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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-17
LEAVE OF ABsRNcE,

Rev. Henry Ward Bcecher has beer
voted six months leave Of absence to be
spect abroad or at home, the congregation
to pay all travelling expenses.
a large number Of the s,eerage pas
sengers Of the abandoned steamer Europe
called yesterday at the French Trans.
Atlantic Company's office and were each
given twelve dollars to relieve immediate
wants, and all desiring received railroad
ticketa free 10 point Of destination. Capt.
Lemaine leaves for Paris Saturday. +
y Blythe sinking Of Q schooner in the
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-17

TIE New York East Methodist Epis-
copal Conference has been in session in
Brooklyn, and the question .of-itineracy
was prominently before it, the members
being divided into conservatives and re-
formers. The former cling TO the old
itinerant system OF change OF pastors, ex'
tended a few years since 10 term ol
three years; while the opposition, grow
ing stronger year by year, persistently
urge the retention oi q minister, where
coDgeniality with the congregation is
found to be close and productive Of good.
The conservatives are as yet strongly in
the majority, but it seems to be conceded
that, If lay representation were admit.
ted in the Conferences, there would be a
gradual encroachment on the present
system, which would finally overrule it
altogether.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-17

were drowned, SS A-'A
i. .,,il,,i'l a Philadelphia u, dispatch says much
anxiety Is manifested az 10 the safetv of
tne steamer Nederland now a week over.
que. The same storm that aid 90 much
damage 10 the PenuSylyania ;n,,,red % ;Se
MeGetianu W.! I. salllclent 10 compel her 10 put
Daek 70 port, whence alter repairing sho
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-17

The census Of France for 1872, just
published, shows that that nation, not.
withStanding the losses by tho German
war, still ranks with the three greatest on
the globe Ii, tho chief elements Of power
and prosperity, Tho population has re-.
ceded from 8s,00000O TO a little over 30,.
100000; and It is estimated that the value
Of real estate-Alssce and Loraine-turn.
ed over TO Germany Is $s65,000 600.
These are heavy losses, but as France in
her time has done o good deal in the way
Of military appropriation from her neigh.
bors, she cannot complain. The general
injuries Of the war and those on business
may be heavier than those resulting from
the capture Of provinces. In only thir-
teen Of the departments Of France has
there been any increase Of population
during the last four years, and these are
mostly ysuch as have large cities in them,
thus showing precisely the same tendency
from rural or urban districts which has
been going on in this country during the
last dozen years. OF the 86OOO,OOO
Frenchmen, there are no fewer than 49,
100000 returned as living actually in the
country, while over 100000, or rather
more than one-hRlt Of the population,
are dependent on agrlculIure-a predomi.
nance Of the rural element quite different
from what most persons have imagined;
and the other statistics coincide, as, for
instance: 100000 horses, 100000 mules,
100000 asses, 100000 cattle, 25,OOO,-
600 sheep, and 100000 swine. These
figures are sufficient to show that France
still has all the material resources for
holding her place among the former ma
tionalities. II her census shows any
weakness, 1t Is in her educational depart.
ment, for we see that 100000 Of her
people-whether including infants or not
Is not stated-csn neither read nor write,
while nearly 100000 more can only read.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17
THE IOWA FALLS CALAMITY.

THE IOWA FALLS CALAMITY Z
the same time that Chicago
was thus going through the furnace
of affection, calamity of much
greater relative proportions was trans
piring at Iowa Falls. At the hour
Of halfpast 2 o'clock on Tuesday, q
fire broke out in the meat market of
Harrison 4 Waugh, on Washington
Avenue, which soon, by means Of the
strong wind prevailing at the time,
spread rapidly, and in the space of
three hours consumed the entire bu-
siness portion of the town, with the
exception of two stores and one ho-
tel. The burnt district embraces an
area of nearly four blocks, compris-
ing the most valuable buildings in
the town, and the flames were only
stayed when nothing combustible
was left in their pathway. The to-
tai number of buildings destroyd was
forty-ive. The total losses foot up
not far from $l36,5OO, upon WHICH
the insurance will not exceed $4O,-
900.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17

