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The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-17

The Turks are q most barber-ous set Of
folks. You can tell that BY the way they've
been lathering those poor Servians.
WV. Jilz, the seducer of Lulu Shane,
at St. Louis, has been sentenced to one
years imprisonment and fine Of $500.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-17

This is greater number than fell al the
battle of Bull Kun, and with another diff
ference, that in that battle the slaughter
wes not all on one side
This terrible record, embracing larger
number of victims than have fallen by the
tomahawk and scalping-kniie of the In
dians in twenty years, is to he shouted out
Of sight BY cries of 'bloody-shiri,' carpet.
bagser," ''scalawag," and all the slang
whangery OF brutal blacksuaiGis~ and as
the Indians mutilate the bodies oI their
slain, these men mutilate the memories of
their victims by covering them with
charges of every species of crime. That
these men, their aiders and abettors, are
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-17
LOWER IN THE SCALE

of being than the Sioux or the Modccs, is a
proposition too plain for argument, and
will mol be denied by any good-hearted and
well-informed man. In the South the ef-
fective arguments used against the Repub-
lican party are the shot gun, the revolver
and knife, ard IN the North the charges of
corruption and the cry of reform. The first
set Of arguments are sharp and murderous !;
the second set false and hypocriIcal, and
both are used Unfortunately by the same
party, as the location or the occasion de-
mands.
have no faith in that virtue which as
sails with fur, fraud and corruption, but
connives AT murder, outrage and oppression.
Those who make daily outcry about frauds,
larcenies and defalcations, but turn deaf
ear to the cries Of murdered men, TO the
shrieks Of victims upon whom are inflicted
internal outrsges, to the complaints of those
who are driven from their homes and made
outcasts from society for no other crime
than their race or political opinions, are
Pharisees and hypocrites of the basest sort
Frauds and iarcenies are infamous crimes
and deserve the execration of all men but
they are inferior in enormity to the crime
of murder. The taking af human life, save
in self-defense, is the wickedest deed under
heaven and among men, and the murderer
need not be expected to hesitate at the CON-
mission of any inferior crime. He will
commit perjury, forgery, arson, or any
deed. We have seen how the pretended
abhorrencs Of public corruption has been
made q pretext for murder, for the estab-
Iishment of reign of terror for driving
men from society, depriving them of their
subsistence, and robbng many thousands
of people OF their dearest po i;ical rights.
ii there is anything more odious than
these crimes, it is that of reeking hypocri-
sy which affects to stand aghast at fraud,
while attempting to cast the mantle of con-
cealment and protection over deeds the
most
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-17
FOR POLITICAL VIOLENCE

from 1850 to 1874, and reported to the in
vestigating committee appointed by the
House OF Representatives, As follows:
i.lileh > ii
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-17
SOIL THE REPUTATION

of the chief magistrate. The effort to con-
nee, him with whisky frauds has been per
sistent and develish, revealing not only
malice toAard him personally, but an earn
est hatred OF the Government and the de-
termination to tarnish it before the world.
The filth hurried At him refused to stick,
and rebounding, adhered to the splotched
faces OF his advenaries; and his good
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-17
DREADFUL. AND INFAMOUS.

The infamous lies about negro plots to
murder white people have become exceed
ingly stale and disgusting. Last summer
the columns of the Southern Associated
Press for days groaned with the stupid and
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-17
LEFT THE LADIES CABIN,

and that the latter complaining of the heat,
Phelps advised her to seek the hurricane
deck in patronizing, caressing manner,
which action was followed by alarm and a
scene wholly unauthorized by the circum-
stances
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-17

10 al IN . ana il 5 ] TOO lazy to keep it up.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
Billings Good Resolutions for 1876

That won't borry or lend, espesh-
lily lend.
That l won't advise anybody until
i know what kind of advise they are
anxious tew follow.
That won't wear any more tite
boots if haf to 90 barefoot to do it.
That won't swoop dogs with no
man unless can swoop two dogs for
| one.
That poverty may be blessing,
but if it IL, it IL a blessing in dis
guise.
/ That the world owes me living
pervided i earn it.
That no man shall beat me in po-
liteness not az long az politeness
kontinues to be az cheap az it is
now.
That if a man calls me phool
won't ask him to prove it.
That will lead a moral life even
if 90 lonesome and lose good deal
of fun by it.
That if man tells me mule won't
xix, will believe what he says with
out trying it.
That the best time to repent of a
blunder il just before the blunder IL
made.
That when i hear a man Dragging
on his ancestors won't envy him,
but will pity the ancestors.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
A Story of Ben. Webster.

