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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-07

in love with and marry-even poor, unknown
girl you were Quixotic enough 10 invite to
your table"
Twenty three, So he is. And if he
wants to marry a beggar, and she is good,
yirtuous girl, why mott"
little gasp of horror and dismay was the
only answer Of which Mrs. Mayberry was ca
pabe.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
The Southern Nav.


The New York Tribune furnishes a
list, by title, of the bills and petitions
now pending in Congress asking for APP
preparations for Southern improvements,
and to compensate the South for losses
sustained during the war. In the Sen
ate there are forty such demands, with
specified items to the amount of $4,227,-
1O8; while in the House, the more suit
able place of origin, there are no less
than one hundred and sixty-six meas
ures, praying for $22,9 $685. 32. The fig
ures here given are only those which
were rendered necessary by the nature
of the claims, and are a mere bagatelle
of the sum total involved in the two
hundred and six bills on file in both
Houses. Many of these bills are but
notices of intention, served upon Con-
gress by Southern members for the pur-
pose of quieting importunate constitu-
ents, but with no expectation, on the
part of those who presented them, Of
their being pushed Immediately through.
The claims for indirect damages to
property, public and private, are pur-
posely left blank in valuation; but reli-
able Investigation proves that not less
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

AMONG the bills introduced in the
Legislature, was n which has already
passed the House, making Boards of
Supervisors liable for damages occurring
in consequence of unsafe bridges after
having been notified of their unsound
condition.
A bill also passed the House on Sat
urday, for the protection of dairymen,
and to prevent deception in the sale of
butter. 1t provides that all persons
who shall manufacture for sale any ar
ticle in semblance of butter, but not the
legitimate product of the dairy, shall
stamp upon the box of irkin contain
ing it, the word "olemargarine," and the
sale Of the product without this stamp
shall be unlawful, and no action to re-
cover upon any contract for it, shall be
entertained by the courts of the State.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

THE New Hampshire Republicans in
their State Convention unequivocally
endorsed the President and his policies;
they went into the contest under this
banner, and fought the fight, not only
against the active opposition of the
Democrats, but in the face of predictions
of defeat, and of indifference as to the
result, coming from INSTRUMENTATION
Republicans, one at least, on the State
Central Committee, who could not see
any use of lurking for Democratic
scalps," and who thought hat the best
thing the Republicans could do was to
rally "to the support of the most worthy
nominee without reference to the ticket
he happens to be on" And now that
the victory is won without them, and in
spite of them, the ~implacables of the
Chandler sort have the impudence to
say that it is in no sense an endorsement
of the administration.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
Glimpses Of Lincoln.
Noah Brooks In Scribner.

So much has been written about Lin
coins private life and personal habits,
that 1T seems unnecessary now to add
more than a word. He was simple in
all his tastes; liked old songs and old
poetry. He was always neatly but not
finically dressed. He disliked gloves,
and once / saw him extract seven or
eight pairs of gloves from an o~vercoat
pocket, where they had accumulated
after having been furnished him by Mrs.
Lincoln Usually, he drank tea and
coffee at the table, but he preferred
milk, or cold water. Wine was never on
the table at the White House, except
when visitors other than familiar friends,
were present. The Presidents glass
was always filled, and he usually touch
ed it to his lips. Sometimes he drank a
few swallows, but never a whole glass,
probably. He was cordial and affable,
and his simple-heartcd manner made a
strong impression upon those who met
him for the first time. | have known
impressionable women, touched by his
sad face and gentle bearing, to go away
in tears. Once | found him sitting in
his chair so collapsed and weary that he
did not look up or speak when | spoke
to him. He put out his hand mechan-
icaly, as if to shake hands, when | told
him | had come at his bidding. 1t was
several minutes before he was reused
enough to say that he had a mighty
hard day." Once, too, at a reception at
the White House., ! joined the long
queue of people, and shook hands
with him, received the usual Glad to
see you sir" and passed on. Later in
the evening, meeting me, he declared
that he had not seen me before, and ex-
planned his preoccupation of manner
while the people had been shaking hands
with him, by sayingh he was thinking of a
mar down south" 1t afterwards came
out that "the man down south" was
Sherman. Once, when a visitor used
profane language in his presence, he rose
and said: II thought Senator G. had
sent me a gentleman. I was mistaken.
There is the door, and | wish you good
night" At another time, a delegation
from a distant State waited on him with
a written protest against certain appoint
ments. The paper contained some re-
Elections upon the character of Senator
Baker, Lincoln's old and beloved friend.
With great dignity the President said:
''This is my paper, which you have given
me?" Assured that it was, he added:
'"To do with as | please?" Certainly,
Mr.. President" Lincoln stopped to
the fireplace behind him, laid it on the
burning Goals, turned and said: Good
day, gentlemen"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
The Congressional Districts

