Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-02
IOWA News.

Contractors were in Dubuque, last week,
buying potatoes at 40 cents per bushel, for
shipment to St. Louis.
The large school house, 81 miles north
east Of Oskaloosa, belonging to the Society of
Friends, was destroyed by fire on Sabbath,
2Oth inst, the fire originating from defec-
tive hue. The Herald says it will be speedily
rebuilt.
The Dubuque Southwestern Railroad
have large force grading their line between
Cedar Rapids and Marion, and expect to have
the cars running to Cedar Rapids by the LIST
Of next January. This roal ruhs through
one Of the richest sections Of Iowa.
The Cedar Rapids and Missouri River
Railroad is now laying track west CT Mar
shalltown, and will run the cars fourteen
miles beyond that town in the course of the
next sixty days. 1t is the intention of the
Company to have the road completed to Ne.
vada by the lst of January.
The State FAR proves not to have been
so much Of a failure, financially, after ALL
The total amount of receipts from all sources
were $4,000; of this, over $4,000 was paid
in premiums, every award being cashed at
once by the Committee. After paying all
expenses there is balance On hand of $4OO.
DELEGATES TO THE METHODIST GENERAL
CoNFERENcE.-At the recent session of the
Upper Iowa Conference at Davenport, tbs
Reverends Mr. Keeler, Houghton, Fegenbaum,
Clifford and Kynett, were elected delegates
to the General Conference that is to meet
next Spring
PoULrRY CHoLERA-The Wapello Repub.
lican says there is disease raging among
the chickens Whereabouts which some call
cholera.
The Northern Border Brigade of this
State has been disbanded, its place having
been filled by U. S. troops.
Three hundred convalescent soldiers lsf'
Keokuk last Monday to join their re- +,,nents
The African regiment bes now hetuoon
four and Eve hundred ,r.en in camp at Keo.
kuk, and enough additional men at the var,
lous recruiting stations to fill the regiment
-Four hundred sheep were taken to Mar.
ION from Michigan, few days ago, and sold
to one purchaser at four dollars per head.
| Nine hundred more are expected to arrive
soon.
| Hon. j. 3. Grinnell and G. G. Cole, ESQ.
will address the citizens of Iowa county at
Marengo on Friday, Oct I'd, at o'clock P.
NJ, and at Mi'lersburg on the same day. at
7 o'clock P. M.
Patrick Robb, late of the Sioux CITY
Register, and Mr.. Ham, late of the Detroit
Free Press. have purchased the Dubuque Her.
aid establishment, and will take possession
of it on the 18th of October.
Tho Democrats of Dubuque, who are
aversc to be mere hangers on to the Mahony-
tie car, have switched off on another track and
have announced John Fortune, the Democrat
who was defeated in convention by Mahony
tricksteIs, as their candidate for Sheriff.
Mahony is getting some hard hits from those
| who know his real character.
TIE SHOOTING AFFAIR At GAR1BALD1.-We
learn from the Sigourney (Keokuk Co.. Ne,os
that the names of the men shot at Garibaldi.
in that county, last Saturday night, are F.
Sonnewals and Henry Deidrich. The latter
is dangerously wounded in the abdomen, but
the former is only slightly hurt, though
ball grazed his skull. The assaultine party
we're Bill Talley, (hrother Of the defunct Tai.
ley) I. N. Jacobs, George Hahn and Ed.
Franklin-the latter, it is supposed firing the
shots flour in number.) The difficulty or;gi-
mated because the above named n,torious COD.
perheads were refused admission to a ball
given in honor of H. F. B. Passig, who was
about returning to the army. They left the
house shouting for jeff. Davis. Two of them
Franklin and Hahn-have been arrested.