\ London letter to the Toronto
Globe: I have a good story of Ben.
Webster, the Frederic Lemaitre of
the English stage, now i'll his eighty
first year. He has been i'll, and a
few days ago his doctor pronounced
him dead. His friends, Churchill,
Chatrerton and others, were gathered
around his bedside. They left it on
hearing the medical opinion, but an
old servant would not have it that
her master was dead. 'Shall l put
a blanket over him." "You can put
as many blankets over him as you
like" The meaning was obvious,
but this honest woman rubbed her
masters chest vigorously and was
presently rewarded by hearing the
old gentleman say, "What's all this
about?" "They say you're dead, sir. ,
"Who says I'm dead?" CDR. c.,
sir" "I'll DR.. c. him. Get me
off this bed;" and leaning. on his
faithful retalner's arm, the dead man
iolned his friends in the next room,
who were, as George Eliot puts it.
"pceping about and casting up" The
friends had to drink a glass of neat
whisky to ban the apparitlon. But
Mr.. Webster is alive and doing well
again.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
The Knife Grinder OF Napi S
The Guardian Angel.

One day, as an old knife grinder
was turning his wheel in 4 street in
Naples, y young painter came up to
him and said:
"Do you manage to get enough
work to keep you, my good friend,
and are you never in want?"
"No, thank God" replied the knife
grinder. 81 get plenty of work, and
live in as much comfort as a man in
my station need wish for
The poor painters eyes became full
tears, and he said, sadly:
"Ah! how / wish | were as well off
as you are"
care you in want then, my friend?"
returned the old man.
"Indeed I am," said the artist
"Some years ago | left my native
country to visit Italy, and learned
painting here; l soon became able to
support myself by my pictures, and
managed to make a comfortable llv-
ing; but about ten months ago I be-
came so i'll that | could not for a
long time earn penny, and all the
money l had by me was soon spent.
Three days ago the people of the inn
where am staying turned me out of
their house because could not long
er pay them anything, and | have not
a farthing to pay for either food or
medicine with, though am starving
with hunger, and still feel very ILL.,"
The knife grinder made the poor
painter accompany him to the garret
where he lodged, up five pair of stairs
in a poor house, and there he nursed
and tended him for more than 4
month, until he was quite strong
again. During the time he was the
old mans visitor, he received sup
ply of money from his home. He of
tered the larger portion to the knife
grinder as payment for his care and
the expense he had put him to, but
the old man refused to touch 4 penny
and said:
"You have put it in my power to
pay off an old debt. Five years ago
| was in greet distress and want in
Rome. a generous stranger took
compassion on me, and helped me
out of the difficulties l was then
in. | wanted to pay him before |
left Rome, but his reply was, 1T you
ever find any one in similar trouble,
do the same to them as / have done
to YOU l have found in you, my
friend, the sufferer to whom | could
pay my debt, and if the Lord directs
any fellow creature in distress to your
door, I give You leave to pay me
through him."
Is not this the way in which God
asks payment of us for all the bless
ings He is never weary of giving us?
He has everything; We cannot make
Him richer; but the one return we
can make Him is to love Him, and to
help those who are in trouble.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
Three Fingers.

