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

A correspondent ofthe Cincinnati
Commercial has been in the Red
River country, where the black po-
pulation so largely preponderates,
and the jurors are selected from
both races. He says: 81 asked a
white man who had had considerable
jury experience how it worked"
He said "It worked tolerably we'll
after fellow got used to it."
"Did it take much effert to get
used to lt?" l asked.
eyes, sir, you bet it was the con-
foundest hardest thing to get used
to ever you heard of. haven't got
used to the smell yet. Ola hot day,
in close room, with lot of fat
niggers sitting on case, it's pretty
hard. But we have to submit, for
if some of us white people didn't go
on the jury it would be all niggers,
and that would be ruin"
"How arc the juries dlvided?" l
asked.
"Oh, just as it happens, so there
is some of each race on every jury,
Sometimes there's only two niggers.
sometimes four, sometimes six, and
sometimes ten."
"How are they about agreeing up
on verdicts?"
"They are better than the whites.
The niggers never hang jury.
When ! am on jury with them,
and the suit is ON an account, for
instance, l just figure up the amount,
and say; Boys, here, Jones owes
Smith so much and SO much and so
much, giving the figures, and Smith
owes Jones so much and so much,
giving figures, which leaves Jones
behind with Smith so much, and
that's what we must render judg-
ment for They all agree to it, al
though they don't know any more
about figures than a hog does about
theology"
"I'll say this for the niggers,'
he continued; "They are not stub.
born on a jury at all; but as far as
my experience goes, they are always
anxious to do the right thing
between man and man."
"Whcn their own color is invol-
we'd, how is it?" l asked.
"Just the same. They do not
shield their own people. They'll
hang a niger for murder just as
quick as they will white man, and
a great deal quicker. Sometimes l
think they are little too hard on
their own race. But / suppose they
fear we will charge them with par
tiality. On the whole a nigger
makes pretty fair juryman."
"Was there no great opposition
to his serving in that capacity?"
ooh, yes, thunder was to pay for
while. White men said they
wouldn't sit with a nigger; they
would die first, and all that, but they
had to swallow the dose, and have
now got used to it. There is moth
ing like being used to anything, is
there?"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25

rom the New York Herald,

AicAi WV ANSW Aoih AASi"iu'
We known of no excuse for man
writing to woman's magazine on
the subject of trowsers for girls
short of his having successfully
worn the article himself. 1t ap-
pears that a male correspondent of
a certain English publication in
tended for the behoof of the fair sex
has been taking the liberty of vent
ing his views on this delicate sub
ject, and we have no objection to
add to the publicity he has sought,
conscious, at the same time, with
what gingerly touch the topic
must be handled. He thinks that
long trowsers of linen or cambrlc,
trimmed with needle-work or lace,
are feminine enough despite their
name and shape. TO be quite
beautiful, he insists that they should
be brilliantly white, very stiffly
starchcd, and long enough to reach
the feet, and even, perhaps, slightly
hide the insteps. A certain degree
Of plainness is admissible, but he is
peremptory in insisting on at least
one deep hem. The highest style
of trowsers, however, ought to have
rich needlework borders, with strips
ofinsertion, and on dress occasions,
a bright colored ribbon run in the
work, or lace flounces, or various
trimmings of finely wrought muslin.
He laments the trowsers of this
description which were worn twenty
years ago, and drops tear of ad-
miration over the departed pantalet.
Amid 80 much vivacity and enthu-
siasm Of description we gladly make
allowance for a few rhetorical ex-
aggerations. But one sentence
the keynote of the whole-is so re-
markable that we cannot allow it to
20 unchallenged. After half a col
umn of eulogy upon the pantalets Of
twenty years ago the correspondent
makes the following remarkable
avowal: 81 think that a hat of one
of the many pretty shapes which
have been worn for some years past,
with the glossy hair floating over
the shoulders, the figure displayed
by tight-ftting dress, looped-up
skirt, full at the hips; a bright-color-
ed sash, tied behind; the pctticoats
excessively short, fully displaying
long, brilliantly white trousers, fall
ing gracefully across the instep, just
showing the open-worked stocking,
and the feet flashing brightly in the
pretty patent leather shoes and SAN
dals l have written of before, con-
stitute the most piquant, dainty and
captivating costumes devised for
girls. Thus attired in dress sing
ularly appropriate and characters
tic, because so becoming, childlike
and modest, girls might we'll wear
it till much more womanly age,
and if young ladies in 4heir teens
would believe how much more fac
cinating they look IN the youthful
and lady-like dress propose they
would adopt it with pleasure and re-
tain it without hesitation, and would
admit its convenience, propriety
and elegance.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
What a Famous Woman Knows
About Farming.

