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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15
"rHE TIDE Is OUT"

The tide b ont; and faint and far
The lessening ripples play; .,,.
Upon the sunny bay;
And atrAnded kelp aud tangled weeds,
And fat, wet wastes Of sand,
With gaunt, white rocks, and shallow pools,
Disdgure all the strand.
And yet, an hour agone passed;
What wealth of wave was here!
With all Its creeks and channels full.
The bay lay broad and clear;
Its fresh, green isles seemed anchored deep,
Tapped to their grasses edge,
And deep-a blue seas secret-slept
The weed and wave-wOrn ledge.
o, ebbing tide, and naked shores;
Ho. G as .hsrp and true asVS the Ua type ye bring,
Ofmy souls gauge today!
And yet, but yesterday knew
Its farthest banks were brimmed,
And fair, green isles, In amber light
On its still depths were limned.
deemed drew, in thought and word,
From unguessed depths Of power;
And those dim depths flashed bright with gems
In that full flooded hour;
But ahi to-day the tide is out!
Behold these tangled weeds;
These bare, brown shores and weltcring poole
Reveal my spirits needs.
o, fair, bright Boy; thy wealth Of wave
Wells not from thine own springs,
Or leaps it in from mountain hights,
Fresh as the mornings wings;
And Thou, who mak'st Its ebb and flow,
The truth is too for thee;
The food which fills thy deepest decps
Flows from far of sea.
o, shoreless seal o, deep of love,
Thou tide of lite to mc,
Flow through the channels of my life
With fuller tide, and free!
Ebb thou no more from out my soul;
Leave no low, weltering shore;
But grant, through all my beings reach,
fiood-tide evermOre-
-Rer. W. W. Marsh.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15
A Cornered Legislator.

A gentleman who now occupies a
seat in the upper branch of the
New York Legislature, but at the
time was a member of the Assem-
bly,, relates the following:
"Perkins was as honest man as
ever set foot in Albany. Money
wouldn't buy him, and l knew it,
but I thought l would have a little
fun with him, so l went down to his
room ope evening and said, "Per-
kins, what do you think Of the un-
derground railroad bill? Are you
going to vote for it?"
"Well," said Perkins, l haven't
made up my mind yet. exactly. |
am inclined to think it is good
bill; but why do you ask"
81 thought you were In favor Oft" "
said I, "and as long as you have
concluded to vote for it, just want
ed to say to you that the men inter
ested in it are paying $500 for votes,
and as it is coming up on its final
passage tomorrow, you can just as
we'll have the money as not; you'll
vote for the bill, anyway"
"Vote fer the bill! "Pll be hanged
first" cried the irate Perkins. "No
sir. If improper means are being
taken to pass this thing, as you say,
l for one will vote against it every
time. You can put me down mo-
"Oh, don't care anything about
the bill," says l." 81 was only try
ing to do you favor, and think I
can yet, for to tell the truth the RI
val companies are here in full force,
and are moving heaven and earth to
defeat it. They are paying the same
amount for 'nocs,' and as long as you
are bound to vote that way, I'll get
you the $500 all the same"
"Can such things be-" exclaimed
Perkins, rising from his seat and
tearing up and down the room in a
whirlwind of righteous wrath and
virtuous indignation. "What a
state of things this is! A plague on
both of your houses! won't vote
at ALL"
Cali right" said l, as l laid my
hand on the door knob. "I'll get
you $500 for being absent"
= And as tho jolly senator brought
to mind the horror of perplexity in
which this last proposition involved
old Perkins, he roared with laugh
ter.-AIdamy IN. W Times.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15
JOHN STRAY.
A Real Hero Out Of q Book.

