Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-18

home in Newton.
The Jasper County Agricultural Fair will
be bel at Newton on Monday, Tuesday and
"Wednesday, the 2s,h, 29th and 3Oth of Sep
TENDER.
STRUCK ny LlGn7SISG.-Wednesday night
of last week, the barn of Craft Coast, ESQ, Of
Iowa City, situated in Scott township, John
son county, was struck by lightning and en-.
tirely consumed. Mr.. Coasts loss is some
$4,000, consisting of four horses, two mules
all his grain, hay and farming utensils.
PRoMoTEu.-Lieut. Col. Mackey, of the s3d
Iowa, has been promoted to the Colonelcy Of
that regiment in the place of Col. S. A. Rice,
made Brigadier General. Col. Mackey had
command of the 33d in the Helena battle and
acquitted himself admirably. He is popular
with his men and an excellent officer.
LIEUT.. Geo. @. Remey, son of Major
Remey, of Burlington, was captured, with q
number Of naval officers and marines, upon
the walls of Fort Sumter, and is therefore O
prisoner. Lieut.. Remey has been in Charles
ton Harbor since operations commenced there,
and was in command of marine battery.
The Nevada Democrat says some twenty
miles of the track of the Cedar Rapids, and
Missouri River Railroad is graded west OF
Marshalltown. The heavy rain which fell
during August retarded the work somewhat
but twelve miles Of the track will be ready for
the iron by the 1st of October and it is conf
IDENTIFY expected that the road will be opened
to Nevada this fall.
WELL DoNE.-The Davenport Democrat
says the premiums taken by Jos. c. Simp.
son at the late Scott County Fair amount to
the very handsome sum of $40. NJ. W.
Black, the owner Of Scalpel and Jersey Boy,
took about $275; Green's Bashaw took 5000
Carson's horses, from Galesburg, took 500
E. W. Craig, from the same place took 500
Lady Peosta took about $75 and other hor
ses various other large sums.
New RAILROAD PRoJEor-A company has
been organized at Davenport to construct q
railroad from Marengo to Blairstown, in Ben.
ton county. THIS will unite two of the mos,
important lines Of railway in the State-the
NJ. q M. and the Cedar Rapids and Missouri
Rver-thus giving the people Of Benton and
the tier of counties west of it the advantage
of two routes to the East The proposed road
we believe, is only eight miles in length.
LOUISA County IrEMs.-A grand Union
rally is to take place at Grandview at
o'clock Saturday next, at which Jacob Butler
and d. c. Cloud, of Muscatine, are announced
as speakers. A Union meeting is also an.
nounced at Wapello, on the goth inst, with
Hon. james Harlan and Henry O'Connor as
speakers Of the Democratic nominees
in this county decline being candidates on
the Democratic ticket, to wit; Capt. John
Albaugh, nominee for sheriff; Rev. Camp.
bell, nominee for Superintendent of common
Soho bis; and Col. Garner, for County Sur.
veyor.- John Doison, a son of David Dolson,
living in the southern part Of the county, &C.
cidentally shot and killed himself last Satur.
day, while crossing fence with gum
Dawson, of Wapello, had his safe robbed Of
about $500 in cash and 5000 in bank checks,
during temporary absence from his store
on Wednesday afternoon of last week.-A
stranger was arrested on suspicion of having
committed the robbery, but nothing was
proven against him. No clue to the affair
has yet been obtained.-We CLEAN these items
from the Wapello Republican.
FATAL AocrDENr.-H. c. Miller, an old
citizen of Mahaska county, came to his death
few days since by the accidental discharge
CT pistol in his overcoat pocket.
AN INSANE MAN BuRNED TO DEATH WIN.
Hills, an insane man who had been kept in
confinement for ten years past IN Van Buren,
county. set fire to his prison house on the
night of the 9Th inst, and was burned to
death.
We notice that the Butternut Supervi-
sors of Dubuque county, in imitation of
New York City Alderman Of the same per-
sausion, have attempted to nullify the draft
by resolution TO purchase the exemption of
citizens of that county who may be drafted
Their action is disgrace to our fair State.
"A large Union mass meeting was held at
Keosauqua few days since, addressed by
Senator Harlan and others. Every township
in the county sent up large delegations, with
flags and banners and music. One team came
in drawn by thirtv-fve horses, each with
flag, representing the number of States IN the
Union. Another bore flag representing the
remarkable equestrian feat of a person riding
two horses running in opposite directions,
one side of the rider being in the costume of
a Brigadier General, the other being adorned
with the significant Butternut--a somewhat
pointed "hit," consi lering that Keosauqua is
the residence of the futile.
A TRRRIBLE DEATH.- During the terri.
BILE confagration at Cohoes, N. Y, one of
the work-women Kate Donnelly-jamped
from window, but her skirts caught in a
window-sill, and in this position she was
burned to death. The cries of the poor girl
were agonizing in the extreme, but she was
beyond the reach of succor. A man went to
her aid upon ladder, and succeeded in reach
ing up to her, and getting hold of her, but her
skirts was so firmly fastened that he was
unable to pull her down and was finally forced
by the flames to leave her Thus she hung and
burned to death, in the presence of thousands
of Mortified spectators. Her remains, charred
and blackened, were subsequently recovered.
WTo war, the Democratic party opposes
peace. To conquer the enemy, Democracy
would cease fighting. This would have a