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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
The Civil Service Order.

Secretary Sherman, III his Ohio speech
alluded to the much abused order issued
by the President, forbldding federal Of
flee holders from running caucuses and
conventions. From his remarks, which
we give below, it will be seen that the
Secretary does not quite regard the or
der as an outrage and invasion of politi-
cal rights, and, coming from a member
or the Administration, his interpreta-
ton of it may be deemed authoritative:
The order was promptly met with de-
nunciatiOn, as an invasion OF the rights
of individuals, and its meaning and pur-
port grossly perverted. In the western
country, where our political movements
are more free from the influence of Of
fee holders, there has always been Il
strong popular feeling against the inter
position of machine politicians. The
people here are abundantly able, with
out the aid of office-holders, to manage
their conventions, caucuses and organi-
cations, and it has always been a matter
of complaint, even in our counties and
cities, whenever rings OF Office-hOlders
are formed who are officious in control
ling popular conventions, and, as a rule
such things have not been tolerated.
But in the great cities, the otfice-hold-
ers are selected, not only to be active at
the election or to influence the election,
but to run the machinery by which nom
nations are made and caucuses held. -
They select delegates to conventions,
pay their expenses, control their votes,
appear as president, secretary or guild
ing genius of the convention, and thus
the whole machinery of politics is an Of
fice-hOlding monopoly, offensive to the
mass Of the people and tending to pre-
vent the just control of political move
ments by free, unbiased popular opin-
ion.
1t was this abuse, the greatest of all,
that the President struck directly at.
The President has not, and never did,
object to the most active men being APP
pointed to- and aspiring for, office.
The order of the President does not
interfere with the right of any officer to
vote or express his views on public
questions, either orally or through the
press, and |, at your invitation, talk to
you to-day, but you would regard it as
offensive if | should undertake to ma
nipulate your conventions to secure the
of personal friends, or to in
terfere in any way with your free choice
in popular movements. And this is all
that the order of Presidedt Hayes I'M
dertakes to prevent.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
Great Power OF the Press.

The editor Of the Kern County (Cal)
Democrat has gone fishing.
: The publication of this paper will be
indefinitely suspended from and after
this date. We leave the country in a
comparatively comfortable and secure
position. The European war is fairly
maugurated and a good market and
high prices for our surplus crops secur-
ed; the great strike is safely over; the
whites are attaining the asccndency in
the South, and the niggers are emigrat-
ing to Liberia. The Louisiana Return
ing Board is in limbo, and Hayes is bad
ly scared Tom Fowler is nominated
for State Senator with certainty of
being elected, and-well, what more
could be expected of us in four brief
months? For the rest, it is a dry year,
the weather is hot, we have had all of
this kind of fun we want for the pres
ent, and now we are going a-fshing.
Ta-tal
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
The Gay and Loose Widow who Layed
for Sam Tilden.
Philadelphia Herald, Aug. %