From the New York Post.
In a novel lately published enti-
tied "Mark Gildersleevc," the hero
an officer in the Union army during
the late war, is represented as per
forming an exploit which, although
seemingly fanciful and extravagent,
is nevertheless the recital of an
actual occurrence which took place
under other circumstances, and is
worth recording as an extraordinary
instance of cool courage and steadi-
ness of nerve in q situation of cx-
treme peril.
In the ficticious narrative, Cap
tain Mark Gildersleeve is made,
while in a vcnturesome mood, to
unspikc a cannon during the seige
of Richmond, directly in the face of
the encmy's sharpshooters. Now
the true hero Of this was not ga
curled darling in shoulderstraps,"
as Captain Mark is represented to
be, but the sturdy old John Stray,
private in the first volunteer
engineers, and the scene of action
was not in Virginia but in South
Carolina, on Morris Island, in July
1868, after the disastrous attack on
Fort Wagner, when the gallant
Shaw met his death at the head of
the 54th Massachusetts, (colored).
Baffied in that assault, General Gil
more lost no time in taking means
to reduce the fort by regular ap.
proaches, and in q few days after
the bloody assault, the first par
rallell was opened and a>breaching
battery placed in position. Unfor-
tunately during a night attack on
the Union works, the rebels sue
ceeded in driving the men from
their position and spiking the guns
in the battery. This was q sharp
check, as the rebel sharpshooters,
enconcing themselves in rifle pits
offectually stopping further prog
ress on the part Of the engineer
corps. One Of the spiked guns, a
2OO-pound Parrot, completely raked
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15

heart. With low groan of rage
the rushing horsemen quickened
their pace and dashed on, at wild
gallop, into the valley of death.
The secret Of Balaklava perished
with Nolan.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15

The postal card mandatory is
now turning out work in every way
satisfactory.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15
How Jones Died.

"You aciH marry her, eh?" said
Simon Saplcy.
"Why shouldn't II" said Mr..
Murray Jones. "She is young, and
pretty, and accomplished"
eyes," grunted Mr.. Sapley, "and
you are old and as plain and COM
monplace as a Jersey tarmer!"
Jones WINGED. He was not par
ticularly sensitive man, but who
among us likes to have an undilu-
ted dose of the actual truth forced
down his throat?
"And," went on the remorseless
Sapley, "you are forty-eight and she
is eighteen! All your friends think
you are crazy"
81 wish my friends would mind
their own business" cried Jones.
"All right! all right" cried Sap
ley, "but please remember that there
is no fool like an old fool"
What an obstinate creature is
man! In spite of all these delicate
and tenderly-expressed warnings,
Murray Jones persisted in marrying
pretty little hazle-eyed Esther Co.
yerdale, who was, as Mr.. Sapley just
remarked, young enough to be his
daughter.
Essie Coverdale was poor, and
had hitherto supported herself by
giving music lessons. Murray
Jones was rich.
"It's regular case Of sale and
barter!" said the indulgent world.
And after the first infatuation
had worn off a little, the iron began
to enter jones' own soul. Uncon-
sciously, he fell into way ofwatch-
ing his young wife; involuntarily,
he grew to distrust her.
"What are you writing, Essie,'
he asked one night, as he came sud
denly into her little boudoir-a
room where the curtains were blue
and silver, and the carpet of blue
moquette.
"Notes Of invitation, dear"
"What for.''
can evening party-just to return
the hospitalities that have been ten
dered to u.s.
"Stuff and nonsense!" cried Jones
irritably. "Isn't my society enough
for you, that you must needs fill the
house with empty headed fops and
smirking women"
Essie's eyelids dropped, her lips
quivered pcrceptibly.
81 will give up the party if you
say SO, Mr.. Jones'"
"Mr. Jones! you talk rs if you
were schoolgirl, and profess
or Of Latln!'
81 beg your pardon, Murray"
"That's bcttcr" growled he- 81
do say sol don't like parties-l
like peace and quiet -
Jones had gained the victory, bu,
he didn't feel quite satisfied, after
all.
Essie was the mcekest, gentlest
and most sacrificing of wives, but
Jones could not divest himself OF
the vague idea that she was trying
to out-maneuvre him the whole
time
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Business Cards
Attnrueys.

ID. 8. LEE,
A TTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public, and
n Justice of the Peace. Office, south side OF
Main St., over King & Kenyon's hardware store,
Independence. iilmake collections. pay taxes,
take Acknowledgements. buy and sell Real Estate,
~ ~ 49, i9.y11
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15

