Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-02-19
IOWA News.

The Fifth Ward in Davenport offered
fifty dollars bounty for recruits and got more
men then were needed to fill its quota.
Prof Agassiz is announced to lecture al
Davenport next week-time not yet fixed
upon. Could he not be induced to visit Mus.
catine? $751;
"A soldier named John Shea, of Co., I, I'd
battalion Invalid Corps, fell into an air hole
in the river, opposite Davenport, on the 18th,
and was drowned.
INsANE.-Thos. II. McGhee, IN cid and
well known citizen Of Davenport, has become
hopelessly insane. and was last week sent to
the Asylum at Mt. Pleasant
The cars on the Cedar Rapids and Mis-.
souri, River R. R. commenced running to
Col,, Story county, seven miles west oil
State Center, on Monday last. ..-..
The South. Tier Democrat, a Copper
head institution in Wayne county, has given
up the ghost. The Office material is used ia
the publication Of sound Union paper in
Grundy county, Mo.
INcEND1AR1sM AT KEoKUK.-A fire was
kndled in toe cellar Of a building on Fourth
street, Keokuk, last Friday morning, which
was with great difficulty exiinguished before
material damage was done. Clagett, of,he
Constitution, whose Office was in building
adjoining the one set on fire, thanks the
soldiers for their efficient efforts in manning
the engines to :,ut out the flames.
LOUISA COUNTY REPUBLICAN. CONVENTION.
The following are the delegates to The State
Conve 1tion: VIM. Baker, John Hale, E.
Potter, VIM. S. Robertson, F. A. Duncan,
A. Gamble, r. A. White, A. j. Morse, Jas.
Waterbury, N. NJ. Let's, G. T. Whistler, R.
Prentiss, J. B. Nichols, B. Jennings VIM.
Bell and j. S. Hurley. The Convention in
structed the delegates to use their influence for
the re- nomination of President Lincoln.
The EXTENSION OF THE M. & NJ. r. R.-We
are credlbl7 informed that there are between
four and Eve hundred laborers employed on
the work of extending the NJ. & NJ. R. K. from
GrinneIl, and the company are ready to give
employment to as many more, if they could
be obtained. They have agents stationed at
every important point between Grinnell and
Chicago, with instructions to engage men and
forward them as rapidly as possible. The
highest wages are paid, but labor is scarce
Davenport Gazette. t.t ..-.s. .....
The citizens of Frankvle, Winneshlek
county, are circulating petition praying the
Legislature to pass law DISTINGUISHING those
young men who fled from the State Just before
the 9Th of January in order to avoid the draft.
ABORTION AND DEArH.-Miss Rebecca Nc
Olure, an orphan girl, living in the family of
Mr.. Prindle, at Richmond, Washington coun.
ty, died few days since from abortion. No
legal evidence has been found to FIX the crime
upon any one. r..e. 81, .o sst =
The 9th Iowa Infantry arrived at Du-
buque last week, and had magnificent re-
ception from the citizens. They are on fur.
Tough, having all re-enlisted for the war
The regiment numbered $40 men, exclusive
Of the officers. r.--s az .
The Burlington Hasskeye says that J. M.
Swan, . farmer living in Des Moines county,
produced from sixteen acres Of meadow the
past season, 80 tons Of timothy hay, worth
$14 per ton, and SO bushels clover seed worth
s. per bushel; $45 30 per acre or little
over. ..+;,.,.-.-
W-"What is polygamyf" asked Ike, who
had stumbled over the word in the paper.
Mrs. Partington looked severe. "Polygamy,"
said she, sis where men have an ad ibertine
privilege Of marrying pleurisy of wives.
God bless 'em, when they can't take care of
one as she ought to be, with cotton flannel
forty cents yard and -four at fabulous prices"
Ike was satisfied, and immersed himself in .