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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES,
No Nonsense About Her.

NJ NO0BCuD0 ABOUT Her.
BY d. v. L.
They parted at country house,
IL was balmy summer night;
Iney met az an aut umn town carOuse
Mid nowers music and sas-light.
They met In the pauses Of dance,
:, n which her feet ha' gayly sped.
my dear "-she parried his fond glance,
"No nonsense, sill, !" she said.
He touched her on her soft white arm,
He led her to a maze Of flowers;
And Is II" asked he, "any harm;
I've l0nged for you these dresry hours?
Ny brain is dazed, my blood is fire,
With passion is my being fed;
But still knew that you desire"-
No nonsense, sir" she said.
It may have pleased your elHsh heart.
When skies we're bright and beaus were few,
To tease me with a woman's art;
But that can't believe Of YOU
may have been too for ware, dear:
Yet though yOar anger much dread.
sli! 90 hope that you will hear -
mo nonsense, Dir, she said.
"You knew me little nor for long.
Nor knew If good Or i'll my fame:
lou had no thought Of right or wrong.
Or where l lived or whence | came,
Your thoughts Of me, most like, were few,
Enough dreams Of you my fancy fed,
And had hoped TO say to you"-
No nonsense, sir, she said.
GU are woman CT the world.
And yet an angel Of the sky
DAINTY darling, kissed ana curled,
Dropped on 10 satin from OH high
You briog shyness from above
That with ApiomD is sweeuy wed,
ana now l wished that you would love-
No nonsense, sir" she said.
THAT shyness can robe in gold
And that aplOmb ia silk attire;
And though you came from heights untold,
SUI can lift you one step higher
4 soft pink flush huffused her cheek
Againso his arm she laid her head
Ami assure you that speak -
No, nonsense, sir, she "a d.
" ~ rib
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06
A Woman's Wedding Ring

Happy Hollow Is so named from the
contentedness of mind of its inhabitants.
The poor make it their own peculiar
locality almost exclusively. Half way
up the valley We sat down to rest by the
door of house which was full to over
flowing with colored people, principally
children. A white woman, oh! the
dirtiest, LATEST white woman in the
world, sat on a log and conducted the
conversation. "Did she live in that
house with the colored people?" "Oh!
law, no; me and my husband live in that
house" she replied, pointing to filthy
little pen that | actually thought was a
dog kennel. She was "rore," but she
was conteEted." She did not appear
disagreeably coarse either in manner or
conversation, but is evidently an illus
tration of what shiftlessness " will do
for any one. Ga the third finger of her
left hand a plain gold ring glistened.
Looking at this woman in her squalor /
found Il bit of compassion springing up
for her in my heart at sight of the ring.
She had never been poor enough to part
with That. No woman who wears gold
ring is ever utterly bereft OF delicate
feeling, and no woman ever parts with
the only ring she owns. It generally
marks some era in her life that she wants
to keep bright in her memory. 1t is
almost always a gift, and being gift in
which utility has no part, it is dedicated
to sentiment forever. Often it is the
gift of one who has broken all the prom
ises which it was designed to seal, and
who has kept its wearer's path we'll
covered with thorns. Still it is cherished
and loved, worn throughout life and
worn in the passionless grave. Some
day the unclean body of this woman of
Happy Hollow will be found in her mis-
cradle howell, and though her clothes will
be mean aad untidy, the gold ring will
be seen to glisten on her hand.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06
Some Mems Wives.

