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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21
Iowa State Horticultural Society

The next annual meeting of this Soci-
ETY. will be held at Des Moines on the
third Tuesday Q5) of January, and will
continue in session four days. The pro-
ceedings will consist of Essays, Ad-
dresses, Reports and Discussions on
nearly every topic relating to Horticul-
ture, including Meterology and Ento-
mology
The best Horticultural talent Of the
State in all the varied phases of orch
ard, vineyard, hedge, garden, nursery
and timber planting and cultivation, as
well as Horticulture, has been secured
for this meeting, and it promises to be
one of the most interesting ones ever
held by the Society since its organiza-
ton.
All persons interested in the objects
to be advanced by the Society are invi=
ted to attend. H. w. LATHROP,
j. J.. BUDD, President.
Secretary.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

HINT TO ADVERTISERS Standing ad
vertisements in newspaper, set boldly
out, attract a good deal Of attention
and become transfixed in the memory
of every reader 1t may not be noticed
at once, but after while the lines grow
familiar to the eye and become stamped
upon the mind. The advantage is made
apparent in this way. The subscriber
in the course of time, wants something
in the line of goods kept by the man
whose advertisement he is familiar
with. He naturally visits that adver-
Users store and buys what he wants:
for, though he may never have been in
side of the place before, he feels thor
oughly acquainted with everything about
it, and this removes that embarrassment
which no one likes to show when on a
shopping tour A good advertisement
kept constantly in paper is like a
finger-board at cross road-it removes
all difficulty in finding the right place
Burlington UoWheye
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

The Governor has issued procla-
nation offering $500 reward for the cap
ture and conviction Of each Of the MUIR
ders OF Miss Cadigan, for whose murder
Reuben Proctor was hung by a mob.
He also offers $500 reward for the arrest
and conviction of the persons who hung
Proctor.
State Superintendent Won Coellin
has been oyerhauling the accounts of
school district officers with the school
fund, and he finds the losses from the
beginning of 1873 to the close of the fs-
cal year 1877 are $435, 562.27, or an aver
age of $97, 112.45 per year. Wapello
county is in deficit $20,231.02. The rec
ords show a most wretched and even
culpable method of keeping this fund by
Treasurers. In some cases there is very
strong evidence of absolute fraud.
The boilers of the oatmeal works of
Stewart u Douglas, Cedar Rapids, ex-
ploded at II o'clock last Sunday even
ing, destroying the boiler and engine
houses, the workshop, and knocking out
40 feet of the main building. Pieces of
the boiler, bricks and timbers were
thrown with great force several blocks,
doing considerable damage to other
buildings. No lives lost. Damages es-
timated at $4,000.
The Iowa Senate is composed of
four editors, four merchants, seven far
mers, twenty-five lawyers, two doctors,
four bankers, one grocer and two con
tractors.
"A meeting Of horse men will be
held in Cedar Rapids next Monday for
the purpose of forming a grand trotting
circuit. The plan is to start at Free
port, ILL.,, in May, and stay one week in
each place, taking in Dubuque, Cedar
Rapids, Marshalltown, Eldora, Oskaloo-
sa, Ottumwa and Crcsco.
The new Opera House at Dubuque
will be opened on the 18th inst, the at
traction being the Hess English Opera
Company
F. IT, Walker, Of the firm of Walk
err & Rhomberg in Dubuque, has gone
to Texas to locate twenty or thirty sec
tions of land in that State for parties in
the vicinity of Dubuque. The land is
in the vicinity of San Antonio, of best
quality and the price $3.50 section or
40 cents an acre.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21
WashingtOn's Ideas OF the Civil Service.

