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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-07-31
PERFECTION OF LIGHT.

The only Absolutely Safe IIlominAtur to use in
any Lamp.
1T CANECT RE EXPLODED.
Elaine, the family safeguard, Warden oIn'rd,
Pttsburg. For sale by
Nov 80. 1875. GEO VT. HEARsLEY.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-07-31
TO the Ladies'.
TO STOCK RAISERS.

THE under signed having considerable expert
Il ence in the gelding of stock, ofIcrs his profe,
sion.l services q the Stock Rais-rs OF Jetere'
and adj lining COun Tics, prom ling care in the
eeution Of work entrusted TO him. W ill ALEC give
attention to diseases in horses Also has patent
Anti ROoter. which he will sprly tnHogs 1-et"rs
ad essed to DU fiji Id q Depot Chs rlestov
ill receive prompt attention Tens reasonable.
Feb. l3 1877 JOHN ". 'HAEFFER.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-07-31
MIS- LIAM JUS
THE OLD
TIN. SHEEI IRON
- AND
STOVE HOUSE,

Nert Door TO Opi"gs House, Market House
Bui2dimy.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-07-31

KNITTING COTTON
DLUE and White mixed, Brown and White
ID mixed. Blue rlIxed Bleached and Uubleached
kDittipg Cotton. for sale by
April IS. 1876.
TAR in 10 gallon kegs for sale by
i GEO ". T. EEA RSLEY.
MATING and Oil Cloths for sale by
1f1 GEO. W. T. KEARSLEY.
May IL. 1875.
e EWING MACHINE OIL for sal.Iv
- Jan. 80 GEO. W. T. EEARSLEY.
SPICES, ground and unground, for sale At
~ Oct.26. SIS. DALGARN'S.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08
THE objections to Mr.. Gear as

THE objections to Mr.. Gear as a
candidate for Governor are not alone
those urged by the temperance peo
pie. The manner in which his nom
ination is sought to be brought about
is in the highest degree corrupting
and dangerous. The campaign in
his behalf thus far has been charac.
terized by secret combinations, bar.
gaining, schemes beneath the sur
face and those practices that 90 by
the generic name of political trick.
cry, combined with undignitied per-
sonal solicitation for influence and
support on the part Of Mr.. Gear him
self. 1t has, in short, been an exhi-
bition of the old style OF political
log-rolling and INSCRIPTIONS meth
DDS at time when the practice and
policy of the Republican National
administration, regarding the filling
OF offices, have led the people to ex-
pect reform and something better.
We hold that the man who will
travel from one end of the State to
the other, soliciting people to assist
him in his ambition to be Governor,
has no true conception of the dignity
of the position, and is not fit to fill it,
no matter what his qualifications as
q business man.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08
BULLDOZING POSTMASTERS
Louisiana lncumbents Stubborn. and to
be Bounced.

WAsUINGToN, June 2.-The Post
Office Department has sent a special
agent to Louisiana to take action re-
garding two novel cases, in both of
which persons appointed to be post
masters report that they are unable
to obtain possession of their offices.
1t appears a colored man named
Samuel Chapman was commissioned
last July rs postmaster Of Clinton
postotiice in East Feliciana parish,
worth about nine hundred dollars a
year. Under date of New Orleans,
May 18th, he wrote to Postmaster
General Key, stating that on account
OF the unsettled condition of affairs
in the parish he made no attempt
to occupy the Office until May Is,
and that in the act of taking posses
sion he was confirmed by Charles
McVery, Democratic Judge, and r.
b. Syms, member of the Legisla-
ture, who told him that so far as they
were concerned they were willing he
should take the postoffice, as he was
born and raised among them, hut he
had made himself very obnoxious to
the white people of the parish by up
holding Packard's thieving Govern
ment before the Senate committee.
Chapman's account continues that
they said so far rs they were able
they would project him, but added,
"there is no law that will protect
you from the mob in case you at
tempt to take the Office" lie there
fore asks the Postmaster General
what course he shall pursue in the
premises.
The other case is that of Il colored
man named Durly, who was appoint
ed postmaster at st. Frapcisville,
West Fcliciana Parish, last Deem
Der, and who reports not only that
he is afraid of his life if he attempts
to take possession of his office, but
also that he has not yet received his
commission, although the Depart
ment has at different times sent three
to him, addressed to st. Francisvillc
postoffice. All of them have been
returned by the postmaster whom he
is to succeed, marked not called for
I'm both these cases representations
are made to the Department by citi
zens whose good standing is endors-
ed by Congressman Ellis to the eft:
feet that the new appointees are by
reason Of illiteracy, etc, unfit for the
position. The Department will give
u thorough investigation and due
weight to all such charges, but not
while its authority is set at defiance
and possession is forcibly refused to
holders of Its commissions. Tho
special agent is therefore directed
first to install the new appointees in
their offices and after wards report
whether they should be removed,
but if the communities prevent Il
peaceable change IN the tenure Of
the offices, they will be temporarily
abolished.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08
State News.

