Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-11
IOWA NEWS.

Bremen county, Ieli Suuueniy oead whlie
walking by his wagon.
The United States District Court open.
ed in Dubuque on Tuesday last. There are
severity six cases on the docket.
NEW Posi- OTF1oE.-An office has heen |
established at Niles, Van Buren, county,
Iowa, Major H. King Postmaster.
The Davenport Democrat says the
Treasury OF that city contains just one dol
lar, and advises people holding orders to
make rush.
The Keokuk Daily Journal publishes
table showing that the aggregate valuation
Of real and personal property in Lee county
as per assessment, is $s.249,Sa6
"A traveller, riding a mustang towards
Sioux Oity, is supposed to have been muir.
dered in Guthrie county, as his horse and
dog came back to Dodge township without
him.
OUTDOOR PREACHING. Rev. j. Dixon,
Secretary of the Preachers meeting, informs
the Reporter that the Ministers of Iowa
City have determined to try the experiment
of outdoor preaching,
"A case involving the question as to
whether or not the homestead caa be sold
on a mortgage, is now before the District
Court at Keokuk, and the Judge has taken
time to consider it. So says the Gate City
of the Sd inst.
A NEW DoDaE.-Barney Quinn, who runs
on the Keokuk, Mt. Pleasant and Muscatine
Railroad, as peddler, found pocket book.
An owner appeared who offered to pay the
boy reward for his honesty, and gave him
S., but said that was rather more than he
could afford, and asked the boy if he could
not give him dollar back, which he did
The S. turned out to be worthless.
PolsoNEn.-The Upton Advertiser says
four or five members of Mr.. A. F. Cornwalps
family, of that town, were poisoned last
Friday week, by eating pie plant leaces,
boiled up for green's. All but Mrs. Corn
wall are in fair way to recover. She is
still dangerous. 1t should he remembered
by all, that pie plant leaves contain an acid
that is very poisonous, and they should
never be eaten.
HORSE THIEvEs-The Jasper Express says
bold attemps was made to steal two valu-
able horses from Col. S. B. Shellady, at
Monroe. The villains succeeded in break
ing open the barn by removing a window,
and opened che door from the inside and got
the horses out, but failed to get away with
them, There are numerous strolling vaga-
bonds in the country, and farmers and
others will do well to look to their property.
UNaRArEFuL. A man named Gregg.
who lately undertook to commit suicide in
Davenport, by hanging was SO much in
censed at his wife for cutting him down,
that, after having laid on his bed day or
two, just hating between life and death, be
no sooner got fairly on his legs, than he
cordingly he armed himself with butch er.
knife and made the assault. The woman ran
for life, closely pursued by her husband,
but succeeded in reaching place of safety.
So says the Democrat.
STATE HISTORICAL SoCIETY.--The Board
of Curators met in the society's rooms at
Iowa City, on the lst inst. The report of
the Corresponding Secretary sho rs the do
nations to the library within the last month
to have been one hundred and ninety four.
From S. Underwood, Esq, Muscatine,
through Willard Barrows, Davenport, som g
valuable additions were made to the Cabi-
net. The Board will meet again on the FIRST
Tuesday in June, at which time Hon. F. H..
Lee will read paper on the early history
of Iowa, and to which meeting the public
will be invited
! SUDDES DEATH-MYsTERIOU AFFAIR.-Tbe
Dubuque papers contain an account of the
death of a strange lady in that city on the
first inst.,, which caused mu:h excitement
1t seems that a woman calling herself Mrs.
Chas. Clark, came to Dubuque on the 3Oth
ult., and put up at the Julien House, ard
the next morning, she Was found in the
area, upon the ground, dressed in her night
clothes. She Was carried to her room and
died in ten minutes. A post morton exam.
ination revealed the tact that she had been
affii cted with consumption, her left lung
being almost solicited, aud her sudden deal
caused by the exposure above mentioned.
From the account she gave the land ord. i:
seems she had lived near Winoaa, MIMI,
where her husband deserted her. He was
a gambler and of loose character. He had
l,ov ~,
she had not been able to fad him. She was
about thirty-eight years Of age, and had
been in the habit Of using opium.
A Boy BURNT TO DEATH BY HIS FATHER
A farmer living in Liberty township. this
county, accidentally burnt his son to death,
ABOUT two weeks since. in the following
manner: The farme was engaged in plow-
ing. His son, small lad about seven years
old, took his father out some water dur ng
the afternoon, and instead OF returning
home, as his father supp osed, laid down upon
straw stack and fell asleep. The father,
just befo:e leaving the field f.r the night, |
and wishing 10 get the straw OFT of the |
way, set it on fire. Upon returning home,
and not finding his son there, he thought of
The stack lie had fred, and Went back 10
find his son burnt almost to a crisp.-Knor /
rifle Marion county, Journal.
RAILROAD MATTERS The Anamosa Eure.
la has al article in its last issue which is
significant if it can be regarded as a reAec
ton CT the sentiments of those who control
he Dubuque Western r. K. now finished
to that place. It urges the prop iety If
extending that read to Muscatine by way of
Upton in preference to q connection with
Marion, thus giving some counteuance 70
the many rumors in circulation that Gelcpke
& Co., have backed down from their origf-
nal promise to build the road to Marion this
season, whether they succeeded in getting
the Land Grant or not. Our people, how.
ever, as yet have every confidence that these
gentlemen will redeem their pledges in full
and IL at BY so doing they Will promote
heir own interests as we'll as ours.-Linn