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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02
A Story with a Moral.
Baltimore American.

He did not look like man who could
win prize on the Creedmore range, the
fellow dressed in jeans, with dilapidat-
ed hat and muddy shoes, who dropped
into Baltimore street shooting gallery
last night, and said he would just try 10
cents worth of firing to see what the
gol derned thing was, anyhow" He
looked rather as if he might be a hand
on a garden-truck farm, or representa-
tive from the country who, having dis
posed of few bushels of potatoes, was
strolling around to see what could be
seen. He sighted along the barrel, pull
ed the trigger and missed the target.
He took 10 cents worth of it without
improving, and then thought he would
do it over
Just as he was bringing the piece to
his shoulder one of those fellows who
are always to be found in billiard
rooms, bowling alleys and shooting gal
leries touched him on the shoulder, and
remarked that he would like to shoot
him match to see who paid for the six
shots. The stranger said he did not care
if he did, and he had to pay 20 cents.
They tried it again, and this time the
bucolic marksman shot better, but not
good enough.
The next trial he was successful, and
proposed a dollar on the next event.
He lost it, and, handing it over, said he
was game, anyhow, and by the great
Go-whish he'd put up ~" He did,
and lost that
Well" said he, 1--WE got $2O-bill,
and LII see you once more; its make or
bust with me-
His dapper opponent soon skirmished
around and made up $50 on his pros
poets Quietly that young man raised
his piece with one hand and fired 1t
was bull ll's-eye. He did the same the
next time, only he shot left handed
Then he turned his back to the target,
and, sighting quickly over his shoulder,
fired again; the drum beat and another
bull ls-eyc was recorded
" l guess | won't shoot" said the well
dressed man, and, as the Granger slid
the money into his pocket, fellow
stepped out of the crowd and said:
Joe, where are you playing now?"
"Oh, l open at the Adelphi, in Chica-
go, next week
The man in blue jeans was Joe Gu
lick, who shoots apples off his wife's
head in variety shows for living.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02
The Latest Karey.
San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. Il.

can FTdliClsco OCt. IT.
Prof. r. H. Tapp, the celebrated
American se-trainer, commenced a
week ago to tame the Petaluma man
eater, as described in last Sunday S
Chronicle, and has every day since Civ
en- public exhibitions of his process and
progress in temporary amphltheatre IN
the rear of the Record stables, on Mar
ket street, opposite Seventh. Yester-
day, however, the man-eater changed the
programme, and attempted to tame
Tapp in so effective way that Tapp
emerged sorely wounded, and only by a
miracle with his life.
The man-eater, whose other name is
Cogniac, is dark dapple gray Norman
stallion, years old, weighing in fighting
trim 1,S0O pounds, foaled in Normandy,
France, imported two years ago to Hi
nois, and subsequently bought by Joseph
Wooden, the Norman horse breeder of
Petaluma, and brought to this State, and
declared by horsemen to be the finest
horse of the breed ever brought to
America. Until brought to Illinois he
had been an exceptionally gentle animal,
but, having indiscreetly, and probably
playfully, bitten out couple of pounds
of an Illinois groom, he was so injudic-
iously and brutally beaten that, as Dea-
con Duncan would say, he experienced
a change of heart; all his latent deviltry
was developed, and he has ever since
been the terror of all whom necessity
have thrown into his company. Mr.
Mr.. Wooden consigned him to Mr.. Tapp
to have him cured of this sole little fol
BILE. Yesterday at 2 o'clock the exhibi-
ton commenced in the presence of
about two hundred spectators, and pro-
gressed until $3.50, during which time
the horse had been handled by the Pro-
fessor, driven to buggy, and appeared
perfectly tractable. After being un-
hitched he was cross -hobbled by making
a stout rope fast from the fetlock of the
nigh fore leg to that of his off hind leg,
an arrangement which permitted him to
trot but prevented his galloping, as also
his kneeling down.
The horse stood near the center of the
inclosed circle, and the Professor about
mid way between him and the inclosing
high barricade, the horse perfectly sub
dued under the eye of the commander.
Some person on front seat in the rear
of Tapp asked him u question, and for
one instant Tapp removed his eye and
half turned his head to answer. In that
instant the crazy brute sprang upon
him like tiger There was yell of
horror from the spectators as the horse
caught the man up by the clothes at the
small of his back, shook him as a terrier
does a rat, and flung him through the
air against the inclosing planking. Be
fore Tapp could regain his feet the fer
ocious monster was again upon him,
seizing him with his teeth by the left
shoulder and endeavoring to kneel down
upon him. This the cross-hObble pre-
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02
How Pirates were Hung.

