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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
January and June.

Another lady who was belle here
IN her younger days, Mrs. ex-Presi-
dent Tyler, is a guest at the George
town Convent, where she has a
daughter at school, Mr.. Tyler's first
wife was Miss Letitla Christian, q
daughter of Robert Christian, of Vir-
ginia. He married her in 1913, and
she died in September, 1871, five
months after he became President.
In June, 1914, Mr.. Tyler was again
married-to Miss Julia Gardner, he
being in his fifty-fitth year and she
about twenty. Henry A. Wise and
other Virginia friends endeavored to
dissuade him from the match, and
one of them told him a story of a
rich OLD James River planter, who
called his body-scrvant Tony into
council on the expediency of his mar,
rying miss in her teens. Toney
shook his head, saying: "Massa, had
you better?" eyes, Tony" replied
the infatuated planter, "why not?
She is so beautiful that the sight of
her would make one rise from a sick
bed to marry her. | am old, to be
sure, but I am not too old to make
her happy" eyes, massa, diplomat-
ically remarked Toney, "you is now
in your prime, dat's true; but when
she is in her prime, where den, mas
sa, will your prime be?" Mr.. Tyler
is said to have laughed at Toney's
philosophy, but he nevertheless mar
ried Miss Gardiner, and the marriage
proved very happy one.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

somewhere less than two bushels o.
wild flowers, which die the momen
they are put in the ground and never
revive again.
In this month a tree-peddlar comes
around and talks you to death and
sells you a plum tree that bears
fruit so bitter that it poisons every
curculio that tastes it, and some
cherry trees that send up $50 sprouts
to the square inch and will lift the
house off its foundations in two years
growth, and some apple trees that
neither sprout, blossom, nor bear
fruit, and some blackberry bushes
that spread all over a ten acre lot the
first season, and some gooseberry
bushes that have thorns foot long,
and never have anything else, and
some peach trees that break out in
bloom from the ground to the tip of
the topmost branch five days after
they are put in the ground and die as
dead as flint the sixth day, and a
climbing rose tree that turns out to
be wild ivy, and poisons every soul
about the house before the summer is
over. Wherefore we call this the
mary month of May.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
A Wreck of n Man.


What wreck SO shocking to behold
as the wreck Of dissolate man-the
visor of life exhausted, and yet the
first steps in an honorable career not
takcn-in himself y lazar house of
disease; dead, but by a heathcnish
custom of society, not buried!
Rogues have had the initial letters
Of their title burnt into the palms of
their hands-even for murder. Cane
was only branded on the forehead;
but over the whole person of the de-
bauchec or the inebriant, the sigma
lures Of infamy are written. How
nature brands him with stigma and
opprobrium! How she hangs labels
all over him, to testify her disgust at
his existence, and to admonish others
of his example! How she loosens
all his joints, sends tremors along
the muscles, and bends forward his
frame, as if to bring him upon all
fours with kindred brutes, or to de-
grade him to the reptile crawling!
How she disfigures his countenance,
as if intent on obliterating all traces
of her own image, so that she may
swear that she never made him! How
she pours rheum over his eyes, sends
foul spirits to inhabit his breath, and
shrieks, as with trumpet, from every
pore Of his body, Behold beast! "
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
A Race with an Avalanche.
From the San Francisco Chronicle

