The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-10-28

LOCAL MATTERS.
tS The City Council win meet this after-
ncon at the usual hour
LT~ Sixteen men are thrown ont Of EN-
plo,ment by the lire that occurred on Monia,
evening
cY Yesterday was a cool cloud, disa.
greeaLle da, threatening rain and al one
time fulfilling its threat We hope our Indian
summer, the most pleasant season oi the year
will iot tail us in sIfeaso this tail
tgMr Kilbourn has at his New Grocery
at the corner OF Third ani Perry street a
great variety of Yankee vegetable, Tor
family use--in fact almost everything neces-
sars ior family kitchen and dining room con,
tort.
sE- man from the town "f Clinton, ~
Clinton county. was rOhbed oi $500 IN gold
80 ~ currency ...d = La.i .atch ai the "a.
loon under the Mississippi Houre on SUNDAY
night last. suspicionel parties have been
arrested and are under examination.
| sG for some nights past all has been com
| paraiiseh quiet Ia the hnrglarious world--at
least we have heard of no nes attempts al
midnight robbery, The thieves have proba-
bly, come to the sconclusion that taking III
connection the risk and small profits OF the
business it doesn't pay.
~ oar niend at the Rock Island AirsJ
f.seg seems to think that Publishing dali,
paper Ia that cit, ."ss noi pa, aud inl inat~s
that unless affairs take "A turn h- will ,s.on
turn ont of the ,oaeern aGd turn IL over Ia the
dogs. Il is shame II the Republicans oi
Rock island cann"i support o,... ,a,,~r
| \ subsequent nanib-s of th. Idrpt.ssr all
n"unces that something has turn.L up aud III.
Publishers taking hope, ha,. placed their pa
per "n a hrm paving hasis. That's right,
/ friends don't be dish~art.ned t.cau-e mat
iers ,n Ia. hnaucial world hook blue there's
good time coming
| ERRaruA-Judge williams was elevated Ia
a Judge hip in Kansas and not Ia Nebraska ~
We stated yesterday.
tnickFN TniKr. A man was tried sest.l.
,lss at the Police Count lor stealing chickens
The Ness says he was caught in the e.-,p aud
had two chickens already killed Pr@u.
sirane evidence. lie Was bound over.
| GREAI BAaoAiS--A Attention i directed IL
the advertisements Of l.. 4 n. H. Tynsr in To.
| das's paper They have ou- ~ the most
comlpet. ai,l hest selected stocks ot pee,is in
the city and will sell 10 saii the times. dive
lhem a call and view their stock
BrriSEss.-- Uul. door business certainly
looked iisel, yesterday. Tn. wharf, between
Main and brady street, was crowded with
leans Will. Front street, between brad, ani
Perry, was almost impossible Tar wagons of
| rr.'lnee. Tia. ether streets seemed unusually
iuli of teams and pedestrians. Ia fact the
outward appearance. of th. city looked any
| thing hut lik. hsri Times =
CoaI.--1he X. |. Adse.fssss saws that the
Coal Valley Company viii immediately CON-
menee selling ,nal a, 10 cents per ba-hei de
ilsereI IN any part ~ the city. The same
| Company can then Afford 10 deliver L ia Ia
| yenport for II l2sl2 cents per bushel We
| 10 think and don't wish 10 he mealy .lnouihei
| IN the ,pression of our thoughts, that l6 cts
| per hnshel for coal and 81 % per thousand
cubic feet Tor gas. are downright imp.,itions
| upon the public.
wmlAr.--Thcre was all day yesterday big
1 A ~..l ...l
the Albion Mills. The farmers are selling fur
ash, aud doing hut little in trade They ap
pear dis, ,osch TO sell at least enough nj present
prices, 5se, To pay their debts This i sensi-
bl~ policy. Farmers who do this arc doing
Justice 10 their fellow men, and lending their
aid to mitigat. our present money troubles.
Let them scll grain and pay THAR debts. AMI
they win have done much to relieve many
| traslers from trouble
/ Ar lSeInssr.-Dnrine The fire on Monday
evening an alarm spread among the specta
tors that the boilers Of the esta slinieni were
about TO burst and the rapidly with which
the engine worked rather favored the idea
Amid the cracking Of the flames, shouts Of
the multitude aud the many noises that at.
tend lire. was heard high above all the con
tinaal rud puff putting Of the engine, a. from
| it, Hery location IL worked OF its rapid,
generating steam. Yet there j. very little
fear oi an engine boiler exploding under such
circumstances a. the packing soons barns out
ani allows the steam io escape.
/ PotsrEb We havs NJ objection 10 Dorr Of
the Dubnqa. Erp,sss asd Herald calling as
names aud calnmniating as inst ~ much as
will suit his depfased tasie, a. We are accus-
toned TO the abuse Of blackguards aud ~,rt o
like 10 sse II, as !. shows that our remarks hit
just where the, we're intended but We do not
want 10 s~s him o. anybody else, make per
soi.ai animosity. or rather that feeling which
acknow lodges defeat the occasion Of attack
ing the city oi Davenport. wh~a he says that
"our streets are barren III business aud our
wharyes 81 eommerc. he sinarly li~~, and II
he possess the first elements Of q gentleman
he will acknowledge the wrong did This city
by correcting his falls. statement.
| BwsFvoLEscE - Tn. Ladies' Benevolent
Society meets ON next Thnrsda, afternoon We
are informed. ia the Methodist Church The
attendance n The last meeting was small. A
this Society has besn gotten ap for the relief
Of the destitute and sxdsring In oar city aud
Is not sectarian. nor partisan, nor anything
else than simply wha, Ne hase stated, Il b
hopsd tlse philanthropie ladies of the city will
NOT be backward in lending IL thsir aid and
inaasncs. The approaching thrrassas V b. .
hard winter on the poor and tl,ers 10 no doubt
that considssable snGsriag will b. experienced
from abro,ass want In oar own city, unlsss Ne
ladies BY coecsss u scsisu Md shsmssives 10
the good work of asssaiesasing ~ coalition
! Of the poor.