The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-05
EPITOMIZED STATE ITEMS.

EPlIOM STATE ITEMS.
cVAt latest dates wheat was selling in
Iowa City at y and 70 cents per bushel.
~Oct. 9th, wheat was selling in Du-
buque, at from IS to GO cents per bushel.
GEM. Pleasant, Henry County, is the
banner Republican precinct of the State.
1t gave Kirkwood majority Of 1873 votes.
rTCol. L. II. Richard, of Dubuque, has
been appointed United States Commissioner
in and for this State.
c. According to the last cansus, just
completed, there are in Iowa, % colleges
and universities; the number of pupils at
tending the same, 2,lSS.
cyMr. RoBB's majority for Representa-
tive in the Legislature from the Goth Dis
trict Woodbury. County ct. al.) is twenty
one.
CO The Dubuque Times understands
that hundreds of laborers are at work on
the Dubuque Western Railroad, and that
the work is progressing finely.
CO Phillip veile, Esq, Republican, of
Fort Madison, is elected member of the
Board of Education, in place of Hon. Chas.
Mason, by over 1000 majority.
CTJ. H. KNOX has again assumed the
tripod of the Indianola Warren County,
Tsitor. Mr.. X. must have made "raise"
ut the PEAK, or he would not engage in the
publishing business these hard times.
The editor of the Keokuk Gate City
is very fortunate individual, for he has
been shown s,norc bills of the State Bank
Of Iowa changed from one to fve." All the
genuine ones have picture of Gov. Lucas,
while the fve's have picture Of LIE Claire.
cTA number of journals in this State
have already declared in favor Of Hon.
JouS EDWARDS for the Speakership Of the
House of Representatives, at the ensuing
session of the Legislature of this Safe. We
heartily second the motion. lie, US have
" Honest John " for Speaker, by all means.
yThe State Institution at Iowa City,
for the accommodation of the Deaf and
Dumb, has been enlarged and otherwise
improved, and is now open for the admis-
sion of pupils. Board and Tuition are
offered with ut charge.
The U. S. District Court-Northcrn
Division-is now in session at Dubuque,
Judge Love presiding. 1t is expected that
the court will be in session about two
weeks. The number of cases law, chnncery
and government-are set down at ISL.
The Bloomfield Clarion says Davis
County manufactured, last year, with thirty
eight mills in operation, over 1000 gallons
Of Sorghum Syrup. 1t thinks n moderate
estimate would increase both (the quantity
Of syrup and the number Of miils) this yeyr
at e"st 500 per cent.
The fremont House, in Iowa City,
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday the 18th
uit. Loss about 900. On Wednesday the
Goth, another fire occurred in same city,
destroying the carpenter shop Of L. 5.
Swafford, and large and valuable carriage
barn, woodshed, and other out houses of
Mr.. J. c. Culbertson. Loss about s. ,0OO-
no insurance.
The Haukeye mentions the departure
from that city of a party Of six amateur
sportsmen, for the mouth Of the Iowa Rive,
on a two weeks hunt. 1t further says, that
they carried with them all the paraphernalia,
necessary for camping, among which was
very large demiohn, containing paint-oil,
or something else-no doubt an essential
in camping operations.
(ly rhe Wintersett Madisonian saws
that for the past few weeks, there has been
a steady tide Of emigration through that
place, for the western part of the State
1t says, also, that quite n number Of emf
grants have located in that (Madison)
county, during the past few weeks, and
almost al! the dwelling houses in the CITY.
that have been vacant, are now occupied BY
families.
CyThe Davenport Gazette says that on
Saturday, the 22d of Oct, several families
of emigrants passed through that city on
their way to their new homes in this State,
They reported n dozen more families as being
on their way to join them. The Gazette has
been presented with l6 potatoes, of aggre-
gate weight thirty one pounds, or one pound
more than halfa bushel, 1t takes Iowa soil
to produce vegetables.
r-rba To-. $3.50 o,"nty TiGq, Marion
\LEhh County, Herald, Benton County
Democrat, Maquoketa, Jackson County,
Sentinel, and the Burlington Ga-ette-aiI
Democratic papers nave 'gonc undsr' S2ce
the election on the 18th of October. Iowa
climate does not seem favorable to the
growth of Democratic orsans-at least the
late Republican frost seems to have nipped
in the bud SIX Of them, and many others have
felt its bIghtning effects more or less.
CO Great excitement was occasioned at
Bellevue, jackson County, this State, on
the 10Th uIt., in consequence Of the discoy-
cry of a conspiracy to rob the County
Treasury and several business houses of
that place. One of the consprators peacl,cd,
and the citizens were thus placed on their
guard. vigilance committee was formed,
which, after several days, caught the rob
bers in the act of breaking into the Treasu
ry. Three men were arrested aud safely
lodged in jail to await their trial.
TERRIBLE FRIGHT.
The fright into which all of Virginia seems
to have been thrown by the proceedings Of
Brown and his twenty-onu men, has not vet
subsidized. The righteousness Of the pre-
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