Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-03
HOW 4 NEWS.


ocrat, and has been succeeded by Messrs.
Alexander Il Van Metre.
The Jasper Free Press of tho Goth says,
VIM. S. Cannon, a young man of about 25
years of age, who resided at Monroe. in this
county, was drowned last Saturday, in
South Skunk river a short distance below
the mouth of Cherry Cfek, about Elk miles
from Newton. lie was engaged in fishing
in company with a large number Of others,
and becoming entangled in the net he sank
into the stream, and was drowned before
any efforts could be made to rescue him
Ills lfeless body was taken out short time
afterwards. lie leaves young wife and a
large circle If friends to ulcurn his unit mely
death,
AT the late fire in Dubuqne the loss in
Cured is v&rionsly estimated Mt from $780,,
600 to $l25,O00
The De>m zines Journ u says: We hear
that Frank Reno. of IT. d, dye, was shot
by the Indians while on the way to Pike's
Peak. Mr.. Reno was Scrgeant-:t-A AIMS of
the last Iowa House # Representatives.
The delegates to the Democratic State
Cor vcntion, from Pottawottamie, 60 in
structe,l to vote for Col. l.. W. Bab5i,t, for
{ Lieutenant Governor, and Capt W. -.
Price for one Of the Supreme Judges.
j. ]. Dunbar, of Keokuk county, has
been convicted of larceny and sentenced to
tho Penitentiary for six months. The Sig
Quincy Democrat says he is the first States
prison convict ever sent from kenkuk coun
ty tor crime committed in it.
CENSUS OF IowA.-Accor,ling to the cen
) sus returns of the number of ishabitants in
Iowa from sixteen counties, the total increase
since the last census is 1923. This rate
of increase, if maintained all over the State,
it is said, will give population of 700, 900,
and that at the present rate of apportion-
mcnt, it would entitle Iowa to seven men,
, bers of Congress.
The Davenport Gazette of the 25th re-
PORTS that the insurance agents of that city
are discussing the subject Of cancellng all
insurance policies till the streets are Zig hted
) with gas and police force established. A
brute of man who takes it into his head to
"thrash'' his wife, is charged only one dol
lar and fifty cents for the operation, by one
of the Justices OF tho enlightened city Of
; Davenport.
Last Sunday week, when company Of
emgrants were sitting in their covered wag-
on listening to one Of their number who
was playing the fiddle, one of their horses
which was tied to the hind wheel of the
wagon, was struck dead by lightning. I'M
, mediately upon this, says the Bugle, the
; fiddler stopped his profane fildling, and the
entire company commenced praying most
; tervently ard devoutly to the "Rnler of the
Heavens and the Earth,"t to check his wrath
and harm them no more.
The Republican delegates of Clinton
: county are instructed to cast their vote in
i the State cor vention for Jos. II. Flint for
, Lieut.. Governor.
: The number Of prisoners in the State
Pententiary is now lG0, a large increase in
the last two or three mon tbs. 1t isgettng
to be popular re sort.
) The total valuation Of Linn county lacks
less than hundred thousand of being four
millions dolars:-that of Mills county, some
where in the neighborhooG of S272,OOo.
J The citizens CT Cedar Ra pids and other
l parts of Linn county, are going to celebrate
4 the completion of the Chicago, Iowa and
> Nebraska r. R., on or about the 10Th of
3 this month.
The Columbus City Enterprise informs
its readers that good improved farms can be
had In Louisa county at $l5 to $50 per acre;
rnimproyed land, Sc to SIS. Prices never
lower. Larger crops than ever before put in.
j. II. Turner has ''retircd in disgust"
from the Bedford Southwest, having sold
|, out to G.. A. Moser.. He thinks it don't pay
to work eighteen or twenty hours day, and
get all "kicks" and no "coppers" for his
trouble The same paper says that the FIRE.
mont Herald has been removed from Sidney
to C!arinda, county seat Of Page. also
learns from Judge IIagan that there are
, nearly $4,000 in the county treasury of
, Ringold.
FIRE AT MAoUoKErA.-A fire occurred at
Alaquoketa on the Goth, destroying the
> barn of Mr.. Livcrmore, the Baptist Church
and the residence of Mr.. Stewart. Scarcely
} anything was saved from the church. The
Sabbath School Library was destroyed
Mr.. Stewart saved only portion Of his
; goods. The Sentinel says:
s'The barn contained mr. valuable horses
and colt, belonging to Mr.. Livermore.-
One of the horses was full blooded Morgan,
valued by the owner at about a thousand
dollars. None of them " re saved, the fire
having made too much progress at the time
Of its discovery. Mr.. l. vermore's loss is
estimated by him at about 81 1000, upon
which he has only $1,000 insurance; Mr..
Stewards loss is about $500, upon which
he has $500 insurance.
The evening previous to the fire, some
little boys had built small bonfire, within
a few yards Of the arm, and alth ough water
was poured upon it, and it was supposed
extinguished, yet we have no doubt bu. that
some of it still remained and that it caugh
upon the loose straw scattered around, and
gradually crept up to the building, when,
of course, being filed with hay and straw,
it went like a flash.
= RI Rev. Archbishop John Hughes is
stopping in Dubuque. We regret to learn
tbof liSfiprus. had
be able to give The citizens at large an oppor-
tucity of hearing him preach. We leare
that his refusal is owing to ill-health. His
stay will only be a day or so.-Dubuque
Herald.