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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06
Keeping His Promise.

The Delaware Railroad runs right
through Peabody's farm, just below
our village, and close to the track
there is a kind Of mud-hole. Into
this one of Peabody's horses fell, the
other day, and defied every effort that
could be made to get him out. While
Peabody was working at the job, =
freight train ran in upon the siding
and stopped to shift some empty cars.
The engineer noticed Peabody's trou-
BILE, and finally offered to pull the
horse out with his locomotive If Pea
body would give him Ave dollars.-
Peabody gladly consented, and the
engineer got down for the purpose OF
fastening rope under the horses
belly. Just as he completed the job,
the fireman, a grsenhorn, got med
ding with the start-bar, and the en-
gine suddenly gave . jerk and began
to move of. In less than q minute
the iron steed was proceeding down
the Delaware peninsula at the rate OF
mile minute, with Peabody's
horse behind, slashing up against
fences, swishing through bitches, but
ting against cross-ties, dancing and
and frolicking and jumping about in
the most extraordinary Manner
When the engine was stopped, TWEEN.
ty-three miles below, by leaping the
track and rolling over into \ gully,
there was nothing on the rope but
four ribs and piece of the backbone,
and these Peabody concluded not to
drive home. Tho engineer says all
he promised to do Was to got the
horse out, and he got it out. But
Peabody, somehow, don't appear to
be satisfied
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06
Unstamped Checks.

The Chicago Times says that In
ternal revenue officers are now at
work in different parts of the West
searching the drawers of the
banks for unstamped checks. We
have heard of their operations from
Pittsburg. St. Louis, points in Iowa,
and elsewhere. According to the
law, banks are liable to the amount
of $50 for each unstamped check
they receive, and this penalty has
been enforced in several instances.
As we stated some time ago, people
have become very careless about
stamping their checks. Since they
are legally liable to . $50 fine for
every unstamped check in their pos
session, and inasmuch asit is the duty
of the drawer Of check to stamp it,
the customers Of the banks have no
cause to complain if the rule Of not
receiving checks unless they arc
stamped is rigidly enforced, as it eer-
tainly will be. While awaiting the
arrival of the Government detectives,
the bank officers Of the city would
do we'll to look over their checks.
and supply any missing stamps. The
Cashier of the banks are already in
structed to take in no unstamped
hecks, and the attention Of the
Clearinghouse will probably be
oal1ad to tho tropcfor of upsto-poJ
checks between its members.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06
ROUGH RIDERS.
The Recent Audacious Stage Rob
berry Near Paris, Texas.
Correspondence of the st. Lonis Globe.

Correspondence of the st. Lonis Globe.
PARIS, TEXAS, Oct. s, 1874.
On arriving at Brookston last night
there were ten passengers for Paris.
Texas, five of whom took the stage,
and three got into hack that was
in waiting with the stage. was
one that took the hack. When we
had proceeded about four miles,
and were within four miles of Paris
we were attacked by three high
waymen, who came up behind the
hack and stormed out with bitter
oaths, "Hold up there; hold up, AT
first, when we heard the sound Of
their horses feet, we thought it was
the team of the stage running away,
as it was behind us. As soon as
the robbers got in front they began
with sharp curses to demand if Nor
ris was in the hack, stating that he
had killed man, etc. l thought
from this that it was sheriff and
posse in pursuit of a murderer, and
felt no sort of uneasiness, as l knew
was an innocent man. On looking
out, three men with vizors on, or
white handkerchiets tied over their
faces, just below the eyes, presented
what seemed to me navy six-shooters
in our very faces, and ordered us to
hold up our hands, which we did
without hesitancy, as there was not
weapon in the hack; and, had there
been dozen, we were in no fix to
use them. They first searched us
for pistols and knives, but finding
none, they renewed the search, in
quiring for money, gold watches,
diamonds, etc. After taking fifty
dollars and a gold watch from Nr.
Sebanian, young Paris merchant,
they next paid their respects to me,
by requesting me to unburden my
self Of valuables. l told them l was
an Indian missionary, and was not
weighted with such things, that l
had seventeen dollars in money and
silver watch, to which they were
welcome. The foreman of the party
then held light up to my face and
eyed me closely; after which he re-
marked, "We do not rob ministers of
the gospel, for if any men in the
world acquire a support honestly
they are gospel ministers. We are
gentlemen, and do not rob preachers
nor such as make an honest living"
etc. Then they took fifty dollars
from Mr.. Mason, Of Paris, the only
remaining hack passenger.
suppose the whole transaction Of
robbing the hackman occupied nearly
half an hours time for they were
very deliberate and careful and were
by no means novices in their profess
sion, All the time they kept con-
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06
WHOLE NO. 487

