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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26

any question is being considered by
said commission either house may
proceed with its legislative or other
business.
SEC. 6.-That nothing in this act
shall be held to Impair or affect any
right now existing under the Consti-
tuition and laws to question, by pro-
ceedings in the judicial courts of the
United States, the right or title of
person who shall be declared elected,
Or who shall claim to be President
Of the United States, ii any such
right exists.
SEC. THAT said commission
shall make it's own rules, keep 4 rec
ord of it's proceedings, and shall
have power to employ such persons
as my he necessary for the transac-
ton of its business and the execu-
ton OF its powers.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26
A Beautiful Thought.

The sea is the largest of all Gene
teries, and its slumberers sleep with
out monument All other grave
yards in other lands show some dis
tinctlon between the great and the
small, the rich and the poor. But in
the great ocean cemetry the king
and the clown, prince and peasant,
are all alike distinguished. The
same waves roll over all; the same
requiem by minstrels Of the ocean is
sung to their honor. Over the re-
mains the same sun shines, and there,
unmarked, the weak and the power
full, the plumed and unhonored, will
sleep on until awakened by the same
trumpet.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26
The Long Evenings,

Boys, what are you going to do
with the long winter evenings? A
writer addressing young men says:
There is world of possibility in
the good use of them. If you use
your evenings well for the next six
months, you will be worth more to
your employer, and find more joy i'll
your work.
Have you taste for science, and
would you like to know the reasons
why certain things occur as they do?
1t you have an inqu.ring mind in
this direction, then give yourself up
to the study Of philosophy.
Have you a taste for bookkeeping
or clerking? Then give your eve
nings to penmanship and the theory
and practice # keeping books.
Have you a desire to be speaker?
II SO, devote your winter evenings to
to the study Of the art of speech, and
you will be surprised at the gain you
make.
Have you taste for drawing that
has never been developed, and do
you wish to train your hand and eye
to be equal to skilled workmanship?
If SO, devote yourself to that branch
of the art tor which you have a taste.
Whatever you do, you need the
skill to write a letter in a correct,
easy, business-llke style, and in order
to do this you need to know the rules
and use Of language.
Now, young men, will you use
these winter evenings in way
which will fit you to be better men
of business? You can easily get
two hours each evening, or four hun.
dred hours, for study, and that is
time enough to educate yourself in
the rudiments Of any science, or in
the laws of language, or the art of
Penmanship, or the scienc of book
keeping, or the art Of drawing.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26

A TTORNEYS AT LAW. independence, Iowa
~ Once over Morse & Barnett's Store. Con
sultations in English and German. t19-y
D. VI. BRUCKAgr. ). J. SEY.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26
w. &J.B. DONNAN.
BAILY &JACKSON.

AW CONVEYANCING, WAR CLAIM. AND
II Land Agency Office Office in First EatioHsl
Bank building. Independence. Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26
HOUSE & WILSON,

physicians AND SURGEONS, independence,
1 Iowa Ofllce in DR.. House residence, corner
Chatham and Mott SITS. Will attend to all calls in
:i:y and country. Consultations in English and
terman. 46-tf.
J. g.. HOUSE. 3. @. WILSON.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26

A TTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW.
n Special attention given to Collections. ONCE
over Fisher Bros. Grocery Store. l6w3
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26

HOMEOPATHIST--In Independence. Office and
Ii Rooms in Burr's Block, Chatham St. over
Barnharte grocery.
OFFICE HOURs-From to Q 4. VI and from
TO 2 and 4 to z. NJ. 11-39tf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26
RRuCKART a NEY.

4 TTORNEYS AT LAW, Independence, Iowa
II Office IN Munsons Block. Main ST.
JED LAKE. y. W. HARMON.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26
Or. H II HUNT,
" A. MELIEN. M. D.

