Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-06-25

Dubuque sends out six orators to
to make Fourth Of July bowls.
The sentence Of Isaac Brandt has
been again postponed until July 9th.
The crack base ball club of Iowa,
the Kcokuk Westerns, have disba nded.
The Aesssnger says that some Fort
Dodge miners are prospecting for coal in
Sac county.
Waite rloo will celebrate the Glorious
Fourth by races-s2 600 being offered in
purses.
Gov. Carpenter is engaged to ad dress
the people of Newell, Buena Vista coun-
ty, on the Fourth
-Keokuk don't propose to ''enthuse"
this year. Perhaps by the Fourth the
grasshoppers may conclude to if the citi-
zens don't.
Two hundred and ten workmcn are
now employed on the new Capitol at Des
Moines, one hundred and fifty of whom
are skilled workmen.
w. o. Parsons of Ames has been mr.
rested for committing rape upon Miss
Dolly johnson respectable young lady
of that town. The act was attended
with very aggravating circumstances.
Our sporting men will be pleased to
know that the prospects for prairie chick
ems are very flatteriug for the coming sea-
son. Old hunters report a decidedly
favorable spring for young broods.
Gov. Carpenter has issued a proclama-
ton, offering reward of $500 for the ar
rest and conviction of each of the persons
guilty of the murder OF Gco..N Kirkman
of Story county. in May last.
The Center Point Lotus says that q
man named Hardestcr, who lives near
Marysvillc, one day last week went to II
distant part of his field to close the bars,
and has not been seen or heard of since.
Moral: Never close the bars
"A daily paper is being published at
Fayette during commencement week of
the Upper Iowa University, called the
Fayettc Neaos 1t contains, besides the
exercises of the Commencement, a history
of Fayettc county.
The Post gives an account of an ac-
cident by lightning, resulting in the total
destruction of the residence of S. W.
Byers, of Nashua, on Monday of last
week; also the burning of barn and two
houses belonging to David Metzgcr, four
miles southeast of that place, the same
evening.
The Keokuk Gate city says that the
interior of the prison at Fort Madison,
presents awide contrast from what it did
last year, the sheds, lumber, and other
material formerly kept inside having been
removed, rejecting much credit upon
Warden Craig and his deputy, J. II. Rey-
nolds.
A Theological pstitute-was held in
Storm Lake last week, composed Of min
listers from the Northwestern Iowa Con-
ference. The Institute was conducted by
DR.. F. D. Hemenway of CARROTS Biblical
Institute, and attended by over forty min
listers. The Institute arranged for another
session to take place some time in 1876,
at LIE Mars.
The Center Point Lotus of last week
contains an account of bold robbery
committed upon farmer by the name of
Mounce, residing about four miles south
east of that place, wherein the thieves
came out over 81 200 ahead. Mr..
Mounce is treasurer of the township school
board, and had in his lpossesson at the
time of the robbery about 5000 belonging
to the school fund, which they also APP
propriated to their care
The Sioux City journal says: An old
woman by the name of Helen Waite,
living in this vicinity, and managing Il
farm, for some reason has secured Il
hearty displeasure of some of her neig.-
bors, and on the night of the 9th inst. a
mob visited her house, in her absence, and
made havoc. They smashed in the win
dows OF the house, demolished doors,
ripped off the clapboards and chopped all
the agricultural implements and wagons
to pieces. The destruction in such
articles, our informant assures us, will
amount in the aggregate to at least 81 900.
The census of Blackhawk county, as
returned by the Assessors, is 1913 against
90, 1876 in 1873, an apparent loss in two
years of 223 The Waterloo Reporter is
not satisfied with the showing and points
out several Inconsistencies in the reports
of the Assessors, which 60 to show that
their work has not been done with the
care necessary to secure accurate returns.
1t is not probable that our sister county is
on the backward track. The population
of Waterloo is gwen in this years returns
at 5,5OS, falling off of 1893 since the last
census. Cedar Falls has population of
3,27O, a gain of 143 since 1878.
"A strange story is told of an old man
named b. F. Graham of Des Moines, who
thirteen years ago was sentenced to the
penitcntiary for twenty years for an al
legged attempt to commit rape on his own
daughter aged Is. Graham was convicted
mainly on the evidence of this daughter,
confirmed by her mother. 1t is now as
certained that the whole thing was CON
spiracy by the mother and daughter to
| get rid of the husband, SO that they
might open house of ill-fame. The
mother is dead and the daughter has mar
ried and moved to parts unknown.
Measures are being taken to secure par
don for Graham who is now Il helpless
cripple, moving about only on crutches.
Gov. Carpenter has signified his willing
ness to grant the pardon if he has any
friends to care for him. We CLEAN from
the Register.