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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
Civil Service..HOw the President Feels
About 1t.

The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Post, j.. ID. Ingersoll, writes to
that paper as follows;
WASHINGTON, July Al had very
pleasant talk with President Hayes this
morning, the conversation turning on
the late Iowa Convention and the sub
ject OF civil service reform. The Presi-
dent said substantially, There has been
misrepresentation, it is very true, but the
truth of the matter will all be known in
good time. You cannot keep our peo-
from finding out the truth in things of
this kind. No trickery can long impose
upon them"
| mentioned the fact that similar
thing as to President Lincoln had oc-
CURED in 1864, and in this he was great
ly interested. The Republicans of Iowa
were little impatient with even Abra-
ham Lincoln, he said; Il cannot COM
plain that they are little impatient
with me-" And then he went on to say
how unavoidable it was that public men
should be misunderstood and their course
misinterpreted, but that there never had
been and probably never would be an in
stance in which such radical and intelli
gent Republicans as those Of Iowa would
fail to render just and generous iudg-
ment in the end.
Upon the subject of his late letter as
to office-holders taking active part in par
ty management, the President squarely
admitted that it was likely to do him
temporary harm in the strongest Repub-
lican States and localities. For" said
he, 81 as a rule, where the Republicans
are strongest, the officers have not off
ciously monopolized political manage
ment The party has gone on from vic
tory to victory by the strength of it's
principles, aided, of course, by the up
right conduct of its representative men.
But it is different in New York and 9th
er States and considerable localities
which we have lost. For the good of
gaining where we are weak, those who
live where we are strong must cheerful
ly, think, agree to be less conspicuous
in what we call management. The peo-
pie will not endure what we hear called
the office-holders' ring the office
holders regime, etc. The people now
have a perfect opportunity to manage
for themselves, and you may rely upon
it they will manage well. We shall
have better politics in the future"
OF course, | only give the outlines of
the Presidents remarks. He was, as
have ever found him, exceedingly kind,
even genial in manner | was constant
ly reminded of President Lincoln, and
have to say that | never knew two great
men of marked individuality so much
alike in kindly dispositions and what
call long headedness as Lincoln and
Hayes. You may safely bet that Pres
ident Hayes is man who will wear Nh
commonly we'll with the American peo-
ple.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
THE Howard county officials are i

THE Howard county officials are in a
quandary Frank Kyle, the absconding
Treasurer, is supposed to have taken a
large sum in public funds from the
county safe, which he left locked and
the combination is known to no one
else. An agent of the safe manufactu-
rers has been summoned to open it, but
he refuses to do so until balance of
$1,000 due on it is paid. To this de-
mand the officials demur, as the safe
was taken on trial, to be paid for if it
suited them. The safe man says that if
they do not want to pay for it, he will
take it back just as it is, but this prop
osition does not suit the officials, for
there is probability that there is 800
600 in it, though this is not certain; and
so the matter stands.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
Important Information to Bankers.

The following decision will prove of
interest to bankers:
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT
The Southern Express Company vs.
Citizens Bank of Louisiana. In this
case judgment has been rendered in IA
vor of the Express Company against
the Bank for $12,500 and for costs
This was suit to collect express
charges on money sent and undervalued
The Bank contended it had right to
value its money packages the same as
other packages The Express Company
insisted that the letter and spirit Of the
contract, as well as universal custom
having the force of law, required full
and true statement Of contents OF mo-
ney packages, and payment of charges
on every dollar shipped; that they had
made very expensive arrangements for
the safe conveyance of money, and were
entitled to full compensation.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

THE Gate City, referring to the state
ment that Ex-Gov. Stone was the author
of the fifth plank of the Iowa platform,
which wants the silver dollar as the unit
of value and the volume of currency
maintained until the wants of trade will
admit of it's further contraction, says:
"We like Stone but he has most ex-
asperating genius for putting in plat
forms these indirections of utterance
and issue which you feel most ashamed
of in your honestest moods" Which is
the euphemistic way of saying that
Stone is a good fellow socially, but polit-
ically pestilent demagogue, the like of
whom it was disgraceful for Iowa Re
publicans to entrust with the framing
of their platform. And in this judg-
ment the cute City is sound, as usual
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

