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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-02
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JOSIAH T. YouNa, Sec. of $

Buchanan County.
Notice is also hereby given that at the General
Election above proclaimed the following offices are
10 be filled in said county, viz:
Clerk of the District and Circuit Court
County Recorder.
One member of the Board of Supervisors.
GEORGE .. FARR
Sin rf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-02
Dissolution, Notic3.

rsrIit Firm of Lake 4 Harmon. heretofore doing
a law and collection business, is this day dis
solved by mutual consent, Mr.. Harmon retiring.
Mr. Lake will continue the business. All debts
due the firm viii be collected by Mr. Lake who
will also pay all debts owing by the firm
1-iw JED LAKE,
NJ W. HARMON.
Independcnce Sent LIST 1874
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-02
Money TO Lean.

Having made ARRANGEMENTS
iOr funds with Eastern capital
!: Is. The su;;bSC; fer is prepared
- negotiate leans on long time at
reasonable rates. Mortgages ana
.oteS b0Aght. Enquire at Office Of
Jam;So;a & Begun, I.!dsEcadenTe, s..
...a Arch G. Smith.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-10-02
Nasty.

the Trouble ia He,tucky An At
tempt TO Cooperate with iile Me-
grova-:he Failure, ana WHY.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30
The Changers OF California.

The potent Patrons of Husbandry.
steadily disclaiming a lust fer power,
are taking concerted action to secure
their rights and to advance their indi-
vidual interests in the way which to
them seemeth best. Their numbers
having doubled in the last twelve
months, and still increasing, they are
moving in solid columns upon the cita-
dels of the Grain Kings, to whom they
are more terrible than an army with
banners. The California column is
about the most vital and active of all
which are embraced in this vast host.
1t is led by men who combine muscular,
mental, and financial attributes in Wig
orous development. Of the practical
schemes which are being prosecuted for
the benefit of the Changers in this
State, the most noteworthy is the Gran
gers bank.
The bank will have a capital of 49,
100000, divided into so, 900 shares of
500 each. Its base of operations will
be In this city, its Office being in Hay
wards building on California and
Leidesdorff streets. in the rooms lately
occupied by the Merchants Exchange
bank. 1t has been publicly stated that
500, 600 of the stock has already been
paid in. This is not correct. The
stock will be called in in ten percent.
installments. The first installment will
be called in July l. The directors are
empowered to call in the second INSTALL
ment in three months after the first, but
it is thought that the second call will
not be issued until January, 1875. The
bank will be opened informally on July
Is. There will be no splurge or display,
but the directors expect to "go slow"
for while until all the first INSTALL
ment is paid in. The object of the bank
is to enable farmers to borrow money
upon as favorable terms as can be had in |
the city for commercial purposes. The
subscriptions are nearly all in small !
amounts, the subscribers being resi-
dents of nearly every county in the
State. The bylaws promise the same |
and attention to the rights
of small stockholders as to those of the |
largest, and equal justice to ALL"
There are already over one thousand |
subscribers, and the aggregate of the |
subscriptions exceeds one million dol |
lars.
The iron rule of Friedlander, the
hitherto mighty grain king, and his
powerful associates, is broken. These |
men have for years controlled the grain
market, and one of their most effective
means to that end was controlling the
tonnage of the port. The leading
Changers say this obstacle no longer |
confronts them. They have been en-
abled to charter fifty vessels themselves
this year, and are confident that facili-
ties will be ample in future to take all
their grain to market. The Changers
have also in this city produce depot,
at the southeast corner of Sansome and |
Commerce streets, in charge of Mr..
Hegler, late of Bodega grange. They
have also an agent to purchase farming
and others to buy bags,
charter ships, and perform other impor-
ant functions.-SdnF Francisco Chron-
,cIp
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30
The Vernacular i'm Edinburgh.