" / tell you what it is" eaid one of a
small coterie of wealthy men who had
met In the Office of one of their number,
" they may say what they please about
the useiessness Of modern women, but
my wife has done her share in securing
our success in life. Everybody knows
that her family was aristocratic, and ex-
elusive, and all that, and when mar
ried her she had never done days work
in her life; but when w. Il G. failed, and
had to commence at the foot of the
hill again, she discharged the servants
and chose out neat little cottage. and
did her own housekeeping until was
better off again."
"And my wife," said a second, "was
an only daughter, caressed and petted to
death; and everybody said, "Well, if
he will marry doll like that, he'll make
the greatest mistake of his life" hut
when / came home the first year of our
marriage sick with the fever, she nursed
me back to health, and never knew her
to murmur because thought we couldn' t
afford any better style or more iuxurles. !"
We'll, gentlemen" chimed in third,
" ] married a smart, healthy, pretty girl,
but she was a regular blue stocking. She
adored Tennyson, dotted on Byron, read
Emerson, and named the first baby Raj ph
Waldo and the second Maud; but tell
you what It's, and the speakers eyes
grew suspiciously moist, "when we laid
little Maud in her last bed at Auburn,
my poor wife had no remembrance of
neglect or stinted motherly care, and
the little dresses that still lie in the lock-
ed drawer were all made by her own
hands. "-Jour.M of Commerce.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06
INSPECTOR GEHEn4E,s REPORT.

The report Of the Inspector General Of the
Army specifically details the condition OF the
various military posts, end gives the reports of
the several commands as an appendix. It APP
pears that the Paymasters have promptly and
satisfactorily rendered their accounts that the
military posts are in excellent condition, tho
discipline good, and the character of the officers
without reproach. 1t is recommended that the
enlisted men pay more attention than hereto
fore to target practice Altogether, the report
shows gratifying condition Of affairs in every
thing connected with the Inspector Generals
department.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06

OSE of the passengers on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad last
evening was man from New Hamp-
shire, going to Colorado for his health.
The man weighed one hundred and ten
pounds, his trunk weighed eighty-six,
and his lunch-basket was four feet high
and weighed one hundred and twenty
eight pounds. He was awful sick
Hdckeyc,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06

The reporter was presented to the
lady, who received him with courtlv
grace. Chairs were provided on the ele-
CANT little piazza, and a pleasant half
hour was spent in conversation.
vi am SO glad you have come" was
Mrs. Webster's first remark. 81 know
you admire flowers. Are thew not
pretty? Miss Woolbcrt has such a de-
llghtful little place, too; the prospect
from my window would be better than
this it there were not SO many flowers. !"
DO you read much now, Mrs. Web
sterY" queried the reporter.
There was no answer to this question.
but simply puzzled look. She turned
appealingly to her relative.
The question was reiterated by Mr..
Leroy, who at the same time picked up
a newspaper from the floor. Then a
look OF intelligence lighted up the trou-
bled face as she exclaimed, "Oh, yes: I
read it through nearly every day"
Caroline Leroy, the second wife of
Webster, was married to the great ex-
FOUNDER in the city of New York, early
in !847, and was constantly with him
until his death, On Oct. %, 1852. Mr..
William Leroy, and a brother living in
Newport, r. l., are the only remaining
members OF the family.-New York Star.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06
.gG5lS4
IS4 Sill .0Sg. 31g


The decline IN the receipts from distilled
spirits and tobacco, shown in these figures, is
owing almost entirely to the attempted legisla-
ion in Congress last winter for the reduction
Of the TAX on whisky and tobacco. Pending
The result of that agitation the manufacture
largely fell of, and the consequence was an
MM.NU.
the American people are drinking less whisky
and more beer than formerly. There was man
1tfactured in the fiscal year of 1873 about
6,500,oOU gallons less whisky than during the
previous year, and 800, 600 gallons more beer
The number of gallons of fermented liquors
consumed III the United States last year was
II. ,465,G0l. Estimating the population at A.
$1,000, calculation will show that every man.
woman and child in the United States drank
over seven gallons of beer ETC., last year, if
each got his or her proportion. If one-half of
the people drank none, then the other half must
have consumed fifteen gallons per head
Commissioner Raum estimates that $596, GOO, =
900, is annually expended for liquor i'll the
United States, an expenditure which, if applied
on the public Gebt, would pay it in three years
The number of cigars consumed in this
country last year were, 1905 063, 743, being an
average of over forty-two cigars to every man,
woman and child Assuming that one fourth
Of the populations very large estimate-are
smokers, each smoker would have 1853 cigars
for the year.
The amount Of tobacco, other than cigars and
cigarettes consumed was 25,312, .rS3 pounds,
which is equal to more than half a pound to
every inLabitant
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06
TIE NETENL'E MIRINE BEHEIII