NFEICE and Residence corner Of Court and
| Blank Sts.. north Of Catholic Church. 42tf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26
2husifians.
DIR, H. o. DOCKHAM,

MRS. DR.. BETSEY EGLESTON.
WILL BE INDEPENDENCE, BUCHANAN
w county Iowa. the 25th Of Novenb ber Rooms
up stairs over X. O'Brien's store, on Main
street first left han door. nearly opposite Post
Office This lady has acquired q very wide reputa-
tion. She doctors all diseases. She examines her
patients and explains their disease solely from the
circulation Of the blood All cordially invited
to call and see her. Consultation free. She will
remain in this place several months. 11tf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26
n. HO1DRIDGE
LAKE a. HARMON,

a TTORNEY AT LAW. NOTARY PUBLIC AND
Land Agent. Office over Taylors Hardware
Store Independence, Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26
Business Cards.
BEGUN & HaSNER,

y lection agents. Office over Peoples Nation
al Bank, Independence. Iowa. Will practice in
the State and United States Courts.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26
is. WOODWARD,

1 TTORNEY AT LAW AND GENERAL LAND
y Agent Independence. Iowa Office over Tabor
i Son "a Drug Store. Particular attention paid to
Collections and remittances promptly made.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17
How the Gar COnfers HonOrs.

Two hundred officers of all ranks
breakfast and dine daily at his table,
writes the London Times war CORES
pondent in Bucharest, referring to the
car. From the Youngest to the oldest
every eye is fixed on him. Before the
meal, in the assembled circle, as the
Gear appears, it is seen one day that
an aide e-camp behind him carries q
cushion with crosses on it, aud, perhaps,
half dozen sword knots of honor-the
riband of st. George, orange and black
to be worn attached to the sword hilt
Instantly expectation is at its height
The czar's voice calls the chosen name,
all make room for the envied man to
pass, he comes blushing and flushed,
receives the prize, bends low to kiss the
imperial hand, and retires bowling at
every step. made man for life, the adj
mired and courted of all beholders.
Then he has to go through the usual
embracing and kissing on both cheeks
of his friends.
The effect of the system is like magic !;
it is to concentrate all power and au-
thority absolutely in one center. The
oDaI 10 OhS Ca4 uilJ PloNNIOhOO "a ohO
soldier and officer, as well as the en-
bodiment of the military power and
glory of his country. I have seen old
officers so overcome with this mark of
distinction that they went about for
ten minutes after like children, weep
ing, with the priced decoration in their
hands, showing it round, half dazed.
No system can be imagined more calcu-
lated to stimulate individual efforts to
the utmost. Yet, with all this squirting,
there is something wanting. 1t is the
individuality and the habit of spontan-
eous action, which only the education
and modes of thought of free people
can supply. Whether it be the long
standing faint Of serfdom, whether it be
too much imperialism, the initiative is
wholly absent. You tell the Russian
what to do, and he win spring to it like
an obedlent child. In year it never
would have occurred to him to do it of
hi,non1e
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1877.

have met with their death. As already
mentioned, thirteen dead bodies have
been taken to the surface, and further
explorations have revealed fearful spec
tacle at the bottom of the shaft. No
fewer than forty burned and mutilated
bodies still lie there, strewn in all direc-
tions. It was deemed advisable not to
take these bodies to the pit head, although
that might have been done, but rather to
continue the exertions being made to
reach No. pit. The feeling produced
over the country by the terrible catas-
trOphe can hardly be imagined. Soon
after tbe accident occurred the news had
spread over the whole of Scotland, but
from the very destructiveness of its
character in the loss of life it was not
credited even in Glasgow for consider
able time. Thousands of people crowded
to the scene of the explosion during the
day, and those who were observers Of the
frantic grief displayed by the widows and
families of the miners will not soon for
get it. There is scarcely household in
Blantyre in which there is not bit
ter mourning for lost friends, and the
deepest sympathy is felt all over the
country for the bereaved.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17
COunterfeits.