There once prevailed custom in
England of hanging persons convicted
of piracy and other crimes on the high
seas. on the shore of the ocean at point
where the tides would wash over their
bodies. Harrison states, in his De
scription of England that Pirates and
robbers by sea are condemned in the
Court of Admiraltie, and hanged ON the
shores at low water mark, where they
are left till three tides have oyerwashed
them In Murray's Hand d-book of
Kent Execution-D Dock, Mapping, l., is
named as the place where pirates and
others committing capital crimes at sea
were hung at low water mark, there to
remain till three tides had overhowed
them The old chronicler. Stow, also
refers to the custom in nearly the same
language, -remarking of certain local
ity, that it was the usual place of exc
cution for hanging of pirates and sea-ro
vers at the low water mark, there to re-
main till three tides had overfowed
them In this ancient practice the
writer finds an explanation of Antonio's
remark to the Boatswain, in The Tenn
pest" Act l, Sc. l:
would thou mightst lie drowning
The washing of ten tides
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02
Santa Annals Daughter.

Gen. Santa Anna was in command of
the Mexicans at Cerro GOrdo. He was
utterly defeated and compelled to re-
treat, with heavy loss in prisoners, ma
terial, killed and wounded. Shields was
dangerously wounded in the fight, and
of course left behind at Jalapa. When
he became convalescent he was inform
ed that lady living opposite the house
where he lay had been much help to his
attendants. AS soon as he was allowed
to walk out he went to thank her, when
he learned to his surprise that she was
the daughter of Santa Anna. In the
course Of the conversation which follow
ed, he remarked: "But did you know
who it was that you were ministering to
all this timer ''Not at first" she re-
piled; "I discovered after time that
you were Gen. Shields, who l had heard
was killed" Perhaps had you known
at the first that l was one who had a
large share in defeating your father, you
would not have relieved me-" She drew
herself up with a proud old Castilian
air. "Sir," she said, had you, with your
own hand, killed my father in fair fight
fair fight would have done for you
in your extremity just as / now have
done. And she looked as we'll as said
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02
Dressing the Baby.
Philadelphia World.

When woman goes to work to dress
a two-year-old child she does it in sys-
tematic, business-like manner, and with
out any noise or fuss; and before you
know it the yOungster is slid out Of her
hands with his face washed and hair
combed, his clothing in ship-shape ord
er and $40 chrome under his arm.
This all comes from knowing how. With
a man it is different, He makes elabor-
ate preparations and puts on the air of
one who is getting an eighty-four gun
ship ready for two years cruise, He
collects the youngsters duds together
in heap, gathering them up from pref
ty much all over the house, and after
great deal Of bawling for this and sharp,
swapping inquiries for that, and an un-
limited amount of getting down on his
knees and looking around under the fur
niture for the other (all of which came
from his having undressed the child the
night before), he at length sits resigned
ly down in a chair and, with feeble at
tempt at good-nature, says:
Come, Freddie, come to papa, and
have your cOses on"
The child, who is just travelling around
in his night dress, and playing with a
damp towel and a stove wrench, makes
a bee line for the door, full of desire
to escape into the next room.
Come, Freddie, come to papa, like a
good boy says the father with brave
effort at patience.
The child keeps on his course.
"Fred!"
This sounds so much like business
that the youngster stops, turns, and
tacking slowly up to the now stern-brow-
ed parent, gradually gets within reach,
when sudden grab of his arm brings
him into position, where the damp tow
ell slaps around on the fathers clean
shirt front, and the stove wrench plumps
solidly down upon the very toe of his
boot.
Immortal Julius!' he screams in ag-
ony, nursing his foot with one hand and
shaking the poor innocent with the 9th
er, whereupon the innocent sets up a
yell
A voice from below, where the wife
and mother is busted in getting break
fast, joins in the chorus.
"Olmstead Molleson, what on earth
are you doing with that child?"
oh, you be darned" goes back the
quick reply, in short, ugly, desperate
growl that silences all further inquiry.
Then the father, after rubbing his
foot and groaning awhile, squares the
child around and begins the process of
dressing him, which is mostly made up
Of dreadful struggles between clumsy
fingers and smooth porcelain buttons,
general misplacing Of garments hind
side before and upside down, searching
after the missing articles, and talk like
the following:
Turn aroundp
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02

