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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-05

are natural enough to.hiIn, suppose.
Mrs. Miller: He has whiins; his life con-
sists of whims; but am inclined to think
that many of his eceentricities, especially
in his dress, are affected. 1t has been the
dream of his life to initiate Byron, and he
attempts 1t even in his walk. Lord Byron
was lame, You know, Mr.. Miller was not
lame until he became famous. In Oregon
his step was firm and elastic l am OF The
opinion that this is all affectation.
Reporter: How long were you his wife ?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29
He Co lldn't Drink Wine.

That was q noble youth who, on
being urged to take WING at the
table of a famous statesman, in
Washington, had the moral courage
to refuse. He was poor young
man, just beginning the struggle
of life. lie brought letters to The
great statesman, who kindly invited
him home to dinner.
"Not take glass Of wine?" said
the great statesmen, in wonderment
and surprise.
"Not one simple glass Of winc?'
echoed the statesman's beautiful and
fascinating wife, as she arose, glass
in hand, and, with grace that
would have charmed an anchoritc
cndeayored to press it upon him.
"No,' said the heroic youth, re
solutely, gently repelling tho
proffercd glass.
What picture Of moral grandeur
was that! A poor, friendless youth
refusing wine at the table of a
wealthy and famous statesman, even
though offered by the fair hands OF
. beautiful lady.
NO" said the noble young man,
and his voice trembled a little and
his cheek flushed. 81 never drink
wine, but-(hcrc he Strengthened
himself up and his words grew
firmer)-if you'ey get little good
cid rye whisky | don't mind trying
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29

Iowa has raised one-tifth more
wheat this year than it ever raised
before, and wheat is in good de.
mand in foreign markets.-Es.
The above is not complete until
ii is stated that Iowa is cheated Of
all the benefit of this favorable con-
junction of circumstances by n sys.
tenn of robbery, by a combination Of
great railroad monopolies, the most
shameless and fragrant ever prac'
tised in this or any other country
system which diverts the hard
won earnings of the Western farm
cr into the already overlooking
Golfers of railroad millionaires, con
stantly tending to the impoyerlsh'
ment of the first, and the building
I'D of the last into an aristocracy Of
wealth, menacing to the liberties O
the country.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29
NITRO.GLYCERINE.


New York, Nov. ga terrible
accident occurred near Yonkers yes
terday. Five hundred pounds Of
nitro-glycerine, which had been de-
posted in a place of safety near the
line Of the New York & Boston r.
r. since last summer, by the con-
tractor who had been grading the
road-bcd, was interfered with and
dug out Of the pit in which it had
been placed, by four young men OF
Yonkcrs named James Donnelly,
aged 10, VIM. Terry, aged 81, Geo.
Hern, aged 10, and Michael Col
lague, aged 20. They unearthed
the cans, and Donnclly and Terry
shielded themselves behind q tree
while Colleague and Hern threw
stones at the cans. The terrific ex-
plosion which followed was heard
for miles around. Colleague and
Hern were literally blown to atoms.
Donnelly and Terry were seriously
injured. Rocks were hurled in ey-
cry direction. The rock where Col
laguc and Hern stood, weighing
nearly 100 tons, was torn into frag-
ments, and the ground plowed up
all around to the windows of the
coach-house. The young men had
interfcred with the glycerino despite
the warning placards posted in sew
eral places in the vicinity.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29

-Pratt's majority for Congress in the
4th District is 10,67S.