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
1t was four years ago last winter.
I was coming down with train
loaded with cattle The weather had
been bad for weeks and the snow lay
deep, but was melting off fast in the
warm weather that had lasted nearly
week. The ground was saturated,
and l noticed that things looked
shaky on the mountain. | was feel
ing my way along, thinking the track
might spring, as the bed was wet
and sloppy, when, just as | got around
the point of this ridge, l looked up,
and it seemed to me the whole noun
tain above me had broken loose. For
hundreds of feet wide the hillside
was in motion, and charging down
on me. The slide started 100 yards
above the track and was coming
right down on me like lightning.
Rocks, trees, and snowdrifts plunged
down the face of the mountain with
q laundering roar, and seemed bent
on overwhelming us and burying us
In the canyon thousands of feet be-
low. | was never so close to death
before, although l have had my share
of perils on the road. For 4 moment
l was stupefed, the danger was so
great and escape So hopeless, but only
for a moment. l determined not to
die without an effort, but clapped on
all steam, while the breaks were
thrown off at the same time. You
can see for yourself that the grade is
heavy here, and can believe we made
fast time. The engine seemed to
know her danger, and to gather her.
self for an effort. She leaped, quiv-
ering and snorting, down the grade
in the maddest race l ever saw
Down came the avalanche like light
ming directly upon us, throwing up
clouds of flying snow and splinters
and rock, and away flew the old en-
gine like q thing of life and beauty,
as she was, dragging the cars like the
wind down the grade after her,
abreast the slide. But it seemed
doomed to be all in vain. The ava
lanche came faster every moment. 1t
was almost upon us. The rocks be-
gan to bound against the cars and
over them, and the train was hidden
in a cloud of snow. But we were
flying through the air now; the
wheels seemed never to touch the
rail, and just as I was giving up hope
the engine rushed past that little
point of land just back there where
the little ravine comes down. This
turned the current of the slide, so to
speak, little, and was our salvation
The engine rushed past the point just
as the slide reached the track, and a
big pine, uprooted in the edge of the
avalanche, fell across the next car to
the last one and crushed it. The
track was swept away like a cobwet
in gale, the couplings of the cars
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
WHOLE NO. 562.

broke, and the cars fell IN the chasm
left in the wake of the slide and were
carried down the river, a thousand
yards below. What there is left of
them lies there yet. The jerk made
the engine and train jump the track,
but she kept on her feet, and we got
off with a few bruises. That / &C.
count one of the greatest dangers I
ever met in my twenty years of rail
roadinp. .
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
The Iowa City Tragedy.


Correspondence OF the State Register.1
Iowa CRY, April %, ls76.-A
thrill of sadness ran through our city
this afternoon, occasioned by the re-
port of the drowning of two of Prof.
L. f. Parker's children in the Iowa
river, just above town, at Terrill's
dam. In a short time after the sad
intelligence had become known, hun
dreds of people, large portion of
them being students, with Professors
of the State University, lined the
banks of the stream where the sad
accident had occurred.
1t seems that soon after dinner the
Professor, accompanied by his niece,
Miss Parker, and two of his children,
Leonard, aged Is, and Cora, aged II,
descended to the river, just at the
foot of the bluff on which he resides
and entering light skiff the party
rowed up the swollen Iowa until they
arrived within some % feet of the
dam, which, on account of the height
of the water has very frequently been
rowed over, the past week or So
Lenny was at the oars at this time
and was warned by the Professor OF
the danger of attempting to cross
the miniature falls, but before any
movement toward returning could be
made, the bubbling, boiling waters
into which the boat had glided, drew
the frail craft swiftly toward the dam
and almost instantly it was capsized
and its inmates thrown into the
stream.
The eddying waters separated them
carrying the two children down {
few feet, where they quickly perish
ed. The Professor managed to reach
the skiff, and clinging to 1t, was res
cued by a few students on the shore
Miss Parker, the Professors neicc
after floating down some distance
was also picked up, but just as sh'
rose for the third and last time.
The young men who rescued
the survivors were unable to un
loose any of the numerous skiffi
along the shore when they first wit
messed the narrowing scene, or tn
children might, perhaps, have beer
saved.
The Professor when brought Il
the shore was almost completely eX
hausted, but so frantic at the loss o
his children that it was with dlfficul
ty that he could be kept from jump
ing back into the river.
This stroke, while keenly felt b,
the friends of Prof. Parker, it woul,
seem to be too heavy for that gentle
man to bear. He was the father o
but three children, the eldest
daughter, at present engaged in al
other county teaching school, and tn
two little ones now sleeping at tn
bottom of the river.
Every effort is being made to re
cover the bodies, but thus far withou
avail. SNowDEN.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

Let us now ask the question: How
shall the young make the most of
life? The general answer and the
most valuable one is, "by common
sense and by will power" What
keeps you from throwing yourself
into the lake, or into fire, or from
the roof of the house? This simple
quality of man called common sense
is the nearest and best guardian an
gel of each mortal. Others believe
in other guardian angels. But mas
much as God has given you all this
will power and this common sense it
is almost impertinence in us to de-
mand additional guardian angels from
the same heaven.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

