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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-15

To the Honorable Board of SuDeryisors.

To tie Honorable Board Of Supervisors:
The undersigned, Special Committee to
examine Officers, Reports, have attcrded to
the duty assigned them, and beg leave to
report
! They have compared Auditors Report
of Orders with the Orders named, and
find the Report correct
Also Auditors Report Of Money in hand
with Cashier of Peoples National Bank,
certificates of deposits, with cash in
drawer and Bill against county present
SESSION, and find the same to be correct.
Also his Report on Fees for the year
1874, and find it all right.
We have examined the notes and secur-
tiles for the five several loans of Perman-
ent School Fund, reported at this session,
and find all right
We have compared the footing in the
Treasurers Report of the several Fund
Items. and find them to correspond with
the Auditors books, and believe it to be
correct in all particulars
We have also compared his cash ac-
count with certificate OF deposit in 1st
National Bank and other vouchers, and
find no discrepancy. Also his Report of
Fees collected from January 1st, 1874, to
January list, 1915, we believe to be correct.
We have examined the Clerk of District
Court Report of Fines, Penalties, Jury
Fees, costs and cash account, and find il
correct, the balances in Report cores
ponding with the books in his Office.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
II BRYANT, Chairman.
III BRYANT
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-15
phnsitians.
DR.. H H HUNT.

OFFICE and Residence corner OF Court and
~ Blank Sts, north of Catholic Church 42-tf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-15

T AW CONNEYANCING. WAR CLAIM. AND
- Land Agency Office. Office in First National
Bank building Independence Iowa
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-15
e. e. HASNER.

4 TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. In
dependence Iowa. Office in Clarke's brick
block west side
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-15

The Committee on Classification of
Property reported; the Board concurring,
as follows
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-15
Mrs. J.E. LOOMS. M.

nFFICE on Main St. door west Of Mer-
~ chants Hotel. in Morse's brick block Inde-
2endence. Iowa
Special attention given to Obstetrics and the dis
ease of women and children
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-15

Orders received for sinking wells with above
Machine Also for sale of rights for territory and
operating Machine apply to
w. II. GATES
31-H Jesup. Buchanan Co. To-
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
The Princess TOrlOnia.

The city of Rome, writes a correspond
ent, has been moved in every sense by
the death of Princess Torlonia, one of the
most beautiful women in Rome, and the
sad sufferer for nearly twenty years from
an incurable mental malady. She was
Donna Teresa Colonna, daughter of Duke
Aspreno- ColOnna, born February %,
1928, and married to Prince Torlonia in
1880. The memoirs and journals of
travel relating to Rome of those days are
full of the marvellous beauty of Torlonia's s
bride, who, crowned and girdled with
diamonds by her adoring husband, did
the honors of those magnificent fetes
which are still rememberedas as unequaled
since by king or noble here. In those
days she bore her hOnors calmly and
meekly, although the descendant of a
thousand Colonnas. There is an anecdote
of some jealous lady telling her that the
first Colonnas were only poor plebeians
in Rome eight hundred years ago. "I
suppose we all began that way" was the
simple rejoinder. She died Tuesday of
pneumonia, after few days illness.
Prince Torlonia shows his grief royalty,
as he does everything. The remains of
the princess lay in state Thursday and
Friday in one of the state rooms of
Palazza Torlonia. She was dressed in
white, and lay with her hands crossed on
her breast, holding a small golden
crucifix and she seemed to sleep calmly
after all her years of tribulation. Three
salons were arranged as chapels, with
altars, where masses for the repose of her
soul were offered continually from dawn
to noon. The public were admitted in
detschments, and the palace doors were
besieged with crowds who pressed to have
last look at the poor lady who had been
the benefactress of many who pitied as
well as thanked her.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
A Forgotten Incident.