Senator johnson, Of Wi .meshiek
county, introduced a bill last week, fol
the reorganization of CongreF ,sional Dis.
tricts in the State. 1t lea YES all the
Districts, except the Third and Fourth
precisely as they now are, but proposes
q reorganization of this and the Fourth
districts, as follows: The Third dis
trict to be composed of the counties of
Dubuque, Delaware, Buchanan, Black
hawk, Bremen, Butler, Grundy, Hardin,
Franklin and Wright, 10 counties, with
a population of $4,000. The Fourth
district will be Clayton, Alamakee,
Winneshiek, Fayette, Howard, Chicka-
saw, Mitchell, Floyd, Worth, Winneba-
go, Cerro Gordo and Hancock, II coun-
ties with $4,000 population. 1t is
doubtful if the bill will pass the Legis-
lature. 1t is understood that the pres
ent Fourth District is opposed to it
unanimously. The northern counties
of this district will favor it because it
relieves them Of Dubuque county, and
the Republicans of Dubuque favor it
because it will place their county in a
Republican district with 5000 majority,
an advantage their ambitious politicians
are not slow to appreciate. Besides
this the very good reasons for the change
are urged, that it will equalize the pop
ulation of the districts and produce
more homogeniety of interests and asso-
Citations than now. 1t will place Messrs.
Burdick and Deering in the same dis
triot, and render it necessary for one of
them to retire at the end of his first
taryo
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

THE far-fetched theory of the Gate
City that the President is fearful of be-
ing ousted from office, and that this fear
influences his official action, is not re-
ceiving much Endorsement from the
press, except in quarters where any
thing to his discredit is eagerly snapped
up and used. The following from the
Mt. Pleasant Journal is a sensible view
of the subject:
All talk about President Hayes hav-
ing been Influenced in shaping his pub
lie policy through fear that his title to
the Presidency might be called in ques-
ton, and therefore, that it would be
necessary for him to conciliate South
ern politicians to support him, is the
v%eriest nonsense. President Hayes is
not that sort of a man, besides, his title
to his high Office was pronounced com
plete by a tribunal of the highest char
acter for learning, ability and integrity.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
than $O5O,OOO, 900 are covered by the pa

