Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23
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IOWA NEWS.


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, The people Of Keokuk are rejoicir
: over a contract resen,ly made with parti,
at the East by which the Keokuk, Fo
Desmoines and Minnesota Railroad is to
, completed to Eldyville, by the first
January, 1861. ...s., e. f.--7.... s,Erlg
The editor of the Wayne county Demo
era: says that Lineville is partly in Mi
souri, and partly in Iowa, and that happel
ing along at revival there he noticed sew
raj devout wcrshirpers at the shrine {
Bacchus leaning again t the Iowa side {
the line," while on tie other side the atten
dant spirits Of the same god were minister
ing to the temporal wants Of the pilgrims
A very convenient way to evade the law.
Doc LAw.-Mr. W. @. Jones, Secretar,
of the Henry County Agricultural Society
requests the farmers OF other parts of the
State to cooperate with him in securing
the enactment by the next Legislature of
law imposing tax Of one dollar on eacl
dog-said tax to be devoted to school pur
poses in the district where collected-ani
all dogs running at large unmuzzled to be
shot. He proposes further that the law
shall provide for recovering damages for the
killing Of sheep by dogs from the owners OF
such dogs.
L. E. May, at Dubuque, was recently
murdered by two Irisllmen, who assaulted
and beat him to DEATH One of them is
under arrest. 4' rs.-.a- -sE
The telegraph line has been completed
to Cedar Rapids, but the instrument has
remained at the Express Office several weeks,
the stockholders being too ''hard up" to pay
charges on it. 3
The Dubuque Herald announces that in
consequence Of an affection of the throat
Ben. M. Samuels, the son of Anak and
champion of Iowa Democracy, is unable to
fill his appointments to speak in the South.
ern part of the State. .....
j. NJ. Cannon, of Davenport, took prem
iums to the amount of $500 on stock, which
he exhibited at the National Fair.
Mike Pagan has been sentenced three
years to the penitentiary for biting off the
lip of E. E. Davis, at Davenport, while
fighting sometime since.
The Sigourney Democrat, of the oh,
says i've learn that few days since
boy named Abram Bradley, in Lancaster
township, was kicked in the head by
horse, and so severe was the injury that he
survived but short time"
Polk CouNTY.-Thc house of Mr.. Paxton,
of Washington township, was destroyed by
fire while the family were at church on the
first Sunday in this month. All of his
furniture, clothing, &C., were destroyed.--
The cause OF the fire is unknown.
The independent Democrats of Du-
buquc, who were dissatisfied with the move
ment of the corrupt Locotoco dynastic reg
ular conveatio on, held another Democratic
on the 10Th lust, and nominated d
Il full ticket, comprising some OF the best
men in the county. Political matters are "a
little mixed' in that county now.
CEDAR CouNrY--The following capital
ticket was selected by the Republicans of
''Old Cedar" at their Convention in Upton
on she 10Th inst. For Senator, James NJ.
Kent; for Representative, Ed. Wright
for County Judge, William McLain; for
Recorder and Treasurer, S. S. Daniels I; ,r
Clerk of the District Court, Alonzo Shaw
for Sheriff, Jesse L. Bradshaw for Survey.
or, Martin G. Miller; tor County Superin-
tendent OF Common Schools, James McClung;
for Drainage Commissioner, David Platner;
for Coz oner, Austin Parsons.
DIXON HIMSELF AGAIN.-The Warren