"John," called little Mrs. Pearson
after her husband, as he left home in
the morning, "stop at French's and
bring me three fingers of that new
moyenage lace, and spool of white
silk"
John braced himself up, and repeat
ed the message: Three-fngers-
of millionage silk, and spool Of
white lace" then he saw a car COM
ing, and held up three fingers that he
might not forget the message while
he hailed the driver. As he took his
seat he murmured absently, "Three
fingers of-morning papers, boy
millionage," and he subsided into the
paper, while he kept his fingers ex-
tended in the air. An old lady who
sat next to him saw his lips move,
and whispered to her daughter that
" there was another Moody convert"
When the conductor came around,
John started at him, and repeated,
"Three fingers" etc, But the con-
ductor took him by the collar, and
told him to pay his fare. At the
Office the clerk asked him question
about the days business, but the only
answer he could get was "Three
fingers of Invoices" when he went
to lunch, he rushed into the first
restaurant, and being past speech,
could only hold up three fingers,
which the obliging young nan be-
hind the counter at once proceeded
to pour out. When Johns wife saw
him next he was hatless and coatless,
sitting with vacant expression of
countenance behind the bars of cell,
in the station, and reporter had just
commenced to write, Murder, arrest
ed! Talks of nothing else than the
three fingers of hisvictim! Horrible
disclosures expected" The little
woman paid Johns fine, and took
him home, where he slept stupidity
till the next day, when he declared
his coffee must have been drugged.
Mrs. John says it's just what you
might expect of a mamie never
has sense enough to carry dry goods
message without losing his balance.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
Be1knap.
Washington CORRESPONDENCE OF the Chicago
Inter Ocean.

|
Mr.. Belknap was a very affection
ate, sympathetic, warm-hearted man,
almost etfeminate in this respect, and
the tears would come III his eyes at
the slightest provocation. l was sit
ting in his office once when woman
came in to ask a place for her son, a
boy 13 years old, whose father had
been soldier and died in the war
before he was born. She showed by
her pension papers that she was draw
ing So a month from the government,
and with that and what she was able
to earn at washing and ironing she
had gotten along quite nicely, and
had "eddycatcd" her boy, as she
SAID. But q treachcrous sidewalk
had tripped her, her wrist had been
broken, and her pension was all she
had to pay her rent, her food, and her
doctors bill. She told pitiful story
and the Secretary was quite affected.
He made a place for H." boy, gave
the woman Il SIS bill and sent her
away.
Another time | was present when
a poor Irish woman came to plead
for the reinstatement of her husband,
who had been discharged from his
place as watchman, for drunkenness.
Most men would have sent her away
unheard; but the Secretary said:
"I will hear what YOU have to say,
madam, If you will be brief; but |
cannot take your husband back. He
is a worthless, drunken fellow, and
not only does the government no
service, but he does it injury, because
of his bad example and carelessness."
He heard her patiently, as she
begged for another trial for her Eus-
band, and told how they had been
TUNED out of their house, how their
stove and furniture and clothing had
been pawncd for bread, how the baby
had died from exposure, how hard it
was to get work, and how the lesson
Of discharge had taught her husband
to be better man. | saw the tears
coming into the Secretary's eyes, and
he said:
"My good woman, will give your
husband his place again, but you
must come here and draw his wages,
and the first dollar he spends for
drinks will be the last he receives
from the government"
While she was gathering up her
thugs to leave and was calling down
upon him the blessings OF the ''howly
muther," he went into the antc-room
a moment to wipe his eyes. As he
came out he said:
"I'm fool to take that man back
when so many better men want
places, but | can't hear any one talk
about dead children without thinking
OF my own"
I went to him once to ask place
for one-legged soldier whose family
were in terrible plight, and after l
told him the circumstances, he So d.:
"Fll give that fellow the first va
cancy if you'll remind me Of him
every day or two. That will help
him out for the present" and he hand
ed me a $40 bill.
These are but few Of many similar
incidents that | might relate. What
ever Belknap's crimes may have been,
there are brighter spots on bis record
than adorn the life pages of most
men; and 1 cannot help believing
that he has some reward LAID up in
the hereafter that will go far to bal
ance the grave otlense with which he
is CHARGED.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
The Happy Man from Eluvanna

