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. Cathy Joynt Labath Iowa Old Press http://www.IowaOldPress.com/