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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11

to cut its way to the frmer soil, thus
finding less resistance than the broader
tire. During such times as we have had
thus far the present winter, the feet of
the horses poach the ground to as great
depth as the wheels of the wagons
penetrate, SO that the roads are virtual
ly impossible for the horses without any
wagons.
We must first look to some method
which will procure a more permanent
surface for our country roads. If the
labor expended upon the public roads Of
Illinois, from year to year, was applied
IN manner to remain permanent, the
present enormous expense for keeping
roads in repair would in time cease.
In view Of the scarcity of proper ma
terial for the construction of permanent
wagon roads in the West, we can think
of nothing which would improve them
SO much with so little expense, as to
place tile beneath the center of the road
after it has been graded up, large enough
to carry off all surplus water. After
this is accomplished, gravel or other
suitable material may be applied to good
advantage. Nothing indicates the char
acter of community better than the
condition of the public roads; and while
the expense of keeping them in repair
is so great, it stands the people in hand
to devise some method, if it be possible,
to make such repairs of more perma-
nent character. 1t will certainly pay in
many ways to do this. The extra labor
and the loss of time in getting crops to
market, and the annoyances, should all
be taken into account. Such expert
ments should be made that in due time
better state of things may exist in
regard to transportation upon our wa
CON roads, Western Rural.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
The Texas PrairieS.

At the moment you start westward on
the Sunset route, the landscape salutes
you with all the loneliness of blossom
ing prairie in all it's first luxuriancc of
green under the tender early sun. The
flowers are numberless When you have
counted couple of dozen varieties, you
find you have only begun. Here the
painted-cup makes the great reaches
gay; here yellow indigo stars them, and
presently lends them it's color, leading
away into the boundless horizon Field
Of the Cloth of Gold; and here it is
scarlet with the scarlet phlox, here blue
with verbena; here the lilies, with their
long snowy tilaments wondrously alive,
whiten all the windings of an unseen
brook; here, clothed in the priceless
small clover. and greener than Dantes
freshly broken emeralds, beneath vast
and hollow heavens, and nodded in CO.
lossal calm the naked prairie rolls
away, league after league, unbroken to
the gulf.
Oh, the glory of Texas prairie under
a vertical sun! the light, the color, the
distance, the vast solitude and silence,
the limitless level, the everlasting rest!
A flock of white cranes rise flashing in
the light ard soar away; mirage lifts
the lofty timber that outlines distant
river, and shows you the stream shining
beneath, shaking silver vapor on its
feet; in the creek beside you, fearless
blue ducks dip and dive and skim away,
scattering the water-drops; drove of
horses, rising from beds of sunfowers,
with flying names and tails, go bounding
into space; vast herds of cattle crop the
clover without lifting their heads as you
sweep by; riders are rounding up their
droves, hawks are lowering, birds are
singing, winds are blowing and what
seemed only solitude and silence is full
of life and action and music Now the
forests of the Brazos begin to rustic;
cypress and magnolia. linden and locust,
ash and beech and elm, hickory and
black jack, dense to darkness, yet trem-
bling with dew and sun, laced with gay
vines of trumpet and passion flowers,
and with huge ropes of blossoming grape
slung from tree to tree, thick with an
underground of dogwood and redwood,
wild peach and cane, and their great
dark live-oaks wrapped in the fantastic
shadows Of a thousand gray swaying
cobwebs, and standing weird, awful in
their Druidical beard.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11

Sores, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pain in
the Bones, Side and Head, Female
Weakness, Sterility, Leucorrhpa, arising
from internal liberation, and Uterine
disease, Syphilitic and Mercurial dis
eases, Dropsy, Dyspepsia, Emaciation,
General Debility, and for Purifying the
Blood.
This Sarsaparilla is q combination of
vegetable alternatives - Stillingia, Man
drake, Yellow Dock with the Iodides
of Potassium and Iron, and is the most
efficacious medicine yet known for
the diseases it is intended to cure.
Its ingredients are so skilfully COM
bined, that the full Alternative effect of
each is assured, and while it is so mild
as to be harmless even to children, it is
still so etfectual as to purge out from the
system those impurities and corruptions
which develop into loathsome disease.
The reputation it enjoys is derived
from it's cures, and the confidence which
prominent physicians all over the coun-
try repose in it, prove their experience
Of its usefulness.
Certificates attesting it's virtues have
accumulated, and are constantly being
received, and as many Of these eases are
publicly known, they furnish convincing
evidence Of the superiority of this Sar-
saparilla over every other Alternative
medicine. So generally is its superb
GRITTY to any other medicine known. that
we need do no more than to assure the
public that the best qualities it has ever
possessed are strictly maintained.
PREPARED BY
Or. J. c. AVER & CO., Lowell, Mass,
Practical and analytical Chemists.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
The TrOtting Match.