A Washington correspondent tele-
graphs to the New York Tribune as fol-
lows The energies of the counterfeiters
during the last three years have been di-
rected to the National Bank notes, no
less than seventeen couuterfeits, twelve
on $s5s, three on $40. and two on $50
having been issued. The Secret Service
force have captured all the plates of
counterfeit bank notes, with the excep-
ton of those which have appeared within
the last two months. The following
plates have not been captured Sos on
the First National Bank, of Tamaqua /:
and sos on the Third National Bank, Of
Buffalo, N. Y, and the Central National
Bank of New York city. The following
description of these notes is given by B.
G.. Underwood, receiving teller of the
national bank redemption agency:
All counterfeit fves on the First
National Bank, of Tamaqua, Penn, that
have been seen at the redemption
agency, have had the letter "B " in the
upper left and lower right-hand corners
of the note. None of these have had
the correct charter number, which is
1,219, and is printed in large red figures
across the face of the note, and all notes
on this bank with another charter
number are counterfeit. On the back of
counterfeit, to the right of the words,
"National currency, " the word towing 3"
is printed "ownig."
All fifty-dollar notes on the Third
National Bank, of Buffalo, N. Y, bear
ing the signature of L. L. Chittenden as
register are counterfeit. All genuine
notes bear the name of either Colby or
Allison as register. The correct charter
number is $50.
All fifty-doIlar notes on the Central
National Bank, of New York city, hay
ing both the signature of L. E. Chitten-
den as register and the words, Printed
at the Bureau of Engraving. United
States Treasury Department in the
upper left.hand corner OF the note, are
counterfeit, as Mr.. Chittendeu ceased to
be register long before the notes were
printed i'll the Treasury.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17

The uniformity of the increase up to
the war is very remarkable. Taken alto
gether, it shows little more than three
and half per cent. q year. At that
rate we shonld have had in 1870 about
II, 100000. We fell short about four
millions.
We are getting well along into the last
half of the decade, and several State
enumerations were made in 1875. From
these, and from the figures Of the past,
there may be found reasonable grounds
for estimating the present population,
and the probable population in 1880,
In the following table, compiled from
the .Sttn, are given the population Of
each State for 1870, the estimated per
cent. of increase between 1870 and 1880
in accordance with the ratio of increase
between 1860 and 1870, and the estimated
population in 1880. Surely each Of these
States must have increased since 1870
considerably faster than during the war
period; yet we will take in round
numbers very nearly the rate Of increase
from 1860 to 1870, and apply it as fol-
lows:
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17
4 Remarkable Curiosity.

A correspondent OF an English paper,
writing from South Africa, describes a
visit to o remarkable curiosity, near
Christiana, Transvaal border town /;
Saaron, sometimes called Zoutspan, is q
large stretch of ground about fifteen
miles from Christiana, on the sides of an
extensive salt pan, which on my ar-
proach presented remarkable appear
auce. All the water bad dried up, and
the snow-white salt glistenipg in the
moonlight over an extent of ground l, 500
metres in diameter each way had most
bewildering effect, as | took bearings
carefully and rode right over it. The
incrustations of the sides resemble in
taste nitre and soda, but the surface OF
the pan was a thick layer of pure salt.
The following day succession of whirl-
winds careened over the pan, carrying
upwards to height of seventy or eighty
yards large quantities of lose salt,
which was perfectly defined in the sbape
Of revolving white pillars,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17
changed in the Shade."

The Constantinople correspondent of
the Political Correspondence relates
that many of the Bulgarians taken red
handed in acts of violence and con-
demned to death, when they see that
there is no longer any hope or chance of
escape, produce from hidden pockets
large sums of money, which they pre-
sent to one OF other Of the zaptiehs who
may perhaps have treated them with
kindness. Lately, five Bulgarians were
sentenced to death in Mustapha. When
it came to the turn of one of them to be
led forth, he requested the non-commis-
stoned officer commanding the party in
charge OF him to wait a moment. With
some trouble he then extricated from
the folds of his garments handful of
gold liras, and these he presented to the
sergeant. This latter, moved by the
generosity of his prisoner, tapped the
latter on the shoulder, exclaiming +:
Gas you are such good fellow, you
shall be hanged in the shade )" and
keeping his promise, he selected a shady
and pleasant spot, and there the Bul.
garian was executed
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17
Words of Wisdom.