An American soda-water fountain
which is to be exhibited at the Cen
tennial, will be ten feet wide and
twenty feet high, built of the finest
marble, and mounted with silver in
elaboration. There will be q dozen
or more bright colored hair oils for
syrups!
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

Worth, who makes the women and
not the men in Paris, has graciously
consented to come to the Centennial,
and to many people he will be one
OF the greatest curiosities. He will
bring his wife, and she will wear her
best clothes.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

Paris in miniature will be shown
at the Centennial. The work covers
platform forty feet square, and
every important building, bridge,
and monument in the French capital
is seen. Those who can't afford to
go to Europe, ought to see the fac
Sinaiie of one of the most attractive
cities in the world.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM
NOW.

The surging sea Of human life forever onward
And bears to the eternal shore its daily freight of
souls.
Though bravely sails our bark to-day, pale death
And few shall know we ever lived hundred years
from now.
., mighty human brotherhood why fiercely war
and strive,
While Gods great world has ample space for ev-
Broad fields, uncultured and unclaimed are wait
ing for the plow
OF progress that shall make them bloom hundred
years from now.
Why should we try so earnestly in fes short, mar
row span,
On golden stairs to climb so far above our brother
man?
Why blndly at an earthly shrine in slavish hon.
age bow?
Our gold will rust ourselves be dust, hundred
years from now!
Why prize so much the worlds applause? Why
dread SO much its blame?
heeting echo is its voice of censure or of fame
The praise that thrills the heart, the scorn that
dyes with shame the brow,
Will be as long forgotten dreams u hundred years
from now.
patient hearts, that meekly bear your weary load
Of wrongi
earnest hearts, that bravely dare, and. striving,
Press on till perfect peace is won; you will never
dream Of how
You struggled DER lifes thorny road hundred
years from now.
Grand lofty souls who live and toll that freedom,
right and truth
Alone may rule the universe, for you in endless
YOUTH
When mid the blest, with God you rest, the CRATE
full lands shall bow
Above your clay in revrent love hundred years
from now.
Earth's empires rise and fall, o Tme' like break
crs on thy shore
They rush upon thy rocks Of doom, go down, and
no more
The starry wilderness of worlds that gem night S
radiant brow
viii light the skies for other eyes hundred years
from now.
Our Father, to whose sleepess eyes the past and
future stand
An open page, like babes cling to Thy protect
ing hand;
Change, sorrow, death are naught to us if we may
safely bow
Beneath the shadow of Thy throne hundred
years from now
Irish World, Nay 6.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

A TTORNEYS AT LAW, Independence, Iowa.
n Office over Morse & Barnett's Store Con-
sultations in English and German. 10y
d. W. BRUCKART J. J. NEY.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
Seasounblo Talk.
(From the Burlington Hawkeye.) }

1t ; llc Hlonlu ol May.
We got that pronunciation when
we were at school; merry was called
merry in any other connection, but
no one ever heard it called anything
but mary in a school girls compost
ton on May.
This Is the month when you SET
the house plants out doors. How
gladly the poor things drink in tho
warm sunshine and inhale the mel
low air, and look up gratefully into
the eyes of the woman, who with her
husbands last summers straw hat on
her head and 4 garden rake in her
hand, bends tenderly over the bud.
ding plants. And how the plants
snuggle up to each other that night
when smiling May puts on her ulster
and draws the cape over the head
and dhrows IN line of hot whisky,
while forty horse power frost, with
q breath like an iceberg, goes waltz
ing around over the fair face Of ma
ture, smelling the beautiful house
plants. And the next morning
Did you ever see woman in cal
leo wrapper, and her hair up in
crimping pins, sit down on a wheel
barrow and cry over large assort-
ment of house plants that had been
out all night without their ulsters?-
Her uncle Georges funeral wasn't a
circumstance. Sing:
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
W. .G.&J.B.DONNAN.
BAILY & JACKSON.

r AW CONVEYANCING. WAR CLAIM, AMI
IL Land Agency Office. Office in First Nationa
Bank building Independence. Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
Business Cards.
attorneys.
O. H.P. ROSZELL,

