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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

The suit of Hon. John A. kasson,
member of Congress from the capital
district, against the proprietors of the
State Register, in which he claims
damages in the sum of $4,000 for
an alleged libel UPON his character,
published in that paper, came up for
trial, at Des Moines, last week, and is
yet in progress. The deposition of
the plaintiff was first produced in
evidence, in which he denies in gen.
eral and particular the charge of cor
ruption made against him by the
Register, in connection with his &C
ton in the Iowa Legislature on mat
tiers affecting the interests of the c.
r. 1. g. P. R.R., and the Des Moines
Valley road, and also his vote in
Congress on the bill to divert the
Union Pacific road to the Smoky Hill
route, and sums up with the declara.
ton, that never, for his vote or influ.
ence in Congress or the Legislature,
has he ever received, or been promis-
ed, any compensation.
The evidence introduced by the
defendants has bad look for Kasson.
1t is proved that Mr.. Kasson, in the
Legislative session of ls67-s actively
co-operated with the lobby employed
by the c.. II. I. & p. R.R., to secure
the repeal of Legislation affecting
the interests of that company, that in
the bill for that purpose, introduced
by Mr.. Kasson, a clause was surrep-
titiously interlined in Mr.. Kasson's
hand writing, which practically NULL
fed the Doud amendment. For this
service, John F. Tracy, the President
of the Rock Island road, testified that
he paid Kasson $500. The latter
says that this money was for legal
services; but Tracy says that Kasson
was never engaged in a legal capacity,
norw was he practicing law at that time.
Hon. J. B. Grinnell testified that he
was in Congress with Kasson at the
time when the Kansas Pacific, or
Smoky Hill, subsidy bill was passed,
and that Kasson's vote on that meas
ure caused great surprise IN the Iowa
delegation, as he had been counted
the friend of the Omaha route. Mr..
Grinnell characterized Kasson's sud-
den change as mysterious somer-
sault that he could not account for.
Hon. J. f. Wilson and Hon. Hiram
Price testified regarding the same
matter, and the unaccountable change
of base of Kasson, the first saying
that he knew of no inducement which
could have caused a delegate from
Iowa to vote for the proposed meas
ure, or of any interest that the people
of Iowa had in the diversion of the
route. Mr.. Price went further, say
ing in his testimony that he knew of
no legitimate inducement for a rep
resentatlve of Iowa to give the bill
his support. Gen. Williamson and
others testified In the same general
that Kasson, from a friend
of the Platte Valley route, suddenly
changed to be its opponent.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

GAIL HAMILTON thinks she found clear
case Of genius in tLe little boy of Cam
bridge who was enumerating the exports
of MASSACHUSETTS, on occasion of school
examination, and ended the list with
"many learned men from Harvard Col
lege"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

VICE PRESIDENT WILSON was
seized with very serious illness at
Washington, last week, which for a
time it was feared would terminate
fatally, but he is now convalescent.
The cause of the attack was over
work and Indigestion. Mr.. Wilson Is
bending every energy to the compile
ton of his great history Of the slave
power in this country.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
T'1lt Bnlltti,l,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1875.

FREIGHTs from New York west
were advanced SO per cent on all the
trunk lines last SATURDAY..
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
sets, none.
The newspaper man who is

The newspaper man who is re-
garded with envy and admiration by
his brethren of the Iowa daily press
these days, is he who can skirmish
most dexterously, and write most
voluminously and exhaustively about
the Senatorial question without put
ting his foot in it, by declaring his
preference. Tho underbrush is too
thick yet to make it safe to "holler."
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
F." Internationally the BEST sustained. aoork
Of the kind in the uorld."
Harper's Magazine.
ILLusT1

Notices Of the Press.
The ever-increasing circulation of this excellent
monthly proves its continued adoption to popular
desires and needs. Indeed. when we think into
now many homes it penetrates every month, we
must consider 1t as one of the educators as well
as entertainers OF the public mind ,-Boston Globe.
The character which this Ma azine possesses for
variety, enterprise artistic wealth and literary chi
ture that has kept pace with if 1t has not led the
times, should cause its conductors to regard it
with Justihable complacency. The Magazine has
done good and not evil all the days Of its life
Brookkyn Edg,e
Some Of the most popular of modern novels have
hrst appeared as serials in this Magazine. In all
respects, it is an excellent periodical and fully
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

