Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-29
IOWA NEWS.
The publishers Of the Dubuque dali
les have advanced their subscription

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les have advanced their subscription
rates to $12 per year.
The Home Journal says the late
rains brought forward all kinds of crops
in Henry county, and that the prospect
for fine yield has never been better.
| The Linn County Patriot says that
aboy IA years old, the son of Mr.. Adams,
ofthat county, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed, while herding some
stock on the prairies, on Sunday, 10th
| inst.
MIR. Samuel E. Bereman, member
of the 37th Regiment (Grey Beards) and
the father Of Col. A. H. Bereman, of the
45th Regiment, died recently at Mem
phis. MI. Bereman has been for many
years a respected citizen of Mt. Pleasant.
IMPORTANT TO LAND OWNERS IN
KEoKUK COUNTY.-We learn from the
Sigourney Ne,os that the committee ap-
pointed by the Board of Supervisos in
vestigate the accounts of A. s. Alexan-
der, defaulting treasurer of that county,
recommend that all persons who have
paid taxes in the two years, present their
receipts to the present treasurer, so that
they may exercise proper recourse
against heperson who has been benefit
ted by it. The Committee also recon-
mends that those persons who yet appear
as delinquents ON the taX-list pay up
promptly or file their receipts, if they
have any,. with the present treasurer and
receive duplicate therefor.
The shoemakers of Dubuque are on
a strike for an advance of 20 per cent.
on their wages.
The Upton advertiser says the
chinch bug has destroyed half the
wheat crop in Cedar county. In many
places the bugs are also taking the oats
and corn.
The Republican Unionists of the
Cedar Rapids Judicial District have
nominated c. H. Conklin, Esq, of Vim
ton, as successor to Judge Isbell, and
G. R. Scott, of Jones county, for success
sor to Hon. I. L. Allen, present District
Attorney, promoted to Attorney General.
Good nominations, that will be most
cordially endorsed. That ticket is safe
-Rt. Rev. Henry w. Lee, Bishop of
the Dioceses of Iowa and Kansas, has
issued pastoral letter, recommending
the strict observance of Thursday, Aug
ust 4th, as day of fasting and prayer,
in accordance with the Presidents proc
lamation. He also recommends the SER
vice for h-Wednesday as suitable for
the occasion, with such additional pray
ers as the clergy may select.
A NEW THING-FLAX as COTTON-I.
n. Isham, of this city, has some "bat-
ting" made from flax, which is bound
to take the place of cotton batting. We
have seen the article and we pronounce
it fully equal to the cotton batting which
we have been accustomed to use; and we
make mention of it because it is an arti-
Gle of ''home manufature' and is sold
by Mr.. Isham for about one half of the
price of the same quality Of cotton bat
ting.-Cedw Rapids Times.
KILLED BY INDIANs.-H. S. Jen-
nings, Esq, formerly well-known law
yer Of Dubuque, was murdered by In
dians in Dakota, near the Montana line,
on the 18th of June, on his way to the
Idaho gold mines. He and his family
were travelling with large party, when
he, in company with five other men,
rode several miles in advance of the
train and came upon a band of Indians
who murdered the whole five. They
were found by the company when it
reached the scene of the calamity.
Our readers will remember that on
the 18th of March last, the treasury of
Buchanan county, Iowa, was robbed of
$4,000. The Chicago Journal learns
that Chicago officer has succeeded in
ferreting out and arresting three of the
robbers, and recovering the greater part
of the money.
Iowa COLLEGE.-Thefi financial exhibit
of Iowa College, at Grinnell, shows very
favorably. The property of the institu-
ton is valued at from $50, 600 to 500, 900,
of which $4,000 are set apart, and only
the income used. One hundred and fif-
ty students, male and female, attended
last year. Rev. Geo. F. Magounis Pres
ident. Two new Professors nave been
elected, making seven instructors.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.-A man
named Dice, a farmer living a few miles
west of Montrose, Lee county, wasstruck
by lightning during the storm on Tues
day, 10Th inst, and instantly killed. He
and his son were in the field together at
the time moving. The boy, who was
about ten feet from his father at the
time, was severely shocked and stunned
but not seriously hurt.
The Iowa City Republican recently
announced that Mr.. Higbee, of John
son county, had sheared "a pounds of
wool from two-year old Spanish buck,
whereupon the Oskaloosa Herald covers
the pile with thirty pounds of wool
sheared this year from single sheep
owned by Isaac Jones, of Mahaska
county. We guess Mahaska is entitled
to the laurels.
CROPS OF Iowa FOR 1S64.-Gen. Will
son, Sec'y State Agricultural College,
after careful and extensive inquiry,
gives, in the State Register, his estimate
of this years crops. Of wheat he thinks
there were 1,2S0,0O0 acres sown. The
average of 10 bushels an acre, will make
IL, 100000 bushels. The land occupied
by corn he places at 1,95O,OOO acres and
the yield at SO,OOO,OOO bushels. Of oats
364, ,148 acres aud an aggregate yield of
1862, 44O bushels. The sorghum crop
is decreasing in comparison with former
years, and it is not likely to be over
1857, 700 gallons, which is only half that
of 1862. Ofhay, owing to the dry wealth
er and scarcity of hands, it is not proba-
BILE that more than two thirds of the