Dry up!"
''Stand still"
Hold your arm upr
Thunder and lightning! Can't you
let things be?'
Stop reaching!'
Hold your head upr'
Up, l say!'
Cant you keep still?'
Where's that other skirt?"
..'Shut up!"
Let go"
Blast that button!''
Now, where in blazes is that pin?'
Stand up!'
"Ohp
There, by thunder"
Why don't you fall down and be done
with it?''
"ssStop your howling!'
"Ouch"
Devil take the pin!''
Let that be-"
Behaved
Great Scott
Say, why don't you have four or five
thousand more large buttons on your
clothes?"
Now, where's that stocking?"
Keep your foot still"
Say, keep-your-foot- t-still !"
by Jove!"
Gimme the other foot"
No, the other!''
Cant you seer'
"Je-rusalem!"
'Sanctifed Solomon!"
What do you want to spread your
toes all out for! How do you suppose
I'm going to put your stocking on with
your foot in that shape?"
Stop it'
Stop it, l say!'
Blamed if-ouch"
"Who stuck that pm in that apron
like that?'
You, of course" says cold, cutting
voice; and he glances up and sees his
wife looking down on him in haunting,
exasperating kind of way. I'D be
ashamed of myself" she continued, ito
go on in that way and get out of pa
tience with little bit of baby. You
have been making noise enough to wake
the dead, and his clothes look as if they
had been thrown on with a pitchfork.
Gin me him."
And he gets up sheepishly and sullen-
ly, and after slamming and stamping
around the house after the liniment bot
tie and banging doors and making as big
a noise as he can, he works himself up
into such a state Of meanness and NOR
tification that, to spite himself, he goes
off down town without his breakfast.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02
Pairing OF.
Editors Drawer, in Harper's Magazine fo
November.

Editors Drawer, in Harper's Magazine for
November.
William 4. Coleman of San Francis
co, was talking the other day Of his old
partner, Edward Mott Robinson, of New
Bedford, whose penuriousness was
matter Of common talk.
" He was good fellow in the main,
said Mr.. Coleman, ''but he exceeded any
man ever knew in ingenious expedients
for saving a dollar. In those days | was
a Democrat and he was a Republican.
One day he said, Coleman, have your
committee been after you?' Not yet, |
replied. We'll, mine have been after
me, he said, and they wanted me to
subscribe $500, and | told them | would
l looked at him in absolute amazement.
Then he added: Yes, l told them the
Democrats would expect $500 from you,
and 1 scas going to pair off! So mind
you stick to that arrangement. 1t will
be all the same to both parties, and it
won't cost either Of us cent,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02
THE OLD SONG.

A simple song, u nameless song,
Sweet, tremulOus and slow!
1t blOssomed on a human lip
Two hundred years ago!
That lip has crumbled back to dust,
And centuries worn asunder!
With stony clasp the chords that woke
EOlian breathings under!
Yet tell me not that long ago
The nameless ceased to be!
Death never won human beart
Embalmed in melody!
This soul embodied in the thrill
OF one heart-touching tone.
Goes waking on thousand lips
The echo of his own!
1t tells its own sad story i'm
That sweet and broken lay;
\ soul that in lifes labyrinth
Went wandering astray.
A soul that lived, a soul that loved,
A soul that watched and wept,
Then folded up its weary wings,
Lay down in peace, and slept.
Far better thus nameIess throb
Cast on the sealess shore
OF human hearts, to circle on
In ceaseless sympathy,
Than heartless trump hung idly on
The hraZen tnunr of Fame
Sending down deafened centuries
The clamor of q name,
Better TO sing a cradle hymn
Than babble mystery;
Better to live in human love
Than human memory!
Oh, sing that tuneful song again,
But soft, and sad, and slow;
Sweet as the spirit sighed it forth
Two hundred years ago!
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02
LAUNDRY & BARBER SHOP.
[. w. EVANS & co.

