Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-16
State Items.

| der ana CnarleS City III THIS state.
john Mahin, of the Muscatine Jour-
nal, has been commissioned as postmas.
ter of that city An every way appro.
pirate and deserved appointment.
DR.. Mark Ranney has resigned his
position as Medical Superintendent of
tie Mt. Pleasant Insane Hospital to ac-
cept similar position in Wisconsin.
| BY returns made to the Auditor of
State it is ascertained that over two and
a half millions of dollars were paid in
Iowa, during the past year, for life and
fire insurance.
The Shuetzen Fest of the Society of
the Upper Mississippi Valley will be held
at Lyons, June 7th, lasting four days. A
large sum will be distributed in prizes for
competitive craftsmanship.
The Iowa State Eclectic Medical So
ciety meets at Des Moines on the 2Sth
inst. The State Homeopathic Society
will meet at the same place on the 18TH
The State Dental Association is in session
at Davenport this week.
"A competitive examination of candi-
dates for the West Point Cadetship, in
the gift of Hon. JAS. Wilson, of the 9Th
District, was held at Iowa City this week.
j. D. r. Price, Shellopolis, Iowa county,
was the successful candidate.
The Cedar Falls Recorder mentions
the remarkable circumstance of man
in that county who has never been solicit
ted by sewing machine agent until las
week The unsophisticated creature bit
the first time.
The people of Marshalltown are gen
orally siging u petition to the Post Office
Department, for the curtailment of the
name of that city, leaving off the superla-
tive "toaca." \ sensitive move.
The Lyons Mirror announces the
immediate commencement of work upon
Il paper mill in that city. The enterprise
is in the hands of MI. S. S. Smith, one of
the energetic business men of Lyons, and
it is the intention to make it one Of the
best mills in the west
The Waterloo Courier applies the
lash with spirit to A. S. Smith, Mayor of
Cedar Falls, for becoming the bondsman
of Andy Alderman and "Lize," indicted
for keeping disrcputable house near
Cedar Falls. On the other hand the Du-
buque Times thinks it quite natural that
the Mayor and Alderman should work in
unison.
Tho boy Sharkey, who was missed
from his home at Floyd, four months
since, was found floating in the Cedar
! river on the 9Th inst Two fearful gashes
in his throat and bruisc over the left
eye gave rise to the suspicion that he
was murdered, but the theory of suicide
is entertained by some
The Grinnell Herald is conspicu.
! Gus instance of journalistic forbearance.
IL announces, upon entering upon its 9th
year, that some of its subscribers, who
commenced with its first number, have
not paid cent. The editor of that pa
per has a pregnant theme upon which to
base homily upon the evils of the credit
system.
One Soloman Cinnamon, who stole
three colts from D. B. Benthall, of Iowa
Falls, Was followed by the owner and
VIM. Montgomery stock detective ofBut-
Ter county, to Lincoln, Neb., arrested and
despite the attempt of posse of his rela.
tions and friends to rescue him, brought
back safely to Iowa Falls with his ill got
ten booty. We CLEAN from the Sentinel.
twenty-five indictments were found
by the grand jury, of Black Hawk coun
ty, last week agains. parties violating
the prohibitory liquor law Six of them
plead guilty, and were fined from thirty
to fifty dollars each. The remainder were
continued until next term See Courier.
The Yankee whaling captain who,
when challenged to mo rial combat by a
sanguinary Don, chose as weapons, har-
poems at one hundred PAGES, has pair
of imitators in Waterloo in the persons
of two knights of the razor, who accord.
ing to the Courier settled their differ
ences in a fisticuff at twelve feet. The
record of casualties was not lengthy, bnt
the Courier intimates that the idiom
which accompanied the performance,
was energetic and sulphurous to the last
degree
Sensational reports about the dcclin-
ing health and probable early demise of
Judge Williams, of the Iowa Eastern mar.
row guage railroad, which have gone the
rounds Of the press of the State, are pro-
nounced by the Peoples Paper Unbound
cd. The Judge has only exercised his
right to have a little touch of the ague,
and is about again as vigorous as ever,
and pushing his narrow guage projects
with his accustomed energy.
Richard Wallingford and wife, of
Bonaparte, Van Buren, county, commit
ted suicide, last week, to avoid exposure
and punishment for certain swindling
real estate transactions, forgeries and
other illegal practices in which the hus-
band was implicated The deed was com
mitted by the aid Of poison, husband and
wife being discovered by a son, lying in
bed side by side with life extinct The
wife was woman of excellent character
and attachments. Opinions vary as to
her agency in the dreadful decd, some
holding that it was by mutual consent,
oth IS that Wallingford first poisoned his
wife, and still others that she did the poi
soning. Wallingford left written con-
fes IN of his crimes, naming other par
ties implicated, who have since been ar
rested.
General Items.