When Washington was called to the
presidency in 1889 there were no regu-
larly organized parties, and there was
no room for patronage in partisan
sense, and nothing could exceed the
justice of the rules by which he was
guided. Called to the executive chair
even against his wishes, he said he
would go to it under no Encouragement
of any kind or nature whatever. but
would hold himself absolutely at liberty
to act while in Office with sole reference
to justice and the public good. Somuch
depended on wisdom and impartiality in
this matter that, in case Of injudicious
or unpopular measures with regard to
appointments, the government itself
would be in the utmost danger of being
utterly subverted. my political con-
duct" he said, ''in making nominations
must be exceedingly circumspect."
Again: Il do not intend to be swayed in
the disposal of place by motives arising
from the ties Of friendship and blood"
All this time it is not to be supposed
there was nobody to present his claims. 3"
Even before his first Inauguration,
Washington was greatly annoyed by
applications for appointments, and in
variably represented to such persons the
delcacy of his situation, and the
improperly of bringing such matters
before him. He apprehended what
afterwards proved true: that there
would be hundred competitors for
every Office of any Importance; but for
long time he would give no decisive
answer to the application of any candi-
dates whatever, and would nominate
such persons as in his judgment were
best qualified to disharge the duties of
the department to which they were APP
pointed. AS between an intimate
friend and determined opponent, he
gave lucrative Office which both had
applied for, to the latter, with the fol-
lowing explanation: My friend l
receive with cordial welcome to my
house, and welcome to my heart; but
with all his good qualities he is not
man of business. His opponent with all
his politics so hostile to me IS man of
business. My private feelings have
nothing to do in the case l am not
George Washington, but President of
the United States. As George Wash
ington [ would do this man any kind
ness in my power. AS President Of the
United States, | can do nothing
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

The distinguished Meteorologist and
Weather Prophet, Professor Ticc, of St.
Louis. has issued his Annual National
Weather Almanac for 1878, in which he
foretells the weather for every day in
the year, explains the theory clearly on
which his predictions are based, gives
directions by which the unsientifc can
foretell the weather, and other valuable
matter. The whole constitutes work
of great practical value to everyone, and
is almost indispensable to farmers For
sample copy and terms of sale send 20
cents to THOMPSON, TICE Il Co., St,
LOuis. Mo.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

THE Republican opponents of the adj
ministration have asserted with much
positiveness and evident qualification
that there are no signs of Democratic
disintegration in the South, no indica.
tons of the disappearance Of the color
line, hoped for as result of the pacifi-
cation policy. The anti-administration
press haye continually stated that the
old Bourbon element, so far from being
weakened and disorganized by the Poll
cy, was actually being strengthened by
it, and that the prospect of solid Dem
ocratic South was never so menacingly
portentous as now. The unqualified
nature of these statements and the pos
itiveness of their utterance was suspic
ious, and now that more information is
is attainable, they are found to be very
far from the exact truth The follow
ing dispatch to the New York Tribune,
detailing plain facts and results, tells a
very different story, and goes far to JUS
tify the Presidents theory of the result
of the Southern policy:
Report concerning the late elections
in Georgia, received by members from
that State, show that in every instance,
except two, Independent candidates
were successful wherever placed in the
field. Gen. Gordon thinks that this
will probably give the Independents
eighty members of the Legislature, in
stead of twelve, the number they had in
the last Assembly In speaking recen-
thy of the development of the Indepen-
dent movement in Georgia, Senator
Gordon declared that it was the legiti-
mate growth of the Presidents South
ern policy, and that movements of that
sort were inevitable, extending over a
large portion of the South. By becom-
ing the champion of the Administration
in regard to combinations, Senator
Gordon believes that he has put himself
at the head or the Independent move
ment in Georgia.
Other prominent Southern leaders cx-
press the opinion to-day that the Georg-
la elections indicate the beginning of a
new order of things in the South. The
negro vote, they say, was divided.
There was no color line; and the hide
pendent and Bourbon Democrats both
sought.the aid of the black man. The re-
suit has been the defeat of the Bourbons
in almost every instance The Indepen-
dent tickets were all anti-Bourbon.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