Philadelphia Herald, Aug g.
You've heard of the woman's trap
ping poor Uncle Sammy Tilden, the
great prince of the bachelors, and caus-
ing his heart to futter more than it did
when the Electoral Commission decided
against him?" said well known gentle
man to an Erening Herald reporter.
Well, now you get Cape May papers
for 1875, when Gov Tilden was there,
and read how dashing young widow,
from the South, captivated the dear old
fellow. This was Mrs. Wallingford She
created quite a great furOre, especially
when she appeared on the beach at bath
ing hours. Her form, the men said. was
divine, while the ladies vowed she wore
corsets to swim in The darling widow
was toasted and her health drank on all
occasions, but suddenly she left-being
called away on business"
1t is related that the woman has a
claim against the Government for $780,
600, for property destroyed during the
rebellion, near Dalton, Georgia Had
Gov. Tilden been made President I'M
doubtedly the dashing widow of Cape
May would have presented herself at the
White House, desired to renew the ac-
quaintance made in the waves in 1878.
and solicited his aid in pushing through
the Court of Claims her little bill of
nearly million. Mrs. Wallingford has
letters and documents from Gen James
b. Steadman and nearly every officer of
his command, attesting the genuineness
OF her claim, but whether in the light of
her present career these will stand now,
or bear more searching investigation,
is a matter which calls for the aid of
Pinkerton's detectives or the agents of
the Secret Service Department.
While Mr. Alden Scovel was reading
from his selection of light literature, the
career OF this woman, two oary-headed
Philadelphians sat in Justice Cassady's
back entry. They knew Mrs. Walling-
ford, etc. Down on their knees before
her they had bowed. These Lotharios
had been charmed and bled, it is said, to
the extent of $4,000 apiece, which they
handed over to prevent exposure and
allowing their wives and families to
know Of their misdoings; When the fat
Justice decided against the woman and
released Benkert, the Erening HcruM
reporter heard distinct applause in the
entry These men are afraid to come to
the front, for while they have all to lose
Mrs. w, etc, has nothing.
Mrs. Wallingford, etc, is stopping at
the London House, Arch street near
Seventh, a thoroughly respectable hotel.
She is believed to be worth not less than
100000, if not more She is passably
good-looking, demi- blonde, and dresses
in neat but elegant style. Her manners
are affable, her tongue loose, and her
actions apparently artless. There is
nothing loud in her appearance, or any
thing calculated to attract one, beyond
gazing on a pretty widow, who has a
seemingly slight tinge of rouge in her
cheeks, to hide the ravages of fast
creeping age, and the crow-feet of
time.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
LEGAL.
ESTRAY NOTICE.
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

DELLA A. KINsLEY, Plaintiff, Executrix of
Harris Kinsley,
against
JOHN S. BOUCK, ELIZABETH ID. BOUCK, WAL
LACE FRANCIS, RICHARDSON & VALE, JAMES
WILSON, ID. w. G. ROWLEY, UNION SAVINGS
BANK of Cedar Rapids, D. W. SCOTT s. Co.,
NJ. A. OLDER, WILSON SEWING MACHINE Co.,
GEO. l.. HERRICK, DOUGLASS g. Sons, De
PENDANTS.
In the Circuit Court of Buchanan County, Iowa,
October Term A. ID. 1877
To said Defendants:
VOU are hereby notified that on or before
l. the LIST day of October A. ID. 1877 there will
be on file in the office Of the Clerk of the Cir
cult Court of Buchanan County, Iowa, the pc
titiOn of Della A. Kinsey, Exeoutrix of Estate
of Harris Kinsley, deceased, the Plaintiff afOre-
said, claiming of you the sum of Two Thousand
Dollars, as money justly due from John S.
Bouck on Promissory Note.
Also asking the foreclosure of n mortgage
given to secure said Note, on the southeast
quarter of Section Thrty-Two cs2) except north
half of northeast quarter of said quarter-sec-
tom. Township Eighty-Nine 1897, Range Nine
90, west, in Buchanan County, Iowa, Also lots
Four a. and Five 90 in Dadey's addition to the
city of Independence, in Buchanan County.
No personal Judgment against any one but
John S: Bouck, asking that the rights of all
Others be cut off,
You are also notified that unless you appear
thereto and defend, before noon of the Second
day OF the October term Of said Circuit Court
OF Buchanan County, to be held at Indepen-
dence, In said County, on the I'D day of Octo-
Der A. ID. 1871 a default will be entered against
you and judgment rendered thereon and decree
us prayed. LAKE g. HARMON,
Attorneys for Plaintiff
An affidavit OF the non-residence OF the de-
PENDANTS or a portion of them in this cause
having been filed, it is ordered that this notice
be published in the BUCHANAN COUNTY BULLE-
TIN for the time provided by law.
LAKE g. HARMON,
Attorneys for Plaintiff
August s, 1877, 3w4
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
All BOsll.

