Buchanan County bulletin. [volume], November 18, 1870, Image 1

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VI, NO. 20.
u e i n
PUBLISHKl
KVI-UV FKTDAY
AT INDEPENDENCE, BUCHANAN COUNTfT, IOWA*
"W3VI. T03MC-A.3KT,
Ktlilor »V Proprietor*
OFFICE IN MUNSON'S BLOCK.
Terms of Subscription:
•%t.OO Per Year, Strictly In Advance.
BATES OP ADVERTISING.
1
w w
Marriaire. Death and Keli^'ious Notices inserted
without charge. Obituary Notices ten cents per
line.
Business Cards.
LAKE St HARMON.
ATTORNEYS
AT LAW. Independence, Iowa.
Office in Munson s liioek. Main St. S-tf
W. G. & J. B. DONNAN,
LAW,
CONVEYANCING. WAR CLAIM. IX
eurance, Tax and Ui id Agency Ollice. Office
la Leytze's Block, Independence, Iowa.
L,. W. HART,
ATTORNEY
AT I.AW. Notary Public and
Claim Agent. Office in Wilcox' Brick Block,
Independence, Iowa.
TTB & WEAAT,
ATTORNEYSMyerLAW
AT
and Keal Estate Ajjents.
Office over s store, Main Street. Inde
pendence. Iowa. 33-tf
3. S. WOODWARD,
ATTORNEY
AT VW
and tieneral LundAffent.
Inde|endedee. Iowa, ttilire iu ilcox' ill k.
Particular attention L'i\en lo Collections, and lie
mittances promptly made.
W. H. BARTON,
ATTOHNEYWalnut
AT LAW. Ollice on corner of
Main
and
General
Streets, over Close's Store.
Independence.
Iowa.
Particular
bate Court.
attention paid
Collections
D. D. HOLDRIDGE.
A TTOltNEY AT LAW. N'otarv Public and Real
J\
Estate A-ent. Will -i.e especial attention
to Collection^, pay Taxes, Examitie lilies. I'ollecl
Rents, aud *11 lieal Kstate. Also. Licensed l,o\
•rnment Claim Ai.renr. Will prosecute and collect
all claims against the (rovermncnt, including Pen
sions. Back Pay. Bounty. &c. Office in the Cattail
Block, over tifass' store.
A. S. BEELS,
LICENSED
AUCTION ERK.Hazieton.
T.M.HUNT,
EICENSEI)
AUCTIONEER. Independence, Io­
wa. Will sell Heal Estate and Personal Prop
erty of every description. Satisfaction Guaran
teed-
J. S. KELLAR.
rIOENSED
AI'CTIONKEI!. tjHasqueton. Bnch
Man County, Iowa. 13-(im
Dr. H. H. HUNT, M. D.,
0
^•FICR and ResjdiMn-e Corner or Court and
Blank Sts., north Catholic cliuri-li. 41-tf
Dr. A. HOBBIE,
II
OMEOPATIliC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
Itulepcndencc. Iowa. 30-tf
DR. MALCOM GRAHAM,
Sl'KiiKON'
AND HOMEOPATH 1ST. office in
Wilcox" Itlock. li'-i-ienec opposite tin* now
MethoiliM rhurrti. otti.-r hours irom PI to l'i A.
M., and Iro n 2 to -1 ami lo P. M.
J. S. NICHOLSON,
I"U( JEON DENTIST. Independencei
i) Iowa. Ollice in Wi'.cuV -New Block,
Main Streei. I'p Stairs. lll-tf
DWIGHT 2XOWER, A. M. M. D.,
"IJIIYSICIAN AND SUitiEON, (Juasqueton.
Iowa. Lately returned from a two years'
«*x»»-rienc.i in the most celebrated Female, chil
dren's and (J meral Hospitals on th^ coniineul oi
JCurop". and with tlij.'reat»l liu i^ mast-rs of
iuediac s^iencj.
JOHN T. HANCOCK*
TA
rilOi.ESAI.E GiiOCEl!. No. ~t Cor. of Main
and 4tli Streets. Dubuque. Iowa.
J) C. BACKUS,
TINElt(•reruns.KEl'AIKi:i:inAc..business
AND of Pianos. Heed aud
Pipe Iii'W'poudtMiro.
3owa. Hi-* loni^ exi»erie:ice the of tun
^inir and repairing nie.sical itifclrunieuts._ v'ives Mr.
Backus entire confidence that he can irivc jjerfect
walisfaction to all who may need bis services Or
may be icl'i al th"1 Ila/aar. 24-ly
ROBERT GRESSLER.
•MrATCIl MAKEI!, oppo-ite the Presbyterian
\y church, west side river, near Mill, Main
"Street. Independence. Iowa. Clocks. Watches,
Watch Chains, &c.. sold and repaired at the very
lowest prices. Having learned iiis husine-s in the
watch factorv in Switzerland, and 'iein*_r well pro
*ifled with tools and material, he is prepared to do
wwrk in the best manner,
quickly aud cheaply.
_3li-tf
0.'VTHck~INMH.
E. II. DICKINSON.
TREMONT HOUSE,
BICKINSON & SON, Proprietors,
JJI'ULHirE, IOWA.
Location central, near the Post Office. General
8ta"» Office Cor. Kth and Iowa Sts.
reb. 5, lSiitt. 32-tf
C. M. DURHAM,
v.\[
IN
Bituminous and Anthracite Coal,
Fr«m Iowa, Illinois and Pennsylvania Mines
Office at l(ai!r«ad Depot
Dec. 3. lsiKt. 23-1
v
COT & WEBSTER,
WEAI.Kits IN
liioeeries and Provisions,
ImSiJH mloice, Intra.
HIGHEST CASH I'KIci: paid for all kinds of
Coiiutrv Produce.
jglf a Wai^ou always in attendance to Deliver
Jood- Krc(Mf ('bfiri^o.
^tldep(,nfl^•nc•,, .Juno 51-tf
RANSIER & FLANIGANf
Carriage & Wagon Makers
Manufartu™ rarriairos, Wajrony. Un.'^iefl. Cut
ters, Mrii-'lis. and iu t':u-t everything in their line
ghop on CI
INDEPENDENCE.
Wf
Street, -id Block north of Main,
IOWA.
JAMES & WM. WHAIT,
OF THE F!KM OF WIIAIT A O..
Manufacturers of the Celebrated
WA.GOKT,
INDEPENDENCE, IOWA.
Call and Examine Before buying.
Impairing Done on Short Notice.
Dale & Hinrnan,
ciRimoE mi snoi'
INDKPEX I)EXCK, IOWA.
Keen fit Sale and Manufacture to Order All
Maids of Farm and Democrat Wagonp, and overy
S£if? in our line of trade.
All kinds of i'.lacksmitliinji and Re
pairinj Done on Short Notice.