Matilda Fletcher, Iowa's favorite
platform orator, has been selected
to deliver the annual address at the
Nebraska State Fair at Lincoln, the
first week in September. She has
accepted the invitation, and has Sc
lectcd for her suject, Farmers
Wives and Daughters"
This is happy selection for the
success of our western neighbor's
Fair. 1t will bring thousands of
visitors to their exhibition, and
thousands of dollars to their treas
ury. The women of our country arc
as much interested in the success of
our fairs as the other sex, and it is
right that they should be put in
prominent positions to carry for
ward such enterprises, especially
when the directors act rs wisely in
selecting, as our ncighbors of Ne
braska have done.-Stdte Register.
Matilda will have a good many
points in sympathy with an audience
of farmers wives and daughters.
Having known her from early
enough to have been called for the
doctor at her first appearance up to
big girlhood, we can give her a
"character" as q genuine farmer
girl, born very near the backwoods.
The prairie boys used to call it
"down in the barrcns," n palpable
misnomer, for her close-fisted father
raised family Of thirteen and had
nothing to brag Of over his neigh
bors! If she lets "oratory" alone,
and simply tells the girls and wives
of Nebraska what she knows of
farming in new country, in fam
lily where to be born a girl involved
severe pinching of privileges and a
corresponding multiplication of bur-
dens, she will be sure to intensely
interest if she fails to greatly in
struct.
No western soldier will listen to
her who has fought a braver fight
than that through which she won
the really rich trophies of scholar
ship which she bore into the door
of womanhood. No farmers girl,
however hard her lot, will be there
with hands more familiar with rough
toll than the speakers own. No
farmers wife whose burden is three
fold greater than she ought to bear,
will command the sympathy of a
more faithful and helpful daughter
than this same Matilda. We have
seldom met her since she became
famous, but if she is an orator, as
they say she is, she should certainly
have the bull by the horns in an
agricultural address. - Elhader
Journal.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
La Mountains Death.

Mail reports'give some interesting
details of the fatal accident to the
aronaut, La Mountain, at Iona, last
Friday. His balloon was what is
known as a hot-air one, and was
simply filled with rarified air, and
not gas. The canvas had some
what ola worn appearance, as ifthe
worse for being filled with heated
air too often. At the summit, where
the canvas was sewn together, a
block some ten or twelve inches in
diameter was fastened, and through
hole in this six guy-ropcs were
secured, hanging down over the
sides Of the balloon, being at the
bottom some seventeen feet apart,
and these were tied to the basket
by the Professor himself. There
were no ropes running around the
balloon horizontally to keep the gay
ropes from slipping, or to prevent
the whole thing from sliding out
between the ropes with gust Of
wind. At 3:35 p. M, the Professor
stepped into the basket, and the
balloon took a shoot up almost per-
dendicularly, with the Professor
swinging his hat to the crowd, all
apparently enjoying the sight. In a
few moments more, however, the
mouth of the balloon was observed
to wave about two or three times,
then to pass between the ropes,
careering over on the side, when the
ropes broke out from their fasten-
ing at the top, and the fall commen-
ced.
La Mountain was noticed to be
apparently making some effort to
get the basket above him, and if
possible to break the fall, but after
the first struggle he fell SO rapidly
that nothing could be distinguished
but the falling body, his ha: coming
after him 100 feet or more behind,
the old canvass, nearly collapsed,
falling down gradually. The body
struck the ground half-a-dozen feet
from the northwest corner OF tbs
Jail building. 1t struck with such a
terrible thud that it Jared the
ground for fifty rods around, and
made an indention in the soil eight
inches in depth. There was scar
cely bone in the whole body not
broken into fragments. 1t was as
limp as a rag. There were very
few fractures Of the skin, except the
right foot, the bone of the right leg
being driven through the bottom
of the foot.
The body was laid out Oh couch
a circle formed, and procession Of
all who wished to see the remains
passed around. The Professor is q
brother OF the celebrated aronaut
who died two or three years ago.
This ones name was Edward La
Mountain. lie was jeweler by
trade, and lived at Brooklyn, Michi-
gan. He had said just before he
went up that he wished to take the
train for home as soon as possible
after coming down, as his wife was
very sick. He, himself, had not his
clothes off for ten days.
There were from ten to twelve
thousand people who witnessed this
horrible tragedy. He was seen by
people four miles from the city at
an angle of thirty-five degrees. The
best estimates make the height from
which he fell from 1000 to 1900
feet. Those who were on the hill
back Of the town say the strangest
sight was to witness the people
swaying back and forward like q
field of wheat moved by the wind.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25