A TTORNEY AT LAW AND COLLECTING
n Agent, will practice in the several Courts o
the County and District. Special attention give
to Collections. Office over the New York Store
Independence, Iowa. [26-tf.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

A TTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW.
"A Special attention given to Collections. Office
over Fisher Bros. Grocery Store. 16w3
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
r. e. HASNER,
LAKE & HARMON,

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW In
n dependence, Iowa. Office over Planes Hard
" are store, opposite head Of Chatham st.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
Lot uS now osL tho ounStiOn. TT

There is a fount about to stream.
There is Il light about to beam,
There is Il warmth about to glow.
There is Il flower about to blow.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
2husirians.
DR.. H H HUNT,

OFFICE and Residence corner of Court ant
~ Blank Sts north of Catholic Church. 42-tf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
BRuCKART & NEY

A TTORNEYS AT LAW, Independence, Iowa
N Office III Munsons Block, Main St.
JED LAKE NJ. W. HARMON.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

Bat was bitter violet staid:
Fennel come the brighter morrow
If our peas has been delayed?
All the plants her eyes delighted
Never more will cheer her walk.
For the fuschias COR had) are bghted,
You'll ne'er hear her cactus stalk.
You take down the sitting-room
stove this month, also, and then spend
all your May evenings i'll the kitchen,
and doctor cold in your head until
the middle OF June, about which
time it is driven away by the hay
fever, which stays with you until No
vember, brings q hacking cough to
take its place.
This is the month when the chill
dren 90 out into the woods after wild
flowers, and break the best set Of
white-handled knives by taking three
of them out to dig flowers with and
losing them in the woods. They
also leave in the woods the little tin
bucket, one of the best goblets, an
old-fashioned pie plate that had been
in the family thirty-eight years, the
oldest girl leaves her botany, the
youngest boy eats q lot of wild mush-
rooms, and has to be turned wrong
side out to save his life, the Oldest
boy climbs y shell-bark hickory tree
and in consequence has to stay in the
woods until after dark and then came
ambling home Sideways; they all
catch terrific colds and bring home
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
7. WOODWARD

J.S, WOODWARD,
A TTORNEY AT LAW AND GENERAL LAND
n Agent Independence. Iowa. Office over Tabor
& Soma Drug Store Particular attention paid to
Collections, and remittances promptly made.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
HOUSE & WILSON,

physicians AND SURGEONS, Independence,
i Iowa. Office in Dr. House residence. corner
Chatham and Mott SITS. Will attend to all calls in
;ty and country. Consultations in English land
German. 46tf.
j. G.. HOUSE. s. G. WILSON.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

A N experienced nurse. will be found at the res
II idence of Mrs. A. Myers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-11-13
In Bankruptcy.


In THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
In the matter of ! p,
DURSUANT TO the order of Court, second gem
i eral meeting ofthe creditors of said bankrupt
VIII be held at the Court House, in Augusta, in
said district, on the oath day of November; A. d.
1876, at 10 o'clock A. NJ. before John w. May Esq
one OF the Registers In Bankruptcy in said district
Tor the purposes named in the section 5000 of the
Revised Statutes Of the United States, title "Bank-
ruptcy."
k2wiI S. BANGS, Assignee.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has
~ been duly appointed Administrator on the
estate Of
NANCY CARR, late of Hallowell,
In the county of Kennebec, deceased intestate and
has undertaken that trust by givisg bond as the
law directs All persons, therefore, having de-
mands against the estate of said deceased are de-
sired to exhibit the same for settlement; and all
indebted to said estate are requested to make i'm
mediate payment to
CHARLES CARR, or FRANK CARR of Halo.
well his agent in Maine.
Sept. 4, 1876. 3wl8
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STAIE OF MAINE.