IXL WAGONS,
Made of the l»-i I.,di:,na cc.k mi.l
tun an light as any
w:.mmted to
WAL'I.N
liuiit in MM country.
«ive ns a catl.
ALL WORK WAHKANTED.
T.
9fl-tf
DALK,
1'. HINMAN.
linT jKtna Insurance Co.,
Hartford. Assetts, $5,000,000
fflie Phfi?ntx Insurance Co.,
Hartford. A^s'*tts, $l,500,00t)
Connecticut Mutual Life.
Assets, $27,500,179.9#
Are represented by
s- R/v\soJf IMRTM:,
FirHt-claPP Dwelling ami liusine.-.^ ri*ks decired,
lor which reliable indemnity will be ^iven.
11 o i scs and Lots for sale on longtime.
Officb in WUi-WAM, Inoki'knuence, Iowa.
GLOTtli IIOI'SE FOR SALE.
llE linder^iL'iii'd oll'.-rs for ,-alc the aliOYC
1T»UM-.located
on Main Street, between Court
mi Elizabeth. Hous-e is STx.V fe.-u -Ao stories
roomv and eomtoltable,««ad has a Kood weil and
lallar ittav'wl- W(n1r« 01 the premises of
*B*,f 1' M-'OUISTI^.
Jesnp Cards.
J. H. HAWKINS,
ATTORNEY AN1 ol NSKLQR AT LAW*
jfx «lesup, Buchanau t'o.^ Iowa. Collections
prompt ly made aud remitted* lteal Estate bought
and sold**
Jau. 22» 1S69, 30 tf
M. R. EASTMAN,
ATTOHNEYAirent,
AN1
8 mo mo 1 v'nr
6iie SmiYref MM 1
.!» i l».«»
TPwo Squares, I 2.ml I :i.ot li.tH) 10.00 I l.i.iMI
Salf
luirtor Col'mii 5.1K I 11.00 is.(Ml
Column, T.rxl I 10.00 ai.CHl ST..II0 ."..00
One Column. 10.00 l.r..OO 35.00 I Ri.OO 'X.00
A Square is equal to ten lines of Brevier type, or
visrlit lines of Nonpareil, the type of this paper.
Business Cards of six lines or less, at #1 a year.
COl'NSKLOU AT LAW
and Land .lesiip. liiiehanan County,
Iowa. Will practice in 111 1l:: In, lilackhawk,
and adjoining counties. 81-ti'
M. BEOSEN.
J.T.&E. H. GOTHARD,
DENTISTS,
Independence, Iowa,
Invites attention of all iliwirin Rood dental work.
All operations performed with neatness and din
patch. and on the most reasonable terms. Ollice
in Wilcox' Building, above Morse's Store. East
end of Bridge. 12-tf
CO TO
Kittredge's
FOR-
WARM MEALS,
Oysters in Every Stvle,
FFL IT & CONFECTIONARY,
to
and matters
before llie
Pro­
STATIONERY, CUTLERY,
A-ISTD TOYS,
Main St. 2d Door West of Chatham
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O S E S
OI.!) KSTAULISIIKI)
GROCERY STORE,
iowa.
Will attend Sales of lieal and Personal Prop
erty, on short notice. i:i thN and Fayette counties.
Satisfaction Guaranteed. 33-1 y
OPPOSITE THE
Monlmir House,
IiKlepeink'nce,
Has ou hand, and daily receiving New Goods,
consisting of
Teas, Sugars,
Colict's,
Fancy Groceries,
Crockery,
(Jlasswaro,
\V(i"li'in\aro,
Fish of All Kinds,
EVER1TIHXG CHEAP FOR CASH
('nil and fo?* yMurM'lves.
SYRACUSE SALT
Alv.:r dm lmii'1.
Farm Wanted.
T. \\'. CLOSK.
May 11. l-'ii'.l.
Look
VOHS*
ta
Titles!
W. G. & J. B. Donnan,
OWN I'US OP A
or
ALL
Tides of l.anilw ami Villnjfp Lof» in Bn»
-liiK.titx.il ('uiuity« Iowa,
Are prepared to i'ivc ]ron»pt and rt'lialile infor
maiion relating to the tiiic («i' any real property in
the Count v.
The Abstract eon«i«t^ of a eet of hooks which
.l»ow the Ori-inal J2utrv of earh separate tract of
laud, and e\erv suhtetiuent conveyaiue ol the
same, the kind*of Deed, whether ftill Warranty,
Special Warranty or ({.uit Claim. wiMi any a id all
imp'.'rfections iu'descnpuon, lorni or ackuowledir
incnt earefully noted: a!s» all incuinhrances, in
eluding Mortiraires, Hondn. Trust Deeds. JLife
I.eaes. Tax Titles and Tax Sales and Judgment
Liens. It is surely wisdom on the part of the pur
chaser. to know what the title of his land is before
he purchases anl thus avoid any trouble in the
future.
Several thousand acres of wild land and several
Valuable Improved Farms For Sale,
in different parts of the County. Also a number
of Lots and Dwellings in the (Ji'ty of independence.
W. G. & J. B. DONNAN.
Pension*, and all kinds of War Claim*, collected
promptly. iiltf_
TIOOL) NLIWS tiOOD NEWS
JOHN O'MEARA
Ha? jnt opened his
NEW STORE
In the Firi*: Ward, ira-i rml of tin- -ity.i witli a
O E I E S
Glass Ware, JStone China Ware
Crockery, Porcelain,
Knives & Fjrks, Castors,
Fruit Jars, Cujis »& Saucers,
Oysters, Sardines,
Wooden Ware, Willow Ware,
Pish of all Kinds,
And in f.n-t ull things fmunl in a lirst-claj-s store,
and
aa
he p«\ no rout. It- enabletl to s*tl bin
Ooodn cheaper than any otlujr slore iu the city.
II,. pays cash and sells for cash. He earnestly (so
licits a Hhare of public patronage. Uive him a call
and save money. 12-y
Jil'V VOl'li
SCHOOL BOOKS
of
trade. Particular attention ^iven to
Horse-Sfioeing and Repairing.
OK
Waggoner & Co.
W. H. JO SLUT,
MANAUEHOF THE
Independence, Iowa,
Insurance Agency,
In not dead yet. but IK I(ealy at All Times
to Furnish All with
First-Class Insurance no other.
CAPITAL HKPIiKKKNTKI:
•fKit $82,000,000 DOLLARS.
Offii'-e in the old platfy, in Wilfux1 Block.
5-tr
J. M. BUSWEIX,
UNDERTAKER.
Removed
IH ItK S ISitKk BLOCK,
Ohatliam SStreet.
lfi-tf
FOR
SALE.
K^IDKN'CE of the late P. f1. \Vilro\ llousc
IV stands in a siiuare emhraein^ t"ii lots can bf1
sold witli two or three lots or the whole, an jur
ehaser mav wish. Lar^e barn oil the premises,
i L'ood well. fruittrees,
shrubbery, &c., two cisterns,
fourteen rooms in the botue. Apply to C. T.
