Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-11
IOWA NEWS.

r. W. Rand has been chosen Pres dent
and Il. N. Rand Cashier Of of the Lyons
Branch of the State Bank.
1t has been ascertained by actual count
that forty of the citizens OF Leclaire will
leave that place for Pixies Peak.
MURDER.-The jury in the Gillick case, at
Dubuque, have brought in a verdict of gull
ty OF murder in the first degree.
DEFALcATIoN The committee appointed
by the District Court Of Floyd unity, to
examine into the financial affairs of the
county, report that Joshua Jackson, the late
Treasurer, is defaulter to the county in
the sum of $1,000 60.
A little boy, four years old, was burned
to death in Davenport, on the night of the
I'd inst. The mother carelessly placed a
lighted candle Oh the bed in which the bow
was sleeping, aud went into an adjoining
room. When she returned the bed was all
on fire and the little one Burned t. death.
FANCY PAErY AT CEDAR RAIlps.-A fan
cy party was given at Cedar Rapids last
week for the benefit of t, Q Mt. Vernon As
sociation. From the account D, bl shc!
in the Times, it was great occasion.
About three hundred persons were present
the great mass of whom were dressed in
costume. The receipts amounted to about
$3.50. ..
A panorama Of the route to Pixies Peak
is on cx .ibiton at Mt. Pleasant.
We learn from the Davenport Democrat
that Judge Mitchell, DR.. Burrows and Geo.
L. Davenport have gone to Florida on an
amateur hunting trip.
The pioneer settlers of. Louisa county
have organized an Association, and elected
as its President, Jacob Mintun; Secretary,
ID. Hurley; Treasurer, W. L. Toole.
The ninth session of the Keokuk Med :
ical College closed on the goth ult., at which
time the degree of "M. D." was conferred
on twelve young gentlemen from the thr ee
States of Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.
"A correspondent OF the Marengo Visitor
says that Tabitha Swezy (Phmbus! what a
namely has been awarded prize B Bile for
committing and reciting during the last sum.
mer term of the Union Sabbath school, 1900
verses of Scripture and hymns.
We learn from tho Dcsmoines journal
that Mr.. Roanc, the Salt Lake Soldier, who
few days since shot Mr. Halves at Brook.
lyn, in Powesheik County, and after wards
shot himself, was son of Col. Roane, for
merly member of Congress from Virginia
and resident of Washin gton.
PUBLISHING BIRTHS. The Madisonian, oil
Winterset, adopts the old English custom
of publishing births with the innov alton
however, of giving the name of the mother
also with that of the tather.) From its re.
cord thus kept, We judge that tho fccundty
of the people Of Madison county is equal
to tho prolificness of its soil. The paper OF
| the Goth ult. announces four births, and
says the prospect is it will have about one
q week to record for some time to come!
1t appears that Mr.. Key, who was re.
Gently killed at Washington City, was once
practitioner at the bar IN this State. The
Mt. Pleasant Journal says that at the Sep
TENDER term of the District Court for that
county in 1912, the following entry of record
was made:
Philip Barton Key, Esq, having produced
his credentials of admission as an Attorney
and Counselor at law, in the Circuit Court o.
the District of Columbia, is therefore admit
ted as an attorney and counselor at law in
this Court, and therefore was duly sworn as
required by law.