SECRETARY SCHURZ has done one
thing for which the implacable newspa-
pers should give him credit. The gov
eminent has been trying for months
past to get it's advertising done at rate
that would hardly pay for compost
ton. The Secretary has no sympathy
with this parsimonious policy, and has
sent a communication to the Senate
calling the attention of that body to the
situation, and suggesting that living
rates be offered and paid the newspap-
ers for such work. There is something
practical about that suggestion.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

In his Than ksgiving day discourse
Henry Ward Beecher said: II never
expected the blacks to come to the full
understanding of liberty in less than
forty years. For saying so | have been
ridiculed by you and damned by the
Republican papers at large, but will
have time to reconstruct such judgment"
[ Laughter And then, speaking of the
white man of the South, he said that,
after SO much fire Of bitterness that had
been aroused, it was certainly necessary,
in the anomalous condition Of affairs
that existed, that authority should be
but were there ever SO many high spirited
promises held in check by SO few SOL
diers? Where has there been people
of such high spirit who, under similar
circumstances, showed self-govern-
ment SO creditable to human natureP
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21
consumer.

JUDGE ELLIS, of the Circuit Court
sitting in Scott county, recently made
an order that petit jurors summoned to
serve in his Court should be paid only
for the time actually consumed while in
the discharge of their duties. Such ac-
ton is certainly calculated to reduce
expenses and lessen taxation, but it
seems no more than justice that jurors
should be paid for time during which
they hold themselves in readiness for
service, even though not employed, and
are not permitted to attend to their own
l.,o:xo,,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

OUR friend Shannon Of the Elkader
Journal, while protesting in his paper
last week that he seldom boils over"
proceeds to do something like it in the
following paragraph:
But this matter is swallowing space badly
disproportioned to its importance, unless, by
some accident it shall serve to disengage the
mind of Judge TOman from his sweet policy
the policy" is to-day rapidly on the retreat
from its first Bulls Run, and if he expects to
join the forces that are going on to Vicksburg
and Richmond it is high time he was making
good his escape.
1t may be well to remind our friend
that the policy is not going to be over
thrown by the beating of gongs and
shouting. 1t is quite possible that the
policy has not received Bull Run
check, and that it's success or failure
does not depend upon the vote of Sena-
tors tenacious of their patronage, but
rather upon the sober judgment of the
people upon it's results That judgment
is not yet ready for delivery, and until
it is we shall not probably be disturbed
by the train bands of politicians march
ing on Richmond.
We stand upon the national platform
of the Republican party. Our endorse
ment of it when promulgated was sin
cere and earnest, and we are not at this
early day disposed to kick it to one side
as useless lumber, or to admit that its
vigorous declaration of principles was
simply chat to cast into the eyes of the
public. If we mistake not, our friend
Shannon endorsed it, too, as he also did
the letter of Mr.. Hayes accepting the
nomination, which was but an amplifica-
ton of the platform. Now, we are ready
to judge the President by the standard
of that platform. We are especially
willing to do this with regard to the pol
icy, concerning which the Republican
Senators are most at variance with the
President. Let our friend, the editor Of
the Journal, study carefully the fifth
plank in the platform, and if he finds
that the general course of the President
in making appointments to office is sub
versive of the principles therein ex-
pressed, then we will agree to join him
in denunciation of such action and the
demand that it be reversed So of the
third resolution in the platform. It de-
mands the permanent pacifcation of
the Southern States" and President
and Congress with firmness and COURAGE
to do the work. 1t devolvcd upon Pres
ident Hayes to carry out this demand;
he has undertaken and pursued it with
earnest purpose, and in spirit of patri-
otism which no one has questioned.
The results, if not conclusive, are hope
full, and still we find good Republicans,
like our friend Shannon, ready to de-
nounce him as traitor to the party and
its principles. If the party was playing
the game Of thimble-rig at Cincinnati, it is
evident that Hayes was not in the Sc
cret If its declarations were honest
and candid, the President is but carry
ing them out.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

Con1xIlng, Of New York, and Gordon. Q
Georgia, In the Fire-eating Role.