On the evidence as it stood the
whole opposition party and many Re-
pnblicans condemned ex-Gov. Stone,
il connection with the Swamp land
Transaction and many other matters.
These said the Legislative report in
his case was a. whitA-washing report.
Now, ex-Gov. Stone is an nti-Monop
leader. We don't see how one or
other of two conclusions can be avoi-
ded. First, if Gov. Stone is Swamp
Land thief and bad man it is Just as
discreditable to the Anti-Monop party
that he should be a leader in it as it
was TO the Republican party; aye, it
is worse, for Mr.. Stone lost his hold
upon the Republican party following
that transaction and was not able to
regain it. Or, secondly, it follows
that the opposition is willing to ac-
cuse and misreprescnt men SO long %
they are Republicans. and condolc
and set aside their faults if they will
only join the Anti-Monops. In either
event the Anti-Monopoly party is not
to be trusted in the selection of its
own leaders, or the accusations it
makes against the Republican leaders.
For that party's standard Of public
morality must be very low or the
faults Of the worst abused men in the
Republican party very trivial, if such
a man as Stone is made fit to be a
Reform leader simply by changing
from the Republican to the Anti
Monopoly party.-Gate CITY.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17

A CURIosIrY.-The McGregor
Times has had laid on its table a
stone broad-ax taken from the prem
Uses on which formerly rested ware
house No. l, owned by Mayor Nc
Gregor. The Times says: "When
excavating for the warehouse a
mound was opened and human bones
discovered, probably of the Indian
race who inhabited this region in
great numbers. The warehouse was
torn down better that a year ago.
A few days ago workmen were Dig
ging postholes in order to put up a
temporary shed for the dressing of
hoop-poles, and in digging came up
OH this specimen. It is the most
perfect of the kind we have ever
seen; it weighs IS pounds, and must
have required considerable labor in
shaping. 1t was found about twenty
feet below the original surface of the
earth, and about two feet below the
floor of the old warehouse. 1t is a
curiosity, and must have been a for
midable weapon in the hands of the
rcd man."
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17

JAS. A. Bryan the, Democratic
Treasurer Of Jackson county, who
stole $4,000 Of the county fandss
and blew up tho safe IL his Office to
,nislead the public and cover up his
rascality, and whom moreover, the
Dubuque Herald, with q: dishonest
partisanship which is characteristic
Of it, constantly defended, represent
ing him as s'perfcct gentleman"
who was being prosecuted by his
enemies, while at the same time it
was scoring numerically every Re-
publican delinquent, was brought-to
trial last week at Clinton. The re-
suit was his conviction of the crime
of embezzlement, and his sentence
to the penitentiary for three years,
and to pay a fine equal to the amount
Of his stcalings. While yet the jury
was out, Bryan, having Fremont
ton of what its judgment would be,
escaped from the custody of the
deputy sheriff of Jackson county, as
is suspected with the connivmce
of that official, and made off for
parts unknown. The verdict of the
jury was made up on Friday evening,
but in the absence Of the prisoner
whose bondsmen it then TRANSFERRED
had that day surrendered hint
was not announced. Meanwhile
Sheriff Walker had found Bryan at
Camanchc, and at the opening Of
the court on Monday produced him.
The jury then returned their verdict
of guilty, and after an unsuccessful
attempt by his attorney, Judge Left
ingwell, to secure an arrest of judg-
ment and a new trial, Bryan was
sentenced as above, and taken to the
pcnitcntiary. This is hopeful. Now
let every dcfiulter of every name or
party be brought to speedy trial and
like punishment.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17


ANOTHER disaster, similar to the
Mill River food is reported from
Massachusetts. The darn across Mid
dlefeld Brook, near Chester, Hamp-
shire county, enclosing areseryoir Of
one hundred acres and several feet
deep, gave way, and by the force of
its descent carried away second
dam, of a reservoir fifty acres in ex-
tent, the united flood deluging large
extent Of country, sweeping off build
ings and damaging farms to large
amount, but fortunately not attended
with loss Of life.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17

