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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21
SwINDL1NG ADvEHTlsING AGENTS.

SwINDLING ADVERTISING AGENTS.
The DEBORAH Vindicator wants
the newspapers to emancipate them
selves from advertising swindlers
by refusing to publish any adver-
tisments from abroad without pay
in advance. 1t dcnounces all ad-
vertising agencies in the large cities
as irresponsible cheats. The Yin
dictator IS more than half right. II
every newspaper in the land would
adopt the policy it urges, it wonld
be better not only for them but for
the legitimate agents, who would
not object to pay in advance if that
was the inflexible rule. Let the
forthcoming Editorial Convention
take this subject up and secure, if
possible, concerted action for self
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The difficulty of securing this
concerted action, is just what is the
matter. 1t may be possible at the
Editorial Convention TO pass with
apparent unanimity resolution
emil odying the action suggested by
the journal, but to get even ma
jority Of the publishers of the State
to adhere t" the policy when adop
ted, is quite another matter. The
publishers have in their own hands
the remedy for all the abuses of the
agency syst EN-, but fail 10 make il
effective because they cannot trust
each other.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21
Healthy Combinations.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.

From the Cincinnati Commercial.
The Farmers Unions that are or
ganized in the Northwestern States
are Of the utmost Importance. They
will begin by making war on rail
road monopolies, and the stupid and
swindling system Of management
into which they are fallen. Railroad
management just now is open to tw"
sweeping objections. The first is
that local business is taxed for the
sake of through traffic. People who
have the misfortune to live near rail
roads, and to be dependent upon
them, suffer from extortions that are
demanded by the excessive compe-
tition between remote points. What
Justice, reason, or business sense,
for instance, is there in the state Of
facts exhibited in Mr.. Tatt's speech
in the Legislature the other day
the transportation Of barrel of
flour from Chillicothc to Baltimore
costing more than the same service
from st. Louis to Baltimore? The
second great objection to railroad
management is that the Legitimate
profits of the roads are devoured by
inside rings, with fast freight lines
and sleeping-car monopolies. Thus
the cream of the railroad business
is licked by the managers, and the
skinned milk kindly administered
to the patient and helpless stock
holders. We have said the Farm
ers' Unions will begin with the rail
roads; but they-wili, before a great
while, reach the tariff ring OF job
bcrs and robbers that controls Con
gress in respect to financial leglsla
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21
state News.

Cedar lis is shipping horses to
Chicago, as We learn by the Recorder.
Mrs Upper, our Iowa bee woman,
met with a severe loss last week, involv-
ing the destruction Of her immense colo
ny Of bees by fire. Among the number
were many choice imported swarms.
"A Mahaska county candidate for the
privilege of teaching the young idea
how to shoot, when asked the question:
"When, where, and by whom was Afri-
can slavery first introduced into Ameri.
ca" answered. 'In 1920, at Havana,
Cuba, by Abraham Lincoln" SIGH is
fame.
We are getting tired Of seeing that
item poking fun at US for saying that
Senator Larrabee. of Clayton county, has
m orchard of six thousand t1cres.--Du
6uque Times.
Another bull, Mr.. Times Senator
Larrabee is not Of Clayton, but of Fay
cite county.
The Waterloo Reporter says that suit
has been brought in the Circuit Court Of
that county against Mrs Stickley. Almi
"a Stickley and the man George, in favo,
of Byron Wright, for damages resulting
from the Cedar City shooting affair The
amount claimed is 5000. and an attach
,nent hos been issued against the proper
ty Of the defendants. Wright is rapid,
recovering from his wound.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21
The Utica Herald, edited by Hon.

The Utica Herald, edited by Hon.
Eli, ii. Roberts, understands that
several members of Congress who
voted against the increase of sala-
ries are in consultation to devise
some uniform action which, with
out ostentation, shall be manly and
honorablo.-Er.
AT the risk of being considered
intrusive, we suggest to the mem
hers wrestling with this knotty
problem, that they each sit down
and write to the proper officer of
the Treasury requesting him to
place the $4,000 steal voted to them
respectively, to the credit Of the
government. The plan proposed
not Only meets the requirements
mentioned in the above paragraph,
but it also has the merit Of being
simpl. and straightforward.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21
Cheerful Predictions.