stantly talking and jesting. When
any Of the passengers swore, they
reproved them as Chinese heathens
for swearing in the presence Of a
preacher!
The foreman was particular in
searching for derringers, for, said he;
was once killed by derringer"
He also said that "Morris, who killed
Reid, was a highwayman that had
been assisting them for the last six
years, that he had killed his partner
for the reward, and that they would
some day wear his id scalp un-
der their belts" Looking at me
steadily, he said: eve have acted
the gentleman with you, and now
if you publish an account of this pub
lish nothing but the truth" (which I
am now -doing) "for the press ac.
counts of us abound in d--d lies.
1t was reported that the Marshals
whipped us after we robbed the Hot
Springs stage, which was lie, for
we whipped them"
They never robbed the driver, for
he, said they, makes an honest living.
They bade him stand until they rob
bed the stage passengers, as the stage
was just then coming up. About the
same operations were gone through
with them as with us, save there
were two lady passengers whom
they, according to their previous as
surance, never molested.
have not ascertained the amount
they got from the stage, only I know
it was far more than they received
from the hack. They were SO polite
towards me, that perhaps I should
say no more. Really, Ididnot know
but they would request me to pray
tor them; and if I had only had my
wits about me, should have asked
them for a contribution for Indian
missions, as our cause is suffering i'm
mensely for lack of funds just at this
time, and am sure they have more
greenbacks on hand than they can
use witt. convenience. They doubt
less, appreciated my lack of wit at
the time, as l never before had q
shooting iron presented at my heart
and vitals. Should they see this,
and l know they read the papers,
they will favor me greatly las one
good turn deserves another) by for
warding per mail to my address, a
hundred or more dollars for the
cause of Indian evangelixation. 1
am satisfied that the man who headed
this party is the same one who took
the lead in relieving one of my neigh
bors, Wat Grayson, of sSl, 900 gold,
and, if so, he certainly owes some
thing to Indian reform.
H. F. BUcKSER,
OF Eufaula, Greek Nation.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06
The Drink Of the Brewery Of God.

On a certain occasion, one Paul
Denton, a Methodist preacher in Tex
as, advertised barbecue, with better
liquor than is usually furnished.
When the people assembled a desper-
ado in the crowd cried out, "Mr.
Paul Denton, your reverence has lied.
You promised not only good bar
becue, but better liquor. Where isit
''There!" answered the missionary,
in tones of thunder, and pointing his
long, bony finger at the matchless
double spring, gushing up in two
strong columns with sound like a
shout of joy from the bosom of the
earth. "Theren' he repeated, with a
look terrible as lightning, while his
enemy actually trembled at his feet;
"there is the liquor which God the
Eternal brews for all his children.
Not in the simmering still, over
smoky fires, choked with poisonous
gases, and surrounded with the
stencil of sickening odors and corrup-
ton, doth your Father in heaven pre-
pare the precious essence of life
pure cold water. But in the glade
and grassy dell, where the deer wan
ders and the child loves to play, there
God brews it: and down, away down
in the deepest valleys, where the
fountain murmurs and the rills sing;
and high up on the mountain tops,
where the naked granite glitters like
goldin the sun, where the storm-clouds
brood and the thunder-storms crash;
and out on the wild, wild sea, where
the hurricane howls music, and the
big waves roar in chorus, sweeping
the march of God-there He brews it
the beverage of life, health-giving
water. And everywhere it is a thing
of beauty, cleaning in the dew-drop,
singing in the summer rain, shining
in the ice gem, till they seem turned
to living jewels; spreading golden
veil over the setting sun, or a white
gauze around the midnight moon;
sporting with the cataract; sleeping
in the glacier; dancing in the hail
shower; folding its bright curtains
softly around the wintry world, and
weaving the many-colored iris, the
seraph's zone of the air, whose wrap
is in the rain-drops of the earth, and
whose wool is in the sunbeams of
heaven, all checkered over with the
celestial flowers of the mystic hand
of refraction-that blessed life-water
No poison bubbles on its brink; its
foam brings not madness and murder;
no blood stains its liquid glass; pale
widows and starving children weep
not burning tears in its depths! Speak
out, my friends, would you exchange
it for the demons drink, alcohol?"
A shout like the roar of the tenn
pest answered 'No."
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06
AUTUMN DAYS.
From Mr., Whittier's New Volume OF Poems.

