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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10
"A Modern Solomon.
N. Y, World,

"Hwang Lee and All Wing" said
His Honor as he bent rather low
bow upon pair of Celestlals who
stood before him. "What do you
say to the charge of disorderly con-
duct brought against you?''
"Ah Wing, he lun away my dog,'
pleaded Hwang Lee.
"Hwang Lee whatee Mclean man
callee big lire. Hwang Lee comee
my laundly, stealee my dog all likee
Mclean man thief" pleaded All
Wing.
'It is not remarkable" said the
Judge, "that these strange people, so
far behind the civilized world in
many respects, yet possess III common
with us an affection for the lower
animals? 1 must discover to which
of the prisoners the quadruped be-
longs, and that, too, by means of a
strategy once employed by a some
what famous biblical predecessor.
Officer Brown, bring the dog and
meat-ax into court"
1t was done.
"Now, then, All Wing and Hwang
Lee," resumed the Court, assuming a
style of pronunciation meant to be
clearly comprehensive. "Officer,
comee chopee doggee in twoee. All
Wing takee halfee and Hwang Lee
halfee. Uuderstandee?"
A painful silence was at last brok-
en- by All Wing, whe remarked
calmly: "Allee light, Judge, SO Of
ficer give me halfee got EN- dogs
Ibis in him."
"Affection has spoken In silence" !"
said the Judge, triumphantly; ''let
Hwang Lee have the dog"
"Tankee Judge" said the prisoner,
as he lifted up the obese animal.
"Ah Wing he no havee one bite;
Hwang Lee eatee dog all up self"
olive dollars or five days each, !"
said the disgusted Judge, as his esti-
mate of the Celestial in human nature
fell down to zero.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10
What an Old Man HAS Seen.
Cheshire Republican


l have seen a young man sell a
good farm, turn merchant, and die in
an insane asylum.
/ have seen farmer travel about
so much that there was nothing at
home worth looking after
/ have seen a man spend more
money in folly than would support
his family in comfort and independ-
ence.
have seen young girl marry a
man of dissolute and idle habits and
repent of it as long as she lived.
have seen a man depart from truth
where candor and veracity would
have served him to much better pur-
pose.
l have seen the extravaganza and
folly of children bring their parents
to poverty and want, and themselves
to disgrace.
l have seen prudent and indus
trious wife retrieve the fortunes of a
family when her husband pulled at
the other end of the rope.
have seen a young man who de-
spised the counsels of the wise, and
advice of the good, and his career
end in poverty and wretchedness.
have seen a young man refuse to
do anything that came to hand, refuse
honest work because hard, and loll
about in idleness, eating the bread of
honest industry, too lazy to work
and too proud to ask for it. I have
seen such man come to want, cast
off by friends who were industrious
and who hated idleness, and be driven
about as a ship without rudder.
l have seen young men live with
and upon their parents, who were old
and had to work to maintain them
selves, seen them laboring and toll
ing to maintain these idle children,
and they seemed to take no note
about the additional labor which they
heaped upon the old people. 1 have
seen such young men disgraced in
the eyes of the public, and their
future clouded by it. Let the young
work and do what their hands find
to do.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10
Cornered Him at Last.
Fayetteville Express.


A Georgia miller, in a recent con-
versation. with one of our grain-buy-
ers incidentally remarked that deal
ers IN his section wouldn't need any
of our corn this year.
"Well we have raised it for you, y
replied the Fayetteville merchant,
ssand you are bound to take it."
"No, we are Independent now
Georgia will have enough corn of
her own," retorted the miller.
"Well, we'll feed it to hogs and
sell you the meat"
1--WE are safe there, too," continu-
ed the miller; "our people will furn-
lsh their own pork
Nothing daunted our Fayetteville
friend discharged his Parthian shaft.
"Well, we'll make our corn into
whisky, and You can't get around buy
ing that"
Georgia admitted that he had him
there.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10
Thomas Mast.