Tic annual report of the Revenue Marine
Bureau of the Treasury Department shows that
OF the vessels wrecked or in distress, with an
aggregate of 92G persons Oh board. l!n have
been assisted by revenue cutters The estimated
value of the property saved is about 81 700 800,
and 142 persons were actually rescued from
death by drowning. The expenses of the reve-
nue. marine service for the year ended. June 80,
1878, were SS43,00l. The number of vessels
in the service is thirty seven.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06
THE APPOINTUENT OFFICE

The report of the Appointment Office of the
Postoftice shows that during the past year there
have been 2,.Si postoflices established and
ST. discontinued, making an increase in the
total number of ,9l3. The total number of
offices IN operation June SO, 1878, was 80 22s5S
Of these, ,s,in were filled by Presidential ap-
pointmcnt, and 31.GSS Postmasters hold ap-
pointmcnts from the Postmaster General The
number OF appointments made on designations
and expiration of commissions was 5,Il7
There were AS removals of Postmasters, and
SO deaths.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06
COMPTROLLER KNOWS REPORT.

The Comptroller of the Currency, in his an
nual report, shows the total number of banks
and private bankers in the country TO be G,45S,
with an aggregate capital of s6755, 77G, 600, and
aggregate deposits of $3.50 80, 600. During
the past year twenty eight banks have been or
eaDzed. with an authorized capital of S2,175,
GOO, to which 81 ,5.S,StO in circulation notes
have been issued Fifteen banks failed within
this period, having an aggregate capital of
s., 800, and forty-one banks, with total
capital of S5,2O0,0O0, voluntarily discontinued
business Total amount of United States taxes
collected from the commencement of the system
to the present time is as follows:
On circulation. $39.713Sl7
On capital .!...... b.929, 4e0
Total $50 039.:, .553
OF United States bonds held by the national
banks on Nov l. 1868, and deposited with the
Treasurer security for their circulating notes,
nearly three fourths bore interest at the rate of
per cent The amount of this class of bonds
has since been gradually reduced until it is now
less than one-fourth OF all the bonds held while
nearly one-fourth of the whole amount bears
interest at the rate of A. and a per cent Only
about fifth of tho entire issues of the latter
class of bonds il now held by the national
banks
Tho Comptrollerdefends the national banking
system at length, aud argues for its continu-
HHce.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06
INTERNAL REVENUE.

Facts from the annual report of Mr.. Rstlm,
She United States Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, and estimates founded thereon, elicit
some interesting testimony as to the character
and habits of the American people. The report
shows that the total amount of revenue collect
ea during the year was Sill ,os9, $40, a decrease
of 1896, :'3l from the receipts of the previous
year. The receipts were from the following
sources
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06

