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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24
CHAPTER 1870.
AN ACT making further appropriations
for the Deaf and Dthlb ASYLUM and for

AN All making further appropriations
for the Deaf and D1nb Asylum and for
the maintenance of the Institution.
SECTION !. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Iowa, That
there is hereby appropriated the sum Of
fifteen thousand dollars, or so much there
of as may be necessary, for the follow
ing purposes, to-wit:
TO build barn, three thousand dollars
to repair gas works, five hundred dollars;
to protect walls and lay pavement, seven
hundred dollars; to plant trees, shrubs,
ETC., and bring in good order the grounds
around the building, five hundred dollars;
to buy land near the Institution, build
reservoir thereon, and lay connecting pipe
to the building, four thousand dollars;
for repairing carpenter work in the build
ing, two thousand five hundred dollars;
to paint where it is necessary, fifteen
hundred dollars; for contingent expenses,
seven hundred dollars; for furniture,
bedding, etc, sixteen hundred dollars.
Said appropriation to be drawn and
expended by and under the direction Of
the commissioners, in the same manner
as the appropriations were drawn for the
construction of the building.
Sec. 2. TO meet the ordinary and
current expenses of the Institution, in
GLIDING salaries to officers and teachers,
wages to laborcrs (male and female), re-
pairs, etc, there is hereby appropriated
the sum of twelve thousand dollars per
annum; and in addition thereto, forty
dollars per quarter for each pupil
Sec. 3. All acts or parts Of acts ill.,
consistent with this act arc hereby re.
pealed.
SEC. 4, This act being deemed of i'm
mediate Importance, shall take effect and
be in force from and after its publication
in the Iowa State Register. and State
Leader, newspapers published in Des
Moines, Iowa.
Approved, April II, 1872.
hereby certify that the foregoing act
was published in the Daily Iowa State
Register, April 81. and Daily State Lea
der, April 20, 1872.
ED WRIGHT,
Secretary Ct State.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24

Horace White-hc is the editor
Of the Chicago Trib,tne-makes this
observations:
"The worst thing which can be said of
Mr.. Greeley is that he has few worth
less deadbeats hanging around him, prey
ing on his cash and good nature, and i'm
pairing his reputation among those
whose good opinion he ought to possess"
How cool! The very thing charg-
ed against General Grant is con-
fessed at the outset as Mr.. Greeley's
greatest weakness. Mr.. Horace
White, with his hands under his
coat tails, very blandly says, "Will
you please get out OF Republican
fire into our Liberal frying-pan. =
Great Reform - Hamilton Free
man.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24
It is stated that there are receiy

1t is stated that there are rccciv-
ed and kept regularly on file at the
American Newspaper Advertising
Agency Of Geo. P. Rowell & Co.,
New York, no less than $50 differ
ent American Daily Newspapers,
Sc tri-weeklies, 40 semi-wecklics,
1862 wecklics, s semi-monthlics
and 800 monthlies, making week
ly average of over $500 periodicals
Of all kinds, which are regularly
filed and kept open for inspection
by advertisers and others who may
be interested. The visitor to New
York from Oregon, Texas, Florida
or Maine, can find at this establish
ment the local paper published at
his home.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24
Political Paragraphs.

The Louisville Courier Journal dis
poses of the argument against Greeley,
addressed to Democrats, that he is a
temperance man, in this wise: Nobody
should object to Greeley because he is u
teetotaler. His abstinence leaves all the
more whisky for the rest of u.s."
The New York and Tennessee State
Republican Conventions, held last week,
both unhesitatingly declared for Grants
denomination, the first advising and the
latter instructhg the delegates to Phila-
delphla to work for that end.
The Chicago Tribune publishes let
ter from Horatio Seymour to S. s. Cox,
in which he says: "Mr. Greeley's cleo
.tion'will be prescrvative step toward
local neighborhood government, and
will stop the course of overbearing fed
eralism." From which we infer that
Horatio has had some trouble with
the municipal authorities of Utica
regarding sidewalks, grades or some
thing of the sort, and hopes to gain re-
dress through Greeley. Again he says
"We can have Democratic principles in
some measure by acccding to the great
revolution in his (Greeley's) favor, which
is sweeping over the country" For
principles" read Officers" and the
meaning Of the Utica farmer is clear as
mud.
The Chicago Tribune says that Gratz
Brown is "thc red hairedest aspirant for
high office since jefferson" AS sug-
gestive corollary of the proposition,
it may be added that he will get the
all firedest licking Of any man who ever
aspired for any position high or low.
The Nation liberal, with brains) says
If the result at Cincinnati: 1.-THE Con-
vention must, as far as the general aims
and objects of those who called it are
concerned, be pronounced failure
They all acknowledge this privately;
some of them admit it openly. Those
of them who are supporting Mr.. Gree
ley's nomination are doing so simply by
way of making the best of bad job.
Not one Of them considers him desira.
BILE candidate, or looks forward to his
election without grave apprchensions."
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24
Ashamed Of It.

