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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04
Transfers OF Heal Estate in Buchanan
County.


For the week ending February 18th. 1876
Henry Weigre to J IL Carter. ne sela 81
Observation-Disclosures. 500 90
p Hungerford to Susannah Higgins.
Jesup il 1Ol ...........-.......' ....., $50 co
Z T. Stoneman to L Hany. CT al. VIZ ne
nel4 IS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
John Lcsher to c Hanger Closes Add to
independence 1t S Blk 5............. 660 90
Parker to } Il Hayes, sc swll 10 90 .
& pit ne nwl1 10 80 Observation-Disclosures. 800 90
JAS K Hayes to Emeline Parker. 5 6 Nc
Clure's Add. II & W 10 # II 6 blk y 1900 90
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04

OFFER my house and two lots for sale.
1t is desirable property, and will be sold
cheap. l.. A. MAIN.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04

THE Champion Fire Kinder, at the
Post-ol1ice Store, is just the thing for these
cold mornings
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04

PURE EXTRACTED HONEY, from Shell
don's Apiary, for sale at Williams & Son,
A. Webstcr's, T. Edwards & Co., and at
the Apiary, one mile north Of town. tf2
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04
Notice..

On account of my absence from home. | have
employed Messrs Bay & jackson to look after
the interest OF the Old PhGnX Insurance Co.,
of Hartford in independence and vicinity. Those
wishing to insure in reiiGbie, GlHS-t3{ed and IRE
ffsttd company should call at their Office cover
Fishers storel and take ont policy i'll the old
PhaRirn New business solicited; old business
attended to. al -2T) r. BARrLE, Agent.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04

A IIENRY county farmer has tried with
good success the following cure for hog
cholera: Gle procured some straw, filled
it full of wheat. set fire to it, and let the
hogs feed among the remaining ashes,
which he had sprinkled with salt. The
cholera symptoms quickly disappeared,
and the gentleman IS convinced that this
is one of the best remedies which has vet
been tried,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04
~ ArrlagGs,

Y-CIIITTISTER. On Thursday evening,
Jan. 21th, at the residence Of the brides mother,
by Rev. W. t. Phelps, Mr. Edward II Dckey
and Miss Addie A Chittister all of this city
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04

THE February number of The Republic
Magazine is like well directed broadside
against the enemy 1t contains many in
teresting articles on political topics now
being discussed by the American people,
and verbatim report, taken from the
Congressional Record, of the amnesty
speeches delivered by Hill, Garfield, and
Blaine. The speech of Mr. Hill reveals
Democracy with the mask off; the mast
erly replies of Garfield and Blaine show
the true position Of the loyal masses: for
givcncss of past crimes, but unwilling
ness to recognize treason is public viz
tue. Send for the February number.
Inclosc 25 cents for specimen, OF So for a
years subscription. Address Republic
Publishing Co., Washington, ID. G.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04

HORsEs.-Farmers and others who have
good, sound, young horses to sell, will
find, for few days, a cash customer by
calling on A. II. Allen, at Tom Curtis
Livery Stable, who will pay liberal prices.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04
ID. BR YANT,
Auo tloneer

HTNIIE subscriber has permanently located at In
| dependence and will attend to all business in
the Auction line, either in city or country. Salts
faction guaranteed, and charges reasonable.
Observation-Disclosures RosZell, Lawton & Post. W.
r. Kenyon L. L. Currier,
Post Office Box, Ia.
January Goth. 1876. 11-21m3
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04

JUDGE RoszELL has resigned the office
of President and Director of the School
Board of the Independent District, Il posi-
ton which he has held with much credit
to himself, and good to our school inter
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04
La Piccadura!

CuEsTNUTs and hickory nuts, at the
Post Office Store
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04
NUMBER DISCHARGED .
NUMBER RENAME

Feb 1st, men, 131 women, 1872. Total,
2G3. Average daily number, 260!
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-04
SEED WHEAT for sale at independence

FIFTEEN acres of young timber for sail
cheap, by (2Sw4 \. &. CLARKE.
Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27
Rabbit Warfare in New Zealand.