John Parton, in H.rper's Magazine for Decem'r.
Few readers need to be informed
that it was the war which developed
and brought to light the caricaturist
Of he United States, Tbomas Mast.
When the war began he was boyish
looking yonth Of eighteen, who had
already been employed rs a dranghts-
man upon the illustrated press Of New
York and London tor two years. He
had ridden in Gavibaldi's tr,in during
the campaign Of 1860, which freed
Sicily and Naples, and sent sketches
OF the leading events home to New
York and to the London Illustrated
Ae'os. But 1t was the secession war
that changed him from rowing lad
with swift pencil for sale into pat
riot artist, burning with enthusiasm
of the time. He'pers WsekIy, cir
culating in every town, army camp,
fort and ship, placed the whole coun-
try within his reach, and he gave
forth from time to time those power
fnl emblematic pictures that aroused
the citizen and cheered the soldier
IN these early works, prodnced
amidst the narrowing anxieties OF the
war, the serious element was of ne
cessity dominant, and it was this
quality that gave them so much in
fluence. They were as much the eX-
preston of heartfelt conviction as
Mr.. Curtis most impassioned editor
ials, or Mr.. Lincoln's Gettysburg
speech. This | know, because l sat
by his side many time, while he
was drawing them, and was with him
often at those electric moments when
the idea of a picture was conceived.
1t was not till the war was over, and
President Andrew johnson began to
"swing round the circle" that Mr..
Nast's pictures became caricatures.-
But they were none the less the utter
ance sof conviction. Whether he is
wrong or right in the view presented
of subject, his pictures are. always
as much the product Of his mind as
they are of his hand.
Concerning the justice of many of
his caricatures there must be, of
course, two opinions; but happily his
greatest achievement is one which the
honest portion of the people all ap-
prove. Caricature, since the earliest
known period of its existence, far
back in the dawn OF Egyptian history,
has accomplished nothing else equal
to the series OF about forty-five pic
lures contributed by Thomas Mast to
Harper's Weekly for the explosion
of the Tammany Ring. These are
the utmost that satiric art has done
in that kind. The fertility of inven-
ton displayed by the artist, week
after week, for months at time, was
so extraordinary that people conclud-
ed, as a matter of course, the ideas
were furnished him by others. On
the contrary, he cannot draw from
the suggestions OF other minds. His
more celebrated pictures have been
drawn in quiet country places, sever
al miles from the city in which they
were published.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10
Saving OF Her Husbands Leg.

Yesterday afternoon man, whose
name could not be learned, and who
with his family lives near the corner
of Williams alley and Fountain street
got INTO a quarrel with his wife.
Both were in that state known as
"two-thirds seas over," but instead
of feeling happy, it affected them
Just the opposite. They pitched into
each other, tore each others hair, and
raised such a rumpus generally, that
the neighbors sent for some of the
boys at the engine house to go down
and put a stop to the disturbance.
Some of them did 60 down, but when
they got there the trouble had sub
sided, and to all appearance "peace
held sway supreme" AS the sequel
will show, however, it was .ot so
peaceable as it seemed. BY some
diplomatic course or other, the wo-
man had succeeded in getting her
lord and master to bed. Her next
move was to get bottle of chloro-
form, which was near at hand, and
administer nice little dose to her
husband, which soon put him to sleep
and made him wholly oblivioms to
what was going on around HIM.
The next act was to get an old saw,
with which she proceeded to do job
in surgery that would put profess
sional surgeon to blush. Beginning
at the lower end of the mans leg,
she commenced saving until she had
sawed that useful appendage in
twain. He, totally unconscious Of
what was going on, slept on s'the
sleep of the innocent" while she,
after the job was done, looked on,
watched his lite-blood ebb slowly
away. Somehow or other the neign-
bors outside got wind Of what was
going on inside the house and rush
ed in, in time to stop the bleeding,
but at last accounts it was ques-
ton whether the man would live or
not. For some time past the man
has been employed on the new
county buildings, now IN process OF
erection.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10

Jack in the Pupil" st. Nicholas for December
"It's amazing" said Deacon Green,
"how stupid we human beings are,
little and big; what worthless things
we strive for, and what blessings we
carelessly cast away. In some parts
of Japan, when you go home from a
dinner, a servant is sent after you
with a box containing everything
that was offered you at the table and
that you refused. All! what If some
day an angel comes after us to show
us all the blessings that are offered to
us on earth, that we are too stupid or
too obstinate or too proud to take!"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10
Dres. In tho Lass Century.

