Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-18
HOwA NEWS.

lege is in prosperous condition. On
hundred and sixty students are in atten
dance.
DEATH FROM TIE KICK OF CoLT--Ml
Kisinger, residing near Bellevue, Jackso
county, was kicked by a colt so severely
on the 30Ih ult., that he died the aext day
SQuIEE AYERS, member of the last con
stitutional Convention of this State, die
very suddenly at his residence in Van Bu
rem county on the 31st ult.
Tho ice dealers of Keokuk are obige
to obtain their supplies of ice from the Des
moines river, at point thirty mills distan
from that place. The Mississippi has nc
frozen over at keokuk this winter.
ANOTHER BRIDGE OVER THE MISSISSIPPI
We learn from the Dubuque Times that O.
the Sth inst. the Illinois Central Railroad
Co. commenced getting out the stono t.
build bridge over the river at that place
KEoKUK CoUNrY.-The Burlington Hawk
eye says: "The people of Keokuk count,
are about petitioning for change of tn
name of the county. They say that the,
are unwilling to bear the odium that attach
es to the name since the reputation of hon
est debts by the famous city"
For PlKE's PEAK-The Iowa City Re
publican says party of three young mel
from Chicago passed through that place ,
few days since, en- r, ute for the gold regions
and also that MIR. b. Sopris, of Michigan
City, acting in behalf of the Indiana arc
Illinois Pixies Peak Mining Company, is ex
pected there soon with two companies fol
the same destination, one of twenty-five
men, and the other of from seventy. five to
one hundred. The railroad from Chicago
to Iowa City says the Republican, has agreed
to reduce the fare two dollars per man to1
these two companies, and the Western Stage
Company have agreed to take them from
Iowa City to Council Bluffs at a reduction
of three dollars per man. The same paper
says a company of six from Dixon, III
passed through that city, "armed and equip
ed'' for the mines, day or two SINCE
The Republican says fifty residents of Iowa
City intend starting for Pixies Peak during
the spring.
BURLINGToN.-At the municipal election
on the 7th inst, W. w. White was chosen
Mayor by 1927 majority over II. II. Shaw
in total vote of 1929. L. Luescher was
elected Treasurer, d. J. Sales Recorder, and
NJ. II. Winten Marshal.
ALLAMAKEE CouNTY.-The people of Ian
sing are moving with q view to the removal
of the county seat of Allamakee from Wau-
kon to Lansing. A meeting of the citizens
of Lansing was held short time since, and
resolutions passed in favor of pressing the
matter at the ''next April election''-as the
papers have it, though according to our
understanding Of the new constitution, we
are to have no more general elections in
April in Iowa.
FROZEN TO DEArlr.-A correspondent Of
the Chicago Press, writing from Tooles-
bourouh, Louisa county, under date Of the
Goth ult., speaks of an old Irish women,
apparently about fifty years of age, who
was fonnd dead in that vicinity. She came
into the neighborhool but a short time be-
fore. She seemed to be deranged, and talk
ed frequently of friends living at Dubuque
or Galena.
CuRIoUs.-Mr. Stewart, in digging well
at Burlington, found piece of pine about
two and a half feet long and six inches in
diameter, imbedded in the earth some fifty
feet below the surface. 1t was apparently
broken from the top Of a tree, and was in a
perfect state of preservation.
DUBUQUE WESTERN r. R.-A rumor is
afoat in Dubuque to the effect that the
whole of the D. ". r. r. was mortgaged
before one dollar had been expended in its
construction. A special committe, appoin-
ted by the Dubuque City Council are inves-
tigating the affairs of the company.
SNAKE IN HoRsE's EYF.-A correspon-
dent of the Dubuque Herald, writing from
Cascade under date of the 5th inst, speaks
of horse at that place with live snake in
his eye. The snake was about three inches
in length, and of the thickness of a common
sewing needle. 1t seemed to be in the fluid
beneath the surface of the eye-ball, and
kept continually in motion. 1t was rapid
in its movements, and hail all the action and
motion of serpent. The sight of the eye
was totally destroyed, and the surface cover
ed with a thin white scum, bu. the snake
was visible when the eye was clear. Phe-
nonena of this nature have been observed
before, but they are rare.
OFFICIAL SCor NDRELIsM in DUBUQUE. -
The people of Dubuque, says the Burling gton
Hawkeye, are at last beginning to believe
that they lave "sharpers'' among their
Democratic Office holders anil place men. -
1t appears that O'Brian, the Democrat,
county Treasurer, is defaulter to the
amount of $l0S,694 l3! Whether they will
turn him out of office after this exp sure, or
keep him in as they did Snizer at ST. Louis,
is what We cannot judge of, as they have .
way f their own to do things in. that in
tensely democratic city. They recently
sent Mr.. Hull to New York to negotiate
some Dubuque bonds, giving him to start
with $500 to pay expenses. lie sold the
bonds at some 80 or 80 cents on the dollar,
reported he had sold them at 50, and very
composedly pucketed the difference himself,
some SS,U00-a trihe that is worth looking
-
in Dubuque.
WRIGHT COUNTY WuU Lake, More than
a year ago we published an account of Wall
Lake, in Wright county. The mys' ery of that
wall is thought to be explaine in the fol-
lowing article, clipped from the Hamilton
Freeman. The lake is only twelve miles
from Webs,e: City:
"rhe ice in many of the Western Lake
possesses the power of expanding, which is
singular, and which we never noticed before.
1t keeps continually crowding shorew ard,
AID the ice is forced ont Of the lakes and
up the slightly inclined banks frequently to
the distance OF twenty or thirty feet. III:
water near the shore being shallow. rocks
and masses OF earth are frozen to the ice
and crowded up with it. The ice melting.
leaves this deposit, and thus is formel the
famous wall. We observed this manner OF
formation on our recent visit, and conversed
with several old settlers who have observed