Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15
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in England.
Norwich and Hartford, Conn, are hav.
ing chess match
Nashville had the cholera and now has
u new horse disease
A national eonvention of farmers is
talked of, to be held in Chicago.
Turpentine is an antidote for phospho-
rus when taken into the system.
The wine served at the dinner of the
Shah with the Prince of Wales dated
back to 1860.
Parepa's singing this year will, it is
said, be confined to single song, 'Slecp,
Baby, Sleep
1t is limited that a majority of the
French bonnes at Long Branch know
great deal about Ireland
Robert Collyer announced the other
Sunday that mo Christian would chew
tobacco in church."
One of the prisoners at the House of
Correction at Fitchburg, last week, cs-
capped while at work blasting stone.
Mr. james Fisk, Sir. father Of James
Fisk, Jr., is at Sparta, Wis, undergoing
course of mineral water for apoplexy.
Seven young women nave entered the
University Of Vermont, much to the de-
light of the boys belonging to that insti-
tuition.
The old Penn estate at Philadelphia is
now covered with pens of wild beasts.
1t is the site of the new geological gar
dens Of that city.
A young London woman has had her
husband arrested for assaulting her while
walking home from their marriage cerc-
mony.
A lady of Biddeford, Me, drew $4,000
in the Kentucky lottery, and now claims
that she is able to draw any young man
in the town.
Servant girls in Montana get $780, gold,
o month, with the use of piano and sew
ing machine, besides three nights ''off"
in the week
Miss Della Heed is the enrolling clerk
of the Idaho legislature. She must take
"heed" to her ways among the facinating
young men of that body.
One day last week Mrs DIR. Mary Wal
ker was arrested in Baltimore for wear
Ing pants. And the next day Baltimore
had her "conflagration.' Judgment. ]
Now that ladies' fans have attained a
useful size, it is suggested that fan parties
| for the purpose of winnowing wheat
would come good in the country.
A COW that gives buttermilk is report
ed. Her owner is looking for another of
the same breed, on the principle that one
good churn deserves another.
Mrs. Van Cott is preaching in Beaver
Dam, Wis, with fixed determination to
pray away the latter pant of the name of
that town before she leaves.
Miss Agnes Ethel, the actress, was re.
Gently offered $4,000 for her theatrical
wardrobe, but declined the money. She
is to be married shortly, the gossip says.
Fred Grant went through La Crosse,
Wis, not long ago, and now q girl at
whose house he stopped claims that she
is engaged to him.
The people of Buffalo are talking about
delayed retribution because the woman
who brought the first piano into that
town was allowed to live until last week.
Mary Dow is about to start alone from
Des Moines for the Sandwich Islands,
there to marry a missionary to whom
she has been a long time engaged.
The total number of those who work
for living in the corporate limits of New
Orleans is about 10000, of whom $4,000
are male
They have no toy balloons in Louis
VILE A fine of 80 prevents. The sur.
plus gas is required to puff the lottery
business in the city.
If "a Persian turn Christian his head is
chopped off if they catch him. All sorts
of wickedness is cured in Persia by de-
capitating the offender.
At last milk and d-water man has been
found and fined, His name was Holt, he
lived in Boston, and 5000 was the penal
ty for swindling his customers
During the past six months there have
been nine murder trials in Ireland. There
were four convictions of man slaughter,
and in five cases the jury disagreed.
The next annual session of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of
Science commences at Portland, Maine,
August 20, and will continue to Sept l.
Gnats, very minute but very malignant,
have made their appearance in city
houses. Some think them worse than
mosquitoes, but that is a matter of agna,-
omy.
Miss Fanny W. Roberts, of Kitterv,
Me, licensed preacher, has been given
authority by the Governor of Maine to
solemnize marriages-the first instance of
that kind in the State.
When chap marries a Texas widow
he delicately mentions his good luck by
inserting in the marriage notice, that the
marriage took place at the brides beau
tiful home"
A Worcester, Mass, man stopped drink
ing just because his wife proved to him
that he had been arrested for drunken.
ness III times and had disbursed $1,14o
in fines.
While the Shah was in England, by ex-
press command, several noted prize. fight
ers appeared before him Buckingham n
Palace and exhibited their skill. He was
delighted and the Queen disguised.
Rhoda Broughton, author of "Rcd as
a Rose is She," and various other senss.
tional stories, is described as the daugh-
ter of an English country cletgyman, who
has lived very retired and uneventful
life
Prof Wise, the aronaut, is an angular
firmly-knit. fine-looklng gentleman, WITH
a most agreeable address, and of sucn
specific gravity as to carry him, if drop
ped from sufficient altitude, straight to
the bottom of the ocean without the use
of weights
A queerly mixed entertainment was re-
Gently given at London theatre. Gou.
nod, the composer. who never played
publicly in his life, made his debut as a
pianist. Wilkie Collins, no elocutionist
at all, recited istory, Mile Descles, the
great dramatic actress, played the organ,
and Hitler, the pianist, gave fantasia in
the double-bass.
The San Francisco Bullctin SAYS: "An
infatuated youth with banjo opened a
strain OF impassioned minstrelsy, last
night, under the window of a boarding
house on Clementina street. He was
suddenly interrupted in the midst of
Sweet Spirit, Hear My Prayer by per.
son in the third story who had to empty
scuttleful of ashes. A policeman who
passed the scene Immediately after the
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