Speaking of the names of things, this
morning, l asked a conductor (no per-
son here could possible understand
what such term means, so 1 will say
guard) three times "Will this car
go through to Durham without change ?"
Each time he said "Beg -paw-don" in
such way as to express, Explain
what you mean," when young New
Yorker said {: "He means carriage"
Then the intelligent guard said: ooh,
yes, if you 60 right through" In Dub
In asked policeman if he could tell
me whether I could find drug store
near by, and he said, "OA, yis /; plenty
CT 'em about-nothing SO pleantayful,"
and he directed me to a shop, which,
having entered, found to be a GIN
shop" With the same success asked
a very respectable-looking old gentle
man the question, and he pointed out a
shop licensed to sell spirits" When
1 told him that l wanted to get some
soap. he said, Perhaps you wish to
find a medical hall ?" So 1 did. After
an early breakfast on Sunday morning
last in Glasgow wished to look around
the city some time before morning serv-
ice at the cathedral. Not cab or
vehicle of any kind was to be found,
but near the hotel / discovered horse
railroad track. Seeing no cars coming,
l asked gentleman passing whether
the /" horse-cars ran on Sunday. and he
said "Not much; that one could get
one now and then if he wished Il very
much" Wishing one very much, I
watched the road for about a quarter of
an hour, and not car came in sight.
Then came by policeman, whom 1
asked the same question, and he replied
that "horse-cars were rarely seen on
the street, but if had a necessity for
one, 1 might get it, not on the street,
but at the livery stable "What do
you mean ?" said 1; "do not cars run
on this rail on Sunday ?" ooh you
name the carriages on the tramway
Nay, mon, the cawrs dinna run on the
tramway on the Sawbath !" These
benighted Scots thought meant cabs.
or something OF the kind.-Letter in st.
Louis Democrat.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30
Farmers. Stand Firm.

The only hope of the farmers and Ia
boring men is to be united and heed not
the siren songs of the politicians, alias
the monopolies, and go forward in the
good work begun last fall. Let them
be true to each other and work together.
Every sentiment of independence, of
manhood and of self-preservation ad-
monishes them that they should do 80
What are the old parties to the masses
of the people? What great benefits
have they ever received from blindly
following the beck and nod of dishonest
politicians? They have proved to be
sources of wrong and oppression that
have mortgaged nearly every farm in
the district, and laid an embargo of at
Leaf 80 per cent. upon everything pro-
duced by the farmers and laborinp men.
These old party leaders, alias the mo-
nopolists, are using every means in
their power to drive the peopi. back to
their allegiance to the old parties, SO
that they may continue these wrongs
and expressions. -Erchange.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30
The Rings and Frauds of the Country.

The New York Herald, of the Goth
inst, has the following in relation to
Gen. Buffers late speech on the way the
payment of duties on imports is
avoided
" 1t is neither pleasant topic nor
pleasant speech. To us this business
OF customs and moieties, taxations and
tariffs, has always been unpleasant.
Somehow, ever since the war, we have
been burdened with it, until the whole
discussion, its literature and its history.
have become as miasma. We had
frauds in whisky, which never came to
any result; frauds in tobacco which
were whispered to be prodigious, but
no one has ever heard that they were
investigated frauds in champagne, in
silk ribbons, In spices and tea. One
ring seemed to succeed another, like
governments in the revolutionary re-
publics of Central and South America.
We went to sleep under one ring and in
the morning we found that another
reigned in its stead. The moral sense
OF the community became blunted.
We were rapidly whirling into that po-
sltlon In which every merchant and
every officeholder was, of necessity, re-
garded as thief, and smuggling, which
had been recorded in the books as a
crime, was really among the nigh and
tine arts of business. 1t was, of course.
severe blow to our confidence In the
laws, and in the respect of citizens for
the law, to find the tax on whisky two
dollars gallon and the selling price
only seventy-fve cents or a dollar.
That, as the foolish lord says in the
comedy, was one of those things (which
no fellow could find out When, in
IN addition to this anomaly, we saw
class arising around us-whisky princes
and shoddy aristocrats- Haunting an
pernicious and meretri-
cious splendor as the result of sudden
wealth, the public mind came to
recognize the existence of a power
silent, greedy and nsatiable-greater |
than the law, eager for wealth as the |
for blood living in unchecked |
and irresponsible defiance of the law
masters of a system of crime superior to |
detection supreme in Congress, in the |
Cabinet, In the Executive Chamber
nay, even in the sacred presence of holy
Justice, and welding an influence
which at one time, during the impeach-
ment of Andrew johnson, was para
mount to the Senate and to the indig-
nant and resolute public opinion of the
country. We believed in this power as
l reality, but at the same time regarded
t as an expression, or more exactly,
an exhalation of the war, that
would die away under the pure and
wholesome influences of peace.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30
The Mission of the Grange.

