St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-05-26
Iowa Items.

Captain Irish, indicted for participa-
ting in the well known Boyd Wilkin-
son lynching case at Iowa City, has
been acquitted by the jury. The trial
has been going on at Davenport for
some two weeks past.
The Sigourney (Keokuk county,
Democrat says that a child of Mr..
Samuel Parks, of that vicinity, died
lately, with symptoms of having been
poisoned. Soon after the whole re-
naming family of five persons with
two others, who had used water from
the well, were taken sick, and child
is in a dangerous condition. The wa
ter was analysed, and the presence of
arsenic detected in large quantities
Fully pound must have been thrown
in the well by some miscreant.
The annual meeting of the General
Congregational Church of Iowa will
be held in Muscatine on the LIST Of
June. Arrangements have been made
with steamboat lines and railroads, by
which those paying full fare going,
will not have to pay anything Oh their
return trip.
Mr.. Albert Temples was killed by
the rolling of mill log, at behring's
Mill, some three miles below Mitchell,
on the llth inst. He left a wife and
seven children.
The Mitchell Republican says that
every acre susceptible of cultiva
ton, in this township, and so far as we
have been able to learn, throughout
the county, will be titled, and well
titled" This state of things augurs
well for the condition of things another
year.
The Republicans in the Southern
part OF the State are expressing them
selves earnestly in favor of the nomi
nation of Samuel F. Miller, Esq, o.
keokuk, as one of the Judges of the
, Supreme Court.
Letters received from Gen. Angus
tus c. Dodge, dated at Rome, as lat,
as the middle of April, contain posi-
tive dcclination on his part of the pro
posed Dcmpcratic nomination for Gov
ernor of Iowa. He expected to sail foI
the United States about the middle 0
May, and after brief stay at Wash
ington, where he will be expected t,
render an account of his ministry a
the Court of Madrid, he will return t,
Iowa.
"Thc North lowan," Vol !, No. |
published at Usage, is on our table
1t is a six column sheet, handsOmc!,
, printed, and well edited by A. X Moul
4 ton, and devoted to religion, morals
| politics, education, agriculture, an,
5 current news" In politics the papc
a is Republican, and its general tone i
| altogether different from that of pa
D per, by the same title, published il
: Usage year ago.
Bayard Taylor delivered his lecture
on Moscow, i'll Dubuque, Oh the ISL
inst.
Hon. Reuben Noble of McGregor i
named as one Of the candidates 70
the Supreme Bench of this State. Thi
, would be a good nomination.
Chief Justice Wright positively de
clincs denomination as candidate 70,
Judge of the Supreme Court of thi.
State.
Matthew Hand, one of the prison
ers sentenced to the Pcnitcntiary, ha
. made his escape from the Dubuqu
County Jail.
RATTLE SNAKEs-A citizen of thi
t place while coming across the prairi
: from Northwood, few days since
killed seven rattle snakes Our prai
rie breakers usually find them i
: abundance. No one should 90 GU
upon the prairies at this season of tn
, year. without a sure antidotc agains
! the natural effects of the bite, in hi
pocket The best antidote is hartshorl
A small bottle of it is sufficient appl
to the wound. -MteheU Republican.
: SrIcIDE.-We learn from the Tipto
; Advertiser, that on the 1lth inst, til
5 body Of Mr.. Lee, who lived in niger
: Grove, Linn county, was found on tn
, prairie about seven miles from Wilton
5 with the throat cut. 1t was eviden
/ that he had committed suicide from
some unknown cause.
DEowNED.-The keosauqua RepuL
lican learns that three men while com
ing down in a skif1' from Des Moines
few days since, We're upset into til,
river. \ man named Ira Eangordel
was drowned He lived at the moutl
of Boone river. The party had goot
deal of baggage with them, all o
which was lost
KILLED BY LIGHrSING.-Wc have al
, account Of the killing Of man and hi
wife by lightning, near Hickory Grove
: Their names were Atkinson an Emo.