Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-17
IOWA MEMS.

| IOWA NEWS.
Gen. Dodge is expected to be in Iowa
about the Goth inst.
The farmers OF Washington county, we
learn from the Press, are suffering from the
depredations Of horse thieves, who are run.
ming off their best horses.
-Desmoines county has 20,781 inhabi-
tants, Of which ll,0Gl are males, 1920
females. Number Of voters 1919. Un-
naturalized foreigners, 1872. Blind 4; deaf
and dumb, 3; insane 9; idiots, 2. Acres
Of improved land, oo,224 Of unimproved,
S3,645.
KILLED BY LlGurN1Na.-A gentleman di.
rect from Wapello, Louisa county, informs
us that during the thunder storm Of Sum
day night last little child in that place
was struck by lightning and killed. But a
small portion of this storm visited us, but
the flashes of lightning were unusually viy d
and startling.
BRurAL.-The Maquoketa Sentinel says
that some tin since difficulty occurred
between Mr.. Lislc and Mr.. Mayo, # Brdg-
port, regarding stove. Lis!e truck Mayo.
and Mrs. Mayo stepped out of the house to
see what the trouble was, when the brute,
Li>le, ran up to her aud struck her up the
back of the neck, with a huge club, knock
ing her senseless. Isle was arraigned on a
charge of assault and battery, aud fined $25
and costs.
Tho partizans of s'Rev. Dr." Haskell,
notorious some years since rs the Fakir OF
silva, now in pastoral charge of congrega
ton in Mount Pleasant, have adopted a Sc
ries of resolutions declaring their conviction
that whatever his lite may formerly have
been, since his conversion some three wears
ago, his conduct has been entirely unexcep,
tionable, and rs he makes no concealment
of his disreputsble antecedents, he cannot
be Justly regarded as an impostor.
OUAKERs IN IowA.-The Marshall county
Express say that the society Of Friends have
been holding quarterly meeting at Bangor
in that county, and that ''the meeting was
held in the large new church ediice built by
that denomination !" This is an element of
christian goodness that we should like to see
more generally diffused in our State; we
mean the Friends, a religious body that in
their daily depor meht and real piety are a
model among all denominations.
The Hamilton Freeman says: "The
Recorder and Treasurer and District Clerk
of Woodbury. county, caution the public
against purchasing any warrants on Wood
bury county that have been Issued by John
L. Campbell for the purpose of buying a
building known as the "Cassady Brick
Block" in Sioux City, Iowa, for county
court house, or any bonds whatever OF
Woodbury. county. Said warrants and
bonds are said to be illegal, and will never
be paid by Woodbury. county,
The Supreme Court of the State com
menced its session at Desmoines, last Mon
day.
Judge Woodward has written n letter
to the editor of The Deslnoines Citizen, sta.
ting that he has not declined being candi
date before the convention, for a nomination
to the Supreme Bench.
Rock ISLAND BRIDGE SUITS The suits
against the Rock Island Bridge, pending in
the U. S. District Court now in session at
keokuk, have been postponed until the
September term by mutual consent. The
reason was, neither party had got through
taking dispositions.
FRosr.-The Independence Cioilian of
the 9th, says on Friday night of last week,
the frost was more or less severe all through
Buchanan county, in some places the water
freezing to the thickness OF the sixteenth OF
an inch, and killing down the corn and po-
tatoes. There was considerable damage
done, but still there is time for crcps if the
remainder of the season prove favorable.
DUBuouE.-The Dubuque Sun of the 9th
says that the excavations preparatory to
laying the foundation of the walls of the
day morning.-A large number of the Cit
liens of Dubuque, have issued a call fer a
mass meeting, the object of which is to maxi
arrangements for celebrating the coming
Fourth of July in becoming style.
TIProN RAILRoAD-EIEorloN OF Direct
Bs.-The stockholders of the Upton Rail-
road elected their Board of Directors OF the
Sth inst. The following gentlemen were
elected, to-wit: S. J. Crew, Henry Ri-a-t,
j. X. Snyder, Geo. Schumacher, A. Gilbert,
G. SHETLAND, John Cu'bertson, VIM Ii. Tut
hill, J. Ii. Starr, S. S. Daniels. II. G. Cue,
P. Fleming, G. W. Kiser, MIR. Pawling, j..
II. Birely, William Gilmore and W. Ham
mond.
After the election, the Board OF Directors
organized and chose S. j. Crew, President :;
Jos. X. Snyder, Vice-Prs>ident, and Aaron
Gilbert, Secretary and Treasursr.-C Cedar
Democrat.
THE GERMAN PRINcIPLE.-rhe Germans
throughout the country are just fairly arous-
ing themselves to the clear apprehension of
the non-intervcntion policy of the Dcmoc-
racy. No interference with Slavery-let it
spread, let it grow, let it rule. That is Dem
ocratic ground in the United States; but
that, they say, was precisely the ground as
sumcd by the tyrants of Europe in favor Of
dcspotism. No interference with the privi-
leges of the aristocracy-let item alone, no
question Of the right of kings, no agitation for
liberty. These were the doctrines taught in
Europe by the opponents of Democracy, and
the same doctrines are advocated here by
Democrats.
DETECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC COUNTER
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graphic counterfeit bank notes and most oil
the counterfeits in circulation are photographs