Iowa Old Press
Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
May 20, 1865
OUR STATE
We learn from the Eldorado Sentinel that J. Peterson of
that place fired a gun charged with shot at one Moon who spent his time in
harassing the former's family, whereby his hat was torn to pieces. No further
damage accrued, and Moon will rise no more in that quarter.
The Dubuque Times published an account of an attempt by
a little girl to poison a whole family at Dyersville near that city, which came
very near resulting fatally.- The youthful criminal placed arsenic in some
applesauce of which two ladies, Mrs. Cunningham, Mrs. Fox and the latter's son
partook, and but for prompt medical treatment all would have died. The author of
the act is but fourteen years of age, and upon witnessing the effects of
her crime took some of the poison herself and came very near dying. She is an
orphan, and having never been blessed with the care of a parent or guardian, is
lamentably depraved.
Jesse L. Henely, a Copperhead Sub-Director in Pleasant
Valley Township, Scott county, is getting into trouble for his illegal act in
expelling a girl from school on account of her color. The County Superintendent
and the Davenport Gazette are after him with a sharp stick.
The Iowa City Republican boasts that Johnson county has
contributed more to the Bible cause during the past year than any other county
in the State, having furnished nearly $500.
Samuel Park of Davis county writes to the Bloomfield
Guard that Thomas Cooper of Wapello county, manufactured in the fall of 1862,
from one acre and fourteen rods measured ground, seven and a half barrels of
sorghum!
The Gate City says Charles Caidwell of Keokuk has been
bound over for breaking into a tobacco establishment and stealing twelve boxes
of cigars and a quantity of tobacco.
E.A. Arnold, a prominent citizen and post-master at
Iowa Falls, while attempting to get into a stage coach while it was moving fell
and one of the wheels of the vehicle passed over his face. The State Register
says he is not expected to survive.
The Albia Union says Andrew M. Myers will be tried
during the present term of court in that place for the murder of Sergt. Alloway.
Thomas Wright, son of Geo. G. Wright, of the Supreme
Bench, was in the Andersonville stockade, a prisoner of war from the 4th day of
December last until a few weeks since when he was released and is now at his
home in Keosauqua.
[submitted by C.J.L., Sept. 2003]