WXI.COX Independence. ti-tf
Worth Reading.
Tl HY should buy your Groceries, 'rockery
ft Glassware, Woodenware, Yellow and
Kockingham Ware, &c.^ of Bennett, Kldrid:.
C«».
Because, giving no credit, they can and do sell
at the lowest living rates.
Because in no case do 1 hey wish to sell, unless
they can give perfect satisfaction to their custom
ers.
Because they will sell you a Glass Table 8et
for
A *ett of Cupn and Saucers tor 35 Cls
4 lbs. of excellent Cotl'ce lor- $1.00
C,ys Dried Blackberries for $1.(¥1
8
tk
KRCHANT TAlI.OIf. om made work
warranted, .lesitp. Iowa.
Dried Peaches for
Sugar for $t.(K)
18 good White Fish for $1.00
Because ihev will give you a fair price for Butter,
Eirus. and farm produce generally, and sell you
anvthinir in their line at as low prices as businesi
c«niducted on a strictly ea«*h basis will permit
Call and examine our (ioods and prices.
Burr's Building, next door to the new Brick
Block, on Chatham St.. Independence. Iowa.
7-1 y BKNNKTT, KI.DBIDGi: CO.
INDEPENDENCE NURSERY.
the Independence Nursery, oue mile west, of
this City, can be found a tiood assortment of
the most hardv varieties of (irafted Apple Trc
also SeedlinL'Apple Trees: Karlv Richmond
MorelW» Cherries Flemish Beauty Tears: Yellow
Lombanl, I'olumbia. Minor ami Blue Plums:
Hed and Yellow Siberian. Transcendent. Soulard,
lI\lop. F»rbs and Tetopskv Crabs: llou«rhio!i
SeedUm Scotch and KnirlMi (Joosebcrries: Doo
iittle Black Cap. Purple Cane and Catawina Hasp
iierrh's: Concord ami Clinton Grapes: Wilson's,
KussellV, Manning's W!»ite ami French's Seedlinir
Strawberries Currants. Roses, Flowerimr Al
mouds. Snowballs, (iladiolas. Lilies, Dahlias,
Flowering Shrubs. Weeping Willows. Kverirre
Verbenas, Sweet Potatoes, and in fact any aud
everything in the Nursery line cheaper than can
be bad from any other Nursery. I will also order
on short nolice anything in the green house line,
from D. Wilimot Scot, of Galena. Illinois, at cata
lo uc prices, freight and express charges excepted.
Almost all of the above were grown and accli
mated here on our own grounds.
J. S. SHEARMAN,
lias iu twenty \ears of dose personal application
to the indispensable quality of extreme hardiness,
collected the 1arire*t stock of Russian and Siberian
Apples to be found on the American Continent,
now otfers to the public these indispensable vari
ties*. the planting of which insures success in this
dimate. The i-rounds of my customers bear
abundant evidence of the fruitfulnes* of these
Russian and Siberian varieties, all of which can be
obtained at low and reasonable rates. toL'ether
with a I a
rire and varied stock of all varieties of
nursery products, especially adapted to Northern
Iowa.
FRANK CARRELL and P. 11INMAX, Agents in
Buchanan County..
D. G. SAB1N. General Agent for Central Iowa,
may be found at the office of Hon. D. S. Lee. In
dependence. Iowa. For further particulars ad
dress the proprietor.
J. S. SHEARMAN,
1-tf Hoekford. 111.. Bo\ TS.
•T. .13 TITK l,li,
Dealer in
FAHCY DRY GOODS,
I.AIHKS' AMI CENTS'
FumisMng Goods,
AND
MXTTXJITJERIY.
Agent for the Celebrated
WHEELER & "WILSON
Sewing Machines,
One Door West of Montour House,
Main St., Independence.
Independence, May 48-tf
OLE) ESTABLISHED
LUMBER YAED,
Z. STOIT & 0., Proprietors,
Near the Depot,
INDEPENDENCE, IOWA,
Keep constantly on hand a full supply of
well selected
Pine Lninlier of Every Description,
Including Hoards of diiVerent grades,
Joists, Scantling,
Dressed Flooring,
Fencing, Siding,
faint.
J. S. BOFCK.
2S-tf Proprieto
Hardy Trees for the North-west.
Dimension Timlier,
Shingles, Grubs,
Laths, Pickets,
Doors, Blinds,
Sash, &v., Ac.
The above is the first established Lumber Yard
in Independence. Inning been successfully con
ducted by Z. Stout during the past ten years, lie
having recently associated hi* nephew. Mr. W. F.
Stout, in the business, the new tirfu will endeavor
to maintain the reputation of the Yard for
Superiority of Stock and Reasona
ble Prices.
Wc are Agents for the
Belolt Combined Mower and
Reaper,
One of th© best maeliines in the world, for whirh
we keep constantly on hand a full supply of Re
pairs. Also for a Superior
Three-Shovel Corn Plow,
Which has been tested in the county with entire
satisfaction.
Z. STOPT.
W. F. STOUT, i
r,-tf
Z. STOI & CO.
EYE INFIRMARY
Established in Waterloo, Iowa.
Drs. CURTISS & TICKN0R,
For the benefit of those afflicted with
I»ISI AS9OI TIN: KYI:,
Th'*y make this Important Supination. They
are willing to receive patient- tor treat men I FIJKF
OF CHAUGK, if ample satisfaction is not given.
Office and Residence at Maynard's
Ilouse, near (). Miller's,
WATERLOO W EST SIDE.
21-1
y
A CARD!
I Kih P:S,
Wishes to inform the people of
Independence and Buchanan Connty
tliiil he has fully clocked up with the
Finest Stock ol'Cioods iu the City.
And before buying, look, and if he cannot con
vince those in
Search of Goods in his Line
that lie can Hell you n*
L,Wor
UESIKAMJH
I
The Closing Scene.
Within the sober realm of leafless tree*,
The rupset year inhaled the balmy air
Like some tanned reaper in the hour of ease,
When all the fields are lying brown atul bare.
The gray barns looking from their hazy h1lln.
O'er the dim waters widening in the vale*,
Sent down the air a greeting to the mills,
Ou the dull thuudcr of alternate flails.
All sights were mellow, and all sounds subdued.
The hills seem further and the stream sang low,
As in a dream the distant woodsman hewed
llis winter log with many a muffled blow.
The embattled forests, erewhile armed with gold,
Their banners bright with every martial hue,
Now stood like some sad. beaten host of old,
Withdrawn afar iu TimcV remotest blue.
On somber wines the vulture tried his flight 1
The dove scarce heard his dying mate's com
plaint:
And, like a star slow drowning in the light,
Tito village church vane seemed to pale
The sentinel cock upon the hill-side crew
Crew thrice—and all was stiller than before
Silent, till some replying warbler blew
His alien horn and then was heard no more.
young
And where the oriole hung her swaying nest,
By every light wind like a censer swung.