-Grundy Centre is to have $4,000
Touring mill. Daniel Kepford, formerly
of Marshalltown, is the proprietor.
The Grundy County Republican has
discarded patent outsidcs, and is now all
printed at home.
The Newell Mirror of June 1st, says
that reports from various sections of that
grasshopper afflicted region indicate that
the hoppers have left off eating the grain
and are rapidly disappearing
Thomas Henley, one of the Mollie
Mcguire murderers, of Pennsylvania,
who was sentenced to be hung June 10,
but broke Jail and escaped, was tracked
by detectives to Fort Dodge in this State,
and arrested there last Friday night,
The next:day he was taken back in irons
to meet his fate.
-Four young men of Des Moines have
constructed flat boat to be propelled by
wheel worked by hand, in which they
propose to make trip to the Gulf Of
Mexico, starting in September. The
boat is Is feet long and has cabin 4
feet square.
"A fisherman in Des Moines hooked
big cat fish the other day in whose ca.
pacious nav was found good sized kit
ten. The price Of cat fish has declined
in that market
A detective bureau, under the title
of the Dubuque and North Western De-
tective Agency, has been organized IN
Dubuque, on plans proposed by Col.
Shattuck of that city. The officers are
Sheriff Hayzlett of Blackhawk, Presi-
dent; Sheriff Maynard of Cedar, Deputy
Sheriff Mccarthy of Mitchell and Sheriff
Babcock of Jones, Vice Presidents; J. G..
Shattuck of Dubuque, Manager, and T.
M. Hopkins, Secretary.
Mr.. o. Adams of Belvidere III, who
was attending the races at Dubuque this
week, whilc seated at ile breakfast Ia
BILE at the Key City House, on Tuesday
morning, suddenly fell from his chair
and in less than ten minutes was corpse.
Heart disease the cause.
WILDER S. Goodell, citizen of lie
corah, while on his way to the Black
Hills, 40 miles this side of Yankton, in
dragging HIS gun out OF the wagon to
shoot chicken, accidentally discharged
its contents into his abdomen, resulting
In his death in brief period. His re.
mains were brought back to Decerah for
intermcnt.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08
ENRAGED EoLUS.
AN ILLINOIS TOWN DESTROYED BY
A HURRICANE.
"a Persons Killed and $50 Wounded.

"a Persons Killed and $50 Wounded.
One of the most terrific tornadoes
ever recorded, passed through the
town of Mt. Carmel, the county seat
of Wabash county Ill, on Monday,
carrying death and destruction III It's
track, and nearly wiping the place
from the face of the earth. The fol
lowing particulars from the Cincin-
natl Commercial will give fain.
idea of the extent of the calamity:
ga terrible tornado passed over
the town about 80 o'clock last eve.
ming. 1t struck the town at the
south end of Perry street, and pass.
ed almost due north, taking in about
one square east and west, and de-
stroying almost everything in its
course.
Twenty-Five dead bodies have
been found thus far. Geo. Watkins,
VIM. Newkirk, Geo. Bryan, S. Good
rich, Fred Cooke, J. Masterson's
child John Tennie, Mrs. Burton,
John A. Edgan, Charles Norman,
Benz. Ballard, George Moore, Will
lie Walter, John Long, James Hig-
bee, Miss Stockinmyef, James Reel,
Mrs. Dolph Dyer, Lathrop d. Lebau-
er. G. L. Poole.
Damage to property is estimated
at three hundred thousand dollars.
The fire was finally subdued after
six hours steady work by the fire.
men. Many are wounded whose
names cannot now be ascertained.
The estimate of losses cannot
now he determined, as a number
of farmers were in from the coun-
try whose teams were scattered
among the debris. Physicians were
brought from Carmi and adjoining
towns by special train to assist in the
care Of the wounded.
The most prominent buildings de-
stroyed by the hurricane, were the
Court House, two newspaper offices,
three churches, one the hnest IN
Southern Illinois, two school houses,
about twenty business houses; about
one hundred residences were destroy
ed or damaged by wind or fire. The
loss is estimated from three hundred
thousand to half 4 million dollars.
The same storm damaged hun
dreds of buildings i'll other towns ly-
ing in its pathway. At Nation,
Ills, the residence of Willis Walkup
was thrown into the street and turn
ed bottom side up, wounding Mrs.
Walkup seriously.
Another account says that the
number CT wounded will reach $50,
and estimates the damage to proper
ty at half Il million dollars.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08

