Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-29
IOWA NEWS.

AV"A Me- w.
MEXICAN CArrLE.-The Davis county
Democratic Clarion, Of the Goth, SAYS a
lrove OF 1918 head Of Texas cattle we're
lriven through that county on last Frida
night, en- route for Chicago, and had been
sold in the latter place tor $37 a head
Another drove of l 700 head is on the way
to the same destination at the same rate
per head.
DRowSED.-The Wintersett Madjsonian
OF the 10th snJs that on Wednesday after.
noon OF that week, two sons of Mr. James
Doud, who resides in the eastern edge of
Adair county, near the line between that
county and Madison, we're drowned in North
river. They had been engaged in blowing
corn in field Rear by the stream, and went
into the river to battle, and getting into
deep water were drowned. They were aged
respectively 10 and IA years.
Two-LRacED CALVES. The Oskaloosa
Herald describes couple of calves born
in that county entirely destitute of fore.
legs. They travel backwards on their hind
legs, while their heads and re-shoulders
are elevated from foot to foot and a half
from the ground. They walk and run with
considerable speed. On the whole they are
rather rare specimens Of the cattle species
They are now being taken east, and will
probably all in with some travelling show.
1wA STATE TRAonER's ASSOCIATION
This Association will hold it, fourth annual
meeting at Washington on Tuesday, the 23d
OF August. The session will continue
three days. In addition to the regular bus
mess transacted at such meetings and the
presenting of Reports on various education
al topics by committees appointed last year.
addresses will be delivered by Senator Har-
Ian, Thos. II. Benton, Jr., Sec. Of State Board
of Education, Prof. Edwards of the St. Louis
Normal School, Hon. S, A. Rice, Attorney
General, Prof. Stratton, of New York city,
and other distinguished gentlemen. Tie
Railroad line, Packet Companies and Stage
lines, will probably give free return tickets
as usual.
The dry rot has made its appearance in
potato fields in Scott county. So says the
Davenport DEMOCRAT.
MITCHELL COUNTY The Usage Land Office
is to be closed on the 3lst of July. The
unentered land in that District will be held
for entry at Desnones.
The Marion Register says that a Scotch
citizen Of that place left on the ID Of May,
was in Glasgow in fifteen days, got married,
made a bridal trip through England and
ireland, and got back to Marion on the I'd
of July.
The Dubuque Sun learns from Plat
Smith, Esq, that there is a strong probable
i,y of work being resumed this fall, upon
the Dubuque and Pacific Railroad, and that
1t will be completed to Independence by the
first of December.
The Howard Centre Light gives two
painful cases # rattle. snake bites in How .
ard county, both of which, however. were
prevented from being fatal by copious ap.
plication of whisky, inwardly. Whisky
breeds snakes of another kind.
Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, Linn
county, was opened for students in 1858
and since that time has had under its in
struction an aggregate number of 1861
Its permanent endowment is 500, 900, and
its success has been without precedent in
he educational history of the West
The Upper Iowa Conference of the NJ.
E. Church will meet in Iowa City or We IN
esday, the Oath of next month. Iowa Con
ference Comprising the Southern halt OF
this city on the 7th of September. Bishor
Simpson is expected to preside at both these
assemble.
NAVIGATION OF THE MAouoKErA RIVER. =
The Maquoketa Sentinel, of the 2lst, states
that the Maquoketa river smuggling party
have now removed the snags for sixte or
seventeen miles, and it is confidently expec-
ted that they will complete their labors OIL
the expiration Of another month. The
boats will then commence running regu-
larly.
MORE REPUBLICAN ExTRAvAGANcE.--The
last Legislature appropriated the sum of five
thousand dollars to defray the expenses OF
taking the census, the estimated cost being
based upon the cost of former census returns.
Here, then, were s., 900 at the disposal of the
Republican Census Board, but the Board
found that they could economist, and went to
work in that direction in good earnest. The
result of their efforts is that the census has
cost but 81 900, thus saving $4,000 of the
appropriation. Such thing we believe to be
unknown in the history of Democratic dis
bursements of public money. Democrats
generally manage not only to use up the
appropriation, but to have deficiency for
the government to foot.
This action of the Census Board is fair
sample of the manner in which the Republican
State officers are conducting the affairs of the
State government, and will readily explain to
every thinking man the means by which the
Republicans reduced the State tax last year
800, 900, and the further reduction of $40, 900
this year. Call you this extravaganza? Is
this the way to increase the taxes? Do not
the people approve this action of the Repub-
lcan State officers ?-Fairfeld Ledger.
az Babbitt and Dodge-both pioneers of
the West-both hardy laborers in the time
when labor was hard, and consisted of some
thing more than distributing seed wheat and
herding cattle for State Bank exchange-fur-
nish in their history true and noble examples
of the toll and privation which men who broke
the virgin soil of our State and opened its
inviting fields to emigration have pre-erni-
nently encoun:ered--Iora City Reporter.
AS Rabbit and Dodge both did their
pioneering in Burlington, old settlers need
fered by these great men. They can recollect
what kind of virgin soil' it was that they
broke. The "noble example" set by them
was that of occupying an Office stool from 80
till 4" in the land office at 81 200, while their
betters by hard labor all the year round
hardly accumulated $500 by breaking the
virgin soil' and cultivating corn and pigs
Darlington Hawkeye.
1sHE CONSERVATIVES see by an exchange
hat more than three, fourths of the cases
appealed from Judge Wilson's Court, in
Dubuque, have been reversed. And this
same Wilson is the man whom the Democracy
If Iowa wish to place upon the Supreme
Bench of the State We are not disposed to |