Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-13

who was present III superabundance
All enjoyed themselves to their heart
content III the hcalthful exercise, and it
was well they did, for the snow storm
Of the next day put an end to further
pleas ure of this sort.
ADMITTED.-Mr. ID. j.. Smith, Clerk
of the Courts of this county, was adj
mitted to tho bar, one day last week,
during the session Of the Circuit Court.
Mr.. Smith, from his long service as
Clerk, has acquired an excellent knowl-
edge of law. and he was admitted with
out examination Probably no lawyer
in the county has better acquaintance
with probate business than he, and we
doubt if there are many who can equal
him in this particular. II he shall com
mence practice here, we warrant he will
build up large business.
BROKE THRouGH-Iast Monday af-
ternoon, +. NJ. Andrews was engaged in
removing the snow from the ice on the
slough, with horse and scraper, for the
purpose of preparing a place to skate
After removing the snow entirely from
the slough, he drove the horse out on
the mill pond, with view of preparing
that in the same way, When in the
middle of the channel, the horse broke
through, and disappeared from view I'M
der the water. He soon came the sur
face, however, and a rope was fastened
about his neck, by which means he was
drawn out. pom attempting to get up
on his feet, he broke through again.
Again they pulled HIM out, and this
time kept him from rising. He was
dragged to shore by the neck, but soon
died, and an examination showed that
he had been chokcd to death.
A LETTER from Mr. Ely, written at
Madison Wis, appears on the second
page in which he criticises sharply the
educational department of our cotcm-
porary, We are not called upon to
pass Judgment as to the relative excel
lency of the matter furnished under
this head in the papers of the county,
but we must record our dissent to the
charge that the educational column of
the Conservative is sold out to book
agents &c Such charge does a Sc
rious injustice to Mr.. Parker, than
whom, in our judgment, no more zeal
Gus, able and disinterested friend of ed
ucation can be found in this community.
We cannot believe that the language
used conveys the real sentiments of our
friend Mr.. Ely
INDEPENDENCE young ladies have en-
gagged in a new work of reform. One
evening this week, three of them took
from the sidewalk in front Of Main
street saloon, an empty beer kcg, and.
by their united efforts, succeeded in de-
posting it at the door of room where
are known to reside several young gen
tlemen. We suppose the object of this
act was to bring the young mems sins
home to their very doors, and, by the
overwhelming feeling of shame which it
was supposed this would bring about,
lead them to complete reformation
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kindly impulses by which the ladies
were guided in this self-sacrifcing labor,
should be so misconstrued. The boys
took the keg in and fostered it kindly,
until it was found to be empty. and
then they kicked it down stairs.
As THE old year draws to a close and
a new one is about to dawn, there
comes, with the regularity of rent-day,
our good friend, DR.. Warne, with Calen-
dars for 1879, for the boys in the office,
who have come to look upon him as
their sole dependence for the annual
supply He has conceived the nice idea
of marking, with squares, triangles and
crosses, the days of each month before,
on and after the full moon, for holding
the regular meetings of the different Sc
cret societies, which to the initiated is
quite unique Improvement.
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WE have been favored with the pc
rusal of pamphlet containing ex-
tracts from the Geological records of
the Interior Department, descriptive Of
certain deposits of dark shale, discov-
cred below the Devonian limestones in
the vicinity of this city, during the sum
mer of 1877, by our local Geologist, D..
S. Deering, and by him brought to the
attention of Prof Calvin, of the State
University Prof Calvin, with the as
sistance of Mr. Deering, made thor
ough examination of the deposit, which
was found in the bottom of a limestone
quarry, near this city, and his report is
embodied in the pamphlet before us.
This shale was found to abound in fos-
sils, some Of them new to science, aud
to be highly charged with bituminous
matter the carbonizcd stems of plants,
&C., which has excited the hopes Of I'M
scientific discoveries, when pierced in
the drilling of wells, that coal mines
had been developed. The great bulk of
Prof Calvins report would have no in
terest to readers not educated in the sci
ence of geology, else we might make
some extracts from it. 1t is worthy Of
notice. that he gives due credit for the
assistance rendered him in the re-
searches, by Mr.. Deering, who is an en-
thusiastic student in ~ scientific
knowledge.