The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-11-11
srrinkliuss Of News.

Mo less thsn S36,S5o pounds Of
quicksilver were exported from California
during the six months ending July Isl,
Boston city, says the Transcript,
owns seventy-eight school houses, which,
with the land. have cost Sl6t 2,ss3'
They are making visiting cards
whereon, besides the name, the portrait o.
the party is engraved
1t is estimated that there are al pres"
ent 900 persons in the United State At
fiicted with insanity,
The taxes in Bost,s.. lass yea AMOUNT
ed 10 SIS per thousand on total salaat on
OF Slss,7al,ioo,
In Mississippi, near Corinth, there
died, on the aad OF September, negro
named David Rolfe, at the age Of 1T
years.
Three men and woman travelling
in an OK wagon, were burnt to death BY
prairie fire, near Backheart Grove, Illinois.
"a young woman fell dead while
shouting al revival meeting 10 Vernon
Connecticut, las week
1t is ascertained that in the suit OF
Elisha Foote vs.. Horace c. Silsby aud 9th
ers, for violation of the Stove Regulator
Patent, the plaintiff has recovered judy
ment in the Circuit Court Of the Y ) for
S24,e6o 81.
On the night of the 81 inst, the old
est house in Jacksonville. Indiana, which
was occupied by Gen, Harrison when Gov
ernor OF the Northwest Territory, was burn
ed down. There was no one living in it at
the time.
The man who couldn't stand il any
longer has taken seat, and now feels quite
comfortable.
There are eighteen establishments
for manufacturing steel in our country;
these have capacity for making $4,000
tons per annum. We have the best ores
in the world Tor making steel.
| - mere art shtu 10 uS fpA ia aflLH Az
kee warehouses and railroad platforms, near
100000 bushels of wheat, which have ac
cumulated within the past 60 days above
the current shipmen Is in that period.
An indignant parent, Of GAINESVILLE
was sentenced by Judge Marsh, on Monday
to pay fine of fifty dollars, and spend five
days in the county dungeon, regaiing him
Sc 4 on bread and W alter meanwhile, for as.
saulting one OF the teachers in the public
schools a few evenings since. The dc.
lendant's objection to the teacher was thai
he had taken The child from one class in
school and placed her in one less advanced
On recent trial for murder 10 Wat
son county, Missouri, lad who was inst
gated to fire the gun which caused the dealt
OF his victim, by his father, was acquitted
and the father and an adult accomplish
convicted OF murder in The second degree
and sentenced 10 ten years Imprisonment
in the penltenllary.
| Six persons, all Ifishmea, were ar
rested in Lafayette, Indiana, en- The charge
OF Illegal voting. Three we're convicted
and lodged IN jail, The other three were lie
of, but when they offered TO vote a seeonc
time, they refused 10 swear IL their votea.
At Exeter, N. II on the morning o
the 23d, Oliver Nichols was found dead AM
most horribly mutilated. An insane sol
was with him when last seen II is no
known whether he uas killed by him Of
some other person.
Morton OF the Nebraska City News
says in his last that ali candidates for office
who do not send him five dollars for announ.
chg their names, viii be withdrawn from
the canvass, reported as dead, aud appropri.
ate obituary notices written.