Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-07-28
Atate Naws.

btate News.
-Baylies' Mercantile College, at Keo-
kuk, has made arrangements with Henry
Ward Beecher for three lectures in No
vember. Price $500 per lecture.
John Frazer, substantial farmer
living near Blue Cut, Jones county. end
ed his life by poison last week. Loss on
the sales of his crops was the inducing
cause.
The jarrett s. Palmer theatrical COM
pany, will play the tragedy Of julius
Caesar in Dubuque, Oct 5th, with Law
renee Barrett as Cassius, and f. L. Daven-
port as Brutus.
The Dubuque papers announce the
death of Capt. NJ. NJ. Hayden, of that
city, formerly Sheriff of Dubuque county,
and gallant officer, and commander of
Hayden's Battery during the war.
One of the mills of the Dubuque
Lumber Co., near that city, was destroy
cd by fire on Saturday morning last, to-
gether with 100000 feet of lumber. The
total loss was $4,000, upon which there
was an insurance of $4,000.
A baby tell from train on the
Northwestern road, moving at the rate of
twenty-five miles an hour, near Mechan-
icsville, last Saturday. The mother was
almost frantic with apprehension, but
when the train was backed to the spot,
it was found that the little one had fallen
in bunch of weeds, and was entirely un-
injured, though considerably frightened
-Eight prisoners escaped from the
Polk county Jail, on Friday night One
murderer, four horse thieves, and the rest
minor offenders. Neglect of the jailor to
properly fasten the outside door was the
cause. A prisoner named Gus Cudmore,
alias Chicago Jack, who did not attempt
to escape, walked the officer and informed
him what had happened
Hon. j. B. Young, of Marion, Linn
county, who was an unsuccessful aspirant
for the Congressional nomination in the
9Th District. has sued the Cedar Rapids
Times for libel contained in certain stric-
lures upon him during the canvass, and
places his damages at $25, 900. Weknow
nothing of the merits Of this case, but as
q general thing, as it scenes to US, public
men do not find it profitable to run tilt
against the press for too free criticism of
their public record.
-Monger, of the Anamosa Journal,
published the week after the Fourth, a
highly spiced description of the orator of
the day, Henry Clay Dean, with unsavory
illusions to his personal habits As usu-
al with the young man, he overdid the
thing. Dean is filthy enough if the truth
is told, but Monger, to heighten the SEN
sational effect of his narration, imputed to
the Democratic saint, nastinesses of which
he is not guilty, and thereby offended his
Democratic readers, several of whom have
stopped their paper in consequence
One Fannon of DEBORAH having adver-
tiscd his wife as leaving him without
cause, and cautioned the public not to
pay her any debts due him, the spirited
woman replies through the Republican as
follows: 81 don't want any debts due
him, but would like the money he himself
has borrowed OF me. 1t was not his bed
l left, it was my own; and as for board, l
furnished my share, and don't think he
ought to grumble when he rides around
in my buggy, and carries my watch in
his pocket" And now doubtless Fannon
is diligently seeking knot-hole to crawl
into.
Two men named Smith and Hubble
ton, at Monroe, met with shocking death
on Saturday last. They had been drink
ing, and went to a drug store kept by
Scott Garrison, and asked for a bottle of
whisky. The druggist had no permit to
sell liquor but was selling it on the sly
He commenced to pour out the whisky,
but meanwhile the men went out. When
they returned the druggist, who was wait
ing on other customers, winked and point
ed to the counter, upon which were two
bottles, one filled with whisky and the
other with carbolic acid. By mistake,
Hubbeton picked up the bottle of carbol.
ic acid and the men went out. Before the
druggist discovered their mistake they
had turned the corner of the house, and /,
opening the bottle, had imbibed freely of
its contents. Both died within an hour
in terrible agony.