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The United States Senate was last
Friday the scene Of brawl most dis
graceful for all concerned, and not cal
culated to enhance the dignity of that
body in the eyes Of the country. It is
thus described in the dispatches:
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is.
During the executive session yester-
day afternoon sharp alteration occur
red between Senators Gordon, of Geor-
gia, and Conkhng, of New York, which
may lead to serious personal conse-
quences. 1t seems that Senator Gordon
was on the floor calling for a report on
the nomination of Smith as Collector of
Customs at Mobile, Ala, and which the
Committee on Commerce had directed
Senator Spencer to make, but which, it
is said, the latter was endeavoring to
suppress, iii order to prevent the case
from coming to a vote.
Mr.. Conkling come to the rescue of
MIR. Spencer, calling out loudly and in
peremptory tones: Go on with the
calendarr
Mr.. Gordon, on being thus interrupt
ted, said that he was glad the Senate
was conducting the public business, and
that the Senator from New York had no
right to give orders to the Vice Presi-
dent.
Mr.. Conkling, seeming not to hear the
marks of Senator Gordon, asked the lat
ter what he said; whereupon the Sena-
tor from Georgia repeated his remarks
Mr.. Conkling replied that if the Sen
ator from Georgia stated that he was
giving orders to the Vice President, he
stated what was not true.
Mr.Gordon at once stated what he had
said, when Mr.. Conkling stated again
that if the Senator stated he had given
orders to the Vice President, he had
stated what was not true:
Very well" said Gordon, eve will
settle that"
Yes said Conkling, we will settle
it here"
No" replied Gordon, with marked
emphasis, we will not settle it here
This scene was, of course, highly ex-
citing Later Senator Thurman under
took to play the part of peacemaker,
but failed entirely.
Mr. Conkling privately stated last
night that he intended no reflection up
on Senator Gordon's veracity, but up to
this morning the affair remained unset
tied. Gen. Gordon is by nature pacific,
but as he is uniformly courteous to all
persons.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

THE latest intelligence from the pair
of Senatorial DULLES, who made believe
they were going to fight duel last Fri
day. comes by way of the Chicago Ne,cs
and reads as follows
Mr.. Gordon is now at his home in
Georgia, picking cannon-balls out of the
cavities of his teeth with cavalry
sword, and telling his people how, by
gad he made the cowardly Yankee pol
troon apologize to a gentleman Of honah,
while Mr.. Conkling sits on the Capitol
steps combing grape and canister out Of
his hair and weeping tears OF blood be-.
cause the decorum Of the Senate Cham
Der would not allow him to paste Cor
don one in the face.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21
Liquor in the Capitol.
Washington Special.

If there is any logic that an average
Congressman is fond of discussing it is
some moral one where he can pose be-
fore the country as protector of every
thing that wears the label of virtue.
To-day such on opportunity was afford
ed in discussion in the House, upon a
resolution of Mr. Price, of Iowa, against
the sale of liquor in the capitol build
ing. Senator McDougall, of California,
was the last man to openly, upon the
floor of Congress, advocate such sale.
Since that time liquor has been regular
ly sold to all who desired it. Under the
guise of tea and coffee, whisky is placed
in an ordinary coffee cup and is drank
in such way that an innocent outsider
does not know anything about it. This
has gone on for years, and always will.
The cloak-rooms of the House are as
redolent during session of the fumes
of liquor as saloon There has not
been session of Congress where there
there has been SO much liquor openly
drank as in the present Congress, yet
everybody voted for Prices resolution
forbidding the sale of liquor in the CAPT
tol, and assumed an equally moral air
with Price himself. The resolution
means nothing, for it cannot be enforc-
ed where six members out of ten have
the habit of regularly INDUCING in slim
ulants.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