| S"1oiinc Leroy, the second wife of
Webster, was married to the great ex-
FOUNDER in the city of New York, early
IN !o47, and was constantly with him
until his death, on Oct. %, 1852. Mr..
William Leroy, and a brother living in
Newport, 4. l., are the only remaining
members of the family.-New York Star.
An Indignant Head and Neck.
A most extraordinary sensation has
occurred in the American COLONY of
London this week. A Young LADY, from
Philadelphia was walking down Regent
street with the mother and sister of
a young lady of rank. when the atten-
ton was attracted by some photographs
OF notable people and others exposed in
a window, and they drew up to look
at them. Fancy the astonishment of
the American girl on seeing her own
photograph exposed there among the
Others, but in the most amazing shape it
Is possible TO conceive. Her head,
her lace, the arrangement of her hair,
the turn OF her neck, it was impossible
to mistake; and yet there she was, al
most as undraped as the Venus
de Medici-in tact, got up
in tights and feshings, and
labelled "Mazeppa." "What can this
meant" she cried to the elderly lady,
her lips blanched with shame and terror.
II really cannot tell YOU" replied
Lady Disdain, with steel eye and icy
voice. You perhaps can tell US
whether on any occasion in America you
we're in the habit of appearing in tais
dress?"
"Oh, what do you mean to insinu-
ate?" uttered the poor girl. "Do you
think l ever stood rs Mazeppa? Oh,
how cruel Of you to speak SOD
cit is certainly your portrait" added
the other lady.
By this time one or two bystanders
had drawn up to the window, and no.
ticing the likeness were nudging each
other.
at is some coincidence-of course it
cannot be meant for me-"
You had better take a cab and 90
home aud tell your father about it, T" said
! the lady, still with her frigid manner.
My daughter and / have some calls to
make"
In half-dazed state of mind the
young Philadelphian drove home and
told her father Of what had happened.
To get back to the shop, to have that
photograph out of the window, to de-
mand an explanation of the atationer,
was not the work of many minutes for
the enraged father. But though it was
easy enough to demand an explanation,
it was not SO easy to get one. Suspicion
falls upon the servants in the house, one
OF whom might easily have distracted a
photo out of a package of them which
has been kept hitherto in an unlocked
drawer of the young lady's writing desk.
OF course it is "cooked" picture;
only the head and neck of the American
lady's photograph, the rest that of some
one else, and together the picture repre-
sents one of the most beautiful women
it is possible to conceive. The matter
has caused so much indignation and SO
much comment that it is not impossible
tina. it may check the mania now so
prevalent among society beauties for hav
ing themselves photographed for sale at a
shilling a carte de visite.-London Letter.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-06
THE PRECIOUS METALS.

Dr. Ilnderman, Director Of the Mint, in his
annual report says that all available means
have been employed to ascertain as accurately
as possible the domestic production of gold
and silver. The gold production during the
last fiscal year he places at "a, 226, 10Y: silver
production, SAG, ~, 3l4: total $!l3, 90 42l
DR.. LindGrman estimates the probable amount
OF gold consumed in the arts and manufactures
this year at 5000 600, and computes the stock
OF gold bullion in the country at $244, 1853 800
The amount of size coin and bullion exported
during the year above the amount of impOrta-
tons he fixes at $S,045 900, and the probable
amount used in the arts ant. manufactures at So
10000. He says this will leave net balance of
$SS, 0U,55 as the stock of. silver coin and
bullion in the country June 30, 1878, total Of
both gold and silver Of 1885,, ~, 81, which is
an increase during the year of $50, SIS, 0S9 He
believes that $26, 100 was added to that
amount up to Octoberl.
BUREAU or PRINTING AND ENGRAVING.
The annual report of the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing of the Treasury Department
shows that the aggregate expenses Of operating
the bureau during the year were $53S, SOL 80.
In the labor and expense account less than one
nfth the amount appropriated was expended,
leaving $685., $50 II in the treasury unexpended
at the close of the last fiscal year The num-
Der OF impressions by plate printing was 30
PA, 400, against Is, 9S9, 1877 during the preceding
year. The number Of sheets Of customs and
internal-rcvenue stamps and of United States
securities delivered in the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1877, was Q, S20,059 The number Of
sheets of the same class Of work during the
fiscal year ended June so, 1873, was 1851 1880
The value of notes, bonds and miscellaneous
securities turned out during the wear ended
June 80 1877, was sos, 4l4, 645 The value of
the same class of work during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1873, was 81 ,04O, AL. $50
TIE PATENT OFFICE.
TIE report OF the operations OF the Patent
Office during the fiscal year ending June 80
1873, shows no abatement of the inventive spirit
of the American people The number of origi-
nal applications for patents was 1867, and
IA, 100 new patents were granted There were
also 621 reissues and 10 patents granted for
designs. Twenty-seven hundred and thirty
seven caveats were filed during the year. The
receipts Of the office amounted to S1:i, SIS, and
the total expenditures were $GG5, 90G OF the
amount expended, however, s50,0CO was for the
restoration of lS,5lamodels injured by the fire
OF last year, and, emitting this item, the excess
OF receipts over expenses appears to have been
Sis, 9S2. The number of trade marks regis
tered was ,505, as against only E,S for the pre-
ceding year. and the receipts from this source
and from the registration of 4!f2 labels amounted
to 81, 162, sum eight times greater than the
total expenses of conducting the division
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-14

INATsKILL SUMMIT HILL HoUsB Is OPEN FOR
Osummer bosrderst Handsome, hue grove, lswns Ac I;
" n 0VETcHlus. Pfopristoa
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-12
MORE MONEY WANTED.

