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lBE BRIDE MAKDEBBk
The wedding dress OF Miss Ruckor was made by
Madame stonghton II was Of the traditional white but
a was te white Of to-day which is cream color that II
ite dazzling bv gaslight the dead white on pearl
bi,e NJ other DAYS II made with princess train,
M edge Of the skirt sashcd in divisions -,x inches apart
and allied in with deep plating OF crepe Esso; a
ho.ding of Matted lisse formed q f0lnce, aud Was
r,urbt m the back Of the skirt In spiral OF KNIFE
ai,i,O hand Of bias silk headed the lisse f0unce,
ar5 was finished by wreath OF scented orange
tl,sgors The front OF the dress was draped with
,vbits lisse which formed a tabiicr, and was
ga bac, with orange clusters The waist was curass
osoue II was high ~ the neck, with hAlfOns sleeves
Tho bridal vail was very long. The longest pnrt rel
bach 70 the hem of her train; the rest vailed
her face during the ceremony. tiara OF halt-
hown orange buds bound the vail on her hair.
Cluefors OF orange blossoms were upon her BOSOM
c,rclct Of them bound her throat while another
,yound about hor waist and trailed far down the
aeecy fold, Of the vail chatelane pocket OF orange
osao,us held her lace handkerchief ana ran OF the
ssuo blossoms hung in delicate hLgree chain at hef
aldo There was no lace on Miss Fuckers bridal dress
no, te simplest edge her vail, which, indeed was not
oven bcmned and so offered no outline 10 mar the Ell
i, harmony of her toilet There no jewels; her
o,re was tasteful and becoming the arrangement be
los, boyevcr in The splendOr OF van and orange How
era She wore long pearl tinted gloves Win SIX buttons
A rose pink silk evening toilet cones next 70 Inc
hds i,.ss in beauty being. however much more orna
r,eptaI Tho back is made with plat 10 "lthin
card ~ the edge Of the train, where fanshaped ah
~ wide plsts is added, with large bow OF rlngcd
sill Joining the parts The waist is ufeoan eois"se'
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23

the party within like avenging ft,ries.
They found a nice state of things
The inmates were four young men
and the girl. One of the fellows
was as pale as a ghost, in the centre
Of the room, with coat, vest and boots
off, while the girl herself was not
more fully clothed. The other young
men rushed for the windows; and de-
spite the attempts of the women to
stop them, they leaped through, only
to encounter the ladies outside, who
called them by name, and fastened
their flight by cries of sshame on
on youv' The coatless and hatless
gent was not so fortunate; he had to
fight his way to the windows, and in
doing SO knocked two of the ladies
down. One of the young men was
son of a lady in the room, and a
second chap was in the employ of
the husband of another of the ladies,
and boarded ut her home.
What did the woman do with the
trembling object of their vengeance?
They tarred and feathered the girl!
That's what they did. A bucket of
tar and pillow Of feathers had been
brought ..along and were passed
through the window to the five lead
ers. They didn't strip the girl
They poured the tar on her head, and
it ran down her long hair-which
was loose-over her face and upon
her clothes. Then they emptied the
pillow of its feathers, and soon. she
was past recognition. Her cries for
mercy were not heeded-her bitter
tears had no softening influence upon
those about her, nor the women out
side. There were tar and feathers
for her, but none for the men who
had made her what she was, and
helped along her downward road.
Her sex had absolutely no pity for
her. That which no man in Wilton
would have helped to do, was done
by these ladies. Having used their
tar and feathers, the ladies then pro-
ceeded to demolish the windows that
were left, and to break down the
doors, so as to render the house unin-
habitable. Then they left the prem
lses, carrying the young mans cap
tured clothes away as trophies. And
the girl rid herself of the feathers as
much as possible, and scraped rs
much of the tar from her head and
face as she could, changed her clothes
and left the house. After wondering
about for an hour, she was found by
young man, who gave her room
to stay in, going to her house to get
bedding for her, and left her. She
requested him to go and get her
trunk and carry it to the depot, and
he did SO. And early yesterday
morning she left Wilton on an east
crn train, and came to Davenport
The trouble of the ladies was not
ended, no Wever-at least not for one
of them; for soon after she reached
her home, her son, who had been
caught in the house, entered, re-
preaching her for disgracing him,
and-knocked her down, one report
says; but he beat her anyway, and
left the city. The three other young
men left, also, during yesterday, and
there is sorrow in their homes, for
the whole town knows who they
were. Public opinion is divided as
to the conduct of the women. Some
of the citizens condemn it in strong
term. The law could have been
etfectually employed in Kidding the
town of the girl-and, besides, the
young men with her deserved tar and
feathers rs much as she did.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23