DR.. X. r. Trail, in the Philadel-
phiv Star, is very cheerful proph-
ct. He says that we are approach
ing the climax Of pestilential Pc
Rod. From 1880 to 1885 the
planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
Neptune will approach the earth
nearer than they have been for
eighteen hundred years. When
ever any one of the four have come
near enough for us to feel its infu'
cnce, pestience, famine, and ex-
tremes of heat and cold have been
found the result. Now, we are to
have influence of the four combined,
and he predicts that in seven years
from now all manner of evil which
grows out Of atmospheric changes
will be upon us. TO lessen this
calamity, the world is urged to use
the strictest sanitary measures, and
by health and cleanliness counter
act the effect of our unwelcome
neighbors. The world is SO much
better able to care for itself than it
was two or three hundred years ago,
and by care we may. avert much OF
the danger. To the following class
es he gives very cold comfort
"The disipated, the glutton, the de-
bauchec may calculate on being
| among the first victims. Young
men yho devitalize themselves by
tobacco using, young ladies W no
destroy one half of their breathing
capacity by fashionable dress and
tight lacing, will never survive the
periheiion Of all the large planets of
the solar system; and perhaps it will
be best that they should not"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21

From gentlemen rccontly in
Washington, and who were there
when the new Iowa delegation was
in session, for the spportionment of
appointments, we learn that our
State, like all others, is not to have
this year very large allowance OF
new officers. Considered by Dis
tricts, the slate, written up, stands
about as follows: The First Dis
trlct gets nothing new, and no
change Of otfices-Mr. Hudson re-
naming Minister at Guatemala, Mr..
Howell remaining on the Southern
Claims Commission, and Gen. Bel
KNAPP continuing as Secretary Of
War. The Second District gives
up the MarseilIes Consulate, and
gets instead the U. S. A,torneyship,
the appointee to the place bein. the
Hon. J L. Lane, of Davenport.
The Third District has been appor-
toned the Special Mail Agency for
Iowa, and IL. c. Van Leuven named
as the man. The Fourth has moth.
ing new-Mr. Melendy remaining
United States Marshal. The Fifth
has the Havre Consulate, Judge
Conklin, Of Vinton being the recip-
lent of the honor. In the Sixth Mr..
Loughridgc having already the To-
wa Supervisor Of Internal Revenue,
gets two Consulatcs also. In the
District-the United
States Attorneyship and the Havrc
Consulate, (the latter of $4,000 sal
AIRY and the former still more lucra-
tive) have been taken away, and in
lieu Of them we have been given the
Marseilles Consulate. AS elsewhere
mentioned, the honors accorded this
District fall upon Mr.. Marshall Tai
bolt, of Saylorville. The Eighth
District, we understand, is to have
a foreign appointment, but what it
is we are not informed. The Ninth
District, retaining the L. 5. Pension
Agency at Des Moines, will, it is
understood, have to think itself we'll
treated for the present in having
that, as it is rated as the most
lucrative Federal Office in the State.
..Stote Register.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21
The Plat Law.

At the session, a year ago, the
Legislature passed law requiring
additions or subdivisions plated
and recorded. The law made it in
cumbent upon the assessor to notify
owners to do this, and in case they
did not do it, that the County Sur
veyor should do it, and have the ex-
penses taxed against the land. This
last winter the Legislature repealed
the law, but the repeating act is
made part of the code, and does not
go into effect until Sept. l. Before
the repeal, good deal of expense
had been incurred plating lands,
and the question now arises up
what does this muddling Of affairs
amount to? Shall the surveyors go
on with the plating, or anticipate
the law of September? We believe
the law requiring the plating was
good one, and in the next six
months ought to b. put in force
OHumac0 Courier.
The act repeating chapter Al Of
the General Laws of the 18th Gen
eral Assembly, known as the plat
law, went into effect February 10,
1873. The Code Commissioners
reported substitute for the law,
which substitute was embodied in
the Code by the Legislature this
winter, but will not 60 into effect
until the lst Of September. The
substitute provides when any tract
Of land is subdivided into three or
more parcels, the owner when he
sells any one parcel must plat the
tract divided and have the plat re-
corded, and if he fails to do so the
county auditor, instead of the as
SCISSOR as in the old law, is to notify
him to make such plat, and if he
fails to do SO within thirty days, the
auditor is required to have it done,
and the cost is assessed and collect
ed with the taxes on the land. AS
chapter Al has been repealed, and
as the new law requiring plats to be
made does not take effect until Sop
TENDER lst, it is certainly clear that
the assessor has no right, upon failss
ure of the owner of the property to
have his plat recorded, to require
the county surveyor to do the same.
And as the county auditor may, un-
der the new law, employ any sur
veyor to make the survey and plats,
county surveyors would not be en-
tirely safe in anticipating the law
of September.-Des Moines Hepu6-
Hc0n.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21
The Hartford Post would like to

