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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-18
DR.. A. TRASK'S
MAGNETIC OINTMENT
FOR THE CURE OF
INTLAMMAToRY DISEASES,

DR.. Trask was engaged for twenty years In
Q course Of experiments upon the medical prop
critics and power Of vegetables. separate and
ceeded in presenting to the world, as the result
of his experiments, combination Of Vegetable
extracts, the power Of which in removing dis
cases is unequaled in the annals Of Medicine.
His discovery consists In . combina-
ton Of these powerful Vegetable Extracts with
Electricity or Magnetism In the form Of IN ONT
ment
unprecedented success which has attended its
application in the euro of diseases, stamps It 1t
once as the greatest discovery of the age, and
calls for trial and close investigation Of its
Nc never fails, while there remains suf-
fcient life to restore natural and healthy &C.
ton to the capillary vessels Of the body, and
equalize the circulation OF the blood. By this
means controlling power Is gained over the
most malignant forms OF disease, which cannot
be obtained from any other remedy.
such r. tho power Of this combine:
the human frame; every bone and muscle, vein,
nerve and ligament is searched out and made
sensible OF its purifying and healing inauencc.
ternal disease.
Numeroua instances are on record
where this remedy has restored health to pa
internal remedies s JAILED to produce any eject
Such ha: frequently been tho case In lnaamma-
ton Of the Bowels.
No patient ever need die with this
For Innammatory Rheunatisua
this Ointment Is the most complete remedy ever
prepared For Diphtheria or Putrid Sore Throat
In ninoty.ulne cases oat or q
hundred, it will afford entire relief to the worst
Of Nervous Headache in thirty ~. minute:
Aaecsians OF inc splne. RhsumaS.n.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-18

An important concession, how
ever, in this tariff, is the following
relative to general merchandise.
"General merchandise, when
shipped in quantities Of full car
loads (of not less than 10000
pounds) from the same station, ut
the same time, to the same con-
signee at the same station, will be
hauled at the following reduction
from the table rates: Twenty per
cent on First, Second and Third
classes; and thirty per cent. on
Fourth class"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-18

Arizona dates of July 7 report
that orders have been received for
the abandonment of Camp Stualip.
Troops will be employed in con-
structing the telegraph at Phoenix.
On the 4th inst. Mexican by the
name of Mariana Tisnada was ar
rested and taken before a justice Of
the peace and remandcd to Jail
The excited crowd took Tisnada
out of Jail and hung him. He was
implicated in the Griffin murder.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-18
The Keosauqua Republican says

The Keosauqua Republican says
of the nameless opposition to the
Republican party:
The more that is known of the
new party movement, the more ap.
parent it is that its inspiration
comes from the Democracy.
Whether it is called a "people's''
party, or an "anti-monopoly" party,
it will in the main he composed of
the same material that have for the
past twelve years stood opposed to
tho party Of freedom and equal
rights for all, and be manipulated
by the master spirits who have mar
shaled the Democracy under so
many names and on SO many disas-
trous fields.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-18

Young Walworth has been "set
up in business" at S. s., clerk
ing.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-18
NORTH MISSOURI
MS CO.,
Made to the Insurance Dept
JAN'i /, 1911.

The following table shows the progress
of the Company since tho year 1867, nnd
exhibits the mOst remarkable ana steady
increase of my Company in the United
states during the same period Of time;
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-18

It will thus be seen that there has
been no increase upon Sd and 4th
classes of freights, but a very mate
rial increase upon 1st and I'd
classes-ten cents per hundred
pounds.
The difference in the freight on
the Iowa division of the Illinois
Central, will be seen from the sub
Joined table:
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-18
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

For Governor,
c. c. CARPENTER,
OF Webster County.
For Lieut.. Governor,
JOSEPH DYSART,
OF Tama County.
For Judge Of Supreme Court,
j. NJ. BECK,
OF Lee County.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction,
ALONZO ABERNETHY,
OF Crawford County
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-18
New Freight Tariff.