THE late conflicting elements IN
the Louisiana Legislature came to-
gether the other day in spirit Of
amity and concord, and by decided
vote-only seventeen of the extreme
White League party with ex-Speaker
Wilt at their head dissentine-en-
dorsed the terms of the Wheeler COM
promise. Estelle the compromise
conservative candidate for Speaker
was elected, and the Legislature seems
to have sensibly settled down to legi-
innate business, and consideration of
the material needs of the State.
Enthusiastically had the above
been placed in type, when the news
comes that the Democrats in the
Louisiana Legislature are attempting
in plain violation OF the express
terms of the compromise, to unseat
enough Republican members of the
House to give them control. Verify
there is no faith and honor in the
whole League, and 1t is useless to ex-
pect anything but mischief from
them.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23

In response to several inquiries we
would say that only 20 of the so
members of the Iowa State Senate
hold over. The two classes have
never been equal. Until the resigna-
ton of Senator West there were, of
the Senators in Office at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature, 20 whose
terms expired with that session or
year, and 2l who held over for two
years longer. SO there will be 80 to
elect this fall. OF those, eleven
Baily, Campbell, Cooley, Jessup,
Merrill, Miller, Perkins, Rothert
Williams, Willet, and Young-were
elected as straight Republicans.
Seven ofthe othcrs-Conaway, Lowell
Mitchell, Newton, Pease, Thornburg,
and Wood, were elected as Anti
Monops. The two others-Merrell,
and Murphy-wcre elected rs Liber
ais; but they are Democrats, and
always will be, probably, with moss
on their backs. The seven Anti
Monop Senators were, we believe, all
Republican, up to the time of their
election to these offices. There are
only two or three of them, at the
most, who will ever throw their
whole past lives over their shoulders
out of sight, and march to the tune
of Dixie with old Democracy plain
and simple-and perhaps we ought
to ask the pardon of the excepted
two or three for even thinking that
maybe they will.-,State Register.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23
The Unready Democracy.

The problem that is perplexing
the Democratic leaders in Iowa at
the present time, is the choice of a
name under which to sail in the com
ing campaign. Quite a large share
of them are doubtful Of the effect of
throwing off the mask just yet and
going into the contest under the old
party name. These favor the repcti-
ton of the game Of last year, hoping
to gain their ends by fraud and indi-
rection, which, if accomplished, they
will then claim as a Democratic
triumph. But the choice of a name
under which to rally the odds and
ends of parties in opposition to the
Republicans is the veNing question.
The name Liberal has the flavor of
ancient fish, and there is no inspira-
ton, as there never was significance,
in the term Autobiography. Neither
will serve the turn of the disguised
Democracy. But while some of the
Democratic politicians are solicitous
about the form Of their masquerade
ing, other honester and holder spirits
in the organization declare that they
are sick Of it, and see no better pros
pect for success of the possum policy
this year than last. They are for a
Democratic fight, on a Democratic
platform, and intimate that they can
not be counted in in any succotash
arrangement. Sam Evans, of the
Ottumwa Democrat, is the represen-
tative of this unterrified wing, and in
a late number of his paper he gives
the following reasons for the belief
that square fight under its true col
ors is the only hopeful course for the
Democratic party. The fourth para
graph in the series will doubtless be
received with becoming consideration
by Republican Anti-Monopolists:
There is no other party in the
United States which is opposed to the Re
publicans except the Democratic party.
ia fight under any other name than
Democracy would aleniate thousands of
Democrats who are in full accord with
their victorious Democratic brethren of
other States, and they will vote no other
ticket except that which is labelled "Dem-
ocratic"
III.-A Democratic victory will be a
Liberal victory, and an Anti Monopolist
victory, and will secure all the advan-
tages which Anti Monopolists and Liberals
could desire
IV.-The Democrats are willing to re-
ceiye in full membership all Anti-Monop-
opolists and Liberals, giving them all the
privileges which would be extended to Il
Democrat with birth-right
V.-There is no name given by which
a victory can be secured except through
Democracy, and the Anti Monopolists and
Liberals being sensible men will readily
accept the situation. All others who
growl and refuse to vote for Democracy
are Republicans at heart, and should be
treated accordingly.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23
State News.


