Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Jan 4, 1877

Iowa Items

     There are one hundred and twenty schools in Appanoose county, and during holiday week a clap of thunder sounds quiet.
     Linn county, with calm confidence in the future, points proudly to a home-bred hog of her own, that waltzes around at 760 pounds avoirdupois.
     The wolf is at their doors in Humboldt county, acres of them; and the distressed inhabitants are paying private bounties for scalps. Here is an opportunity for the "wah" democrats to distinguish themselves.
     John W. Griffith, agent of the Centennial Life Insurance company, has just been arrested in Decatur county for forgery, and all that he can see of this fair young world now smiles at him through the prison bars. Total loss; no insurance.
     Doctor A. Kern, formerly a citizen of Appanoose county, in this state, but now a resident of Dade county, Missouri, was set upon by a gang of natives the other day and robbed of $120. He thinks there can be no doubt that he was intimidated.
     A postal clerk named Bachelder, on the Northwester railroad, running between Cedar Rapids and Boone, has been arrested for opening a love letter, whereof he knew the writer and the party to whom it was addressed. Here now, Bachelder, own up, wasn't it you that steamed open Mr. Hewitt's letters?
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     A Mrs. Field of Rock Island, died in a dentist's chair in that city a few days ago, from the effects of chloroform administered by her family physician.
     A young child of Mr. and Mrs. Runnels, of Big Grove, Iowa, was fatally scalded by falling into a tub of hot water, on Christmas.
     Frank Dean fell into a vat of boiling lard in the Council Bluffs pork-packing house, last Monday, and will probably die of his injuries.
     The farmers of Pottawattamie county continue to lose large numbers of their cattle. The animals will be standing, chewing their cud, apparently all right, when suddenly they will drop dead, as if struck by lightning.

Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Jan 11, 1877

Judge Newman
Mt. Pleasant Press
     We read the other day with great satisfaction, Judge Newman's address in sentencing E.J. Bruce at Fort Madison for the murder of McNamara. The judge is accustomed to acquitting himself handsomely on such occasions alone, but in this instance he fairly surprised himself, delivering an address that while forcible in its presentment of law, is yet wonderfully eloquent and pathetic in dealing with the facts of the case, and the sad results of the crime. The sentence was imprisonment for life.

General News
Thursday, January 4.

-Eph Horn, the minstrel, died on Wednesday.
-John D. Hunter has been confirmed by the senate as postmaster at Webster City.
-Three safes have been cracked by burglars in Dubuque since the beginning of the year.
-The court house of Buena Vista county, at Storm Lake, was destroyed by fire on New Year's night.
-The first fatal railroad accident in Denmark occurred on Wednesday. Nine persons were killed and thirty injured.
-In the court room at Keosauqua, on Tuesday, Mayor Charles H. Fletcher was shot and instantly killed by John Brown, whose sister he had seduced.

Friday, Jan. 5
-Lamb, Bying & Co.'s saw mill at Clinton, Iowa, was destroyed by fire on Thursday morning. Loss $40,000.

Saturday, Jan. 6
- The house of Mr. Coburg, near Fort Dodge, took fire on the fourth instant in the absence of the family, except two small children, one of whom, a boy about three years old, was burned to death.

Sunday, Jan. 7
- P. McGuire, of Fort Dodge, was fatally cut at Dubuque, on Thursday, by John Sullivan.

Monday, Jan. 8
- William Curkhoff bid a quiet farewell to the Marshall county jail last Thursday night. He was charged with horse stealing.
- Mr. Jacob Guingerich, living near Iowa city, was kicked in the head by a horse last Thursday, from the effects of which he died the same night.
- Peter H. Bunning, a produce merchant of Davenport, has been arrested for obtaining $1,760 under false pretenses from the First National bank of that city.
- A Methodist clergyman named Hileman, left Correctionville in this state in a hurry, recently. He is charged with seducing a little girl twelve years of age. He stated before leaving that he had a wife and six children living in the east.

Tuesday, Jan. 9
-Two veins of a superior quality of carbon coal have been struck near Hamburg, Iowa. One is twenty-eight inches and the other four feet in thickness.

Wednesday, Jan. 10
- Michael Clancy, who murdered a man in Davenport some eight years ago and escaped, had been arrested at Crawfordsville, Indiana, and who has since killed two men, wants to come to Iowa and be tried, preferring a state where there is no death penalty.