WAsHlNuIoN. os-Court of County Commis
sioners at Ma hl@-, October Term, A. d. 1876.
Upon the foregoing petition, entered in this court
at TINS Term, satisfactory evidence having been re-
celVed That the i'eu,ioDcrs are responsible and
ought to be heart touching the matter sci
forth in said petition, II is Ordered That thirty
days previous notice he given that the County Com.
mIssioners will meet at the Railroad depot, in said
NanceboTo, on Friday, the fifteenth day OF Decem.
Der \. D.. 1876, at O'Clock +. NJ, for the purpose
OF hearing the parties and their witnesses therein
viewing the route mentioned in said Petition
and taking such further measures in the pre- nises
as they may Judge proper.
SAID notice to be given by serving attestel copies
OF said petition, with this order thereon, upon the
town clerks OF the towns OF NanceborO and Toph.
Held, and by posting up such copies IN three public
places in eacn OF sad towns and by publishing the
same in the Machlas Republican, "a newspaper
printed at Machlas, IN said county, that all person
and corporations Interested may attend and be
heard II they think proper. And the owners of the
townships through which said road would pass
being unknown TO us. 10y publishing the same six
successive weeks in the state paper.
Attest i. IL. IONGFELLOW, CLERK {. c. {.
true copy OF the petition and order OF court
thereon.
Attest p. II. LONGFELLOw, CLERK
GVl3
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aaitp Arnnebse soarnal,
THE SAD STORY OF BLoBBs AND his
PULLET.

From the Editoi's Drawer IN ,rDer's Magazine
Tor November
In a tiny country villa lived our Bobps' on' all
Never wife or chubby children This staid bachelor
Yet-ior hearts must cling to someihing-he had
made himselfa pet
Ola little snow.white pallet, with her wings inst
tipped with jet. -. A.,
Following close her masters footsteps, seldom
they were far apart;
Aud his love grew deeper, strong er, with the pass
Wiser far than any woman" wicked Blobbs was
wont 10 say.
Near by rose wondrous structure architects
their brains had racked-
Cross between a Chinese temple and a cruet-stand,
in fact.
This the pretty pullet's dwelling, here she has
tened every night;
Perched on high, became rooster till the dawnng
one sad day a Yankee peddler, glib, persuading'
Ga1ed 1t Bebbs and that poor pullet with calcu-
From his Wagons deep reccsses drew out, smiling
wickedly, @,
Here's marvellous invention In this box you
see a nest;
Hens at once will lay an egg here, lured to do their
Then behold this sliding bottom lets the egg drop
out Of view,
And the hen somewhat bewidered, lays at once
egg number twop ,,
'rwouid be useless to repeat all that this willy ped
dler said; .,-...
This suiices. Blobbs, unwaly by his spcclous
tongue ms.ed.
Bought the "Patent Hen Persuader," sci his snow
white pullet on,
Locked them both within, the hen-housc ere he
went 10 town that morn. go
Business thea engrossed him fully, TIL, win
NUMEROUS cares beset,
Who can wonder that the puliet and her nest lie
should forget!
Nothing all day to remind him; but returning late
al night.
Flashed sudden recollection, and his cheek grew
pale with fright.
Rushing mady from the station, straight ne sought
the hen-house door. go
Called his Pet in tones entreatiuS. An she II
never answer more
Full of gloomiest forebodings, in he dashes; finds
the nest
Overlooking with its treasures--yes, she's done
her level best.
Forty seven eggs and near them head and tail and
wings still lay,
For the poor ambitious pulle! thus had laid herself
away
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AND so YOUNG, Too A little five
year-old fellow came up to his mother,
and with great earnestness said:
Mother, saw something run across
the kitchen floor this morning, and it
hadn't any legs either; what do you sup
pose it VASE"
The mothers curiosity was excited at
the apparent strangeness of the suppos-
ed animal, and not knowing what else to
say, she said she guessed it was snake
or a worm, or something of that sort
she didn't know what. Having enjoyed
his mothers inability to solve the problem
for some time, he said, at was some wa
ter"
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" Office.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
AUGUSTA. Oct g7 lS-,

vlHE undersigned, owner of fifteen sixteenths in
Il common and undivided, of the north half of
township number two, in Range eight west from
the east line OF the state, 10 the county of Penub.
scot, VIII enter upon said land the coming lumber
ing seasons and cut and carry away timber and
logs therefrOm.
WILLIAM II. MCCRILLIS
Bangor, October y, 1876. oct2s.tltSw3w