Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04
IOWA NEWS.


buque, has been appointed Pension
Agent by the Government for Northern
Iowa.
The militia companies on our South
ern border are about to be organized
into regiments, by order of the Adjutant
General. A good idea.
Among the wounded in the recent
battle in the Shenandoah Valley, are
Lieut.. Col. B. H. Wilson, of the 2Sth
Iowa, in the thigh, and Captain G.. w.
Clark, ODD Iowa, in the hip.
A State Convention of liquor deal
ers will be held at Iowa City, Nov. 23d,
"to take into consideration the means
and adopt some plan for the legitimate
protection of their interests" .a..r
Hon. w. p. Wolf has been nomina-
ted for the Legislature from Cedar coun-
ty to fill the vacancy caused by his own
resignation when he enlisted in the
100 days. service, in which he was
severely wounded. He is worthy of the
highest honor in the gift of his county
An agent for Hancock county ILL.,,
lately demanded certificate from Adjt
Gen. Baker that 81 men from that
county had enlisted in Iowa regiments
He refused until the military authorities
of Illinois agree to furnish like certifi.
Gates for Iowa men who have enlisted in
that State. Gen. Baker is right.
New PATENTS s.-Abraham Dodder, OF
Washington, has just received patent
for weather Strips" and B. w. Nc
Clure, of Wyoming, for "Horse Collar
Block" ,.....-. ..4L
,-Adjt. Gen. Baker has issued an
order requiring companies to drill al
least once month, or the arms will be
taken from them and given to militia
companies that will perform such duty.
Lieut.. G. c. Remey, U. S. n, son OF
Major w. B. Remey, of Burlington,
who for the past fourteen months has
been in prison at Columbia, s. c., has
been released, and recently arrived at
New York. ....
RAILROAD ACCIDENT learn from
the Wheatland Times that on the night
of the oath inst, a freight train on the
G. I. 4 n. r. r. ran off the track near
Toledo, causing considerable damage to
the train and killing one man.
Two hundred and seven drafted men
! We're forwarded from Camp Mcclellan
on Wednesday night for the 10Th In
fantry, now with Gen. Sherman. Two
hundred drafted men assigned to the 4th
Infantry will leave for their regiment
Tomorrow or Monday.-DauenpoW Ga
.sette, 18th. ..''.
PUTTING ON CITY A1Rs.-The people
of Desmoines are talking about the cree
ton of water works at that place.
The Court House in Mitchell coun-
ty was broken into few nights since,
after the tax sale, and the records of the
same destroyed. The consequence is
that the sale will have to be made a
second time.
"A Dubuque speculator has contract
ed to deliver five hundred barrels of
potatoes in Memphis, Tenn, at $500
per barrel.
Major Tenbroek, in charge of the
military district of Iowa, has been or
dered to report to Gen. Smith at Keo-
kuk with view of taking measures to
defend the border from any more raids
from the gurrillas of Missouri.
We are informed by one who pro-
fesses to know that the guerrilla party
that passed through this section of
country few days ago, was composed Of
Illinolsians enlisted by the notorious
Bill Dunn of Missouri, for the rebel SER
vice. He enlisted and drilled them in
Illinois, and got off safely with Al men
and II extra horses. So says our infor-
mant.-N. Madison Pldindcalcr, '28th.
A man named Johnson with canoe
overhauled and killed deer which was
attempting to swim the river about mid
way between this city and Oquawka a
day or two ago. AS he neared the
frightened animal it turned and swan
with the current, and when he came up
with it, it made feeble efforts to strike
his craft with its fore feet, but with his
pocket knife he severed it's jugular and
won the day y.-Bowlington Ha,ckeye.
Want Of Courage.