nought to prevent Story from becoming one of the most populous, as it is now one of the best counties in the State of Iowa. The railroad once completed, people will begin to ascertain and realize the importance of `pitching their tents' within her borders, as she will then be thrown open to the gaze of the traveling populace, who will, at a glance, perceive the `wealth that is in her, heretofore unknown but to a few. The emigration from this section to Iowa, will not, I apprehend, be as great the coming season as during the last. They seem to be alarmed at the shrieks of those puny ones who went west expecting to find a country where " summer would last all the year," but who now seem fully determined to seek out a home in some fair region where they will not have to `bide the peltings of such pitiless storms,'—but let such go. 'Tis the hardy sons of toil you want to develop the resources of your beautiful county and State; and not the timid who are continually complaining of either heat or cold. But I must close. J. R. G.
"KENTON, OHIO, January 30, '57."
ITEMS FROM STORY COUNTY ADVOCATE OF MARCH 11, 1857.
"Resigned.—Dr. Allen Bell has resigned the office of constable of Nevada township. The county judge has appointed Nelson Hockley in his place.
"Resigned.—Mr. R. J. Zenor has resigned the office of justice of the peace for Franklin township.
"Married—January 25th, by Rev. Ira H. Rees, Mr. John B. Phipps and Miss Martha J. Chandler.
"March 4th, by Elias Pocock, Esq., Mr. H. C. Wakefield to Miss Lovinna M. Garbison.
"March 8th, by E. G. Day, Esq., Mr. Francis M. Newton to Miss Margaret Mullen.
"At Kenosha, Wis., Mr. Frederick Reichauer, of Story county, to Miss Augusta Randeau, of Hanover Kingdom, Germany.
"Hon. S. G, Winchester, delegate to the Constitutional Convention for this district, has favored us with several days proceedings of the convention. The work of constitution making is progressing as rapidly as possible. Mr. Winchester is a worker.
"Several new mills (flouring mills) are being erected in this county.
"New Township—Collins township, in the southeast corner of the county, has been organized.
"A Hog Story.—At New Philadelphia, Story County, we learn that three hogs lived from the first hard storm this winter ('56-7) until February 24th in a hay stack, a space of about seven weeks, with nothing to eat except hay. When discovered two were alive and are now doing well, the other is missing—supposed to have been eaten by the others. The above appears almost incredible, but we learn it from a gentleman of undoubted veracity.
"February 17, 1858, was the coldest of the season; mercury twenty degrees below zero."