Says the Industrial Age: There is
an honest directness in the way of
doing business in Kansas that is truly
refreshing. We clip the following from
the leading editorial in Ross last Spirit
of Kansas. 1t is honest and to the
point. The people have a sermon in it
that would pay them well to reflect
upon:
1t has been the power of capital in
vested in politics that has made possible
the vast combinations of carriers and
brokers that can, with stroke
OF the pen, raise to the remunerative
or depress to the starving point the
price of every bushel of wheat and corn
In the country. 1t is that power which
corrupt legislation has enabled to lay
its hand upon almost any town or city
in the country, to build up or destroy,
as the interest, favor or malice of the
combination might dictate. This power
has been secured through the venality
of our lawmakers, State and national,
and nothing can take that power from
them but the determined and united
action of the people in filling their
legislative positions with men who have
not been, and cannot be, corrupted by
money or beguiled with Establishments
of Office.
!" As this is government of and by
the people, upon whose intelligent use
OF their prerogatives depends the proper
exercise of governmental functions, SO
we are essentially and naturally nation
OF politicians. As it is through polit-
ical corruption that the public con-
science has been debauched, and the
unpublished theft of millions upon mill
ions of public moneys has been rem
dered possible, so it is through political
action, and mainly that, that we must
seek and hope for reform.
" 1t was through a comprehension of
that fact that the institution of the
grange was hailed by SO many, even of
those who failed to connect themselves
directly with it, as an element that was
destined to act a not unconspicuol
part in the work of political, financial
and socisl regeneration. Though en-
tirely non-partisan, and professedly
non political, its teachings are having
the effect Of educating the masses of the
people In the science of government,
and creating a higher standard OF |
political morality, to an extent that has |
not before occurred for many years. !
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30
Changers and Politics.

Here is what the st. Louis Globe saws
in reference to the platform adopted by
the National Grange at its recent ses-
sion
1.-The Changers would have donejust
as well had they omitted the disclaimer
on politics from the declaration of prin-
ciples which they adopted yesterday.
Though written as disclaimer, it is at
the same Ame a very strong intimation
that while the Changers do not intend
to ally themselves, as body, with either
of the existing political parties, they do
intend to vote for or against political
candidates, with special reference to
their attitude toward the grange move
ment. If the reference to politics in
their platform does not mean this it
does not mean anything and if it does
mean this, 1t means to encourage both
political parties to do a large amount of
demagogical bidding for the granger
votes, which will in the end greatly I'M
pair the usefulness of what might be a
very useful organization, and prevent it
from achieving any of the great amount
of good within its power. The great
Aiooano 10 III surprising Jnat nOCnlng
can be done for any class of people in
this country except through political
channel. In other words, that the State
must, after all, do everything for every
body. The fact is, the State can do
very little for the Changers, but the
Changers can do great deal for them
selves"
These old political stagers can't get
it through their heads that the Grange
is not political engine. They talk
about Changers being bought and
sold, etc.-judging us all the while by
the rules that have so long obtained in
politics. All we have to say is, that the
Changers would prove themselves the
veriest pack of fools that ever organized
for any purpose if they should not
vote for or against political candi-
dates with special reference to their
attitude toward the granger movement"
Does the Globe suppose that we would
put our enemies in power ?-CalJornia
Granger.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30