Wanted
1,000 prime, large and dark coon skins, for which the highest market price will be paid. R.M. Wasburn. Sign of the Gilt Hat, Jefferson street, Burlington.

DISTRICT COURT
The Journal of Justice Yesterday.
     The district court convened Wednesday with a docket pretty well freed from dilatory motions and consequently found opportunity to enter upon the hearing of jury cases. The following among other proceedings were had:

STATE CAUSES
     Defendants in the numerous cases of nuisance under the liquor law, and their attorneys will do well to note that on the call of the dockets this morning forfeitures will be entered in every case where default is made, in the following cases of this class the defendants pleaded guilty, yesterday:
453. Against Chris Geyer.
454. Against Phil Leicht.
457. Against Ferd Galey.
469. Against William Schuman.
468. Against William Neal; the plea of not guilty entered heretofore being withdrawn.

LAW AND CHANCERY.
3284. John Toren against John A. Nelson. Action for services. Judgment by default for $145. Ordered that attached property be sold.
3371. Melissa E. Yates against John Henry Yates, in chancery for divorce. Decree granted.
3404. Arel Falen and others against Fenton Doran. Action for damages. Continued.
3400. Louis Huebner against M.S. Huebner, in chancery for divorce. Default taken and decree rendered.
2859. William Endsley against city of Burlington. Action for damages. Jury empaneled and sworn and evidence heard until adjournment. This is a suit growing out of the grading of the streets in the city by which it is claimed the water was turned upon private property and other injuries resulted. Marble, Blodgette and Hamilton for the plaintiff and City Solicitor Tresy for the defendant.
     The suit of William Endsley against the city was on trial all day Thursday, being the second day of its progress, and evidence was introduced up to the hour of adjournment. Michael M. Ineny, of Ireland, and Henry Plock, of Prussia, were naturalized. In addition the following proceedings were had:

STATE CAUSES.
456. Against John G. McDonough. Nuisance. The defendant pleaded guilty.
458. Against John H. Beck. Nuisance. Recognizance forfeited.
462. Against Peter Wigren. Nuisance. Recognizance forfeited.
463. Against John Peterman. Nuisance. Defendant pleaded guilty.
464. Against Simon Schippert and others. Nuisance. Defendants pleaded not guilty.
471. Against C.M. Nelson. Nuisance. Defendant pleaded guilty.
476. Against Richard Burch. Larceny. Defendant arraigned gave his right name as Edward Crandall and pleaded not guilty. Charles J .Dodge was appointed to defend.

LAW AND CHANCERY.
3292. G. & N. Taylor & Co. against Fred L. Wells. Action on account. Default and judgment for $105. 31 against defendant.
3351. Hunter, Drury & Co against D.E. Johnson. Action for money had and received. Default entered.
3394. Samuel Leebrick against Axel Holmquest and wife. Foreclosure. Decree granted.
3396. Samuel Leebrick against Sarah Young and others. Foreclosure. D.M. Hammack was appointed guardian ad litem for the minor defendants.

DECREES
of foreclosure were granted upon default heretofore entered in the following cases in which the Burlington Mutual Loan association is plaintiff:
3425. Against Frank P. Moore and others.
3426. Against John Jones and wife.
3427. Against Robert A. Moore and others.
3428. Against James A. Gre?n and others.
     No business was transacted in the state causes Friday beyond the filing of three indictments by the grand jury, who reported and retired to look after other miscreants. The indictments presented were the following: One against John Bryant for the larceny of $35.00 from the person of William Saul. Two against William Van Beek, one for breaking and entering the office of J. Connell, and one for breaking and entering the boat house of the Burlington boating association.

LAW AND CHANCERY.
3359. Hiram Purdy, assignee of B. Wilner. The order heretofore entered, accepting the resignation of Hiram Purdy as assignee was set aside an an order entered for a report at this term.
3382. James McConnell & Co. against William Tibbits. Attachment. A conditional judgment was entered against the garnishees.
3430 W.W. Wightman against John William and others. Foreclosure. A decree was granted upon default heretofore entered.
2859. William Endsly against the city of Burlington. Damages. This being the third day of the trial the evidence was concluded, and after able and exhaustive argument by the counsel for both parties, the jury was instructed by the court and retired immediately before the adjournment of court to consider their verdict.

