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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-05-18

School Books at Tabor's
Wall paper at Tabor's.
Bleaching and Pressing done at Mrs
CaffalPs. 4w43.
100 pieces Plaid Dress goods, at 10 cts,
worth 20 cts. New York Store
4Ow3 LAwTON & Posi-.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-05-18

Go TO the New York Store, and ask
for the II for 10. lows
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-05-18

Can be found at Mrs. Caffal's Cuffs,
Collars, Neckties, Ruches, Silk and Lace
Bibs, Ornaments, &c.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-05-18

JUST Received at the New York Store:
100 pieces Hamburg Edgng, by the yard,
price 10c worth 20c
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-05-18
Sidewalk Notice.

All the above work at prices reduced to suit
times Come and sec for yourselves.
Independence, Iowa, May Is, 1877.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-05-18
9eaths,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
FEED MILL,
REDUCED PRICES.

Feed Grinding done Feed kept on hand f
sale
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-05-18

]. A. VINCENT.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-05-18
r. S, & A. p. LACEY, Att'ys,
ApIIINnnnN n 4

Any person desiring information as to the stand
ing and responsibility of the members of the firm
will on request be furnished with a satisfactory
reference in his vicinity Congressional district
12-2itf
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

ArcHIsoS, KANSAS, August %, 1877.
Messrs Editors .--Enclosed find two dollars
which pays for the WATERMAN until March i4th
1878. We should feel lost without the WATCH
MAN. II is the only Eastern paper we take, and
weekly II gives us the news of our old home in
Montpelier, where we spent the best part of our
lives We have not lost our interest in Montpe-
lier. two of our children rest in Green Mour,
Cemetery the place where we hope To be buried
sneak for myself and my better half will now
say something of Kansas. Crops of all kinds are
remarkably good We have had rains just as
needed no grasshoppers this season. notice
Vermont has had small sprinkling, just enough
to give her hint that the pests are not all con-
fined to the West. So far AS politics is con-
cerned, Kansas is Republican bya great majority,
and the people here generally approve the policy
OF the Hayes administration. Let the past be
forgiven, but not forgotten. Let the blessings OF
good government, like the dew from heaven
fall ON all alike should like to have been at the
great centennial celebration of the battle of Ben
nington. The actors of that day have all gone to
receive their reward The United States are now
one nation, free aud independent. God grant
that the United States may live to celebrate her
thousandth anniversary and be continually u
blessing to the whole world Atchison is improy-
ing and business lively. As much as the people
yrumble about railroads and railroad bonds, they
have made the country rich and prosperous,
Take for example the state Of Kansas with a
population now Of over six hundred thousand In
habtants--thirty years ago she was unknown To
| civilization The railroads have made her great
and prosperous. The same might be said Of the
whole country, but must close Yours truly,
AzEL SpALplNG
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

Civil SERvIcE.-Very many papers in
the country are trying to bring reproach
upon the Presidents civil service order.
There are only ten lines in the order, and
editors who are intending to comment on
that brief document ought really to find
time to read it, Here it is: No officer
should be required or permitted to take part
in the management of political organiza-
tons, caucuses, conventions or election cam
paiglls. Their right 10 pote and TO cypress
their piews on public questions, either orally or
through The press, is not denied, provided it
does not interfere with the discharge of
their official duties. No assessment for po-
ltical purposes on officers or subordnates
should be allowed" 1t is safe TO say that
those parties who object to such an order
are unsafe parties TO do the business of the
government.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

SITTING Bulls TACTICs.-In the British
Canadian or Dominion territory there are
ninety-two thousand Indians. OF these,
thirty-two thousand are in British Column
bia. When Sitting Bull crossed the line
into Canada, he expected that the Canadian
Sioux, the Crees and the Canadian Black
feet, would Join him in his war against the
United States but they refused to do so,
and the Canadian mounted police have in
terfered with his attempts to get recruits.
lie expected, also, TO get full supply of
ammunition in Canada; but the police have
prevented this, and shut off the traders who
might have supplied him. He is out of am
munition, and finds it very difficult to feed
his people. Therefore, he wishes TO nego-
tiate with the United States and get admit
lance TO reservation, and makes visit to
the Great Father at Washington for that
purpose. The Indians in Canada are not
confined to reservations, and they are not
fed by the government The Canadian
policy has been TO allow each Indian family
eight acres of land, and TO give them occa
sional assistance. 1t is said that some of the
"worst Indians on the continent" are in
British Columbia. We think, however, that
our Canadian neighbors have not had very
large experience of the "worst Indians
Their Indians support themselves, and ar,
made to depend upon themselves, mainly
for support. They receive government sup
plies only when they are in actual need Of
them.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

