The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-25
LOCAL MATTERS.

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thrift upon every branch Of mechanics and
labor The constant inquiry is for houses
and though four hundred, il is said, will be
erected here this season, the demand is not
more than one-hall supplied. Houses arc
sometimes rented before the foundations are
laid. If this state Of things continue, and
We see no cause for abatement, our city Will
soon be the largest in the State.
Peaches are very abundant this sea-
son with Us. as indeed all over the country,
but there Is general complaint OF their
small size. We think this may be attrihu-
ted, in par, to the severity OF the winter OF
lS5l-'5a which injured more or less every
peach tree in this lati,ude-but mainly to
the abundance oil the crop. II one-half the
produce of the trees had been shaken Off at
/ an early day, we believe the size OF the re-
mainder would have been doubled. Weak
ened as is the vitality of the trees BY the Sc
we're ordeal through which they passed du-
ring that severe winter, they do not appear to
possess sufficient vgor to mature their fruit.
last week went biackberrying.
Wen just say nothing about the quantity
gathered, but those we did get were very fine.
Observed that there are a great many hun
dred broad acres of the finest prairie land in
the world, between Davenport and Aliens
Grove, that are in the precise condition as
they were when the wild buffalo roamed
over them and tattened upon the same spe
eies of coarse grass with which they are
now covered 1t is true that none OF this
land is owned by government, but still it
NAV be purchased very low from individuals,
choice spots may be selected, and in good
neighborhoods. We passed family OF mo-
vers on the prairics, breakfasting. At the
same table sat the gray-harcd patriarch, the
middle aged and the youth-.hree genera
tons convened around the same board, par
taking of Gods bounty with His great blue
dome overhead and His illimtable creation
around them. II seemed as though they
were in i little world Of their own; as il,
when the blessing were offered up at that
board, it went straight up uhobstructel to
the portals of high heaven.
-STEaLfsG FRUTT.-lt is general
complaint in the city that those possessed
Of little fruit are deprived &c its enjoyment
by the depredations of bad boys. There is
a parcel of thieying little raseais-sons of
citizens who, we presume. do not take the
Gazette for them 70 read 81 evenings and 50
keep out Of misehiet-who make il their
business to prowl around the city of even
ngs and rob every tree of its fruit before il
has had time TO reach maturity. We viii
make an example of the first one we detect.
Some raftsmen got on a drunken
spree up at LeClaire this week when one
knocked down another and fled. under the
impression he had killed him. The sappos-
ID murderer was pursued to this place, ap-
pretended and lodged in Jail until morning
when the wounded man having recovered, he
sas discharged.
Our friend, Isaac Glaspell, has pla-
ced on our table-or rather under IT, as it
was too big to place on the most luscious
we have tasted this season.
We shall certainly accept his kind invita-
ton and call out whore they grow.
One Of those old fashioned locusts
with W on his back, that used to be SO
common in Ohio, but which are 50 rare
here. seated himself on one Of our shade
trees the other evening and RECALLED US for
sometime with his monotonous song. We
came within grab of catching him! 1t is
only within the last halt-dozen years that
this locust has made its appearance west Of
the Mississippi.
We are informed by Mr.. Lowry, of the
lie Claire House, that Mr.. Cahoos, the wait
or at the hotel who was aun-struck lastweek,
was very upright and temperate man and
the friends of the deceased testify to his alb
stemious habits On this occasion beingun-
well he had taken some whiskey as a tonic
and while under its stimulating influence had
exposed himself without his hat to the direct
rays of the sun, and hence his sudden death
--GAs.-Two distinct propositions
were laid before the citizens of this place
on last week to light Davenport with gas.
One was from Boston company and the
other from company in Cleveland. The
latter was the more favorable, inasmuch as
il excluded the nti-dcmocratic provision of
exclusive right, and guaranteed the earlier
possession Of the benefits accruing from the
establishment ofthe gas works The Cleve-
land company agreed to have the works in
successful operation in two years. The
/ proposition Will be submitted to the City
Council when our citizens will be further
enlightened upon the subject.
4 -THE Administering three
nights of the past week this family of NEGRO
mancers have performed their strange feats
j in the presence Of our citizens and have re-
ceiPed the commentator or all who have
had the pleasure Of seeing them, as persons
well skilled in the magic art. Those unac-
customed to such things may be disposed
to ask the question Of the little child, in re-
turning from one Of the soirees:-"F Father
who gives them the po1eer 10 Do those thinos!''