Where sung the noisy martins of the eaves.
The busy swallows circling ever uear—
Foreboding, as the rustic mind believes,
Au early harvest and a plenteous year.
Where every bird that waked the vernal feast*
Shook the sweet slumber from its wings *t
morn
To warn the reaper of the rosy lust:
And now was sunless, empty and forlorn.
Alone, from out the stubble piped the quail
And croaked the crow through all the dreary
gloom:
Alone, the pheasant, drumming in the vale,
Made echo in the distant cottage loom.
There was no bud, no bloom upon the bowers
The spiders moved their thin shrouds night by
night,
Tiie thistle-down, the only ghost of dowers.
Sailed slowly by—passed noiseless out of sight.
Amid all this- in this most dreary air.
And where the woodbine shed upon the porch
Its crimson leaves as if the year stood there,
Firing the lloor with its inverted torch.
Amid all this, the centre of the scene.
The white haired matron with monotonous
tread,
Plied the swiff wheel, and with her joyless mien
Sat like a fate, and wcaved the tlyiug thread.
She had known sorrow. He had walked with her.
Oft supped, and broke with her the asheu crust,
And in the dead leaves still she heard the stir
Of his thick niautle trailing iu the dust.
While yet her cheek was bright with summer
bloom,
[»r country summoned, and she gave her all
And twice war bowed to her his- sable plume—
J{e-gave the sword to rust upon the wall.
lie-gave the sword, but not the hand that drew
Aud struck lor liberty the dying blow
Nor hint who. to his sire and country true,
Fell 'mid the rauks of the invading foe.
Long, but not loud, the drooping wheel went on,
Like the low murmer of a hive at noon
Long, but not loud, the memory of the gone
Breathed through her lips a sad aud tremulous
tone.
At last the thread was snapped—her head was
bowed.
Lite dropped the distaff through her hands
serene:
Atul loving neighbors smoothed her careful
shroud
While death and winter closed the autumn
AGATHA'S FORTUNE.
A Story of Old Newspapers.
The yellow November sunshine
was doinjj its best to brighten the
old farm-house kitchen the yellow
leaves, blotched and stained with
scarlet, which had eddied down at
the touch of many a iitt'ul wiud and
midnight frost from the biit majile
tree, by the door-stone, lay in pools
of shaded gold, stirred by every
gust, and the gnarled winter apple
tree by the well had long since been
rilled of its weight ol' crimson
streaked fruit.
'I do b'lieve the apple crop is the
best we've had this ten year,' said
Moses Jefferson, as he strode into
the kitchen with a bag of seed-corn
over his shoulder.
Mrs. Jefferson, a spare, wiry-look
ing woman, as different as possible
from her burly, beaming husband,
sat at the whitely scoured pine ta
ble, shelling beans vigorously into
pan. Agatha, the only child, was
close to the window, her pretty pro
file outlined against the blue cameo
of the sky, intently busied in theun
roinantic but useful occupation of
setting a thrifty patch
Mother and daughter ere earn
estly talking together as the farmer
entered, and he could just catch
Agatha's last words:
'I wouldn't, mother I wouldn't.'
'Wouldn't irlmt'* What is it
you're talkin' about?' And Moses
Jefferson looked questioning!}' from
one face to the other.
'Why,' said Agatha, looking up
witli a flushed check, 'mother wants
to Sell the old piles of newspapers
that belting to I'ncle Philemon, up
in the store closet, and it don't seem
hardly right to me.'
The farmer's countenance grew
grave lie shifted the bag of seed
corn on to a chair, and shook his
head.
'Agatha's right about it,' he said.
'I wouldn't sell 'em if I was you,
Clarissy.'
'You don't know notliin' about it,
Moses Jefferson,' said his wife, iu a
sharp, high-jiitclred tone. 'Itavin'
the best closet in the house all ham
pered up with a mess of old news
papers! Why, there's a thousand
011
Rates than other U.roha]itii
lie Hill not :t-k your trade." Iltf
Electropatluc Treatment of Dis
ease.
Man a Compound Electrical Being,
Dli11ll'
IM'Itl'lK is prepari-d to Irea! Hiieii'sKfiilly
ail chronic di*e:i.-cs. and especially those he
vond reach of medicine, with the Double Cur
renl Klcctrii al instrument, a new met hod of cure,
hv means of the various qualities of electricity.
The following are some of the diseases: liheii
tioitisni, l'arulywis, Itlimlliess, DeiilliesS, IliaiM'tus,
('out'ii, t'atarrli, Spinal Diseases, l'cmale Weak
IiessOs. Arc., Ac.
(Mliee nod residence third door west of the
1'ost Ollice, Independence, Iowa. 1 -iiiu
LOCATION FOR SALE.
JIM1E undei-Mgiied offer** for sale her place of
1 Kesidence. containing about forty acres, with
a valuable House and out building*, valuable fruit
trees, vines, pluntsnnd shrubbery of various kind*,
with an abundance ol excellent water, lennsand
particulars made known U the preiuUea.
Urfla C. 3A. B. SNOW.
iBdependMiM, Sept. 2Wh» f870. t8»|f
'em if there's one, I do b'lieve.'
'No there ain't, Clarissy—now
you're exaggcratiu'. I'ncle Phile
mon has been savin' 'em up for ten
year, and there ain't over fifty-two
weeks in a year, as ever 1 lieerd
on.'
'Well, there's niore'n I want luin
herin' around, anyhow. Tt is all
folly and nonsense. As long as the
old man was able to go pokin'about
with his knotted stick, countin'
INDEPENDENCE, IOWA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1870.
'Oh, he won't and if he dues we
can put him off with some excuse or
other, I'll venture, easy enough.
Iviah Darwin's widow says paper is
four cents a pound, and I calculated
I could get a new set o' milk-pans
with the money. Besides, Agatha
wants the closet to keep her clothes
in, now that she is home from the
factory for good.'
'I can get along without it just as
well, mother,' said Agatha 'and it
does seem wrong to go and sell all
poor old Uncle Philemon's pa purs
when he is too ill to know of it.'
'Now you may just as well hold
your tongue,' said Mrs. Jefferson,
shortly, and with unmistakable em
phasis. 'I've made up my mind to
sell 'em—and sell 'em I will, if you
and your father kept
and
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the elbow
of her father's brown cloth coat,
with quick, agile fingers, ami needle
that glanced in aud out like allying
shaft"of silver.
She was a pretty girl, with soft
hazel eyes, abundant brown hair,
coiled picturesquely round her head,
and a complexion which, albeit
somewhat touched with the too ar
dent linger of the sun, was full of
delicate reds and whites. Moses
Jefferson and Clarissa his wife were,
to use the former's expression, 'as
humly as hedge fences,' without a
graceful line or a beautiful feature
in their whole composition and how
pretty Agatha ever came to be (fi ir
daughter was as incomprehensible
a riddle as it is how the magnificent
cactus blossom, with its leaves of
flame and heart of scarlet fire, should
ever spring from the wrinkled old
stick by courtesy called a 'plant.'
