Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-01-22
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STATE NEws.
From the Cedar Falls Gd4etts we learn
that tho total Indebtedness Of Black haw !
county, on the frs, day ofJanuary last wac
~, ,os2 81.
Iowa has 2s,773 400 acres Of assessed
lands, Of which s.263,l75 are enclosed
Valuation of real and personal, &2G5, ,5l7.-
1874.
There were l55 ,55s dwelling, erected 10
Iowa in 1867.
There was railroad smash-up on the
Dubuque snd Northwestern Railroad neas
Anamosa last Friday Several cars smash
si-nobody seriously hurt. Cause-broksn
rlil.
Muses,ine county is suffering for water,
says the Journal. Farmers are selling their
stock 1T being impossible to supply them
with water-thc creeks having dried up.
The Blind Asylum at vin.on contains
about fifty inmates.
The Iowa Central Railroad bridge. now
being built across the Des Mones as Eddy
vile, consists OF Eve spans, and will be over
seven hundred Zee. in length. and cos,
100000
VIM Blake, an early settler in Dubuque.
died of consumption on Sunday last. says
the 7imes.
The trade Of Dubuque for the year 1867
iooss up in the Times At $40 ,429 ,2s7-very
handsome showing.
The lead product Of Dubuque for 1867
vas about 100000 pounds Of ors-pro-
ducing Sc, 900 pigs. worth about 34Oo, 900
There are about 1870 State legislators and
officials ., Des MONIES; some 800 luna,ics
at the NJ Pleasant asylum, and say, ITO
inmates OF the peni entiary at F.. Madison.
The Musca,ine Board Of Supervisors have
reduced the bounty on gopher tails to ten
cents--that is hall off from former rates
The Courier says that the operators in 60
piers can now 60 en- in their little business
Of selling the tails to Muscatinc and the
scalps TO Scott The cniy objection We
have is that Musca,ine ia at the tail end OF
the affair.
Judge Claggett, Of the Kedkuk Cons,itu-
ton, has just returned from = visit to his
friend, in Maryland and Washington, D. C..
During bis absence, he was voted gold
headed cane. By the ladies Of tho Catholic
Fair-fos which the Judge Handsomely re.
turns thanks.
The people Of the counties Of Nuscatine
Washington, keokuk, Mahasks, Marion,
Madison, Adair, Case and Po,tawattomie
me, in convention At Oak olooea last Thurs
day, and determined to build q railroad
from Muscatine TO Council Bluffs. via Oska-
!ooss. Jacob Butler Of fMuscatios, was elect.
ed President. II is a brilliant enterprise,
let il go ahead.
The Iowa State Historical Society have
voted TO send Oil the flags, national ana reg
mental. Of Iowa regiments, to the Adju.
tAns Generals Offics. This Is . good move,
for there .hey can bs properly displayed,
safeiy kept. and looked upon by thousands.
The agent of the Dss Moinss Univsrsity,
hs wing completed The work Of the past sea-
Bon, 10 now about to take the field 20 raise
e25 900 fos On endowmens ameog the Bah
list churches Of ths State. OF that sum % !.
900 10 already secured, the balance being
forthcoming By the lst Of Nay next
The MsGregee Mere says that The cport
which has latsly goss the rounds Of the
press, 70 the eject that great excitsnen.
exists there. over the supposed murder Of
Louis Benton, jr., 10 all . humbue. Mr.
Benton Il noe alive aud veil, aud 10 prob
ably very mach iaterss:sd in the various
notices that have been published Of hi.
death.
The Manchester Cniss says that r. w
Dunham, County Superintendent elect oi
Delsware eou@ty, died aftes short eod
psinfui Illness, o. the 7sh inst.
That The asnrisAiog little village Of Na.
qsoketa 10 destined to make . stir IA The
world. may b inferred from the fact shs,
the citizens thereof have recently made I
large shipment Of butter 10 Chey, nns. Ds.
kosa Territory. They ere cleo asisasine q
railroad project.
The basement Of the n. +. Church iu
waveriy IVES dedicated on Sunday last. Al
The conclusion Of IN eloquent sermon By
Dr.. 1ddy. IN sppeetunity ~ given thss,
Who wished TO cid in shs payssst si the
chsrss isdsbtsdosss 10 subscribe. Plvu
shsasasd dollars we're imaediatsly ssised
in sums varying from I've to 0vs hundred
dollars. This shows . spirit Of boundlesa
iiberalisy. and speaks veil for wsverly.