Speaking of dress in the last CEN
tury a writer says: The toilet was
the great sum and business Of life,
The adjustment Of the hair the prin-
cipal employment Take, for in-
stance, how lady Of fashion passed
her day: Al ten, after Der "dish Of
Bohea" as il was called, generally
taken before rising, the lady arrang.
ed herself in a muslin peignoir, or
wrapper, and had a regular reception
OF her friends, while, with her hair,
dishevelled, she was submitted, for
the first time in the day, to the hands
of her hair-dresser; for usually she
dressed four or FIVE times day.
Her hair dragged off her face, cover
ed with powder, plastered with POM
atum, fiizzled in stiff curis, was rails
ed by means OF gauze, feathers, and
flowers, into an editfce often equal to
her height -Four els of gauze have
been contained in some of these
erections, with butterflies, birds and
feathers introduced-the last Of the
most preposterons height OF, it is re-
corded, about a yard. After an hours
plastering and frizzing, the hair-dress-
er's task was over, and q weary one
it was, though enlivened by the ami
mated conversation Of the visitors.
The remainder Of the toilet was fin
ished, the most important Of which
was the arrangement of the patches
"a point of great interest. These
were made of black silk, gurnmed
and cut into stars, crescents, and
other forms. Patches had originated
in France under Louis XIV, with a
view to show off the whiteness of the
complexion, but they were never
worn by women Of dark skins.
Great was the art in placing these
patches near the eye, the corner OF
the month, the forehead, and the
temple. A lady Of The world would
wear seven or eight, and each had its
special designation. She never went
without box Of patches to replace
any that might accidentIy fall off;
and these little boxes were generally
OF Battersea enamel, finely painted
by some eminent artist, had usually
tiny iooking-glass inserted within
the lid to help her repair the accident.
Nor was the romge pot forgotten,
rouge at that time being an indlspen-
sible adjunct to the toilet-so indis-
pensable that when Marie Antoinette
came over to France to marry Louis
XVI, and begged to dispense with
wearing it, family conclave was
he,d at Versailles on the subject, fol-
lowed by formal order from the
King to put it OLA command
which she had no alternative but to
obey.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10
"Pleass Give Me- Ny Dime"

"I'll give you ten dollars to have
that train stopped!" exclaimed Maj.
D. A. Carpenter yesterday to Mv. J.
B. Hoxle, master Of transportation of
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad. The eastward-bound pass
enger train had pulled out of the
depot, and was rafting through the
yard, the bell ringing merrily. Maj.
Carpenter stood within the depot,
and Mr.. Hoxie was watching the fast
receding train. The request was suf
fcient for Mr. Hoxie to act upon,
although totally ignorant of the rea-
son, and freight engine standing
near by shrieked shrilly at the engin-
eer Of the passenger train, and the
alarm was taken up by other engines
in the yard the train was motioned
down by every employe Of the COM
pany in the vicinity, and in thirty
seconds 1t had come to a stop, to the
wonderment OF the passengers and
tho curiosity of the engineer.
1t happened in thise wise:
just before the train started, a
man standing on the step of one of
the cars and called to him little
girl with basket of apples on her
arm, and purchased dimes worth
OF the fruit. He placed the apples in
his pocket, and just then the train
moved slowly away. Taking ten
cent note from his pocket, he held it
in his hand as the train moved on,
the little girl following imploring
along, and finally he returned the
money to his pocket and went in.
side the car. The little girl burst in
to tears. Just then Maj. Carpenter,
head Of the wholesale house Of Messrs.
Carpenter Ross & Co., crossed
through the depot on his way
to dinner. He asked the reason OF
her tears, and she told him. "rll
glue ten dollars to have that train
stopped shouted the Maj, who,
though small man, physically, has
a heart as big as all outrofdoors.
The train was stopped and back
ed into the depot, and with the
majors protection the little girl iden-
tilted the fellow, who was made to
give her the dime, and then to listen
to an opinion about himself express
ed in very vigorous English by the
thoroughly aroused major, who
wonld have liked nothing better than
to have given hlm sound thrashing.
Officers Madden and Cain We're call
ed, the fellow taken off the train,
marched to the calaboose, and kept
chewing the cud of his own dreary
thoughts, until evening. Then he
was made to solemnly promise that
he wouldn't eat another apple for
twelve months, and released, taking
the evening freight train for his home,
near Strawberry Plains.
When Capt. Jaques, superintend-
ent Of the railroad, heard the reason
why the train had been stopped, his
face fairly shone again with pleasure,
and his ample sides shook with the
qualification it gave him.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10