From Mr.. Whittier's New Volume OF Poems
The summer warmth has left the sky,
The summer songs have died away;
And, withered in the foOtpaths lie
The fallen leaves-but yesterday
With ruby and with topaz gay.
The grass is browning on the hills;
No pale, belated flowers recall
The astral fringes of the rills,
And drearily the dead vines fall,
Frost st-blackened, from the roadside wall.
Yet, through the gray and sombre wood,
Against the Sdusk of fir and pine,
Last of their floral sisterhO0d,
The hazel's yellow blossoms shine
The tawny gold of Afrie's mine.
Small beauty hath my unsung flower,
For Spring to own or Summer hail;
Put in the seasons saddest hour,
To skies that weep and winds that wall,
Its glad surprisals never fail.
o, days grown cold! o, life grown old!
No rose of June may bloom again;
But like the hazels twisted gold;
Through early frosts and latter rain,
Shall hints of summer time remain.
And as within the hazel's bOugh
A gift Of mystic virtue dwells,
That points to golden ores below,
And in dry, desert places tells
Where flow unseen the cool, sweet wells.
SO, in the wise OWNERS hand
Be mine the hazel's grateful part
To feel, beneath thirsty land,
The living waters thrill and start.
The beating of the rivulet's heart
Sufiiceth me the gift to light
With latest bloom the dark, cold days;
To call some hidden spring to sight,
That in these dry and dusty ways
Shall sing its pleasant song of praise.
o love! the hazel wand may fail;
But thou canst lend a surer spell,
That, passing over Barca's vale,
Repeats the old time miracle,
And makes the desert lend a well.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06
Reliable Correspondeacs.

The New York Tribune has sent
a Mr.. White, one Of its regular cor
respondents, to Alabama to investi-
gate the truth of the accounts Of
murders and other outrages for polit-
ical opinion. He writes back to tho
Tribune that he cannot find out any
thing personally as to the condition
of the disturbed districts, although
there is good evidence that the United
States Marshal gave him detailed
statement, and showed him written
evidence of the numerous murders
and other outrages recently COM
mitted in Summer county and other
parts of the State. The value of the
reports gotten up by such a CORES
pendent can be Judged of by this
item.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06

II old Gabriel should 60 through
Iowa now giving concerts on his b.
flat, there is one man who he would
have some difficulty in rousing up
It's Ex-Governor William Stone
He ydead.-Bur!;ngton HdsA-
eye.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06
Rhusifians.
nr. IT II HINT.
HOnSE ~ WILSON
7. A. WHITE.

physician AND SURGEON. Office over
i c. w. Taylor's Hardware Store DR.. will be
found at his office at night. All calls from town
and country promptly answered, day or night.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06
LANES M. WEART.

Aw CONvEYANCING. WAR CLAIM AND
Ii Land Agency Office Office in First National
Bank building, Independence, Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06
D. w. BRUCKART,

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Independence, Iowa
n ONCE over Morse & Barnetts Store. Con
sultations in English and German. l19y
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06

TTORNEY AT LAW AND REAL ESTATE
n Agent. Office over Turner's Millinery Store,
one door east Of Post Office. Independence
Iowa. l33-tf.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06
Attorueus.
ID. S. LEE.
}. ID. HOLDRIDGE,

A TTORNEY AT LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC AND
n Land Agent. Office over Taylors Hardware
Ind TOwQ
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-06