"A Repository Of Fashion, Pleasure and
Instruction."
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
THE INTER OCEAN
THREE EDITIONS:
WEEKLY, Semi. Weekly DAILY

Established less than three years ago as Rep
resenative Republican PAPER. pledged to main
tain and defend the principles and organization
of the National Republican Party. the INTER
OCEAN was early pusned to the forefront of Jour
nalism and achieved a success Unprecedented in
the history of such enterprises. BY universal as
sen il has hppp assjppe6 noSifiou as tho
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
WRITE for the Column.

Keep good company or none.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

"a Complete Pictorial History of the
Times" The best cheapest and mast
successful Family Paper in tile Union "
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
The LEADING REPUBLICAN PAPER

Not alone on its political character does the IN
ER-OCEAN rest its claims to public favor. 1t
aims at the highest excellence in all departments
and in this era Of progressive journalism aspires
to position among the best
The INTER OCEAN makes esnectial claim Nc
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10
Matchmaking Machinery.

An English journal, commenting up
on the fact that machinery is now being
applied to the manufacture of watches
in France, gives the following brief
sketch OF one or tgo of the more ingen-
ious now in use at the famous watch
manufactures at Waltham, Masssachu
sets. With regard to the common
notched or cog-wheels we learn that
they are first stamped in outline from
thin ribbons of metal. A numbe- of the
disks thus formed are threaded on a
fine rod and clamped together. The bar
thus formed is placed in the tooth cut
ting machine, where q reciprocatipg
knife cuts a groove in it the bar is
turned automatically sixtieth or other
portion of turn, according to the num-
her of teet, and second groove IS cut !;
the process is then repeated til the re-
Quired number of teeth is formed. For
cutting the escapement wheel, with its
curiously formed teeth, more elabOr-
ate apparatus is required. Each tooth
requires six cuts to finish it. For this
purpose the little rod of steel disks is
fixed diametrically across a circular
plate, round the edge of which are six
knives, each mounted so as to be capa.
blee of traversing across the plate. The
rod is acted on successfully by these
knives, it being turned radially so as to
come opposite each in turn. When all
six have operated a single tooth is COM
pleted, and the rod Is turned on it's axis
to present a fresh surface to the knives.
This is continued till all the teeth are
finished, when the apparatus is auto
matically throw GU of gear. The jewels
are cut by saws of iron faced with dia-
mond dust, into proper shapes, and
drilled by a wire hair covered with dia-
mond dust, all by machines. Even the
sCsews, of which $50 are made from a
thirteen-inch length of steel wire, the
waste being more than the amount &C
tually worked, are formed by machine
which makes the thread nuts off the
screw, makes the slot in the thread, and
delivers the screw complete. About one
hundred and fifty thousand of these
screws go to the pound troy, so that
the minuteness of the mechanism may
be imagined. All the rest of the watch,
except only the dial, is constructed by
machines of equal delicacy. The dial
has to be painted by baud, though it
would seem as if SO simple a printing
operation ought to be done readily
enough by mechanism.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10
Who Was Hermann2

