Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-12-04

John Kelley. who resided some three
miles from Galena, froze TO death willie re
turning home from that city on Tuesday
night. Htt- 49,.
Qneen Victoria is about to be proclaimed
Empress Of India, and the government Of
that country forever taken from the East
India company. .t.. ..--.
! DEFECTIVE VocABULARy.-.C Cardinal Rich
| lieu is represented by Bulwer as saying lin
word as fail" Prentice thinks if that is fact
the vocabulary OF youth is very defective
| about this time
A Chicago banker asked young lady OF
that city what kind Of money sire liked best
"Matrimony." she replied.
what interest does it bring Z" asked the
indusitive banker
IF properly invested. it will double the
original stock every two years, she repli,
ed.
A singular and fatal accident happened
Mr.. II. Lingo, Of Mercer county. Pa, one
day last week lie had been eating buck
wheat cakes, when lie partially swallowed
a needle that stuck in his throat Every
effort was made to extricate il, but without
success, and he died from the effects of it a
day or two after. ---.
The citizens of Wabash county, ILL.,, vote
ed at the late election, by a majority Of II l
to issue the bonds of the county for $780,
900 to the Vincennes and Mound City Rail
road.
The n. Y. Herald speaks of the newspa
pers Of Albany and Boston as 'paltry pa.
pers" Well.
God made the country man made the
town, and the d--l-No@we beg his
majesty's pardon)-BenneH made the Herald
-Boston Post
OLD BLOODY ENGLISH LAws-"Under the
shop-lifting act" says Sir William Meredith,
addressing the House of Commons in 1777,
"One Mary Jones was executed, whose case
| shall just mention.
1t vas about the time when press war
rants were Issued ON the alarm about Falk-
land Islands. TIE wonan's husband was
pressed their good. seized for some debt OF
his, and she, with two small children, turn
ed into the streets begging. lis circum-
stance not to be forgotten, that she was We
~ young (under niheteen) and remarkably
handsome. She went to linen diapers
shop. took some coarse linen OFT the coun.
ter, and slipped it under her cloak. The
| shopman saw her, aud she laid it down.
For tbs she 'cas hanged. Her defense was,
that she had lived in credit, and wanted
for nothing, till the press gang came and
stole her husbund from her: but since then
| she had no bed to lie on--notAing to give
her children to eat, and they mere almost na-
EoI oh. hav
something wrong, for she scarcely knew
what she did, 1heparisA officers testified to
| The ruth of this store But it seems there
had been good deal of shop-liiting about
Ludgate; an example WAS thought neeessa.
ry (by the judges) and this woman was
hanged for the comfort and satisfaction of
some shopkeepers in Ludgate street When
brought 20 receive her sentence, she behav-
ed in Such frantic manner as proved her
mind to be in responding and distracted
state, andtAe chilli ,eas suching at her breast
,cIten she set out for 1yburn gatio,cs.'
ExroRrs OF SrEcrE FROM New York FOR
ls57-Total for the week end
! ing Nov. II, S697 $50
Previously reported, 33,5so.342
Total since Januay lst., S34.257 ,992
Same time In 1856, SS,3S7 ,37G
Same time in 1855, 26,4y2, lol
| Same time in 1851, 35,Y5 ,667
| Same time in 1858, bliss. 0S5
Same time in 1852, 23,255,9lO
Father McCabe, Catholic priest. was
burned to death in his bed, at Malone, n.
y, on last Tuesday night, from the bed
clothes taking fire. The fire was confined
to the room in which the deceased lodged,
and it was not until everything combusti-
bic in the room was consumed that he was
discovered by another priest.
The other evening, Fanny Kemble read
Shakespeare in Boston to an audience OF
1900, in aid of the poor.
The Springfield (Mass.) Argus has been
discontinued for lack Of patronage.
The Iowa Methodists Conference. lately
in session, passed strong resolutions against
the use Of tobacco among Christians
The engineers Of the Pittsburg; Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad, were on q
strike on Saturday. No trains left Pitts
burg on that day
That was q good point made by mem
Der OF the Minnesota, Legislature, when he
gravely moved that half the land in the
Territory be reserved for agricultural pur.
poses, and that tho area covered bv the
charters Of new cities should not exceed oy
er one-half of the arabic land in Minnesota.
In 1850, with population of 5l5.647
souls. the New Workers contrivcd to get
along pretty well with an expenditure OF
$3,23O,l $780, In 1857, with population OF
10000, they cannot keep within budget
of SS,OO0,OOO.
The chief Siamese Ambassador. recently
arrived at Portmouth, England, has fifty.
eight wives, but he nevertheless was smit.
ten by the beauty of young lady when
he saw in the dock yard at Portsmouth. and
offered to purchase her a. his ffty-nintb
wife for the sum of $4,000.
The Newark Adeersiser, a few davs since
contained the following notice. golden
lesson for boys:
A boy named Arthur Haywood. while
peddling newspapers at the Market street
depot this morning, received q ten dollar
gold piece from gentleman bv mistake. in
payment for paper The owner can have
It upon application to the boys father at
Brooks news office, corner Of B abroad ave.
que and Ferry street.
In undertaking to raise the submerged
portion Of the transatlantic telegraph cable
the shore end has been broken. ,This Mi
very seriously embarrass the enterprise oi
securing It. It was carried On under The
supefintsndense Of Mr. Bright, the late en.