Parties even this far from the
grasshopper region, have been exer-
cised, lest the invading pest, may
another year extend their depreda-
lions to this vicinity. To such per-
sons the following, found among the
Washington dispatches, may have a
rcassuring effect.
Professor Thomas, of the Smith
sonian Institute, who has made the
subject of the grasshopper plague a
study for the government for years,
expresses the opinion that the farm
ers of the Northwest have little to
fear from a repetition of the present
scourge next year. He says that the
natural habit and Matching place is
the high table lands Of the plans,
and that those hordes which occa-
sionally sweep dowc on the prairie
lands bordering the Mississippi val
ley produce no brood the second
year and their race ends. The chan
ces are all against new incursion
next year.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17
IT'S a little amusing to read the

IT IS little amusing to read the
comments made by some Of the OPP
position newspapers upon the person
mel of the Anti-Monop State ticket.
The candidates beng for the most
part entirely unknown to the public,
their newspaper eulogists are COM
PEELED to go it blind, and the mistakes
they make are often ludicrous. Thus
the Burlington Gazette, speaking of
our genial fellow-citizen who aspires
to the possession of an elephant in
the shape of the office of Reporter of
the Supreme Court, says: "Weart is
a newspaper man, honest, faithful,
earnest and qualified" The Gazette
knows just as much, and 10 more,
about Mr.. Wcart's character and
qualifications, as it does about his
calling, and it's readiness to endorse a
man about whom it has no sort of
knowledge, shows to what extent par
tisanship can be carried in a party
that processes to ignore it.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17
Another attempt has been made te

Another attempt has been made to
assassinate Bismarck. While driv-
ing in the country near Kissengen
he was fired at, the ball grazing his
wrist. The would be assassin was a
young man named Huffman, a coop
er by trade, and a member of the
Catholic Journeymen's Society.
The fact that he was seen frequently
confering with a priest, is given as
color to the suspicion that the at
tempt was the result of Catholic
conspiracy, with which church Bis
marck is in very bad odor just now.
But it is fully as likely that the assas-
sin was fired by religious phrenzy of
his own, and thought to make of
himself at once deliverer and mar
tyr to his church.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17
THERE is trouble in the Anti-Mo-

THERE is trouble in the Anti-Mo-
nopoly camp in the sth COMPRESSION
al District in this state. The Ham
burg Democrat, the leading organ
of the party in the district, in two
column article denonnces Rood, the
Anti-Monopoly candidate for Con-
gress, nominated a few days since, as
"a political shyster, political prosti-
taae and ca,petrbaggcr from Wiseon-
SIN" That party is the Mecca of all
the political adventures Of the coun-
try. They have got the full control Of
it and will not he shook off by any
protests however vigorous.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17

cd with thanksgivings that Chicago
had not suffered . repetition Of the
terrible scourge and horror Of two
and half years ago. k
Another fire, involving a loss Of
100000, occurred III Chicago on
Wednesday. It was on the north
west side, and about forty dwellings
and stores, a dozen barns and large
planning mill were burned.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17

The tone of the majority of the
papers in the northern portion of this
district, indicates the probable con-
centration of the Republicans of
that section upon Judge G. I. Gran
ger, of Alamakee county,no Circuit
Judge of the 10th District, rs the
man whom they will support for the
nomination for Congress in the Nc
Gregor Convention. From personal
acquaintance with Judge Granger,
We are prepared to endorse all that
is said of his high character and
qualifications. He has adorned every
station of responsibility which he
has been called to fill, whether as
soldier or civilian, and has constant
ly grown in the confidence and ap-
probation of the public. There is
yet to come to our knowledge the
suggestion of flaw in his public or
private record, and i'll this regard he
will be peculiarly acceptable as a
candidate for Congress. The Repub-
lican party of this district cannot
afford this year, nor should it ever
take rs its candidate, a., man for
whose mistakes or short comings it
will have to apologize. 1t should not
be placed on the defensive, nor will
it be SO embarrassed with Judge
Granger as it's candidate. His whole
public career has been so honorable
and prudent, that its record will be a
help, rather than hindrance to him.
On the score of ability, there is
but one voice among all who knew
him. Judge Granger is growing
man; not by means of his own
,schcming, but by force of his intcg-
rity and the excellent record of abil-
ity he has shown i'll every public
station. He owes his present respon-
aiblc station to no wire-pulling
schemes, nor is he responsible in the,
slightest degree, for his prominence
as Congressional candidate. His
is true case of the office
seeking the man. We are assured
that it could seek no worthier one.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17