The population of Fort Dodge accor-
ding to the late census is 1851. Vinton
has 2,375, IS less than in 1873.
A breach Of promise case was recent
ly tried Mt Fairfield in which the plaintiff
was a widow So, and the defndant
juicy youngstcr of a. The jury could
not agree.
The Peoples Paper says that brotl.-
er of Senator Larrabee of Clermont, Is one
of the successful candidates for the Con-
necticut Senate in the late election. He
is from the Seventh District and Republi-
can.
The Board of Trusters of the Iowa
College for the Blind meet at the College,
in Vinton, on the 9th, to elect new
Principal for that institution, to succeed
Prof. S. A. Knapp, who will tender his
resignation at the close of the present
year.
The Grand Jury of Franklin county
have found bills of indictment against NJ
A. Ives and DR.. J. S. Hurd, the parties
implicated in the death of Mrs Ives, in
an attempt to produce abortion some time
since. They are placed under bonds of
5000 each to- appear for trial in October.
The annual spring record of poison
ing by wild parsnips, opens this year with
the account of the death of Michael Maher
near Fort Dodge, found in the Messenger.
Mr. Maher picked up a root in the field
ate of it, and taking it to his house gave
some of it to the children. The father
died in great agony, but the children
though very sick recovered.
Work has been resumed on the Cap
tol building at Des Moines. Employment
will be give to fifty stone cutters as soon
as the weather will permit Two new
stationary engines have been ordered for
operating the derricks. A thorough in
spection of the walls shows that they have
not been injured by the frost. 1t is the
intention of the Commissioners to COM
plete the first story this season.
The Masonic fraternity of Dubuque
are at logger-heads with the Grand Mas
ter of the State, Joseph Chapman, also a
resident of that city. The brethren want
to get up dancing parties under the aus
pieces of the order. To this the Grand
Master objects as not legitimate and in
contravertion of the rules of the fraternity,
and the contest over the matter has be-
come so warm that Grand Master Chap
mand has by virtue of his office taken
away the jewels of Messrs. Taylor and
Guilbert two officers of lodges, for insubor
dination.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23

SENATOR MoRTON, in a recent in
terview, abiding to the Connecticut
election, took precisely the same view
of it advanced by us last week in
these columns. He said:
The Democratic gain was due to
the fact that the Republicans assumed
the defensive instead of the offensive,
as they did in New Hampshire. There
was no occasion for apologizing for
the acts of the Republican party, and
it was significant fact that Stark
weather, the only outspoken, thor
oughbred Republican who had voted
for the force bill and other recon-
structiyc measures, was the only Re
preventative reelected. He saw
nothing discouraging in this result,
but on the contrary expressed himself
as exceedingly hopeful of the sue
cess of the party in the future. The
result in New Hampshire and Rhode
Island would be the result wherever
the Republicans assumed the often
sive, and would thoroughly organize
and 90 to work as in the past.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23

81 HAVE see a large part of Iowa."
said the late Samuel Hooperof Massa-
chusetts, to Representative from
this State, in the Capitol at Washing
ton, last winter, "and | consider it the
most remarkable State in the Union
for capabilities of production. My
attention was called to it some TWEEN
ty-five years ago, by sentence in a
report of the Commissioner General
Of the land department, to the effect
that Iowa contained less waste land
than any other area of equal extent
within the United States. 1t is a
wonder that the advantages possessed
by Iowa are not more generally
knownand appreciated. Your growth
in population has been more rapid,
and would continue in the same ratio
were the attractions Of the State more
fully appreciated in the East and in
EurODe"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23