Some years ago a colonist, with the idea of benefting New Zealand, took out a few pairs of rabbits and turned them out in the country, forgetting how quickly these animals multiply, and what little means there are, in a country so thinly populated, of keeping them in check. The consequence is that farms are devastated, crops are destroyed, and the earth overrun with increasing swarms of these destructive rodents, and all the efforts of the colonists have been futile to keep down their numbers. At last happy idea struck some persons who had suffered from this curious plague. They determined to import some weasels, thinking that by their help they would be able to accomplish the desired end, and they have offered as much as $25 a pair for healthy wea- sells.
 Weasels, however, object to anything like confinement, and. as they would probably die on the voyage out, MT. Buckland, to whose care the experiment has been confided, has determined to send out some polecat ferrets, which he imagines will be even more valuable farmers friends. In thus making use of one branch of animal life to keep check on another, and so to maintain the !" balance of power" between them, he is simply following nature. They have had instances of this scientific adaptation in England in the employ ment of swans to destroy the supera- bundant growth of weeds in rivers and ponds, and in the protection of insect eating birds to defend crops from the attacks of insect pests. It is to be hoped the battle of nature will be fought out to the satisfaction of the colonists of New Zealand, and that they will not have cause presently to import some new addition to their fauna to keep down the too rapid increase of polecat ferrets.
Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27
Dangerous Inventions.

Many years ago gentleman in a sub ordinate department of the Bank of Ire land discovered a device more useful than hair splitting, though of the like nature 1; he found out way of splitting bank notes, so that each note became two, and to all appearances were the same as when they were one, including, of course, the watermark and all the rest of it. Ee was an honest man, and in- formed the government of the result of his ingenuity whereupon, on his solemn promise of never revealing his secret. they made him governor of the bank. Another gentleman, but who, unhappily, is rogue, has lately made Lis appear ance in London !; he has invented cer- tain acid which causes the writing to dis appear from the check, and then he fills up the blank space according to his aspirations. His naodus Operandi is the following He procures real check, drawn by a good name, for seventeen or nineteen pounds the word "pounds" is obliterated so completely that no
 race of the original writing can Le dis cerned even under the microscope, and the words "hundred pounds inserted in it's place two ciphers are added to the figures, and then the thing is done, since all the other parts of the docu-
 ment, including the signature, are quite correct. This ingenious plan is causing great consternation in London, and the gentleman who invented it could get good round sum to retire from business.
Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27
A Base Trick.

Strangers often remark, says the Free Press, that Detroit ladies seem to have & great fondness for carrying gold watches, and any person walking ten blocks on Woodward or Jefferson avenues will see, if it is fine day, at least one hun dred ladies with gold chains hanging down to the watch pocket. But, is the watch there9 On Woodward avenue car there were half dozen ladies and only one gentleman. Satan must have put him up to do @ mean thing. Yak ing out his watch he looked at it, shook it, sighed heavily and said:
 Ought to have been cleaned week ago. Will you please give me the
 The lady addressed had on magnifi- cent chain, but she blushed, half rose, sat down again, and whispered:
 My-my watch isis out of order. "
 "You have the time, perhaps! ]" he asked of the next.
 "Y-yes, sir-it's ten o'clock" she re- piled, looking out of the window.
 "Does your time agree with that 3" he asked of the third.
 "I believe so," she coldly replied, though she well knew that her chain was pinned to her dress.
 "And what does your watch say 2" he smilingly asked of the fourth.
 It's little slow, think" she an swered, drawing her shawl closer.
 The fifth lady had watch, and fine one, too. She drew it out, made as much display as possible, and called out:
 "Ten minutes after eleven l"
 The gentleman smiled, the other four ladies bit their lips and scowled, and the driver shook up the lines and called out Go on, now, you old raw bones r'
Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27
An Exhibition of Bees,