AS in the 9Th District, SO in the
lst, the Anti-Monops are unhappy.
In each case the trouble arises from
the iInpossibility Of mixing oil and
water. The old Democratic element
in the party, which is only in it for
the spoils, are bound to run the ma
chine or bust it. They do not pro-
pose to take back seats by any man.
ner Of means, and any movement
that looks like resistance to their die
tation is sure to breed a quarrel.
Judge Claggett, Of Keokuk, got on
the rampage the other day at the
Autobiography convention of Lee
county. The red rag that set the old
Bourbon cavorting was resolution
presenting and endorsing Hon. D. F.
Miller ST., as a candidate tor Con-
gress, and Suggesting" to the dele
gates from Lee county that they vote
for him in convention. What Clag-
gett did and said about the matter
are thus related by a correspondent
Of the Gate City.
Judge Claggctt was angry when
the resolution offered presenting the
name of Miller for Congressman was
open for discussion. LIE got up and
made speech, in which he rcpudi-
atcd the convention altogether. He
said that he had spent his life, pen
and fortune in behalf Of the Demo
ci.stics and Autobiography parties.
He had worked against Republican
ism on account of its corruption and
basencss, and now he came to this
convention and found them no bet
ter. He charged the Burlington
politicians with forming 4 combina-
ton wifh TIE ring here 10 have T. II.
Snaytll appointed as Judge. Gag
gett was angry indeed, and, if his
anger swas. real and does not cool
before his threats are exccuted, we
may look for some lively sparrinc
over the result Of to-tl.ly's work.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17
The State.

The DEBORAH Republican reports
black eyes fashionable in that town, but
adds that "they can never be respectable"
We advise Bro. .Baily to be little more
explicit, else he have some spiteful sloe-
sloe-eyed beauty in his hair. He probably
meant black eyes that result from striking
from the shoulder.
Two colorcd BARRIERS in Dubuque at
tempted the other day to settle a dispute
with the implements of their trade-ra-
zors. One named Poole was fearfully cut
his chin and check being nearly severed,
his arm cut to the bone, besides receiving
dangerous stab in the throat and cash
several inches long in the abdomen. He
lies in a precariOus situation.
The Cedar Falls Gazette says,
Eugene Wright, south of New Hartford,
was milking COW Wednesday morning,
storm coming on rapidly, hurried him
to the house, but he had not been from
the COW thirty seconds till the lightning
killed her. A close CALL"
The storm of last week was very Sc
we're in and around Cedar Falls. The
Gazette says that half the roof was torn
off the wooden mills, and the wool in the
upper story scattered in every direction.
The foundry and machine shops were
damaged and the front of Hunt & How
lands warehouse blown down. The brick
house of Mr.. Hewitt in East Waterloo
Township, northeast of the Junction was
blown down during his absence, and his
wife killed. Four of his children, includ-
ing one in the arms of its mother, escaped
without serious injury. |
The Elkader Journal reports as an &C
compartment of the storm of Wednesday
of last week, in that vicinity, an unexam-
Piled fall of hail, extending over strip of
country from half mile to mile wide,
and three or four miles long. Within this
territory, according to the J"urnal the hail
stones averaged bigger than hens eggs and
one-remember Shannon tells this
"camc crashing through the window Of
Mr.. Carpenters house. that measured one
foot in circumference" Roofs were bro
ken and almost the entire crops destroyed
within the hail beaten territory.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17

ready to let money on satisfactory Sc
ciirity, prove that there is sufficient
currency in the country, if equaizel,
to answer the legitimate wants ofbu-
sincssy and an increase above that
amount will result as it always has
resulted in the past, in pilings up
wealth for those who have enough
already, at the expense of the less for
tunate. In other words, in making
the rich, richer and the poor, poorer.
ABEL MARTIN.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17

