Iowa Old Press

Davenport Daily Gazette
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
31 Dec 1867

STATE NEWS

...The town of Pella has a brass band.
...Hon. John R. Needham is in very poor health.
... The "Merry farm" in Muscatine county has been sold for $26,000
...Col. A.W. Sheldon, formerly of the Gate City, is about to start a Republican daily in Richmond, Virginia.
...The Adjutant General's force at Des Moines consists of Messrs. F. Sutton, John G. Forrest, S.H. Babcock, George W. Bourne and Thomas Winkless.
... A convention was held at New Jefferson on the 27th inst. in the interest of constructing a railroad from Des Moines to Sioux City.
...There is talk of forming a new county to be composed of the southern part of Benton and the contiguous parts of Iowa, Powesheik and Tama counties.
... McCormick, who murdered an old man in Humboldt county, for his money, has been taken to Des Moines for safe-keeping.
...A Copperhead in Marion county has taken his children out of school because a colored boy - a bright and intelligent lad, formerly a slave - is allowed to attend it.
... Mrs. J.C. Ramsay, widow of James C. Ramsay, at one time a member of the Legislature from Wapello county, recently drew a $650 piano in a pious lottery, given for the benefit of a church in Keokuk.
... David P. Campbell, Esq., a promising member of the legal profession, died at West Union, Fayette county, on the 18th inst. At the time of his death he was Deputy United States Assessor.
... Mr. L.J. Chatterton, President of the State Wool Growers' Association, has called the Annual Meeting, to be held at Newton on the 7th day of January, at 10 o'clock a.m. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected, arrangements for the Annual Shearing Festival, and much other important business will be transacted.
... Samuel P. Watkins has been found guilty of the murder of S.S. Cronk, in Jackson county, a year ago, and has been sentenced to be hung on the 21st of February. The trial continued through twelve days.
... The Oskaloosa Herald mentions a case of peculiar hardship resulting from a bogus land warrant. Several years ago one Easeley entered eighty acres of land in Mahaska county on such a paper. He sold to Charles. S. Porter, who sold to George Loy, who sold one-half to his brother Peter - the two Loys have lived on the land since and made good improvements. One Albert W.C. Weeks, of Des Moines, a little while ago, discovered the faulty title and entered the land anew and the Loys have to give up their homes. We shouldn't suppose it would be healthy for Weeks or his agents to appear in that neighborhood very soon.



Submitted by: C.M.L.