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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-01
THE TAYLOR GUN SUCCESSFUL.
An East Tennessee Invention Stands the
TcAI.

Our ra.i . have heard more or less of
an invention of Mr.. J. A. Taylor's, which
is nothing more nor less than n great i'm
provement on the Calling gun, by which
several hundred balls can be shot every
minute from gun with some twenty or
more barrels mounted and transported
like n light piece of artillery. The gun
if complete success, as now seems prob
able, will simply revolutionize all the pres
ent artillery of that character in use. 1t
shoots so rapidly and with such accuracy
that a regiment of men within its range
would be annihilated before they could
march the distance of their battle front.
After patent rights for the gun were
secured on the model in the United
States and in all the countries
of Europe, the gun was put into the hands
of an experienced Prussan machinest i'll
New York who has constructed a gun for
testing what it actually can do n stock
company was formed upon n liberal basis
and stock enough sold principally in East
TENNESSEE, to defray the expense of max
| ing one gun and giving it q private and
public test Mr. ID. Hockett, of this city
has acted as agent for the sale of the stock.
He has been all the while sanguine of
success, and has been sustained in his
opinion of the gun by all who have ever
/ examined it. Ga
! TIE TEST SUCCESSFUL.
Mr.. Hockett and the Messrs. Taylor
(sons of Rev. n. G.. Taylor have been in
New York for some weeks, preparing for
the private test which came off yesterday
in New York city. The following telegram
from Messrs. Hockett and Taylor to a gem
tleman in this city explains itself:
NEW YORK, Dec. %, 1872.
1.-THE gun test progressing. Movements
perfection. Shoots splendidly. Inform
friends. All right"
If the test is as successful as they evil
IDENTIFY believe it it, the gun will prove a
| great peacemaker and ought to prove n
handsome fortune for its inventor. Fur
Their information will be looked for with
| interest.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-01
WASHINGTON.
The WAGON AVID BrnnswIck RAILROAD.


WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. 2S.-The ap-
peal of the New orleans Committee to the
people of the United States has been
printed in pamphlet form, with an appen-
dix quoting the laws bearing upon the
case. They will memorabilia Congress for
committee of investigation, upon whose
report they hope that body will devise
some means of relief for Louisiana.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-Judge Lo-
chraue, on his way to Georgia, reports fa-
vorabe progress in negotiations for the
completion of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad. The plan, loosely stated, is that
Georgia shall reguarantee the bonds when
their holders will finish and equip the
road and pay its floating debt. The Ger
man bond holders have indicated willing
ness to accept the proposition. The hitch
seems to be with certain American holder,
of mixed Georgia securities. who wish to
float all into tangible value upon the
back of the Brunswick bonds
A special messenger bearing the vote OF
the Electoral College of Louisiana has ar
rived. This messenger is the Electorate
Large on the Grant ticket.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-01

CHEERFUL.-Emerson says: " Do not
hang dismal picture on your wall, and
do not deal with sahles and glOoms in your
conversation Beecher follows with
/" Away with these fellows who go howl
ing through life, and all the while passing
for birds of Paradise, He that can not
laugh and be gay should look TO himself.
He should fast and pray until his face
breaks forth into light" Talmage then
takes up the strain: Y" Some people have
an idea that they comfort the Athlete
when they groan over them. Don't drive
hearse through a mans soul. When
you bind up q broken bone of the soul,
and you want splints do not make them
OF cast iron.n After such counsellings
and admonitions lay aside your long faces.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-01-01

PUBLIC SCHOOLING IN THE SOUTH.-
The Bureau of Education is in receipt of
gratifying reports Of the extension of the
public school system in the Southern
States, some of which have not heretofore
had any public school systems at all. Col
most of the new systems. = Wash. Re,lalb-
NCan . . .
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-08-15
NORTnwA9D

b,tition for Jamestown, Z. Z, A.. ,o,u,..i
with \. y g. W. trains east aud est oongee,a
Warren with trains 'asr nd weet, ON the 2 h.>
Il. Il y 9IlAYEN t. aul S"pt.,
DIEkir'l, N.wypr.,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
Mr. Harlan and the Pacific Railroad.