! prictge Stanley Matthews, tempo
4 chairman Of the Cincinnati
Invention, is disguised and asha-
y ed OF the whole affair. The Gin
. knati Gazette publishes letter
;. sta, him in explanation of his
: use,t' at the opening Of the Con-
person, in which he declared that
/ low poison of corruption per-
! chs the. administration Of the
Mr.amenf from head to foot. He
i " othing connected with the
! lsgraced and disgraceful Con-
n N has given him SO much
80 rs the Interpretation put upon
] x;,s czech. He says, further:
...on;- We never believed that per-
!, -, .ly the present administration
g. guilty Of corrupt conduct or
ives. What I was striving to
had reference to the general
! upton of our political life per-
3Sg it in every department,
'nvneby personal and party ends
ealGed to be substituted for party
/ Wd, the latest and best illustration
!, (which / am free to say is now
all1d in the action of the very Con-
on IN the presence of which
'osaclaration was made. was
meta' chagrined at the whole mat
Myers ~i participationin it inclu-
vllave concluded, perhaps not
sently soon, that as politician
y q, President-maker l am not a
atccss."
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24


Farmers Il Western New York com
plain Of the drought, and say that winter
wheat begins 10 show its disastrous ef.
fects.
"A terrible massacre was committed
by band Of lawless Indians and Next
cans Of persons in charge Of train Of
United States army supplies on route to
Fort Stockton, at Towards Wells, near
old Fort Lancaster, in New Mexico
The fiends attacked, plnndered and
burned the train. and killed seventeen
persons who were with the rain-only
one woman escaping. Several Of the un.
fortunates were tied to the burning wa
CONS and burned to death. Companies
A and H Of the 9th United States cavalry
were sent in pursuit of the murderers,
and had fight with them, in which
Lieutenant Vincent was killed. Several
of the Indians were killed, but the great
er numper escaped.
MIR. Sullivant, the great Illinois far
mer, has planted this spring 20, 900 acres
of corn, covering all the tillable land in q
whole township.
The Methodist General Conference,
in session ut Brooklyn, N. Y, is having
hot time over the Book Concern frauds.
DR.. Lanahan charged the other day that
the whole editors, Secretaries
and agents-were concerned in oil spec
ulations to the detriment of the church;
and that J. F. Porter, who purchased pa.
per for the concern, was prison convict.
DR. Harris said that if Dr. Lanahan allu-
dcd to him as one of the Secretaries
engaged in oil speculations, he was tut
terly misinformed," and DR.. Gilbert Ha.
ven, Of Boston, came to the defense of
Porter by saying that he was convict
only technically, &c. There seems dis
position on the part of the Conference to
prevent a full Investigation of the Book
Concern.
Over 10000 immigrants were land
ed at Castle Garden, New York, on
Monday, the largest number in one
day since the establishment of the insti.
tuition.
Speaker Blaine was unanimously
nominated for Congress, on the 21st,
from the Sd Maine district, his sixth
nomination for the same position.
---Tennie G. Claflin aspires to be the
successor Of Jim Fisk as Colonel of the
famous 9th Regiment. 1t is stated that
she is having gorgeous uniform made,
and will shortly appear on horseback at
the Grand Opera House, toe exhibit her
martial bcarign and proficiency in tao
tics
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24

The Democratic State Convcn.
ton has been called to meet ct Des
Moines, on the 18th of June, to elect
delegates to the National Conven-
ton at Baltimore. Though nothing
is known officially regarding the de-
liberations Of the State Committee,
it is understood that it was not .
uuit on the policy Of endorsing
Greeley. Lively times may be look
e 6; e 2. 81 DE Ass !:
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24


