Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
State Items.


rowed has expired.
| State Items.
Gov. Carpenter has consented to ud-
dress the citizens of Muscatine on deco.
ration day, May Both.
The Iowa Division Of the Northwes
tern railroad is to be relaid with iron its
entire length
| Col. Geo. G. Tichenor of Des Moines,
late Chairman of the Republican State
Convention, has removed to Chicago
The friends Of Judge Ruddick, of the
18th District, are urging strongly his
nomination for Supreme Judge.
Hon. B. F. Allen, the Des Moines
banker, has been appointed member of
the board Of finance for the Centennial
Exposition.
The Muscatine Journal states, on
the authority of Senator McNutt, that
that gentleman will not be q candidate
for Lieutenant Governor.
e. r. Shankland, of Dubuque, has
been appointed to represent the National
Grange, in the Producers Convention, to
be held in New York, May 9Th.
Bishop Andrews will preside at the
Northwestern German Conference, of the
M. E. Church, at Charles City, Sept. 10th,
and at the Upper Iowa Conference at
Cedar Rapids, Sept. Gath.
The Newton Press says; D. N.
McCOrd marketed six thousand bushels
of corn in way that pays He had fed
that amount of corn to lot Of cattle,
drove them to town and sold them for
good price.
Arthur Lloyd, son of W. s. Lloyd of
Cedar Falls, train boy on the railroad,
has fallen heir to q fortune He gets
enough per month for spending money,
and $4,000 and a $4,000 house and lot
in Rochester when he becomes of age.
The wife of E. NJ. Day, postmaster
of Casey, robbed the Office of 5000, last
Monday, and fed for Kansas to join
man with whom she had been criminally
intimate for some time. The telegraph
was put in requisition and she was ar.
reetod ot Koncoe C;tv
The Waterloo Reporter says that in
package of oats received by party in
that vicinity, from the Department of Ag-
riculture, was found a head of Canada
thistle. Unless more care is exercised
the seed department may prove a curse
rather than benefit.
Saved from hell by q hack driver"
is the title to local article in the Sioux
City Journal, detailing the incident of a
young girl who could not find work and
sent for hack driver to take her to
house of ill-hme The hackman was
man enough to dissuade Ler from her
purpose, and assisted her to find place
where she could earn an honest living.
The Waterloo Courier was not IA
vorably impressed with the lecture of
Miss Lillian Edgarton, in that city, pro
nouncing it commonplace, hum-drum,
prosy, tame, insipid and several other
adjectives of disparagemcnt, but is out
done by lady correspondent who says
that, the "Pearl of the Platform" should
be called the "Clam shell of the Plat.
form"
The Musquakie Indians, in Jasper
County, inflicted terrible punishment
upon murderer of their tribe last week.
He had killed q squaw and was tried by
the tribe and sentenced to DEATH They
tied him to log, face up, and left him to
starvc, which he did in eight days, the
Indians guarding him all the time.
| "A farmer named Geo. Kobcr, living
near Buckingham, Tama county, and his
hired man, N. Axiom, were poisoned by
eating wild parsnips, one day this week,
both dying in few minutes after par
taking of them. A daughter Of Mr.. Kober
WAS also badly poisoned, but having eat
en- but small quantity will probably re-
cover,
The Charles City Intelligencer says
that resident Of that place received q
letter from an eastern gentleman regard
ing the sale Of some lands. At its close
was the following passage: II deem my.
self lucky in securing your services, pro
riding you are not a Congressman, and
never have been one" It is not stated
whether the gentleman is a constituent
of Cakes Ames or Ben Butler.
DIR. Moore, Of Henry County, was
recently released from the penltentiary
on the pardon of Gov. Carpenter. after
having served six years of ten years
sentence, tor criminal practices. He was
overjoyed at his release, and solemnly
protested his innocence of the charge.
The petition for his discharge was large
ly signed by the leading citizens Of Mt
Pleasant.
| "A project is on foot to turn the
starch factory building, at Cedar Falls
into paper mill {. :. "A pastor of one Of
the Cedar Falls churches subscribes fol
the Dubuque Herald to keep posted in
tho doctrine Of human depravity. He
understands perfectly the adaptation
Of means to ends. We CLEAN from TIL
! Gasstts.