The London Isnaes says An exhibi- tion of "bees, their produce, hives and bee furniture, was commenced at the Alexandra Palace, the show being ar- ranged in the large hall of the building, and thirteen long tables or stalls being covered with the exhibits. The idea of bee keeping in the mind of the ordinary city dweller appears to be that it is some thing practiced by poor cottagers to help out their small incomes. But in Amerl- ca, Germany and Spain there are "bee farmers whose acres are covered with hives. The general ide, of hive is that it is straw cap, something like dish cover in shape, only round; that the bees make their honey therein, a-d that the poor cottager subsequently,, to ap- propriate the sweets, stiles the indus trious insects which have swarmed there. Such was, no doubt, the actual state of the case at one time; but such an idea is very far from the truth nowa- days. The straw hive has become 8 "house of wood and glass, in which the temperature is regulated by ther- mometer; the bees arc dealt with as valuable property, not stifed recklessIy, but manipulated" by the "apiarian, and the honey removed without the loss of single bee, and without the least damage to the "comb," which 1t costs the insects so much labor to make. An exhibition of this kind practically shows all this, and one begins to understand that bees where properly Harmed, |" may yield a considerable profit when one hive alone, as shown by an exhibitor, can yield III pounds, twelve ounces of honey and comb, the value of which is nearly 98, market price. The exhibi- tors in the show are numerous, and many of the exhibits new and cleverly adapted to their purpose. There is a great variety of "houses," some as large, and liks nothing so much as dog kennels; others like "dolls'" houses, with two or more stories; some like cup- boards, with folding doors and shelves, and some again like dovecotes and quite as fanciful. Inventions, too, for ex- tracting honey from the "comb" are also numerously exhibited, some worked on cog wheel action being called Sex press" extractors, etc. The " furniture" exhibited is of great variety, also, and much of 1t new but necessary to those who "farm bees for profit or pleasure
 The specimens of honey in "comb" and extracted, are also numerous, and to these may be added hives of bees to be seen at work, tees swarming, etc. There were entries for tbirty-three out of thirty-five classes into which the show was divided, and prizes of silver and bronze medals, certificates and money prizes in sums of e3 and under were offered. There were in all 244 entries, and the exhibition, which is under the management of the beekeepers' associa- tion, was we'll attended and examined with much interest.
Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27
In Hot Water.

Old man Boegs wished to make some slight repairs on the top of hisresidence, near Cincinnati, and for this purpose had occasion to tear up few shingles. In doing so in quiet and inoffensive manner, he was astonished to find that he had disturbed hornets nest. The hornets swarmed out upon MT. Boggs. They made it hot for him at the very first onset. He rushed to the ladder, attacked from behind, when, horror of horrors, neighbor had borrowed his ladder MT. Boggs cavorted, he tum- bled, he rolled from one end of the roof to the other, screaming, as he went {: "Ladder ladderl" The hornets con- tinually increased; they flew at his nose, his ears, his cheeks; they danced on his forehead; they crawled down his back, they flew up his brooches leg, they met half way and fought each other; they stung hero and there and everywhere. Boggs' wild gesticulations and terrific shouts attracted the attention of the whole neighborhood. His friends mis- took the shouts of ladder 1" "hor- nets!" for 8 political cry, and thought he was ratifying, but SO much serious ness was depicted on his face that lad der was finally procured and rescue effected. Mir. Boggs is laid up for re- pairs now, and his face looks like the newspa paper pictures of defeated prize fighter.
Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27
A New Plague i'm Egypt.

A letter from Alexandria says A new calamity now engages the attention of all Egyptians even more than the finan- cial decrees of the khedive or the re- fusal of the government to accept the judgments of the new courts. It seems that many of the cavalry horses that have returned from Abyssinia in the last two months came with most malignant disease upon them. The doctors pro- nounce it a kind of typhoid fever. It is most infectious and terribly rapid in it's progress, death resulting in many cases in few hours. It is stated, and on good authority, that the government, in stead of isolating the infected animals, sold them all at very low prices to the .tellaheen. Thus they have been dis tributed throughout the country, and in She neighborhood of Cairo alone several hundred horses are already reported dead. A we'll informed correspondent thus describes in the Delta the effect of this epidemic in one of the busiest dis tricts "It is ravaging now among the horses, mules and donkeys of our dis trict most furiously. and many villages are named where not one horse has es- capped the disease. It is to be feared that this calamity will interfere very disagreeably with our work, as the cart men will be short of horses, and the donkeys to carry seed and cotton to the stations will be very scarce. The gov ernment is alone to blame that the dis ease has spread so quickly over the country, selling everywhere for napo- leon or pound the sick cavalry horses returned rom Abyssinia, instead of iso- lating them"
Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27
A TOUCHING ROMANCE.
Sad Termination of n Promising Uui0n--
 Story of Blasted Hopes.


