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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28
Witkdraws.

J. w. Barnes, the -Anti-Monop can
didate TOR State Treasurer, has writ
ten Il letter to Chairman WeaI with
drawing his name from the ticket,
giving the convenient reason, the
press arc complications of his private
business. Barnes is shrcwd man
and as he has been tolerabl V active in
canvassing his chances, we may take
it for granted that he found the stu
alton not particularly promising of
profit or success. The State Regis
tel, gives the following chapter Of
inside history which illustrates at
once farmer" Barnes prudence and
Chairman Wcart's genius for finance:
Barnes is Il man Of ducats. He
was nominated because he was that
kind of a hair-pin. His friends, to
secure him place on the ticket, said
he could be relied upon in the cash
part Of the canvass. That argument
was golden to the ear Of Weart. so
Barnes was nominated-the fact or
the promise that he would bleed
atoning for his sin Of being rail
road man. That was the first chap
ter. The next and most important
part, to the Anti-Monop State Cen
trai Committee, was the second part
namely, the money. 1t is said
that they drew upon the willing Mr..
Barnes in the cheerful sum of five
thousand dollars. Mr.. Barnes took
Il week to figure on it, and he tried
hard, it is said, to make it balance.
First, he figured on the almost abso-
lutte certainty of not being elected
which would have been the whole
sam out of pocket. Then he figured
on the slim chance of an election,
and the salary he would get.
TWENTY-FIVE hundred dollars a year,
and two years, he added up as max
ing but forty-four hundred dollars.
This, he said, would be two years
work thrown away, and six hundred
dollars besides for the mere chance
of working two years for nothing.
Now Barnes has been in the habit of
always getting something. So, it is
reported, he concluded he would Of
fer to compromise with the hungry
and insatiate Weart. by offering him
three thousand dollars. But it seems
that Mr.. Weart, who is not only
Chairman of the Committee, but also
at the tail Of the ticket, still angled
for the whole fish. .Thereupon the
earthly Barnes took the short cut,
and made his escape. This is the
story as it is told here, and really it
seems much more plausible than the
one Mr.. b. gives in his card of de-
clination. Now there's room for
some other fellow who has large am
bltion and healthy bank account.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28
The Playful GrasshOpper.

The grasshopper has indeed be-
come a burden in Iowa and Kansas.
He eats the crops and fence rails, and
any old clothes laid round by acct
dent. He comes up with his fellow
soldiers, going carelessly with the
wind, settling down in the evening,
spending few days in a locality,
and leaves nothing behind when he
departs. Gate hinges he does not
like but takes them as matter of
duty when they come in his way
Grindstoncs are his particular con
tempt; but he eats hole in them to
show ahat his abstemiousness is a
matter of taste and not of ability.
He has been known when hard press
ed, to eat the shoes off a kicking
mule: and it is on record in Iowa
that one flock settled in graveyard
and labored very effectually with a
granite monument. A Des Moines
paper narrates that dozen were sent
to their Office as samples, and got
loose in the building during mo-
ment of carelessness. About fifteen
minutes after, one of them was heard
shouting up the speaking tube from
the press room, ali boys come down
hyar! Here's the iuciest old set of
cog-wheels YOU ever saw"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28
Not Appreciated.

The Cedar Rapids Times thus de-
scribes the reception accorded XIX.
Gov. Swamp-Land Stone in that city
last week:
Unfortunately for Williams am
bition, he didn't get an audience
sufficiently large to warrant him in
firing his biggest gun, which he,
doubtless, had loaded to the muzzle
for radical Cedar Rapids; SO, he
apologized in the shape of 'stalk''
to the handful of citizens which had
been drummed up during the after
noon and were present in City Hall
in the evening. 1t is a burning
shame and a lasting disgrace that so
bright and shining light in the
Anti Monopoly party as Ex-Gov.
William NJ. Stone should be treated
so shabbily by his co-workers here,
and we deem it our duty as a public
journalist, having the good name OF
Cedar Rapids in view, to offer Viii.
liam an apology, which we do by
saying, that there isn't enough Anti.
Monops in this vicinity to make Off
GERS for a public meeting, and what
few there are don't take much stock
in Ex-Governor Stone.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28
L. L. Ainsworth.

