Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
IOWA NEWS.


245 arrests in that city during the year
1858, of which 62 were for assault and bat
terry, GO for disturbing the peace and I'll
DUBUQUE CoUNrr The total population
o. Dubuque county is 29,6O7, of which H.
4s7 are foreigners. Of these, 4,539 are
Germans and 4,5OS Irish.
CEDAR RApIDs.--A letter in the Linn
County Register, from Cedar Rapids, says
that town contains seven dry goods stores,
two clothing stores, three drug stores, six
lawyers, six preachers, seven doctors, four
churches, eleven denominations, and nine or
ten liquor saloons.
KEoKUK Co.--The Iowa Democrat gives a
description of the first session Of the Dis,
trct Couit, at Sigourney. The temple of
Justice was shed made of poles and brush /,
and the Clerks office was log hut, few feet
distant. Hon Joseph Williams was Judge,
and S. A. james Clerk, There was but
cne building (the Clerks office) in the town,
and not female in the place.
SUICIDE. Capt. J. Webber, of Bellevue
Jackson county, committed suicide a few
days ago. He was a respectable gentleman,
of near 70 years of age. For many years
he was resident Of Galena, and was the
United States Agent of the Lead Mines
We have no further particulars Of the cir
cumstances of his de-. tn.
EXPOSURE AND DEAru.-A little girl eight
years d, daughter of man named Brown,
living in Allamakee county, left her home
on the l 1th inst, to go short distance with
out bonnet shoes or stockings, and perished
with cold on the way. Her body was not
found till four days afterwards. Her moth.
er was absent from home when she left, and
he: father is blamed with neglect, if moth.
ing worse.
MEANING OF THE NAME MIssIssIPpI.-The
Sigourney Democrat says the present name
of the great eastern boundry, is corruption
of the two words of the Sac and Fox dialect,
Masseo and Sepo. NJ 1880 chief, or great
and Sepo-river. The generally received
opinion that Mississippi is pure and unmix-
ed word, meaning the "Father of Waters,"
is therefore not correct.
The untutored children of the forest des-
ignated everything by its popularity, or dis.
tinguishng feature. They beheld, in the
majestic stream, gliding silently but power
fully to the southward--the "Masseo sepo,"
and the same words being used afterwards
by the whites, the transition to the name it
now bears was easy.
The Davenport Neaos announces that
the proceeds of the Fancy Dress Ball for the
benefit of the Mt. Vernon Fund amounts to
$500. 1t thinks that the entire contribu-
tions of that town to the fund will be
about $500.
WILD CATs.-Two of these "varmints"
were lately killed by Mr.. James Barclay, a
veteran sportsman, residing at Lisbon, Linn
county. They fought desperately with his
dog, and would have eaten the brute alive
had not the old gentleman stopped them
with his ''trusty rife"
The Burlington Hawkeye says that the
report which it pu blished stating that May
or Sample, Of keokuk, was incarcerated in
the Tombs of New York, was started by
citizen of Keokuk, and its editor disclaims
having had any intention to injure Mr.. Sam
pie by publishing the false report.
CEDAR RAPIDS. The Times says the
bridge across the Cedar at that place has
been completed. tits double track bridge,
and built on the Howe truss rlan.--The
steamer Cedar Rapids has been newly pain
ted and reft' cd, to run as last season be-
tween St. Louis and Cedar Rapids.
Iowa CENTRAL r. R.-Judge IsLe, of
Marion, has been elected president of the
defnnct Iowa Central Railroad Company.
At meeting held in Lyons, week before
last. a resolution was passed authorizing the
G eneral Agent to settle with S. S, Jones,
on the terms proposed-the company giving
81 so in land scrip for every dollar of the
bogus bonds.
C.,I& N. r. R.-The Cedar Rapids
Times of the oath February announces that
the last mile of iron nece essary fol- the COM
pletion of the Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska R.
r. to Cedar Rapids is purchased, and one
hundred tons are to be delivered next week,
and hundred every week thereafter until
the road is finished. The Times anticipates
the completion of the road to that place
within the next sixty days.
II FATAL ACCIDENT the 9th February,
| young man named Soesby, living as Pio-
neer grove, Cedar county, was engaged in
/ splitting logs with gun-powder, which he
careles>ly ignited by applying a burning
| torch close upon the printing. The plug
which confined the powder struck him with
great force in the center of the forehead,
penetrating the brain to the depth of nearly
\ two inches. After removing it, together
\ with some broken portions of the skull, he
\ revived so as to recognize and converse
\ with his friends and medical attendant, but
Il died six days after the accident.
SUICIDE. Miss Elizabeth Mahin, Young
lady of high respectablity, of highly re-
spectcd family, living with her widowed
mother and four brothers and a ster, four
miles north west of this place, shot herself
through the heart on last Friday morning
with rifle, and died Immediately. Verdict
of the coroner's inquest, that she committed
the act whilst in state of partial derange-
ment. Her arrangement was the effect OF
sickness she had been prostrated with, a
few weeks since, which caused very gloomy
and detected state of the mind aud from
which she had not entirely recovered. She
was very amiable in her lie, and her &C.
auaintances knew her but to love her. The
, announcement that sho had killed herself
cast deep gloom over tbe entire communi
ty-and her much esteemed mother ami 70
latives are said to be, to all appearance, in
consolable. Ai6ia Republican.
OLD SETTLERS STORIES. Some pretty
big stories were told at the Festival by the
GA Settlers, and the following is a sketcl
), of a true one, and shows what kind of :
soil we have. Mr.. Hedges said that in 1889
D he and his brothers raised lot of turnips
He brought them in town, and barreled uT
some of therl to send away. TWeLUe ut
, them filed barrel. Mr. d. G. Eldridgs
arose and said he saw some OF these very
. same turnips, as tAey stood in wagon il