"A great field trial, or hunting fes-
tival, under the auspices Of the Iowa
Sportsmen's Association, is arranged to
come off in Franklin county, in Septem-
ber 1t is expected that many of the
prominent sportsmen of the county will
be present, including Col Fred Grant,
Gen. Sheridan and others, with four or
five hunting dogs, some of them cele-
brated for price and breed. A whole
township will be set apart for hunting
prairie chickens. John H. Gear has en-
gagged rooms at Hampton during the field
trial.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

THE State Greenback Convention
which held it's session at Des Moines
last week, was attended by about one
hundred delegates. After adopting a
platform demanding the repeal of the
resumption act, the abolition of nation
al banks, the reconciliation of silver
equitable taxation, reform of the civil
service, &C., the following ticket was
nominated: For Governor, Daniel P.
Stubs. of Jefferson county; for Lieu
tenant Governor, A. H. McCready, Of
Woodbury.; for Supreme Judge, John
Porter, Of Hardin; for Superintendent
of Public instruction, S. P. Ballard, OF
Davis county.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

The Rev. Mr.. See, of Newark, N. j.,
whose trial for heresy was mentioned
some time since, has concluded to retire
from his charge without contesting his
case, and fires at his stubborn parishion-
ers the following parting shot: 'Sure
we are that all motions, from those of
the highest commercial life to those
about the wash-tubs of the most OBJ
scure, ought to be under the specific d.
rection of the Lord" Overworked
housekeepers will detect no heresy in
that opinion, however it may be with
the patent washing machine inventors.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
G. & w. r. r.
G.. & N. w.

-lxI-E -GS.
THE CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY
Embraces under one management the Great
Trunk Railway Lines of the West and North
west. and with its numerous branches and con-
nections forms the shortest and quickest route
between Chicago and all points in Illinois, Wis
consin, Northern Michigan. Minnesota, Iowa,
Nebraska, California, and the Western Terri
tories. Its
OMAHA 4 CALIFORNIA LINE.
Is the shortest and best route between Chicago
and all points in Northern Illinois, Iowa, Dako-
ia, Nebraska, wyoming, Colorado, Utah. Neya-
da, California, Oregon, China, Japan and Aus
tralia. Its
CHICAGO, ST. P. d MINNEApoLIs LINE
Is the shortest line between Chicago and all
points in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and for Madison, st. Paul, Minneapolis. Duluth
and all points in the great Northwest. Its
LACROSSE, WINoNA & ST. PETER LINE
Is the best route between Chicago and La
Crosse, Ninona, Rochester, Owatonna, Manka-
to, st. Peter, New Ulm and and all points in
Southern aud Central Minnesota. Its
GREEN BAY 4 MARQUETTE LINE
Is the only Line between Chicago and James
vile, WATERFOWL, Fond du Lac Oshkosh, APP
pleton, Green Bay, Escanaba, Negaunee, Mar
quette, Houghton, Hancock and the Lake Su-
perlor country. Its
FREEPoRT 4 DUBUQUE LINE
Rockford, Freeport and all points via. Free
port. Its
CHICAGO Il MILWAUKEE LINE
IS the old Lake Shore route, and is the only one
passing between Chicago and Evanston, Lake
Forest, Highland Park, Waukegan, Racine,
kenosha and Milwaukee.
PULLMAN PALACE DRAWING ROOM CARS
are running on all through trains of this road.
This is the ONLY LINE running these cars be-
tween Chicago and st. Paul and Minneapolis,
Chicago and Milwaukee, Chicago and Winona,
or Chicago and Green Bay.
Close connections are made at Chicago with
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Michigan
Chicago, kankakee Line and Pan Handle
Routes for all points East and SOUTHEAST and
with the Chicago & Alton and Illinois Central
for all points South.
A Close connections also made with the
Union Pacific II. r. mt Omaha for all far West
points.
Close connections made at junction points
With trains of all cross points.
Tickets over this route are sold by all Coupon
Ticket Agents in the United States and Cana
as. Remember, you ask for your Tickets via
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway ana take
acne other.
New York office, Ais Broadway; Boston office,
No 5 State street; Omaha office, 20 FarnflaHl
| street, San Francisco office, ~ Montgomery
street; Chicago Ticket offices, 62 Clark street.
under Sherman House, 10 Canal, corner Mttil-
son street; Kenze Street Depot, corner west
| kinzie and Canal streets; Weils Street pePo''
corner Wells and kinzie streets.
| For rates or information not attainable from
Your home ticket agents, apply 10
I w II SrrNNE1.r MARVIN HUGHITT,
Gen. Pass Agt, Chicago. Gen. Man Chicago
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
SHERIFF'S SALE.