PRESIDENT WOOD WANTS THE ESTIMATES OF
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION INCREASED FOR
1S79-poLIcE COMMISSIONERS SMITHS COM
PLANT
special meeting Of the Board Of Apportionment
held yesterday afternoon in the Mayors Office.
Comptroller Kelly, Mayor Ely and Tax Commissioner
Wheeler being present The estimates OF the Board
of Education for 1879 were taken up. when Commits
sioner Wheeler and President Wood made speeches in
relation thereto. The former gentleman alluded to
the necessity Of increasing the appropriation for the
College of the City Of New York from 100000
allowed in the provisional esmates) to sl35,Oo0.
There he said 1000 students in that nstitu
tion 400 more than when the appropriation for the
year $150.OO0 The increase was necessary to i'm
prove the condition of the building and the various
class rooms.
President Wood protested against the cutting down
of the general estimates for their department. Last
year they asked So 900 but only received $34O0O
This year they wanted S3ssi, 900. and could not pos
sibly get along with less. Last year they were com
PEELED to cut down the teachers salaries Mr.. Wood
specified the different deductions made in this respect
Complaints had been made about the ventilation OF
the school buildings. The Board OF Education was
not responsible for this H the Board of Apporton-
ment did not allow them what they asked they could
not venate the school buildings properly or prevent
them from being overcrowded. The speaker then NJ
uded to several schools in different parts of the city
which poorly ventilated and crowded mnch be-
yond their capacity. and where the smell OF over
heated humanity made him almost faint when he
tered the class Every available space in all
the schools was now occupied.
Mayor Ely-Is it not possible to ventilate these
roomsy
Mr.. wood-In the first place, we have money to
do the work. In the next place. we have not AZ yet
ascertained the best facilities for ventilation We
have consulted any number of persons the subject
Police Commissioner Smith also spoks relative to
the estimates tor his department lie asserted that
out of the 22Gl patrolmen nearly $50 of them
unfit for duty There $50 posts not covered and
about 100 detailed at street crossings and piers.
Comptroller Kelly alluded to the law OF 1866, which
provided that the salaries OF patrolmcn should be
duced from 200 to ST. 200 year when gold reaches
par.
General Smith suggested that the opinion Of the
Corporation Counsel should be procured in relation
to the subject.
The Board adjourned until twelve o'cock to-day.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-12
BUSINESS TROUBLES.

II having been reported in this city that Hanauer
Jichtcnauer Co.. wholesale clothing merchants. Of
ST. Paul Mimi had failed with liabilities Of $3.50 000
q consultation Of the New York creditors was held
yesterday at the office OF Blum Co.. in White street.
Fifteen creditors were present. whose claims, IL is
said aggregate $4,000 and IL finally decided to
send committee. composed Of Messrs. Adolph Dessar
and Jerome Bernheimer, to 81. Paul to investigate
matters.
Powers 4 Co., wholesale dealers in clothing at
Nashville. Tenn. whose failure is reported,
about $4,000. nearly all of which il due in this city
meeting Of tho creditors Of J. VI. Shelley x Son,
dry goods 1obbers OF KeOkuk Iowa held at their
New York Office ia Worth street yesterday to receive
the report Of the Committee Of Investigation. The
committee reported that there material change
from the satcment made by the firm, aud that in
view of the embarrassment OF the firm account
OF the Kansas City branch settlement should he
made q each basis. and they recommended thirty
seven and half cents the dollar. The report
accepted.
The schedules in the matter of the assignment
of Solomon Bloomfield TO Meyer Nuremberg were
fled yesterday In the Court OF Common Pleas. The
liabilities stated at $1,000 So nominal assets at
$1,000 aud real assets ct SOTO ~.