There is no such thing as an easy
chair for discontented man.
Praise of enemies, like drum, is
as loud in proportion to its hollowness.
A granite rock is but an unsu bstantial
thing in comparison with solid thought.
You are better employed in drying the
tears of others than in shedding your
own.
He WHO is the slave of his own pas
sions is worse governed than Athens was
by her thirty tyrants.
How immensely would our conversa-
ton be abridged if all mankind would
speak the truth.
The most timid insect dimes upon the
body of live tiger as fearlessly as upon
that of a dead hare.
OF all earthly music, that which reach
es the furthest into heaven is the beat
ing of loving heart.
You had better learn to conquer your
ownwill than strive to obtain the mastery
of that of others.
There are some men so exquisltely
selfish that they go through life not
only without ever being loved, but with
out ever wishing to be.
The fends that lie in wait for us need
no charm to raise them-no mystic wand
no wizards spell the wickedness OF
thought is power sufficient. How often
to think evil is to call demon up to
act it
Times of general calamity and con.
fusion have ever been productive OF
great minds. The purest ore is produced
from the hottest furnace, and the bright
est thunderbolt is elected from the dark
est storm.
The greatest loss of time is delay and
expectation, which depends upon the
future. We let go the present, which
we have in our power, and look forward
to that which depends upon chance
and so relinquish certainty for an un-
certainty.
There is no funeral so sad to follow IS
the funeral of our own youth which we
have been pampcring with fond desires,
ambitious hopes, and all the bright
berries that hang in poisonous cluster
over the path of life.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17

IatIon of the United States Since I799--
Result, FOrtY-Scven Million People In
1850.
The New York Sun says The specu-
lative American mind is already exer-
cised concerning the present population
of our beloved country, and is guessing
what that population will be in the year
1880-if this weary old world lives long
enough to hail that year Of enumeration.
Under ordinary and regular conditions
the merest tyro in mathematics could
forecast our increase. But the con-
ditions are not ordinary, and great allow
ances must be made for variations.
For instance, if we had certain ratio of
increase from 1910 to 1850, aud from
1850 to 1860, it would naturally follow,
supposing conditions equal, that some
thing like similar ratio would prevail
for the next ten years. But the con-
ditions are radically changed the cir
cumstances are not only different but
exceptional, and no formula of the past
can be made to apply. The war made
fearful inroads into the population of
the country. There was not only the
loss by battle and attending evils, but
the absence of half million of young
and middle-aged men necessarily re-
duced the natural increase in times OF
peace. There was rapid decline in i'm
migration decline that has continued
to the present time, and bids fair to go
still further. Between the arrival of half
and less than a hundred thousand in a
year, there is a very material difference.
1t should be noted, too, that the great
majority of immigrants are men and
women in the beginning of life, founders
of immediate families.
These hints are thrown ont to prepare
the reader tor the estimates, to be made
further on, of the population of the
Union now, and the probable population
in 1880. Keep in view the tremendous
drain by actual loss in the war, the nat
ural retardation of increase in conse-
quence of the absence of heads of fam
lilies, and the sudden reduction of i'm
migration.
Going back to the first census taken in
1870, we summarize the enumerations
up to 1870. Bear in mind, however,
that a considerable fraction of popula-
tion has been added by annexation, as in
the purchase of Louisiana and Florida,
the conquest Of Texas, the partition OF
Mexico, and the forlorn outpost of Alas
ka. Here is the summary:
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17
The Guest.

Inc UueSt.
BH MARY cLEMMER.
From out the great worlds rush and din,
There came a guest
The inner court he entered in,
And sat at rest.
Slow on the wild tide of affairs
The gates were closed;
Afar the hungry host of cares
AT last reposed.
Then through the dim doors Of the past.
All pure of blame,
Came boyish memories floating past
His mothers name.
"Ah all this loud world calls the best
I'd give" he said,
"To feel her hand, on her dear breast
To lean my head.
81 cry within the crowned day.
That would be joy,
Could she but bear mo far away,
Once more her boy"
Mans strength is weakness, after all.
He stood confessed
None quite can still the hearts wild call,
None quite are blsssod.
Across the face that knows no fear
A shade swept fast,
AS if a following angel near
tn moment passed.
he sacred silence of the room
Did softly stir;
A splendor grew within the gloom
OF her, Of her
Out to the great worlds rush and din,
Has gone my guest
The battle blame, the praise men win
Ire his-not rest.
ar out amid the earth's turmoils
A strong man stands,
Upheld in triumph and in tolls
By unseen hands.
But who may lift with subtle wand
The masks we wear?
only know his mothers hand
Is on his hair
only know through all life's harms,
Through sins alloy,
Somehow, somewhere that mothers arms
Will reach her boy.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17
Totals. ......98,1 1854 200

