Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-09

Benjamin Butt RS cook has married
Mrs Senator Jones' maid.

Benjamin Butt RS cook has married
Mrs Senator jones' maid.
Water is worth ten cents bucket in
Treasure City, Nevada No wonder there
is saloon to every sixty-one inhabitants.
Andy johnson and President Grant
don't speak" Pretty true of the Presi-
dent, but as for Andy he speaks like the
woman whose tongue got sun burnt
Cincinnati Times.
The matter of granting General Fitz
John Porter a new trial, has been finally
considered 10y the President and Cabinet,
and the conclusion is unanimous against
granting the petition to reopen the case.
The. retirement of Gen. Spinner will
afford large amount of work for the
nimble-fingered money,counters of the
treasury. Before he goes every dollar in
the treasury vaults, amounting to more
han hundred million dollars, will have
to be counted
In "A Maine spelling match mosquito
was the stumbling block. The dictions.
ries give authority for no less than four
teen spellngs of the word in question,
viz, mosquito. musquito. moscheto mos
Ghetto, musketO, mOsquctOe, mosquetto,
muscheto, muscheto, musketoe, muskltto,
mOsqueto, musquctoc. and musuuitto.
The Hartford Post says that 'it is
said the executors of Cakes Ames have
discovered by his accounts that the money
Ix, oil g., 70 4
others was in fact used for his own pur-
poses at the time he was hard-prcsscd by
his financial emharrassments."
President Grant and Attorney General
Williams are troubled to know what they
shall do with n Indian who kills another,
as the Indians are not subject our law
Our opinion is that when they catch an In
dian who has undoubtedly killed another,
the true course is to give him new gun
and five dollars.-N. y. Herald.
A Washington special says that Andy
johnson is greatly chagrined because no
Republican replied to or even noticed his
speech. He is said to be particularly in
dignant at the New York Tribune and
other independent journals for characteri
zing it as commonplace. He is said to
have expected every Republican Senator
would reply at length. He is mortified
Mary Ripley, of Columbia, is sixteen
years of age, and feeling that the time had
come when she should commence her work
in behalf of humanity, she hired a hall
and invited the public to come and hear
her lecture on Social Topics" Mary be-
gan as follows: Ladies and gentlemen:
If there were no men in the world there
would be fewer poor miserable girls wan
dering-' Mary proceeded no further in
her discourse, because at that point her
father walked upon the platform and led
her out of the house by the ear
Speaker Blaine's desk is the most dill
apidated concern one ever saw The
pounding of that ismaelian mallet did not
break the cover, and all the world Won
dered. But some vandal tore the cover
to discover the reason for such mushy
muified sound the desk emitted 1t was
found that the board-a two-inch plank
was pounded into such state that you
could pick out 5000 loose pieces and
shovel up u quart of wood dust. Here
was Il pine board two inches thick ground
to powder or splintered into cigar-ilghtcrs,
and the cover was intact That is the
usual experience. General Banks says
Che was speaker iii the Thirty fourth Con
gress, many years ago. that the cover OF
the desk never breaks with the m llet, but
the desk always wears out. Every yeal
they get a new desk. If they had Il mar
ble-top desk for the Speaker, members
would have their eyes put out by ivory
chips from the mallet.- Washington Lett,
to tile Graphic.