, 1870-04-11
TIE SORTHWEST.

miles wide. It's usual width il one mile.
Sylvester Gaines, i resident OF Cambridge
fer twenty-five yc4rs, died On the LIST inst.
Low Parker, IN old citizen Of deneseo, died
on the 3lst nit.
Tho miners OF Mu1phrsboro, Jackson
County, arc Oh \ strike, and negroes desire
their places.
Bishop whipple's mother died. It DlAiretown,
On the list ult, aged Y years. Bishop is now
in Europe.
The Davenport Gn.tte says: "The lady
Engrossing Clerk Of tho House Of Represents
tivee Of Iowa. it is said, has not ouly won
victory over the foolish prejudice against the
employment Of her sex in clerical positions,
ton. II her name should be changed, ere
long, to Ebert, the surprise will not be re-
House.
etet-daughtcr Of the How. Mz. Hunter, Baptist
clergyman, Of Independence, committed suicide
on Monday last, by taking stzyehinne. She re-
pented the act when it Was too late, and called
on her parents to save her life. She had in
tended TO teach school this summer, but failed
to obtain certificate, which fact is supposed
TO have been the c&use Of her salf-destructiou.
The Muscatine Joaeradlsaye LAST October
fix months ago-Ms. George Thompson, iy-
ing about = mile belo~ the city, ran ac1oss ;
garter enAke about two feet long, ueat his
premises, and, ~ he supposed, killed it asde4d
as the Dutchman did his dog. He naahed ita
head TO teny and bruised various pa1ts Of its
body. Day before eycntax11J-Monday-Aft
noon, in company With another Gcntlcmsn he
WIS passing over the ground Whare he ha.l en-
/ 'countc1cd tho reptile, when he found Its body
| in about tho sane position he had left it, eI-
! cant the tal Was buried In tho Garth some si1
| fnchcs. Giving his anakcship = kick, his rs
| tuuiehnent, 1t may well bc imagined, WIS great
I k-H II -
forced from tho ground, Haa in active motion,
quiycring md curling up rs II greatly agitated
Il such desee1aton Of its resting place. The
snake was hung on fence near by, aod We
understand that yesterday the tail exhibited Is
much life ~ ever"
A yonng married couple in u Wisconsin town
}ately began housekeeping and the first pur-
ehakes OF the heAd Of tho family II the village
grocery were: Fire centa' worth Of soda, FIVE
cents worth Of salt, two cents worth Of pep
per, ono ccntfa worth Of che~insEun, and
I'd to twenty-five cents, which whs paid By the
Young Benedict in specie, and II he Left the
store ho re1aa-ked to the clerk that Keeping
house is cheaper than boarding."
= youns Norwegian, about q years 81 age,
living in the town Of Rhine Killed his mother
Fhcn he Was in fit Of mental alteration, By
striking hur on tho head with club. This
family, several yeatn elnco, lest the father And
two Of tho children, By poisou7 from eating
wild pAranips-
Ep1AxL .
Major Elijah Saldn, OF New Albany, died On
Tuesday last- He had lived in that city since
1st7, and WIS sn activo business nan, md held
the Office Of City Clerk two terms.
Tho bone OF deer hAa been found i'm
bedded IN the solid wood Of large poplar
tree, near Bz;dSeton, Patke County In con
| vcfting the zee into logs The saw came in COZ
tact with the bono It was sixteen feet from
tho l,ase, Tho treo Was three feet In diane
ter, and supposed to b. one hundred and hi1t,
ycAzs old
Tho balance in the State Treasury ou The lE
of April VIA esq, 1851, against si98, 04oa
On tie lat Of AArcA.-ao increase OF se5, N5.0.
!, The receipts for the mouth were sSi, E.ss
and the payments 361, ,5n226.
- Michigan 1n4n and his vito. hayio
: Eroun wc4ry Of each other, recently signed =
3 Agreement to dissolve the contract, and tn
, former sent it to the County Clerk, with thi
. explanatory nosc: "1fsia agreenen. haa bse1
maid md drand up betwin my Self and VII
+ and doant now wether It IL corden to Law O
knot and want you Sod record it i it Il Law
| fpl and II it is knot draw won that is"
Tho Hocla Copper Mining Company ha
declared \ dividend Of Is / shaTc. MAS Q
8 copper weighing nine tons was taken from th
Quincy Mine ! few xeckA nEo.
The SAginax EhGes7uiet Of the 8th says
.'The west eade Of the river II Midland !
8 covered with water from ono to three fec
n acep. Last Sunday morning the boom O
piua River, few miles above the town, gss
way, causing general CONSERVATION. and food
: ing everything that Eas not already flooded