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

Miss Fannie Means, of Vinton, last
week, after milking COW, was turned
upon by the animal, and gored, one of the
horns inhicting painful wound in the
young lady
"A joint stock company, with capital
of $50, 900, has been organized at Musca-
tine to construct water works.
The second trial of Ursula Spangler,
for the murder of her infant child, took
place at the recent term of the District
Court of Chickasaw county, and resulted
in her acquittal. On the former trial she
was convicted and sentenced to 20 years
in the penitentiary.
The Dubuque Herald says Saloons
flourish in this city. Three new ones
were opened last week and two more are
projected. Every other door is u saloon
on some streets, and the world wags along
as usual"
One A. s. Grlswod has brought suit
against Judge Ruddick, of Waverly, for
$4,000 damages for false Imprisonment.
Griswold was defendant in civil case
and was beaten. The plaintiff had execu-
ton issued, but in the meantime Griswold
had converted his property into money
He was brought before the Court, and &C
knowledged that he had the money, but
refused to satisfy the judgment. The
Court commanded him to pay over enough
to satisfy the plaintiffs claim and upon
his REFUSAL Judge Ruddlck ordered him to
prison. On this he brings suit for false
imprisonment.
Merrill is the name of new town on
the A. K & d. railroad, eight miles east
of Knoxville. 1t is named in honor of Ex-
Gov. Merrill, who has assisted materially
in building the road.
Judge Murdoch, of Clayton County,
is preparing to construct fac SMILES of
Iowa mounds on the Centennial grounds,
accompanied with specimens of pottery,
&c, such as are found in the genuine
mound.
The Cresco Ploindealer of Novem
Der 9Th contains the sworn confession of
ii convict in the State Penitentiary at Still
water, MINI, accusing one A. d. Wright,
Of Howard county, of purchasing from
the alfiant horses that he Wright knew
to have been stolen; that the further
away from Cresco the horses were stolen
the more Wright gave for them; that
Wright was one of II band OF thieves and
counterfeters, and gave the affiant direc-
tons TO other members of the gang in
Illinois and Minnesota; all detailed with
names, dates, prices paid for stolen horses
&C., and accompanied by corroboratiye
affidavits from men whose horses and
other property were stolen.
A singular death occurred at Des
Moines u few days ago. A Swedish wo-
man, with her children, were sitting at
supper, when the mother left the room on
some Grand Returning in few mo-
ments, one of the children was sitting up
right at the table, dead. All efforts to
bring back life were vain The cause of
the sudden death was supposed to be
GROUP.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

HERE is the way the West Union
Gazette harrows up the feelings of its
readers:
"The boiler was removed from the
kitchen stove after the weeks wash
ing was done, and no sooner was it
placed on the floor than the creeping
baby espied it and concluded to in
vestigate its contents, little suspect
ing the horrible fate that has follow
ed hundreds of little ones under like
circumstances. 1t reached the boiler
and had climed upon its feet, hold
ing to the top, when the mother,
glancing through the door from the
opposite side of an adjoining room,
at once realized the imminent dan
ger to the baby. With a frantic
scream she fastened to its rescue
But for that scream nothing might
have happened, but as the child heard
it he looked around, and thus lost
his balance, pulling the boiler over
him as he fell. The mother, with an
other scream, almost sank to the floor
with sickening feeling at her heart,
but rallied to her child's rescue, dis
covering then that the boiler was
empty
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

IT is suggested that the big dali
lies of the State are playing hide and
seek on the Senatorial question, while
they are drawing out the rural edi-
tors, who are not supposed to have
political shrewdness enough to keep
mum. This may be so. The fact is,
the rural members OF the legislature
will dictate the Senator to these city
fellows. The river counties don't
send enough of Republican members
to the Legislature to entitle them to a
very big say, anyway. These coun-
ties will present as many candidates
for Senator as they have members in
the General Assembly, and will De
after the rural children for their votes
with vigor which to some extent,
will supply their shortage in num-
bers. But, really, 1t is very cruel in
these metropolitan journals to call up
on the clodhoppers for Senatorial
light. We have always looked to
them for wisdom and the true in
wardness Of all political duty, Don't
hide your light under a bushel, or
even a peck meas ure, and leave us
poor country fellows to grope our
way in the dark. Don't Waterloo
Courier.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19


