
short-sighted policy Of placing Oh.
structions in the way Of the collection Of
the tax, and the consequence is that Mar
shslltown is likely to lose the permanent
benefit to be derived from having large
industry in her midst. The proposition
has been made in turn to Eldora, and her
citizens, eager to embrace the opportuni.
ty, arc making arrangements to secure
the prize.
"A freight train ran into. . herd Of
cattle ct o bridge two miles beyond Ack-
icy, last Friday. by which seversl Of the
animals we're killed and the engine and
three ears throwR from the track, No.
body hurt. Hst'
Dutch Bill" drunken butcher.
died Ut mania a potu. in Waterloo jail
last week.