Is the nominee for Congress by
the Anti-NIonops Of this Congression-
al Distrist This is as we expected.
He is one of the most popu-
lar, if not among the ADLER men of
the party. He is an old line Demo
crat-and we notice that all over the
State, wherever there is even a small
chance for electing their man, the
Democratic wing is careful to see that
a Democrat reaps the advantage
Mr.. Ainsworth is an exceedingly
pleasant gentleman, whom we esteem
very highly for social qualities, and
all that; but, aside from political con-
siderations, we cannot consent to adj
nit that he is the peer Of Judge
Granger He is a lawyer, and a
keener politician than the Judge
more accustomed to 'set the pins"
and ''pull the wires," by which politi-
cal events are controlled, it is true;
but, on the other hand, he has not,
in our judgment, the solid worth,
the unquestioned reliability, the
straightforward integrity-those
qualities in manhood which men can
tie to-which our own candidate
possesses. Neither do we think he
possesses the real depth Of mind, and
the groaeing qualities which we credit
to Judge Granger. although he is
possibly more flashy, and brilliant on
first sight.
This Is our Judgment Of the candi-
dates as men. In a political sense
there is no choice left to any person
with Republican tendencies, or for
even moderate men, who are vitality
interested in the current political
questions of the day. Mr.. Ainsworth
has been Democrat for many, many
years, and is still as much member
of that party as ever he was. A vote
for him will mean us much in this di-
rection as though he were not labeled
with new name.-DecOr0h Re
publican.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

A SOUND SLEEPEs.-John J. Por-
ter is the champion sleeper of Ameri-
ca. With his daughter he had gone
out to his farm north of town to at
tend to his harvesting, making their
temporary home in the small frame
house which he had erected there.
On Monday night about two o'clock
he thought he heard something drop
and rubbing his eyes open to see if
the cat had kicked over the chair, he
felt the rain dropping upon his face
and at once concluded that the roof
had blown off. Piling out of bed
and taking survey Of the situation
he found himself-we lean he found
the house turned bottom side up, the
wind having picked it clean off the
foundation and turned it completely
over and there it stood, gracefully
poised upon its roof with it's heels
(fguratively spcaking) joyfully kick
ing in the air. Nobody was hurt, on
ly John says that when fellow
wakes with his back resting on the
rafters, gets the bed off Of him in
stead Of getting himself off the bed
and then has to climb up stairs to get
from the roof to the kitchen floor ii
makes every thing seem wrong end
up and he actually has to stand on
his head to bring his right hand on
the right side or to make the sun rise
in the east. We suggest to Mrs.
Porter that if she will take advan-
tage Of Johns sleep some night to
change ends with the bed he will get
up in the morning in his right mind.
lopez Elt@zS iSntinei.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

IL the speech that Elk GOV Stone
is making around the State in the
Anti-Monop interests, lie is fond of
telling the following story:
A Hoosier bought a horse from u
Yankee, for which he paid 500. At
ter the sale was completed the Hoos-
Ter wanted to know if it had any
faults. AT first the Yankee hcsitatcd
but finally on being assured that now
the sale was completed it made no
ditfercn e, he finally said, Well, he
is hard to catch. The Hoosier said
he had a pasture and that made no
difference. What else is wrong
with him? Well continued the Yam
kee, he amt worth damn when he
is caught.
Whereupon the Council Bluffs.
NonpoaeH heartlessly turns the Joke
on the Governor, by interpreting the
horse in the story to mean Stone,
and the Hoosier to stand for the
Anti-Monop party, which will never
make more worthless venture than
its Stone investment.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

THE Anti Monop organs are just
now holding up their hands in holy
horror, because the Republican State
Central Committee ask Republican
officials and others to contribute
money to defray the necessary and
legitimate expenses of the campaign
These virtuous newspapers would
fain have the public believe that the
Autobiography campaign is couduct-
cd without money or expense, and
that the patriotic Swamp-Lander and
other stumpers on that side are GO
ing about the State paying their own
bills, yet we are informed that Weart
made vicious dab at the pocket of
the late lamented B2rnes, intending
to abstract thcrefrom $4,000; which
caused the latter to decline in a
double sense. There is no doubt
that other candidates on that side are
bleeding, in proportion to the length
of their purses. Yet i'll the face Of
these patent facts tie Autobiography
press are treating their readers to
hypocritical homilics over the fact
that the Republican committee have
asked a postmaster to give Sl.l0 to
defray the expenses of the campaign.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