Books OF REFERENCE.-In the organ-
cation of a library, the first purchases
should be, not of books to read. but of
books to be referred to; remark more
true Of small libraries, even, than of large
ones. We will not 60 50 far as to agree
with Rufus Choate, who is reported to have
said that he never read book through; ;
but it is certain that fifty dollars wisely
expended in books of reference will give
the household more useful information
than a hundred and fifty expended in
books to read "
So wrote one of the editors of Harp rs
Magazine "A few years ago. Those were
wise words. When a young man is be-
ginning to buy books to keep, as all should
who expect to be men with homes, good
dictionary and an atlas should be his first
purchases. In such matters, 1t is best to
accumulate enough to ''get the best" as
early rs practicable. A biographical die
tionary is needed next; then one can read
travels, scenes, history, poetry and novels
with the spirit and the understanding"
both One needs all the three books
named to read inteligently, SCOTS Quen-
tn Duroard and Reads CIOister and
Hearth
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

JOYCE, the dishonest official, con-
victed of completely with the thieves
of the Whisky Ring in defrauding
the revenue, was on the 18th brought
up before the Court at Jefferson City
for sentence. The penalty for his
offense was fixed at imprisonment
for three years in the Missouri peni-
Tertiary and fine of $4,000. Pre-
yious to the announcement OF the
sentence, he addressed the Court in a
studied speech, in which he declared
himself the victim of perjurers and
thieves, and likened himself to Win
klereid, Raleigh, Calico, Columbus,
and other ancient worthless who were
made to pass under the rod of unjust
percacyItlOn
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

BristOw Is doing a good work in I'M
masking these frauds, the qualifications of
which seem to extend into even the White
House, and attach to Grants most init
mate friends, including Babcock, brother
Orville and others who swing around the
princely throne,
The paper across the way thus
echos the Dubuque Herald in the
lying statement that the Presidents
brother and Gen. Babcock have been
implicated in the whisky frauds now
being laid bare by the administrations;
the object being to endeavor by this
means to make it appear that Presi-
dent Grant himself had winked at
and shielded the thieving transactions.
Our contemporary knows, if it knows
anything, that the report concerning
Orville Grant and Gen. Babcock was
concocted and telegraphed over the
country by the real scoundrels, with
the idea of matchmaking the Presi-
dent into relaxing his fierce grip up
on them, and that in this purpose it
proved n miserable failure, the Presi-
dent announcing his intention to do
his duty let the consequences fall on
whom they may In this connection
we have the testimony of the St.
Louis Republican,, a Democratic pa
per that apparently does not deem it
appropriate to abandon decency and
truth to make Il political point. 1t
says: 81
eve believe President Grant is
wholly disconnected with the whisky
frauds. Our information is reliable
that he has co-operated thoroughly
with Secretary Bristow in unearthing
the frauds. When appealed to by
Mcdonald, Joyce and Others to inter
fere with Bristow's work, he firmly,
and with emphasis, declined, as he
has since done. He has been visited
at Washington, Long Branch, and
here, by scores of persons advising
the dismissal Of the suits, but invari-
ably replied as before"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

The business men Of Richmond,
Va, have a sensible and practical
way OF advertising their city, and
benefiting themselves. They sub
scribe for papers which they send to
distance, and have the satisfaction
of seeing business enterprises and ad-
ditions drawn to the city in this man.
ner, which would never have been
reached but for the information i'm
parted by the papers. The papers of
a city advertise it if there is anything
worth advertising. Business men
elsewhere would do well to follow
the example Of those of Richmond.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
DersecutlOr

The ambition of st. Louis seems
still to run in the direction OF big
hotels. The last project is that OF an
immense caravansary to be called the
Grand Hotel, which is to occupy l2O,-
900 square feet, $4,000 more than the
Pacific Hotel at San Francisco, will
have 1000 rooms, and cost, exclusive
of furniture, nearly two millions OF
dollars. 1t the capitalists OF st.
Louis would expend their energies
and money in opening up new fields
of business and providing new routes
of communication with their city,
and in otherwise developing and i'm
proving her superior location and adj
vantages, they might find it more
profitable that piling up huge hotels
which, haply, may lack for guests.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
Cannot Endure Il.

Mrs. Deborah Cattell, of Des
Moines, is member of the Commits
sion that conducted the Reform
School investigation, and her name
appears with those of A. G. Dodge
and w. II. Leas, her associates of the
committee, appended to the report
given to the public last week. Since
the publication, Mrs. Cattell has ex-
amined the report more carefully,
and finds that she cannot approve of
it. She has accordingly written the
following letter to Gov. Carpenter,
asking that her name be withdrawn,
and giving her reasons therefor:
Dies MONIES, Ia, Nov. IL, rs.
G. O. carpenter, Governor Of Iowa;-
You will remember that at the
time the report of the committee to
investigate the Reform School was
presented, l remarked to you that
although l had signed the report l
was not entirely satisfied with it, as
it appeared to me, from my under
standing of it by hearing it once has
tily read, to be somewhat one-slded.
Upon a full examination of it in print
since that time, l have become fully
satisfied that it differs, in so many
points, from my view, that l am con-
WINGED 1 made a mistake in putting
my name to it. l therefore wish to
recall my signature or endorsement,
or at least to file this as withdrawal
thereof. When the Trustees report
is prepared, if it meets my views l
will so signify, and if it does not, l
will at an early day present those
views in full, or at least upon the
points wherein l do not agree with
either of the other reports.
DEBORAH CATTELL.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
F1rz HENRY WARREN has become