FayStte, Buchanan, and Delaware. shall
compose the Third District.
Fourth District The counties Of Black
Hawk, Bremen, Chickasaw, Howard,
Mitchell Floyd, Butler, Grundy, Hardin,
Franklin, Ccrro Gordo, Worth, Winnie
hago, Hancock, and Wright, shall com
pose the Fourth District.
Fifth District-The counties Of John.
son, Iowa, Poweshiek, Marshall, Tama,
Benton and Linn, shall compose the
Fifth District.
Sixth District-The counties of Davis.
Wapelio. Keokuk, Mahaska, Jasper, Mar.
lon, Monroe. and Appanoose, shall com
pose the Sixth District.
Seventh District - Tho counties of
Wayne, Decatur, Clarke. Lucas, Warren.
Polk, Dallas, Madison. Adair, and
Guthrie, shall compose the Seventh Dis
trict
Eighth District-The counties of Ring.
gold, Union, Adams, Taylor, Page, Mont
gomery, Cass, Audubon, Shelby, Harri-
son, Pottawattamie, Mills and Fremont,
shall compose the Eighth District.
Ninth District-The counties Of Story,
Boone, Hamilton, Webster, Humboldt,
Kossuth, [Crocker,] Emmett, Palo Alto,
Pocahontas, Calhoun, Greene, Carroll,
Sac, Buena Vista. Clay. Dickinson, Oscco-
la. O'Brien, Cherokee, Ida, Crawford,
Monona, Plymouth, Sioux, Lyon, and
Woodbury., shall compose the Ninth Dis
trict.
Sec. 2. Each of said Districts shall be
entitled to one representative in Con-
gress; and the first election of members
of Congress under this act shall be at the
general election in the year one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two. Mem
bers Of Congress shall be elected ut the
general election held every two years
thereafter.
| Sec 3. The returns of elections for
members Of Congress under this act shall
be made to the Secretary of State; and
the canvass shall be made by the Board
OF State Canvassers, which return and
canvass shall be made as required by law
for the return and canvass for Auditor
| of State.
Approved, April II. 1879.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24
CHAPTER 1873.
AN ACT Pertaining tosthe division of
Civil Townships

AN ACT Pertaining tosthe division of
Civil Townships
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the Gen.
cral Assembly of the State Of Iowa, That
in any civil township, having within. its
limits an incorporate city or town of
more than four thousand inhabitants, as
shown by the last census, state or federal
on the petition Of a majority of the quail
fed electors Of such township, residing
without the corporate limits of such city
or town, it shall be the duty of the board
of Supervisors of the county. to divide
such township into two civil townships,
the one to embrace the territory outside,
and the other the territory within the
corporate limits of such city or town.
Sec. 2. Such petition may be prcscn-
ted at any regular meeting Of the board
of supervisors held in January, April. or
June of that year, and shah be accom-
panied by the affidavit of three or more
credible witnesses that the signatures on
the petition arc all genuine; that the sign.
crs are all legal voters Of the township
outside Of the city or town limits.
Sec. 8. Thirty days notice of the
presentation of the petition provided for
by this act, shall be made by two publ
cations thereof in weekly newspaper,
if there be one printed in the township
sought to be divided. the last of which
publication shall be ut least ten days
before the time fixed for the presentation
Of the petition; if no paper be printed
therein, or if such paper refuse to pub
lish such notice, it shall be given by
posting the same in five public places in
Said township, two of which shall be out
side, and three within the corporate limits
of the city or town.
Sec. A. Upon proofof the publication
or posting of such notice, and upon petit
ton certified, rs required by this act,
hcing presented, the board Ofsupervisors
shall make tho division Of the township
az provided in this act, at the first session
at which the petition is presented, and
shall order that ut the next general cleo
ton there shall be held in the two town.
ships, ut places to be designated by said
board, an election for township and such
other officers and propositions as may be
voted for ut such election.
Sec. 8. The division off, civil town
ship shall not, except for election purposes
go into effect, until the first Monday Of
January, next ensuing.
SEC. 9. Within ten days after such
division shall have been. ordered, the
trustees and clerk Of the township 90
divided. shall select from the t0wnships
in which they are TO act, three persops TO
- : = t,,,nkxoo and ~. = .,npasns. N nlAf -
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24
CHAPTER 1871.