Mr.. Bret Harte's popular poem
first opened the eyes of the people in
the United States to the fact that the
heathen Chinee is peculiar, but it is
due to the Cinnamon himself that the
theory advanced in the poem has
since deepened into the firmest kind
of a conviction in the public mind.
Some Cinnamon, undeniably, have
good traits, but some have bad ones,
and in cases where John is bad he's
bad all over. The immeasurable and
complete duplicity of his conduct
when he chances to be one of the de-
plaved, cannot be described abstract
Iy; it can only be shown by some it,
lustrations in the concrete. No An
glo-Saxon, for instance, could have
exhibited the useless but admirable
diplomacy OF a wicked Chinaman re-
Gently at Truckee, California. A
certain man at Truckee used rub
ber hose for some purpose, and was
much vexed in mind and pocket be-
cause the rubber hose required SO
frequently to be replaced. Some one
stole it, and the enraged victim de-
termlned at last to lie in wait and ef-
feet a capture of the thief. He was
entirely successful in carrying out
the design. He watched and caught
a Chinaman metaphorically red-hand-
ed in the act of the theft. He had
the rubber hose in his hand and was
making off with it as fast as his legs
would carry him when he was pounc-
cd upon. There could be but one
sequel to the situation. Your Trukee
man doesn't wait for the tedious pro-
cesses of the law when the object to
be attained is to get satisfaction out
of a celestial. In this case the own
er Of the hose adopted the Lolicy Of
Mr.. William Nye, of energetic MEM
ory, and "went for that heather
Chinee." He applied the toe of his
boot to the celestial posterior so
fiercely that the celestial body fairly
quivered after each concussion, and
he continued the performance with
remorseless pertinacity. All round
the block the Chinaman was kicked
by the irate owner of the rubber
hose, and the affair terminated only
when the assailant had thoroughly
exhausted himself and the seat OF the
oriental pantaloons was a total wreck.
Then as the kicking ceased. the Chi
naman turned, and with look of in
nocent surprise, and in the calmest,
sweetest manner, asked:
"Wha tor? You no lik9e lendum?"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10

Some people are too trusting for
this world. At a recent trial the
prisoner entered a plea of "Not
guilty." when one or the jurymen
put on his hat and started for the
door. The Judge called him back
and informed him that he couldn't
leave until the case was tried.
'Tned?" queried the juror, "why he
acknowledged that he was not guilty"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10

Why is printing Office like a we'll
regulated financial institution? Be-
cause there are plenty of quoins in
the bank.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10

The most effective way for a boy to
learn a bee sees-by just putting his
finger into the hive.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10

In Norway, the longest days are
three months; the morning papers
are published quarterly.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10

The editor who said his mouth
never uttered lie, probably spoke
through his nose.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-10
9hysitians.
Mrs. j. E. LOOMS. M. d.

OFFICE on Main ST.. one door west Of Mer
~ chants Hotel, in MOrse's brick block, Inde-
.pendence, Iowa
ease of women and children.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-06
\ Child Cut to Death by X eaper.

tChaflOttetOWn (Canada) Argus.
Dir. James Wetherlie of Vernon River
was cutting grain near his residence Oh
Saturday afternoon last, and his little
daughter, four years old, contrary to ex-
press commands, persisted in being in the
field with him. He sent her into the
house three times, the third time pretend
ing to be angry with her and threatening
punishment if she remained in the field.
On coming round again to the place near
which he left his child, and not seeing
her, he concluded that she had return
ed to the house. This, unfortunately,
she did not do, but hid herself in the tall
grain, crorching close to the ground in a
furrow. Just as the horses passed her by
She jumped to her feet, and utterly un.
conscious of being in the very jaws Of
death, laughed her last laugh in her faith
er's face. But, alas in moment more,
before there was time to draw rein or
utter the word ''whoa'' she was weltcring
in her blood on the platform Of the ma
chine. One Of her legs was completely
severed at the ankle and the other almost
entirely cut off above the knee. Medical!
aid was not within easy reach. She lived
for some time until her little body was
drained of the life-giving fuid-drank
some water and talked some. When be.
coming weakened, and her sense of feeling
para] wed from the loss Of blood, she in
nocently inquired of her father what was
the matter of her feet,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-06
opened. They contained the discovered
portions of the body Of q

