Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-24
MUSCATINE, IOWA. FRIDAY JUNE a. 1859
IOWA NEWS.

-.. IOWA NEWS.
The Desm,ines Journal is coming out
as a daily paper, the first they have ever
had in that town.
The negro, Peter, who robbed the Post
Office at Lansing, last winter, has pleaded
guilty in the U. S. Court at Keokuk, and
has been sent to the penitcntiary for two
years.
Among the recent graduates of the Ma.
va. School, at Annapolis, Nd, we notice
George G. Remey, OF Iowa. lie has been
ordered to the Hartford, which is going to
sea.
The Keokuk Gate City of 10th says
on Monday night last, the office of Mr.. AL
corn, in Doetown, Van Bur,n county, was
entered by burglars. and the :afe was
blown open. Abou, $4,000 in promissory
mites, $l4 in money, and large lot of
counterfeit money were taken.
Under the head of ':Remarks,' in the
census returns from Clinton county, We
find the following "February Z, 1855
Mrs. Burlingane, of Clinton township, gave
birth to 8 children l male and 9 females.
Their aggregate weight at birth was %
pounds" They are all now living. March
10, 1859. The climate of Iowa is very fine
for children.
The census returns of Clarke county
give the following statistics p pulation
5000 voters l,O37 acres of improved
land 26,520 unm?roved 244.S5l; acres Of
spring wheat 5,3ll; bushels harvested 6,4SO;
acres of winter wheat So; bushels harvcs-
tsd 437 acres IF cora 1858 buhels har.
vested ls9,259; acres of potatoes 164 !,
bushels harvested 1858; value Of hogs sold
$l2,720; value of cattle sold $39,334 {;
pounds of butter made s0,764 pounds of
cheese SIG; wool 5,579.
The returns from Adams county give
the following figures: Males 766; females
647; total ,4l5 dwellings 27O; acres
improved land 5,2Sl-; unimproved 22,O57 !;
acrs of spring wheat 1886; bushels harvest
ed l,796 acres of fall wheat %; bushels
harvested 9; oats, acres $50; bushels bar.
vested ll6 +; acres of corn 2,2s5; bushel
harvested S0,942; acres of potatoes 64 ;
bushels harvested $500 value of hogs sold
1920; value of cattle sold $lO,5S7;
pounds of butter made 22,06l pounds O.
cheese 498 +; value of domestic and genersi
$6,650. e
The Council Of Keokuk has voted 500
towards deftaying the expenses of Fourth
of July celebration.
The mail service between Washington
and Oskaloosa las been reduced from tri-
weekly to semi-weekly.
The annual examination of the students
IN the Central University of Iowa, at Pella,
sakes place on Monday, Tuesday and Wedn.
esday, the 18th, l4tlt and 18th inst.
The editor of the Muscatine Journal says
he is q sschristian community" He has
been married but a short time, and is still
aboring under the effects of it.-Darenport
Democrat.
The Democrat editor never "labored'
undsr tie effects of anything save, perhaps,
. ''brick in his hat - most certainly Lot
lnder the effects Of christianity.
WILD PIGEoNs.-The wild pigeons are
loing considerable Injury to the growing
;orn crop in johnson county. Hon. S. J.
Kirkwood was obliged to re plant 25 acres
hat the pigeons de troyed in a few hours,
fter the stalk was two inches high.
The City Council of the city Of Clinton
las passed an ordinance creating tax upon
III lumber landed on the levec. The amount
# taxation is fixed at not less than fifty
ents nor more than two dollars per 1000
eet, as the Mayor may decide.
The editor of the Council Bluffs Bugle |
las recently shot catamount four feet long,
md twenty inches in height. The Bugle
8 filled with Pixies Peak news. 1t informs
is readers that the gold prospects are not
ret dead.-A fire recently occurred in that
;ity, burning a meat market, paint shop
md law off ;e. Loss about 900, unin-
ured. The amount of land entered at the
Council Bluffs Land Office, for the week
,nding June 4th, was 1,l2o acres, of which
40 was with cash, and 1,12O with war
ANTS.
KossurH AND MAzzINI. two revo-
u.ionary statesmen ccupy different posi-.
ions in the present crisis. The former has
given public reasons for taking sides with the
Allies, and through their instrumentality lie
lays he expects to see Italy united and free,
md Hungary restored to her original inde'
,endence. The astute chief of Italian liber-
" and independence, however, q man Of
ess oratorical ability but of more penetra-
ing sagacity than kossuth, says there is no
chance of united Iral;an government under
he auspices Of the Allies, as there is no hint
Of it in their programme. The league of
,wo Cars he says is for mutual benefit, not
for the relief OF oppressed nations aud the
of the people.
MExloo.-The London Times has noticed
The fact that the sympathies of the British
residents in Mexico seem to be rather " tn
the Church party, and opposed to the L'be.
rails, because it is supposed that the Liberals
regard .his country with the most favor,
and would be the most inclined to tolerate
American interference in Mexican affairs.
The Times says their position is wrong. for
that the sympatLies of the British people
and British statesmen are with that party
which is most fav orable to the predomiuance
of American influence. The Times has here
tofore asserted that the annexation of Mexi-
co to this confederacy would be an event