"Gail Hamilton" says that ''in a
country like this poverty is pre-
sumption of defect. What doth him
der any man from earning his own
living? Illness may come; or sud
den calamity may fall. Against
these even energies may be power
less; but apart from this, it is to be
assumed that he who fails, fails be-
cause ho lacks wisdom, and not op-
portunity. And the same weakness
which prevented him from grAsping
the opportunity prevents him from
keeping hold Of it after it is put in
to his hands. Once in 4 while, once
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
Grace Greenwood.

OF all the woman who have taken
part in the discussion of the Wo-
mans Rights question, no one has
exhibited either cooler judgment
or more subtle insight than Grace
Greenwood. She has never forfel-
ted her claims on the public respect
by any extravaganza or folly, and
hence intelligent men and woman
are always glad to hear what she
has to say. In one of her recent
letters to the Times occur a few SEN
tences which we gladly copy: "Say
what you will, the whole question
Of woman's status in the State and
the Church, in society and in the
family, is full of absurd contradic-
ton and monstrous anomalies. We
are so responsible, yet irresponsible
we are idols, we are idiots-we are
everything, we are nothing. We
are the caryatides bearing up the
entablature of the temple of liberty
we are never allowed to enter. We
may plot against government and
hang for it; but if we help to found
and sustain government by patri-
otic effort and devotion; by toll and
hardship; by courage. loyalty, and
faith; by the sacrifice OF those near
est and dearest to us-and then ven
ture to clutch at the crumbs that
fall from the table where our mas
ters Jonathan, Patrick, Hans, and
Sambo sit at the feast, you arrest
us, imprison us, try us, and then
add insult to injury by calling us
old, ugly, and fanatical. One is
forcibly reminded of the sermon of
the colored brother on woman, the
heads of which were: Firstly, what
am woman? Secondly, whar did
she come from? Thirdly, who does
she belong to? Fourthly, Which
way am she gwina to? The law and
the Gospel have settled secondly
and thirdly Woman came from
man, and belongs to him by the
mortgage he holds on her through
the sparerib; but firstly and fourth
ly' remain rs profound and unsolu-
bic questions rs they were before
the Ethiopian divine wrestled with
them. But perhaps this troublous
and perplexed existence is our be-
all and end-all; that in life beyond
man may foreclose that old mort
gage, and re-absorb woman in his
gloritied and all-sufficient being"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
Signs of Madness in Dogs.

The British Medical journal
calls attention to measures recon-
mended for the better protection of
the people against the dangers Of
hydrophobia. The madness of dogs
has a period which is premonitory
and harmless. Ifthese periods were
generally known the dog could be
put out Of the way before they be-
come dangerous. On this subject
the council of Hygiene has issued
the following instructions:
A short time, sometimes two days
after madness has seized dog, it
creates symptoms in the animal
which are Indispensable to recog-
nize:
l.. There is agitation and rest
lessness, and the dog turns himself
continually in his kennel. If he is
at liberty he goes and comes, and
seems to be seeking something; then
starts, biting the air, as If he would
catch a fly, and dashes himself,
bowling and barking, against the
wall. The voice of his master dis
sipates these hallucinations, the dog
obeys, but slowly, with hesitation,
as if with regret.
2. He does not try to bite; he is
gentle, even affectionate, and he
eats and drinks, but gnaws his lit
ter, the ends of curtains, padding
ofcushions, the coverlids OF the beds,
carpets, &c.
8. BY the movement of his paws
about the sides Of his open mouth,
Que might think he was trying to
free his throat of bone.
4. His voice undergoes such a
change that it is impossible not be
struck by it.
S. The dog begins to fight with
other dogs. This is a decidedly
characteristic sign if the dog be
generally peaceful.
The three symptoms last mention.
ed indicate an advanced period of
the disease, and that the dog may
become dangerous at any moment
if immediate measures are not taken.
1t is best to chain him up at once,
or better still, to kill him.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25