Try VIRTUE of an Execution issued out of
- and under the seal of the District Court of
Buchanan county, Iowa, in favor of Martin
Gillian and against the goods and chattels,
lands and tenements of Y. r. Davis and William
Davis, have levied upon the following describ-
ed property, tO-wit:
The east half of the north west quarter and
the north east quarter of the south west quar-
ter OF section thirty-two, (i2), township eighty
seven, $50, range nine, 9), in Buchanan county,
Iowa.
Which property us above described will Of
fer for sale at public auction at the Court
House in the city of Independence, on Satur-
O'Clock p. M. of said day to the highest bidder,
to satisfy said Execution and costs.
2w51 w. S. VAN ORSDOI. Sheriff.
LAKE HARMON, Attys for Plaintiff.
Sheriff's Office, Independence, July IL, 1877,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

The State Register is out with anoth-
er lengthy personal explanation. This
time the young fellow who conducts it
takes column to explain why he does
not agree with his father on the policy
question 1t was a useless waste of
space. The reason, as everybody knows
is because the old gentleman has sense
and discretion.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

THE farmers of Mosalem township,
Dubuque county, have commenced to
cut their wheat to save it from the
chinch bugs, which have come on them
in immense numbers within few days
past. One man reports to the Herald
that the bugs are half an inch thick on
the ground in his wheat.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
ATTORNEYS.
ESTABLISHED 1869.
R. 5. 4 A. P. LACEY, Attorneys at Law,
seq Serenh-st., Washington, ID. e.
Inventors.

Inventors.
Weprocure Patents in all countries. No AT
TORNEY FEES IN ADVANCE. No charge unless
the patent is granted. No fees for making pre-
lminary examinations. No additional fees for
obtaining and conducting Il rehearing. Special
attention given to Interference Cases before
the Patent Office, Extensions before Congress.
Infringement Suits in different States, and all
litigation appertaining to Inventions or Pat
ents. Send stamp for Pamphlets, giving tull
instructions.
v. S. Courts and Departments.
Claims prosecuted in the Supreme Court Of
the United States Court of Claims, Court of
Commissioners of Alabama Claims, Southern
Claims Commission, and all classes of War
Arrears of Pay and Bounty.
| Officers, Soldiers and Sailors the late war; or
their heirs, are i'll many cases entitledto money
| from the Government of which they have no.
knowledge Write full history of service and
state amount OF pay ,n and bounty received. En-
will be given you without charge.
Pensions.
All Officers, Soldiers and Sailors wounded.
| ruptured, or injured in the late war however
slight are entitled to and can obtain pension.
u. S. General Land Office.
Contested Land Cases, Private Land Claims.
Mining, Presumption and Homestead Cases
| prosecuted before the General Land Office and
Department of the Interior
Land Warrants.
We pay cash for Bounty Land Warrants, and
we invite correspondence with all parties hav-
| ing any for sale and give full and explicit in
structions where assignments are imperfect.
We conduct our business in separate Bureaus,
| having therein the clerical assistance of able
and experienced lawyers. and give our closest
personal supervision to every important paper
| prepared in such case. Prompt attention is
thus secured to all business entrusted to us
! Address
| r. S. e. A. P. LACEY, Att'ys,
WASHINGTON, d. c.
ANY person desiring information as to the
standing and responsibility of the members of
the firm, will, on request, be furnished with a
satisfactory reference i'll his vicinity or Con-
gressiOnal District. E-24tf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