a favorite argument with the
advocates Of Mr.. Harlan's reelection
to the Senate last winter, was the
assertion that his competitor Mr..
Allison, was the candidate of the
railroads. 1t was charged that the
whole tremendous influence of the
northern railroad corporations was
being used in his behalf; that their
money was being expended to Sc
cure his election, and that he would
necessarily be under the thumb of
the managers Of those corporations
and therefore not q fit representa-
tive of the people OF Iowa in the
Senate. The home organ of Mr.. Har-
Ian, the Mt. Pleasant Journal, gave
this argument especial prominences
and it was used with more or less
effect by all the papers in the inter-
est of the Senator. In view ofthese
charges, the following extract from
the sworn testimony of Thomas J.
Durant, a prominent Pacific Rail
road official, before the Credit Mo-
billcr investigating committee few
days since, is significant not to say
amusing:
Mr.. Nlblack to Mr.. Durant-State
whether the Union Pacific, or the
men connected with the enterprise
were not called upon to assist in
the Senatorial elections in 1866 and
1867 in Iowa.
Al do not recollect. | did as.
sist myself. I had a large interest
in Iowa myself and during the can.
vass | assisted.
Q-It has been stated to me that
you gave a check for $4,000 to as
sist in the election.
Al did not. | gave two checks
for $4,000 zach.
Q-Can you explain the history
Of those checks, and for what pur.
pose they were given?
A-For the purpose Of securing
the election.
Q-At whose election?
A-Harlan's; for the purpose Of
securing the influence of some news
papers. don't know how it was
applied.
We make no comments upon the
above, but await Mr.. Harlan's re
| cnoDSp
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
A Faithful Dog.

Amid all the horrors reported of
the great storm, Mr.. Hunsaker, a
man who lived several miles from
St. James, Minp., relates one pleas
ant incident. OF course he was
unable to reach home, and his wife
J ecame alarmed for his safety, and
he was uneasy about his family.
Imagine his JOY on Thursday when
a Shepherd dog belonging to him
came bounding into St. James with
little leather bag attached to his
collar, IN which was q letter from
his wife containing the joyful in
telligence that they were call well
at homc," and asking for news of
her husband. Another letter was
written informing the wife that tie
husband was safe and would re-
turn home as soon as he could reach
there. This letter was placed in
the leather bag and the faithful ami
NAL told to ego home" Away
started the almost human animal,
through the fearful storm and snow
drifts, and arrived safety at home
with the precious news so anxiously
looked for by the waiting wife and
mother. The next day the husband
reached home. This same dog was
also sent wish letter to a sick
ncighbor and brought back an an
swer. That dog is not for sale.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17

LOUIS NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE, the
dethroned Emperor Of France, died
at his retreat at Chiselhurst, Eng
land, on the 9th inst, aged g. years.
He was surrounded by his family
and friends, who manifested the
most profound sorrow and affec'
tionate feeling. The life Of the eX-
Emperor was one of great vicis-
STUDIES and strong contrasts alter
mating between the lowest social
degradation and restitution and the
highest attainments Of gratitied
ambition. The contemporary world
have learned to regard him as an
unprincipled adventurer, a selfish
usurper, and a man of base personal
character, but it is not unlikely that
impartial history will tone down
the harsher points Of the picture.
HIdHCc was He'Ci hIoiC prosperous
and contented than under his reign,
nor did the arts and sciences ever
find more efficient promoter or
warmer patron. Among his minor
virtues was that of love for his
family in whom he seems to have
inspired similar emotions. Still he
and such as he are impediments in
the way Of the worlds progress,
which are better removed.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
The Great Storm.