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, In
n dependence, Iowa. Office in Clarkes brick
a;Jn
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-06

DIsGRAcEFUL SCENES IN DAYToN.-A
letter from Dayton. Ohio, says: The
crusaders marched this afternoon in
three attachments of twenty each. and
stormed thirteen saloons on Fifth and
West Third streets. A large turbulent
rabble followed them from place to place
and the turmoil at times was almost
deafening. The voices of prayer and
songs were frequently inaudible.
Ribald jests were banded about by
the outside mob with indecent loud talk
and rough, swearing crowds of beer
drinkers pressed into and infested the
saloons and drank as fast as they could
hooking the praying women with loud
blasphemy and loud bacchanalian songs
Even women joined in ribaldry, and
at one place flung out bits of bologus
and fragments of crackers among tn,
crusading women, who meekly bore thes,
CALLING insults. and persisted and PRAYED
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-06

LET THE BOYS PLAY.-Boys who play
with vengeance generally work with a
vengeance. and those who excel in games,
as rule, excel in their studies, too.
Play keeps boy in health and spir-
its for his work. In English public
schools, cricket and foot ball are more
or less compulsory, as in these games it
is felt that boys acquire certain moral
training and virtues which no books can
give them.
Daring and endurance, and, better
still, temper, self-restraint, fairness, and
the capacity to 'give and take stand
man in good stead when he goes into
the world. and constitute very important
elements of success in life ; and these a
boy learns more from his school-fellows
on the playground than from the les.
| sons of his teachers.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-06
WHY rARMiNts DON'T PAY.


At recent meeting of the Vermont
Board of Agriculture an address was
made by G. r. Drew of North Dan
vile. upon "Why Farming does not
Pay" Mr.. Drew said he believed when
farm does not pay that it is because
the farmer does not attend to his bust
ness. There is no business that is neg
lected and abused as farming. If farm
ers will attend to their business it will
pay. In a neighborhoOd of fifty farm
ers, twenty-five of them are attending
more or less to other business and neg
Letting their farms. Some are teaming,
some thrashing, and others saving wood,
others pcddling and others at other
things, when they ought to be attending
to their fences, making sugar, killing
weeds, or cultivating their crops. And
so it goes, the whole season through.
They keep teams they don't need, and
spoil good one every little while, draw
ing wood. Meantime their cattle are
neglected. and everything else that
ought 10 be attended to. OF the other
twenty-five only five are really active,
careful farmers, and these are doing
4 well and are satisfied. The other twen-
ty are drones, they don't do outside
work. nor much other work. Their
heifers never come to cows, because they
mover get the feed, care and shelter nee
essary to make mich cow. These
men declare that farming don't pay.
The five good farmers are all we'll sat
isfed with their business and know it
gives better returns for labor than any
other business. Some farmers 60 into
speculation. The boy that buys colt
and makes $40 on him is usually ruined,
and so with all farmers that speculate.
Bad luck to begin with is the best lack
that can happen to them, if it sickens
them of specializing. We keep too many
horses and too few oxen. On small
farm oxen are far preferable. Some
keep so many horses thas they can't KEEP
any other stock, Sad their manure i:
scattered up and down the road. Dom
buy scrub, stock, and don't keep an an
lmal after You are satisfied 1t is not 20
ing to be profitable
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-06
HERE AND THERE. A GEM.

The soul on earth is an immortal guest,
Compelled to starve at an unreal feast >
A spark that upward tends by natures
force,
A stream diverted from its parent source
A drop discovered from the boundless sea,
A moment parted from eternity;
A pilgrim painting for a rest to come,
An exile anxious for his native home.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-06
FAMILY RELATIONS IN CHINA.

