Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21

A man at Fonda, New York, sued his
neighbor eight years ago for the price Of
a bushel of wheat, and the two are still
lawing it.
Katie Mcdonald is the name Of lucky
waiter girl in a St. Joseph (Mo.) hotel,
who has fallen heiress to fortune of
$500, 900
A boy has won the reward and medal
which WAS offered by the Nebraska State
Board Of Horticulture for tree planting
lie set out $50 trees on the day ap.
pointed
The establishment Of diet kitchens,
from which suitably prepared food may
be issued on the requisitiOE Of the dis.
pcnsary physicians. is Charity's last pro.
ject in New York city.
A New Orleans philanthropist, acting
on the principle Of similia similibus Gu
r0ntur, has bequeathed complete file of
asylum in that city.
One Of the results of having young
medical woman as city physician in
Springfield, Mass, is that young gentle
man Of that ilk has had himself vaccina.
ted by her twenty-onc times within
few weeks
BY the adjustment of her cotton claim
against the United States, Mrs. McDon.
aid, a widow lady, Of Atlanta. Georgia, re-
turned from Washington to her home
the other day. with $4,000 in her
pocket
An eccentric old miscr known as
BLACK Philip" died recently near
Reading Pennsylvania, AMI after his
death his heirs dug up an old copper
kettle containing 81 900 in coin of various
denominations.
Onions are $40 barrel in New Or.
leans, and when a woman, whose husband
refuses her new dress, wants to indulge
in good cry she is compelled (unless
wealthy to fal! back on common horse
radish
The toughest story humanity has yet
been called upon to believe is this
After thirteen years of angry separation,
Ierre Haute couple now sleep upon
the same pillow" Pillows must be
larger in Terre lIaute than in other 10.
calities.
A Memphis mule, one Sunday, took
a stubborn fit. and refused to move an
inch. The ladies and gentlemen in the
car alighted and pushed the car for
square, when finally the mule changed
his mind and started off ut full gal
l6p, leaving half Of the passengers behind.
a few days ago there arrived in Chi
cago little girl, Miss Emma Rollins, aged
ten years. who had made the Journey
from England, travelling alone distance
gilmore than 1000 miles, in order to join
her father, who is type founder living
in that city.
An absentminded man in Tennessee
used roll of grcenbacks as stopper to
his molasses jug, and the next day nearly
tore the inside of his house to pieces
looking for the money His wife set
things right when she baked gingerbread
that afternoon.
The Young Women's Christian As
sociations. in Lowell Mass, and Port
land, Me, have determined to open
houses as temporary homes for young
women, strangers, who come to those
cities in search Of employment Portland
gentlemen have subscribed $4,000 for this
object
The body of 4 young girl that was
'snatched" from a graveyard in Owosso,
Mich, lately, was discovered by the town
authorities on the dlssecting tabls of the
homeopathic college at Detroit. where it
was being made the subject of an ana
tomical examination by several women
students.
\ freight car has been engaged OH
the Des Moines Valley Railroad, by
party of three or four families in that
vicinity. to run through to San Francis
co, for $4,000. They will take their fam.
lilies and necessary provisions for their
trip to California. It is decidedly the
cheapest way Of emigrating We have vet
heard Of.
Mrs. A. D. Cook died at Newburyport,
Mass, on the I'D anniversary of her
wedding, and in the same room in which
she wns married. Singularly enough her
age is not given, but she was one of the
choir which sang at the welcome to Gen
Washington on his visit to Newburyport,
and she also sang at the commemorative
service on the occasion Of the Generals
death.
Recently at Grand Rapids, Mich, q
conscience c-stricken citizen. who stole an
axe from the firm of Conell & Rose, OF
that city, more than twenty years ago,
walked into the store Of Mr.. Conell-Mr.
Rose being deccased-confessed the Of
fense and rendered the price of the axe.
The money was accepted, and half given
to the widow of the deceased partner of
twenty years ago.
The Rondout tN W Freeman says:-
"Mr Samuel Williams, the oldest printer
in the country hereabOuts, walked into
our office on Monday as spry as cricket.
and set one thousand ems for the Greeley
monument. He is eighty four years old.
and started the Bennington Nsos Letter
in 1912, and after serving ON the Albany
Argus for five years, started the Orange
Farmer. He set his thousand ems in two
hours, which is doing well for man of
his age"
The American Express Company have
recently obtained judgment for the
sum Of $24, 900 against the estate Of Lew.
DOlman, Of St. Louis. Dolman robbed y
messenger Of the Express Company, In
March, 1868. near Cincinnati. of a pack
age containing nearly $4,000. and was
afterwa.d shot and killed while attempt.
ing to rob house in st. Louis.
An Ohio farmer, early in the winter,
set steel trap for an owl that had been
about his place. Three days afterward.
while in the woods chopping, the farmer
heard q clanking sound, and discovered
the owl towing the trap about with him.
He procured a rife and secured the bird,
which measured nearly five feet from tip
to tip Of its wings. The bird was shot
fully three miles from where it had been
trapped.
Some three years ago the wife of Isaac
Scott, a New Jersey farmer. eloped with
another man, taking with her their only
child. a daughter. aged about eleven
years. The truant wife and her paramour
went to the far west and settled at Raw.
Inns, Wyoming Territory. After q long
inquiry Mr.. Scott at last learned their
Whereabouts, and forwarded letters to his
daughter, who he found was harshly
treated and desired to return to her father:
aud 80 short time ago the father went
west and claimed her, leaving his faithless
wife,
Judge Gary, ofChicago, has rendered
an opinion that there is no law on the
statute books of Illinois against what is
commonly known as knocking down"