The Monticello Enpress says that
the people of Jones county are inquir-
ing why, by the redistricting of the
State by the last Legislature, Jones
county was deprived of her Senator and
one Representative, while number of
other counties which it mentions, ours
among the number, of less population,
are allowed to have Senator. The in
quiry would seem to be pertinent one,
though, we Should say, rather late.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

The Dubuque Times of yesterday
publishes as genuine a reported inter
view with Secretary McCrary, relating
to Iowa politics, taken from the Phila-
delphia Times, which was repudiated
and it's authenticity denied by the Sec,
rotary two or three days since. Was it
to get in that dig at the Civil Service
order at the close?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

ALLUDING to the office seeking pro-
pensities of John Hogarth Lozier, and
the indirection and insincerity by which
he would attain the nomination for Gov
ernor on the Temperance ticket, the
Muscatine Journal says of that modern
Boanerges: If there is bigger office
seeker in Iowa than the Rev. John we
have yet to meet him" Pehaps the less
said about the Johns on that score the
better. 1t is no telling how compare
son would result.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

LAFE YOUNG, of the Atlantic Teze-
graph, was renominated as Senator OF
the district comprising the counties OF
Cass, Adair and Madison, last week, af-
ter nearly 300 ballots had been cast
Mr.. Young is young man of abil,
ity and high character, who has
acquired very influential standing in
the Senate.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

THE State Of North Carolina has es-
tablished Normal School for the edu-
cation and training of colored teachers.
Items of this sort may very well be set
over against the instances of oppression
and intolerance towards the colored
people in the South, which are eagerly
snatched up by a certain class of papers
to prove the policy of Cancellation fail
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

The Dubuque Times is loosing its holt. and
if we are to judge by the sharp points it is stick
ing into the policy, it will soon be among the
opponents of the ''sell out" The Times posi-
bly, got a flea in its ear at the State Convention
CIdrkSriUe Star.
1t was powerful sudden change of
wind, sure enough, but what does the
Star mean to insinuate by the Times
getting flea in its ear.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

FROM the following extract from a
letter written by Thomas Jefferson soon
after his election to the Presidency, it
will be seen that the recent civil service
order of President Hayes is not new
thing under the sun, nor is the princi-
pie it embodies without very high en-
dorsement. Mr.. Jefferson says:
lone thing will say, that as to the future
1nterferences at elections, whether of the State
or federal government by officers of the latter,
should be deemed cause of removal; because
the constitutional remedy by the elective prin-
ciples becomes nothing If it may be smothered
by the enormous patronage of the general gov
arnmant
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

THE New York Times, viewing Charles
Francis Adams in the light of his ident,
ifcation with the candidacy of the in
triguing fraud of Grammercy Park
pronounces him cheap demagogue, and
says: HE has Jeremiah Blacks ma
lignity without his spice, his fondness
for the tomahawk without his dexterity
in it's use" All Of which will be pain
full for the worshipper and toady of the
Adamses, Sam Bowles.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

Our friend, Capt. Lucas, of the Ger
70 Gordo Republican, is stopping over
in regard to the Southern policy to an
unprecedented extent, even for him.
The latest red rag that has excited his
ire and set him to cavorting around the
lot, is the Indictment of the Louisiana
Returning Board members. This act
OF legal persecution he tauntingly al
ludes to as result of the Presidents
Southern policy, and then proceeds in
the following highly wrought strain:
Now the men who faced death and all kinds
ut for the sake Of what they be-
for their liberty by a set of law-defying, inn
pertinent rebels. And who can doubt their
conviction by such gang Of desperate men?
In the event of their conviction and imprison-
ment for faithfully standing by Mr.. Hayes, we
would like to know what he will do. We want
to know how such Cancellation sets on the
stOmachs of such gush sheets as the Davenport
Gazette Marshall Times and independence Bull
LETIN.
Our friend Lucas doubtless appreci-
ates the fact that it is good deal east
err to denounce and find fault than to
suggest remedies for the abuses and in
justice of this world. For ourselves, we
answer his question by saying frankly
that we do not contemplate with pleas
ant feelings the malevolent manifesto
tons of the extreme Bourbon element
in the South. But we cannot see how
they can be prevented, or, underline cir
cumstances existing before the 18th of
March, could have been prevented, so
long as those manifestations keep with
in the forms of law Can our friend Lu-
cas-? Suppose the old status restored,
and the troops on duty in New Orleans
and suppose Wilt and his associates of
the Bourbon faction had sought to in
dict Wells and Anderson before the
Courts, as they have now done, does any
body suppose that the President could in
any constitutional manner have interfer-
ed with the proceeding? Ifnot, what does
all such buncombe as the above amount
to, but to mislead weak minded men,
and how just and honest is it to try to
make it appear that this prosecution of
the Returning Board is one of the fruits
of the Presidents policy. Our friend
asks, What will Mr.. Hayes do in case
Wells and Anderson are convicted?
Will he tell us what he would have had
the President do to prevent it?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

