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
[transcribed by C.J.L., July 2006]