-Pratt's majority for Congress in the
4th District is 10,67S.
The official figures of McCrary's ma
jority in the LIST District are 4,1SS
The City Council of Dubuque and
invited guests to the number of ATS, ac-
cepted the invitation of President Graves,
on Monday last, to assist in celebrating
the opening Of the Chicago, Clinton &
Dubuque Railroad, by an excursion to
Clinton.
-Ex-Gov. Cue, in brief note in the
last Iowa Homestead, announces his re-
tirement from that paper. As lie had
but just got fairly settled in the harness,
his retirement is the cause of some spec
ulation.
MIR. w. II. Gibbs, one of the Oldest
and wealthiest citizens of Lyons, while
reading aloud in the chamber of his son,
sick with a slow fever, was approached
by the latter in state of temporary de-
lirium and cut in the side of the neck
with knife, after which the son cut and
laccrated his own throat. The fathers
wounds are severe but not fatal. 1t is
probable that the son will die of his
wounds and the disease.
Iowa City has the horse disease bad.
Advices from there report the livery
stables closed and butchers carts, hears
es, omnibuses, &c, drawn by oxen.
The Franklin Recorder records the
death of a little child of B. w. Jones, who
recently removed from that town to Bel.
mond, from ovcrturning spider of hot
gravy OH her head while sitting near the
stove.
The Recorder claims Franklin us the
banner county of Iowa, three townships
being unanimous for Grant and fourth
giving only two votes for Greeley.
The horse disease has reached Du-
buquc, from 200 to 800 animals being
affected with it on Monday last The
street cars have stopped in consequence
and several equine deaths are reported.
The Dubuque Times says that the
young ladies in that city arc charging
their chignons, and putting more news
papers in their panniers, preparatory to
the skating season.
AL. Swain, editor of the Jefferson
Bee, has been appointed Pension Agent
at Des Moines, to succeed Stewart Good
rell, recently deceased. The qualifica-
tions of capability, integrity and WORTH
ness are all met in this appointment.
John Boyd, of Pella, Iowa, Assistant
Doorkecpcr of the National House of
Representatives, is likely to be promoted
to the position of Doorkecper by the next
House
The Burlington Hackeye tro:s out
the first born white citizen of Iowa now
living within her borders, in the person
Of John A. Latta, who was born in Des
Moines county, June 18th, 1885, and has
resided in the county ever since.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29
Civil Service Reform.

The criticism in Fred Douglas
paper to the effect that "civil service
reform places enemies of the Re-
publican party on an equal footing
with hard working Republicans
however competent and honest"
has drawn out an apparently au-
thoritative explanation of the Pres
ident's views on the whole subject,
published in the Washington Re
publican. According to this au-
thority, President Grant holds that:
"First of all, other things being
equal, the men who stood by the
party should be appointed in pref
erance to those who have been op-
posed to it; but to protect the pub
lie service there must be some
standard of requirement, and no
man who falls below it can be ap-
pointed, merely to strengthen the
party. There is 4 large class of
persons who are entitled to Office on
many grounds, such as service in
the late war, fidelity to Republican
principles, &C., but in addition to
these qualifications they must be up
to certain standard Of efficiency
before, in the future, they can be
appointed. When they are thus
qualified in an educational point,
which is not to be decided or de-
tcrmined on the competitive plan,
then they are in all cases to get the
preference. If the Government has
favors to give, they should, in the
opinion of the President, go to the
person who has stood by the Gov
crnmcnt, provided he is fitted for
the position he may seek"
While the claims of Republicans
as such are not ignored, it will be
seen that the President still requires
efficiency as the primary qnalifica-
ton, to which none other shall take
preference. 1t is not probable
that the party test will be rigidly
enforced except in the case of the
higher offices. That the officers
entrusted with the carrying out of a
certain line of policy should be in
accord with it, need not be argued,
but certainly the attitude of the
President SO far gives promise that
the appointment of men to lucrative
positions for party service merely,
without regard to fitness, will be
discountenanced by him.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29
Tho Impending Yoke.

Eighteen ofthc principal railroads
centering at New York report an
increase of earnings for the month
of October over the corresponding
month last year of twenty per cent.
This is not due to any increase
in the amount of freight carried,
but entirely to advance in charges.
Commenting upon this fact, the In
ter ocean pertinently says:
'These statements suggest to our
farmers the question whether If,
with the increase of railway facili-
ties, freights are to advance in this
ratio, it would not be better that
railway building should stop? and
the more important query, whether
there is no power in the land to
protect them against railway extor-
tons, which literally rob them of
the chief part of the annual products
of their farms?"
The question of protection from
railroad oppression may well engage
the attention of the whole people of
this country. They are confronted
with q rising and constantly aug
mcnting power Of wealth, represent
ed by railroad combinations, which
threatens to reduce them to 4 state
of vassalagc as degrading as that
imposed by any king or emperor
The people of the west even now
hold the tenure Of all they possess
at the will of these overbearing mo-
nopolics. The price of all that the
farmer produces is practically fixed
by the nod Of their purse-proud
managers. The demand for our
products, or their price in foreign
market, no longer enter into the el-
emcnts which control their value
This depends upon the caprice of
the class who control the railroads
which convey them to the seaboard:
q class that to greater extent than
any other has been the recipient of
governmental favor and liberal do
nations of lands and money belong
ing to the people they are plumber
ING. For these robberies and ex-
actions, the people of the west look
to Congress for relief. They be-
lieye that the power to redress their
wrongs is possessed by that body,
and rightly argue that the govern
mcnt, which is not capable or honest
enough to shield them from oppres-
sion, is fit for nothing else. The
time is not distant when our legis-
lators will be held to strict ac-
countability on these questions, and
those of them who have the fore
sight to see and heed the signs of
the times will be those who will be
honored and rewarded in the flu
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29