Very many American papers are
inclined to criticise the English peo-
pie for the lavish hospitality with
which they have greeted Gen. Grant.
No visitor to England during the
last twenty years has received so
much attention and been treated
with such genuine hospitality. 1t is
nothing more than right that man
who has occupied so distinguished
a position at home should be cordial
ty received among people who are
ever ready to acknowledge real
greatness. In American history,
Gen Grant will inevitably take rank
next TO Washington and Lincoln as
he third member of the central
group. His recent retirement from
the White House has left him with
numerous political enemies, who de-
light in nothing so much as abuse of
him and his administration, When
the aspenties OF the present are
buried under the pillows of receding
years, the character of Gen. Grant
and his intrinsic greatness will be
more apparent. He could not 90
through eight years of the Presiden-
cy without being criticised, some
times justly and sometimes unfairly.
But IN the hearts of the people he
holds 4 warm place. His faults are
few when compared with his virtues;
and even in his lifetime, for he is
still yonng man, he may expect to
feel that his oountrymen will all give
him a proper place in their regard.
His reception in England proves
how he is esteemed abroad, among
people who are not at all ready to
make violent demonstrations over
every new conner who esteems
himself famous. Certainly no other
private citizen of any country on
earth, would create so much curiosi-
ity and evoke such a hearty welcome.
The constant ovation which the or
President is receiving should awaken
a good feeling in this country toward
our neighbors across the Atlantic,
and do much to restore completely
the era of good will which the Ala
bama difficulty disturbed so seriously.
- Chicago Post.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08
There are soft-money Den

There are soft-money Democrats
in Iowa who will be quite Mortified
to know that the central organ OF
Iowa Democracy, the State Leader,
does not understand that there is
much of q money question nowadays,
and insists if there was it is an issue
that belongs wholly to national poll
tics, and, worse than all, that howev-
or the case may stand at present be
fore another national campaign
comes around the whole question
will be settled. The Leader even
has the effrontery, in the face of an
opening campaign in Iowa, to declare
that "paper cannot be money!" and
this it pronopnces an axiom, and pro-
ceeds to dismiss the whole question
by declaring that eff a man disputed
an axiom, either in mathematics or
political economy, it is impossible to
argue with him-he is too Ignorant
for that" We shall not undertake
to say that the Leader intended any
thing personal, but one might easily
pick out few Iowa Democratic edi-
tors who, perhaps, without straining
a point, might make their own appli-
cation, and feel intensely snubbed at
their leisure.-Du6uque Times.
Will our neighbor, the Conseroo-
tine, make the proper application for
itself. We believe 1T has been eds
putting the axiom"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08

The Military Convention at Du-
buque this week, seems to have been
more than successful in point of the
numbers in attendance, and the har-
mony and enthusiasm pervading 1t.
he convention adopted with. great
unanimity the following report, en-
bodying the essential features of the
amendments deemed necessary and
.,oner to be made to the State Mi.
ia laws:
That the State require each regiment
attalion and separate organization 10
.t for drill and instruction once iii each
.oo, in addition to the meetings now pro,
lid for by Jaw, in camp Of instruction
l. -Nve DAYS, at such place as the com
igrd;np officer of such organization
gsall designate, and that during said time
lev he paid 81. 90 per day for said SER
vice. -. .,on,;ato ,he
ann of Is per man for each company OF
militia of the State for the purpose of de-
e :.ar hall rent, fuel and other incident
ses: the amount appropriated to
ompany to exceed 5000.
Tie meeting closed ON Wednes-
day with grand parade of the 4th'
regiment, and banquet at the Jul
len House.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08