"Well," quoth Mr.. Simon Sapley
the next time he met his old friend,
get along?"
"Capitally," said Mr.. Jones
brusqueiy.
"Glad to hear it," said Sapley.
81 knew a fellow once that married
a mere child. She ran away with
a cousin before the honeymoon was
over. Mrs. Jones has no cousins,
has she?''
"No, she hain't," said Jones with
emphasis. ''How are the Ontario
and Hurons tonight? Stocks up at
all?"
"Ah-h-h" thought Mr.. Sapley,
with grin and a chuckle, che feels
it already / told him So"
And Jones stung by the green
eyed monster went home an hour
earlier than usual, lest perchance
Essie should be receiving young
gentlemen company.
But Essie was all alone in the
drawing-room, sewing and singing
to herself.
els it you, Murray?" she cried
joyously. "Oh, Pm SO glad! Now
we can have an early tea, and drive
up to the park"
"She expects to meet some one
there" thought the illogical hus-
band; and he said aloud: "You
women are always for going some.
where. Do let me have a quiet
evening for once"
81 didn't know you were so tired,
M, Murray" said Essie, .,, penitently.
mo, I'd rather be quiet"
'Or perhaps you would prefer
that | should read aloud, in"
"No, no; don't bother me!''
Essie desisted, but there were
tears in the soft hazel eyes.
"How have I offended him." she
thought.
While Jones asked himself in
wardly.
"Why was l such fool to mar
ry her! OF course she can never
love me. Sapley was right. l
ought to have taken his advice"
+ T. 4 - 4
"Upon my word, most extraor
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15
w. H. BARTON.

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Attorney at Law,
perform Marriage Ceremonies anywhere within
ten miles of town. Office over Edwards store,
corner Main and Walnut Streets, independence,
Iowa 30-y1.
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q. H. p. ROSZELL,

1GOSA1A11S11s
A TTORNEY AT LAW AND COLLECTING
n AGENT, will practice in the several Courts
OF the County and District SPECIAL ATTENTION
GIVEN TO CoLLRCTIONs. Office over King y Ken
yon's Hardware Store.
Independence, Iowa. Jan. 1, 1878, a6-tf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15
LANES NJ. WEART.

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public and
n Claim Agent Office in Wilcox's New Block
up stairs, independence, Iowa. 7-1y]
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15
g wOOnwARD.
II H0LnRInaE.

A TrORNEY AT LAW and General Land Agents
IN Independence, Iowa. Office in Wilcox BIN.
Particular attention paid to Collections, and Re-
mittances promptly made,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15

E. E. HASNER,
4 TTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW Inde-
N pendence, Iowa. Office in Wilcox New
Block over Tabors Drug Store.
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n. w RRuCKART
NJ a &I n nONNAN

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Independence, Iowa.
Consultations in Euglish and German. 19y1
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public and Land
N Agent Office in c. w. TaylOrs new build
ing, opposite the Post Office, Independence,
Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15

A TTORNEY AT LAW and Real Estate Agent.
store, Main St., Independence, Iowa. 33-tfl
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15
r.. w HART

Aw CONvEYANCING, WAR CLAIM, AND
- Land Agency Office. Office in First Nation
al Bank building, Independence, Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-15

"I'll never believe in the newspa-
pers again!' croakcd Mr.. Simon
Sapley; "nor in human nature! Jones
ought to have been killed. And that
pretty wife Of his ought to have
been glad of it! Things are all up
side down in the world, ! do be-
level"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-30
RIVALS IN C0URTsHIP.


The story is taken from q long ram.
bling letter to "Old Times" who lives
in Arkansas:
Twas living at Squire Jones'" BE
had q gal and she was pretty enough
to eat. To say l loved that gal wouldn''
be no description OF my awful feelings
but was awful bashful-I couldn''
tell her about it; and to make matters
worse, there was fsller coming to see
Sally; but he came once q week just az
regular as the cows come up, and he'd
buck right up to Sally and set up hall
the night.
I hated him, Of course, and nobody
couldn't blame me for it. / determined
to stop him or bust. fell on q plan
and told Sally's brother Of it; his name
was Ike; he was pleased, and be went
to work. They were scarce OF house
room, had q front and q back room,
which was used for a kitchen and
smoke-house.
Me aud Ike slept in this back room.
The floor was made OF puncheons, and
Immediately under our bed, and also
under the floor, was the big soap trough.
1t had about ten bushels OF soft soap IN
it Sally's beau was to be there that
night. / told her wanted to sleep
with her sweetheart that night She
said all right.
He came dressed mp in his best He
had one of those high collsred, lons,
ecissor-tailed coats, new copperas pants,
awful tight. high bee-gum hat, and q
square-yard red cotton handkerchief
around his neck.
He soon cornered Sally, and Inc and
Ike went to bed-but not 10 sleep. We
raised the floor over the soap trough,
:ook the boards off the bed, all only on
the ioreside, where / was to lie-just
enough behind to hold up q bed with
out q feller. Ike lay before the fire on
a pallet. / lay on my plank, holding
very still. Ibegsn to think they would
cit up all night; but finally, about one
o'clock, he came. in. | snored vio-
lently.
He hauled of his linen, and over he
crawled, and in be went, down into the
soap trough. OF all the snorting and
kicking you ever heard it was right
there. l began to yell at the top Of
my voice. Ike was making light,
and just as he got flaming pine knot
in full blast, the old folks came tearing
in in their night clothes-tbe old man
with his gun and the old woman with
the poker.
l had Sally's beau drawn out by this
time, and stretched out at full length
before the FIRE. The soap was halt an
inch thick all over him. Of all the
sights I ever saw he looked the most
terrible. A Ku-Klux wasn't nowhere.
Sally came with her dress in her hand,
and as she entered the door he broke.
The dogs all went after him out OF hear
ing-he don't come back any more.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-30
RIVER NEWS.