India is country of famines, but the
present famine bids fair to surpass anything
ever known there before. For the last two
years the crops have been very poor and
many of the people have died of starvation;
but this years crops are still poorer than be-
fore, and the restitution which already exists,
though appalling, is as nothing to that which
is anticipated in the immediate future. The
population is crowded one, and the most
of the people are very poor. The failure OF
their crops for single season exhausts their
resources, but now, when already weakened
and brought to the verge of starvation by
two years of scarcity, they are called upon
to face another year with no new supplies.
The English government is putting forth
the most stupendous efforts in their behalf,
but can save only part. Provisions are dis
tributed free to the destitute, and immense
relief works are carried on to give employ
ment to the abe-bodied. Over a million
and quarter of the natives are now EN-
ployed on these works, and as many more
are in the receipt of charitable aid. The
Governor of Madras says that there are in
the Madras Presidency, within the famine
area, eighteen million persons, large part
OF whom are dependent for daily food on the
exertions of those who transport grain to the
country, aud the sanitary commissioner ex-
presses the opinion that half million people
have already died of want. 1t is said by one
writer that the number of persons found
dead in Madras in single morning, re-
Gently, was greater than had died in the
whole Bengal famine. No improvement in
the condition of affairs can be expected for
six months, and the suffering which must
ensue is terrible to contemplate. Leading
grain merchants and shippers of New York
have expressed the belief that if proper
effort were made it would be quite possible
to send grain enough from this country to
arrest the famine. Vessels could be dis
patched from San Francisco, and also by
way of the Suez canal, and be at their des-
tination far in advance of the period when
the famine is expected to be arrested by the
new crop of rice. But, of course, this would
require extraordinary exertion, as well as a
vast outlay of money, and whether the Brit
ish government and people are prepared to
make the one and provide the other, it is for
themselves to say.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

IMMIGRATIoN,-An official German docu-
ment, just published gives some accurate in
formation as to emigration from Germany.
According to this document, the whole num-
Der of persons who emigrated from Germany
to the United States, from the beginning of
1915 to the close of 1876, was two million
six hundred and eighty-fve thousand four
hundred and thirty. This number exceeds
the whole population of Denmark by nearly
a million, and is more than two-thirds of
the whole number of inhabitants of Portu-
gal. On the whole, the Germans are the
most intelligent and useful people that come
To us from Europe; and they usually bring
with them some property, which, in the
official reports of the German bureau of sta.
tistics, is estimated at six hundred and fifty
thalers for each emigrant, some having more
aud some less. Since 1878, the German EN-.
igration has fallen off but there are indica.
tions that it will be revived, and it is sug-
gested that large portion OF it may be di
vert, d to Australia. Within few years, the
attention of the emigrating people of Europe
has been turned to the Australian provinces
which are likely 10 be found attractive and
satisfactory. Brazil and the Spanish Amer
lean countries have been tried with the most
unsatisfactory results. Australia is more
inviting and presents better conditions
Emigration from Ireland has lessenet
greatly, and last year, for the first time il
a long series of years, the census reported
an increase of the population of Ireland
There can be no doubt that there has beer
great improvement in the condition of tn
people of that island, within few years
although this is something which the " lrisl
Nationalist do not like to admit.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29
Senator MOrrill's Views.

Senator Justin S. Morrill, has been inter
viewed by reporter of the Boston Giobe,
and gives the following views as to the Pres
ident's policy and its effects MY opinion
is that the large majority of the people are
disposed to treat the Presidents policy fairly
so that it may have full opportunity to be
tested both by the people in the South and
the people in the North. | have the impress
sion that very respectable minority of the
Republican party have long desired the
adoption of conciliatory policy in the con-
troll of the Southern states in the place of
the military force policy. We have GER
tainly tried for many years the military, and
during the same time have lost control of
the majority OF the reconstructed states,
and whether the conciliatory policy shall
turn ont to be any better or not, the trial of
it is inevitabe-if not by the Republican
party, by the democratic party"
As to the result of the last election, Mr..
Morrill, is satisfied that not a Republican in
Vermont lives who does not believe that
President Hayes and also Governors Pack
ard, of Louisiana, and Chamberlain, of
South Carolina, were elected by lawful votes
cast. Said he; /" If absolute Justice and
fair play could have been had, think it is
also believed we should have had more votes
than even we claimed. There is a strong
doubt felt by our whole party as to whether
the Republicans, as party, will derive any
benefit at the polls from the policy now
adopted by the administration but if peace
prevails, and the democratic party will do
its whole duty by the colored people, in re-
gard to educating them and their children,
protecting them in all their civil rights so as
to give some evidence that they will in time
become valuable citizens, the country, at
least, will derive some benefit from the pol
icy. What our people are the most reluctant
10 surrender was the Republican admins.
tration in Louisiana and South Carolina.
They believe the Republican Governors of
those states were elected and believe so now,
although they have some doubt whether
their authority could have been maintained
without the aid of the strong arm of the
general government
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

