Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-15


on vegetables blues.
Gleanings.
Scratching tickets" in Texas is called
"horning off,
A Georgia girl Of ten years is an ac-
complished driver of hack horses and fast
nags
There are thirty-six first class girls
schools in New York city.
Two Indian mothers have been arrested
at Oakland, Cal, for papoOse-icide.
They have morning concerts in Eng
land, commencing at in the afternoon.
A watch chain and locket are out OF
place for full dress.
One inch square is the largest admissi
bic center for a lace handkerchief.
Application was recently made in an
English police court for summons
against the devil
Switzerland has 2GS head of cattle to
every 1000 acres
A red-haired girl of San Francisco es.
capped payment of her hair,dye bill be-
cause she was minor
A lady dressed in black, with white
veil and armed with a pistol and bowie
knife, is the ghost of Vincennes, Ind.
Something less than thousand wagons
passed through Baxter Springs, Kan last
week on the road to Texas.
A bold thief recently stole two large
frnO, to u,
Hotels in Baltimore, worth 500 or $500
apiece.
Ladies are wearing regular dickics
stand-up collars and scarfs tied in a sailor
knot, on the street.
The joint ownership of two dollars is
considered sufficient capital to justify
wedding in Louisville.
The latest reason given for advising 4
woman to spend her time over her dress.
is that it develops the artistic faculty.
One firm in Greenville, Muhlenberr
cotSty,ky, has ready for market seventy
five thousand pounds of dried apples and
peaches
Those profane people who wished the
horse distcmper lin Halifax" are cratificd;
| it's got there
The North Carolinians of Raltimor~
are subscribing for the relief of joseph
turner, whose Raleigh Sentinel was
recently blown up.
a man has just been committed for
trial in London, for conspirins, ten years
ago, to shoot Major Gore, a member of
Parliament
A 81 100000 lawsuit is now going on
IN Tennessee, involving securities that
during the war were put into Confederate
credits and so lost
Five ships now loading at Port Gamble
Washington Territory, for CalIao., will
carry away 100000 feet of lumber.
An extensive coal mine has been dis
covered about eighty miles from Watson
vile, Santa Cruz county, Cal
The discovery of "hipporhinorrhea-
by the "Herald man. is producing the
greatest excitement throughout the coun-
try.
The card-playing pig will soon be
eclipsed by billiard playing hen, which
is in training in Nebraska.
A railroad blast at Lynchburc, Tenn,
threw stone into the main gasometer
and left the city in darkness.
cambridge (Ga) man lately made
fair meal from six cans Of oysters and a
pound and half of soda crackers.
Recently, sl,OOO,OOO of Japanese gold
Was received at San Francisco, to be CON
verted into gold bars and returned to
Japan for coinage,
1t is now asserted that Sumner will not
return to the United States during this
session OF Congress. He did not mind
fighting the President alone, but the
President and the country together are
too much for him,
j. G. Cutting, a large California wool
grower, has sued the Pacific Railroad for
$40, 900 on account of being put off for
having stopped over on through ticket,
and thereby losing sale
An Akron thief stole valuable lap
robe out of q buggy the other night, but
relcnted and threw it into door ward,
with a note attached requesting the finder
to return the property to the owner, ''and
obllge the thief
The Baptist church of Harrodsburg,
Ky, will soon celebrate their centennial
about the roots Of the same tree that their
first services were held under.
Six burglars were foiled in an attempt
to rob the Merchants Bank at Mattawan.
n. j., by the courage of colorcd woman,
who escaped after they had handcutfcd
her and gave the alarm to citizens.
Gerritt Smith is in his seventy.tifth
year, and his memory is so perfect that
he can repeat most Of the Psalms, and
many other parts of the Riblc. His wife
whom he married about half century
ago, is still his companion.
1t is considered humane now for
smokers" to carefully quench the sparks
| on their ''stumps" before casting them on
the sidewalk, to prevent ladies' trails
from catching fire.
Out Of forty-fve applicants who were
recently examined in Washington, for
tirst-c class clcikships in the treasury de-
partmcnt. the ten successful candidates
consisted OF six women and four men.
Tho n.nbury News says: "This is
opening week for chestnuts. In falling
out Of the trees we have noticed that
good boys generally strike on their heads
while bad boys invariably land on their
feet. The legislature should hook into
this matter"
! w. II. Smith, member Of Parliament
from London, England, is at present in
New York on tour Of observation,
which he will extend to most of the lead
ing cities. He has been to Canada two
months, sightseeing. Mr.. Smith is cele-
brated rs the millionaire newsdealcr'
in London.
A fellow who attempted to wallop a
widow in Telfair county, Ca, recently,
was the worst fooled man in the Union.
The widow knocked him down and walk
ed all over him; then she set him up on
his feet and jerked him out of his socks;
then she snatched him bald headed, and
finally wonnd up the cermony by padding
him with board until he had the hyster.
les.
Lenient judgment in obituary receives
this illustration in the Baltimore Gazette's
comments on Mr.. Seward: "IIe was u
born demagogue As speaker he was
fluent, as a writer verbose, as q politician
trcacherous, as a statesman shallow and
prctcntious, and at the height Of his