St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-06-03

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Lake Albert Lea, in Minnesota.
Henry Ward Beecher intends spending "a
few weeks in Kansas the present summer.
Fruit trees are looking well throughout Iowa,
Wisconsin, and Northern Illinois.
Patrick Quigley has been re-arpointed re-
ceiver of the land office at Dubuque.
En- President Commonfort of Mexico his two
daughters, and suite are on a visit to Niagara
Falls.
A destructive fire, involving the loss Of ten
lives, occurred at Chicago early TUESDAY NOR
ming of last week
The old project of forming new state from
portions of Tennessee, Virginia and North
Carolina, is revived.
Mr.. Hunter in the Senate has reported
bill giving the President authority to borrow
ten millions dollars, payable in fifteen years.
The Y. S. Senate passed the bill admitting
Oregon as a State by a vote of 35 to IL. The
House will undoubtedly concur, and then our
Union will number 33 States.
The committee on commerce have made a
report in favor of removing the railroad bridge
at Rock Island as an obstruction to the naviga-
ton of the Mississippi.
Rev. Alexander Erven Methodist preach
or, arrested at Ottumwa recently ON Il
charge OF horse stealing. Upon examination
he was committed to Jail to await his trial
A few days ago lady of twenty-six years
walked twenty miles to Dubuque to procure
license for marrying a man of forty years.
Such woman is worthy to be the wife of a
Spartan.
The Burlington Gazette says a Mr. Rankin
who formerly kept the Union Hotel in that
city, mystcriously slopcd, few nights since,
with his wiic's sister, while the unsuspecting
wife was enjoying herself at a ball
Another case is in the Iowa court, against
the Rock Island Bridge as nuisance. Why
don't the Railroad Company indict the river
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Jacob Carroll of Texas is the largest farmer
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Of land His home plantation contains about
o'ooo acres. Col e. has on his immense ran
yes of pasture lands about 600 horses and
mules.
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SO many banks have " busted up in other
States. The same old fogy argument against
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| At the paper mill OF VIM. Clark 4 Co, in
| Northampton, Mass, a bale OF rags was lately
| opened, which came from the scenes OF the
oiihean war Pillow cases, sheets, shirts,
bandaSes, surgical aprons, remnants and parts
OF clothing stained with blood, told pitiously
| of suffering and sorrow.
The Mobile Advertiser terms John a. Wash
| inSton the " Mount Vernon Shylock, for ex-
acting S2OO,ooO from an association of Ia
dies, for 200 acres of land not intrinsically
worth $4,000, thus making aproft of $780,
600, simply out of Il tomb OF great relative
bearing his name.
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for the construction of fifty miles Of the Min
nesota and Pacific Railroad, TO commence i'm
mediately, and be completed before the first
of December, and for this purpose the contrac-
tors have engaged to put 100 hands on the
road.
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