Arminius, or Hermann, colossal
statue of whom was unveiled before an
immense multitude in presence OF the
princes of Germany and other distln-
guished visitors last week was prince OF
the Cherusel, a German tribe, and was
born Is B. @. He became a Roman
citizen of the equestrian order IN his
youth, and served the troops auxiliary
to the Roman army on the Danube. In
the year B. c., he planned success
full instruction against Varus, the
Roman commander, and defeated his
troops with great slaughter, Narus
taking his own life to prevent capture.
Tt was after the news of this defeat
that the Emperor Augustus exclaimed,
ssVarus, give me back my legions. !"
Germanicus in a few years marched
AGAINST Arminius with $4,000 men, but
was defeated. He again attempted the
subiugation of Germany with 100000
men, and after a severe battle was
driven across the Rhine. The Romans
never attempted to cross the river again,
and Arminius bears the title of Liberia
tor of the German nation, which he
seems to fully deserve. Arminius,
after driving cut the Romans, had q
contest with Marbod. chief of the
Maresmanni, who was seeking the
supreme power in the nation. He de-
feated him and subsequently was him
self destroyed by treachery in his own
! family. Tacitua, in his L" De Moribus, u
refers to the enthusiasm with which
the name of Arminius was cherished in
his time, and the iberator has lived in
German songs 10 this day. The defeat
of Varus and that of Germanicus con.
stituted two of the decisive battles ot
the world. They prevented the alb
sorption of the German race into the
Latin race, as the victory of Charles
Martel, at Poicter, checked the pro
gress of Moorish domination in Europe
The Philadelphia Times say of The
monument:
"Not even the Caesars, whose legiont
he overthrow, possessed its equal
! The crest statue, which was unvajleC
in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm
and hundred thousand people, is ont
| hundred feet high, and standing on it,
| lofty pedestal, erected on high hill, vii
tower far above the Colossus of Rhodes
Tho latter, according to Pliny, wht
lived during its existence, was seventy
cubits high, or one hundred Englisl
feet, which is precisely the height o
the giant of the Thuringian woods
Phidias' greatest work, the Jupiter hi
framed for the cleans, was only sizt!
feet in height. The German work o
art was designed and wrought by ont
man, Herr Ernest Won Banded, who de
voted between thirty and forty years o
labor, mental and manual, to 1t, anC
who has immortalized himself as vel
as his hero"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10
IL st of Courage.

As a rule, it is not your noisy, de-
mOnstratlve character who is the most
courageous, but the quiet, cool, and
apparently timid and sensitive individ-
ual, who realizes the horrors of carnage,
but is soul-bound to duty and to the
ca1se he has espoused. We read a
battle incident not long ago, in which
an account is given OF two soldiers
pressing side by side in the deadly as
sault straight up hill into the muzzls
of hostile guns. Will catches glimpse
If his comrade Toms deathly pale face.
"By Jove," he whispers, "Tom. I be-
lieve that you are afraid" "Afrail -
exclaims Tom, Indignantly, "if you
were half as afraid as am, you would
have tainted long ago."
A friend of ours. who fought bravely
in the late war, makes no secret of the
fact that he ran away from the fight in
his first battle, and never stopped to
take breath until far from the scene of
carnage. But when he returned TO his
post all fear had left him, and he fought
like hero. Mere animal indifference
or stOlidity is not bravery, and it is a
mistake to fancy that brave
men never feel terror, for few rush into
danger without 1eellng mOmenGarY
Qualm tbs in overcoming that fear
that true courage reveals itself But
there is another kind of courage too
little appreciated by the werld-that
which is shown by the young man who
infIe1ibly refuses to drink whisky, or to
sauander his time in senseless and
costly lazine SIS, or to fall into any of
the pleasant little vices that lie like
traps along our road. and which require
great deal of courage to escape,
is very much drawer than prize-6gbter
who submits to get beaten into a bloody
and oisfgured mass, or any professed
votary of the "code of honor, who
goes out to be SHOT at by bully. The
world should encourage true courage,
and give it the place it deserves
Until it does so, we may not be sur
prissd if mountebsnks usurp many
positions, aud need not complain be
cause of the recklessness of coarse,
brutal men, and the insecurity of life,
or that thieves, liars, and murderers
greatly abound.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10
An Ideal Living Room.