IT would perhaps be ungencrous
to criticise too closely the subtleties
invented by the late Liberal jour-
nails, designed to mollify the sting
of the defeat of their ''party' at the
polls. But the nothing less than
impudent assumption of the Spring
field Republican that the recent
manifestation on the part Of Presi-
dent Grant of a disposition to en-
force the civil service rules and
similar reforms, and the declara-
tions on the part Of Republican pa
pers since the elections favoring a
just and conciliating policy toward
the South, are result and justifica-
ton of the Cincinnati movement, is
The grimest joke of the season. Con-
sidering that the platform adopted
at Cincinnati, Or what there was
really valuable OF worthy Of notice
in it, was but reiteration of the
sentiments of Grants messages and
the before avowcd principles of the
Republican party, the attempt to
appropriate their REORGANIZATION
by the President, as posthumous
triumph of the "Libcral cause" is a
specimen Of check only to be looked
for in one of the quadrilatcral Of
Independent journalism.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29
Railroad E1tortiou.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
The Esnoncier comments with a
great deal of yigor on the ''remarka-
BILE fact that twice a year the mana
gers of great railroad routes are apt
to make the discovery that freight
charges are inadequate and must be
raised, and that this discovery is
made just as there is o positive
necessity for getting the autumn
crops to market and just as nayiga-
ton Closes" Corn rules at about
65 cents per bushcl in the Eastern
seaport markets. From 40 to AZ
cents per bushel are for transpor-
tation. This, if anything can be so
characterized, deserves the name Of
cxtortion. The horse disease has
acted disastrously on canal towago,
and it now seems as if a much larger
part of our breadstuffs must this
year be transported to the seaboard
by the rail than formerly. Monopoly
has tight rein on us at present,
but it cannot last. The interest of
the shipper and consumer must be
consulted before long.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29
Mr.. Greelcy's Health.

The country was startled few
days since with the sensational re-
port that Mr.. Greeley had become
insane, and had been placed in an
asylum. Later intelligent contra
diets this report, but indicates also
that Mr.. Greeley is in state bor-
dering upon mental alteration. The
arduous work of the campaign, SUI
perimposed with the anxieties and
grief attending his wife's illness
and death, have thrown him into 4
state Of nervous prostration, which
is cause of great anxiety to his
friends. The family hope that rest
and abstinence from care and labor
will do their perfect work, and re-
store him to his wonted vigor and
mental poise.
A New York dispatch says: "The
club rooms are full Of gossip about
Mr.. Greeley's loss of reason, paraly-
tic attack, seeking an asylum at
Bloomingdale, etc. We discredit
them all, and wish soon to see him
restored to health. Mr.. Sinclair,
publisher Of the Tribune, stated to
an Espress reporter to-day (25th)
that Mr.. Greeley's mind is not seri-
ously affected, and that he was suf-
fering only from nervous prostra-
ton. Another interviewer obtained
from the Tribune office the state
mcnt that they knew nothing of Mr..
Greelcy's insanity, or of his being
placed in an asylum. He had been
much depressed for some days, and
greatly Frustrated, but when last
heard from had recovered sufficient
ly to be able to eat regularly and to
converse with friends. Mr.. Gree
ley is in need Of rest and seclusion.
The weight of political excitement
on his mind has been depressing, it
is averred, but possibly not damag
ing to the mental ability of man
of his age"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29

LOUISIANA, heretofore claimed as
one of the Greeley States, is shown
by the official count to have given
a majority of l2,7Gl for w. p. Kel-
logg, Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, and about the same majority
for the Republican electors. There
is also a handsome working majority
in the Legislature, which dashcs
the aspirations for the U. S. Sena-
torship of that arrant intriguer War
moth.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29
Ir is believed in Washington

Ir is believed in Washington that
the friends Of San Domingo annex
alton will take early action in Con.
gress to revive the project by joint
resolution. 1t is understood, how.
ever, that the President will adhere
to the terms Of the Message in
which he announced that he would
leave the whole matter in the hands
of Congress and the people. The
manifest-destiny-pcople will do well
to pause until they have heard from
the latter.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29
DR.. A. TRASk'S
MAGNETIC OINTMENT
FOR THE CURE OF
INFLAEMAToRY DISEASES.