But so Nature manages her affairs,
and as yet we humans have not been
able to improve upon her.
talkin' until
the day of judgment! Miss Darwin
says there's a man comes round with
a sort o' hand-barrow, iind a a string
o'jinglin' bells, once in a while, ami
gives four cents a pound for old
newspapers. So, if ye any of you
see him, stop him.'
And Sirs. Jefferson, having said
her say, flounced out of the room to
see if her pickles were nearly scald
ed. Honest Moses, whistling a mel
ancholy psalm tune under his breath,
unconsciously thereby producing the
effect of a high wind groaning down
a lugubrious chimney, went up to
the garret with his bag of seed-corn,
there to deposit it with other agri
cultural treasures, and Agatha put
011 her little blue frilled sun-bonnet
and gray shawl, and tripped across
the russet fields, to tell Hugh Dar
win, her sweetheart, how very shab
bily 'mother was going to treat poor
old' Uncle Philemon.' Pol' troubles
ceased to be troubles when Agatha
had whispered them into the sym
pathetic ear of her true love.
Now Hugh Darwin and Agatha
Jefferson had been engaged for
three years, and were likely to be
engaged thirteen more for they
were both poor, liard-uorkingyoung
people, without five dollars ahead
in the world, and nothing to look to
but their own skillful right hands
and cheerful, hopeful hearts. For
even the truest of true lovers can't
afford to be married unless they have
a roof over their heads, and daily
bread to eat, to say nothing of a
possible chance of the attendant but
ter. Hut, in spite of all this, they
derived infinite consolation from
twilight walks, and snug fireside
gossips, and confidential talks over
their respective wicket-gates, and
looked forward with patient hope to
the far-off'some day' that was final
ly to crown their happiness.
Hugh listened to Agatha's story
in silence he was sorting apples in
heaps 011 the barn floor, and when
she had concluded he brought down
his closed hand on the biggest bin
with an energy that would have
abraded any less horny cuticle.
'It's a shame!' was honest Hugh's
emphatic comment.
'So it is,' said Agatha 'and father
thinks so too. You see I'ncle Phi
lemon brought father up, and took
care of him when he was a poor boy,
with
other friend iu all the wide
world, and now that he is sick and
bedridden—'
'Hain't he no money to leave'/'
asked Hugh. 'Seems to me I've
heard folks say that old Philemon
Smith was pretty niiddlin' well off.'
Agatha shook her head.
'Dear me,
110!
You forget how
long he has been sick and helpless
under the doctor's hands, Hugh.
And—I wouldn't tell any one but
you, dear—but I think mother hasn't
been nearly so kind and forbearing
with him since she made up her
uiiud that his little store of money
was all spent.'
Hugh and Agatha talked together
long and earnestly, and then they
strolled across the quiet fields, arm
in-arm, and took Moses Jefferson in
to their confidence, as he wrestled
with a huge log of wood on the wood
pile, at the west end of the house.
'Father, Hugh has thought of
something!' chirped Agatha, as ex
ultantly as if a thought were quite a
novelty to Hugh Darwin.
'I've got a plan, sir,' said Hugh,
and straightway proceeded to un
fold it.
'We'll do it!' roared Moses, smi
ting his thigh, with a prodigious
laugh, which echoed through the
frosty twilight like a war-whoop.
'Yes, Hugh, we'll do it, slue's the
world!'
Mrs. Moses Jefferson was busy
skimming her cream th© next day,
in a clear, cool little milk-room,
whose windows were netted with
wire-work, and shaded with the yel
low vine leaves which yet hung to
their stems, when there was a shrill
jingle-jangle of discordant bells in
the road beyond. Mrs. Jefferson
dropped her skimmer into the gold
en depths of the jar of cream, and
darted, boundless, and with her
sleeves rolled up above the elbow,
across the door-yard.
'It's a raginvn, or my name ain't
Clarissa Jefferson!' she thought, ex
ultantly.
And, sure enough, there was a
portly personage, with a huge fur
cap tipped over his eyes, a coarse
rod pocket-handkerchief tied round
die lower part of his chin, and fur
thermore attired in a long rusty
over-coat, whose ragged skirts ex
tended nearly to his feet. lie was
propelling, by means of his vigor
ous arms, a little hand-wagon, sur
mounted with bells, and partially
filled with rags, bottles, cast-oil'
clothing, and crumpled papers, and
checked his noisy career at once, as
Mrs. Jefferson breathlessly hailed
him from her little gate.
'D'ye buy old newspapers?' shriek
ed our housewife, in the shrillest of
trebles.
'Wa'al, yes, onst in a while,' was
the deliberate answer. 'Got any to
sell?'
'How much d'ye give for 'em?'
'Four cents a pound, ma'am.'
'Well, you wait a half a minit I've
got a pretty good mess
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'em, and straightenin' the edges,
and foldin' down the crumpled cor
ners, I didn't dare to touch 'em.
Hut, now lie's bedridden and flighty,
and won't know notliin' about it, I'm
bound to sell 'em!'
'But, mother,' pleaded Agatha,
breathless and eager, 'suppose he
were to waut t^iem brought up to
his bedside?7
011
remonstrated 110 further—perhaps
she had learned the folly of enter
ing into argument with her mother
She only obeyed Mrs. Jefferson's be
hest in silence. There were sever
al packets of the time-yellowed old
papers, and more than one journey
back and forth was necessary before
the whole heap lay
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the turf by
the road-side. Mrs. Jefferson look
ed on with streaming cap-lrills and
hawk-eyed eagerness, to make sure
that no defrauding slights of hand
were practiced during the momen
tous operation of'weighing.'
'Now, mind you,' said she to the
ragman, 'I won't be cheated!'
'T/tirtj/-\\u\o pound!' ejaculated
the hero of the elongated coat-skirts,
as he swung the burden high in
air.
'Call it forty!' squeaked Mrs. Jef
ferson, greedily eyeing the pile.
'Forty pound you didn't hitch 'em
on true.'
'Wa'al, we won't quarrel over an
odd pound, ma'am, you and I, any
way,' quoth the accommodating mer
chant. 'Lomnie see,' closing one
eye in a calculating fashion, 'forty
pounds at four cents conies to—four
times ort is ort, four times four—
one dollar and forty cents. ^Here's
your money, ma'am, and hopin'
you'll gin me your custom agin.'
'.Agatha, what are you laughing
at?' demanded her mother, as the
bells jangled noisily away clown the
quiet road, over which the Novem
ber mists brooded like a blaze of
gold. 'Didn't I see that impudent
ragman a-starin at you, and you gig
glin' like any school girl? What
do you s'pose Hugh Darwin would
think if he was to hear on-'t? Go
back to your work this very minit!'