 Story of Blasted Hopes.
 The San Francisco Bulletin has the following: More than 8 year ago the @ "Charming Romance" one of the truest stories of worthy love and laud- able ambition ever told. Briefly re- lated, the facts were these: Lieutenant Philip Reade, 8 young army officer, so sweet and musical, so tenderly sym pathetic, that his soul was touched to know more of the sweet singer. He sought her acquaintance, was intro duced, and found young lady strug- gling against the hardships of pecuniary misfortune to make headway. She was ambitious to go abroad and study under great masters in the foreign lands of poetry and song. Her genius, her aspi- ration, and, more than all, the nobility of her character and her modest worth, found ready admiration in the mind of the young officer. He made her cause his own, and so readily responded to every aspiration of her young life that he pledged his own fortune to enable her to go to Italy and there finish her musical education in the best schools of Florence and Milan. Poor in purse but rich in womanly pride, she declined to accept the gift of so much money. Alone and with the aid of money earned in local concerts and private tuition, she visited Boston and further progressed toward the fame which she longed to achieve. Her refusal to accept money increased rather than diminished the young officers regard for her, and he renewed the offer of aid to Minnie Beals, for such was her name, with a proposal of marriage. They were mar ried in New York one morning more than four years ago. At noon on the wedding day the bride sailed for Italy and the husband started for Arizona, where he had been ordered on military duty. Frequent letters brought him tidings of her success. Her voice was like "string of pearls," said one re- nowned impressario. Time wore on and she made her debut in the finest theater of Florence to dense assem. blaze of music lovers. Fortune seemed to smile, and she secured an engage ment to sing in the leading theaters o1 Europe. Her singing ip Constantinople elicited the highest praise from the press and the populace.
 During the past year every letter ex- changed between the two referred tc the happiness reserved for the reunion. The aim of their lives seemed to have been realized, and they had by common consent centered every hope and thought in expected enjoyment of what had been obtained at the cost of so many sacri fees and the peril of so many adverse chances. She had fixed the date of hel departure from Italy next November. Fate fixed it otherwise. A single sen- tenee from strong man, utterly crush. ed and broken down, concludes the story:
 "Minnie Reade died Aug. 24.
 PHILIP READE." Mrs. Reade died in Paris. Lieutenant Reade has been stationed on the south ern border for over year, in charge o the military telegraph construction party, and is at present in San Diego, l To1ifornio
Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27
A Fable.

Once fox and goat were walking together along road, and saw sack lying against hedge.
 "What do you think is inside that sack 3" said the goat.
 "I will go and see, said the fox; and, putting his nose into the mouth of the bag, tied tightly by a cord, he shook about the bag so much that the string at last gave way, and the finest carrots one could wish for fell out.
 "They are for me-" said the fox, " for opened the sack"
 "Yes," said the goat; "bus I gave you the idea, and if you touch them will tear your sides with my horns."
 Tue fox looked at the goats great horns and showed his teeth.
 The goat, on seeing the fox's teeth, thought within herself: l don't much like that kind of weapon."
 And the fox said to himself: "I will not expose my sides to those terrible horns."
 After minutes silence the fox said : Why do we stand looking at each other9 What is the use of that2 Let us see which is the stronger. See. there are two heaps of stones. You shall take one and the other. He who shall first throw down his heap shall eat the car rots."
 The goat put her legs firmly together, and struck with her horns so hard as to make great noise, but the heap did not shake.
 "Ah you do not hit hard enough, said the fox.
 The goat went three steps backward, ot oil hnr Irh But, crack her horns broke 1"
 When the fox saw that he begun to skip about. "Oh, my dear friend, " said he, "the carrots belong to me nowi"
 "Not yet" said the goat, "you have not succeeded in your task yet. If you touch the carrots, I will tear your side with the stumps of my horns."
 The fox looked at the goat, and said to himself She has one left still, which is almost whole; she will tear my sides with it."
 "Wen," said he, |" I will knock down my heap, then; it is nothing for me-"
 The fox begun to dig with his fore paws until hc had made great hole in the ground close to the heap. The stones soon fell over into the hole, but, alas they fell on the fox and broke his left paw.
 Then the two looked at enc another the one with her broken horns, the other with his broken paw.
 "Run after the carrots," said the goat, with sheer, "I will give them up to you."
 CT cannot" answered the fox, "my paw hurts me too much. Take them yourself"
 "That is just what am going to do," said the goat, and she ran for the sack; but neither bag nor carrots were to be seen while they were disputing, man had come along and carried all away.
 "Alas l" cried the goat, chow stupid we have beenl If we had divided the treasure, we should have kept whole-] my horns, you your paw, and each oi us would have had more carrots thar we could eat"
Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27
Newspaper Bylaws.