It is by no means my notion, says
Mr.. Clarence Cook, that the living room
should be a homely, matter of fact
apartment, c0nsecrated 70 the utilities,
while the muses. and graces are left to
kick their heels in the hall. On the
contrary, we want in the liviDg-room,
for a foundation, that the furniture
shall be the best designed ard best
made that we can afford, and all of it
intended TO be used and necessary to
our comfort not an article to be allowed
that doesn't earn it's living and cannot
prove its right to be there. These wants
being provided for first, then we admit
the ornaments of life--casts, pictures,
engravings, broDzes, books, chief nour-
ishers ii life's feast but in the begin
ming these are to be few, and of the
choicest, and the greatest care is to be
taken in admitting a new conner. The
room, from the very first, ought to rep
resent the culture of the family-what
is their taste, what feeling have they
for art it should represent themselves
and not other people and the trouble
some fact is, that it will and must rep
resent these, whether its owners would
let it or. no, If young people, after
they have secured the few pieces of
furniture that must be had, and made
sure that they are what they ought to
be, have some money left to get pic,
ture, an engraving, or cast, they
ought to go to work to supply this want
as seriously as they would the other,
which seems the more necessary, but in
reality is not bit more necessary. I
look upon this idealliving. room of NINE
as an important agent in the lucation
of life it will make great difference
to the children who grow up in it, and
to all whose experience is associated
with it, whether it be beautiful and
cheerful room or only a homely ard
bare one, or a merely formal and con-
ventional one. The relation of these
things to education is all that gives any
dignity or poetry to ths subject, or
makes it allowable for reasonable man
to give much thought to it. But it has
a real vital relation to life, and plays
an important part in education, and de-
serves to be thought about a good deal
more than it is. 1t is, therefore, no
trifiirg matter whether we hang poor
pic iures on our walls or good ones,
whether we select fine cast or a sec
ond rate one. We might almost as we'll
say it makes no difference whether the
people we live with are frst.rate or
second rata
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10
The CatacOmbs of Paris.

Themembers of the Geographical Con-
gress during their stay in Paris made
a trip through the famous sewers of
that city. The trip is an interesting
one, and unattended with the disagree
able trials which naturally suggest
themselves. The sewers are lighted
with oil lamps, and bear the names of
the corresponding streets above in
white and blue enameled letters, so that
the drainsmen always know where they
are. The voyage is divided into two
parts. one by rail and the other by wa
ter. Half of the distance is made in neat
little railway cars, beautifully polished
and lit up with oil lamps and globes,
which run along rails placed on the
curbstones of the drain over which you
ride, and which are drawn by men on
either side. The other half is made in
barges, also elegantly lighted and
towed by men. The most trying feature
of the voyage is the want of air, but be-
yond this there is nothing that the Or
binary tourist of both sexes cannot sup
port without the aid of counteracting
remedies. The trip lasts about half an
hour, and is sight to be seen by all
foreigners.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10
Literary Curiosities,

The intended celebration this year of
the -hundredth anniversary of the
death of Boccaccio, who would have
been lawyer had it not been-so he
says-for sight of VirgiPs tomb, sug-
gests remarkable addition to the mu-
scum of literary curiosities. Poetry
could Ill afford to spare
Petrarch was law-student-anda an
idle one-at Bolonga. Goldoni, till he
turned str0lling player, was an advocate
of Venice. Metastasio was for many
years dilligent law-student. Tasso
and Ariosto both studied law at Padua.
Politian was doctor of law. Schiller
was law student for two years before
taking to medicine. Goethe was sent
to Leipzig, and Heine to Bonn, to study
jurisprudence. INLAND was q practic-
ing advocate, and held a post in the
Ministry of Justice at Stuttgart.
Rukert was a law, student at Jena.
Mickiewicz the greatest of Polish poets,
belonged to family of lawyers. Ka-
cinczy, the Hungarian poet, and creator
of his country's literature, studied law
at Kasohau. Coreille was an advocate,
and the son of an advocate. Voltaire
was for time in the office of a pro-
Inner Temple. Cover is thought to
have studied law it has been alleged
that he was chief Justice of the COM
mon please. Nicholas Rowe studied
for the bar. Cowper was articled TO an
attorney, called to the bar, and ap-
pointed a commissioner Of bankrupts.
Butler was clerk to a justice of the
peace. The profession of Scott need
- l, 1oLo ctr IF
the Middle Temple. Gray, until he
graduated, intended himself for the
bar. Campbell was in the Office of a
lawyer at Edinburg. Longfellow, a
lawyers son, spent some years in the
office of his father. The popularity of
| this list-which might be extended with
| little trouble-lies in the eminence of
| these six and-twenty names it contains
If they were omitted from literary his
tarv, italian and German poetry would
be nowhere, France would be robbed of
one of its greatest and most national
poets, English poetry would lose its
father. and in all respects be very ap-
preciably poorer. If less classic names
in poetical history are taken, such as
Talfourd, Macaulay, Bryant. and Barry
Cornwall. the list might be infinitely
extended and if filial relationship to
the legal profession be considered, as
in the case of Wordsworth, the close
connection between poetry ard law will
| look such O matter of course that the
few eminent exceptions will only tend to
prove the rule. Milton was the son of
a sclivener. There is no need to in
dorse the fancy that Shakespeare may
have been law clerk, or to suggest
that Dante might have been Influenced
by residence at the great legal uni
versity of Bolonga. But there is an
other list strikingly to the purpose
the long roll of great lawyers who,
like Cicero, Sir Thomas Moore, Lord
Somers, Blackstone. and Sir William
Jones, have found Irritation with the
muses. no impeachment to their marriage
with the law. It may be that this close
connection of two seemingly irrecon-
cilable pursuits is due to some rule of
contrast or is it that fiction, romance,
and verbiage afford to poetry and law
common standing ground ?-G Gentle
mans Magazine.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10
What Savages Think of Twins.

