Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-04-18
State Items.

Hon. G. NJ. Woodbury., of Marshall
town, one of the pioneer citizens of Iowa,
and man of much energy and influence,
died in that city on Monday last.
Cedar Rapids packed 3G,2O4 hogs
during the past season, and stands third
among Iowa cities in this regard, only
Keokuk and Dcs Moines preceding her.
The buildings at Eldora, for the use
of the State Reform School, being ready
for occupancy, 119 boys, all the male in
mates of the institution at Salem Henry
County, have been removed to Eldora.
The material of the Steamboat Rock
Ne,cs office has been purchased by par
ties in Laporte City, who propose to
revive the Republican which suspended
soon after the election.
The Burlington Gazette hastens to
relieve the public mind, regarding the
sanitary condition of our state, by the
statement that there is not word of
truth in the report that Henry Clay Dean
proposes to leave Missouri, and return
to Iowa.
AT the late term of the District Court,
in Delaware County, two indictments,
one for embezlement and one for arson,
were found against A. j. Brown, late
Clerk of the County, based upon his al
legged attempt last fall to burn the coun-
ty buildings.
Iowa has five lady superintendent
of common schools Mrs. E. J. Beers, of
Grundy county; Miss Helen Wooster, of
Kossuth county; Miss Sarah Fulton, of
Monona county; Mrs. Della Stiles, of
Osceola county; Miss Carrie Bassett, Of
Woodbury. county.
--Hazen, who was arrested in Nebras-
ka, and brought back to Clinton County
on suspicion of being the murderer OF
Mrs Alger, has been discharged, the evil
dence clearly showing that he was not
the man. The Clinton Age declares that
the arrest was mere trick to divert sus
picion from the right direction.
The daily issue of the Iowa City Re
publican, after a career of a few months,
during which its proprietors succeeded
IN making good paper but did not sue
coed in making it pay expenses, mas at
last succumbed to fate, and gone the way
of other enterprises of the kind in in
terror towns.
The LeMars Sentinel makes mention
of a cellar in Johnson, Plymouth County,
dug three years ago, and since that time
has remained dry. A short time ago,
however, q living stream of water burst
through the bottom Of the cellar, filling
it full, and now a considerable stream is
created by the overflow.
The Wapello Republican caustcally
remarks: "The grand jury Of Polk coun-
ty failed to find an indictment against
Rankin for his msbehavior with the pub
lie money, and so he is to escape entirely.
Had he been poor devil and stolen
suit Of clothes, he would have gono to
the pcnitentiary sure"
An enthusiastic reformer, at Usage,
is circulating petition asking the coun-
Gil to prohibit merchants from selling
corsets to the ladies. He pleads the gen
cral argument. that corsets are destruct-
Two of the health of the wcarers. 1t is
said that the proposition is receiving
much favor, and that the city fathers will
seriously entertain it.
"A deluded Iowan, who was conf
denced into removing 10 balmy Kansas,
writes to the Washington Press from
Emporia, March 25th, that it. is cold
enough there to freeze the hub off the
North Pole. He says: To-day the Their
mometer stands below zero; it SHOWS like
the "devil," and the trains are snow
bound between this point and Topeka
Don't believe all nice stories about sun
ny Kansas
The Dubuque Times tells of q model
daughter in that city, Il German girl of
II who, from her wages of $l2 ermonth,
as hired help, in seven months has sent
$40 to her widowed father in Kossuth
County, to assist in bringing up her SIX
brothers and sisters. The Times with
reason, surmiscs that the majority OF
girls, in her situation would have eX-
nendcd their money in trying to rival