WASHINGTON dispatches say that
the President has called upon Secre-
tary Delano, of the Interior Depart
ment, for his resignation. The cause
is the discovery of certain questiona-
bic transactions In the Office on the
part of a son of the Secretary, certain
parties in New York charging that
they have been blackmailed in con-
nection with contracts. 1t is alleged
that Secretary Delano must have been
aware OF these corrupt practices,
hence the demand for his resignation.
Gen. Cowan has been mentioned as
his successor.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23


the North. Now there are not more
than two or three Southern States
which can be counted on to vote the
Republican ticket at the next cleo
ton. Then the assumption is that
a number Of Democratic States will
be permitted to dictate the nominal
ton, in Republican Convention, OF
a man whom the Republican States
do not want This is sheer noncense.
Concerning the cooperation of the
office-holders, their loyalty to Gen.
Grant will not outlast their convic-
ton that he can be elected, if any
of them have any such conviction.
Whenever they see that majority
of the Republican party are opposed
to Gen. Grants denomination and re-
election, they will likewise be OPP
posed to it, and favor the choice of
the man most likely to be nominated
and elected. A President always
loses political control of his Office
holders at the end of the third year
of his expiring term when there is
no hope Of his reelection. The in
terest Of the Office holders is in re-
tanning their places; in order to do
so they join their fortunes, not with
their friends of the past, but with the
men most likely to be in position
to befricnd them in the future.
There Is absolutely nothing logical
in any phrase of this Third-Term
discussion, and just as little in that
suggested by the Cleveland Xerald
as in any other we have seen. Some
time ago, when the New York Herald
invented it as fruitful newspaper
sensation, it was hullabaloo; now it
has dwindled into tircsome fol-de-rol.
The New York Herald now makes
fun Of its bantling, and speaks of the
notion as an absurdity. = Wicogo
Tribune.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

JAMES BEcKLEY, Ptf,
VS. In the Circuit Court
JOHN II. BEcKLEY. SAE-
All c, BEcKLEY. THos. 2of Buchanan County,
w. BRCKLEY. MARGARET
BEcKLEY c. MORTON Iowa. June term. 1915
BEoKLEY. Defeallnts.
TO said Dsftndaais:
NoU are hereby notified. that there is now on
i file in the Office Of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Buchanan County Iowa, the petition of
james Beckley, the plaintiff aforesaid. asking a
partition of the following described lands to.wt
Commencing at the northeast corner of the
southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of sec
ton Z. in township So. north of range o, west, in
Buchanan County. Iowa. and running thence
south thirty rods thence west twelve and one
half rods. thence south one hundred and twenty
eight rods. thence west sixty seven and one-half
rods, thence north one hundred and sixty rods,
thence east eighty rods to place of beginning
containing sixty acres of land also piece of land
commencing at point thirty-cight and two iifths
east of northeast quarter of section "a, in
township So. north of range 9. west OF 9th p. NJ,
in the State of Iowa. thence running north sixty
two and one half rods, thence west six and two
ffhs rods. thence south sixty two and one half
rods. thence east six and two tifths rods to place
of beginning; all in Buchanan county, Iowa.
You are also notified that unless you appear
thereto and defend before noon of the second day
of the June term of said Circuit Court of Buchan-
an county, to be held at Independence. in said
county. on the nth day of June, A. d.. 1875. de
fault will be entered against you and judgment
rendered thereon, and partition decreed.
ID. w. BRUCKART.
4w3S Attorney for Plaintiff
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23

