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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26
Glenwood, Mills Co., Ia.

Harper's Weekly, IN an editorial
address to the young men, says; "lt
seems to us that the young men who
sincerely seek reform should at this
time, when there is so inspiring a
resolution to the same end in the Re
publican party, unite with that party
to secure at Cincinnati a result which
will be the guarantee of what they
desire. This is what the most pub
lic-spirited and unselfish citizens are
doing in Massachusetts and Pennsyl-
vania and Missouri and throughout
the country. Patriotic expectation is
turned to Cincinnati for q candidate
who shall represent not merely the
force of a party machine, but the
power of the generous, reforming,
and resolute republican desire of the
country"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26
Suicide At Storm Lake.
STORM LAKE. Nav %. ZIG.


Ed. BULLETIN:-The people Of this
town were startled, this morning, by
the report that dead body had been
found on the Lake shore. A number
of us visited the spot and found a
man lying upon the ground, a double
barrel shotgun by his side, which
had evidently done the work, and
done it effectually, as the mans head
was nearly all blown away. One
piece of skull bone was found thirty
feet from the body. 1t was plainly a
case Of suicide, as he had taken off
one Of his shoes in order to pull the
trigger of the gun with his toe.
The deceased, Mr.. Frank Cham.
berlin, was an attorney Of this place.
He was In good circumstances finan-
cially. A wife and two children are
left to mourn his death.
Bad whisky is supposed to be the
cause. WILL.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26
Iowa Asylum for Feeble Minded
Children.

This asylum was incorporated by
the last General Assembly of the
State as one of the permanent Chart
able institutions of the State.
The design and object ofthc asylum
are not of a custodial character, but
to furnish the means of education to
that portion of the youth of the State
not provided for IN any Of the other
educational institutions, who are of 4
proper school-attending age, and who
shall remain such periods of time as
shall, in the estimation of the Super
intendcnt and Board of Trustees, suf-
flee to impart all the education prac-
tloable in each particular case, and
in conformity with regulations here
matter specified.
Children between the ages of seven
and eighteen who are idiotic, or SO
deficient in intelligence as to be in
capable Of being educated at any Or
binary school, and who are not cpl
leptic, insane or greatly deformed,
may ho admitted by the SHperintend-
ent.
The education furnished by the
asylum will include not only the SIM
pier elements of instruction usually
taught in common schools, where
that is practicable, but will embrace
course of training in the more prac-
teal matters Of everyday lite, the
cultivation of habits OF decency, pro-
priety, self-rcliance, anti the develop
ment and enlargement of capacity
for useful occupation.
The combination which this asylum
presents, of practical medical expe-
rience and proper physical training,
efficient educational resources, will
supply, it is hoped, want which has
long been felt by the parents of chill
dren of this unfortunate class in this
State.
1t is the desire of the Trustees to
ascertain accurately the number of
this class of children in the State,
and persons knowing the residence of
fochle minded children in Iowa, will
confer u favor by writing to that
effect to the undersigned, as it is de-
sirable that reliable statistics may be
gathered in order that proper legisla-
ton may be made in behalf of all
this unfortunate class of children IN
the State.
The term commences the first
Wednesday in September, and appli-
cations to secure admission should be
made at once to
a. J. RUSSELL,
Resident Trustee.
Glenwood, Mills Co, IL.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26

FITzHUGH, the Confederate door
keeper of the House, who wrote to
his Texas friend that he was ga bigger
man than Grant," is not SO big as he
was. The House has been compelled
to take notice of his epistolary va
carries, and has sent him adrift. But
Fitzhugh does not take his bouncing
kindly, and is making overtures to
the Republicans to reveal uncomfort-
able secrets relating to the working
of the Democratic House.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26
IT needs STRENGTHENING out: it lool

Irneeds Strengthening out; it looks
odd. Either the Democratic State
Convention owes an apology to Con-
gresham Ainsworth or Ainsworth to
the Convention. They both occupy
a representative capacity, and they
fatty disagree. A few days ago Mr..
Ainsworth voted with ~ other men,
bers against issuing the ten millions
of small silver change now idle in
the treasury vaults, alongside all the
rag-baby advocates. Yesterday the
State Convention of his party re-
solved in favor of honest money, the
clean gold and silver. The Conven-
ton might have been {. little more
considerate Of the feelings of the
"only Democratic representative from
Iowa.-Dubuquc Times"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26

THERE are now at the State fish
Matching house at Anamosa, accord
ing to the Eureka, 100000 Penobscot
salmon, $4,000 land-locked salmon,
10000 California salmon, and $1,000
Mackinaw trout, besides some beauti-
full specimens of brook and California
salmon six to eight inches in length.
Those who wish to procure fish for
planting" should send in their or.
ders soon, as the fish will be ready
for distribution in two weeks. =.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26
Dose Schdories 'pout Dilden. :"
Iowa State Leader (Democratic).