DROPRIETORS OF NEW CITY LAUNDRY
L and Barber Shop. North side Main street,
four doors east of Walnut We are perma-
nently located and desire q share of your pat
onage. All work warranted.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02
BARBER SHOP.

JOHN BURKE,
TT1HE FASHIONABLE BARBER AND HAIR
1 Dresser. All the modern cOnveniences
known to the profession. Shopov Barnett s.
Co.'S Store, Main street, independence, Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02
RATES OF ADVERTISING

Legal and Official Advertisements, One Dollar
per square for the first, and Fifty Cents per
Square for each subsequent insertion, up to
four insertions. A square is equal to ten lines
of Brewer type, or eight lines of Nonpareil,
the type of this paper.
Business Cards of six lines, or less, $6.Oo
fMGrrlage, Death and Religious Notices insert
ed without charge. Obituary Notices ten cents
per line.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02
HRUCKART & NEY.


A TTORNEYS AT LAW, INDEPENDENCE,
IA Iowa. Office over MOrses Store. Consul
tations in English and German.
ID. w. BRUCKART. JOHN J. NEY.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-02
ATTORNEYS.
i. e. COOK.

FRANK ID. JACKSON,
A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
"A Special attention given to Collections. Of
flee over Chicago Clothing House.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-09-14

"STIoK TO DAD."-A farmers son
writes us the following: II am tired of
farming and want to come to town to
make living for myself. What do you
think of it 2"
Well, We think you are a fool if YOU
don't stay at home. The city is overrun
with dead beats and tramps, and if you
have dead sure thing of making "bread
and meat" on the farm, you'd better stay
where you are, and dig potatoes, than come
hero and 60 to the Workhouse and peck
rock. Stick to dad. Stay on the farm
You are worth more to yourself, to ysur
neighbors, 10 your State and the country at
large than all the one-horse mutton head
professional gentlemen that are living from
hand to mouth in this city or State. You
stick to the plow, the mower, the reaper,
freeze to that farm like a fly blister to ne
groe's lip, raise rye, corn, hay, barley, oats,
potatoes; chop wood, maui rails, burn brush,
curry your mules, feed oxen, raise stock, and
instead of hanging around the street cor
ners dependent upon lunch houses to keep
sand out Of your craw, you'll be at home
on your farm, living life of 'independent
happiness" while thousands of "nice Young
men" too pretty and proud to work, and
too lazy to steal, will be lighting out "ever,
the hill to the poor house" merciless beasts
and lazy subjects Of utter dependence upon
public charity. Young man, if you know
which side of the bread of life the butter
Ing y 10 Louisville to d s,;is msfe III ,;se IN f.,
yourself" 25 acres of Ind and chap
like you to till it, is worth more to the
county than the bank in this city and tho
smartest capitalist we know of to run it.
You stay where you are. Follow the plow,
and engineer the dooile, willing mule that
pulls it. Our word for it any young,
healthy, stout farmers boy who will give
up his chances for "a dead sure thing in
life" and come to town on an uncertainty
Is not smart enough to take care Of him
self, and should be arrested and sent to a
lunatic asylum for a darned fool. STAY
where you are,-LauisuiNe Courier-Jour-
nal.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-09-14

One more remark and I am done. In
this section for several years we have been
able to buy from one and half to two
bushels of corn with cne of oats, in tho
months OF October and November, the Pc
riod when corn is harvested and oats in Do
mand for seed. Now, as it is a we'll deter
mined fact that the yield of oats is three
times greater than corn, Gin respect to
bushels) on same soil, even when oats arc
broadcasted, here is As to 60 bushels corn
from ordinary soil To what extent this
is the case in other sections of the State,
and how long it may continue to be the case
here, of course 1 do not know, but it is
reasonble to expect that for many years yet
a bushel of oats will purchase one bushel
of corn. This ought to encourage US to
grow oats, sarsly., Il ID sundoshtsdly -tha.
surest crop that We can plant, and it is to
be hoped that the advice of the Southern
Cuitivator' will not go unheeded this fall.
s. A. G.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-09-14
Four South CAROLINA WIDows.-At