A morning paper has a long article on
Iowa politics, saying that Secretary of
War McCrary is going to run for the
Senate; that he is dissatisfied with his
present position; that Senator Allison is
going to have a hard fight, and so on. 1t
is all bosh, due to the dearth of general
news. McCrary is in complete harmo-
ny with the Administration, and is more
consulted by the President than any
other member of the Cabinet Neither
the President nor he has any difficulty
with the good Republicans of Iowa. MIR.
Allison is one Of the very best OF the
Republican Senator's, both in ability and
influence, and he and the Secretary of
the War are, and always have been, on
the most cordial relations. The whole
thing is an attempt to set good Repub-
licans by the ears, and must be a miser-
able failure.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

THE Democracy of Iowa assembled at
Marshalltown on Wednesday and placed
in nomination for State officers the fol
lowing candidates:
Governor, John p. Irish, of johnson
county; Lieutenant Governor, W. c,
James, of Pottawattamie county; Su-
preme Judge, H. c. Boardman, of Mar
shall county; Superintendent of Public
instruction, G. D. Cullison, of Wayne
county.
These nominations were supplemented
with platform of the usual compost
ton, made up to be interpreted accord
ing to occasion, full of bombast and
demagoguism and Astounding in false
statements and wrong deductions.
The work of the Convention serves to
show to what low ebb the Democratic
party of Iowa has come. The candidate
for Governor is fast young man, not
over thirty years of age and only distin-
guished by that which is not crcditable
and which he will be ashamed of in later
life, if he has any right feeling. He is
the same rash and impulsive young fell
low who once alluded in public to the
Democratic party as putrid reminis-
cence that should be buried out of
sight" and in his capacity as chairman
of the State Central Democratic Com
mittee, declared in open convention that
the party had survived it's usefulness.
He is of excessively dissipated habits,
and has neither the dignity or character
that should belong to the Governor of a
great State, Such nomination is only
significant of another decline in the for
tunes of the Democratic party in Iowa,
which has arrived at that state that it
has ceased to nominate candidates of
merit, as though they had q chance of
election, and only casts about to find a
fgure-head, victim who will consent
to he set nm to no knocked down
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

AND now it is the Democratic candi-
date for Governor in Maine who is
wringing the hearts of his Bourbon par
ty associates all over the country and
bringing down upon his head their deep
est maledictions, by declaring in his let
ter Of acceptance the perfect validity of
Mr. Hayes title to the Presidency. He
says: That title, though stoutly con-
tested, was recognized and became valid
by the decision Of the tribunal (the Flee
toral Commission, which acted under
authority of law to which oHpa,ties and
all Suites through their Senators and
Representatives had given their deliJer-
ate assent" He gives this interpreta-
ton to the resolutions of the Maine
Democratic State Convention, though
the Bourbons aforesaid have been quot
ing them as denunciatory Of thu. g great
fraud !" committed by the Commission in
counting in Mr. Hayes.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

THE interest of the Russo-Turkish
war has centered around the attempts
made by the Turks during the past
week to capture the Schipka pass in the
Balkan mountains. which is strongly
fortified and held by the Russians
Here has occurred the most sanguinary
fighting of the war; and the loss of life
on both sides has been enormous. The
Turks have attaked with a courage and
rccklessncss almost without parallel, and
have been repulsed at every encounter
by the Russians, who are posted behind
strong intrenchments and heavy guns
Gen. Raditzky, the Russian commander,
has been killed, and at the last accounts
the Russian situation was critical, not
withstanding their successful defense of
the position thus far. Upon the pos
session of the pass depends important
strategic movements, hence the sanguin-
AIRY struggle for it.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

THE Inter- Ocean some weeks since
addressed number of letters to mem
bers of the present Congress in all por-
tions of the country, inquiring as to
their views upon the reconciliation of
silver A few days since it published
the replies received in response to it's
circular. 1t is found that very large
majority of the two hundred Congress-
man who make response,are in favor of
restoring the silver dollar, and the some
what singular fact is brought out that
this sentiment is almost, if not quite as
strong in New England and the east as
at the West. Iowas six members are
found among the supporters OF the pro-
ject, quite unequivocally, except Mr..
Oliver who will favor reconciliation If
we are to have specie resumption on
silver basis, and have it apply to all
debts before 1873, and all hereafter.
Our Congressman are generally in ac-
cord with the prevailing public senti-
ment of the State.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

