The Iowa patriot. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1839-1839, 1839-08-29
VoL. I.......No. IS.

Cabs have been introduced in Phil
adelphia. They are much more con-
venient and cheaper for single pas
sengers than hackney coaches. and it
is wonderful that they have not been
tried before.
A new paper called the ssDoctor,''
is to be started in Mississippi. The
editor of it is one John Smith. All he
asks to succeed is the aid of his rela-
tlves, and the first article is to be
history of the rise, progress, and pres
ent condition of the Smith family.
On the 4th Of July, when the ship
Robert Pulsford, Capt. John Prince,
lately arrived at Baltimore from Liv-
erpool was in lat. So, Ion. 70, the wife
OF MIR. Lewis, one of the passengers,
was safely delivered of three fine
daughters. They were severally nam
ed, Columbia. Oceana, and Victoria.
The mother and children are doing
we'll.
A fellow at Cincinnati, convicted
OF lndecencies towards females in the
street, was sentenced to confinement
In the dungeons of the jail for ten days
to be kept on bread and water, and
fined $3.50, to stand committed till
paid.
HEALTH OF PENsAcoLA.-The Pen
sacola Gazette says that in that city,
with a population of 1890, not sin
gle death has occurred from the 1st
of April to July 10. This is a re-
markable instance of exemption from
fatal disease. ~
William Pierce, of MORA, Franklin
county, N. Y, has been convicted of
the murder of his father, and sentenc-
ed to be hung on the 21st day of Sep
TENDER next. The father and son
were in the woods chopping, when
dispute arose, which terminated thus
fatally, by a blow in the breast with
a sharp axe. The prisoner is not II
years old.
Thomas Vail, at late term of the
Court Of Common Pleas for Meigs
county, was found guilty on an indict-
ment for whipping his wife, and SEN
fenced to ten days Imprisonment in
the county jail--to be fed on bread
and water, and pay fine of fifty dol
lars. Verify such little indulgences
are "dog cheap"
New wheat has been contracted
for at Rochester, at one dollar per
bushe]. The price for several years
has been from 81 SO to So.
The practice at the bar, of Mr..
Prentiss, Of Mississippi, who resigned
his seat in Congress, last year, is stat
ed, incredible as it appears, to be
worth 100000 per annum.
The London papers contain list
OF the names and salaries of the Bed
Chamber women, s:maids of HONOR
etc. Of Queen Victoria. There are in
the list upwards of 90 names-all of
high blood, and the aggregate of their
salaries is something over four humid
red thousand dollars. What they do
we don't know.
A Frenchman, gasconading over
the inventive genius Of his country,
said: GIVE invented lace ruffles!'
"Aye,' said John Bull, "and we adj
ded skirts to them.''
Why is horse like stick of can
|dy? Dye give it up? Cause the
more you lick it the faster it goes.
The Journal Of Commerce says the
saddle mountains in Berkshire, Mas
sachusetts, present a view of five
States. Block Island, in the Sound,
only four.
The Earl of Dartmouth, at the de-
sire of the trustees of Dartmouth Col
lege, N. H., has presented to that In
stitution, splendid portrait of his
grandfather It's founder. A liberal
donation of valuable books for the col
lege library has also been made by
Earl Dartmouth.
The Treasury o. Maine, has de-
manded the sum of 10000 dollars
from the banks of Portland, for the
purpose of meeting the expenses of
the Aroostook expedition. The banks
are obliged by their charters to loan
ten per cent of their capital to the
State on demand.
Among the regular toasts drank at
the celebration Of the Fourth, at itha.
ca, N. Y, we find the following very
pretty compliment to the ladies'
z: Women-There's purple half to the
grape, mellow. half to the peach, a
sunny half to the globe, and a shelter
half to man.
Cook and Carter, two men who
have committed manifold murders,
have recently made their escape from
the Jail Of Scott County, Missis-
sippi, and are now at large. The
Grand Gulf Advertiser denounces
them as two Of the most atrocious
murderers that ever escaped the gal
lows.
By recent statement In Jamai-
ca paper, It appears that that Island
contains $4,000 white inhabitants.