Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-05-06
IONA NEWS.

IOWA NEWS.
L'BEnAL.- The Cincinnati Gazette est.
mates that in 1860 the population Of Iowa
will be 400,00)-a very liberal estimate.-
In $50 the census gave us $4,000, and at
the present tire we estimate the popu alton
Mt about six hundred thousand.
LOUISA COUNTY, The Columbus CITY
Entefprise estimates the number If acres If
wheat sown in that township at 5000. The
prospects tor g"o'l crop are fatterins
"A company of seventeen citizens Of Colum.
bus City, including one woman and two chill
dren, started on Thursday last for Pixies
Peak. Six or seven others are expected to
60 soon also several companies from 9TH
er parts OF the county.
Campbell, one Of the editors 9th, Jasper
County Erpres in this State, did. on the
18th ult., at Ripley, Rrown county, Ohio,
then and there perpetrste the deed Of matr
mony against the harmony and unity ~
the highly honorable bachelor fraternity.
The bluShing Miss Sarah Bell Evans, of that
v l:age, was part,eeps criminis in this matter.
| So they go! We expect the mkt victim
will be our gallant and good looking friend
John Johns, Esq, of the Davenport Ne,os.
SUIcIpE.--The wife of Mr.. Burrel, resi-.
ding near Grinaell, Powcshck ,unty, COIN
mit:ed suicide on the 10; h ult., by throwing
herself head foremost into we'll The Jas
per county Express says she was suffer ng
from mental Iteration on account Of ~
ligious excitement. She endeavnred to d g
troy herself several years ago by taking poi-
son, but failed on account Of having t,ken
too large quantity. She is represented as
having been n Christian woman, kind
neiglbor and an aff:ctionate mother. She
leaves husband AMI two 5 nall children to
mourn her sad fate.
Gen. Van Antwerp, of keokuk, has
been appointed one Of the visitors to the
Wet Point Military Academy next June.
He is graduate of the Academy himself.
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in Oskaloosa, in tho midst of country
where little Can be seen OF a summers day
but prairie grass, in any direction as far a.
the eye can roach. And corn is 81 hushel.
The PENlrENrIARy.-Gov. Lowe has ap-
pointed Col. Dewey of Mt. Pleasant and
F. S. Espy aud Robert A. Russell of Fort
Madison to examine into the management
OF the Pen.tentiary. Gross fraud is charged
in connection with this institution.
The rivers of Iowa have been naviga.
bic nearly all this season. The Charles j.
Rogers has been running to Fort Jo,lge on
the Desmoines, over 800 miles from it,
mouth. And the Black Hawk has run up
to Waterloo in Black Hawk county, 200
miles from the mouth of Cedar River.
POPULATION OF DAvENPoRr.-We learn
from the Davenport Gazette that the
census Of that township has just been taken
showing pop ulation of 1890. In the city
the population is act down at about IL 900,
with nearly an equal number of males and
females, and over $500 dwelling houses
There are about 600 foreigners in the city
not naturalized, The Gazette a few days
ago declared quite positively that the popu-
lation of Davenport was nearer 10000 than
II 400, but the figures it seems won't hold
good its assertion.
The City Council of Keokuk has levied
a tax of one per cent. on property in tina,
city. Tho assessment is about $5,750,000
but the Gate City says portion Of this GOV:
ers territory which is claimed not to he sub
ject to taxation, according to the late decis-
ion of the Supreme Court in the Muscatine
case. Injunctions against an assessment
upon that property have been issued. The
assessment, excluding that territory, amounts
to about 100000. which would make the
entire tax to be collected about SIC, 200, OF
which one-q quarter is to be paid in scrip and
three quarters in cash.
ANOTHER EDITOR FIxED.-Mr. Jesse Glen.
ont, editor of the Dubuque Times, was mar
ried on the 25th ult., at Winona, MINI to
Miss Lucetta A. Blood, of that place.
A "SL1aHr' DKcLINE.-A lot on Main
street. Dubuque, 26xl13 feet, TO- which $500
per foot was offered two years since. was
sold at auction last week for $40 per foot.
RAILROAD CONVENTION. - The people in
the tier of counties west of Linn are reques-
ted to meet at Marshalltown, May llth,
tor the purpose of organizing company
for the extension Of the OIL & N. Railroad,
from Cedar Rapids to the Missouri.
Polk ooUsrr.-rhe Judge of Polk coun-
~ la, issued two procIanations authorizing
the citizens Of that county to vote, at an
election to be held on the 23d of May, on
two propositions one to issue the bonds of
The county to the amount of $50, 900 to build
n Court House, the other to issue bonds to
the amount of $40 900 to aid in securing the
. location Of the State Agricultural College in
that county.
INDIAN RELlos--The State Historical So
cietv, of Iowa are indebted to r. NJ. Pretty
man Esq, of Davenport, r powder horn
which once danslad in peace aud war from
the shoulders Of the great chief, Blackhawk:
also to Willard Barrows, Esq, o. the sane
place, for a chip from the log on Rock Island,
upon which the same chief was wont to
seat himself.
DRwoSED --Thos. Caffoy, an 1rishman,
was drowned in the Iowa river, few mile,
above Iowa City, on Sunday last. lie saw
some cattle on AL islcnd in the river and
while attempting to go to them on horseback
the horse stumbled over a log, by which he
was thrown Of and drowned.
Lu.us NAruR.E.-A correspondent of the
Washington Press sneak, of a calf in Tren.