St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-05-12
Iowa Items.

AT the last session of the District
Court in Jasper County, VIM. Hartzell
recovered $500 of Henry Remington,
for " SANDER"
The Davenport papers complain that
depredations' on the timber of Rock
Island, which belongs to the United
States Government are being CON-
mitted to a very injurious extent.
Mrs. Bloomer, the champion for mas
cullne apparel for females, recently
lectured in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where
she now resides on Female Educa-
'tion.-Er.
Good ! Female Education is a good
thing for woman to reside on.
Some of the intended Pixies Peak
ers in Allamakcc County, have con-
cluded to stay at home and dig for
gold by raising crops in Iowa. SEN
sible conclusion.
The Marengo Visitor says the citi.
zens of Green township, Iowa County,
have pledged $4,000, to prevent the
payment of the railroad bonds of that
county, and predicts they will have a
dubious time" of it.
The keOkuk Post notices a feline
curiosity at drug store in that city.
1t is kitten, or rather two kittens,
with two bodies complete, and only
one head, the bodies being united at
the head. 1t has eight legs, and two
tails.
The proposition in Marshall County
to appropriate $4,000 of the Swamp
Land Fund for Seminary at Albion,
has been carried by vote of SIS to
being majority of 342 for the
appropriation. So says the Marietta
Express.
The Davenport Democrat says, that
the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad
Company, will run only one passcn-
ger train daily between Davenport
and Iowa City the coming season.
The business of the road will not ad-
nit Of more than one.
PowEsHEIK CouNTy.-The wife of Mr.
Burrcll, who resides near Grinnell,
committed suicide on the 10Th ult.,
by throwing herself headforcmost into
a well. Religious excitement is the
reported cause.
Edward A. Layton, of Fort Madi-
son, has been appointed Warden of
the Iowa Penitentiary, by the Board
of Inspectors, in place of DR.. lnskecp,
whose term expired on the 30th nit.
Rev. John Jay, a member of the
Iowa Conference, died recently while
holding a protracted meeting in his
charge at Kirkville, Wapello county.
The trial of Capt. Irish for the MUIR
der of Boyd Wilkinson, was recently
commenced at Davenport. w. Penn
Clark of Iowa City, and Henry O'Con-
nor of Muscatine conduct the prosecu-
ton.
A tannery is about to be established
in the village of Mason City, Cerro
Gordo county, by I. S. Parker, of that
place.
JEFFERSON County. Dropned. A lit
tie boy fell from the railroad bridge,
near the Cedar river, three miles west
of Fairfield, a few days ago, and was
drowned.
A Methodist College is to be located
at Sargeant's Bluff, the principle edi-
flee to be one hundred and six feet
long by fifty-six feet wide, and to cost
$4,000
HARLAN.-The County seat of Shelby
County has been changed from Shell
byvilie to Harlan. This is new town
peopled by emigrants from Eastern
States. 1t was named after Senator
Harlan.
Quick TRIP.-The Steamer Black
Hawk, on the Cedar River, is making
some splendid time for a stern wheeler.
The last trip from Waterloo was made,
with large load, in little less than
eight hours. The distance by river, &C
cording to measurement, is l07 miles
She, therefore, made 1873 miles per
hour. That we call good time. Times
The Burlington Gazette of the 9Th
inst, says that, almost every day, new
victims to the great Pixies Peak hum
bug pass through that town. The Ga
zettc regrets that men should suffer
themselves to be led off in this way,
when it is SO evident that instead of
a golden harvest they will reap nought
but misery and restitution.
EMIGRANrs-The Dubuque Herald
says that ut least ten per cent. of the
emigration passing through that place,
and supposed generally to be for Pixies
Peak, is for Central Iowa. 1t says