The East Boston Mass Advocate pub
fishes the following, under the heading,
ga Heretofore Unpublished Incident of
Half Century Ago." More than fifty
years ago boy of some sixteen or seven-
teen years of age was at work one after
noon on the old "Hingham Station
Packet" which will be remembered by
some of our citizens as for years occupy
ing a berth at the head of the dock
where State Street block now stands. 1t
was an afternoon when there was no
school, and a girl, somewhat younger
than the boy alluded to, was passing the
half holiday in play near the store OF her
father. Venturing too near the edge of
the dock she missed her footing and fell
overheard, and it being high water at
the time, she disappeared. No one saw
her fall, but by accident the lad noticed
some bubbles in the water, and having
just before seen the little Miss on the
wharf, instantly took in the situation.
Springing into the water he succeeded
in bringing her to the surface, and call
ing for aid, she was taken on shore and
restored to her parent.
This act of hcroism saved the life OF
one who has become the most distin-
guished American actress of the age--a
lady as highly respected for her moral
worth and irreproachable private char
acter as she is renowned all over the
world for her eminent histironic achieve
ments. Her rescuer is to-day one of the
most estimable citizens, and less than a
year ago acquainted the lady. with the
circumstances of her deliverance from
watery grave through his instrumentality
"a fact she well remembered, although
till then ignorant of the name of her
preserver. Cornelius Lowell had saved
the life of Charlotte Cushman,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

boy as to whether the game of chop
scotch" is as good a game as base ball.
He has just started to hop when boy
whispers
eli, Bill! there's your old dad T.
"Great snakesp whispers Bill, and he
goes over the fence like a flash, grabs the
ak, and during the next two minutes he
strikes two hundred blows per minute.
He gets into the house ahead of his
father, and as he drops the wood he says:
4" Mother, the boys were just a sayin'
that had the handsomest and best and
coolest mother on Labrosse street, and
l want TO kiss you l"-Detroa Free Press.
A DANGEROUS CRADLE.-Here is
true duck story: One of the wild ducks
that sometimes swim in the pond near
my pulpit had it from an eider-duck who
has seen the cradle.
Away off at the north of the north coast
of Scotland are the Shetland Islands so
steep, cold, barren and lonely that flocks
of sea-birds 60 there at certain times of
the year to build their nests and lay
their eggs, thinking that they will not be
disturbed in such place. But the eggs
have their value; 80 the few and poor
inhabitants of the bleak and rocky is
lands are willing to descend the most
dreadful precipices and climb the most
difficult heights to find them.
Near the coast of one of the islands,
but separated from it by tempestuous
channel, stands very high and nearly
perpendicular pillar of rock. Here, on
this steep and desolate height, the sea-
birds come in great numbers year after
year; but at last, a man who could climb
even more dreadful precipices than the
hardest Shetlanders would dare to scale,
went in boat to the foot of this rock,
and climbed its steep sides, carrying with
him pulley and very strong rope, one
end of which was already fastened on the
highest point of neighboring island on
the side nearest the pillar. Arriving,
after much toll and danger, at the sum-
NIT of the pillar, the man managed to
get the rope through the handles of a
stout basket, and then fastened the pull
ley to the rock. Here then was a way
by which the islanders could get over to
the pillar. BY getting one at time in
the basket, and swinging at this dizzy
height over the foaming channel, the is
landers could pull themselves across by
means of the rope and pulley to obtain
the eggs.
l forgot to say that the pillar of rock
is called the "Pillar of Noss,"' and the
basket is called the "Cradle of Moss"
A cradle that, perhaps, birds might like
to rock in, but not such one as quiet,
stay-at-home Jack-in-the-Pulpit would
recommend to his dear 81. Nicholas
chrildren. -" "Jack-in the Pulpit" 81.
NjchOI0s
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
Lnxuri0us Dining.

GArsene Houssyes Letter to the New York
Tribune.l
was speaking the other day ofluxury
in dress. We have an equal luxury in
dinners. Not only do the menus of the
middle class rival those of Princes, but
those of Princes are beginning to surpass
those of Kings. But this is not all. In
most good houses artists are now EN-
ployed to surround each menu with a
border of designs So that, after having
dined like BrillOt-Savarin or Charles
Mousselet, you carry off menu worth
a louis. Recently we dined-Emile de
Girardin, Chevalier Nigra, Duke de
Banos, Raoul Duval, Alexandra Dumas
and Henry Houssaye-at the Marquise
Anferti's, we'll known in Paris by her
pseudonym OF the Sphinx. She had her.
self painted for each guest large card,
framing the menu. They were aquarelles
which would easily bring twenty dollars
apiece, and many of them would be
eagerly bought for one hundred and
twenty dollars. You must not think
that this wealth of design was to make
amends for the poverty of the dinner.
There were fifteen courses, without
counting the hors d'euvres, the entremets
or the ices--all wonderfully delicate and
fanciful. The wines were of every land,
including rare brands of Chateau,
Yquem and Johannisberg. / had brought
as a curiosity bottle of the wine of Jean
Jacques Rousseau and Nine. de War
rens-a rare wine certainly; had re-
ceived six bottles of it as a present on
writing my book on the Charmettes. This
wine, which every one drank with more
reverence than pleasure, had of course
lost all its fire. 1t was like the faded
photograph of woman you once adored.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