Col. Warning in Scribner for December.
Whatever the effect or influence of
the turf may have been upon the char
acter of those who enjoy it's perform
ance one good result must follow of ne
cessity-a contempt for the 'trotting
match" of the day. These matches
bring together such an inferior class of
horses, and, as rule, such an inferior
public, that no one who knows the high
err development of the animal required
for the turf, and the better average class
of spectators which it calls together,
can retain a very active interest in tests
where the performance is simply to see
fast horse can travel at less than his
fastest gate. To me, there would be the
same excitement and interest in walk
ing race as in trotting race; it we go
to the track to see how fast horse can
go over the ground we should by all
means wish to see him 60 as fast as he
can. Then, too, as all kinds of blood
may aspire to the honors of the trotting
course, while only the best blood has
the least chance on the turf, we must
expect to Finland we invariably do
fnd-pure breeding in the one and mon
grel breeding in the other.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
Improvement Of Country Roads.

In the present condition of the coun-
Try roads, the question as to some meth
I'd by which they may be permanently
improved, presents itself with striking
Gree An embargo is placed upon com
nercc which is far-reaching, owing to
he impossible condition of the country
Dads. In country with soil like ours,
t is no unusual thing, though seldom
# as long standing as at the present.
We quote the following extract from
he Chicago Tribune of a recent date,
which is suggestive. though in the main
highly fallacious:
The average width of the tires of
country wagons and city trucks has
Deen reduced to about two inches. -
These wagon wheels strike into the mud
ike a knife or an AK, and the travel
alone cuts the road and deepens and in
creases the mud The narrowness of the
tire increases the strain upon the draft
power for wagon wheel that sinks six
inches into the mud is propelled at the
cost of the same force as would be re-
luired to revolve it at that much in
cline. To pull loaded wagon through
mud is like pulling it up steep hill;
the deeper the mud the greater the re-
sistance. AS the rim of the wheel is
narrowed, this resistance is increased in
geometrical progression: that is to say,
it is not merely twice as hard to pull
load through mud on wheel with
two-inch tire as four-inch one, but
probably four times as hard. The effect
nay be illustrated as follows: If it were
possible to have wagon wheel as wide
as the road bed such a wheel would not
cut into the mud and injure the road
still more, but would act as roller,
compress the water out at the sides and
improve and harden the surface. The
nearer the wagon wheels approach the
character of a roller, the less they will
damage the roads, and the more quickly
will the mud be permitted to dry up.
The wider the rim of the wheel can be
made without rendering the wheel SO
bulky and weighty as to defeat the pur-
pose, the easier it will be to drag over
clay roads and the less the tire will cut
up the roads. This is not merely correct
in theory, but has been abundantly test
ed in practice. In the fur regions of the
Northwest the half -breeds use wagons
with wheels that are nearly foot wide
at the tire, and draw their furs over the
miry roads with single horses. Such
wagons may still be seen coming into
St. Paul, and the roads are never so bad
but they can be used. The common
sense of the Indian is probably not SUI
perior to that of the white man, but it
is not so easily warped by considera-
ton of appearances.
Under ordinary circumstances the
softest mud is upon the surface Of the
which allows the narrowest tire
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
Celery for Farmers.

