one at such an unhealthy location." The writer hereof asked him if he had ever seen the place of location. His answer was, " No, but I am told or understand it to be but little short of a frog pond." " Then, sir," was the reply to him, " I presume that came from some one that knew nothing about it, or did not desire to tell the facts about it. It is a beautifully elevated prairie, moderately undulating, and as beautiful as can well be found anywhere, excepting a little flat land along the creek. The native timber beltings on the east, north and west of the farm are delightful. There is a good spring near the center of it for watering and other purposes." So we two adjourned sine die, leaving Des Moines to its fate. Col. Patterson, of Marshall county, was in attendance, if I mistake not, representing a point in his county, but the colonel was very much of a gentleman. He had no slurring of other points to use. At the present writing the time has been twenty-seven and a half years since the location and about eighteen years since the first term of college school. The college has been successfully conducted since its commencement, October 21, 1868, and there is no cemetery needed on it yet.
The new Congressional districts of Iowa are as follows:
First—Washington, Louisa, Jefferson, Henry, Des Moines, Lee, and Van Buren.
Second—Muscatine, Scott, Clinton, Jackson, Johnson and Iowa.
Third—Dubuque, Delaware, Buchanan, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Franklin, Hardin and Wright.
Fourth—Clayton. Allamakee, Fayette, Winneshiek, Howard, Chickasaw, Floyd, Mitchell, Worth and Cerro Gordo.
Fifth—Jones, Linn, Benton, Tama. Marshall, Grundy and Cedar.
Sixth—Davis, Wapello, Keokuk, Mahaska, Poweshiek, Monroe, and Jasper.
Seventh—Story, Dallas, Polk, Madison, Warren and Marion.
Eighth—Adams, Union, Clarke, Lucas, Appanoose, Wayne, Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor, Page and Fremont.
Ninth—Harrison, Shelby, Audubon, Guthrie, Pottawattamie, Cass, Adair, Mills and Montgomery.
Tenth—Crawford, Carroll, Greene, Boone, Calhoun, Webster, Hamilton, Pocahontas, Humboldt, Palo Alto, Kossuth, Hancock, Emmet and Winnebago.
Eleventh—Lyons, Osceola, Dickinson, Sioux, O'Brien, Clay, Plymouth, Cherokee, Buena Vista, Woodbury, Ida, Sac and Monona.—(April 15, 1886.)
IN EARLY IOWA
In 1836 there was but one newspaper in what is now Iowa, the Dubuque Visitor Our state was a part of Wisconsin territory, after July 4th. The following is a list of the votes at the October election of that year in the four counties east and the two west of