In demanding the retirement of the
National Bank notes and the substitu-
ton of government issue Of legal ten
der notes, the Greenbackers. as in many
other points what they bring up, ignore
some very stubborn facts and considera-
tons that stand in the way of the prac-
teal working of their theories. They
purposely or ignorantly keep out OF
sight the fact that only by bare major
ity of the Supreme Court of the United
States was the act providing for the is
sue of Greenbacks and limiting their
volume to s4OO,OOO,OOO, declared consti-
tutional, and then only on the ground
that it was justified by the necessities
of state of war and was in the nature
of forced loan. Nothing is more GER
tain than that the Court will hold that
the government has no constitutional
authority to issue dollar in greenbacks
beyond this four hundred millions, and
this being the case it winds up the string,
so far as the theory of substituting legal
tenders for National Bank notes is con-
cerned. Having wiped out the National
Bank issue and inflated the legal tenders
to the limit named, the occupation of
the Greenback party would be gone and
the country would find itself confronted
with the fact that the currency had
been contracted to the extent Of 1915
100000, and that only little over four
hundred millions were left to do the
business of the country instead Of $717,-
100000 as at present. Here would be
contraction to an extent, and with a
burden never dreamed of by the widest
Greenback theorist, and yet it is the le-
climate and inevitable outcome of the
retirement of the National Bank circu-
culation, unless indeed the Supreme
Court is abolished or the Constitution
amended, both of which would be pretty
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

AMONG the unsuccessful applicants
for the cadetship in the Fourth District
one was rejected because his feet were
too small, and another because of a sim
liar deficiency at the other extremity
As none were disqualified on account of
big feet, we may take it for granted that
a liberal breadth of underpinning is rath-
err merit than otherwise in candidates
for Uncle Sans service. 1t will not do,
however, to suppose that the capacity
to wear number fourteen boots is the
only qualification required
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
State News.

Among the attractions advertised
for the Grundy County Fair, is a bal
loon ascension by Prof. Harry Melville
in his mammoth air ship, "Estella," %
feet in height and 65 feet in diameter.
"A call to organize workingmen's
party has been issued in Burlington
A sad commentary on the credit
system: AT Clinton, $1,000 worth of
book accounts trusted out by a grocery,
sold for $23; at Des Moines, $4,000 in
notes, assets" of B. T. Aliens bank,
sold for $15.
Several shad have been recently
caught at Des Moines with hooks. They
are the growth of minnows deposited by
the Fish Commissioners three years
ago.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
Terrible Railroad Accident.

One Of the most distressing and hor-
rible railway casualties that ever took
place on Iowa soil occurred on the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific road, nine
miles east Of Des Moines at what is
known as Little Four Mile Greek about
o'clock Wednesday morning The ex-
cessive rains had washed out the sup
ports of the bridge, which was forty or
fifty feet wide The passenger train, to
which was attached Barnum's show car,
rushed on to it, and Immediately the To-
connective and every car in the train ex-
cept the sleeper, went pell nell into the
stream, the banks of which were twenty
feet high. The impetus of the locomo-
tive carried it clear across the creek,
where it half buried itself in the oppo-
site bank. Barnum's car came next,
and fell into the channel, the other cars
following, crashing into those in front,
crushing and Remembering the inmates,
and producing most heartsickening
scene of death and destruction. At the
last accounts twenty dead bodies had
been extricated from the wreck, among
whom were all but one of the eleven oc-
cupants of the Barnum car, besides a
numerous list of wounded 10 intensi-
fly the terrors of the awful calamity, the
rain was falling in torrents, accompanied
by vivid lightning and violent thunder.
Among those who escaped with slight
injuries were Judge Dillon, of the U. S.
Court, and daughter, and G. c. Gilman,
of Eldora, who had two ribs broken.
The engineer Of the train is among the
killed, and the fremen and conductor
were wounded.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

The Etna County (Mo) Republicans
passed resolution in their Convention
accusing President Hayes of being
traitor to his party, his country and his
God. The county is well named and
probably an excuse for this sulphurous
eruption may be found in the volcanic
influence of the locality, but it will
not be prudent for Mr. Blaine to have
it 90 out as the fruits of his influence.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

BRIGHAM Young, the prophet, priest
and king of the Mormon church, died at
Salt Lake, on Wednesday, of cholera
morbus, surrounded by his numerous
wives and children He was man of
far-reaching ambition and consummate
executive ability, and he has occupied a
place in the history of the century suffi-
GENTLY conspicuous to crafty the desire
for notoriety entertained by most men.
He was 76 years of age at his death.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
The Fallacy About Contraction.
Hamilton Freeman.

