Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-22
State News.

State News.
Judge Rogers retlrcs from the West
Union Gazette, the paper remaining un
der the sole proprietorship and editorial
control Of G. II. Talmadgc We regret
to note Judge Rogers vacation of Il place
he SO ably filed, but the Gazetts will sui.
fer no diminutlon of vigor or enterprise
by the change. Our friend Talmadge
has the ability and character to maintain
the excellent reputation which it en-
joys
--Hopkinton is the seat Of hourishing
institution of learning. and is without
saloon, or place where liquor is sold
at retail Perhaps one fact may account
for the other.
The papers have been telling of the
failure of E. G. Slcight, Il grain dealer Of
Manchester, with liabilities $4S,0@ and
assets $4,000, his creditors being farm.
ers to the number Of $50. Now comes
the Press, however, saying that no such
grain man us Sleight lives in Manchester
The Sleight ofhand performance occurred
in Marshalltown.
The Cedar Falls Gasette, illustrating
the profit for the farmer in hogs tells of
man in that vicinity who invested $45
in swine last fall, and up to the present
time has sold $65.50 worth, killed three,
lost several by straying and has 80 left,
weighing from IS to 100 pounds each,
besides 43 Of small size, the whole worth
five or six hundred dollars. There is
considerable figuring and liberal cstima-
ting in that calculation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is announc-
ed to lecture IN Waterloo Nov 3Oth, on
the Coming Girl" She probably refers
to the girl who does not rise these
cold mornings until called half dozen
times
The Laporte Republican,, started as
a campaign paper, has suspended. A
stock company is being organized to re-
vive it as permanent institution.
I'm the case of the administration of
G. o. Rose vs.. the Des Moines Valley II.
Il. Co., recently tried at MarsAalltown,
Judge Sampson held that the fact that
person holds free pass is no bar to
damages against railroad company for
injuries received by the holder. Rose
was killed on the D. V. r. r., at the time
of the soldicrs' Reunion at Des Moines,
by the overturning Of Car, and his ad-
brought suit against the
On the strength of the ruling
Of the judge, the jury returned verdict
for the plaintiff of $4,000. The courts
in New York have held similar opin-
ion
Female suffrage is an accomplished
fact in Iowa. Mrs. J. B. Irwin, wife of
the postmaster at Nevada, voted at the
last election without question, complaint |
or upheaval of the foundations of so. |
ciety.
AT the recent Teachers Institute in
Floyd county, the following sentence was
read to the members, each being required
o write it out as test of their knowl-
edge of photography:
ut is agreeable to perceive the unpar
lllcled embarrassment Of an harrasscd
ocddlar, ganging the symmetry Of a peel
ID pear. which . sibyl had stabbed with
poniard, unheedipg the inucndoes of
he lilies Of the valleys"
Eighty-fiyc attempted the task and
to accomplished 435 errors in
he effort. 1t is quite probable that q
eason in sp, ling might be judicious
upon the established program
ne for Teachers Institutes in other coun-
les beside F.,yd.
The Dcs Moines Republican says
hat oil-producing shale has been found
Underlying that city, which will yield
lightly gallons of oil to the ton, and Of II
'etter quality than that Of Pennsyl-
'ania.
The Dubuque Herald is pouring out
is Shiny dsplcasnrc upon the head of
Rev. E. X. Young, Methodist clergy
nan of that city, who recently preached
sermon in favor of closing the saloons
N Sunday.
Track laying is progressing on the
linton branch Of the B., G. r. & NJ. II.
(. 1t is the intention Of the company to
ave the cars running to the new town
# Traer, in lama county, by January
st, 1873.