The reports of death and suffer
ing in the storm of last week are of
the most heart-rending character.
Hundreds persisted from freezing in
Minnesota and Western Iowa and
other hundreds were only saved to
suffer untold tortures from frozen
limbs and lnutilated bodies. The
Dubuque Times Of Wednesday thus
summarizes portion of the reports
which have reached it through its
exchanges, the full details of which
would require columns:
Reports Of fatalities from last
weeks storm continue to arrive.
We could fill columns with the de-
tails. Two teams, one with Charles
John and Stephen O'Neill and the
other with Thomas, Michael and
Mitchell Holden, started with loads
Of wheat for Wilmar, Mimi, on
Tuesday. On Friday they wer..
found about ten miles out, two Of
the O'Neills and one of the Holdens
frozen to death i'll the sleighs. The
others were alive, but will scarcely
survive. Five OK teams in the
same vicinity were frozen to death,
and the drivers are supposed to
have abandoned them and persisted.
A man was frozen to death by los
ing his way while going from the
depot to the tank house at Herman
Station, on the St. Paul and Pacific
railroad. A school boy near New
Ulm undertook to go home, but
lost his way, and his body was
found miles distant. Along the
line of the St. Paul & Sioux City
railroad thirty-tour persons are
known to have lost their lives. In
four counties of Stephens, Grant,
Douglas and OttertaiI, there are
authentic accounts Of seventy per-
sons frozen to death, and others are
missing; many more are crippled
for life by the freezing of hands and
feet. At Pommc dc Terre, father
met his son and his new bride re-
turning home from bridal tour,
and the three started for home:
the storm came on, they lost their
road, the two men got out of the
sleigh to find it, and persisted; the
BRIDE after waiting an hour or so,
sought the shelter of a pile of logs,
and was there found two days after,
SO badly frozen that she cannot re
cover. A gentleman in Blue Earth
county, driving along after the
storm, noticed a team Of horses a
little off the main track. The horses
were found frozen stiff standing on
their feet, and looking perfectly life
like. Sitting on the seat in an erect
position with the reins in his hands,
was the driver, dead, and in the
bottom of the sleigh, covered up
with blankets and straw. were the
corpses of seven other persons.
These are but specimens of the re-
ports that reach us from all parts of
the northwest.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17

The sensation in metropolitan
journalism at the present time is the
libel suit Of the New York Tribune
against the Times ofthe same city,
and the Brooklyn Union founded
on the charge made by those pa
pers, that the subscription list of
the Tribune was falling off at =
rapid rate, and also that Jay Gould
furnished the money with which
Whitelaw Reid purchased a con-
trolling interest in the Tribune.
Besides the legal controversy the
matter is productive Of much bad
blood in the daily issues of those
papers; in fact they are blackguard-
ing and vilifying one another in a
manner which would be very indig-
nified and ''highly impropaw" in a
country newspaper. And worse than
all one of the trio thus throwing
mud, is par excellence a professor
and lecturer upon journalistic pro-
prieties.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17

THE Iowa State Agricultural So
ciety at its meeting at Des Moines
on the 9Th inst, made choice of the
following officers for the ensuing
year: President, John Scott; Vice
President, Edwin Smith; Secretary
J. NJ. Shaffer; Treasurer, w. B.
Leach; Directors for two years, F
L. Downing, John Grinnell, c. F
Davis, J. w. Porter, S. B. Hewett
The place for the next fair is Cedar
Rapids, and the time the second
Monday in September. In the even
ing Gov. Carpenter delivered ar
address before the Society, subject
"The Skeleton in the Corn-Crib'
which he defined to be the high
freight tariffs between the East and
West. He made an able argument
for Ship Canals, Narrow Gauge
Railroads, and a National system
of freight roads. The address if
warmly praised as an able produc
ton,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
Fiendish Attempt to Murder at Cedar
Fails

The Cedar Falls Gazette of last
week gives the shocking particulars
Of an almost successful attempt to
murder Byron Wright, young
school teacher in Cedar City, OPP.
posite Cedar Falls, on Monday of
last week. Young Wright taught
the school at Cedar City, and
boarded with Mrs. Stickley.
Almira Sticklcy, daughter of this
woman and a man named Richard
George, living in the family, are
the guilty parties, abettcd as 1t
seems by the mother Of the girl.
Almira had conceived violent
passion for Wright, which was not
returned by him. George was also
in love with Almira, but was scorn-
ed. Out Of these cross purposes
arose the incentives for the crime,
which was deliberately planned
weeks before, as the murdercrs have
since confessed, each participant
having a different motive for the
act. On the day named, at the hour
of forenoon recess, Wright went to
Mrs. Stickley's house to get a lunch.
What followed is thus told by the
Gazette:
Almira walked from the sitting
room to the kitchen, and in doing
so had to pass the back ofhis chair.
Almira stopped behind him SO long
it attracted his attention. He said
"girl why are you stopping there!"
He turned to the table and had no
sooner done so when he heard the
crash of a pistol and felt a bullet en-
ter the back of his brain. Mrs.
Stickley had passed into the sitting
room. Richard George was in the
sitting room. Ho saw him just be-
fore Almira came into the kitchen.
In trying to get to the door he was
met by Richard George who said,
"what do you want to 60 out for?
You shan't 90 out" Wright said
let me have sir. Failing to get out
he startd to u window where light
was broken out and while standing
there inhaling air was shot again
on the left side of his head near his
left ear. George rctreated. Wright
asked the old woman why this was
done. She replied, at serves you
right, why have You been making
love to Admir- He replied that
he had not.
Wright staggered over to the
school house and informed the schol-
ars that he was shot. lie was i'm
mediately cared tor, and the next
day removed to his home ut Water
loo, where at last accounts he lay
conscious, and strange as it may
seem with two bullets in his head
improving and and likely to re-
cover.
The Stickley's, mother and daugh-
ter have confessed. The murder
was planned two weeks before the
attempt. The account stamps the
crime as one of most fiendish and
cold-blooded attempts at murder
eyer perpetrated in Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17

