fire at any time is bad enough, but now while everything is parched and dry, a blaze might light a conflagation that would destroy the town.—(July 22, 1886.)
The Iowa Agricultural College opened yesterday, with the President and most of the professors in attendance and a majority of the students. President Chamberlain takes hold with a master hand, and under his kind and considerate administration we hope to see the college prosper in all its departments, and fill its purpose in the highest degree. We believe he will find in the faculty able and conscientious supporters, whose pleasure it will be to sustain his administration both in and out of the class room.(July 22, 1886.)
Look out for fires! The flat on the south side was set on fire last week by some one throwing a stump of a lighted cigar into the grass; and twice, within a week, has Colonel Hoggat's pasture been set on fire by the noon passenger train. People cannot be too careful. Everything is so parched and dried that a spark will start a conflagration.—(July 29, 1886.)
Under the new law, after the first of next January, the Iowa Grand Jury will be composed as follows: In counties having a population of sixteen thousand or less the Grand Jury shall be composed of five members, and in counties having more than sixteen thousand the Grand Jury shall be composed of seven members. Whenever the number of civil townships in any county equals or exceeds the number of grand jurors for such county, not more than one grand juror shall be drawn from any civil township. No person shall serve as a grand juror for two consecutive years. An indictment cannot be found without the concurrence of four out of five when the Grand Jury is composed of five members, and not without the concurrence of five when the jury is composed of seven members.—(August 5, 1886.)