If the eye of newt is put out, anOth-
er perfect one is soon supplied by rapid
growth. ~
The power of serpents to charm birds
and small quadrupeds is well authen-
ticated fact.
SEALS are as intelligent as dogs, and
can be trained to perform many tricks
like them.
LoBsTERs are very pugnacious, and
fight severe battles. If they lose a claw
another grows out.
1T is believed that crockodiles live to
be hundreds of years old. The Egyp-
tians embalmed them.
THE head of the rattlesnake has been
known to infict fatal wound after be-
ing severed from the body.
PETTY vexations may at shines be petty,
but still they are vexations. The smallest
and most inconsiderable annOyances are
the most piercing.
The repose of nations cannot be Sc
cure without arms, armies cannot be
maintained without pay, nor can the pay
be produced except by taxes.
WHY isa clock the most modest of
Grated things? Because it invariably
keeps its hands before its face, and equal
ly invariably runs down its own works.
TAKE life easy, and don't always be
trying to beat the sun up. You may win
for awhile, but in the long run you are
sure to be beaten, and some morning it
will rise when you don't.
THERE was an old woman, and, what do you think
She dressed herself gaily in sky-bue and pink,
With nice painted eyebrows and lovely false curls,
And affected the ways of the gayest young giils'
This dreadful old wonan's sole object in life
Was to find some young swell who would make her
his wife;
And, as she had gold her old ruins to gild,
This old woman's seeming with hope was fulfilled.
A CLERGYMAN says, !" ] once married
handsome young couple, and as took
the bride by the hand, at the close of the
ceremony, and gave her my warmest
congratulations, she tossed her pretty
face, and pointing to the bridegroom re-
piled, think he is the one to be con.
graduated.
The Paris Figaro thus neatly answers
an anonymous correspondent: A note,
written by female hand, asks us why,
in polite society, etiquette allows a lady
to pay visit with her veil down. !
really do not know, madame; but would
bet it is the ugly ones who set the fash
ion, and that it is only the pretty women
who make inquiries about it.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
Drawing in School.

Some, who have given little attention
to the matter, when they hear instruction
in drawing in the public schools spoken
of, think of nothing else but wild Uto-
plan scheme to make sculptors and paint
ers of halt the population. The buds of
artistic genius in every numskull brain
are to be cultivated until they sprout out
into the foliage, flowers and fruits of a
garden of aesthetic deligts. Young men
will be qualified to leave their shops
when the fancy seizes them, and go
out into the fields and make sketches of
the charming scenes of nature as fine rs
anything left by Claude Lorraine or
Paul Bril-. Such are the sudden conclu-
sions arrived at by those who know little
or nothing about the matter. There is
no more expectation that those who have
received instruction in drawing will be-
come professional artists, than there is
that those who have been taught writing
will be raised to the rank of the histo-
rians and poets of the country. 1t has
been said that it is nearly as easy to
teach drawing as it is to train the young
pupils hand to the acquisition of skill in
chirography; and it is no doubt true.
To know how to dance is considered an
indispensable part of the education of all
who are ever to move in any circle OF
what deserves to be called society. As
we so well know, the object of this art is
to open new source of innocent gayety ;
but more than that, to promote ease OF
movement and soften the hardness Of rus
tic manners. instruction in drawing or
design is to have in another direction, or
upon another class of faculties, similar
influence. While the hand is trained,
the eye is to be educated to discriminate
between the true and the false in orna-
ment; between harmony and deformity
of proportions; between the grace and
true beauty of nature and the ugliness
of barbaric excess.-M Y. Times.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
Dug I'm.