Ex-Gov. Carpenter has won glory
by quietly dong neat little act Of
unselfishness. 1t is perhaps more no.
ticcable because instances of the kind
so seldom occur. When the ex-Gov.
learned that it was the decision of
Secretary Sherman to reduce the
number of Iowans employed at
Washington by sending home Judge
Tabor, an old and efficient head of
one of the auditing departments, he
went to the Secretary asking if by
his resignation Judge Tabor would
be retained. Upon being answered
aflirmatively, Col. Carpenter at once
gave up his Office, and returns to his
home at Fort Dodge, where, it is
SAID, he will engage in editing a
newspaper Vest Unsom Gazette.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08
The Thing In a Nut Shell.

A correspondent of the Cute city
thus ctfectually disposes of y fayorite
argument Of the opponents of the
Presidents policy:
believe it is the Webster County
Gazette that says:
ave hope Hayes will be able to
show the country how it is that
Nichols was elected Governor of
Louisiana, Hampton of South Caro-
lima, and that he, Hayes, was by the
same vote elected President Of The
United States. But for the life of
us we have not yet been able to see
the hole he can come out at"
In reply to all such talk as the
above it seems to me fully sufficient
to say:
1.-Hayes has not undertaken to
show the country that Nichols and
Hampton were elected. No declar-
alton, public or private, and no pub
lie or private act Of his can be tor
tured into an acknowledgment that
either of these men was elected.
2.-IIe has simply assumed from
the start that the question who was
elected Governor in these States was
to be decided, not by the President,
but by SUCH orderly and peaceable
proceedings as the constitution and
laws of the State provided. To this
eminently sound doctrine he has ad-
hered steadily and firmly. He holds
that it Is not the business Of the
President, by the use of the army, to
intervene in the affairs of Il State to
settle 4 contested election for Gov
ernor.
a.-frhe"presid has nothing to
do with the local controversies in q
State over the result Of an election,
and is only called upon to aid in the
suppression of domestic violence"
when called upon by the Legislature
if in session, or by the Governor
when the Legislature is not in SEES
sion and cannot be convened. Even
if domestic violence existed in Louis
lana it was impossible for the Pres
ident to Interfere for its suppression
without CAL from the Legislature
while that body was In session, and
hence the moment there was Il quo
rum in both Houses Of Returning
Board members, all excuse for Fed
eral intervention ceased.
What has the President done?
He has removed a.squad of dozen
or twenty soldiers from the State
House in Columbia and somewhat
larger number from the vicinity of
the State House in New Orleans,
only this and nothing more.
5.-The pretense that the Prcsi-
dent has discredited his own title Is
ridiculous. He has proceeded to dis
charge his constitutional duty, just
as he would have done if he had
been elected without the vote of
Louisiana, and who will dare to as
sert that he should have done other
wise? Besides the Legislature of
LOUISIANA now in session, bases its
existence upon the action of the very
same Returning Board which certi-
fed the election of Presidential cleo
tors so that the government of Louis
lana stands to-day upon the adjudi-
cation of the Board.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08

