Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-01-26

struggles Of disputed centuries,
have been destroyed. Piles Of
armor and suits of mail which did
duty in the crusades and before, an
illustrious ancestry kept in remem-
brance by the best painters of each
generation, among whom Vandyke
figures conspicuously; the finest
originals of Rembrandt, and, not
least of all, the celebrated Warwick
vast, which was once part of the
ornamcntation of Adrian's villa, all
must be reckoned in the general
ruin. The castle stood but five
miles from tho celebrated Kenil-
worth Castle described by Sir Wal
ter Scott, and its loss is one which
interests the whole Christian world.
Travellers who have seen it will
regret its downfall, but those who
have hoped to see it will regret it
still more. Neither money nor
science nor earthly power can fill
the breach its destruction has
caused.
Episode in the Life OF q Reporter.
Some years ago, a reporter on an
Eastern paper, wrote for the same
edition an account Of the presenta-
ton of a gold headed cane to Rev.
DR.. M, clergyman of the place,
and the description ola patent hog
killing and sausage machine which
had just been put in operation at
the factory. Now, what made the
Rev. DR.. mad was this. The in
considerate buccaneer who made
up the forms of the paper got the
two locals mixed up in a frightful
manner, and when it went to press,
something like this was the appall-
ing result:
"Scveral of the Rev.. DR.. Ms
friends called upon him yesterday,
and after y brief conversation the
unsuspicious hog was seized by the
hind legs and slid along a beam
until he reached the hot water
tank. His friends explained the
object Of their visit, and presented
him with very handsome gold
headed butcher, who grabbed him
by the tail, swung him around, split
his throat from ear to ear, and in
less than a minute the carcass was
in the water. Thereupon he came
forward and said that there were
times when the feelings overpowcr-
ed one, and for that reason he would
not attempt to do more than thank
those around him, for the manner
in hich such huge animal was
cut up into fragments was simply
astonishing. The doctor concluded
his remarks, when the machine
seized him, and in less time than it
takes to write it the hog was cut
into fragments and worked up into
delicious sausage. The occasion
will long be remembered by the
Doctors friends rs one of the most
delightful of their lives. The best
pieces can be procured for fifteen
cents a pound, and we are sure that
those who have sat SO long under
his ministry will rejoice that he has
been treated so handsomely"
Mad? Well, about nine o'clock
that morning the office had been
abandoned by every man but the
advertising clerk, and he ascended
to the roof and robed himself in a
boiler iron, so that he could watch
the venerable clergyman tearing
around down there in the street
with his congregation, all wearing
the panoply of war, and carrying
butcher-kniyes and things. Next
day the reporter explained and
apologized, but the doctor stopped
his subscription and began to take
the rival paper.
Beochers' Homily on q Negro Baby.
From the Cristian Union.
Riding in street car, the other
day, we had occasion to notice a col
ored woman with her baby. The
little bonnie-brown specimen of hui
manity was making the atmosphere
vibrant with yell of defiant protes,
against some of the limitations
which oppressive maternity is wont
to inflict on childhood. Somehow il
seemed odd to us. We could not re-
member that we ever heard Il negro
baby cry before. They had always
appeared such dumbly patient velvet
things, almost justifying the suspic.
ion that they were indeed of differ
ent blood from ours. But this chap
howled as Justify as the spoiledesl
white BABY in the world, and bit
and scratched and kicked to match
Was this type OF the transition
state Of the oppressed race, on its
way to complete manhood?
And so we set to thinking on the
rapidity with which our colored
brethren are vindicating their claim
to genuine kindred with the race
which has kept them down so long,
by most successful imitation ol
its vices. 1t is not merely in the
reproduction of the impossible
chignon, and reasonable approx.
m ltion to the hobbiest cut of "long'
Tailed blues" that our newly found
relatives are justifying the title o.
''imitativc race" which has always
been accorded to them. They art
holding up to us, every day, il
wcightier matters, mirror, which
scarcely tends to increase our self:
complacency. We have not only
negro rowdies and negro regulators
in the region where, for so many
years, negroes have suffered most
from those true scions of American
liberty. Negroes stuff ballot boxes
and bribe Legislators, and plot in
cabals to put up their own color
and put down other colors. Yes,
burnt umbcr leagues with sepia,
and conspires against India ink
Colored churches quarrel, cOlored