Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-12-09

| AV"A
The County seat Of Allamakee
county has been removed from Lansing
back to Waukon. aEer
| A short time before the war COM
menced, there were l36 convicts in the
Iowa State Prison. Now there are but
7O-89 men and one woman.
-Findley M. Linn, 10Th Iowa Iufan-
try, enlisted at Wapello, Louisa county,
di' at Mobile of congestive chills. The
editor of the Chicago Journal has let
ter for Miss Mary Liun, supposed to be
asister, which he will send to her address
when ascertained.
Several burglaries were committed
in Iowa City on the night of the 23d ult.
John Falk lost 5000 worth of boots and
shoes, Banner lot of liquors and oys-
ters, Barlow a sack of flour, and Guer
$500 worth of cloth. The Press says the
burglars were not detected. 1t thinks
the authorities should employ night
police force.
WOOD CHOPPING BEE.-We learn
from the Sigourney NeaUs that the citi-
zens of that place turned out quite gen.
orally on Thanksgiving Day to chop
wood for destitute soldiers families.
About eighty loads of wood were cut
sixty-two were hauled, and twenty-five
families were supplied with from two to
three loads each. That was O day we'll
spent.
MURDERER IN JAIL.-A short time
ago man by the name of MCMILLAN
was lodged in the Linn county Jail,
charged with the crime of having MUIR
dered a man by the name of Townsend,
a resident of 10 Davies county, iii. The
two men We're returning from Idaho,
and Townsend had with him about
S., 900. The parties We're near Nevada
in this State when the murder was COM
mitted. Mcmillan was afterwards seen
with $4,000 of the money which had be-
longed to the murdered man. 1t is said
that MCMILLAN was formerly bush
whacker i'm Missouri We are informed
that he confesses his guilt and only
alleges that it was done when in pas
sion. He now spends the most of his
time singing, praying and shouting, and
going to "glory" at something more
than 2:4O speed, to hear him tell it
Linn County Patriot.
The Upton AdUertiser announces
the death of Colonel Wilds, of the 24th
Iowa. His arm was badly broken in the
battle of October 10Th, but he was
thought to be doing well until short
time before his death. The Colonels
residence was Mt. Vernon, we believe.
His wife and two daughters died only a
few weeks since. There is no survivor
of his late happy and interesting family.
The Wapello Republican says Il
mouse was entrapped at Keller's Drug
Store in that place, the other day, that
MARBLES" forth strains that would do
credit to a first-class canary"
Colonel I. C. CulLertson has resign
ed the office of Assistant Adjutant Gen-
eral of this State, having been selected
Clerk of the Johnson county District
Court. w. II. Impey, of Des Moines,
has been appointed his successor, with
the rank of Colonel Of cavalry. He is
also ec obicio Paymaster General of the
State
- Among the new patents recently
issued to inventors by the Patent Office
at Washington, are the following to
gentlemen in Iowa:
Corn Planter-Volcott d. Stoddard, Muscatine,
Iowa.
Fe- d Manger-C f. Steller, McGregor, Iowa.
OScillat!ng Engine M. c. kilgOre and William
Eberhard, Washington, Iowa.
Cultivators-J. j. Ryder, Wilton Junction.
Iowa.
Device for measuring cloth in the piece or roll
William PeltOn, u rinnell, Iowa.
seed Planter-Aaron Chrisrnan and Michael
Whitman, Sugar Ccreek, Iowa.
AN Iowa BOoK.-We learn from the
Keokuk papers that Capt. A. A. Stuart,
u citizen OF this State, and for a long
time distinguished officer in the 10th
Iowa infantry, is engaged in writing a
book entitled the Iowa Colonels." The
object of the author is to give biogra-
ply of all the Iowa Colonels who were
commissioned prior to July, 1864, to-
gether with brief history of every
Iowa regiment except the 100 days men,
up to September, 1864.
Assistant Surgeon John J. Saunders,
of the lst Iowa cavalry, has feen dis
missed from the service by order of the
Wa Department, for being drunk and
useless 10 Tie service.