in great while, timely succor
avails in moment of temporary
weakness, or averts the conse-
quences OF q mistake, and the man
starts ahead at swinging pace.
But oftener the results seem to indi-
cate that it is of very little use to
help people who cannot help them
selves. The kingdom of pauperism
is within them. The very causes
that make them poor keep them
poor. 1t is not that society bears
down hard upon them. 1t is not
that they are self indulgent. If you
see widow and five children shiv-
ering over a few embers, you pity
them and you must send them coal;
but you cannot help feeling wrath
full contempt at knowing that they
all went to the photographers yes
terday and had their pictures taken,
after buying couple of 25 cent
brooches on the way to adorn them
selves withal. The very thing that
you yourself would hesitate to do,
on account of expense, people who
are partially dependent upon your
charity will do without hesitation.
Where you will practice natural,
cheerful, unthinking self-denial, they
will practice an equally cheerful and
unthinking self-indulgence. The
remnants of bread that you dry in
the oven and save for future use
they throw away. The fragmen-
tary vest sleeve that you fashion
into fiat iron holder they put into
the rag bag, and buy new cloth for
their holders. Where you rise at
half past six, they lie till half past
seven. Where You walk, they ride.
Where you pray and watch and
strive to do your work thoroughly,
they are content with anything that
will answer. That is tho reason
why people are SO poor.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25

are prospecting in our business.
Mrs. Colman is dignified, matron-
ly lady, but among her family she
likes and I think will never lose the
sopriquet of "per c."
There is a moral to my story.
Every boy worth the name proba-
bly, sees it. will write it, never
theless: When good opportunity
occurs, don't stand idle and wait for
a better,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25

Charles Harris, while shaking a
carpet at Cedar Rapids, at Browns
Hotel, in some way fell from plat
form into the river, distance of
about forty feet, and received inju-
ries from which he died the next
morning.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25

st. Louis has abandoned the prof.
cot Of holding an industrial exposi-
tion this year.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
A Revolutionary Reminiscenoe.
pARsoN CALDWELL, OF SPRINGFIELD, N.

Here's the spot. Look around you. Above on
Lay the Hessians encamped. By that church on
the right
Stood the gaunt Jersey farmers. And here ran q
You may dig anywhere and you'll turn mp ball.
Nothing more. Grasses spring, waters run, flow
Pretty much as they aid ninety three years ago.
Nothing more, did sayg Stay one moment
you've heard
OF Caldwell, the parson, who once preached the
Down at springaelds What, Nor Come, that's
bad; why, he had
All the Jerseys afamel And they gave him the
or the "rebel high priest" He stuck in their
For he loved the Lord God-and he hated King
George!
He had cause. you might sayi When the Hes
Marchsd up 'si with knyphau.en, they stopped on
At the "Farms," where his wife. with child in
Sat alone in the house. How 1t happened none
knew
But God-and that one of the hireling crew
Who fred the shot! EnOugh!-there she lay
And Caldwell. the chaplain her husband, away!
Did he preach-did he pray: Think Of HIM, as you
stand
by the old church to-day think Of him and that
band
or militant ploughboys! See the smoke and the
heat
or that reckless advance-Of that struggling re-
treat!
Keep the ghost of that wife, foully slain in your
view
And what could you-what should you, what
would you do:
Why, Just what he did! They were left in the
lurch
For the want of more wadding. He ran to ithc
church,
Broke the doors. stripped the pews, and dashed
out in the road
With HIS arms full of hymn-boo and threw
down the load
At their feet! Then, above all the shouting and
shots,
Rang his voice-"Put Watts into 'em--Boys, give
'cm Watts!"
And they did. That is all. Grasses spring, flow.
ers blow
Pretty much as they did nincty-three years ago:
You may dig anywhere and you'll turn upa ball
But not always hero like this and that's all.
Bret Hare, In New York Tribune.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25

A TTORNEY AT LAW and Real Estate Agent.
Store, Main ST., Independence, Iowa. a3,tfl
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25

Indianapolis has 1900 children.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
LANES M. WEART.