STATE CASES.
     Thirty criminal cases have been called up. One information was quashed, two cases were omitted, two were dismissed, three were continued, in four recognizances were forfeited, fourteen defendants have pleased "guilty" and await sentence, judgment has been entered in one case, reported below, and two defendants stand for trial on pleas of "not guilty."
     It is understood to be the intention of the court in all causes awaiting sentence under liquor law to impose the usual fine of $50, where the defendant pays the fine and costs during the present term of court, but reserves the right to inflict a heavier penalty on any who may hold out and cause further proceedings.
     The following are yesterday's orders:
428. Sate of Iowa against the North Hill Street Railway company, and others, obstructing highway. Judgment against the defendants for five cents damages and costs.

GUILTY.
459. State of Iowa against V.M. Gorham. Nuisance. The defendant pleaded guilty.
464. State of Iowa against Simon Shippert and others. Nuisance. The defendant withdrew the plea of not guilty previously entered and pleaded guilty.
477. State of Iowa against John Bryant. Larceny. Plea of guilty entered.
478. State of Iowa against William Van Beek. Breaking and entering office. Plea, guilty.
479. State of Iowa against William Van Beek. Breaking and entering boat house. Plea, guilty.

REDOCKETED.
480. State of Iowa against James Thomas, Grand larceny. This case was docketed yesterday upon an indictment found in the fall of 1875 for stealing a cow. The defendant was held to bail by Judge Statsman in the police court, during a session of the district court but after the adjournment of the grand jury. Before court met again Thomas broke jail. He was afterwards arrested for another offense committed in a foreign country, tried and sent to the penitentiary, where he now abides. His time under the existing sentence expires next Wednesday, and then he will be brought here for trial.

LAW AND CHANCERY.
     The following appears on the docket yesterday:
2997. G.W. Campbell against the city of Burlington. Action for damages. Jury empaneled and evidence introduced up to adjournment. This suit is similar to the one brought up by Mr. Endsley against the city reported below. The property is in a different locality. Blake & Hammock appear for the prosecution and J. & S.K. Tracy represent the city.
3341. Burlington Mutual Loan association against Harry Lee and wife. Foreclosure. Dismissed. The suit involved the title to the property known as the Fountain house. The property is now in the loan association and will probably fall into hands that will improve it and make it desirable.
3414. Robert Henderson against Fred. Flad. Action for damages. Demurrer overruled.
3416. H.A. Kelley, guardian, against J.P. Wightman and others. Action on guardian's bond. Motion for specific statement confessed and plaintiff amends.

ENDSLEY AGAINST THE CITY.
2859. William Endsly against the city of Burlington. Action for damages. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff and assessed his damages at $48.40.

The attention of the court Monday was occupied almost exclusively by the consideration of
2997. G.W. Campbel against the City of Burlington. Action for damages. The evidence was concluded and the counsel argued in an interesting manner before the jury and the case was given to the jury upon the instructions.
E431. J.H. Wyman against Stephen Long and wife. Action on note. Leave to amend.

Killed a Hog
     Sam. Jackson is liable to get into difficulty, and "all along of a hog." He was out of pork, we are charitable enough to suppose, and so he called on a neighbor, the other morning, Monday morning, early. Very early. About one o'clock, in fact. Finding the neighbor asleep, he thought it was a pity to arouse him about a trifling matter, and so he just stuck a pig without saying anything about it, and after partially  dressing his pork bore it away under the silent stars, etc. But Marshal Hoefer learned the hog had been killed, and he seized on Samuel and put him in calaboose and took the head of the hog to the grand jury for identification. And now Jackson says he almost wishes he hadn't borrowed the hog.

THE FIRE FIEND.
Destructive Fire at Oskaloosa.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, Jan 8- At 6:30 this evening a fire broke out in the frame row on West High street, and the whole row is now in ruins. The burnt district was covered by J.P. Gruwell's brick building, forty by eighty, occupied by Huber Bros., as a hard-ware store, and Jasper Bales, jewelry. West of this was Gibb Bros'. large frame, occupied by Mrs. J.M. Orvis, millinery, Hooper's meat market, L.K. Dutton's undertaker's rooms, Ralston's grocery store, and Mattison's grocery, and the building occupied by Rice & Hinesly. From here the fire crossed the alley and burned Hinesly's large frame, used by William Nash as an agricultural warehouse. This was joined by the office of Dr. C.G. Owen. The stocks were mostly saved, except the millinery stock of Mrs. Orvis, which is a total loss. The flying sparks also communicated with several dwelling houses two blocks distant. The loss will not fall below $35,000. The fire is still burning. The insurance is not known. The fire started from the explosion of a lamp in the Orvis room.
     LATER- The insurance, so far as can be learned to-night, is J.P. Gruwell, on building, $2,500; Mrs. Orvis, on stock, $1,000; Huber Bros., on stock, $600; Rice & Hinesly, $2,500; Jasper Bates, on dwelling house, $1,000; James Matteson, on building, $500. No insurance on J.W. Hinesley's large frame and on Ralston's building and stock.

