Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-08
IOWA NEWS.

of Upton, belonging to Messrs. Diltz &
Myers, was burned to the ground on last
Thursday night, about IL O'Clock. Loss
about $4,000.
DRowNED.--A young man by the name of
Smith was drowned last week, at Lyons, by
the breaking to pieces of raft. Mr.. Smith
had been in Lyons but few weeks. The
body has not yet been found.
Iowa CoUNTY.-The Visitor says that q
woman was found dead in her house, on the
goth ult, in the western part Of that county.
She was recently married, and her husband
is suspected of numbering her. The German
Colony-AmauaS ociety--have built bridge
across the Iowa at the their new town about
five miles below Marengo.
HARDIN CoUNrY.-It is stated in the Hardin
County Sentinel that the citizens OF Eldora
intend to contest the election for the removal
of the county-seat of Hardin county. Point
Pleasant had 10 majority.
JONES Co.-The Anamosa Eureka states
that young man named John Raynor was
caught last week, having in his possession a
horse belonging NJ. Armsby. Raynor, in
company with r. Waters and S. Dclong,
broke into a store in Canton, the latter part
of last week, for which they We're under
arrest and awaiting trial. Waters and Ray.
nor, having bad character, thought it
would be to their advantage to appropriate a
span of horses belonging to Mr.. Armsby,
with which they made off. Waters is still at
Large.
BuRLlNaroN.-A proposition to the fol-
lowing effect has been submitted to vote of
the citizens of Burlington by tho B. & NJ. r.
r. Go. The city to take stock instead of
bonds for the SIS, 900 loaned to the company,
and make deed to the company for the
property now leased to them for depot
grounds, etc. The company on the other
hand agreeing to commence the work of
filling at an early day, and to expend not
less than $25. 900 on the work this season !;
and further agreeing to finish the road to
Ottumwa by the 1st day of June, 1859, and
no exchange of bonds for stock, on the part
of the city, to take place until after the road
is completed to Ottumwa.
The Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Rail-
road Company are progressing with their
work from Clinton to Cedar Rapids. The
road is already completed forty miles, and it
is the purpose of the company to complete
the line to Cedar Rapids by October next.
MALAYSIA Co.-The dwelling house of
VIM. Brent, near Rose Hill, was destroyed
by fire a few nights since, while all the
members of the family except small boy
were absent. The boy barely escaped, but
was so badly frightened that he did not speak
nationally for some time. The fire, it is
supposed, started either from the stove
chimney or from candle which the boy left
burning on going to bed. The loss of the
house and contents is estimated at about
5000.
1t is gratifying to see that the bonds of
the State of Iowa rate higher in the New
York market than any other-higher, even,
than those of the United States. The price
is now $lO7, according to the most recent
sales at the stock board.
The Dubuque Herald says that the
Merchants Hotel, lately destroyed by fire in
that city, is to be rebuilt this summer by the
several Insurance companies interested. The
Herald adds that "their agents, Messrs. Lit
Teton Il Farmer, deem it more prudent to
rebuild the Hotel, and make good all the
losses occasioned by the fire, than to pay the
whole amount in cash."
DIR. Eads, the defaulting School Super
intendent of this State, has built a new hotel
at Fort Madison with the money he plum
dered from the school fund, as is reasonably
supposed.
KEoKUK Goa new P. O. has been estab-
lished at White Pigeon, j. j. Penn Post
master. The Sigourney Life calls for a
mail route between that place and Marengo.
Capt. Littler, with his Rock Island (?)
company of soldiers destined for the Mormon
country, some time, perhaps, is encamped
on the bluff, back of Davenport.
DUBUQUE.-From the address of a COM
mittee appointed to solicit subscriptions to
the Dubuque & Pacific Railroad, one would
be led to judge that that city was on its "last
legs" The committee says:
"Enfecbled as we are, dispirited as we are,
weighed down with pecuniary burdens as
most Of us are, it requires an almost super
human effort of our mental faculties to make
even a little effort, but if we delay much
longer, we may not be capable of doing even
so much.o
So IT GoEs.--We understand that R. E.
Campbell threw out Florence yesterday
That's right, gentlemen, keep the ball
moving.-Dav. Dem., 9Th.
Wild CATS,--A writer from Davenport tc