The Muscatine Journal thinks that town pays an excellent price for an awfully poor article of gas. $4.50 is the figures [sic] paid, while “A cat’s eyes” would make a good illuminator. Bad state of affairs for our neighbors.
The Nonpareil says that Broadway street, Council Bluffs, is now navigable for small craft – mud fourteen inches in the channel and rising.
The McGregor Times says that the northern communities of Iowa will export through McGregor during the year, products to the value of six million dollars! and in return will purchase supplies to very near the same amount.
The Keokuk Constitution says that the 17th regiment now at that city, has received its colors, descriptive and pay rolls, army regulations, &c., for the entire regiment. Col. Rankin has been advised that his regiment as soon as organized, would be ordered to St. Louis and armed.
The Ottumwa Courier says that a Dr. Stark, who formerly resided in Wapello county, and was always very much enamored of the lovely system of slavery, at the breaking out of the war traded his farm for one in a northern county of Missouri. When he arrived there, he and his son began to broach their secessionism among their neighbors. It happened, however, that they had fallen among Union men, and a Minnie ball put a finale to the son’s treason, while the old man was notified that his gray hairs alone saved him from a similar fate, and was notified to leave the neighborhood, which he did.
FATAL ACCIDENT. – A portion of a train on the C. I. & N. RR. was thrown from the track on the 29th ult., caused by a defective tie, producing the instant death of Mr. William Haney, of Clinton, a brakeman, who was thrown from the top of one of the cars and instantly crushed to death.
A deck-hand fell from the Hawkeye State at Keokuk, last Wednesday, and was drowned. His name was not ascertained.
A. Ingalls, of Independence, Buchanan Co., has invented within the past two years a tire heater, corn husker, rat trap, iron upsetter, evaporator, can crusher, rotary harrow and seed sower.
The Burlington Hawkeye says that a man named John Duling was arrested on Saturday for passing a counterfeit bill on the State Bank of Iowa. Upon searching him fifty dollars more of the same sort of currency were found on his person.
The river is three miles wide at Burlington, and still rising at the rate of a foot per day. The Hawkeye says that the ferry boat now runs through the woods and over cultivated fields to Oquawka junction, a distance of seven miles!
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 9, 1862, p. 2
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