Memphis, January 29.-The river
has risen l3 inches. The weather i.
again cold. No damage has yet been
done to boats, except broken wheels.
LOUISVILLE. January 29-River fall
ing slowly; 8 feet in the canal, 6 feet
on the falls. Weather fair but very
cold. Navigation suspended by ice.
One ferryboat still runs at intervals.
The floating ice is IN large fields.
CINCINNATI, January l9.-River fall
ing, with 19 feet in the channel. The
weather is very cold and the river ia
full Of heavy ice. Navigation is totally
suspended. Several towboats are laid
up here for a clear river. Reports from
various points of the State say that this
is the coolest weather for ten years.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-30
BUFFALO,.
A Water Famtne-EDEiues OF the
Works Broken.

A Water Famtne-EDgines OF the
Works Broken.
BUFFALO, January 29.-The engines
of the water works are both broken
and the city is again experiencing. q
water famine. About S, 100000 gallons
in the main city reservoir have been shut
of, the Water Commissioners having
decided to keep it in reserve in case Of
FIRE. The interruption to business is
serious. All the steam manufacturing
houses depending upon the city for
water are closed. The locomotives OF
all the railroads are obliged to 60 out
side the city for water. The daily
papers experience great trouble in OBJ
taining sufficient water TO run their
presses. 1t is hoped that one OF the
engines of the works will be repaired
by tomorrow morning.
The Weather
since last evening has been very cold,
the mercury ranging to ten degrees be-
low zero.
To be Hang.
Sheriff Chorlsnd to-day resolved a
message from Governor Dix, declining
to interfere with the death sentence o.
John Gaffrey, sentenced to be hung on
Friday, February 7, and directing him
to inform Gaffrey to that effect. Every
effort was made to induce the.Gov'
ernor to commute the sentence by the
friends OF the prisoner, but this destroys
his last hopes.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-30
Steam on Louisville street Cars.


The Louisville Courier Journal re,
ports: The new steam street car made
frequent trips from Brook street to
Portland yesterday, and was a well
patronized institution, hundreds OF peo-
pie taking a ride just for the novelty Of
the thing. The car is pleasant, COM
Portable, and beyond doubt very safe.
The usual rate OF travel is about ak
miles per hour, but the engine can
easily be made 10 turn the wheels at
fifteen miles an hour. The machinery
is very easily manipulated, and the car
is even more perfectly under the control
Of the engineer than are the mules in
the hands OF driver. While running
at the rate OF fifteen miles per hour the
application of the brake and reversal OF
steam simultaneously will bring the car
to q standstill in the distance OF street
crossing. The engine requires a
practical engineer, and is non-explosive
in it's construction. 1t 10 noise
less and smokeless in it's work, and with
steam pipes running through the car,
keeping it at the requisite temperature,
the passengers can sit and ride as com-
fortably as though they were on first
class railway palace coach. The water
is carried in q tank underneath the rear
end of the car, and is conveyed into the
boiler by means of pipe, through
which it lis pumped by the machinery.
The fuel box, gauges and manipulating
machinery are all on the front platform,
half OF the boiler, which stands per-
pendicular, extending npon the plat
form, and the other half within the car,
but handsomely encased with beautiful
ornamental wood, 80 that the entire en-.
CINE and machinery is shut out from the
view Of the passengers. There is no
difficulty in turning the curves. as it
was at first supposed there would he,
and the propelling power seems TO be
equal to any tssk on level ground. AL
together, the steam car 10 very gen.
teel affair, q nice and comfortable vehi.
Gle to ride in, and bad on first acqusint.
ance, and retains through it's brief
trials, the appearance Of a successful
invention,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-30
BOSTON.
Vanderbilt Sill Grabbing.