which should commence about The first
OF September, when the new crop is
still soft and tender. Treated in this
way hogs become probably as perfect
as any method could make them. Upon
the whole, believe it the cheapest and
most economical.
HE VALUE OF PUMPKINs.-Last year
l raised twenty ox-cart loads of pump
klns with corn from an acre. The cart
would hold forty bushels of potatoes.
considered them valuable feed for
stock, taking into consideration how
cheaply they can be raised. I under
took to dry in my apple dry-house some
for market, and was offered five cents
per pound. found that green pump
kin weighing from fifteen to twenty
pounds would make about one pound
OF well-dressed dry pumpkin, and that
1t would pay better to dry them for my
hogs (as it could be done very cheaply)
than it would to sell them. / soaked
the dry pumpkin in milk, and fed the
same to the hogs they gained fast. 1
also dried quite an amount and barreled
1T to feed them with this summer. 1
fed my sheep upon the green ones two
months, and it did very much toward
fattening forty which 1 sold for mutton,
and the forty which / wintered never
did better. / commenced to feed my
cattle In September, and fed some every
day until February. 1t saved vast
of feed. l am planting but a
small piece of corn, and wish to raise
large amount of pumpkins; so plant
them with my Early Rose potatoes; their
tops die early, which will let in the sun
and give the pumpkins a chance to
grow. Maine Farmer.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30

Best of all things to us is home. In
hours of ambition and pleasure we may
sometimes forget its exquisite sweet
ness, but let sickness or sadness come,
and we return to it at once. Let the
hollow hearts that feign friendship
which they do not feel stand revealed
before us-let us know, as we all must,
at moments, that, however important
we may be In our own estimation, our
places would be filed at an hours no.
tice, should we die tomorrow, then we
whisper to ourselves the magic word
Home, and are comforted.
"Home, sweet home r. It does
not matter how "humble it is nor
is it less home for being palace. It
is where those we love dwell-wherever
that may be-where we are valued for
ourselves, and are held in esteem be-
cause of sOhat zoe are in ourselves,
and not because of power, or wealth,
or what we can do for other people.
Who would be without home who
would take the worlds applause and
honor In place of the tenderness of a
few true hearts, and the coy Preside
meetings where the truth may bespoken
without disguise, and envious carpings
are unknown? In LIES battle even the
hero finds many enemies, and much
abuse and Islander and detraction but
into home, if it is what it ought to be,
these things never find their way.
There, to his wife, the plainest man be-
comes q wonderful thing-a sage, man
who ought to be President of the Unit
ed States, and s0ould be were his worth
known"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30

Kepler said comets were as plenty as
fish IN the ocean. Arago calculated that
within the orbit of Neptune there were
IL, 500, 600. Herschel reckoned the num-
Der OF those visible by the help of the
telescope at $4,000. OF the 200 re-
corded, and the 600 noted in ancient
annals, only about forty have had their
periods of revolution determined. Some
comets are the largest objects in the
solar system, SURPRISING even the sun
in volume. The comet of 1911, which
will return when the Capitol at Wash
ington is as old as the Pyramids of
Egypt, measured at the diameter of its
luminous nucleus more than 400 miles.
the diameter of its coma liz. 900 miles.
the length of its tail liz, 900. 900 miles.
Yet the hugest of them all is perhaps
outweighed many thousand fold by the
tiniest asteroid.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30
CALL TO LABOR.

Men OF Labor, spring to action,
Inc crisis comes upon You now;
loo long, already, have ye slumbered
VIII ye still to robbers bow!
Fultures hover thick around you.
intent your substance to deyour:
And while you toll from morn till sunset,
They grasp you with giants power.
Wealth declares his toiling neighbor
Shall take the lower walks of life:
While he will reap the fruits of labor,
And riot run amidst the strife.
You till the soil, or swing the hammer
You live by grimy sweat of brow:
you build the palace and the railroad.
And shape the steamships noble Prov.
The product o. your honest labor,
The wealth your hands and brains have made,
Are reaped by Shylock's railroad princes
Or by the arts and tricks of trade
Stir up this nest of deadly vipers,
Whose curse lies in their poisonous stinps
Since those you fostered into being
Prove but corrupt and vicious rings.
Plundering rings and corporations
Steal our liberties to-day;
Men of toll, be men of action,
Rise in power and clear the way.
Industrial Age.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30
HunlOr.