This vegetable is not so generally
cultivated as it should be, for the rea-
son, doubtless, that the millions who
could most easily have it, have never
learned to like it, AS with tomatoes
and some other vegetables, the taste for
celery has to be cultivated; but when
once acquired it is never lost, and no
delicacy of the garden is more highly
appreciated. In most parts of the
country the use of celery is principally
confined to city people, while farmers
do not know or care for it, This ought
not to be So Farmers complain, and
justly, that their great staples sell too
low for profit The Obvious remedy is
for them to cultivate greater variety
of products, not alone for sale, but for
the use of themselves and families
Farmers who supply their tables with
all varieties of delicacies from their
own gardens, not only secure for them
selves greater pleasure, but are doing
something to educate popular taste, and
in time obtain better pay for everything
that they do. If we could divert one
tenth Of the labor employed in growing
corn to some other productive industry,
the nine tenths of the corn crop would
sell for as much as the whole, and what
ever else produced in the time saved
would be clear gain 1t does not have
this effect to divert the labor to idle
ness, for idle hands produce nothing
with which to pay for the products of
industry. The remedy for what is mis-
called over production, is not idlcncss,
but such change in the objects of indus
try as will secure greater variety of
products. There never has been, and
never will be, too much labor employed
in producing articles which add to hu-
man happiness, but it often happens
that this labor is so INSTRUCTED that
some products are greater in quantity
than for the time can be used, and so
labor is poorly rewarded.
This disquisition scarcely belongs to
celery, except that this is one of the
many garden vegetables which thous-
ands of farmers pooh-pooh! as too tri-
fling for their notice And so they go
on producing more corn, oats, wheat and
pork than the people can pay for, and
hence make poor and laborious living
The few men who cultivate celery and
other garden vegetables extensively,
find good market for them at much
better wages for their labor than the
farmer gets in growing his staples.
Monroe Co. n. Y. w. J. F.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
PROSPECTUSES.
The Dubuque Times
FOR 1878.
DAILY AND WEEKLY.

Twenty-tw years ago, the Dubuque Times be-
gan as an experiment. But a short me elapsed
before it had passed that stage and became one
of the early few of Iowa daily and weekly jOurn-
ais. Thenceforward it held it steady way until it
reached its present proportions and standing. Du-
ring the last four years of business depression, in
which nearly all newspaper enterprises were
among the greatest sufferers, the Times kept on
its steady upward way, making more improve
ments than during any similar period IN its histo-
ry. This was due to its industry as anews gather
er, and to its independence and courage upon
public Questions.
for years against the discouraging tides of the
time: business stagnation, inferior crops, cOrrOd
ing private debts, and marked diminutiOn in the
ratio of its immigration; The signs of the times
indicate that all this is changed, and to be supple
mented with good times. A bOuntiful crop, di-
minished debts. improved BUSINESS and new
hope succeed the hard times. The Times con-
graduates its patrons upon the Frightening pros
poets. and ventures the prediction that an era Of
genuine prosperity Is near at hand
The Times is the only Republican daily in
Northern Iowa save that at Sioux City; hence its
local field is the largest of any other journal in the
State. While it has vigorously defended the
principles of the Republican party it has asserted
its independence to the extent of denOuncing its
un questioned errors, has advocated genuine re-
form In its own ranks, and has been swift to I'M
sparingly condemn wrong doors and corrupt men
whether of its own party or otherwise.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
The cream of all the current news of the cOun-
try is daily published in its columns. Liberal re-
ports of the proceedings of Congress, the State
Legislature, of conventions and public gatherings
of every character are promptly printed. No
journal outside the metropolitan cities publishes
more extended
COMMERCIAL AND MARKET REPORTS
than does the Dubuque Times. These reports are
obtained daily by telegraph from all great bust
ness and commercial centers. and the local mar
kets are reportedwith great care. 1t is conceded
hat of
extended and reliable to be found in any Iowa
paper
THE DAILY TINES.
Is large thirty six column folio, and will contain
the cream Of all the current news of each passing
day from all parts of the country. Its market
and commercial columns are prepared with scru-
pulous care, and are acknowledged to be reliable
ample and eXcelled by none outside the metropOl
itan cities.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
Grange DIRECTORY.

PRAIRIE GROVE GRANGE, No. 443-Meets
at the Sheridan School House, Monday even
ing, on or before the full moon, each month
A. WROTEN, Sec'y.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 1885, - Meets at
Winthrop on Friday, on or before the full
moon Of each month.
S. G. PIERCE, Master.
S. w. RICH, Sec'y.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 12l6.--Meets
Tuesday, on or before full moon.
j. ID. RUSSELL, Master,
GREELEY GROVE GRANGE, No. Sll,-Meets
on Friday evening, on or before full moon, at
Warehouse Hall.
w. BUNCE, Master
L. Is. SCHEMERHORN. Secy.
MIDDLEF1ELD GRANGE, No. 52S.-Meets on
Wednesday, on or before full moon.
b. DUBOIS, Master
f. J. WIGG. Sec'y.
SUPERIOR GRANGE. No. 352.-Meets Satur-
day, on or before full moon, at No 8 School
House, Hazleton Township.
II. MESSENGER, Master
G. NJ. MILLER, Secy.
BYON GRANGE, No. 267.-Meets at Justus
Durkee's, on Tuesday evening, on or after
full moon.
+. GLEASON, Master
FRANK Fox, Sec'y.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
FOR SALE.

