The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-02-28
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~ II. DAVE, native Of New Bed.
ford. who emgraled to C iiorniaa few wear
$50, and was an active member Of the Wig.
lance Committee last year committed sui.
eide in San Francisco on the 18th olJanu.
AIRY last. Loss Of property and friends is
assigned as the cause OF the fatal act.
There are 1--WE cases OF Insanity In
the Indiana asylum-two males and three
'emsles-put down 10 the cred, Of spiritual.
ism.
The Legislature of North Carolina
has pi, a tax on theatrical companies, rope
dancers. ,leigh' Of hand performers, tum.
olers, SC So for each county. On ex
btors Of natural ssrio sities. mol alread,
N sntioned, sac for each county. On sing.
ers dancers, lecturers, Sc, Tor reward, $40
for each county.
while the coroner In the Burdell
case was waiting a few minutes in The ex-
amination, "a very fne song va. given by
Mr.. Uadsgh:li, reporter Of the Tribune
which created great laughter among the
reportoriaI s,sfI"
Mrs. Poly Noyes, engaged in nur.
sing sick man In Salisbury, We mont, in.
hailed, BY accident the odor arising from
an uncorked bottle OF strychnine, aad In
few hours she died. Doubtful.
The Michigan Legislature has ap-
propristed $1,000 for the aid Of the NEEDY
settlers in Kansas Territory. Resolution
in favor Of admitting Kansas Is Free
State were also adopted.
The Swedes in Minnesots are so nu
merous, that they talk about establishing q
paper at Cannon Falls, where they have q
large settlement.
- cattle train on the Hudson River
Railroad, ran Of the track about three miles
below the city Of Hudson, on the evening Of
he 18th inst, and some sixty head of cat.
were slaughtered instantsneously. A spec.
tator Of the scene says IL was the bloodlest
sigh, he ever witnessed. The engineer was
killed, aud the track good deal damaged.
The Stevens Point Pinery of the
9Th inst. says that notwithstanding the deep
snow In the woods lhereabout, the lumber.
men bavei KEEP, industriously at work
through the winter, and tina, the amour, OF
logs got in during the season will nearly
equal the average OF former years.
| I-Queen Victoria has presented 10 the
London Orphan Asylum three hundred
guineas, Isl 5000 to purchase for her son
The Prince Of Waies, the right to keep one
child slssys in the Asylum during his
life.
"A large gray wolf. from the Allesba
ny m0untains, no doubt, was captured BY
tdvenlurou citizens Of Utica. Ind, Satur,
Jay, on huge cake of ice, g a,ing in the
rser. lie had been there some time on
hs voyage, gun. aud hungry. and ws,
-ausht alive With ropes and bags.
"A verdict Of $500 hu. been rendered
gains, The Cincinnati Gazette for libel, In
'ubiishing Transcript OF The record at the
ocs station without note or comment
Decidedly UNJUST.
--- Somebody in Nav York paper ad
vertises lor q partner IN "rhe smoking am
provision business" The psf know,
nan WHO'S jus. the chap for him. H.
mokes twenty segars DAY, and 90 to III
PROVISION business, he eats 90 much that /,
makes him lean To carry the load.
-ReUls 10 New York city within The
pas, year have advanced from ten 10 tsent,
ave per cent. A corresponding deprecis.
ion has occurred in the scjoiuing cities Of
Brooklyn, Williamsburg, &c,
Clergy men 10 New York and Brook.
yn count up strong when all are enumers.
ed. Ths Observer publishes q li.,, from
which vs. learn that there are ninety s'x
Episcopal. one hundred and one presbyter.
ians, forty.four Dutch Reformed, ffty-fou,
Baptist, and thifty.fOur C0nersgational-
These Eve denominations number three
hundred and twenty five clergymen in the
two cities. The number ia The other de.
nomiastlons probably equala the above IN
"A boy. residing few miles from
ksokuk, accidentally shot himselrs few
isys since. Tie was blowing into the mug
tie Of gvp, 10 ascertain if 1t was loaded. |
when II went oa-hs having it cooked q,
The Time.
On Sunday morning The sth inst, |
barber OF AinnesPoiir, 1ys the Democrat
started % & clslm expo dillon, bu, being
ntoxtested, lost hi say, aud the following
day "as found dead upon the prairie.
I'M AlSLA vas NOT get open at MuscG.
tine lsst Thursday. 1t had again aorgsd