WHEN is literary work like smoke
When it rises in volumes.
WHAT part of a ship is good for
youngsters? The spanker.
| WHAT roof covers the most noisy ten
ant? The roof of the mouth.
WHY is parish bell like a good
story? Because it is often tolled.
con she is lovely, she is rosy"
| The printer put it
"Oh she's slovenly, she's nosy."
As an excuse for rejecting widower,
a fair young damsel informed friend
that :" she did not want warmed-ove
man."
A SICK man covered with mustard
plasters, said, ." Iii L were to eat a loaf
of bread, should be a walking sand
wich."
"HE has left void that cannot be
filed" as the bank director touch
ingly remarked of the absconding
cashier.
WHAT is the difference between a
church-organist and the influenza?
the stops.
LoT's wife wouldn't have looked back,
but woman with new dress passed
her, and she wanted to see if the back
breadth was ruffied.
An old lady with large family, liv-
ing near a river, was askedif she did not
live in constant fear that some of her
children would be drowned "Oh no."
she replied, "we have only lost three or
four In that way"
A LITTLE boy in st. Cloud, few DAYS
ago. undertook to see if he could lift
himself by hanging on mules tail.
He found out all about it, and the doc
tor thinks the skin on his forehead will
grow up, but leave bad scar.
A TEACHER in Nevada, after telling
her pupils that large waterfall was a
cataract :" "Now," said she, "what
is little MATERIALLY" Kittyract,"
blurted out the tow-headed youngster
who sat chewing the corner of his prim
er on the front seat.
THE Milwaukee Sentinel, which
prides itself on the accuracy of It's local
items, says: GA stranger from Louis
vile got his ear between the SUN and
the Insurance building yesterday. The
signal officer ran up the storm-fag and
sent dispatch bounding over the wires
to Washington that a storm-cloud had
overspread the sky"
AN Eastern paper says cit is ru-
mored, on good authority, that the al
legged murderer who was taken out by
Kentucky mob last week, riddled with
bullets, hacked with bowie-knives,
beaten over the head with crow-bars
and then saturated with coalol and
cremated on the spot, has died of his
injuries. How delicate some men
are"
You've gentlemen, when they take
their "doxies" buggy-riding, should
pay every attention possible to their
safety and welfare. We noticed
young man last Sunday that seemed to
the art of protecting his
lady-love to perfection. As they passed
down Fifth street, she was doing the
driving, while he had both arms around
her, and we could tell by the wild look
in his eye that he was determined she
shouldn't fall out.-&. Paul Press.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30

A sEA-DEvIL is now on exhibition at
the Brighton Aquarium. It is mon
ster of dusky brown color, tadpole-
shaped, and about FIVE feet in length.
The mouth stretches across the mon
ster's face, and measures nineteen
inches. At the edge of each jaw are
two or three rows of teeth, hard, strong,
and pointed like the prongs of rat
trap. When the mouth is open four
and-a-half-gallon barrel might be got
into it.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30
THE LAST Fly OF SUMMER.

Twas the fast fly of summer
Left buZzing alone
All its lively companions z
Had persisted and gone;
Not an answering hum,
Not fiuttering wing,
Came to cheer or to gladden.
The poor little thing.
While I watched the lone insect,
As 1T glanced here and there
Lighting first on my apron,
And then on my hair
Der my heart came yearniDg
To cherish the fly,
As link twixt the winter
And the summer gone by.
gave it full license
On the mirror TO stay,
Or to traverse the windows
In its frolicsome play
Nor deemed it discourteous
When it tickled my nose,
Disturbing the fancies
OF my MONDAY repose;
But would "shoo fly the relic.
To some safer place,
Accepting the nuisance
With mastery grace,
The while vainly striving
To imagine how
Could so cheerfully flourish
Were I the last fly.
Then when at the table
Refreshments were served,
His fy-ship presiding,
Each dish was observed,
And carefully tested
With epicurean skill,
Making choicest selections
His Stonjdcket to fill.
But, grown quite unwaIy,
So eager was he,
Allured by it's fragrance
To sip of my tea,
That, drunken with feast,
Or dizzy from fear,
He dropped in it's depths
Twas the last of him here.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30

The Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church In America has four Bishops, Is
annual conferences, GOT travelling
preachers, 1859 members, 535 SUNDAY
schools, 1,102 teachers, 40, 955 scholars.
monthly paper with 1000 subscribers.
and bookstore. 1t is endeavorinp. TO
establish school for the education of
its young ministers.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30

Though In one sense non-political, yet
In another, and that high sense, the
grange is the coming political force
before 'hich political knaves will yet be
swept into deserved oblivion"