A great interest invests the discoveries
of Herculaneum and Pompeii, and
travellers are never weary of visiting
these buried cities, and looking upon
the curious relics of Roman civilization.
Before the facts relating to the excava-
ton were as well known rs now, the
relics exhibited in different parts of Eu-
rope occasioned great surprise. An
amusing incident happened in the
British Museum:
One of the keepers of the Museum was
leading party through the building,
and called their attention to a set of
beautiful antique vases which had been
dug up at Herculaneum. One of the
party cried out in surprise,-
"Dug up, sirT
eyes, sir, dug up"
What, out of the ground p
Undoubtedly"
"What, just as they are nowT
Possibly some little pains may have
been taken in cleaning them but in all
other respects they were found as you
now see them"
The visitor thought himself too slsrewd
to be hoaxed after this fashion and
turning to one of his companions, with a
knowing look, said, with shake of the
head
He may say what he likes, but he
shall never persuade me that they ever
dug up ready-made pots out of the
uroundv
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

Paul Revere arrived at the residence
of the Rev. Jonas Clark, where Hancock
and Adams were visiting, in Lexington,
about midnight. Revere was refused
admittance, as the family did not wish to
be disturbed by any noise "NoiseW ex-
claimed he. "You'll have noise enough
before long; the regulars are comingw
He requested to see Mr.. Hancock, Mr..
Clark said he must refuse to admit
strangers at that time of night, but Han
cock recognized Revere'svoice, and called
out, "Come in, Revere; we are not afraid
of yOu."
Ebenezer Dorr, in his tapped hat,
made his appearance soon after, with
the annexed dispatch from General War
rem:
Z" A large body of the kings troops (sup-
posed to be brigade of about one thousand
and two hundred to one thousand and five
hundred) were embarked in boats from BOs-
ton, and gone over to land on Mechmere's
Point (so-called) in Cambridge; and that it
was shrewdly suspected that they were or
dered to seize and destroy the stores belong
ing to the colony deposited at Concord"
Hancock Immediately gave the alarm,
and the village church-bell pealed forth
its warning notes; and long before the
dawn Of the 10Th one hundred and thirty
or forty inhabitants of that town and
neighborhood had collected on the COM
mon. Among the excited patriots was
Jonathan Harrington, the fifer. About
one o'clock his mother reused him from
his sleep. Jonathan, you must get
up; the regulars are coming; something
must be done" Hancock was full Of
resolution and activity. Adams was
calm and placid and happy. Hancock
occupied much of his time in cleaning
his gun and sword, and putting his ac-
coutrements in order, with the determine
tion to act with the militia. 1t was with
difficulty that he was dissuaded from
this purpose. Adams clapped him on his
shoulder, and said, Hancock, thisis not
our business we belong to the cabinet"
1t was nearly the break Of day before he
was persuaded not to throw himself into
the hands of the enemy. IL was mani
fest that one of the objects of tho ex,
pedition was the capture of Adams and
himself. Indeed, the inquiries on the
road of the. officers who had preceded the
main body of the enemy satisfied him of
this fact. They were anxious to find
"Clark's tavern" as they called the Rev.
Mr.. Clark's house, where the two patriots
were visiting, with Mrs. Thomas Ham
cock, an aunt, and Miss Dorothy Quincy,
fdncee Of John Hancock.
Smooth square for head, with uproled hair,
Lips that lover has never kissed,
Taper fingers and slender waist,
Hanging sleeves Of stiff brocade-
So they painted the little maid.
"Hold up the canvas full In view;
Look there's rent the light shines through,
Dark with a century's fringe Of dust
That was q redcoats rapier thrust,
Such IL the tale the lady old,
Dorothy's daughters daughter told"
To insure the safety of these rebel
statesmen they were conducted to the
house of James Reed, in Burlington, q
small neighboring town, and 1t was while
on their way thither that Adams, on
hearing the volleys of firearms of the
British, and beholding the rising sun
exclaimed TO Hancock, "Oh, what Q
glorious morning is thisl"-Haper's Mag
dsine.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
Irish Roman Point Lace.