My property on Chatham street, My house
is almost new, with IL large rooms, two stories
high 20X32 feet, also wing attached 2Ox22 feet,
failing well, good cistern and cellar, and large
pantry; also hen-hOuse one story high, 18x36,
about 30 bearing apple trees, bearing cherry
trees, plenty of raspberries grapes and other
shrubbery Good solid copper lightning rods
on house. will sell the above property very
cheap, one-half cash and balance on good time
if required. Q3tG G. B. HANDY.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
FOR SALE.

The subscriber offers for sale the property on
the road between Quasqucton and Indepen-
dence known as the Pine Creek Mill, at the low
price of $3.50
He has also two Triumph PowcrCorn shelters
of capacity of from 1000 to 1900 bushels per
day, and requiring four to six horse power.
These machines are entirely new, and will be
sold ut a great bargain. They have a first-class
reputation and are substantially made. Ref
erence is given to Justus Norton, ROwley;
Ward Dubbs, Troy Mills; Thompson Waters,
OuasquetOn, and Mr.. Thomas, Cent er Point
who have used them and can speak of their eff
ficiency and economy. Good terms will be Civ
en-. Address or apply to
q. p. SLOVENIAN,
3w14 QuaSquetOn, Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
ROWELL'S ADS.
GREAT OFFER FOR THE HOLIDAYS !

We will during these hard times and the
Holidays dispose of 100 new ri N(S;I ON
CANS of first-clasS makers. at lower prices for
cash or instalmcnts than ever before offered.
WATERS PIANOS and ORGANS are the
best made, warranted for years. III Cata-
logue mailed Great inducements to the trade.
Pianos, .-octave. $40; 115-octave, $3.50. Or
gans. stops. $4S; stops, $53; stops. $50;
stops. $40: 10 stops. %S5; II stops. $50; i'll
perfect order not used a year. Sheet music at
half price Horace Waters s Sons. Man'rs
and dealers, 40 East 14th ST., New York.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
FOREIGN ADS.
ESTABLISHED 1859.
R. 5. & A. ?. LACEY, Attorneys at Law,
$50 Serenth-st., Washington, d. g.

Inventors.
We procure Patents in all countries. No AT
TORNEY FEES IN ADVANCE. No charge unless
the patent is granted. No fees for making pre-
liminary examinations. No additional fees for
obtaining and conducting rehearing. Special
attention given to Interference Cases before
the Patent Office, Extensions before Congress,
Infringement Suits in different States, and all
ents Send stamp for Pamphlets, giving full
instructions.
U. s. Courts and Departments.
Claims prosecuted in the Supreme Court of
the United States, Court of Claims, Court OF
Commissioners of Alabama Claims, Southern
Claims Commission, and all classes of War
Claims before the Executive Department.
Arrears of Pay and Bounty.
Officers, Soldiers and Sailors the late war, or
their heirs, are in many cases entitledto money
knowledge. Write full history of service and
state amount of pay and bounty received En-
close stamp and a full reply, after examination
will be given you without charge.
Pensions.
All Officers, Soldiers and Sailors wounded,
ruptured, or injured in the late war, however
slight, are entitled to and can obtain pension.
v. S. General Land Office.
Contested Land Cases Private Land Claims,
Mining Presumption and Homestead Cases
prosecuted before the General Land Office and
Department of the Interior.
Land Warrants.
We pay cash for Bounty Land Warrants, and
we invite correspondence with all parties hav-
ing any for sale, and give full and explicit in
structions where assignments are imperfect.
We conduct our businessin separate Bureaus,
having therein the clerical assistance of able
and experienced lawyers, and give our closest
personal supervision to every important paper
prepared in such case. Prompt attention is
| thus secured to all business entrusted to us.
Address
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
FOR EIGN,
FOREIGN.
Ayers
Sarsaparilla