From the Dubuque Times.
The new freight tariff of the H.
linois Central Railroad differs some.
what from former statements of its
figures. 1t is as follows from Chi
cago to Dubuque.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-18

Policies issued in this sterling Company by
@. d. JON HIS,
AGENT At
INDEPENDENCE. IOWA.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-07-18

A COOL place is refreshing.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23
Ant Instinct.

The philosopher Bacon, discoursing on
the equalisies and nature of instinct, defi-
antly asks of the doubter, 'Wh0 taught
the parrot his 'welcomer who taught the
raven in drought to throw pebbles into
hollow tree where she espied water,
that it might rise so she might come to
it? Who taught the ant to bite every
grain of corn that she burieth IN the hill,
lest it should take root and grow? 2"
With the question of authorship we have
nothing to do, but it is with satisfaction
that we have lately read that which gives
additional proof ofone of the facts here al
luded to. Mr.. Moggridge, in pursuing
his investigations into the habits OF In
sects, gives an interesting account of a
species of ants which he had observed
carving into their nests, during the win
ter months, certain late fruiting plants.
Outside the channels there was generally
a heap of the husks of the various seeds,
and sometimes one of those heaps would
I'LL a uuart-measure. These shusks had
had their farinceous contents extracted
through hole on one side. Having pur-
posely strewn near these nests quantities
Of millet and hemp seeds, they were rap
idly removed to the burrows and depos-
| tied in the spherical chambers which
served as stoi ehuuses. After q lapse Of q
| fortnight, however, he discovered that
many of these seeds had been brought
out again, they having evidently com.
menced TO germinats, and he then noticed
| that this return was made in order that
the radicle might be gnawed OH from each
seed; this being effected; they were car
/ ried hack again,
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23
Information About Noah's Ark.

A writer In the Nautical Gosetfe dis
cusse, the subject of the Ark, taking both
the Bible account and that recently dis
covered in Assyria for basis. He says
that, reckoning the cubit at eighteen
inches, the ark was 400 feet long, 20 feet
wide, and 40 feet deep, and wonld register
about Is, 900 tons if measured as sailing
ship, or about IL, 900 tons If measured as a
steamer by British rules. 1t was thus
smaller than the Great Eastern. 1t had
three decks, and was divided into nuner-
GUS compartments by longitudinal and
transverse bulkheads for the safety and
order of Its occupants. 1t was built OF
gopher wood, species of evergreen tim
Der resembling the pine In length and
strength of trunk and the white cedar in
! lightness. In model, says the writer, IL
was all that great carrier could be, chest
| like, with the lines straight and angles
square, but the bottom and top were elip-
tic in outline, presenting convexity TO the
earth and sky. After giving the dimen'
sions and the mode of construction OF the
several parts, this authority tells us, as u
he wsre equally certain on this point, thai
the ark "is now in good state OF pres
ervation, but lying under an eternal man
tie of snow. hundreds of feet deep, at Al
altitude of IL 800 feet above the level o
the sea. Ever since the flood dried up tn
; climate of Armenia has been colder, ant
!, snow always covers the top Of Ararat, ren
, dering it impossible for any Of Noah 8 dc
scendants to go up and find the ark"
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23
Dough.balls on 'Change.

Did the reader ever notice in the Pro-
duce Exchange of New York, or the Corn
Exchange of any city in the Union, a set
of men who look as If they ought to be
better employed, engaged in the appa-
rently trifing occupation of making
dough-balls? 1t is serious business,
though. They do it to test the quality of
flour. The first operation in testing flour
is to take small handful in the palm and
run smoother through it. This is a
pretty little silver-plated instrument, such
as a shoemaker gives his customer to help
a tight shoe on. That shows the grain
and the fineness of the particles. 1t is a
good time, too, for preliminary test OF
color, or comparison of samples. 1t fire.
quently occurs that poorer flour looks
best in color in comparison with another
and better when dry, but experts know
very nearly the difference. To make the
test sure, however, the buyer takes sill
ver-plated coffee-pot and from it pours
water into the flour that rests in his hand.
Then he talks business with his neigh.
Dor as he works his flour into dough. II
there Is any taint of unsoundness in the
flour it is more easily detected after the
| incorporation with water. If it has
smutty smell, or if the grain Is damaged
before grinding, or if the flour is turned
from exposure, age, damp place OF stor
age. or from any other cause, the dough
| ing process will show it. Flour may bt
kept without souring two or three years
| but the removal of a lot from the place o
| storage has been known to sour it, or Civ
it a peculiar smell by simple displacement
of the particles.-Nesc York Journal o
| Commerce.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23
A City Of Decay.