X commenting upon the speech of
Col. Hawkins, Tennessee ex-Con-
gresham, wherein he takes ground
for Reputation Of the public debt,
and the announcement of himself as
candidate for Congress on the same
platform by John II. James, a banker
of Atlanta, Ca, the Conservative
says:
"Thc remarkable thing about these
advocates of reputation is that they
are neither Copperheads or Secession
lists. They are both good Republi-
cans, and one of them at least, Col.
Hawkins, was an officer in the Union
army during the rebellion.
Weagree with our cotemporary,tha
it is remarkable to find a Republican
advocating reputation. Such senti-
ments in the mouths of Democrats
would not be remarkable or unusual.
That party and its allies have mo-
nopoly of such suggestions of nation
al shame and dishonor, and coming
from them, they excite no remark.
The Conservative is quite right in
stating that the circumstances it re-
lates are chiefly significant, from the
fact that the reputation utterances
come from ostensible members of the
Republican party, which has always
set its face against reputation in
every form. The only possible ex-
PLANTATION is that the parties mention
ed contemplate an early change of
base into the camp of the opposition.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17


awe have the best authority for
saying that the abusive articles in the
BULLETIN directed at Mr.. Weart have
made votes for that gentleman in this
county, both in and outside Of indie
pendence."
There is no necessity for labelling
the above. All will recognize it as
an argument of the peculiar Conser.
uotive fashion. Promising the
explanation, that in the vocabulary of
our neighbor, " abuse" stands forany-
thing uncomfortable,-no matter how
true, or how courteously expressed,
let us examine the above. Its as
sumption is that a statement made re-
garding the disqualitications of can
didate, fortified by facts and reason,
which facts, the organ of the candi-
date cannot controvert or weaken, and
therefore does not attempt it, and
which moreover, are recognized as val
id by all who know the candidate and
the requirements of the position he
aspires to occupy, we say the assump-
ton above is that all these things
make votes for the candidate rather
than against him. 1t is needless to
say that such assumption is an insult
to the intelligence and honesty of the
people. fit is true regarding the
charge Of incapacity, it is equally
true as applied to the dishonesty of a
candidate, and it would make Tweed
the most popular, because the best
abused man in the country. If the
Conservative would help its candi-
date it must offer something else than
silly bravado like the above. If he
is qualified it should tell its readers
wherein; what special training or
practice he has had to fit him for the
Office. 1t should adduce proofs of
his ability and standing as an attor-
ney, and of his general aptitude to
fill q place which has. been heretofore
occupied by the hest legal talent Of
the State. So long as it does not do
TINS or indeed, offer anything that
Will throw light upon the question,
such vaporing as the above soaib will
have little effect.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17
STILL ANOTHER FIRE.

An extra issued from the Office of
the Belle Plaine Union, yesterday
Thursday morning, gives the par
ticulars of a serious conflagration the
same morning, in the business por-
ton of thattown, destroying $1,000
worth Of property, upon which there
was no insurance.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-07-17
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONvEN-
TON.

The Republicans Of Buchanan county are re-
qu~sted to send delegates to a County Convention
IL be held at the Court House in Independence
on Thursday July 23d at O'Clock p. M. to elect
IL delegates to attend the Judicial Convention to
b. held at the same place, on Friday. July p.
The basis Of representation in said convention,
win be one delegate for each Township. and one
delegate for every forty votes and fractions over
twenty votes cast for J. NJ. Beck. for Supreme
Judge at the General Election, 1873
The several Townships will be entitled to dele
gates Al follows: