Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-04-11
State Items.

The Eldora Ledger thinks that Har-
din county is superimposed on an ancient
forest of fir and cedar.
Senator Read, one of the farmer
members OF the Senate, who voted against
the Railroad Tariff bill, has resigned
Mrs. Margaret Owens has COM
menced suit against druggist, of Ores.
co, to recover $500 damages, for unlawful
sale of liquor to her husband.
Luther II. Barnes, of Cedar Falls, ut
one time largely identified with stage
lines and mail contracts in northern Iowa,
died suddenly at his home in that city
last week.
The Delhi Monitor tells of dog, in
that vicinity, which was caught by the
tumbling rod of a threshing machine, and
carried around thirty nine times, without
injury to his bark.
j. V. Parker, agent of the Central of
Iowa railroad, at Eddyville, says that
one thousand car loads of coal have been
shipped north over that road, from the
mines near Eddyville, since January LIST.
The Danbury Nens man says: A
Des Moines Qowa) chap has fitted up
fiddle to run by steam. And the horri-
fed neighbors are looking about for some
continuance that will enable them to run
by steam.
The DEBORAH Republican says that
the new postmaster of New York City,
Thos. L. James. is a printer by trade,
and served his apprenticeship with Wes-
ley Bailey. of DEBORAH, father Of the edi-
tor of the Republican.
&C. c. Gilman has resigned the Presi-
dcncy of the Central Railroad of Iowa,
and Isaac NJ. Cate, Of Boston, has been
chosen to succeed him. Mr.. Gilman will
devote himself exclusively to the extern
sion of the line of the road through Cen.
trail Minnesota
The McGregor Times says that IL
settlement has been effected with the
creditors of the Iowa Eastern marrow
guage) Railroad, at home and abroad,
which places its financial standing on
firmer basis and ensures its further cx-
tension at ar early day.
The editor of the Monticello Express
is evidently not Nimrod. Hear him:
"Thc history Of the past eighteen hum
dred years teaches that no matter how
well you treat - shotgun, nor how you
bring it up, it will bang the stutiing out
of you the very first chance it gets"
The Monticello Express, heretofore
owned by company of nine leading
citizens, has been sold to its present cdi-
tor, Mr. John Blanchard, who now issolc
proprietor The Erpress is an excellent
paper, and in its present hands is deserv-
ihS VI tuS ptrt oupP"'e W tHS pNoI'iS VI
Monticello.
The Iowa Homestead says: There
will probably be one third more acres
put into wheat in Iowa this year than
last Cause, low price of corn and not
sufficient stock 20 eat it," 1t would be
well if Iowa farmers would seriously con-
slider some other resource than this con-
tinual alienation, like pendulum, from
wheat to corn and from corn to wheat.
What's IN name! The people Of
Usage, in Mitchell county, are convinced
that there is considerable profit in the
name of their town. o. Sage, Esq, a
wealthy gentleman Of Ware, Mass, for
whom the town was named, some five
years since acknowledged the honor, by
the donation of large bell to one Of the
churches; and now he has supplemented
the gift. by a donation of six hundred
acres of land, in Worth and Winnebago
counties, for the purpose of founding q
public library in Usage. He could de-
vote the ovcrhowings Of his abundant
wealth to no better purpose, or one cal.
culatcd more surely to preserve his name
and memory green in the remembrance
of the people of the thriving city Of his
name.
Connecticut has elected Ingersall, Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor, by about
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