AN ACT Dividing the State into nine
Congressional Districts.
SECTION I. Be il enacted by the Gen,
erSl Assembly Of the State Of Iowa, That
this State shall be divided into nine Con-
eressional Districts as follows:
First District The counties Of Lee, Van
Buren,, Jefferson, Henry, Des Moines,
Louisa, and Washington, shall compose
the FiFst Distrlct,
6econd District Tho conntiea ~ Ma.
cstlne, 6cotk Clinton. Jackean 1oneny
~ Csaak slsA eeaapeee ~ ni
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24

s;RRY BLACK has been heard
Il o. the Cincinnati nominations.
!. 10 thinks that there is not in the
country, "a filter man for . candi-
klate, and an unftter man for Presi-
ssthan Horace Greeley" Ig-
Iing the latter fact, however, he
ESERoseb to accept and support
- $50 if SO hidden BY the Balti-
81 Ne convention. He is but rep
tentative Of his party. Like, the
after the wood chuck, the De-
(c3acy are font Of meat" and
"a accept aAuld Clootio'' y
~ 4 M, |
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24
r. Liberals have been chuck

SO Liberals have been chuck
icy considerably over the re-elec-
Z Of Of Senator Ferry, of Connecti-
As:"AhofFer the regular Republican
will !ssSnominee, Gov. Hawley, ac-
and stf plished by coalition of Ferry's
shes eprblicAn supporters with the
Democrats in the legislature, claim
4 ing it as an anti-Grant victory Of
y npcAk significance. But now comes
III Ts1-elected Senator, Mr.. Fer
letter written since the
wi IRA declaring his decided pref
"a Or Grant over Greeley, and
sp""s.s.erizing the effort to elect the
"political Madness" since
EST 4 Ferry's election is not SO
co.dificent as it was.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24
A notable event of the week is the

A notable event Of the week is the
complete success of the eight hour
strike in New York. The move
ment embraced men of all the lead
ing classes of workers, and grew to
such formidable proportions that
the employers were compelled at
last to acccdc to the demand for ten
hours pay for eight hours work.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24

FRIDAY. MAYA. 1874.


The Conservative Of this week
otes with great gusto paragraph
Eem the Dubuque Herald, to the
ensct that the Germans are ssunit
against Grant," that ssthey will sup
mt Greeley to man." and other
skless assertions is the character.
sstic style Of the Herald. But the
Conservative fails to notice the let
ter in reply to these and similar
nwarranted statements Of the Her.
Ed, from the pen of f. A. Kniff Ike,
editor of the Den,okvat, the German
y spaper Of Dubuque, in which it is
Rown that not only will the Ger
man Republicans as a class have
nothing to do with Greeley, but that
'sfhe German Democrats will not
him even with the endorse
rnt of the Baltimore Convention.
Slfspport of his declarations, Mr..
SVx ~ instances the position of
- erman press of the country
leading Democratic organ, the
..ySsScw York Stats Zeitung, with a
circulation of ll2, 900, declares that
it will not support the Cincinnati
ticket under any circumstances
he Peoria Demokrat, the Amzei-
3Esr DIES Weste,as, the German Demo
y ctic paper of St. Louis, the Seedote
Milwaukee, thcj VolKstreund Of
e. annati, with a circulation of
nearly 5000 of which is in
.aM mentioned by Mr.. Knif'ke
ticla a'Ae " opposing the Greeley
! Gern' says Of one hundred
{ con an Democratic papers in the
ry'not more than five think of
- ,,s 5rting Greeley SO long as there
g remotest chance Of a regular
einocratic nominee at Baltimore.
Regarding Iowa, Mr.. Kniffke says:
s AS regards Iowa, there are eleven
era6an papers published, of which
I Billy one, the National Democrat,
Ills Democratic, while the rest have
seen, more or less, leaning to the
publican side. Of these latter
all favored the Cincinnati
& 'ement, but since the holding Of
CONT ention, only two have gone
M NJ aJ to hoist the Greeley and
S ticket. In eastern papers
dubuque National Demohrat is
own as a Greeley paper, while
re, everybody who has read it
sows that it is most outspoken in
AZ opposition to the Cincinnati
Is cket, and regards the endorse
Jnent Of Greeley i'll Baltimore as
nm quivalent to disbanding of the
Democratic organization, in which
A Il re every Democrat would be free
choose the least between two evils
according to his individual ideas,
5r to remain passive, by neither
81 Wing for the regular nor the lrreg-
n Republican candidate.
4 Ar. Kniffke certainly ought to
blythe drift of German Demo-
attic sentiment better than the edi-
r lot the Dubuque Herald or even
ar friend, of the Co sercatioe' and
H., he, represe1hng this senti-
sn -. ,-.sys tire endorsement of Gree
ley at Baltimore is equivalent to
the disbanding of the Democratic
!, party; leaving every Democrat at
Tty to make his own choice be-
IN candidates, it does not look
very cordial endorsement of
BY, nor is the assurance very
fecable to the trading Democ-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-09-10
The whistle Nniaanna