care you the writin' man?" A
broad smile on his sun Drowned coun
tenance, and his hand was outstretch
ed in way that betokened heart
overtlowing with true lnwardness.
"One of them,'' replied the city
editor, as he looked up and met the
beaming face of full-Aedged coun
tryman.
"The fellow that writes the sur
ciety?"
eyes"
"Pnt it thar an shake hard. You're
jes' tip-top, you are. Why, Kitty was
wild. Been readin' it all day. If
you'll jes' go down to the house,
blamed if l don't believe she'd hug
you. Why, when she laid her eyes
on it this mornin' she was worse'n a
boy on the fust rabbit track o the
season. 'Oh, SOL she says, 'but
didn't he sling the big words, through.
But won't that jes waken up old
Fluvauner, though They always
told me that you done things clean
up to the handle here in Washington.
But, say, stranger, how dye find it
out so quick?"
"What is it, sir? /"
"Don't remember! Don't know
me! Why, I'm Solomon B., the
chap as was hitched last night"
The editor remembered the name
as that of q city merchants son,
whose fashionable wedding had taken
place the evening before, and COM
pretended the countrymen's mistake.
"You recollect me now? Didn't
say nothin' about the runnin' away
part, did you? Kits a good lookin'
gal, but didn't you jes stretch the
blanket little bout the BRIDE and
her dresses? Great Christopher!
Why, stranger, she wanted me to go
right back to Fluvanner and run for
the Legislature.
"Now, l tell you what you do
Here's two dollar bill; there's moth
ing stingy about me. You jes send
one o them papers to every man in
Fluvanner county. Sling 'em round
perlitical-dockyment style. Me an
Kit'il go back tomorrow, an I'll
come to Congress right off. l will,
sure's you're born; there's nothin'
like gittin' writ up in the newspapers,
and that'll jes take Fluvanner county,
and, maybe. the whole o ole Vir-
glnny."
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07

The other day, when couple were
holding an angry argument, the hus-
band raised his hands and exclaimed:
90 consistency, thou art jewell" :"
The wife at once broke down, and as
she sobbed she gasped out: "You
saw her at the opera, suppose, but
if she had to split wood, wash dishes
and take care of SIX children, she
wouldn't look any better'n l do-ho!"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
KEEPING LENT.
BY RoBT. HERRICK, 1881.

BY RoBT. HERRICK, 1891.
Is this a fast to keep
The larder leane
And cleane
From fat OF veales and sheape?
Is it to quit the dish
or fleshe, yet still
To fill
The plitter high with fish,
Is it to fast an houre,
Or ragged goe,
Or show
A downcast look and sowre?
Mol tits a fast to dole
Thy sheafe of wheate
And meate
Unto hungry sowle!
1t is a fast from strife,
From old debate,
And hate
To circumcise thy life"
To show hearte grief rent,
To starve thy sin,
Not bin,
And that's to keepe thy Lent!
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07

A candidate for Quebec Center, in
Canada, has to answer for a remar-
kable act of personal corruption
giving a voter gratuitously dose of
SIENNA and salts with view to inhu
ence his vote.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
Quality in Advertising.

In the long run quality is more i'm
portant than quantity, and the high
est quality is never dear at any price.
"Cheap advertising" is snare and a
deluslon. 1t is only the most mex
perenced and gullible class of busin-
ess men who have failed to under
stand the arrant folly of wasting their
money in advertising in almanacs,
'Strangers' guides" organs of speci-
alties and obscure papers of small
circulation. Sagacious tradesmen
who mean to obtain 4 full dollars
worth of benefit for every fifty cents
expended in advertising, have abund-
antly realized the fact that their
money is simply thrown away If in
vested in that class of mediums that
have no legitimate circulation among
that portion of the community who
have money to spend and are IN the
habit of spending it freely. a col
umn advertisement in a paper the
bulk of whose circulation is among
the ignorant classes, is of less real
value than stickful in paper whicn
is read by the prosperous and the in
telligent.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07

The wife OF Mr.. Joseph Whisen-
hunt, of Burke county, N. c., gave
birth to twins the last night OF the
old year-one was born ten minutes
before IL o'clock and the other ten
minutes after -. So one was born
on Friday and the other on Saturday,
one in 1875 and the other in 1876
Their birthday is not the same, yet
they are twins. A like circumstance
probably never occurred before in
the history of the world. Another
noticeable feature of this event is
that one is a boy and the other a
girl; the boy was born in the old
year and the girl in this-leap year.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07

The other day Boston belle rush
ed excitedly into the house of friend
to exhibit $l75 silk dress she had
Just purchased, and incidentally men.
toned, just before her departure, that
her father had failed the day previous
and shut up his store.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
nrr.J.E.IOOMIS. Mn.

