Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-08-10
LOCAL MATTERS.

e sympa,hize with our contemporary Of
pubuoue Express and Heraid, in his sor-
anger tina, Davenport has the honor
wing the frs, locomotive in Iowa. Isn't
r. ,ba,,-"Dutuque, though the larges,
,ost wealthy town in the State. con.
. upwards Of 10000 inhabitants, and
ooerly being assessed at S4,7oo,ooo is
"a 10 acknowledge itself surpassed by
mort in Railroad enterprise" AS
iuie Sampson would say, the fact is
6.ci.ous." twill scarcely be credited
.,sri,y. unless we take efiectual means
fixing it upon the record that it can
washed away by The waters Of time;
Ibis must be done, sothat the people Of
poes will have no hesitation in be-
"a that Davenport was the first city in
,Lirb had locomotive. We will not
dspute with cur up.,he river cotempo-
chou, wealth and population, though
cards both, we could show him figures
ch near ncighborhood to his own, that
,4p,ise a, our being ahead Of Dubuque
n,ier If Railroads might be lessen
.,ugh his sorrow might be increased.
wtll explain one or two things for
r1,t. If cur Dubuque LroiEer. Tho
ut.h iof ctr citizens, IN the way
n5upfse, still Davenport hus been
il in,ered By nature, and While you Of
uque hive to exTend yeur money, and
,al and bodily labor III tuilding your
plat cut into the river, We Lave no DIFF
liz Of that kind 10 contend with, being
nateIy on the channel side OF the river.
iher thing is, y,ugo TO woik The wrong
Y,u have been for some time dis
ua abou, the location OF depot, when,
bur own words, Dubuque has yet 10
hat q contract has been made for the
tne,icn OF It's ro,d." II the philosophy
iptoytment be closely investigated, it
be found that besides enterprise"
L s such a faculty as common sense
oae may be the motive power, but Tie
fr is certainly the ruGder, ind il the lat
&c, unshipped, the boat if down here,
d stick on the rocks, If up a, Dubuque,
ID repose in the mud.
Nth one statement Of cur contemporary
cordially agree,-we know nothing about
1 Directors Of his Road, and therefore
nothing about them, though his state
bis concerning them may be correct
when he sHys,-"the Davenport Road
} under the Direction and in the contro
! sa Of enterprise and energy and of fiiel-
10 the ,rus, reposed in Them" he states
u Is so well known to be strictly true,
y /, is no compliment 10 repeat il. It's
H. energy OF these e sn,lemen, to their
|erns perseverance, TO vigilance which
bntt, d no opportunity Of advancing the
res,- Of the Road TO escape, and an in
Dry tina. trium Pied over seeming impos
(lltits, that we owe the proud fact uf
\ IMPORT being the pioneer city in the |
I,lruc,ion of Railroads in the State, and /
b. in the language Of our contemporary, !
Davenport can o-diy, and forever boast I
having had use for the irst locomotive /
Iowa"
We have refused between two and 1
&c columns of patent medicine adver-
ments within as many days, simply
charging the .prorrietors OF the
runs our published rates for advcrtis- .
We cannot, like our contemporaries !
cur regular advertisers SO much injustice 4
10 insert patent medicine advertisements |
'Be halt the rates they charge merchants
Other. Of oar fellow ciiizcns. There is I
class OF community SO largely indebted /
,'e adSest.slrg columns of newspaper /
, ,siA medicine manufacturers and vend- /
. liayr. been engaged in the business
ten years we know something OF IFS OPP /
uous. As they can afford to gay well
advertising, which bcne fits them so ma
ialiy, we cannot see why our cotempo- I
les should have entered into atacit sgree- /
n, to charge less than their usual rates
this kind Of Advertising.
The Chicago Tribune always comes
: o Coy behind the Press. Can't you
~ {, along, Messrs. Editors!
A. far as the price Of vegetables is
ncerned, the "good time coming" which
. been so long talked about is nearly here,
we noticed good potatoes, yesterday,
Hing from the wagon at forty cents
shel.
The Red Republican sheet of Rock
and terms the result Of the election held
Monday in this county Democratic
imph and says that last year the Know
thing majority in this county was three
ndred. We hope this and kndre prints
i continue to misrepresent the Temper
ce party in this county until the members
stirred up to united action.
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RAIS-FroIa the reports made to the
i'lhsonlan Institution, it appears that du-
g the month Of June last, the quantity
rain which fell varied in different sections
The country from two to eight inches
Pennsylvania and Ohio, eight inches are
ported: in South Carolina, seven iaches;