And Agatha went, leaving her
mother to count up her gains, like
a feminine style of miser, in calico
and cap-borders.
It was ilrawing toward sunset the
next afternoon Mr. Jefferson and
Agatha had gone
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some errand to
the village, a mile and a half dis
tant, and Mrs. Jefferson was alone
in the kitchen, chopping apples for
mince-pies, when I'ncle Philemon's
weak, piping voice made itself heard
from the chamber above.
'Clarissy, Clarissy!'
Mrs. Jefferson, with a smothered
exclaimtion of impatience, threw
clown the ehoppiiig-knil'e, set aside
the wooden tray, and ran up stairs.
'Well,' said she, with more ener
gy than mildness, 'what's wantin'
now?'
'I feel very poorly, Clarissy,'
groaned the old 111:111, who lay among
the white bed-clothes like a dried
yellow efiigy. 'I think I'm drawiir
near my end.'
'Oh no, you ain't, Uncle Phile
mon,' said Mrs. Jefferson, secretly
believing that no such good luck
was iu store for her. 'Here, drink
this.'
She held some stimulating cordial
to his withered lips, but he feebly
shook his old white head.
'I'm a dyin', Clarissy—medicine
ain't no use to me any longer, and I
want to see my old newspapers once
:igin.'
Mrs. Jefferson had been prepared
for some such demand. She stole
down stairs, and brought up a neat
pile of I/nrjtrr\- I111 fr/ii s, that she
had borrowed some time since of a
neighbor to read in the evenings,
mil study the pictures when she
was weary of knitting.
'Here they be, Uncle Philemon,'
she said, soothingly.
'em here
I'd like to sell ve.'
'All right, ma'am,' said the trav
eling merchant, balancing the shafts
of his wagon against the fence, and
burying his hands in his pockets.
'Bring 'em on.'
And tin? next mimtte Agatha was
summoned from her sewing to help
pile Uncle Philemon's dearly be
loved tile ot ancient newspapers into
the wicker elot^efr-basket. Agatha
The purblind old man put out his
shaking hand, and felt the folds.
Mrs. Jefferson thought guiltily of
poor old blind Isaac, ami lJebecca
who deceived him for Jacob's sake.
V/' had no such excuse to plead.
Could she, too, hope for a blessing?
'Yes,' muttered Uncle Philemon
yes, take good care of 'em, niece
Clarissa, for—there's a bit of a pa
per like a will under my pillow
somewhere, and I've left 'em all to
little Agatha. She's been a kind,
thoughtful child to the old inau,and
it'll help her and Hugh toward
housekeeping'
What will, uncle?' eagerly gasp
ed Mrs. Jclfersoii, leaning toward
him, more surely to catch the inco
herently articulated words.
'The money. There's a bill laid
smooth between every fold for little
Agatha. I hadn't
The old man, his one haunting
secret off his mind, seemed to drift
peaceably into a quiet sleep. Not
so his niece by marriage. She sat
by his bedside palid and despairing,
rocking herself to and lro ever and
anon, like one hovering
'No, it ain't the ragman, Mrs. Jef
ferson, it's me!' he cried, jovially.
'Agatha and I we thought it was a
shame to sell the poor old man's
hoarded papers, and he dyin' bv
inches, so I turned ragman with
Squire Jones' hand-barrow and the
sleigh bells, and bought 'cm myself,
aud they're all safe in the garret
chamber over home.'
'And the money?' gasped Mrs.
Jefferson.
'The money's all there—seven
hundred dollars,' chimed in honest
Moses, ho stood by, beaming with
satisfaction. 'And our little Aggie
can yet married now whenever she
likes, lley, mother! we outwitted
you arter all, didn't we?'
'I never was so thankful for any
thing in all my born days!' ejacula
ted Mrs. Jetferson, clasping her
hands and sinking back into the
cushioned rocker.
Uncle Philemon died very peace
fully that same night in fact, he
never entirely awakened from the
sleep into which he had fallen when
Mrs. Jefferson sat by his side and
consequently he never knew that his
beloved treasures, with their pre
cious inclosurc of bank-bills, had
been bought, and sold.
A plain white head-stone gleams
above his last resting-place now.
Hugh and Agatha Darwin are keep
ing house, as happy as any crowned
king and queen, albeit their palace
is nothing but a little brown cottage
under the hill, and their royal robes
are but of calico aud hodden-gray.
And Mrs. Jetferson, the domestic
autocrat, is forced to admit that just
ohch in her life she was wrong.
Grandfather Badger's Barn.
BY H. B. STOWS.
One of otr most favorite legen
dary resorts was the old barn.
Sain Lawson prcfercd it
Tin:
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Our barn had an upper loft with
a swinging outer door that com
manded a view of the old mill, the
waterfall, and the distant windings
of the river, with its grassy banks,
its graceful elm draperies, and its
white flocks of water lilies and
then
011
this Saturday afternoon we
had Sam all to ourselves. It was a
drowsy, dreary October day, when
the liens were lazily "craw, craw
ing," in a soft conversational under
tone with each other, as they scratch
ed and picked the hay-seed under
the barn windows. Below in the
barn black Ca'sar sat quietly hateli
elling flax, sometime gurgling and
giggling to himself with an over
flow of that interior jollity with
which he seems to be always full.—
The African in New England was a
curious contrast to everybody
around him in the joy and satisfac
tion that lie seemed to feel in the
mere fact of being alive. Every
white person was glad or sorry for
some appreciable cause in the past,
present or future which was capa
ble of being definately stated lmt
black Ca-sar was in an eternal giggle
and frizzle and simmer of enjoyment
for which he could give no earthly
reason he was an ''embodied joy,"
like Shelley's skylark.
"Jest hear him," s»id Sam Law
son looking pensively over the hay
mow and strewing the hayseed
down on his wool. "How that are
erittur seems to tickle and laugh all
the while 'bout notliin'. Lordy
inasscy. he don't seem never to con
sider that this life's a dream, an
empty show."—From the Atlantic
Monthly for \r)nhr.
PKKII.S
other place to
keep my money, and I knew it would
be safe there. It's for Aggie and
Hugh—that's what the will says.'
Mrs. Jefferson sat rigid anil
aghast. And she had sold this pre
cious pile to an itinerant ragman
for the petty consideration of four
cents a pound!
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OK
the verge
of insanity. If she had only been
content to take the advice of Moses,
her husband, or even listen to Aga
tha's innocent pleadings!
'Oh, my poor girl!' she wailed,
rushing down stairs, when at last
the familiar click of the front gate
latch sounded, announcing the re
turn of her daughter and husband.
'I'm worse than Jacob and Uebecca!
I've thrown away your birth-right!
I've sold it for four ceuts a pound
to a miserable, cheating ragman!'
