Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25

holding an industrial exposition this
year.
Charles Reade is still busy instituting
new libel suits and footing the costs on
old ones.
In Galatin, Tenn, six per cent. Of the
population have died from cholera during n
the last month.
Howard Glyndon says: "There is no
bondage more intolerable than that Of the u
slavery Of dress"
A Chicago woman borrowed 5000 froT>
her husband, and the first thing he knes
she had used it in procuring divorce.
Manufactures are to be established at
Long Branch. One industry has already
monopolized the lace-match-making. n
A Virginia paragraph says that "tobacA
CO is rolling into Lynchburg at the rate
OF more than half million pounds . 4
week"
An American negro minstrel troop arc ]
performing in Buenos Ayres, and they
take dried beef, hides, cattle, and horses
at the ticket Office.
The Parsons (Kansas) Herald records
a suit for breach of promise, and remarks
that 'the plaintiff wants the jury to vote
her $500 back pay"
The patent of John W. Masury, the in
Yentor Of sealed cans for preserving pur-
poses, was extended by the Commissioner
of Patents on Saturday. ~
The Graphic advertises for fifty carrief>
pigeons, to be taken by Prof Wise on his
trans Atlantic balloon trip, to fetch back q
dispatches to that paper.
A Chicago man is living in an ice
house to keep cool. but the temperature
stove, and still he is no: happy
Gen. Wise, when in his prime, could
write an editorial fifty-six yards long, but
he is getting old now, and don't push
them beyond forty or thereabouts.
Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack have re-
tired from the stage in order to extend !
tho hospitalities of the boundless prairies
to the Earl of Dunraven and party.
"Mark Twain is building $4,000
house in Hartford, corner of Forest street
and Pennington avenue expecting it to :
be finished while "the innocent is abroad"
A syndicate of capitalists is forming in
st. Louis to tunnel the famous Emma \
Hill, in the Little Cottonwood district, q,
Utah. Silver is the mineral they are after.
Laughing photographs" are coming
into fashion. One enterprising photo.
grapher maintains young man whose I
business it is to keep sitters on broad ,
grin. q
The third annual exhibition ofthe Kan :
sas City, Mo-, Industrial Exposition and
Agricultural Fair Association will be
held at the grounds at Kansas City, Sept. !
Is to 90.
The Grange movement is spreading
quite rapidly in the south. One hundred
and forty Oranges have been organized /,
in Mississippi alone, up to the middle of !
last month.
When they speak of the cholera ha>,
Memphis the leading newspapers call it
"P. D." In this way all alarm is quieted
and the business interests of the city are
undisturbed.
The building of tie Oil City (Pa.) Der 5
rick having been struck by lightning, the i
editor thinks it an especial admonition &
from above to make his paper "a red hot
lightning sheet"
1t is announced semi icially that Sem
ator WINDOWS Special Committee on
Transportation will report strongly in
favor of freight railway from tho sea-
board to the West. L
The Genessee IN. W Courier of Friday !,
says: "There are in this vicinity acres !.
Of wheat all headed out, the stalks of 4
w arn IN nvnani tn
eight inches in length"
The latest in the way of selfpraisc is =
an Indiana editor who played few tunes
on an old banjo under his Office window, 4
and then thanked the serenader in his
next issue for delightful music. III
The iron works at Norwalk, Conn, are 7
constructing monster engine for a roll ]
Ing mill in Topeka, Kansas. 1t will be Of
$50 horse power capacity, the fly-wheel
alone weighing twenty-five tons. :
The revenue derived by the Postofice
Department from the sale of stamps last
week was the heaviest yet obtained for
any similar period during the history Of
the Department, amounting to $1,153,
996
Ninety-six pieces ofgranite for the base /,
of the Lincoln Monument at onion Square
New York. are now at their destinations &.
Around the outside the motto "With
charity for all, malice toward none," will
be put.
Many tickets have been presented At
Louisville calling for prizes in the great
lottery which are fraudulent, figures having
been erased and, in some instances, insert
cd so as to correspond with the przll
numbers.
Philadelphia is not to be outdone in
the matter of transatlantic ballod <
trip, one Col De Alma being reported to;
purpose an aerial jaunt to Europe fronSs
that city; and like the Ephesians of old
the Quaker citizens cry, "Great is ( I!
Ahna!'
Massachusetts, is not Louisiana, but "A
farmer living there, whose barn wasf
burned the other night, sees ku klux IN
the note pinned to the DOOR "We ha'
finished your barn. and will come out i]
a few days and finish the house, and you.
with it,"
| There is dew in one flower and not III,
another, because one opens its cup anu
takes it, while the other closes itself and
the drop runs off So Heaven rains good
ness and mercy as wide as the dew, and
if we lack them it is because we will q
open our hearts to receive them.
Grand Master Garretson, of Iowa, is
engaged in organizing Oranges in Cali.
fornia. This movement now sways tho
| people like tidal wave, from sea to sea,
and threatens to sweep away at last maE
Of the obstacles that have long impeded
the producing industries of tho country.
A constable in Virginia has suddenlj
lost both sight and hearing, and down!
there they can't account for it. But it is I
very common affection among the POI
lice in this latitude. We've known half
| dozen of them to become suddenly
blind and deaf; though we could general.
ly guess the reason. Z
In New York restaurant there are to
be seen two show cards, one bearing the
words "New England Homemade Dough-
nuts" on the other Genuine Homes
made Doughnuts;" the inference from .
which is that the New England article !
must come within the category of hickoryS
nutmegs and basswood hams.
Amanda Smith. the wonderful coloreds