Big Blaze at Morning Sun.
    Morning Sun, Iowa, Jan. 8- A fire broke out at 7:35 p.m. in the back part of T.M. Crawford' store, burning it, Nelson's hardware store, Karr's grocery store, McClurkin's produce store and S. Reed's dry goods store, the city hall and Swank's dwelling house. The goods were mostly got out but damaged. Partly insured. This is the largest work of the fire fiend that Morning Sun ever witnessed.

Original Notice.
Henrietta Huggins, plaintiff, against E.B. Huggins, defendant. In the Circuit Court of Des Moines county, Iowa, February Term, A.D. 1877.
To said Defendant:
    You are hereby notified that on or before the 8th day of February, A.D. 1877, there will be on file in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of Des Moines county, Iowa, the petition of the plaintiff aforesaid, claiming from you an absolute divorce from the bonds of matrimony, because of habitual drunkenness, desertion and for other causes. You are also notified that unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the term of said Circuit Court of Des Moines county ,to be held on the 19th day of February, A.D. 1877, a default will be entered against you, and a decree rendered thereon.
           T.B. SNYDER,
           Attorney for Plaintiff.
Publish four weeks in Burlington Hawk-Eye.
         T.G. FOSTER, Clerk.

Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Jan 18, 1877

IOWA ITEMS

    Algona has a temperance billiard hall. It is much more handsomely furnished than the other kind, but the whisky isn't so good.
     Miss Jennie Garner committed suicide at Waverly last week because her health was poor. Her health did not improve materially by the treatment.
     Monday of last week six persons lay dead in Fort Dodge. But the diptheria is leaving the city, and the citizens are rejoicing over a prospect of more healthful times.
     Mrs. Whitsell of Iowa Falls, presented her husband with a pair of elegant girl twins last week, and the Sentinel says "the father will recover with proper care."
     William P. Partridge, of Hardin, Green county, is the oldest Mason in Iowa, becoming a member of the order at Ostego, N.Y., in 1815. He is too old to make game of then.
     Henry D. Nightingale, wishes he might inhale out of the bright and hale town of Dubuque, ten thousand dollars, all damages for a fall by which falling over a wall, his leg was broken.
     Twenty-three sleighs and two hacks are daily engaged in the transfer of passengers across the bridge between Davenport and Rock Island, and the drivers make four dollars per day.
     Step-children appear to be the staple commodity in Cedar Rapids, three babies having been left around loose on the door steps of eminent natives of that city since October. Reform is necessary, Rapidans.
     A few nights ago some young friends of William Connett, living near Prairie City, played a joke on him, frightening him in the most terrible manner. Connett has since been taken to the asylum for the insane, at Mt. Pleasant, and his friends might be made useful and sensible members of society by a course of instruction at Doctor Craig's Academy at Fort Madison.
     Go to Davenport if you want to run over yourself with a beer wagon. A driver named Dettmann, by skillful management of his team last Wednesday, was able to run over a little girl and boy. The girl fortunately escaped without serious injury but the boy will probably die, as the horses tramped on him and the heavy wagon, laden with beer kegs, passed over his stomach. The driver is in jail, awaiting the result of the boy's injuries.