We hear men railing out against the
contraction of the currency" (when
there is no contraction), and declaring
that the effort to reach the gold stand
ard is the cause of all our woes. Why,
we recollect in Iowa when gold dollar
wouldn't buy as much as a paper dollar
will now by fully twenty-five per cent,
and yet times were ten-fold harder then
than now. Men paid Sc and SO per cwt.
for -four; 30 to 30 cents for butter; 30
cents for pork; $3.50 bushel for corn,
and 81 for potatoes in shining gold.
We worked for $50 day in those
times, and made good living for fam
lily of three persons. Then farmers had
but very little to sell--everything in the
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

Judge Thayer, of the Clinton Age, es-
Inmates that there will be 10000 car
loads of this years produce shipped out
of the State, and he puts the Iowa Di-
vision of the Illinois Central and the
Milwaukee 4 St. Paul at $4,000 car
loads each; the Burlington, Cedar Rap
ids u Northern at 10000; the River
roads at 10000. Mr.. Thayer is good au
thofity and will not come far from an
exact estimate,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

THE Dubuque Times denounces the
temperance men who are not satisfied
with the prohibitory plank in the Re
publican platform as " dishonorable, +"
saying that the resolution was adopted
as mutual concession to induce the
temperance men to cease their opposi-
ton. The Times should not be too hard
on the Temperance people. They have
excellent Republican authority, that it
will not question, to the effect that
there is no prohibitory plank in the Re
publican platform.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

We fear friend Talmage, of the West
Union Gozette, will be subject for dis
cussion at the next editorial meeting, if
he perpetrates many more such items
as this. Hear him. Sound may be in
visible, but we will wager our paste-can
against 81 dog that we have seen po-
tatoes eye and grass mown. "-Lansing
,Jou,uoi
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

W. W. Van Shaik, a well-to-do mer-
chant, and Howard Read, a teacher, have
been sentenced to Fort Madison peni-
tertiary for blowing up the Decatur
county Court House and safe at Leon,
to obtain the moneys and bonds therein
deposited.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

CHARLES A. MINNIE, bright mulat-
to boy, was the successful contestant
for the Cadetship appointment in one of
the New York City districts, Mullers
He passed most creditable examina-
ton, his standing being SO; the standard
of perfection being 100 He was unable
by reason Of poverty to purchase the
required outfit for West Point, but
John Morrissey stepped in generously
and OPPORTUNITY and drew his check for
the amount. 1t was graceful act.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

We had supposed from reading the
Inter- Ocean that Bob Toombs dominat-
ed the Georgia constitutional conven-
ton, and that the new constitution was
practically his work But now the word
comes that Toombs is going to take the
stump against the constitution, declar-
ing in his characteristic style, that he
could take Foster Blodgett and five mig
gers and make better constitution than
the convention did" The instrument is
entitled to the presumption of excel
lence implied by Toombs' opposition.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31

THE New Albany Qnd) Ledger says
of blue Jeans Williams: Southern
Indiana does not claim to have chief
executive, not even so much as an old
worn-out pair of blue breeches." What
makes it sad, is that the Ledger is a
Democratic paper.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-31
be set up TO De knOckCd dOWn.

The Elkader Jonrual makes the fol-
lowing sensible, and we have no doubt,
valuable suggestions to those who intend
to compete for the cadet appointment
at the disposal of Hon. Il. w. Burdick
Post yourself thoroughly on the COM
mon English branches, especially in u.
S. History and Spelling. We are assur-
ed by a gentleman of large experience,
one of the best educators of the coun-
try, who has prepared four successful
candidates, that the greatest reason so
many fail is, that they set their mark
too high, thinking they must be learned
in all the higher branches in order to be
successful, and they cultivate these to
the neglect of the more-to themes
sential studies. More fail in this way
than any other There can be no objec-
ton, Of course, to setting high mark,
and working hard to attain it, but be
sure to master thoroughly the common
branches first.