The Territories have not been taken
into consideration in any of the above
calculations. One of them (Colorado)
has been admitted as a State since 1870.
The native born population Of all the
Territories in 1870 was 349, $50. At the
rate they are growing this would mean
neatly million in 1880. So we may
"guess the entire population at the
next centennial census at somewhere
near AZ, 100000.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17

A marvellous escape from death oy
Tightening was that of Mr.. Vest, of Sui
san Valley, Cal, the other DAY, when a
bolt struck the buggy in which he was
riding, tore the top completely off,
twisted up the iron work of the vehicle,
killed both his horses and tore off both
panels from the fence in front OF them.
Mr.. Vest himself was stunned for the
moment, but entirely uniujured.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17

Rattlebones has bad habit of snor-
ing. His little boy Johnny, who sleeps
in the same room with his father, watch
cd him one night when Rattlebones Was
retiring. He jumped into bed without
first kneeling and praying, as little
johnny did, and was soon sound asleep
and snoring Ike q brokeu down LOGON O.
tive. "Ah," said Johnny, 81 see; pa
pa spores in his prayers,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17

A gentle heart is like ripe fruit
which bends so low that it is at the
mercy of every one who chooses to pluck
it, while the harder fruit keeps out Of
reach,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-17
THE COUNTRY'S POPULATION.

IaIion of the United States Since I799--
Result, FOrtY-Scven Million People In
1850.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-09-19
THE EASTERN WAR
RUMORs AND COUNTER RUMORS.
SuIeimau Pasha Drives the Russian
from ShipEa Pass-ihe Defle in
Possession OF the Iu k"-Ihe
News COnIradicIed from
Russian Sources.

ID
LoNDoH' 2e P'e'ilOsL 90 "
sPecial says IuHI n'"' Inns VceH 'eee'' eH
~ the EhSIiSh Ehoas'y tHH' 9T,e''IlHu
fasha carried tAe remaining Hu>''A''
pcs lions 'u odIPAH 49, '"e N''' -
ing, lnulcHhS An enormous '"'''
ILe d'nI' Is Nc" 'Atre'y IN Tue P''st'-
SION Oh L,7 lu'A'' Ne H's' ue'1 Ut l'''s
"I 'ne ,, as''a" In "'Pt''A. uuA.u P,'SSy-
'H''"E" p'1''"'' . '-.', ~ ''','7 I,' - ~
"Al ~ ."' ~ ~ -, ~, 80,
"ot' n. - t''.. 49,, ,ro,
es''l'su q 49, "pf'' ''',I E,hS. 49,
"A'' ''e'' o.' N'''e -, ~. -, -.
Il'e'.' arc ''N'Is R.,'"'.'. '''", o''S'-' W
ward S,mnl.z,
TDe 4ysace Russo commenting on
the arrivaO OF the guard and the order
to the Russian troops in Poland to JOIN
the army At the seat OF war, states tnat
.nese facts are sutiicl'1, reply 10 the
rlmors o. peace aod armIstIce circulated
by certain journals.
1t probable that O,man Pasla viii be
made Minister of War.
I,<D,y S.ntrplb.r IS-A late dis
psyrn from ConstantinoPIe says that the
Russians IN Nhipka Pass hav" been re-
luiorced. General Rade.skys official
account of the fighting does not admit
,ls. the tort was ever occupied by the
Turks. He says that sitter five hours OF
Dombardment the Turks, at 3 O'Clock IN
1he morHing. made sudden attack ON
tI -trk1 M e,