The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-12
EPlTOMIZED STATE ITEMS.

GTThe Iowa City Republican says work
on the NJ. & NJ. Railroad west of that city
has ROW fairiy commenced. Mr.. DYE,
the Chief Engineer, says it is the intention
of the Company to complete the road to
Homestead, by the 18th of January next,
and 10 Marengo by the middle Of February.
The iron is in Chicago to lay the track to
Marengo.
ryAt the recent election, Lee County
gave Mr.. LAKEWOOD 2,l39 notes.-the lar.
gest Republican vote ever cast by any
county in the State Of Iowa.
eYThe Io,ca Farmer, published at Des
Moines, has started the proposition Of
building, what it terms, the "Back Bone
Line" Railroad, from Oska!oosa, ria Des
Moines and Fort Dodge, to Sioux City. 1t
says this proposition meets with favor for
the reasons, that the construction of such
a line would further the Railroad prospects
of every commercial point, and benefit every
important interest in the State. 1t pro-
poses to carry out this project, by the help
Of " State Aid" Doubtfui-the estate
Aid" mania has had its day.
eFDr. TorrES, late Professor of Moral
and Intellectual Philosophy, in Wil!iam and
Mary College, Virginia, is the President
elect Of the Iowa State University, at Iowa
City; and will shortly remove, with his
family, to the State. The Republican says
"the University needs a Head man Of
experience and varied accomplishments, to
start it on its high and certain future. DR..
TOTEM is believed to be the man to give it
such impulse.'
CwDr. EAps, formerly peculating mana
ger Of the School Fund of this State, dis
gusted with Iowa politics, has retired from
the editorial chair of the Fort Madison
Plaindeuler, and, it is said, with Henry
Clay dean, is about to emigrate to Missouri.
CTThc Dubuque Times says the arrivals
at the Hotels of that city during the month
of October, "more than trsbled the arrivals
of the two months previous" Straws show
which way the current is setting.
CTThe Keokuk, Mt. Pleasant and Mus
catine Railroad, is completed to Fl. Madi-
son, and passenger cars have commenced
regular trips over the same.
Cy-The Fairfield Ledger is pleased to
notice tho interes. manifested Of late, by
the farmers of Jefferson County, in the
chase of fruit trees, shrubs, etc., with
which to improve their farms and gardens.
1t says some thirty thousand dollars north
Of trees, were shipped to that point this
Fall, from Rochester, n. Y. The Ledger,
while commenting this Wholesale purchase
of fruit trees, thinks the purchasers would
better have subserved their own interestsand
that Of the State, if they had procured their
trees from dealers nearer home-in the
county, or from the Burlington nursery
This course, besides being cheaper, would
result in the rearing Of more trees, for trees
direct from the nursery are more likely to
live and thrive, than those transported hum
dreds of miles. The suggestions of the
Ledger strike US as we'll simed, and worthy
of 'nsideration.
CO The Charlton Lucas County, Patriot
says a large amount of stock is being driven
iato that region of Iowa fom abroad, to use
up the large crops of cheap corn to be had
in that vicinity. Aprofsable movement, we
should judge. 1t would take an indefinite
amount of stock to consume the immense
surplus of corn in Weaie.n Iowa.
CyMt. Pleasant, this State, is really
model city. The Republican Neus says
there Is not ten year old boy in that city,
who, having lived there from infancy, does
not recollect when Mt. Pleasant was en-
phatically "one-horse town"-some two
or three dry goods stores and as many
whisky shops, constituting the principal
business Of the place, the population then
being about ten to twelve hundred. Tc-
day it haa population of about 1 600 in
lieu of e "a 80 Dollhouse, a magnificent
brick ediice, three stories high, erected at
n cost OF sol ,0O0-a numbe- of select
schools, snd one Of the fines, and most pop
ular colleges in the State; six church ed-
fees, two os which were built at a cost of
from $4,000 to $4,000; IL dry-goods
stores; 20 family groceries; three drug
stores; six boot and shoes stores three
clothing stores; two banks two hardware
azores; six hotels, one Of which was built
and furnished Mt cost Of $30, 900; plenty
of lawyers md doctors etc., etc. The
Ners concludes its sketch Of the progress
and business Of the city, as follows"
do say, and that boastingly, too, that we
have not single dram drinking sa-
loon, a bowling alley, or a game shop of
any kind in our fair city, but that in their
stead, influences are thrown around our
youth which are calculated to inspire them
with the right, and make them useful men
and women.'
CT Abba, in our opinion lays claim to
the prettiest courthouse between Burlng-
ton and Glenwood, the cost Of which was
only about $4,000. Lucas County is
going into a corn speculation, and have built
a large Pennsylvania barn in the public
square. St. Johns, of the st. Johns House,
tried to make US believe that it was a court
house, but we told him we were "somo
travelled" SO says the Corning adams
County, Sentinel. 1t IS very evident, to
our mind, that the writer Of the above never
"laid eyes on" the Pottawattamie County
Court House.
GTJeferson County, in the opinion of
the Fairfield Ledger, has this year manufac-
tured over one hundred thousand gallons of
Sorghum molasses, which ut a low estimate,
will save 500, 900 to the county. An item
of no inconsiderable importance these hard