Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-04
IOWA NEWS.

fenced to three years in the penitentiary OF
Saturday last. @ai sat
HYpRopnoB1A. - The Oskaloosa Herak
records two cases Of hydrophobia among
horses that have occurred in that vicinity
within the past two weeks. The horses wer'
bitten by a rabid dog in May last. '''"
PUBLIC SonooLs In report in the Clin
ton STANDARD it is stated that Lyons ha.
i've public schools, five teachers, and abou
three hundred children in attendance. Ca
manche township has nine schools, five o.
which are in the village Of that name.
A LIMB BRoKEN.-During row that oc
CURED in billiard saloon ut Oskaloosa, .
Mr.. VIM. Skidmore was summarily ejectet
from the saloon, and in such o manner rs t.
fracture one Of the bones Of the right leg
and injure his ankle.
WoMAN's RIcars.-A portion Of the fe
mae population have taken part in th'
struggles in Marshall country in relation t.
the county seat, The Times says party o.
women of Marietta attacked Timothy Brown
ESQ, of Albion, and the Rev. Mr.. Babcock
of Marshall, and threw eggs at them, merel!
because they. were in favor of locating th'
county seat at Marshall.
HORRIBLE AND FATAL AooIDENr.-Last Fri
day evening Mr.. Robert Bar tlett, of intor
county, living about three miles from d,
Witt, was thrown from vicious hors'
while on his way home. In the morning
the horse came home with the halter strap
broke, and one stirrup missing. Search was
instituted, and Mr. Bartlett found nang!et
and frozen 10 death on the road.
There are now nineteen prisoners con
ti"ed in the Jail at Dubuque.
The homicide, johnson, who is await
ing execution in the Dubuque Jail, is sale
to have become very conscientious Chris
tian. The Express publishes letter from
him to Lis son in Sweden, which is full o.
good advice.
The Black Hawk Courier is the IT'LL
OF new Republican paper, hailing from
Waterloo. Black Hawk County Harkmar
Il Ingersoll, editors. The first number
resents fine appearance, and we doub
not that the enterprise will prove success
HoMlclDE.-We learn from the Clay tor
Co. Journal, Of the 18th, that on Tuesday
OF last week, at the house of Eli Carlan, 81,
miles from Guttenburg, on the road t
Garnavillo, a man named William Potte
was shot and killed by another man named
William GLADDEN.. Potter came in andwant
ed to stay all night, which privilege wal
refused him, and thereupon quarrel ensued
ending as above. The Coroner's jury gave
a verdict that Potter was killed by GLADDEN.
in self-defense.
The old settlers festival in Davenpor
is to be held on the 22d of February.
TAX REPuD1ATIoN.-The tax payers o
Springdale and Iowa townships, Oeda1
County, have refused to pay their school
district tax.
in Dubuque there are three engin
companies and "ne hook and ladder compa
ny. There are sixteen public cisterns, con
tanning 600 barrels each. This. it is said: j.
not sufficient for the wants Of the city.
Nor TO BE HuNa.-Johnson, the murder.
er, whose execution was to "come off al
Dubuque on the Goth, has been continued
for further consideration, by q decree from
the Supreme Court.
Amount of land entered at the Lant
Cffice in Council Bluffs, during the weel
ending Jan. 15, 1859:
With Cash. 200 acres.
Warrants, $500 +"
Total, 1000
-Sigourney, in Keokuk Co., has beer
incorporated. J. j. Kisder, Mayor; and J
q. Hogan, A. G. Brownin, N. S. Leak, E
S. SAMPSON and j. M. Casey, Trustees
N. H. Heath, Recorder, The rules of gov
ernment Iowa City Council were adopted
for the present.
Tie people of Polk county, Iowa, are
called upon to vote on the 2Sth OF Februar,
whether or not they will authorize the is.
suing Of county bonds to the amount o
hirty thousand dollars, for the purchase o
the two bridges across the river in the towr
Of Desmoines and the erection of another
across the Coon, in the same town.
RAILROAD FRnIaHTs AT WAsBINaToN.-
The " ashington Press corrects blunde
it made few weeks ago on this subject b,
publishing an accurate table of freights re
ceved and shipped at that point from Sept
9th t, Dec. Slst, 1858, as follows: Shipped
-l2,420 hogs; 74s cattle; 320,O22 lbs. o
'nerchandize-total number of pounds ship
ped. 4,2l9,O22. Received-1s1O lbs o
salt, 1,os6,OoO #. of lumber; 7Os, 900 lbs
of coal; 1878, 764 lbs. of mercb andize to
tai number of pounds received 5,203, ,762
KE"KuK INDEBTEDNESS The N. Y. Econ
ing Post of the 26th says: "The Mayor o
the city of Keokuk, Iowa, is in town, con
erring privately with some of the heavies
holders of the city Indebtedness. He pro
pose. visiting the Boston and Philadelphia
bondho ders before calling q general meet
ing in the city. The compromise asked 0
tho creditors is, we believe, to accept rail
road stocks of a nominal market value, a
par, for the coupons of the coming fiv
years. or at about 40 per cent. of their claims
by which time the city expects to be in q Pc
sition to resume interest payments"
Bos ACRES IN TIE SENArE.-The settle
ment of the Doug slas-Fitch affair as given il
our telegraph col1mn, will remind the pub
lie of the narrow escape Sir Lucins o'Trig
ger met, in his encounter with the intlam
mable Bob Acres. When Sir Lucius callet
Bob poltroon, that great warrior made
vehement noise and was on the point o
blowing the black guards brains out. ''Di(