Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-01

The Waltham (MasS.) watch 1actol,l \
has suspended operations for three week
to give the large number Of employee
their annual vacation
Nearly all the fashionable churches ar
closed for the summer. The pastors hav
gone to Europe, leaving their flocks to g
to watering places.
A stuffed eagle, sitting on ballot boz
ditto, is reported to be the most conspF,
uous object in the American department
of the Vienna Exposition.
A call signed by all the promineI.,
citizens of New Orleans has been issue,
for grand mass meeting for the uniss
cation of all the people Of Louisiana.
Handsome equipages are daily increas'
lag on Bellevue avenue, Newport,-ta,,
dems, dog-carts, and equestrians inclnde'ss
The scene is very lively and brilliant.
The great Cape diamond. weighing 80
carats, recently arrived in London and 4
for sale by Pillar, Leverson & Co. y
will be rival of the Ko.l-noor when Gil
cut.
The greatest anarchy prevails in /
MIA, where the incessant agitations d
Orthodox Greeks have resulted in
tial massacrcs between Christians M
Mohommedans.
A rat gnawed off the fingers OF sle'
ing child in Washington Township, Berki
County, one night last week, and it We
only after desperate effort that it coul'
be driven from the room.
The latest novelty is Il dagger" fas
The fan is small, made of semi-transps
ent paper, handsomely painted, and Is Ell
closed in daggershaped sheath of Rus
sia, or imitation of leather.
The President of the Vicksburg Com
mon Council declared motion carriG
and four aldermen declared to the contril
ry, and such was his obstinacy that the
had to throw him out of the window.
The difficulties concerning the st. Loui
Mutual Life Insurance Company sti)
continue. At a mass meeting Of polic.'
holders on Saturday, a committee wl
appointed to prepare an address to O.
interested. u,
The metallic wealth of France bein{'
according to official statistics, 12 millar6
$50 millions of francs, the enormous sur
extorted from her by Germany, as a wa
indemnity, to the too .ffths Of the Frencl
| money power.
The British Medical Association h.,
lately been startled by report made "
that body to the effect that doses of blu
pill or calomel utterly fail to stimuis I
the liver, and by their depressing actios
upon the system diminish the amount
bile.
1t is said that 'the century plant blootA
once in twenty-five years down in Flor
da-" 1t is hardly necessary to say to u
young student of botany that this is ne
the century plant that Susan B. Anthons
has seen bloom twice-the last time j
1893. q
Purchasers of accident policies shou.
be little particular about dates. !
gentleman purchased one few day
since, good for two days, but discovers
subsequently that the date on the car
made it expire two days before the pul
chase.
The forty thousand live shad sent !
California and Great Salt Lake by ~
the United States Commissioner Of Fish
cries under charge of Livingston Ste
deputy for the Pacific coast, and two q.
sistants, have arrived at their destinatio
in perfect order.
The Troy Times says that on Frida
afternoon last, as Mr.. Alexander Cloak
was at work in a field with others, nes.
the city, he was struck by lightning ap
INSTANTLY killed, The sun was shinin
brightly at the time, and not drop /
rain fell where he was.
At Court of Assizes in France a m..
was tried for having murdered his fiji =
and mother; before closing the proce1s 4
ings, the president asked him if he Il 4
anything to say? beg your paraS
Judge" said the rough, Il want to e.
your pity for poor orphGn." =
In recent debate q member of the Cf
ifornia legislature exclaimed: THE hh
orable gentleman from Calaveras couu
is undoubtedly man Of great ability
man of talent, q natural born gen..
but there is one thing I defy him to z
and that is to bite the bottom of frys
pan scithout shutting his nose" =
Captain Jacks old clothes are now q
ing the rounds as historical curiositie
Prof Hughes Of the keokuk Medical CO
lege, has got a suit, which upon hef
disenfected, developes two centipcde
swift horned toad aud devils hors,
People WHO purchase should be well q !
piled with Reynard's insect powder.
The counterfeit fifty cent notes Whit
are in circulation can be detected b
holding notes to the light, when one ca
see there are no silk fibres in the, -bape
but it is simulated by irregular Scratch
on the plate, which gives the surface ID
preston. The red treasury seal is ali
printed in ink, which will rub and BIZ
over the paper ifa person dampen b
finger and passes it over 1t.
At Moscow, a lady renowned for b
beauty, ventured to call on the shah W..
an enormous bouquet. The Light of Il
World" accepted the floral present, exal
ined the fair visitor carefully and leisut
ly for considerable period with his ev
glass, and then probably overcome by 3
miration, turned his back upon her al
retrcated to his apartments, withe
deigning to utter even royal monosyl
BILE.
The Binghamton Republican subnA
the following: "The plea Of ChSkl
O'Connor that there was no proof vii
of young Walworth's four shots wesk 1
tai, and the jury must, therefore, aqts
him, is not original. 1t is based ons<1
r argument of the western lawyer, WI
5 client shot another mans dog: You
| heern, gentlemen Of the jury said thSl
oquent advocate, you hev heern the
!, ness swar he saw the flash and he'd
: the report; you hev heern him swar
saw the dog fall dead; you hev heern \
swar that he dug the bullet out with
Q Jack knife, and you hev seen the bd{
d produced in court, but whar, gentlen
9 whar, ask you, is the man who saw I
bullet hit that dogy" 4