1t having been stated that the stu
dents, when they graduate in our Ag-
ricultural College, go into all other
branches Of industry and science in
preference to farming, and the Kan
sas Trumpet having made charges
something Of that kind, President
Welch. in letter to the Ioaca Lire
Stock Ju"rmoi, says:
''Did it proclaim that at the very
time of its blowing one of our grad
yates held the position of Superin-
tendent of our college farm, and in
structor of practical agriculture!
Did he make known the fact that an
other was professor Of agricultural
chemistry and superintendent of the
experimental farm in the agricultu-
raj college of Il neighboring State?
Or that another had been assistant
editor of an agricultural Journal. Or
that another still had determined to
become Ii veterinary surgeon? Or
that three others were rising young
natuTallStS, one Vi WHO'LL HIS SIIICc w
tanned Il professorship and two hope
to become teachers of economic bot
any? Or that three more were al
ready the chosen teachers of science
in our own agricultural college-one
of physics, another Of chemistry, and
Il third of the mathematics, which
are preparatory to civil engineering?
Were these facts, SO essential to the
points in question, revealed in the
Kansas extracts? Not Il bit Of it.
Not answering the purpose in hand
they were suppressed, and, instead,
the vague impression was given that
all the young men of our first gradu-
ating class, save one, were lawyers,
or editors, or teachers, or students of
medicine, and all those of the next
class, just graduated, were ditto, ex-
cept one simple soul, in a burst
of confidence that was sadly mis-
placed, had impaired the secret that
he thought he saw the road to polit-
zeal preterment through the farm and
orange
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28
The STATE.

- The State Teachers Association
holds its annual Session at Des Moines,
commencing Sept. 1st.
- The Waterloo Reporter says that
potatoes will he small, scarce and high in
that region this year.
The State Grange fund for the relief of
the grasshopper counties has been drawn
upon, and the drafts have been honored,
10 the amount of about $l2 900.
= 1t is said that in the last election, out
of 1858 votes intended to be cast for
ID. w. Prindle for Superintendent of Pub
lie instruction, only 240 were cast for him
by his correct name.
- A charter has been secured for a
new National Bank at Usage, with a CAPT
tai Of 100000. Several prominent cap
lists of that place, among them Hon. N.
c. Deering, are Unidentified with the enter
prise.
- Gen. Hugh T. Reid, prominent
citizen of Iowa and a gallant soldier in
the war for the Union, died at his home
in Kcokuk, on Friday last, aged 63. Gen.
Reid was one of the builders of the Des
Moines Valley r. r., and was for some
time President of the Company.
- The Delhi M,nitor says J. w. Cor
bin of that place, owns the tallest steer
in the world. 1t stands six feet and a
half high, measures 81 feet inches from
the nose to the end of the tail, and girths
s feet nine inches. 1t requires a piece of
timber II feet long to make a yoke for
it. Mr.. Corbin offers 81 900 for steer
of like dimensions
The Keokuk Gate CITY gives an item
ir the proceedings of the Old Settlers
meeting there last week, not down on the
bills. During the day one of the Old Set
tiers was formally presented by his de-
voted spouse with bouncing baby. The
presentation took place in shady and
secluded retreat in one of the groves upon
the grounds. The presentation speech
was made by Dr., and responded to
by the Oldest settler in Lee county.
- The Center Point Lotus says that on
Tuesday evening last, twenty-four head of
cattle were cut out of the herd of Mounce
& Wicks, twenty four miles south east of
that place and were found a few hours af-
er near the place of John. Young, five miles
west of Shellshurg A neighbor hearing
the herd moving past Mr.. Young's place,
and supposing them to be his stock wand
ering away, dressed himself and went out.
He saw three men on horses, who were
driving them. Upon being questioned,
no satisfactory explanation was made,
whereupon the man went for assis-
lance, with view of rescuing the stock
and arresting the men. Upon seeing this
move, the men let down a fence and turn
ed the cattle into n icornfield The cattle
had been driven hard and gave evidence
much fatigue, A sack was found with
the name of "Bloodgood" marked upon
it. AS Messrs Mounce & Wicks are en-
gagged in litigation with man of that name,
who has made threats concerning their
stock, they think they have spotted the
right parties and viii proceed to bring
them to Justice
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

