Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-10-29
State 1ssms.

state Issms.
A grand circular wolf hunt is to
come of in Delaware county on the
3Oth inst. The hunters arc to meet
At 8 o'clock A. NJ, and start from the
county line on the south; Buffalo road
on the north; At Buffalo Settlement
on the west and east line Of Halle
Green township on the east. The
center of the circle is to be on Sec
tons II and Is, between Rogers and
Davies.
Col. Steward, one Of the editors Of
the Burlington Gdzette, who has been
confined to his room some two weeks
from q bilious attack, has SO far recov-
cred as to &c able to revisit his office.
1t is hoped he will soon be able to re-
sumo his duties as editor.
The citizens Of Iowa City are making
every possible exertion to encourage
the establishment of manufactures OF
various kinds in their town. A very
sensible movement.
We learn from the Dubuque Her.
aid that the Central Island Company
has become involved in difficulties.
It will be remembered that the city
some years since sold the island to the
company for a sum Of 100000, one
hundred and twenty thousand being
paid down by the company, but in
rather a peculiar manner, so that the
cityrcmained liable for the interest on
that amount, and the remainder, $780,
900, being payable in ten years.
Since that time large sums ofmoney
have been expended but the improve
mcnts are ~ yet very far from COM
pletion, and now in consequence Of a
train of unfortunate circumstances, the
company is unable either to prosecute
their improvements or to sell their
property.
A proposition is now pending before
the Common Council of that city 10
release the company from its obliga-
tions, and to take the improved prop
erty as payment and pay the interest
on the sum Of $4,000. This pro-
position the council seems disposed to
accept but the Herald opposes it most
bitterly, on.the ground that the city is
already too deeply in debt, and cannot
afford to purchase two hundred thousand
dollars worth of real estate. 1t thinks 1t
advisable for the city to pay the in
terest for which it is liable, aud to hold
the company for the same.
On the other hand it is asserted that
the opposition of the Herald to the
proposition and to the companyis based
upon improper motives, and that the
greatest mistake the company has
made was in neglecting, when first or.
gained, to place fifty dollars in the
hands of the editors OF that paper.
On Saturday evening woman, call
ing herself Mrs. Green, dark hair, hav.
ing a female babe, aged between three
and four months. stopped at the
Adams House, in Dubuque, and asked
for lodgings. She was shown to {
room. In the morning she was mis-
sing, and the child was left in the bed
with label pinned to it with tn
name Miss OLaughl:n on it. On in
quiry, it was found that this woman
formerly lived with Mr.. Trask, an
while there was visited by differen
men. Before she gave birth to tn
child, it is said that one of these pei
sons whom she has threatened to sue
in order to escape trouble, had pal
her hundred dollars or more on con
dition that she would give him a clea
receipt, and leave the State. Sh
did so, and the child was born in Il
linois.
She, however, had still hankerin,
for Dubuque, and came and left tn
child as aforesaid.
The Lyons Advoeate has long a.
ticle showing why the Iowa Contra
Railroad has not been built. 1t think
one million dollars Of its property ha
been stolen. This is the amount q
the debt with which the company
now encountered, though it has LAM
grant of 100000 acres. The expos
ure shows up the conduct of s. S
Jones, President of the company, i
no very enviable light.
ANOTHER EXPEDITION TO NICARAGUA =
WALKER ON THE WALK.-Colonel Doubleday
who resides ct Brighton, and who has beel