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public and
n Claim Agent Office In Wilcox's New Block
I'D stairs Independence, Iowa. 7-lyI
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
n. H. p. ROSZELL.

O. H. p. ROSZELL,
4 TTORNEY AT LAW AND COLLECTING
n AGENT, will practice in the several Courts
OF the County and District SPECIAL ATTENTION
GIVEN TO COLLECTIONS. Office over King s. Ken
yOn's Hardware Store.
Independence, Iowa, Jan. 1, 1873, 26-tf.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
w. H. HARTON.

JUSTICE OF TIE PEACE, Attorney at Law,
J Collecting Agect and Conveyancer Will
perform Marriage Ceremonies anywhere within
ten miles of town. Office over Edwards store
Iowa 30y1.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
Business Cards
Atturneas.
u. s. LEE,

D. s. LEE,
A TTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public, and
Main ST., over King & Kenyon's hardware store,
Independence. Will make collections, pay taxes,
take acknowledgements. buy and sell Real Estate,
I9-y1l
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
D.p. HOLDRIDGE,

TTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public and Land
n Agent Office in G. W. TaylOr's new build
Ing, opposite the Post Office, Independence,
Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
L. w. HART.

TAW CONvEYANCING, WAR CLAIM, AND
Ia Land Agency Office. Office In First Natlon-
al Bank building, Independence, Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
r. s. WOODWARD,

A TTORNEY AT LAW and General Land Agent
~ Independencc, Iowa. Office in Wilcox BIN.
Particular attention paid to Collections, and Re-
mittances promptly made,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-25
n. w. BRuCKART
w, q. & J. b. DONNAN,

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Independence, Iowa.
N Office with W. II. Joslin. in Wilcox BLOCK
Consultations in Euglish and German. 1871
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-06

ORNAMENTS WILL BE FURNISHED
TO RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE.
28.dlNf
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-06

PIE. AND A POWERFUL PROTEC.
TION. Send for Circular.
SELF-ACTING ENGINES. for Cities
and Towns. Send for Record"
HOOK AND LADDER TRUCKS. for
Towns and Villages. Engine and Truck
combined.
STATIONARY TANKS, for Factories,
Hotels and Theaters.
IL. b. IRWIN Il CO.,
General Agents for the Pacific Coast
For sale by w. B, MURDOCH.
Local Agent, 80 California ST., San Fran.
cisco. jy29-2w
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Pioneer Barber Shop
BATH HOUSE!

First door north Of the Pioneer Restau.
rant, North Main street. Eureka.
f1NHE UNDERSIGNED HAVING RE.
l. Gently opened the above establish.
ment, offers his professional services to
all who desire a first-ciass physiognOmi.
cal HAIRCUT or an ecstatic SHAVE.
A3-Hair Cutting, 50 cents.
~Shampooing, 50 cents.
Connected with the establishment are
several neat and elegant BATH ROOMS. J.
where Hot or Cold Baths can be had at
oil times. t,,
BATHS, 80 CENTS.
A share of public patronage is solicited
au22tf JAMES NJ. n. MOODY Prop'r
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-06
THE 1ABCocK
FIRE ExTINGUIShER!
Se!-protection the only Security."

Fire Departments
In Eastern cities
use them daily.
Adopted by tn e
Gov ern m ent ,
Used on over hny
raIlroa d SIS, by
Mines, Hote Is, ,
Factories, Stores,
an Il Private
Dwellings. Hun
dreds sold in San
Francisco and vi
cinity. Entirely
Different ands SUI
periOr to any 9th.
er ever intro.
duced.
A q LIZ CVNG
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PALISADE HOTEL,
Palisade, New.
!. M ARcH H AM q

HAS TAKEN THE ABOVE HOTEL.
nat.. and is now prepared to furnish his
tanned. "' '""' e
az. stages arrive at this Hotel from Eureka
taI u white Pine In time for passengers TO
~A' breakfast before the train goes west.
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