The time for mani uIating cities,
counties and districts over three
legged beers aimed tap room table
is gone by, and the securing of dog
geries and lunch houses can no lon
ger rue an election. We want pol
itics to be heart work, not all NAV,
and the first way to secure this re-
suit is to ignore the man who is
known to have secured groceries and
lager beer saloons. Let us, whatever
other qualities they may have, repu-
date, at once and for ever, those can
didates who think they can ride into
Congress on a beer barrel, and make
votes out of cocktails and brandy
smashes.
The above is from the Da> export
Democrat. If any of our reader are
astonished at such sound and proper
and retieshingly outspoken senti-
ments from Democratic organ,
they may probably find the reason
for it, in the fact that the Democrat
is just now waging a vigorous war
fare upon Senator Murphy, who as
pires to the Democratic Anti-Monop
nomination for Congress in the sec
ond district, and whose bibulous
characteristics, and use of the whisky
element, make the above q rather
pointed rebuke. On general princi-
pies however, we presume the Demo-
crot would not be willing to dis
pense with such important elements
Of Democratic success, as cocktails,
brandy smashes and lager beer.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

Judicial Nominations.

The Democratic Anti-Monop Jul
dicial Convention for this district,
was held at Manchester on Wednes-
day. The nominations are, for
Judge, Ed. c. McCenev Of Dubuque,
and, for District Attorney, John II.
Peters of Delaware. Both are Dem
ocrats Of the old hard shell pattern,
and according to the following ac-
count of them given by the Dubuque
Times are fit representatives Of that
party:
For Judge, Ed. c. McCeney, Esq,
of this place, was nominated. Mac,
as he is Familiarity called, is very
good lawyer, and a very sociable, Sc
NAL, pleasant man when sober. If
it were not for this one failing we
know of no man in the District who
would be better fitted for the place,
or one for whom, though politically
opposed to us, we should take pleas
ure in saying a word Of endorsement.
But unfortunately, though Mr.. Nc
Ceney tries hard to overcome the
passion, there are too many reasons
for believing that he is unable to
master it. We certainly regret t. be
compelled to say this, but we de m
it our duty, For one, we pray to be
delivered from any more drunken
judges, whatever may be their legal
abilities.
The candidate for District Attor-
ney also exemplities the reformatory
instincts Of this Anti-Monopoly-Re
form party. He was openly accused
by delegates on the floor of the con-
vention with being a Railroad Attor-
ney, which proves the sincerity of
the Autobiography pretension. AS
to the Reformatory element, that will
be apparent when we state that John
II. Peters has been before the United
States District Court on the charge
of defrauding the revenue when run
ming the Delhi distillery. OF course
he tittingly represents the heightened
party whose moral sense is shocked
at Republican corruption.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

IMPORTANT TAX SALE LAw.-The
new law relative to sale Of land for
taxes, has some very important
changes which just now should be
noticed, and especially by those who
hold tax certificates. The law re-
quires the holders of such tax certifi-
Gates to serve notice on owners of
land sold for taxes before deeds for
such land can be made by the Treas
urer. This notice must be served at
least ninety days before the deed can
be executed. If the owner Of the
land is a resident of the county the
notice must be served by an officer,
the same as an original notice in the
Circuit or District Court; but if such
owner be a nonresident then the no
tice must be by newspaper publica-
tion.-Holders of these certificates
who intend to claim deeds this fall
will fail unless they comply with the
statuscs. ReoHlc's Pepper.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

The Supreme Court of Illino

The Supreme Court of Illinois has
affirmed the Judgment of lower
court in which jury gave II verdict
of $4,000 damages against saloon
keeper to the widow of a man killed
by drink. That is he drank himself
dead drunk in the saloon, then went
out and lay down on the railroad
track, where he was run over and
killed. In reviewing the case Judge
Scott, of the Supreme Court, said:
ale who deliberately sells that
which he knows will lnfame the pas
sions, deprive the party of the con-
troll Of his Judgment, and render him
for the time being incapable of exer-
cising proper care for personal safety,
or that of his property, must be pre-
pared for the consequences that may
follow
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28
HON. J. FRED MEYERS
THE Democratic and Anti-Monop

