Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-05-13
IOWA NEWS.

boat Rock, recently, while attempting t.
cross the river
ECCLESIASTICAL BoDIEs.-The Episcopa
Con vention of Iowa meets in Davenport
May 25th. The Congregational Genera
Association me cts in Muscatine, June 9th
The Isrdelite, a Jewish periodical il
Cincinnati, in an abusive manner takes ou1
Gov. Lowe severely to task, for having, ii
his recent fast-day proclamation, called low.
a Christian community.
The crew of row boat at Keokuk, which
carries five men, challenge any boat club OF
the Upper Mississippi, to run race for $lOC
to $20O-time, place and distance to suit any
party accepting the challenge.
CowHIDlNa AFFAIR IN LyoNs.-Judge Lef.
ingwell gave storekeeper in Lyons, well
deserved and well-laid on cowhiding las,
week. The man had been circulating sian.
derous reports about him. So says the Dav.
export Neus.
HAIL SToRM.--The Keokuk papers SPEAK
of terrific hail storm at that place on the
Sd inst. The hail came down in sheets
and soon made the ground white piling up
in drifts and rolling along. the street in q
stream.
IaNoRANr.-It is related on the authority
of the Cedar Rapids Times that there is a
man in Dubuque, as years old, who never
took paper. He is Of course way behind
his age, and says that if Santa Anna persists
in his struggle with Russia, he will be snre
to lose all the territory of the Phosporu.
and be excluded from the nsvig .tion of the
sea of Amazon.
MORMON EMIaRANrs.-A company Of be.
tween 5000 and 1000 Mormon emigrants
are expected hero about the first of mex,
month, on their way to Utah. They will
purchase their wagons in Chicago, but the
of their outfit, provisions, &C.,
they procure in Iowa City, from which place
they take their final departure for the trip
across the plains. The company are mostly
English, Welsh and Danes.
BANK BRoKEN OpEN.-The Bank of J.
Dickey & Son, at Pennington, was bro
ken open on Sunday evening last, and robbed
of currency, drafts and notes, ETC., to the
amount of bout S., 900. Tools taken from
a blacksmith's shop were employed to force
an entrance, and the safe was blown open
with powder. The villains made clean work,
taking every thing Of value in the bank,
together with some untitled and useless pa
per.
AN Iowa AUrHoR.--We have it upon the
authority of the Marion Register that the au .
thor of the humorous serial now publishing in
the s'Great Republic Monthly" and entitled
"Seven years in ye Western Lande," is a
store keeper in one Of tho little towns in
Linn county.
Rock ISLAND BRIDeE.-The commission
from the War Department, to examine the
Rock Island Railroad Bridge, completed
their labors some days ago, and will make
their report in about two weeks, The Dav-
export NeOs says their investigation dem
onstrated that the current above the bridge
is miles an hour; in draw ST miles !;
at ferry q miles; in some places through
the bridge 81 miles. A block thrown on
the Illinois side of the point OF the long pier
5 feet below the point, will 60 up around
the point and through the Iowa side of the
draw.
AT the recent term of the District
Court of Madison county, says the Aadiso-
nian, a hog case was decided which had
been in controversy some two or three
years. Some two or three years ego stray
hog came to defendants house; plaintiff
came and claimed it, but defendant would
not give it up till plain tiff proved it was his
From this the suit originated
The value of the hog was three dollars, but
the expenses incurred in the case from its
up to the late decision,
to over three hundred dozlars.-
This is pretty good comment on the folly
of going to law to obtain satisfaction.
DROWNED. "A women and child were
drowned while attempting to cross a Rail-
road bridge in Jefferson county, on the 9th
ult. The woman, whose name was Mrs.
Good, slipped of the bridge and carried the
child with her.
Aoo1DENr.-Mr. Benjamin Keller, living
near Oskaloosa, was severely crushed, on
the 9th ult., by saw log falling on him
from a wagon. He was hauling the log
without fastening it, and when he came to
a siding bill i, rolled off upon him. He
died three days afterwards.
The Floyd County lntezligenes1, of the
2sth ult., states that the lettings of contracts
for grading the Cedar Falls and Minnesota
Railroad have been postponed from April
9th to May 25th, 1859. The postponement
is caused by the loss of estimates, pro6les,
&C., in the possession Of the engineer, while
attempting to cross Rock Greek, in Floyd
county, during the recent freshet.
JONES couNrY.-The District Court com.
menced its session on the I'd inst, with a
docket of about three hundred cases. Ed.
ward Penderghast was convicted of man.
slaughter for killing man named Keneilly
sometime ago. His sentence had not been
announced at last accounts. The Anamosa
Eureka speaks in high terms of the presi
ding Judge, W. E. Miller.-Charles Ernest
Crockwell, youngest son of G. L. D. Crock
we'll of ADamosa, was almost instantly killed
on the Doth ult., by being accidentally shot
through the head with gun in the hands
of comrade named Chas. Byam. The
parties were in boat at the time, and see
ing musk rat in front of them, the de-
ceased, who was sitting in the bow of tht
boat, stopped down in order that his brother
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