Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-09-19
IOWA NEWS.

IOWA NEWS.
The Grand Jury of the Mahaska District
Court refused to find bill against Brown
tor shooting Bowen, and he was discharged.
Scorr COUNTY FAlR.--The Fair will 10
held in this county on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, the Goth and S0th instsnts.
SUPREME Counr DecIsIoSs.-Th following
cases among others were decided by the Su-
preme Court at an adjourned session in
Iowa City, last week:
Rhodes T. Co. v. Mccormick, Muscatine,
reversed, and re-hcaring denied.
Nealley v. Miller, Muscatine, affirmed.
Compton v. Conner, do do
Statey White, do reversed.
JASPER CoUNrY.-The Express has chang
ed editors, D. W. Hunt succeeding H. Welk-
er.-Henry O'Connor, our talented Repub-
lcan fellow citizen, was to address the cit.
liens of Newton on the 18th. Ben. NJ Sam
uels, the Democratic nominee for Governor,
had also an appointment at the same time
and place.
JOHNSON County MISUNDERSTANDING
f. Miller, Esq, and Percy D. Turner, are
the Republican candidates for the Legisla-
ture in johnson county.
New Posi- OFFICE. At Isbell, Jones
county, Iowa; j. Hays, P. N.
WAsulNcToS.- The editor of the Pres
has seen sample Of syrup made from tie
gan Hart, near town.-Wm. McGrew, OF
keokuk county, was nominated at the Tai
leyrand Convention, on the Sth, as Join,
Representative of the counties Of Washing
ton and keokuk.
FT. DoDGE-The Sentinel reports q corn
stalk twelve feet and four inches long, raised
three miles from town by 4, H Albee, who
has some forty acres Of the "same sort -
Five hundred muskets and fifty revolvers
have arrived, for the use Of the proposed
uniform companies.
"A man named Joseph Fowler was killed
in Davenport, on Monday, by being precipi-
tated from wagon while crossing gutter.
and the wagon passing over his body.
STOLEN HrRsKs RECOVERED -Tu1svKs AR
RgsrKD.-Mr. J. X. James, residing few
miles below Davenport, who had span Of
horses stolen from his stable few weeks
since, returned to our city day or two
since, with both horses and thieves. He
caught them in Kankakee county, about sew
enty miles below Chicago. The thieves are
lodged in our county Jail. MrAJ deserve,
much credit for his perseverance, especially
rs the horses did not belong to him. An
equal promptness in the arrest of horse
thieves would make the business a non
paying one.-Davenport Gasette.
VERMONT UNCOMFORTABLE fol-
lowing returns of the recent election are
given by the Vermont papers as official:
VOTE FOX GOVERNOR.
Ryland Fletcher (Rep3 1859
Henry Keyes DEM l1,ol4
Scattering, 22O
1,234
Pletchsr's majority, BAL
The Senate consists of thirty members,
and is unanimously Republican.
The House Of Representatives will contain
1s9 Republicans and 90 Opposition members.
Thar CABLE.-At last it is acc. united for,
how it broke. We are glad of it, for it has
been wonder the world over 1t va. done
by Upper, the leaden headed author Of the
dullest and most useless book that ever came
ont Of the front door Of printing office
The thing is told by a correspondent of the
Philadelphia North Americon:
For years have been hoping some Of the
knights of the pen would take up the cud-
gels and chastise this literary pretendel
(Martin Farqnhar TuppeD who seizes every
possible opportunity to write very bad
sonnet and get printed. He really does have
his way in everything. His last sonnet on
the Atlantic cable, there is no doubt, was
the cause Of its breaking. Nothing on earth
could stand such strain as that
WAIVERS FlLIBU~rzR ExPEDlrIoN.-- 1t is
a well known fact in the South and West,
that Walker is organizing another Nicaragua
expedition. A Charleston, S. c., letter says
that the date Of its sailing is fixed for Octo-
her 2lst, and that 100 men will 90 from that
city. 1t says fart her that New Orleans, New
York, Philadelphia and Boston will furnish
men and means.
Recent letters from Nicaragua assert that
there is a party in that country anxious for
the return Of the filibusters. The dissensions
already among rival chiefs will open anew
the field to the fllibusfery, and should thew
succeed in landing they may profit by for
mer experience and in the end prove more
successful
EXPENSE OF TRAVEL IN EURoPE.-Rev. T.
L. Cuyler writes that travele rs expenses are
much greater in England, and less on the
Continent, than in our own country. Three
dollars day is the least for which etran-