Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-11
IOWA NEWS.

who is charged with robbing the post otic
at Glenwood, Mills county, of larg
amount of money, has been arrested and il
now awaiting trial. ..- ....... 81. ..,s a.
DIooEsE of IowA.-Within the past thre
years, since the consecration of Bishop Lee
the Episcopal Caurch in Iowa, has increased
about three. fold in the number of parishe
and the clergy. A church was organized a
Sioux City recently, with Melancthon Hoy
as minister. H.."A m
PorrAwArroMlE Co.-The Council Bluff
Bugle says it is rumored that the Count.
Judge of Pottawattomie county will not issu
the bonds voted to the NJ. n NJ. r. R. Co
until authorized so to do by another vot
of the people. The proposition of the COM
pany is, to take the bonds and bind itself tt
ouild thirty miles of road in that county
within thirty months from the date ofissue.
The Pixies Peak fever is destined te
carry off u portion of the population of ou1
cities and villages. In almost every towr
in the State companies are making prepa,
rations to visit the new gold region. 1t is
our honest belief (says the Dubuque Herald,
that these gold hunters will be sadly disap-
pointed, and many poor fellow sicken and
die on the desolate prairies, or among the
mountain wilds, far from the help and sooth
ing sympathy of kind friends. To rush to
the Pixies Peak region, under the present
information from that place, in the hope of
realizing fortune by digging gold, is little
short of sh er folly Or madness.
SpIRIrUAL1sM.-Miss NJ. +. Iulett, "the
celebrated speaking medium" as she is
styled in the bills, has returned to Daven-
port, and commenced series of lectures.
The ladies of Davenport are making
arrangements to give a grand fancy dress
party, on the 18th inst. the proceed of
which are to be given to the Mt Vernon
Fund
They have formed Battalion among
the military at I,waCity. Watson Crouch
er was elected Major. 1t is the I'd Battal-
ion of the lst Regiment of Iowa State Mi
ltia-the lst belonging to Burlington.
AN EXCELLENT THINa.-The docket for
the next setting of the District Court at Du-
buque is printed in pamphlet form, as is
customary in Eastern Courts. This will
save an immense amount Of writing, and
will facilitate matters In other respects,
considerably.
FIRE.--The barn of VIM. Aston, one mile
from Fairfield, was bnrned on the evening
OF the 3lst ult. Fourteen horses and six
COWS pershed IN the flames. A lot of grain,
hay and farming utensils was also destroyed.
Loss 81 600. The fire is supposed to have
originated from the sparks of passing
locomotive.
The Boyer Valley Railroad Convention
assembled at Magnolia on the 10Th ult.,
and adopted articles OF incorporation for
the "Council Bluffs, Boyer Valley, and
Minnesota Railroad Company" The route
of the road they propose to construct is
that will connect with road running to
St. Paul The officers of the Company are
]. W. Dennison, President II. Oimstead,
Secretary; N. Harris, Treasurer.
The Sheriff of Clinton county has offer
ed a reward of 5000 for the apprehension
and delivery of three individuals who broke
Jail in De Witt something over week since.
The following is their description Thomas
O'Brian, an Irishnan, charged with murder,
five feet 2 inches high, black hair and
dark whiskers, fair complexion, high cheek
bones, and large mouth. Charles Daruche,
a Frenchman, five feet ID inches high,
dark complexion, dark hair; aged % years.
James Robertson, a Scotchman, FIVE feet
10 2 inches high, light hair and fair COM
plexion, aged q years.
1t is rumored from New York that the
creditors of the city of Keekuk are disposed
to accept the proposition offered by the city
authorities, viz: forty cents on the dollar
in new bonds, drawing six per cent. interest
instead of eight and ten per cent, as at pres.
ent, and sixty cents on the dollar in stocks
in two railroad companies that are doubt
fully solvent. The creditors think that the
acceptance of such proposition, even from
city that is bankrupt by public confession,
is better than to prosecute suit at law to
compel it to levy tax sufficient to pay the
interest on its debt.
Mr.. E. w. Eastman, formerly of Ma.
haska county, now of Hardin, has written a
letter to the Desmoines Citizen stating that
he has left the Democratic party and enlist
ed in the ranks of the Republicans, in con-
sequence of a difference of opinion between
himself and President Buchanan.
ORIGIN OF LHE PRAlRIEs.-Halps forth
coming Geology of Iowa" gives the opinion
that the prairies were once covered with
timber, which has been destroyed by fire
which the Indians have been in the habit of
setting in the dry grass. Other scientific
men who have paid attention to this SUBJ
ject think the prairies were once the bed
of an extensive body of water:
SHOCKING AFFAIR IN JASPER COUNTY
The Newton Free Press of the 3rd inst.
gives an account of the most barbarous mur-
der and horrible suicide ever committed in this
State On the morning of the 1st inst the
dead bolies OF man named Harvey Cope
land and his wife Lucinda were found in a
barn on the farm of L. D. Sims, five miles
west of Newton-:he woman having from all
appearances been murdered by her husband.
who subsequently, committed suicide by
hanging himself with strap. he body
of the woman had been dissected. The
head was entirely cut off and the legs
b,d also he N cavarad OF tho Epaao A