EIorEFuL OUTLooK.--The Agricultural
Bureaus statistics bear out the strongest
statements that have been made in the news
papers in relation to the unprecedented boun-
tifulness of the crops of the country. Taken
as a whole such yield has never before
blessed the land. The crop of winter wheat
exceeds anything ever known the spring
wheat promises to be equally good both as
to increase in quantity and excellence of
quality, Then the corn and oat crops are
in no wise behindhand in their lavishness
of promse-a promise which is now nearly
fulfilled. The cotton crop can not possibly
short of four and half million bales-nearly
million more than the best yield of any
previous year, For all of these products
except extraordinarily high prices are
paid. As a nation we are placed in that
singularly fortunate position that all we have
to sell is eagerly desired by other peoples
while we want but very little that we do not
produce ourselves We must, therefore, re-
ceive large amounts of money which will
stay with us.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

RUSSIAN DIsAsTERs.-Th Russians are
learning by dear experience that their fight
ing tactics are of too antiquated school
for the present period of breech-loading fire.
arms. Twenty-Five years ago there was
some sense in crowding heavy masses of
men upon the Notifications defended by the
strong garrisons. II will not do now. A
thin line of Turks, standing in Notifications,
and handling guns that fire at the rate of
twelve shots a minute, and commence doing
execution at the distance of thousand
yards, will destroy regiments as fast as they
eau be fed into them. The day of direct
assaults has gone past; strong positions
nowadays will have 10 be taken some other
way. The disaster at Plevna, If rightly in
terpreted by the Russians, will prevent the
commission of similar errors in the future
1t is likely it was not the superior force OF
the Turks which crushed the Russians il
was the superiority in arms, aud the fool
hardness of the Russians in exposing larg,
masses of troops TO the fire of breech-loader'
at short range.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

PRESIDENT HAYES AT CoNcoRD.-The
speech of President Hayes at Concord was
an earnest and eloquent plea for peace and
good will throughout the land. At the same
time the President frankly recognized that
as to his particular measures for the attain
ment of this object, there is difference
among Republicans, and that many dissent
from his action. lie is entirely right in as
sunng that Republicans everywhere give
him the credit of meaning well, but he APP
pears also to appreciate the truth that mean
ing well is not all of wise craftsmanship
lie trusts to time to justify the course he has
pursued, and we hope not in vain. Whatever
difference there may be as to means, the
country agrees with the President in desiring
that the Union may be a real Union.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

INSTANTANEOUS PnoroGRApHy.-An at
tempt is to be made in California TO settle,
by means of instantaneous photography,
the question long mooted among horsemen,
as to whether fast trotter ever has all of
his feet in the air at once. The experiment
will be made upon the noted horse Occident
who moves twenty feet at a stride. Within
a space of twenty-four feet, covering little
more than a full stride, twelve Photographic
cameras will be placed The shutters of
these cameras will be opened and closed by
electricity as the horse passes in front of
each, the time of exposure being not more
than the thousandth part of q second. The
twelve pictures will be taken within two.
thirds of a second, the time required for
travelling twenty-four feet at speed of two
thirty-seven, aud will show distinctly every
portion of the step. They will be stereo-
scopic views.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

THE FAMINE IN CoREA.-A Japanese
paper gives distressing account of the
misery at present prevailing in Corea. The
people are dying by thousands for want of
food. When vessel enters the port laden
with rice, corn, or provisions of any kind, it
is at once surrounded by bands of hungry
natives, who endeavor to seize its contents,
and blood is frequently shed in keeping them
off. Food is, it is true, distributed by the
government to the poor every ten days, on
the 10th, Goth aud Both of each month but
the amount at the disposal of the authori-
ties is utterly insufficient to feed the multi
tude of supplicants. The horrors of disease
and pestilence have been added to those of
famine, and the bodies of the dead lie in the
streets for days
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29
An IMPENDING Danger.