The Hartford Post would like to
know if the "actual expenses" al
lowed to Congressman, besides the
regular $1,000 per year, includes
meals by the way as we'll as rail-
road fare. Would cigars be all
lowed at said meals? Would whis-
ky he admissible as an actual ex
pense? Must a Congressman go
straight to Washington and home
again, or may he stop q week or
two at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and
would theatre tickets be an actual
expense? No doubt the largest
liberty Of construction will be pla-
ced upon the word "actual ex-
1t would not do to be
niggardly, you know.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21

FEW citizens Of Iowa begin to
suspect the extent of the hidden re.
sources of our State. 4 few days
since the announcement came from
Wayerly, away up here at the north
that vein of coal had
been struck in digging well, and
latter comes the intelligence from
Des Moin,s that oil has been dis
covered at Saylorvillc, near that
city. The discovery was made
while prospecting for coal, and was
accompanied by the usual emission
of gas, which being lighted, sent a
strong flame high into the air.
There is no doubt of the presence
Of the unctuous, anti-fragant COM
modify upon which so many for.
tunes have been founded, but wheth-
err in paying quantities is not yet
fully demonstrated.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21

One of the bills passed by the late
Congress is that to encourage the
growth Of timber on the Western
prairies. 1t provides that any per-
son who shall plant and protect for
ten years forty acres Of timber trees
on a quarter section of the public
lands shall be entitled to patent
for the whole of said quarter section
at the expiration of ten years. The
bill also provides that every person
having q homestead under the Pre-
cmption or Homestead law, who at
the end of the third year shall have
cultivated one acre of timber trees
for every 100 acres, shall receive a
patent for the homestead which
shall be exempt from execution for
debts
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21

If the difference would be half as
much as is here represented that
would be sufficient to explain hos
tility to such 4 tariff. And this H.
illustrates the inherent difficulty of
fixing any rates Of transportation by
law.
Such were the measures lost by
the failure of the two Houses to
ag &c upon them, or either of them.
Both together would have been RI
diculous, and either, according to
the Illinois decision, would have
been unconstitutional. There is no
clause in the Iowa constitution Civ
ing the Legislature special power
over railroads, nor do the charters
of these corporations reserve to the
law making power the right to fix
their rates of fare and freight. 1t
follows that the Legislature only
possesses such limited powers as
are implied in the right to prevent
injustice and oppression; and the
Illinois Court say that does not in
clude the power to forbid discrimi-
nations altogether. Instructed by
this experience Iowa will be better
prepared to approach the subject of
regulation another winter; and in
the meantime care should be taken
not to commit the public mind to
specific measures about the proprl-
ETY. or const tutionality of which
there viii! be dispute, but rather TO
such legislation as will stand the
constitutional test and rs will best
correct the evils Of extortion and
unjust discrimination from which
we Gre plainly suffering.-Daren-
port Gazette.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21

Fowler, the phrcnologist, gave a
lecture to females only, at Omaha,
last week, and while telling them \
lot Of things they knew before, and
not word Of what they wished to
know, one ancient maiden lady fell
backwards over a chair, yelling,
"Oh, Lord, there is man in the
gallery" The intruder proved to
be q heardless youth, a reporter on
a daily paper, aud after being frown-
cd upon by the Professor, he was
permitted to 60 without carrying
any extra bumps on his head,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21
The Dubuque papers Of last Fri