than $O5O,0OO 900 are covered by the pa
pers herein referred to.
It cannot be charged against North
ern newspapers, at the present time,
that a review Of this subject is made
solely for political effect The pub
lie blood is not heated with the passion
OF a political campaign. Ears that
would have been deaf to a considera-
ton of this matter but a year ago, are
now eagerly opened to the force OF re-
vealed truth. The statement made re-
speeding this Southern attack upon the
treasury are not the vagaries Of cam
paign orators, but are literal copies Of
official records, and must be vicwedin the
light of their bearing and effect upon
the credit and prosperity of the Nation.
1t is but natural that a section Of
country devastated by war should seek
to recuperate its weakened powers by
every means within it's reach. AS the
most effective method Of gaining aid,
the South grasps after the control of
the Governmental n to the public
treasury. With an executive in sympa-
thy. with the legislative branch, and
both divisions favorable to the granting
of aid to the South, the success of
Southern lobbyists would not only be
possible but certain, and untold wealth
would be emptied into the laps of spec
u%lators. The bulk of taxation which
would follow the passage Of these bills
would necessarily fall upon the regions
at present prosperous. Three-quarters,
at least, of the load would rest on
Northern shoulders. 1t is difficult, I'M
der the circumstances, for Northern
men to accept the theory of "concilia-
ton" as advanced by Southerners. The
$~15O,OO0,O0O now before Congress would
be swollen to indefinite proportions, if
the fOod-gates were once opened. Ma
tional Indebtedness would be the out
come, to an extent impossible now to
predict, and then would follow a cores
ponding decrease in credit. The ineyi-
table result of this demoralizing fnan-
cial assault would be the bankruptcy of
the Nation.
This is no longer a partisan subject.
Party lines dwarf before the possibility
of such disaster. Aside from the ques-
ton of how, by whom, or why these de-
mands are made, looms up the vital in
quiry: Can the Nation assume so gigan-
tic a debt and yet live? The answer
must be based solely upon the present,
the Immediately available, Of
the country. Undeveloped wealth may
be within the knowledge of us all; but
it cannot be counted as an element in
this problem, because of the increased
uncertainty of productiveness and pros
perity, in the event of Southern sue
cess. At a time when the people are
beginning to recover from widespread
calamity, are they ready to assume a
greater evil than they have yet encoun-
tered? Are they will willing to relin-
quish their grasp on a long-banished
prosperity, and inaugurate an era Of
financial terror? These are plain Dues
tons for sensible men of business to
think over, without prejudice, without
malice, without partisanism, but with
fair and candid judgment, as though it
was a private matter of commercial pol
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
The President INDICATED.

The Washington correspondent Of the
Chicago Post, under date of March 10,
the day following the reception Of the
news of the action of the of the Louisi-
ana Supreme Court in the Anderson
matter says:
The friends of the Administration are
greatly encouraged over the situation to-
day. The success of Anderson is re-
garded as a complete settlement of the
political imbroglio in Louisiana, and
the vindication Of the returning board.
This judgment is justified by the reas-
oning OF the Supreme Court, which sub
stantlally pronounces the trial of An
derson an audacious and outrageous
persecution. The whole thing is re-
garded as a fine triumph of the Presi
dents policy. 1t is also added that per-
feet peace and reasonable prosperity
have returned to the South. The pat
riotic and vigorous conduct of Gov.
Hampton, of South Carolina, against
violations of the revenue laws, is also
adduced as a strong fact. Administra-
ton circles are more than comfortable,
and all Republicans are feeling better
toward the President than they have
done for a long time.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
THE State Register displays a great

THE State Register displays a great
deal of superserviceable zeal-for which,
doubtless, it will receive scant thanks
in rushing to the defense of Sam Clark,
of the Gate City, against an article in
the BULLETIN last week. In his Off
cious haste to put in his oar where it is
not called for, the Register editor is APP
parently oblivious of the sorry compli-
ment he has paid Mr.. Clark in the
implication hat he is not able to fight
his. own battles. But the BULLETIN
has been rather remiss in burning
incense under the nose of the
talented young mar who runs the
Register, and he cannot forego the op-
portunity for giving it a stab, even
though it be in another mans quarrel.
As is his wont when he desires to give
point or pungency to a paragraph, he
does not scruple to introduce a false
hood or two. We have a high apprecia-
ton of the standing of the Gate City,
and the ability of it's editor, Mr.. Clark,
but it is not literally true, as asserted
by the Register, that we have been "all
the past year copying articles from the
Gate City and calling it and it's editor
about the ablest opponents of public
thought and public decency in Iowa.
though we are willing now to say that
on the score of decency, if the Gate
City and Register were the only papers
in Iowa, the former would %monopolize
that virtue. But we do not complain of
the Registers ibs at our expense; they
are harmless, and only put mas stufing.
They are only significant as showing it's
proclivity, or, we should say, one Of its
proclivities. The other prominent one
is toad-eatins sycophancy, witness it's
slobber over Belknap, and Kasson after
it found it could not crush him.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

