Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23
IOWA NE VS. So !

A meeting Of citizens Of Iowa, Benton
md Keokuk counties was held at Millers-
burgh on the 9th inst, 70 take into conside-
ration the propriety Of petitioning the Leg
islature to pass . law authorizing the for
nation of new. county.out of iowa and
Keokuk, and giving Iowa sufficient portion
of Benton to make up what she loses by the
new county. The Marengo Visitor COM
mends the project. =
- G. II. Jennison has again assumed the
editorial chair Of the Linn County Register
Cn1LD BURSxD TO DEArH.-A child Of Jas.
Harris, ,aged about two years, was acciden
tally burned to death on the 18th instant,
about ten miles west Of Oskaleosa. - Her
clothes probably took fire while she was try
ing to burn piece of paper, sin the. stove. =
A sad warning to all children to be careful
of fire. t. S. ss@ s.e
EDUCATIONAL FA1R.-The Sigourney (Keo-.
kuk county, Life in the West contains the
programme of an Educational Fair which is
to take place in that county on the 10th, II tn
and 18th of March next. Premiums are to
be awarded for the best specimens of pen
manship, best ex amples in reading, spelling,
mathematics, geo graphy, essays, declama-
tions and dialogues. The scholars of all
the schools in the county are to compete for
the premiums.
LOVE, DEsERr1oN AND SUICIDE learn
from the Oskaloosa Herald the particulars
| of a sad instance of love and desertion at
that place. Miss Mary e Emery, school,
mistress aged about % years, whose parents
reside at Canterbury, N. H., committed su-
icide by taking strychnine at the house of
Mr.. Grenough, on the afternoon of the 10th
inst. 1t seems that she had intended to
have put an end to her life before any one
should know of her design. but her screams
the strychnine threw her brought the mem.
bers of Mr.. CPS family to her room, wher
she appeared perfectly rational and told
them she had taken poison and wished to
die quietly. A physician was sent for, but
before he arrived she died. She left note
stating that she had lived as long as sh.
wished, and that nothing but trouble wal
strown in her path. She desired to be bu-
ried in the travelling habit in which she had
attired herself. She also left q letter fol-
Mr.. Leander Dascomb, who had been fol-
some time paying marked attentions to hel
but who had absconded few days previous
with woman of abandoned character
Miss Emery was a ladv highly esteemed fo1
her uniformly amjaI SsN upright deport
ment. She had bIssy tHng in Oskalooss
since last spring. During last summer SHE
became acquainted with Dascomb, who
though having wife near Elmyra, N. Y.
had during floating residence at Oskaloosa
the past two years passed himself off for a
single man. He was engaged to be married
to Miss Emery, and had borrowed about fifty
dollars from her. The time Of their mar.
riage was set for the day following that or
which he absconded. This was no doubt thu
SouoS VI NAASS I1AC1y OOIuMlVsluS SuACAuCs
Tho Herald describes Dascomb as Ga maj
about thirty years of age, five feet clever
inches high, heavy set, blue eyes, light hair
thick sandy beard, great talker, moderate
ly intelligent, and not a bad appearing fell
low withal." Pass him round.
KEoKuK Co.. From Life in the West
published at Sigourney, we learn that Mr.
Samuel Wright, farmer living near thai
place, came to his death recently in the fol.
lowing manner: While in state of intox.
ication he seized an axe and attempted tt
make an assault upon his wife. His son in
terposed and Mr.. W. stepping back fell ou
of the door upon some rocks lying there
crushing. and mangling the bones of his fact
and head in horrid manner, and causing
his death soon after. Until one year age
MIR. w. had been an upright, sober man, ar
esteemed member of the church, and kline
husband and father. In twelve short months
the demon of intemperance transformed him
into fend incarnate.