The Sigourney delegation being
compelled to lay overfor few hours
in Oskaloosa, like true Democrats
started to find out what they might
see," and of course visited the brew
cry. Having tested the quality of its
Teutonic tonic, and interchanged po-
litical sentiments, one Of the dele
gates inquired of portly Deutcher,
"Who's your candidate?" GLOW
do you like T1lden?" "Vel, I do no,
we're vas dat Dilten?" "Why, in
New York, you know. "Vel, may
pc he PEGS very goot Democrat, but
| don't like dose schdories vot hear
pout HIM und Beecher's wife,"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26
Centennial Temperance Meeting at
Clear Lake, juno goth, 1876.

A Mass Temperance Meeting will
be held at Clear Lake, Thursday,
June Goth, during the session of the
S. S. Assembly of the Northwest,
which has decided to devote the same
day to the interests of Christian Tenn
perancc Work. The S. S. Assembly
will be in session from June 9th to
July 4th.
Temperance societies are requested
to send delegates to this meeting, and
it is hoped by bringing together so
large a number of Christians and
Temperance Workers, that new
energy will be received, and that
more systematic and efficient plans
of labor will be adopted by those en-
gagged in putting down the liquor
traffic,
All lines of railroads leading to the
Lake will give liberal reductions.
Fare at the Lake will be reasonable.
The people of Clear Lake will do all
in their power to render our stay
pleasant. For particulars in refer
ence to board and railroad fare ad-
dress Rev. J. r. Berry, Secretary of
the S. S. Assembly, Waterloo, Iowa,
or David Brant, Secretary State Tenn
pcrance Association, Iowa City.
II possible, come and stay during
the Assembly. At all events be at
the Temperance Meeting. Let every
Sunday School, Church, and Temper
ance. Society in Iowa be represented.
Come at least one day before the
meeting,
Hon ELIAS IEssUP, ElAora,
Mrs. E. A. WHEELER, Cedar Rapids.
Mrs. NJ. J. ALDRCH,
ELDER r. d. DUNCAN, Oskaloosa
JAMES PINKHAM, West Branch.
s. w. COLE, Fort Dodge.
DAVID BRANT, Iowa City.
Iowa City, May %, 1876.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26
Cabinet Changes.

The President, on Monday, quite
unexpected to everybody except the
parties directly interested, sent to the
Senate the following nominations:
Edwards Pierrepont, of New York,
now Attorney. General, for Minister
to England; Alphonzo Taft, now
Secretary of War, for Attorney-Gen-
eral; and J. Donald Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, for Secretary of War.
These nominations were Immediately
confirmed by the Senate. The trans
fer of Mr.. Pierrepont to the English
mission, and that of Mr.. Taft to
the Attorney Generalship, are gener-
ally regarded as wise and judicious.
In the elevation of the son of Simon
Cameron to the control of the War
Department there is not such gen
eral acquiescence. Mr.. }. Donald
Cameron has neither the ability or
the elevated character to fit him for
so high a position. He is known
chiefly as skillful manipulation of
political wires, a ring politician, and
packer of conventions. 1t is more
than suspected that the sudden and
unexpected dignity conferred upon
him is intended to make sure of his
cooperation in transferring the Penn
sylvania delegation in the Cincinnati
Convention to Conkling. If this is
SO, it is not creditable to the parties
responsible FORT, nor in our judgment
will it be successful in the main OBJ.
ject intended. We do not believe
that the Republican party intends to
commit suicide by the nomination OF
Conkling, OF any other man of his
ctripo
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26

