Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
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JEsUP, Ia, Aug. 25. :

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| suppose, Mr.. Editor, that your
readers are all quite familiar with the
story of the Professor who gave as
a last bit of advice to his class of
young doctors: Whenever you are
called in case that you know abso-
lutely nothing about, look aoise and do
something, that if it can do no good, can
not do any HARM" Well, the first call
that one of the young M. DIS received
was to child with a fish-bone in his
throat This was just the kind Of diem
ma the old Professor had limited at; he
was in quandry, so he forthwish began
to look WISE After consulting his books
happy thought hit him. He calls for
feather and with it began to tickle the
child's nose [ have forgotten whether
the child lived or not.
Mr.. Hasner' s convention (the young
doctor OF Buchanan county, found this
Resumption business a case Of which
he (the conventioD knows nothing, and
so he calls for the feather. eve have
tried it once, and though it did no good
it did no harm; we will try it again, and
call it S. T. Spangler.
Hasner called for more feathers, and
very soon had a nice little handful of
them. The ticket he had made was en-
dorsed by the convention and he was
happy, and with the exception of the
candidate for Auditor, not one man on
that ticket could by any possibility tell
what they are trying to do, or why they
are Greenbackers. IF Hasner is salts
fed [ ought to be; and l am, for the
election will say goodbye Greenbackers'
ticket.
The chairman of the convention, Mr.
Gaylord, warned the innocents against
being inundated by the cry of
" Greenback tail to the Democratic
kite" this plainly showing that he at
least expected the Democratic party to
endorse the Greenback ticket, as it did
once the Anti-Monopoly nominations.
The Democratic party has swallowed S.
L. Spangler once and believe will do it
again. AS to the balance Of the ticket,
if Jamison, H. C. King, Gus. Myers and
Judge Roszell tell the Democratic Co.
Convention to endorse it, why, they will
do it of course That is the way it
looks to SHOEMAKER.
JAIL DELIvERY.-Sheriff Van Ors-
dol finds it necessary for the health of
his boarders in the jail to occasionally
have a general cleaning out and ventila-
ton of the large room upon which the
cells open, during which process he
opens the outside doors and turns the
prisoners into the Jail yard, which is en-
closed by tight fence about 16 feet
high, keeping of course prudent sur
veillance over them to prevent escape.
While this was being done last Tuesday,
the rain at the time pouring down in
torrents, Deputy Sheriff Blakeley being
in charge, Frank Smith, the chap who is
under bonds awaiting his trial for steal
ing a harness of Mr.. Merrill of Jesup,
stepped out Of the door into the yard
and turned the corner of the building.
He had been out of sight scarcely two
minutes when Mr.. Blakeley went out
to look after him and saw him diappear-
ing over the top of high fence to which
he had climbed at the angle of the wall
and fence, by cat-like, inserting his ting-
ers in the joints of the stone work, a
feat that very few men could have ac-
complished. When discovered Smith
made a desperate leap from the top of
the fence to the ground on the outside,
and broke like quarter-horse for the
bushes north of the railroad. Mr..
Blakeley had to lock two or three doors
before he could follow, and the Sheriff
coming up just at the moment, conclud
ed that it would be unavailing and in
volve expense, without result to follow
SO he adopted the next expedient, and
dispatched postal cards describing the
runaway to the officers in the surround
ing counties. A day or two after he
had the satisfaction of receiving intelli-
gence from the Marshal of Waterloo
that Smith had been captured in that
city The Sheriff went after him Thurs
day and the nimble thief is again enjoy
ing the inequalities of the castle on the
hill.