St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-02-17

sick and pay for medicine. NJ: '9'r
Ger. ESQ, of the Cottage House, Is the
attorney of and for the place, and he
pleads its cause better than we could
though he does not claim half OF the
twelve hundred for its population: lie
is a very intelligent man, and snowy
of the courtcsies which are the result
of good breeding. There is one other
hotel here, kept by A. Rice. 1t is
called the Val Nerda House, the span,
ish. we believe, for Green Valley !
Floyd is "a rery literary place. 49,,
We came hithcr this afternoon with
a farmer who resides south Of Floyd,
and who is warm in his praise OF a
woman here who prays in the p%rotract-
ed meeting held by the McthodIsts'
He assured us that she can beat any
ten ministers in the country all boiler
in praying !" "They can't" he adj
ded. "hold a candle to her"
He also Informed us that several
railroad surveys had been made along
the Cedar Valley, and that the rail
readers had surveyed n route right
through his house! He declared that
if thew undertook to run a road there,
they might look out for dead lrishmen
around his door |. We assured him
that it would be too bad to run an en-
CINE through his kitchen and break
all his crockery. He replied that elf
they did do it, he would kick 'em as
they went by !" Perhaps it is need
less to say that the mans breath had
a peculiar odor.
FLOYD COUNTY.
FLOYD County is between seventy
and eighty miles from the Mississippi,
and twenty-five miles from the Min
~ncsota line. 1t has been organized
less than five years, yet has a popula-
ton of between four and five thousand.
1t is we'll watercd and very fertile, and
settlers are coming in fast. Its prln,
cipal streams arc the Cedar, the Little
Cedar, Shellrock, and Lime rivers, and
, Flood Creek and Rock Creek. These
, streams mostly run in a southeast di'
f rcction, and some n of them passes
e through almost every township in the
n county. The water of these streams
v is rapid and clear. Good water power
I is found on most of these streams
e There are two Touring mills and cigh
or ten saw mills in the county.
" Between the two Cedars are severa
ia small and beautiful groves, and ther
=. is heavy timber on all the streams, !
ii is principally oak, walnut, basswooc
of elm, hickory, and ash. We notice
" at st. Charles logs of oak end h'ckor
is more than three feet i'll diameter. /
IS, the forks of the two Cedars are wha
IL are called the Upper Big Woods,
he containing twenty-seven thousan
acres. They are partly in Floyd cou'
id ty and partly in Chickasaw: Bctwec
he st. Charles and the county line strctcl
re ing ENTHUSIASTICALLY Oh the east sid
ne of the Cedar, is another tract of tim
Is Der almost as large as the 'Bl:
"a Woods"
II, On the Shellrock, and botlr of tn
tie Cedars, is an excellent quality of lin
ch stone. Some of it receives a polls
ct like marble. We have seen nothln
'rt of the kind of a finer quality in I'll
Of State. Friend Hildrcth has presente
81. us with a beautiful specimen quarrie
in the village of st. Charles. W
nr- shall preserve it as a memento OF tn
lc- fine things found at the county seat
le, FLOYD. Milo Gilbert, Esq, has u hous
as built of this marble.
ne There are seven election preclnc'
&c and ter post Offices in the county, an
n several Villages aside from st. Charl'
en- and Flovd. Rockford, fourteen mil'
nd from St. Charles, on a plateau at Il
&C. junction of the Shellrock II Ian
& rivers, has three stores, two saw mil
I'll, a lath and shingle mill, a hotel,
m school.house, and about twcnty-h'
dwelling houses.
'ge Marble Rock, is in the South weste'
ION part of the county, upon each side
es, the Shellrock, and contains TWEEN
TT dwelling houses, one hotel, n stol
CHI one steam and N water saw mil,
er, school house, mechanics, nc. Inc
nu- is good water power there as well
M. at Rockford.
net Rock Grove and Nora Springs a
'ph juvenile villages, on the Shellrock
the northwestern part OF the conn'
OK Each has a store, a saw mill, a scii'
ST. house and high expectations.
is At Riverton, Ripley, Flood Cree
Watertown, and Howardvllle, are 81
is mills, stores, school houses and OIL
induces of a village in embryo.
So The officers of Floyd county are
'as- vid Ripley, Judge ; Abner Root, Gle
of the District Court !; Siias Sn.l
tor Treasurer and Recorder ; l.. l.. HUI
or, ley, School Superintendent A:
req Prescott. Surveyor John Blunt, Sh
use if Z. p. Harrington, Coroner.
az The McGregor Railroad is to p;
~ through Floyd county, as well as
Cedar Falls and Minnesota road, a
they will form a junction, nc doubt,
C.. st. Charles. In regard to the
named road we may mention, in
W. connection, that Blackhawk coui
az has more than provided for its grad
and tieing in that county, by PRIV
af subscriptions. Floyd county has
.ho ted a loan Of sixty thousand dolla
:" taking railroad stock and issues
bonds at ten per cent interest, runnj
ten years. Private subscriptions b;
a"d also been made by some of the b
men of the county to do vari'
amounts Of grading, which amour
' fn, in the aggregate, will grade eigl
io' miles of the road. This, with
= w. loan, it is thought, will grade aud
., the road through Floyd county.
arrh Mitchell county has voted to t
exes fifty thousand dollars Of stock,
,n az issue her bonds the same as FL
.oual county. Various amounts OF W
are also pledged to be done for sto
alsoa subscription of twenty thous
III dollars in cash, and a land subsc
qeith non OF twenty tionsaio liote-'h
ne of enough. prooapiy, 10 SIaue anu