THE Democratic and Anti-Monop
papers of this Congressional district
are deriving Il great deal Of satisfac-
ton from making allusion to Mr..
Ainsworth, as sour next Congress
man" and chronicling his movements
around the district as ''the successor
to Mr.. Donnan" &c. This reminds
us of a story that used to be told Of
worthy but vain lady in Ohio, the
wife oil. Gov. Todd. The story was
to the effect, that when the Governor
was making his first campaign, as
the candidate Of the Democrats, it
was the daily practice Of his ambi-
tious spouse to go to the back door
of their domicile, and, thrusting her
head half way down an empty rain
water barrel, to wake its resonant
cchos, with prtleful self salutations
in the following style: GLOW do you
do Mrs. Goyelyaor Todd?" GLOW is
his exccllen~y, Mrs. Govermor Todd?''
Why, how we'll you are looking Mrs.
Coz ypo TO ld." &c. &c. So, our
Autobiography friends are perking
and pluming themselves in advance
over the possession of Congress
man, mouthing the title and invest
ing their candidate with honor and
dignity Of the anticipatory, contin-
gent sort, much after the fashion of
''N[rs. Gov. Todd"
1s,e fact may he significant, in pur-
suing the similarity of these cases,
that in that campaign Gov. Todd
was overwhelmingly defeated, and
his aspiring mate, left with no salve
for her disappointment save the hol-
low reverberations Of the rain-watcr
cask. The candidate who is now
the 'next Congress man," will proba-
bly not relish the title after election.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

THE Fayette Co. Union, Mr..
Ainsworth's home organ, quotes with
great gusto ''Linkensales'. character
ization of Ainsworth, in his book,
Iowa and the Robe lion: ole not a
little resembles Abraham Lincoln in
good nature, in the quantity and
quality Of his jokes and in human
beauty" All will admit the apt
ness of "Link's'' comparison, so far
as it goes; but concerning its use as
capital for Ainsworth as candidate
for Congress, it is unfortunate and
perhaps significant that the parallel
is obliged to halt where it does.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

THE Republican State Convention
of PENNSYLVANIA, held last week, en-
dorsed Gov. IIartranft for the Presl-
dencv in 1876. The resolution to
this effect WAS introduced tol the
purpose of defining the position of
the party in Pennsylvania, on the
third-tcrm project. a resolution
plcdging the support Of the party to
Grant in case he should be rc-nomin-
ated was voted down.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

The lushy "Gath,'' in a gassy arti-
Gle in the Brooklyn Arg'ts, talked in
fatcd nonsense about the Chicago
Tribune, which he said was valued
at 81 100000, and was the best pay
ing stock in America. by singu-
lar coincidence, on the very day this
pompous remark was made, the
statement Of Albert Cowles, of the
Tribune Company, was filed in the
State Board Of Equalization of Hi
nois, and Cowles took solemn oath
that the concern was worth only $50,
900. Quite a difference, you see,
between "Gath.' and his masters on
this point.-,Stote Register.
~ The above may serve also to il
lnstrate the general reliability Of the
'sy-rocket correspondent Of the zri-
70 EN- other subjects.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

An old army comrade of Judge
Granger, writing from Bremen coun-
H to the Dubuque Times says:
The nomination of Judge Granger is
very gratifying to Lenox. We know
Charley Granger well, and have
tramped many weary mile by his
side. Iowa did not furnish truer
man and soldier than G. T. Granger
His good business qualifications and
sterling worth as a man secured
him the honor of being detailed as
A. A. A. G. of the I'd brigade of
the Sd Division of a. J. Smiths
command. He discharged the duties
Of his Office so cheertnlly and kindly
that every soldier Of his command
respected and loved him for his aim
ability and promptness. We hope
to hear Of his election by round
majority.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-08-28

ANOTHER Republican convention
for the nomination of Il candidate for
Congress in the fist district, is to be
held at Burlington, Sept 18th. 1t is
not unlikely that the choice will
again fall upon Mr. McCrary.