Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-10-27

Of bliss as soon ~ they get there.
Ssass lseos.
Nashua, Chickasaw County, is the
name Of . new Post Office just estab'
lishcd-Andrew Sample, p. N.
A Democratic paper has just been
started At Fairfield, Jefferson county
}. b. Taylor, editor.
A Court House is TO be erected
At Fort Dodge, TO cost $39,450. II
is to be Of stone qusrried near that
place.
The result of = census just taken in
McGregor, shows population Of 1888
In May 1916, McGregor had but 24O
inhabitants.
A new post Office called Bremen has
been established in Dayton township,
in Bremen county. James II. Yerton
il postmaster. The Office il supplied
with . weekly mail from Mill P. O., in
Fayette county.
The citizens Of Lafay cite, in Marshall
county, have changed the name Of
their town to Albion. The name of the
town now corresponds with the name
of fhe Post Office.
The Upton Railroad Company has
advertised to receive proposals. for
grading, tieing and masonry, up to the
goth day Of October, at which time
they intend to let the work to tho
lowest bidder.
Anew post Office has been established
in Franklin township, Bremen county,
under the name Of Grove Hill, F. Har-
wood p. NJ.
A few days ago Mrs. Acken, of Bre-
mer County, saw flock Of geese pas
sing over, when, with a well-aimed,
single dicharge Of No. 7 shot, she
brought four Of them to the ground !;
two we're dead and the other two Grip
Piled, one OF which the valiant lady Sc.
cured the other, for the want of her
dog, made its escape. This lady fire.
quently brings down three quails at q
single rising.
The Jackson County Journal Of
Thursday last says that George Rey-
nolds, of Fairfield township, was brought
into Bellevue on Friday last, . raving
maniac, and committed to the custody
of the sheriff. Reynolds is represent
ed as complete wreck of humanity,
flightful to behold.
Messrs. Hall 4 Stiles, of Sabula,
bankers and dealers in exchange, are
about to open an Office for the trans
action Of their business in Bellevue.
We learn from the Journal that
Bclleville can boast of considerable i'm
provements this season. The Pres
byterian Church, large and handsome
structure, is rapidly approaching COM
pletion. The Catholic Church is hav-
ing new steeple erected, and stores
and dwellings have been improved and
erected.
Most Of our river exchanges in Iowa
notice the influx of immigrants into
our thriving state, and says that this
immigration the present year is equal,
in their opinion, to that of last year.
The barn and stable attached to the
kosta formerly Hench) House in
kosta, Iowa county, was burned down
on Sunday morning, the 18th inst.
There were four valuable horses in the
stable, and about Is tons of hay, which
were all lost, together with several
stacks Of hay near the barn. The fire
is supposed to have been the work of
an inceudiary. A shoemaker was ar
rested on suspicion, but the evidence
introduced failed to convict him.
Brown, tho McGregor constable,
who robbed a store at that place and
managed to abscond, was arrested the
other day at Sioux City by McGre.
gor detective, and brought back to Nc
Gregor for examination.
The NEW CusroM House, per.
ceive many workmen yet engaged in
hewing and shaping the splendid stone
for this new building. Except the
foundation, however, there has been
no stone laid as yet. We understand
that the heavy blocks with which the
lower story is to be built, have not ar
rived yet, as they lay in a part of the
quarry which has not yet been reach
ed. We hope to see this ornament to
our city completed soon.-Dubuoue
Express d. Herald.
TaE GREAr CHARLESTON CHnxEy.-The
mammoth chimney in the Navy Yard il the
highest structure Of the kind in the world
lts height above ground 239 feet and Ia
| inchea and from thu hoffnr, az ~ !. ~