Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-12
IOWA NEWS.

IOWA NEWS. es
Y A Coop NOMINATION The Republican
Of Poweshiek county have nominated th,
thorough going Republican, A. M. CowinI
editor fthe Montezuma Republican,, as Rep
resentative from that county.
The Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska. Rail
road will soon receive from the east tw
locomotives and forty box cars. They ar
lobliged to make this addition to their rol
ing stock in view of the large increase c
business which is expected to bsodone owe
the road this fall.
FIRE. Tho dwellings Of j. NJ. Eldridg
and A. F. Williams, in Davenport, wer
DESTROYED by fire on the night of the 3D.
Loss $4,000 or $1,000 insurance So, ,0OC
mostly in the Peoria company. The fire il
supposed to have been the work If al in
ccndiary. ts#
- Black berries are slow sale at fv
cents per quart in Anamosa.
C. W. Hicks, of Fairfield, died in .jai
Of the delirum tremens, on the 9th ult.
LIN the village Of New on, Jasper coun
ty, public library has been started, and i
already opened. t-'
The Clinton Herald contradicts the re
port of the Lyons Mirror that the worl
had stopped on the Clinton bridge. The
Herald declares that the work is still pro
gressing Gs
The County Judge of Mitchell county
entered into contract for the erection OF :
court house and Jail at cot Of $35, 900, and
to make the thing sure, issued the wh9it
amount in orders: Judge Williams, Of the
10th Dlstrict, granted perpetual injunction
restraining the parties from proceeding, and
the orders became worthless.
The Davenport Gazette says that Mr..
Andrew Logan, one If the Oldest settlers
of Scott county, aud who on the first day
of August. 1888, issued the first number OF
the first newspaper ever published in Scott
county, has disposed OF his farm in the vi
entity of Davenport, with the intention OF
removing s'farther West," to Jasper county
BURGLARS ARRE>TED. Marshal Griff.y,
of Keoknk arrested, ut that place, on tue
3lst ult., two men named Edward WILLIAMS
and John Harris, as the burglars who en-
tered Gresnbaum & Kaske's clothing store,
in Burlington, on the Friday previous. The
men went down the river in u skiff, and had
with them box containing about two hun
dred dollars, worth Of clothing, every piece
Of which bears g. & KS private mark
They were examined before Justice Snyder,
and sent TO jail in default of $1,000 bail.
LOUISA CouNTY.-We learn from the Co.
lumbus City Enterprise that james Letzy,
FL, ko,x ,,t,. id SofnrI,
30th ult.. from the effects of the heat of the
week previous.-The Postmaster General
has refused the application of the citizens
OF Clifton for Post Office. WA. Keach
has become connected with the Wapello
Inteligencsr az editor.
The Dubuque and Pacific Railroad
Company have at last got their affairs into
shape, and nearly all the funds raised for
forty miles more of the road. Mr.. J. Edgar
Thompson of the Pennsylvania Central has
accepted temp orarily the position of Presi-
dent, which will give confidence to the par
ties in interest that the building Of the road
will now 90 forward with all the energy
and dispatch consistent with the true inte-
rest OF the road. We learn from the New
York Tribune that a negotiation has just been
completed by which the lands acquired by
the completion of the first forty miles of the
road have been exchanged for the bonds of
the Company, at $4.56 per acre, absorb
ing about 100000. A subscription has
also been opened tor the sale of further
issue Of bonds, payable in lands at about
$l.5O per acre, the proceeds to be devoted
to the building of about forty miles more of
road. This subscri ption is nearly full, and
the work will go on as soon as the amount
has been completed. The road will then
have 80 miles of route, with a debt upon it
of about a million of dollars, and dive s'ed
of its lands. The completion of this 80
miles secures, besides the remainder of the
land grant, the building of the road through
which can be accomplished when the extern
sion of population requires it. The net earn
ings of the eighty miles for the first year
are estimated at $65, ,253, whch is about 6
per cent. ON the outstanding bonds.