DR.. Tfask was engaged for twenty years in
course Of experiments upon the medical prop
critics and power of vegetables, separate and
combined. At the age Of seventy years ne sue.
Of his experiments, q combination Of Vegetable
extracts, the power of which in removing dis
eases is unequaled in the annals of Medicine
ton Of these powerful Vegetable Extracts with
Electricity or Magnetism in the form Of an Oint-
ment.
Certain, It IL, that the remarkable and
unprecedented success which has attended its
application in the cure Of diseases, stamps it at
once as the greatest discovery OF the age, and
calls for a trial and close investigation Of its
properties.
Ii never fails, whilc there remains sur
hcient life to restore natural and healthy nc.
ton to the capillary vessels OF the body, and
equalize the circulation Of the blood. By this
most malignant forms Of disease, which cannot
be obtained from any other remedy.
Such - the power Of this combfna.
ton, that it penetrates to every portion of
the human frame; every bone and muscle, vein,
nerve and ligament is searched out and made
sensible Of its purifying and healing influence.
Hence it copes as readily with internal as ex-
ternal disease.
Numerous instances are on record
where this remedy has restored health to pa
tients so near the grave that the most powerful
internal remedies failed to produce any effect.
Such has frequently been the case in Indamma-
No patient ever need die with this
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For InflammatOry Rheumatism
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In ninety.nlne cases out Of
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For Nervous Diseases this medicine is
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Affections OF the Spine. Rheumatism,
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29

STANLEY, the discoverer of Liv-
ingston, was banquetcd by the Her.
AID Club in New York, on Monday
evening. Among the guests were
DR.. John Livingstone, Of Canada,
brother of the great explorer, and
Earl Caithness, now travelling in
this country. Mr.. Stanley made a
speech, and, referring to the doubts
thrown upon his statements regard
ing the finding of Livingstone, de-
fed his assailants to prove that he
did not meet Livingstone at Ujiji.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29

NERVOUS PAIN, OR IRRlTABILlry.
-Trask's Magnetic Ointment qqi.
cts the nerves st once, and affords
the patient ease and rest. 1t should
be applied not very profusely, be.
ginning at the temples, and pass.
ing over the whole surface.
1t will be found more effective
and less hurtfal than preparations
ofopium.
See advertisement in another col.
uwn.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29

THE official count of the vote of
Iowa on electors-at-large shows a
majority for Kirkwood over War
rem Of GO,ll4. 1t is nevertheless
true, that in some counties Greeley
had quite number Of votes; enough
to establish the fact that he was
really in the field. The simples
who wagered their money on
Grants majority going under 3d.
900 are yet at large, but quite harm
less.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29

The women of the country owe
President Grant q need of respect
and gratitude for his full and frank
expression few days since, to the
effect that women employed by the
the government should be placed
on the same plane as men, receiving
the same wages when doing the
same work. He pledged himself to
do everything in his power to bring
about this reform, and also express
sed his qualification that the civil
service rules opened all places to
women as to men, through compe-
titivc examination. This position
is characteristic Of the Presidents
ctrong common sense, on all sub
ipcfS
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29

THE St. Louis Republican, apro-
pos of Kansas Legislators, defines
"cleyer fellow" as zone who, if
he is for you, is for you like,
and if he is against you, it don't
cost much to change him." There
are too many clever fellows in our
Legislatures.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29

Hon. OLIVER p. MORTON. was on
Wednesday reelected United States
Senator by the Legislature of In
diana, by majority of 10, on joint
ballot. His competitor was Hon. j..
d. Williams.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29

From the statistics appended to
the report Of Indian Commissioner
Walker, it appears that exclusive of
Alaska there are 100000 Indians
within the limits of the United
States of which number $4,000 are
civilized, $1,000 semi-civilized and
$4,000 wholly uncivilized.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-29
Administrative Notice,

NOTICE Is hereby given that the undersigned
IN was, on the Goth day of November, 1872, du-
ly appointed by the Circuit Court of Buchanan
county, Iowa, and has qualified as administrators
of the estate Of John II. Pierce late Of Buchanan
county. Iowa, deceased All persons indebted to
the estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment to the undersigned, and those having claims
against the same will present them, duly anthem
ticated, tOsaid Court for allowance.
Dated November 20, 1872.
ADDIE c. S. PIERCE,
20w2 Administrative.