Re-printed
here with permission
by Iowa
Old Press
The Delaware Journal
Delhi, Delaware, Iowa
Wednesday, March 9, 1859
- Gallier and Traverse have been taken back to Decorah to await
their trial.
- See W. J. Gilbert's new advertisement of books and stationery.
JAIL BIRDS
On Saturday last, three men-HENRY STONER, of Plum Creek, and JOHN
RARIDEN and CHARLES BILLINGS, both of Buck Creek, were arrested for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and incarcerated in the County
Jail. Here they had leisure to sober themselves and enjoy a few
hours of quiet reflection upon the course they were pursuing. Sad as
was the spectacle, of men who might have been the noblest specimens
of humanity making idiots of themselves, yet it was amusing quite to
watch the conduct of some of them. Imprecations, and curses, and
blasphemies, mingled with groans, and tears and prayers, addressed
alternately to their Maker and their Jailer-cries of "Oh, my
mother!" "Oh, my family!" "Oh, what will my wife say!" echoed
through those grated cells. At length, at about 11 o'clock at night,
Sheriff Parker came down among them and after delivering an earnest
and impressive temperance lecture to a deeply affected and weeping
audience, they were sent home with sundry admonitions and warnings,
to the effect that on a second
offense they should not escape so easily, but that the law should be
put into force against them to its fullest extent. Sheriff Parker
has taken the matter in hand with determination to carry it through
and devote the Saturdays especially of each week to the purpose of
breaking up the drinking saloons and banishing the hydra headed
monster, Intemperance, from their midst.
Ingenius.
We have had the pleasure of examining an apparatus for which Mr.
Heary Harger of this place has obtained a patent, the design of
which is to produce stereotype plates and prepare them for receiving
an impression,
without previously setting the type, as in the usual method.
"There's many slip twist the cup and the lip"- but we can see no
reason why this should not work well.
[Note: First name definitely written as Heary, but may have been
meant as Henry]
MARRIED.
On the 28th day of February, 1859, by S. P. Mosley, Esq., Mr. Hiram
Stowe to Miss Mary Fangle, all of Milo.
Drowned.
On the 3rd of March, a young man named Henry Cook was drowned in
attempting to cross Plum Creek, with a yoke of oxen and a wagon, and
two others. The team missed the bridge, and plunged over the bank,
when the wagon went to pieces, leaving them all in the water. The
other two swam out, but Henry was unable to reach the shore. He
floated down the stream a few rods, caught hold of some willows,
clung to them for a short time, but was at length obliged to let go
when he sunk to rise no more. Next morning a boat was procured and
the body recovered. The deceased lived with his aged and widowed
mother, about four miles
southeast from Delhi. He is stated to have been an example of
industry and morality and was the main stay and solace of his
mother, upon whom this afflicting dispensation of Providence falls
heavily.
Honor to Whom Honor is Due - Under the above
heading we have received a communication from Manchester, giving
further particulars of the arrest of Gallier and Traverse, which we
mentioned last week. The writer states that Mr. Sherwin, Constable
from Manchester, together with Mr. Shaw, Mr. Coon and others, six in
number, after having been up nearly the whole night in arranging
their plans of pursuit, started about 4 o'clock on the morning of
the 20th after the robbers; that they followed their tracks- a light
snow having previously fallen - to within about half a mile from
Delhi; that then, (it being, according to our correspondent, about
sunrise, instead of 2 o'clock in the morning, as the Journal
stated.) Mr. Sherwin, having but one pair of hand-cuffs, told the
party to go slowly on, and he would join them shortly; that
thenceforth the circumstances transpired as related in the
Journal; but that the idea of stopping at every house was
broached before
Mr. Dubois joined the party, and that the arrest would have been
made just as certainly and just as soon, if he had not been along-
and the writer asserts that in speaking of Mr. Dubois as we did last
week, praise was
awarded where it was not due. Our motto and aim is to do equal and
exact justice to all parties-therefore we have given the substance
of our correspondent's article, though the real name of the writer
is not appended, which, we wish to be distinctly understood, will
always be necessary before any attention will be paid to articles
intended for publication hereafter. Most certainly we do not wish to
misrepresent any one. We shall be greatly gratified if no greater
dispute shall arise among the officers in different positions of our
county, than as to who shall most promptly and efficiently discharge
the duties devolving up on them.
DELHI MILLS
CASH Paid for Wheat, and Corn, at Custom work done on Wednesdays and
Thursdays.
CHAS. F. FLEMING
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