Four SoUTH CAROLINA W1poys.-At
Prosperity, station on the Greenyille and
Enl,,.-L;~ -~;l-.-l, ta.~.v taueif iu reacn 6f
the sound Of the whistle, four widows whose.
names and deeds should be printed in letters
of gold We shall tell of them-to spare
blushes-frst.
No. 1. This lady-as, in fact, all the
others-lost her husband during the v.y
and was left in straightened circumstances.
Did she sit down and grieve at her fate
BY no means. She has raised four children.
besides fine crops, and to day she has much
Of last years cotton and -four on hand, is
free from debt and is able to pay cash down
for what she wants
No. looks complacently on all of her
last crop Of cotton, and with sense of per-
feet rest and absolute fullness on 1900
pounds Of -four, neither of which she has
sold because she has no use for tho money
heres widow for you. The only thing
which -distarha .hsr, rest now il what 10 do
with her new fodder, every place being, filed
with the old. She might dispose of some of
it to the Editor Of tho Herald, who has been
standing 70 tho rack for years, fodder or no
fodder. She, too, like true woman, has
raised children and set them MP under their
own vines and fig trees.
No. 3 struggled through the years which
have rolled on since the late unpleasantness,
raised six children, given each at majority
$SoO in cash. Last year she bought tract
OF land, for which 81 400 in good money was
paid. Has corn, fodder and other things in
abundance.
No: 4, like unto the others, has made .
splendid fight and brought up largo family
IN the way they should 80, has Of last years
crops abundance, pays cash in trade and
loans her earnings ont on interest.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-09-14

stand is poor, in June, or as soon as the
grain crop is harvested. This could not be
done in our hot, dry climate-the following
September would be quito as early as the
young plants could venture above ground
with safety. But we cannot commend too
highly the advice, to let tho plants seed the
first year and thus correct defects in tho
stand and to avoid weakening the plants by
grazing or moving, before they have become
strong and fully established. Pastures are
very frequently ruined by the desire to rea.
lize from them too soon.-ED. So. CULTI-
vAToR.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-09-14

Curculios may best be fought by inclos-
ing the plum or other fruit trees infested
cherries, peaches, etc.-with chicken yard
fence, and colonizing flock of chickens
within. Then, after the fruit is set, by
slight shaking Of the trees every morning,
while the insects are still inactive, they will
drop off and become an easy prey to their
ready enemies beneath.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-09-14

"Is THIs SEAT OCCUPIED ?-An old
but vigorous-looking gentleman, seemingly
from the rural districts, got into Car and
walked its full length without receiving an
invitation to sit down. Approaching one
gentleman, who had whole bench to him
SELF he asked as shis scat occupied pr
eyes, SIR, it H." impsrtinently replied the
other. "Well," replied the broad. shoulder.
Cd agriculturist, ~ will keep this seat until
the gentleman comes" Tbs original pro.
prietsr withdrew himself haughtily to one
end, and looked insulted. After awhile the
train got in motion, and still nobody came
to claim the seat, whereupon tho deep. .ches-
ted agricultrist turned and said: "Sir,
whom you told me this seat was occupied
you told me lie"--such was his plain Ian.
guage-"I never sit near o liar If 1 can
avoid IL; would rather stand up" Then
appalling to another party, he said: "Sir,
may l sit next to you You don't look
like liar" We need hardly ssy that he
got his scat, and that the original proprie-
tor thought that there was something wrong
about our social system.--Bah. Gaxette.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-09-14
A Vicksburg paper says negro magis-
trate in that county lately sentenced q negro

prisoner to be hanged for stealing hog, and
that the sentence would certainly have been
carried out if tho white people had not in
tcriered to prevent it,