OFFICE on Main ST.. one door west Of Mer
~ chants Hotel, in Morse's brick block, lnde-
oendence, Iowa
Special attention given to Obstetrics and the dis
ease Of women and children.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
"A, AY,AP

approaching ripeness, being "sweet-
ly acid"
This concluded the entertainment,
and the jugglers, having been hand
somely rewarded, made their obeis-
ance and retired well pleased.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
2husitians.
p. H, WARREN
Dr.. H H HUNT

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office Chca-
go Clothing House, Cor. Main and Chatham SITS.
1ndependence, Iowa. Us
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07

physicians AND SURGEONS, Independence,
Iowa. Office in DR.. House residence, corner
Chatham and Mott SITS. Will attend to all calls in
.ity and country. Consultations in English and
German. 4o-tf.
= q HousE s. G. WILSON.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
BRUCKART & NEY

A TTORNEYS AT LAW. Independence, Iowa
n Office IN Munson's Block Main St.
JED LAKE. M W. HARMON.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
Us, WOODWARD,
nnH01.nRInGI
E. E. HASNER

A TTORNEY AT LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC AND
A Land Agent. Office over Taylor's Hardware
Store, Independence, Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
LAKE & HARMON,

Es z. HASNEN,
A TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. In
n dependence Iowa. Office over Planes Hard
ware STORE opposite head of Chatham ST.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07

A TTORNEYS AT LAW. Independence, Iowa.
~ ONCE over Morse & Barnetts Store. Con-
suitations in English and German. t19-y
d. w. BRUcKART. ]. j. NEY.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
q, 81. b. DONNAN,

r AW CONVEYANCING, WAR CLAIM, AND
II Land Agency Office. Office in First National
Bank building. Independence. Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
HOUSE & WILSON,

NFTICE and Residence corner of Court and
Blank Sts., north of Catholic Church 42-tf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
Business Cards.
Attnrneus.
O. H. p. ROSZELI

O,H.P. ROSZELL.
A TTORNEY AT LAW AND COLLECTING
n Agent. will practice in the several Courts of
the County and District. Special attention given
to Collections. Office over the New York Store,
Independence, Iowa. [26-tf.
J.S, WOODWARD,
A TTORNEY AT LAW AND GENERAL LAND
~ Agent Independence. Iowa. Office over Tabor
4 Soma Drug Store. Particular attention paid to
Collections, and remittances promptly made.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-07
MisfellauepMs.
Hair-Dressing.
west Side WOOD { COAL Yard

VXyoOD, Coal, Hard Wood, Lumber & Fence
w Posts At wholesale and retail. Weights and
Measures guaranteed. All orders will receive
prompt attention, Office near B., Z. X EN- De-
not, 0ml
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-10-25

The principal stock in trade of the Demo-
cratic orators is g Hard Times" Working
men are told that the Republican party is re-
sponsible for the times and that the election
of Tilden Tor a "change, y win make times
better. Some people may be ignorant enough
to be caught by such stuff bnt he who reads
and observes intelligently will see that the
relief is in directly opposite source. The
large majority of the votes that Tilden will
get will come from the men of the "solid
South y that waged war against the Union
and by whose course huge burden of debt
and suffering was bequeathed to the nation
This is the cause of the hard times. The fic-
titious prosperity resulting from the war has
its counterpart in the effort to readjust the
country to time of peace and changed val
ues. If this is necessary it is because party
of men who are and were a controlling ele-
ment in the Democratic party led the country
into cruel and terribly expensive war.
Again. let it not be forgotten by the labor
ing classes that the policy of the Democratic
party leads TO worse times than those of the
present. The incipient rebellion which it is
fostering in the South against the rights of
the colored people, and its policy of free trade
as enuneiated in it's platform, are calculated
to discourage business enterprise, to depress
manufactures and to breed discomfort in all
business circles.