F1Tz HENRY WARREN has become
hopelessly insane, and has been taken
to private retreat for that class OF
invalids at Hartford, Conn. Taking
the cratic productions of his pen of
late as evidence, it would not be a
violent presumption to say that he
has been lowering on the border land
between reason and toollshness for
some time. He was a brilliant and
accomplished man in his best days;
he made an honorable record as a
soldier, and with better judgment
and more equable temperament might
have won high position.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
The Equity Of It
Group.

a paper read before the Health
Association of Baltimore, last week,
by II. o. Hitchcock, of Michigan,
closes with the following practical
and equitable proposition:
Every State Governor should at
once institute by competent com
mission a careful inquiry as to the
amount of losses the State suffers
from traffic in alcoholic drinks, and
should assess that amount upon the
dealers equitably according to their
sales. Such proceedings in each
State would in five years entirely
abolish the traffic.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
Harper's Bazaar.
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Notices of the Press.
The Bazaar is edited with a combination of tact
and talent which we seldom find in any journal
and the journal itself is the organ of the prea,
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The Bazaar commends itself to every member OF
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

The Clinton Herald says the right
of the Code Commissions to revise
the Constitution of Iowa, and the
changes which they assume to make
are seriously questioned. We think
the propriety, if not the right, may
well be questioned. We can possibly
stand the tinkering Of our laws by a
trio of lawyers every few years, even
though they come out of the process
in unfamiliar and uncongruous guise,
but the Constitution should be guard
ed from the patch and solder bust
ness
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

The Clinton Herald is of the
opinion that the report of the Re-
form School Commission, ''to say the
least, is sufficiently sweeping in style
to justify hesitation in accepting its
conclusions as final.''
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

The Keokuk Gate Ci2y says that
Mr.. McCrary will solicit no votes
nor spend any money to be Senator;
that he will 60 to his post in Wash
ington and attend to his duties in
Congress, and that if the Legislature
chooses to elect him Senator, he will
accept the trust and try to faithfully
discharge its duties. We suppose
this is the euphuistic way Of saying
that Mr.. McCrary will not stand in
the way of the other Keokuk candi-
date, Gen. Belknap.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

ANOTHER big humbug has come to
the end of his tether. A New York
dispatch announces the suspension of
Mark NJ, otherwise ".Brick" Pome-
roy, proprietor of the New York
Democrat. Liabilities, $4,000; as
sets mono
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

IT is said that the pressure upon
Mr.. Alnsworth, member of Congress
from this District, by Democratic as
pirants Tor positions in the next
House, is fearful. There are about
three hundred places to fill,-clerAs,
door keepers, &c., and Mr.. Aims
worth has applications from Iowa
alone more than sufficient to occupy
every last one of them; and yet the
tide shows no sign of ebb.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

ONE fountain there is, whose deep vein
has only just begun to throw up Its silver
drops among mankind fountain which
will allay the thirst of millions, and will
give to those who drink from it peace and
joy. It's knowledge; the.fountain of cul-
tiyation, which gives haaish 10 mankink,
makes clear his vision, brings joy to his
life, and breathes over his souls destinya
deep repose. = Monitor.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

The Cedar Rapids Republican
says: "In looking over the whole
ground, it seems to us, without mean
ing any disparagement to the other
candidates, that the election of Hiram
Price to the Senate of the United
States is thing emineatly fit to be
done," which to our mind is an emf
nently sensible conclusion, if high
character, and ability, and an unim-
peachable record are to have weight
in the choice.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-19

THE Springfield Republican
s'thinks it quite likely that it will
have the opportunity of supporting
Gov. Tilden for President next year,
and quite likely that it will be glad
to embrace it, AS Tilden will be
the candidate OF no party but the
Democratic party, it will be seen that
the Republicans mask of 'indepen-
dence" IS wearing thin, and may soon
be cast off altogether.
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Conrad Keister. of Union tOwnshi,

Conrad Keister, of Union township,
Floyd county, while emptying scatterings
into a threshi4g machine, had his arm
drawn in by the cylinder, and fearfully
mangled. He lived through one night,
but died in the morning. Weglean from
the Charles City Intslligenesr.