Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-09-02
IOWA NEWS.

"A. lad named Henry Ahlers was
fatally injured, at Dubuque, on the 2lst,
by falling from walnut tree.
"A Miss Hill committed suicide on
the night of the Goth inst, by drowning
in Cedar river at Waterloo. She is sup
posed to have been temporarily insane.
}. H. Deacon, Treasurer and Recor-
der of Johnson county, died on the oath.
He was an old resident of lowe City,
and much esteemed and respected.
The editor of the Vinton Eagle sug-
gests an Iowa Editors and Publishers
Convention to fix a scale of prices. 1t is
useless. Every publisher will fix his
own scale at any rate.-B,UlingtOaa
Hdwkeye. ...
Our opinion, also. 1t is impossible,
in the present unsettled condition of
prices of printing materials, to fix per-
manent rates.
The quota of johnson county is Ia
Iowa City township As.
The Wheatland Times of the 18th
publishes its own obituary. The editor
says the paper never paid its own way,
and he gives it up in despair. The re-
cent great advance in printing paper
will force many publishers to suspend
business. 1t is truly trying time on
all of them. They must adopt the plan
of the old topper, who, on being told that
flour had gone up higher, triumphantly
declared he could 'git as high as flour
could any day" We don't mean to say
they should get tight" but should ad-
vance their subscription and advertising
rates correspondingly with the advanced
cost of everything they use.
Mrs. Clark Martin, of Van Buren,
county, learning of her husbands inf
deity, in connection with his sister-in-
law, was SO enraged that, last week on
Thursday, she resolved upon revenge =
and while he was eating his supper she
approached him, threw her arms around
his neck and kissed him, then stepped
back and with an axe dealt him such a
blow as leaves no hope of recovery.
George Mcclure, for many years a
general agent of the Western Stage Com
pany, died of malignant dysentery, at
Desmoines, on the 23d. He was widely
known throughout the State, and
commanded the confidence and esteem
of all who knew him.
Gov. Stone has issued a proclamation
forbidding refugees from the rebel army,
guerrillas and bushwhackers from
coming into this State from Missouri
He instructs provost marshals and
militia officers on the border to stop and
tletain all suspected persons till they can
give a satisfactory account of them
selves.
ESCAPE OF MCCOMBs, THE OTTUMWA
MURDEEER.-McCO under sentence
ofdeath at Ottumwa for murder, escaped
from the Jail at that place on Wednesday
evening last, between s and O'Clock.
1t is matter of regret that this villain
should escape the punishment he justly
deserves. Even the irregular mode of
making him pay the penalty ofhis crime
that was attempted some weeks since,
would be preferable to permitting him
to elude justice altogether. We trust he
may be speedily recaptured.-B Bu,ijng-
ton HuWkeye, 26th.
BROKE JAIL.-Henry Nicholas Bark
er, who, it will be remembered, some
weeks since passed a couple of one hun
dred dollar counterfeit bells in this city,
broke Jail on the morning of the oath.
He is German, and is described as
"about 81 years ofage, 5 feet t9inches high,
light complexion, no beard, black hair,
large dark brown eyes, broad and little
stoOp-shouldered, speaks good English
with German accent, and has the three
first fingers shot off the right hand, leav-
ing only the thumb and little finger
Burlington H0UEeye.
The Newton Free Press estimates
the number of sheep in that county at
80, 900, and says they are proving a mine
of wealth to the lucky owners. 1t gives
the example Of Messrs. TAFT and Sherer,
who, two years ago, purchased 500 sheep
for 81 $50. During the first year the
cost of keeping them was only $33l.-
They yielded $500 lbs. Of wool, which,
at 80 cents, brought s., $50, leaving net
profit of 81 ,919, to say nothing of the in
creace of lambs, while the original flock
is now valued at $1,000.
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