President Hayes is reported to have said that
he never did favor the annexation of Mexican
territory, and that he does not favor it now,
and further that he is of the opinion the more
of that territory we acquire the worse we will
be off. This is like a wet blanket to a great
many warriors of the Democratic persuasion
Inter-Ocedn.
It is possible that Mr.. Blaine feels a
little dampness. also.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

THE opponents Of the President
Southern policy in the Republican ranks
in Ohio, are making tremendous effort
to have it denounced in the coming
State Convention, but the probability is
that they will be unsuccessful. There
may be long and bitter fight over it
but it is not likely that the party in
Ohio will deliberately and voluntarily
dig its grave, as it surely would if the
implacable programme were carried out
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
LEGAL.
NOTICE OF PROVING WILL.

STATE OF IOWA, In Circuit Court, October
buchanan County. Term, 1877.
To all Whom it mag Concern:
NOU are hereby notified that an instrument
Il in writing, purporting to be the last Will
and Testament of Harvey Norton, deceased late
of Homer township, Buchanan county, Iowa
was opened and read in open Court on the 9th
day of July. 1877, and Monday, the I'D day of
October, 1877, was fixed by the Court for prov.
ing and admitting the same to probate.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Circuit
Court in and for said county this 9th day of Jul
ly, 1877.
d. l.. SMITH,
alw3 Clerk of the Circuit Court
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

THE Davenport Gazette which has
heretofore quite freely criticised the
Presidents civil service order, and
whose editor, Ed. Russell, who is also
post master of that city, has shown a
disposition to ignore and disregard it, is
constrained to say in late issue:
1t may be, after all, that all of us who have
expressed dissatisfaction with that order, will
yet see that on the whole it were better that it's
sweeping and faulty enunciations were made
than that the evil it seeks to remedy should be
wholly unchecked. Certainly those of us who
have so long advocated thorough reform of
said, cannot now be Indifferent to the updoubt-
eddy honest efforts in that direction exerted by
President Hayes.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
NOTICE OF PROVING WILL.

STATE OF IOWA, In Circuit Court October
Buchanan County. Term, 1871
To all Whom it may Concern:
YOU are hereby notified that an instrument
Il in writing. purporting to be the last Will
and Testament OF John C. Uthe deceased, late
of Conc township, Buchanan county. Iowa. was
of May, 1877, and Monday, the 2M day of DC
tober, 1877, was fixed by the Court for proving
and admitting the same to probate
Witness my hand and the seal of the Circuit
Court IN and for said county, this 2Sth day of
May, 1877.
d. L. SMITH,
5lw3 Clerk of the Circuit Court
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20
ESTRAY NOTICE.

TAKEN up by Jerome Robson, on the l3ih
l. day OF May. 1877, in Homer Twp, Buchan-
an county, Iowa one mare of Il light gray col
or, lame in front feet. Appraised value, ST.
3w50 ID. A. MCLEISH, Co. Auditor
Dated at Independence, July 5, 1877.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-20

THE Buchanan County BULLETIN has
put on a new and very handsome dress,
which indicates prosperity with that ex-
cellent paper Ottum,ca Courier.