The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1855-08-31
From the Iowa Capital Reporter, Aug. 22d.
GOings.On in Iowa.

COUNTY SEAT QUEsTION.--At the recent elec-
tion in Keokuk county, the warfare between
Lancaster and Sigourney was settled in favor
of the former, by a majority stated at 221 in
the" Friend" Lancaster. therefore, considers
herself right in town."
HENRY CoUNry.-Th Railroad Loan vote
carried by majority of four hundred and six
teen, or 1865 to GAO
r. r. SuRvEy-The Argus states that
an effort is on foot to have Railroad survey
made from Delhi to the east side of Delaware
county, to meet the Dubuque road, we sup
pose.
Acc1DENr-Mr. f. G. Loper was danger
ously injured !. few days since, at Ottumwa, in
Wapello county, while blasting a rock in a
we'll, which he was digging for MIR. Abrams.
The explosion occurred after he supposed the
fuse had gone out.
ROGUE LOOSE -Reuayd.-- A reward of $l5O
is offered for the apprehension and delivery at
the Jail in Muscatine, of one James w. Brad
ford, who is described by the 90 Enquirer as
a " siX-footer,' weighing $50 pounds, 80 years
Of age and light complexiou-eXt externally. The
fellow stole ten head of horses q few weeks
since in Muscatine county, sold them to a liv-
cry man in Davenport, who sold them to a Mr..
Stocker, on his way west but some of them
getting away made for their old home and
thus led to the source Of their disappearance
BARCLAY-ls the name of q new town cigh-
teen miles east of Independence, Buchanan
county, containing tavern, store, shops, &c,
and about twenty dwellings, where nine months
ago, there was not single house.
AFFRAy.--At Dahlonega Wapcllo county,
on election day, two men named Jccko and
Roop got into a quarrel about wheel-bar-
row which resulted in Ropes fracturing
Jcckos skull with a stone; probably irhicting
fatal wound. Roop is off.
AcCIDENT-W learn from the Jasper Co.,
Express that corn-mll belonging to Judge
Hickman, of Newton, recently exploded, Sc
verely injuring two men, one of whom, we re-
gret to state was our friend, the Judge him
self.
HARRISON CoUNTY.-We learn that tre-
mendous hai-stOrm recently occurred in Har-
rison county, "away out west" proving Sc
verely ruinous to crops of every description.
DRowNED.--The Pella Gazette informs us
of the death by drowning on the Sth inst, of
John Ninstla, in the lake near Amsterdam,
Marion county. He resided about five miles
west of Pella.
GooD SPORT.-The Buchanan County CT
william says that six persons, mostly boys, a
day or two since, shot 3O5 prairie chickens; to
25O shot by rival company of FIVE men,
Good for Young America
INDIVIDUAL Under this head
the Independence Civilian notes the fact that
certain enterprising citizens Of the upper cOun-
ties, failing to obtain post-officc facilities from
the department, have contracted with Mr.
Spencer to run two horse hack from indie.
pendence to GAINESVILLE, Bremer county, and
thence, with Mr.. Stewart, to Clear lake; the
whole expense to be paid by individual sub
scription.
REsIGNED.-Prof. VIM. H. Barnes, of the
Mount Vernon Seminary, Linn county, has
resigned that position, for Professorship in
the Baldwin Institute at Berca, Ohio.
BURLINGTON RAILRoAp.-The State Ga.
zette says that Judge Hall has got the Rail-
road contract about squared up. The road is
to be done to Mount Pleasant by June Ist,
1856, and to Skunk river, by the st of Feb,
following.
LYONS RoAD. The Maquoketa Sentinel
says that work has been commenced on the
Lyons, Maquoketa, ETC., road near LYONS and
near Marshield, in Jones county.