SUSAN Blink, Pitt, In the Circuit Court of
against Buchanan County, Iowa.,
j. II. Balm, Deft. May Term A. ID 1873.
To said Defendant:
YOU are hereby notified that there is now on
i file In the office of the Clerk OF the Circuit
Court of Buchanan county, Iowa, the petition of
Susan Blink, the Plaintiff aforesaid, claiming Of
you the sum OF Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars
as money justly due from you on. a Promissory
Note. That Twenty-Five Dollars Of said claim is
for attorney sfees.
That a writ of attachment is prayed for in said
petition. That said writ has been granted and the
following described property, to wit: all your
right, title and interest in and to the northwest
quarter and the north half Of the southwest quar-
ter OF Section seventeen (17), township eighty
seven (S7(, Range No. nine C0, west OF the 5thlP.
NJ, has been attached herein.
You are also notified that unless you appear
thereto and defend, before noon Of the second
day Of the May term of said Circuit Court of Blu
chanan county, to be held at independence. In
said county, on the Goth day OF May, A. D.. 1878. a
default will be entered against you and Judgment
rendered thereon. IL. W. HOLMAN,
Sbw4 Atty for Plaintiff.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

THE Supreme Court of Louisiana had
the case of General Anderson, of the
Returning Board before it on Monday,
and after a lengthy and thorough review
of the charges against him, and the I'M
justifiable action of the Court that con-
victed and imprisoned him, released
him from confinement, and practically
exhonerated him and his associates
from anything of a criminal nature in
their action. 1t delares that the paper
alleged to be forged had nothing to do
with the result of the election, and even
if the charge were true no harm could
come of it. This is better hal a par
don by the Executive, and infinitely
better than any result that would have
been reached by interference by the
government. 1t justifies and strength
ems the Presidents Southern policy,
and it honors his irmness in adhering
to it in the face of the exasperating ac-
ton of the Louisiana Bourbons, and the
carping and hostile criticisms of a por-
ton Of his own party friends.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
POking Fun mt our Dollar.
New York Herald

New York Herald
The new ninety-cent dollar has made
its appearance, and a very shabby ap-
pearance it makes. 1t is a libel on our
ancestors to call it the dollar of our
daddies. Our daddies would have been
ashamed of such a pinched, coarse, bad
so~lid-looking piece of money, and if the
head of the Goddess of Liberty did APP
pear to be uncomfortably situated
among the stars, and if her cap did look
like a candle extinguisher, the eagle on
the reverse conveyed the idea of dignity
and power, and kept up the credit of
the national bird. The new dollar bears
a strong resemblance to a biggest pump
kin or best soft soap medal awarded at
a country fair, or it might be taken for
a genuine dollar in the last stages of
consumption,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

IT HAS been remarked, and with
truth, apparently, that while the pres
ent General Assembly has within it a
more than average share of ability, it is,
nevertheless, an impractical and pug
n%acious body. There is a great deal of
demagoguism and selfshness to
the surface in it, and it is fair to say,
that it contains more embryo Congress
men to the square rod, than any Legis-
lature preceding it for a number of
years, of whom our section of the State
furnishes not a few. A debate like
hat over the appropriations, furnishes
these undeveloped statesmen an oppor-
tunity to come to the front, but what
ever their intentions, it is not always
hat they add to their reputation for
cool judgment and deliberate wisdom.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
Spirit Lake Massacre.


Dickinson county, Iowa, has a history
of blood as we'll as some of the spots of
Bleeding Kansas. The Spirit Lake
Beacon says that twenty-one years ago
the 9th Of March, occurred the Spirit
Lake massacre. Half a dozen families,
numbering in all about fifty persons,
then constituted the population of the
county, and they resided in the groves
around the Okobojis and Spirit Lake.
Inkpadutah led the slaughter. The
bones of the murdered settlers lie in I'M
marked and almost unknown graves
near the places where the soil drank
their life-blood. Rank weeds and un-
derbrush have sprung up over the ashes
of their cabins. The magic touch of
passing time has changed everything.
Towns have sprung up with fertile
farms on every hand.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