'What, do you mean, Clarissy?'
demanded her husband, staring at
her in open-mouthed astonishment.
She wiung her hands hysterically
together as she related the sad story.
'I could tear my hair out by the
roots when think of my mad, self
ish tollv!' she cried.
Moses Jetferson looked gravely
at his daughter, who had stood lis
tening in perfect silence.
'Take your mother into the house,
my dear,' she said. 'I'll go over
and see Hugh Darwin about this
business.'
Half an hour later, as Mrs. Jeffer
son sat by the kitchen fire, still
wringing her hands aud bemoaning
herself, Moses walked in, escorting
a figure iu a long-skirted coat, with
a mangy fur cap tilted over its eyes,
and its month tied up in a red cot
ton pocket-handkerciiiet.
'Whv, if'* the ragman!' she ejac
ulated, springing to her feet with a
little crv.
POMTICAI.
—If anv body supposes that a politi
cal career is happiness, he has only
to read a few chapters in history,
or to reflect upon the letter of the
Vice-President. His political life,
as we said, has been successful and
distinguishl'd, and few men who
have been for eighteen years in
public position have made as tew
enemies. It is not to be supposed,
of course, that he retires from inter
est in public affairs, nor that he in
tends to desert the political duties
of a private citizen. But he thinks,
and justly, that he has given as
mudi of his life as ought to be de
manded, unless he wishes to con
tinue in it. Aud in withdrawing
he mentions the real sting ot an
honest official career, the misrepre
sentations which accompany it.
For it is only when a man takes of
fice, or is proposed for it, that he
feels the full fury of party spirit.
And never is a human being so lu
dicrously contemptible as when he
is, not severely criticising the cul
pable conduct of a political oppo
nent, but indulging party malignity.
This malignity would be infinitely
funnv if it were not so ferocious.
It is' one of the chief impediments
to civilization, for this, among many
other reasons, that it so utterly per
plexes judgement by its enormous
falshoo'ds. The philosophers say
that Nature is so intent upon certain
results that she overcharges certain
instincts aud passions, so as to be
superfluously sure of them. And
this is also the law of party spir
it, which burlis a house down to
roast a pig.
The ingenuity with which the
simplest facts arc distorted by partv
spirit into the most baleful signifi
cance is exquisitely comical. The
most familiar details of life are in
vested with awful mystery. If a
distinguishl'd gentleman is seen go
ing North or South or East or West
—-what is he going for? If he wears
a red cravat—he is secretly a
cuf 'ttt'. If he wears a yellow waist-
co:l
And all of a sudden the disguises
dropped off, and llugh Darwin stood
laughing before her.
t—lu. is no friend of Ireland.
Tin* distinguishl'd Mr. Jones meets
his friend Smith, and they have a
chat about the weather. Party
spirit publishes the interesting fact
that Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith were
closeted in earnest conversation,
atr.l begs a naturally indignant peo
ple to ko*p calm at all hazards, and
entreats (he judicious, upon retiring
at night, to look under their beds
for torpedoes. The minister in the
Feejee Islands or at Behring Straits
sends a telegram, and to save mon
ey signs it Short or Long, omitting
the Tobias and Timothy. 'Ah ha!'
snorts the watchful spirit of party,
'behold the demorilization of foreign
courts! Kings and noblemen call
themstlves merely William, or
Charles, or Wellington, or DcBrog
lie so this debased American,
whose soul is eaten up by flunkeyisin
anil who grovels in spirit before the
proud upstarts of an effete despot
ism, signs himself Short instead of
Tobias Short, and Long, forsooth,
instead of Timothy Long! Faugh!
Out upon such spaniels!' Bless
your soul, dear Cato, they only do
it to save a sixpence!
These are the absurdities but
there are the malignities also.
What :t spectacle it is, that of a
really clever man sitting down to
tax his wits for the most caustic
and elaborate misrepresentation of
something which he perfectly well
knows to be simple ami intelligible!
Laboriously to increase the misiin-!
del-standing and falsehood and ill I
feeling in .the world is certainly the
most pitiful of human tasks. But
it is®ne which party spirit relent
lessly requires.
CIIAIK,
Two Extraordinary Gems—The Lucky
Week—Fifty Diamonds in One Bay.
From tlio Now York Tribune.
The mails from Cape Colony
bring information respecting an un
usually fortunate week in the dia
mond diggings. The stone discov
ered by .Mr. Parkes, referred to in
the following article from the Cape
Aryux, is valued at 940,0U0 to $55,
000. lie had offered the night be
fore to sell his claim for 15 shillings.
The other large diamond is estima
ted as of nearly equal value with
that of Mr. Parkes:
many
accounts. It was quiet and retired,
that is to say, at such distance from
his own house that lie could not
hear if Ilepsy called ever so loudly,
and farther off that it would be ever
so convenient for that industrious
and p«ins-taking woman to follow
him. Then there was the soft frag
rant cushion of hay, which his
length of limb could be easily be
stowed.
There are two ways by which
Cape people judge of the success
of the now established diamond in
dustry. The first and most impor
tant is the actual yield of diamonds,
and the second the successful and
paying occupation found for dig
gers. As far as the first is concern
ed, the news of the fortnight is most
satisfactory. We should say that
both the number and value of dia
monds found has been greater than
in any previous fortnight since the
liggings commenced, while several
diamonds exceptionally large have
been turned up. When the last
mail summary was forwarded to
Kngland, a rumor had reached Cape
Town of two enormous diamonds
having been found. Two diamonds,
weighing respectively 56 and 51
carats, have, without doubt, been
found. One, we believe, is a very
fine gem, of good shape the other
somewhat flawed. The discoverers
were as startled as any one else at
their own good luck. In both cases
the 'claims' had promised so little
that the majority of those working
them had left in despair, and had
gone elsew here to try their fortunes.
Two or three remained as a sort of
forlorn hope to make one more at
tempt, and were rewarded by turn
ing out these large and brilliant
gems.
Besides these two monsters, sever
al large diamonds have been found,
two or three of them noted as
especially beautiful, one weighing
40 carats, another '20J-, and a third
a grain or two short of '20. We
hear also, on what seems good au
thority, of a stone weighing
carats, of somewhat inferior des
cription, having been purchased
from a native woman for a wagon
and a span of oxen. The week end
ing the -TTH of August, went by the
name of the'lucky w eek,' from the
number and quality of the stones
picked up. This was said to have
been the most prolific week the
Fields had seen. The diggers had
found as much in that one week as i
they had done in any previous
month. The proceeds were valued
by some at £50,000, by others at a
much larger figure. But these
amounts are little more than
guesses.
Lin:.
There is, of course, no general
register kept of the diamonds found,
and we are told that
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the 17th, and the Koman,
which conveys this summary, have
parcels of great value on board.
The (iood Ilope carries to the value
of £is,000, and the Uoman to a
still larger amount. To our knowl
edge. a considerable number have
not vet been sent home, while others
are carried- by their owners, and
never figured in the customs report.