General News

     Peter M. Bunning, recently arrested at Davenport on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, has been honorably acquitted.
     An attempt to rob a passenger train on the Northwestern Railroad, near Ames, was frustrated by a detective on Saturday and the band of robbers captured.
     Mrs. John Ewing, of Atlantic, Iowa, the other day laid her adopted child, an infant, upon the bed, and left it for a moment, when a huge cat, belonging in the house, pounced upon it with the ferocity of a tiger, lacerating the face of the child with claws and teeth in a terrible manner. The animal would doubtless have killed it had not its cries brought help.
     Three fishermen, blown off the coast of Ireland in the late terrible Atlantic gales, arrived at New York on Thursday, having been rescued from their open smack on the sixth night out, and after terrible suffering. Their names are Nicholas Moran, his father, Patrick Moran, and Nicholas Smith. John Moran, a brother of Patrick, aged ninety-six years, was washed overboard and drowned.
     T.H. Rider, a freight brakeman on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad, living at Davenport, was killed on Friday, near Fulton, by falling between two cars of a moving train.
     At Akron, Iowa, on Friday, George Showers fell from an engine on the Mount Vernon and Columbus railroad, breaking his neck and instantly killing him. The train passed over his body.
     Two drunken men named Charles Wensh and Thomas Crawford drove a blind horse and dray into an air hole in the ice, at Muscatine, on Thursday last, and all were drowned.
     Sitting Bull was defeated on the 18th of December by a detachment of the fifth infantry, with the loss of all the property in his camp, the Indians barely escaping with what they had on their persons.

Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Thursday, Jan 25, 1877

GENERAL NEWS

Thursday, January 18
     Select dress parties are in vogue in Maquoketa. The first was held on Tuesday evening.
     Eight prisoners walked out of the Lee county jail on Wednesday evening, among them, Mike Flynn, confined for murder.

Friday, Jan 19
     Suit has been commenced by Mrs. Jonathan Eaton, of Marshalltown, Iowa, against Dick Tansey, a prominent saloon man of that city, claiming $10,000 damages for selling liquor to her husband.

Sunday, Jan. 21
     Iowa has 4,481 postoffices.
     The Mount Pleasant insane asylum has 578 inmates.

Monday, Jan. 22
     On Saturday afternoon near Cedar Rapids, John Skyora was fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of his gun while out hunting.
     The sheriff of Marion county has resigned, having been indicted by the grand jury of that county for complicity in the escape of a murderer-Harry Williams.
     Thomas Fagan, Frank Martin, and James Keller, three of the recently escaped prisoners from the Lee county jail, were arrested at West Point, Illinois, on Saturday.

Tuesday, Jan. 23
     Colonel J.A. Garrett, of Newton, a veteran of the Mexican war and a soldier during the rebellion, died on Tuesday morning, aged 52.

MILITARY.
     Adjutant General Looby has issued an order (General Order No. 1), dated January 15th, reorganizing the state militia. The name is changed from Iowa State militia to "National Guard, State of Iowa." There will be six regiments of infantry, one cavalry (temporarily attached to the fourth infantry), and one of artillery. Adjutants and quartermasters will be appointed instead of being elected. The Iowa City college battalion is left out in the cold.
     An election is ordered to take place on Wednesday, January 31st, for colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, surgeon, assistant surgeon and chaplain of the new regiment of artillery.

DEAD
His Last Spree and How It Ended.
     For three months or more J.W. Rohr has found employment at intervals among the various printing offices of Burlington. He has subbed in THE HAWK-EYE office, has been employed in THE HAWK-EYE Job Office and by Acres, Blackmar & Co, and latterly has been subbing in the Gazette newsroom. A young man not over twenty-six, with a handsome, intelligent face, black hair and a light, but dark colored mustache, a dashing, happy air, he was a fair representation of the average jour printer. Little is known of his antecedents, friends, or previous history by reason of his reticence. He is said recently to have published a paper, but at what place is not known. For some days he had been off on a tare, and a servant girl of the Teedrick house, where he boarded, stated that he said he had eaten nothing for three days.
     Wednesday afternoon he seems to have made up his mind to sober up,and to induce sleep he bought half an ounce of laudanum at Colby's.
     He went apparently soon after to the Teedrick house, where his condition attracted attention and the girls discovered that he was attempting to take something and watched him. Finally, about half-past three, he went into his room and closing the door
        TOOK THE CONTENTS
of the phial. A servant opened the door and seeing him with the empty phial in his hand, asked him what he had taken. He answered "poison" and fell back on the bed. Every effort was made by those about the house to prevent the fatal effects of the drug, but without avail. The victim did not fall asleep, but remained conscious and talked until about six o'clock and at half-past six he was dead. After six o'clock Dr. Scarff was notified, but he arrived after death had taken place.
     Rohr is said to have a wife at Sullivan, Moultric county, Illinois, with whom, if true, the coroner will communicate by telegraph, as to the disposition of the body, which remained at the Teedrick house last night.