A WASHINGTON dispatch says that
the President is authority for the state
ment that he has no intention to make
any changes in his Cabinet, and it is
learned also that Messrs. Evarts and
Schurz are well satisfied with their
places, and have no idea of resigning
This is in plain defiance of My Lord
Conkling, who declares that he will not
be placated unless the President shall
resign into his hands the powers confer
red upon him by the Constitution, and
suffer him to say who shall or shall not
be the advisers of the Executive. The
country will applaud the Presidents
irmness in this matter. Without dis
cussing the question Of the fitness Or
qualifications of the members of the
Cabinet, upon whom assault is made, it
is sufficient to say that the President
would be worthy of the contempt visit
ed upon him by his enemies if he should
yield a single prerogative given him by
the Constitution at the dictation of any
body. In the face of such demand he
cannot give way without dishonor.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

THE Dubuque section of the Texas
excursionists appear to have had jolly
old time wherever they went. At Gal
weston they were treated to sail on the
Gulf in the revenue cutter Maddox,
speaking of which the Ne,es says
In the best of spirits the party return
ed to the Maddox and were soon steam
ing Galvestonward. A champagne col
lation was now spread and the glasses
were passed around. 10 add to the de-
lights of the occasion, little entertain
ment was supplied in the way of song
and speech-making Hon. D. n Cool
ey took the floor and put a motion to
the effect that a committee of three,
Mrs. Burt, Mrs. Chapman and Mrs.
Hosford, wait upon Messrs. Dean and
Wallis and lead them to the center, and
request Of them sond. Promptly
done. Those gentlemen led off in
Home Again in tones of richness and
plaintive expression, the rest joined In.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

THE Supreme Court of the United
States, on Monday, rendered decision
affirming the validity of what is known
as the Cochrane patent system for puri-
flying middlings, which was appealed by
the Millers' Association, and over which
there has been much discussion. This
decision in favor of the patentees will
compel every miller who employs the
process to pay a royalty, and will prob
ably enhance the price of -four to the
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

NOTICE Is hereby given that the undersigned
~ was, on the I'D day of October, 1877, duly
appointed by the Circuit Court of Buchanan
county, Iowa, and has qualified as Administra-
sons indebted to the estate arc requested to
make immediate payment to tho undersigned,
and all persons having claims against the same
will present them duly authenticated to said
Court for allowance. w. G.. DOMAIN.
Dated Nov l. 1877 21w2
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

Hon. 3. r. SHERMAN, Auditor Of
State, has our thanks for advanced
sheets Of his forthcoming biennial re-
port Of the operations of his department
Besides the statistical matter, it con-
tains some very valuable and practical
suggestions relative to assessments and
taxation, which will no donbt engage
the attention of the Legislature, and
which certainly should be read attent-
lively by all who have to deal with those
subjects.
We extract the following report of
the condition of the State Treasury
September Both, 1877:
| The balance remaining in the State treasury
at the close of the fiscal year October 30, 1877,
| was $58525.77, and was distributed among the
several funds as follows:
General Revenue. ...................S j,1H 6G
Agricult'i College Endowment Fund.-, "A, s so5 q
Permanent school Fund.-. .......... 1866 81
Swamd Land Fund, .................. 1882 67
IOLul, .TDo,OsO ~
There has been received into the State treas
ury during the past fiscal term, the sum of
g. 1877, 682. 40, which amount added to the above
balance on hand, makes the sum of w, l96, 2OS,-
II, and disbursements by the State Treasurer
during the same period amounted to $2,122,-
40 70, leaving in the State treasury, September
3Oth 1877, q balance of $73737.39, which was
distributed among the several funds as follows:
General Revenue, ...:..........:....$ y %
Agricultl College Endowment Fund, So, 100 90
Coupon Fund. Observation-Disclosures. 245 IS
SWAMP Land Fund. ................ 6,3O6 08
Total, .s7a.7w 80