Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-11-25
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IOWAeNEWS.
MAHAsxA CouHTY r. R. BONDS ENyo,xED.
We learn from the Sigourney Democrat
that an injunction has been granted, at the
instance Of the County Judge Of Mahaska
county, to restrain the payment Of the bonds
issued BY that county to tho NJ. 4 NJ. Rail-
road, BY reason Of the Company failing to
perform the amount Of work at the time |
specified in the contract. >' 4 f'~
THs DxsNoiNRs LAND GRANr.-Thc q. 8. |
District Court, Judge Love presiding, at its
recent session in Dubuque, gave its decision
sustaining the claim Of the State to about
900, 900 acres of land granted by Congress
to the State, in aid Of the Desmoines River
Improvement. The question submitted was
IS to the extent of the grant, the State claim
ing, and tho Secretary Of the Interior de-
nying, that the grant extended to the source
of the Desmoines river. By an arrange
ment between the State and the Desmoines
River Improvement Company, $50, 900 acres
Of these lands are 70 be transferred to the
Keokuk, Fort Desmoines and Minnesota
Railroad Company. ,a.8
The State Board of Education will as
semble in the Senate Chamber in Desmoines
on Monday. the 9th of December.
Tho Dubuque Western Railroad is now
completed to Honticello, in Jones county,
and the Anamosa Eureka thinks the cars
will bs running to that place by the lst Of
January.
TRIPLErs.-The Jasper County Press Of
the 18th says that on Tuesday night Of last
week, Hra John W. Brown, of Desmoinss
township, In that county, presented her
husband with three handsome children at q
birth-all girls--wsighing nineteen and o
half pounds, or an average of six and half
pounds. The mother and children are doing
we'll. ff .- l tl
A CALoRrc ENGINE. -Messrs. N. W. & F.
NJ. Mills, the enterprising publishers Of the
Monthly Reporter and Ios0a School Journal,
At Desmoines, have recently purchased n
caloric engine to run the presses in their ex-
tensive printing establishment. 1t is the
only engine of the kind west of Cincinnati.
1t works on the principle of the expansion
Of heated airs three horse power, eccu-
pies by Z feet, runs on q bushel of coal
per day, requires no engineer, only has to
De fed about once an hour, and can't explode.
Com CROP "A correspondent of the N.
Y. Tribune, who has lately been through
fifteen of the southeastern counties of Iowa,
says ssThe corn crop is almost universally
good-say 40 or 80 bushels per acre. Corn
is selling in Van Buren, county at 10 cents
bushel, and 10 other counties at IS or IL
cents, delivered in towns. Buckwbeat, po-
tatoes, turnips, &C., are abundant. Wheat
is not half crop in the river countless
The hog crop is large it is estimated for
the fifteen counties named at l5O, 900 head.
It is also estimated that 10000 head Of
beevss will be ted this winter. The crop of
sorghum syrup is estimated in those coun-
ties to be worth from $4,000 to O,O0O."
IMpHEE-A Saceharine Plant Superio. to
Sorghum.-Mr. |. Humphrey, of lowaville,
Buchanan county, informs the editor of the
Keosauqua Republican that he has on hand
lot of the seed of the African Imphee, for
gratuitous distribution. Those living at a
distance can have it sent by mail, by en-
closing the postage money in q letter and
sending it to him. His great desire to bring
it into general use prompts him to do this.
He says: 81 know it to be superior to
Sorghum for molasses, and know that it
will grain and make sugar not interior to
the best Southern sugar. l am now, on this
10th day of Oct, 1859. making fair article
of syrup from the Imphee, after it has frozen
and began to sour. add one gallon Of al
kali to fifty gallons of sap. l am using
seven gallons of sap to make one gallon of
thick syrup"