The Chicago Tribune says, terse-
ly: ''The country has heard a good
deal about Civil-Service Reform
the last few years; it is beginning to
see and feel it under President Hayes
Administration" So successful
are his efforts in that direction that
many who were theoretically dis
trustful of the methods proposed by
Civil Service reformers, and adopted
in whole or in part by the President,
have given in their adhesion to them.
One of these, a Republican of prom
inence, who has been honored by the
party, said to us the other day: 81
must say that President Hayes has
accomplished more in purifying the
civil service and making it indepen-
dent of intriguing control than l ev-
er dreamed could be possible The
recent investigation of the New York
Custom House and the prompt meas
ures taken for the reformation of
abuses there, whereby over 200 use
less employees, retained by New York
politicians for their own selfish pur-
poses, have been discharged, affords
a good illustration of the working of
the reform in which the President
and Cabinet are heartily engaged.
The reply of President Hayes to the
report OF the Commission, referred
to him for directions, embodies in
compact form the principles which
he proposes shall govern the civil
service. 1t is as follows:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHING
TON, d. c., May 26.-7He Hon.
John Mernan-MY DEAR SIR: |
have read the partial report of the
Commission appointed to examine
the New York Custom-House. I
concur with the Commission in their
recommendations. 1t is my wish
that the collection of revenue should
be "free from partisan control, and
organized on y strictly business
basis, with the same guarantees for
efficiency and fidelity in the selection
of chief and subordinate officers that
would be required by prudent mer-
chant" Party leaders should have
no more influence in appointments
than other equally respectable citi-
zens. No assessments for political
purposes on officers or subordinates
should be allowed. No useless Off
Ger or employe should be retained
No officer should be required or per-
mitted to take part in the manage
ment of political organizations, eau
cuses, conventions, or election cam
paigns. Their right to vote and OK
press their views on public questions
either orally or through the press, is
not denied provided it does not inter
tere with the discharge of their Off
cial duties. Respectfully,
II II HAYES
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08
Our Neighbors.
BLACKHAWK COUNTY


Saloon keepers are being jerked up and
fined at Waterloo, for keeping their pla-
ccs open on Sunday.
A boy Of years, named Henry Hager-
man, son of a Lutheran preacher, near
Waterloo, was killed by the cars at the
depot: on Wednesday morning. TIE &C
cident was due to recklessness in Jump
ing on to freight train being made up at
the station. The boy fell between the
cars and was dragged some distance,
mangling him terribly.
The Gazette says that all tile rose
bushes, peach trees, &c, purchased one
year ago by parties near Cedar Falls of
the agent of Quincy nursery, are gone
up-defunct.
A Cedar Falls hen that has laid right
along for three years, has begun to devel.
op comb, and crow. A telling point for
the anti-woman suffragists.
The NJ. E. Camp meeting for the Cedar
Falls District will be held at La Porte
City, beginning Tuesday evening, June
20.
A Smith & Son, of Ohio, propose to
start cheese factory at Cedar Falls.
FAYETTE COUNTY.
The Fayette Neus says that s. Hotch
kiss has bought the Hubbard mill site on
the Volga, six miles west of Fayette, and
will build grist mill with two run of
stone, to be ready for operations this
fall.
The people in the Brush Creek timber
arc excitlted over the nocturnal incursions
OF a wild animal, supposed to be bear or
panther, which gets into the barn yards,
kills calves and keeps the children from
acknowledgement.
4 NJ. E. church is to be built ON the
line of Harlan and Center townships. one
thousand dollars for which has already
been raised.
LINN COUNTY.
The Center Point Mirror says that
David Way, Il farmer in that vicinity,
has lost so hogs of cholera during the
past four weeks.
A new lodge of A. O. U. W., is to be
organized at Center Point.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08

The Keosauqua Republican right
ly characterizcs the State Registers
campaign against the President in
the following paragraph:
eff continuous effort will effect
anything, either good or bad, the
State Register will be entitled to the
credit of stirring up an enormous
amount Of bad blood throughout the
State on the administration question.
1t gives its cue one week to it's fol.
lowers and in the next publishes all
they have to say, and then, in cow
ardly way, shirks all responsibility
upon those from whom it copies,
leaving its readers to infer that 1t is
not the Register which is at the bot,
tom of this bad feeling, but those to
whom it gives credit In its copied ar.
ticles. Whe think the editor of the
Register a sharp fellow, but, as Lord
Dundrcary says, mot any too sharp"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08

The Conservative keeps up its III
Eeulous twaddle about thepost Office
E.gans, apropos of assent Or disproval
of the peace policy; ridiculous be-
>euse everybody knows that offices
,.e not held under this administra-
ton as the price OF acquiescence in
se Views of the administration.
Our neighbor knows that as many
papers whose editors are postmasters
oppose the policy as favor it. He
knows that the most rabid and un-
compromising opponent of it in Iowa
stbe post master editor of a large
!. and that he holds his Office as
.e,irely as if he supported the policy.
With these facts before him, to keep
on telling his readers that the Re-
.,ublican supporters of the Presi-
ussst's policy are the. office holders,
,ndt that the opponents of it are out of
,ffice is-our neighbor will pardon
s:,s-something like demagoguism.
IT would be an insult to his readers
say that they are deceived by it.