Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence of the Bulletin.

sissippi, giving In very decided Ian
guage the opinion of the Administers
ton in regard to the recent murder
of Judge Chisholm and his family,
is deemed here as eminently wise.-
The letter will enlighten the people
of the Southern States in regard to
the Presidents position upon the
question of protection for all classes
Of citizens in the South, and also in.
terpret to them his Southern policy
which they seem unable to compre:
bend in the right light. Their mis-.
construction seems to be wilful when
we read of the Chisholm affair being
SO closely followed by the assassina.
ton of James Laws, of Louisiana,
whose action in conducting politi-
cal meeting during the late cam.
paign, also in testifying before the
Senate and House Committee, seems
to have incurred Il vendetta; We
hope in the light of recent events, our
good President may follow the old
farmers example when the boys were
astride his best apple tree, filling
their pockets, of throwing grass at
them till finding they didn't mean to
come down, he tried stones. We
are aware that first reports are ex-
aggerated, and that troubles in Mis-
sissippi should not be saddled upon
the President as a result of his poll
cy, and further, that family fueds
everywhere South are as deadly as
political. Vendettas are not confin
ed to political opponents, for they
extend to people of nearest kin. Yet
as the political murders come with
in the province of the Executive, we
trust an end will be put to them In
so far as the laws will permit. If
the olive branch fails Mr.. President,
the United States bayonct never
will. Among those received by the
President recently,were Uncle Lewis
Taylor, Of Virginia, aged ITO years,
a genuine centenarian, and Mrs.
Sprey, of Baltimore, aged %. This
lady made the curtains for
the White House when President
Jefferson accepted it. She has full
possession Of all her faculties, and
critically examined the curtains now
hanging in the White House parlors,
and said that these now in use are
not half SO fine and costly as those
she made.
APROPOS OF OLD AGE.
1t is surprising the number of cen
tenarians in this portion of the coun-
try, and so frequently do they appear
in public that all novelty Is lost at
seeing them. A long residence
South satisfies us that its climate is
more suitable for the aged than
Northern ATTITUDES, and that when
man OF woman haye hridged over
the critical periods OF life and are
on the decline, our mild weather is
less trying and more calculated to
lengthen out their days than more
Northern places with more rigorous
winters. A friend recently buried
his father who had passed his Doth
year. Connected with the deceased
is an interesting incident. A long
while ago the gentleman came here
from near Pittsburg. He was born
Of Dutch parents, but on his mar
rage and shortly after the birth of
his first child ceased to speak Dutch,
his native tongue, in his family, and
for many years prior to his last i'll,
ness, had wholly forgotten every
word Of it. Yet in this sickness he
forgot his English and spoke only
MS Dutch, and that fluently, up to
his last dying moments. None of
MS children could speak it, hence an
Interpreter was constantly required
20 convey his wishes. It is interest
ng to inquire by what process of
mind could the native language be
80 suddenly restored with the entire
oss of the acquired, and that after
50 many years of complete oblivion?
Where was the old language during
Ill this time? Was it stored in the
Drain, needing only tho purifying
process Of death to remove the ac-
luisitlon or accresions rather of life
rom it? If so, why did it Danish
hese additions so summarily and
That Southern lati-
udes are more trying to the young
han Northern, is perhaps q fact
in its elevated regions, where
leadly malaria and epidemics are
lot found, it does seem more aged
IRE to be seen, and with their age
more yigor and strength, and free
lom from disease, than in your eli
mates. Every few weeks a Mr.,
Minor calls on us and he is as full of
life and clear headed sense, at IS rs
hundreds we have met in the North
ire at three score. He walks every
and being Virginian, of
course chews tobacco, though is ex.
,eptiona(ly moderate N its use, He
s but one of many Of our acanain.
ance, and We cannot escape the per-
liclous effect OF over heated rooms,
md to take exercise at nearly all
lines Of the winter, is most condu-
i've to longevity, and we attribute
he great numbers of octogenarians
more to ORR mild weather than to any
,ther cause. The President yestor=
lay received delegation Of the
minister's and lay delegates of the
'ecently united Methodist Protestant
and was addressed by
several of them, among whom we
loted Chas. w. Button, of Lynch
'urg, Virginia, 1t sounded odd to
lear him speak Of fraternity and
burial of animosities, and of the duty
which dcvolves upon al forgetting
he past by formation Of new ties OF
friendship, etco for we know him
'nly as the opposite Of his words
lis private life is above reproach,
,ut rs an editor, his pen is as desti-
ute of charity and tolerance as the
character of the Moslem whose
Koran teaches him the sword is
iod's purifier Of the world. Like
'thor seNshern edit3rs, he is an
ldept AT the use Of hillingsgate of the
Chesterfield oily, CANNON typc,mdit
would puzzle any metaphysician to
reconcile his intense bitterness of eX-
,rarSinn ouoipct tho XonEaa mr. ofhnr