Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-12-23
IOWA NEWS.

IOWA NEWS. ~.
Judge Clagett, Of the. Keokuk, Con-
stitution, sued Captain Ball for 1O,OO0
damages for shooting Off a cannon on
his premises, at the celebration of the
fall Of Fort Donelson. The Judge final
ly withdrew the suit, on the reception
of $50 from the defendants COUNSEL
"What fall was there, my country
men!" t-..ia',. - le .Na.. .., ,.f
Captain +. J. Miller, Of .Keosauqua,
was fatally injured few days since by
q runaway accident. He was about six
ty years of age, and an old resident of
Van Buren, county. He served two
years in the Sd Iowa Cavalry a. color
bearer. 81 s." .T"- '-s'4- o..
LIBERAL.-The Board of Supervisors
of Johnson county, Mt their late session,
made an appropriation for the purchase
Of 800 cords of wood for soldiers fami-
lies in Iowa City, and authorized MEM
bers of the Board to provide for those i'll
the country. They also voted bounty
OF 800 to recruits from that county in
Hancock's veteran corps. Col. John
Williams, Of Iowa City, is enlisting
men for this corps. A.'-..'p pft
ESCAPED FROM DIXIE.-Capt. John
Epeneter, who was in command of q
negro companyat the Fort Pillow mas
Of hn fn, ,Nnr,,1iff06 tn
live after being taken prisoner, recently
escaped and returned to his home at
Iowa City. He was in captivity seven
months, and escaped from Charleston
by the aid Of true Union men in that
city, who kept him concealed for a
month, till he, had an opportunity to
reach our blockading fleet. The Repub-
Hcan says he met with many adven-
lures which would once have been mar
velous, but now are SO common as to
have lost much of their interest. @aa
q-E. HI. Rockefeller, who killed his
wife at Keoknk, has been sentenced to
seven years in the penitentiary..>a ii.
Hon. r. w. Woolson, of Mt. Pleas
ant, has been appointed by the Secretary
of the Interior, Special Commissioners
in refereneeito Indian Affairs, and left
for Santa Fe, New Mexico, last week.
He will be absent till March next.
/ NEwToN.-The Adtocute reports trade
brisk and the town generally prosper
Gus. The population of Newton is now
about ], 800. It contains seven organized
churches, seven dry goods stores, five
grocery stores, two hardware stores, two
drug stores, two shoe stores, two furni-
ture stores, two jewelry stores, two
printing offices, sc. The railroad, it is
expected, will be finished to that place
next June. a'n
7T A New KIND OF WHEAT.-Mr. P. G.
Carter, of Marshall, Henry county, has
imported from the Rocky Mountains a
new kind of Spring Wheat, which, he
says, has never been known to smut or
rust or be injured by the Chinch bug,
and which often yields 100 bushels to
the acre and weighs go to 65 pounds per
bushel, He thinks it will be sure
crop i'll Iowa as it is brought from a
colder climate. He will send for one
dollar package of the wheat sufficient
to SOW half an acre, and if the receiver
is dissatisfied with it the money will be
returned. ...t ,..,.... -"@
"A letter from Gen. Curtis. published
in the Davis County Union Guard, says
the young man who captured General
Marmaduke is James Dunlavey, of the
Sd Iowa Cavalry. James is the son of
our old friend Harvey Dunlavey, the
Democratic wheel-horse of Davis coun-
ty. James should have more regard for
his fathers feelings than to capture his
friends in suclian arbitrary manner.
j. c. Todd, Iowa State Agent at
Keokuk, writes that there are now
1888 patients there in hospital, $50 of
whom are Iowa soldiers. .- ...,.,.
John Walkup, Of Fairfield, was
killed on the 9Th inst, by falling into a
shaft 80 feet deep at his coal bank. 4"