Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01
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Total saving per annun $4,000
The Lyons Mirror is very sanguine that
a Railroad bridge across the Mississippi will
soon be completed at that place.
KEoKUK.-The Keokuk Democracy have
renominated II. W. Sample for Mayor: r.
II. Magrauder for Recorder, and John Fan
ming for Marshal. VIM. Leighton is the
opposition candidate for Mayor.
The superstructure of tie railroad
bridge over the Mississippi at Clinton is to
be that known as the McCallum Patent In~
flexible Arch Truss. The spans are to be
seven in number, each 200 feet.
The Maquoketa Sentinel thinks that
the Maquoketa river can be made navigable
at very slight expense, and suggests the
purchase of a small steamer drawing fife en-
inches, and carrying twenty-five or thirty
tons, for the navigation of that stream from
its mouth to the forks, distance of about
thirty-tive miles
The Right Rev. Bishop Lee, of Daven-
port, has received authentic intelligence
from brother clergyman at Fl. Laramie,
that the Pixies Peak gold excitement is all
transparent humbug. There are fine par
ticles of gold found in the earth throughout
a great extent of country, but not in guam
titles to pay for digging it.
The Mayor of Cedar Falls advertises
for printer two start an independent
newspaper at that place. .
A FLOOD. Sioux City has been visited
by an unprecedented freshet, which swept
away all the bridges in the neighborhood -
The flood came out of the Floyd river,
which runs through one corner of the town,
the greater part of which was overlooked.
The water was two feet deep in the main
hotel of the place.
Elk IN HARNESS. Iowa City Report
err notices a fine pair of elk which appear
ed in harness in the streets of that place last
week. They were brought from Kansas
when quite young, and were tanned and
broken in johnson county, until they have
every appearance of thorough docility.-
The price asked for the team is $500.
Iowa ClTY.-The municipal election in
Iowa City takes place next Monday, April
4th. The Democrats have nominated Dr..
Morsman for Mayor, Benjamin King for
Treasurer, NJ. j. Talbot for Recorder, P.
J. Kelley for Marshal and L. S. Swatford
tor As essor. The Republicans have nom
mated Col. Porter for Mayor, J. W. Sterling
for Treasurer, J. T. Elliott for Recorder,
w. G. Hickma for Marshal and Jacob
Ricord for Assessor.
A PREACHER ARRESTED FOR COUNTERFEIT
Melt is stated in several papers that Rev.
W. Watson, Pastor Of the NJ E. Church at
Glenwood, Mills county, was arrested some
days ago for counterfeiting. The arrest
was made while he was delivering a funeral
discourse. In the cellar of the Rev. gen.
tleman were found necessary apparatus for
the manufacture of counterfeit money and
$1,000 already printed, signed and ready
for circulation.
The body of the i'll fated Roane, whose
tragical murder of Mr.. Halves, and subse-
quent suicide Of himself, in fit of mental
alteration, is still fresh in the memory OF
our readers, has been removed to Virginia
from Brooklyn, Poweshiek county, where
the affair occurred. His body is to be
placed by the side Of wife and son, near
Richmond, to whom in life as well as to all
his numerous friends, he was most tenderly
endeared. The Virginia papers speak in
the highest terms of him as man of manv
virtues, more than ordinary ability, and of
high standing in the army. He left
daughter some sixteen years old, the only
surviving member of his family. Mai. Nor
ris, commaadant at Fl. Kearney, writes a
letter to citizen of Brooklyn, in which he
states that he thinks it is mistake that
Roane's death was caused by the inte:n o err
ate use of ardent spirits. He had disease
which was known to but few of his friends.
called sazena," which has tendency to
produce arrangement of the mind.