Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-30
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BRwAKR!- Wizards Bank Note Reporter
cautions the people Of the Northwest against new
wild.cat-the Bank Of Whitfield, Dalton, Ga. Ger
tain parties are about issuing quarter of a million
of its notes for circulation in this region. They are
worthless.
LusUs NArUR2.-We were shown, this
morning, chicken, newly Matched, with four legs,
three wings, and but one head. 1t was Matched
from ordinary sized egg, but the little aedgling
was killed by its unnatural mother soon after it saw
the light.
H We find the following paragraph in
The Hydraulic Prsss (san Juan, Nevada CO., Csl)
of Feb 4th Mr.. Snyder was Sheriff Of this county,
in 1912: ...s,z--,a.s.. .... -.. ..s.
"Ten years ago, Denton J. Sny der. Of Musca':ne,
Iowa, came to California. His family have heard
nothing from him for twelve months or more. Any
information addressed to Francis 7. Snyder. Co.
lumbus Ohio, will be thankfully received by q son
anxious for the fate of his father" A.a
NEW WAoLEsALE GROCERY SroRE.-We
az gret6ed to announce that our old fellow citizen
Pliny Fay. is again going into business. He has
just returned from an Eastern and Southern tour
with heavy stock of groceries, which will be
opened in the stand formerly occupied by A. Duns.
more & Co. Mr.. Fay has been too long known as
one of our best and most trustworthy business
doubtless be favored, as be deserves, with large
wholesale trade.
QrseoyRRY OR THE BorY OF J. G. STEVEN
soN.-The body of G. Stevenson. who disappear
ed on the evening Of the 4th of December last. was
discovered, Sunday afternoon, on the farm of G..
A. pringer, about two miles northeast of the city.
An inquest was held before Coroner Chaudoin, and
the jury returned verdict that the deceased came
to his death by exposure to cold He was found
lying near small tree, in an enclosure. From
appear ances be had lain down to rest having pre-
viously taken off his shoes, and in this died
without struggle, probably freezing to death. The
body had been until few days past partly concealed
by grass and shrubbery. Wien the grass was
burned oft, :.he corpse considerably blaekened
and dis6gured, but otherwise it was in fair state
representation It was inferred by his Borrowing
friends in the City Cemetery, a, II o'clock Monday
forenoon. eel.
The deceased was in his 40th year-a man Of
many worthy qualities of mind and heart. hut alas
slave to his appetite for strong drink, which drove
him to madness and to DEATH Will others, warned
by his example, shun the tempter's power,
AN Internal SCHEME The editor of the
Zeitung, aluding to the excursion of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad to Washington, to which all the
editors of the Northwest are to be invited, is &C
much captivated with that feature of the pro
gramme which allows each editor to be accompanied
by lady without any express stipulation that she
must be his legal spouse that he strongly ntimates
he will join the party, by asking his readers to hold
the Railroad Company responsible should his paper
fail to make its appearance about the time pro
posed for this excursion, spirit Gt will hardly
do to call an sgH spirit since it appears to ocate
as special guardian of the aforesaid editor) such ar
one as is generally supposed to be located in s
printing office, thereupon, offers the following
alarming suggestion $40 W..
"To me it appears as if this excursion were {
trap for the Western Aboitionst editors. 1t would
only be necessary to upset the train, or take the
editors off on the mountains, paint them black, like
printers devils, and sell them as slaves It is moi
to be trusted -
We hope all those who propose going on this
excursion will prepare themselves for any emer
gency. The route lies through Virginia.
CO. man named William Richards ia
at present confined in the Jail at this place, who got
into his difficulty under rather peculiar circum
stances He was arrested at Columbus City, several
weeks ago, for having attempted, in company with
another man named Gray, to rob farmer of that
vicinity of about 800. They waylad the farmer on
the road, and while Richards held handkerchief
overhis face Gray took the money from his pocket.
They were Immediately pursued by persons lying
in wait: Gray handed the money to Richards, who,
finding he could not escape, threw it away. Rich
ards was taken and the money was found, but Gray
made his escape, and has not since been heard of.
1t now appears that Gray is villain of the deep.
est dye and nveigled Richards into the crime, after
first 'druggng him with liquor and informing 2
number of persons of the contemplated robbery, so
that he might be arrested Gray pretended to be a
police detective from Indiana, and in this capacity
won the confidence of Sheriff Taylor of Louisa
county to such an extent that he was permitted to
occupy the Jail in this city three weeks, last fall
prisoner, in company with several horse thieves
brought from Louisa county, for the purpose as he
said, offnding out the extent of their organization
and the names of their accomplices 1t is needless
to say that he made no developments Of this kind.
hat his object was in entrapping Richards in his
present difficulty cannot be easily OWNED He is
about 80 or a3 years of age, thick set, and rather
boisterous in his conversation. Richards is man
of good education, respectable connections and
steady habits. His trial will take place at the next
term of Court in Louisa county, which commences
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