It is in beautiful, delicate needlework,
and in the making of lace of different
kinds that the Irish sisters excel. There
are several houses in the South, each of
which is famous for some special kind of
manufacture. Persons who are learned
in such matters can tell instantly on
looking at piece of work at what con-
vent It was done. The crochet made
under the superintendence of the
Youghal nuns is exquisite, and so fine
that it has, in many cases, been mistaken
for other kinds of lace. have heard of
lady who purchased quantity of
what she believed to be old Roman point
in Italy at great expense. On bring
ing il home she took it to her dress
maker in Dublin and gave it to her as
trimming for dress, with many eau
tions against waste, and with repeated
orders not to cut IL unnecessarily. The
woman smiled when she heard the dis
colored work called antique point. She
got magnifying glass and showed her
customer that she had really bought
Irish crochet lace, which had been
dipped in some yellow fluid in order to
give It an appearance Of great age.-The
Argoy.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
Physical Phenomena Of 1874.

An unusual number of physical phe-
nomena appeared in different parts of the
globe during the past year. Of the
typhoons, cyclones and hurricanes of
the Eastern Hemisphere, the destruction
occasioned at Hong Kong on the 22d and
23d of September was most disastrous,
5000 persons and much property being
destroyed thereby; the New England
coast storm in May; the great storms
and rain falls of June and July in the
Southern and Middle States attended by
floods at Pittsburgh and Allegheny City;
the hurricane in Jamaca; the Missis-
sippi overflow the destructive food in
Iadia, and at Lorida, in Spain, in the
month of August; the snowfall in
Persia the great severity of the winter
in Northern Asia and in the Alps and
Pyrenees; the unusual number Of ice
bergs in the Atlantic; the great hail
storm in the south of France; slight
eruption of Etna and earthquakes in
Vera Cruz, st. Thomas, Ecuador, Porto
Rico, Mexico, Utah, North Carolina,
Scotland, Inspruck, Smyrna, Constanti-
nople and Ceylon, occasional heavy
losses Of property and considerable suf-
fering, but with the exception Of the
Hong Kong disaster, the loss of human
life has been comparatively small.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.


suppose
Suppose, my little lady,
Your doll should break her head,
Could you make II whole by crying
Till your eyes and nose were red?
And wouldn't II be pleasanter
To treat Il as joke;
And say you're glad twas dolly's,
And not your head that broke
Suppose you're dressed for walking,
And the rain comes pouring down,
Will II clear off any sooner
Because you scold and frown7
And wouldn't IL be nicer
Fer you TO smile and pout,
And 50 make sunshine In the house
When there Is none without?
Suppose your task, my little man,
Is very hard TO get,
VIII 1t make II any easier
For you to sit and fret ?
And wouldn't IL be wiser
Than waiting like Ounce,
To go to work In earnest,
And learn the thing at once
Suppose that some boys have horse,
And some coach and pair,
Will 1t tire you less while walking
To say, {" 1t isn't fair ?''
And wouldn't 1t be nobler
To keep your temper sweet,
And In your heart be thankful
You can walk upon your feet?
Suppose the world don't please you,
Nor the way some people do,
Do you think the whole creation
Will be altered just for you 2.
And isn't II, my boy or girl,
The wisest, bravcst plan,
Whatsoever comes, or doesn't come,
To do the best you can?
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
The Mania OF the Period.

1t il terrible, this mania. You are
stopped upon the streets and invited to
spell pedler, or pedlar, or peddler, or
some other word. Your wife wakes you
up in the middle Of the night to spell
sarcophagus; your children hasten to the
breakfast table to ask you to spell Co
rymb, and you devote all your spare
time to the dictionary; and your oldest
boy comes home late at night in weep
ing mood, and explains it thus: "I
went to see Mary (his sweetheart) this
evening; she met me at the door with,
spell erysipelas Tomp spelled it
with two is and no y, and she said, Sir
our engagement Is at an end; cannot
love more bad speller.' Her father, on
being appealed to, says, Give Tom one
more trial. Spell consanguineous, sir.
1 spelled it with four ms and two is, and
he bade me leave the house and never
hope to be his son-in.law." This spell of
weather is bad weather to spell surely.
--Boston Traveller.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

SOME boys at Bristol, Vermont, poured
kerosene on dog and set him on fire the
other day. The dog ran under barn
among a mass of hay, and the barn, with
all its contents Of hay and grain, was
destroyed,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

OSTRICH eggs are worth ten dollars
apiece in Africa, but the monkeys are
destroying them so that some of the
ostrich farmers are losing from three TO
five hundred dollars q week.