Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-09
IOWA NEWS.

that the corn mill and steamer were
but little used; and that, on the
whole, 1t was not so perfect model
as many other farms in its neighbor-
hood"
| A special to the Gate City reports
the finding of the corpse offs Swed-
ish man on the open prairie four
miles northwest of Waukee, Dallas
County, on the lst inst. From APP
pearances, he had been dead several
days. There was strap drawn
tight around his neck. The coro-
ner's jury returned no verdict.
The Register remarks that the
next Legislature will be composed of
fifty Senators, and one hundred Rep
resentatives-l50 in all, thirty Of
whom are Democrats in politics, one
hundred and twenty Republicans.
The Republicans will have the safe
and healthy majority of Ninety on a
joint ballot. In the Republican eau
Gus, it will take Sixty-One votes to
nominate. This is the magic num-
Der by which Senator will be made
SIOUX CITY, Nov. /.
Henry HOspers, formerly Mayor
Of Pc!!a, Iowa, and now manager Of
the Sioux Colony, Sioux County,
Iowa, has sued John r. Curry. edit
or of the Sioux County Herald, for
libel, claiming damages to the amout
of SO 900. The Herald charges Hos
pers with adultery and theft.
The Register reports that on Wednes-
day night of last week there were
five Governors Of Iowa present at
the Capital-three Ex's, Lowe, Kirk
wood and Stone-Gov. Merrill, and
Carpenter, Governor elect; and that
the three Ex's and Gov. Merrill gave
a serenade of their own manufacture,
to Col. Carpenter, at his rooms at the
Savery! 1t is good thing for Or
pheus that he has been defunct for
several centuries.
Same paper says:-"The Emmett
County ViadicdtOr has suspended.
1t did not have patronage enough to
live. These are the hard times that
try the souls and the purses of all
newspapers"
And moreover says:-"A gentle
boy of eighty summers was married
at Burlington, on Wednesday, To IA
blithesome girl of seventy-two
| springs. One hundred and fifty-tWO
years of experience ought to lead
them in the way to be happy"
The KeOkuk Constitution says a
traveller came to the Clinton House
the other night on late ''train.'
| During the night, as he had taken
too much salt i'm his liquor, he got
dry and sought the water-coOler in
the hall. Turning to the left, instead
of the right, he was brought up be-
fore Bahcock fire extinguisher, and
failing to find glass, he put his lips
| to the nozzle and fumbled until he
turned on the charge. When the
night porter found him he was duly
pxtinguished, and was feeling his
way 10 bed, muttering that ''wetness
was the only good quality in that
/ water"
A Cedar Rapids man has drove
| of ten elk, captured when young, In
the northwestern part of this State,
which he intends to break TO harness.
One of the leading scientific jour
nails of London, in commenting very
fayorabIy on two books written by
Prof. Hinrichs OF Iowa and published
at Davenport, adds:-"It is deplora-
bic to think how few laboratories
there are in England which could in
any way vie with that in the Iowa
State University"
1t appears that the man who was
! found dead on the prairie near Wau-
kee last Thursday was Hans Peter
sen. of Des Moines, who had stray ed
away from his boarding place in a
fit of delirium following upon typhoid
| fever.
The exercises of the closing week
of the State Agricultural College
will commence oh the evening OF
November13th and continued through
the 18th and l5.-Register.
The Registers Local of 4th inst.
says:-"The ladies, yesterday, sent
5000 i'm money to the Wisconsin Re-
lief Committee. They expect Ia
send two car loads OF supplies next
Monday"
Washington County is tremen'
dousIy afflicted with the hog cholera.
One man finds safe preventive in
feeding his hogs well-salted swill.
Almost every Iowa exchange we
pick up contains a notice OF some
: candidate for some Of the offices t.
be filed by the next Legislature
What would the American people
do if there were no offices!
The Register announces that Sena
tor Wright has gone to Washington
To meet with the Senate Finance
Committee, of which he is mem
Der.
Same paper states that Mrs. Ellen