The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-12-08
sprinklings Of News.

John Petit is a candidate for the U. 8.
Senate from Indiana. II any Buchanan
man is elected the present winter, he will
be the one, as he 10 about the meanesi and
smallest OF the public men Of the Hoosier
State.
A letter from Paris says: AT present there
10 a, the Imperial Court an organized cru
SADIE against the small bonnets now worn
BY the ladies. 1t is wished to give them
circumference more in harmony with that
of the crinolines. This is why some Of the
guests have appeared in velvet hats with
large brims, in the English style, called
chapeaas de l'aaisaes.
A few days since, thirty eolored persons
arrived in Washington. They were eman-
cipa,ed by Charles B. Howard. Esq, of Or
ange county, Va, each provided with Si2o
in money and placed under the care OF .
gentleman, who accompanied to secure for
them permanent and comfortable homes in
the Far West.
Since the death of John n. Clayton. Mr..
Crittenden of Kentucky, 10 now the "Fath-
er" of the United States Senate. He first
took his seat in 1917, PeMce of Maryland,
is the next in order of seniority. His SER
vices commencedin ls43. Gen. Csss COM
meneed in ls45. The principal portion OF
the Senators entered The Senate in l8A6
and ls47.
1t is stated that NJ. Kossuth realixed three
thousand pounds sterling by his series Of
lectures in Scotland last season; and thai
he has received eighty invitations for winter
lectures in Great Britain.
Gsrritt Smith has performed charact
iptic act of lberAlity, which viii perpetuat'
the memory OF good man, by giving fund
for the erection Of library building ia o.
wego, where he owns considerable proper
". The building is nearly completed, an
will soon be opened for public inspection
and benefit.
The changing Of single letter makes
curious difference in a word sometimes.
paper copying from "Benton's Thirty years
calls it Thirty Bears in the United State
Senate"
. Two Of the camels in Texas have bee
stolen by Indians. 1t was thought that III
Indians would be afraid OF them, and kee
at distance. but this proves to be mi.
taken idea.
A proposition is now under discussion il
the municipal government Of Paris, TO reyiv
, The ancient system OF cremation, or burnin
the dead. The present plan 10 found PREF
Judicial TO heeith, snd very expensive TO ih
poorer classes Of the people and many @
! the leading men pronounce in faver of ere
nation.
In the Cumberland Presby terrain Churc
in Louisville. on last Sunday night, NJ
Newman the pastor of the church, hayinI
, preached very effective discourse, desce nd
ed from the pulpit and walking out into III
midst of the congregation, selected youn
lady who had consented to become his heIr
meet The couple then proceeded to tn
pulpit where they were Immediately joine
in the holy bonds Of Wedlock.
In New York, Saturday morning, job
, B. Fairbanks, committed suicide by throw
ing himself from the fl It'll story of built
! ing. He had been engaged for three c
four weeks in investigating spiritusIism n n
the attention which he paid to the subiee
so much unsettled his mind as to produc
insanity and then suicide. He was a sinp]
man upwards ofthirty years old.