The Chinese have some queer customs.
For instance, they value boys more high
" than girls, which shows the depth of
their ignorance.
In regard to women, the Chinese hold
to three stages of obedience-to wit 3:
first, woman must obey her father (be-
fore she marries) second, her husband
latter she marries) and third, her son
when her husband is dead, provided,
of course, that the son has reached the
age of manhood. In the last-named
case, however, law and custom would
never uphold the son in any failure of
kindness and respect toward his parent.
There is no country in the world in
which the duty of reverence and obedi-
ence is held in such esteem. When a
son GENES of age, as he does at the age
of sixteen in China, he is not thereby
emancipated from the control of his pa
rents, but is bound by law and custom
to obey them implicitly, be he ever SO
old or so wealthy. The only exception
to this rule is when child has attained
to position in the Government.
If man have no sons, he is thought
to olive without honor, and die unhap-
by. Hence Chinese wife's great hope
and ambition is that she may have male
offspring, to perpetuate her husband, S
name, to care for and support him in his
old age, and after death. to watch over
and offer sacrifices at his grave.
Fathers have virtually the power OF
life and death over their children. The
penalty for striking parents, or cursing
them, is death, as among the ancient
Hebrews.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-06
GERMAN HOT BEDS.

We feel that, in giving some account
of translucent cloth hot beds, to be en-
ployed instead of the expensive glass
frames in general use. we are doing all
our gardening readers a service. We
can vouch for the value of the German
Hot Beds" having tried them very sue
cessfully many years ago. For forcing
melons. tomatoes, ETC., this prepared
cloth Sssespecially adapted as it can be
tackled to boxes of any size required and
cat to fit them. Little, rough, square
boxes Of the proper size and height,
covered with this prepared cloth, can be
| placed over the hills in which tomatoes
melon or other seeds are planted, and
the plants allowed to stand, without
transplanting, until all danger of frost
is over, when the boxes may be taken of
and packed away carefully for another
season.
Take white cotton, of a close texture
stretch it, and nail it on frames of any
size you wish; mix two ounces of lime
water, four ounces of linseed oil, one
ounce white of eggs separately, TIVE
ounces of yolk of eggs !; mix the lin,
and oil with very gentle heat, bea
the eggs separately, and mix with tn,
former. Spread the mixture with
paint bgash over the cloth, allowin,
each coat to dry before applying another
until they become waterproof The fol
! lowing are some of the advantages thes
shades possess over glass:
l. The cost being hardly one-fourth
2. Repairs are easily and cheapl
made.
3. They are light; they do not re
quire watering no matter how inteDs
: the heat of the sun, the plants are neve
} struck down, or faded, or checked i
r growth; neither do they grow up Ions
e sickly and weakly, as they do unde
glass. and still there is an abundance
? light.
e The heat entirely arises from below
i is equal and temperate, which is gre;
: object. The vapor arises from the maj
:. ure and earth. is condensed by the CO..
e air passing over the surface of the shad
IS and hangs in drops upon the inside, an
: : therefore the plants do not require
It frequent watering. If the frame
N stretchcrs are made large, they shou
~ be increased with cross bars about 70
square, to support the cloth. These a
ticles are just the thing for bringil
m forward flower seeds in season for tran
ID planting.-OhO Farmer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-04-06
PREPARING FOR SPRING.

Get the seeds to be used on the farm
ready. Don't wait until planting and
sowing time to make your selection; or.
if the seeds are to be obtained from a
distance, order them at once.
If any new tools are needed, it will
pay to buy early, as you generally get
better article, and then there will be no
difficulty in getting handsome discount.
None but the very best tools should be
used; they may cost more at first, but
the saving of muscle, to say nothing
about their durability and the difference
in the work done, will soon pay for them.
Oil the handles of all the small tools,
such as hoes, forks, rakes, etc., with lin.
seed oil it will prevent the wood from
shrinking, and the more they are used
the smoother they will get. Make gates
for every place on the farm where thew
are needed, and don't have any tumble.
down affairs, but make good gates and
hang them all, so they may be opened
easily. Repair all the old fences, anc
make new ones if needed. There is ;
great deal of straw and other thing,
wasted which would make good manure
and our land can never be made to,
rich. Have you an orchard containin,
good varieties of fruit, from the earlies
to the latest? If not, don't let anothe
season pass without planting a good SC
lection Of apricots, cherries, peaches
plums, ounces, pears, and, best Of al
have number of different varieties I
apples, so you will never be withou
them. Of course everybody plant
grapes, raspberries and strawberrie
They require so little attention, if RICH
ly managed, and reward us SO we'll t,
the labor bestowed on them, that /
one should be without them.