Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-29
IOWA NEWS.

IOWA NEWS.
The Davenport Democrat contains sew
en- columns Of trust and Sherif's sales.
- Mr.. Knox, of the Indianola Visitor, has
gone to Pixies Peak, and his paper has
been suspended.
A Methodist College that will cost $780,
OOo is to be built at Sargent's Bluffs, Wood.
bury county.
We learn from the Marshall Times
that two men at Albion ate sixty and half
eggs the other day, on wager. Each had
eaten thirty, when one of them ordered a
dozen more cooked, and his competitor
caved. ... s..-..
"A fire broke out in the flooring mill of
Simmons & Knost, at Cincinnati, on the
2lst The flooring mill was entirely de
s.royed, as also q large lot of dressed lum-
Der. Insured for 5000. Several adjoining
buildings were damaged.
FoER1GN. We have further particulars of
the Arabia's news. On the 9Th, in the Brit
ish Parliament, DIsraeli stated that it was
his intention to pay off G2,OOO,OO0 of
exchequer bills falling due in May, and he
did not contemplate there there would be
any necessity of borrowing for that purpose.
On the Sth, Lord Malmsbury said he hoped
to make statement, before the prorogation
which would show that the government had
done all it could to preserve the peace OF
Europe. Piedmont manifests no intention
of disarming, while Austria insists upon the
step as 4 preliminary condition to the Con
gress. The feeling that war is inevitable
prevails at the French foreign offices, and is
shared by some of the highest functio naries
j. II. Green, the reformed gambler, who
liveS in Wapello county. this State, is super
intending the painting of q Panorama of the
many exciting scenes occurring during his
life as a gambler. So says the Burlington
Hawheye.
The Keokuk Post notices feline curl
osity at a drug store in that city. 1t is q
kitten, or rather two kittens, with two bod.
les complete, and only one head, the bodies
being united at the head. 1t has eight legs,
and two tails.
BUTLER COUNTY. The county-seat o.
Butler county at the recent election was
removed from Clarksvile to Butler Center
by majority of s.. The publication of
the Butler county Transcript has been sus-
pended.
The Supreme Court, which has been in
session some three weeks at Davenport, ad.
journed on Saturday last. A great many
cases have been disposed of this term. The
next term of this Court will be held at Des.
moines in June.
The Davenport Democrat says it has
received letter saying that three residents
of Camanche, alleged to have been hung in
Texas for col!usion with horse thieves, are
residing there yet. This looks as though
they were nothung, and that the rumor to the
contrary was slightly incn-----
opIRT LAKE.-The Fort Dodge Sentinel
OF the 10th, mentions the arrival IN town OF
D. O.. Fiech, Esq, from Spirit Lake, en-
route for his home at Desmoines. He re.
ports no Indians at the Lake, but says there
have been five Indians, two squaws and a
pappoose on the Sioux, but that they left
when ordered off by Capt. Martin.
CEDAR ooUNTY.-We learn from the Tip
ton Adoertiser that the new and elegant
Court House at that place is nearly compile
ted. 1t will cost when finished about $4O,-
600. Its dimensions are 40 by 60 feet, three
stories high. The first story is built of
stone, and the second and third of brick, with
stone corners. The Adcertiser says the tax
es are as light in that county as in any 9TH
er in the State.