Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-04-25
State Items.


Homeopathic Society is called at Des
Moines, May 4th
1T is now announced that there are
1900 Oranges in Iowa with over $4,000
members, and still the work goes on.
DR.. c. A. White, Professor Of Gcolo-
gy in The Iowa State University, has
been rendered the chair of Natural Sci
cnces, in Bowdoin College, Maine.
Alexander Clark, the colorcd orator
of Muscatine, has been appointed T. s.
Consul at Aux Gays, Hayti His &C
ceptance is yet a doubt.
The table Of illiteracy IN the Ninth
Census shows that Iowa has less than
four per cent. Of her population over ten
years Of age who cannot write, and that
she has no pauper element outside Of her
cities.
An item is going the rounds to the
effect thae "a Montczuma man while emp
tying his corn crib killed ISL rats" but
docs not give the dimensions of the crib,
or state whether it contained any thing
else than rats.
Governor Carpenter has written a
letter to Gov Austin, of Minnesota, rea-
tive to the holding of Il convention to de-
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ment of the navigation of the Fox and
Wisconsin rivers
The Charles City MtelHgencer says:
III. C. Van Leuven, our new Mail Agent,
dropped in for few minutes talk
Thursday"
THAT e'er man should survive
And tell of it."
is another illustration of editoria. endur,
ance.
The McGregor Western railroad is to
be extended to Spencer, Clay County,
this season. The contract for grading is
let, and men and teams are appearing
along the line. The road will be finished
to Emmettsburg by July or August.
The striking machinery of the Du,
buque town clock proving too weak to
bring out the full tone of the big bell, it
is proposed to run the striking works by
water power; a pipe from the wafer
works being introduced to drive the ap.
paratus tor that parpose.
The Keokuk Presbytry of the Unit
ed Presbyterian Church has suspended
several of its communicates for joining
the Patrons of Husbandry, that being a
secret organization. The suspended mem
bers will appeal first to the synod of Iowa,
and failing in that, to the general Assem-
bly, of the church.
The DEBORAH Republican says: That
the packing house in that town has sold
all its pork, had it inspected by Mil
waukee inspector, and delivered to the
purchasers, Plankinton, Armour & Co.,
of Mil, and has the cash. The net re-
suit was handsome return for the CAPT
tai employed, labor spent, and risk in
Cured.
The City Council, of McGrcgor, has
had virtuous spasm, and resolved to
extirpate intemperance in that city by
the imposition of the heavy tax of $50
per annum upon saloons. An exchange
pertinently suggests that that council
should not be suffered to stray around
where there are COWS and sheep
The Elkader Journal says, that Ger.
tain mothers, in that town, whose minor
sons are in the habit of calling for beer,
at the saloons, arc about to file written
protests forbidding its sale to them
The Journal advises the boys not to call
for it, and thus save themselves the NOR.
LITIGATION of having such notice thrust
in their faces.
"A train on the Iowa Eastern marrow
lulll O0u laA Oll LuC GlaCh uCHl
Beulah station, Clayton county, Oh Fri
day last. Thc engine was completely
wrecked, the ngineer was injured, and
the fireman, Timothy Lyons, had leg
broken, and was SO badly bruised about
the head as to make his recovery improb
able.
Prof McCN,ty, Superintendent of the
State Reform School, writes to the editor
of the Des Moines Republican, that the
transfer Of the IA boys belonging to the
institution fror. Henry County, to Eldora
was accomplished without an escape, OF
attempt to escape, and that the boys ar.
highly pleased with the new location ant
are at work with good energy to render
the premises comfortable and pleasant.
Friday evening, the 18th inst, Au
ton Ribeusky, a Bohemian, while in
state Of intoxication, lay down upon tn
track of the Northwestern road half
mile east of Belle PLANE. Shortly afte
the Pacific Express came along, and de
spite the efforts of the engineer to sto]
the train or rouse the man from hi
drunken stupor by the whistle, passe
over him. leaving but mangled mass c
bloody flesh and broken bones.
The Cedar Falls Gazette says {
Riley, who killed child on the bridge q
that place, and flung it into the rive
HE has been very sullen and indepcl
dent until within few days past A
ter short consultation with Hon. II.
Allen he seemed to have clear perccl
ton of the enormity of his crime an
gave vent to his grief He has kept
sharp watch for chance to escape, bu
will probably be wiser and more Ia,
abiding before he breathes free air agai,
unless his father should turn up wit
$4,000 in his pocket book"