GOVERNOR KIRKwooD has appointed G..
H. Talmadge, of the West Union Gazette.
one of his special aid de-camps. We had
no idea Charley was of militious dlspo-
sition;-but, by the way, which is it,
Captain, Major, or Colonel?-Decorah Re
publican.
Charley is no holiday soldier If he
IS on the peaceful staff of the Cover
nor. He was one OF the old Third
Iowa boys, and if Bro. Bailey wants
to know about his militiousness let
him ask Gen. Trumbull.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26
NERVOUS DEBILITY.

a depressed, irritable state of mind |;
a weak, nervous, exhausted feeling ;
no energy or GnsrnationJ confused
head, weak memory, often with de-
bilitatiIS, involuntary discharges. The
consequence Of excuses, mental oserwork or
indiscreticns, This NERVOUS DEBlLITY
finds o sovereign euro in HUMPHREYS
HOMEOPATHIC SPECIFIC, No. IS.
II tones up the system, arrests discharges, dispels
the mental gloom and dependency, and rejuve-
mates the entire system. 1t ia perfectly harm
less and always efficient, Price Is. for a package
OF five boses and large q vial of powder, which
s important In DID, serious cases; or 81 per single
box Sold by ALL Druggists. or sent by mail
on receipt of price Address HUMPHREYS
SPECIFIC HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE CO.,
No, UO3 EEo.3lvAY, =. Y.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26

TnE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company, has filed its bonds
with the Auditor of State obligating
itself under the penalty of $4,000
to conform its rates to the Iowa rail-
road law, on and after june llth.-
This is under the provisions of the
amnesty law passed last winter.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26

THE Fayette County Republican
Convention, last week, instructed the
delegates to the State Convention to
support Mr.. Bemis for State Treas
urer, and NJ. H. Beach, of Dubuque,
for Attorney General.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26

THE Illinois Republican State Con-
vention met at Springfield, on We'd
nesday, and nominated Hon. Shelby
NJ. Cullom for Governor. The delega-
ton to Cincinnati is for Blaine,
though uninstructed.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26
The Dubuque County Republican

The Dubuque County Republican
Convention was held yesterday. The
following are the names Of the dele
gates to the State Convention:
J. X. Graves, Geo. L. Torbert, D.
e. Lyon, VIM. Trick, M. c. Wood
ruff, J. A. Rhomberg, Frank NJ. Rob.
inson, John H. Deggendorf, Henry
Wheeler, L. G. Hurd, D. S. Wilson
and Y. J. Williams.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26

CONGRESSMAN AINswoRTH has
written to Van Anda, Of Manchester,
to act as his alternate IN the Demo-
cratic National Convention.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26

THE Republican Convention Of the
9Th District nominated, yesterday,
Col. w. F. Sapp as candidate for
Congress, to succeed Judge McDill.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26

THE call for the Republican Judic-
,ial Convention for this District, to be
held in this city, Aug. 10th, will be
found in this issue.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26

The Democratic State Convention
at it's session at Des Moines, last
week, passed resolution containing
the usual high-sounding professions
of reform, demanding "uprightness
and decency" in public servants, and
pledging the party to the selection Of
STANDARD bearers, whose lives, private
and official, are guarantees of their
ability to carry forward the great
work of retrenchment and REFORM"
&c. To realize the hollowness of
this pretense of virtue, and to get a
correct idea of the wide margin be.
tween Democratic preaching and
practice it is only necessary to know
some OF the men whom this same
Convention of Democratic retormers
choose to represent the party IN the
St. Louis Convention. Take G. G.
Wright, the hummer attorney OF
Waverly, for instance. The Conyen.
ton that, with words of decency and
reform upon its lips, would deliber-
ately choose him as its representative
in q national convention, can hardly
escape contempt. Wright has no
character as man, or politician. He
is fair specimen of the shyster law
yer. A number of suits stand against
HIM in the courts Of his own county
for defrauding his clients, and mo-
ton IS pending to disbar him for con-
duct unbecoming a reputable attor-
ney. Yet this whlsky'soaked fraud
is chosen by the Democracy Of Iowa
to illustrate its conception Of a
" standard bearer, whose private and
official life is a guaranty of reform"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-26
Republican Judicial Convention.