l. Be brief, This is the age of tele- graphs and stenography.
 2. Be pointed. Don't write all around a subject without hitting it.
 8. State facts, but don't stop to moral ize. It's drowsy subject. Let the reader do his own dreaming.
 4. Eschew preface. Plunge at once into your subject, like a swimmer into cold water.
 5. If you have written Q sentence that you think particularly fine, draw your pen through it. A pet child is always the worst in the family.
 6. Oondense. Make sure that you really have an idea, and then record it in the shortest possible terms. We want thoughts in their quintescence.
 7. When your article is completed, strike eHt niae-tent}ts of ks%e adjectives.
Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27
The Last Wish,

This is all : is it much, my darling? You must
 follow your path in life, Have . head for it's complex windings, hand
 for it's sudden strife. The sun will shine the flowers will bloom,
 though my course mid them all is OCT; would not that those dear living eyes should
 light in their joy no more; Only just for the sake of the happy past aud
 the golden days that have been, By the love we have loved and the hopes we
 have hoped, will you have my grave kept
 green2 Just . moment in the morning, in the eager
 flush of the day, To pluck some creeping weed, perohance, or
 train the white rose spray; Just moment to shade my v.olets from the
 glare of the noontide heat, Just 8 tear and g prayer in the gloaming, ere you leave me with lingering feet An 1t is weak and foolish, but think that in Gods serene L shall know, and love to know, mine own, /. that you keep my grave 50 green. would fain, when the drops are plashing
 against your window pane, That you should be thinking wistfully of my
 grasses out in the rain That when the winter veil is spread OCT the
 fair white world below, Your tender hands twine the holly wresths
 that mark my rest in the snow. My clasp on life and life's rich gifts grows
 faint and cold, I ween, Yet oh would hold it to the last-the trust
 of my grave kept gl cen. Because it is by such little signs the heart and
 it's faith are read Because the natural man must shrink ere he
 joins the forgotten dead. The heavenly hope is bright and pure, and
 calm is the heavenly rest, Yet the human love olings yearningly to all it has prized the best. We have been so happy, darling, and the part
 ing pang is keen An eoothe it by this last VOW to me-you will
 watch that my grave keeps green?
Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27

HIS WATERS. boarding house keeper in Chicago read how the hotels in the White Mountains had school mis- tresses and divinity students for walters, and, to follow the example, induced a young man and two fomale teachers, whose salaries had been cut down, to un- dertake waiting at table. The first young woman was addressed by board CT to "pass them beans, whereupon she fainted and spilled plate of soup over the best false hair and down the back of a young widow. Her companion, when called upon for plate of "pud'n," said, kindly: "You mean pudding, do you not3"
Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27

THE GRAIN TRADE.--The grain trade in England is agitated by the serious as- pect of the Eastern question. If Rus sia shall precipitate war, the effect will, of course, be to check it's grain exports. England will then have to look to the United States for the chief part of the supply which it is accustomed to get rom Russia. ,,, V.