CAUGHT
Burlington Police Nab the King of the Crowd Who Broke Out of the Lee County Jail.
     Yesterday morning the dispatches in THE HAWK-EYE announced that a jail delivery had occurred at Keokuk, whereby eight prisoners were set at liberty, and among them Mike Flynn, and old offender and desperate character, who had served one term in the penitentiary for murder and was in jail under indictment for another. While THE HAWK-EYE readers were perusing their favorite paper over their breakfast coffee the sequel was transpiring at the union depot in this city.
     Conductor Dave Blackburn, of the Keokuk branch of the C.B. & Q. recognized Mike Flynn among his passengers on the up train yesterday morning and telegraphed to John Rider, the depot policeman, to look out for him. John called to his aid the faithful Mike Lavelle the two cops prepared for business. So confident was Flynn that he would reach Burlington unnoticed that he remained in the car through the yards and the officers had a fine opportunity to take him, which they did not hesitate to improve. His arrest was a decided surprise to himself and gives the sheriff of Lee county considerable occasion to rejoice. Charles Cullaton, another of the jail birds, was on the train also, and Rider and Lavelle gathered him in too, and together they will go back this morning in charge of Sheriff Higgins, of Lee county, and will, let us believe, be kept in a safe place.

A NARROW ESCAPE
A Workman Falls Twenty-five Feet on a Paved Alley.
     About five o'clock yesterday afternoon John Winders, a brick mason employed upon the work of changing and enlarging the Gorham house, was fitting a frame in a third story window on the alley. He had turned a door frame on one side upon a small scaffold outside the building and was standing on the upper side at work when the scaffold gave way and he fell with the door frame under his feet to the alley, which is paved. The door frame was badly smashed up, but served to break Winder's fall and saved him serious injuries, if not his life. A piece of scantling struck his face after he fell and bruised it badly, but no bones were broken, and his injuries, though painful, are not dangerous. He was taken to his home at the head of north Sixth street.

Nearly Poisoned.
     Yesterday afternoon, A.W. Ball, the jeweler, was using, in testing, some precious metals, some nitric acid which he had in an open phial near him. While his attention was directed away an instant his little child, an infant three or four years old, seized the phial and put it to its mouth. Almost immediately the child was seen by the father and the deadly draught snatched from its lips in time to prevent any being swallowed, but the little one's mouth was painfully burned by the strong acid. The danger was a startling one and the escape from a fatal result very narrow.

Railroad Racket.
     The burning of the railroad bridge over the Nodaway river at Villisca on the C.B. & Q. was reported Tuesday, having been ignited probably by sparks from a passing locomotive. Passengers were transferred at that point yesterday.
     Ed. Norris, of locomotive No. 101, and than whom there is no better boy or careful railroader in the employ of the C.B. & Q., while coming down Fourth street the other morning, and when near the Reed house, slipped and fell with his whole weight on his right foot and badly crushed it. His injuries are such as to necessitate his laying off for a couple of weeks.

Died.
    At fifteen minutes before six last evening, Mrs. Abbie F. Smith departed this life after a lingering illness, at the age of twenty-six years. The deceased was the wife of James T. Smith, assistant baggageman at the Union depot and leaves her husband two small children, motherless. She had long been a sufferer, being a victim to consumption, and had sought recuperation in a change of scene and air, going to several distant places in search of the priceless boon, health. But all was in vain, and for many weeks the suffering invalid has been cared for at her mother's home on North Hill, where, last evening, she breathed her last. In his bereavement the afflicted husband will be met with sincere sympathy by a large number of warm friends and acquaintances. No obsequies have been announced, but they will probably occur on Sunday, from the residence of the deceased or from the Baptist church, of which she was a consistent member.

Notice--Proof of Wills.
STATE OF IOWA, DES MOINES COUNTY- ss. Circuit Court, February Term, 1877.
In the matter of the last wills and testaments of Augustus C. Smith, Wm. B. Ewing, Jane Baird, and Gottlieb Elbrader, decedents.
To all whom it may concern:
    Whereas instruments in writing purporting to be the last wills and testaments of said decedents have been filed in my office, and opened and read as required by law,
     Notice is hereby given that Tuesday, the 20th day of February next, has been fixed as the day for hearing proof in relation thereto.
     Witness my hand and the seal of said court this 18th day of January, A.D. 1877.
               T.G. FOSTER, Clerk.