Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-29
IOWA NEWS,

to remove the county-seat from Shelbyville
to Harlan.
I'm Wapello county, VIM. L Rnerson
and Wm. Arnott Nash, convicted of horse
stealing, have been sentenced to years and
6 months imprisonment in the States Pris-
on, and safely lodged therein.
Enthusiastically notice under the ap-
propriate heading, it will be seen that Mr..
j. NJ. Dixon, one of the most gifted Repub-
lican editors in the State, ha, added vi fe
to his already numerous honors.
Lyons City voted last week to rescind
the vote by which $50, 900 had been taken
by the corporation in the stock of the Iowa
Central. AT the same time they voted ten
thousand dollars for railroad down the
river to Clinton.
"A resolution was adopted at the last
meeting of the Board of Directors of the
State Bank of Iowa, to present to the State
Historical Society Of Iowa, one sheet of
each of the impressions of the circulating
notes Of the Bank for pr eservation.
AT Il meeting of the citizens of Hardin
county, held ut Eldora on the 18th inst,
the private subscriptions for securing the To-
cation of the Model Farm AMI Agricultural
College in that county was surrendered.
The people n W rely upon vote Of county
bonds to secure its location there.
A PILLAR OF FrRs.-A Pixies Peak pill
grim passed through Davenport, the other
day, encased in a buckskin suit, with the
seat ofhis bresctes painted red. lie also
had gun on his shoulder, a dog at his heel,
and was following the railroad track. I'M
agine dark night express train in the
rear, with big reflector in fr mt throwing
light on the subject!
Chris. Letter of Keokuk was fined $40
the other day for dislocating a mans finger.
The Dubuque Western r. r. has been
completed to Sand Spring Measures are
being taken to complete the road to Ana
mosa during the present year.
The Iowa City Republican says it is
informed on creditab.e author ty that TWEEN.
ty families living in one section of Penns,l-
vania intend moving into johnson county
this spring AMI settling there.
Attic recent election in Mt. Pleasant
I. W. Woolson was elected Mayor, and on
the question ofreducing the license for bill
lard tables, only | / were for reducing and
AT against. The price now is 500.
1t is stated in the Fairfield Ledger that
some of the Pixies Peak emigrants who
started from that place this Spring have
found Jordan hard road to travel" One
company had lost all their cattle but one,
and were at an expense of five dollars
day, and another had lost one yoke of their
cattle.
The Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railroad
Company advertise in the Floyd county
ImfeII'gencer, of the l4th, to receive propo-
sails tor bridging, tieing and grading that
road. Proposals are to be received at seve-
raj places on the line until the 9th inst.
and opened at Cedar Falls on the 3Oth.
Contracts will be made and entered into
with those making acceptable bids, as soon
thereafter as practicable.
- The Bridge Commission from the Army
iAnartment to examine the Bridge across
L!l6 MlsSlSStDDl
the charges against it as an obstruction to
arrived at Davenport last week,
and at once commenced their labors. This
commission is composed of Capts. W. Frank
in, G. G. Mead and Humphreys of the U.
S. Army, accompanied socially, not ollici
ally, by Capt, G. II. Scott. Of the U. S. Ma.
Wy.
LOUISA COUNTY. - The Columbus City
Enterprise complains of the meagre number
IF post Offices and lack of mail facilities in
shaa county. 1t says in soma parts of the
county citizens have to send ten or twelve
miles for their mail matter, and recon-.
nends the establishment of offices at Clifton
and Fredonia, on the railroad, besides one
n Elm Grove township, and one near Long
Greek, on the Wapello road.-A great NOR
;ality exists among the cattle in the western
lnd southern parts of this county. One
armer has lost 26, and another 20, since the
BEGINNING of winter,
w. W. Wells, of Webster City, recently
Tiled nine prairie chickens at one shot.
"A man by the name of Ramsay, living
n Farmer s-creek township, Jackson coun-
y, died of hyd.ophoba one day last week.
We learn from the Iowa Statesman that
he ''Chares Rogers has ma lie successful
rip to Fort Dodge and back to Desnoines,
nd that Capt. Beers reported the naviga-
ION of the river above the Fort, better than
'elow.
The Marietta Express says that the re-
'orts in the papers ola fraudulent issue of
iarshall county bonds to the amount OF
97 900 is itself a fraud - no such issue
aving been DISCOVERED,
+. r. ACCIDENTAL freight train ran off |
he track on the Burlington and Missouri |
liver r. r., near Batavia, on Wednesday
last week, throwing three cars off the
rack, and killing some fifteen head of cat
tie with which they were loaded.
TIN ORi-The Fairfield Ledger speaks of
ne discovery of ore in Jefferson CO., on the
anks Of Walnut Greek, and thinks that it
lay prove more valuable than gold mine
Pixies Peak, if it shoud b. f,und to ex-
vt in any considerable quantity.
The Eureka says the road through An
mosa is lively with Pixies Peakers On
Wednesday an unusual number went by,
nd on Thursday was seen team with
ROOT Hh, OR DIE.
)r is motto.