St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-01-05
Iowa Items.

The people of Independence are ma.
king arrangements to have town
clock.
About fourteen thousand hogs have
already been slaughtered in Buring-
ton.
Many of the merchants in Floyd and
neighboring counties are now receiv.
ing their goods over the Dubuque and
Pacific Railroad.
During the past three weeks it is
said that over thirty thousand bush
els of grain have been sold in Indie.
pendence.
The Wapello Intclligencer says that
Estep, who was convicted of cattle
stealing, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for a term of eight years.
Several lawsuits have been institu.
ted in Jasper county by parents, on
account of difficulties originating in a
free fight between the country boys
and those of Newton, all of whom
were attending school at Newton.
Hon. Charles Mason Of Burlington,
late U. S. Commissioner of Patents at
Washington, has become connected
,.-.sitn the N. I. scientific American.
1t is lamcntable fact that the.
6 School Fund loaned out in many of
the counties of Iowa, is very made
quately secured, and the General AS
sembly ought at once to make provis-
ion for its protection.
, The Dubuque Times learns that Mr.
John Hunt of that city has been muir
dered at st. Louis, and that man
named Dan Wall, also from Dubuque,
. has been arrested on suspicion of be-
ing the guilty party.
Mr.. John Vossler of Wavcrly late.
ly lost lis hand in a threshing ma
, chine. His arm was amputatcd just
below the elbow, and he is now doing
well.
An agent of the U. S. Government
is at Wintersett wishing to purchase
one hundred yoke of working oxen for
the Utah army.
MIR. Hewitt, Of New Oregon, recent
ly had his leg broken by the wheel of
a loaded wagon rolling over it. Sur
gical aid was called and the patient
was doing well at last accounts.
When Cook, Sargent, Downey & Co
of Iowa City failed, the other day,
they shut down on over thirty thou
sand dollars belonging to depositors.
They claim, however, to be honest
men, and show large assets in wild
lands and corner lots, which must be
very comforting to the depositors.
The Iowa City Reporter mentions
man. sixty years Of age, who was
lately married to girl Of thirteen, all
of johnson county.
The Treasurer Of Iowa has already
placed on deposit with Atwood & Co.,
New York, the money to pay the in
tcrcst on the State debt.
| The failure Of Burrows & Pretty
man, Of Davenport, has sorely distres
sed great many farmers Of Scott
county. A large number of them had
sold their entire wheat crop to that
firm on time, receiving due bills emit
Ting them to payment at future day,
the farmer to receive whatever price
wheat ruled at when the tickets be-
came due. Many farmers had depen-
dcd upon this money to free their
farms from mortgages, and now their
hopes are crushed.
On the 3Oth ult q man named Dan.
lei Harrigan was found lying dead in
a shanty at Mt. Pleasant. He had
been murdered in an ARRAY in liquor
saloon. Some Of the fast young men
!. of the town are charged with the
crime.
Daniel O'Casey, liquor seller at
Mt. Pleasant. has been fined twenty
/ dollars and costs, for selling liquor to.
1.-THE young men of that place.
i The Lansing Mirror states that a
bridge is to be built across Village
creek at its mouth, thus connecting
Capoli and Lansing. The pork trade
of the latter town, according to the
. Mirror, is very brisk.