Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-03-09

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firmed as Post Mistress at Fort
| Madison.
The fiend Davidson, who beat,
pounded and poured Goals on the
orphan boy who lived with him, in
Auburn Township, Fayette County,
Iowa, was tried, held to bail in $1,000
was surrendered by his bondsmen,
and is now in Jail at West Union.
Mr.. Thomas Hess snapped re-
volver with no cap on it, at Iowa
City, the other day, and sent a ball
through the body of a boy standing
near.
Senator Bulls, of DEBORAH, being
President pro tenn. of the State
Senate, is therefore ex officio Lieut..
Governor, and is announced as a
candidate for election to that Office.
Prof. Boucher has resigned the
Professorship of Anatomy at the
State University. He is the man
upon whom suspicion fell heaviest in
connection with the body-snatching
outrage.
The Oskaloosa Herald remarks
that Vol. 3 of the Iowa Digest, now
nearly ready for delivery, has been
| prepared in an excellent manner by
Maj. j. +. Lacey, of Oskaloosa,-
whom all "33ders" will remember
with pleasure.
Osk aloosa seems to be Coming
down on' the liquor business. The
City Marshal has seized large
quantity of liquors in Roop's Store.
The ConseruatOr gives particulars.
The Head light reports that a
white woman in Greene County a
month or so ago married an Indian
belonging to tribe camped in the
County. About week ago her
white friends induced her to desert
her Indian and come home again
whereat 10 the said Indian waxeth
mad, and proposes to exterminate
the whole white race unless his wife
comes back. We hope she will 60
back-partly because we don't want
to be exterminated yet, but mainly
because such woman has robustness
to pretend to be a white woman any
longer.
The report going the rounds of the
State papers that riot occurred at
Unionville, among persons subscrib.
ing aid to the G.. &, S. w. r.. r. is
false, says the Centreville citizen.
The will of Maj. Sherley, of Mus
catine County, appportions property
to the amount of $4,000, and pro.
vides that the heir who goes to law
over the will shall get nothing.
The Jasper Republican will start
a 1Tri-weekty edition today, in addi'
ton to its regular weekly issue
Success to it.-Same paper brags
on a Jasper County hog, twenty
months old, and weighing 900 lbs.
And thesame good paper records
that on the 9th inst. the people OF
Newton were to vote on the question
of donating Right Of Way through
the highways of the town for a
North and South Railroad.
The Indianola Journal tells of a
man now living in Warren County,
who was married four times in one
year and buried three wives mean
while.
Mr.. Benham, of the Jasper County
Free Press has associated with him
self Mr.. ii. c. Ashbaugh, lateof the
Wilton Chronicle. We wish the
new firm all prosperity.
The Register publishes a table
showing the dates when the ice left
the Des Moines river in each of the
last 81 years. 1t Was as early in the
Spring as this year only once before,
| in 1862.
Prof. Roberts, a Teacher in the
Public Schools Of Quincy, Adams
County, is accused of brutally beating
a little boy, one Of his pupils, a
hundred and fifty blows with big
hickory stick, cutting and bruising
the boy outrageously. But there
may be another side to the story.