Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-01-28
IOWA NEWS.

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IOWA NEWS.
Iowa Co.-The Marengo Tis;tes spuff." ,
bunch Of cigars manusatured from tobacco
raised ia that county. The editor says the }
are equal to any 6ve-sens IIavanas he eve,
smoked The bridge over the Iowa river Al
Marengo is nearly completed.
The city Of Keokuk has iSsue . oircu.
lar to its creditors, in which it states its in
ability to pay the in'srst upon the debt.
The debt amounts to 81, $50, ,Oo0, Of which
$4,000 was issued to various railroads
It's assets amount 70 $3.50 o which $3.50
900 10 railroad stock. and $l75, 600 unpaid
taxos Of 1857 and 1858. Tie Aay.r says
that the citizens are utterly unable 10 Day
the interest on this debt, but are willing to
pay on $780, 900 with sinking fund for the
extinction of this amount.
8 cents per busl,el delivered, or 8 cent. At
the mines. When the n. & N. r. Il. is
extended to that place, Muscatine will af-
ford . market tor the yield Of the rich, coal
mines Of Mahaska county.
"A new dodge is ''oome" by one Doug
las. the proprietor ola bowling saloon in
Keokuk, who offers for the best game Of ten
pins played in his establishment, during the.
month of January, a prize Of zone fine old
painting, valued at S."
SORGHUM CoNvKNrIoN.-The Waverly Re-
publican says that convention Of AgricuI
tural Societies, and Of all persons who are
interested in the planting and cultivating of
Chinese sugar cane and the manufacture of
sugar and molassss thsrefrom, is called by
order Of the Bremen County Agricultural
Society, to meet at Wsverly on the third day
of March, and to continue As long as it may
be interesting. There will be a general discus
sion of the best method of planting, cultiva-
ting and manufacturing sugar and molasses,
and for free interchange Of views Of this
important branch Of Agriculture. Speci-
mems of syrup and sugar of last seasons crop,
with mode of manufacture, are called Tor.
jefferson county voted 100000 bonds
to the B. & II. Railroad. Under conditions
the company received $40, 900 Of them, and
the authorities ow refuse to hand over the
balance, claiming forfeiture of contract. The
courts are now called on to decide.
Found GuILrY.-The famous Boyd Will
kinson trial (the lynchng affair) has occu-
pied the attention of the Court at Iowa City
during the last week or two. Shelliday, one
of the implicated, and whs was the first Of
the defendants TO take his separate trial, has
been found guilty Of murder in the second
degree. Hehas not yet been sentenced Notice
has been given for an appeal to the Supreme
Court. Capt. Irish, who was one of the most
prominent in the affair, has secured a change
of venue to Scott county.
FROZEN TO DEA7H.-We learn from the
Davenport Gazette that n man named john
son was frosen to death, on his way home
from that city, on Friday evening last. Be-
tween and O'Clock, his horse arrived at
home without the rider, and several friends
at once started out in search of the man.
About two miles from his homo his body
was found lying in the road, frosen stiff
He had evidently fallen on his face, as it
was somewhat bruised, and was probably
nearly dead with cold when he fell. The
night was intensely cold, with fierce wind
blowing. lie was sober m IN, and lived
with Robt. AlstOn, in Hickory Grove town
ship, Scott county, by whom he had been
employed for the last two years. He was
an unmarried man.
DISTRICT CouRr.-The January session of
the District Court, Hon. J. F. Dillon Judge,
will commence to-day. The docket is very
large, but from what we have heard of Judge
Dillon's manner of pushing things ahead,
as exhibited in the Muscatine Court. he will
have it light or entirely swept away at the
close of the session.-Dac. Gasette, Oath
A RACE BETWEEN SrArRs-In 1885 two
young States were admitted into the constella-
ton of the Union. Michigan, with onc-half
the extent of territory of Arkansas, challenged
her sister State for twenty years race, and
named as her rider-"Ncither slavery nor in
voluntary servitude, unless for the punishment
of crime, shall ever be tolerated in this State"
Arkansas accepted the challenge, and named
as her rider-"The General Assembly shall
have no power to pass laws for the emancipa-
ton of slaves without the consent of the own
SIS" Thus mounted, these two States, the
one free ana ;.,,:e other slave started together
twenty years ago; anu now. having arrived
at the end of t. c proposed race let us review
and mark the progress of each. Michigan
comes out in 1856 with three times the pop |
ulation of slave Arkansas, with five times the
assessed value of farms, farming implements
and machinery, and with eight times the
number Of public schools.
PROPOSITION TO BUILD A RAILROAD TO SALT
LAkE-The Washington correspondent of
the New York Courier says that Mr. Lander
proposes to build railroad from Pacific City,
on the Missouri, at the mouth of Platte river,
to Salt Lake City, for 81, 900 per mile, pro-
vided that he is allowed to import his Iails
without duty, and be assigned one section of
land for each ten miles of the route, or, paying
the duties on the rails, he offers to do the
same work for $4,000 per mile, with the
same allowance of land The distance is 100
miles. At the first rate, the total cost would
abe five million five hundred thousand dollars;
lat the second, eleven million dollars
NEXT ANNUAL FA1R.-A resolution passed
the United States Agricultural Society, in
session at Washington, to hold its next
National Agricultural Fair in the Northwest,
providing pecuniary inducements are offered.
1The leading competitors are Chicago, Indian
.apolis, Peoria, St. Louis, Pittsburg and Gin
:cinnati. s7
-a#Ths Israeltes of New York have
received letter from President Buchanan,
under date of Jan. 4th, in relation to the
Mortara case. He says that he has ''long
Ebeen convinced that it is neither the right nor
tho duty of this government to exercise q
moral censorship over the conduct of other