THE Dubuque Times says, that
Joseph Hobson, son ands assistant,
Assessors Of this District, contem-
plate turning over their official
books and papers to Gen. Trumbull
and retiring from their positions,
the inducing cause being a rather
peremptory act of Congress which
says that son the first day OF July
of the present year, the offices OF
Assessor and Assistant Assessor OF
Internal Revenue shall cease to ex-
ist." The most exacting OF their
friends will agree that the reason
for retiring is sufficient one.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17

JAMES GARNER, Of Blackhawk
county, through the columns of the
Cedar Falls Gazette, challenges the
State on sorghum. He has deposit
$50 with a merchant in that city, to
be carried off by any one who will
produce better quality Of soghum
than his. The amount on which
the test is to be made is from one
to ten barrels. Mr.. G. has manufac-
tured 5000 gallons during the past
Ycnr
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17

SHANNON of the Elkader Journal
don't like to be tainted with youth
fitness. To Ram of the Manches-
ter Press, who intimated that his
juvenile rashness and impetuosity
needed brake, he replies:
"Brother R., remember the bears
that gobbled the 2:40 children!"
The venerable old brick has evil
IDENTIFY been to a horse trot since he
last opened the lids of the family
Bible.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
New Advertisements.
siEEREFF'S SALE.
STATE OF IOWA,

STATE OF IOWA, ~
Buchanan County.
" Office is hereby given, that on the 1st day of
~ February, A. ID. 1873, at two O'Clock p m, at
the Court House, in the City of Independence, and
county aforesaid, will be sold at Public Auction,
to the hi CHEST bidder, for cash. the following de-
scribed Real Estate, levied upon and taken by viz
tue of Il General Execution, issued from the office
of the Clerk of the District Court within and for
the county of Buchanan. State of Iowa, in favor
of IL. s. Cole and against the property of Geo.
N. Stork and MadNine Stork to.wit:
Lots aud <, in block Is, in Winthrop, Buchan-
an county, Iowa, to satisfy said writ of execution
and all accruing costs
Sherin's Office, Independence,
$4,50 JAN ,, 1878. a1-w2
GEO. O. FARR. Sheriff
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17

IT IS CRUEL-To put your har-
ness or saddle npon the CALLED back
of your horse, when he can be SO
easily cured by the application of
Prof. "Anderson's Dcrmador." The
CALLED breasts Of draught horses
are healed in few hours by this
wonderful Linimcnt.
See advertisement in another
column.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
Referees Sale.

JN compliance with the order Of the Circu,
/ Court of Buchanan County, Iowa, the under
signed who were appointed Referees in the case
OF Anna L. DeBar, Va Joseph A, DeBar, James
w. DeBar and Mary c. DeBar, will proceed 10
sell the following described property, to-wit:
Commencing at a point twenty (a0) rods east of
s north Of ,o N
(a) west In Buchanan, County Iowa Ihonce run
ming north twenty two ls2( rods, Thence east four
"a rods, Theme sopth twenty-five (2s) rods
hea,nning. Which property we will offer for
sale to the highest bidder at the front door OF The
Court House in Indepen fence, Iowa. on Saturday
the Sih day of February, 1878, at : O'Clock, p. M
II. p. HENSuAW,
II. A. KING, }Retferees.
27wi JAS. FORESTER !
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
The legislature.