The Dubuque papers Of last Fri
day contain the announcement of
the death on the day previous Of
Mr.. Geo. G. Dean, Of the well known
firm Of Rouse & Dean, proprietors
of the Iowa Iron Works, Of that city.
Mr.. Dean was originally of St. Law
renee county, N. Y, from whence
he came to Iowa, locating first at
Cedar Falls, and afterward at
Charles City, where he engaged in
mercantile business. In 1865 he
removed to Dubuque and became an
active member OF the firm above
named. Mr.. Dean; in every phase
Of his character, was an honorable,
upright man, and devoted Christian.
He possessed the respect and conf
dence of the entire community, and
died universally regretted.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21

burned. Insured for 81, 500 in Roy
al of Liverpool. Full particulars
IN regular edition.
ANOTHER INCENDIARY FIRE.
CEDAR FALLS, Mar. 1s.-Another
$4,000 fire last night destroyed the
block owned by l.. II. SEVERN and
occupied by Pitcher & Pennock,
dry goods; w. J. Pitcher, furniture;
b. Thorp. dry goods; Stearns &
Odell, furniture; Price Bros, pie
turc gallery. There are about a
dozen others who lose small amounts.
The total insurance is about $l5,-
900. The fire was undoubtedly the
work OF an incendiary, and making
the third incendiary fire at that
place within four or five days. 1t
creates most intense excitement.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21
What Was Lost?

A lively discussion is going on in
some quarters concerning the fail
ure of the Legislature to pass rail
road tariff law. Senators and Rep
resentatives are blamed for this, and
it is proposed to call down on their
heads the indignation of all friends
OF such measure. But it is well
not to be hasty, as it is possible that
this failure was the best thing that
could have happened. If the decis-
ION Just made by the Supreme Court
OF Illinois is sound, the loss of the
bill was a gain to the State. Ithas
kept us from putting a law on the
statute books to be violated, and
from expensive and fruitless efforts
to enforce it. 1t is better to have
no law at all than one practically
broken down from the start by an
adverse legal decision.
But let us see what it was that
failed to get into the Code. The
House, it seems inadvertently, got
two Inconsistent measures into one
bill. These were, the O'Donnell
Bill and the Keables Amendment.
BY the former the rates of transport
tation were limited to certain prices
per ton, or car load, graduated ac-
cording to distance; that is, the
price per mile was to be reduced as
the distance Increased; while by
the latter (the Keables amendment)
the railroads were forbidden to
make any determinations at all!
This would have looked very well,
ii it had got on the statute book
Yet such conglomeration repeat
eddy received majority vote in the
House.
The O'Donnell men tried to get
the kcables amendment out, after
they had adopted it. Mr.. Irish takes
special credit to himself for this eff
fort. But grave objections are made
to the O'Donnell measure, even by
the friends of tariff regulation. AS
suming that the law, if passed, would
have been executed, it follows that
the railroads would have taken as
high rates as they were allowed to
charge. The rates prescribed by
the O'Donnell bill are VIGOROUSLY
less tn II the present railroad tariffs,
for short distances, while they
charge more than the roads now
generally charge for distances reach
ing into hundreds of miles. On
eastern-bound freight, therefore, the
law would favor the eastern part of
the State at the expense of the west
ern, though it would be more cquit-
able on the whole. But who ever
heard of sane men voting for a
measure Of "reform" that would tax
themselves for the benefit of some
body else? Yet that is what west
ern Changers and farmers were ask
ed to do by the ODonnell bill. Ac-
cording to correspondent of the
Council Bluffs NonpareH the differ
cnce on II Car of ten tons from the
Missouri river to Chicago would be
as follows.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CEDAR
FALLS
Incendiaries at Work.
From the Cedar Falls Gazette Extra.
CEDAR FALLS, Mar. l6.

