Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-01
VOL. XII--NO. 81.
iowa NEWS,

..s..is iowa NEWS. Al .,r.g
Miss Fannie Wilson, eldest daaehte~ -
Hon. T. s. Wilson, Of Dubuque, died O,
Wednesday last, from tho effects of iuiur,
received l some two years ago by being dasbq,
to the sidewalk by Q runaway horse, n ~
this is the second child Judge Wilson h..
oeen called upon to part with. dprinc tb,
ling. .. ".7
AT meeting Of the Burlington RIFF.
company, held Saturday, the 18Th INST.
resolutions were passed unanimously off-.-
ing the services OF the Company tc .he Gov
ernor Of the State and for augrnen.ius tie
force to 100 men. A resolution wa. al, ,
passed petitioning for 60 stand of erra j.;
addition to those already in tie possessie.
OF tho Company. Lists for the enliseuen.
OF volunteers in the Company have beet.
placed at six different places in the city.
The Burlington Blues voted On F,;da,
evening last to offer sheir services to t:..
Governor in case Of civil war, for tie SUP SUP
port of the laws aud the defence of tn. st.r.
and ttripss. Nif2 s.i i' ..~'a ''s
AT the late meeting of the State Ac,i.
cultural Society, the first premium on report
OF last Fair was given to the Iowa Git,
Republican the I'd to the Iowa City Ae-
porter. The salary Of the Secretary Was
reduced to $500, and nothing allowed tor
clerk hire. The salary of the TressuIe or Was
also reduced aud the Board will hereafter
receive travelling expenses ior attendance at
one session only, instead OF two. J. Circuit,
OF Keokuk county, received the lst premi-
um for best specimen OF Imrhee sugar
Some or specimens Of Inphee and Sor-
ghum sugar were exhibited. J. Painter. OF
Cedar county, received the lst premium for
Sorghum syrup. J. Grou., got the 81 pre-
MUM. There were from IL 70 Is entries O,
syrup all of superior quality - irom 25 To
80 per cent. better than similar entries ;as:
year. Mrs. Abigail James, of Marion oouD-
ty, would have received the 1st premium Oh
Sorghum sugar, if the requ!sisioas of th.
Society had been complied with. J. K.
OF Wright county, would have
the let premism on syrup, If the
proper entry had been made on the books OF
the Society.
SUSPECTED MURDER OF A CITIZEN OF o.
John Dunn, an inius.rior
house carpenter CT this piece, left bic fsmi,,
1oOh fotI 81.
could do better there at his trade a-r:-
the winter tnan lie could here. His fa-,
heard from him regularly, ald he SEA. .,s4
money about once fortnight. 1hs la>
letter received from him Was written "a D.
Soto county, Mississippi, sbout tho 1ss
December. He was at work III his t.ac-
and had two lien at work wi.h him. RI
promised to write soon again, but since tb.-
time his family have not heard from t,u
About the middle Of December, there W.
a dispatch published stating til. three me
for ''inci'ing the slaves to rebellion" In
been lynol,ed in Northern Mississippi. i.
few days afterwards, the Chicago Tfioal
had positive information Of tbs halg;ng,
three house carpenters-two Americans nu,
at Fc:ar's Point, Dc Soto ocan-
ty, Mississippi. A ginning establishment,
had been burned at or near that place =
negro, susps cted of firing the building, was
and when tortured nearly 10 death
stated that the three carpenters working Or
a job near by were the authors OF the act
Without further ceremoIy, the carpenters
were taken by the mob and hung, and after
death their bodies were .rested with inde-
nifty. The coincidence of time, place, the
pumber of men at work, the failure to Leaf
from Mr.. Dunn, have given rise to strong
suspicion in this community, that he was
one of the victims, and his family ale in
painful state of anxiety as to his fate. NJ.
d. Was hard-woking, pesceable man, and
q strong Douglas Dslnocrst- Oskaioosa
Herald.