EDITOR OF The ARGUs-I would like to
enquire, through your paper, whether the
present City Council, after having burthened
as with g heavy debt for the new water
works. think tina, they can add Q greater
nuisance than the water 10 q blessing? They
have erected, upon the water works building,
an immense steam whistle which can be
heard for over twenty-five miles, and have
caused it to blow Ave times . day for over
one minute ct . time, making over thirty
hours continual blowing in year. Now it
can DO easily perceived that the blowing OF
such powerful whistle must be almost IN
endurable to those people living in its imms-
diAte vicinity; all conversation, whether Of
business or pleasure, has to be suspended
during the time and for . number Of sec
onds the mind can hardly recover from the
shock. One can imagine that If the well
are 30 inoonvenienced. how fearfully un-
pleasant il must be to those who are sick.
Those in care of the sick have been obliged
to watch for the blowing of the whistle, and
close the doors and windows to deaden the
sound as much a. possible, on account Of
the injury to their pAtisnts. A lumber OF
citizens, living in the immediate vicinity Of
the water works, lately petitioned the City
Council to cause said whistle to be blown
only in case Of FIRE, but they threw the petit
ton back into our faces by passing an order
that the whistle be blown five times q day,
and thirty seconds at time-sundsys in
cludsd. Now we beg leave to say to the
City Council that after having been taxed
heavily in the general tax, and having been
to heavy expenses TO get the water to our
buildings, and having to pay yearly for the
use of the water, then to have added the
daily blowings Of this abominabls whistle ID
n little more than We intend to tamely sub.
NIT TO. ONE OF THE PETITIONERS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-09-10
THE FERRY QUESTION.
Shall the Right Of the City to Control its own
Levee be Maintained

In Noticing the Robinson suit against the
city 10 regard to the ferry, the Union says ::
at ishoped that the decision viii be so as to
give permanent landing to the boat. so that all
purchasers Of property may know how TO buy
This is hardly fair statement. The guss-
ton IS not about The place of landing it iE
as to the right of the City to control and
regulate its own affairs on its own levy-tbe
question as to iohere the boat shall land will
not come up at all. The question Is simply
this: Have the people of the city right
to regulate and control the landing Of
floats, Wharis, boats, etc, as authorized in
their charter from the State? And on this
question ell the people, no, interested in or
controlled by the ferry company, are in ia
vOr of mEintAing the rights of the city as
granted BY the State.
It is thought BY some that Judge Pleas
ants did not act fairly towards the city il
granting an injunction without notice and q
hearing, but we are not of that number
The ipj auOsiOO is simply a restraining order
until the case can be heard, and We pre-
sumo it to be a proper order or Judg'
Peasants would not have issued it. W.
suppors the City Attorney will now prepAr'
the case for examination, so that it may b.
properly adiudicated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-09-10

HITcHISG POsTs.-DId you ever want to
stop somewhere and dsren't leave Jour team
and couldn't end boy to hold IL? If you
did you'd pay twice the price of one of
BAbcoOk, Brsady 4 Fleming hisching posts,
to find one near you. They've gotten up
the n'a.ssi, most sensible, and economical
hitching post We have seen. It does not
represent gothic church, piece of ssatu-
AIRY, or the column vendome-bus does rep
resent simple hitshing post, just what ii is
intended fOr-an inexpensive, strong, dura-
BILE and safe hilching pOst-sOms.hiug that
"will do to tie to-" Boy half dozen and
plant them around your premises. They
make . great many nice things at their
works, corner Arsenal and Illinois streets.
Il will pay you to drop in there and see what
they are doing, if you don't want anything.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-09-10
Notice to the Public.

A. BAxBEReEs will open on Saturday, June
the Sth:
100 pieces choice Prints at Zoe per yard.
Is pisces Dolly Warden AlApscss At zoe per
yard.
20 pieces Wash Poplin at SC per yard.
IS pieces French Percales at 25e per yard.
20 pieces Iron Frame Grenadines at SOC per
yard.
10 pieces Japanese silks at 40c per yard.
sopieces heavy yard wide brown muslin late
per yard.
so pieces bIe&ched yard wide muslin at l74eper
yard.
so dos. Ladies White hose Zoe per psir.
,000 Mosquito Netts IS, SIS, Csc.
10 dog corsets At T5c.
10 dog. Alexadner Kids 81. rs per pair.
All eolors Valancss and Trimming, Silks,
cheap, 3 splendid assortment of Ladies Scarfs
and shaHls, and general stock Of goods OF
every description. This notice means business
and 1 will not be undersold BY any house in the
West.
Come one and all ana invest your money
where you get the largest Amornt of Dry Good
for the least Cash.