BosroN, January 29.-Tbe opinion
prevails that the Scott or Vanderbilt
interest will get possession Of the Hoosac
tunnel route, unless the scheme Of con-
solidatiou proposed by Governor WASH
burue and the merchants Of Boston is
fully completed during the present sea-
sion Of the Legislature. An effort to
induce the State to purchase and man.
age the tunnel is the only preventative
m Measure left to prevent the New York
interest securing that route.
The defunct Boston insurance COM
panies promise to pay about twenty-five
Der cent next month.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-30
The Doctor on the witness stand.

II q medical man shows at great ad-
vantage in your home or in bis OVID,
there is one place in which he is too
often uncom Portable, and makes other
people uncomfortable as we'll. This is
the witness box. There is hardly any
great trial for murder but doctors and
counsel come into fierce collision; there
ia the conflict Of medical testimony,
and the common sense Of judge and
jury is frequently insulted. 1t would
be . golden rule for Q medical man
never to use scientific term il q popu-
lar term would serve his use Is we'll.
The medical man not only states facts,
but obtrudes bis explanations and theo-
ries about them, but does 90 in highly
technichal language. The legal mind
revolts against the assumption Of the
medical mind, and in this way much
prejudice 10 done 70 science. The law
yers are pretty unanimous in holding
that q medical man il the worst poesi-
ble witness. He cannot plead privi-
leee, like the lawyer or confessor, and
his best plan 10 TO tell his story ct once
in the most intelligibls and straight
forward way that be esn.-Peprlar
SsMss AsntkE. raz
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-30
ST. LOUIS.
Senatorial Nomination.

Senatorial Nomination.
ST. LOUIS, January 2O.-The GIoCe'
special from Topeka says Judge Ingalls,
Of Atchisou, bas been nominated for
Senator by caucus of the antl.Pome-
royites. The vote will be close.
The weather
ia the coolest ever known here. The
,pow that fell last week still obstructs
street car travel to q great extent, and
but one road in the city, the Fifth street
line, has run regularly.
Explosion.
The cooking range at Bousts res
taurant exploded this morning with q
terrific report. The range was blown
to pieces and some OF the bricks were
thrown thirty feet. The door OF the
kitchen WAS blown off and the room
generally shattered. Charles Kramer
the cook, who Was alone in the room
hal an arm and leg broken and was
otherwise severely injured. His recov'
ery is doubtful.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-30

sion he handed Ames a check fo,
$1,000. Ames took it and tore it up
and handed the pieces back to Kelly.
Ames was interrogsted at length on
this point and the fact then came out
that it was partially understood that
Kelly should draw the check and that
Ames should destroy it. 30 that Kelly
could cay be had returned the loan by
check. % - 90"
Ames said he did not know when his
memorandum book would be here, but
it could prove nothing except as to who
told the most lies. ......
Mr.. Niblack suggested that Ames
was az much interested in that question
as anyone else. 0r
The committee then adjourned until
tomorrow.
The Wilson Committee.
The Wilson Committee reassembled
as soon as the House adjourned. Mr..
H. G. Clark, the President OF the Union
Pacific railroad since March, 1872, was
examined with reference to the indebt-
edness, working Of the railroad. &c.
The witness was never connected with
the Credit Mobilier. The floating debt
OF the Union Pacific railroad was about
$1,000, 900, and was held mainly by the
present Directors IN various sums The
witness knew of a note OF $4,000, 900,
which was given by the company to the
Credit Mobilier, but as the condition Tor
which the note was given had been dis.
charged, he did not consider the note a
part OF the Indebtedness OF the road.
In answer to q number Of interroga-
tons the witness said that if the indi-
viLuals who now helped the road were
to withdraw their aid, and if the Gov
ernment should exact what it claims as
arrearages, the effect on the road would
be very disastrous.
The witness was examined at great
length as to contracts for the road,
whether it could have been built cheap
er, &c, but he only went over the facts
and figures that have already been
made public. He expressed the opinion
that Oakes Ames' contract was the
widest contract that was ever entered
into by a civilized man.
At six o'clock the committee ad.
journed till ten o'clock to morrow.