The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-02-25
Correspondence of the News.
Letter from Iowa.
OsKALoosA, Iowa, Feb. 10, 1875.

TUSCALOOSA, Iowa, FeD. lO, 1910
Two months and half have
passed since we left Ohio to spend
the winter in the State of Iowa. Stop
ping few days in Cass county, Ind,
(snow fell IA inches deep while there)
we reached Iowa City on the 1st of
December, to find the ground entirely
clear of snow. The next day it rain
ed quite shower, enough to make
the roads bad where used much,
which was the last rain thus far In
the State.
The atmosphere here is much dry
er than in Ohio. Not near the amount
of snow falls here as in Ohio, but
what does fall remains all winter and
is so light as to drift before the wind
like dust. While the railroads are
blockaded with immense drifts of
snow, the land generally is swept
bare.
Iowa City is a business place. The
most important manufacturing firm
is Loose & Brothers, dealers in Lin
seed Oil. The State University here is
an important and valuable institution,
under the superintendency of Prof.
Fellows, with an attendance of some
600 students. Like most of the
cities of Iowa, the streets are in a
miserable condition-nothing but
dirt roads and plank sidewalks.
Des Moines is the same, but is
growing rapidly. 1t is now the Sec
ond city in the State. Thenew State
House, now building, Will be no.
BILE, substantial structure, built of
native stone, The Ankeney Brothers
are doing an immense business in
Linseed Oil. Flax is one of the
staples of Iowa.
The failure of B. F. Allan, of the
Cook Co. Bank, of Chicago, also the
National Bank, of Des Moines, has
produced a great sensation here.
Spectators and sharks have been
the bane of Iowa. No one can travel
through Iowa on the c., B. & Q R. R.,
without being satisfied with the in
iquity of land grants to railroads.
For nearly Is miles on either side,
the company owns all the land not
taken up when the grant was made,
and are holding it on such terms
that very few are buying, hence it is
about an unbroken prairie the whole
length of toe road, except the towns
which have been laid out by the Com
pany and are still beholden to it.
Freights enormous. Fare .tfye cents
per, mile Notwithstanding the State
law fixing it at three cents, which
law they openly defy.
Iowa has an excellent system OF
Common Schools, although I am sat
isfed that its County Superintendent
cy is no better than the Ohio system
of State Superintendent.and a great,
deal more expensive.
1 have watched the action of the
Ohio Legislature in relation to the
Adair Liquor law with much anxiety.
and feel sickened at the amendment
likely to pass both houses, notwith
standing the great flood of petitions
from the people, begging them to lei
the law alone. Wonder how the
Democracy woud like for the people
of Ohio to deal with them a la Louis
lana, and expel them from the Leg
islature for not regarding their wish
es in this matter?
And is this fair indication of The
high sense of justice and civil securi
ty professed by them? Forsooth
and must the criminal be notified II
days before he commits crime no
to do so before the law viii moles
him? Must I go and give legal writ
ten notice 10 days previous &c tL'
horsethief, the robber, the murderer
the incendiary, the forger, or the. wi
lains of whatever hud, before ca
have any protection from the la
against them?
Since the unlawful dealing in lie
uors is crime, recognized as sue
o by this very act of the Legislature
why this sneaking subterfuge to null
tg the law? To me it looks lii
: somebody has been sold, body an
soul, to the Whisky Ring. Than
God! the end is not yet.
II CEDO.