The Texas Pacific people are laying plans
for an active campaign in Washington this
winter. They regarded the political excite
ment of the last session as I'M urious to their
chances but now that the building up and
development OF the resources of the South
has become one of the pet schemes of some
Northern politicians, they have strong hopes
of success. Their plans as announced at a
meeting of directors in Philadelphia last
week. propose the construction of an "open
highway" fourteen hundred miles. long,
from Fort Worth TO San Diego which, with
the road now completed, shall be under gov.
eminent control. The directors say that the
road is private enterprise, designed to
secure to the people, without cost to the gov
eminent, national highway" yet at the
same time they propose TO issue first mort.
gage bonds guaranteed by the government,
at the rate of thirty-fve thousand dollars
per mile of road constructed, five thousand
dollars of which they generously propose to
deposit in the United States treasury. In
hhui'ibh bo h'in Suhano'' biicy vi cpuiHt
want the government to meet the interest
on these bonds, which will amount to two
million five hundred thousand dollars a
year. There is danger in this scheme. II
will have practically a solid South in it,
favor, and it is announced that Sam Randall
and some of the Northern democrats hav,
given in their allegiance to it in exchang,
for Southern support in the speakership con
test. This will give the advocates of rail
road subsidies very nearly votes enough /,
put through this and other contemplate,
raids on the national treasury, whose desigl
is to enrich the South at the expense of tn
nation. 1t is TO be feared that some Repuh
licans OF the Stanley Matthews stripe, il
their zeal to coucliate the South, will fur
nish the necessary votes TO con 'ummate tn
outrage,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

INDIAN llEADs.-Clark Mills has been
taking casts of the heads of Indians for the
Smithsonian Institute. The Indians on
whose heads he has been at wor'; are i'm
prisoned in Fort Marion, Florida. The
number of Indians imprisoned there is sew
enty, and he has modelled the heads of sixty
two of them. At first, the Indians shrunk
from the operation, and it was uncertain
whether the casts could be taken. At length,
when Lone Wolf, the principal chief, under
stood the matter he decided that it would
be great honor to have model of his head
carried to Washington. He submitted to
the operation with all the dignity he could
command. The time occupied in taking a
cast of his head was just fifteen minutes
The other Indians stood around watching
the process with intense interest, and when
the cast was exhibited to them. they burst
into roar of laughter. There was no more
difficulty. The Indians seemed delighted
to have their heads modelled in this way
1t is said that Mr.. Mills has been remark
ably successful in this work.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

The LABoR QuEsrIoN.-Judge Vests
solution of the labor question, briefly indi-
Gated by telegraph, is more fully stated in a
recent letter to a friend in Philadelphia.
He thinks the true interests of both laborer
and employer would be better conserved
by an agreement voluntarily entered into,
but by no means compact of statutory or
legislative compulsion, whereby the wages
of labor shall be rated according TO gradu-
ated scale of compensation, ranging from a
minimum rate fixed and determined by the
parties, but increased or diminished accord
ing TO a certain per cent of the net profits
or loss OF the employer"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

WADE HAMPTON AT WHIrE SULPHUR
SPRISGs.-Wade Hampton is capital
talker. Witness the following from late
speech at White Sulphur Springs, in re-
sponse to a serenade; Thousands of men
in South Carolina indicated TO me their will
lingness to go north during the riots, and
render the President any aid in their power.
Let the people of the North remember this
We recognize that the Union is restored
we recognize the Constitution of the United
States. And when ! say that, mean the
Constitution with all is amenf ment, We
have surrendered in good faith. The South
ern states now ask for equal laws. Let
Maine be put on par with South Carolina.
Regard Louisiana as you do Massachusetts
and you will find no men in the Union who
will stand by the Constitution of the United
States more loyalty than the men of ih'
SOUTH
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

The INDIANs.---It is very easy at this dis
lance TO be funny at the expense Of General
Howard, but there is probably no doubt
that the General is doing all that is in his
power to capture the hostiles. The expert
ence with the Modocs showed that small
band of Indians can for a long time elude a
much larger force of soldiers. In the pres
ent instance the soldiers are outnumbered
by the Indians and the latter have the ad.
ditional advantage OF being thoroughly famil-
lar with the country aud well equipped.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

A srovE dealer in Hartford has died of a slight
cut made in one of his fingers by piece of ordn-
AIRY oxidized sheet zine. The zinc inflicted u
poisonous wound that In a few hours affected the
whole circulation, and bahled the efforts Of ply
sicians who were then summoned. Oxidzed
zine which Is found In numberless houses, should
therefore be- handled NJ carefully ~ poisoned
Chinese daggers.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29

AcconDlsG to the most recent statistics the in
habtants ON the earth number one billion four
hundred and twenty-three million nine hundred
and seventeen thousand, or twenty eight persons
To every square mile of surface. London is the
most densey packed spot OF population, contain
ing three million four hundred and eighty-nne
thousand four hundred and twenty eight souls,
more than some continental kingdoms