The General Assembly met in adj
journed session, at Des Moines, on
Wednesday. The first business
transacted was in relation to the
Rankin defalcation. A communica-
ton from Mr.. Rankin, in the light
of a confession, was read in both
Houses, and joint committee OF
investigation was Immediately or.
dered. The gentlemen composing
the committee are Mcssrs. Shane
and Mccormick, on the part of the
Senate, and Messrs. Williams, OF
Marshall, Evans, of Muscatine, and
O'Donnell, Of Dubuque, on the part
of the House. A joint resolution
was also adopted providing for {
committee to examine and report
the amount Of appropriations fol
State institutions, the amount drawn
and amount expended.
On Thursday the Legislature
commenced Il consideration of tn.
code.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17

A. J. JENKINS, foreman of the
Ohio Bridge Co., at Cleveland, was
frozen to death while travelling by
stage in Lyon county, during the
storm last week,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
1876 lS7 3.
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Iowa State Register
DAILY AND WEEKLY.

The proprietors OF fuG REslsrER. having learn
ed from experience what Il newspaper should be
10 suit the people OF Iowa. enter upon the new
year with increased facilities Tor the collection
and distribution of news, from al parts of Iowa
and all quarters of the world. In AL the general
features of u modern Political, News, Literary,
and Family Journal The REGISTER is now able
TO compete, before the Iowa p0bc, with any
paper published.
We need not say that Politically7t will be Re.
publican. lis record is its promise here. All
It's powers shall be lem TO the aid OF pure old
fashioned Rcpublicanism, which never changes
any more than liberty changes. Devoted 10 the
party, il will yet preserve the Tree agency OF hon
est opinion, and the right of frankly expressing IT,
We know Of party; we know nothing Of party
lpulprs
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17

Hon. w. b. ALLISON, having been
named by Cakes Ames, in his testi-
mony before the Credit Mobiler in
vestigating committee, as one ofthe
Congressman who had received
stock in that corporation, Mr..
Allison promptly telegraphed to the
committee the following correction:
Please to say to your Committee
that Cakes Ames is in error. He
mailed to me ten shares ofthe Union
Pacific and ten shares of Credit
Mobilier certificates. | returned
the certificates to him by mail. He
also sent me check for one Mobil-
Ter dividend, to which l had no
claim, and | included the amount of
the check in a sight draft at New
York, payable to his order. Please
disclaim on my behalf any share
holding or interest in the Credit
Mobilier or Union Pacific Stocks. l
have not had any, and have not
derived any profit therefrom.
(Signed) w. B. ALLISON.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-17
The Rankin Defalcatiou.

Regarding the defalcation of the
Treasurer of the State Agricultural
College, the Republican papers of
the State, while they do not gener-
ally impute to Major Rankin pre-
meditated intention to defraud, still
with few exceptions speak in terms
Of the severest condemnation of his
act of using public funds for rrivate
uses. Undoubtedly Maj. Rankin,
hoped and expected to replace the
funds thus diverted. from their legi-
innate uses, brit whether successful
OF otherwise in his speculations;
whether the Agricultural College
had or had not been loser or EN-.
barsssed thereby, his use of one
cent of its money for purposes of
his private interests was fragrant
breach of trust, for which the law,
if it does not already, should provide
an adequate punishment. The
funds placed in the hands of an
officer for safe-keeping are a sacred
trust, which to place in the remotest
danger of loss or curtailment differs
only in degree from stealing them
outright. The practice of using
public funds for private uses is not
rare; it is only when the specula-
tons miscarry that the public be-
come acquainted with it. The
officers who do itjustify it, at least
to their own consciences, by the
plea that the funds in their posses
sion should be productive. They
have horror Of unemployed
capital, and are thus tempted to use
for their own benefit, in what they
regard safe speculations, the money
which otherwise would yield no
revenue to anybody. This class OF
men are not the kind to make the
custodians of the public funds. The
only safe way, and the only honest
way, for all who are intrusted with
the custody of public moneys is to
comply strictly with their obliga'
ton and duty to keep safely and
apply legitimately the trust com
mitted to them. We hope that tho
investigation Of Maj. Rankin's case
will be rigid and thorough, and the
penalty applied without favor.