LAST Saturday was a field day in the
House on appropriations for the State
institutions. The bill appropriating $40
600 for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at
Council Bluffs was defeated by the close
vote of AZ to 46. The vote on the bill
appropriating 100000 to the Anamosa
penitentiary was reconsidered and the
amount changed to $4,000, and in this
shape the bill passed. The bill appro-
priating 81, $50 to the Insane Hospital
at Mt. Pleasant was passed unanimous
ly. The bill providing for the support
of the fish Matching house at Anamosa,
including $1,000 per year as salary Of
the Fish Commissioner, was defeated
and the bill appropriating $4,000 for
payment of Indebtedness Of the Reform
School was laid on the table. In the
debate accompanying the consideration
of these. bills, a number of Representa-
tives took especial pains to ventilate
their lack of craftsmanship and their
possession of the opposite quality of
demagoguism by their illogical, unreas-
oning and indiscriminate opposition to
every proposition to appropriate money
for the State institutions. Mr.. Upde-
graft, of Clayton, made a ridiculous ex-
hibition of himself in a frothy harangue
about rings" evidently intending to
reap a little personal capital as a cham
pion of the people. Mr.. Rickel INDUCED
in a little hifalutin ON the same occa-
sion, attacking the "scatteration policy"
Of locating the State institutions, just
as though it had not ceased to be a poll
cy and become a fixed fact by the ex-
penditure of millions of dollars in var1-
Gus parts Of the State. Evidently these
gentlemen, and others who INDUCED in
similar flights of buncombe over the
appropriation bills, regard the present
demand by the people of the State for
prudence and economy in expenditure,
as their opportunity to come out strong
as friends of the dear people, but they
are OVERRIDING the thing, and by zeal
without discrimination or reason are be-
traying their real animus.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

~ A CORRESPONDENT of the State Reg
i;ster, wv. E. NJ" probably Ex-Chief
Justice Miller, denies the statement go
ing the rounds of the papers to the eff
feet that the Supreme Court of Iowa
has made a decision that, if a man gives
his note for $40, and if it is raised to
$40 and then sold to a banker, the ma
ker must pay it, and that he cannot set
up the fraudulent alteration against a
third party, who is an innocent purchas-
er. He says the Supreme Court has
never made such a decision.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

MANCHESTER was excited last Mon
day, owe an attempt to burn a portion
of that city, by parties residing there.
it seems that one VIM. A. Hubert had
been offered SO to burn the NJ. r.
Church, a barn and a carpenters shop
neal by. He confded the plot to one
Pentony, and offered him half the mon
ey to assist him. Pentony told an off
Ger of the scheme, and it was arranged
that the plot should go on, Pentony ap-
pearing to fall in with it. An officer
secreted himself in the basement of the
church, and awaited results. About
half past 10 o'clock in the evening, the
window was opened, and Hubert and
Pentony climbed in. They walked
around the room a few times, and then
Hubert struck a match, when gthe off
Ger presented himself, and arrested him,
A number of the seats were found to
be saturated with kerosene, and prepar-
ations made for a sure thing. Hubert
was taken before a magistrate and
bound ove to the next term of the Dis
trict Court, in $1,000 bonds.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

MENTION was made in our columns
last week, Of the death of Chas. L. Will
son, proprietor Of the Chicago Journal.
Right upon the heels of this, intelligence
comes that of the sudden death of an
other Chicago journalist of prominence,
0. P. Willard, managing editor of the
Post, and a man of unusually bright
parts, as the paper shows. He was 43
years of age, had a superior education,
and was formerly a Methodist minister
His attack was so sudden and severe
that he could not be taken to his home,
at Evanston, but died at the Palmer
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22

THE bill repeating the present rail
road law of Iowa, and providing for a
Board of Railroad Commissioners, which
had previously passed the House, was
taken up in the Senate on Tuesday, and
after a session hat lasted all day and
until ] o'clock Wednesday morning, it
was passed exactly as it came from the
House, by a vote Of 90 to 20. Senator
Harmon voted in the negative, as did
Mr.. Calvin on it's passage by the House.
Senators Larrabee, Stoneman, johnson
and Kline, of this Congressional dis
trict, voted for the bill. 1t will become
a law by the Governors signature.