opened. They contained the discovered
portions of the body of a. woman, who
had been killed by cutting her throat
The head hal been cut Off ha1ow 49,
wound which had killed her; her hands
were severed from her arms; her arms
from her body; her legs from her thighs.
The face and parts of the body had been
eaten away by the action of lime: her
hands, however, which were small and
handsome, were quite norfact
and some of her beautiful ho;,
remained. The woman had heen ohont
twenty-six years old when she wac LID
and she had been murdered about :, raa,
The police officers now took the br.vo
little Stokes back to the murderer.s sbon
in Whitechapel. and examined the nlaca
Beneath the floor they found a crave
about two feet deep, and filled nartlv
with lime and chloride of lime. Tn +
was rope and some auburn hair: in
another part Of the shop was a spade.
chopper ana Ratchet. There was y
stone on which were marks as if putrid
meat had been chopped upon it. Vain.
wright, 1t Is supposed, had murdered the
woman in this place on Saturday night.
Sept. Ii. 1874, and had buried her in this
grave. A year elapsing, and the place
about to pass into new hands, he had dis
inferred his victim and chopped up the
body to remove it to another place ofcon.
cealment. As to the identity Of the
body with his missing mistress, there
seems to be little doubt. There has, how
ever, been nothing discovered which
SHOWS that the ballet girl, Alice Day,
knew anything about the crime. She
proc!alms her innocence; and Vain.
wright, who remains silent about other
things: says that she knew nothing of
what the parcels contained. The affair
reminds one of the Greenacre murders
thlrty-seven years ago.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-06
Convicted by Conspiracy.

In Lincoln county, Canada, last winter,
Matthias Konkle was convicted Of raping
a little child and was sentenced to death,
but in April his sentence was committed
and he was sentenced to the peni:entiary
From the Hamilton Times of the 2lst we
learn that evidence has now been obtained
which shows that Konklc was convicted
by the perjury of three women and the
girl 1t appears that Col. Konkle, father
Of Matthias, left his property to his sons.
His second wife and widow could not Sc
cure her dover because Matthias was in
the way-not Of age, we suppose-and so
conceived the plot to dispose of him. She
persuaded her washerwoman, who had a
grand child, and her servant girl to Join
her in the plot and swear falsely against
the young man. The old woman first
maltreated the child to make her body
appear as if the crime had been commit
ted, and then forced her to swear to the
charge. The servant girl says she told
the story ''for fun The child, who is
now the States evidence against the
other three: saysI:!she was compelled
through fear TO- telLit. Her. grandmother
was bribed by promise Of money. Mrs.
Konkle taught TIE three what to say so
that their stories should agree. There
was no repentance when the poor fellow
was sentenced to be. hanged, and when
that was committed to life imprisonment
Mrs. Konkle congratulated herself that
she still 'had him fxed," for he was
legally dead and out Of her way
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-06
What a ST. Paul Horse Breeder is
Doing.

The last issue of The Spirit of the
Times has the following notice of what
Mr.. George W. Sherwood is doing in the
way of improving the breed of horses in
this section:
:'Mr. George W. Sherwood is quietly
gathering on his breeding farm number
Of excellent brood mares and. horses.
Most of his stock is Of Swigert origin,
and rumor has it that he has number of
good ones, which, when the proper time
comes, will make a sensation in this Sec
ton. We note specially the bay mare
Mollie Martin, the"bay mare Jennie. dark
bay filly Lady, black colt Auditor, the
three-year-old Walter Ferris, and the
weanling illy Belle Lucas. Mr.. Sher-
wood is one Of those unassuming gentle.
men who do great deeds in quiet manner.
No one dreams of the sensation in store
for them, but it is certain to come some
day. When Mr.. Sherwood has all his
plans ri pened, he will let Minnesotians
see what energetic activity and honest
endeavor can do, backed with capital
and rigid determination. St. Paul owes
much to Mr.. Sherwood, in fact the whole
State of Minnesota is already greatly in
debted to him, for the superior stock he
has imported