From the Cedar Falls Gazette Extra.
CEDAR FALLS, Mar. l6.
Midnight.
A fire was discovered at a quarter
before II o'clock p M, in the rear
end of the brick building on Main
street, owned by Mrs. Mullarky, and
occupied by Il. Hazlett. a.
While the engine was being plac-
ed in position hundreds Of our citi-
zens were busily engaged in remov-
ing the goods from the adjoining
buildings. The coal being poor,
considerable delay was caused in
trying to get up steam, and tor a
time the prospects looked threaten
ing for sweeping away all the ad-
joining buildings.
AS soon as the engine began to
throw water freely, the fircmen OBJ
tanned control of the flames, and
succeeded in keeping the fire within
the burning building. BY the aid
Of our citizens, a part OF Mr.. Haz-
let's goods were removed, as were
also Mr.. +. N. Chase's and Pickton
& Landgraf's in frame building on
the south. The store occupied by
Mr.. Chase was considerably dam
aged, though not burnt.
The wind being from the south
east, the dwelling of Mr.. Maggort
was in great danger for time, but
with the assistance of citizens he cs-
capped, with only small loss to dam
aged furniture in removing.
The stocks and buildings were all
insured; but we regret to announce
a total loss of the law library and
valuable papers of S. II. Packard,
in the room over Mr.. Hazlett's store,
Oh which he had no insurance. This
is indeed a loss to Mr.. p, almost ir'
reparable. We also learn that the
instruments and music belonging ia
the band boys, which were in the
third story of the brick block, were
also burned. s.irsa
Mr.. Hazlett had an insurance Of
IS, 900 on his stock of dry goods
&c.; Mrs. Mullarky on building
$4,000.
We are unable to get at the actu
al loss at this writing. We estimate
it at $4,000. t
The fire was undoubtedly thu
work of an inccndiaryi was set IN
vacant room in the rear end OF tn
building in the second story. Thu
fire company did good work, saw
the unavoidable delay at first, ant
many thousands of dollars worth o
property was undoubtedly saved
The engine worked three hour
| without cessation. Five OF the fire
men had a narrow escape from fall
ing bricks.
ANoTHER.-Last Friday morAin!
a brick residence, belonging to )
NJ. Benjamin--unoccupied, wa
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21
A Rare Chance
TO OBTAIN AN IMPROVED
Singer Sewing Machine.

Iwould respectfully announce to the inhabit-
ants of Buchanan county that have effected an
arrangement with an eastern party. whereby can
dispose of second hand Sewing Machines III prices
which enable me TO offer special Inducements to
persons having machines which do not give them
satisfaction, and which they wish TO turn in us
part payment toward Singer Machines, Believ-
ing that This announcement will come like good
turn of Providence to many perpleAed and
nervous mind, made SO by having tecn tried
and toimented, even nigh unto distraction, by
trying to use the complicated, hard-running, slow
and noisy machines that have been crowded upon
them by some agent. whose continued stay OF
several days or y few weeks, and large offered
discounts, seemed to indicate that at last resort
they would put their machines at price which
they could board out before the machine would
become a wreck. Iwould say that | shall keep
constantly on hand the various styles OF Singer
Machines, and invite ali, whether they have old
machines tn trade not, to call at the Singer Of
fce, next door to the bridge, South side Main ST.,
and examine the Singer" before purchasing any
other machine. Persons wishing for = machina 10
use in tailoring or light leather work. will find
the Medium Singer" the best machine yet invent
ed for such purposes. Heavy Manufacturing
Machines supplied at any time. The latest i'm.
proved attachments kept constantly on hand and
furnished at reasonable prices. Needles, &c.
for all machines commonly in use. Cotton and
Linen thread. best adopted to Sewing Machine
Use. for sale In large or small quantities. The
Singer Manufacturing Cos Celebrated Silks, IN
all colOrs and different sized spools, for family
sewing and shoemakers use. Liberal instructions
given to purchasers of Singer Machines. Ma
chimes delivered in any part OF the county and
racks furnished free gratis, for shipping machines
by rail or overland wagons, thus averting danger
of breakage by moving 4 machine from one point
to another.
BUY Il SINGER Nh CUINE,'
and TIES connect yourseJ ac1th
the "HaPpy Family" Of
ocer Il Million!
SIN. OSGOOD. Agent.
Indcnendenre. Ech IL. lSi3. a2.tf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-21

KING OF THE BLoop-PIMPLEs
ON THE FACE Case Il have been
troubled for the past three or four
years with q very disagreeable
eruption on my face, and had tried
many different remedies, as well as
physicians, and had given up dis
couragei, thinking | never should
be cured, when ! accidently heard
of your King of the Blood. l
bought bottle and used it accor-
ding to directions and received re-
lief. and by using three bottles more
l am completely cured, and can
checrfully recommend it to those
afflicted with scrotulous disea4 es, or
any impurity of the blood. .
II. B. MINER,
Telegraph Operator. Avoca, n. Z.
See advertisement in another col
umn.