In Africa, according to DIR. Robert
Brown {" Races of Mankind,') the
birth of twins is commonly regarded
as an evil omen. No one, except the
twins themselves and their nearest rel
atives, is allowed to enter TIE hut in
which they first saw the light. The
children are not allowed to play with
other children, and even the utensils of
the hut are not permitted to be used by
any one else. The mother is not
allowed to talk to any one not belong
ing to her own family. IF the children
both live till the end OF the sixth year.
it is supposed that nature has accom-
moda,ed herself to their existence, and
they are thenceforth admitted to asso-
ciatiCn with their fellows. Nor is this
abomination of twin births restricted
to Africa. In the island of Bali, near
Java, a woman who is so unfortunate SIS
to bear twins is Cbliged, along with her
husband, to live for a month at the sea-
shore or among the tOmbs, until she is
purified. The Khasias of Hind9stan
consider that to have twins assimilates
the mother to the lower animals, and
one of them IS frequently put to death.
An exactly similar belief prevails among
some of the native tribes of Vancouver
Island. Among the Amos, one of the
twins is always killed, and in Arebo,
in Guinea, both the twins and the
mother are put to death,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10

carelessness. If the practice of twenty
years ago were in vogue now-that of
stacking the wheat the day it is cut-in
this way a part of the crop would at
least have been saved. The practice
these days is to follow reapers and
shock the wheat, and, as occasion offers,
stack, week or two's delay making no
particular difference and the present
season the farmer was over confident.
Providence had given a full growth,
and well filled with grain, and it was
mans place to take care of it. We
have the promise of seedtime and har-
vest, and We got it, and it is no fault of
Providence that the grain was left to
perish by sprouting or mildew. Every
farmer should see that the grain from
every field Of wheat is we'll stacked.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10
Couldn't Behave Herself.


A Saratoga correspondent of the New
York Commercial Advertiser overheard
two young la1ies talking, and this is
what they said:
''Nell, I'm going home tomorrow"
Going home tomorrow What for,
pray2"
Because can't behave myself.
Well, out with it, Jennie. What
have you been doing ?"
Lots of things"
Well, give us the first"
"You know Frank Kennedy, Nell ?"
That soft slmpering fellow that al
ways tells ycu how chawming" you
look ?"
Exactly. This morning saw him
coming, and made up my mind to take
him down"
ST put my diamond brooch in chair,
pin upward, and asked him to sit
down"
ssHe sat, of course, and what then %
"He jumped up and yelled, ooh,
What's the trouble I asked.
Nothing in particular, only I thought
of an engagement at this very moment /;
you must excuse me- And off he went ;
and would you believe It,, Nell, the
brooch was sticking to him."
"That was awful, Jennie; and the
two girls giggled together for five min
utes. Nell broke the spell by demand
;ng what next p
"Why, you see, I was talking with
that young sprig of clergyman, the
Rev. Tom Parsons. We had nearly
talked each other to death, when, as
luck would have it, he made some re-
mark about mosquitoes. / was on my
native heath at once, and began to tell
him of my experience at Rockaway.
Did they bite very hard p inquired the
Rev. Thomas. 8 l wish, Mr.. Parsons,
said ], you could see my legs and
Judge for yourself.
"That was q horrid Epeech, Jennie.
How could You say such thing?"
"Why, Nell, it popped out before
knew it."
"And what did Mr.. Parsons say p
"He blusued clean to the eyes, and !
ran away"