A Judicial Convention will be held at lndepen'
-$deIee, on
Wednesday. August 18th, 1876.
for the purpose Of putting in nomination candi-
date for Circuit Judge for the Ninth Judicial Dis
trict
The ratio of representation will be upon the
same basis fixed in the call for the coming
State Convention The representation will be as
follows
Blackhawk County .............12 Delegates.
Buchanan - .............. 2
Delaware - .............
Dubuque - ..............12
Grundy " ..............
BY order Of the Judicial Central Committee.
AUSTIN ADAMS, Ch'rmn.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-02-24
0 NO, IT ISN'T GREEN.

The other afternoon sharp featured
woman, nearly six feet high, came into
the City on the Grand River road with
about three -eights of a cord of red oak
stove wood piled on one-horse wagon.
The wood was SO green that the sap
exuded and froze to ice, and those in
search of wood gave her load looks of
contempt and scorn. She halted near
Cass market and waited there more than
an hour She seemed to be getting
discouraged when along came q little
resident of the Cass farm and asked her
the price of the wood. She said she'd
take three dollars.
''Three dollars for les'n half a cord of
green oak-wood!" he exclaimed.
'.Is this green wood9 she asked as she
threw the blanket off her feet
"Green as water" he replied.
cit is your opinion that lie abou.
this wood, is it2" she asked as she left
herself down to the ground.
ST don't say that" he answered, as
he looked up at her, ''but do say"
''You do say this is green wood, do
you2' she Interrupted, letting the old
bed quilt drop from her shoulders.
81 say, madam, that-that-."
"You say whatl'
She was q head the tallest. She didn t
look harmonious out of her eyes. Fifty
years OF battling with the world might
have rendered her desperate. The little
man thought of all these things as
crowd began to gather, and he softly
replied:
Madam, am no judge of wood.
My people for three generations passed
have used nothing but coal, and tn ought
this was a load of anthracite or l
! wouldn't have stopped y
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-02-24
NORTHERN ssEEcW.


BY WILL WALLACE HARVEY.
An exile to the pine and palm.
Through azure depths Of endless calm,
Above nursing solitude
AS sweet as that voluptuous South
Where Antony gave the Roman world
For Egypt's Cleopatra mouth.
All things of sight and sound appear
To breathe of nothing but content,
AS if unheeded, through the year,
The vagrant season came and went.
Yet often, when hear the rain
In fleece OF yapor, whisper low,
Like ghosts about the winocw-pane,
My heart would leap to see the snow.
To see beyond the frozen meres,
IN chalk the crayon's black and white.
The river EiIls, through atmospb eres.
Wind-blOwn, in dazzle points OF light.
The smothered roofs that lie below
The little wreaths of thin blue smoke,
Where dodder holds handfLls of snow
Above them on its mother oak,
In smooth, white levels lies the croft;
mound of snow the lockwood shines;
Sull sweep the trowels, white and soft,
In sloping curves and sweeping lines,
Soft furries as shadow blurs
Ht page III pdSSlDS, llSA diu uSSt
Like soft, warm faces, wrapped in rurs;
Like faces passing on the street.
] see them in the falling rain,
Through all the years that lie between,
Like ghosts about the window-pane,
Among the musk and evergreen.
The boyhoods friends, the fair young wife
Who watched with me SO long ago,
As if across another life,
Among the softly falling snow.
While, grieving through the pine and palm
The winds dofchide uncounted hours,
Whose unspent summers fill the calm
With soft, sweet utterances of flowers.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-02-24