For Scrofula, and all
scrofulous diseases, Erysi-
pelas, Rose, or st. Antho-
ny's Fire, Eruptions and
Eruptive diseases of the
skin, Ulcerations of the
Liver, Stomach, Kidneys,
Lungs, Pimples, Pustules,
Boils, Blotches, Tumors,
letter, Salt Rheum, Scald
Had D;nomn,,,, Elao.u
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11

The reading columns on this page will be de-
voted, mainly, to topics pertaining to FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers of the Bull
LETIN are requested to write for it,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11

Many dwarfs and crooked people are
met in Genoa, and correspondent as
cribes this to the narrow, dark streets.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
G.. & NJ Il. II.
G.. & NV. X. II.
@. & NV.
J. I'm ES.

LINES-
THE CHICAGO & NORTH-wESTERN RAILWAY
Embraces under one management the Great
Trunk Railway Lines of the West and North
west, and with its numerous branches and con-
nectOns forms the shortest and quickest route
between Chicago and all points in Illinois, Wis
consin. Northern Michigan. Minnesota, Iowa,
Nebraska. California, and the Western Terri
tories. Its
OMAHA & CALIFORNIA LINE.
Is the shortest and best route between Chicago
and all points in Northern Illinois, Iowa, Dako-
ta Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado Utah, Neva-
da, California, Oregon, China, Japan and Aus
tralia. Its
CHICAGO, ST. p. & MINNEAPoLls LINE
Is the shortest line between Chicago and all
points in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and for Madison, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth
and all points in the great Northwest. Its
LACROSSE, WINoNA & ST. PETER LINE
Is the best route between Chicago and La
Crosse, Winona, Rochester. Owatonna Mankl-
to, st. Peter, New Ulm and and all points in
Southern aud Central Minnesota. Its
GREEN BAY 4 MARQUETTE LINE
Is the only Line between Chicago and James
vile, WATERFOWL, Fond du Lac Oshkosh, APP
pleton. Green Bay, Escanaba. Negaunce, Mar
Qucttc, Hou%hton, Hancock and the Lake SUI
pcrior country. Its
FREEpORT x DUBUQUE line
Is the only route between Chicago and Elgin,
Rockford Frceport and all points via. Free
port. Its
CHICAGO X MILWAUKEE LINE
Is the old Lake Shore route, and is the only one
passing between Chicago and Evanston, Lake
Forest, Highland Park, Waukegan, Racine,
kenosha and Milwaukee.
PULLMAN PALACE DRAWING ROOM CARS
are running on ali through trans OF tins road.
This is the ONLY LINE running these cars be
tween Chicago and st. Paul and Minneapolis,
Chicago and Milwaukee. Chicago and Winona,
or Chicago and Green Bay.
Close connections are made at Chicago with
the Lake Shore Michigan Southern, Michigan
Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Pittsburg, Fl Wayne
& Chicago, kankakee Line and Pan Handle
Routes for all points East and SOUTHEAST, and
with the Chicago 4 Alton and Illinois Central
for all points South.
Close connections are also made with the
Union Pacific II. II. ut Omaha for all far West
points.
Close connections made at junction points
with trains of all cross points.
Tickets over this route are sold by all Coupon
Ticket Agents in the United States and Cana
das. Remember, you ask for your Tickets via.
the Chicago 4 Northwestern Railway and take
none other.
New York Office, AIS Broadway; Boston office,
No. State street; Omaha office, 245 Farnham
street; San Francisco office, 122 Montgomery
street; Chicago Ticket offices, 62 Clark street,
under Sherman House; IS Canal, corner Madi-
son street; Kenzie Street Depot, corner West
Kinze and Canal streets; Wells Street Depot,
corner Wells and Kinzie streets.
For rates or information not attainahle from
your home ticket agents, apply to
w. II. STENNETT, MARVIN HUGHITT,
Gen. Pass Agt, Chicago. Gen. Man. Chicago
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
AGENTS WANTED.
Goodyear'S Pocket Gymnasium

~ T. ~ ! n OH ASs.
The Mes: Complete Sy:-
ten Q. Physical Exercise
ever devised for Home
Practice.
100000 in use bv men,
women and children.
Used standing, sitting
or reclining.
Hundreds Of graceful!
movements.
For HON e. office.
schools, hospitals.
Price List.-No l,
for Children 4 to6years,