As to the other way of estimating
the success of the Fields—namely,
the luck which attends individual
diggers, or the digging community
as a whole, in less than two months
the digging population has been in
creased from live hundred to six
hundred, and the cry is, Still they
come—some ou toot5 some in spring
carts, well equipped, with food and
implements others in scrubby vehi
cles without a cover—all making
for the new mine of South African
wealth. A few of the travelers go
alone, with one or two native ser
vants, others in family parties, and
others in small joint-stock compan
ies. They are of all sorts anil sizes,
and all descriptions some are
clerks, some laborers, some trades
men. Our readers can judge how
many are likely to be successful
among a heterogeneous crowd, pur
suing an industry peculiarly uncer
tain, and involving very hard work.
We believe that companies proper
ly organized, with a good stall of
workmen, are likely to be ultlmately
Ibrtimate, and such are already be
ing formed with every prospect of
success. The correspondent be
fore alluded to says: At D.igger-
WHOLE NO. 280,
boer's Neck I heard a good deal
about the great party which started
from that place some tiino ago un
der Captain Frisby. The venture
—a joint-stock affair—absorbed a
capital of three thousand dollars*
This is a bu*n?ss as well as a dig
ging party, and good accounts h&vv
been received of the prospects
the speculation."
Mark Twain's Tribute to Woman.
At an annual banquet of tho:
Washington Correspondents' Club,,
the following toast was read:
WOMAN:
EDITOK'.S EASY
in Ilttrjicr'is MmjtirAm for
Dci'mbcr.
SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMONDS.
The pride of the pro*
fessions, and the jewel of ours.
To which Mark Twain responded
as follows:
"Human intelligence cannot Esti
mate what we owe woman, sir. 'She.
sews on our buttons. She ropes u.s
in at the church fairs she con tides
in us she tells us whatever she can
find out about the little private af
fairs of the neighbors she gives ns
good advice and plenty of it she
gives a piece of her mind some
times, and sometimes all of it. In
all the relations of life, sir, it is but
a just and grateful tribute to say
of her that she is a
'•brick.'' Where
soever you place woman, sir, in
whatsoever position of estate, she is
an ornament to the place she occu
pies and a treasure to the world.
Look at the noble names of history!
Look at Desdemona! Look at Lu
eretia Borgia! Look at Joyce Hethi
Look at Mother Eve! I repeat, sir,
look at the illustrious names of his
tory! Look at the Widow Machrec!
Look at Lucy Stone! Look at Eliza
beth Cac.lv Stanton! Look at George
Francis Train! And, sir, I say it
with bowed head and deepest vene
ration, look at the mother of Wash
ington! Site raised a boy who
could not lie—cnvl'l not lie. But
he had never had any chance. It
might have been different i'f he had
belonged to a newspaper corres
pondents' club." (.Mark looked
around praeidly upon his excited
audience and resumed:) "I repeat,
sir, that
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whatever position you
place a woman she is an ornament
to society and a treasure to the
world. As a sweetheart she has
few equals and no superiors. As a
wealthy grandmother with an in
curable distemper she is precious.
As a wet nurse she has 110 equal
among men. What, sir, would the
people of the earth be without wo
men? They would be scarce, sir
almighty scarce! Then let us give
her our support, our encouragement,
our sympathy—ourselves if we get
a chance."
MAUK TWAIN'S IIORSE
60
concern is
shown to make public small, or even
ordinary finds. We only hear of
the large stones. A register is, it
is true, kept on the milling grounds
at I'niel, but except an exceptional
entry, such as the lucky Wednesday
(the :24th), when fifty diamonds
w ere found, we hear little of its con
tents. In our last number we al
luded to the large diamond exports
by the mail steamers as satisfactory
evidence of the substantial success
of the diggings. We have not the
exact figures before us, but we be
lieve that both the Good Hope, which
sailed
"JERICHO."
I have a horse by the name of
Jericho. He is a mare. I have
seen remarkable horses before, but
noue so remarkable as this. I want
ed a horse that would shy, and this
fills the bill.
I
had an idea that
shying indicated spirit. If it was
correct, I have got the most spirit
ed horse
011
earth. He shies at
everything he comes across with
the utmost impartiality. He ap
pears to have a mortal dread of tele
graph poles especially and it is
fortunate that these are on both
sides of the road because, as it is
now, I never fall off twice on the
same side. If I fell 011 the same
side always it would get monoto
nous after a while. The creture
has shied at everything he has seen
to-day except a hay-stack. He
walked tip to that with an intrepidi
ty and recklessness that was aston
ishing. And it would fill any one
with admiration to see how he pre
served his self-possession in tho
presence of a barley stack. This
dare-devil bravery will be the death
of this horse some day. lie is not
particularly fast, but I think he will
do all the work I want. He has
only one fault his tail has been
chopped off, or else he has set down
on it too hard some time or other,
and has to light the flies with his
heels. This is all very well but
when he tries to kick a fly off the
top of his head with his hind foot,
it is too much of a variety, lie is go
ing to get himself into trouble that
way some day. lie reaches around
and bites my legs, too. I do not
care particularly about that,—only
I do not like to see a horse too so
ciable."
Relation of Blocd to Lib.
It has generally been supposed
that the presence of blood in a state
of circulation in the system is abso
lutely necessary to life, and that the
cessation of such action is always
accompanied by death. In a course
of recent lectures by Professor Ber
nard, of Paris, he refers to this be
lief, and states that if one of the
higher animals be snddenly depri
ved of its blood it will at once ex
pire, sinee the blood nourishes the
tissues, and confers its special prop
erties upon them but that, under
certain circumstances, the vital man
ifestations may persist, for a long
time after the blood has been ab
stracted. This, he states, may be
observed at any time in a cold
blooded animal, and especially du
ring the cool season. Thus, a frog
in winter will preserve its vitality
for twenty-lour hours after the with
drawal of its blood and if one of
the abdominal veins be opened and
feebly saline or sugared water, or
even mercury, be injected, until all
the blood is replaced by the liquid,
the animal may still move, leap, and
manifest a'l the ordinary signs of
life for several days. If the web
of the foot be examined by the mi
croscope, a fluid entirely destitute
of globules will be seen to circulate
in it, showing that the blood-glo
bules have been removed without
suspending the functions of life*
This is staled to be somewhat ana
logous to the condition of things in
the hibernation of animals, an.l^ in
the stage of cholera in man, during
which the circulation may appar
ently cease completely, so that no
blood shall flow if an artery bo
opened, aud yet all the ordinary
manifestations "of life continue. In
both cases a considerable reduction
of temperature is observed, Mini the
functions of the red corpuscles are
reduced correspondingly in activity,
—KIUTOK'S
SCIENTIFIC UECOBII,
(jurors Mtr-.iun? for Vr,