tried to move, and writhed in impo
tent fury upon my chair, forcing the
cruel cords to tear my flesh as I vainlJ
| tried to loosen even one hand
The heavy train rumbled past the tel
cgraph Office. It WAS an express train
and did not stop at my station but as
| listened, every sense sharpened by my
mental torture, it seemed to me that tbs
speed slackened. Listening intently,
knew that it stopped the embankment
as nearly as I could Judge. Not with the
sickening crash expected, preceding
walls and groans from the injured pas
sengers, but gradually aHd carefully. A
moment more and I heard shouts, the
| crack of firearms, sounds OF some con-
| flict.
What could it al mean ? The minutes
were hours, till heard key turn in
the door of my prison, and moment
later two tender arms were round my
neck, and Alice was whispering in my
ear
''They will come in few minutes,
love, to setSyou free The villains left
the key in the door! thought of th at
before started, but there was man at
the front watching. I crept round the
house and 1 saw him, SO did not dare
to be seen."
"But you have been to Postville?"
"Yes, dear"
''In all the storm
"Selim seemed to understand. He
carried me swiftly and surely. I was
well wrapped in my waterproof cloak
and hood. When I reached Postville
the train had not come up
''But it is here2'
''Only the locomotive and one carri-
putty sheriff, and twenty men armed to
the teeth, to capture the gang at the en-
bankment. / came, too, and they low
cred me from the platform when the
speed slackened, So could run in here
and tell you all was safe"
While we spoke my wife's fingers had
first united the handkerchief around my
neck, and then, in the dark, found some
of the knots of the cords binding me.
Bat I was still tied fast and strong, when
there was rush Of many feet upon the
staircase, and in another moment light
and joyful voices.
"We've captured the whole nine!" was
the good news. ''Three, including John
Martin, are desperately wounded, but
the surprise was perfect! Now, old fell
low, for you'll
A dozen clasp-knives at once severed
my bonds, and dozen hands were ex-
tended in greeting.
AS for the praises showered upon my
plucky little wife, it would require a
volume to tell half of them.
The would-be assassins and robbers
were sent for trial, and would have es-
capped, had not John Martin, on his
death-bed, turned Queens evidence.
His ante-mortem testimony sent the sur
vivors to penal servitude.
Alice and left for far more civiliz-
ed community the following year. But
before we went, there was an invitation
sent to us to meet committee from the
railroad company at Postville. We &C
cepted had dinner, were toasted and
complimented, and then Alice was pre-
sented with silver tea service, as a tes-
timoni&l from the passengers upon that
threatened down train, the company and
railroad directors, in token of their gra-
titude for the lives and property saved
by our heroine.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-02-24
AN exchange says that there is a

AN exchange says that there IS an
old threadbare, snuf-colored, thin lock
ed, spindle-shanked, pepper-and- salt,
weazened, rum-drinking fossil, hidden
away somewhere in Washington, who
has written more Cong essional speeches
than all the members of the present
House put together.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-02-24

4 MARBLE firm agent, soliciting orders
for tombstons IN Alamda County, Cali
fornia, was recently badly sold by man
who direct 4 him to woman, but
when he got there and found she had
lost him by his running off with another
woman he thought himself lucky that he
got ofwith as much OF his hairas he did.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-02-24

n consideration that number of manufacturers
other counties have ieagued together TO destroy
the facturers of plows Msntowoc by instruct
ing their agents 70 sell their plows points cheap
than they do at the factory and in consideration
that seVe ral merchants in Mantowoc and some SIS
pretended agents have Joined in this conspiracy and
in thes full faith that the farmers of Manitowoc
County are disposed TO support our home industry
and aid sgansts this conspiracy have resolved
to sell plows and points at the following prices:
No Ts Lord cast-iron pillow complete SIC Sc
7s steel plow complete 1880
IS common point As
a1S " cutter point So
70 land side for castron plow .et
IS '' '' steel plow Lee
All other plows and points at the same rates. All
points are GROUND and ali plows are w AR
1s.aE74 6mo E. J. SMALLEY.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-02-24
If. u. NyELE.7D II,

DHOTOGRAE4fE TER. Eighth Street. Whites
! block, Nanitowoc, Wis is prepared 70 take
Photographs Tintypes Of every size and in the
latest style the All negatives reteuched. Call
and examine specimens and prices. Copying an d
enlargipg old pictures specially. keep constan t.
ly on hand a large assortment of frames for tie
trade chz20jan76 A. B. MELENDY.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-02-24
FRED SEEGER.

OFFERS to his many friends and ff, e
~ public generally, choice selection OF Fresh
Meats Salt Pork and Beef, Smoked Beef and Hams
shoulder Sausages, Tallow and Lard at the lowest
.s.c- Harket on Commercial Street. 9-1y
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-02-24

"WHAT do they always put D. c. af-
ter Washington for ?" asked Mrs. Quilp
of Mr.. @. .Why, my dear. don't you
know that Washington was the Daddy
of his Country" said Quilp, with a
suicker
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-02-24
GTSTar FERRS.

yIATCEEH&KER Err and JEWELER- OF
w fers his services for repairing all kinds
Clocks and watches. Has fine ard well selected
assortment of the latest and best styles of Clock
American English and Swiss Watches, also of Gold
and Plated Jewelry, at his new Brick Store on sth
sreet South side door south of Kremer's. Mani
owec. Sly