Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-12-20

lniS Wcek, DuI VIII Try 10 90 So III our |
next. The admission has been put
down to % cents; reserved seats 30
cents; children - cents
URNs.-It is long time since the
cormtrymen and admirers of Robert
Burns, the Scottish poet, have, in any
public way, given prominence to his ma
tai day, and we are therefore glad to
learn that it has been resolved to cele-
brate it this year in appropriate fashion.
AZ preliminary to that end, we are re-
qucsted to give notice that there will be
meeting Of all who take an interest in
the project, at the Office of W. G. & J.
B. Donnan, on Saturday, Dee. %, at
o'clock p M.,-that hour being fixed
for the accommodation of people in the
country,-to make the proper arrange
ments for Burns festival, or supper,
to be held Jan 10Th, 1879 We suppose
that the arrangements for this affair
will be mainly in the hands of the coun-
trymen of the poet. though it is under
stood that the Festival will include all
who love his rhymes and revere his
memory. without regard to nationality.
The prospectus Of the New York
Tribune will be found on our fourth
page this week. We ask for it the
careful perusal of our readers who are
thinking Of subscribing for an outside
paper The price at which it is offered
places this sterling and able paper
within the reach of the poorest man in
the community, and its varied contents
will prove a constant feast for him and
his family As Republican journal,
the New York Tribune is especially
worthy of the confidence of the mem
bers of that party In its prospectus it
fairly recounts its work in the late !
campaign 1t warns Republicans that
the victories of this fall would have |
been reversed had the Democrats and
Greenbackcrs united, and in that union
it sees the dangers of the immediate
future 1t is right in assuming that
the work of educating voters in sound
political principles, must go on, and we
know no more efficient or potential aid |
in that direction than the Tribune. We |
will furnish the weekly Tribune and |
the BULLETIN for $3.50 per annum.
A club is being formed at the Post Of
fee, at $105 for the Tribune alone. 1t
is important that all who wish to sub |
scribe shall hand in their names before
the lst of January
CONCLUSIVE TEsTIMoNY.-Judg |
from the proofs that are coming to
light in many quarters, it would seem
to be no difficult task to set aside the |
Green patent for driven wells We as
sumo that to do SO, it will only be suf-
fcient to establish the fact without
question, that the methods employed by |
him in constructing the driven wells,
were in use, and the principle discover
ed long before his application for the
patent If we are right in this assump-
ton, we have right here in Indepen-
dence evidence that will Individually de-
stroy the validity of Green's patent.
Mr.. f. ". Purdy, whom all who know
him will recognize as Il man OF truth
fulness and established integrity, makes
the explicit declaration that he, togeth-
er with partner. Dir. A. j. Luckey,
now of De Sofa, Mo. in the year 1850,
was engaged in putting in driven wells
identical with those described in Green's
patent, in the country west OF Milwau
kee. He says that they constructed
more than fifty Of such wells in that re-
gion, and that the year previous, name
ly, 1S49, his partner, Mr.. Luckey, put
in similar wells in the vicinity of Utica,
n. Y. These facts are very clear in
Mr.. Purdy's memory, and he has veri
fed them in his own mind, by reference
to his books, wherein is a record of his
business at the period mentioned. Such
facts as these, so substantiated by tho
testimony Of men of good character and
repute, it seems to us must effectually
dispose of the claims set up by proprie-
tors of Green's patent, which was first
taken out in 1868, and reissued in 1871. !