The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-01-19
CARD PAINTING are running Of


thousands of cards nearly every day on oul
card press and it works SO beautifully, that
/ ou, foreman declar es We must make its
o.alities wider known. We would inform
the people of the entire State that we are
enabled to do the printing for the whole oil
them and in large quantities. at prices lower
han they have ever before been able to OBJ.
tain them. Those in the interior wanting
printing of any description done at short
notice will send their orders TO the Gazette
Steam Printing Establishment
"MARgLE FgosTs They have near
Chicago large quarries OF a kind OF stone
which has hitherto gone by the name Of
aAthens MARBLE" but We learn from the
Chcspo papers that DR.. Hitchcock, the en-
ipent geologist, expresses the opinion that
ii will be very durable, and REGARDS it in
sill re spects as very superior TO most of the
marble of which the public buildings are
built in Paris, and many of the other Euro
Desn cities" II seems that the people OF
Chicagohave beenhitherto nacquainted with
the nature and value of the home material
that when they built their Court House,
stone was imported at great expense from
Lockport, N. T., aud it is now asccrtained
that the imported article is greatly inferior
TO the one which they have al their own
doors.
We hope soon 10 experience the pleas
IRE and profit Of listening to DIR. Hitch
cocks lectures in our city, and perhaps with
his assistance we may be able 10 bring to
light some kind OF stone in our vicinity that
will pass for marble, and then our citizens
will be able 10 give their business and
dwelling houses the improved appearance
of"marble fronts We have now very
good variety Of limestone for building pur-
poses, but inasmueh as our geological ex
sminations have as yet been by no means
thorough. it is not altogether improbable
that we may come across stone nearer by
many degrees TO pure marble.
In the meantime we are pleased that the
stone which the Chicago builders rejected
has turned out to be so superior an article
We hope however the people of Chicago
will not be induced by this fact to call their
town the Athens Marble City. We al
ready nave one Modern Athens in the URi.
ted States, though we believe the Bosto-
mans claim the appellaton rather in virtue
either intellectual characteristics, thai on
account Of their number f"m arble fronts
Rock ISLAND ADvER TIsER.-Frs nd
WHARTON has associated with him in the
publication Of the Advertise J. S. HYATT.
formerly of the Henry Co. Dial, The Ad-
strtiser will no doubt be improved by the
connection, and to those of our patrons
wishing an advertising medium in our sis
ter city we can recommend it.
A RUSAwAY.-On Thursday last, we
learn, that our friend, l. GtAsPELL, came
very near losing his life by the running
away of his horses In descending a hill
near town with load of wood some portion
oft slippedforward and threw him between
the horses, which run until they brought up
against q tree; fortunately without materi-
rial injury to him, though he was considera-
bly, bruised.
Iowa CITT PAPERs We have inadver-
tsntly but by no means intentionally omit
ted to mention that the Iowa City Weekly
Reporter is also published Tri-Week-
ly, 1t is near-looking, six-column sheet,
and gives plentiful evidence of tact and in.
dustry. We congratulate friend Sylvester
Oh his enterprise, and hope that in every
thing bat his politics he ma, be abundantly
successful.
We learn from the Republican that the
proprietor of that paper also intends issuing
Tri-Weekly in short time, and without
intending any inyidious comparison, we
wish friend Lathrep both political and pecu-
mary prosperity. News sPer publishers in
Iowa City are feeling the full influence of
the Railroad in regard to their business,
and they might as we'll hang their harps up
on the willows at once, as to continue pub
l'shlng weekly newspaper, after the rail-
road has reached their city.
I'VE Town OF Fulton. Perhaps the
oest evidence we can give of the progress
oil this new town, recently laid out on the
d. q NJ. Railroad and called after our es-
tesmed fellow citizen, is to mention an sd-
aition to it's inhabitants of two little fellows
one Of whom, at least, will bear about with
MN through life in his name the remem-
Drance OF his birth place. The fact, how
ever, that Messrs. Burrows, Prettyman &
Dali have got their reaper establishment in
successful operation and that one of the
sowing machines, manufactured by them,
mas already reached our city, may with some
De esteemed greater evidence Of prospect
IT, They have now ten men busily en-
ployed and by March expect to have manu-