WE are indebted to somebody for
a copy of the legal argument of At
torncy-General Cults in support of
the Iowa Railroad Tariff law, in
the case of the c., b. & Q. r. r.
Company VS.. The Acknowledgement
of Iowa before Judge Dillon. 1t
comprises 81 pages, and is a COM
pact, lucid exposition OF the grounds
upon which the right of the State to
control railroad corporations and to
prescribe their rates of transporta-
ton is based. 1t will prove an in
valuable armory from which to draw
arguments for that side Of the con-
trOVeESV.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23
ADMINISTRATIVE Notice.

n Office is hereby given that the undersigned
~ was on the Sth day of April. 1870 duly APP
pointed by the Circuit Court of Buchanan county.
Iowa. and has qualified as Administrators Of the
estate of Stephen Adams. late of Buchan-
an county, Iowa, deceased. All persons IL
debted to the estate are requested to make imme-
diate payment to the undersigned. and those
having claims against the same will present them
duly authenticated to said Court for allowance.
SARAH j. ADAMS.
2w3S Administrative.
Dated April 9th 1879
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23
A Woman Mob.
THEY TAR AND FEATHER AN ERRING
GIRL.


GIRL.
The town of Wilton, Muscatine
county, was on Saturday last the
scene of most disgraceful transac-
ton, not the less brutal and repellant
because done by women. A young
girl of that town, aged seventeen,
who lost her mother in early life and
has been brought up by two step
mothers, has for some time been 60
ing to the bad. During the absence
of her father, she elected her step
mother for the house, and then re-
ceived visits from the young men of
the town. These proceedings in
censed the women of the neighbor-
hood, who proceeded to abate the
nuisance in the manner described be-
low. We extract from the Davcn-
port UQ@eH%.
Accordingly at o'clock, Friday
evening last, they assembled at the
home of one of their number. 1t
was cold, windy night, and it was
likely that there would be few per-
sons in the street to notice them
Five of their number were selected
as chief workers. So they made their
way to the hated domicile. The cur
tains were down, but there was a
light in one of the rooms, and sounds
of frolic could be heard. They tried
the doors, and all were locked.
In the yard were several large iron
bolts, such as are used in fastening
timbers of bridges. The ladies seized
the bolts, and with them smashed
the windows of the lighted room,
sash and all. The crash aroused the
whole neighborhood, and soon there
was excitement enough in the whole
vicinity, which was not lessened at
all by the shrieks of the girl within,
as the now iInpetuous assailants
hurled the bars at other windows.
Strange to say, no crowds Of men
rushed for the beseiged mansion
Bent on vengeance, and determined
not to allow the object of their hatred
to escape by fight, the five leaders
never thought of breaking open the
doors, but these women climbed
the windows, and came upon
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23

THE trial of Isaac Brandt, Ex-
Deputy State Treasurer, on indict-
ment found against him some time
since for embezzlement of State
moneys, was commenced in the Dis
trict Court ofPolk county, on Monday.
Three days were consumed in get
tinga jury, the regularand two special
venires of twenty-four jurors each
having been exhausted without filing
the panel. The case will attract
special interest throughout the State.
The District Attorney, H. Y. Smith,
and the Deputy Attorney General,
Gen. Given, appear for the State,
and Messrs. Polk and Goode for the
defense.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23
Ql,t Bnlltti',,
FRIDAY, APRIL Is, 1876.

THE Lexington (Mo) Caucasian,
Pat Donan's organ of secession, as
sasslnation and kindred deviltry, has
been sold out by the Sheriff, and the
red hot BLACKBOARD its editor has
transferred his scurrillous pen to the
st. Louis Dispatch.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-23

THOSE who take an interest in
spelling schools will doubtless be
glad to have an exact and concise
explanation of what words are. The
Graphic furnishes such definition in
the following paragraph:
words are the doors of knowledge,
and through them even child may be-
come guager of the heavens, SO as to
compute syzyzy and always know where
the nadir is, thus obviating the necessity
of feeling in scientific society as if he had
psoriasis and wanted to be scratched with
xstcr or a yataghan. In many diff
cult sea he may sail on a rhumb. as DER
the rythmical waves of poesy and rhetor-
ic, where there is never the stertorous
breathing of ponderous vocabulary, but
every tone is liquefied and harshness sinks
into desuetude."