M. de Beauvoir, French traveller to
whom we owe the best and most pictur-
esque description of Peking yet given TO
the Western world, says that city is but
+" an epitome of decay" "Thebes, Mem
phis, Carthage, Rome, are ruins which
tell of violent vicissitudes; Peking is 4
skeleton dropping into dust. The ravine,
like streets are knee-deep in every kind
of rubbish the moats, the canals, and
the rivers are all and always dry; the
parks, the once marvellous ponds, are
turned to desert places. rriumphal
arches stand side by side with wretched
tumbled-down booths, surmounted by 8
forest of little poles, whence paper
signs dangle in the air, and uniformity
is lent to all by the thick layer Of ever
smelling dust which lies upon them, the
same dust that is always whirline
ound, hurting the eyes and offending
tne nostrils." This great city, in which
nothing is repaired, and where 1t is pena
to pull down anything,i is slowly dropping
to pieces; and it Ia the opinion Of M. d.
Beauvoir that before century has passet
it will have been abandoned and ceaset
to exist.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23
A Novel Lottery.

The directors of the Dublin Qreland)
Railway Company have become suspi.
cious of their conductors, and have been
trying to circumvent them. At first each
conductor was given strip of tickets,
and he was to give one ticket to each pas
senger, who was then to tear it up. The
conductors receipts were to correspond
with his ticket strips. But people hated
the company worse than the conductor,
and would not tear up the tickets; the
conductor would use them over again.
and thus his income was kept up. But
now the remedy is reached. Every
ticket is numbered, but the number is
printed on it; and at the end of each
month the company has grand lottery
with three hundred prizes, ranging from
ten pounds to one shilling. Each ticket
has chance in the drawing. Nobody
throws away his ticket now every pas
senger is too busy looking after his own
interests. Persons of nobility travel in
cognate in the cars for the sake of q
chance in the lottery, and the affairs OF
the company are unprecedeHtedly prosper
GUS. The plan is soon to be initiated in
England.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23

How pretty his sister looked in her blue
silk. Classy was an uncOmmOnly elegant
woman he wondered he had never no
ticed it before. What an excellent fellow
was his brother-in-law what charming
old lady was Mrs. Hassan the elder.
What a delightful, well-ordered, home
like place was tire house! Where had his
wits been that hitherto all these things
had never seemed to claim from him MOI e
than a listless, halfweary interest? he
had not talked so much before in years,
and he made a good supper, and then fed
bits off his fork to the cat, which she,
much condescending, took dainty.
He felt like man who has dreamed of
wandering long, heavily burdened,
through waste places, and who wakes to
find himself safe in the familiar room, with
the visionary load left behind In the land
of visions.
Before he went way, he had promised
to think about an oft-repeated proposal
to make his home with his brother-in-law.
He thought to such good purpose, that
before the week had come to an end he
was established under has sisters roof,
to that lady's great contentment.
He saw Mrs. Armer two or three times
before she ended her visit; indeed, she
came to him to consult him about law
suit in which she was engaged with her
husbands relatives, hut Mr.. Devine in
formed her that the matter was out of his
line of practice. Once and again he en-
countered his old love, but with no more
dangerous emotions than ever-increasing
disgust. The once sweet, unconventional
artlessness was vulgarity; the grace, af.
fectation; the silvery laugh, sounding
brass.
| With delight, he felt himself free man
and he threw himself into his profession
with renewed ardor, and each new day
seemed revelation of life.
Mrs. Armer did not prolong her visit
and in a few days fitted away, to the un
disguised relief of Mrs. Vale.
AS for Mr.. Devine's long-cherished love
the angel of resurrection might hav'
called tor it in vain. The craven image
after reigning for years in temple mean
for holier worship, crumbled into dus
at the first sunbeam of reality that shon,
into the shrine.-AIdine for August.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23
Venice BY Night.

We stopped at an hotel at the Grand Ca
nal, opposite the Church Santa Maria della
Salute, where we purposed remaining,
very near the square OF st. Mark. AT
this point the breadth of the canal is that
of an arm of the sea. Its waters are as
clear as the sun-illumined daylight, and
the phosphorescence left by the oars and
keel leave around broad, white, ribbon
like bands Of moonlight. On coming out
Of the narrow, canals into that broad ex-
panse, many gondolas were being directed
toward the Rialto, lighted by Venetian
lanterns, to be compared only to garlands
Of luminous flowers. This magical illumi-
nation showed wildly In the 0bscurity of
the night, and was repeated in the trans
parency of the waters. From the Condo
las came a solemn and most harmonious
choir, accompanied by excellent instru-
mental music-a mysterious melody, in
creased and softened by the sound-con-
Quoting properties of the air and Of the
lsgunes. After havingmade that strange
journey after having threaded that
strange series of winding canals, in which
Venice seemed one of those mystic towns
painted by the artists ofthe middle ages on
the walls of cemeteries, to represent In
ferno seeing myself in the Grand Canal,
|
rising from the limpid waters under the
transparent heavens, Showing the white
marble churches. illumired by the star
light. and looking like mountains OF snow !;
beholding the gondolas rapidly gliding
along, floating festival consecrated to
art; drinking in that music. that delicious
harmony in the waves Of the wind and of
the lagune, believed myself in ancient
Venice-in her who broughtto her shores
the riches and the colors Of the East, in
her who listened to the serenades OF
Leonardo di Vinci, In her who lent the
shades of the rainbow to the palette OF
Titan, in her who loved laughter and
merriment, in her who put the empire Of
! Constantine at her feet like slave, and,
as companion at ter side, Greece, the
land of poets. But the serenade dice
away in the distance, the lights were lost
in the windings Of the canal, the lagunt
sunk again into profound silence, and tho
turrets of the neighboring churches rune
out the hour of nightfall with elegiat
melancholy. Emilio CASTELAR,, IN Apple
tons Journal.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23
AnecdOte Of Joseph BOnaparte.

A correspondent of the New York
Times, writing from Northern New York,
gives some interesting incidents connected
with Joseph Bonaparte's residence In
America. He owned laSge tract Of ter
ritory on the borders of the wilderness,
whittier he used to repair during the sum-
mers between 1920 and 1880 for sport, and
the people in that vicinity still entertain
visitors with "reminiscences of his hunting
excursions. Here Is an anecd0te which
the correspondent vouches for as authen-
tic: On one of his journeys from tide
water to his northern retreat, the Count
(the ex-king was known as the Count. de
Surviliers) ard his retinue stopped for
breakfast at a wayside inn on the Mohawk,
kept by thrifty DutchmaH. The land
lord knew who mis- guests were, and De-
stirred himself to furnish good entertain
ment. The meal over, as the party was
about to proceed, the Counts secretary
brought him the report that the extrava-
CANT charge of one hundred and twenty
| five dollars was made. The items were
demanded, and, after putting down 9
round price for everything provided both
| for men and horses, the items footed only
fifty dellars. The Dutchman was iT
quandary. Like some other and latel
landlords, he intended to graduate hi
charges by the abilities of his guest Il
pay; and, knowing that the guest coult
pay, he was not the host to abate anything
While he puzzled over the bill, the Coun
again called impatiently from his carriag
for the items. The landlord desperatel,
scored down few words, and sent tn
bill back by the secretary. The Coun
glanced at it, and found that under tn
charges, amounting to fifty dollars, tn
following had been added, "a dam fuss
seventy-five dollars.'' His sides shoe
with laughter as he read it; and ne sal
to his secretary. In French, "The fello'
des rves that. and more, for his wit an
impudence. Give him five hundred do
lars"
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23
Miscellaneous Selections.
IN AN APPLE-ORCHARD.

On apples, on the apple-tree,
How fair you looki how thick you bel
Some red, some yellow, and some gray.
You ripen slowly day by day,
The sun has touched you, and the rain,
The calm, and then the hurricane,
The drouth has dried you, and the dew
Has drenched; and still you grew and grew
Oh. apples on the orchard-tree,
Speak TO this heart, its teachers bel
Where'er find settled place.
There | should grow with patient face,
Let bud yield room to blossom suit,
And that in turn to forming fruit.
Below the surface of the mind
A secret sweetening would find.
And in the hearts deep core enwrougth
The mystic seeds of strong love-thought.
And by my neighbors would stand,
And touch them with gentle hand
And would not thave.over-care
II be high; or low, or where;
But desire as time shall pass,
A gatherer coming through the grass,
With keen, quick eye and ready touch
10 pick all fruit, ere ripe too much;
With a broad basket on his arm
To save NE from old Winters harm;
Then at the last, in garner stored,
An Offering to the orchard Lord
-Chdmbers's Journal
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23

A COLORADO correspondent writes ::
.Our butcher is graduate of Yale one
of the gentlemen working in the printing
Office is graduate of Cambridge and q
winner of the Bishops medal for prof.
cheney in the classics; ranchman near
here Is the son of General in the British
army, and near relative of George Ste
phenson of railroad fame. -Four other
ranchmen are the four sons of former
Governor of Bengal, WHO is still very
wealthy. Two are the SONS of an eminent
London banker. A graduate. OF one o.
the universities manages dairy. and at
tends to most of the milking personally
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23

AN ingenious Yankee has bent the
scratching power of hens to rhe aid OF
agriculture. He places hen with chick.
ems in a long narrow cage, just wide
enough to fit in between two rows Of po-
tatoes, wherein she scratches to her
hearts content. The cage is moved along
the potatoes nicely hoed, and all the bugs
eaten,
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23

The Boston Transcript AYERS that the
man is yet TO be born who can furnish
local item for a paper and be perfectly
snre nobody will take offense at 1t. 1t is
an even chance If he can do 1t when he Is
born, at least for few days. Indeed, his
being born at all furnishes a local item,
which will probably put somebody nose
out Of joint. Let him remain unborn.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23

THE latest case Of undertaking impu-
dence is told of pair of robins who
built their nest and were raising their
Young under the hat of an elaborate scare
crow, set up by farmer Of Connecticut
in his strawberry patch,
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-04-02
Agricultural PIekIngs.

Ki18r gains in weight about Oos-siKth
10 passing into bread Meat Of all kiOd'
loose both By weight aud substance in
cooking. Egg, come tack toyOu with full
weight whether boiled or fried.
The ffst business OF the farmer should
be 10 secure ways and means to preserve
fully al the excreia frcm his cattle. both
liquid aud solid.
From 5 600, 900 to 100000 sheep
are boiled down annually for their iallow
10 BuenOs Ayres.
A farm in HsddingiOHsbire. SeOilsnd,
uas recently rented for SIS per acre. per
aauum bssid,s tth ishe icnnant was bound
to e1peud $1,000 On the buildlugs with
out repayment at the end Of the lease.
watch vas for eleven years.
The Canada way OF measuring a tree is
said to be as certain Is il Is grOtesque
You walk from the tree, looking at it
from time to time between your knees.
When you art able to zee the top in this
way. your distance from the foot Vi the
tire equals its hight.
WOODEN Rag Manure was used by a
Freedman in CSmpIno, when planting
cut his fruit trees on poor land, each tree
receiving 30 10 "a pounds Of it at the time
of planting. TINS manure is very rich in
az t. aad is said TO have produced Won
degiul results.
Lime for Apple Trees, scattered in a
pow cred state over the soil late in the
Fal! or early in the Spring. at the rate Of
one teck per square rod, Is said, by a
writer in the HcSiern RNrdL, 10 lie most
bene6c al
A Connecticut farmer having MI elcpha, {
~ his hands in the shape Of 200 bushels
CT applcs. for which there was no market,
''>etlicd the matter 10y feeding them 10
hi, cows--at the rate Of one bushcl each
per Gay-uiih very satisfactory results,
securing largely increased flow of milk. "