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Davenport Gazette
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Jan 3, 1877

IOWA CONDENSED

- The Clinton County Gazetteer will soon be issued.
- A quarry of yellow marble, the vein being four feet thick, has been discovered near Peru, Madison county.
- W.H. Starr, an old resident and a prominent man of Burlington, died on the 29th ult.
- J.V. Hollinger and J.F. Sessions, of Mt. Vernon, have purchased the Carroll County Herald, published at Mt. Carroll, Ill.
- The artesian well at McGregor is completed. It is 1,000 feet deep. The flow is large, and the water is pronounced very good.
- Thomas Hill, an old resident of Low Moor, Clinton county, while crossing the railroad with his team, the 29th ult., was struck and thrown from his wagon by a passing train and dangerously injured.
- The prisoners in the county jail at Des Moines have a regularly organized court, which is in session at all times. The last case was John Milligan, charged with outraging a little girl. They tried him, found him guilty, and gave him one hundred lashes.

Davenport Gazette
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Jan 23, 1877

ANOTHER LIQUOR SUIT
      Fifteen Thousand Dollars Damage Demanded

  Mrs. Mary L Newhouse, by her attorney, Geo.E.Hubbell, has filed a petition in the Circuit Clerk's office, claiming of Chas. Meier, a grocer doing business on Third Street, the sum of $15,000 damages and for cause sets forth: "That the defendant well knowing that her husband was addicted to intoxication, did on divers days and sundry times, within two years prior to date of this petition sell to the plaintiffs husband intoxicating liquor, by means of which he became frequently intoxicated" To this intoxication she attributes all her woes and misery; deprivation of means of support, abuse, loss of furniture, etc., besides the agony of mind caused by the husband's dissipation. The petitioner states that she has seven children dependent upon her for support. Her husband is a painter by trade, and when sober can earn enough to keep his family decently clothed, and otherwise provided for, but owing to his intoxicating habits, he has never been able to keep a situation, and consequently his family suffers.

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